Saturday, February 28, 2009

l'impact d'une bourse iranienne du pétrole sur le dollar et l'économie des Etats-Unis pourrait être pire que si l'Iran y lançait une bombe atomique


« l'impact d'une bourse iranienne du pétrole sur le dollar et l'économie des Etats-Unis pourrait être pire que si l'Iran y lançait une bombe atomique »,

(Il faut se rappeler que tout ce qui suit est dans le contexte "neo
conservateurs...."

La décision d'attaquer l'Iran a été prise par Washington et des
responsables gouvernementaux israéliens DES LE PRINTEMPS
2003.
Autrement dit le battage médiatique réalisé au sujet du nucléaire
iranien est de la poudre aux yeux.
Il faut aussi en conclure que l'Iran, la Russie et la Chine, ont eu tout
le temps nécessaire pour se « préparer».
Le camouflet subi par l'Empire états-unien en Irak a également retardé
considérablement les choses.

Face aux néo-conservateurs anglo-américains, européens et israéliens,
aveuglés par un semblant de puissance : un bloc de pays (la Russie, la
Chine et l'Iran) dirigés par des stratèges habiles en échecs.
Les néo¬conservateurs s'attendent à une victoire facile contre l'Iran ;
ils préparent leur « nuit des longs couteaux afin d'imposer une dictature.
En outre, l'effondrement économique approche à grands pas et d'ici trois
ans tout sera mis en place pour faciliter cet état de fait...

Dès le printemps 2003, C. Rice avouait que l'Iran serait la prochaine
cible des "néo-con"

Il y a deux ans, entre le 30 mars et le 1e` avril 2003, le Comité des
affaires publiques israélo-américain (American Israël Public Affaires
Committee - AIPAC) avait tenu son 44ème congrès politique dans un grand
hôtel de Washington.

Plusieurs milliers de personnes étaient présentes ainsi que des invités
prestigieux. Les interventions étaient centrées sur la guerre contre
l'Irak et le remodelage du Moyen-Orient. Plusieurs intervenants, comme
Colin Powell ou encore Silvan Shalom (ministre israélien des Affaires
étrangères) mettaient en avant l'importance de la convergence de vue
entre les Etats- Unis et Israël.

On y apprenait le rôle de conseil de petites unités de Tsahal auprès des
loupes Britanno-états¬uniennes en matière de maintien de l'ordre dans
les villes « libérées » en Irak.

Pas moins de la moitié des sénateurs et d'un tiers des représentants
assistèrent aux débats qui suivirent

Alors que les dirigeants de l'AIPAC déployaient leurs talents pour
convaincre les ministres et parlementaires présents, dans le même temps,
une réunion à huis clos était organisée au cours de laquelle intervenait
Condoleezza Rice, alors conseillère de sécurité nationale.

Cette réunion était importante puisque les journalistes présents
s'engagèrent à ne pas rendre compte de ses échanges.

Après s'être vue ovationnée, Madame Rice, qui a été formée par Josef
Kolber (père de Madeleine Albright), a, selon des sources de première
main, clairement laissé entendre que la Syrie et l'Iran seraient
probablement les prochaines cibles de la Coalition.

Par conséquent, dès le printemps 2003 l'Iran était déjà dans la ligne de
mire des dirigeants états- uniens. Cela signifie que la question du
nucléaire n'est donc... qu'un prétexte
Le prochain personnage préparé par le «Comité X» pour jouer un rôle clé
dans le déclenchement d'une Troisième Guerre mondiale s'appelle Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad.

A l'aube de la sixième année du nouveau millénaire, Adolf Hitler est
ressuscité, ou plus exactement, il s'est réincarné en Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad, un individu petit et chétif comme lui, dont le discours est
dans la filiation idéologique de Mein Kampf.

Mais la différence entre Hitler et Ahmadinejad est que le premier a
échoué, là où le second est en train de réussir : accéder à la bombe
atomique.

Daniel Pipes, Administrateur de l'US Institute of Peace, et fondateur du
Middle East Forum ainsi qu'auteur de Militant Islam Reaches America a
tout à fait raison de mettre l'accent sur la mystique de Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad. «Grâce au président iranien Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, un nouveau
terme est apparu dans le vocabulaire politique : mandaviat.

Il s'agit d'un terme technique religieux se référant au mandi, élément
de la doctrine chiite désignant le restaurateur de la religion et de la
justice qui régnera avant la fin des temps.

Il est également appelé " retour du douzième imam ". Le mandaviatest
central dans les ambitions et les croyances d'Ahmadinejad.

Aussi bien comme maire de Téhéran que comme président de la République
islamique, il a mené des politiques et fait des discours en lien avec
cette croyance. Il a même conclu son allocution à l'ONU par une prière
pour l'arrivée du Mahdi.

Cette obsession lui donne la certitude de mener la politique adéquate.

Le comblement du fossé entre riches et pauvres en Iran, le défi lancé à
l'Amérique et à Israël et la création d'un programme d'armement
nucléaire, toutes ses initiatives s'inscrivent dans la préparation du
retour du Mahdi.

Or, que peut craindre un président persuadé que le Mahdi va arriver sous
peu ?

Les plus dangereux dirigeants de l'histoire moderne sont ceux qui (comme
Hitler) disposaient d'une idéologie totalitaire et d'une foi mystique en
leur propre mission. Ahmadinejad remplit ces deux critères ». (
Source : Jerusalem Post.)

(...)

Les leaders iraniens savent donc très bien ce qu'ils font.

Le cas irakien est, bien évidemment, dans tous les esprits.

L'Iran se sait menacé depuis les invasions de l'Afghanistan et de l'Irak.
Le Pakistan, la Géorgie et l'Ouzbékistan sont passés dans la sphère
d'influence états-unienne.
Le QG de l'armée états-unienne s'est installé au Qatar, les porte-avions
mouillent dans la zone et Israël menace.

L'Iran se sent encerclé par une armée hostile et le cas irakien renforce
sa détermination.

Il suit la Corée du Nord sur le chemin du nucléaire... et fourbit ses
armes économiques.

Des armes puissantes grâce au pétrole, dont il est le deuxième
producteur, juste derrière l'Arabie Saoudite.

Il y a quelques semaines, dans son numéro 102, LIES! publiait
l'information selon laquelle les autorités iraniennes avaient pris la
décision de rapatrier leurs capitaux de la sphère européenne vers les
pays du Sud- est asiatique.

Or, quelle est dans le monde la région qui détient le plus gros stock de
dollars US ?

D'après le Fond Monétaire International (FMI), ce sont les banques
centrales d'Asie. En 2002, elles détenaient près de 66 % des réserves en
dollars du monde. Cela a un peu baissé depuis, puisque tout doucement
ces banques vendent leurs dollars, mais ces réserves en dollars sont
encore de 63 % et de 20 % en euros.

Dans le précédent numéro nous avions évoqué les « pétro-euros » après
les «pétro-dollars ».

Ajoutons maintenant le terme de « sino-dollars ».

Maintenant, il faut savoir que les banques centrales asiatiques
renflouent 75 % du déficit américain. Pour résumer, ce sont donc les
Chinois et les Japonais qui payent les soldes des GI coincés en Irak.
Si le premier créancier des Etats-Unis est toujours le Japon, avec 840
milliards de dollars dans ses coffres, c'est la Chine qui est son
deuxième créancier, avec 610 milliards de dollars.

Devant l'Europe, et devant les pétro¬monarchies du Golfe arabo-persique.
Pour la Chine, cela représente 40 % de son PIB !

LIES! dispose de sérieuses archives dans lesquelles il s'avère judicieux
de piocher de temps en temps pour expliquer des événements à venir et
montrer que ces derniers s'inscrivent dans une logique...

Souvenez-nous de ce qui se passait il y a tout juste un an... alors que
le monopole du dollar comme monnaie de réserve était de plus en plus
contesté.

Fin février 2005, un rapport de la Banque de Corée indiquait qu'elle
voulait «diversifier son portefeuille de devises » - ce qui avait été
interprété comme une volonté de réduire la part des dollars dans ses
réserves de changes.

Cela avait sonné le dollar pendant quelques jours.
Puis, en mars de la même année, deux autres informations confirmaient
cette tendance. Tout d'abord, au Japon, le Premier ministre japonais
Junichiro Koizumi disait: « Je pense qu'il est nécessaire de diversifier
nos investissements » en réserves de change.

Dès le lendemain, un rapport de la banque d'affaires Lehman Brothers
signalait que la part du dollar dans les réserves de changes chinoises
avait reculé de 82 % à 76 % en 2004.

Une tendance qui n'a cessé de se confirmer. Fin janvier 2006, une étude
de la revue Central Banking Publications révélait qu'un nombre croissant
de gestionnaires de banques centrales avaient commencé à modifier la
composition de leur portefeuille de réserves. Selon cette étude, 70 %
des gestionnaires de réserves auraient augmenté en 2004 leurs réserves
en euros.

