Jumat, 21 Desember 2012

Americans fed up with Israeli meddling in US domestic affairs








By Gordon Duff
Real or not, Netanyahu feels Israel has been abandoned by the US. Some Americans, I am certainly one of these, Hagel is one also as is Chairman of the JCOS, Martin Dempsey, see Israel as interfering in domestic affairs, American elections and an irresponsible “actor” in the Middle East."
Senator Chuck Hagel (ret), a republican from Nebraska, is expected to be nominated by President Obama to the vital post of Secretary of Defense, taking the place of Leon Panetta.


Hagel is the only GOP senator to have stood up to the Israel/AIPAC lobby, the only senator to question sanctions against Iran and a rare and independent voice that is needed to bring Pentagon “adventurism” to an end.

However, Hagel is now under attack and stands accused of “anti-Semitism,” this time by infamous neocon Bill Kristol.

Few in recent history have done more to damage the US than Kristol, the “brains,” if you can call them that, behind the disasters of the Bush administration.

It was Kristol, the architect of war crimes; the “master planner” of economic collapse, who is now leading the “charge” to “swift boat” Chuck Hagel.

The term “Swift Boat” stands for a group of veterans who accepted payment from extremist billionaire T. Boon Pickens to fabricate stories disparaging John Kerry’s run for the presidency in 2004.

Kerry won the 2004 election handily but “electronic vote flipping” in Ohio stole the presidency from him. Now Kerry is expected to take over from Hillary Clinton and serve as Secretary of State.

Kristol hates Kerry also, but the Republicans spent all their energy destroying potential nominee Susan Rice, lies, innuendo, insane attacks, and Kerry will be “untouchable.”

Hagel and I are both Vietnam veterans, we both served as combat infantrymen and, to me, the idea of having a real “front line” soldier running the Pentagon is exciting.

This will be the first time that has happened. Hagel opposed the Iraq invasion and actually knows war, not as a “tourist” but a real soldier.

War profiteers are unlikely to do well with Hagel “at the helm.”

Today, I was contacted by Vote Vets, an organization founded by General William Westmoreland. They are asking vets to stand up for Hagel, stand up against the scurrilous charges and allow, what is the best candidate for this vital time in history, serve his country again.

From VoteVets:

“The neocons are at it again. Bill Kristol does not like that Vietnam Veteran and potential Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel has a more reasoned view on the use of force than Kristol and other neocons. So what does Kristol do? He tosses out the outrageous, false attack that Chuck Hagel is anti-Israel. By extension, of course, it's implied that he must be anti-Semitic.

This is offensive, wrong, and this kind of swift boating must stop, now. I know Chuck Hagel, and consider him a friend. I'm also Jewish.

I know who Senator Hagel is, and what he stands for. I also know anti-Semitism when I see it, and for William Kristol to use this line of attack - crying wolf - against Senator Hagel seriously undermines real anti-Semitism when it arises.

That's why I'm asking you to stand up to this line of attack. If William Kristol wants to have a real debate on the real issues, let's have it. Let's have a debate on the neocon military policy of preemptive war, interventionism, and nation building versus a more reasoned approach, with use of the military as a last resort.

That's a debate we'd win. It's a debate Chuck Hagel would win, should he be nominated to be Secretary of Defense. And that's why neocons like William Kristol will do anything to keep that debate from happening."

(Jon Soltz, Iraq War Veteran, Chairman, VoteVets.org)

Israel “kicked to the curb”

Real or not, Netanyahu feels Israel has been abandoned by the US. Some Americans, I am certainly one of these, Hagel is one also as is Chairman of the JCOS, Martin Dempsey, see Israel as interfering in domestic affairs, American elections and an irresponsible “actor” in the Middle East.

John Kerry is known to be more sympathetic to Israel than even Hillary Clinton is. Many doubt he will have the courage to follow a truly “American” policy that will serve decency, morality and respect international law.

Kerry began his political career as a strong opponent of war. A return to those values he held to early in life, those lessons he also learned fighting in Vietnam, would serve America well.

Blackmail

Probably the biggest failure of the week is America’s refusal to support Palestine’s UN mandate and oppose illegal settlements planned by Israel for the West Bank.

Technically, Israeli “settlers,” a painfully inaccurate term for the illegal interlopers and now “stateless person” who are no more than “squatters” on Palestinian sovereign territory, can be expelled at any time.

In fact, UN Resolution 242, a “binding” resolution, requires it.

Instead, because of UN action against Israeli occupation and military operations across what are now officially recognized frontiers; Israel plans even more blatant and criminal acts.

