PROVIDING INFORMATION NOT FOUND IN THE ZIONIST CONTROLLED MEDIA,
MONITORING THE AGE OF DARKNESS, IGNORANCE, GREED AND STUPIDITY,
& THE ZIONIST WAR FOR GLOBAL DOMINANCE.
SETTING STRAIGHT THE RECORDS OF HISTORY
KALI YUGA REPORT 110914
1 - ALAN HART : ESSENCE OF THE SUPPRESSED TRUTH
2 - PSYWAR : The Fake Fall Of Tripoli And The Zionist Dragon’s Butchery Across Palestine II - Jonathan Azaziah
3 - UNANSWERED QUESTIONS - Wayne Madsen
4 - 9/11 : THE ULTIMATE TRIUMPH OF THE STRATEGY OF TENSION (II) - Wayne Madsen
5 - ORWELLIAN SEPTEMBER 11 COMMEMORATION HERALDS NEW WARS - Thierry Meyssan
6 - Thierry Meyssan : How Al Qaeda came to power in Lybia
7 - UN HIGH COMMISSIONER RESORTS TO LIBYAN FORMULA TO ADDRESS SYRIAN SITUATION
8 - Palestine’s future – its students – must be set free - Stuart Littlewood
9 - ONE Solar flare could unleash a global nuclear holocaust, forcing hundreds of nuclear power plants into total meltdowns -
Mike Adams
10 - Polish-Jewish sociologist compares West Bank separation fence to Warsaw Ghetto walls - Roman Frister
11 - Substantial evidence indicates US neoconservatives perpetrated 9/11, in pursuit of their own goals - Mohsen Pakaein
12 - Witnessing the Transition to FEAR in Tripoli - Lizzie Phelan
13 - Walter Fauntroy Returns Home—Guess Who He Saw Doing the Killing, It wasn't the Libyans - Valencia Mohammed
14 - 9/11 ANALYSIS: From Ronald Reagan and the Soviet-Afghan War to George W Bush and September 11, 2001 - Michel Chossudovsky
15 - Libya Occupied by the NATO Invaders - Iftekhar A Khan
16 - QE 3 and Toxic Assets : The Fed's "Monetary Ammunition" - Bob Chapman
17 - THE SATANIST ENTITY NEWS
18 - VIDEO : LIBYA TODAY AND LIBYA BEFORE NATO HELPED ISLAMIC EXTREMISTS TAKE OVER TRIPOLI
19 - Revolt in Lybia : A Message To Chavez - Nil Nikandrov
20 - Breaking News and Commentary from Citizens for Legitimate Government
21 - Report : Israel may offer military aid to PKK to punish Turkey
22 - Al Qaeda Is a Complete Fabrication – a Made in the USA production
23 - Gates: Israel an ‘Ungrateful Ally’ - Jason Ditz
24 - Seismic Evidence Reveals Underground Detonation South of Washington D.C.
25 - A 911 Espionage Quiz !
26 - The Israeli Mossad Assassinated JFK - Mark Dankof
27 - Secret of the Lusitania : Arms find challenges Allied claims it was solely a passenger ship - Sam Greenhill
28 - GENERAL PATTON'S WARNING
29 - Jonathan Williams Legions of Satan (1781)
30 - Was Stalin's Father a Rothschild Banker ? - Clifford Shack
31 - THE HIDDEN EVIL : Wall Street funded Communism
32 - A secret that it will transform the entire global electrical power industry - Paul W.Kincaid
33 - NATURAL NEWS ARTICLES
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1781 - JONATHAN WILLIAMS
"A holy war will now begin on America and when it is ended, America will be supposedly the citadel of freedom, but her millions will unknowingly be loyal subjects to the (British) Crown.
Your churches will be used to teach the Jew's religion and in less than two hundred years the whole nation will be working for ''divine world government''. That government that they believe to be divine will be the British Empire.
All religions will be permeated with Judaism without even being noticed by the masses, and they will all be under the invisible all-seeing eye of the Grand Architect of Freemasonry.",
Jonathan Williams in his book ''The Legions of Satan''
1861 - ABRAHAM LINCOLN
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.
Abraham Lincoln, speaking about 'The Right To Revolution' in his First Inaugural Address on the 4th March, 1861.
"There is nothing more frightening than active ignorance." -- Goethe,
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1 - ALAN HART : ESSENCE OF THE SUPPRESSED TRUTH
2011.09.11
The following is the text of a speech I delivered on 11 September to a conference in Freiburg, Germany, “Palestine, Israel and Germany – the Boundaries of Open Discussion”. The full title of my address was The mainstream media’s complicity in Zionism’s suppression of the truth of history.
I describe the conflict in and over Palestine that became the Zionist – not Jewish! – state of Israel as the cancer at the heart of international affairs; and I believe that without a cure this cancer will consume us all. I also believe that almost nothing is more important than crossing and actually eliminating the boundaries that have prevented, and to a very large extent do still prevent, informed and honest discussion about who must do what and why for justice for the Palestinians and peace for all. And that’s why I was pleased to accept an invitation to address this conference.
Before we get into substance I want to tell you a couple of things about myself and then offer you a key, actually THE key, to understanding.
As the advance promotion for this conference indicated, I think I am the only person in the world who enjoyed intimate access to, and on the human level friendship with, arguably the two greatest opposites in all of human history – Golda Meir, Mother Israel, and Yasser Arafat, Father Palestine. The first picture in my epic, three-volume book ZIONISM: THE REAL ENEMY OF THE JEWS is of Golda Meir when she was prime minister. It is inscribed in her own hand “To a good friend, Alan Hart.” On lecture and debating tours across America I used this picture as a weapon of self defense when I was falsely and maliciously accused of anti-Semitism. I would hold up the picture, read out the inscription, and say to my accuser, “Do you think that old lady was so stupid that she couldn’t have seen through me if I was anti Jew?!” Everywhere I went that had the effect of turning audiences against my accuser.
It is generally believed that if you offend both parties to a dispute or conflict, you must be getting something right! That being so the second thing I want to tell you about myself is that I and my book are red-flagged by both Zionism and the regimes of a corrupt, impotent and repressive Arab Order. I did not set out to offend the Arab regimes for the hell of it. The fact is that you can’t tell the truth about Zionism without telling the truth about the Arab regimes. As I will explain shortly, the fundamental truth about them is that despite some stupid rhetoric to the contrary, they never had any intention of fighting Israel to liberate Palestine. And that helps to explain why the Arab regimes were and are at one with Zionism in wanting the truth of history to be suppressed.
Now THE key to understanding. It is knowledge of the difference between Judaism and Zionism.
JUDAISM is the religion of Jews, not “the” Jews because not all Jews are religious. Like Christianity and Islam, Judaism, perhaps I should say mainstream Judaism,
has at its core a set of moral values and ethical principles.
ZIONISM is a sectarian, colonial-like nationalism which created a state for some Jews in the Arab heartland mainly by terrorism and ethnic cleansing, and by doing sodemonstrated contempt for, and made a mockery of, Judaism’s moral values and ethical principles. In reality mainstream Judaism and Zionism are total opposites… I wonder how many of you know that the return of Jews to the land of biblical Israel by the efforts of man – one possible but wholly inadequate definition of Zionism - was PROSCRIBED (prohibited, outlawed) by Judaism…?
In my view Jewish Nakba denial – denial of Zionism’s 1948 ethnic cleansing of Palestine which created the original refugee problem – is as obscene as Christian and Muslim denial of the Nazi holocaust. It’s worth noting that in terms of numbers, those Christians and Muslims who deny the Nazi holocaust are a very small minority of the Christian and Muslim whole, but those Jews who deny Zionism’s ethnic cleansing are a majority of the Jewish whole).
There are two reasons why knowledge of the difference between mainstream Judaism and Zionism is THE key to understanding.
The first is that when you know the difference, you can understand why it is perfectly possible to be passionately anti-Zionist (anti Zionism’s colonial enterprise) without being in any way, shape or form anti-Semitic (in the sense of loathing and even hating all Jews everywhere just because they are Jews).
Defenders of Israel right or wrong assert that Judaism and Zionism are one and the same in order to make the charge, sometimes explicitly, sometimes by insinuation and smear, that all criticism of Israel is a manifestation of anti-Semitism. That’s Zionist propaganda nonsense for a blackmail purpose, the purpose being to silence criticism and prevent informed and honest debate about Israel’s policies and actions. But when you know the difference between Judaism and Zionism, you don’t have to be frightened about being falsely accused of anti-Semitism for speaking and writing the truth. You can say to your Zionist accuser, “Go to hell!”. (I hope that’s a comforting thought to Germans especially).
The second reason why knowledge of the difference between Judaism and Zionism is the key to understanding is in this fact. When you know the difference you can understand why it is wrong to blame all Jews everywhere for the crimes of the hard core Zionists in Israel.
To give that statement some context, I want to read to you the warning words of YehoshafatHarkabi, Israel’s longest serving Director of Military Intelligence. In his book Israel’s Fateful Hour, published in 1986, he wrote this:
Israel is the criterion according to which all Jews will tend to be judged. Israel as a Jewish state is an example of the Jewish character, which finds free and concentrated expression within it. Anti-Semitism has deep and historical roots. Nevertheless, any flaw in Israeli conduct, which initially is cited as anti-Israelism, is likely to be transformed into empirical proof of the validity of anti-Semitism. It would be a tragic irony if the Jewish state, which was intended to solve the problem of anti-Semitism, was to become a factor in the rise of anti-Semitism. Israelis must be aware that the price of their misconduct is paid not only by them but also Jews throughout the world.
In the world today we are witnessing a rising tide of anti-Israelism provoked by Israel’s arrogance of power, its contempt for international law and its appalling self-righteousness. (In Harkabi’s view self-righteousness is the biggest threat to Israel’s existence). If Israel stays on its present course, the danger is, as Harkabi warned, that anti-Israelism will betransformed into anti-Semitism, leading to Holocaust II – shorthand for another great turning against Jews everywhere and quite possibly starting in America. In my view the real danger of that happening will be greatly reduced if those (mainly Westerners) among whom most of the Jews of the world live are made aware of the difference between Judaism and Zionism.
Also to be said is that the Jews of the world (those in North America and Europe especially) could and should act to best protect their own interests by distancing themselves from the Zionist state and its crimes. In the Prologue to Volume One of my book which is titledWaiting for the Apocalypse, I quote Dr. David Goldberg, a prominent liberal London rabbi, as saying the following in 2001: “It may be time for Judaism and Zionism to go their separate ways.” If he was with us today I would say to him, it’s not “may be” time, it IS time.
When I joined ITN (Independent Television News) as a very young reporter many years ago, its great editor-in-chief gave me the mission statement in one short sentence. He said: “Our job is to help keep democracy alive.” My charge today is that because of its complicity in Zionism’s suppression of the truth of history as it relates to the making and sustaining of the conflict in and over Palestine that became Israel, the mainstream media throughout the Western world has betrayed democracy… My main purpose today is to draw your attention to two of the most critical elements of the truth which have been suppressed, and then to explain in summary WHY the truth matters.
But first a little light on the matter of Israel’s right or not to exist.
According to first and still existing draft of Judeo-Christian or Western history, Israel was given its birth certificate and thus legitimacy by the UN Partition Resolution of 29 November 1947. That is nonsense.
In the first place the UN without the consent of the majority of the people of Palestine did not have the right to decide to partition Palestine or assign any part of its territory to a minority of alien immigrants in order for them to establish a state of their own. (The term “alien” is correct because almost all if not all of the Jews who went to Palestine in answer to Zionism’s call and/or response to its pushing had no biological connection whatsoever to the ancient Hebrews. They were mainly Europeans who converted to Judaism long after the end of the first Israelite occupation of Palestine.The notion that there are two peoples with an equal claim to the same land is nonsense).
Despite that, by the narrowest of margins, and only after a rigged vote, the UN General Assembly did pass a resolution to partition Palestine and create two states, one Arab, one Jewish, with Jerusalem not part of either. But the General Assembly resolution was only a proposal – meaning that it could have no effect, would not become policy, unless approved by the Security Council.
The truth is that the General Assembly’s partition proposal never went to the Security Council for consideration. Why not? Because the US knew that, if approved, it could only be implemented by force; and President Truman was not prepared to use force to partition Palestine.
So the partition plan was vitiated (became invalid) and the question of what the hell to do about Palestine after Britain had made a mess of it and walked away was taken back to the General Assembly for more discussion. The option favoured and proposed by the US was temporary UN Trusteeship. It was while the General Assembly was debating what to do that Israel unilaterally declared itself to be in existence - actually in defiance of the will of the organised international community, including the Truman administration.
The truth of the time was that the Zionist state, which (as I mentioned earlier) came into being mainly as a consequence of Zionism terrorism and ethnic cleansing, had no right to exist and, more to the point, could have no right to exist unless ….. Unless it was recognised and legitimized by those who were dispossessed of their land and their rights during the creation of the Zionist state.
In international law only the Palestinians could give Israel the legitimacy it craved. And that legitimacy was the only thing the Zionists could not take from the Palestinians by force.
Now to what I regard as the two biggest and most successful of Zionism’s propaganda lies upon which the first and still existing draft of Judeo-Christian or Western history is constructed.
The first is the assertion that Israel has lived in danger of annihilation, the “driving into the sea” of its Jews. The truth of history, which flows fully documented through the three volumes of my book, is that Israel’s existence has NEVER, EVER been in danger from any combination of Arab force. Not in 1948. Not in 1967. And not even in 1973. Zionism’s assertion to the contrary was the cover which allowed its monster child to get away where it mattered most – in America and Western Europe – with having its aggressionperceived as self-defence and itself as the victim when it was and is theoppressor.
In the limited time available to me on this platform today I will say most about the 1967 war but a few words about the fighting of 1948.
Yes, it’s true that when Israel unilaterally declared itself to be to be in existence – an action one very eminent Zionist leader would later say was tantamount to a declaration of war on the Arabs – elements of five Arab armies crossed into Palestine. But their objective was not the destruction of the Jewish state of the vitiated partition plan. Their purpose was only
to try secure the land that had been assigned to the Arab state, and they failed miserably to do even that. At an early point in the fighting there was a 30-day truce. During it the Arabs received not one bullet or bomb because of an arms embargo; but the Israelis, because of brilliant pre-war planning by their leader David Ben-Gurion, received weapons and equipment of every kind. When the fighting resumed it was 20,000 poorly armed, badly led and thoroughly demoralized Arabs against 90,000 well armed, well led and highly motivated Israelis. From then on Israel was the military superpower of the region. (In the countdown to that first Arab-Israeli war it was no secret in the diplomatic world that Ben-Gurion was hoping the Arabs would reject partition and opt for war because he knew that Israel could get more Arab land from fighting than from politics and diplomacy).
I can speak and write about the 1967 war from personal experience because for ITN I was the first Western correspondent to the banks of the Suez Canal with the advancing Israelis (there’s a picture of me there on my web site,www.alanhart.net); and because of the quality of my contacts – they includedMajor General Chaim Herzog, one of the founding fathers of Israel’s Directorate of Military Intelligence – I was privy to the plotting behind closed doors on the Israeli side in the countdown to war. On the second day of the war Herzog said to me, “If Nasser had not been stupid enough to give us a pretext for war, we would have created one within a year to 18 months.”
More than four decades on almost all Jews everywhere, and most Gentiles, still believe that Israel went to war either because the Arabs attacked (that was Israel’s first claim), or because the Arabs were intending to attack (thus requiring Israel to launch a pre-emptive strike). The truth about that war only begins with the statement that the Arabs did NOT attack and were NOT intending to attack. The complete truth includes the following facts,
Israel’s prime minister and defense minister of the time, the much malignedLevi Eshkol, did not want to take his country to war. And nor did his chief of staff, Yitzhak Rabin. They wanted only very limited military action, an operation far, far short of war, to put pressure on the international community to cause Eygpt’s President Nasser to re-open the Straits of Tiran.
Israel went to war because its military and political hawks insisted that the Arabs were about to attack.
They, Israel’s hawks, knew that was nonsense, but they promoted it to undermine Eshkol by portraying him to the country as weak .The climax of the campaign to rubbish Eshkol, who was more wise than weak, was a demand by the hawks that he surrender the defence portfolio and give it to Moshe Dayan, Zionism’s one-eyed warlord and master of deception. Four days after Dayan got the portfolio he wanted, and the hawks had secured the green light from the Johnson administration to smash Eygpt’s air and ground forces, Israel went to war.
What actually happened in Israel in the final countdown to that war was something very close to a military coup, executed quietly behind closed doors without a shot being fired. For Israel’s hawks the war of 1967 was theunfinished business of 1948/49 – to create a Greater Israel with all of Jerusalem its capital. (In reality Israel’s hawks set a trap for Nasser and, for reasons of face, he was daft enough to walk into it).
In the long chapter on that war which starts Volume 3 of my book, I name and quote a number of Israeli leaders of the time who subsequently admitted the truth. The first to do so was Chief of Staff Rabin. In an interview with Le Mondeon 28 February 1968, he said: “I do not believe Nasser wanted war. The two divisions which he sent into Sinai on 14 May would not have been enough to unleash an offensive against Israel. He knew it and we knew it.”
In an unguarded public moment in 1982, Prime Minister Begin went even further. He said: “In June 1967 we had a choice. The Egyptian army concentrations in the Sinai approaches did not prove Nasser was really about to attack us. We must be honest with ourselves. We decided to attack him.”
Each and all of the other Israeli leaders I name and quote said there was never a danger of annihilation or even an Arab attack. And as one of them put it, “The entire story of the danger of extermination was invented in every detail and exaggerated after the events to justify the annexation of new Arab territory.”
While I was writing the truth about that war I found myself saying aloud to my readers that there were times, and this was one of them, when I wanted to “cry out” with the pain of knowing how much Jews (almost all Israelis and most Jews everywhere) have been deceived by Israel’s leaders and Zionism’s spin doctors.
In my view one of the most damning indictments of the mainstream media for its complicity in Zionism’s suppression of the truth of history is in the fact that whentoday it has cause to make reference to the 1967 war, it still peddles Zionism’s propaganda lies about it, this despite the fact that the truth is on the public record as I have indicated.
Question: Why is the mainstream media complicit?
There are many people who believe the answer is “Jewish control of the media”. Jewish ownership of some even many media institutions is a part of the answer, but there’s much more to it. For example, you don’t make money from selling newspapers. You make money from selling the advertising space in them. What editors fear most of all is that if they offend Zionism too much, they will be denied the advertising revenue that keeps their papers alive. And this fear results in self-censorship… There’s much more that could be said on this subject but time is short.
For the first two or three days of the 1973 war virtually the whole world believed that Israel really was in danger of defeat and annihilation. It was not. Despite the fact that Eygpt and Syria started the action, Sadat’s war plan was only for his forces to cross the Suez Canal and stop. Which is what they did, There was not an Egyptian intention to attack Israel or even to try to regain more Israeli-occupied Egyptian territory. And the Syrian war aim was limited to trying to take back the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. Fundamentally it was Sadat’s war for peace in secret collusion with the new American Secretary of State, Dr. Henry Kissinger. He wanted to teach his intransigent Israeli friends a little lesson in the hope that he could then bounce them into a separate peace process with Egypt. Kissinger knew that if Egypt could be taken out of the military equation, the Arabs could never fight Israel even if they wanted to; and Israel would then be completely free to impose its will on the whole Arab world. It all went badly wrong for Sadat and Kissinger when Israel’s generals realised that their American friend hadcolluded with Sadat. With General Sharon in the lead, they then decided to teach Kissinger as well as Sadat a lesson… Initially, and on Kissinger’s say so, President Nixon refused to supply Israel with the replacement weapons it needed. And that was why Israeli Defense Minister Dayan ordered the arming of two missiles with nuclear warheads, with Cairo and Damascus their targets. Dayan’s message to Kissinger and Nixon was something very like, “If you don’t give us what we want, we’ll go nuclear.” I tell the story of this war in Volume 3 of my book in a Chapter titled The Yom Kippur War and “Nuclear Blackmail”.
Complete understanding of why Israel’s existence has never, ever, been in danger from any combination of Arab force is assisted by this fact. When the Palestine file was closed by Israel’s victory on the battlefield in 1948 and Jordan’s annexation of the West Bank, it was not supposed to have been re-opened. There was not supposed to have been a regeneration of Palestinian nationalism. The Palestinians were supposed to accept their lot as the sacrificial lamb on the altar of political expediency.
And the whole truth includes this fact. Behind closed doors, and despite their rhetoric to the contrary, the Arab regimes shared the same hope as Zionism and the major powers - that the Palestine file would never be re-opened. They knew that if it was, there would one day have to be a confrontation with Israel and its big power supporters, the U.S. in particular, and they didn’t want that.
They, the Arab regimes, also feared that a Palestinian state, if it was ever established, would be more or less democratic and provide a model of government which all Arabs would want. Palestinian nationalism was therefore perceived by Arab autocrats as a potentially subversive force.
For their part Israel’s leaders were aware that if they failed to keep the Palestine file closed, a regeneration of Palestinian nationalism would cause the legitimacy of Zionism’s colonial-like enterprise to be called into question. Which is what is now happening.
The second of Zionism’s two biggest and most successful propaganda lies is in the assertion that Israel had “no partners for peace.”
The best introduction to the truth of history on this aspect of the matter is one sentence in a remarkable book, The Iron Wall, Israel and the Arab World, by Avi Shlaim, one of Israel’s leading “revisionist” which means honest historians. He wrote: “The files of the Israeli Foreign Ministry burst with evidence of Arab peace feelers and Arab readiness to negotiate with Israel from September 1948 on.” It’s worth repeating “from September 1948 on.” Avi was the first to have access to these files when they were de-classified.
In the time available to me on this platform today I’ll settle for just two examples of this Arab readiness or pragmatism. Which could also be called betrayal of the Palestinian cause.
Very soon after he came to power in a coup in Egypt in 1951, Nasser secretly signalled that he wanted an accommodation with Israel. The signalling was done in secret exchanges he had with Moshe Sharret, Israel’s first foreign minister and in my view the only completely rational Israeli leader of his time. He was also briefly prime minister when Ben-Gurion stood down for a while because some of his colleagues, and perhaps even the man himself, were beginning to doubt his mental state. When Ben-Gurion returned as prime minister, he destroyed Sharret politically because, inspired by his exchanges with Nasser, he wanted to make peace with the Arabs on terms which would have seen Israel confined to the Armistice borders of 1948.
But the man who did more than any other to prepare the ground for peace was the one who also led the struggle to re-open the Palestine file – the pragmaticYasser Arafat. In my book Arafat, Terrorist or Peacemaker? first published in 1984, I revealed that he personally was reluctantly reconciled to compromise with Israel as far back as 1968. Repeat 1968. By that time he regarded Nasser as a trusted father figure, and he believed the Egyptian president was right when he told him that if the PLO wanted to be taken seriously by the major powers, those of both the West and the East, it had to be realistic and come to terms with an Israel inside its pre 1967 borders.
Thereafter it took Arafat five long years to sell the idea of unthinkablecompromise with Israel to his Fatah leadership colleagues. Initially the idea of compromise was unthinkable to virtually all Palestinians not only because it required them to make peace with Israel in exchange for only 22% of their land, but also because it required them, effectively, to renounce their claim to the other 78% of it and to legitimize Israel’s presence on it.
After that it took Arafat another five long years to sell his Fatah-approved policy of politics and compromise with Israel to the PNC (the Palestine National Council), a sort of Palestinian parliament-in-exile and the highest Palestinian decision making body. At the time there were about 300 PNC representatives in the global Palestinian diaspora. There were others in the Israeli-occupied territories and Israel itself, but the Israeli authorities did not allow them to travel to attend PNC meetings.
In those five years Arafat had to turn the PNC around – from rejection of compromise with Israel to support for it. And he had to do it bydemocratic means, by discussion and debate. He could not behave like his autocratic Arab brothers at leadership level and impose his will. He did it by summoning all 300 PNC members from all over the world, one by one, to talk with him in Beirut. In his first conversations with them, many said they wouldnot vote for compromise with Israel; that Arafat was a traitor for advocating it; and that if he continued along that line he might well beassassinated. Arafat was indeed putting his credibility with his own people and his life on the line. At the end of each of his one-on-one conversations with rejectionist PNC delegates, Arafat asked them to return to their places in the diaspora and to think very carefully about the case he had made for compromise with Israel. If after time for reflection and debate with their own communities they were still opposed to his policy, he would summon them back to Beirut for another conversation.
The PNC vote in 1979 was an overwhelming victory for Arafat. There were 296 votes for his policy of politics and compromise with Israel and only 4 against. It was shortly after that historic PNC decision that I had the first of very many conversations with Arafat. When we were alone, he extracted a notebook from his hip pocket. He waved it triumphantly in the air and said, “It’s all here.”The 'it' was his own record of his conversations with PNC delegates over the five years. Then, with a big smile on his face and in a voice that suggested he could hardly believe what had happened, he said this: “How far we have travelled. No more this silly talk of driving the Jews into the sea. Now we are prepared to live alongside them in a little mini state of our own. It is a miracle.”
It was, and Arafat was the miracle worker. He had prepared the ground on his side for peace on terms which any rational government and people in Israel would have accepted with relief. No other Palestinian leader could have done it.
The problem then was not that Israel didn’t have a Palestinian partner for peace but that the Palestinians did not have an Israeli partner. Menachem Begin, arguably the most successful terrorist of modern times and perhaps of all time, was Israel’s prime minister. Arafat the terrorist Begin and his Likud leadership colleagues could handle. Arafat the peacemaker they could not. And that’s why in 1982 Begin allowed General Sharon, then Israel’s Defense Minister, to take the IDF all the way to Beirut for the purpose of liquidating the entire PLO leadership and destroying its infrastructure.
But that was only phase one of Sharon’s game plan. If he had succeeded in Beirut, he was going to de-stabilise Jordan and bring about the downfall and departure of the Hashemite monarchy. That done he was intending to say to the Palestinians something like: “Of course you must have a state of your own. There it is. Jordan. Go take it.” To assist that process Sharon had established on the West Bank something close to a Palestinian puppet government-in-waiting consisting of 70 Palestinian collaborators. When he had overthrown King Hussein he was going to helicopter them into Amman.
Subsequently King Hussein, whom I knew very well, told me that he and all Arab leaders were fully aware in advance of what Sharon’s intentions were. Hussein also confirmed to me something Arafat told me. Shortly before Sharon launched his invasion of Lebanon to liquidate the PLO, the Gulf Arab leaders met in secret, without any advisers present, to agree a message to President Reagan.The message was that when Sharon invaded Lebanon to liquidate the PLO, the Arab leaders would not make any problems for the U.S. or Israel. Arafat’s source for that information was one of the Gulf Arab leaders who was present at the secret meeting – Oman’s Sultan Qaboos. His message to Arafat was this: “When Sharon comes for you in Beirut, you will ask for our help and you will not get it. Be careful.”
All of that and much, much more is in my book, in fully documented detail.
In due course Arafat did get a possible even probable Israeli partner for peace in the shape of Prime Minister Rabin; but as I knew from my own sources, Rabin went into the Arafat-initiated Oslo peace process only with great reluctance because he feared he would be assassinated by one of his own. As we know, his fears on that account were justified. The Zionist fanatic who assassinated Rabin, possibly with the complicity of some in one of Israel’s security services, was not mentally de-ranged, he knew exactly what he was doing – killing Rabin to kill the Arafat-initiated peace process.
After that Arafat’s credibility with his own people began to be eroded. And why can be simply stated. He had said to them in effect the following: “Trust me. Let me run with my policy and politics and compromise with Israel because it will deliver something concrete for you.” The fact was that he could not deliver for his people because Israel’s leaders didn’t want peace on the basis of the two-state solution he was offering. And Israel’s Jews were not able to challenge the folly of their leaders because they were, most of them, brainwashed by Zionist propaganda.
Today the case some Palestinian intellectuals and activists make against Arafat is that in the Oslo process he effectively gave control of Palestinian policy to Israel and Zionism. In my very last conversation with Arafat about two years he died – I think he was biologically poisoned, murdered – I asked him if there was a case for saying that he had made the mistake of his life and, in effect, hadbetrayed his people by putting his own good faith in the hope that Israel would deliver on the commitments it had made for peace.
The first part of his answer was to the effect that when he initiated the Oslo peace process he honestly believed he had no choice – because Israel had all of the might on its side and the Palestinians had only right on their side. The second part of his answer, in a voice mixed with quiet despair and anger, was to this effect: IF the big powers and the U.S. especially had backed his policy of politics and compromise with Israel after he had shaken hands with Rabin on the lawn of the White House, the Oslo process could have delivered peace on terms just about acceptable to most Palestinians. On that I think Arafat was right.
The Clinton administration did not back Arafat as it should have done, in America’s own best interests, because the Zionist lobby was working day and night to undermine both Arafat AND Rabin and to take the meaning out of the agreement they had signed. I understood what was going on because of a comment made to me by Shimon Peres way back in 1984. He was then the leader of the Labour Party in opposition to Begin’s first Likud-led government coalition and was hoping to win Israel’s next election and deny Begin a second term as prime minister. I was then acting as the linkman in a secret, exploratory dialogue between Peres and Arafat. In my first private conversation with Peres at the start of that initiative I used the term “Israel lobby”. That made Peres angry. He said, almost shouting at me: “You don’t understand! It’s NOT an Israel lobby! It’s a Likud lobby! And that’s our problem!”
My own take on this aspect of the matter is that it’s wrong to call it the Israel lobby because that implies it represents all Israelis and it most certainly does not. My own preferred term for it is Zionist lobby. At this point I want to say, as I do in my book, that I do not blame the Zionist lobby for acting in the way it does. It is only playing the game according to the rules. I blame a corrupt, pork-barrel system of American politics which puts what passes for democracy up for sale to the highest bidders. The Zionist lobby is one of them and the influence it can and does buy enables it to control Congress and therefore the president on policy for Israel-Palestine. (If the opportunity arises in discussion, I’ll tell you what President Carter told me about the limited opportunities any president has to confront the Zionist lobby even if he has the will and courage to do so).
Ladies and gentlemen, after that brief explanation of some of the essence of the truth of history (there’s much, much more of it in my book!), I’m going to draw my main contribution to this conference to a conclusion by asking a question and then giving you my answer. The question is: Why is the truth of history so important? Put another way, Why MUST the boundaries that have been drawn by Zionism to prevent informed and honest debate be crossed?
But first three brief general observations.
I think the Zionist not Jewish state of Israel could and should be described today as a monster beyond control
a monster that, because it is hungry for the maximum amount of Arab land with the minimum number of Arabs on it, is not remotely interested in peace on terms that would provide the Palestinians with an acceptable minimum amount of justice; and
a monster that is a real threat not only to the peace of the region and the world but also to the security and wellbeing of Jews everywhere.
When I was writing the text for this presentation I found myself wondering how many Germans are aware of the following. If there had been no Adolf Hitler and no Nazi holocaust, there almost certainly would not have been a state of Israel. Why not? Prior to the obscenity of the Nazi holocaust, the vast majority of Jews everywhere, and especially many eminent American Jews including the then owner of The New York Times, were totally opposed to Zionism’s Palestine project. They believed it to be morally wrong. They feared it would lead to unending conflict with the Arabs and the wider Muslim world. But most of all they feared that if Zionism was allowed by the big powers to have its way, it would one day provoke violent anti-Semitism on a grand scale. For most Jews of the world today the title of my book, ZIONISM: THE REAL ENEMY OF THE JEWS, is very uncomfortable, too uncomfortable, and some are deeply offended and outraged by it; but I am confident that, if they were alive today, the many pre-holocaust Jewish critics of Zionism would endorse it. (My very dear Jewish friend Ilan Pappe, author of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, has described the title of my book as “THE truth in seven words.”)
The second general observation I want to make concerns my repeated emphasis of the fact that Israel is a Zionist not a Jewish state. It’s really very simple. Howcan Israel be a Jewish state when a quarter of its citizens are Israeli
Arabs, mainly of the Muslim faith? Israel will only become a Jewish state if it resorts to a final round to ethnic cleansing – to remove all the Palestinians from the land Israel holds. I happen to believe this is a real possibility in a foreseeable future but there’s not time here and now for me to explain why and what I think the consequences would most likely be. For now I’ll say only that I believe a final round of Zionist ethnic cleansing could make a Clash of Civilizations, Islamic v Judeo-Christian, inevitable. Which is perhaps what the hardest core Zionists and their neo-con associates in America want.
The third general observation I want to make and which will take me directly to my answer to the question of why the truth of history is so important is this. The incredible almost superhuman steadfastness of the occupied and oppressed Palestinians is the ROCK on which all of us who seek to promote the truth of history stand. I admire the occupied and oppressed Palestinians because if there is any people on earth who ought to have been de-humanized by their humiliating treatment, it’s them. They have not been de-humanized but their oppressors have. And that’s not only my Gentile view. It is also the opinion of some Israeli Jews.
Simply by continuing to exist and staying put without surrendering to Israel’s dictates and not accepting crumbs from its table, the occupied and oppressed Palestinians of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip open prison camp are doing virtually all they can to contain the Zionist monster, But there is a bottom-linepolitical reality to be faced and it’s this.
The struggle for justice for the Palestinians, which is the key to peace for all, is not going to be won or lost in Israel-Palestine or even the region. It’s going to be won or lost in the major capitals of the Western world and in Washington DC especially. But…
PROBLEM NUMBER ONE is that because of the awesome power and influence of the Zionist lobby in all of its many manifestations, our leaders and their governments are never going to use the leverage they have to cause or try to cause Israel to be serious about peace unless and until they are PUSHED TO DO SO BY INFORMED PUBLIC OPINION, by expressions of real democracy in action. In the American context for example, no American president is ever going to be free to use the leverage he has to cause or try cause Israel to be serious about peace unless and until enough Congressmen and women are more frightened of offending their voters than they are of offending the Zionist lobby.
PROBLEM NUMBER TWO is that the citizens, voters, of the Western nations, Americans especially, are TOO UNINFORMED AND MISINFORMED TO DO THE PUSHING because, with the complicity of the mainstream media, they have been conditioned by Zionist propaganda to believe a version of history which simply is not true.
In summary then I say this. The truth of history is needed to EMPOWER the citizens of the Western nations to make their democracies work for justice for the Palestinians and peace for all. Without this empowerment there is not in my view a snowball’s chance in hell of justice for the Palestinians and peace for all; and the cancer the conflict is will eventually consume us all.
I want to conclude with an appeal for some assistance for promoting the truth of history here in Germany. In the coming weeks the German edition of Volume 1 of my book will be published. It is possible that the Zionist lobby here in Germany will use its influence to prevent the book being on display at the Frankfurt Book Fair. We shall see. But Volumes 2 and 3 will not be published,cannot be published, unless the publisher receives financial assistance to pay for the translation. If any of you here have ideas about how this assistance could be provided, I ask you, please, to tell Dr. Gabi or through her, me.
If I had written an epic, pro-Zionist book, wealthy supporters of Israel right or wrong would have thrown money at it for promotion of all kinds; and they probably would have funded a Hollywood movie based on its substance. It is a sad but true fact that virtually unlimited resources have been available for telling and selling the lies of history, while the truth has not commanded any significant financial support from anywhere. And that, in my view, is the main reason why, to date, Zionist might has triumphed over Palestinian right.
Though I might expose myself to a charge of naivety for saying so, I remain committed to the belief that IF citizens of the Western nations WERE properly informed about the truth of history as it relates to the making and sustaining of the conflict in and over Palestine that became Israel, they would want their governments to act – to use the leverage they have to bring about justice for the Palestinians and peace for all – and would insist that their governments did act.
Thank you.
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2 - PSYWAR : The Fake Fall Of Tripoli And The Zionist Dragon’s Butchery Across Palestine II
13 Sep 2011
by Jonathan Azaziah / Mask of Zion
Zionism's ultimate goal: Greater Israel, from the Nile to the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
Editor’s Note: WARNING – Photos in the second section of this essay are of extremely graphic nature. They have been included in this
piece due to their unequivocal importance to the overall view of what the illegitimate Israeli regime has done to Gaza.
Prelude: In the first part of this series, the malignant Zionist propaganda surrounding the fall of Tripoli was picked apart, piece by piece, exposing the destructive, genocidal, brute force of NATO and its crimes against humanity on Libyan soil. This part, the series finale, will deal with the latest horror inflicted upon the occupied Gaza Strip, holy Al-Quds and occupied Al-Khalil as a result of Zionist intelligence shenanigans in the Egyptian Sinai. It will conclude on the world scale, where an Orwellian “utopia” is hoped to be erected on the ruins of Zionism’s greatest enemies…
Palestine I: Israeli False Flag Sets Up Reoccupation Of The Sinai
The year is 1982. It was a tumultuous year for the Zionist dragon. It had invaded South Lebanon again, nine years after starting the Lebanese Civil War with its cruel assassination of three Palestinian Resistance leaders including beloved poet Kamal Nasir; the death squad was led by future Israeli Prime Minister and war criminal, Ehud Barak (56). And, in a decision coated in the deepest bitterness, it had to dismantle Yamit, an illegal extremist settlement in the occupied, resource-rich peninsula known as Sinai, effectively ending its 15-year occupation of the Egyptian territory. However, from the very moment that the Zionist dragon made this choice, it immediately set forth a plan to reclaim Sinai, for within the twisted framework of Zionist thought, this piece of Egyptian soil was part of ‘Greater Israel,’ the Zionist plan from the get-go; a Talmudic empire that would stretch across parts of Egypt, specifically those resting upon the Nile, all of Jordan, a large piece of Saudi Arabia, all of Kuwait, all of Lebanon, all of Syria, a massive part of Turkey up to Lake Van, all of Cyprus, and large chunks of Iraq (57).
The name of this plan was (is) ‘A Strategy For Israel In The 1980s,’ a nightmarish, frightening foreign policy study written by Oded Yinon, a former advisor to the Israeli foreign ministry with high-level contacts inside the Zionist military-intelligence establishment. The study appeared in a World Zionist Organization journal called Kivunim and its essential basis was that the usurping Israeli regime must systematically break down the greater majority of the Arab world into smaller, subservient-to-Zionism satellites through subversive, military and diplomatic means, so it will be much less arduous to annex these states into the Zionist empire when the time called for such action. At the zenith of the hitlist was Egypt and Yinon’s text clearly displays that the Camp David Accords which secured the Sinai in exchange for ‘peace’ with the unrecognizable, criminal Zionist entity, were simply a mechanism to regroup and prepare for the permanent reoccupation of Sinai. In fact, Yinon stresses that the Zionist regime will be forced to retake Sinai before balkanizing Egypt because the Egyptian military posed no significant threat to Zionism and would therefore be an easy victory if conflict became reality (58).
And since that fateful year of 1982 when Oded Yinon’s regional-domination plan was brought into being, the Zionist dragon has strenuously attempted to bring Egypt into conflict to conquer Sinai once more. It has used overt and brutal means, by gunning down more than 23 Egyptians in the era of now-toppled dictator Hosni Mubarak alone; each one of these victims were murdered by the criminal Tel Aviv regime in Sinai, illegally besieged Gaza or one of the border villages (59). It has also used covert means, operating at least 15 spy networks within Egypt since 1978 while using false flag terror to provoke communal war between Muslims and Christians in accordance with Yinon’s vision (60).
Israeli Terrorism: a global brand. Its latest stop is Egypt's Sinai peninsula.
But no attempt has been as brazen and beneficial to Israeli hegemony as the attack on an IOF military bus in Umm Rashrash (Eilat) on August 18th which left several Israeli soldiers and Egyptian security personnel dead. Tel Aviv blamed the assault on the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) in illegally besieged Gaza, but the PRC vehemently denied any involvement. The murderous Netanyahu government offered no proof of its claim against the Strip and it was so dubious to begin with, that even Israeli media rejected it as a “major deception (61).” In reality, the Sinai attack had all of the bearings of a Zionist false flag attack, like hundreds of other incidents perpetrated by Mossad, Shin Bet and Aman over the course of the Zionist entity’s existence, both large and small, regional and transnational (62). The ‘masked gunmen’ routine in Sinai strikingly resembles the modus operandi of Israeli military intel’s Mistaravim units, specifically the Duvdevan, Zionist terrorists who dress up like Arabs in order to terrorize Palestinians. These slippery killers were responsible for the murder of Palestinian-Jewish activist and director Juliano Mer-Khamis as well as other high-profile assassinations in the occupied West Bank (63).
The hasbara has swirled so far out of control since the August 18th attacks that Zionist military-intelligence circles and their journalistic conduits are now engaged in an active, vociferous cover-up to flush out their initial beacons of disinformation (64). Using the savagery being unleashed on Libya by NATO and its proxy army of Israeli-advised ‘rebels’ as a further deterrent, the Zionist dragon quietly moved into position on two fronts, military and diplomatic, to reclaim its lost ‘Greater Israel’ gem. Former head of the Israeli National Security Council, Uzi Dayan, stated outright that, “it is time for the Israeli army to take control inside Sinai (65).” IOF’s Edom Division has been upgraded with more enhanced surveillance equipment and armored units that will be ‘strung across the Egyptian border’ to fight ‘terrorist threats.’ Zionist war criminal and IOF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz has re-labeled the Israeli-Egyptian border as ‘revised (66),’ dangerous Orwellian language that surely indicates greater Zionist plans for the territory.
Murdering innocents, stealing Arab land, disregarding all law, the foundational principles of the Zionist entity.
Since the ouster of Egyptian dictator and Zionist puppet Hosni Mubarak, multiple false flag attacks on the Sinai pipeline, which criminally delivers Egyptian natural gas to the Zionist entity, have forced Egyptian police to abandon their posts, leaving Sinai wide open for the most ominous infiltration (read: Mossad and Aman). To secure its natural gas needs and to ‘protect its {undeclared, fabricated, forever-expanding} borders,’ the Zionist dragon has been heightening its rhetoric against Egypt and its ability to control the Sinai since the fall of Mubarak (67), perfectly setting the stage for the August 18th event. Just to remind the new Egyptian military junta who really controls Egypt’s sovereignty, Zionist war criminal and current Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak ‘approved’ the deployment of thousands of Egyptian soldiers into Sinai for ‘security reasons (68).’
Coupled with the strengthening of IOF’s Edom Division, the Egyptian military escalation in Sinai represents abrasive Zionist efforts to establish ‘facts on the ground.’ Over time, the Camp David Accords will be ‘revised’ as IOF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz so deceptively described the current state of the Israeli-Egyptian border. Under this revised treaty, there will be ‘integration’ between IOF and Egyptian forces. This integration will become amalgamation and then amalgamation, will become occupation. Occupation will then become colonization and Sinai will once again be part of the Zionist project. All the while, the Egyptian military junta will continue to appease the usurping Israeli regime at all costs to maintain its newfound power, which is immersed in fragility and based on how far its subservience to Zionist hegemony can stretch.
The Zionist media of course, made no mention of these developments or the increasingly likely possibility of an Israeli takeover in Sinai. Instead, it continued peddling its hasbara on Libya and throwing a ‘mask of Zion’ on the ungodly crimes of NATO and its proxy rebel army. With Libya in chaos and its clandestine Sinai agenda buried, the Zionist entity turned its attention to its favorite target nowadays, Hamas, ludicrously blaming the Gaza-based Resistance government for the Sinai false flag (69). And just like that, the bombing of the starving Gaza Strip where 91.4% of the children suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder thanks to Zionist monstrousness (70), began anew. Ehud Barak, who as aforementioned played a major role in pushing the Sinai agenda, barbarically stated that Gaza will be ‘decapitated (71).’ Bloodlust; the sickness that has kept the cruel Zionist dragon on life support since al-Nakba.
Palestine II: Hell For The Indigenous… Again
Palestine II: Hell For The Indigenous... Again
Before the ink of the filthy hasbara had even dried on the usurping Israeli regime’s propagandistic papers and before the blood of sacrificial lambs in Sinai was absorbed by the blistering desert sand, Zionist warplanes and drones screamed over illegally besieged and occupied Gaza and bombed the world’s largest open air prison for something like the billionth time. Over the course of 5 days beginning on August 18th, under the cover of the fake fall of Libyan Tripoli and the fake terror attack in Umm Rashrash, the violent and criminal Zionist entity carried out 30 airstrikes against the helpless population of Gaza, murdering at least 14 Palestinians and wounding more than 41 others. Residential structures, government buildings, over 7 local NGOs, supermarkets and smaller family-owned grocery stores, a mosque, a fuel station, a school and a sewage pump station were badly damaged or destroyed. The sewage pump station, which was annihilated, serviced more than 130,000 Palestinian refugees in the Nusairat and al-Bureij camps (72).
