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MORMONS MOSSAD AND THE CIA....

2012-01-12T02:28:00.000-08:00

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MORMONS MOSSAD AND THE CIA....

Mitt Romney is the candidate of the rich (Exit poll fun: Catholics, Mormons, and the Rich)

Mitt Romney is a Mormon.

Mitt Romney founded Bain Capital, which allegedly could be a front company for Mossad.

Bain Capital owns CLEAR CHANNEL COMMUNICATIONS, "which owns virtually ALL of those fat bloated Neocon windbags." (Does Mitt Romney work for the Mossad?)

OpEdNews has reported on the Mormon-Mossad-CIA Connection:

"The first public awareness of the nexus between Mossad and Mormon secret agents was published by Norman Mailer in A Harlot High and Low in the 60's when a reconditioned WWII Liberty ship was hijacked on the Thames River in London by Mossad.

"The ship had a cargo of uranium ore that had been originally mined in southern Utah.

"The details of that intrigue were published in an article on OpedNews click here".

According to the OpEdNews article on the Mormon-Mossad-CIA Connection:

Mormons believe that "Zion will be built upon the North American continent at a place specific in Missouri and that Mormon leaders will become vice Regents of Christ ruling earth

The law shall go forth from Zion (in America) and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem!

In 1843 the Mormon Church sent an emissary, Orson Hyde, to Palestine to dedicate the land for the return of Jews.

The establishment of a branch of the Mormon's Brigham Young University in Israel created a front for covert activities of the CIA element of the church....

The Mormon entrance to the Salt Lake City, Utah, Temple (notice the all-seeing eye). Mormon founder, Joseph Smith, was a 33rd degree Freemason. See, Mormonism and Freemasonry. Mormonism EXPOSED! - SodaHead

The Pastor of the First Satanic Church, and the author of the Satanic Bible, is Anton LaVey.

In his Satanic Bible, under "In fernal Names," LaVey refers to "Mormo," the God of the living dead, and the king of the Ghouls.

The followers of Mormo are called Mormons.

Rory, at Rys2Sense.com, has written about Mormons.

http://www.rys2sense.com/anti-neocons/viewtopic.php?f=11& /

Joseph Smith, in the 1800's, supposedly had God and Jesus appear to him in some forest...

Before he started polygamy and stealing other members wives (another "vision" of course), the pre-church history of Joseph involves him being thrown in jail for selling a "gold finding device" but like lots of things these records have been covered up by the church....but I digress.

In the vision, God told Joseph all the religions were wrong and to start his own...

Visions told him where to find some buried gold plates in Illinois ... Of course, the "plates" were never found and there's some BS story where god "took them up"....

OK, I have read this crap cover to cover in my youth....

Bottom Line: The Book of Mormon is a chronicle of how people came from Israel ... on some boat god made them make (noah again) and one of the brothers became "evil" and so god made his skin dark...

So you get Lamanites (evil dark skinned Indians... just like everyone knew Indians were evil in the 1800s).

It then goes on to chronicle CONSTANT wars, condoned by god, between the GOOD GUYS and the BAD GUYS ad nauseum...

As soon as the good guys get a little bit bad....they get their ASSES KICKED by their enemies...

Well after all these constant wars there is only one good guy left, (white of course) and because all his "brethren" (vomit) were bad guys they got wiped by the dark skinned heathen.

Well this one guy of course was instructed to bury the plates which were the diaries of his people...

There is ZERO archaeological or historical evidence for these claims...

Don't mention brainwashing.

Rory continues (http://www.rys2sense.com/anti-neocons/viewtopic.php?f=11& /):

1. Mormons did NOT allow blacks into the church until around the 1970s, when (you guessed it) some church leader had a vision from god telling him to do so.

In fact, there are official writings (hushed up somewhat) that state that god marked Cain (the evil one) by making him black.

2. Yes they practiced polygamy and yes some (not officially condoned) still do today, in fact Joseph made some early followers give them his wife and daughters because "god" told him to do so.

3. I grew up mormon for a short while until I managed to free myself... but bottom line is, if you aint... mormon you ain't going to heaven.

The elite have decided that Obama is to be re-elected and the unpopular Romney is to be the loser?

According to an article at Scoop, ( Scoop: Suzan Mazur: Bush And The Mormons)

1. The Carlyle Group, which has links to the Bush (and bin Laden) families, was reportedly founded by people linked to the Mormons.