This is meant to humiliate the vast majority of states that supported Palestine in recent votes in the UN and to blackmail the US, blackmail and humiliate.

Gutlessness of Obama

With Obama “stacking” his administration with those openly opposed to war, even sympathetic to Iran, why would Obama, who faces no further elections, kowtow to more Israeli violations of international law?

How can men like Hagel or even Kerry, or military leaders like Dempsey, serve an administration that fails to follow international law, fails to show the courage the electorate expected?

If Americans wanted an Israeli president, Mitt Romney was their man.

The people have made it clear, Romney is not only “invisible,” but as slunk into the netherworld of obscurity, primarily based on, not just his love of America’s rich, but his “Israel first” policies.

Syria and Egypt

Watching the Obama administration’s policies toward Egypt and Syria is telling. One wonders whether those policies, in Syria “lack of engagement” and “borderline adventurism” are much more “Bush league” than enlightened.

In Egypt, it is clear that America is using its weapons, its money and power to saddle the Egyptian people with a corrupt and paralyzed government.

No policies at all

In fact, though things would be far worse with Romney, Obama seems to have no clear policies at all.
Currently, the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Association) is negotiating with Iran over inspections. The IAEA has not been independent or “fair” for many years but is showing more leadership and fairness toward Iran than Obama.

If anything, Obama is working to undermine progress toward normalizing relations with Iran and building stability in the region.

One would almost suspect tensions were being exacerbated to give reason to continue occupation of Afghanistan forever.

Could $80 billion in drug profits be influencing American policy?

New broom

The expectation, Hagel at “Defense,” Kerry at “State” and a president who has no need to play electoral games, the expectation is that real leadership, as promised four long years ago, is long overdue.

Americans voted for certain things; an equitable economy with the “criminal elite” brought to justice, new policies reflecting moral values and real leadership, not just empty promises.

No need to “mince words”

When we talk “AIPAC” or “neocon,” we are really talking drug dealers, money launderers, gunrunners and organized crime.

We are also looking at a long history of failure to investigate acts of espionage, treason and terrorism against the United States, acts one might describe as “Insider Threats.”

President Obama, himself, warned of these threats in his memo of November 21, 2012.

Simply put, the American people and the people of the world are no longer willing to give Obama “more time” to prove himself.

Being reelected is not enough. It is time for Obama to “take office” and “man up.”

GF/JR
Gordon Duff is a Marine Vietnam veteran, a combat infantryman, and Senior Editor at Veterans Today. His career has included extensive experience in international banking along with such diverse areas as consulting on counter insurgency, defense technologies or acting as diplomatic representative for UN humanitarian and economic development efforts. Gordon Duff has traveled to over 80 nations. His articles are published around the world and translated into a number of languages. He is regularly on TV and radio, a popular and sometimes controversial guest. More Press TV articles by Gordon Duff
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Kamis, 20 Desember 2012

Snap Out Of It

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Rabu, 19 Desember 2012

The Illuminati Rises: Enlightened Initiators of Change Practice Human Sacrifice To Mobilize Public Opinion For Gun Control

by Saman Mohammadi  December 18, 2012

The Illuminati Rises: Are They Enlightened Initiators of Change or Devil-Worshipping Authoritarians? You Be The Judge. 

Masters of enlightenment point to their ritual work in art and architecture. Those who have eyes to see and believe that there is a conspiracy at work are dismissed as crazy conspiracy theorists. But while the conspiracy is real, some argue that the nature of the conspiracy is not known.

Although there are no confessions from the conspirators, who value secrecy and silence to fulfill the master plan, they speak symbolically through films, music videos, public buildings, and the artifice of human culture.

The critically acclaimed film Zero Dark Thirty is one among many Illuminati films that manipulate the public with propaganda. After watching the film, the hypnotized public is even more apt to believe the artificial story about Osama Bin Laden's death because images are more powerful than facts.

Manipulating and guiding the public psyche is what the Illuminati is all about. The summer blockbuster The Dark Knight Rises, the much anticipated sequel to 2008's The Dark Knight, has affected the popular consciousness in more ways than one. In some unsettling scenes, the film makes direct references to the mass shootings in Aurora, Colorado, and Newtown, Connecticut, suggesting foreknowledge. For more information, check out this, this, and this.

On the surface, these mass shootings appear to be random acts of senseless violence committed by crazy, lonely, and depressed young men. But there is more going on here. They are in fact rituals that are done by the Illuminati-controlled deep state to ignite public opinion against guns. The false flag September 11 events was also a magic ritual, which was done to mobilize public opinion in the United States against Arabs, Muslims, and Terrorists.