As more bodies were pulled from the rubble after the unconscionable Israeli brutality, the casualty count rose to at least 15 Palestinians murdered and 60 wounded. Among the dead were two 2-year old children and a 13-year old child. Among the wounded were more than 9 children (73) The ‘bravery, morality and heroism’ of Zionist occupation forces on full display: ‘stopping terror’ one innocent Palestinian child at a time. Gaza is normally used by the marauding Israeli occupiers as a testing ground for its newest murder weapons and this time around was no different. Every Palestinian body that hit the hospital was torn apart and charred, in an almost unbelievable display of savagery, invoking memory of the genocidal slaughter of Operation Cast Lead (74). Dr. Ayman as-Sahbani, al-Shifa Hospital’s emergency ward chief, confirmed that bodies were burned beyond recognition and described the weapons as ‘new and more brutal than ever before.’ He also relayed that the Zionist entity deliberately targeted women, children and the elderly (75). Zionism as usual.
Illegally besieged Gaza is where the criminal Zionist occupation forces test out their new weapons.
Atrociously, and laughably, when the Gaza Resistance fired back at the criminal entity for its ritualistic and deranged massacre of Palestinians, in defense of the Strip, the criminal entity actually accused the Resistance of firing white phosphorus at Israel. And it did so by pathetically tampering with a rocket fired at Kerem Shalom, a Zionist colony (kibbutz) built in 1966 just before al-Naksa (76). This represented yet another psychological warfare operation to distribute throughout the Zionist media and enlarge the smokescreen that already surrounded global consciousness due to the fraudulent descent of Tripoli. Despite the Resistance factions in the Strip laying down their arms and agreeing to a ceasefire, the Zionist dragon had no such intention and the butchery deepened with the air raid murder of 65-year old elderly Palestinian Isma’il Amom. His body was dismally disfigured from the shrapnel released by Israeli bombs. A Resistance fighter from Islamic Jihad’s military wing, Al-Quds Brigades, was also assassinated when the Zionist regime targeted a civilian car in Rafah, Gaza’s southernmost point (77).
Another Palestinian innocent 'ripped to shreds' by the Zionist entity.
Over the next 24 hours, the Zionist entity’s carnage hit a fever pitch as at least 11 Palestinians were massacred, bringing the death toll to over 30 in less than a week. The Toffah and al-Zaytun neighborhoods of Gaza City were heavily bombarded by Israeli F-16s and drones in the early morning hours, when many Palestinians are waking up for Fajr, Islam’s pre-dawn prayer (78). It is classic Zionist cowardice. The occupation forces are not only conducting the most heinous crimes against humanity but they are doing so when most of the population is barely awake, barely cognizant to fight back or save their families from the imminent death-from-above. A tense, apprehensive calm is present in occupied Gaza as August comes to a close, but not without another tragedy. 14-year old Beit Lahiya resident Haitham Ma’rouf succumbed to his Israeli-occupation-inflicted wounds on August 30th, after hanging on for 10 days in the Intensive Care Unit of Al-Shifa Hospital. Well over 100 Palestinians were terribly wounded in the latest Zionist onslaught against the besieged coastal enclave (79), and because of the malicious weaponry used by Israel, the death toll is expected to rise.
This young Palestinian lost both of his hands after the Zionist entity's carnage in the Strip.
The Zionist entity is committed to employing the ‘Dahiya Doctrine,’ the oppressive strategy utilized during the July 2006 war against Lebanon which murdered over 1,300 Lebanese, whenever it strikes Gaza for it genuinely believes that with each successive massacre, it will literally bend international law to its liking, changing the language so Zionist aggression is protected from a judicial perspective (80). In defiance of this supremacist barbarism, and the ridiculous Zionist media which is pouring out sensationalist stories of social ills in the Strip attributable to Hamas to direct Western eyes away from the criminal 5-year siege and Zionist crimes against humanity (81), the people of Gaza, remain inspiringly bright. As Israeli bombs penetrated civilian areas in Gaza, sheikhs tell those bravely attending the masjid (mosque) to donate to those suffering inexplicably in occupied Somalia (82). Others courageously console their younger siblings and children afflicted with lifelong injuries thanks to Zionism’s Operation Cast Lead (83). Gaza’s lifeguards attempt to provide a safe escape from the occupation by defending Palestinians on the beach from common, oceanic threats like riptide and deep water (84), a nice albeit brief change from white phosphorus and depleted uranium. This defiance is what keeps the gleaming spirit of Gaza alive.
Not content with its bloodbath in besieged Gaza, the Zionist regime opened up another military front in the occupied West Bank. The terror kicked off at the Al-Khalil home of Hassan Ali Darwish al-Qawasmi, where 8 armed Israeli military vehicles and around 40 IOF soldiers sealed off all entry points. IOF immediately began taking prisoners, including one man who was blindfolded and brutally beaten. Totally uncaring of the fact that women and babies were present in the home, IOF left behind an explosive device to demolish it. The blast was so massive that it damaged part of a neighbor’s home. IOF then fired tear gas and rubber bullets on protesters who were demonstrating against the demolition, leaving at least 1 dead and more than 30 wounded (85). Mask of Zion’s social networking sources have confirmed via Arabic news reports that at least 7 Palestinians were murdered in the demolition. Sadly, the Qawasmi family is no stranger to tragedy. Earlier this year, 65-year old Haj Omar al-Qawasmi was sadistically murdered by IOF in his Al-Khalil home. He was shot 13 times in the head and heart, as he slept (86). ‘Most moral army in the world,’ at its most barbarous.
Al-Khalil Brutalized: home demolitions, mass arrests, tear gas and terror. This is Zionism's 'democracy.'
Following the demolition, the terror spread throughout other corners of Al-Khalil as IOF launched its largest detention campaign in the city since 2003. Israeli militiamen invaded the villages of Dura, Surif, Beit Ula, Nuba, Yatta and As-Samu and arrested anyone who the vile, collaborationist Palestinian ‘Authority’ dubbed a ‘Hamas supporter.’ Over 100 Zionist military vehicles stormed the multiple villages from three directions and by the time the operation was over, at least 120 Palestinians had been illegally detained and carted off to Israeli dungeons. In Dura Village, Palestinian youth resisted the operation and occupation soldiers responded with rubber bullets, leaving at least one child wounded (87). Gaza was in ruins, again, and the occupied West Bank was rattling from the terror, but still, the Zionist dragon wasn’t satisfied. It opened up a third front: in occupied Al-Quds.
In the final week of Ramadan, Islam’s holiest month, the Zionist entity unleashed violence on worshipers inside the sacred Al-Aqsa Masjid, taking advantage of its ongoing slaying spree in illegally besieged Gaza and the brutality across the occupied West Bank. On August 23rd, in one of the worst attacks in recent memory, Israeli occupation forces invaded the holy mosque and brutalized those inside. Tear gas, stun grenades and the infamous ‘skunk’ water were fired upon thousands of Palestinian worshipers as Zionist brigades mounted on horses whipped those trying to escape the violence, leaving more than 7 beaten, humiliated and wounded. Dozens were hospitalized with breathing difficulty after the tear gas assault. At least four Palestinians were arrested for simply demanding their universal human right of freedom to worship (88).
This is by no means an isolated incident. Every year, thousands of Palestinians are denied entry into Al-Quds and for those who do manage to enter, they are denigrated for hours on end at criminal, inhumane checkpoints (89). Men under the age of 45 and women under 35 are not permitted by the Israeli occupation tyranny to enter Al-Aqsa (90). How there are still voices who would dare speak of the Zionist entity in glowing terms, as if it was a ‘democracy,’ is astonishing beyond words.
Al-Jazeera: the 'Arab island' of hasbara; a shadowy breeding ground for Zionist propaganda.
And where was Qatar’s Al Jazeera, ‘shimmering beacon of journalistic integrity,’ throughout the three-front butchery and abuse waged by the Zionist dragon in occupied Palestine? It was covering the events for sure, but from the Israeli perspective, giving a platform to the biased hasbaraniks of the Zionist occupation military as per the GCC agenda of furthering Israeli regional objectives while ignoring the Palestinian perspective entirely (91). Al Jazeera disgustingly blamed Hamas for ‘breaking the ceasefire’ despite days of maddening Israeli bombardments and civilian deaths in besieged Gaza (92). Despicable? Absolutely. Shocking? Not even close. It cannot be said enough that Al Jazeera is nothing more than the Arab wing of the Zionist media, created and run by personalities with pro-Israel leanings who have buried hundreds of stories exposing Zionist crimes since 2004 alone (93). What about Human Rights Watch (HRW), an organization prominent in its attacks on Libya and Syria? Al Jazeera was vocal with a Likudnik twist, but HRW was completely silent on atrocities in the Strip and the ruthless suppression in occupied Al-Khalil and Al-Quds, most likely to please its many Zionist donors (94).
Three cities in occupied Palestine, all of which are ghetto-prisons already experiencing daily hardship under the tyrannical occupation, terrorized by the usurping Israeli entity and their pain was drowned out in silence. Sinai, manipulated through Zionist false flags, stands on the brink of reoccupation. All of this for ‘Greater Israel,’ all of this disguised by the fake fall of Tripoli. All of this… is just the beginning.
Conclusion: Goodbye Regional War, Hello WW3
Conclusion: Goodbye Regional War, Hello WW3
Now for elephantine question number one: ‘where are we now?’ The people of besieged Gaza are not only reeling from the newest dreadful batch of Zionist crimes against humanity, but are also still psychologically recovering from the blackout forced upon them in the beginning of August by Israeli military bulldozers. For 18 hours, Palestinians in the Strip were cut off from the outside world, leaving them horrified of an impending Zionist attack. While the damage was reportedly fixed, Israeli domination of the Gaza telecom sector remains and the occupation still has the power to turn the Strip on and off like a light-switch (95); also, the network was ruined again in the airstrikes of the Zionist entity’s week-long ‘Ramadan massacre.’ In a piece of relatively good news, the first ever African humanitarian aid convoy, the Africa 1, has reached occupied Gaza with desperately-needed supplies (96). Due to the Zionist siege however, a glum health crisis still remains, with close to 400 medicines totally out of stock or depleted and many Palestinian medical patients on the brink of death (97).
The Zionist entity has deployed two more warships into the Red Sea, right on the Egyptian-Israeli line, in a blatant military provocation. IOF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz has also authorized even further upgrade measures for Zionist ground forces on the entire territorial border between Israeli-governed occupied Palestine and Sinai (98). It is this coastal, resource-heavy peninsula that will be aeons away from the Zionist mainstream media’s cameras over the coming months. Reports from Israeli intelligence sources and alternative media stalwarts will trickle in as they have a knack for doing but the bigger picture will remain swept under the rug like crumbs from dinner. This sort of ignorant atmosphere is what the Zionist dragon thrives on; for when nobody is watching, it moves across the board with swiftness and deadliness, initiating checkmate.
Libya is being mutilated by the forces of the US and EU, all for the benefit of the Zionist entity.
Libya, considered to be the ‘Switzerland of Africa’ with free schools, free health care and an excellent women’s rights record second to none in MENA prior to the demonic NATO bombing (99), is now in the throes of uncompromising bloodletting and war. The Israeli-advised proxy rebels of NATO are on a racist rampage in Tripoli, leaving behind dozens of dead black Libyans, gagging them and mutilating them before dropping them on the side of the road. A Gaza-like medical crisis is unfolding with each passing millisecond as NATO bombed a government-funded oxygen production plant, leaving hospitals shattered and helpless during a time of war (100). Nothing compares to this deliberate act of state terrorism excluding the criminal NATO bombing of the Great Manmade River. The continuous NATO bombing has turned Tripoli topsy-turvy; the Libyan capital city is facing drastic shortages in electricity and water, medicine and gasoline (101).
The CIA has recruited over 1,500 fighters from occupied Afghanistan’s fourth largest city, Mazar-e-Sharif, to fight alongside the NATO proxy rebels in the growing war of attrition with the Libyan Resistance. The agency is also extending its already-present policy of funding the rebels and arming them (102). In putrid accordance with ‘western values,’ Britain’s SAS is patrolling the streets in death squad fashion, hunting down Muammar Qaddafi in coordination with MI6. SAS agents are dressed and armed like rebels to maintain the farcical (and now massively absurd) ‘no boots on the ground’ narrative (103). Parading around as Arabs is a prominent tactic of the previously discussed Mistaravim units of IOF, a tactic that SAS must have learned from the close, brotherly cooperation that has manifested exponentially between Israeli and British intelligence since the 1970s through Zionist spymaster and international war criminal Raphael Eitan (104). The flagrance and lawlessness of NATO and Zionism has once again ‘exceeded expectations.’
Does this look like "freedom" to you? Have these four Zionist stooges "liberated" Libya?
Waging war against Libya was the first operation of AFRICOM, the Zionist-occupied United States government’s military command for Africa, where several operations in the Sahel-Sahara region are planned and the training of troops has already commenced (105). Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi refused to join AFRICOM and boldly attempted to undermine it from an intelligence angle by financing an all-Africa telecom-satellite project that would end the NATO allies’ domination of the continent (106). Qaddafi’s brave rejectionist stance regarding AFRICOM is why NATO has been just as unrelentingly brutal in its siege of Libya as it is in occupied Afghanistan. The body count in Tripoli is rising by the day and thousands upon thousands are already dead from NATO’s aggression (107), in an eerie echo of the opening years of the massacre-laden invasion of Iraq. In Sirte, Muammar Qaddafi’s hometown, an utterly devastating situation has unfolded. NATO has crushed the city to rubble and committed yet another massacre. Women and children are trapped inside by British, Qatari, French and UAE special operatives and men who attempt to fight back are shot on sight. NATO warplanes and drones remain in the air, bombing nonstop (108).
In what is a sign of things to come, the illegal rebel leadership has invited Raphael Luzon, the leader of the staunchly Zionist Libyan-Jewish community in Britain, back to Libya so he could run for public office. Luzon’s primary goals would be to bring Israeli Libyans, who now live on ethnically cleansed and illegally occupied Palestinian land, back to Libya, restoring Jewish assets and partaking in the reconstruction of Libya after NATO is finished ripping it shreds (109). As it was discussed in the first part of this series, based on a policy study from the powerful Chatham House think tank, the privatization and neoliberalization of Libya were high on the list for the Zionist globe holders and it is now clear that Raphael Luzon will be the usurping Israeli regime’s agent in bringing this economic storm of hellfire to the Libyan people. And despite the refreshing fact that every myth about the rancorous blitz against Libya has now been scholarly and mercilessly debunked, those portraying themselves as ‘anti-imperialist’ and ‘anti-war’ continue buying into every word spat out by the Zionist media (110). This is most unfortunate, because the real heroes of this conflict, the magnificently valorous Libyan soldiers who are fighting the Zionist-designed Western aggression with all of their heart, have been cast out as villains when the real malevolence lies with the treasonous, Benghazi-based rebels (111).
And now, for elephantine question number two: ‘where do we go from here?’ Former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO and Five Star US General Wesley Clark has the jaw-dropping answer. In an infamous 2007 interview, Clark tells of an incident shortly after 9/11 in which he was given a memo from the office of the Secretary of Defense, an institution that at the time was purely dominated by subversive, fanatical Zionists with deep ties to the Zionist lobby and the Likudnik Israeli government and who were hellbent on demolishing the Middle East to foment the creation of ‘Greater Israel (112),’ and in this memo, 7 Muslim countries were named to be invaded and overthrown. The 7 countries listed were Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and finally, the Islamic Republic of Iran (113). It must also be noted that without the Mossad false flag attack on September 11th, 2001, such a memo never would have been drawn up. Mossad’s criminal action on that day turned the Middle East into the Zionist entity’s personal playground of destruction, allowing it to wage the Orwellian and genocidal ‘war on terror (114).’
This 7-country plan, undoubtedly a product of the Wolfowitz-Feith-Shulsky axis, has astonishingly come quite close to fruition. Libya, as documented in this series, has been brutalized and will never be the same again, even if the Libyan Resistance is victorious over the Israeli-NATO-backed rebels. The African nation of Sudan, rich in oil in its southern region, has been cracked in half, its unity split and destroyed. The Zionist dragon’s military-intelligence apparatuses designed this balkanization, instigated it, funded the players and from Uganda to Ethiopia, it still maintains agents and assets to uphold the new fragmented Sudanese status quo (115).
Like flies flocking to feces, Israel has already entered the new, fabricated nation-state of ‘South Sudan.’ The deceptive and dangerous IsraAID, backed by Zionist lobby organizations like the American Jewish Committee and United Jewish Appeal, is on the ground (116). The newly-created Zionist puppet state has opened its doors to Israeli companies to do business in the fields of agriculture, infrastructure, security and medicine, business worth hundreds of millions of dollars. South Sudan views this gesture as gratitude for the Zionist dragon’s committed military and intelligence support to its ‘rebellion (117).’ And now, to make the relationship between South Sudan and Zionism legitimate and known worldwide, full diplomatic relations have been established between the two entities so Tel Aviv can officially take control of South Sudan’s oil-rich economy (118). Sudan as the Arab-Muslim world once knew it, is not only gone, it is dead.
Iraq has been demolished by the Zionist criminal network through Mossad and its sayanim that run Western foreign policy.
Iraq? Annihilated. 2.5 million dead according to official Iraqi government figures (119), 5 million refugees (internal and external), 5 million children orphaned, thousands of tons of depleted uranium from bombings and Mossad false flags stuck in the holy soil, inflicting it with contamination, 80% with no access to sanitation, 43% live in abject poverty, 70% unemployed (120); the list could go on and on, stretching across the solar system. Iraq, once first world and the jewel of Arabia, is now just shattered glass and a shell of its former beauty.
And Somalia? Locked in a round of insanity and chaos as US-backed AU-UN occupation forces wage NATO-style warfare on the Somali Resistance, killing droves of innocent Somalis in the process. The peace that emerged in 2006 was stolen by this unlawful occupation under ‘humanitarian’ pretext and the famine and drought that have emerged as a result of this criminality are being used as weapons against the Somali people. The CIA has unequivocally penetrated Somali society and drone bombings are a frequent occurrence. With Zionist-dominated Western banks and oil kleptocorps chomping at the bit to get a piece of Somalia as they have been doing for decades, Somalia is on the brink of being invaded yet again under the banner of Zionist war criminal Barack Obama’s ‘Atrocities Prevention Board (121).’ Neutralized is the intelligence buzz word that would apply to the horror brought upon Somalia.
Syria is also on the radar of the Atrocities Prevention Board and the Arab nation of Resistance has been on the world stage in recent months, fighting an international conspiracy to drive Bashar al-Assad to the gallows and the Syrian government into the arms of Zionist hands. The Zionist entity, its US-EU gallery of puppets and its partner in crime, the House of Saud, have pushed Syria to the very brink with a destabilization operation known as the ‘Syrian Revolution,’ due to the fact that this criminal network’s overt means of provocation have failed over the last decade (122). Nicolas Sarkozy, chief asset of the Zionist entity’s subversion operations in Europe, has stated that France and its partners will do “everything possible” to end the reign of President Bashar al-Assad and he further added that, “the powers in Damascus would be wrong to think they are protected by the people (123).” This is Orwellian for ‘no matter what your people may think, we, the West, the overlords, will remove you when we see fit.’ An Israeli-NATO plan is in place, a replica of the ‘Libya Model,’ to trigger regime change in Syria (124).
International Zionism wants Syria and Lebanon out of the way to set the stage for a showdown with Iran.
Lebanon is the only nation of the Zionist 7-country plan that has relatively escaped, despite some desperate attempts from the usurping Israeli regime to inaugurate its destruction. It is only because of the unity of the people and the dignity of the righteous Islamic Resistance of Lebanon, Hezbollah, that the Lebanese nation remains standing in its own sovereignty and not another extremist colony of ‘Greater Israel.’ Hence, why the Zionist dragon and its allies have attempted to take down Syria first before redirecting their attention to Lebanon. The hasbara of the Zionist think tanks is in full effect as the new strategy is to generate a three-way wedge between Syria, Iran and Hezbollah (125). The Zionist media is also working romantically with the House of Saud’s media empire to coordinate hasbara against Syria and the Islamic Republic of Iran and therefore, coordinate division (126).
Iran itself is fighting subversion, espionage, assassinations, economic warfare, assassinations, cyber terror, an all-out Mossad infiltration of its borders and Zionist-funded paramilitary groups like the MEK, a cruel Marxist cult that has murdered thousands of Iranian innocents (127). The path of the Zionist 7-country plan ends in Persia and it has long been the desire of the puppetmasters in Tel Aviv and Herzliya to conquer the Islamic Republic of Iran by any means available, even if it is more prolonged because time is taken to remove Iran’s allies, Syria and Hezbollah (128). As grand as this bloodthirsty, imperial scheme may be, this is not where the Zionist dragon wants to stop. The Zionist dragon will not be not happy until the entire world is its grasp.
The 7-country plan is part of an even larger agenda; the ultimate agenda; the Zionist New World Order. And the core of this agenda is pitting Islam against Christianity, destroying both in an ensuing, global bloodbath, with the Zionist criminal network and its Talmudic elders picking up the ashes and rebuilding it into what Rabbi Michael Higger, a rabid, racist Zionist from Texas, calls the “Jewish Utopia.” A paradisaical empire where goyim (non-Jews) are absolutely ruled by a rabbinical elite, who will be the judge, jury and executioner of the ‘Universal State (129).’ For this to be achieved, the evil geopolitical masterpiece of globalist kingpin Zbigniew Brzezinski known as ‘The Grand Chessboard,’ a doctrine that prominently features the mission of crumbling Russia and China, must be slightly modified. The foundational basis of the doctrine is there, but the specifications of destructive reasoning are not. Russia and China must be reduced to shards because both nations represent the next generation of anti-Western, Islamic-Christian prospering.
Boris Berezovsky: the Zionist oligarch that wants Vladimir Putin and his children dead.
Vladimir Putin has called Russia “the most reliable partner of the Islamic world and the most faithful defender of its interests (130).” China has always had strong, historical ties to Islam; more than 1,200 years worth. Islam is so deeply embedded in China that a Chinese-Islamic subculture has formed and Chinese Muslims, Chinese Muslim women in particular, are playing a greater leadership role in their local communities. The Chinese government supports this growth and there are many Islamic colleges that are government-run (131). China’s Muslim population is growing by the day and by 2030, it is expected to be the 19th-largest in the world (132). The Zionist entity seeks to curb this growth and has been heavily engaged in diplomatic courtship with China over the last several years, expanding military, security and political ties. Surveillance, drone tech, intelligence gathering are all part of this courtship, along with Israeli armaments and homeland security systems. The Zionist entity now has China using the same biometric identification tech that it uses to repress Palestinians in the occupied West Bank (133). In other words, the Zionist entity has access to China’s population records, i.e. Chinese Muslims and Chinese anti-Zionist activists.
It is no secret that Vladimir Putin has been engaged in a quiet war with the Russian-Jewish oligarchy that controls Russia’s media and energy. This Zionist oligarchy has openly financed Putin’s opposition and openly discussed his overthrow. Putin has fought back, exiling and imprisoning them (134). Putin stripped the oligarchy of as much wealth as he could find but it wasn’t enough and exile hasn’t stopped their activities against the Russian leader which are now being coordinated from the Zionist entity. Boris Berezovsky, quite possibly the most prominent Russian-Jewish oligarch, has held clandestine meetings with the Mossad, CIA and Jewish representatives of the oligarchy and discussed regime change in Russia via destabilization or the assassination of Putin. Berezovsky has even suggested murdering Putin’s daughters as a warning and he worked in unison with the CIA to destabilize the Ukraine in 2005 as a preliminary attack on Russia. These plans have full blessing from Tel Aviv (135). As expected, the Zionist media and neoconservative think tanks have painted Putin as ‘anti-Semitic’ for warring with these corrupt elements (136).
When the oligarchy’s plots failed and Putin emerged triumphant, the Zionist-globalist power nexus invoked the military option. The Brzezinski ambition came close to reality in 2008 during the South Ossetia conflict, in which the NATO-CIA puppet regime of Georgia, run by Mikhail Saakashvili, whose rise to power was financed and guided by internationalist Zionist war criminal George Soros, invaded South Ossetia and massacred thousands of innocents inside the tiny territory, including Russian peacekeepers, provoking a war with Russia that violently teetered on the brink of World War III (137). Georgia is an ardent ally of the Zionist entity, which has provided military training and arms to the Caucasus state and has invested more than $1.5 billion in Georgian projects, including a pipeline that would extend to occupied Palestine to provide Israel with energy (138).
The South Ossetia fiasco did not achieve the desired result however and when it didn’t, the Zionist criminal network reverted to the shadows and a Mossad-Saudi-CIA operations team was formed to conduct false flags inside Russia, with the primary target being Moscow. Chechen Muslims were to be used as patsies, as per the Zionist regime’s successful Dragon Policy in Pakistan (139), igniting a wave of Islamophobia in Russia (140), turning the Russian people against Iran and their government for being so staunchly supportive of Islamic causes and fomenting the final stage of an Islamic-Christian clash that would only strengthen the cause for a “Jewish Utopia.” Is the pattern illuminated now? Is the blood that drips in innocence from the walls of sovereign nations shattered… illuminated… now?
Yesterday’s victims were occupied Iraq, Sudan and occupied Afghanistan. Today’s victims are occupied Libya and occupied Palestine. Tomorrow’s victims will be Lebanon, Iran, Russia and China. And in the crossfire already are Syria, occupied Somalia, occupied Kashmir, Pakistan and Yemen. The Zionist dragon’s 2011 stratagem was not only meant to advance its militaristic and geopolitical goals, it was not only meant for conquest. It was meant to break those who seek the truth, fight for the oppressed, demand justice and speak for the voiceless into countless fragments, dividing the ranks so badly that the real enemy can no longer be seen in the fog. The psychological warfare is so dense that the dream state now seems insurmountable. If only the dream could be recognized for the fallacious nightmare that it is. If only those fighters could awaken. It is sorrowful that by the time that their sleep is indeed broken by their sense of smell, the scent will not be of cliched coffee, but of multiple nations, Muslim and Christian, burning and rotting from the Zionist dragon’s flames.
~ End Of Part II, End Of Series ~
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PSYWAR: The Fake Fall Of Tripoli And The Zionist Dragon’s Butchery Across Palestine I – by Jonathan Azaziah
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3 - UNANSWERED QUESTIONS
by Wayne Madsen
10 years after the September 11 attacks, the United States government has made it clear that it had something to hide. From the White House counter-terrorism advisor to the co-chairs of the National Commission of investigation, one after the other key political figures have stepped forward to disassociate themselves from an official version that simply does not add up. Wayne Madsen flashes back to this massive cover-up operation.
President Bush’s chief counter-terrorism adviser Richard Clarke has revealed that the CIA under George Tenet attempted to recruit some of the 9/11 "Al Qaeda" terrorists prior to the attack of September 11, 2001, but that after the attempt failed, Tenet and his senior CIA staff covered up the botched recruitment effort. The revelation is yet one more nail in the coffin of what has become the most discredited U.S. government report since the infamous Warren Report on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963. In fact, the Warren Report received another blow after it was revealed that First Lady Jacqueline revealed in 1964 to historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. that she believed that Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was behind the assassination of her husband in Dallas. The revelations by Mrs. Kennedy and Clarke show that the United States government cannot be trusted to investigate misdeeds carried out with the full knowledge and support of senior officials of the CIA and the White House. The 9/11 attack represents one such high-level government cover-up.
Clarke’s recent revelations about CIA knowledge of Al Qaeda 9/11 cells prior to the 2001 attacks on New York and Washington merely takes one to the shallowest of depths of the rabbit hole of the intelligence world, highly-compartmented cells which carefully planned the attacks and how the mass media would cover the unfolding events.
The one individual who stands tall among those intelligence and law enforcement officers who was aggressively pursuing the criminal network that would carry out 9/11 was FBI counter-terrorism top man John O’Neill. Ever since the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993, O’Neill’s pursuit of Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda had been dogged. After further terrorist attacks at the Khobar Towers barracks in Dharan, Saudi Arabia; the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania; and the USS Cole in Aden harbor, O’Neill’s biggest problem was not Al Qaeda, it was resistance from top officials inside the U.S. government.
The biggest conspiracy theory of them all, the official 9/11 Commission Report concluded that nineteen, mostly Saudi, hijackers, armed with box cutters, were able to defeat a multi-trillion dollar U.S. defense and intelligence system in a matter if mere hours one Tuesday morning in September 2001, has even been partly debunked by the two co-chairman of the 9/11 Commission, former New Jersey Governor Thomas Kean and former Indiana Democratic Representative Lee Hamilton. Both have said that their committee was lied to by government officials and that important information was covered up and not released to committee investigators…
Kean’s and Hamilton’s ire would be best suited at being vented against Philip Zelikow, the one-time aide to Bush National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, who stated under oath that no one ever expected that passenger planes would be used as weapons. Zelikow was appointed as the executive director of the 9/11 Commission and he had the task of avoiding any investigations that would look at the roles of the CIA, Mossad, the Saudis, and Wall Street interests in crafting the ingredients that permitted the 9/11 attacks to be carried out without a hitch. Zelikow has a storied career at debunking any theory that does not comport with government doctrine, including his many years of attacking anyone who disbelieves the Warren Commission’s myths about the assassination of President Kennedy.
Unfortunately, the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center was not the first time the U.S. government engaged in a massive cover-up of an attack on the buildings. According to U.S. intelligence sources, the FBI and Justice Department sat on volumes of translations of Arabic telephone intercepts gathered before the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center from U.S.- and Sudan-based Muslim militants who once worked for U.S. intelligence in the mujaheddin war against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. The critical intelligence, which demonstrated a link between the CIA and "Afghan Arab" muhajeddin forces, including those loyal to Osama bin Laden, was never introduced into the trial of the Brooklyn- and Jersey City-based cell that included the blind Egyptian cleric Shaikh Omar Abdul Rahman, Ramzi Yousef, and Eyad Ismail. The New York and New Jersey cell also included Ali Mohammed, a graduate of the U.S. Army’s Special Forces School at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, who, while an active duty member of the Special Forces, secretly traveled to Afghanistan to train Bin Laden’s forces and provided him with special intelligence on U.S. "soft targets" for terrorist attacks, and Wadih el-Hage, Osama bin Laden’s personal secretary, who was also a resident of the United States.
Ironically, the two men responsible for the failure to present the surveillance intelligence on the 1993 World Trade Center bombers to the juries and grand juries hearing the charges — the main federal prosecutors for New York City and New Jersey in the bombing case — were Patrick J. Fitzgerald and Michael Chertoff, respectively. Fitzgerald went on to become the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois and cut his teeth indicting and having convicted two successive Illinois governors for corruption, Republican George Ryan and Democrat Rod Blagojevich. Both cases were politically-tainted show trials.
Adding to the outrages committed by the U.S. government was the fact that, according to an FBI source, the chief FBI investigator against Al Qaeda in the 1990s, the late John O’Neill, was upset that much of the telephone surveillance of the 1993 bombers was never introduced as evidence and remained un-translated and classified.
Other CIA connections to Bin Laden and Al Qaeda are too numerous to describe. However, one jumps out because it involves a key player in the Donald Rumsfeld Pentagon during the 9/11 attacks. A CIA source involved with the Bosnia Defense Fund, used to collect donations from Arab and Muslim countries for the Bosnian war against Serbia and Croatia, revealed that the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FINCEN) was concerned that money transferred by Riggs Bank to the Bosnian Defense Fund’s account at the Central Bank in Sarajevo, was "bleeding" to terrorist elements believed to be linked to Osama bin Laden and "Al Qaeda." Riggs was the major bank serving Saudi ambassador to the U.S. Prince Bandar and his wife Princess Haifa and it was a bank with family ties to George H.W. and George W. Bush.
When the CIA source complained about Bosnia Defense Fund cash falling into the hands of Islamic terrorists, including people linked to bin Laden, he was told by one of the major Bosnia Defense Fund principals to "just make it f*****g happen!"
The Bosnia link to "Al Qaeda" was important. In fact, bin Laden had reportedly not only visited Bosnia, but carried at least one Bosnian diplomatic passport and had interfaced with Bosnian diplomats in Vienna, Austria.
And Mossad’s link to 9/11 cannot be ignored. Two internal U.S. government documents revealed that among the 120 Israeli “art students” who attempted to penetrate the security of dozens of Federal office buildings and who visited the homes of scores of U.S. law enforcement personnel during 2000 and 2001 were some who used addresses and mail drops in southern Florida and Texas near those used by a number of the 9/11 hijackers. The information came from a Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Report drafted in June 2001 on the activities of the art students and a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) list of the hijackers and other terrorist suspects, including a known Mossad agent, Dominick Suter, who ran an Israeli moving company in Weehawken, New Jersey. The FBI list was accidentally released in early October 2001 on a Finnish government web site.
Five Israelis working for Suter’s Urban Moving Systems were arrested by police and FBI agents during the later afternoon of 9/11, driving a suspicious van near Giant Stadium in Secaucus, New Jersey. The five Israelis were the only suspects arrested on September 11, 2001 on suspicion of involvement in the 9/11 attacks. All five were deported to Israel without ever having been formally charged. The DEA memo specifically stated that the Israelis casing federal offices and employees’ homes may have had ties to an “Islamic fundamentalist group.”
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"Our Purpose was to document the ’Event’"
The five Israelis interviewed on Israeli Talk Show in November 2001.
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Even ten years later, the U.S. government and the governments of New York and New York City are dismissing those 9/11 attack veterans who, unlike O’Neill, were fortunate enough to survive the catastrophic attack. Survivors or the World Trade Center collapse and first responders with the New York Police Department, New York-New Jersey Port Authority Police, New York Fire Department, and others were not invited to the tenth anniversary ceremonies at "Ground Zero" on September 11, 2011.
For ten years, the 9/11 attacks, along with those in London, Madrid, Bali, and other locations, have been used by the corporate media to hype government-directed campaigns against civil liberties, human rights, privacy protection, wars of liberation by aspirant ethnic groups and political parties, freedom of expression, and freedom of information. Americans of all ages and backgrounds are now subjected to intrusive body searches at airports that would have been seen as outrageous abuses of government authority fifteen years ago.
As we now reflect back on 9/11, we are told that Bin Laden was killed in a Special Operations assault in Abbotabad, Pakistan. There was little forensic evidence to prove Bin Laden was killed. In any case, most of the members of US Navy SEAL Team 6, which carried out the attack on Bin Laden, were killed recently in an attack on their helicopter in Afghanistan.
As with the assassination of President Kennedy and the Iran-Contra scandal twenty years later, 9/11 will be relegated to the history books as an event shrouded in mystery and short on actual evidence, most of it destroyed or remaining highly-classified, to identify the actual perpetrators.
(To be continued…)
Wayne Madsen
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4 - 9/11 : THE ULTIMATE TRIUMPH OF THE STRATEGY OF TENSION (II)
by Wayne Madsen
The attacks of September 11 are a continuation of the strategy of tension. They represent nothing new in Washington policies, if not an escalation to extend this strategy on a global scale. They provided the pretext for setting up an international monitoring system and to further the expansion of imperial wars. From this point of view, the commemoration of the tenth anniversary was used by the sponsors of the attacks to pose once more as victims, all the better to persevere with their goals.
VOLTAIRE NETWORK | WASHINGTON D.C. (USA) | 12 SEPTEMBER 2011
Obama underscored the continuity of his policies with those of his predecessor by celebrating with him the tenth anniversary of the September 11 attacks and of imperial globalization .. After years of employing the fascistic “strategy of tension” in Western Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America, the neo-conservatives who dominated the Bush administration on the eve of September 11, 2001, were confident that the ultimate act of destroying the World Trade Center in New York and bombing the Pentagon, in addition to destroying a yet unknown target by United flight 93 – shot down by U.S. Air Force fighter-interceptors over Pennsylvania – would bring about the sea change foreseen by the neo-conservatives.
What the neo-conservative cabal, through their propaganda outlets like Fox News and The Washington Post, brought forth after their long-awaited “New Pearl Harbor,” was their reference to America’s “new normal,” the de facto imposition of a crypto-fascist dictatorship that overturned the U.S. Constitution and the rule of law, and onset of the “clash of civilizations,” the final showdown between Islam and Judeo-Christianity. The geo-social-political “Armageddon” hoped for by such neo-fascist philosophers as Professors Samuel Huntington and Bernard Lewis would be a final battle that would see the downfall of Islamic governments and regimes from Morocco to Indonesia and the triumph of “western civilization.” In fact, “western civilization” is code for the twin pillars of capitalist-backed militarism and Zionism.
The “strategy of tension” employed by NATO stay-behind networks in Europe from the 1960s to the present day is defined by Swiss professor of contemporary historyDaniele Ganser as the method by which “world powers divide, manipulate, and control public opinion using fear, propaganda, disinformation, psychological warfare, agents provocateurs, and false flag terrorist actions” to achieve their ultimate goals. The September 11, 2001, false flag attacks in New York and Virginia succeeded in laying the groundwork for a concerted disinformation, psychological warfare, and propaganda campaign that, ten years following 9/11, are being cited by the corporate media as having” changed the world.” Even the date, 9/11, was chosen as a psychological warfare tool, 911 being the emergency phone number used by Americans to call for assistance from law enforcement and other emergency responders.
George Orwell’s “tele-screen,” the means by which Big Brother largely maintained control over public opinion by hyping non-existent threats to public safety, became real in the minutes following the 9/11 attacks when the corporate new channels, all seemingly pre-programmed for the terror event, began instilling fear in the minds of Americans and people around the world. In the months after 9/11, anyone who questioned the official version of events was painted as a disloyal “conspiracy theorist.” However, there were thousands of more facts presented by those who contradicted the official version of 9/11 than any dubious explanations presented in the official 9/11 Commission report and other government documents, including those from the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
The corporate news channels, led by Fox News, concocted unbelievable threats following 9/11, including exploding bombs being placed inside cows, terrorist frogmen coming ashore on America’s beaches, Al Qaeda attacking shopping malls in the United States, and Arab terrorists infiltrating Latin American human smuggling routes from Mexico. All of the fear stories were rank nonsense and not based on any facts.
After the anthrax postal system attacks on Congress and the media, which ensured the quick passage by Congress of the unconstitutional USA-PATRIOT Act, the failed attempt by a shoe bomber to bring down a plane flying from Paris to Miami, and a later attempt by a Nigerian flying from Amsterdam to Detroit to set off explosive material in his underpants, the public was conditioned to accept anything as a potential threat to security and safety. Nothing was mentioned about Israel’s role in the anthrax attacks and the two failed airplane bombings. The only individuals arrested on 9/11 for suspicion that they were involved in the 9/11 attacks were five employees of Weehawken, New Jersey-based Urban Moving Systems. FBI agents who visited the firm’s warehouse in Weehawken not only found bomb-making materials but traces of anthrax. The owner of the firm, Dominick Suter, was later discovered in a joint CIA-FBI counter-intelligence database to be a Mossad agent. Some of the Israeli “movers” arrested were also found to be in the database.
The five Israeli “movers” were witnessed celebrating and videotaping the aerial attacks on the World Trade Center, minutes after the first plane struck, from their vantage point at Liberty State Park, across the Hudson River from lower Manhattan. It was an Israeli aviation security company, ICTS International, replete with ex-Mossad and ex-Shin Bet officers in its management, that handled airport security at Paris’s Charles de Gaulle Airport and Amsterdam’s Schipol International Airport, where Richard Reid, the “shoe bomber” and Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the “underwear bomber,” attempted their amateurish bombing attempts on American Airlines flight 63 and Northwest Airlines flight 253, respectively. ICTS also shared security responsibilities at Boston’s Logan Airport on September 11, 2001, the airport where American Airlines flight 11 was allegedly hijacked by Mohammed Atta and flown into the North Tower of the World Trade Center.
In pushing the neo-conservative notion of the “clash of civilizations,” there was no mention made by the Israeli-influenced corporate media about the numerous connections of Israel to the 9/11 attacks. Nineteen Arab hijackers, 16 of whom hailed from Saudi Arabia, was the official story and there would be no deviation from the official line. Even statements by Binyamin Netanyahu and Ehud Barak on American television that 9/11 was beneficial to Israel were ignored by the media. Those who were brave enough to point out Israeli connections to 9/11 were intimidated by the old canard that they were “anti-Semitic.”
Some corporate news stations that reported on suspicious Israeli intelligence activities in the months prior to 9/11 saw their stories “tombstoned” on the Internet. A four-part series on the Israeli activity aired by Fox News quickly disappeared from its website. Similar stories, such as the following, also quickly evaporated into the ether:
“10/02/2001 - Fifteen People Arrested in March in Dallas, Suspected of Casing Federal Buildings. 11 News reported how people claiming to be ‘Israeli art students’ might be trying to sneak into federal buildings and defense sites, and even doing surveillance. In Dallas, the so-called students hit early this year at the city’s FBI building, the Drug Enforcement Administration and at the Earle Cabell Federal building, where guards found one student wandering the halls with a floor plan of the building.”
Osama bin Laden, the accused mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, was a character directly out of Hollywood central casting. Bin Laden initially denied he had anything to do with the attacks. In an interview carried by the September 28, 2001 edition of the Pakistani newspaper Ummat Karachi Bin Laden stated, "I have already said that I am not involved in the September 11 attacks in the United States. As a Muslim, I try my best to avoid telling a lie. I had no knowledge of these attacks, nor do I consider the killing of innocent women, children and other humans as an appreciable act." Even FBI director Robert Mueller stated, the “FBI has no hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11.”
Few media outlets reported on Bin Laden’s longstanding ties to the U.S. intelligence community, links that were maintained after the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center. According to classified documents from French intelligence, Al Qaeda and Bin Laden had still been under the operational control of U.S. and British “security services” until 1995, fully two years after the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. As of 1996, the U.S. State Department continued to refuse to list Al Qaeda as a terrorist organization. Bin Laden’s past ties to the CIA may have sealed his fate. Just as with others who worked for the CIA and were then discarded like garbage, including Manuel Noriega, Saddam Hussein, and Muammar Qaddafi, Osama Bin Laden may have been used as a convenient decoy by the actual perpetrators of 9/11, those who wanted to blame Arabs and Muslims as part of their grand schemes” the Project for the New American Century that hoped for a “new Pearl Harbor,” those who wanted a “clash of civilizations” between Judeo-Christianity and Islam, and those who saw a continued strategy of tensions to bring about their agenda. The strategy of tension would not end with 9/11 and would be repeated in the following years in Madrid, London, Bali, Beslan, Jakarta, Istanbul, Casablanca, Mumbai, and Oslo…
The real architects of 9/11 are still at-large and continue their strategy of tension campaign. On September 11, 2011, many of the key perpetrators will gather at the “Ground Zero” site in New York to publicly honor those who were killed in the attacks, but privately celebrate their accomplishments over the last ten years. The corporate media will continue to propagate the myth of 9/11 and the public, they hope, will continue to accept the official version of the events.
Wayne Madsen
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Strategic Culture Foundation (Russia)
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5 - ORWELLIAN SEPTEMBER 11 COMMEMORATION HERALDS NEW WARS
by Thierry Meyssan
The tenth anniversary of the September 11 attacks has given rise to a profusion of articles, documentaries and television programs that certify the Bush administration’s version of the events, while world opinion has become largely skeptical. For Thierry Meyssan, who sparked the global debate on the interpretation of the attacks, the overwhelming media campaign is the imperial system’s last attempt to preserve its apparent legitimacy and justify its future wars.
VOLTAIRE NETWORK | BEIRUT (LEBANON) | 12 SEPTEMBER 2011
Nicolas Sarkozy: "Ten years have passed but the memory of those shattered destinies is still intact and all the French people remember what they were doing on September 11, distraught as they were by what you had experienced. And on the evening of September 11, deep inside we felt more American than ever before. (...) The strongest response to those mass murders and to their perpetrators, is the liberation of the Arab peoples, around the values that America and France have always embodied, democracy. " ©Elysée It is strange to observe how the Western press is celebrating the tenth anniversary of the September 11 attacks: while the topic could be approached from a variety of different angles, a uniform narrative set in or was imposed. Media were vying to obtain live interviews on the subject: "What were you doing on that day at that time?." This approach reflects the collective refusal to put things in perspective, to analyze the event and its consequences, focusing exclusively on the immediate emotional reactions; in short, to put on a big show instead of doing journalism.
The commemoration was punctuated with Orwellian injunctions: "How dare you question the official version considering the suffering of the victims’ families?", or "Those who question the official version are negationists and the enemies of democracy!." And yet, respect for victims - not just those who died on that day in the United States, but also those who were killed in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and elsewhere - requires precisely that we seek the truth instead of settling for outrageous lies. And how can democracy thrive if we fail to question official "truths" or, worse, if we substitute rational debate with verbal abuse?