Depuis le discours de Mme Rice, la Russie et la Chine ont augmenté de
manière significative leurs encaisses de banques centrales en euro et en
or métal, au détriment du dollar.

Doit Doit-on préciser qu'il s'agit d'un mouvement coordonné ?

Bombes militaires américaines contre bombes économiques iraniennes


Al Jazeera se réjouit de la situation et conclut que « l'impact d'une
bourse iranienne du pétrole sur le dollar et l'économie des Etats-Unis
pourrait être pire que si l'Iran y lançait une bombe atomique », ce que
relève aussi l'Asie Times.

Même si les Etats-Unis voulaient encore soutenir la suprématie du dollar
avec des canons, cela est historiquement impossible.

Quand les armes deviennent l'agent pour fixer une devise, c'est un signe
clair d'une calamité dévastatrice.

Manifestement, les dirigeants de l'Iran ont été formidablement
«conseillés » pour caler leurcalendrier d'ouverture de la bourse du
pétrole en euro au moment où les Etats-Unis vont se trouver dans une
situation d'extrême vulnérabilité à l'intérieur comme à l'extérieur.

Au-delà de la géopolitique pure, la dette et les déficits astronomiques
des Etats-Unis ont livré l'économie de la dernière « hyper puissance »
aux mains des banques centrales asiatiques.

Cette ouverture de la bourse de Téhéran coïncide avec un moment où les
gouverneurs de plusieurs banques centrales ont annoncé qu'ils allaient
procéder à un rééquilibrage de leurs avoirs au détriment du dollar, et
en faveur de l'euro... et de l'or.

Mais personne n'a intérêt à ce que l'élastique soit cassé. On manipule,
on arrange, on tronque et on ment sur l'état de santé de l'économie
américaine jusqu'à ce que le fameux MARCHE des LIBERAUX impose sa loi !


Les 7 et 8 février (2006), les marchés mondiaux de matières premières
ont enregistré une soudaine vague de ventes, sans motif particulier
apparent. Ces derniers mois, les cours de presque tous ces produits sont
montés en flèche, en partie à cause de la spéculation des hedge funds
(fonds spéculatifs anglo-américains), mais aussi de l'absence générale
de confiance dans le système global de titres financiers.

A cela viennent s'ajouter, bien sûr, les craintes d'une attaque
militaire contre l'Iran.

Cette dynamique s'est brusquement inversée, temporairement, le 7
février, lorsque le prix de l'or a chuté de neuf dollars, marquant le
plus fort recul en un jour depuis neuf ans ! La contagion a gagné tous
les métaux précieux et industriels. En l'espace de vingt-quatre heures,
à partir de l'après-midi du 7, l'or a baissé de 4,5% après avoir
augmenté de 22 % depuis septembre 2005.

La presse financière a avancé comme explication des pertes importantes
subies par certains hedge funds, ce qui pourrait expliquer des ventes
paniques sur les marchés suite à la liquidation forcée de certains
contrats.

LIESI a tendance à privilégier d'autres informations obtenues
d'Executive Intelligence Review: « une MAIN INVISIBLE... Une source
digne de foi dans la communauté bancaire européenne estimait, dans une
discussion privée, que les autorités financières américaines ou
européennes seraient intervenues.

Ces institutions, d'après elle, considèrent que les cours des matières
premières ont grimpé si rapidement depuis le début de l'année que la
moindre escalade de la crise iranienne leur ferait "crever le plafond".

Par conséquent, une vente concertée a été orchestrée pour interrompre la
dynamique, faute de la stopper. Cette source pense que l'effet ne durera
pas longtemps et que la montée continuera tant qu'il n'y aura pas de
désescalade de la crise iranienne ».

C'est exactement ce qui est train de se produire puisque les cours de
l'or sont repartis à la hausse...

Le départ de Greenspan... une clé

Récemment, un homme a compris le danger et il s'en est allé... Nous
parlons d'A. Greenspan, le patron de la Banque centrale américaine
durant dix-huit ans, de 1987 à 2005.

Il a quitté son poste et ses employeurs et il a été remplacé par un
certain Ben SHALOM Bernanke... un juif sépharade !

Ceux qui auront compris la subtilité après la lecture de la conférence
de Benjamin Freedman (proposée dans le numéro 103) en tireront de justes
conclusions. Pour LIESI, M. Bernanke n'est pas du tout au courant du
scénario à venir... Nous l'avons écouté lors de son intervention devant
le Congrès puis le Sénat. C'était plutôt minable....

Thursday, February 19, 2009

Syria US relations....while US diplomats babble, CIA still runs the show, in and from Damascus...




Syria US relations....while US diplomats babble, CIA still runs the show in and from... Damascus...keeping the State department at bay....and far away from the ongoing and infamous White House Murder INC, headed by Asef Shawkat in Damascus.

Silence, they say, is the voice of complicity... But silence is impossible... Silence screams... Silence is a message, just as doing nothing is an act. Let who you are ring out & resonate in every word & every deed. There's no sidestepping your own being or your own responsibility. What you do is who you are. You are your own comeuppance. You become your own message. You are the message. In the Spirit of HK....Elie HOBEIKA, a Lebanese Nationalist and a Hero.




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Cornering one aspect related to the Jewish "Lobby"....


The power behind the power in USA and their favorite sweet heart deal with "Court Jews", AIPAC and the "Lobby" as a whole....


It's the US Government agencies who are most benefiting from the arrangement with the "Lobby" and its "Court Jews"...always has, always will...until something BIG Gives somewhere...but there is no sign of that YET...we are still in a Honeymoon phase as far as I can see.... But, depending on how "revolutions" go in MENA and beyond....we might witness some changes to that sweet heart deal....

In the world of CIA, the playbook never seems to change...


AIPAC, JINSA and all other "Court Jewish" PACs and ORGs. are a convenient Cover for CIA, NSA, DIA, NRO, FBI, DEA, and all the other 18 US Intelligence agencies to hide behind...Hence no need to do any significant disclosures to Congress or its Intelligence Committees about any significant covert activities or extra-judicial operations spanning decades. The only exceptions, which won't be repeated anytime soon, were BCCI or Iran-Contra, to name a few ...

AIPAC is a perfect "cover", it gives overwhelming control of Congress to CIA without having to move a finger...and to Hell with the Foreign Policies of Foggy Bottom or any Justice for Palestinians, Lebanese, or Freedom, the rule of law, good governance and Democracy in faraway places...

AIPAC & Co. and all the other 18 US Intelligence agencies are priceless for CIA, and the Middle East can go to Hell as far as they are concerned, and that has been proven to be the case since the 1960s!

AIPAC, Jstreet, Jinsa, WINEP, their coteries etc. and all the NGOs, NED, Freedom House, USAID or the likes, work hand in hand with CIA and their Israeli counterparts everywhere... The world is changing fast. Will that change the equation described here above???



History has always had a soft spot for the political couple: Anthony
and Cleopatra, Bill and Hillary, and, of course, that odd-couple of
American political consulting James Carville and Mary Matalin. Yet
what is one to make of the oddest couple of all: Joachim Martillo
(a.k.a. Juan Carlo Santos Martillo Ajami) and Karin Friedemann (a.k.a.
Karin Maria Friedemann-Hussain, a.k.a. Maria Hussain).

The name Karin Friedemann (without the aliases) may ring a bell to
readers of the Somerville Journal. On May 5, she wrote a standout
letter to the editor supporting divestment that included the following
gem:

"Soon after the governor of New Jersey invested all of his state
employees' 401K plans in Israel, it was revealed that the governor was
being poked from behind by an Israeli agent."

For anyone unfamiliar with the reference, Friedemann was talking about
the former governor of New Jersey, James McGreevey, who recently
resigned due to a scandal involving his closeted homosexuality. The
401K accusation is total nonsense, and simply used as a hook for a
homophobic slur directed at McGreevey's male lover (who was Israeli).

Lest anyone think Friedemann's anti-gay crack was an inadvertent slip
of the tongue, here is what this outspoken woman and convert to Islam
(under one of her many pseudonyms Maria Hussain) had to say about
Islam, feminism and homosexuality in an article entitled "Observations
on the Palestinian Solidarity Conference":

"Muslims ... are not seeking peace. We get peace from Allah. In
Palestine, we will stop only at victory, which will be, inshaAllah, in
the end, a just implementation of Islamic religion. We have to guard
against the Palestine movement being represented primarily by
homosexuals and feminists."

Karin/Maria's involvement in the Somerville Divestment Project has
been both clear and long term. In an October, 2004 communication with
her comrades, Freiedmann/Hussain was in a near panic when the city's
aldermen decided to make the SDP's activities known to the public:

"the remaining Alderman threw us for a loop by insisting that 'the
other side' be allowed to speak ... before letting the vote go
through"

Needless to say, her fear was justified given how their movement
shriveled to dust once it's activities was exposed to the light of
truth

If Friedemann/Hussain, whose writing appears on various Islamist and
anti-Jewish Web sites (including former KKK head David Duke's white
supremacist publication WhiteCivilRights.org) is a strange one, she
has nothing on al Jezeera's favorite "scholar" of Jewish history and
anthropology, Joachim Martillo.