II. The Art of Necessary Evil
"There are several circumstances in which good leaders are likely to have to enter into evil: whenever the very existence of the nation is threatened; when the state is first created or revolutionary change is to be accomplished." - Political theorist Michael Ledeen, from his book, "Machiavelli on Modern Leadership: Why Machiavelli’s Iron Rules Are as Timely and Important Today as Five Centuries Ago." [Source].
"John Daggett: What are you?
Bane: I'm Gotham's reckoning. Here to end the borrowed time you've all been living on!
John Daggett: You're pure evil!
Bane: I'm necessary evil!" -  IMDb, The Dark Knight Rises (2012).
The heated gun control debate in America has existed for what seems like generations, but nothing ever gets done. Both sides are ideologically and politically wedded to their opinions and refuse to budge. This is an unsustainable situation.

Enter the Illuminati-controlled deep state. They shine in these types of situations. They practice the art of necessary evil. In this case, they staged a massacre involving little children in a town that could be anywhere in America.

Such an event can transform public opinion and move the gun control debate forward. It can also be exploited to shame anti-gun control proponents, along with a variety of other people that the deep state doesn't want around such as preppers. Preppers are being demonized because when catastrophes arrive the Illuminati-deep state wants people to die rather than survive. They hate anyone who escapes their death traps.

III. Don't Fall For Misdirections 

The availability of guns is really a side issue in this cultural and political debate. It is really about political power and differences in the philosophy of government. The rulers of America hate the Bill of Rights. They believe citizens must obey the government and follow orders like sheep. A gun is a symbol of independence, so it must be taken away.

20th century history showed that government gun-grabbers are genocidal mass murderers. To fully achieve their political, cultural, and religious revolution, totalitarian revolutionaries have to disarm the population. And this is what is happening in America.

People who have the facts about gun control know that gun-free areas are more prone to crime and violence. They recognize the basic truth that guns are not bad in and of themselves. The most disastrous situation is when bad men with guns take advantage of the helplessness of good men without them.

What's get forgotten by the mindless pro-gun control crowd is that evil people will get their hands on guns regardless of their legal status. Also, an evil government with a monopoly of force is infinitely more dangerous to society than asocial whackos with guns and drugs.

If the totalitarian gun-grabbers really cared about stopping gun violence then they would address the roots, which are poverty, lack of education, social chaos, the failed Drug War, and the mass use of psychotropic drugs.

Moreover, in the intellectual chaos surrounding this latest mass shooting ritual, numerous theories have emerged from various sites that connect the shooter's father to the Libor scandal. But in the opinion of many informed though skeptical people, the fraud-plagued financial industry is not connected to these suspicious mass shootings. This is a clever misdirection that serves to take hard-working researchers down a blind alley.

As Susanne Posel writes in the article, "No Viable Connection Between Peter Lanza & US Senate LIBOR Hearings":
"And while alternative media is spinning their wheels on disinformation and unsubstantiated allegations between Lanza and LIBOR, the Obama administration is setting the stage and implementing the necessary legislation to finally destroy our Constitutional right to bear arms and protect ourselves from this tyrannical government."
As information-hungry researchers in a chaotic global alternative media, taking our eye off of the trail is tempting but we must focus on the facts and inform the public about the documented history of false flags by the deep state.

Whenever politicians in Washington want to pass new controversial and radical laws that transforms American society they turn to the false flag trick to mobilize public opinion. The Illuminati-deep state did 9/11 before ramming the Patriot Act down the American public's throat. And the evidence suggests that the same conspirators committed the massacre in Newtown to steamroll public opinion and pass revolutionary gun control legislation.
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Israeli death squads involved in Sandy Hook bloodbath: Intelligence analyst

Mourners leave from the Honan funeral home in the small town of Newtown, Connecticut after attending the funeral for six-year-old Jack Pinto, one of the victims of the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting.
Mourners leave from the Honan funeral home in the small town of Newtown, Connecticut after attending the funeral for six-year-old Jack Pinto, one of the victims of the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting.

Tue Dec 18, 2012 7:33PM GMT


By Gordon Duff
In truth, the public may well just be sick of hearing stories about “lone gunmen.” Of all possible horrors, this one, even more than the Benghazi killings, is loaded with political implication, not just “gun control,” but a clear attack on the security of every American family.