In the days following the attacks, through a series of articles, and in subsequent months through books and lectures, I challenged Bush’s version of the events and accused the Straussian faction of the US military-industrial complex of having sponsored them. Although initially alone in my approach and heckled by the Atlanticist press, I gradually mobilized international public opinion, including in the United States, until last year when my questions rang out at the podium of the UN General Assembly. The more the US authorities tried to contradict me, the more they were contradicting themselves. Doubt spread and today those who doubt are the majority.
As usual when the wind turns, the opportunists safeguard their future by distancing themselves from the version they had long defended and that is sinking fast. This was the case yesterday with MM. Kean and Hamilton, the co-chairs of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks, who have disassociated themselves from their own report; it is now the turn of Mr. Richard Clark, counter-terrorism adviser to Mr. Clinton and Bush, who accused his colleagues of cover-up. In 10 years, the U.S. and British authorities failed to produce the evidence to justify their "self defense" military action in Afghanistan, according to their pledge before the UN General Assembly. Instead, they showed they had a dark secret to hide and have continued to fabricate more lies in order to hide it. Who would still dare to claim, as Colin Powell did at the UN Security Council, that Saddam Hussein was complicit in September 11 or, like Tony Blair, that Osama bin Laden masterminded the London bombings?
During these ten years, a growing number of experts have brought to light the inconsistencies in the Bush version, which in turn other experts have defended. Had the latter’s arguments been persuasive, the controversy would have flickered out. At the end of the day, the differences between the two groups of scientifs intersect a dividing line which is exclusively political. If they approve of the Afghanistan invasion and the Patriot Act, they ratify the theory that the steel structures of the Twin Towers did not withstand the heat of the fire, that Tower 7 was too fragile and that a plane disintegrated inside the Pentagon. If, on the contrary, they condemn the imperial military expansion and the legitimation of torture, they refute the absurdity that the Twin Towers were the only steel structures in the world to have collapsed into their own footprint, that Tower 7 collapsed by imitation, and that a big Boeing penetrated the Pentagon through a doorway without damaging the frame.
Bush’s version of September 11 has become the central tenet of imperialism. We are ordered to believe in it as in a revealed truth. Failing that, we challenging the New World Order and are rejected as heretics and intellectual accomplices of terrorism.
The dividing line can be summarized as follows: on one side, the globalized Western elites cling to the official version; on the other side, the majority of Western populations and the Third World denounce the lie.
What is important is not to determine how some individuals, who were not on the flight manifests yet made it on board the aircraft, can hijack the flight, or how a Boeing can fold back its wings, enter through a small door and disappear inside the Pentagon, but rather if from that day the West has been the target of a world Islamic conspiracy, or if instead the attacks were orchestrated by a US faction to embark with impunity on the conquest of the world.
In Paris, a replica of the Twin Towers was built on the Trocadero esplanade in honor of the 3000 victims of September 11. It will be inaugurated by the Ambassador of the United States, the mayor of the French capital and the Interior Minister. No memorial has been planned for the one million victims of the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya. The philosophers who study the history of science affirm that scientific errors do not always disappear after having been refuted. It may take the passing of the generation that professed them. What makes it possible for a truth to substitute an error is that, over time, the truth conserves explanatory power, while the error loses.
In 2001, I concluded my analysis by warning against the generalized erosion of individual rights. I rebuffed the portrayal of Al-Qaeda as an anti-Western terrorist organization and claimed instead that it was a hotbed of Arab mercenaries used by the CIA in various conflicts, in Afghanistan against the Soviets, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo against the Serbs, and in Chechnya against the Russians, in accordance with the Brzezinski strategy. Finally, I announced the imminent invasion of Iraq and the remodeling of the Middle East promoted by the neoconservatives, for once allied with Kissinger.
At the time, the press had made a mockery of my analysis on four main points.
Le Monde explained that the U.S. would never attack Iraq because they had already settled the problem with "Desert Storm" and that only my kneejerk anti-Americanism could lead me to consider otherwise.
Le Monde Diplomatique reproved learnedly that I must have known nothing about U.S. politics to imagine a neocon-Kissinger alliance.
The Washington Post bombarded us with details on the sprawling world Islamic conspiracy that I refused to take seriously, blinded as I was by the Arab presence in France.
And the New York Times applauded the Patriot Act and the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, to which only a European pacifist imbued with the spirit of Munich could be against.
Yet 10 years later, anyone can see that I was right on all four points and that my detractors were wrong. They are now seeking to redeem themselves by conceding loud and clear that the Bush administration "used" 9/11 to impose its own agenda. Over time, they will inevitably recognize that I did not read into a crystal ball to predict a future they did not suspect, but that through a rigorous political analysis it was possible to decipher in advance the intentions of the 9/11 sponsors to execute this agenda.
While NATO has placed the companions of bin Laden in power in Tripoli, it is more essential than ever to understand September 11 in order to identify the real threats to world peace and be able to deal with. How can we not see that the people who are commemorating this anniversary today will be promoting new wars in the Middle East and North Africa tomorrow?
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6 - Thierry Meyssan : How Al Qaeda came to power in Lybia
Voltaire Network has received letters from many readers enquiring about Al-Qaeda in Libya. To respond to them, Thierry Meyssan has assembled the main data available on the issue. The facts confirm his analysis, defended since the events of September 11, that Al Qaeda is a hotbed of mercenaries used by the United States to fight in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Chechnya, Kosovo, Iraq, and now Libya, Syria and Yemen.
VOLTAIRE NETWORK | BEIRUT (LEBANON) | 7 SEPTEMBER 2011
Historical leader of Al Qaeda in Libya, Abdel Hakim Belhadj, is now the military governor of "liberated" Tripoli and in charge of organizing the army of the "new Libya". In the 80s, the CIA instigated Awatha al-Zuwawi to create an agency in Libya to recruit mercenaries for the jihad against the Soviets in Afghanistan. As from 1986, recruits were trained in the Salman al-Farisi Libyan camp in Pakistan, under the authority of anti-Communist billionaire Osama bin Laden.
When bin Laden moved to Sudan, the Libyan jihadists followed him there, and regrouped in a compound of their own. In 1994, Osama bin Laden dispatched Libyan jihadists back to their country to kill Muammar Gaddafi and reverse the Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya.
On 18 October 1995, the group reassembled under the label of Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG). During the three years that followed, the LIFG attempted to assassinate Muammar Gaddafi on four occasions and to establish a guerrilla in the Southern mountainous region. Following these operations, the Libyan army - under the command of General Abdel Fattah Younes - waged a campaign to eradicate the guerrillas, and the Libyan judicial authorities issued an arrest warrant against Osama bin Laden, disseminated internationally through Interpol as from 1998.
According to UK counter espionage agent David Shayler, the development of the LIFG and the first assassination attempt on Gaddafi by Al-Qaeda was funded by the British MI6 to the tune of 100,000 pounds [1].
At the time, Libya was the only state in the world that was hunting for Osama bin Laden, who still officially enjoyed the political support of the United States, despite his disapproval of "Operation Desert Storm."
Under pressure from Tripoli, Hassan el-Turabi expelled the Libyan jihadists from Sudan. They transferred their infrastructure to Afghanistan, where they set up the Shaheed Shaykh Abu Yahya camp (just north of Kabul). The lay-out lasted until the summer of 2001, when the Berlin negotiations between the U.S. and the Taliban on the Trans-Afghanistan pipeline fell through. At that time, Mullah Omar, who had anticipated the Anglo-American invasion, demanded that the camp be placed under his direct control.
On 6 October 2001, the LIFG was put on the list established by the Committee in pursuance of UN Security Council resolution 1267. It is still on it. On 8 December 2004, the LIFG was included on the list of terrorist organizations drawn up by the U.S. State Department. It is still on it. On 10 October 2005, the UK Department of the Interior banned the LIFG from its territory. This measure is still in force. On 7 February 2006, the United Nations adopted sanctions against five members of the LIFG and the four companies linked to them, which continue to operate unfettered on UK territory under the MI6 protection.
During the "war against terrorism", the organization of the jihadist movement got underway. "Al Qaeda", which was initially a large database from which Osama bin Laden chose the mercenaries he needed for specific missions, gradually morphed into a cluster of cells, the size of which decreased the more it became structured.
On 6 March 2004, the new LIFG leader Abdel Hakim Belhadj, who had fought in Afghanistan alongside Osama bin Laden [2] and Iraq, was arrested in Malaysia and then transferred to a secret CIA prison in Thailand, where he was injected with truth serum and tortured. Following an agreement between the United States and Libya, he was returned to Libya where he was again tortured, but this time at the hands of British agents at the Abu Salim Prison.
On 26 June 2005, Western intelligence agencies held a meeting in London of Libyan dissidents. They constituted the "National Conference of the Libyan opposition", bringing together three Islamic factions: the Muslim Brothers, the Senoussi Brotherhood and the LIFG. Their manifesto set forth three objectives:
to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi;
to exercise power for one year (under the name "National Transition Council");
to restore the constitutional monarchy to its 1951 form and make Islam the state religion.
In July 2005, Abu al-Laith al-Liby succeeded against all odds to escape from the maximum security prison in Bagram (Afghanistan) and became one of the leaders of al-Qaeda. He appealed to those LIFG jihadists who had not yet done so to rally Al-Qaeda in Iraq. The Libyans soon constituted the majority among the Al-Qaeda suicide bombers in Iraq [3] In February 2007, al-Liby led a spectacular attack on the base at Bagram just as Vice President Dick Cheney’s visit was about to take place. In November 2007, Ayman al-Zawahiri and Abu al-Laith al-Liby announced LIFG’s merger with Al-Qaeda.
Abu al-Laith al-Liby was appointed deputy to Ayman al-Zawahiri, and in this capacity became Al-Qaeda’s No. 2 man, in the absence of news from Osama bin Laden. He was killed by a CIA drone in Waziristan in late January 2008.
During the period 2008-2010, Saif el-Islam Kadhafi negotiated a truce between the Libyan Jamahiriya and the LIFG. The latter published a lengthy document, The Corrective Studies, in which it acknowledged its error in having called for a jihad against fellow Muslims in a Muslim country. In three successive stages, all members of Al-Qaeda were pardoned and released on the sole condition that they renounce violence in writing. Of the 1800 jihadists, over one hundred rejected the agreement and preferred to remain in prison.
Upon his release, Abdel Hakim Belhadj left Libya and moved to Qatar.
In early 2011, Prince Bandar Bin Sultan made a series of trips with the aim of revitalizing Al-Qaeda by broadening recruitment, so far almost exclusively limited to Arabs and Muslims from Central and Southeast Asia. Recruitment offices were opened in Malaysia [4]. The best result was obtained in Mazar-i-Sharif, where more than 1,500 Afghans signed up for the jihad in Libya, Syria and Yemen [5]. Within weeks, Al-Qaeda evolved from a small dwindling group to a 10 000-man strong force. Such recruitment has been rendered even easier by the fact that jihadists are the cheapest mercenaries on the market.
On 17 February 2011, "National Libyan Opposition Conference" organized a "day of anger" in Benghazi, which sparked the beginning of the war.
On 23 February, Imam Abdelkarim al-Hasadi proclaimed the creation of an Islamic Emirate in Derna, the most fundamentalist city in Libya and home to the majority of jihadist who became suicide bombers in Iraq. Al-Hasadi is a long-standing member of the LIFG who was tortured by the United States at Guantanamo Bay [6]. The burqa was made mandatory and corporal punishment has been reinstated. Emir al-Hasidi has created his own army, starting out with a few dozen jihadists who currently number more than one thousand.
Tasked with coordinating the Allied operation in Libya, AFRICOM commander Gen. Carter Ham voiced his misgivings about the presence, among the rebels he was being asked to defend, of Al-Qaeda jihadists responsible for killing GIs in Afghanistan and Iraq. He was relieved of his mission, which was taken over by NATO.
All across "liberated" Cyrenaica, Al-Qaeda men have been spreading terror, resorting to massacre and torture; they have specialized in slitting the throats of Gaddafi sympathizers, eye-plucking and cutting off the breasts of immodest women. The lawyer for the Libyan Jamahiriya, Marcel Ceccaldi, has accused NATO of "complicity in war crimes."
On 1 May 2011, Barack Obama announced that, in Abbottabad (Pakistan), the US Navy’s SEAL Team Six had taken out Osama bin Laden, about whom no reliable news had been heard for almost 10 years. The announcement padlocked the Al-Qaeda file and enabled the revamping of the jihadists into the renewed allies of the United States as in the good old days of the Afghanistan, Bosnia, Chechnya and Kosovo wars [7] On 6 August, all the members of SEAL commando 6 perished in the crash of their helicopter.
Abdel Hakim Belhadj returned to his country in a Qatar military plane at the onset of the NATO intervention. He took command of the Al-Qaeda men in the Jebel Nefoussa mountains. According to the son of General Abdel Fattah Younes, it was Belhadj who sponsored the murder on 28 July 2011 of his old enemy, who had meanwhile become the military leader of the National Transition Council. After the fall of Tripoli, Abdel Hakim Belhadj opened the gates of the Abu Salim prison, liberating all the Al-Qaeda jihadists who were still detained. He was appointed military governor of Tripoli. He currently demands an apology from the CIA and MI6 for the treatment inflicted on him in the past [8]. The National Transitional Council has put him in charge of training the army of the new Libya.
Thierry Meyssan
[1] “David Shayler: ’I quit the British secret service when the MI6 decided to fund Osama bin Laden’s partners’”, Voltaire Network, 24 November 2005.
[2] "Libya’s Powerful Islamist Leader", by Babak Dehghanpisheh, The Daily Beast, 2 September 2011.
[3] “Once NATO enemies in Iraq and Afghanistan, now NATO allies in Libya ”, by Webster G. Tarpley, Voltaire Network, 24 May 2011.
[4] “The Middle East counter-revolution ”, by Thierry Meyssan,Voltaire Network, 26 May 2011.
[5] "CIA recruits 1,500 from Mazar-e-Sharif to fight in Libya", by Azhar Masood, The Nation, 31 August 2011
[6] "Noi ribelli, islamici e tolleranti", a report by Roberto Bongiorni, Il Sole 24 Ore, 22 March 2011.
[7] “Reflections on the official announcement of the death of Osama Bin Laden”, by Thierry Meyssan, Voltaire Network, 8 May 2011.
[8] "Libyan commander demands apology over MI6 and CIA plot", by Martin Chulov, Nick Hopkins and Richard Norton-Taylor, The Guardian, 4 September 2
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7 - UN high commissioner resorts to libyan formula
to address syrian situation
VOLTAIRE NETWORK | 13 SEPTEMBER 2011
Without indentifying what she called “reliable sources, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said that the alleged repression by the Syrian government has claimed 1600 lives since protests began some six months ago, and she requested the same civilian-protection efforts by foreign countries she previously asked for Libya.
In her opening remarks of the 18th session of the Human Rights Council, in Geneva, Pillay said that as to Syria, and according to reliable sources in the field, the death tall reached at least 2 600 since violence broke out by mid March, Telesur reported.
But, Pillay gave her report without explaining who her sources are, or if the information was given by medical or forensic personnel, or by any person or institution authorized and able to give credit to the figures mentioned.
This is not the first time that the High Commissioner gives figures of deaths in Arab nations without explaining the origin of her information. Last February 25, she cited “certain sources” to assure that there could be thousands of dead and wounded people in Libya following the “repression” unleashed by leader Muammar Gaddafi.
Immediately after Pillay concluded her report, 47 members of the UN Human Rights Council favored a draft resolution that excluded Libya of the UN body. But, later, the reports about “thousands” of dead people under bombing and repression by the Gaddafi government in Libya were proved to be false. However, by that time NATO had already launched its attack on Libya.
By mid March protests began against the Bashar Al Assad government in Syria followed by demonstrations of support of that regime, which led to civilian clashes, and the action of infiltrated armed groups that tried to destabilize the Arab nation.
A sector of the Syrian population demanded constitutional reforms, attended by the government, which decided to implement a series of political changes, such as the annulment of the Emergency Act, in force since 1963; the release of political prisoners, and the renewal of the cabinet.
Damascus denounced that foreign powers have orchestrated a discrediting and destabilizing plan in the country by accusing the government of making strong pressures on the civilian population. The UN High Commissioner called for an effort with the support of foreign countries to protect the civilian population under risk of violence. This was the same request she made six months ago for Libya, a nation where thousands of citizens were killed by NATO.
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8 - Palestine’s future – its students – must be set free
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Free to learn... free to train… free to excel... free to plan… free to travel... free to trade... free to govern…
And free at last from Israel’s reign of thuggery
By Stuart Littlewood
12 September 2011
Stuart Littlewood details Israel’s determined effort to prevent the creation of educated Palestinian cadres through the systematic repression, harassment and ill-treatment of Palestinian students and the disruption of their education.
The last thing Israel wants is masses of bright and clever young Palestinians next door in the shredded remains of the occupied territories. But that's exactly what Palestinian youngsters are – bright and clever, given half a chance. So they need repressing. They need humiliating constantly. They need to be discouraged. They need to have their education disrupted big-time, so that they become a broken, dispirited, docile mass without ambition, utterly dependent on a few crumbs of comfort and easy to control.
So the Israelis make spiteful war on students especially, as well as women and children generally.
Last week's report from Bethlehem University about the brutal attacks by Israeli squatters, in one case under the indulgent eye of Israeli soldiers, on a professor and a student reminds me that I have written on three earlier occasions about intimidation and obstruction by the Israeli authorities. At this moment in the long struggle for decency and freedom it is worth recalling these incidents, which vividly illustrate why Palestinian independence is so vitally important.
To get to Bethlehem University, or any other, many students have to run the gauntlet of Israeli checkpoints. "Sometimes they take our ID cards and they spend ages writing down all the details, just to make us late," said one. Students are often made to remove shoes, belt and bags. "It's like an airport. Many times we are kept waiting outside for up to an hour, rain or shine, they don't care." The soldiers attempt to forcibly remove students’ clothes or they swear and shout sexual slurs at female students.
Some tell how they are sexually harassed and spend the rest of the day worrying what the Israelis will do to them on their way home.
The daily abuse undermines student motivation and concentration. Many other obstacles are put in their way by the occupation. Here are just three cases that are representative of thousands of others. They will, I think, make you angry – spitting-blood furious, in fact.
Merna – “turning the tables on adversity”
Merna was an honours student in her final year majoring in English. Israeli soldiers frequently rampaged through her Bethlehem refugee camp in the middle of the night, ransacking homes and arbitrarily arresting residents. They took away her family one by one. First her 14-year-old cousin and best friend was shot dead by an Israeli sniper while she sat outside her family home during a curfew.
“Israeli military law treats Palestinians as adults as soon as they reach 16, a flagrant violation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Israeli youngsters are regarded as children until 18.”
Next the Israelis arrested her eldest brother, a 22-year-old artist, and imprisoned him for four years. Then they came back for Merna's 18-year-old brother. Not content with that, the military came again, this time to take her youngest brother – the “baby” of the family – just 16. These were the circumstances under which Merna had to study.
"As he was being taken away, he told us to take care of ourselves,” said Merna, her eyes brimming with tears. "He’s my little brother! He is the one who needs taking care of. What is he doing in an awful prison cell and how are his spirits?"
Israeli military law treats Palestinians as adults as soon as they reach 16, a flagrant violation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Israeli youngsters are regarded as children until 18. Palestinians are dealt with by Israeli military courts, even when it's a civil matter. These courts ignore international laws and conventions, so there's no legal protection for individuals under Israeli military occupation.
As detention is based on secret information, which neither the detainee nor his lawyer is allowed to see, it is impossible to mount a proper defence. Besides, the security service always finds a bogus excuse to keep detainees locked up "in the greater interest of the security of Israel". Although detainees have the right to review and appeal, they are unable to challenge the evidence and check facts as all information presented to the court is classified.
Faced with this great mental stress, Merna nevertheless determined to carry on with her studies. The “most moral army in the world”, as the Israelis call their uniformed thugs, may have robbed her brothers of an education, but she would still fight for hers. Sleepless and tearful, Merna went to university next day as usual.
A fellow student recalls than when chatting to Merna online in the evenings, she often had to leave the computer because the military had barged into her home. But even if she'd been up all night while Israeli soldiers trashed her house and questioned her family, she always came to school the next day.
"Coming to school is a way of getting away from what is happening in the refugee camp," says Merna. "It's like an oasis here for me." But her thoughts are never far from her cousin and brothers. "I only wish they were allowed this opportunity."
She became a senior member of the Bethlehem University Student Ambassadors
Programme and an example to fellow classmates. She hopes to pursue postgraduate studies abroad and return to the university to give back to the community some of the support it has offered her.
Young minds like Merna's must continue to persevere against the odds. Though greatly distracted by the cruel fate of her close family, the ordeal forged a steely resolve. The purposeful way she lived her university life, say the brothers, gave her added strength and confidence. Merna managed to turn the tables on adversity. Her loss was actually her gain.
What a remarkable young lady.
Berlanty – deported “for trying to complete her studies at Bethlehem University"
This Christian girl, a fouth-year Business Administration student, was originally from Gaza but had lived in the West Bank since 2005 after receiving a travel permit from the Israeli military to cross from Gaza to the West Bank. She was snatched by the Israeli military while returning from a job interview in Ramallah. The 21-year-old, due to graduate in a few weeks' time, was suddenly deported to Gaza "for trying to complete her studies at Bethlehem University".
She too was about to be robbed of her degree at the last minute. The most moral army in the world blindfolded and handcuffed her, loaded her into a military jeep and drove her from Bethlehem to Gaza, despite assurances by the Israeli Military Legal Advisor’s Office that she would not be deported before an attorney from Gisha, an Israeli non-governmental organization working to protect Palestinians’ freedom of movement, had the opportunity to petition the Israeli court for her return to classes in Bethlehem.
When they’d crossed the border the world’s most moral army dumped Berlanty in the darkness late at night and told her: “You are in Gaza.”
"Since 2005, I refrained from visiting my family in Gaza for fear that I would not be permitted to return to my studies in the West Bank," she told Gisha on her mobile phone before the soldiers confiscated it. "Now, just two months before graduation, I was arrested and taken to Gaza in the middle of the night, with no way to finish my degree."
“If Berlanty, who has committed no crime, could not come and go as she pleased in her own country – the Holy Land – what made Israel’s ambassador think that the blood-soaked Livni, and others like her, should be allowed to come and go as they please in the UK?”
The Israeli embassy in London, when asked for an explanation, said that Berlanty held a permit that had expired and she’d been living in the West Bank illegally. “As you probably know, every Gaza resident who stays in the West Bank requires a permit, failing to do so is a breach of the law.”
The embassy spokesperson added that if she wished to complete her studies at Bethlehem she should apply for a permit to the relevant authorities. However, Bethlehem University told me that 12 students from Gaza had applied to attend the university and not one had received permission from the relevant Israeli authorities.
Her appeal, handled by Gisha, was turned down. It was a classic example of how Israel’s administrative “laws” are framed to ride rough-shod over citizens’ rights enshrined in international law. For example, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip are internationally recognized as one integral territory and under international law everyone has the right to freely choose their place of residence within a single territory. The state of Israel also has an obligation under the Oslo Agreements to “respect and preserve without obstacles, normal and smooth movement of people, vehicles and goods within the West Bank, and between the West Bank and Gaza Strip”.
While Israel’s embassy here was issuing its despicable ruling on Berlanty’s fate, the ambassador was whining about a warrant issued in London for the arrest of ex-Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni for alleged war crimes. Livni had overseen the murderous assault on Gaza the previous December/January, which killed 1,400, including a large number of women and children, maimed thousands more and left countless families homeless.
If Berlanty, who has committed no crime, could not come and go as she pleased in her own country – the Holy Land – what made Israel’s ambassador think that the blood-soaked Livni, and others like her, should be allowed to come and go as they please in the UK? But that’s another shameful story.
Samer – imprisoned, tortured and held in solitary confinement for engaging in student politics
A few months before he was due to graduate, in 2003, the Israeli military arrested Samer and threw him in jail – for six long years. Then at 27 he returned to campus to finish what he started. “I feel like a regular student again," he said with a wide grin. "I have a university notebook and textbooks. I can ask and answer questions freely. I can communicate openly with students, professors and staff. It’s a real life, an authentic life.”
“Many Western leaders began their political careers making a name for themselves at the Oxford Union and similar student debating groups or taking part in demos. How would they have reacted to being clapped in irons for it?"
When imprisoned he was denied access to a lawyer for 55 days then moved from one Israeli prison to another for more than six years. He was tortured on numerous occasions, he says, and regularly interrogated eight hours a day for four to five days, in just a T-shirt, squatting on the cold ground with his hands tied and an air conditioner blowing on his back. He was held in solitary confinement for more than a year.
Membership of a student group in Palestine is outlawed under Israeli military law, and students who engage in campus politics risk arrest by Israel’s uniformed gangs who barge into Palestinian society and academic life to abduct them. Many Western leaders began their political careers making a name for themselves at the Oxford Union and similar student debating groups or taking part in demos. How would they have reacted to being clapped in irons for it?
A good many of them are now firm “Friends of Israel”, although the regime stamps on the sort of student activities they enjoyed. Members of the Israeli cabinet presumably went to university. Are we to believe that they never engaged in student politics?
Samer’s experience is similar to that of hundreds of Palestinian students who find themselves political prisoners. Many are left to rot in jail indefinitely, denied their basic right to due process, a fair trial and legal representation. Some wait up to two years to be charged. Others are charged under Israeli military law, which falls a long way short of the justice standards required under international law.
The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society reckoned that seven Bethlehem University students were at that time in Israeli prisons for taking part in “student activities”. In Samer’s case, he was abducted for joining Fatah’s resistance movement after the 2000 Intifada (uprising). It is, of course, perfectly legitimate to resist an illegal occupier.
But coming back to university after prison is no easy thing, as Samer discovered. He was suffering the cruel effects of six years' incarceration and was often tired, depressed, stressed and jumpy. But he knew that the university was his anchor, the main hope in his young life.
At first he had problems communicating with other students, many of whom were younger than him. But the English professor who taught Samer earlier and received letters and messages from prison, said: “I see him as a success story in the sense that he hasn’t lost hope. He so much wanted to continue his education and he came back. Prison was tough for him but he came through it. He’s doing well, all things considered.”
Another professor remembered him from six years earlier. “There is a definite measure of maturity in Samer now,” she observed. “He’s proud of being at Bethlehem University and he knows the value of education. Samer doesn’t miss any classes. A six-year gap in his education – and six rather difficult years – is not something that everyone can overcome. But he is doing it because he wants to improve himself, and his classmates see and admire it.”
Samer was determined to make the most of this second chance. Full marks to him for enduring and overcoming the cruelty of the occupation.
“The moral test of a country is how it treats the young and the elderly”
A UN Human Rights Council report (A/HRC/WG.6/3/ISR/3) of December 2008 highlighted some unpalatable facts:
DCI/PS (Defence for Children International, Palestine Section) expressed concern about coercive techniques used by the Israeli authorities to extract confessions; the provision of typed confessions to Palestinian child detainees; the use of confessional evidence, most of which is obtained illegally, in the Israeli military courts in order to obtain convictions, and the lack of effective mechanisms for investigating complaints of torture.
Referring to Israel’s policy of administrative detention, ICJ (International Commission of Jurists) said that arrests and detentions are often based on secret evidence to which neither the detainees nor their counsels have access. The Israeli authorities can repeatedly extend the initial detention without evidential justification.
The International Complaints Commission (ICC) noted that there were about 800 Palestinian administrative detainees at the Israeli detention centres. The Addameer Prisoners’ Support and Human Rights Association reported that all are detained without any charges or any trial procedures. Administrative detention is ordered by a military commander and grounded on “security reasons”. Detainees must be brought before a military judge within eight days but hearings are not open to the public. Addameer further reported that administrative detention has regularly been used against Palestinian children.
AI (Amnesty International) confirmed that some 800 Palestinians were held without charge or trial in administrative detention, and although they have the right to appeal to a military court and ultimately to the Supreme Court, neither they nor their lawyers have the right to see the evidence against them.
The Mandela Institute reported serious deterioration in all Israeli detention facilities, including over-crowdedness; forbidding family visits; arbitrary transfers; violence against prisoners by prison officials; torture and ill treatment by the Israeli General Security Services (GSS or Shin Bet), Israeli soldiers and prison guards against Palestinians; deterioration of health conditions, and deaths in custody.
So there you have it. The evil of Israel's “snatch squads” that prey on Palestine's students and other young people, and the regime’s cynical disregard for their wellbeing while in its clutches, are laid bare for everyone to see.
It is clear that Israel still hasn’t emerged from the swamp, and probably never will.
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9 - ONE Solar flare could unleash a nuclear holocaust across planet Earth, forcing hundreds of nuclear power plants into total meltdowns
by Mike Adams
(NaturalNews) Forget about the 2012 Mayan calendar, comet Elenin or the Rapture. The real threat to human civilization is far more mundane, and it's right in front of our noses. If Fukushima has taught us anything, it's that just one runaway meltdown of fissionable nuclear material can have wide-ranging and potentially devastating consequences for life on Earth. To date, Fukushima has already released 168 times the total radiation released from the Hiroshima nuclear bomb detonated in 1945, and the Fukushima catastrophe is now undeniably the worst nuclear disaster in the history of human civilization.
But what if human civilization faced a far greater threat than a single tsunami destroying a nuclear power facility? What if a global tidal wave could destroy the power generating capacities of all the world's power plants, all at once?
Such a scenario is not merely possible, but factually inevitable. And the global tidal wave threatening all the nuclear power plants of the world isn't made of water but solar emissions.
The sun, you see, is acting up again. NASA recently warned that solar activity is surging, with a peak expected to happen in 2013 that could generate enormous radiation levels that sweep across planet Earth. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has even issued an urgent warning about solar flares due to strike in 2012 and 2013. IBtimes wrote, "With solar activity expected to peak around 2013, the Sun is entering a particularly active time and big flares like the recent one will likely be common during the next few years. ...A major flare in the mid-19th century blocked the nascent telegraph system, and some scientists believe that another such event is now overdue." (http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/194...)
The story goes on to explain:
"Several federal government studies suggest that this extreme solar activity and emissions may result in complete blackouts for years in some areas of the nation. Moreover, there may also be disruption of power supply for years, or even decades, as geomagnetic currents attracted by the storm could debilitate the transformers."
Why does all this matter? To understand that, you have to understand how nuclear power plants function. Or, put another way, how is nuclear material prevented from "going nuclear" every single day across our planet?
Every nuclear power plant operates in a near-meltdown state
All nuclear power plants are operated in a near-meltdown status. They operate at very high heat, relying on nuclear fission to boil water that produces steam to drive the turbines that generate electricity. Critically, the nuclear fuel is prevented from melting down through the steady circulation of coolants which are pushed through the cooling system using very high powered electric pumps.
If you stop the electric pumps, the coolant stops flowing and the fuel rods go critical (and then melt down). This is what happened in Fukushima, where the melted fuel rods dropped through the concrete floor of the containment vessels, unleashing enormous quantities of ionizing radiation into the surrounding environment. The full extent of the Fukushima contamination is not even known yet, as the facility is still emitting radiation.
It's crucial to understand that nuclear coolant pumps are usually driven by power from the electrical grid. They are not normally driven by power generated locally from the nuclear power plant itself. Instead, they're connected to the grid. In other words, even though nuclear power plants are generating megawatts of electricity for the grid, they are also dependant on the grid to run their own coolant pumps. If the grid goes down, the coolant pumps go down, too, which is why they are quickly switched to emergency backup power -- either generators or batteries.
As we learned with Fukushima, the on-site batteries can only drive the coolant pumps for around eight hours. After that, the nuclear facility is dependent on diesel generators (or sometimes propane) to run the pumps that circulate the coolant which prevents the whole site from going Chernobyl. And yet, critically, this depends on something rather obvious: The delivery of diesel fuel to the site. If diesel cannot be delivered, the generators can't be fired up and the coolant can't be circulated. When you grasp the importance of this supply line dependency, you will instantly understand why a single solar flare could unleash a nuclear holocaust across the planet.
When the generators fail and the coolant pumps stop pumping, nuclear fuel rods begin to melt through their containment rods, unleashing ungodly amounts of life-destroying radiation directly into the atmosphere. This is precisely why Japanese engineers worked so hard to reconnect the local power grid to the Fukushima facility after the tidal wave -- they needed to bring power back to the generators to run the pumps that circulate the coolant. This effort failed, of course, which is why Fukushima became such a nuclear disaster and released countless becquerels of radiation into the environment (with no end in sight).
And yet, despite the destruction we've already seen with Fukushima, U.S. nuclear power plants are nowhere near being prepared to handle sustained power grid failures. As IBtimes reports:
"Last month, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said U.S. plants affected by a blackout should be able to cope without electricity for at least eight hours and should have procedures to keep the reactor and spent-fuel pool cool for 72 hours. Nuclear plants depend on standby batteries and backup diesel generators. Most standby power systems would continue to function after a severe solar storm, but supplying the standby power systems with adequate fuel, when the main power grids are offline for years, could become a very critical problem. If the spent fuel rod pools at the country's 104 nuclear power plants lose their connection to the power grid, the current regulations aren't sufficient to guarantee those pools won't boil over -- exposing the hot, zirconium-clad rods and sparking fires that would release deadly radiation." (http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/194...)
Now, what does all this have to do with solar flares?
How the end of modern civilization will most likely occur
As any sufficiently informed scientist will readily admit, solar flares have the potential to blow out the transformers throughout the national power grid. That's because solar flares induce geomagnetic currents (powerful electromagnetic impulses) which overload the transformers and cause them to explode.
You've probably witnessed this yourself during a lightning storm when lightning unleashes a powerful electromagnetic pulse that causes a local transformer to explode. Solar flares do the same thing on a much larger scale. A global scale, in fact.
The upshot of this situation is that suddenly and without warning, the power grid infrastructure across nearly the entire planet could be destroyed. As a bonus, nearly all satellites will be fried, too, leaving GPS inoperable and causing millions of clueless drivers to become forever lost in their own neighborhoods because they never paid attention to the streets and always relied on a GPS voice to tell them, "In fifty feet, turn right."
Communications satellites will be obliterated, too. This, of course, will halt nearly all news propaganda distribution across the planet, causing tens of thousands of people to instantly die out of the sheer fear of suddenly having to think for themselves. As another bonus, nearly all mobile phone service will be disrupted, too, meaning all the teenage text junkies of the world will, for the first time in their lives, be forced to lay down their iPhones and interact with real people in the real world.
But the real kicker in all this is that the power grid will be destroyed nearly everywhere.
What happens when there's no electricity ?
Imagine a world without electricity. Even for just a week. Imagine New York City with no electricity, or Los Angeles, or Sao Paulo. Within 72 hours, most cities around the world will devolve into total chaos, complete with looting, violent crime, and runaway fires.
And if you think you can just drive away from the chaos, think again: The solar flare will fry all automobiles that rely on ignition electronics, which means probably 98% of the vehicles on the road today will be instantly rendered scrap metal (or plastic, as it turns out).
But that's not even the bad news. Even if all the major cities of the world burned to the ground for some other reason, humanity could still recover because it has the farmlands: the soils, the seeds, and the potential to recover, right?
And yet the real crisis here stems from the realization that once there is no power grid, all the nuclear power plants of the world suddenly go into "emergency mode" and are forced to rely on their on-site emergency power backups to circulate coolants and prevent nuclear meltdowns from occurring. And yet, as we've already established, these facilities typically have only a few hours of battery power available, followed by perhaps a few days worth of diesel fuel to run their generators (or propane, in some cases).
Did I also mention that half the people who work at nuclear power facilities have no idea what they're doing in the first place? Most of the veterans who really know the facilities inside and out have been forced into retirement due to reaching their lifetime limits of on-the-job radiation exposure, so most of the workers at nuclear facilities right now are newbies who really have no clue what they're doing.
There are 440 nuclear power plants operating across 30 countries around the world today. There are an additional 250 so-called "research reactors" in existence, making a total of roughly 700 nuclear reactors to be dealt with (http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/i...).
Now imagine the scenario: You've got a massive solar flare that knocks out the world power grid and destroys the majority of the power grid transformers, thrusting the world into darkness. Cities collapse into chaos and rioting, martial law is quickly declared (but it hardly matters), and every nation in the world is on full emergency. But that doesn't solve the really big problem, which is that you've got 700 nuclear reactors that can't feed power into the grid (because all the transformers are blown up) and yet simultaneously have to be fed a steady stream of emergency fuels to run the generators the keep the coolant pumps functioning.
How long does the coolant need to circulate in these facilities to cool the nuclear fuel? Months. This is also the lesson of Fukushima: You can't cool nuclear fuel in mere hours or days. It takes months to bring these nuclear facilities to a state of cold shutdown. And that means in order to avoid a multitude of Fukushima-style meltdowns from occurring around the world, you need to truck diesel fuel, generator parts and nuclear plant workers to every nuclear facility on the planet, ON TIME, every time, without fail, for months on end.
Now remember, this must be done in the middle of the total chaos breakdown of modern civilization, where there is no power, where law enforcement and emergency services are totally overrun, where people are starving because food deliveries have been disrupted (all the vehicles got fried in the solar flare, remember?), and when looting and violent crime runs rampant in the streets of every major city in the world. Somehow, despite all this, you have to run these diesel fuel caravans to the nuclear power plants and keep the pumps running.
Except there's a problem in all this, even if you assume you can somehow work a logistical miracle and actually deliver the diesel fuel to the backup generators on time (which you probably can't).
The problem is this: Where do you get diesel fuel?
Why refineries will be shut down, too
From petroleum refineries. Most people don't realize it, but petroleum refineries run on electricity. Without the power grid, the refineries don't produce a drop of diesel. With no diesel, there are no generators keeping the coolant running in the nuclear power facilities.
But wait, you say: Maybe we could just acquire diesel from all the gas stations in the world. Pump it out of the ground, load it into trucks and use that to power the generators, right? Except there are other problems here: How do you pump all that fuel without electricity? How do you acquire all the tires and spare parts needed to keep trucks running if there's no electricity to keep the supply businesses running? How do you maintain a truck delivery infrastructure when the electrical infrastructure is totally wiped out?
Some countries might be able to pull it off with some degree of success. With military escorts and the total government control over all fuel supplies, a few nations will be able to keep a few nuclear power facilities from melting down.
But here's the real issue: There are 700 nuclear power facilities in the world, remember? Let's suppose that in the aftermath of a massive solar flare, the nations of the world are somehow able to control half of those facilities and nurse them into cold shutdown status. That still leaves roughly 350 nuclear facilities at risk.
Now let's suppose half of those are somehow luckily offline and not even functioning when the solar flare hits, so they need no special attention. This is a very optimistic assumption, but that still leaves 175 nuclear power plants where all attempts fail.
Let's be outrageously optimistic and suppose that a third of those somehow don't go into a total meltdown by some miracle of God, or some bizarre twist in the laws of physics. So we're still left with 115 nuclear power plants that "go Chernobyl."
Fukushima was one power plant. Imagine the devastation of 100+ nuclear power plants, all going into meltdown all at once across the planet. It's not the loss of electricity that's the real problem; it's the global tidal wave of invisible radiation that blankets the planet, permeates the topsoil, irradiates everything that breathes and delivers the final crushing blow to human civilization as we know it today.
Because if you have 100 simultaneous global nuclear meltdowns, the tidal wave of radiation will make farming nearly impossible for years. That means no food production for several years in a row. And that, in turn, means a near-total collapse of the human population on our planet.
How many people can survive an entire year with no food from the farms? Not one in a hundred people. Even beyond that, how many people can essentially live underground and be safe enough from the radiation that they can have viable children and repopulate the planet? It's a very, very small fraction of the total population.
Solar flares far more likely to hit nuclear power plants than tidal waves or earthquakes
What's the chance of all this actually happening? A report by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory said that "...over the standard 40-year license term of nuclear power plants, solar flare activity enables a 33 percent chance of long-term power loss, a risk that significantly outweighs that of major earthquakes and tsunamis." (http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/194...)
The world's reliance on nuclear power, you see, has doomed us to destroy our own civilization. Of course, this is all preventable if we would only dismantle and shut down ALL nuclear power plants on the planet. But what are the chances of that happening? Zero, of course. There are too many commercial and political interests invested in nuclear power.
So the power plants will stay, and we will therefore be vulnerable to a solar flare which could strike us at any time and unleash a global nuclear holocaust. Planet Earth has been struck by solar flares before, of course, but all the big hits in recorded human history took place long before the age of modern electronics, so the impacts were minimal. Today, society cannot function without electronics. Nor can nuclear facility coolant pumps. Once you realize that, you begin to understand the true danger in which humanity has placed itself by relying on nuclear power.
By relying on nuclear power, we are risking everything. And we're doing it blindly, with no real acknowledgement of the dangers of running 700+ nuclear facilities in a constant state of "near meltdown" while foolishly relying on the steady flow of electricity to keep the fuel rods cool. If Fukushima, all by itself, could unleash a tidal wave of deadly radiation all by itself, imagine a world where hundreds of nuclear facilities go into a total meltdown simultaneously.
A repeat of the 1859 solar storm -- called the Carrington Event -- would "devastate the modern world," admits a National Geographic article: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/...
What can you do about any of this? Build yourself an underground bunker and prepare to live in it for an extended period of time. (Just a few feet of soil protects you from most radiation.) The good news is that if you survive it all and one day return to the surface to plant your non-hybrid seeds and begin rebuilding human society, real estate will be really, really cheap.
Especially in the radiation zones.
Take this seriously ! Read more from NASA
http://www.space.com/12580-sun-unle...
http://science.nasa.gov/science-new...
From NASA:
"Just before dawn the next day, skies all over planet Earth erupted in red, green, and purple auroras so brilliant that newspapers could be read as easily as in daylight. Indeed, stunning auroras pulsated even at near tropical latitudes over Cuba, the Bahamas, Jamaica, El Salvador, and Hawaii. Even more disconcerting, telegraph systems worldwide went haywire. Spark discharges shocked telegraph operators and set the telegraph paper on fire. Even when telegraphers disconnected the batteries powering the lines, aurora-induced electric currents in the wires still allowed messages to be transmitted..."
"...as electronic technologies have become more sophisticated and more embedded into everyday life, they have also become more vulnerable to solar activity. On Earth, power lines and long-distance telephone cables might be affected by auroral currents, as happened in 1989. Radar, cell phone communications, and GPS receivers could be disrupted by solar radio noise. Experts who have studied the question say there is little to be done to protect satellites from a Carrington-class flare. In fact, a recent paper estimates potential damage to the 900-plus satellites currently in orbit could cost between $30 billion and $70 billion."
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10 - Polish-Jewish sociologist compares West Bank separation fence to Warsaw Ghetto walls
Sygmunt Bauman says Israel 'terrified of peace' and 'taking advantage of the Holocaust to legitimize
unconscionable acts,' in interview with Polish weekly 'Politika.'
By Roman Frister
Sygmunt Bauman, the Jewish sociologist and one of the greatest philosophers of our time, castigated Israel harshly this week,
saying it did not want peace and was afraid of it.
Bauman said Israel was "taking advantage of the Holocaust to legitimize unconscionable acts," and compared the separation fence
to the walls surrounding the Warsaw Ghetto, in which hundreds of thousands of Jews perished in the Holocaust.
In a long interview to the important Polish weekly "Politika," Bauman said Israel was not interested in peace. "Israeli politicians are
terrified of peace, they tremble with fear from the possibility of peace, because without war and without general mobilization they
don't know how to live," he said.
"Israel does not see the missiles falling on communities along the border as a bad thing. On the contrary, they would be worried and
even alarmed were it not for this fire," the Polish-British sociologist said.
Bauman, who lived in Israel briefly, referred to an article he wrote in Haaretz, in which he expressed concern that the younger Israeli
generation was being raised on the understanding that the state of war and military alert were natural and unavoidable.
The Polish public has not heard such a diatribe against Zionism and Israel since the anti-Semitic propaganda campaign the Communist
regime conducted after the Six-Day War.
Not surprisingly, leading Jewish figures came out against it.
"Politika" published the criticism alongside the letter of Israeli ambassador in Warsaw Zvi Bar, who rejected Bauman's "half truths" and
"groundless generalizations."
Bauman, who was born in Poland in 1925, has been living in England since he left his lecturer's chair at Tel Aviv University in 1971.
He is seen as one of the greatest sociologists of our time and has dealt extensively with the ties between the Holocaust and modernism,
globalization and consumer culture in the postmodern era.
Some of his books have been translated into Hebrew, including "Liquid Love."
His grandson is attorney Michael Sfard, of the human rights group Yesh Din.