2. Mormons have had 'a disproportionate representation in the CIA and FBI through the years, and J. Edgar Hoover started the FBI with Mormon agents'. In the last 2 decades there was a tremendous increase of mormons' presence within CIA, as well as that of the Scientology cult.....

3. Karl Rove, of the infamous White House Murder INC,....although not a Mormon, 'was nurtured in the Salt Lake City Mormon culture and educated at the University of Utah.'

4. Mormon Timothy E. Flanigan helped organise the Bush case in the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court legal argument. Flanigan also helped organise the Homeland Security department.

5. Mormon Orrin Hatch has chaired the Senate Judiciary Committee that oversees the Department of Justice and the FBI.

6. Dawin A. John who was managing director of information and communication systems for the Mormon Church, was given the job of reorganising the FBI's computer files.

Romney supported the Vietnam War, but avoided fighting in Vietnam.

SEX

Salt Lake City is one of the top 51 'gay-friendly places to live' in the U.S. [45]

The city has a large gay community. (Salt Lake City, Utah - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

In the 2004 election, 63% of the city population voted against banning same-sex marriage. [49]

Salt Lake City was founded in 1847 by a group of Mormons led by their prophet, Brigham Young.

It was Mormon Prophet Joseph Smith who married a 14 year-old. (Mormon Prophet Joseph Smith and Helen Mar Kimball age 14)

According to an article Mormonism For Children? "Many Mormon women (as well as men) suffer terribly from depression."

"Utah residents are among the highest users of anti-depressant medication in the United States, as documented in a CBS news story June 3, 2002,"Unhappy In Utah" and in the article "Mormon Women, Prozac, and Therapy" by Dr. Kent Ponder. -Mormonism For Children?

"The frequency of child abuse and spousal abuse in Utah is also extremely high."

According to : Issue 80 - Salt Lake City Messenger :

"In a highly controversial trial, which took place in 1987, a man by the name of Alan B. Hadfield was convicted on seven counts of "sodomizing and sexually molesting his son and daughter." (Salt Lake Tribune, Jan. 13, 1988)

"In the same newspaper, under the date of Dec. 16, 1987, we find the following: 'PROVO—As many as 40 people in the same Lehi neighborhood were implicated as child sex abusers by their own offspring and other children in the area, a therapist testified Tuesday.

"Dr. Barbara Snow, the principal therapist who broke an alleged widespread pattern of child sexual abuse centered in one ward of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, spent nearly six hours on the stand during the second day of the trial of Alan B. Hadfield."....

Former congressman run out of town after taking on Obama-connected energy firms....

2012-01-04T09:50:00.001-08:00

Lesson for congressmen: step out of line and be forced out in a contrived scandal....

January , 2012 -- Former congressman run out of town after taking on Obama-connected energy firms....

Former Representative Eric Massa (D-NY) was subjected to gay sexual harassment charges, all subsequently dismissed by House-appointed attorneys and which were partly-engineered by senior staffers for outgoing openly-gay Representative Barney Frank (D-MA), after Massa took on two energy firms closely connected to the Obama White House.....

Before he resigned from office amid unsubstantiated harassment charges made by his chief of staff Joseph Racalto, the former "driver" for Frank, in March 2010, Massa took on Oklahoma City-based Chesapeake Energy Corporation and its CEO Aubrey McClendon, the natural gas "fracking king" and a proponent of non-coal carbon energy sources, including the Canadian Keystone oil sands pipeline project. McClendon has been a political donor to Democrats and Republican presidential candidates, including Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and John McCain.

Chesapeake Energy is the major exploiter of fractured natural gas from the Marcellus Shale of Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio and shale oil from the Utica Shale of New York and its operations have contaminated fresh water supplies and caused earthquakes.

WMR has obtained correspondence documenting Massa's opposition to Chesapeake's environmentally-damaging operations in western New York. In a January 10, 2010 letter to McClendon, Massa asks for a meeting to discuss a proposed Chesapeake disposal facility in the town of Pulteney in the pristine Finger Lakes region. Massa pointed out to McClendon that Keuka Lake was surrounded by several communities that relied on tourism and agriculture, both of which rely on clean water.

Massa demanded that the politically-connected McClendon withdraw plans for the facility, which would store resurfaced fluids from hydraulic fracturing and endanger the fresh water resources of the region. The letter was followed by communications between members of Massa's staff and Frank's staff to bring down Massa in a contrived scandal.