Days later, the Sandy Hook Massacre, the iconic slaughter of twenty small children, is now looking like a terrorist attack, not a “murder suicide.” Was “lone gunman” Adam Lanza a “patsy,” the same word Lee Harvey Oswald used to describe himself before being “silenced” in November 1963?


Today, Michael Harris, former Republican candidate for governor of Arizona and GOP campaign finance chairman, in an internationally televised news broadcast, cited “Israeli revenge” in, what he called, “the terrorist attack in Connecticut.”

Harris cited Israeli “rage” against the US and against President Barack Obama. By “Israel,” we mean “Netanyahu.”

The mission was to teach America a lesson, knowing that “America would take the punishment, keep “quiet,” and let a ‘fall guy’ take the blame.”

A “fall guy” is another word for “patsy.”

Harris, citing the flood of inconsistencies in the “cover story,” pointed out the following, “The facts are now becoming obvious. This is another case where Israel has chosen violence and terrorism where their bullying in Washington has failed. Israel believes the US “threw them under the bus,” particularly after the recent Gaza war, allowing Israel to be humiliated in the United Nations. Their response was to stage a terror attack, targeting America in the most hideous and brutal way possible, in fact, an Israeli “signature attack,” one that butchers children, one reminiscent of the attacks that killed so many children in Gaza?”

Washington is terrified of Israel, their powerful lobby and its relationship with organized crime. Now, a key former Senator, Chuck Hagel, who has helped expose this fact, is likely to be nominated as the secretary of defense, despite vocal protests from Israel.

Today, Israeli news gave further credence to Harris’ analysis when they issued the following statements regarding the probable nomination of Hegel:

“Chuck Hagel’s statements and actions regarding Israel have raised serious concerns for many Americans who care about Israel,” said the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) Executive Director, Matt Brooks. “The Jewish community and every American who supports a strong US-Israel relationship have cause for alarm if the president taps Hagel for such an important post.”

“The appointment of Chuck Hagel would be a slap in the face for every American who is concerned about the safety of Israel,” he asserted

Citing a 2006 interview with Hegel, the news continued, “The political reality is…that the Jewish lobby intimidates a lot of people up here. I have always argued against some of the dumb things they do because I don’t think it’s in the interest of Israel. I just don’t think it’s smart for Israel.”

Hagel also said he didn’t think he had ever signed one of the letters the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) regularly circulates to demonstrate support for Israel or tough stands against parties such as Iran.

“I didn’t sign the letter because it was a stupid letter…I’m not an Israeli senator, I’m a United States senator.”

During his interview today, Mike Harris explained his rationale for looking to Israel as responsible for Sandy Hook, saying “This is exactly what Israel did in Norway; the political party that voted sanctions against Israel was retaliated against by a “lone gunman” who killed 77 children. This is what Israel always does, they go after the children. It is what they do in Gaza every day. It is what was done in Norway. It is what happened at Sandy Hook. Nobody buys the “lone gunman” story anymore, not with the Gabby Giffords’ shooting, not with the Aurora “Batman” shooting, certainly not with Breveik, and certainly not in Connecticut.”

After Harris’ broadcast, key members of the military and law enforcement community contacted Veterans Today in full support of Harris’ analysis.

One three star general is quoted as saying, “Harris hit the nail right on the head and it is about time someone spoke up.”

As days have passed, key issues involving the Sandy Hook terror attack have been cited as “debunking” the “lone gunman” cover story: From a viral email that is growing every hour with more reasons to doubt the official story: According to the official story, Adam Lanza was found with his older brother’s ID, and it was not stolen. However, older brother Ryan - whom officials say is very cooperative - claims not to have even seen his brother since 2010. Where would Adam get this ID? And why does such use not qualify as a theft?

According to the official story, Adam Lanza was wearing a black outfit with a mask and bulletproof vest. Why would he want to hide his identity, and why would he wear a bulletproof vest if he planned to kill himself?

The medical examiner asserts that all wounds were caused by a rifle or other long weapon, and police/FBI say that the school was littered with 223 (rifle) casings. However, Adam Lanza was found dead at the school with only handguns - a rifle was found in the trunk of his car. Then he could not have possibly been firing the rifle, and could not have committed the murders. Who did then?

According to the official story, the killings was tightly confined to two classrooms. Then why were so many children told to close their eyes while leaving the building?

Joanne Didonato, the principal’s secretary, called in sick on Friday - something she rarely does. So presumably, she must have been awfully ill. Yet she then felt well enough to give an interview. “Of all days,” she said, emphasizing the strange coincidence.