In addition to his many activities on various hate publications such
as JewishTribalReview.org, Martillo has also been featured prominently
on the Somerville Divestment Project's Web site which features a
telling little essay in it's Counterpoints Section titled "How to Talk
About Zionism: The New Improved Guide" which includes the following
over-the-top talking point:

"...Zionist propaganda reinterprets the Ashkenazi ethnic group as the
pan-Judaic ethnonational group in order to make a ridiculous
primordialist claim to Palestine just as German Nazi propaganda
equated modern Germans to ancient Teutonic and Gothic tribes in order
to claim that only pure Germans had a right to reside in German
territories."

If the bizarre ethno-history and discussion of "promordialism" causes
a few blank stares, Martillo (and, one presumes, the SDP which has
posted his "analysis") is struggling with the same problem faced by
right-wing Jew haters who also fancy themselves religious Christians:
how to continue to revere the Jews of the Old Testament (which they
embrace) while leaving room to despise the Jews living amongst us
today. Their solution is a witches brew of religion and ideology
called "Identify Christianity" that claims the Jews of today have
nothing to do with the Jews of the Old Testament, but are in fact
descendents of Eastern European tribes called the Khazars who embraced
Judaism centuries ago (much as the Slavs converted to Orthodox
Christianity).

Middle Eastern nations and political movements that define themselves
in opposition to the Jewish state face a similar problem: how to
negate Israel's claim to being the historic homeland to the Jewish
people, despite the chronicles of Old Testament prophets whom many
Muslims also claim to revere. Their solution has been to import themes
of Identity Christianity, mixed with claims that the Palestinians are
not, in fact, Arabs (and thus recent conquerors of the region), but
are actually descendents of the Philistines whose claim to the region
pre-dates both modern and ancient Jewish history.

Into this maelstrom comes Joachim Martillo with his own wacked-out
analysis of Ashkenazi and "primordialism," pseudo-scholarship embraced
only by the Jew-hating fringes of the far Right and Left (which
clearly includes the Somerville Divestment Project).

In compiling research on these two activists in the local divestment
movement, a friend discovered this happy (if odd) wedding
announcement:

"On July 1, 2004, Joachim Martillo and the former Maria Hussain joined
forces a match made in heaven..."

While one could make jokes about which set of pseudonyms the happy
couple used to give their vows, or explore the bizarre conversations
that must take place at their dinner table, I am more struck at how
this marriage of an Islamic hater of Jews and gays and a pseudo-
scholarly negator of Jewish history reflects trends in anti-Israel
political history generally, and the Somerville Divestment Project in
particular.

This site has already noted the degeneration of tactics and discourse
of the divestment movement as it moved from lobbying Somerville's
alderman last year to pushing for a ballot initiative in 2005.
Friedemann's screed in the Somerville Journal combined with Martillo's
race-baiting "Guide" on the SDP Web site only confirms what I've
suspected about the movement's move to ideology so extreme that even
the most smothering blanket of human-rights vocabulary cannot obscure
it's true nature.

Another ingredient in this mix is an organization called One Palestine
whose members (not including one who was recently deported to Jordan)
moved into high positions within the SDP after last year's defeat. As
the name implies, members of One Palestine are not particularly
interested in a two-state solution, or any other elements of a peace
process that does not give Arabs exclusive possession of the entire
region, from the River to the Sea. Like the SDP (whose favorite
scholar Joachim Martillo once wrote to a friend of mine that "The only
downside to Palestinian terrorism is the death of the Palestinian
attacker."), One Palestine does not have any moral dilemmas about
blowing up children in a Jerusalem Pizzeria as a legitimate political
tactic. And, like the SDP, their attempt to cloud the air with the
progressive language of human rights cannot camouflage their true
face.

Having spent time in the hothouses of Internet debate in the years
before I hung up my keyboard and started raising children, this cast
of characters (the religious spewer of anti-Jewish and anti-gay hate;
the pretentious, aging Ivy League grad who has learned the format of
scholarship, but none of its substance or integrity; the hypocritical
"human rights" supporter of terror) are all familiar to me.

The trouble is, when divestment was allowed through the door last
year, this freak show moved from virtual reality to the pages of my
weekly newspaper and into my neighborhood. While I never felt
resentment towards Somerville's political leaders who allowed
themselves to be manipulated and thus let this circus commence, I
would hope that all those who thought they were battling simply for
human rights in last year's debate would now would turn left and
right, look at just whom they are being asked to embrace, and get the
toxin of divestment out of Somerville's bloodstream for good.


http://www.somervillemejustice.com/marriage.html


Stories Jews Were Told:
Israel, Zionism, and Palestine
by Donna Nevel

What is the story American Jews have been told about Israel and Zionism,
and how does it differ from the reality of what happened in Palestine?
Like many American Jews, I was told by my teachers at Hebrew School and
in the Jewish Day School I attended that the creation of Israel meant
that Jews would never again have to live through another Holocaust.
That slogan, "Never Again," popularized by the notorious Jewish Defense
League, reverberated throughout the Jewish community. As part of the
story, I learned that Arabs, like the Germans, hated Jews and wanted to
destroy us. They were our enemies. The refrain, "they want to throw us
into the sea," was etched into my consciousness. I was told that they
-- the amorphous they -- didn't value human life and were not like us.
The process of dehumanization wasn't subtle.

I learned about the Zionist dream, of deserts blooming, of our people, a
third of whom had been murdered, able, at long last, to live freely and
fully in our own homeland. I learned a variation of "a land without a
people for a people without a land." And when I studied Zionism more
seriously in college and afterwards, I learned a new variation of that
refrain -- that, in fact, people were living there, but they were
peasants, wanderers, who did not have a cultural or national identity.
In other words, they weren't really a people so could easily integrate
as a minority into the new Jewish state.

At home, I learned about Zionism and Israel without the hateful
rhetoric. I grew up in a home imbued with Jewish culture and rooted in
Jewish experience -- "Yiddishkeit" -- with parents who were civil and
human rights activists and were extraordinarily ethical people. I
learned Jewish history and to be proud of who I was without adhering to
the concept of the "chosen people." Because my father served as an
assistant to Jewish leader Rabbi Stephen Wise, who had trusted President
Roosevelt to take action to save the Jews, I grew up hearing stories
about the ways the U.S. government failed to rescue Jews and how Israel
would be the safe haven that Jews desperately needed. I learned about
struggles for self-determination and about Israel as the national
liberation movement of the Jewish people.

But, regardless of the tone or intention, this story that I and so many
Jews accepted as a given was fundamentally flawed. That is, the story
failed to include that, as Jews were migrating to Palestine to fulfill
the Zionist dream, Palestinians were already living there, and, yes,
they identified as a people with cultural and national identities and
aspirations. And overwhelmingly and profoundly different from the
Zionist dream, the Palestinians' expression of their cultural and
national aspirations was being fulfilled in their homeland and didn't
require displacing another people. But this reality did not become part
of the Hebrew school curriculum or make it into the American Jewish
psyche. This part of the story simply wasn't being acknowledged or told.

Today, when American Jews look at the Israeli massacre in Gaza and the
occupation, and hear that, according to the Israeli government and
American Jewish establishment, the Palestinians and Hamas want to
destroy Israel, how can we forget that it was the Zionist movement that
came and took over another people's homes and land? How can American
Jews not understand the Palestinian yearning for their homeland,
particularly a homeland that was taken from them by force?

Any discussion among American Jews of Israel and Palestine requires us
to push ourselves as a community to reflect on our history and on the
story many of us blindly digested; it requires us to understand that the
current massacre grows out of a long history of dehumanization of a
people and denial of their national rights in the land of Palestine.
Understanding that reality -- that is, re-telling the story to include
the impact of Zionism on the Palestinian people -- doesn't minimize or
ignore the horror of the Holocaust or our commitment to insuring that it
never happens again to Jews or to anyone else. Rather, the memory of
those who perished in the Holocaust is best honored by our involvement,
as Jews, in speaking the truth and participating in movements for
justice that insure the right of the Palestinians and all peoples to
live with dignity.

Donna Nevel, a community psychologist, is a long-time organizer for
Israeli-Palestinian peace and justice. She was a co-coordinator of
1989's Road to Peace conference, which brought together representatives
of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and Israeli Knesset
(Parliament) for the first time in the United States.


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The Lebanese Armed Forces: Challenges and Opportunities in Post-Syria
Lebanon. http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/090210_lafsecurity.pdf


Iraq's Elections: A Win for Prime Minister Maliki and the United
States. http://www.heritage.org/Research/Iraq/upload/wm_2281.pdf







Lack of emotional intelligence, Tzipi Livni neither understands people nor likes them ?


Lack of emotional intelligence, Tzipi Livni neither understands people nor likes them ?

Over the past week I took statements from about a dozen people who know Tzipi Livni quite well. None of them is close to either Benjamin Netanyahu or Ehud Barak. Most support Kadima or parties on the left. Nevertheless, all are concerned. The portrait they paint of Livni is a disturbing one.