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11 - Substantial evidence indicates US neoconservatives perpetrated 9/11
in pursuit of their own goals
by Mohsen Pakaein
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VOLTAIRE NETWORK | TEHRAN (IRAN) | 9 SEPTEMBER 2011
In NATO powers and allied states, the media and politicians have embraced the Islamic conspiracy theory as the obvious and indisputable explanation for the September 11 attacks. But one man’s truth is another man’s lie. In the rest of the world, what prevails is the idea that the event was orchestrated by the neocons. This is, for example, the view of Ambassador Mohsen PakAein, in charge of Iran’s Afghan policy.
September 11 – who was behind the events? In order to find out the reasons why the U.S. neoconservatives have succeeded in carrying out their plans and in moving toward their ambitious goals, it is necessary to understand the causes and motivations behind the events of 9/11.
On 9/11, American trade, military, and political centers collapsed as a result of explosions, with enormous smoke and dust. In this event, two passenger jets slammed into the World Trade Center, and another one hit the Pentagon. Also, another jet crashed – for unknown reasons – before it hit its target. According to the latest statistics, these operations resulted in over five thousand deaths and injuries. Immediately, a state of emergency was declared all over the U.S. The sky across America was declared a no-fly zone, and the U.S. army was put on high alert. Also, European countries were informally in a state of emergency, and their security forces stepped up espionage and intelligence operations.
The official programs of the mass media in Europe were disrupted, and crisis groups, as well as political and military pundits, held especial meetings in order to try to reduce the insecurity, which took hold of all the political apparatuses, and to control public unrest in the wake of this mass killing. A few hours after the operations, the then U.S. president called the above-mentioned events a national tragedy for America and stated that this is a war. It is a war on America, George Bush said, and added – this is an attack on a lifestyle, democracy, and the values of the modern world. Bush went on to say[that America had entered a war, a war between the evil and the good – and we will win this war, he alleged.
The events of 9/11 set the needed stage for carrying out the radical ideas of the American neoconservatives. In declaring war and bringing out its gigantic military machine, America referred to article five of the NATO Washington Treaty for the first time in fifty years and prepared itself to attack targets all over the world. This measure taken by America marked a new phase in international policy and order.
The first stage of this interaction was the attack on Afghanistan. Some researchers, by relying on lots of evidence, believe that America itself is the cause behind the events of 9/11. Lyndon LaRouche, a former American presidential candidate and one of the U.S.’s prominent analysts of political and economic issues, claimed in an interview that the events of 9/11 were planned and carried out by veteran American politicians, in order to canalize and redirect the administration of George W. Bush along a specific course. He said that 9/11 could [not have been] the job of an outside group or organization because, given the way the security system works, these events could have only been orchestrated by internal security groups and organizations. And at high levels of the security authorities, of course, there might have been cooperation with others, albeit in a limited way, but what is self-evident is the fact that these attacks were mainly controlled by high-ranking American security authorities and organizations.
They wanted to stage an effective coup against Bush. They didn’t intend to overthrow the government, but they wanted to move the Bush administration in the direction they wanted. In his book The Big Lie, written about 9/11, Thierry Meyssan, a French researcher, says: ’After the two World Trade Center towers collapsed in a way that no one predicted, complete official investigations into the incident as to how it happened were not conducted, but the official account confirmed the idea of two jets, as well as the identity of the accused, without substantiating their existence or their involvement in the incident. Immediately, there was an emphasis on demolishing the damaged buildings and collecting the debris, and whatever was left in this place was placed under the control of the F.B.I and was declared as part of national defense secrets.
The rapidity with which the debris was collected raised suspicion with the fire officials of the Fire Department of New York, because they didn’t find Washington officials convincing, and they were certain that the fuel of the two jets wasn’t sufficient to melt the iron skeleton of the two towers in such a short time. And practically and chemically, it is impossible, unless the two towers were made of cardboard. For this reason, officials of the fire department requested an inquiry in order to clarify the facts as to whether an explosion occurred at the bottom of the two towers or not. However, F.B.I authorities didn’t agree with this suggestion. There is another mystery here, since it is only through explosives that high rise buildings can be demolished, while in this case there isn’t any other evidence or picture to show what happened at the bottom of the two towers.’
In an interview with France TV, Meyssan discloses secrets which can only be grasped by experts in aerospace sciences. He says: ’Following a Q&A with the experts in this field, it became clear that it is impossible for passenger jets, such as the ones that crashed into World Trade Center, to carry out such precision targeting without having predetermined radars from within the two towers. This is exactly what happened two hours prior to the attack, which scrambled radios and TVs within the range of that area. Thus, without these radars, it wouldn’t have been possible to achieve target precision, even if several jets had carried out this task simultaneously.
There are other aspects which cast doubt on the involvement of foreign agents in the explosions. With regard to the writings in Arabic that show how to learn flying and pilot airplanes, it should be noted that aircraft terminology has never been written in Arabic, but has always been completely in English. As for the attack on the Pentagon, the U.S. administration claimed that these operations were conducted by crashing a Boeing 757 into the first or second floor, while the aforementioned aircraft flew so low that it touched the grass surrounding the Pentagon. However, when asked about this, experts in war aircraft ascertained that such an act couldn’t be [accomplished] by non-military aircraft, such as a Boeing 757, because such aircraft aim at their targets vertically or fly low, but not close to the ground, and suddenly attack their target horizontally. And since the Pentagon isn’t very high, but with only two floors, it is impossible for a non-military jet to hit the Pentagon horizontally, because Boeing jets can’t fly so low; and even if such a thing is supposedly possible, it will damage the trees, electric posts, and other things around the area, which didn’t happen. Indeed, no sign or traces of this kind could be seen at the scene of the accident.
What draws more attention in this regard is the fact that no one had seen the skeleton of the aircraft in the scene of the accident, and there wasn’t the smallest picture of it, but just a black box, which it was said had been found on the scene of the accident, whereas in the first statements made by the officials, it was said that the attack was carried out by a helicopter. Furthermore, the place which was the target of the attack didn’t house any personnel or military staff, because buildings were under construction in this place, and the only victims were workers and people who happened to be there. This is surprising, because only one military person was killed, while they announced that many of the victims were Pentagon employees.
Another surprising thing is that there wasn’t any follow-up on the pilots or the perpetrators of the operations. Another point is that, when an aircraft is hijacked, its information is conveyed in a code to the control tower, and non-military aircrafts also use identification serial numbers which are sent to the control tower by transmitter disks, and, in fact, it is in this way that tracking of such aircrafts is made possible. Likewise, when an aircraft doesn’t send signals, it is assumed to be an aircraft of the enemy, and warning signals are sent to it. In the case of the two jets which hit the Twin Towers, there wasn’t any signal.
’Another point worth contemplating concerning the above-mentioned incident is that none of the officials of the companies belonging to the buildings of the world trade center was a victim. At the time of the incident, most of these managers were invited for a friendly breakfast at a military base, which is very far from New York, and George W. Bush joined them.’
Overall, there is substantial evidence which indicates that 9/11 was perpetrated by American neoconservatives in order to create the opportunity to achieve their goals, such as strengthening militarism, attacking countries such as Iraq and Afghanistan, and enlisting other countries to join them in fighting terrorism. This suggests the will and determination of the neoconservatives to consolidate American power across the globe at whatever cost.
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12 - Witnessing the Transition to FEAR in Tripoli
by Lizzie Phelan
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VOLTAIRE NETWORK | 8 SEPTEMBER 2011
Evacuated by the ICRC from the Rixos hotel where she had been blocked for five days, Lizzie Phelan offers her first impressions after the fall of Tripoli. Danger, death and fear reign have engulfed the capital of the "New Libya", while NATO and its collaborators are peacocking around
With her collegues from Telesur, Russia Today, the Centre for Research on Globalization and Voltaire Network, Lizzie Phelan (PressTV) is one of the few journalists to have taken the risk of providing a factual account of the situation in Libya, countering the propaganda spewed by the media in Coalition member countries. Amidst all the media furor about the fall of Tripoli from the grasp of the Libyan government, it’s not easy to get a clear picture of what things look like under their new rulers. Upon being released from five days of entrapment in the Rixos hotel with 35 other foreign journalists, it was hard to believe that the streets I was driving through were the same ones I had become familiar with during the month I had spent in the capital.
The previously bustling roads with families rushing around toing and froing from the beach and getting ready for the meal to break the fast were empty, the green flags replaced by rebel ones, and the sparse checkpoints previously run by male and female volunteers, ie residents with Kalashnikovs, had been replaced by checkpoints every 100 or so meters, manned by tanks and exclusively male fighters holding sophisticated weapons supplied by the world’s most powerful military force, NATO.
The proud young black Libyans protecting their neighbourhoods were gone. Later we would see the images of them being rounded up and put on pickup trucks, a sight that in the previous months had been confined to places like Benghazi and Misrata. These are the victims of the claim that Gaddafi had hired mercenaries from the African continent, a claim which has been profusely rejected by human rights organisations as lacking any evidence. But in the new Libya they are some of the first - along with those from the largest tribes, Wafalla, Washafana, Zlitan and Tarhouna - suspected to be supporting the Muammar Gaddafi, a crime punishable by death and much worse.
The Red Cross convoy transporting us pulled into the Corinthia hotel. When I had stayed there on a previous trip just a month before, just two or three armed guards manned the entrance. This time it was overrun with men wielding weapons sent from NATO and Qatar and just a handful of swamped and exhausted staff remained.
Later, I saw some Libyan faces I recognised, their eyes looked filled with trauma. "How are you?" I asked one, "he is still in our hearts" she responded. Later when we had more time to talk in privacy she broke down, apologising as she cried. She said it was impossible to talk to anyone, "Libya is like our mother, but we can’t talk to our mother anymore". A Wafalla woman from the tribe’s area of Beni Walid - she knew that she and her family could be rounded up at any second, simply because of the Wafalla’s steadfast backing of what they call their “guide” – Muammar Gaddafi. She told me,
"Beni Walid people have always been very proud, generous, humble and dignified people. Under that [the rebel] flag of King Idris, we had to kiss the feet of the king before we could say a word to him, we have gone back to those times."
She was one of the many who warned me to keep my head down and get out as soon as possible. I had been one of the few reporters that focused on the effects of NATO’s bombing campaign in the country and had tried to highlight the million marches and mass tribal conferences in favour of the Libyan government that indicated it was not quite as unpopular within Libya as it had been portrayed to be.
I had also tried to expose the links of the rebels to Al Qaeda, which NATO was on the other hand fighting in places like Afghanistan. Since the admission by the rebels that the assassination of former rebel commander Abd al Fatah Younis was carried out by Al Qaeda-linked groups within their ranks, the presence of the extremists threatened to become clearer as the then Libyan government prepared to release files and phone recordings exposing Al Qaeda’s involvement in the crisis and how the west had worked with them.
But following the fall of Tripoli only unflinching acceptance of the new Libya would guarantee your safety, my Wafalla friend urged me to get home and speak about what was happening.
With fighting still raging on the roads out of the country, and them being particularly unsafe for anyone without rebel protection my only prospect of getting home was via the Mediterranean.
For days this was a very slim prospect - the commotion between the rebels that would frequently break out in the Corinthia hotel over who was the real authority, extended not just to the harbor via which I needed to escape, but to much of the city. For four days other foreigners and I would be told every few hours we would be leaving, only for the person who had given the go ahead in the harbor to disappear and be replaced.
With so many different groups, like the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, the National Front for the Salvation of Libya and those loyal to the defectors from Gaddafi’s government, the western forces now openly on the ground seemed out of their depth.
On my second day in the Corinthia, three butch British guys strutted around insisting they were now in charge of the security of the hotel. One of them told me he had come over from Kabul, which was “getting a lot worse”. “Do you think this is going to become like Kabul?” I asked, “It’s very likely, with so many different groups fighting for power”, he replied.
Meanwhile the cost in lives lost in the fall of Tripoli has received little investigation. The last concrete figures came from the then existing Ministry of Health on the second day of fighting in Tripoli which put the death toll in 12 hours in the capital alone at 1,300 with 900 injured. The Ministry reported that in the previous day over 300 had been murdered and 500 injured. This surpasses the 1,400 massacred during the two week onslaught by Israel’s Operation Cast Lead on Gaza which sparked outrage worldwide.
After heavy bombing and attacks by Apaches in Tripoli’s poorest neighborhood and one of the last areas to fall, Abu Saleem, eye witnesses reported seeing masses of bodies covering the streets. A relative of one of those feared to be amongst the carnage visited the local hospital where he said just one doctor and two nurses were left. Like masses of the capital’s workers, many hospital staff had fled, were in hiding or perhaps dead. When he asked to see the bodies, the guards told him there were none - his family fears they have been dumped in mass graves in locations that may for a long time be unknown.
This bloodbath does not fit into the narrative of a “free Libya” in which civilians are “protected”, but in such an atmosphere charged with the hunger for control at any cost, it is near impossible for those on the ground to be honest about the images before their eyes, while they remain in rebel held territory.
One young armed rebel donning the French flag on his fatigues creeped up behind me and asked me where I was from. “London” I replied, “Ah Cameron, we love Cameron,” he beamed. I forced a smile; to even criticize my own prime minister would betray disloyalty to Libya’s new rulers.
In the harbor as we looked at the ship that had been waiting to be relieved of its supplies and replaced with passengers, an Italian commented that it was like “a kid running a university” as the new people in charge worked out how to operate the cranes and other machinery necessary to keep the ships coming and going.
We were told that ship may not be able to leave for another five to ten days and the only option for exit by sea was a 20 yard long fishing boat for 12 people lacking most safety equipment, like diving gear.
43 of us prepared to board. The rebel then in charge of monitoring our boat checked our identification repeatedly over four hours insisting that no Russians, Serbians or Ukrainians would be allowed to leave. Neither would a Cuban and Ecuadorian citizen. Their countries relations had been too good with Muammar Gaddafi during the crisis.
Finally at about midnight, we were all allowed on, except for one Russian man.
As the sounds of tanks and firefights and the smell of death that filled the air grew more and more distant, I remembered the peaceful, welcoming and safe city I had driven into.
Lizzie Phelan
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13 - Walter Fauntroy, Feared Dead in Libya, Returns Home —
Guess Who He Saw Doing the Killing
It wasn't the Libyans
by Valencia Mohammed
Special to the AFRO
Inset: Former U.S. Congressman Walter Fauntroy. Larger photo: AP Photo, Gaia Anderson - Rebel fighters take control of a military vehicle, centre, positioned to defend what used to be Gadhafi's 32nd infantry regiment's base at Mardun, some 10 kilometers from the outskirts of Ban Walid, Libya, Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2011. (Courtesy Photo)
Former U.S. Congressman Walter Fauntroy, who recently returned from a self-sanctioned peace mission to Libya, said he went into hiding for about a month in Libya after witnessing horrifying events in Libya's bloody civil war -- a war that Fauntroy claims is backed by European forces.
Fauntroy's sudden disappearance prompted rumors and news reports that he had been killed.
In an interview inside his Northwest D.C. home last week, the noted civil rights leader, told the Afro that he watched French and Danish troops storm small villages late at night beheading, maiming and killing rebels and loyalists to show them who was in control.
"'What the hell' I'm thinking to myself. I'm getting out of here. So I went in hiding," Fauntroy said.
The rebels told Fauntroy they had been told by the European forces to stay inside. According to Fauntroy, the European forces would tell the rebels, "'Look at what you did.' In other words, the French and Danish were ordering the bombings and killings, and giving credit to the rebels.
"The truth about all this will come out later," Fauntroy said.
While in Libya, the former congressman also said he sat down with Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi for a one-on-one conversation. Gaddafi has ruled Libya since 1969, when he seized power in a military coup.
Fauntroy said he spoke with Gaddafi in person and that Gaddafi assured him that if he survived these attacks, the mission to unite African countries would continue.
"Contrary to what is being reported in the press, from what I heard and observed, more than 90 percent of the Libyan people love Gaddafi," Fauntroy said. "We believe the true mission of the attacks on Gaddafi is to prevent all efforts by African leaders to stop the recolonization of Africa."
Several months ago, Gaddafi's leadership faced its biggest challenge. In February, a radical protest movement called the Arab Spring spread across Libya. When Gaddafi responded by dispatching military and plainclothes paramilitary to the streets to attack demonstrators, it turned into a civil war with the assistance of NATO and the United Nations.
Fauntroy's account could not be immediately verified by the Afro and the U.S. State Department has not substantiated Fauntroy's version of events. Fauntroy was not acting as an official representative of the U.S. in Libya. He returned to Washington, D.C. on Aug. 31.
When rumors spread about Fauntroy being killed he went underground, he told the Afro in an interview. Fauntroy said for more than a month he decided not to contact his family but to continue the mission to speak with African spiritual leaders about a movement to unify Africa despite the Arab uprisings.
"I'm still here," Fauntroy said, pointing to several parts of his body. "I've got all my fingers and toes. I'm extremely lucky to be here."
After blogs and rumors reported Fauntroy had been killed, the congressional office of Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced on Aug. 24, that she had been in touch with authorities who confirmed Fauntroy was safely in the care of the International Committee of the Red Cross.
Inside his home, Fauntroy pulled out several memoirs and notebooks to explain why he traveled to Libya at a time when it was going through civil unrest.
"This recent trip to Libya was part of a continuous mission that started under Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. when he gave me orders to join four African countries on the continent with four in the African Diaspora to restore the continent to its pre-colonial status," Fauntroy said.
"We want Africa to be the breadbasket of the world," he said. "Currently, all the major roads in every country throughout Africa lead to ports that take its natural resources and wealth outside the continent to be sold to the European markets."
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14 - 9/11 ANALYSIS: From Ronald Reagan and the Soviet-Afghan War to George W Bush and September 11, 2001
By Michel Chossudovsky
Global Research, September 9, 2010
This article summarizes earlier writings by the author on 9/11 and the role of Al Qaeda in US foreign policy. For further details see Michel Chossudovsky, America's "War on Terrorism", Global Research, 2005
"The United States spent millions of dollars to supply Afghan schoolchildren with textbooks filled with violent images and militant Islamic teachings....The primers, which were filled with talk of jihad and featured drawings of guns, bullets, soldiers and mines, have served since then as the Afghan school system's core curriculum. Even the Taliban used the American-produced books,..", (Washington Post, 23 March 2002)
"Advertisements, paid for from CIA funds, were placed in newspapers and newsletters around the world offering inducements and motivations to join the [Islamic] Jihad." (Pervez Hoodbhoy, Peace Research, 1 May 2005)
"Bin Laden recruited 4,000 volunteers from his own country and developed close relations with the most radical mujahideen leaders. He also worked closely with the CIA, ... Since September 11, [2001] CIA officials have been claiming they had no direct link to bin Laden." (Phil Gasper, International Socialist Review, November-December 2001)
Highlights
-Osama bin Laden, America's bogyman, was recruited by the CIA in 1979 at the very outset of the US sponsored jihad. He was 22 years old and was trained in a CIA sponsored guerilla training camp.
-The architects of the covert operation in support of "Islamic fundamentalism" launched during the Reagan presidency played a key role in launching the "Global War on Terrorism" in the wake of 9/11.
- President Ronald Reagan met the leaders of the Islamic Jihad at the White House in 1985
-Under the Reagan adminstration, US foreign policy evolved towards the unconditional support and endorsement of the Islamic "freedom fighters". In today's World, the "freedom fighters" are labelled "Islamic terrorists".
-In the Pashtun language, the word "Taliban" means "Students", or graduates of the madrasahs (places of learning or coranic schools) set up by the Wahhabi missions from Saudi Arabia, with the support of the CIA.
-Education in Afghanistan in the years preceding the Soviet-Afghan war was largely secular. The US covert education destroyed secular education. The number of CIA sponsored religious schools (madrasahs) increased from 2,500 in 1980 to over 39,000.
The Soviet-Afghan war was part of a CIA covert agenda initiated during the Carter administration, which consisted in actively supporting and financing the Islamic brigades, later known as Al Qaeda.
The Pakistani military regime played from the outset in the late 1970s, a key role in the US sponsored military and intelligence operations in Afghanistan. In the post-Cold war era, this central role of Pakistan in US intelligence operations was extended to the broader Central Asia- Middle East region. From the outset of the Soviet Afghan war in 1979, Pakistan under military rule actively supported the Islamic brigades. In close liaison with the CIA, Pakistan's military intelligence, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), became a powerful organization, a parallel government, wielding tremendous power and influence.
America's covert war in Afghanistan, using Pakistan as a launch pad, was initiated during the Carter administration prior to the Soviet "invasion":
"According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahideen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979. But the reality, secretly guarded until now, is completely otherwise Indeed, it was July 3, 1979 that President Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. And that very day, I wrote a note to the president in which I explained to him that in my opinion this aid was going to induce a Soviet military intervention." (Former National Security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, Interview with Le Nouvel Observateur, 15-21 January 1998)
In the published memoirs of Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who held the position of deputy CIA Director at the height of the Soviet Afghan war, US intelligence was directly involved from the outset, prior to the Soviet invasion, in channeling aid to the Islamic brigades.
With CIA backing and the funneling of massive amounts of U.S. military aid, the Pakistani ISI had developed into a "parallel structure wielding enormous power over all aspects of government". (Dipankar Banerjee, "Possible Connection of ISI With Drug Industry", India Abroad, 2 December 1994). The ISI had a staff composed of military and intelligence officers, bureaucrats, undercover agents and informers, estimated at 150,000. (Ibid)
Meanwhile, CIA operations had also reinforced the Pakistani military regime led by General Zia Ul Haq:
"Relations between the CIA and the ISI had grown increasingly warm following [General] Zia’s ouster of Bhutto and the advent of the military regime. … During most of the Afghan war, Pakistan was more aggressively anti-Soviet than even the United States. Soon after the Soviet military invaded Afghanistan in 1980, Zia [ul Haq] sent his ISI chief to destabilize the Soviet Central Asian states. The CIA only agreed to this plan in October 1984." (Ibid)
The ISI operating virtually as an affiliate of the CIA, played a central role in channeling support to Islamic paramilitary groups in Afghanistan and subsequently in the Muslim republics of the former Soviet Union.
Acting on behalf of the CIA, the ISI was also involved in the recruitment and training of the Mujahideen. In the ten year period from 1982 to 1992, some 35,000 Muslims from 43 Islamic countries were recruited to fight in the Afghan jihad. The madrassas in Pakistan, financed by Saudi charities, were also set up with US support with a view to "inculcating Islamic values". "The camps became virtual universities for future Islamic radicalism," (Ahmed Rashid, The Taliban). Guerilla training under CIA-ISI auspices included targeted assassinations and car bomb attacks.
"Weapons' shipments "were sent by the Pakistani army and the ISI to rebel camps in the North West Frontier Province near the Afghanistan border. The governor of the province is Lieutenant General Fazle Haq, who [according to Alfred McCoy] . allowed "hundreds of heroin refineries to set up in his province." Beginning around 1982, Pakistani army trucks carrying CIA weapons from Karachi often pick up heroin in Haq’s province and return loaded with heroin. They are protected from police search by ISI papers."(1982-1989: US Turns Blind Eye to BCCI and Pakistani Government Involvement in Heroin Trade See alsoMcCoy, 2003, p. 477) .
Front row, from left: Major Gen. Hamid Gul, director general of Pakistan's
Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate (ISI), Director of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Willian Webster; Deputy Director for Operations Clair George; an ISI colonel; and senior CIA official,
Milt Bearden at a mujahedeen training camp in North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan in 1987.
(source RAWA)
Osama Bin Laden
Osama bin Laden, America's bogyman, was recruited by the CIA in 1979 at the very outset of the US sponsored jihad. He was 22 years old and was trained in a CIA sponsored guerilla training camp.
During the Reagan administration, Osama, who belonged to the wealthy Saudi Bin Laden family was put in charge of raising money for the Islamic brigades. Numerous charities and foundations were created. The operation was coordinated by Saudi intelligence, headed by Prince Turki al-Faisal, in close liaison with the CIA. The money derived from the various charities were used to finance the recruitment of Mujahieen volunteers. Al Qaeda, the base in Arabic was a data bank of volunteers who had enlisted to fight in the Afghan jihad. That data base was initially held by Osama bin Laden.
The Reagan Administration supports "Islamic Fundamentalism"
Pakistan's ISI was used as a "go-between". CIA covert support to the Mujahideen in Afghanistan operated indirectly through the Pakistani ISI, --i.e. the CIA did not channel its support directly to the Mujahideen. In other words, for these covert operations to be "successful", Washington was careful not to reveal the ultimate objective of the "jihad", which consisted in destroying the Soviet Union.
In December 1984, the Sharia Law (Islamic jurisprudence) was established in Pakistan following a rigged referendum launched by President Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq. Barely a few months later, in March 1985, President Ronald Reagan issued National Security Decision Directive 166 (NSDD 166), which authorized "stepped-up covert military aid to the Mujahideen" as well a support to religious indoctrination.
The imposition of The Sharia in Pakistan and the promotion of "radical Islam" was a deliberate US policy serving American geopolitical interests in South Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East. Many present-day "Islamic fundamentalist organizations" in the Middle East and Central Asia, were directly or indirectly the product of US covert support and financing, often channeled through foundations from Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States. Missions from the Wahhabi sect of conservative Islam in Saudi Arabia were put in charge of running the CIA sponsored madrassas in Northern Pakistan.
Under NSDD 166, a series of covert CIA-ISI operations was launched.
The US supplied weapons to the Islamic brigades through the ISI. CIA and ISI officials would meet at ISI headquarters in Rawalpindi to coordinate US support to the Mujahideen. Under NSDD 166, the procurement of US weapons to the Islamic insurgents increased from 10,000 tons of arms and ammunition in 1983 to 65,000 tons annually by 1987. "In addition to arms, training, extensive military equipment including military satellite maps and state-of-the-art communications equipment" (University Wire, 7 May 2002).
Ronald Reagan meets Afghan Mujahideen Commanders at the White House in 1985 (Reagan Archives)
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With William Casey as director of the CIA, NSDD 166 was described as the largest covert operation in US history:
The U.S. supplied support package had three essential components-organization and logistics, military technology, and ideological support for sustaining and encouraging the Afghan resistance....
U.S. counterinsurgency experts worked closely with the Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) in organizing Mujahideen groups and in planning operations inside Afghanistan.
... But the most important contribution of the U.S. was to ... bring in men and material from around the Arab world and beyond. The most hardened and ideologically dedicated men were sought on the logic that they would be the best fighters. Advertisements, paid for from CIA funds, were placed in newspapers and newsletters around the world offering inducements and motivations to join the Jihad. (Pervez Hoodbhoy, Afghanistan and the Genesis of the Global Jihad, Peace Research, 1 May 2005)
Religious Indoctrination
Under NSDD 166, US assistance to the Islamic brigades channeled through Pakistan was not limited to bona fide military aid. Washington also supported and financed by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the process of religious indoctrination, largely to secure the demise of secular institutions:
... the United States spent millions of dollars to supply Afghan schoolchildren with textbooks filled with violent images and militant Islamic teachings, part of covert attempts to spur resistance to the Soviet occupation.
The primers, which were filled with talk of jihad and featured drawings of guns, bullets, soldiers and mines, have served since then as the Afghan school system's core curriculum. Even the Taliban used the American-produced books,..
The White House defends the religious content, saying that Islamic principles permeate Afghan culture and that the books "are fully in compliance with U.S. law and policy." Legal experts, however, question whether the books violate a constitutional ban on using tax dollars to promote religion.
... AID officials said in interviews that they left the Islamic materials intact because they feared Afghan educators would reject books lacking a strong dose of Muslim thought. The agency removed its logo and any mention of the U.S. government from the religious texts, AID spokeswoman Kathryn Stratos said.
"It's not AID's policy to support religious instruction," Stratos said. "But we went ahead with this project because the primary purpose . . . is to educate children, which is predominantly a secular activity."
... Published in the dominant Afghan languages of Dari and Pashtun, the textbooks were developed in the early 1980s under an AID grant to the University of Nebraska -Omaha and its Center for Afghanistan Studies. The agency spent $ 51 million on the university's education programs in Afghanistan from 1984 to 1994." (Washington Post, 23 March 2002)
The Role of the NeoCons
There is continuity. The architects of the covert operation in support of "Islamic fundamentalism" launched during the Reagan presidency played a key role in launching the "Global War on Terrorism" in the wake of 9/11.
Several of the NeoCons of the Bush Junior Administration were high ranking officials during the Reagan presidency.
Richard Armitage, was Deputy Secretary of State during George W. Bush's first term (2001-2004). He played a central key role in post 9/11 negotiations with Pakistan leading up to the October 2001 invasion of Afghanistan. During the Reagan era, he held the position of Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy. In this capacity, he played a key role in the implementation of NSDD 163 while also ensuring liaison with the Pakistani military and intelligence apparatus.
Meanwhile, Paul Wolfowitz was at the State Department in charge of a foreign policy team composed, among others, of Lewis Libby, Francis Fukuyama and Zalmay Khalilzad.
Wolfowitz's group was also involved in laying the conceptual groundwork of US covert support to Islamic parties and organizations in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Secretary of Defence Robert Gates, who now serves the Obama administration, was also involved in setting the groundwork for CIA covert operations. He was appointed Deputy Director for Intelligence by Ronald Reagan in 1982, and Deputy Director of the CIA in 1986, a position which he held until 1989. Gates played a key role in the formulation of NSDD 163, which established a consistent framework for promoting Islamic fundamentalism and channeling covert support to the Islamic brigades. He was also involved in the Iran Contra scandal. .
The Iran Contra Operation
Richard Gates, Colin Powell and Richard Armitage, among others, were also involved in the Iran-Contra operation.
Armitage was in close liaison with Colonel Oliver North. His deputy and chief anti-terrorist official Noel Koch was part of the team set up by Oliver North.
Of significance, the Iran-Contra operation was also tied into the process of channeling covert support to the Islamic brigades in Afghanistan. The Iran Contra scheme served several related foreign policy:
1) Procurement of weapons to Iran thereby feeding the Iraq-Iran war,
2) Support to the Nicaraguan Contras,
3) Support to the Islamic brigades in Afghanistan, channeled via Pakistan's ISI.
Following the delivery of the TOW anti-tank missiles to Iran, the proceeds of these sales were deposited in numbered bank accounts and the money was used to finance the Nicaraguan Contras. and the Mujahideen:
"The Washington Post reported that profits from the Iran arms sales were deposited in one CIA-managed account into which the U.S. and Saudi Arabia had placed $250 million apiece. That money was disbursed not only to the contras in Central America but to the rebels fighting Soviet troops in Afghanistan." (US News & World Report, 15 December 1986).
Although Lieutenant General Colin Powell, was not directly involved in the arms' transfer negotiations, which had been entrusted to Oliver North, he was among "at least five men within the Pentagon who knew arms were being transferred to the CIA." (The Record, 29 December 1986). In this regard, Powell was directly instrumental in giving the "green light" to lower-level officials in blatant violation of Congressional procedures. According to the New York Times, Colin Powell took the decision (at the level of military procurement), to allow the delivery of weapons to Iran:
"Hurriedly, one of the men closest to Secretary of Defense Weinberger, Maj. Gen. Colin Powell, bypassed the written ''focal point system'' procedures and ordered the Defense Logistics Agency [responsible for procurement] to turn over the first of 2,008 TOW missiles to the CIA., which acted as cutout for delivery to Iran" (New York Times, 16 February 1987)
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates was also implicated in the Iran-Contra Affair.
The Golden Crescent Drug Trade
The history of the drug trade in Central Asia is intimately related to the CIA's covert operations. Prior to the Soviet-Afghan war, opium production in Afghanistan and Pakistan was directed to small regional markets. There was no local production of heroin. (Alfred McCoy, Drug Fallout: the CIA's Forty Year Complicity in the Narcotics Trade. The Progressive, 1 August 1997).
Alfred McCoy's study confirms that within two years of the onslaught of the CIA operation in Afghanistan, "the Pakistan-Afghanistan borderlands became the world's top heroin producer." (Ibid) Various Islamic paramilitary groups and organizations were created. The proceeds of the Afghan drug trade, which was protected by the CIA, were used to finance the various insurgencies:
"Under CIA and Pakistani protection, Pakistan military and Afghan resistance opened heroin labs on the Afghan and Pakistani border. According to The Washington Post of May 1990, among the leading heroin manufacturers were Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, an Afghan leader who received about half of the covert arms that the U.S. shipped to Pakistan. Although there were complaints about Hekmatyar's brutality and drug trafficking within the ranks of the Afghan resistance of the day, the CIA maintained an uncritical alliance and supported him without reservation or restraint.
Once the heroin left these labs in Pakistan's northwest frontier, the Sicilian Mafia imported the drugs into the U.S., where they soon captured sixty percent of the U.S. heroin market. That is to say, sixty percent of the U.S. heroin supply came indirectly from a CIA operation. During the decade of this operation, the 1980s, the substantial DEA contingent in Islamabad made no arrests and participated in no seizures, allowing the syndicates a de facto free hand to export heroin. By contrast, a lone Norwegian detective, following a heroin deal from Oslo to Karachi, mounted an investigation that put a powerful Pakistani banker known as President Zia's surrogate son behind bars. The DEA in Islamabad got nobody, did nothing, stayed away.
Former CIA operatives have admitted that this operation led to an expansion of the Pakistan-Afghanistan heroin trade. In 1995 the former CIA Director of this Afghan operation, Mr. Charles Cogan, admitted sacrificing the drug war to fight the Cold War. "Our main mission was to do as much damage to the Soviets. We didn't really have the resources or the time to devote to an investigation of the drug trade," he told Australian television. "I don't think that we need to apologize for this. Every situation has its fallout. There was fallout in terms of drugs, yes, but the main objective was accomplished. The Soviets left Afghanistan." (Alfred McCoy, Testimony before the Special Seminar focusing on allegations linking CIA secret operations and drug trafficking-convened February 13, 1997, by Rep. John Conyers, Dean of the Congressional Black Caucus)
Lucrative Narcotics Trade in the Post Cold War Era
The drug trade has continued unabated during the post Cold war years. Afghanistan became the major supplier of heroin to Western markets, in fact almost the sole supplier: more than 90 percent of the heroin sold Worldwide originates in Afghanistan. This lucrative contraband is tied into Pakistani politics and the militarization of the Pakistani State. It also has a direct bearing on the structure of the Pakistani economy and its banking and financial institutions, which from the outset of the Golden Crescent drug trade have been involved in extensive money laundering operations, which are protected by the Pakistani military and intelligence apparatus:
According to the US State Department International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (2006) (quoted in Daily Times, 2 March 2006),
“Pakistani criminal networks play a central role in the transshipment of narcotics and smuggled goods from Afghanistan to international markets. Pakistan is a major drug-transit country. The proceeds of narcotics trafficking and funding for terrorist activities are often laundered by means of the alternative system called hawala. ... .
“Repeatedly, a network of private unregulated charities has also emerged as a significant source of illicit funds for international terrorist networks,” the report pointed out. ... "
The hawala system and the charities are but the tip of the iceberg. According to the State Department report, "the State Bank of Pakistan has frozen more twenty years] a meager $10.5 million "belonging to 12 entities and individuals linked to Osama bin Laden, Al Qaeda or the Taliban". What the report fails to mention is that the bulk of the proceeds of the Afghan drug trade are laundered in bona fide Western banking institutions.
The Taliban Repress the Drug Trade
A major and unexpected turnaround in the CIA sponsored drug trade occurred in 2000.
The Taliban government which came to power in 1996 with Washington's support, implemented in 2000-2001 a far-reaching opium eradication program with the support of the United Nations which served to undermine a multibillion dollar trade. (For further details see, Michel Chossudovsky, America's War on Terrorism, Global Research, 2005).
In 2001 prior to the US-led invasion, opium production under the Taliban eradication program declined by more than 90 percent.
In the immediate wake of the US led invasion, the Bush administration ordered that the opium harvest not be destroyed on the fabricated pretext that this would undermine the military government of Pervez Musharraf.
"Several sources inside Capitol Hill noted that the CIA opposes the destruction of the Afghan opium supply because to do so might destabilize the Pakistani government of Gen. Pervez Musharraf. According to these sources, Pakistani intelligence had threatened to overthrow President Musharraf if the crops were destroyed. ...
'If they [the CIA] are in fact opposing the destruction of the Afghan opium trade, it'll only serve to perpetuate the belief that the CIA is an agency devoid of morals; off on their own program rather than that of our constitutionally elected government'" .(NewsMax.com, 28 March 2002)
Since the US led invasion, opium production has increased 33 fold from 185 tons in 2001 under the Taliban to 6100 tons in 2006. Cultivated areas have increased 21 fold since the 2001 US-led invasion. (Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, 6 January 2006)
In 2007, Afghanistan supplied approximately 93% of the global supply of heroin. The proceeds (in terms of retail value) of the Afghanistan drug trade are estimated (2006) to be in excess of 190 billion dollars a year, representing a significant fraction of the global trade in narcotics.(Ibid)
The proceeds of this lucrative multibillion dollar contraband are deposited in Western banks. Almost the totality of the revenues accrue to corporate interests and criminal syndicates outside Afghanistan.
The laundering of drug money constitutes a multibillion dollar activity, which continues to be protected by the CIA and the ISI. In the wake of the 2001 US invasion of Afghanistan.
In retrospect, one of the major objectives of the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan was to restore the drug trade.
The militarization of Pakistan serves powerful political, financial and criminal interests underlying the drug trade. US foreign policy tends to support these powerful interests. The CIA continues to protect the Golden Crescent narcotics trade. Despite his commitment to eradicating the drug trade, opium production under the regime of Afghan President Hamid Karzai has skyrocketed.
The Assassination of General Zia Ul-Haq
In August 1988, President Zia was killed in an air crash together with US Ambassador to Pakistan Arnold Raphel and several of Pakistan's top generals. The circumstances of the air crash remain shrouded in mystery.
Following Zia's death, parliamentary elections were held and Benazir Bhutto was sworn in as Prime Minister in December 1988. She was subsequently removed from office by Zia's successor, President Ghulam Ishaq Khan on the grounds of alleged corruption. In 1993, she was re-elected and was again removed from office in 1996 on the orders of President Farooq Leghari.
Continuity has been maintained throughout. Under the short-lived post-Zia elected governments of Nawaz Sharif and Benazir Bhutto, the central role of the military-intelligence establishment and its links to Washington were never challenged.
Both Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif served US foreign policy interests. While in power, both democratically elected leaders, nonetheless supported the continuity of military rule. As prime minister from 1993 to 1996, Benazir Bhutto "advocated a conciliatory policy toward Islamists, especially the Taliban in Afghanistan" which were being supported by Pakistan's ISI (See F. William Engdahl, Global Research, January 2008)
Benazir Bhutto's successor as Prime Minister, Mia Muhammad Nawaz Sharif of the Pakistan Muslim League (PML) was deposed in 1999 in a US supported coup d'Etat led by General Pervez Musharraf.
The 1999 coup was instigated by General Pervez Musharaf, with the support of the Chief of General Staff, Lieutenant General Mahmoud Ahmad, who was subsequently appointed to the key position of head of military intelligence (ISI).
From the outset of the Bush administration in 2001, General Ahmad developed close ties not only with his US counterpart CIA director George Tenet, but also with key members of the US government including Secretary of State Colin Powell, Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, not to mention Porter Goss, who at the time was Chairman of the House Committee on Intelligence. Ironically, Mahmoud Ahmad is also known, according to a September 2001 FBI report, for his suspected role in supporting and financing the alleged 9/11 terrorists as well as his links to Al Qaeda and the Taliban. (See Michel Chossudovsky, America's "war on Terrorism, Global Research, Montreal, 2005)
Concluding Remarks
These various "terrorist" organizations were created as a result of CIA support. They are not the product of religion. The project to establish "a pan-Islamic Caliphate" is part of a carefully devised intelligence operation.
CIA support to Al Qaeda was not in any way curtailed at the end of the Cold War. In fact quite the opposite. The earlier pattern of covert support took on a global thrust and became increasingly sophisticated.
The "Global War on Terrorism" is a complex and intricate intelligence construct. The covert support provided to "Islamic extremist groups" is part of an imperial agenda. It purports to weaken and eventually destroy secular and civilian governmental institutions, while also contributing to vilifying Islam. It is an instrument of colonization which seeks to undermine sovereign nation-states and transform countries into territories.
For the intelligence operation to be successful, however, the various Islamic organizations created and trained by the CIA must remain unaware of the role they are performing on the geopolitical chessboard, on behalf of Washington.
Over the years, these organizations have indeed acquired a certain degree of autonomy and independence, in relation to their US-Pakistani sponsors. That appearance of "independence", however, is crucial; it is an integral part of the covert intelligence operation. According to former CIA agent Milton Beardman the Mujahideen were invariably unaware of the role they were performing on behalf of Washington. In the words of bin Laden (quoted by Beardman): "neither I, nor my brothers saw evidence of American help". (Weekend Sunday (NPR); Eric Weiner, Ted Clark; 16 August 1998).
"Motivated by nationalism and religious fervor, the Islamic warriors were unaware that they were fighting the Soviet Army on behalf of Uncle Sam. While there were contacts at the upper levels of the intelligence hierarchy, Islamic rebel leaders in theatre had no contacts with Washington or the CIA." (Michel Chossudovsky, America's War on Terrorism, Chapter 2).
The fabrication of "terrorism" --including covert support to terrorists-- is required to provide legitimacy to the "war on terrorism".
The various fundamentalist and paramilitary groups involved in US sponsored "terrorist" activities are "intelligence assets". In the wake of 9/11, their designated function as "intelligence assets" is to perform their role as credible "enemies of America".
Under the Bush administration, the CIA continued to support (via Pakistan's ISI) several Pakistani based Islamic groups. The ISI is known to support Jamaat a-Islami, which is also present in South East Asia, Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, Jehad a-Kashmiri, Hizbul-Mujahidin and Jaish-e-Mohammed.
The Islamic groups created by the CIA are also intended to rally public support in Muslim countries. The underlying objective is to create divisions within national societies throughout the Middle East and Central Asia, while also triggering sectarian strife within Islam, ultimately with a view to curbing the development of a broad based secular mass resistance, which would challenge US imperial ambitions.
This function of an outside enemy is also an essential part of war propaganda required to galvanize Western public opinion. Without an enemy, a war cannot be fought. US foreign policy needs to fabricate an enemy, to justify its various military interventions in the Middle East and Central Asia. An enemy is required to justify a military agenda, which consists in " going after Al Qaeda". The fabrication and vilification of the enemy are required to justify military action.
The existence of an outside enemy sustains the illusion that the "war on terrorism" is real. It justifies and presents military intervention as a humanitarian operation based on the right to self-defense. It upholds the illusion of a "conflict of civilizations". The underlying purpose ultimately is to conceal the real economic and strategic objectives behind the broader Middle East Central Asian war.
Historically, Pakistan has played a central role in "war on terrorism". Pakistan constitutes from Washington's standpoint a geopolitical hub. It borders onto Afghanistan and Iran. It has played a crucial role in the conduct of US and allied military operations in Afghanistan as well as in the context of the Pentagon's war plans in relation to Iran.
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15 - Libya Occupied by the NATO Invaders
By Iftekhar A Khan
Global Research, September 11, 2011
News International (Pakistan)
-If each strike delivered four bombs or missiles per run, more than 30,000 bombs would have levelled buildings, killed and maimed innocent Libyan men, women and children.
-Wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and now in Libya have introduced a new trend of embedded journalism. All reports by the embedded journalists are carefully vetted before going public.
-Qaddafi was held in higher esteem than, say, the Khalifa of Bahrain and its hated prime minister of forty years. The genuine public uprising, mainly by Bahrain’s seventy percent Shiites, was ruthlessly crushed while the rebellion in Libya was not only encouraged but actively supported by Nato air power.
The pulling down of Saddam Hussein’s statue in Baghdad in 2003 and Muammar Qaddafi’s in Tripoli in 2011 have a striking similarity: it was “angry people” who carried out the destruction in both cases. When imperial powers want to change regimes, they find a large number of “angry” people willing to cooperate with them against their own governments.
The invaders, however, have an excuse for invasion so that they can satisfy the people of their own countries. Afghanistan was invaded to “save America from terrorism and to protect American values and freedoms” abhorred by the Taliban. Iraq had to be occupied for the neutralisation of its alleged weapons of mass destructions. In Libya, the grounds for invasion are equally moral and humanitarian, not strategic or materialistic. It is not that the oil giants, Britain’s Shell and France’s Total, had been drooling over Libyan oil: it just happens that the country’s oil region is now effectively under the control of British and French troops.