Why were there such persistent reports that Mrs. Lanza was a kindergarten teacher, and that she died at the school when the new official story is that she was not connected to the school and was killed at home?

What happened to the report that Adam Lanza’s girlfriend and another friend were missing in New Jersey?

What happened to the woodsman in a black jacket and camo pants who was arrested and handcuffed outside the school? He actually shouted to parents, “It wasn’t me.” Who was he and what was he doing there?

What happened to the dark van or SUV that the police surrounded in the parking lot or the maroon sedan with a blown-out back window they were on the lookout for?

The official story is that Nancy Lanza was a gun collector, who obeyed the law. But since 20-year-olds are not permitted to buy guns or ammo or carry guns in Connecticut, why would she give her “autistic” son access to both guns and ammo?

A child asserts that he/she heard someone say, “Put your hands up,” followed by the reply, “Don’t shoot.” This indicates that the police took a suspect into custody inside the school. But if that was Adam Lanza, how did he kill himself after that point?

Another child asserts that he/she saw a man pinned down to the ground with handcuffs on. Again, this indicates that the police took a suspect into custody. If that was Adam Lanza, how did he then kill himself?

Is it reasonable for a geeky 20-year-old to carry two pistols and hundreds of rounds of ammunition while wearing a bulletproof vest and a mask?

Did the school have one or more security cameras? What do they show?

Why did a police officer specifically mention on radio that “they’re coming at me through this wood” followed by a fellow officer saying, “This is it”?

One officer at the school said, “We’ve got one suspect down.” Who was that? Down in this situation generally means in custody (on the ground and cuffed) not dead.

Why is Adam Lanza reported to be a loner when a teenager said (oxymoronically), “[Lanza and his friends] always gathered alone in a corner in school”?

Why are Ryan Lanza and his roommates still in custody, and why are the police pretending that it is for their own benefit?

Is it a coincidence that Nancy Lanza’s brother is Kingston Police Officer James Champion, who lives next door to the former Lanza home?

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This is only a small percentage of the irregularities noted in what now seems to be more of a cover-up than investigation.

In truth, the public may well just be sick of hearing stories about “lone gunmen.” Of all possible horrors, this one, even more than the Benghazi killings, is loaded with political implication, not just “gun control,” but a clear attack on the security of every American family.

The simplest thing would be to sit back and accept what we are told without examining who gains, who loses and “why now?”

Is Harris right? Would Israel order the deaths of twenty tiny children to make a political point? Have they done this before?

Is Harris right about that too?

Moments ago, Harris phoned me. I asked him if, hours later, he was still willing to back up his statements.

His answer was simple: “You murder children as part of ‘business as usual,’ you shouldn’t be surprised that when children are murdered, people look to you.”

GD/HN/IS

Gordon Duff is a Marine Vietnam veteran, a combat infantryman, and Senior Editor at Veterans Today. His career has included extensive experience in international banking along with such diverse areas as consulting on counter insurgency, defense technologies or acting as diplomatic representative for UN humanitarian and economic development efforts. Gordon Duff has traveled to over 80 nations. His articles are published around the world and translated into a number of languages. He is regularly on TV and radio, a popular and sometimes controversial guest. More Press TV articles by Gordon Duff

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The “Fiscal Cliff” Is A Diversion: The Derivatives Tsunami and the Dollar Bubble

SHOP GLOBAL RESEARCH

By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts
Global Research, December 17, 2012
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The “fiscal cliff” is another hoax designed to shift the attention of policymakers, the media, and the attentive public, if any, from huge problems to small ones.

The fiscal cliff is automatic spending cuts and tax increases in order to reduce the deficit by an insignificant amount over ten years if Congress takes no action itself to cut spending and to raise taxes.  In other words, the “fiscal cliff” is going to happen either way.

The problem from the standpoint of conventional economics with the fiscal cliff is that it amounts to a double-barrel dose of austerity delivered to a faltering and recessionary economy.  Ever since John Maynard Keynes, most economists have understood that austerity is not the answer to recession or depression.
Regardless, the fiscal cliff is about small numbers compared to the Derivatives Tsunami or to bond market and dollar market bubbles.

The fiscal cliff requires that the federal government cut spending by $1.3 trillion over ten years. The Guardian reports that means the federal deficit has to be reduced about $109 billion per year or 3 percent of the current budget.  More simply, just divide $1.3 trillion by ten and it comes to $130 billion per year. This can be done by simply taking a three month vacation each year from Washington’s wars.