Kadima's chairwoman is a principled, patriotic, exemplary human being. She is intelligent and a quick study. But there is one fault that no one disputes: Livni is short-tempered. Her more serious critics believe she has an attention deficit. She is incapable of delving into the details of a document or of sustaining an extended discussion. She does not stay with a topic until it has been completely clarified. Her thinking is not clear and she cannot distinguish the wheat from the chaff. Unlike Netanyahu and Barak, who can get to the bottom of an issue and discuss it in all its complexity, Livni tends to oversimplify, to go for the schematic. One of the most respected figures in the country says she is opinionated and superficial.

Nor is there any disputing a second flaw of Livni's: She finds it very hard to make decisions. Even with noncritical decisions she deliberates, wavers, delays and changes her opinion over and over. Some people believe the combination of inexperience and lack of confidence paralyzes Livni. They think the foreign minister is incapable of deciding whether to launch a strike against Iran. Livni does not have the spine, levelheadedness and internal calm necessary to take the most critical decisions.

Her third flaw is her total lack of emotional intelligence. Livni neither understands people nor likes them. That is why she has no inner circle of confidants. With the exception of her husband, Naftali Spitzer, she has no trusted partners. Many people who made personal sacrifices on her behalf feel betrayed. Unlike Ariel Sharon and Ehud Barak, Livni lacks personal warmth or charm. Few top Kadima figures like or believe her. In the party's inner circles she is thought of as lacking leadership. The most common comment is that she simply doesn't have it. Her ability to lead after the election is in doubt.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1061380.html (For documentation; as entire text here.)

Livni has several other faults. She does not take the long view, is inconsistent, and her deep fear of failure prevents her from being daring and original. She disguises her internal panic with exaggerated displays of self-confidence that sometimes border on rudeness. Her appointments are mediocre and her teamwork is poor. Many people at the Foreign Ministry view her as some sort of country bumpkin.

All these issues, however, are dwarfed by the question of all questions that Livni evokes: Who is she and what is her inner core? A few of the people I spoke to this week had a disturbing response to this question: Tzipi Livni is hollow. They argued that Livni lacks the cultural baggage, historic vision, emotional tools and personal abilities of a leader. She has never shown civil courage, has no achievements to her name and has never gone against the tide. She recites a series of correct statements about dividing the country but does not know how to translate them into policy. That is why her negotiations with Ahmed Qureia failed and why her faith in Annapolis was proved false.

But Livni's Palestinian failure is tiny compared to her Iranian error. Livni did not understand the Iranian challenge in advance, did not take it on board and effectively did nothing in the international arena to deal with it. Iran's nuclear program is what turned Livni's term as foreign minister into a colossal failure.

One of the people I spoke to was especially agitated despite being a mature, restrained and conservative person. He told me he felt like a member of some cult with a terrible secret: Tzipi Livni is not fit to be prime minister. There is a black flag waving above her journey to the Prime Minister's Office.

The witness said it was inconceivable to him that the media are not revealing this secret; intolerable that the public does not know. That is why he spoke, that is why I recorded his words. That is why this piece was published. So the public will know - and decide.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s speech at the opening ceremony of the World Economic Forum Davos,


Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s speech at the opening ceremony of the World Economic Forum Davos, Switzerland January 28, 2009

Good afternoon, colleagues, ladies and gentlemen,

I would like to thank the forum’s organisers for this opportunity to share my thoughts on global economic developments and to share our plans and proposals.

The world is now facing the first truly global economic crisis, which is continuing to develop at an unprecedented pace.

The current situation is often compared to the Great Depression of the late 1920s and the early 1930s. True, there are some similarities. However, there are also some basic differences. The crisis has affected everyone at this time of globalisation. Regardless of their political or economic system, all nations have found themselves in the same boat.

There is a certain concept, called the perfect storm, which denotes a situation when Nature’s forces converge in one point of the ocean and increase their destructive potential many times over. It appears that the present-day crisis resembles such a perfect storm.

Responsible and knowledgeable people must prepare for it. Nevertheless, it always flares up unexpectedly.

The current situation is no exception either. Although the crisis was simply hanging in the air, the majority strove to get their share of the pie, be it one dollar or a billion, and did not want to notice the rising wave.

In the last few months, virtually every speech on this subject started with criticism of the United States. But I will do nothing of the kind.

I just want to remind you that, just a year ago, American delegates speaking from this rostrum emphasised the US economy’s fundamental stability and its cloudless prospects. Today, investment banks, the pride of Wall Street, have virtually ceased to exist. In just 12 months, they have posted losses exceeding the profits they made in the last 25 years. This example alone reflects the real situation better than any criticism.

The time for enlightenment has come. We must calmly, and without gloating, assess the root causes of this situation and try to peek into the future.

In our opinion, the crisis was brought about by a combination of several factors.

The existing financial system has failed. Substandard regulation has contributed to the crisis, failing to duly heed tremendous risks. Add to this colossal disproportions that have accumulated over the last few years. This primarily concerns disproportions between the scale of financial operations and the fundamental value of assets, as well as those between the increased burden on international loans and the sources of their collateral.

The entire economic growth system, where one regional centre prints money without respite and consumes material wealth, while another regional centre manufactures inexpensive goods and saves money printed by other governments, has suffered a major setback.

I would like to add that this system has left entire regions, including Europe, on the outskirts of global economic processes and has prevented them from adopting key economic and financial decisions. Moreover, generated prosperity was distributed extremely unevenly among various population strata. This applies to differences between social strata in certain countries, including highly developed ones. And it equally applies to gaps between countries and regions. A considerable share of the world’s population still cannot afford comfortable housing, education and quality health care. Even a global recovery posted in the last few years has failed to radically change this situation. And, finally, this crisis was brought about by excessive expectations. Corporate appetites with regard to constantly growing demand swelled unjustifiably. The race between stock market indices and capitalisation began to overshadow rising labour productivity and real-life corporate effectiveness.

Unfortunately, excessive expectations were not only typical of the business community. They set the pace for rapidly growing personal consumption standards, primarily in the industrial world. We must openly admit that such growth was not backed by a real potential. This amounted to unearned wealth, a loan that will have to be repaid by future generations.

This pyramid of expectations would have collapsed sooner or later. In fact, this is happening right before our eyes.

Esteemed colleagues,

One is sorely tempted to make simple and popular decisions in times of crisis. However, we could face far greater complications if we merely treat the symptoms of the disease.

Naturally, all national governments and business leaders must take resolute actions. Nevertheless, it is important to avoid making decisions, even in such force majeure circumstances, that we will regret in the future.

This is why I would first like to mention specific measures which should be avoided and which will not be implemented by Russia. We must not revert to isolationism and unrestrained economic egotism. The leaders of the world’s largest economies agreed during the November 2008 G20 summit not to create barriers hindering global trade and capital flows. Russia shares these principles. Although additional protectionism will prove inevitable during the crisis, all of us must display a sense of proportion. Excessive intervention in economic activity and blind faith in the state’s omnipotence is another possible mistake. True, the state’s increased role in times of crisis is a natural reaction to market setbacks. Instead of streamlining market mechanisms, some are tempted to expand state economic intervention to the greatest possible extent. The concentration of surplus assets in the hands of the state is a negative aspect of anti-crisis measures in virtually every nation. In the 20th century, the Soviet Union made the state’s role absolute. In the long run, this made the Soviet economy totally uncompetitive. This lesson cost us dearly. I am sure nobody wants to see it repeated. Nor should we turn a blind eye to the fact that the spirit of free enterprise, including the principle of personal responsibility of businesspeople, investors and shareholders for their decisions, is being eroded in the last few months. There is no reason to believe that we can achieve better results by shifting responsibility onto the state. And one more point: anti-crisis measures should not escalate into financial populism and a refusal to implement responsible macroeconomic policies. The unjustified swelling of the budgetary deficit and the accumulation of public debts are just as destructive as adventurous stock-jobbing.

Ladies and gentlemen,

Unfortunately, we have so far failed to comprehend the true scale of the ongoing crisis. But one thing is obvious: the extent of the recession and its scale will largely depend on specific high-precision measures, due to be charted by governments and business communities and on our coordinated and professional efforts. In our opinion, we must first atone for the past and open our cards, so to speak. This means we must assess the real situation and write off all hopeless debts and “bad” assets. True, this will be an extremely painful and unpleasant process. Far from everyone can accept such measures, fearing for their capitalisation, bonuses or reputation. However, we would “conserve” and prolong the crisis, unless we clean up our balance sheets. I believe financial authorities must work out the required mechanism for writing off debts that corresponds to today’s needs. Second. Apart from cleaning up our balance sheets, it is high time we got rid of virtual money, exaggerated reports and dubious ratings. We must not harbour any illusions while assessing the state of the global economy and the real corporate standing, even if such assessments are made by major auditors and analysts.