Chris Cork’s piece “A country awakes” (Sept 6) has further elucidated how the Libyan people have won their freedom from a tyrant. He asserted that “Libyans fought the ground war themselves (albeit with some sturdy support from the coalition of the willing) and want to keep the soldiering a local enterprise.” Yes, the insurrection is a local venture, though it’s another matter that the MI6 boys had penetrated deep inside Libya to foment the uprising. It’s also another matter that foreign mercenaries were brought in to fight government forces.
In reality, Qaddafi’s government couldn’t have been brought down without the Nato bombing campaign led mainly by American, British and French air forces. About 20,000 sorties, with more than 7,500 strikes so far, have gone against ground targets in Libya, as reported by veteran Canadian journalist Patrick Martin in a recent despatch. If each strike delivered four bombs or missiles per run, more than 30,000 bombs would have levelled buildings, killed and maimed innocent Libyan men, women and children. This is what Chris Cork calls “some sturdy support from the coalition of the willing.”
It’s in place to quote an analysis by Britain’s Second Line of Defence (SLD) in its report about Operation Ellamy in Libya that confirms that “the UK’s pace of operations has been averaging £3-5 million per day on a gross basis. It brings running operational costs for weekly air operations to £20-35 million, and monthly to £80-140 million, bringing the cost of operations since March 19 to £300-525 million”– to mention only Britain. Some “local enterprise,” this.
The irony is that imperial powers never allow independent journalists to report from the war front. Wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and now in Libya have introduced a new trend of embedded journalism. All reports by the embedded journalists are carefully vetted before going public. Therefore, people in the US and Europe can only read what is intended for them. That is one reason why, according to a poll, almost thirty percent of Americans prefer to glean news and commentaries from alternative forums on the Internet than to depend on their mainstream media.
Among the countries that have contributed towards the Nato operations in Libya by providing aircraft and troops are Turkey, Jordan, Qatar and the UAE. Should the king of Jordan and the emirs of Qatar and the UAE not have questioned themselves what type of dictator they were trying to topple in Libya and how he was different from them? Qaddafi was held in higher esteem than, say, the Khalifa of Bahrain and its hated prime minister of forty years. The genuine public uprising, mainly by Bahrain’s seventy percent Shiites, was ruthlessly crushed while the rebellion in Libya was not only encouraged but actively supported by Nato air power.
Tailpiece: Mr Cork, how do you discriminate between Tony Blair’s claim about Saddam’s WMDs and David Cameron’s about Qaddafi killing his own people? Is it not intriguing that both Iraq and Libya overflow with high-quality oil?
The writer is a freelance columnist based in Lahore.
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16 - QE 3 and Toxic Assets : The Fed's "Monetary Ammunition"
By Bob Chapman
Global Research, September 11, 2011
Many people believe the Jackson Hole was a non-event, a failure and it was. QE 3 was not announced, as we predicted. We believe that was being saved for mid-September when the $300 billion rollover in Treasury securities is completed. Mr. Bernanke has failed in a number of respects, the most glaring being zero interest rates for 2-years and no housing recovery.
Even purchasing $1.3 trillion in toxic mortgages has only helped the banks. We still do not know what the Fed paid and what these bonds are worth. No matter what happens the Fed has to again purchase about $900 billion more Treasuries this new upcoming fiscal year. There is no way to avoid that and if they have to buy Agencies and more toxic bonds the figures will be higher. Auction failures cannot be tolerated. This will, of course, increase inflation in 2013 and 2014. Sales to consumers and profits will fall as a result.
Not so fast, the Fed still has more monetary ammunition most people haven’t thought about and it lying on its books. It is the funds that belong to member banks, some $2 trillion that banks have been refusing to put to work. We mentioned the beginning of the movement of these funds from the Fed to the banks just recently. Will this persist? We do not know, but we think it will.
It is a natural answer to the funding problem, they perhaps had been deliberately held in abeyance. We believe this could in part solve the liquidity problem over the next year or more. The Fed has sent the word out to the banks. It is time to employ our secret weapon. As a result in July and August we saw what is tantamount to monetary stimulus, and do not forget this is monetization, money that has not as yet flowed into the system. That means its usage will be inflationary.
Heretofore, these funds were deliberately withheld from the system to be used at the perfect time. There were plenty of borrowers, but the banks did not lend, because they were told to wait for the right moment. The unleashing of these funds leveraged into the fractional banking system will cause damage and inflation, but they will provide temporary assistance to a failing economy. The Fed also needed some relief as their balance sheet grew close to 25%. The combination of Fed spending for treasuries, bank lending and perhaps some government spending, should reinvigorate the economy temporarily over the next year. Unemployment should decline slightly and consumption and personal debt should grow. We think Mr. Bernanke’s plan will fall far short, because like in the 1930s too much structural damage has taken place. Demand for goods and services will grow, but not as much as anticipated and as long as desired. This unfortunately leads to disruption within the system for no other reason than the previous systemic damage visited upon the economy. We are about to see a respite but not a permanent solution. America is headed for 2nd or 3rd world status and the Fed is trying to get us there as soon as possible.
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17 - THE SATANIST ENTITY NEWS
Israeli Army Targeting Jenin’s Freedom Theatre
aletho | September 8, 2011 URL:http://wp.me/pIUmC-82t
Matthew Eskin for the Alternative Information Center | September 8, 2011
In the past six weeks, the Jenin Freedom Theatre, still recovering from the unsolved 4 April murder of its co-founder and mentor, Juliano Mer-Khamis, has faced a new stumbling block: the Israeli military.
First, at 3:30 in the morning on 27 July,Israeli soldiers arrived at the Freedom Theatre to arrest Adnan Naghnaghiye, Location Manager of the Theatre, and Bilal Saadi, chairperson of the Theatre’s Board of Directors in Jenin. Soldiers further threw stones and huge blocks of concrete at the building, shattering several windows. In the Theatre’s press release, night guard Ahmad Nasser Matahen relates how “they told me to open the door to the theatre. They told me to raise my hands and forced me to take my pants down. I thought my time had come, that they would kill me.” When General Manager Jacob Gough and Theatre co-founder Jonatan Stanczak arrived on the scene, they were “forced at gunpoint to squat next to a family with four small children surrounded by approximately 50 heavily armed Israeli soldiers. Whenever we tried to tell them that they are attacking a cultural venue and arresting members of the theatre,” adds Jonatan, we were told to shut up and they threatened to kick us, I tried to contact the civil administration of the army to clarify the matter but the person in charge hung up on me.”
Adnan and Bilal were detained without charges for almost a month, denied access to a lawyer for over two weeks, and subjected to beatings and sleep deprivation, all as part of a supposed investigation into the murder of Juliano Mer-Khamis.
Then, on 6 August, Rami Awni Hwayel, a 20-year old acting student who currently holds a lead role in the theatre’s adaption of Waiting for Godot, was handcuffed, blindfolded, and taken away by the Israeli army at the Shave Shomeron checkpoint between Nablus and Jenin. Though the army quickly determined he had nothing to do with Juliano’s murder, he was held for a month pending investigation of a confession, extracted during interrogation, that he had illegally sought employment in Israel for 10 days many years ago. In an open letter to the Israeli Embassy in London, Jacob Gough relates how at a court hearing on 17 August, the military judge “stated that the police and army were wrong to have picked up Rami and spent this time as they have on this matter, and that Rami obviously has no connection to the murder of Juliano, however, in what just seems to be an attempt to 'save face', the Israeli authorities are looking to imprison him under the aforementioned charge.” The army usually punishes perpetrators of this ‘crime’ by sending them back across the border; for Rami, who, like Adnan and Bilal, was initially held for over two weeks without a lawyer, it will now be more difficult than it usually is for a resident of Jenin refugee camp to secure a visa to tour Waiting for Godot throughout America this September.
Finally, at 2am on 22 August, the Israeli army arrived in Jenin, surrounded the Theatre and entered the home of the Nagnaghiye family, where they beat and arrested Mohammed, theatre security guard and brother of Adnan. They also ransacked and trashed all three floors of the Nagnaghiye family home: “Furniture was thrown to the floor and broken, and there was even dog excrement on the floor. The army also took another three residents of the camp on the same night.”
The stated reason for all of these arrests is an Israeli investigation into the unsolved murder of Juliano Mer-Khamis. However, in an interview given on 3 September, Jacob Gough related that “initially [the army] gave the normal rubbish excuses, like 'they’re acting against the security of the region'. We then found out they are supposedly doing an investigation into the murder of Juliano. But then I don’t count investigations where you kidnap people and treat them inhumanely, treat them to sleep deprivation- for a week they didn't sleep- and then you try to get them to confess. Like this they work. That's not an investigation, that's trying to pin it on somebody.”
Indeed, Jacob says in an Open Letter to the Israeli Security Apparatus that “in every one of [Bilal’s] court hearings so far, when the Israeli security services have requested an extension of detention, it has been noted in court documents that no information pertaining to the murder of Juliano has been gained from interrogation”, and that “on Sunday 14 August Adnan was in court for another extension of detention, [and] the judge gave the security services an additional 8 days but stated that they needed to wrap the interrogation up as they have not gained much from this time before.”
In addition, the inhumane treatment inflicted on the detainees casts doubt on the real motives of the Israeli army. On 22 August, the same day that Mohammed Nagnaghiye was taken, the two men detained on 27 July - Mohammed’s brother Adnan and Bilal Saadi- were released with no charges filed against them. In the open letter to the Israeli Embassy, Jacob relates that “finally after 2 weeks [Bilal’s] lawyer was allowed access to him...he told her that they had treated him 'inhumanely'. As of now we only know that they were using disorientation techniques (he had no idea whether it was night or day) and whilst having him shackled painfully and after denying him food for a long period of time they then put food in front of him, obviously with no possible way for him to eat with dignity.” Adnan had been “in much a similar position to Bilaal, but spent 16 days without access to a lawyer.”
Israel also appears to be deliberately impeding the movement of Freedom Theatre actors in and out of the West Bank. In our interview last Saturday at the Theatre, Jacob related that members of Rami’s theatre troupe, which plans to tour Waiting for Godot through America in September, “have all had to have visa application meetings with the American consulate. The American consulate doesn't come to the West Bank, so these students have to go to Jerusalem and Jordan. Jerusalem is a lot easier. In the past these students have never had problems getting to Jerusalem, and suddenly- stopped. None of these children can go, they are all perceived as a security threat.” In a phone interview on 5 September, Jacob reiterated that “there is no doubt in my mind that this is related [to the army’s arrests]...it all occurred at exactly the same time...[this is] another part of the Israeli army crackdown. I’m sure it’s connected.”
In the Jenin refugee camp “there is fear, fear of being associated with the theatre, [because] we have had someone killed, lots of people arrested...”. But fear seems to be a common factor on both sides of the equation. “After Juliano's death”, Jacob explains, “it was shown how much support the Freedom Theatre has in the world, and not just people. Politicians, organizations, media as well...[one] of the most dangerous things for Israel, is showing that places like the Freedom Theatre can reach really far...we've had the actor's union in Britain, actors’ unions in America, France, Germany- the Parliament in Britain, France, Germany, Sweden, at least- Congressmen in America as well- people phoning the Israeli embassies and sending them letters all the time, asking what's happening, what are you doing to the Freedom Theatre. The Israeli embassies started sending back replies, which I've never seen before! I've never seen the Israeli embassy reply to these kinds of letters, they just go whatever...we don't care. It feels like we're hitting a nerve, and we try to harness that.”
On 1 August , the General Secretary of Equity, the trade union representing 36,500 UK based performers, actors and creative workers, wrote to the Israeli Embassy in London to ask why the Freedom Theatre’s “location manager, Adnan Naghnaghiye, and Board member, Bilal Saadi, “are currently being detained following an attack on the theatre”. The letter concludes that “as an organisation which campaigns for freedom of expression, we are obviously very distressed about these reports. I therefore urge you to ensure that the individuals concerned are released immediately and safely returned to Jenin.”
Two weeks later, on 16 August, Equity received a reply from the Israeli Embassy. Citing the murder of Mer-Khamis, the letter states that “the authorities have instigated profound and comprehensive investigations which led them to the arrest you mention in your letter. Although we are aware that damage to the property was caused during the arrest, this was not intentional.”
In his open letter to the Israeli Embassy, Jacob replies that “though it is good of the ambassador to admit damage was caused to the theatre, to say throwing rocks at windows is unintentional is not just wrong, but also a lie. Anyhow, even unintentional harm/damage is at the very least negligent.” An even more curious lapse on the Israeli Embassy’s part, however, is that they ignored completely Equity’s complaint regarding the arrests of Adnan and Bilal, and instead spoke of the arrest of Rami, which was not even mentioned in Equity’s letter and which had nothing to do with ‘damage to the property’ of the theatre, because it occurred far from the theatre! Through this strategic move, the Embassy seeks to deflect attention away from the army’s mistreatment of Adnan and Bilal, and onto “[Rami’s] involvement in a number of other unsolved crimes”- the heinous crimes, namely, involved in crossing the Green Line briefly to bring a little money back to his impoverished refugee camp.
If Rami and his classmates are able to tour ‘Waiting for Godot’ through the US this September, “the hope”, says Jacob in his reply to the Embassy, “is [that] they will manage to get offers of scholarships to continue their training, a rare opportunity and ray of light for these youth who have spent their whole lives under occupation...This whole farce of court proceedings puts this trip for [Rami] in a very precarious position and further works to undermine the work of The Freedom Theatre, which I would say seems to be more the goal of the Israeli authorities than a genuine investigation into the murder of our friend and leader, Juliano Mer Khamis.”
When Juliano founded the Freedom Theatre in Jenin in 2006, he hoped to use performance and art to show to the world a Palestinian people and their vibrant, creative culture and self-identity. In April 2006, four years after the Battle of Jenin, in which 15-20% of the camp’s infrastructure was destroyed by the Israeli army, Mer-Khamis said in an interview with author Arthur Nelsen in London that "in Jenin – especially in Jenin – something is happening, in the good sense of the word. There is a universalist discourse, an international happening...an international campaign around a new kind of resistance...we want to be part of this third Intifada which is on the way in a way to hopefully influence at least some of the people in Jenin camp, towards non-violent, cultural international resistance."
The Freedom Theatre’s hope remains that, after the violent suppression of the first two Intifadas, a successful Palestinian revolution today must revitalize Palestinian culture and self-identity, and inspire international recognition not merely of a Palestinian state and governing power, but first and foremost of a Palestinian people. On 4 April 2005, one year before the founding of the Freedom Theatre, Juliano said that “we are facing the end of the destruction of the Palestinian people by the Israeli forces. We are in a situation today where not only the political and the economic infrastructure are destroyed, the Israelis are destroying the neurological system of the society, which is culture, identity, communication. We felt that creating a project which will deal with the arts, with cinema, with theatre, with the media activities, computers, web sites, is the best way to fight this deconstruction of the identity of the Palestinian, which is deliberately done in the last year by the Israelis. Israel is pushing back the Palestinian people into the Stone Age...communicating with the outside world, bringing people from the outside world, breaking the wall down, if not physically, metaphorically- is creating the grounds for hope. We cannot bring hope, hope- we cannot bring it in a sack or a package. We can create the grounds so people can build up hope, and this is our task today, to create the grounds for those children.”
In the face of Israeli army harassment, Jenin’s Freedom Theatre has received an outpouring of support, both internationally and within Palestine. In addition to the ferocious and impassioned letter-writing campaign, it has received many donations from abroad to support increasing legal fees.
Additionally, most recent events may indicate that, in response to international pressure, the army is relaxing its crackdown on the Theatre. Mohammed Nagnaghiye, who was arrested on 22 August, received a 15-day extension of his arrest on the 29th, but was then unexpectedly released on 3 September. He did not report any abuse at the hands of the army, and was quickly allowed access to a lawyer. In addition, two technicians at the Theatre, Mohammed Saadi and Ahmad Matahen, along with an acting student, Momeen Syatat, were told to hand themselves in to the Salem military base outside of Jenin by 1 September. The Theatre wrote on its website, “to walk into the arms of the Israeli security service quite often means disappearing from the surface of the earth, never knowing when you will come back and knowing that you are most certainly facing harsh treatment. We demand that Mohammed, Ahmad, and Momeen be treated no worse and no better than any Israeli citizen brought in to participate in a civil criminal investigation. Their legal rights, as stipulated by international law, must be honoured.”
Thankfully, all three residents of Jenin refugee camp were simply asked a few questions, and then released. Over the phone on 4 September, Jacob noted that “the pressure that the theatre put on and that our friends around the world put on, seems to have made a difference. Otherwise the army would’ve kept acting the way it usually does…They even said to some of the guys who went the other day ‘we like the Freedom Theatre, we support the Freedom Theatre!’”
Indeed, at strategic moments Israel does claim to support the Freedom Theatre. Juliano was, after all, an Israeli citizen and well-known Israeli actor; in addition, token gestures of goodwill towards Palestinian arts initiatives bolster Israel’s public image. In reply to Equity’s letter, the Israeli Embassy in London spoke of how “Mr Juliano Mer-Khamis, the director of the theatre, was shot and killed in his car by masked terrorists...Mr. Mer-Khamis...taught alternatives to violence to Jenin’s youth...following his death, the Israeli authorities took it upon themselves to solve his murder and bring his murderers to trial.” In his open reply to the Embassy, however, Jacob retorts that “as there is no evidence or lead or knowledge of who may have committed this attack, it is rather presumptuous of the Israeli Embassy to say it was a Palestinian. Likewise we don't comment on any theories that it may have been an Israeli...Juliano [son of an Israeli mother and a Palestinian father] was a symbol of co-operation that served very well to show that Jewish-Israelis can live and work with Palestinians, something many far-right Zionists would not like to see...”
In addition, though he taught alternatives to violence, Juliano never tried to teach alternatives to resistance- throughout his life he remained unequivocally opposed to the Israeli occupation of Palestine. As he said in 2006, shortly after the founding of the Theatre, "What we [are] doing in the theatre is not trying to be a replacement or an alternative to the resistance of the Palestinians in the struggle for liberation. Just the opposite. This must be clear...We are joining, by all means, the struggle for liberation of the Palestinian people, which is our liberation struggle.”
It is this commitment to resistance that motivates Israel to crack down on the Freedom Theatre. As the Theatre continues, in the memory of Juliano, to support the struggle for the revitalization of the Palestinian people, it remains to be seen whether the Israeli powers will continue to impede its progress.
Iran Responds to Sarkozy Threats, Vows to Hit Back at Any Attack
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Al-Manar | September 9, 2011
The Islamic Republic of Iran warned on Thursday it would not hesitate to hit back following any foreign attack on its soil.
In a formal complaint to the United Nations over a warning from French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Iran's UN ambassador said in a letter to UN leaders that his country would "not hesitate to act in self-defense to respond to any attack against the Iranian nation."
Sarkozy said last week that Iran's "military, nuclear and ballistic ambitions constitute a growing threat that may lead to a preventive attack against Iranian sites that would provoke a major crisis that France wants to avoid at all costs".
Iran would "take appropriate defensive measures to protect itself", ambassador Mohammad Khazaee told UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and the Security Council. The envoy also described Sarkozy’s remarks as “inflammatory and baseless allegations”.
Khazaee again denied the charge that his country was seeking a nuclear weapon. "Iran is a leading nation in rejecting and opposing all kinds of weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear weapons," said Khazaee. "Moreover I wish to reiterate my government's position that the Islamic Republic of Iran has no intention to attack any other nations."
In an August 31 speech to French ambassadors, Sarkozy said that Iran “refuses to negotiate seriously" and declared that France would work with its allies to build support for tougher international sanctions. However, he did not say which country might carry out the preventive attack.
Israel's Lieberman 'plans to punish Turkey'
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The foreign minister is said to be preparing a series of 'harsh measures' in response to Turkey`s reaction to a controversial UN report
Ma'an - 09/09/2011
TEL AVIV, Israel -- Israel's foreign ministry has prepared a series of "harsh measures" to "punish" Turkey's leadership for diplomatic slights, Israeli media reported Friday.
Israel will facilitate cooperation with the Armenians, Turkey's historic rivals, and may even lobby for international recognition of the Armenian holocaust, the Hebrew-language daily Yedioth Ahronoth reported.
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman is also planning to meet with Kurdish rebels in Europe in order to “cooperate with them and boost them in every possible area,” Yedioth's English website said.
"We’ll exact a price from Erdogan that will prove to him that messing with Israel doesn’t pay off," Lieberman was quoted as saying. "Turkey better treat us with respect and common decency."
Another means in Lieberman’s “toolbox,” according to the news site Ynet, is a diplomatic campaign where Israeli missions worldwide will be instructed to report Turkish moves against minorities.
The diplomatic crisis between Turkey and Israel that was sparked by the flotilla raid took a turn for the worse in the last week, following publication of a UN probe into the incident, which found Israel's naval blockade to be legal although it chastised Israel for using "excessive" force in the raid.
Israel has so far refused to apologize for the bloodshed and called the report's conclusions a vindication of its stance, deeply angering Turkey.
Turkey responded to the report by expelling Israel's ambassador, suspending military agreements with Israel and warning it was considering lodging a legal case against Israel at the International Criminal Court.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, meanwhile, vowed to accompany any future aid flotillas to Gaza with naval warships, Al Jazeera television quoted him as saying Thursday. ... Full article
THE PAYROLL TAX CUT: Talk about a Ponzi Scheme!
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By Gwendolyn Mink | Social Justice | September 9, 2011
Is President Obama trying to kill Social Security without explicitly saying so? He put Social Security "on the table" for consideration by his Deficit Commission -- even though Social Security has not contributed to creating or sustaining the deficit/debt in the first place. He kept Social Security on the table when he made a deal to delegate deficit reduction authority over entitlements to an undemocratic Super Committee. Now, in a speech reportedly about jobs, he proposed to extend and increase the ill-considered FICA tax cut he embraced last December -- a tax cut that directly undermines the financial integrity of Social Security.
According to the White House Fact Sheet on "The American Jobs Act" the FICA tax holiday for workers will be increased to a 50% reduction, lowering it to 3.1%. Under the 2010 tax deal, the payroll tax for workers was reduced from 6.2% to 4.2%. In addition to expanding the tax cut for workers, the President proposes to extend the FICA tax holiday to employers by cutting in half the employer's share of the payroll tax through the first $5 million in payroll.
Big questions about the wisdom, efficacy, and implications of a tax-based jobs strategy need to be debated. Even bigger questions about the consequences of the payroll tax holiday in particular need to be answered. These questions are not just about the relationship between payroll tax cuts and job growth. They are about the future of Social Security.
The FICA/payroll tax goes into the Social Security Trust Fund. This is a dedicated fund currently worth $2.6 trillion, which has been built up over time through employee and employer contributions, along with accrued interest. Current and future Social Security beneficiaries receive benefits from this fund. No general revenues are involved, except for administrative and clerical costs.
Under the payroll tax cut initiated in the 2010 lame duck tax deal, the revenue loss to the Trust Fund from the payroll tax holiday is made up through compensatory payments into the Trust Fund from general revenues. The President proposes to continue this scheme -- deepening a relationship between Social Security and general revenues (read deficit) that did not exist until the December 2010 tax deal. This will make Social Security increasingly vulnerable to demands for "reform."
In the worst case, Congress could choose to enact the payroll tax cut without actually appropriating revenue compensation for the Trust Fund. This would mean that the payroll tax cut directly depletes the Trust Fund, creating financial/actuarial problems far sooner than the currently anticipated shortfall date of 2036.
But even if the Trust Fund receives full revenue compensation -- for both employer and employee contributions -- Social Security will be jeopardized. That's because the resources in the Trust Fund will be increasingly co-mingled with general revenue funds -- and, hence, increasingly connected to the deficit.
If the government can't pay back Social Security money it has borrowed to pay for other things (through IOUs, bonds, etc), it certainly won't be shy about cutting Social Security to pay itself back for funds it shared with Social Security to offset revenue losses from the payroll tax holiday.
Also worth worrying about here is contagious political cowardice about "raising taxes." The payroll tax holiday is framed as just that -- a holiday, ie, a short-lived break. But as we know from other tax cuts with built-in expiration dates, the planned end of a tax cut quickly becomes a "tax increase" in popular parlance. There hasn't been much resolve to allow the years-long tax holiday for the rich to end. When the time comes, will there be greater resolve to allow an end to the 2-year tax holiday for workers and 1-year tax holiday for employers? Even when billed as a "middle class tax increase" and a "job-killing tax on business"?
Once the payroll tax basis of Social Security financing has been corrupted the future of Social Security will no longer be in doubt. It won't have one.
SOUTH HEBRON HILLS: Israeli military demolishes homes and bathroom in Umm al Kheer
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CPTnet | 10 September 2011
The Israeli army demolished three dwellings and a bathroom in the Palestinian village of Umm al Kheer early in the morning of 8 September 2011. According to UN field workers at the sight, the demolitions left eight adults and sixteen children homeless.
The Israeli army and the District Coordinating Office arrived at the village of Umm al Kheer around 7:00 a.m. and declared it a closed military zone, preventing Palestinians and internationals from entering the area. The army then used a backhoe and a bulldozer to demolish the three homes and the bathroom. According to villagers, one of the destroyed homes was a tent donated by Oxfam. The other two were metal shacks purchased and built by the residents. The villagers said that this was the second time that the military demolished the homes of the families living in the metal shacks.
All of the destroyed structures had existing demolition orders, but according to people from the village, the military arrived with a demolition order that was not for the three homes and the toilet, but rather for a taboun oven in the village. The military originally wanted to destroy the taboun oven three days earlier, but a lawyer representing the village succeeded in getting a two-day stay on the demolition order. The military did not demolish the taboun oven.
Villagers said that in addition to the four structures demolished on 8 September, there are twelve additional structures with demolition orders, eight of which are homes.
“This [has been] done many times here in Umm al Kheer, and it’s catastrophic,” said a resident of the village who, due to fear of retribution from the Israeli government, wished to be referred to only as Suleiman. “The toilet, it doesn’t make problems for Israeli security, the tent does not make problems for Israeli security, and neither does this house, in which, inside, live twelve kids. How will these kids live? How will these kids sleep tonight? How can we explain the truth to these kids? Maybe these kids will grow up with fear. They must think about that.”
Umm Al Kheer is a Bedouin village in C area (under Israeli civil and military administration) built in the 1950s. It borders the Israeli settlement of Karmel (considered illegal under international law) established from the 1980s. The village routinely experiences harassment from the Israeli military and Israeli settlers.
The demolition is part of a clear strategy to push the Bedouins away from the area around the settlement. In October 2008, the Israeli army demolished ten house-tents in order to clear the area for expansion of the Karmel settlement. The demolitions left sixty people homeless. In July 2009, some toilets were destroyed too, because the Israeli Civil Administration considered them illegal.
Operation Dove and Christian Peacemaker Teams have maintained an international presence in At-Tuwani and South Hebron Hills since 2004.
Israel Targets Vittorio Arrigone School in Embattled Jordan Valley
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By Matthew Eskin | Alternative Information Center | September 11, 2011
As schools around the world begin another year of instruction, one school, near to completion in one of the most grief-stricken and resilient areas of occupied Palestine, has suffered a massive set-back because the Israeli military has carried away its infrastructure- the Vittorio Arrigone school, in the small village of Ras Al Auja in the Jordan Valley.
Israeli soldiers confiscate and take away a donated caravan that was to serve as a classroom (Photo: Jordan Valley Solidarity Campaign)
The Arrigoni school, named after the Italian International Solidarity Movement activist killed in Gaza this April, began in February as a small tent school in the village of Ras Al Auja, and began evolving into a more permanent mud-brick and caravan structure in April. Built jointly by the Ras Al Auja community and the activist group Jordan Valley Solidarity, the school, once built, will educate young children up to the age of 13 in one of the areas of the West Bank hardest hit by the Israeli occupation. From the time that Israel seized control of the area in 1967 until the present, the resident Palestinian population has decreased from 320,000 residents to 56,000, as 36 primarily agricultural Israeli settlements, housing 6,400 settlers, have been constructed on 50% of the Jordan Valley’s land.
Ras Al Auja is a Bedouin community seven km west of the larger community of Al Auja. Both serve as paradigmatic examples of the devastating impact of Israeli occupation on Bedouin in the Jordan Valley. Until Israel’s occupation, Al Auja was for millennia an oasis, famous for its ever-flowing spring. As it says on the website of Jordan Valley Solidarity, “people would come to Al Auja from all over to swim, fish and sit among the banana groves that once grew there.” In 1972, the Israeli water company Mekorot, which has monopolized the West Bank water, dug two deep water wells in Al Auja, cutting off the flow of water before it reached the village. “These wells lowered the water table, drying out the spring. Today the area is a desert, crossed with dried-up canals that see water one or two weeks every year during the rainy season.”
As is commonplace for the larger West Bank Bedouin communities, families must use tractors and mobile water tanks to bring water to their homes and villages, at considerable personal expense. The estimated amount of water that one Palestinian in the Valley consumes per day, for drinking as well as all other activities, is some 70 litres. Jordan Valley settlers, on the other hand, enjoy free access to water and, from the comfort of their heavily subsidized, modern settlement homes, individually consume about 33 times as much water as their Palestinian neighbors in the Valley.
To make matters worse, the families of Al Auja and Ras Al Auja, who settled there after expulsion from Beer Sheva during the 1948 Nakba, used to have “over 100 sheep or goats each, which they grazed on the mountains and watered at the spring”. Now, the settlements of Yitav, Niran and ‘Omer’s Farm’ have colonized the surrounding mountains, an army military checkpoint borders Ras Al Auja to the south, and two enormous settler-only water towers cast a grim shade over the dry Al Auja spring. ‘Omer’s Farm’, in particular, has stolen half the land of Ras Al Auja in the five years of its existence. It consists of a single family, on a hilltop, surrounded by stolen farmland, heavily guarded by the Israeli military.
The men of Al Auja, according to Jordan Valley Solidarity, “are reduced to surviving by working in Israel’s illegal settlements, earning a pittance. The area feels like little more than a work camp, reminiscent of the townships of apartheid South Africa, with all the men away during the day in the settlements.” The Bedouin now work for settlers, to farm land that the latter stole from them. While they were previously self-sufficient farmers, the residents, now wage-laborers, making scarcely enough to get by.
In March 2011, Jordan Valley Solidarity joined with community members to construct a school for children of the 130+ families of Ras Al Auja. Over the course of two weeks, volunteers sewed sack cloths together to construct a makeshift tent school, where women from the community began to teach 30 children, mostly aged between 5 and 8, a basic curriculum of math, English, Arabic, geography and history. It was vitally important to establish a school in Ras Al Auja, says Jordan Valley Solidarity coordinator, volunteer and driving force ‘Jane’, who has been involved with this project since its inception, because “if you don’t have education when you’re a small child, that means that when you go to school you’re behind already. Education is a basic human right. These people have a right to education in their community.”
Before construction of this school, the children of Ras Al Auja were forced to walk 7 kilometres each morning to the school in al Auja. As the foot path trailed right next to two Israeli settlements, exposing children to regular physical and psychological settler harassment, many parents were wary of sending their young children to school. In addition, numerous fathers are off working in these very Israeli settlements, thus unavailable to assist their children in the mornings. Numerous children, therefore, were left without an education until later years.
Today, because the new school in Ras Al Auja only educates children aged 7 to 13, those children over 13 lucky enough to continue their education still need to take this daily trek to the Al Auja Secondary School, where they can study for the Tawjihi (matriculation exams). Mossem Zubaidat, a volunteer with Jordan Valley Solidarity who also works with the Palestinian Ministry of Education and Higher Education, relates how “there is no transport to take them to the village, so they use their legs to go to school in summer and winter. It is hard for them to put the bag on their back and walk all the distance... We need to build the school because in Ras Al Auja the people live in boxes, not in houses, they live in tents! We are certain to build a school there, it is our land and we can build a school anywhere!”
The Israeli army does not agree. The Area A, B and C zoning system was established for the West Bank after the 1993 Oslo Accords to designate areas of full Palestinian control, joint Palestinian civil and Israeli military control, and full Israeli control, respectively. Because 95% of the Jordan Valley, including al Auja and Ras al Auja, falls under Area C (50% because of Israeli settlements and 45% because of military training grounds and nature reserves), this means that almost nowhere in the Valley can the Bedouin build any permanent structure without requiring an Israeli permit, which is expensive to apply for and almost impossible to obtain. Between January 2000 and September 2007, Israel issued almost 5,000 demolition orders against Palestinian structures in the Jordan Valley. Of those, 1,663 demolitions were carried out – Israeli bulldozers tore down houses, schools, animal shelters and even entire villages.
The stated purpose of Israel’s vise-like grip on ownership and control of the Valley is to hold a security buffer space between Israel and Jordan, necessary to defend the country; in reality, however, Israel covets the Valley because (1) the West Bank, which could serve as a future Palestinian state, is thereby surrounded on all sides by Israel; (2) the West Bank is thereby cut off from economic interaction and communication with Jordan, and the rest of the Middle East; and (3) in the words of the soon to be published Jordan Valley Solidarity factbook To Exist Is To Resist, the Jordan Valley’s “abundance of water resources, fertile soil and natural minerals offer competitive economic advantages in agriculture, industry and tourism. It also constitutes a geographical “reservoir” of land where the Palestinians could establish housing projects and public facilities.”
Israel’s policy of constant settlement expansion, pervasive military checkpoints, destruction or closure of Palestinian roads (the last few years have seen 17 new roadblocks and 4 new checkpoints in the Jordan Valley), construction of Israeli-only bypass roads and physical intimidation, harassment, and outright demolition of Bedouin villages in Area C is evidence of a conscious attempt to gradually exterminate a Palestinian presence in the Jordan Valley, to cement Israeli control and solidify a long-term Israeli presence that remains illegal under international law. Jane explains the role of Jordan Valley Solidarity in resisting the Israeli occupation: “By supporting communities to construct infrastructure for basic services, we support them to stay in their communities, on their land- because the Israelis want them to leave the Jordan Valley, or to make them move into the 5% of the land which is in area A or B to create an Israeli state with Palestinian ghettoes.” The establishment of a school in Ras Al Auja, like countless other projects in the Valley, is not primarily a gesture of humanitarian aid, but rather a symbol of international solidarity. “The aim of lack of education is to drive people from their land. What that means is that the right to education for people is really important...as a basic human right, it’s not something that can be taken away from children... Therefore our motto is ‘to exist is to resist’, and the people in Ras Al Auja are existing and resisting just by being there, and being on their land is their resistance, so we support them in their resistance...together, [we are] using their own land that the people live on to create a fact on the ground to resist the Israeli occupation.”
It was in this spirit of resistance that, in April, it was decided that a tent school, though an important first step, was too small and impermanent to meet the community’s needs. Accordingly, over 100 international volunteers and community members began constructing two permanent mud-brick classroom buildings. After the death of Italian International Solidarity Movement activist Vittorio Arrigoni in Gaza that April, the Ras Al Auja community, which personally knows the vital role of international activism, requested to name the school Vittorio Arrigoni. From the Jordan Valley Solidarity website- “Vittorio was, and will remain, a great symbol of resistance. To give his name to one of our schools is an honour, and we will do our best to make this school another example of resistance against the occupation.” On 25 April 25t Luisa Morgantini, former Vice President of the European Parliament, Majed Al Fityani, Jericho Governor, 50 Italian volunteers, members of the local community, and Jordan Valley Solidarity volunteers laid the first brick of the Vittorio Solidarity school while singing ‘Bella Ciao’ and the Socialist International anthem.
It is this spirit of resistance that the Israeli army is acting to suppress. During the month of Ramadan, the Ras Al Auja school joyously received a donation of two large caravans, which would serve as classrooms. Yet at 10.30 a.m. on 7 September, in Jane’s words, “the Israeli occupation force arrived and removed the caravans on lorries, leaving paperwork... they made all the village stay back and declared it was a closed military zone while they removed the caravans”.
Jericho Governor Majed Al Fityani, who laid the first brick of the Vittorio Arrigoni school in April, said Wednesday afternoon that “we were surprised by the Israeli actions this morning, we were not expecting this from the Israelis. We are going to request an official answer from the Israelis for why they took the caravans... it is the duty of the government to provide education for the people. it is a question of providing services and facilities for the students, free of charge. It is very difficult to provide services because the school is in Area C, so it is impossible for us to build structures there.”
The start of classes will be postponed until further accommodations are arranged for the students. In addition, a celebration and official announcement ceremony for the school, planned for September 15, will now be postponed.
Nonetheless, the community of Ras Al Auja, along with Jordan Valley Solidarity, remains resilient in the face of this new obstacle. Explains Mossem Zubaidat, “its not the first school we built with Jordan Valley Solidarity. The first school was in Jiftlik, it started in tents, now it’s a building. The second school is in Fasayil. We built it from mud and soil and tents, and now it has become a building. So we have experience with the Israelis about these situations. We are sure that we are going to build that school again, and we must build that school for these people. We are going to talk to the media, we are going to talk to the Jericho Governorate, and we are going to talk to the community, to do something about it. The army says it is illegal, but we say it is legal, because it is Palestinian land!...We have to build the school because we need to stand with these people in their land, not to leave their land to the Israelis. We are going to fight to build that school again, we are not going to surrender!”
Israeli cabinet announces plan to forcibly displace tens of thousands of indigenous Bedouins
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By Saed Bannoura | IMEMC News | September 12, 2011
In a cabinet meeting on Sunday, the Israeli ministers approved a plan based on the ‘Prawer Report’, which involves the forced removal of 30,000 Arab Bedouin villagers in southern Israel from their homes.
The Bedouin people have lived in southern Israel for hundreds, if not thousands of years, but when Israel was created in 1948, the Israeli government chose not to recognize the Bedouin as residents, and have destroyed their homes over and over again in the decades since.
Israeli troops undertake the removal of a Bedouin community in Israel
After Sunday’s decision was announced, around 150 Bedouins gathered outside the office of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to protest the plan. Some have termed it ‘ethnic cleansing’, and a Bedouin representative told Israeli reporters with Ha’aretz newspaper that the displacement plan represented a ‘declaration of war’ by the Israeli government against the Bedouin people.
Israel has created three ‘recognized’ areas for the Bedouins to settle in, near the municipal dump for the city of Jerusalem, and has repeatedly attempted to force the tens of thousands of ‘unrecognized’ Bedouins from their ancestral homes and into these areas, which many of the Bedouin view as ghettoes. The ‘recognized’ areas also do not include space for the animals of the Bedouin, many of whom are shepherds and require space for the sheep to graze.
When the ‘Prawer Report’, commissioned by the Israeli government to come up with a ‘solution’ to end the ‘Bedouin problem’, was released in June, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel filed numerous objections to the report.
The report says that the ‘unrecognized’ Bedouin villages must meet a number of criteria in order to be ‘recognized’, including economic sustainability and contiguity – criteria which many Bedouin people say involve the forced urbanization of their rural culture.
According to the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, "If the same criteria were applied to the Jewish population, whole settlements - including community settlements, observatories, kibbutzim and moshavim - would be doomed”.
B'Tselem: Israel denies Palestinian 'right to protest' in West Bank
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Ma'an - 12/09/2011
BETHLEHEM -- The Israeli military systematically denies Palestinians the right to protest in the West Bank, a report published Monday by the Israeli rights group B'Tselem says.
The 'Show of Force' report finds that Israel does not recognize the "basic right" of Palestinians to protest and responds to demonstrations with an "excessive use of crowd control weapons."
The army often fires tear gas canisters "directly at protesters," a practice which B'Tselem says violates the military's own orders.
In most cases the army treats protests as "disturbances" and disperses processions even in the absence of violent acts by protesters, according to the report.
B'Tselem examined the conduct of Israeli forces in weekly demonstrations held in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh over the past year and a half.
It found that the response of the Israeli army indiscriminately harms all village residents through the closure of roads and the imposition of Friday curfews which expose a large number of people to delays and restrictions.
Residents are also exposed to the effects of excessive tear gas which "penetrates their homes."
The Israeli rights group documented four consecutive demonstrations with video and field observation between June 17 and July 8 and interviewed village residents.
The Israeli military does not "recognize the right to demonstrate" in the West Bank, B'Tselem stated. It called on the Israeli army to respect Palestinians' right to protest and use "proportionate" means where necessary to disperse protesters.
Children of Qalandiya: Occupation Starts Here
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Ali Hasan Khalifa, another martyr, another victim. (Tamar Fleishman)
By Tamar Fleishman | Palestine Chronicle | September 12, 2011
The West Bank - I wanted to write about Mahmud, the thirteen year old boy that ever since his return from Ofer prison is the first of the children who hurry to greet me on my arrival.
Perhaps this is because finally someone has taken an interest in his fate.
It isn't often that someone expresses interest and concern for the children of Qalandiya. More than often people make demands of them, reject them and abuse them.
These children are destined to servitude.
I no longer regard Mahmud as just another child in the bunch, he is an individual, he is noticed, his photograph is taken, he smiles, he waits for that specific day in the week when he receives his photos, and when I ask him about the leg that was injured when he was beaten, he tilts his head with timidity, which is uncommon among him and his friends, and then smiles and replies: "no, it doesn't hurt any more…"and with a hint of embarrassment he agrees to tell some of his prison stories.
Mahmud said that there were eight people sharing his cell, people of all ages, that the youngest was a boy of ten from Jalazone refugee camp who was serving three months, he said that he himself, Mahmud, wasn't beaten in prison, he was just taken in for interrogation, that he denied having anything to do with the stones that were thrown and that the investigators demanded that he give them names. On his release he received his clothes back, "they didn't take the money", and the profit he made at work on the day he was arrested, had remained in his pockets and was enough to cover the ride back home.
Some hours later, between midnight and dawn, twenty two year old Moatassem Adwan and twenty three year old Ali Kalifa from Qalandiya refugee camp, were shot to death.
And I knew that it was all connected, like links in an elongating chain of horror. I knew that I must also write about all that occurred on that night, for together with knowledge and familiarity comes a duty to tell the story and give voice to the living children and to the children that had been shot.
I knew that I must write about the fifteen year old boy, that when coming to arrest him an entire unit of soldiers raided the allies of the refugee camp on the early morning of the first day of the Ramadan. After having knocked the door open, the soldiers searched the house, making a mess and raising havoc. Having not been able to find the boy they took his cousin as hostage.
About the father who did not praise his lord for having saved his son, but instead like Abraham, the father of the two nations, he took his beloved by the hand on the next morning and went with him so that the exchange could be preformed. He handed in his son to those seeking him.
About the mother who watched the two holding one another, walking away, walking and disappearing, heading towards her destruction.
About the failed plan of those invaders who hurried to pull the trigger as soon as they saw two young men in front them.
I must write about my encounter with Ali Kalifa, the same Ali Kalifa who had a rifle's bullet penetrate his back, it pierced his body from one side and then exited from the other.
About having taken a photo of Ali Kalifa not long before that bitter day, as it is, children of all ages wish to have their picture taken so that they have a memento of their portrait.
About how this might just have been the last photo to ever commemorate the living Ali. H', a friend of Ali, told me that this photo had been placed at his parents grieving shade.
About my encounter with this young man who would look you straight in the eyes over a light conversation, about how he would imagine himself living in a reality that is unattainable for someone from a refugee camp. It is just as well since those imaginations and dreams were his haven and comfort.
And that this is the story of the children whose backs and napes are exposed and unprotected, for they, the children of Qalandiya are an allegory to the story of the occupation.
(Translated by Ruth Fleishman)
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As a member of Machsomwatch, once a week Tamar Fleishman heads out to document the checkpoints between Jerusalem and Ramallah. This documentation (reports, photos and videos) can be found on the organization's site: www.machsomwatch.org. She is also a member of the Coalition of Women for Peace and volunteer in Breaking the Silence.
Jewish Defence League in France Organising Militia to West Bank in September
aletho | September 12, 2011 URL: http://wp.me/pIUmC-84D
By Sergio Yahni | Alternative Information Center | 12 September 2011
The Jewish Defence League in France published an ad on 3 September calling on activists with a military background to join a solidarity trip to “Judea and Samaria” between 19-25 September 2011.
According to the notice, published on the website of the Jewish Defence League (JDL), the trip “is intended for those with military experience in order to assist our brethren struggling with the attacks of the Palestinian occupiers and thus to contribute to the security of the Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria”.
The JDL is a radical right-wing movement founded in the United States by Rabbi Meir Kahane in 1968. Members of the JDL were involved in violent actions in the United States, including the 1985 murder of the regional director of the Arab American Committee against Discrimination, Alex Odeh. In 2001 the organization was defined as a terrorist group by the US federal authorities after a connection to the murder of Republican Congressman from California, Darrell Issa, was discovered.
The French branch of the JDL was founded in 2000 under the name “Liberty, Democracy and Judaism”. In 2002, Channel 2 France published a piece which exposed that members of the French group were undergoing military training.