The Derivatives Tsunami and the bond and dollar bubbles are of a different magnitude.

Last June 5 in “Collapse At Hand”   I pointed out that according to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s fourth quarter report for 2011, about 95% of the $230 trillion in US derivative exposure was held by four US financial institutions: JP Morgan Chase Bank, Bank of America, Citibank, and Goldman Sachs.

Prior to financial deregulation, essentially the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act and the non-regulation of derivatives–a joint achievement of the Clinton administration and the Republican Party–Chase, Bank of America, and Citibank were commercial banks that took depositors’ deposits and made loans to businesses and consumers and purchased Treasury bonds with any extra reserves.

With the repeal of Glass-Steagall these honest commercial banks became gambling casinos, like the investment bank, Goldman Sachs, betting not only their own money but also depositors money on uncovered bets on interest rates, currency exchange rates, mortgages, and prices of commodities and equities.
These bets soon exceeded many times not only US GDP but world GDP.  Indeed, the gambling bets of JP Morgan Chase Bank alone are equal to world Gross Domestic Product.

According to the first quarter 2012 report from the Comptroller of the Currency, total derivative exposure of US banks has fallen insignificantly from the previous quarter to $227 trillion. The exposure of the 4 US banks accounts for almost of all of the exposure and is many multiples of their assets or of their risk capital.
The Derivatives Tsunami is the result of the handful of fools and corrupt public officials who deregulated the US financial system. Today merely four US banks have derivative exposure equal to 3.3 times world Gross Domestic Product.  When I was a US Treasury official, such a possibility would have been considered beyond science fiction.

Hopefully, much of the derivative exposure somehow nets out so that the net exposure, while still larger than many countries’ GDPs, is not in the hundreds of trillions of dollars. Still, the situation is so worrying to the Federal Reserve that after announcing a third round of quantitative easing, that is, printing money to buy bonds–both US Treasuries and the banks’ bad assets–the Fed has just announced that it is doubling its QE 3 purchases.

In other words, the entire economic policy of the United States is dedicated to saving four banks that are too large to fail. The banks are too large to fail only because deregulation permitted financial concentration, as if the Anti-Trust Act did not exist.

The purpose of QE is to keep the prices of debt, which supports the banks’ bets, high. The Federal Reserve claims that the purpose of its massive monetization of debt is to help the economy with low interest rates and increased home sales.  But the Fed’s policy is hurting the economy by depriving savers, especially the retired, of interest income, forcing them to draw down their savings.  Real interest rates paid on CDs, money market funds, and bonds are lower than the rate of inflation.

Moreover, the money that the Fed is creating in order to bail out the four banks is making holders of dollars, both at home and abroad, nervous.  If investors desert the dollar and its exchange value falls, the price of the financial instruments that the Fed’s purchases are supporting will also fall, and interest rates will rise. The only way the Fed could support the dollar would be to raise interest rates. In that event, bond holders would be wiped out, and the interest charges on the government’s debt would explode.

With such a catastrophe following the previous stock and real estate collapses, the remains of people’s wealth would be wiped out. Investors have been deserting equities for “safe” US Treasuries.  This is why the Fed can keep bond prices so high that the real interest rate is negative.

The hyped threat of the fiscal cliff is immaterial compared to the threat of the derivatives overhang and the threat to the US dollar and bond market of the Federal Reserve’s commitment to save four US banks.
Once again, the media and its master, the US government, hide the real issues behind a fake one.  The fiscal cliff has become the way for the Republicans to save the country from bankruptcy by destroying the social safety net put in place during the 1930s, supplemented by Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society” in the mid-1960s.

Now that there are no jobs, now that real family incomes have been stagnant or declining for decades, and now that wealth and income have been concentrated in few hands is the time, Republicans say, to destroy the social safety net so that we don’t fall over the fiscal cliff.

In human history, such a policy usually produces revolt and revolution, which is what the US so desperately needs.