In effect, our proposal implies that the audit, accounting and ratings system reform must be based on a reversion to the fundamental asset value concept. In other words, assessments of each individual business must be based on its ability to generate added value, rather than on subjective concepts. In our opinion, the economy of the future must become an economy of real values. How to achieve this is not so clear-cut. Let us think about it together.

Third. Excessive dependence on a single reserve currency is dangerous for the global economy. Consequently, it would be sensible to encourage the objective process of creating several strong reserve currencies in the future. It is high time we launched a detailed discussion of methods to facilitate a smooth and irreversible switchover to the new model.

Fourth. Most nations convert their international reserves into foreign currencies and must therefore be convinced that they are reliable. Those issuing reserve and accounting currencies are objectively interested in their use by other states. This highlights mutual interests and interdependence. Consequently, it is important that reserve currency issuers must implement more open monetary policies. Moreover, these nations must pledge to abide by internationally recognised rules of macroeconomic and financial discipline. In our opinion, this demand is not excessive. At the same time, the global financial system is not the only element in need of reforms. We are facing a much broader range of problems. This means that a system based on cooperation between several major centres must replace the obsolete unipolar world concept. We must strengthen the system of global regulators based on international law and a system of multilateral agreements in order to prevent chaos and unpredictability in such a multipolar world. Consequently, it is very important that we reassess the role of leading international organisations and institutions.

I am convinced that we can build a more equitable and efficient global economic system. But it is impossible to create a detailed plan at this event today.

It is clear, however, that every nation must have guaranteed access to vital resources, new technology and development sources. What we need is guarantees that could minimise risks of recurring crises. Naturally, we must continue to discuss all these issues, including at the G20 meeting in London, which will take place in April.

Our decisions should match the present-day situation and heed the requirements of a new post-crisis world.

The global economy could face trite energy-resource shortages and the threat of thwarted future growth while overcoming the crisis. Three years ago, at a summit of the Group of Eight, we raised the issue of global energy security. We called for the shared responsibility of suppliers, consumers and transit countries. I think it is time to launch truly effective mechanisms ensuring such responsibility.

The only way to ensure truly global energy security is to form interdependence, including a swap of assets, without any discrimination or dual standards. It is such interdependence that generates real mutual responsibility.

Unfortunately, the existing Energy Charter has failed to become a working instrument able to regulate emerging problems.

I propose we start laying down a new international legal framework for energy security. Implementation of our initiative could play a political role comparable to the treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel Community. That is to say, consumers and producers would finally be bound into a real single energy partnership based on clear-cut legal foundations.

Every one of us realises that sharp and unpredictable fluctuations of energy prices are a colossal destabilising factor in the global economy. Today’s landslide fall of prices will lead to a growth in the consumption of resources.

On the one hand, investments in energy saving and alternative sources of energy will be curtailed. On the other, less money will be invested in oil production, which will result in its inevitable downturn. Which, in the final analysis, will escalate into another fit of uncontrolled price growth and a new crisis.

It is necessary to return to a balanced price based on an equilibrium between supply and demand, to strip pricing of a speculative element generated by many derivative financial instruments.

To guarantee the transit of energy resources remains a challenge. There are two ways of tackling it, and both must be used. The first is to go over to generally recognised market principles of fixing tariffs on transit services. They can be recorded in international legal documents. The second is to develop and diversify the routes of energy transportation. We have been working long and hard along these lines. In the past few years alone, we have implemented such projects as the Yamal-Europe and Blue Stream gas pipelines. Experience has proved their urgency and relevance. I am convinced that such projects as South Stream and North Stream are equally needed for Europe’s energy security. Their total estimated capacity is something like 85 billion cubic meters of gas a year. Gazprom, together with its partners – Shell, Mitsui and Mitsubishi – will soon launch capacities for liquefying and transporting natural gas produced in the Sakhalin area. And that is also Russia’s contribution to global energy security. We are developing the infrastructure of our oil pipelines. The first section of the Baltic Pipeline System (BPS) has already been completed. BPS-1 supplies up to 75 million tonnes of oil a year. It does this direct to consumers – via our ports on the Baltic Sea. Transit risks are completely eliminated in this way. Work is currently under way to design and build BPS-2 (its throughput capacity is 50 million tonnes of oil a year. We intend to build transport infrastructure in all directions. The first stage of the pipeline system Eastern Siberia – Pacific Ocean is in the final stage. Its terminal point will be a new oil port in Kozmina Bay and an oil refinery in the Vladivostok area. In the future a gas pipeline will be laid parallel to the oil pipeline, towards the Pacific and China. Addressing you here today, I cannot but mention the effects of the global crisis on the Russian economy. We have also been seriously affected.

However, unlike many other countries, we have accumulated large reserves. They expand our possibilities for confidently passing through the period of global instability.

The crisis has made the problems we had more evident. They concern the excessive emphasis on raw materials in exports and the economy in general and a weak financial market. The need to develop a number of fundamental market institutions, above all of a competitive environment, has become more acute.

We were aware of these problems and sought to address them gradually. The crisis is only making us move more actively towards the declared priorities, without changing the strategy itself, which is to effect a qualitative renewal of Russia in the next 10 to 12 years.

Our anti-crisis policy is aimed at supporting domestic demand, providing social guarantees for the population, and creating new jobs. Like many countries, we have reduced production taxes, leaving money in the economy. We have optimised state spending.

But, I repeat, along with measures of prompt response, we are also working to create a platform for post-crisis development.

We are convinced that those who will create attractive conditions for global investment already now and will be able to preserve and strengthen sources of strategically meaningful resources will become leaders of the restoration of the global economy.

This is why among our priorities we have the creation of a favourable business environment and development of competition; the establishment of a stable loan system resting on sufficient internal resources; and implementation of transport and other infrastructure projects.

Russia is already one of the major exporters of a number of food commodities. And our contribution to ensuring global food security will only increase.

We are also going to actively develop the innovation sectors of the economy. Above all, those in which Russia has a competitive edge – space, nuclear energy, aviation. In these areas, we are already actively establishing cooperative ties with other countries. A promising area for joint efforts could be the sphere of energy saving.

We see higher energy efficiency as one of the key factors for energy security and future development.

We will continue reforms in our energy industry. Adoption of a new system of internal pricing based on economically justified tariffs.

This is important, including for encouraging energy saving. We will continue our policy of openness to foreign investments.

I believe that the 21st century economy is an economy of people not of factories. The intellectual factor has become increasingly important in the economy. That is why we are planning to focus on providing additional opportunities for people to realise their potential.

We are already a highly educated nation. But we need for Russian citizens to obtain the highest quality and most up-to-date education, and such professional skills that will be widely in demand in today’s world. Therefore, we will be pro-active in promoting educational programmes in leading specialities.

We will expand student exchange programmes, arrange training for our students at the leading foreign colleges and universities and with the most advanced companies. We will also create such conditions that the best researchers and professors – regardless of their citizenship – will want to come and work in Russia.

History has given Russia a unique chance. Events urgently require that we reorganise our economy and update our social sphere. We do not intend to pass up this chance. Our country must emerge from the crisis renewed, stronger and more competitive.

Separately, I would like to comment on problems that go beyond the purely economic agenda, but nevertheless are very topical in present-day conditions. Unfortunately, we are increasingly hearing the argument that the build-up of military spending could solve today’s social and economic problems. The logic is simple enough. Additional military allocations create new jobs. At a glance, this sounds like a good way of fighting the crisis and unemployment. This policy might even be quite effective in the short term. But in the longer run, militarisation won’t solve the problem but will rather quell it temporarily. What it will do is squeeze huge financial and other resources from the economy instead of finding better and wiser uses for them.

My conviction is that reasonable restraint in military spending, especially coupled with efforts to enhance global stability and security, will certainly bring significant economic dividends. I hope that this viewpoint will eventually dominate globally. On our part, we are geared to intensive work on discussing further disarmament.

I would like to draw your attention to the fact that the economic crisis could aggravate the current negative trends in global politics. The world has lately come to face an unheard-of surge of violence and other aggressive actions, such as Georgia’s adventurous sortie in the Caucasus, recent terrorist attacks in India, and escalation of violence in Gaza Strip. Although not apparently linked directly, these developments still have common features.

First of all, I am referring to the existing international organisations’ inability to provide any constructive solutions to regional conflicts, or any effective proposals for interethnic and interstate settlement. Multilateral political mechanisms have proved as ineffective as global financial and economic regulators. Frankly speaking, we all know that provoking military and political instability, regional and other conflicts is a helpful means of distracting the public from growing social and economic problems. Such attempts cannot be ruled out, unfortunately.

To prevent this scenario, we need to improve the system of international relations, making it more effective, safe and stable. There are a lot of important issues on the global agenda in which most countries have shared interests. These include anti-crisis policies, joint efforts to reform international financial institutions, to improve regulatory mechanisms, ensure energy security and mitigate the global food crisis, which is an extremely pressing issue today.