After the immigration of Rabbi Kahane to Israel, and Israeli branch of the JDL was established under the name Kach (this is the way). The movement was banned in 1988 and in 1994, after the slaughter in Hebron’s Ibrahimi Mosque,the movement was defined as a terrorist organization.
The enlistment of activists with a military background to assist the settlers represents a serious escalation of the activities of radical settler groups.
Translated to English by the Alternative Information Center (AIC)
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18 - VIDEO : LIBYA TODAY AND LIBYA BEFORE NATO HELPED ISLAMIC EXTREMISTS TAKE OVER TRIPOLI
There are a good many things going on in the world, but the mess that the U.S., the U.N., and NATO are making in Libya is almost unbelievable. There is no such thing a 'humanitarian war'. This video shows clear contrast between Libya today and Libya before NATO helped Islamic extremists take over Tripoli.
WARNING: Graphic content
Video: http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/4988.html
The Israeli Lobby Controls America But The Jewish State Is Falling Apart (must watch)
Jenin's Freedom Theatre Attacked (video)
The Freedom Theatre was attacked by the Israeli army at the early morning of the 27th of July. The army spokesperson has claimed that the Israeli army did not raid the theatre. Photo and film documentation confirms that the army raid resulted in the shattering of most of the windows of the theatre's multimedia centre and office building. Witnesses also report harassment and threats to several theatre employees.
From Dr. David Duke
Included is a link to my new powerful video called Zionist Terrorism in Norway !
In this video I show the Zionist influence in this horrific murder and maiming of over 150 Norwegians and how this act serves the cause of International Zionism.
You will be amazed by my research into this horrific, terrorist act. But the truth is coming out, and it is vital that we show the Zionist role in this horror.
This is a moving and powerful video that I pray you will help me make sure gets seen by the world!
Here is the Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDr6SjPMRzs
SEE HISTORICAL FILM
Libya: The real war starts now
by Pepe Escobar
Political, economic and social instability in Libya did not end with the fall of Tripoli and the alleged victory of NATO rebels. Gaddafi’s decision to go underground has caught everyone by surprise. The unfolding scenario is reminiscent of Omar Mukhtar’s legacy, the Libyan leader who struggled against Italian colonialism for nearly twenty years, from 1912 to 1931. Everything can still change in a country where most of the population hasn’t said its final word yet and the neo-colonial powers in place are very fragile.
THE PENTAGON OPENED THE DOORS TO THE 911-ATTACKS
A secret military unit identified two of the three cells involved
in the 9/11 attacks, as well as the alleged ring leader Mohamed
Atta, a full year before the attacks.
The evidence gathered by the unit was destroyed and the Pentagon
tried to prevent five members of the unit from testifying before a
Senate Judiciary Committee.
The Unit was called 'Able Danger'.
Video: http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/4973.html
Imagine
Must Watch Video
Emmanuel Kelly, a victim of warfare and a survivor from Iraq, doesn't know how old he is but has managed to become a wonderful singer. Here, thanks to Channel 7, is his performance on The X Factor Iraq has suffered more than 300, 9/11's with more than 1 million people killed since the US invasion. That is almost the equivalent of one 9/11/ size calamity of suffering each week for the last 8 years, curtsey of the USA.
An moment of relief from the pity fest and rampant propaganda poising our minds and air waves today September 11, 2011
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29099.htm
In Plane Site - by Dave von Kleist
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/the-911-files/911-in-plane-site.html
FROM Glutimas Maximus
The message below is from Mike Delaney, the producer of the excellent video on 911 called "Missing Links." He is under attack by the ADL for telling the truth. "They" do not want you to see this film. So, they use the old canards of "anti semite" and "conspiracy theorist" to shut down debate and free inquiry. Don't fall for it. Don't let others do your thinking for you. Watch the film and decide for yourself!!!! Is Mr. Delaney telling the truth? The conclusions reached in this film, supported by massive amounts of well documented and highly probative evidence, are inescapable.
Sunday is the tenth anniversary of the attack that changed the USA forever. If you watch just one movie this weekend this is the one. The link to google is below....
When you are done, please send this on to others who may have the courage to seek the truth and think for themselves ....
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7877765982288566190#
http://www.adl.org/main_Extremism/911_conspiracy_theories_report.htm?Multi_page_sections=sHeading_4
ILLUMINATI: CFR. By Myron Fagan's Classic. Recorded c. 1965
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCLXCDrjl6g
AARON RUSSO ON VIDEO: PROOF THAT AMERICA DID 9/11
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVZBFNZtVzo&feature=related
THE SHOCKING VIDEO HILLARY CLINTON DOESN'T WANT YOU TO SEE ! (2 PARTS.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xq8aopATYyw&feature=related
Are the U.S. and NATO creating a new boogeyman in Libya ?
Having the backing of over thirty nations, including the U.S., the
Al Qaeda linked rebels are now the recognized government of Libya.
With Gaddafi out of power, the rebels have moved on to ethnic
cleansing and the looting of weapons depots for chemical weapons
and surface-to-air missiles. If things were bad for Libyans under
Qaddafi, things are certainly worse now.
Are the U.S. and NATO creating a new boogeyman in Libya?
Video: http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/4977.html
The Bloody Rothschilds
http://youtu.be/J1WqQi1bEtg
JFK vs Israel and Dimona - The Stand, Murder, and Takeover (John F. Kennedy)
http://www.youtube.com/v/HDuteYKk-rM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDuteYKk-rM
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19 - Revolt in Lybia : A Message To Chavez
by Nil Nikandrov
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VOLTAIRE NETWORK | MOSCOW (RUSSIA) | 5 SEPTEMBER 2011
The foray against the Venezuelan Embassy in Tripoli at the hands of the National Transitional Council was meant to send President Chavez a clear message. He, too, can be overthrown by Western powers. Hence, Caracas is carefully examing the way in which the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya was first strangled financially, in an effort to avoid falling prey to a similar maneuver
The Libyan rebels’ August 23 attack on the Venezuelan embassy and compound in Tripoli went largely unreported, though fatalities were narrowly averted as Venezuelan ambassador Afif Tajeldine and the embassy staff moved to a safer location at the last moment and left Libya shortly thereafter. It transpired in the wake of the incident that Venezuela’s embassy was the only one looted in the whole neighborhood, meaning that the attack which, according to eyewitness accounts, was guided by individuals of European appearance and military posture, specifically targeted the country’s mission.
Venezuelan deputy foreign minister and permanent envoy to the UN Jorge Valero Briceño condemned the attack in the UN Security Council. In the meantime, Latin American commentators read the rebel hit against the Venezuelan diplomatic mission in Tripoli as a message to Chavez supposed to threaten him with being next blacklisted leader after the ousted Gadhafi. It is widely expected that the approach the Empire put to work to destabilize Libya and Syria will in the foreseeable future be employed in Venezuela… Reuters mentioned the plan on August 17, saying that “Political violence in Venezuela threatens to undermine the outcome of next year’s election whether President Hugo Chavez wins a new six-year term or not”. Outbreaks of protests in Venezuela will be backed by vocal media campaigns launched by BBC, Euronews, CNN, Fox, Al Jazeera, etc. and will likely be paralleled by acts of vandalism and street killings perpetrated by terrorist groups which will sneak into Venezuela from other countries. On the whole, what Venezuela will face is an upgraded color revolution brand involving a stronger than ever component of armed violence. The Pentagon, the US intelligence community, the US Department of State, and the corresponding agencies of Great Britain, Spain, Israel, Canada, and others certainly have the task of preventing the re-election of Chavez in 2012 written into their agendas…
Aware of the coming crush test, Chavez, a tough politics veteran, not only shows full confidence ahead of the polls on the horizon but even pledges to stake yet another re-election bid in 2018. His program is practical in character and is spelled out with utmost clarity. Reliance on popular support and a loyal army should help neutralize whatever conspiracies, and the Empire’s dominance will not last indefinitely. Chavez’s optimism is based on the realization that the US in its current imperial shape is doomed, as by the middle of the XXI century recurrent economic crises and domestic strife between political factions, ethnic groups, and corporate giants will irreversibly erode its might. Step by step, at the cost of bloodshed and human sufferings, the US will have to shed the role of the world gendarme and global parasite. Foreign-policy escapades and attempts to bulldoze defiant regimes which will continue to proliferate only bring closer the era of the US agony. Chavez is convinced that the demise of the Empire will put the final dot in the long search of solutions for the historically doomed imperialist system.
The Venezuelan leader speaks frequently of the escalation of socioeconomic tensions in the US and other Western countries. Though in the West the ills tend to stay unrecognized and protests of the disadvantaged social strata, including much of the middle class, are being suppressed, keeping the lid on the situation is increasingly a challenge that administrations cannot handle by traditional repressive means. As a result, plans pop up to use countries’ armed forces against their own populations, and armies are already being trained accordingly. The “wars on terror” in which the US armed forces routinely confronted civilians deformed the mentality of the US officers corps to the point where they seem to have lost all inhibitions about such missions as wiping out domestic conspiracies allegedly waged by Muslim extremists, populist leaders, the reds, the anti-systemic underground, etc.
The militarization of the US has reached such proportions that switching the country’s economy to a more civilian mode promises great pains. As of today, even minimal defense budget cuts would derail the US economy as a whole, while keeping the bloated military-industrial complex afloat takes armed hostilities in various parts of the world. With the US constituencies wary of having to deal with conflicts in Syria, Iran, the Caucasus or elsewhere, only a drama comparable to September 11 can revive the population’s militancy. Chavez believes firmly that the September 11 terrorist attack was masterminded by the US and Israeli intelligence communities. Knowing that the elites of the CIA, the US Defense Intelligence Agency, other Western intelligence services, and the Mossad are working against Venezuela, he frequently revisits the theme and urges Venezuelan TV channels to air programs warning about likely provocations meant to undermine the Bolivarian regime.
The aggressive convulsions of the Empire, its disregard for the international law, the swings in Washington’s decision-making and policies, and the US tendency to connect with renegade groups in the countries defying US control prompt defensive reactions across the globe and lead nations staying outside of the US orbit to reinforce their sovereignty. The rise of regional centers of power will be gaining momentum as a result, and even the countries under various pretexts routed by NATO will gradually see anti-American forces prevail in domestic politics. In the world of today, any aggression invariably meets with resistance.
Since the failed 2002-2003 US attempts to induce regime change in Venezuela, it has been Chavez’s strategy to insulate the country’s army and economy, particularly the energy sector, from the US influence. Confrontation for its own sake cannot be Chavez’s intention considering the obvious disparity between the US and Venezuela, but the latter has to diversify its international relations and seek viable alternatives to the status it had in the pre-Chavez epoch when the country used to be the Empire’s associated state “freely” consenting to exist as another Puerto Rico. At that time, the Venezuelan upper class was americanized to the extent of contemplating the country’s full integration into the US. Dumping oil to the global market at ridiculous prices and enjoying the full range of comforts available to the Golden Billion was the dream of the liberals who were dislodged by the Venezuelan revolution to become Chavez’s main foes. These are the people slamming Chavez over every step meant to strengthen Venezuela’s independence. For them, the nationalization of the oil sector, the country’s deepening engagement with Russia and China, the creation of the populist ALBA bloc, and the cultivation of ties with Brazil, which has grown into Latin America’s economic powerhouse, are unacceptable as measures killing the opposition’s chances for a comeback.
Washington was visibly angered by Chavez’s recent decision to deploy a part of the currency holdings of Venezuela in BRICS countries, including Russia, and to recall the Venezuelan overseas gold reserves. Chavez said that, as the US and European economies are sinking, the time has come to tap into the potentials of such countries as China, Russia, and Brazil and described pulling the holdings out of the US and Europe as "a healthy measure” for Venezuela “on the eve of the capitalist crisis”. No doubt, the strategy behind the transfer of assets from Western banks is not limited to the above regards – the de facto confiscation of Libya’s reserves known as “Gadhafi’s gold” must have also been taken into account in Venezuela. The Venezuelan government has reasons to believe that under certain circumstances the country’s holdings in the West may face a freeze, for example, under the pretext that Western companies would press compensation claims related to nationalizations in Venezuela. The repatriation of gold reserves should also help Venezuela sustain economic buoyancy if the dollar and Euro suffer a sharp depreciation.
Chavez advises other Latin American countries which keep around $570b in the banks of the north, thus investing in its development, to follow the lead. The Bank of England which since 1980 has stored 99 tons of Venezuela’s gold was the first to receive a recall request. The gold from US, Canadian, Swiss, and French banks will similarly be transferred to Venezuela. At the moment, slightly under 58% of Venezuela’s gold reserves totaling 365 tons are stored outside of the country. ALBA countries seem receptive to Chavez’s call for holdings repatriation. It should be noted as well that, visiting Caracas in August, 2011, Russian diplomacy chief S. Lavrov indicated that Moscow would readily consider Venezuela’s offer to host its holdings, thus de facto expressing support for the course Chavez was steering. Beijing’s reaction was essentially the same as Moscow’s.
Analysts regard Chavez’s push for a Latin American financial architecture independent from the West as a risky pursuit. Gadhafi’s plan to reload the impressive currency holdings owned by Libya from Western banks to those of China were among the reasons why he became the target of manhunt. It is clear that the West will not forget how Chavez dispelled the myth about the economic recovery in the US and Europe. The Venezuelan leader’s radical message that the US and European economies are sinking surely resonated with those who are able to listen.
Nil Nikandrov
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20 - Breaking News and Commentary from Citizens for Legitimate Government
14 Sep 2011
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Emergency evacuation drill held, presuming further meltdown of Fukushima No. 3 reactor core --400 GSDF personnel deployed for drill 13 Sep 2011 The Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF) and residents of the zone between 20 and 30 kilometers from the stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant held an emergency evacuation drill on Sept. 12. The drill, held in preparation for any further large-scale emission of radioactive materials from the plant, was the first involving local residents. The scenario for the drill presupposed further meltdown of the Fukushima plant's No. 3 reactor core, and a local accumulation of radioactive materials emitting 20 millisieverts of radiation within the next four days.
Deadly explosion at French nuclear facility --Blast took place at the Centraco facility near Marcoule, which was warned about security lapses last year12 Sep 2011 An explosion at a nuclear waste treatment facility in France has killed one man and injured four others, one seriously. The Nuclear Security Authority says there has been no chemical or radioactive leak, and there is no danger to the public. [?] It is being classed as an industrial rather than nuclear accident.
US-Trained and Financed Afghan Police Killed and Raped Civilians 13 Sep 2011 Local police forces trained and financed by the United States have killed and raped civilians, stolen land and carried out other abuses against the Afghan villagers they are charged with protecting, according to a report released on Monday by Human Rights Watch. The paramilitary local police forces number about 7,500 officers in 46 districts, and officials hope to expand them to 30,000 officers. They are trained for three weeks by American Special Forces units and then armed with automatic rifles; they are paid about 60 percent of the salaries that national police officers get.
Afghan police 'killers and corrupt' 13 Sep 2011 Killing and corruption by Afghan police, as well as low recruitment of soldiers, are hampering Australia's efforts to build local security forces in Oruzgan province, ahead of a major withdrawal two years from now. The Age can reveal that only 80 men from Oruzgan province have joined the Afghan Army since 2009, and fewer are joining each year, figures show. At the same time, a branch of the Afghan police is accused of rape, beatings, and extortion, according to a Human Rights Watch report.
U.S. Embassy and NATO Headquarters Attacked in Kabul 14 Sep 2011 Heavily armed insurgents wearing suicide vests struck Tuesday at two of the most prominent symbols of the American diplomatic and military presence in Kabul, the United States Embassy and the nearby NATO headquarters, demonstrating the Taliban's ability to infiltrate even the most heavily fortified districts of the capital. As the insurgents fired rocket-propelled grenades, Westerners sought shelter - one rocket penetrated the embassy compound - and Afghan government workers fled their offices, emptying the city center. NATO and Afghan troops responded with barrages of bullets.
Fighting goes on near Kabul US embassy 14 Sep 2011 Deadly fighting that has erupted between Taliban militants and security forces near the US embassy and NATO headquarters in Kabul is still underway, Press TV reports. At least two gunmen were hiding in the multi-story building from which the militants had started their attacks on the heavily-fortified embassy on Tuesday and gunfire could be heard early Wednesday. CIA Director David Petraeus said on Tuesday that a "handful of individuals" [?!?] entered a building that was under construction several hundred meters from the mission and then opened fire and fired rocket-propelled grenades at the area of the embassy.
Militants Launch Attack on U.S. Embassy in Kabul 14 Sep 2011 Insurgents launched a complex assault against the American Embassy and the nearby NATO headquarters on Tuesday, pelting the heavily guarded compounds with rockets in an attack that raised new questions about the security of Afghanistan's capital and the Westerners working there. At least 10 explosions - apparently from rockets launched by militants - and waves of automatic weapons fire were reported amid the drone of sirens and English-language warnings telling Americans inside the embassy to take cover.
'Leaked' FBI document calls Anonymous a national security threat --Psych profiles show LulzSec, Anons older, more politically focused than they let on, FBI concludes 12 Sep 2011 According to a PDF containing what purports to be a leaked psychological assessment of the leaders of LulzSec and Anonymous by the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit (which also profiles serial killers) [LOL! 'Criminal Minds' rocks!] Anonymous is not only not a collection of individuals, it's a coherent group that poses a threat to national security.
Leaked FBI Anonymous profiles By Anonymous 09 Sep 2011 U.S. Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Investigation --Psychological Profiles of Anonymous Leadership Law Enforcement Sensitive (LES) --Working this case was approached in the same manner as any other UNSUB (Unknown Subject) that the BSU handles, however, the context from this particular case has been augmented by technical services branch members. ...It is recommended that the BSU insert a team member into the LulzSec/Anonymous investigation to interface online with the subject(s) and further the social and psychological investigation of the group and its leadership in an attempt to flesh out further information.
Congress, White House spar over Guantanamo records --White House threatening presidential veto of any bill including Guantanamo provisions 13 Sep 2011 The Obama administration is caught in a standoff with Congress over records documenting the release of suspected militants from the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo, Cuba. The Senate Intelligence Committee has approved an intelligence authorization bill requiring the administration to turn over diplomatic cables and other material documenting contacts between U.S. and foreign governments who agreed to accept released Guantanamo detainees for resettlement.
C.I.A. Examining Legality of Work With Police Dept. 14 Sep 2011 The Central Intelligence Agency has opened an internal inquiry into whether its close cooperation with the New York Police Department in the decade since the Sept. 11 attacks has broken any laws prohibiting the agency from collecting intelligence in the United States. The C.I.A. is prohibited from gathering intelligence on American soil, but some have criticized its counterterrorism cooperation with law enforcement services as a de facto domestic spying campaign. The head of the Police Department's intelligence unit, David Cohen, is a former C.I.A. official, and the agency has a senior clandestine officer embedded in the New York police force.
Officials say threat on 9/11 anniversary is unresolved --Heightened security levels to be maintained in Washington, New York 13 Sep 2011 Top federal security officials said Tuesday that the terrorist threat to strike the U.S., first disclosed on the eve of 9/11's 10th anniversary, remains unresolved. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, FBI Director Robert Mueller and National Counterterrorism Center Director Matthew Olsen told the Senate Homeland Security Committee that heightened security levels would be maintained in Washington and New York— the cities targeted in the alleged vehicle bomb threat.
Witness: Suspicious Men on Plane Were Federal Marshals 12 Sep 2011 A witness on board a flight from St. Louis to Dulles Airport in Washington says two men who were originally thought to be behaving oddly on a plane at Lambert Airport Sunday night were indeed federal air marshals. Ron Meyer says he was a passenger on board United flight #3681 Sunday evening. According to Meyer, a pilot later said the men were indeed federal marshals. All passengers were taken off the flight and re-screened at the request of the pilot.
Former September 11 probe chair calls for reopening inquiry 12 Sep 2011 The former co-chair of a Congressional inquiry after the September 11, 2001 attacks called on the U.S. government to reopen its investigation following a news report linking the hijackers to a Saudi Arabian couple who lived in Florida. Former U.S. Senator Bob Graham said he has no reason to doubt the news report, which said the Saudi Arabian couple abruptly abandoned their luxury home in Sarasota two weeks before the attacks, leaving behind a full refrigerator, clothes, furnishings and a new car in the driveway.
TSA officers arrested on drug charges in Conn. 13 Sep 2011 Three federal Transportation Security Administration officers and two other law enforcement officers were arrested on charges of accepting cash or gift cards in exchange for permitting prescription drug dealers to move tens of thousands of highly addictive painkiller pills and cash proceeds from the illegal sales through airports and highways. The TSA officers, based at airports in Florida and New York, and a Westchester County, N.Y., police officer allowed the oxycodone through airport security, authorities said Tuesday.
Use of Private Contractors Doesn't Save Government Money, Study Finds --Federal government spends about $320 billion a year on contracts for services 13 Sep 2011 Despite a widespread belief [fueled by corporate-owned media propaganda] that contracting out services to the private sector saves the federal government money, a new study suggests just the opposite -- that the government actually pays more when it farms out work. The study found that in 33 of 35 occupations, the government actually paid billions of dollars more to hire contractors than it would have cost government employees to perform comparable services. On average, the study found that contractors charged the federal government more than twice the amount it pays federal workers.
Corpora-terrorist troll Barack Obama makes his move under cover of 9/11 anniversary media coverage: U.S. may end taxes on some overseas corporate profits: WSJ 10 Sep 2011 The Treasury is weighing a proposal to eliminate some, but not all, of the taxes on overseas profits of U.S.-based companies, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday, citing two people familiar with the deliberations. Eliminating the taxes on some of the profits is a central element of the Obama administration's broader plans to overhaul the corporate tax code, the newspaper said. Business have long complained that the U.S. system of taxing companies' overseas profits hits companies that have often already paid been taxed in the countries where the profits were earned.
G.O.P. Gains House Seat Vacated by Weiner 14 Sep 2011 A little-known Republican businessman from Queens, channeling voter discontent with President Obama into an upset, won election to Congress on Tuesday from the heavily Democratic district in New York City last represented by Anthony D. Weiner. The Republican, Bob Turner, a retired cable television executive, defeated Assemblyman David I. Weprin, the scion of a prominent Democratic family in Queens, in a nationally watched special election. With 73 percent of the precincts counted early Wednesday, Mr. Turner was leading Mr. Weprin by 53 percent to 47 percent, according to The Associated Press.
Michele Bachmann attacks Rick Perry on Mandatory HPV Vaccines 12 Sep 2011 Michele Bachmann accused Rick Perry of using sixth-grade girls as profit engines for a drug company at the CNN/Tea Party Express debate, lacing into the Texas governor for having attempted to mandate the [deadly] HPV vaccine for young teenagers. "To have innocent little 12-year-old girls be forced to have a government injection through an executive order is just wrong,"Bachmann said. "Little girls who have a negative reaction to this potentially dangerous drug don't get a mulligan." The Minnesota congresswoman went even further, accusing Perry of handing out favors to a company, Merck, represented by his former top aide, Mike Toomey. "There was a big drug company that made millions of dollars because of this mandate," Bachmann said. "The governor's former chief of staff was the chief lobbyist for this drug company."[*Exactly.*]
Poverty in U.S. Rose to 17-Year High in 2010, Income Fell 13 Sep 2011 The U.S. poverty rate rose to the highest level in almost two decades and household income fell in 2010, underscoring the lingering impact of the worst economic slump in seven decades. Data released by the Census Bureau today showed the proportion of people living in poverty climbed to 15.1 percent last year from 14.3 percent in 2009, and median household income declined 2.3 percent. The number of Americans living in poverty was the highest in the 52 years since the U.S. Census Bureau began gathering that statistic.
Nearly one in six in poverty in the U.S.; children hit hard, Census says 13 Sep 2011 Nearly one in six Americans was living in poverty last year, the Census Bureau reported Tuesday, a development that is ensnaring growing numbers of children and offering vivid proof of the recession's devastating impact... As poverty surged last year to its highest level since 1993, median household income declined, leaving the typical American household earning less in inflation-adjusted dollars than it did in 1997.
The Hospital Gestapo: You May Never See Home Again By Angela V. Woodhull, Ph.D. 09 Sep 2011 American hospitals have devised a scheme to guarantee they never get stuck with an unpaid bill. It's called guardianship... Ginger Franklin, Hendersonville, Tennessee, fell down the stairs in her condo and suffered a bump on her head. She was declared "temporarily mentally incapacitated" and a guardian was appointed through the courts. Within six weeks, the guardian had sold Franklin's home, car, furniture, and drained her bank account. Today, Franklin has her freedom back, but she is having to start all over.
11 Sep 2011
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'Lucky Larry' Silverstein: 'Maybe the smartest thing to do is pull it.' 11 Sep 2010 9/11 was an inside job, six ways to Sunday. 9/11: "Lucky Larry" Silverstein and World Trade Tower 7 Posted by Mike 10 Sep 2006 Videos of Tower 7's collapse show a sudden vertical collapse, reminiscent of a controlled demolition. How could fire damage cause such a collapse in a steel building? Never in history has a steel building collapsed due to fire, let alone in such a quick, symmetrical fashion. During a video interview in the 2002 PBS documentary "America Rebuilds", Larry Silverstein shed some light on the mystery. According to Silverstein: "I remember getting a call from the, uh, fire department commander, telling me that they were not sure they were gonna be able to contain the fire, and I said, 'You know we've had such terrible loss of life, maybe the smartest thing to do is, is pull it.' Uh, and they made that decision to pull and then we watched the building collapse." "Pull" is construction jargon for "demolish", short for "pull down". Silverstein was saying that the fire department demolished Tower 7. [See:CLG 9/11 Exposition Zone, 911blogger, Whatreallyhappened, 9/11Truth, Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth, Pilots for 9/11 Truth, American's Journey, Scholars for 9/11 Truth, 9-11 Research, 9-11 Timeline, and Remember Building 7.]
'Bush lied about 9/11 terror attacks' 10 Sep 2011 Mahathir Mohamad says it is not unthinkable for former US President [sic] George W. Bush to lie about who was responsible for the 9/11 terror attacks on the American soil. In a post published in his personal blog chedet on Friday, former Malaysian prime minister said that the attacks on the World Trade Center in downtown Manhattan, New York City, and the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, could not have been carried out by Muslims. The acts of violence could have rather been the work of other groups. The Malaysian politician pointed out that "for some Americans, the deaths of nearly 3,000 people was not the scariest thing about 9/11. It was realizing who carried out the attack: yes, the American Government."
Ahmadinejad: US used 9/11 as excuse to start wars --Iranian leader says September 11 attacks were used by US in complicated, designed game to affect public emotions, pave way for invasions 11 Sep 2011 The Iranian president says the United States used the September 11 attacks as an excuse for launching wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says the attacks were a "complicated, designed game" to affect people's emotions and pave way for the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. He also says US launched those wars to solve its own economic problems. [Yes, and to provide George W. Bush 'legitimacy' as president --although we at Citizens for Legitimate Government, formed December 2000, never would or will -- as evidence of the 2000 coup d'etat was growing by the day. --LRP]
US Gives People All Over the World Their Own '9/11s' Daily, Via Killer Drone Strikes By Lori Price, www.legitgov.org 11 Sep 2011 The US gives people all over the world their own '9/11s' daily, via killer drone strikes. This fact is never mentioned. For example: US drone strike kills four in Pakistan 11 Sep 2011 A non-UN-sanctioned US airstrike has left at least four people dead and several others wounded in Pakistan's troubled tribal belt, Press TV reports. Local security officials say the missiles fired from a US drone targeted a compound and a vehicle in the Hisokhel village of North Waziristan tribal region, a Press TV correspondent reported. The death toll is expected to rise as some of the injured are said to be in critical condition.
Stand and Demand (a Thorough Investigation of 9-11!!!) By Michael Rectenwald 16 May 2002 Why did Bush stay on vacation for three more weeks last August after hearing of the possible hijacks of U.S. planes by Osama bin Laden? Why was the Phoenix memo, which noticed the requests for flying lessons by Middle Eastern men (who weren't interested in knowing how to take off or land) not connected with the hijacking threats received by Bush? Why did Bush not stop reading to children in Florida ("The obscure goat story of 9-11") after he received news of one Twin Tower’s demise? How did three more airplanes get hijacked and crash into two more major U.S. monuments, after Bush was told of the first crash into the World Trade Center? In short, what was this administration doing, or not doing, to prevent the siege of America known as S-11, from which the same administration has picked-up such enormous political capital, and warded off the kinds of criticism it was getting just before?
The obscure goat story of 9-11 By Lawgiver.org (2001) It is very important to examine the first reactions President [sic] Bush had concerning the events of September 11. You can tell much about the truth by observing the reactions of men. Human nature is almost always the best truth detector and said to be the most accurate lie detector. One of the basic instructions taught to every U.S. military and civilian police trainee is to "watch and observe". Let's observe what really took place before these headline stories are buried in a sea of obscurity.
100 protesters burn American flag outside U.S. embassy in London during minute's silence for 9/11 12 Sep 2011 Protesters set fire to the U.S. flag outside the American embassy in London yesterday during a minute's silence to mark the moment the first hijacked airliner hit the World Trade Centre. A group of 100 Muslim radicals, including members of Muslims Against Crusades, shouted 'USA terrorists' and brandished anti-American placards. One protester in Grosvenor Square said: 'You will always face suffering, you will always face humiliation, unless you withdraw your troops from Muslim lands.'
77 Americans wounded in Afghan truck bombing --Insurgent movement stressed it had no role in Sept. 11 attacks 11 Sep 2011 Nearly 80 American soldiers were wounded and five Afghans civilians were killed in a Taliban truck bombing targeting an American base in eastern Afghanistan, NATO said Sunday, a stark reminder that the war in Afghanistan still rages 10 years after the Sept. 11 terror attacks against the United States. No U.S. soldiers were killed in Saturday night's bombing, which took place hours after the Taliban vowed to keep fighting U.S. forces in Afghanistan until all American troops leave the country. The insurgent movement also stressed that it had no role in the Sept. 11 attacks. [Note: I originally linked to Yahoo.com for this item, but Yahoo pulled it, likely because of this salient point: 'The insurgent movement also stressed that it had no role in the Sept. 11 attacks.']
Somalia denies CIA rendition base in Mogadishu 09 Sep 2011 Somalia has dismissed reports that the US runs an underground detention centre where the CIA helps interrogate terror suspects in the capital Mogadishu. UK rights group Reprieve says it has evidence that the base lies underneath the presidential compound, and that some inmates are as young as 14. The group says one man was taken there from Kenya and held for 18 months without seeing lawyers - or daylight.
Bush and Obama, Shoulder to Shoulder 12 Sep 2011 On Sunday, for the first time, President Obama and former President [sic] George W. Bush stood together at the site of the Sept. 11 attacks, listening as family members read the names of lost love ones and bowing their heads in silence to mark the moments the planes hit. In May, Mr. Bush declined Mr. Obama's invitation to join him at ground zero after the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. But on this morning, they stood shoulder to shoulder -- commanders in chief whose terms in office are bookends for exploring how the United States has changed since Sept. 11, 2001, particularly in its response to terrorism.
New York City Marks Tenth Anniversary of 9/11 Attacks Under Heavy Guard 11 Sep 2011 Security across New York City remains tight as the nearly 3,000 lives lost in the September 11th terror attacks are remembered at the tenth anniversary memorial ceremony on the site of the World Trade Center site. The event began at 8:35 a.m. at the National September 11th Memorial, where family members are seeing for the first time victims' names inscribed in bronze panels and reflecting pools set in the footprints of the Twin Towers. The memorial includes the names of those who died at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and on Flight 93, as well as the six victims of the World Trade Center bombing in 1993.
9/11 Air Scare: Fighter Jets Scrambled in Airline Incident 11 Sep 2011 Fighter jets were scrambled to escort an American Airlines jet into New York's JFK airport after the pilot became spooked by passengers' frequent trips to and from the restroom, security officials said today. The precaution turned out to be unnecessary as federal air marshals aboard flight 34 from Los Angeles to JFK were able to resolve the situation when the passengers complied with their instructions, police officials said. Two F-16 fighter jets kept the passenger plane in their sight from about 100 miles out of the airport until it landed. According to authorities the FBI and Port Authority, police met the flight when it landed.
3 held in Detroit over bathroom trips on plane 11 Sep 2011 Amid anxiety over the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, police detained three passengers at Detroit's Metropolitan Airport on Sunday after the crew of the Frontier Airlines flight from Denver reported suspicious activity on board, and NORAD sent two F-16 jets to shadow the flight until it landed safely, airline and federal officials said. Also Sunday, NORAD sent two F-16s to escort a Los Angeles-to-New York American Airlines flight after three passengers made repeated trips to the bathroom, officials said. Flight 34 landed safely at New York's Kennedy Airport. Frontier Flight 623, with 116 passengers on board, landed without incident in Detroit after the crew reported that two people were spending "an extraordinarily long time" in a bathroom, Frontier spokesman Peter Kowalchuck said.
Southwest Airlines flight diverted to Nashville 10 Sep 2011 A Southwest Airlines flight headed to Baltimore was diverted to Nashville on Saturday afternoon. The flight, which originated in Albuquerque, landed at the Nashville International Airport just after 1 p.m. after a passenger was demonstrating suspicious behavior. All passengers on board the plane were re-screened before continuing to its destination.
9/11 Anniversary Plot: Terror Suspects Came From Inside U.S. 10 Sep 2011 Officials have told ABC News that the suspects alleged to be plotting a 911 anniversary terror attack began their journey to jihad inside the United States, traveling to the 'al Qaeda' stronghold in the tribal areas along the Afghanistan/Pakistan border in the late summer before returning to the United States on Aug. 30 or Sept 1. This more specific information comes from the same CIA informant who said three people were dispatched by al Qaeda the CIA operative to carry out a bomb plot in either New York or Washington, and has allowed the intelligence manhunters to narrow down dramatically the pool of names that could match the partial descriptions the informant provided.
U.N. journalist arrested in NY after prop gun found 11 Sep 2011 A U.N.-accredited journalist working for an Iranian broadcaster has been charged with criminal possession of a weapon after U.N. security found a stage-prop gun in his baggage, police and U.N. officials said on Friday. "An accredited journalist was found with a toy gun, I believe it was," said U.N. spokesman Eduardo del Buey. "It was found in his baggage. He was detained, and he was turned over to the national authorities." He added that the incident occurred on Thursday. Several U.N. officials told Reuters on condition of anonymity that the journalist is a U.S. citizen who has been working for Iranian state-funded broadcaster Press TV. [Why say 'state-funded' broadcaster? No one ever says 'corporate-funded,' when referring to a US broadcaster!]
US drone strike kills four in Pakistan 11 Sep 2011 A non-UN-sanctioned US airstrike has left at least four people dead and several others wounded in Pakistan's troubled tribal belt, Press TV reports. Local security officials say the missiles fired from a US drone targeted a compound and a vehicle in the Hisokhel village of North Waziristan tribal region, a Press TV correspondent reported. The death toll is expected to rise as some of the injured are said to be in critical condition.
UK promoted sale of sniper rifles to Gaddafi just weeks before uprising began --Today's revelations will be seen as a fresh embarrassment for the Government. 10 Sep 2011 The British Government was promoting the sale of sniper rifles to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's government weeks before the outbreak of the uprising against him. Documents found by The Sunday Telegraph show that in December last year, Britain's ambassador in Tripoli was directly encouraging high-ranking figures within the Libyan army to visit Britain and view military equipment, including rifles and machine guns. Richard Northern, Britain's top diplomat in the Libyan capital, was joined by Maj Gen Jonathan Shaw, the Assistant Chief of the Defence Staff at the Ministry of Defence, for talks with the Libyan official in charge of buying weapons for Col Muammar Gaddafi's army.
Labour secretly put Libyan dissidents under house arrest at Gaddafi's behest following Blair's 'deal in the desert' --Top-secret documents discovered abandoned in ambassador's residence by the Mail on Sunday reveal Blair government's double-dealing 11 Sep 2011 Labour used controversial control orders to put Libyan dissidents in Britain under house arrest – at the behest of Colonel Gaddafi. The revelation will revive the debate about the draconian anti-terrorism measures and raise questions over whether they have been misused as tools of international diplomacy. The disclosure, in documents abandoned in the British Ambassador's residence in Tripoli, suggests at least 12 UK-based opponents of Gaddafi may have been double-crossed by the Labour Government.
WikiLeaks Gaza: US Army directly, physically, secretly, enforced Gaza blockade --Cable 08CAIRO1878, Strategy for the Gaza Border 10 Sep 2011 ...The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) conducted site surveys on the Gaza Border in June and at a training site in Giza, near Cairo, to support the GOE in deploying a U.S.-supplied seismic-acoustic counter-tunneling system (ref B), aiming to deploy this equipment on the Gaza border by early 2009. The GOE's agreement to accept this equipment after initial resistance in 2007 is a sign of increased bilateral cooperation on border security, and the new technology, which can detect the sounds of tunnel digging and movement through tunnels, should improve GOE interdiction efforts.
U.S. told Egypt it must rescue Israeli embassy workers or suffer 'consequences,' sources say 10 Sep 2011 The United States told Egypt's military rulers during an attack on the Israeli embassy in Cairo that they must act quickly in order to prevent Israeli personnel from being attacked by Egyptian protesters, Haaretz learned on Saturday. According to senior U.S. source that were involved in the attempt to resolve the Cairo incident, U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta called Supreme Military Council head Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, conveying what the source called a forceful message concerning the need for speed in Egypt's ending of the embassy attack. "There's no time to waste," Panetta reportedly told Tantawi in the 1 A.M. call, warning of a tragic outcome that "would have very severe consequences." The U.S. source also said that Tantawi failed to answer incoming calls from U.S. officials throughout the evening, finally answering after more than two hours of attempts. [Way to go, Tantawi!]
Three dead, 1,049 injured in Israeli embassy protests in Cairo 10 Sep 2011 Three died and 1,049 others were injured during protests at the Israeli embassy on Friday night, Egypt's health ministry said on Saturday. One death was because of a heart attack. 262 of the injured were rushed to different hospitals in Cairo while the others got medical treatment at the scene. Clashes between protestors and police forces were blamed for the casualties. Police used tear gas to disperse the crowds.
Egyptians storm Israeli Embassy building, remove flag --Hundreds of Egyptians partially tear down wall surrounding Israeli Embassy in Cairo, remove flag from building for second time this month. Over 200 Egyptians reportedly injured. Foreign Minister opens emergency situation room 10 Sep 2011 Hundreds of Egyptian activists on Friday demolished parts of the wall erected around a building housing the Israeli embassy in Cairo to protect it against demonstrators. Some of the protesters then stormed the embassy premises and tore down the flag from the building for the second time in less than a month.
Israel evacuates Cairo diplomats 10 Sep 2011 Israel evacuated its diplomatic staff from Cairo on Saturday after its embassy there was ransacked in protests that left three dead and more than 1,000 injured. Protesters broke into the Israeli embassy at the top of a high-rise building in Cairo and threw hundreds of documents out of the windows late on Friday night. Early on Saturday morning, police vehicles were set alight outside the embassy, according to Reuters.
Cairo protesters force Israeli envoy to flee after embassy attack 10 Sep 2011 Hundreds of Egyptian troops backed by armoured vehicles on Saturday took positions around the Israeli embassy in Cairo after protesters broke into and vandalised the premises, forcing the Israeli envoy to flee and prompting US to call for the protection of the Jewish mission. Egypt's military-led interim government declared a state of high alert as police clashed with protesters who raided the embassy building and in the violence one person died of heart attack and 450 were injured, state TV reported.
French JDL recruiting Jews with military experience to 'defend' Israeli settlements 11 Sep 2011 An extreme right-wing Jewish group in France is recruiting Jews with military experience for a solidarity mission to Israel in order to help "defend" Jewish settlements in the West Bank from Palestinian protesters who are expected to march toward some of them on or around September 20. The organization that put out the call for militant Jews is the French branch of the Jewish Defense League, or Kach, an organization banned in the United States and Israel, but tolerated in France.
Japan Investigates Online Posting of Obama Flight Plans --Ministry: Controller posted 12 pages of delicate information that included flight plans of Global Hawk drone gathering radiation readings near Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant 11 Sep 2011 Japanese officials moved to control diplomatic damage after an air traffic controller was questioned here for posting secret American flight information on his blog, including the detailed flight plans of Air Force One last November. The Transportation Ministry said Saturday that the controller, who works at Haneda Airport in Tokyo, could face charges of leaking national secrets. The breach also included the flight data of an American military reconnaissance drone.
Sea radiation from Fukushima seen triple Tepco estimate 10 Sep 2011 Radioactive material released into the sea in the Fukushima nuclear power plant crisis is more than triple the amount estimated by plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co, Japanese researchers say. Japan's biggest utility estimated around 4,720 trillion becquerels of cesium-137 and iodine-131 was released into the Pacific Ocean between March 21 and April 30, but researchers at the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) put the amount 15,000 trillion becquerels, or terabecquerels.
Democrats Fret Aloud Over Obama's Re-election 11 Sep 2011 Democrats are expressing growing alarm about President Obama's re-election prospects and, in interviews, are openly acknowledging anxiety about the White House's ability to strengthen the president's standing over the next 14 months. "In my district, the enthusiasm for him has mostly evaporated," said Representative Peter A. DeFazio, Democrat of Oregon. "There is tremendous discontent with his direction."
The Tent City of New Jersey: Desperate victims of the economic slump forced to live in makeshift homes in forest 02 Aug 2011 In scenes reminiscent of the Great Depression these are the ramshackle homes of the desperate and destitute U.S. families who have set up their own 'Tent City' only an hour from Manhattan. More than 50 homeless people have joined the community within New Jersey's forests as the economic crisis has wrecked their American dream. And as politicians in Washington trade blows over their country's £8.8 trillion debt, the prospect of more souls joining this rag tag group grows by the day.
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21 - Report : Israel may offer military aid to PKK to punish Turkey
Israel's hawkish foreign minister is planning a series of measures to retaliate against Turkey in an apology row, including military aid to the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), a news report said on Friday.
Other planned measures are cooperation with the Armenian lobby in the US in its efforts to win recognition for Armenian claims that 1.5 million Armenians were victims of a genocide campaign in the late Ottoman Empire during the First World War years and to issue a travel warning urging all Israeli military veterans to refrain from traveling to Turkey, according to the report in Yedioth Ahranoth. The travel advisory will also urge Israelis to refrain from boarding connections in Turkey, the report said.
The planned measures apparently came out of a meeting attended by senior Israeli Foreign Ministry officials on Thursday, which the report said was held in preparation for a meeting on Saturday that will be attended by Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, a harsh critic of efforts to restore relations with Turkey after Ankara announced a set of sanctions against Israel for its refusal to apologize for the killing of eight Turks and one Turkish American on an aid ship trying to break the blockade of Gaza on May 31, 2010.
Accordingly, Lieberman insists that the Israeli efforts should focus on ways to respond to Turkey's sanctions, not formulating an apology for the 2010 incident, because what Turkey is interested is not an apology but exploiting the dispute with Israel so as to boost its regional standing.
Saturday's meeting will reportedly focus on those ways to respond to Turkey.
The Turkish government announced last Friday that it downgrades diplomatic relations with Israel and suspends military agreements. It also promised to take measures to ensure freedom of navigation in the eastern Mediterranean, where the 2010 incident took place, without elaborating. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan declared on Thursday that Turkish warships would escort future convoys to the Gaza Strip to prevent a repeat of the deadly Israeli raid last year.
Yedioth Ahranoth said Lieberman plans meetings with PKK leaders in Europe in order to find ways to cooperate with them “in every possible area.”In these meetings, the PKK leaders may ask Israel for military aid in the form of training and arms supplies, the report said.
Lieberman is also planning active Israeli participation in efforts worldwide to report Turkey's “violations of human rights” in treatment of minorities in Turkey.
“We'll exact a price from Erdoğan that will prove to him that messing with Israel doesn't pay off. Turkey better treat us with respect and common decency,” Lieberman was quoted as saying.
Whether Lieberman's threats could ever be implemented remains questionable. Turkey's demand for an apology has divided the Israeli government, with hawks such as Lieberman strictly opposing it while others insisting that a way must be found to restore ties because Turkey is an ally of critical importance for Israel.
On Thursday, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Israel and Turkey will eventually mend fences rather than become foes, dismissing their apology dispute as “spilled milk.”
Speaking on Friday, another Israeli official said Erdoğan's threat of sending warships to eastern Mediterranean was “grave and serious” but refused to go into a war of words.
"Turkey, which declares that Israel is not above international law, must understand that it isn't either," Dan Meridor, the Israeli Cabinet minister in charge of intelligence, said. "I do not think it would be correct to get into verbal saber rattling with him now. I think that our silence is the best answer, and I hope this will pass " Meridor told Army Radio. "I think anyone who is listening can make their own mind up about him and the direction he has chosen.”