Perhaps our stupid and corrupt policymakers are doing us a favor after all.
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Minggu, 16 Desember 2012

Obama’s Sneaky War On Syria Puts Him In The Company With Jihadist Terrorists

SAMAN MOHAMMADI

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President Barack Obama is depicted as a reluctant wartime president by the state-run media, but his no-holds-barred approach to arming the Jihadist terrorists inside Syria against the Assad regime raises questions about his reserved image and his real intentions towards Syria. Italian geographer Manlio Dinucci sheds light on Obama’s enthusiastic support for secret wars in his article, “Obama prefers to keep it hidden,”writing:
President Obama does not like war. Not because he is a Nobel Peace prize-winner, but because open aggressive action would reveal US strategy and the interests upon which it is based. So he has launched a grand plan which, as the Washinton Post notes, “reflects the Obama administration’s affinity for espionage and covert action over conventional force.”
The Obama administration has armed and bankrolled the mischaracterized “rebels” in Syria since the beginning of the crisis, following a policy set forth by the Bush administration and its revolutionary neoconservative operators. Syria has been on the Pentagon’s list of nation-state targets since the end of the Cold War, but it wasn’t until after 9/11 that the plan went into motion.
Geopolitical analyst Tony Cartalucci, citing work done by award-winning journalist Seymour Hersh, says that 2007 was the year that marked a serious turn in Washington towards organizing for regime change in Syria.
In his article called, “US-Backed Syrian Opposition Demands Support for Al Qaeda,” Cartalucci informs readers that Washington’s recent condemnation of a particular terrorist group in the opposition in Syria was merely a ploy to save its narrative and mask its nearly limitless support for the “rebels.” An excerpt:
As part of the US’ charade in declaring support and recognition of the so-called “Syrian” opposition, it added one of the more extreme groups that make up the militant front operating inside Syria to a list of sanctioned terrorist organizations. The idea was to have a scapegoat to pin atrocities on while the West armed, funded, and provided military support for the rest of the extremist groups ravaging Syria.
Singling out one group from the rest of the opposition was a desperate move by the Obama administration. They had no choice but to at least acknowledge the presence of some terrorists in Syria since most of the world has rejected their asinine narrative that it is just a bunch of freedom fighters against a dictator.
Obama disguises his sympathies for the Jihadist terrorist rebels in his public speeches by differentiating between the good rebels and the bad rebels, but they’re all the same. And the “rebels” themselves do not hide their reliance on the tricks of the devil. They are proud to admit it.
The Jihadist terrorists are also proud to show off their chemical weapons capability. They show poorer judgment and have less compassion for Syrian civilians than officials in the Syrian government. If anybody is going to use chemical weapons in Syria it will more likely be them and their bloodthirsty backers rather than the Assad regime. As Cartalucci wrote on December 4 in his article, “US Repeats Syrian Chemical Weapons “Warnings”:
It is unlikely that the Syrian government would use such weapons, thus giving the West the excuse it would need to directly intervene militarily, a scenario the West has been attempting to sell for the last 2 years, and particularly so following NATO’s military operations in Libya throughout 2011.
Conversely, NATO’s proxy forces operating in Syria possess both the means and motivation to carry out chemical attacks, therefore blaming Syria’s government and granting the West the impetus needed to intervene more directly.  
Bush took out Saddam by using the WMDs lie, famously saying that in his line of work “you have to keep repeating things to catapult the propaganda.” Obama has committed himself to the same task regarding Syria. He is repeating the baseless propaganda talking point that Assad must be stopped from using chemical weapons against his people in order to stir the imagination of the American people and get them to support U.S. military action in Syria.
As numerous observers have said, Obama likes to wage illegal wars under the public radar, but it’s hard to hide the consequences of secret wars and secret arms shipments to terrorist groups when events like the Benghazi attack surface to the consciousness of the American public.
Despite his image as a wiser president than George W. Bush, Obama is not that bright. As national security expert Flynt Leverett said in a recent interview with Scott Horton:
“I don’t think the main problem with Obama is that he is a Democrat.  I think the main problem is that he doesn’t really understand where the United States is in the world right now, he doesn’t really have a strategic vision for the United States, and whatever vision he does have doesn’t compel him enough, doesn’t matter enough to him that he is actually to spend and risk political capital to realize it.”
Obama is a script reader and one of the world’s most powerful perception makers because of the prestige of his office. There is nothing special about him. He was chosen to execute a policy that was prepared long before he became president.
Obama’s opposition to the Iraq War in 2002 was a smart political move and made him look like a prophetic visionary, but had he been president during that time he would’ve taken America to war in Iraq just as deceptively as Bush had done.
Obama’s sneaky war on Syria is, to quote from his astute anti-Iraq war speech, “without a clear rationale and without strong international support,” and, “will only fan the flames of the Middle East.”
Obama thinks it is less dumb to secretly support Jihadist terrorist groups to destroy a country than to invade and occupy it, but the result is the same: a Middle East on fire.
And a Middle East on fire is what Obama and his handlers want.