Russia is willing to contribute to dealing with international priority issues. We expect all our partners in Europe, Asia and America, including the new US administration, to show interest in further constructive cooperation in dealing with all these issues and more. We wish the new team success.

Ladies and gentlemen,

The international community is facing a host of extremely complicated problems, which might seem overpowering at times. But, a journey of thousand miles begins with a single step, as the proverb goes. We must seek foothold relying on the moral values that have ensured the progress of our civilisation. Integrity and hard work, responsibility and self-confidence will eventually lead us to success. We should not despair. This crisis can and must be fought, also by pooling our intellectual, moral and material resources.

This kind of consolidation of effort is impossible without mutual trust, not only between business operators, but primarily between nations.

Therefore, finding this mutual trust is a key goal we should concentrate on now.

Trust and solidarity are key to overcoming the current problems and avoiding more shocks, to reaching prosperity and welfare in this new century.

Thank you.

Checkmate, 540 gates to the NWO, !



Checkmate, 540 gates to the NWO, !


"I fully agree with General Washington, that we must protect this young nation from an insidious influence and impenetration. That menace, gentlemen, is the Jews. In whatever country Jews have settled in any great number, they have lowered its moral tone; depreciated its commercial integrity; have segregated themselves and have not been assimilated; have sneered at and tried to undermine the Christian religion upon which that nation was founded by objecting to its restrictions; have built up a state within a state; and when opposed have tried to strangle that country to death financially, as in the case of Spain and Portugal. For over 1700 hundred years, the Jews have been bewailing their sad fate in that they have been exiled from their homeland, as they call Palestine. But, gentlemen, did the world give it to them in fee simple, they would at once find some reason for not returning. Why? Because they are vampires, and vampires do not live on vampires. They cannot live only amongst themselves. They must subsist on Christians and other people not of their race. If you do not exclude them from these United States in the Constitution, in less than 200 years they will have swarmed here in such great numbers that they will dominate and devour the land, and change our form of government, for which we Americans have shed our blood, given our lives, our substance, and jeopardized our liberty. If you do not exclude them, in less than 200 years our descendants will be working in the fields to furnish them substance, while they will be in the counting houses rubbing their hands. I warn you, gentlemen, if you do not exclude the Jews for all time, your children will curse you in your graves. Jews, gentlemen, are Asiatics, let them be born where they will or how many generations they are away from Asia, they will never be otherwise. Their ideas do not conform to an American's, and will not even though they live among us ten generations. A leopard cannot change its spots. Jews are Asiatics, are a menace to this country if permitted entrance, and should be excluded by this Constitutional Convention."~ Ben Franklin at the 1787 Constitutional Convention.



Since topics are so loosely defined today, and since ... mentioned the Protocols, I thought I would share something about the origin of that "treatise", or propaganda, or whatever it was...

The Holy Blood and Holy Grail

by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln

Random House 1982, 1996

Seal of the Priory of Sion One of the most persuasive testimonials we found to the existence and activities of the Prieure de Sion dated from the late nineteenth century. The testimonial in question is well enough known - but it is not recognized as a testimonial. On the contrary it has always been associated with more sinister things. It has played a notorious role in recent history and still tends to arouse such violent emotions, bitter antagonisms and gruesome memories that most writers are happy to dismiss it out of hand. To the extent that this testimonial has contributed significantly to human prejudice and suffering, such a reaction is perfectly understandable. But if the testimonial has been criminally misused, our researches convinced us that it has also been seriously misunderstood.

The role of Rasputin at the court of Nicholas and Alexandra of Russia is more or less generally known. It is not generally known, however, that there were influential, even powerful esoteric enclaves at the Russian court long before Rasputin. During the 1890's and 1900's one such enclave formed itself around an individual known as Monsieur Philippe, and around his mentor, who made periodic visits to the imperial court at Petersburg. And Monsieur Philippe's mentor was none other than the man called Papus - the French esotericist associated with Jules Doinel (founder of the neo-Cathar church in the Languedoc.), Peladan (who claimed to have discovered Jesus's tomb), Emma Calve and Claude Debussy. In a word, the 'French occult revival' of the late nineteenth century had not only spread to Petersburg. It's representatives also enjoyed the privileged status of personal confidants to the czar and czarina.

Et in Arcadia Ego However, the esoteric enclave of Papus and Monsieur Philippe was actively opposed by certain other powerful interests - the Grand Duchess Elizabeth, for example, who was intent on installing her own favorites in proximity to the imperial throne. One of the grand duchess's favorites was a rather contemptible individual known to posterity under the pseudonym of Sergei Nilus. Sometime around 1903 Nilus presented a highly controversial document to the czar - a document that supposedly bore witness to a dangerous conspiracy. but if Nilus expected the czar's gratitude for his disclosure, he must have been grievously disappointed. The czar declared the document to be an outrageous fabrication, and ordered all copies of it to be destroyed. And Nilus was banished from the court in disgrace.

Of course the document - or, at any rate, a copy of it - survived. In 1903 it was serialized in a newspaper but failed to attract any interest. In 1905 it was published again - this time as an appendix to a book by a distinguished mystical, Vladimir Soloviov. At this point it began to attract attention. In the years that followed it became one of the single most infamous documents of the twentieth century.

New Order of the Ages The document in question was a tract, or, more strictly speaking, a purported social and political programme. It has appeared under a variety of slightly differing titles, the most common of which is The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. The Protocols allegedly issued from specifically Jewish sources. And for a great many anti-Semites at the time they were convincing proof of an 'international Jewish conspiracy'. In 1919, for example, they were distributed to troops of the White Russian Army - and these troops, during the next two years, massacred some 60,000 Jews who were held responsible for the 1917 Revolution. by 1919 the Protocols were also being circulated by Alfred Rosenberg, later the chief racial theoretician and propagandist for the National Socialist Party in Germany. In Mein Kampf Hitler used the Protocols to fuel his own fanatical prejudices, and is said to have believed unquestioningly in their authenticity. In England the Protocols were immediately accorded credence by the Morning Post. Even The Times, in 1921, took them seriously and only later admitted its error. Experts today at least in their present form, are a vicious and insidious forgery. Nevertheless, they are still being circulated - in Latin America, in Spain, even in Britain - as anti-Semitic propaganda.

The Protocols propound in outline a blueprint for nothing less than total world domination. On first reading they would seem to be the Machiavellian programme - a kind of inter-office memo, so to speak - for a group of individuals determined to impose a new world order, with themselves as supreme despots. The text advocates a many-tentacled hydra-headed conspiracy dedicated to disorder and anarchy, to toppling certain existing regimes, infiltrating Freemasonry and other such organizations, and eventually seizing absolute control of the Western world's social, political and economic institutions. And the anonymous authors of the Protocols declare explicitly that they 'stage-managed' whole peoples 'according to a political plan which no one has so much as guessed at in the course of many centuries'.

Square and Compass To a modern reader the Protocols might seem to have been devised by some fictitious organization like SPECTRE - James Bond's adversary in Ian Fleming's novels. When they were first publicized, however, the Protocols were alleged to have been composed at an International Judaic Congress which convened in Basle in 1897. This allegation has long since been disproved. The earliest copies of the Protocols, for example, are known to have been written in French - and the 1897 Congress in Basle did not include a single French delegate. Moreover, a copy of the Protocols is known to have been in circulation as early as 1884 - a full thirteen years before the Basle Congress met. The 1884 copy of the Protocols surfaced in the hands of a member of a Masonic lodge - the same lodge of which Papus was a member and subsequently Grand Master. Moreover, it was in this same lodge that the tradition of Ormus had first appeared - the legendary Egyptian sage who amalgamated pagan and Christian mysteries and founded the Rose-Croix.

Modern scholars have established in fact that the Protocols, in their published form, are based at least in part on a satirical work written and printed in Geneva in 1864, The work was composed as an attack on Napoleon III by a man named Maurice Joly, who was subsequently imprisoned. Joly is said to have been a member of a Rose Croix order. Whether this is true or not, he was a friend of Vicor Hugo; and Hugo, who shared Joly's antipathy to Napoleon III, was a member of a Rose-Croix order.

It can thus be proved conclusively that the Protocols did not issue from the Judaic Congress at Basle in 1897. That being so, the obvious question is whence they did issue. Modern scholars have dismissed them as a total forgery, a wholly spurious document concocted by anti-Semitic interests intent in discrediting Judaism. And yet the Protocols themselves argue strongly against such a conclusion. They contain, for example, a number of enigmatic references - references that are clearly not Judaic. but these references are so clearly not Judaic that they cannot plausibly have been fabricated by a forger either. No anti-Semitic forger with even a modicum of intelligence would possibly have concocted such references in order to discredit Judaism. For no one would have believed these references to be of Judaic origin.

33rd Degree Thus for instance, the text of the Protocols ends with a single statement, 'Signed by the representatives of Sion of the 33rd Degree'.