2011-09-09
Muhabir: todayszaman.com
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22 - Al Qaeda Is a Complete Fabrication – a Made in the USA production
Posted by PCLatest news, World newsFriday, September 9th, 2011
In the BBC’s documentary called “The Power of Nightmares“ top CIA officials openly admit that Al Qaeda is a total and complete fabrication, never having existed at any time. al Qaeda is code for illegal CIA false flag attacks against the United States and other countries. The highly revealing BBC documentary digs deep into the roots of the war on terror, only to find that much of the widespread fear in the post-9/11 world has been fabricated by those in power for their own interests. Fear has been used widely in the media to manipulate the public into giving up civil liberties and turning over power to elite groups with their own hidden agendas. The Power of Nightmares clearly demonstrates that the nightmare vision of a powerful, united terrorist organization waiting to strike our societies is largely an illusion. Wherever the BBC team looked for Al Qaeda, from the mountains of Afghanistan to the sleeper cells in America, they found that we are chasing a phantom enemy. The documentary exposes the Bush administration’s need for a reason that complied with the Laws so they could go after “the bad guy of their choice” namely laws that had been set in place to protect us from mobs and “criminal organizations” such as the Mafia. They paid Jamal al Fadl, hundreds of thousands of dollars to back the U.S. Government’s story of Al Qaeda, a “group” or criminal organization they could “legally” go after.
“Al Qaeda is not an organization. Al Qaeda is a way of working … but this has the hallmark of that approach.” People the US claim to be Al Qaeda are not Al Qaeda they are actually POWs and Resistance Fighters, taken from the countries the US illegally attacked. They are POWs and Resistance Fighters who have been illegally deported, tortured and murdered by the US and NATO forces . The people who are fighting to free their country and countrymen from the illegal US and NATO invasion and occupations are called Al Qaeda by the US government because the US government needed an enemy. If the US people knew the truth that Al Qaeda doesn’t exist the US would not be in Iraq or Afghanistan. Al Qaeda is the US government propaganda, used to falsely and illegally justify the US and NATO invasion and occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan. Both attacks, wars and occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan are deemed by US, Canadian and International Law as crimes against peace, crimes against humanity, wars of aggression and war crimes. The Iraqi, Afghan and Taliban people the US call terrorists are guilty of no crime. The Iraqi, Afghan and Taliban people are doing exactly as any country would do if attacked and occupied by a foreign state’s military, they are resisting. They are freedom fighters. Their actions of killing US and NATO soldiers are legal as their battles against the US and NATO forces are one of self-defense whereas the actions of the US and NATO are clearly attacks of aggression – war crimes. The US, Canadian and NATO countries are the terrorists. The US, Canadian and NATO countries are the enemy as they attacked Iraq and Afghanistan. Iraq and Afghanistan did not attack the US, Canada or any other NATO country. The people of Iraq and Afghanistan are the innocent victims of US, Canadian and NATO wars of aggression, crimes against peace, crimes against humanity and war crimes – kidnapping, deporting, torture and murder.
On June 16, 2004 staff members of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States testified that Osama bin Laden met with a top Iraqi official in 1994 but found “no credible evidence” of a link between Iraq and Al Qaeda in attacks against the United States. No link has ever been found between Al Qaeda and Iraq or Al Qaeda and Afghanistan because Al Qaeda does not exist. Al Qaeda Is a Complete Fabrication. The CIA is trying to tell us something that they publicly can’t with their “official” terrorist buster logo. They are stating that terrorists are like ghosts. Everyone is afraid of them, but nobody has proof they even exist.
Another eye-opening video available online for free viewing is Unconstitutional. In this documentary, interviews with ranking members of Congress, top legal experts, and even a former CIA chief describe many insidious efforts to take away freedoms guaranteed under the US Constitution for over 200 years.
Compelling video footage shows US citizens, from law-abiding store clerks to a US Olympian, who have been the victims of unconstitutional policies established under the Patriot Act. Members of Congress describe the replacement of the previously agreed upon Patriot Act by another version quietly slipped into its place just hours before the final vote in Congress, leaving no one time to read the many devastating changes inserted at the last minute.
Unconstitutional: The War on Our Civil Liberties, is the third in a series of Public Interest Pictures films that follows Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election and Uncovered: The War on Iraq. True to their legacy, Unconstitutional provides the facts and stories that illuminate administration lies, wrongheaded policies, and the real victims of these actions–the American people. Here, you’ll get the real story behind the USA PATRIOT Act and other administration policies that tries, illegally, to strip the US people of their Constitutional Rights and Freedoms. Their goal is to one day permanently suspend the United States Constitution after launching another attack against their own country, the US, and falsely blame the totally fictitious terrorist organization they call Al Qaeda. They will launch another 9/11 style attack against the US but this time they will declare Martial Law.
The martial law in the U.S. is closely tied with the right of habeas corpus, which is in essence the right to a hearing on lawful imprisonment, or more broadly, the supervision of law enforcement by the judiciary. The ability to suspend habeas corpus is often equated with martial law. Article 1, Section 9 of the U.S. Constitution states, “The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.”
In United States law, martial law is limited by several court decisions that were handed down between the American Civil War and World War II. In 1878, Congress passed the Posse Comitatus Act, which forbids military involvement in domestic law enforcement without congressional approval. On October 1, 2002 United States Northern Command was established (in direct violation of the Posse Comitatus Act) to provide command and control of Department of Defense homeland defense efforts and to coordinate defense support of civil authorities.[11].
On June 15, 1995, Norman Olson, along with militia leaders from other states, testified before the United States Senate Subcommittee on Terrorism. Olson’s opening statement included the following:
One other important point needs to be made. Since The Constitution is the limiting document upon the government, the government cannot become greater than the granting power. That is, the servant cannot become greater than its master. Therefore, should the chief executive or the other branch of government or all branches together act to suspend The Constitution under a rule of martial law, all power granted to government would be cancelled and differed back to the granting power. That is the people. And I’ll conclude with this statement: Martial law shall NOT be possible in this country as long as the people recognize the bill of rights as inalienable.
Al Jazeera used by the US government as it’s propaganda media outlet for its “War of Terror”
Al Jazeera is the largest and most controversial Arabic News Channel in the Middle East, offering news coverage 24 hours a day from around the world and focusing on the hottest regions of conflict. Founded in 1996, and based in Qatar, the Al Jazeera news network is the fastest growing network among Arab communities and Arabic speaking people around the world. It has been the main propaganda news media for the US immediately following the September 11, 2001 attacks, when the US government paid Al Jazeera to broadcast videos in which Osama bin Laden and Sulaiman Abu Ghaith defending and justifying the attacks. That broadcast has since been proven by both US government and International government officials as fakes. The fake video tapes that were sent to Al Jazeera through the CIA was created in the US at Allied Media Corp.
Every time Al Jazeera reported on a new video or audio from Al Qaeda or bin Laden which makes threats against the US the audio or video was actually made in the studios of Allied Media Corp – screenshot above. The financial trail connects the Bush administration to Allied Media Corp. Government documents reveal the work that Allied Media Corp was paid to do for the Bush administration to terrorize the American people. The Bush administration was able to strip the American people of their inalienable rights and freedoms because of the video and audio tapes that were made by Allied Media Corp and aired by Al Jazeera. The US government paid Allied Media Corp to produce video tapes and audio tapes that made terrorist threats against the American people. This is essentially the US making threats against itself.
Allied Media Corp erased it’s connection with Al Jazeera when George W Bush left office. They lost their contract to supply the U.S. government with high quality audio and video tapes of al Qaeda and bin Laden making threats against the U.S. Its contract was recently renewed by the Obama administration and its website has an entire section dedicated to Al Jazeera. Allied Media Corp will be responsible for Al Jazeera programming. Al Jazeera will again be a made the U.S. Middle East propaganda tool.
When George W Bush left office Allied Media Corp tries to erase all links between them and Al Jazeera. They feared Obama would try the Bush administration for war crimes. To further distance itself from its former main financial backer, the U.S. government, Allied Media Corp marketed itself under the name AMC. They tried to erase its involvement in U.S. government propaganda and terrorism via Bush administration ordered fake Al Qaeda tapes. Allied Media Corp not only erased all Al Jazeera connections it contacted independent news agencies including nbGazette.com (PRESS Core’s former name) to get the independent news agencies to erase any and all reports that connected Allied Media Corp and Al Jazeera. This was our response. The truth cannot be concealed. The truth cannot be altered. History cannot be changed.
The following link is proof of a link between Allied Media Corp and fake al Qaeda audio and videos. Allied Media Corp makes Al Jazeera terrorists threat videos. They didn’t have a contract with Obama government but now that the U.S. government is trying to sell the public on an imminent al Qaeda threat against the U.S. they have been given another contract to restart the propaganda against Muslims.
Every video, every audio tape of bin Laden or the phantom Al Qaeda making threats against the US has been made in the USA. The studios of Allied Media Corp made the videos and audio tapes for the former Bush administration to further the US War of Terror and wars of aggression against its own people and other sovereign nations. The post 9/11 video tape of bin Laden supposedly confessing to carrying out the attacks against the US was a fake and the person we are suppose to believe is bin Laden is an actor. George W Bush used Allied Media Corp to create videos and audio tapes of actors portraying bin Laden and al Qaeda making threats against the US in order to influence and coerce Congress into giving him dictatorial powers and rob the US people of their civil rights and freedoms.
bin Laden did not take away your freedom the Bush White House did. bin Laden did not attack the U.S. on September 11, 2001 your own government did. bin Laden didn’t bankrupt the U.S. your own government did – throughout history all major empires have collapsed as a result of very costly prolonged wars of aggression campaigns. bin Laden and Saddam Hussein didn’t kill over 1 million innocent Iraqi civilians your U.S. government did – first the Clinton administration, then George W Bush and Dick Cheney’s administration and now Obama’s administration. Al Qaeda is and always has been a Made in the USA terrorist organization. Terrorism is a Made in the U.S. political agenda.
Just as dreams are not real, neither are these nightmares. The idea that we are threatened by a hidden and organized terrorist network is an illusion. It is a myth that has spread unquestioned through politics, the security services and the international media. The terrorist organization Al Qaeda does not exist and never did. Al Qaeda is the US government’s code name for illegal CIA terrorist operations against foreign states and the US people.
The Vatican’s Nazi SS (Latin name for Holy See is Sancta Sedes or SS) formed the CIA
At the end of WWII the US smuggled hundreds of top Nazi SS officers, Gestapo agents and scientists involved in experiments on the Jewish people in the concentration camps. Operation Paperclip (Project Paperclip) saw hundreds of Nazi officials given asylum in the US (Fort Bliss) from prosecution for their crimes against humanity. Scientists who committed atrocities by using human beings as lab rats have formed the US biological weapons division of the US military. Nazi scientists who developed the first operational jet fighter, the Messerschmitt Me 262, and V-2 rocket formed the US ballistic missile weapons programs and later form NASA. Nazi Gestapo (German Intelligence Agencies) agents were brought to the US and formed the FBI and the Central Intelligence Agency – the CIA.
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23 - Gates: Israel an ‘Ungrateful Ally’
Posted By Jason Ditz On September 6, 2011
Though tensions in the relationship between the US and Israeli governments rarely get aired in public, there is a general sense in media reporting that difficulties between the two are on the rise, with comments by former Defense Secretary Robert Gates underscoring the seriousness.
In comments at the National Security Council Principals Committee, former Secretary Gates termed the Israeli government an “ungrateful ally,” insisting they had offered “nothing in return” for massive amounts of US aid and high level intel sharing.
The context of the comments is equally telling, coming amid reports of an FBI whistleblower’s attempts to reveal the details of spying on the Israeli embassy. Though the attempted leak failed to go public, it is now revealed that it detailed “Israeli officials trying unlawfully to influence US policy and edging toward military action against Iran.”
Israel’s keenness to start a US war with Iran is hardly a secret, of course, but the fact that it has gone from unspoken truth to newspaper topic speaks volumes, and suggests the “nothing in return” is starting to wear a bit thin.
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12 Slain as Rebel Factions Clash in Libya - September 11th, 2011
Evidence Grows of Libyan Rebel Regime's Torture of Prisoners - September 11th, 2011
A Look Back: Taliban Offered Bin Laden Trial Before 9/11 - September 11th, 2011
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DICK EASTMAN : I believe the quake was a nuclear bomb set off in the underground cities that we know exist -- but I do not buy that the explosion was "good guys" thwarting a new terrorism event. I believe there is a secret war going on between Mossad controlled US governance and remnants of national loyalists and I believe that the explosion could only have been the work of the former against the latter. Picture Rahm Emanuel or Dov Zakheim or Janet Napalitano or the Mossad team of 9-11 blowing up the office of Naval Intelligence at the Pentagon or Hillary Clinton assigning Federal Secret Service men who knew too much to Oaklahoma City just before the Murrah Federal Building was blown up with inside bombs that total official corruption blamed on a truck bomb parked 70 feet away -- it would never happen the other way around.
24 - Seismic Evidence Reveals Underground Detonation South of Washington D.C.
This info disappeared on the web Thursday August 25th, 2011.
So I copied to keep it forever here. It will not be lost!
Wednesday
August 24, 2011
Seismology charts are now revealing that the 5.8 magnitude tremor that rattled the entire East Coast including Washington DC was not a natural earthquake but an earthquake that resulted from an underground nuclear detonation. The image above is a seismograph from Washington and Lee University, (similar one found onwww2.tricities.com website) about 85 miles southwest of the earthquake’s epicenter in Mineral. The green lines indicates the tremor that was felt in Washington DC which caused damaged to the Washington Memorial and the Washington National Cathedral. The black lines is a transparent overlay of a seismograph from a pdf file from Virginia Division Mineral Resources on Earthquakes. That file describes a typical natural occurring earthquake as:
“When a fault ruptures, energy is released in the form of seismic waves. The first waves to reach the earth’s surface are primary or “P” waves (Figure 2). P waves are compressional waves that travel at a speed of about four miles per second near the surface – faster as depth increases. The next waves to reach the earth’s surface are secondary or “S” waves. S waves are shear waves that move at a speed of about 1.5 miles per second. P and S waves are body waves that travel through the earth much like sonar waves travel through water. Surface waves, which are slower than S waves, travel along the surface of the earth much like waves at the surface of the ocean. S waves and surface waves cause the most destruction at the earth’s surface.”
What is missing from the seismograph for the Washington DC area 5.8 magnitude earthquake are the primary or “P” waves. All earthquakes that are the direct result of fault rupture have these primary or “P” waves. Nuclear detonations do not. Underground nuclear detonations are very violent and immediate with no forewarnings whatsoever. An underground detonation would account for the missing “P” seismic waves for the Washington DC 5.8 magnitude earthquake. If you’ve ever witnessed a controlled demolition of a building you would no doubt describe the earth tremors as millions of people are now describing what it felt like on August 23, 2011 all along the East coast.
I was pointed to this overlooked piece of evidence by someone who claimed to be with the United States Air Force. The story submission appeared to be sent by mistake as nothing was visible in the body of the submission. Instead of sending it to the trash I thought I would apply an old intelligence trick I was taught back in 1989. I right clicked my mouse on the body of the submission and selected all, then copy. I then opened up the notepad and selected paste from the menu. You would expect nothing to be pasted as there was nothing in the body of the submission but, just as I thought, a paragraph was pasted into the notepad. What was revealed was 1 paragraph whereby who ever sent it stated he was a member of the United States Air Force. He stated that the Virginia 5.8 magnitude earth “wasn’t a natural earthquake and not a HAARP earthquake”. He told me to find a seismograph of the Washington DC area earthquake and compare it to a past earthquake. Then he stated that I should Google DUMB or Deep Underground Military Bases. He ended by stating “the ABC warnings are real”. I tried to trace the IP of the submission but they don’t exists.
Based on the discrepancy between a natural earthquake and an underground nuclear detonation (used seismographs from the North Korea underground nuclear detonation and past U.S. underground nuclear tests), it would appear that yes there was an earthquake but an earthquake created as a result of an underground nuclear detonation. It would also appear that the United States Air Force has intercepted a nuclear bomb that was being transported via the deep underground tunnel systems that links secret deep underground military bases across the United States, to Washington DC. It would appear that some people in the United States Air Force are taking action to prevent another false flag attack on US soil. It is good to know that there are still people in the United States military who are upholding their oath to defend the United States from all its enemies, both foreign and domestic.
U.S. military personnel, dedicated to protecting the United States, its people and the United States Constitution have intercepted CIA/MOSSAD nukes that were in transit from the CIA’s underground Denver base to Washington DC on August 23, 2011. The CIA/MOSSAD were transporting the nukes underground in tunnels built by the United States Air Force that connects secret underground bases throughout the United States. In case of a cataclysmic natural disaster or nuclear attack the United States government now has the means to go underground and stay underground for weeks, months, years or until such time as it is safe to return to the surface. Those tunnels makes it possible for the president and a handful of others to escape Washington DC via underground to other parts of the country not affected by a natural cataclysmic disaster or nuclear attack.
The U.S. military allowed the nukes to be transported out of Denver (the CIA base is under Denver International Airport) to what they call safe areas. Safe areas were preselected to minimize the damage and nuclear fallout should the people that were transferring the nukes prematurely detonated the nukes. The two earthquakes that struck the U.S. yesterday August 23, 2011 were the result of the U.S. military efforts to prevent another false flag attack against the United States. Thanks to those brave men and women those nukes were intercepted in scarcely populated remote areas. The first interception took place outside of Trinidad and under a mountain and the second interception took place under farmland 84 miles SW of Washington DC. No major damage has been reported above ground.
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25 - A 911 Espionage Quiz !
'' IT’S THE ARABS, STUPID ''
September 11th, 2001-----------September 11th 2011
In memory of the 3000 Americans who were
murdered on September 11th, 2001.
Throughout the year 2000 and the months leading up to the attack on September 11th, 2001, numerous foreign nationals of middle eastern origin were detected by American internal security observing and surveilling federal institutions in more than six states. This included the cities of Dallas, Houston, New York, and Miami. These foreign nationals also attempted to penetrate 36 high security military installations. They carried fake passports, and often posed as “art students” trying to sell their wares. (It was later determined that the so-called art was "manufactured" in China.) They also carried walkie talkies that were capable of encrypted communications. One of these foreigners was arrested while walking the halls of the Dallas Federal building. At the time of his arrest he was carrying the actual building plans for the federal building. And, others were found to have long lists of the names and addresses of high ranking U.S. Government officers, both civilian and military. More than 200 of these foreigners were arrested and charged with espionage. Subsequently, they were released and allowed to return to their home. When the attack occurred on September 11th 2001, Fox News ran an extensive four part series on this incident characterizing it “as the largest spy ring in U.S. history.” This report was met with strong protest by representatives of the foreign country whose citizens had been charged with espionage. Fox removed the story from its archives. Fox now reports that “the story no longer exists.” (For those interested the story has been archived at several sites on the internet.)http://theuglytruth.wordpress.com/2011/09/06/lest-we-forget-what-did-israel-know-in-advance-of-the-911-attacks/ http://www.progressiveconvergence.com/nuclearfalseflagmail.htmhttp://www.american-buddha.com/911.israeliartstudent2.htm
Question 1. How many of the two hundred people arrested for espionage were Arabs? What were their countries of origin?
On September 11th, 2001, the day New York City was attacked, two men of middle eastern origin were arrested by the New York City police department after fleeing a van that was stopped on King Street between Sixth and Seventh avenue. The van was painted with a mural depicting an airplane crashing into New York City. The van subsequently exploded.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CHq6JocvDM http://www.american-buddha.com/911.israeliartstudent2.htm
Question 2. How many of those arrested were Arabs? What were their countries of origin?
On the day New York City was attacked New York Police Security personnel stopped a white Chevrolet Van on the approach to the George Washington Bridge. Inside the van were “tons of explosives.” Two men of middle eastern origin were arrested. The New York City Police Department said that if the van had exploded it could have severely damaged or destroyed the George Washington Bridge. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CHq6JocvDM http://www.american-buddha.com/911.israeliartstudent2.htm
Question 3. How many of those arrested by the NYPD were Arabs? What were their countries of origin?
On the morning of September 11th, 2001, five men, all foreign nationals, and of middle eastern origin, were observed by Bergen City, N.J. residents, setting up video and still cameras on top of a moving van. The Chevrolet van bore the sign “Urban Moving Systems.” The location of this incident was in New Jersey directly across the river from the World Trade Center. When the first plane hit the north tower, irate witnesses complained immediately to the Bergen, New Jersey police department that these same five men were not only filming the attack, but they were celebrating the event. They were observed joyously jumping up and down, “high fiving” congratulating themselves, and lighting cigarette lighters in front of the cameras while the WTC burned in the background. These same five men were again seen celebrating on a rooftop in Weehawken, New Jersey as 3000 Americans perished in the attack. When the Bergen City police department arrested them, they had in their possession phoney identification, numerous passports, maps of New York City with certain areas highlighted, box cutters, and one man had $4700 in cash stuffed in his sock. Police dogs were summoned and the dogs immediately detected the presence of explosive residue. The men were arrested and turned over to the FBI and the CIA for questioning. All five repeatedly failed polygraph examinations. Seventy days later, after considerable pressure from their own country, the five men were quietly released and allowed to return home. Later these five men appeared on a local television talk show, in their home country, where they admitted that they were “sent to New York to document the event.” The FBI later confirmed that at least three of the men arrested were known intelligence agents of a foreign country. http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/fiveisraelis.html
http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=123885&page=1 http://www.american-buddha.com/911.israeliartstudent2.htm
Question 4. How many of the five foreign nationals arrested and detained by the FBI were Arabs? What were their country of origin?
The employer for the five foreign nationals mentioned in question 4, was Urban Moving Systems, located in Bergen, New Jersey. Two days after the attack the owner of Urban Moving Systems left the USA—literally in the middle of the night. In his haste to escape the country he left his entire business, including trucks, building, business equipment, phones, and computers. In fact, he left several warehouses filled with the furniture of his customers. He has never returned to the USA. Shortly after escaping the U.S., the FBI put the owner on a “wanted list” as a suspect involved with the 911 attack. A prominent newspaper in the New York area stated that it was well known in intelligence circles that Urban Moving Systems was an espionage “front operation.” And the CIA issued a statement confirming that it was common practice to use moving companies as fronts for espionage.
http://911liarsexposed.blogspot.com/2011/02/is-dominick-suter-back-in-us.htmlhttps://wikispooks.com/wiki/9/11:Israel_did_it
Question 5. Was the owner of Urban Moving Systems an Arab? What was his country of origin?
Shortly after the attack on New York City, the Ohio State Police arrested six men, all of whom were foreign nationals. The six men were driving in two white Ford Sedans, with three men in each car. It has never been revealed the exact reason for the arrests. The six men had in their possession photographs and the plans for three nuclear power plants in Florida. They also had photographs and the plans for the 800 mile long Alaskan oil pipeline. The six men had valid passports issued by a middle eastern country. After extensive interrogation, the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) released the six men. It is believed that they escaped through Canada. It is reported that upon learning of this incident the FBI was infuriated by the actions of the INS. http://www.american-buddha.com/911.israeliartstudent2.htm
Question 6. How many of the six men arrested were Arabs? What were there countries of origin?
The next event may be out of context, but it is included here, because it is undoubtedly related to the 911 attack. Literally within days of the attack on New York City, a “terrorist” attack in Mexico City was foiled. Two foreign nationals posing as reporters entered the Mexican Parliament building in Mexico City. They were arrested by Mexican security personnel before the two men could harm anyone. The men were carrying phony Pakistani passports. Each man was armed with a 9 millimeter pistol. Between them they also carried nine hand grenades, large quantities of C4 Plastique explosives and detonators. After considerable pressure by their own country, they were quietly released by Mexican authorities, and allowed to return home.http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/mex.html http://www.fpp.co.uk/online/01/12/Mexico2.html
Question 7. How many of those arrested by Mexican authorities were Arabs? What were their countries of origin?
Following the attacks on September 11, 2001, the espionage committed by foreigners while using moving vans continued. Here are just a few of the known incidents:
October 1, 2001, Plymouth, Pennsylvania: Two men and a women, all foreign nationals, while driving a moving van with the logo "Moving Systems Incorporated," were arrested by the Plymouth, Pennsylvania Police. The women carried a German passport in one name, and prescription medication in another name. The operator of the truck claimed that he was in Plymouth to make a delivery of furniture but he was unable to identify his customer either by name or address. The truck they were driving was impounded by the State of Pennsylvania, Motor Carrier Inspector, because it was determined that the operators log had been falsified. Also, the men had in their possession a Sony Video Camera with extensive close up footage of the Sears Tower in Chicago. The three were turned over to the FBI and the Immigration and Naturalization Service. http://www.progressiveconvergence.com/nuclearfalseflagmail.htm
Question 8. How many of those arrested were Arabs? What were their countries of origin?
November 1, 2001, Erwin Tennessee: Two men, both foreign nationals, while driving a large moving van were arrested after a high speed chase on U.S. highway 23. They were charged with speeding, and reckless driving. This incident occurred near the Nuclear Fuel Services Plant in Erwin, Tennessee, which is the exclusive source of nuclear fuel cores for the Navy nuclear submarine fleet. In the truck was a load of “junk furniture.” The driver had a counterfeit Florida drivers license. The second man had a phoney I..D card. One of the men had in his possession a “learn to fly” brochure from a company in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The men were unable to explain the nature of their business in Erwin, Tennessee. Both men were subsequently released and deported.http://www.progressiveconvergence.com/nuclearfalseflagmail.htm
Question 9. How many of the men arrested were Arabs? What was their country of origin?
May 8, 2002, Whidbey Island Naval Air Station, Oak Harbor, Washington: Two men, both foreign nationals, while driving a moving van after midnight with a load of junk furniture were arrested for speeding near the Whidbey Island Naval Air Station. One man had a phony passport. The other had no identification at all. When the military police brought in the dogs they immediately detected the presence of RDX and TNT explosive residue. Both men were charged with entering the country illegally, but were subsequently released. http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/hundreds.htmlhttp://www.american-buddha.com/911.israeliartstudent2.htm
Question 10. How many of the men arrested were Arabs? What was their country of origin?
June 9, 2003, Cloudcroft, New Mexico: Two men, both foreign nationals, while driving a moving van, were arrested for speeding in a school zone. They had drivers licenses issued by a middle eastern country, but the passports held by these men were both forgeries. They had no log books, or manifests. All they had was a rental agreement that had expired. First they told the police they were enroute from Austin, Texas to Chicago. When the police officer told them they were hundreds of miles off course, they claimed they were going to make a delivery in Deming, New Mexico, but they could not identify either the name or address of their customer. The truck contained "junk furniture" that, according to the police, "was not fit for donation to Goodwill" and fifty boxes of cargo that remains unidentified to this day. The men and the truck were turned over to FBI for further investigation. http://www.progressiveconvergence.com/nuclearfalseflagmail.htm http://www.lizmichael.com/israel.htm
Question 11. How many of the men arrested were arabs? What was their country of origin?
May 24, 2004, Kings Bay Navy Base, St. Mary's Georgia: Two men, both foreign nationals, attempted to penetrate the Kings Bay Naval base, (this the home of eight Ohio class ballistic missile submarines), on the pretense that they were delivering furniture. When they were unable to provide any identification they were immediately arrested by base security personnel. Bomb sniffing dogs were summoned and they immediately detected the presence of explosive residue. The base was placed in "lock down," and both the FBI, and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation were summoned.
A briefcase was removed from the truck through the use of a remote controlled robot. The men were questioned by the FBI and then deported.http://www.progressiveconvergence.com/nuclearfalseflagmail.htm
Question 12. How many of the men arrested were Arabs? What were their countries of origin?
Bonus question--worth an additional 911 points. This event happened more than forty years ago, but it is definitely related to the attack on September 11th, 2001. On June 8, 1967, during the Israeli/Egyptian war, the U.S.S. Liberty, a Navy electronic intelligence gathering ship was cruising in international waters just off the coast of Egypt. The Liberty was suddenly and without warning attacked by unmarked air and naval forces. The attack lasted nearly two hours. (This followed nearly nine hours of constant aerial surveillance). During that time the Liberty was hit by 4,000 projectiles including cannon shells, rockets napalm and one naval torpedo. Thirty four American sailors, including the Executive Officer, were murdered, and 171 others were seriously injured. Later Captain Ward Boston, the naval officer assigned to investigate the attack for the U.S. Navy, was quoted as saying: "Those goddam murdering bastards intended to kill everyone on board." http://www.gtr5.com/ http://www.usslibertyveterans.org/
Question 13. Which Arab nation was responsible for this savage and unprovoked attack on this U.S. Naval warship?
If you answered either "no" or "none" to any of the above 12 questions, then congratulations. You scored 100% on the 911 Espionage Quiz. However, it should be emphasized that all of the incidents noted above actually happened. All of the incidents noted above involved foreign nationals, and those foreign nationals were all of the same nationality. (ISRAEL) And, all of the incidents noted above have been ignored or suppressed by the mainstream media in the interest of protecting the guilty.
Why is this important? Because September 11, 2001 was indeed a day that will "live in infamy." September 11th 2001 was a FALSE FLAG attack, designed to implicate Iraq and other Arab nations in the attack. Not even the government continues to adhere this nonsense. Yet, no other single event has done more to adversely change the political, economic and social landscape of the American Republic.
It is important because we are now ten years down the road and there has been NO murder investigation, NO grand jury impaneled, NO arrests, and NO convictions for the greatest single act of mass murder in U.S. history. The people who did this literally got away with mass murder.
It is important because the murderers are still out there, spying on the USA, committing sabotage, and killing Americans.
It is important because we as a nation have become so complacent, fat, stupid and lazy that we cannot even identify our enemies.
It is important because we are going to be attacked again!
From the Ghost of Captain William L. McGonagle, USN,
Commanding Officer, U.S.S Liberty, AGTR5.
p.s. What appears above is just a smattering of incidents that have occured SINCE the attack on September 11th, 2001. For further research one of the most exhaustive and thorough reports can be found at http://www.american-buddha.com/911.israeliartstudent2.htm
" If a nation expects to be both ignorant and free...it expects what never was and never will be."
Thomas Jefferson.
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26 - The Israeli Mossad Assassinated JFK
by Mark Dankof
The American news media, for all the usual and most obvious reasons, has systematically ignored the most explosive news story in years, made all the more relevant by the countdown to further conflict in the Middle East as credible rumors continue to surface that Israel and the United States are planning an act of preemptive war against Iran in coming months.
The story, which appeared in the Express Newspapers of India on Monday, July 26th, quotes Israeli nuclear whistleblower Mordecai Vanunu as crediting the Israeli Mossad with the assassination of President Kennedy. Even more incredibly, Vanunu states specifically that the motive for the assassination of Kennedy on the part of the Israeli government was related to the American President's insistence that the Zionist State come clean about its nuclear program at the infamous Dimona plant in the Negev desert.
Vanunu was released by the Israeli authorities in April after 18 years imprisonment for a treason conviction related to the disclosure of state secrets regarding the Israelis' nuclear program. His sensational public charge about the involvement of the Mossad in the Kennedy murder might simply be relegated to the realm of the utterances of a disgruntled or imbalanced man, except for one additional item.
Michael Collins Piper, the author of Final Judgment: The Missing Link in the JFK Assassination Conspiracy, has made a previous case for Israel's direct involvement in the Dealey Plaza murder of John Kennedy on November 22, 1963 that is both plausible and compelling. The Vanunu account simply underscores and corroborates the case Piper made originally over a decade ago. The converging accounts of the two men are most disturbing.
Piper tells the reader of Final Judgment that 1963 proved to be a pivotal year in a publicly unreported conflict between America's 35th President and Israeli Prime Minister David Ben Gurion, principally over Israel's failure to submit its Dimona operation to International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspection, and secondarily to a negotiated settlement with the Palestinians. He subsequently proceeds to discuss the principle alleged players in the assassination plot itself in a way which corroborates the research of such respected Kennedy assassination scholars as the UK's Anthony Summers and University of Texas professor Jim Marrs. Readers of the work of Summers and Marrs will be intimately familiar with names like Sam Giancana, Johnny Roselli, Carlos Marcello, Guy Banister, William Harvey, William Sullivan, George de Mohrenschildt, James Jesus Angleton, Richard Helms, Alpha 66, and Santos Trafficante. Typically, the demonstrated links of these individuals with organized crime syndicates, the anti-Castro Cuban exilic community of the early 1960s, and an element of the Central Intelligence Agency involved with the first two groups, has resulted in past tentative conclusions that the crux of the plot that took Mr. Kennedy's life involved a convergence of interest of these three (3) key constituencies involved in a sordid triumvirate deliberately concealed from the American public 40 years ago by the Warren Commission.
Piper does not discredit this conclusion reached by his predecessors in their research of the circumstances that led specific individuals to participate in a plot to kill the President. He simply demonstrates what has been hidden from view before now: that those fingered by the meticulous academic research of Summers, Marrs, and others, have even deeper demonstrable associations with the Israeli lobby and Israeli intelligence.
Final Judgment's case in this regard is principally built on the key significance of Meyer Lansky as the real power player in American organized crime in the 1950s and 1960s, the superior of Giancana, Roselli, Marcello, Mickey Cohen, Mickey Weiner, Moe Dalitz, Frank Costello, and others previously mentioned as participants in the Kennedy conspiracy. In turn, Lansky's role as a committed Zionist and fund-raiser for the State of Israel involved direct, palpable links between his criminal empire, his Miami-based banks, and the Banque de Credit International (BCI) in Geneva, Switzerland. This latter entity served as the European-based money laundering center for Mr. Lansky's global activities. BCI in turn, was headed up by an Israeli banker, Tibor Rosenbaum, former Director for Finances and Supply for the Israeli Mossad. Piper then demonstrates that BCI was a chief share holder in a Rome-based corporation called CMC/Permindex, whose chairman of the board was none other than Louis M. Bloomfield of Montreal, Canada, a major fund-raiser for Israel and known asset for Israeli intelligence. CMC/Permindex, in turn, proves to be a major point of intersection which brings the shadowy Bloomfield into direct or indirect contact with Clay Shaw (the chief target of the Jim Garrison JFK investigation in New Orleans), Guy Banister, James Jesus Angleton, FBI Division 5 chief William Sullivan (who spearheaded the FBI investigation for the Warren Commission and served as FBI liaison and friend of Angleton), ex-Cuban President Carlos Prio Socarras (provable gun-running business partner of Oswald assassin Jack Ruby), Ernest Israel Japhet (chairman and president of Israeli Bank Leumi), Shaul Eisenberg (a key figure in Israel's nuclear bomb development and participant with Rosenbaum in the Swiss-Israel Trade Bank), elements of the French nationalist Secret Army Organization (OAS), CIA agent Theodore Shackley (the CIA's chief of station in Miami during the CIA-Lansky assassination plots against Fidel Castro), and Abe Feinberg, New York Jewish businessman used by Ben Gurion as the liaison for secret meetings with President Kennedy to resolve the dispute of the latter two over Dimona. It is thus the BCI and CMC/Permindex players and links which Piper employs to show that the players, alliances, and assets were firmly in place to bring those with motive, means, and opportunity together in a plot which culminated in Dallas.
Secondarily, Piper buttresses his case by showing the results for Israel subsequent to the tragedy in Dallas in November of 1963. The removal of Kennedy brought an end to American demands for IAEA inspections of the Israeli nuclear program, and the ascension to the White House of Lyndon Johnson, whose long ties to Meyer Lansky and Carlos Marcello had assisted the barefoot boy of the Texas Hill Country in his arrival at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. More significantly, Johnson's arrival in the Oval Office represented a sea change in American Middle Eastern policy, establishing for Piper the Israel-First direction of every American Chief Executive from LBJ onward, to the detriment of the independence of the American government from the undue influence of the Israeli lobby, the maintenance of regional peace and stability in the most dangerous area of the globe, and any vestiges of hope for positive American political relationships with the Islamic world.
The Vanunu-Piper allegations about Israel will not go away. The revelations of direct Israeli connections to key members of the Neo-Conservative foreign policy team of George W. Bush most desirous of conflict with Iraq; the virtual ownership of the United States Congress by the American-Israeli Political Action Committee (AIPAC); and the sycophancy of John Kerry toward these same interests, will culminate in a political boiling point in the United States if an expanded American involvement in a Middle Eastern war, the re-institution of an American Draft, and further instances of Middle East-related terrorism in the American homeland end up being connected by the public to the interests of Israel and Zionism and not those of the United States. Further exposure and corroboration of the Vanunu-Piper charges that the Israeli government was the driving force behind the death of John F. Kennedy--in conjunction with further exposure of Tel Aviv's ongoing manipulation of the American government and media in issues of War and Empire-will commence a mass revolt against the policy elites that neither Tel Aviv nor Washington will be able to contain or control.
Between now and the first Tuesday in November, the policy elites will do their best to conceal fair disclosure and debate over who controls the present process and benefits by it. Suppression of information will be their modus operandi. Bush, Kerry, and their respective pals in Corporate America and Big Media will do their best to obfuscate the truth, ignore the discussion of the core issues of War and Peace, and hide the real identity of their financiers and handlers through such information suppression. Suppressing any serious examination or dissemination of the Vanunu-Piper case against Israel is already a done deal. It is a real shame. Pity us, the "free" American Republic, that no one will ask our two Presidential aspirants some pressing questions in the days ahead, including what they think of the following Presidential document from 41 years ago.
July 5, 1963
Dear Mr. Prime Minister (Levi Eshkol of Israel):
It gives me great personal pleasure to extend congratulations as you assume your responsibilities as Prime Minister of Israel. You have our friendship and best wishes in your new tasks. It is on one of these that I am writing you at this time.
You are aware, I am sure, of the exchange which I had with Prime Minister Ben-Gurion concerning American visits [i.e.: inspections] to Israel's nuclear facility at Dimona. Most recently, the Prime Minister wrote to me on May 27th. His words reflected a most intense personal consideration of a problem that I know is not easy for your Government, as it is not for mine. We welcomed the former Prime Minister's strong reaffirmation that Dimona will be devoted exclusively to peaceful purposes and the reaffirmation also of Israel's willingness to permit periodic visits [inspections] to Dimona.
I regret having to add to your burdens so soon after your assumption of office, but I feel the crucial importance of this problem necessitates my taking up with you at this early date certain further considerations, arising out of Mr. Ben-Gurion's May 27th letter, as to the nature and scheduling of such visits.
I am sure you will agree that these visits should be nearly as possible in accord with international standards, thereby resolving all doubts as to the peaceful intent of the Dimona project. As I wrote Mr. Ben-Gurion, this Government's commitment to and support of Israel could be seriously jeopardized if it should be thought that we were unable to obtain reliable information on a subject as vital to the peace as the question of Israel's effort in the nuclear field.
Therefore, I asked our scientists to review the alternative schedules of visits we and you had proposed. If Israel's purposes are to be clear beyond reasonable doubt, I believe that the schedule which would best serve our common purposes would be a visit early this summer, another visit in June 1964, and thereafter at intervals of six months. I am sure that such a schedule should not cause you any more difficulty than that which Mr. Ben-Gurion proposed in his May 27th letter. It would be essential, and I understand that Mr. Ben-Gurion's letter was in accord with this, that our scientists have access to all areas of the Dimona site and to any related part of the complex, such as fuel fabrication facilities or plutonium separation plant, and that sufficient time be allotted for a thorough examination.
Knowing that you fully appreciate the truly vital significance of this matter to the future well-being of Israel, to the United States, and internationally, I am sure our carefully considered request will have your most sympathetic attention.
Sincerely,
John F. Kennedy
(Mark Dankof is a Lutheran pastor and free-lance journalist, occasionally contributing to Iran Dokht, Al Bawaba, Nile Media, CASCFEN, PersianMirror, DixieInternet.com, and other Internet news sites. Once a 3rd party candidate for the United States Senate in Delaware [2000], he maintains the web-site Mark Dankof's America while pursuing post-graduate theological education at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia.) His commentary may be found regularly on SARTRE's Old American Right and Republic news site, Breaking All the Rules. His interview with 3rd party American Presidential candidate Michael Peroutka of the Constitution Party is widely available on various sites on the World Wide Web.)
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27 - Secret of the Lusitania : Arms find challenges Allied claims it was solely a passenger ship
By Sam Greenhill
Last updated at 1:16 AM on 20th December 2008
Her sinking with the loss of almost 1,200 lives caused such outrage that it propelled the U.S. into the First World War.
But now divers have revealed a dark secret about the cargo carried by the Lusitania on its final journey in May 1915.
Munitions they found in the hold suggest that the Germans had been right all along in claiming the ship was carrying war materials and was a legitimate military target.
Doomed: A contemporary view of the sinking of the Lusitania off Ireland in May 1915
The Cunard vessel, steaming from New York to Liverpool, was sunk eight miles off the Irish coast by a U-boat.
Maintaining that the Lusitania was solely a passenger vessel, the British quickly accused the 'Pirate Hun' of
slaughtering civilians.
The disaster was used to whip up anti-German anger, especially in the U.S., where 128 of the 1,198 victims came from.
A hundred of the dead were children, many of them under two.
Robert Lansing, the U.S. secretary of state, later wrote that the sinking gave him the 'conviction we would ultimately become the ally of Britain'.
Americans were even told, falsely, that German children were given a day off school to celebrate the sinking of the Lusitania.
The disaster inspired a multitude of recruitment posters demanding vengeance for the victims.
One, famously showing a young mother slipping below the waves with her baby, carried the simple slogan 'Enlist'.
Two years later, the Americans joined the Allies as an associated power - a decision that turned the war decisively against Germany.
The diving team estimates that around four million rounds of U.S.-manufactured Remington .303 bullets lie in the Lusitania's hold at a depth of 300ft.
The Germans had insisted the Lusitania - the fastest liner in the North Atlantic - was being used as a weapons ship to break the blockade Berlin had been trying to impose around Britain since the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914.
Winston Churchill, who was first Lord of the Admiralty and has long been suspected of knowing more about the circumstances of the attack than he let on in public, wrote in a confidential letter shortly before the sinking that some German submarine attacks were to be welcomed.
He said: 'It is most important to attract neutral shipping to our shores, in the hope especially of embroiling the U.S. with Germany.
'For our part we want the traffic - the more the better and if some of it gets into trouble, better still.'
Hampton Sides, a writer with Men's Vogue in the U.S., witnessed the divers' discovery.
He said: 'They are bullets that were expressly manufactured to kill Germans in World War I - bullets that British officials in Whitehall, and American officials in Washington, have long denied were aboard the Lusitania.'
The discovery may help explain why the 787ft Lusitania sank within 18 minutes of a single German torpedo slamming into its hull.
Some of the 764 survivors reported a second explosion which might have been munitions going off.
Gregg Bemis, an American businessman who owns the rights to the wreck and is funding its exploration, said: 'Those four million rounds of .303s were not just some private hunter's stash.
'Now that we've found it, the British can't deny any more that there was ammunition on board. That raises the question of what else was on board.
'There were literally tons and tons of stuff stored in unrefrigerated cargo holds that were dubiously marked cheese, butter and oysters.
'I've always felt there were some significant high explosives in the holds - shells, powder, gun cotton - that were set off by the torpedo and the inflow of water. That's what sank the ship.'
Mr Bemis is planning to commission further dives next year in a full-scale forensic examination of the wreck off County Cork.
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Received from various sources:
Imperial Russia was overtaken by Bolshivic Jews, who controlled the U.S.S.R. Tzar Nicholas and his entire family were brutally slaughtered by them after their pleas for asylum in England were denied by the King.
Many papers have been written about the Soviet's violent, inhumanity to man. The Soviet Union was handed, by the U.S. and Brittain "allies", vast areas -- countries -- to be controlled under Communism. Communist Jews were in control of the U.S. Government at that time, under president Franklin Delano Rosevelt (nee Rosenfeld).
We are told that "Communism is dead". No, Communism is alive and well under a new name. Today, the Zionist occupied/controlled U.S. Government has become the empirical power, "Democratizing" the world, slaughtering hundreds of thousands of people where 'er they go, assassinating the country's leaders and replacing them with their own/owned puppet presidents.
May our Father/Creator and all the Heavenly Hosts guide us. May we be a 'listening' to that guidance from within, and please, may we be blessed with Divine Intervention.
Jackie
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"They are trying to do two things: first, implement communism, and second, see that all businessmen of German ancestry and non-Jewish antecedents are thrown out of their jobs. They have utterly lost the Anglo-Saxon conception of justice and feel that a man can be kicked out because somebody else says he is a Nazi. They were evidently quite shocked when I told them I would kick nobody out without the successful proof of guilt before a court of law . . ."