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Sabtu, 15 Desember 2012

More Than Thirty Top U.S. Officials Guilty of War Crimes

Global Research


By Sherwood Ross
Global Research, December 12, 2012
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More than 30 top U.S. officials, including presidents G.W. Bush and Obama, are guilty of war crimes or crimes against peace and humanity “legally akin to those perpetrated by the former Nazi regime in Germany,” the distinguished American international law authority Francis Boyle charges.

U.S. officials involved in an “ongoing criminal conspiracy” in the Middle East and Africa who either participated in the commission of the crimes under their jurisdiction or failed to take action against them included both presidents since 2001 and their vice-presidents, the secretaries of State and Defense, the directors of the CIA and National Intelligence and the Pentagon’s Joint Chiefs of Staff and heads of the Central Command, among others, Boyle said.

“In international legal terms, the U.S. government itself should now be viewed as constituting an ongoing criminal conspiracy under international law,” Boyle said in an address Dec. 9th to the Puerto Rican Summit Conference on Human Rights at the University of the Sacred Heart in San Juan. Boyle is a Professor of International Law at the University of Illinois, Champaign, and the author of numerous books on the subject.
Besides the presidents, Boyle identified as war criminals Vice Presidents Dick Cheney and Joseph Biden; Secretaries of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Robert Gates and Leon Panetta; Secretaries of State Colin Powell, Condoleeza Rice, and Hillary Clinton; National Security Advisors Stephen Hadley, James Jones, and Thomas Donilon; Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte and James Clapper and Central Intelligence Agency(CIA) Directors George Tenet, Leon Panetta, and David Petraeus.

In the Pentagon, war criminals include the members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and some Regional Commanders-in-Chiefs, especially for the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), and more recently, AFRICOM. Besides Chairman General Martin Dempsey, U.S. Army, JCS members include Admiral James Winnefeld Jr.; General Raymond Odierno, Chief of Staff of the Army;  General James Amos, Commandant of the Marine Corps; Admiral Jonathan Greenert, Chief of Naval Operations; and General Mark Welsh, Chief of Staff of the Air Force.

Those who have headed the Central Command since the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan include Lt. General Martin Dempsey; Admiral William Fallon; General John Abizaid; General Tommy Franks; Lt. General John Allen; and current commander General James Mattis. General Carter Ham of AFRICOM bears like responsibility.

Boyle told the Puerto Rican conference that President G.W. Bush had shamelessly exploited the 9/11 tragedy and “set forth to steal a hydrocarbon empire from the Muslim states and peoples living in Central Asia and the Middle East and Africa under “bogus pretexts.” These pretexts included fighting a war against “international terrorism” or “Islamic fundamentalism”, eliminating weapons of mass destruction, the promotion of democracy, and humanitarian intervention, Boyle said.

The serial aggressions of the U.S.violate such basic documents of international law as the Nuremberg Charter, the Nuremberg Judgment, and the Nuremberg Principles, Boyle said. As well, they violate the Pentagon’s own U.S. Army Field Manual 27-10 on The Law of Land Warfare, which applies to the President himself as Commander-in-Chief of U.S. Armed Forces under Article II, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution.
                                                      
U.S. administrations since 9/11 may be charged with “crimes against peace” for their attacks in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Libya, Somalia,Yemen, and Syria, “and perhaps their longstanding threatened war of aggression against Iran,”
Boyle said.

The eminent international authority went on to charge that the war crimes included “torture, enforced disappearances, assassinations, murders, kidnappings, extraordinary renditions, ‘shock and awe’ (bombings), and (the use of) depleted uranium, white phosphorus, cluster bombs, drone strikes,” and the like.

Boyle said Americans “must not permit any aspect of their foreign affairs and defense policies to be conducted by acknowledged ‘war criminals’” but must insist upon “the impeachment, dismissal, resignation, indictment, conviction, and long-term incarceration of all U.S. government officials guilty of such heinous international and domestic crimes.”

Boyle said the so-called “targeted killing” of human beings in a non-battlefield situation is “pure murder” under basic principles of Anglo-American common law and international criminal law. And in this case, where these murders are both widespread and systematic, these murders constitute a Crime against Humanity under Article 7(1)(a) of the Rome Statute for the International Criminal Court.
Although the United States is not a party to the Rome Statute, Boyle said, “nevertheless President Obama is subject to the jurisdiction of the ICC and its Prosecutor for murdering people in ICC member States.”
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Sherwood Ross is an American public relations consultant who works for good causes. He formerly worked for major dailies and wire services as a reporter and columnist. Reach him at sherwoodross10@gmail.com)
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