Why would an anti-Semitic forger have made up such a statement? Why would he not have attempted to incriminate all Jews, rather than just a few - the few who constitute 'the representatives of Sion of the 33rd Degree'? Why would he not declare that the document was signed by, say, the representatives of the international Jewish conspiracy'. If anything, it would seem to refer to something specifically Masonic. And the 33rd Degree in Freemasonry is that of the so-called 'Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite' which emerges mysteriously out of French Freemasonry in the mid eighteenth century.

The Protocols contain other even more flagrant anomalies. The text speaks repeatedly, for example, of the advent of a 'Masonic Kingdom', and a 'King of the blood of Sion', who will preside over this 'Masonic Kingdom'. It asserts that the future king will be of the 'dynastic roots of King David'. It affirms that 'the King of the Jews will be the real Pope' and 'the patriarch of an international church'. And it concludes in a most cryptic fashion, 'Certain members of the seed of David will prepare the Kings and their heirs... Only the King and the three who stood sponsor for him will know what is coming'.

[...]

On the basis of prolonged and systematic research, we reached certain conclusions about the Protocols of the Elders of Sion. They are as follows.

1) There was an original text on which the published version the Protocols was based. This original text was not a forgery. On the contrary it was authentic. But it had nothing whatever to do with Judaism or an 'international Jewish conspiracy'. It was issued rather from some Masonic organization or Masonically oriented secret society which incorporated the word 'Sion'.

Asmodeus 2) The original text on which the published version of the Protocols was based need not have been provocative or inflammatory in its language. But it may well have included a programme for gaining power, for infiltrating Freemasonry, for controlling social, political and economic institutions. Such a programme would have been perfectly in keeping with the secret societies of the Renaissance, as well as with the Compagnie du Saint-Sacrement and the institutions of Andrea and Nodier.

3) The original text on which the published version of the Protocols was based fell into the hands of Sergei Nilus. Nilus did not first intend it to discredit Judaism. On the contrary, he brought it to the czar with the intention of discrediting the esoteric enclave at the imperial court - the enclave of Papus, Monsier Philippe and others who were members of the secret society in question. Before doing so, he almost certainly doctored the language, rendering it far more venomous and inflammatory than it initially was. When the czar spurned him, Nilus then released the Protocols in their doctored form for publication. They had failed in their primary objective of compromising Papus and Monsieur Philippe. But they might still serve a secondary purpose - that of fostering anti-Semitism. Although Nilus's chief targets had been Papus and Monsieur Philippe, he was hostile to Judaism as well.

4) The published version of the Protocols is not, therefore, a totally fabricated text. It is rather a radically altered text. But despite the alterations certain vestiges of the original version can be discerned - as in a palimpsest, or as in passages of the Bible. These vestiges - which referred to a king, a pope, an international church, and to Sion - probably meant little or nothing to Nilus. He certainly would not have invented them himself. But if they were already there, he would have had no reason, given his ignorance, to excise them. And while such vestiges might have been irrelevant to Judaism, they might have been extremely relevant to a secret society. As we learned subsequently, they were - and still are - of paramount importance to the Prieure de Sion.

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Marc Rich - Jewish financier well known to have CIA2/Mossad deep rooted covert connections.

2009....and they are still at it, unabated....but time is running out....

RICH

Marc Rich - Jewish financier well known to have CIA2/Mossad deep rooted covert connections for decades and worldwide....with tantalum "trading" fronts...

Obama's attorney general will be Eric Holder, according to US media reports.

In 2000, Holder advised President Clinton - on the last day of his administration - that he was "neutral, leaning towards favourable" about pardoning fugitive Jewish financier Marc Rich. - U.S. - Obama 'picks' US Attorney General


Mark Rich Helped KGB Create Hidden Government,. According to Newsmax, Saturday, March 31, 2001: "Mark Rich, the most-wanted fugitive pardoned by former President Clinton, was a key figure in the Communist Party and the KGB's creation of an underground government that survived the break-up of the Soviet Union and still rules Russia today behind the scenes."





"A 7-year-old girl was murdered by her stepmother after being raped and sodomized by her uncle, who lived in the same household in North Jakarta.

"The stepmother told police she strangled the girl because she could no longer stand hearing her pained cries for help in the middle of the night.

"Another widely publicized case involved 26 male kindergarten students who were sodomized by their Koran teacher." - Failing Our Children






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Al Zawahiri is used to counter Obama's growing unpopularity

Al Zawahiri has sent a new message.


An al Qaeda message, (Al-Qaeda - Obama ) November 2008, reportedly has the following purposes:

(1) to gain sympathy for Obama, (and his various billionaire cronies.)

(2) to gain sympathy for US military action (in the event of any false flag terror operations by the CIA and Mossad).

(3) to gain sympathy for a US takeover, or destruction, of Pakistan.

(4) to turn world opinion against Moslems.


Obama grandparents

The message, purportedly from (CIA-agent) Ayman al-Zawahiri, likens Obama to a "house slave", who has chosen to align himself with the "enemies" of (CIA-organised militant) Islam.

Barack Obama is becoming much less popular world-wide as more and more people see that he is appointing mainly controversial Jews to top positions.

Obama, whose grandmother may be of Jewish origin, visited Israel in July 2008 and expressed his "abiding commitment" to its security.

World opinion is turning against Obama, partly because of his choice of Rahm Emanuel as Chief of Staff.


1. Al-Qaida's chief brains and strategist is said to be Ayman al-Zawahri.

Around March 2008, Al-Zawahiri published a book on militant Islamic Web sites 'slamming his former radical colleagues in Egyptian prisons for disavowing armed struggle and turning their backs against violence.' (
New book by top al-Qaida strategist rebuts jailed militants ...)

2. Some Islamists are thought to be manipulated by the CIA and its friends. Some are thought to be agents of the CIA and its friends.

According to an article entitled '
Islamic fundamentalist link to British Fascists' by Wayne Madsen and Umberto Pascali( Cached ):

"According to January 2000 U.S. Congressional testimony, al-Zawahiri was granted U.S. residence by the Immigration and Naturalization Service - something almost impossible for many legitimate immigrants to obtain...

"One of the centers of operation for al-Zawahiri was London, where one of his closest relatives resided? President Mubarak is believed to have referred to him when, after the Luxor massacre, he stated: 'There are people who carried out crimes and who were sentenced [in Egypt] and live on British soil.'"



Al Zawahiri

According to nogw.com (
Cached ), Ayman al Zawahiri fought for the CIA in Bosnia and his brother Zaiman al-Zawahiri fought for the CIA in Kosovo.

(Members of the Moroccan terror group Salafi Jihadi fought for the CIA in Afghanistan, Chechnya, Dagestan, Bosnia and Kosovo. USS Cole Bomber Jamal al-Badawi fought for the CIA in Bosnia. Zacarias Moussaoui fought for the CIA in Chechnya. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed fought for the CIA in Afghanistan. Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman fought for the CIA in Afghanistan. Abdullah Azzam, "one of the ideological founders of Hamas" fought for the CIA in Afghanistan.)

Al-Zawahiri is suspected of being an agent of the CIA.



3. Ayman al-Zawahiri was born into an aristocratic Egyptian family in 1951.

His father, Mohammed al-Zawahiri, was a pharmacologist and a professor.

The family was "not overly pious," (Wright, The Looming Tower, p. 34.)

4. While Ayman al-Zawahiri was still at school, the president of Egypt was Gamal Nasser.

According to an article at Cooperativeresearch (
Context of 'October 1970-1981: After Nasser’s death, Sadat brings ... ), the USA and UK (and the US and UK oil and bank industries) did not like Nasser’s nationalist policies. MI6 and the CIA began plans to assassinate Nasser.

Egypt's Islamist Muslim Brotherhood also wanted to topple Nasser. Nasser outlawed the Muslim Brotherhood, which he denounced as a tool of Britain.

Nasser wanted an independent Egypt.


The CIA provided support for the Muslim Brotherhood because of “the Brotherhood’s commendable capability to overthrow Nasser.” [Baer, 2003, pp. 99; Dreyfuss, 2005, pp. 101-108] Saudi Arabia, an ally of the United States, gave money and and sanctuary to Muslim Brotherhood militants. [Dreyfuss, 2005, pp. 90-91, 126-131, 150]

Israel also preferred Islamists to nationalists.

David Shipler, a former New York Times reporter, said that 'he was told by the military governor of the Gaza Strip, Brigadier General Yitzhak Segev, that the Israeli government had financed the Islamic movement to couteract the PLO and the communists.' (
Context of 'October 1970-1981: After Nasser’s death, Sadat brings ...)

According to Martha Kessler, a senior analyst for the CIA, 'we saw Israel cultivate Islam as a counterweight to Palestinian nationalism.' (
Context of 'October 1970-1981: After Nasser’s death, Sadat brings ...)

5. Reportedly, at the age of 14, al-Zawahiri joined the Muslim Brotherhood (
Ayman al-Zawahiri - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia), suspected by some of being a tool of the CIA and MI6. (aangirfan: The use of the Muslim Brotherhood by MI6 and the CIA in ...)