28 - GENERAL PATTON'S WARNING
At the end of World War II, one of America's top military leaders accurately assessed the shift in the balance of world power which that war had produced and foresaw the enormous danger of communist aggression against the West. Alone among U.S. leaders he warned that America should act immediately, while her supremacy was unchallengeable, to end that danger. Unfortunately, his warning went unheeded, and he was quickly silenced by a convenient "accident" which took his life.
Thirty-two years ago, in the terrible summer of 1945, the U.S. Army had just completed the destruction of Europe and had set up a government of military occupation amid the ruins to rule the starving Germans and deal out victors' justice to the vanquished. General George S. Patton, commander of the U.S. Third Army, became military governor of the greater portion of the American occupation zone of Germany.
It was only in the final days of the war and during his tenure as military governor of Germany -- after he had gotten to know both the Germans and America's "gallant Soviet allies" -- that Patton's understanding of the true situation grew and his opinions changed. In his diary and in many letters to his family, friends, various military colleagues, and government officials, he expressed his new understanding and his apprehensions for the future.
His diary and his letters were published in 1974 by the Houghton Mifflin Company under the title The Patton Papers.
Several months before the end of the war, General Patton had recognized the fearful danger to the West posed by the Soviet Union, and he had disagreed bitterly with the orders which he had been given to hold back his army and wait for the Red Army to occupy vast stretches of German, Czech, Rumanian, Hungarian, and Yugoslav territory, which the Americans could have easily taken instead.
On May 7, 1945, just before the German capitulation, Patton had a conference in Austria with U.S. Secretary of War Robert Patterson. Patton was gravely concerned over the Soviet failure to respect the demarcation lines separating the Soviet and American occupation zones. He was also alarmed by plans in Washington for the immediate partial demobilization of the U.S. Army.
Patton attempts reasoning with Baruch's tool,
Supreme Allied Commander Dwight David Eisenhower
Patton said to Patterson: "Let's keep our boots polished, bayonets sharpened, and present a picture of force and strength to the Red Army. This is the only language they understand and respect."
Patterson replied, "Oh, George, you have been so close to this thing so long, you have lost sight of the big picture."
Patton rejoined:
"I understand the situation. Their (the Soviet) supply system is inadequate to maintain them in a serious action such as I could put to them. They have chickens in the coop and cattle on the hoof -- that's their supply system. They could probably maintain themselves in the type of fighting I could give them for five days. After that it would make no difference how many million men they have, and if you wanted Moscow I could give it to you. They lived on the land coming down. There is insufficient left for them to maintain themselves going back. Let's not give them time to build up their supplies. If we do, then . . . we have had a victory over the Germans and disarmed them, but we have failed in the liberation of Europe; we have lost the war!"
Patton's urgent and prophetic advice went unheeded by Patterson and the other politicians and only served to give warning about Patton's feelings to the alien conspirators behind the scenes in New York, Washington, and Moscow.
The more he saw of the Soviets, the stronger Patton's conviction grew that the proper course of action would be to stifle communism then and there, while the chance existed. Later in May 1945 he attended several meetings and social affairs with top Red Army officers, and he evaluated them carefully. He noted in his diary on May 14:
"I have never seen in any army at any time, including the German Imperial Army of 1912, as severe discipline as exists in the Russian army. The officers, with few exceptions, give the appearance of recently civilized Mongolian bandits."
And Patton's aide, General Hobart Gay, noted in his own journal for May 14: "Everything they (the Russians) did impressed one with the idea of virility and cruelty."
Nevertheless, Patton knew that the Americans could whip the Reds then -- but perhaps not later. On May 18 he noted in his diary:
"In my opinion, the American Army as it now exists could beat the Russians with the greatest of ease, because, while the Russians have good infantry, they are lacking in artillery, air, tanks, and in the knowledge of the use of the combined arms, whereas we excel in all three of these. If it should be necessary to fight the Russians, the sooner we do it the better."
Two days later he repeated his concern when he wrote his wife: "If we have to fight them, now is the time. From now on we will get weaker and they stronger."
Gen George S. Patton
Having immediately recognized the Soviet danger and urged a course of action which would have freed all of eastern Europe from the communist yoke with the expenditure of far less American blood than was spilled in Korea and Vietnam and would have obviated both those later wars not to mention World War III -- Patton next came to appreciate the true nature of the people for whom World War II was fought: the Jews.
Most of the Jews swarming over Germany immediately after the war came from Poland and Russia, and Patton found their personal habits shockingly uncivilized.
He was disgusted by their behavior in the camps for Displaced Persons (DP's) which the Americans built for them and even more disgusted by the way they behaved when they were housed in German hospitals and private homes. He observed with horror that "these people do not understand toilets and refuse to use them except as repositories for tin cans, garbage, and refuse . . . They decline, where practicable, to use latrines, preferring to relieve themselves on the floor."
He described in his diary one DP camp,
"where, although room existed, the Jews were crowded together to an appalling extent, and in practically every room there was a pile of garbage in one corner which was also used as a latrine. The Jews were only forced to desist from their nastiness and clean up the mess by the threat of the butt ends of rifles. Of course, I know the expression 'lost tribes of Israel' applied to the tribes which disappeared -- not to the tribe of Judah from which the current sons of bitches are descended. However, it is my personal opinion that this too is a lost tribe -- lost to all decency."
Patton's initial impressions of the Jews were not improved when he attended a Jewish religious service at Eisenhower's insistence. His diary entry for September 17, 1945, reads in part:
"This happened to be the feast of Yom Kippur, so they were all collected in a large, wooden building, which they called a synagogue. It behooved General Eisenhower to make a speech to them. We entered the synagogue, which was packed with the greatest stinking bunch of humanity I have ever seen. When we got about halfway up, the head rabbi, who was dressed in a fur hat similar to that worn by Henry VIII of England and in a surplice heavily embroidered and very filthy, came down and met the General . . . The smell was so terrible that I almost fainted and actually about three hours later lost my lunch as the result of remembering it."
These experiences and a great many others firmly convinced Patton that the Jews were an especially unsavory variety of creature and hardly deserving of all the official concern the American government was bestowing on them.
Another September diary entry, following a demand from Washington that more German housing be turned over to Jews, summed up his feelings:
"Evidently the virus started by Morgenthau and Baruch of a Semitic revenge against all Germans is still working. Harrison (a U.S. State Department official) and his associates indicate that they feel German civilians should be removed from houses for the purpose of housing Displaced Persons. There are two errors in this assumption. First, when we remove an individual German we punish an individual German, while the punishment is -- not intended for the individual but for the race.
Furthermore, it is against my Anglo-Saxon conscience to remove a person from a house, which is a punishment, without due process of law. In the second place, Harrison and his ilk believe that the Displaced Person is a human being, which he is not, and this applies particularly to the Jews, who are lower than animals."
One of the strongest factors in straightening out General Patton's thinking on the conquered Germans was the behavior of America's controlled news media toward them. At a press conference in Regensburg, Germany, on May 8, 1945, immediately after Germany's surrender, Patton was asked whether he planned to treat captured SS troops differently from other German POW's. His answer was:
"No. SS means no more in Germany than being a Democrat in America -- that is not to be quoted. I mean by that that initially the SS people were special sons of bitches, but as the war progressed they ran out of sons of bitches and then they put anybody in there. Some of the top SS men will be treated as criminals, but there is no reason for trying someone who was drafted into this outfit . . ."
Despite Patton's request that his remark not be quoted, the press eagerly seized on it, and Jews and their front men in America screamed in outrage over Patton's comparison of the SS and the Democratic Party as well as over his announced intention of treating most SS prisoners humanely.
With great reluctance, and only after repeated promptings from Eisenhower, he had thrown German families out of their homes to make room for more than a million Jewish DP's -- part of the famous "six million" who had supposedly been gassed -- but he balked when ordered to begin blowing up German factories, in accord with the infamous Morgenthau Plan to destroy Germany's economic basis forever. In his diary he wrote:
"I doubted the expediency of blowing up factories, because the ends for which the factories are being blown up -- that is, preventing Germany from preparing for war -- can be equally well attained through the destruction of their machinery, while the buildings can be used to house thousands of homeless persons."
Similarly, he expressed his doubts to his military colleagues about the overwhelming emphasis being placed on the persecution of every German who had formerly been a member of the National Socialist party. In a letter to his wife of September 14, 1945, he said:
"I am frankly opposed to this war criminal stuff. It is not cricket and is Semitic. I am also opposed to sending POW's to work as slaves in foreign lands (i.e., the Soviet Union's Gulags), where many will be starved to death."
Baruch -- Eisenhower had been his asset since 1929 *
Sec. of Treasury Henry Morganthau Jr., bent on genocide for Germans, posioned FDR*
Despite his disagreement with official policy, Patton followed the rules laid down by Morgenthau and others back in Washington as closely as his conscience would allow, but he tried to moderate the effect, and this brought him into increasing conflict with Eisenhower and the other politically ambitious generals. In another letter to his wife he commented:
"I have been at Frankfurt for a civil government conference. If what we are doing (to the Germans) is 'Liberty, then give me death.' I can't see how Americans can sink so low. It is Semitic, and I am sure of it."
And in his diary he noted:,
"Today we received orders . . . in which we were told to give the Jews special accommodations. If for Jews, why not Catholics, Mormons, etc? . . . We are also turning over to the French several hundred thousand prisoners of war to be used as slave labor in France. It is amusing to recall that we fought the Revolution in defense of the rights of man and the Civil War to abolish slavery and have now gone back on both principles."
His duties as military governor took Patton to all parts of Germany and intimately acquainted him with the German people and their condition. He could not help but compare them with the French, the Italians, the Belgians, and even the British. This comparison gradually forced him to the conclusion that World War II had been fought against the wrong people.
After a visit to ruined Berlin, he wrote his wife on July 21, 1945: "Berlin gave me the blues. We have destroyed what could have been a good race, and we are about to replace them with Mongolian savages. And all Europe will be communist. It's said that for the first week after they took it (Berlin), all women who ran were shot and those who did not were raped. I could have taken it (instead of the Soviets) had I been allowed."
General Juin, was also denied permission to take ground ahead of advancing Russians and to treat defeated Germans humanely
This conviction, that the politicians had used him and the U.S. Army for a criminal purpose, grew in the following weeks. During a dinner with French General Alphonse Juin in August, Patton was surprised to find the Frenchman in agreement with him. His diary entry for August 18 quotes Gen. Juin: "It is indeed unfortunate, mon General, that the English and the Americans have destroyed in Europe the only sound country -- and I do not mean France. Therefore, the road is now open for the advent of Russian communism."
Later diary entries and letters to his wife reiterate this same conclusion. On August 31 he wrote: "Actually, the Germans are the only decent people left in Europe. it's a choice between them and the Russians. I prefer the Germans." And on September 2: "What we are doing is to destroy the only semi-modern state in Europe, so that Russia can swallow the whole."
By this time the Morgenthauists and media monopolists had decided that Patton was incorrigible and must be discredited. So they began a non-stop hounding of him in the press, a la Watergate, accusing him of being "soft on Nazis" and continually recalling an incident in which he had slapped a shirker two years previously, during the Sicily campaign. A New York newspaper printed the completely false claim that when Patton had slapped the soldier who was Jewish, he had called him a "yellow-bellied Jew."
Then, in a press conference on September 22, reporters hatched a scheme to needle Patton into losing his temper and making statements which could be used against him. The scheme worked. The press interpreted one of Patton's answers to their insistent questions as to why he was not pressing the Nazi-hunt hard enough as: "The Nazi thing is just like a Democrat-Republican fight." The New York Times headlined this quote, and other papers all across America picked it up.
The unmistakable hatred which had been directed at him during this press conference finally opened Patton's eyes fully as to what was afoot. In his diary that night lie wrote:
"There is a very apparent Semitic influence in the press. They are trying to do two things: first, implement communism, and second, see that all businessmen of German ancestry and non-Jewish antecedents are thrown out of their jobs.
"They have utterly lost the Anglo-Saxon conception of justice and feel that a man can be kicked out because somebody else says he is a Nazi. They were evidently quite shocked when I told them I would kick nobody out without the successful proof of guilt before a court of law . . .
"Another point which the press harped on was the fact that we were doing too much for the Germans to the detriment of the DP's, most of whom are Jews. I could not give the answer to that one, because the answer is that, in my opinion and that of most nonpolitical officers, it is vitally necessary for us to build Germany up now as a buffer state against Russia. In fact, I am afraid we have waited too long."
And in a letter of the same date to his wife: "I will probably be in the headlines before you get this, as the press is trying to quote me as being more interested in restoring order in Germany than in catching Nazis. I can't tell them the truth that unless we restore Germany we will insure that communism takes America."
Eisenhower responded immediately to the press outcry against Patton and made the decision to relieve him of his duties as military governor and "kick him upstairs" as the commander of the Fifteenth Army. In a letter to his wife on September 29, Patton indicated that he was, in a way, not unhappy with his new assignment, because "I would like it much better than being a sort of executioner to the best race in Europe."
On October 22 he wrote a long letter to Maj. Gen. James G. Harbord, who was back in the States. In the letter Patton bitterly condemned the Morgenthau policy; Eisenhower's pusillanimous behavior in the face of Jewish demands; the strong pro-Soviet bias in the press; and the politicization, corruption, degradation, and demoralization of the U.S. Army which these things were causing.
Maj. Gen. James Harbord Ret.
He saw the demoralization of the Army as a deliberate goal of America's enemies:
"I have been just as furious as you at the compilation of lies which the communist and Semitic elements of our government have leveled against me and practically every other commander. In my opinion it is a deliberate attempt to alienate the soldier vote from the commanders, because the communists know that soldiers are not communistic, and they fear what eleven million votes (of veterans) would do."
In his letter to Harbord, Patton also revealed his own plans to fight those who were destroying the morale and integrity of the Army and endangering America's future by not opposing the growing Soviet might:
"It is my present thought . . . that when I finish this job, which will be around the first of the year, I shall resign, not retire, because if I retire I will still have a gag in my mouth . . . I should not start a limited counterattack, which would be contrary to my military theories, but should wait until I can start an all-out offensive . . . ."
Charles G.
Who has been the real enemy?
Note:
1. *Eastman on Baruch To understand the history of the U.S. in the 20th Century (or the 21st) one must first learn of the pervasive controlling influence of Bernard Baruch during both World Wars, the Great Depression, and the onset of the Cold War, the arms race. Both Eisenhower and Churchill were his assets. His men controlled the Roosevelt administration while FDR was kept a (poisoned) invalid at Baruch's Hobcow Plantation. (Woodrow Wilson was also kept incapacitated through Baruch's agent Dr. Greyson and Wilson's second wife, who Greyson introduced to Wilson.) The Clinton, Bush and Obama administrations are just continuations of Baruch's system of controlling the U.S. for the Rothschild Interests. Jeff Rense interviews Dick Eastman on Bernard Baruch. Sign up for rense.radio which includes access to Rense broadcast archives here: http://www.renseradio.com/signup.htm and download the interview of Feb 21 2007. The interview is backed with about 100 pages of referenced quotations that I prepared and which Mr. Rense has made available here: http://www.rense.com/rewer.htm My undying gratitude to Mr. Rense for his service to us all through his website www.rense.com and broadcasts. -- Dick Eastman
2. David Sarnoff and Gen. Harbord:
In 1927 David Sarnoff was elected to RCA's board and during the summer of 1928, he became RCA's acting president when General James G. Harbord, RCA's president, took a leave of absence to campaign for Herbert Hoover. His eventual succession to that position was assured. During the end of the decade Sarnoff negotiated successful contracts to form Radio-Keith-Orpheum (RKO) motion pictures, to introduce radios as a permanent fixture in automobiles, and to consolidate all radio manufacturing by the Victor company under RCA's banner. On 3 January 1930, the 39-year-old Sarnoff became RCA's president. Sarnoff was interested in doing more than selling radios. Why not look beyond radio sets so people could listen to locally produced content and instead package the content, sending out news, entertainment, and sports to dominate a national audience?
Sarnoff takes control of RCA from Gen. Harbord, Jan. 3, 1930
Earlier, in the 1920's, Sarnoff managed his company's patent portfolio to the point that it was virtually impossible to manufacture or sell radio equipment without paying royalties to RCA. In the late 1920's, Sarnoff realized that most of the fundamental patents covering radio would soon reach the end of their 17 year terms and expire. He also reasoned that some new kind of radio device would be invented that would eventually make the existing patents obsolete. Sarnoff concluded that if RCA could get a handle on that new kind of radio before anyone else, then he could manage the introduction of the new invention in such a way as to maximize RCA's return on the old radio patents before they expired. In other words, if he controlled the new development as well as he controlled the old ones, then he could stall the new developments long enough to milk the existing radio patents for every day of their year term.
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29 - Jonathan Williams ''Legions of Satan'' (1781)
Jonathan Williams recorded in his Legions of Satan (1781) thatGeneral Cornwallis revealed to General Washington
during the signing of the Article of Capitulation signed byCornwallis at Yorktown that,
"A holy war will now begin on America, and when it is ended America will be supposedly the citadel of freedom,
but her millions will unknowingly be loyal subjects to the Crown."
Cornwallis went on to explain what would seem to be a self contradiction,
"Your churches will be used to teach the Jew's religion
and in less than two hundred years the whole nation will be working for Divine World Government.
That government that they believe to be divine will be theBritish Empire.
All religions will be permeated with Judaism without even being noticed by the masses,
and they will all be under the invisible all-seeing eye of the Grand Architect of Freemasonry."
General Cornwallis to General Washington as recorded by Jonathan Williams, ‘Legions of Satan’, 1781
It is certain that Senator Joseph McCarthy did much research on the Communist conspiracy. He came too close when he discovered British Israel and its Kingdom Message propaganda. The following quotes are from an article with the title:
GEORGE WASHINGTON'S SURRENDER:
"And many of the people of the land became Jews. Esther 9:17. The confession of General Cornwallis to General Washington at Yorktown has been well hidden by historians. History books and text books have taught for years that when Cornwallis surrendered his army to General Washington that American independence came, and we lived happily ever after until the tribulations of the twentieth century.Jonathan Williams recorded in his LEGIONS OF SATAN, 1781, that Cornwallis revealed to Washington that "a holy war will now begin on America, and when it is ended America will be supposedly the citadel of freedom, but her millions will unknowingly be loyal subjects to the Crown." Cornwallis went on to explain what would seem to be a self contradiction: "Your churches will be used to teach the Jew's religion and in less than two hundred years the whole nation will be working for divine world government. That government that they believe to be divine will be the British Empire. All religions will be permeated with Judaism without even being noticed by the masses, and they will all be under the invisible all-seeing eye of the Grand Architect of Freemasonry." And indeed George Washington himself was a Mason, and he gave back through a false religion what he had won with his army. Cornwallis well knew that his military defeat was only the beginning of world catastrophe that would be universal and that unrest would continue until mind control could be accomplished through a false religion. What he predicted has come to pass. A brief sketch of American religious history and we have seen Masonry infused into every church in America with their veiled Phallic religion. Darby and the Plymouth Brethren brought a Jewish Christianity to America. Masons Rutherford and Russell started Jehovah Witnesses' Judaism which is now worldwide with their message of the divine kingdom. Mason Joseph Smith started Mormon Judaism with its Jewish teaching of millennialism. At the turn of the twentieth century there appeared the Scofield Bible with a Jewish interpretation of the prophecies. With wide use of this "helpful" aid all the American churches have silently become synagogues. We now have Baptist Jews, Methodist Jews, Church of God Jews, apostate Catholic Jews, and many Protestant Jews throughout America. We are aliens in our own country because of false religion. All are praying for divine deliverance into that "Divine Government" which Cornwallis knew to be the British Empire. A false religion has been used to deceive us into allegiance to our enemies of Yorktown and Bunker Hill. No! Not a gun has been fired but the invisible and malignant process of conquering America with the Jew's religion has gone on unabated. The Union Jack has been planted in our hearts with religious deception. All has happened "legally," "constitutionally," "freely" and completely within our most sacred trust -- our churches.Religious deception is painless innoculation against truth. It cannot be removed from the conscience with surgery, yet it is the motivator of our actions and directly controls our lives. Once man gives over to false religion, he is no longer rational because he originates no thought. His life is controlled by whomever controls his religion. The veil of false religion is the sword of Damocles and its power to control humanity defies even the imagination of tyrants who use it. This is not to say that George Washington was a traitor willingly, or knowingly. He was beguiled into a Satanic religious order that insidiously controls men's minds. So have American statesmen and military leaders down through the years given aid and allegiance to the enemies of the United States because they did not have knowledge of the invisible subterfuge that stalks this land. My eyes were opened the day my colleague from Ohio handed me Wagner's FREEMASONRY AN INTERPRETATION. If every American would read it, they would no longer ask why and how it has happened.”
End of quote from GEORGE WASHINGTON'S SURRENDER
Given by Senator Joseph McCarthy, six months before his mouth was closed forever.Born: 14 November 1908 Died: 2 May 1957
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ISN'T IT REMARKABLE ?
HITLER THE GRANDSON OF A ROTHSCHILD & STALIN THE SON OF ALPHONSE DE ROTHSCHILD'S SON-IN-LAW ?
30 - Was Stalin's Father a Rothschild Banker ?
September 7, 2011
Jewish banker Maurice Ephrussi, left.
by Clifford Shack
(henrymakow.com)
Baron Alphonse James de Rothschild
had an agent whom he favored above the rest. His name was Maurice Ephrussi and he represented the French Rothschilds in the oil-rich Caucasus.
Maurice Ephrussi (Nov. 18, 1849 - Oct. 29, 1916) was a Ukrainian-born French Jewish banker. His father had made a vast fortune exporting the wheat of the Ukraine to Europe.
The Rothschild's were the Tsar's official banker. The Ephrussi's were the Rothschild's agent to the Tsar.
It was Maurice Ephrussi who first proposed the Russian oil business to Alphonse de Rothschild.
Ephrussi thoroughly understood the Russian oil industry. He just knew that with the Nobel brother's dynamite blasting through the Caucasus Mountains; Rothschild-financed railroads could carry Russia's oil to the world if Russia could get their hands on a suitable port on the Black Sea.
(l. Maurice Ephrussi, short like his son)
Maurice Ephrussi's pitch was not lost on Alphonse de Rothschild.
Alphonse de Rothschild must have envisioned his family's newly acquired oil refineries humming with an endless supply of cheap Russian oil. The wealth that would result in the venture would be incalculable. Maurice married Baron Alphonse de Rothschild's youngest daughter, Beatrice, on June 5, 1883.
STALIN'S MOTHER
At the time of Stalin's conception (Feb. 1878), his mother, Ketevan "Keke" Jughashvili neé Geladze (February 5, 1858 - June 4, 1937), was a beautiful 20-year-old woman. She worked as a laundress for a Jewish wine merchant in the Georgian city of Gori.
Ephrussi would have no reason to stop in Gori to visit a wine merchant unless he wanted to pick up a few cases of champagne.
Ephrussi, though only 28-years-old in March of 1878 was no errand boy. He was a prince of European high-finance.
But wasn't Keke married? Could she have engaged in sex with the young banker?
Consider the following quotes:
from Simon Sebag Montefiore's "Young Stalin"
"As for Keke herself, it has always been hard to match the pious old lady in her black nunnish headdress of the 1930s with the irrepressible young woman of the 1880s. Her piety is not in doubt, but religious observance has never ruled out sins of the flesh. She certainly took pride in being "the desired and beautiful girl" and there is evidence that she was much more worldly than she appeared.
"As an old lady, Keke, supposedly encouraged Nina Beria, wife of Stalin's Caucasian viceroy and later secret police chief, Lavrenti Beria, to take lovers and talked very spicily about sexual matters: "When I was young, I cleaned house for people and when I met a good-looking boy, I didn't waste the opportunity." (pp.27-28)
Keke's husband Beso referred to Stalin (Soso) as "Keke's little bastard":
"When Soso hid, Beso searched the house screaming, "Where is Keke's little bastard? Hiding under the bed? Keke fought back. Once, Soso arrived at Davrichewy's house with his face covered in blood, crying: "Help! Come quickly! He's killing my mother!" The officer ran round to the Djugashvilis to find Beso strangling Keke."
As a young man Stalin worked at the Rothschild refinery in the storehouse, and ran the union. Montefiore writes:
"The Rothschild managing director, David Landau, regularly contributed to Bolshevik funds, as recorded by the Okhrana -- whose agents noted how, when Stalin was running the Baku Party, a Bolshevik clerk in one of the oil companies "was not active in operations but concentrated on collecting donations and got money from Landau of the Rothschilds." It is likely that Landau met Stalin personally. Another Rothschild executive, Dr. Felix Somary, a banker with the Austrian branch of the family and later a distinguished academic, claims he went to Baku to settle a strike. He paid Stalin the money. The strike ended."
Stalin financed Bolshevik activities and presumable his money came from the Rothschilds.
THE CASE FOR EPHRUSSI
1. Ephrussi was the Rothschild pointman in the Caucasus.
2. It would have been him to deal with the Grand Duke in Tiflis.
3. Keke also worked at the Grand Duke's Palace. She had plausible reason to be in the palace at the estimated time of Stalin's conception.
4. Stalin is the spitting image of Ephrussi.
5. Strong family resemblance to a close-up photo of Maurice's half-brother.
6. Stalin claimed to be the son of a priest. Judging from their family tree, the Ephrussi's had married Levensohns and Kaans. The Ephrussis were probably Kohanim (priest class).
Did Maurice Ephrussi, the son-in-law of Baron Alphonse de Rothschild father Stalin in March of 1878?
Have we finally solved the 132-year old mystery surrounding Stalin's birth?
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31 - THE HIDDEN EVIL : Wall Street funded Communism
Professor Sutton stated, "Western textbooks on Soviet economic development omit any description of the economic and financial aid given to the 1917 Revolution and subsequent economic development by Western Firms and banks." "In the Bolshevik Revolution we have some of the world's richest and most powerful men financing a movement which claims its very existence is based on the concept of stripping of their wealth," declared Allen. "[M]en like the Rothschilds, Rockefellers, Schiffs, Warburgs, Morgans, Harrimans, and Milners."
Perloff agreed, "Jacob Schiff, the head of Kuhn, Loeb and Co., heavily bankrolled the [Communist] revolution. This was reported by White Russian General Arsine de Goulevitch in his book Czarism and the Revolution." "According to his grandson John," described Allen, "Jacob Schiff ... long-time associate of the Rothschilds, financed the Communist Revolution in Russia to the tune of $20 million." He continued, "According to a report on file with the State Department, his firm, Kuhn Loeb and Co. bankrolled the first five year plan for Stalin," and added, "Schiff's descendents are active in the Council on Foreign Relations today."
Referring to the emergence of a communist dictatorship which resulted from the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, Professor Marrs wrote that they were funded by "Germany and America. ... Their repugnant campaign to purify and cleanse Mother Russia and to seek world domination resulted in ... [millions of] human beings wiped out and brutally purged..." He attested, "Brown Brothers Harriman" helped finance it with "money made possible by it and the affiliated Guaranty Trust Company." Professor Sutton agreed, writing "W. Averell Harriman was a director of Guaranty Trust Company" and "was involved in the Bolshevik Revolution."
On February 3, 1949, the New York Journal-American stated, "Today it is estimated even by Jacob's grandson, John Schiff, a prominent member of New York Society, that the old man sank about $20,000,000 for the final triumph of Bolshevism in Russia. Other New York banking firms also contributed."
Referring to a June 15, 1933, Congressional Record, Allen wrote "Congressman Louis McFadden, chairman of the House Banking Committee, maintained in a speech to his fellow Congressman: "The Soviet government has been given United States Treasure funds by the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve Banks acting through the Chase Bank and the Guaranty Trust Company and other banks in New York City. ... Open up the books of Amtorg, the trading organization of the Soviet government in New York, and of Gostorg, the general office of the Soviet Trade Organization, and of the State Bank of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and you will be staggered to see how much American money has been taken from the United States' Treasury for the benefit of Russia."
"Now our textbooks tell us that the Nazis and Soviets were bitter enemies and their systems are opposites," observed Professor Sutton. But in the "1920s, W. Averell Harriman was a prime supporter of the Soviets with finance and diplomatic assistance ... [and] participated in RUSKOMBANK," which was "the first Soviet commercial bank. Furthermore, Max May, the Vice President of Guaranty Trust, which was dominated by Harriman and Morgan, became the first Vice-President of Ruskombank." However, declared Professor Sutton, "Averell Harriman, his brother Roland Harriman, and ... E.S. James and Knight Woolley, through the Union Bank ... were prime financial backers of Hitler." He asked, "How could a rational man support Soviets and Nazis at the same time?"
A curious dilemma arises when faced with the documented fact that Wall Street funded both Communists and Nazis. First, it would seem these two forms of government are at opposite ends of the political spectrum. And that capitalists would see them as a threat to their growth. Allen provides a possible answer, writing, "But obviously these men have no fear of international Communism. It is only logical to assume that if they financed it, and are willing--even eager--to cooperate with it, it must be because they control it. Can there be another explanation that makes sense?" He adds, "Remember that for over 100 years it has been a standard operating procedure of the Rockefellers and their allies to control both sides of every conflict."
Before Winston Churchill became Prime Minister of Great Britain, he acknowledged a conscious effort of wealthy people to install a communist dictatorship in Russia. He wrote in the February 18th, 1920 issue of the London Illustrated Sunday Herald, that "From the days of Spartacus [Adam] Weishaupt ... to those of Karl Marx, to those of Trotsky, Bella Kuhn, Rose Luxembourg, and Emma Goldman, this world-wide conspiracy has been steadily growing." He affirmed, "It has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during the 19th century; and now at last, this band of extraordinary personalities from the underworld of the great cities of Europe and America have gripped the Russian people by the hair of their heads and have become practically undisputed masters of that enormous empire."
After the Bolshevik Revolution, Wall Street ensured the communists would retain control of Russia. Professor Sutton described this effort when he wrote, "On may 1st, 1918, when the Bolsheviks controlled only a small fraction of Russia (and were to come near to losing even that fraction in the summer of 1918), the American League to Aid and Cooperate with Russia was organized in Washington, D.C to support the Bolsheviks. This was not a 'Hands off Russia' type of committee formed by the Communist Party U.S.A or its allies. It was a committee created by Wall Street with George P. Whalen of Vacuum Oil Company as Treasurer and Coffin and Oudin of General Electric, along with Thompson of the Federal Reserve System, Willard of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and assorted socialists."
"The Bolsheviks were not a visible political force at the time the Czar abdicated," Allen wrote. "And they came to power not because of the downtrodden masses of Russia called them back, but because very powerful men in Europe and the United States sent them in. "They [Lenin and Trotsky] joined up, and, by November, though bribery, cunning, brutality and deception, they were able (not to bring the masses rallying to their cause, but) to hire enough thugs and make enough deals to impose out of the gun barrel what Lenin called 'all power to the Soviets.'"
"Having created their colony in Russia," said Allen, "the Rockefellers and their allies have struggled mightily ever since to keep it alive. Beginning in 1918 this clique has been engaged in transferring money and, probably more important, technical information to the Soviet Union." Perloff agreed, writing, "Probably no name symbolized capitalism more than Rockefeller. Yet that family has for decades supplied trade and credit to Communist nations. After the Bolsheviks took power, the Rockefellers' Standard Oil of New Jersey bought up Russian oil fields, while Standard Oil of New York built the soviets a refiner and made an arrangement to market their oil in Europe. During the 1920's the Rockefellers' Chase Bank helped found the American-Russian Chamber of Commerce, and was involved in financing Soviet raw material exports and selling Soviet bonds in the U.S."
According to Senator Barry Goldwater, Chase Manhattan built a truck factory in Russia which could also be used to produce armored vehicles such as tanks and even rocket launchers. Perloff echoed, "American technology helped the Soviets construct the $5 billion Kama River truck factory ... [which was] successfully converted by the Kremlin to military purposes."
Wall Street continued to aid the Russian communists as they supplied the Vietnamese communists that Americans were fighting in Vietnam, says Allen. In the late 60s Rockefeller and other industrialists built synthetic rubber plants and an aluminum factory totaling about 250 million dollars. Professor Sutton observed, "these American capitalists were willing to finance and subsidize the Soviet Union while the Vietnam War was underway, knowing that the Soviets were supplying the other side."
An article appeared in the New York Times on January 16, 1967, which carried the headline, Eaton Joins Rockefellers to Spur Trade with Reds. Perloff summed up the story, "The ensuing story noted that the Rockefellers were teaming up with tycoon Cyrus Eaton, Jr., who was financing for the Soviet block the construction of a $50 million aluminum plant and rubber plants valued at over $200 million." He added, "The Chase, which maintains a branch office at 1 Karl Marx Square in Moscow, has gained notoriety for financing projects behind the Iron Curtain."
Pictured left is Averill Harriman of the CFR (center) with Stalin (right) & Winston Churchill.(*) W. Averill Harriman was made U.S. Ambassador to the USSR in 1941. Allen wrote, "Sutton quotes a report by Averell Harriman to the State Department in June, 1944 as stating: 'Stalin paid tribute to the assistance rendered by the United States to Soviet industry before and during the war.'" "It is not an exaggeration to say that the USSR was made in the USA," observed Allen.
Referring to Professor Sutton's book, Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution, he wrote, "No one has even attempted to refute Sutton's almost excessively scholarly works. They can't. But the misinformation machines that compose our mediacracy can ignore Sutton. And they do." The book, added Perloff, "is based on assiduous research, including a deeper probe into State Department files."
Professor Sutton warned, "The synthesis sought by the Establishment is called the New World Order. Without controlled conflict this New World Order will not come about. ... And this is being done with the calculated, managed, use of conflict. ... This explains why the International bankers backed the Nazis, the Soviet Union, [and] North Korea ... against the United States. The 'conflict' ... [builds] profits while pushing the world ever closer to One World Government. The process continues today."
Summary
The evidence that these researchers present, which includes mainstream news and State Department records, suggests that Communist Russia was not only heavily funded by Wall Street, but was the actual creation of Wall Street. The Communist Revolution was instigated by Wall Street. Wall Street continued to build Russia even as they supplied aid to a country that America was at war with. Because they created communist Russia, they must have known about the millions of people being murdered.
[Footnotes]
* Photo taken from the Shadows of Power, by James Perloff.
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The Hidden Evil
The financial elite's covert war against the civilian population
Volume I Part I
Overview
The Financial Elite
The Trilateral Commission
The Council on Foreign Relations
The Bilderbergers
The Federal Reserve System
Tax-exempt Foundations
Commentary
Volume I Part II
Control of media, & academia
Wall Street funded Communists
Pearl Harbor
Wall Street funded Nazis
The Great Depression
Attempted overthrow by force
Commentary
Volume II Part I
Introduction to the Hidden Evil
Tactics (part I)
Tactics (part II)
Informants
Structure
Purpose
Why they participate
Who's targeted
Effects
Volume II Part II
The Psychopathic influence
The Satanic influence
Techniques to discredit
Why it remains
Raising awareness
Commentary
Conclusion
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32 - A secret that it will transform the entire global electrical power industry.
by PAUL W KINCAIDLatest news, World newsSaturday, September 3rd, 2011
If there was a way for every person on Earth to reduce their electrical power consumption 10 fold would you be interested? If there was a way to drastically reduce you electrical bill would you be interested? You’re still reading so the answer to both questions is yes. The technology exists today to transform the entire electrical power industry. This same technology will eliminate power black outs caused by high electrical power demand. This technology will keep a lot of money in your wallet and not in the electrical power companies’ wallets. The electrical power companies know of this technology. It is their best kept secret. What is their secret?
The energy demand increases as the population of the World increases. The increase energy demand means regular increases in energy costs. What plays a major factor in the increase in energy costs? Oil. Even though we now have nuclear power plants and wind power fields and solar energy harnessing grids the cost of energy is still dependent on the price of oil. When the price of oil goes up the price of electrical energy goes up. So how can we get free of this oil bearing price trap? By reducing our power consumption. But how is that possible when we need more electrical energy today, not less. We need a constant supply of 1200 watts for every baseboard heater in our homes every winter. We need as much energy in the summer to power our air conditioners. So how is it possible?
You and I both know converting to florescent light bulbs isn’t going to reduce our electrical power consumption or reverse global warming because electric baseboard heaters and fireplaces, air conditioners, hot water tanks, and microwaves are still being manufactured and sold and they are the ones that consume the most electrical power. So how do we power everything in our homes with less energy? We use electrical transformers.
Transformers (not the movie) are used today all over the World to produce high-voltage pulses from a low-voltage supply. They transform low wattage into much higher wattage without any increase in supply demand.
A transformer is an induction coil consisting of two coils of insulated copper wire wound around a common iron core. One coil, called the primary winding, is made from relatively few (tens or hundreds) turns of coarse wire. The other coil, thesecondary winding, typically consists of many (thousands) turns of fine wire. An electric current is passed through the primary, creating a magnetic field. Because of the common core, most of the primary’s magnetic field couples with the secondary winding. The primary behaves as an inductor, storing energy in the associated magnetic field. When the primary current is suddenly interrupted, the magnetic field rapidly collapses. This causes a high voltage pulse to be developed across the secondary terminals through electromagnetic induction. Because of the large number of turns in the secondary coil, the secondary voltage pulse is typically many thousands of volts.
Essentially what it does is use the 120 volts that the electrical power companies sells to you and transforms it in 10 to 100 times more electrical power. So if you were to install a transformer just before the 120 volts of power enters a electrical power hungry electric baseboard heater or fireplace, air conditioners, hot water tank, or microwave it would provide enough electrical power using 10 to 100 times less wattage. Your home heaters and appliances still get the electrical power they need but using a lot less electrical power from your electrical power company.
This technology has been available since the very first gas combustion vehicle rolled off of the assembly line. In fact this technology of transforming small amounts of electrical current into very high electrical current is essential to firing the spark plugs to ignite the fuel in all combustion engines. Without this technology the gasoline combustion vehicle would not exist today.
All gasoline powered vehicles have this technology. In a gasoline powered vehicle it is called an ignition coil. An ignition coil, which is also known as a spark coil is an induction coil (transformer) in an automobile’s ignition system. It transforms the car battery’s 12 volts to thousands of volts. Very high voltage is needed to spark the spark plugs. A large ignition coil puts out about 20 kV, and a small one such as from a lawn mower puts out about 15 kV. kV is a unit of potential equal to a thousand volts. So 20 kV would equal to 20,000 volts. Which means a simple ignition coil transforms 12 volts into 20,000 volts or higher.
So what does an ignition coil or transformer do? It transforms low electrical current into very high electrical current. Anywhere from 10 times (10 fold) to several thousands times more electrical current. Can you image how this would will transform (pun intended) the entire global electrical power industry.
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Gibson Guitar raid part of government effort to extinguish American workforce, outsource remaining jobs to foreign countries
(NaturalNews) As a followup to our report about the US government's recent illegal raid of Gibson Guitars Corp., a major US based manufacturer of musical instruments (http://www.naturalnews.com/033454_Gibson_Guitar_armed_raid.html), Gibson's CEO Henry...
Cancer breakthrough: scientists discover harmless bacteria in soil kills cancer tumors
(NaturalNews) Cancer remains one of the most feared diseases on the planet -- and cancer patients being treated by mainstream medicine are usually bombarded with radiation and subjected to toxic chemotherapy that destroys healthy cells and weakens the...
Rootworms defy Monsanto and eat away at GMO Corn in U.S. Midwest
(NaturalNews) Farmers in the big corn states watch in dismay as their "bug proofed" corn once again is being eaten by rootworms. As evolution would have it, the Western rootworm beetle, one of the most serious threats to corn, has developed resistance...
ConAgra sued for label fraud, GMO oils labeled 100% Natural
(NaturalNews) There are a huge number of food products in supermarkets labeled "natural" for consumers to choose from, including the popular "Wesson" brand cooking oils. However, these products are perhaps not as "natural" as they claim to be -- and this...
Celiac Disease and Gluten Intolerance Testing- Accurate or Misleading?
(NaturalNews) Jane G. made an appointment to see me after being diagnosed with Hashimoto's Thyroiditis (an autoimmune disease of the thyroid with links to celiac disease) and suffering from years of gastrointestinal issues. I reviewed Jane's medical history...
Fires rage across Texas, turning drought-stricken state into raging inferno
(NaturalNews) High winds whipped up devastating fires across Texas Sunday and sent them coursing through the tinderbox landscape at record speed. Across central Texas, spanning Austin, Waco and even approaching Shreveport, wildfires leapt across the drought...
How bad is the drought in Texas, really?
(NaturalNews) As I've been living in Austin, Texas, for a while, I thought I would report on the Texas drought situation first hand. How bad is the drought situation here? It's critically bad, actually. Even the wildlife are facing starvation and dying...
New green compliant 60-watt LED bulb to cost $15
(NaturalNews) When the US federal government begins to unlawfully rip away Americans' freedom to purchase the light bulbs of their choice beginning on January 1, 2012, the only available choices will be poisonous compact fluorescent (CFL) bulbs, which...
SerratioPeptidase is a potent anti-inflammatory enzyme
Proteolytic enzymes are specific enzymes that metabolize protein. These enzymes are naturally produced by the human body and other living organisms and help carry out essential functions. Supplementing with these enzymes has shown to have...
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Are american children to be used in medical experiments to test anthrax vaccine?
(NaturalNews) The highly controversial and potentially lethal anthrax vaccine may be tested on US children if the federal government gets its way. Although adverse event reports related to the vaccine among adult test subjects have included hospitalization...
TSA agents grope high school students at prom security checkpoint
(NaturalNews) It seems like it was just last week that I warned NaturalNews readers about how the TSA was expanding to become the new Nazi Secret Police of America. Actually, it was just last week (http://www.naturalnews.com/032458_TSA_bomb_drill.html...
Your help needed to pass FRAC Act and hold drilling companies accountable for water pollution
(NaturalNews) In response to massive public outcry, the US Senate has finally reintroduced the Fracturing Responsibility and Awareness of Chemicals (FRAC) Act, or S. 587, which will once again hold natural gas drilling companies responsible for the environmental...
Are BPA alternatives potentially just as dangerous as Bisphenol-A?
(NaturalNews) The Atlantic recently posed the obvious but, as yet, unasked question: What is in the new BPA-free plastics that are now flooding the market, and how do we know they are safe? (http://www.theatlantic.com/life/archive/2011/04/beyond...
Home births up 20 percent as more Americans prefer natural child birth
(NaturalNews) The number of pregnant women who choose to have their babies at home instead of at a hospital has risen by 20 percent over the past four years, according to new statistics released by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC...
Use natural remedies to treat a urinary tract infection
Home treatment for a urinary tract infection (UTI) is often enough to resolve the problem if the right methods are used consistently. In fact, using natural methods to treat a urinary tract infection at the first sign of symptoms may help...
Fructose: what is it, and why is it in everything?
(NaturalNews) We all know fructose is some type of sweetener, we see it listed on so many food labels: ketchup, soft-drinks, energy drinks, cereals, cookies, breads, crackers, ice creams, canned soups, and more. And most of us think fructose has something...
Homeopathy under attack - Bioethics expert argues for closure of homeopathic hospital
Dr. Kevin Smith, a bioethics expert at the University of Abertay Dundee, Scotland, in the Journal of Bioethics, argued that homeopathy is a waste of valuable resources. In addition, government funding of Glasgow Homeopathic Hospital puts...
The false claims of GMOs
(NaturalNews) For years, biotechnology companies have been making lofty, unsubstantiated claims that genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) are the cure for world hunger, and that without them, people will starve to death. But according to many agricultural...
Leeks contain anti-cancer compounds
Although leeks may taste similar to onions, they are actually related to the asparagus family. They originated in The Mediterranean and Asia but are now also grown in more temperate parts of the world. These veggies contain anti-cancer compounds...
Salt and Sodium - Question the concerns of the medical establishment
High sodium diets and high blood pressure (hypertension) cause coronary problems, even heart attacks. This has been the medical consensus for a long time that points to table salt as the major culprit. But how accurate is this consensus really...
Zombie apocalypse survival video just released: How to Spot a Vaccine Zombie (satire)
(NaturalNews) On the heels of the CDC's recent announcement that Americans should prepare for a zombie apocalypse (http://www.naturalnews.com/032454_zombie_apocalypse_CDC.html), NaturalNews.TV has just released a new satire video giving people important...
North America's water fluoridation debate: Battleground Austin
(NaturalNews) As a result of a year-long public outcry against water fluoridation in Austin, TX, the City Council held its second public meeting on the issue May 18, which attracted a standing-room only crowd. Water fluoridation is a policy endorsed...
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