Sadat

6. Nasser died 'of a heart attack' in 1970.

Nasser was succeeded by Anwar Sadat, a former member of the Muslim Brotherhood. Sadat had 'a close working relationship' with the CIA and Henry Kissinger. Sadat used the Muslim Brotherhood against the nationalist Nasserites. (
Context of 'October 1970-1981: After Nasser’s death, Sadat brings ...)

7. Reportedly, al-Zawahiri became a fan of the Sayyid Qutb, who was a secular (non-religious) reformer in the 1930s, but who apparently became an Islamist in the 1950s and 1960s.

At Cairo University, Al-Zawahiri studied behavior, psychology and pharmacology graduating in 1974. Following that he served three years as a surgeon in the Egyptian Army.

8. In 1981, President Anwar Sadat was assassinated. Possibly the CIA had fallen out with him.

According to an article at 911truth.org (
Cached ):

"Joseph Trento, in his 2005 book, Prelude to Terror, interviewed former high-ranking CIA agents about this period in Egypt...

"Trento ... reports that Sadat's vice president Hosni Mubarak had been on the CIA payroll in the late 70s, and that he had been having his palms greased by a weapons delivery company called EATSCO — a CIA front/side company run by the notorious Edwin P. Wilson.

"According to Trento, Anwar Sadat had, by 1980, started an investigation into Mubarak's corrupt involvement with EATSCO.

"Both the CIA and Mubarak had motives to have Sadat dead.

"The CIA of course, having the contract to protect Sadat, possessed the means, at least to leave a critical security door open."

Al-Zawahiri was part of the Al-Jihad group which allegedly carried out the assassination.

Al-Zawahiri served a three year sentence in Egypt after he was found guilty in 1982 for conspiracy to murder in planning the assassination of Sadat.

9. Adel Darwish has written that, in 1986, according to an agent of one Gulf State Intelligence Service, al-Zawahiri moved to Peshawar in Pakistan 'where he was helped by the CIA to get arms, training and money for his followers to join the Mujahedine. ' According to the agent, the CIA were aware of who he was and his involvement in the assassination of President Sadat, but they gave him and his men new identities and new passports.' Reportedly, the story was confirmed by Egyptian intelligence sources. (
Terrorism)

10. Al Zawahiri's terrorist career reportedly includes the massacre of 70 people on a tourist bus in 1997 Luxor, Egypt, and the assassination attempt against Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in 1995. (
Islamic fundamentalist link to British Fascists)

11. From The Guardian, 18 February 2002, (
Guardian Unlimited Special reports Bin Laden's No 2 'captured ...):

"Ayman al-Zawahiri, has been captured and jailed in Tehran, a leading Iranian newspaper reported yesterday.

"Zawahiri, the founder of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, was arrested several days ago and has been imprisoned in the city's Evin jail, where political prisoners are usually held, the Hayat-e-Nou newspaper said.

"The paper is regarded as reliable and is run by Hadi Khamenei, a leading legislator and the brother of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei."

Tuesday, November 18, 2008....

9 11 Planning


When did the planning for 9 11 take place?

In the early 1950s, the United States began training “stay behind” networks in Europe.

These networks carried out acts of terrorism in Europe, such as the 1980 Bologna Bomb.

(
"Staying Behind" NATO's Terror Network. /The Bologna Bomb 1980, Gladio, terrorism in Europe )

In 1960 in Turkey , the stay-behind network killed Prime Minister Adnan Menderes.

In 1961, in Algeria, the French stay-behind army tried to stage a coup against the French government of Algiers.

In 1967, the Greek stay-behind army staged a coup and set up the fascist military dictatorship.

In 1971, in Turkey, the stay-behind network killed hundreds of people.

In 1977, in Spain, the stay-behind network carried out a massacre in Madrid.

In 1980, 85 people were killed in the bombing of the Bologna train station.

According to the Italian Senate, after its investigation in 2000, the bombers were later discovered to be "men linked to the structures of United States intelligence."

In 1985, in Belgium, the stay-behind network attacked and shot shoppers randomly in supermarkets, killing 28.

Osama and siblings

The Muslim Brotherhood is said to be the 'financial and organizational backbone' of Al Qaeda. (
Big Wedding: Chapter Nine)

The CIA and its allies, reportedly, have been using the Muslim Brotherhood to do their dirty work for many years.

In 1955 MI6 reportedly used the Muslim Brotherhood to agitate against the government of Syria. (
The British, Muslim Terrorism and September 11)

From
1976, a secret intelligence cabal called the Safari Club began working with CIA elements to influence the Middle East and Africa

In November 1978, President Carter appointed George Ball head of a special White House Iran task force under Brzezinski. Ball recommended that the US should drop support for the Shah of Iran and support Ayatollah Khomeini. ( Supporting Radical Muslims to Contain the Soviet Union)

Osama bin laden's neice

In the mid-1980s, the bin Laden family were reportedly helping the CIA.

Quoting a French intelligence report, The New Yorker reports, “During the nineteen-eighties, when the Reagan administration secretly arranged for an estimated $34 million to be funneled through Saudi Arabia to the Contras in Nicaragua, [Osama’s eldest brother] Salem bin Laden aided in this cause.” [
PBS Frontline, “About the bin Laden Family,” 2001.')" onmouseout="return nd()" href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/binladen/who/family.html" target="_blank">PBS Frontline, 2001; New Yorker, 5 November 2001.')" onmouseout="return nd()" href="http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?011112fa_FACT3" target="_blank">New Yorker, 11/5/2001]

In 1991, future 9/11 hijacker Hani Hanjour first arrived in the US. [
Statement For The Record by Robert S. Mueller III, 107th Cong., 2nd sess.')" onmouseout="return nd()" href="http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2002_hr/092602mueller.html" target="_blank">US Congress, 9/26/2002; Final report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, 520.')" onmouseout="return nd()" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20041020144854/http://www.decloah.com/mirrors/9-11/911_Report.txt" target="_blank">9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 520] Some media accounts have him entering the country in 1990. He apparently is the first hijacker to enter the US. [Time, 24 September 2001.')" onmouseout="return nd()" href="http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1000899,00.html" target="_blank">Time, 9/24/2001; Cox News Service, 15 October 2001.')" onmouseout="return nd()" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20011217214854/http://www.coxnews.com/newsservice/stories/2001/1016-HANJOUR.html" target="_blank">Cox News Service, 10/15/2001; New York Times, 19 June 2002.')" onmouseout="return nd()" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/19/national/19ARIZ.html?pagewanted=all&position=top" target="_blank">New York Times, 6/19/2002]

From 1991-1993, Robert Gates was Director of the CIA.

In 1993, member of the Muslim Brotherhood Ramzi Yousef reportedly started planning 9/11. (
Big Wedding: Chapter Nine)

In 1993, an expert panel commissioned by the Pentagon postulated that an airplane could be used as a missile to bomb national landmarks. (
1993)

From 1993 - 1995, Robert James Woolsey Jr. was Director of the CIA.

In 1995, Mohamed Atta spent three months with co-students Volker Hauth and Ralph Bodenstein in Cairo, on a grant from the Carl Duisberg Society.

In 1996, the term al-Qaeda was first mentioned in the US media.

In 1996, four of the hijackers, or people with the same names as the hijackers, were being trained at Pensacola Naval Air Station in the USA.

A Mr Mohamed Atta trained at the International Officer’s School at Maxwell/Gunter Air Force Base in Montgomery, Alabama.

From 1995 - 1996, John Deutch was Director of the CIA.

From 1997 - 1998, future 9/11 Commission Staff attended a Terrorism Study Group which looked at the consequences of ‘Catastrophic Terrorism.’

From 1993 - 1998, Rahm Emanuel was a senior advisor to Clinton at the White House.


Robert Gates

On 7 November 2008, the existentialistcowboy.blogspot had an article entitled:
The 'Conspiracy of Rich Men' Who Pulled Off 911 and Other GOP Atrocities

Among the points made:

1. A bankrupt American empire invaded Iraq for its oil.

2. Judicial Watch obtained Commerce Department papers, dated March 2001, that included a detailed map of Iraq's oil fields as well as a list entitled "Foreign Suitors of Iraqi Oilfield Contracts".

In 2001, before 9 11, the Cheney energy task force completed its report on the USA's energy needs.

3. None of the 19 'Arabs' reportedly involved in 9 11 could effectively pilot aircraft of any type.

4. Wars are often the conspiracies of rich men. Among the people who hoped to benefit from World War II were Krupp, United Steel and I. G. Farben.

American industrialists, led by Henry Ford, reportedly did their part for the Nazi cause.

5. Cheney outsourced the implementation of the 9 11 FALSE FLAG OPERATION to Mossad.




9 11 Revealed - The Daily Mail

9 11

Members of Israeli spy ring 'related to 9/11 hijacker Ziad Jarrah'

Moslem Extremists, Pole Dancing, Lap Dancing, Go-Go Clubs



How Osama has helped the USA

The bin Laden Family

The US government in bed with the 9 11 'hijackers'

Al-Zawahri - alQaeda's chief brains and strategist

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