Earlier, on September 11, 2009, Massa took on President Obama on one of his pet energy projects, wind energy. Under Obama's "stimulus" package, designed to create hundreds of thousands of jobs across the country, including in wind energy projects, $74.6 million in taxpayers' money was awarded by the Departments of Energy and the Treasury to Canandaigua Power Partners, LLC and Canandaigua Power Partners II for wind projects in Coshocton, New York.

The two firms are shell companies that operate on behalf of First Wind, a firm under investigation by then-New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo for bribery, intimidation, and other misconduct involving wind energy projects across the northeastern United States. First Wind was financially backed by Dearborn Partners, a major source of campaign funds for then-White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel. White House economic adviser Larry Summers was also linked to First Wind.

Alarm bells went off among the Emanuel-Summers cabal after Massa's September 11 letter was received. The letter stated: ". . . the award of $74.6 million dollars to corrupt companies that have changed names time and again forming new LLCs and new Inc.s but maintaining their business model of lie, cheat, and corrupt at the expense of taxpayers has stirred great unrest in New York's 29th Congressional District." Massa pointed out that Canandaigua collected electricity production rewards for non-existent energy.

Eventually, Massa was forced to resign. Republican Tom Reed replaced Massa in the 29th district and WMR's sources in the district report that Racalto and Reed continue to maintain a relationship. Reed is wholly-owned and operated by the natural gas fracking and the wind power industries. Frank has announced he is not running for re-election, citing re-districting. It is highly unlikely that the addition of a few hundred more Republican voters in Frank's heavily-Democratic district is the real reason behind his decision not to run again....

Western Surveillance Technology sold to Despots and Zioconned Oligarchs Worldwide...

2011-12-13T07:45:00.001-08:00

Western Surveillance Technology sold to Despots and Zioconned Oligarchs Worldwide...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-12/tunisia-after-revolt-can-alter-e-mails-with-big-brother-software.html?cmpid=yhoo

WESTERN companies play an important role in the market for surveillance technology used by Arab despots to spy on their people. In this industry worth billions, the companies also earn their money using methods that have been outlawed in their home country....

He lives in Bahrain, the small island nation in the Persian Gulf. He is an English teacher, married and the father of a nine-year-old son. And he is also the chairman of a unique club. To become a member, one must have been tortured by the country's government.

Abdul Ghani Al Khanjar says that he has had to endure torture six times in the last 17 years. He has spoken about his ordeals before both the British House of Commons and representatives of the United Nations.

But for the last eight months, Khanjar has been in hiding. The only way he can be contacted is through human rights organizations who know how to reach him via the Internet telephone service Skype.

The screen remains black during the first phone call. All that can be heard is the voice of a reserved, polite man. Once he has built up enough trust, a bare wall comes into view with a window to the left of it, covered with a flowered curtain. Khanjar sits in front of the curtain, wearing a white shirt, headphones and a microphone. He smiles apologetically and says: "Sorry about my haircut. I have to do it myself, and I don't have a mirror."

Khanjar has been living in this room for more than half a year. He can take five steps in one direction and four in the other, which he does regularly for a quarter of an hour at a time. He wants to keep himself fit, not knowing what the future has in store for him, or what new ordeals he might face.

The room belongs to an acquaintance who has made it available to Khanjar as a refuge. Khanjar is considered an enemy of the government and was arrested for planning to overthrow the regime. In February, after the Arab Spring had begun, the king of Bahrain suspended his sentence, probably to placate the protesters in his realm. Khanjar addressed the protesters. Soon afterwards, he learned that he was about to be arrested again and went into hiding. He was sentenced in absentia to 15 years in prison.

German Technology

Khanjar says that there are dozens like him, people who have disappeared and were tortured to extract information. They were also confronted during interrogation with incriminating material: transcripts of their telephone conversations, copies of their emails and comments made in Internet chat rooms.

Surveillance technology produced in the West, including Germany, plays a key role in the power struggle between Arab despots and their protesting subjects. The Western software helps those in power spy on and persecute members of the opposition. It is a market worth billions, and the methods employed are often illegal in Germany.

Nevertheless, there are about two dozen such surveillance companies in Germany, often specialized service providers with names like Gamma International, Syborg and Utimaco. They keep a low profile and tend to respond to inquiries by pointing out that they are bound by strict confidentiality agreements. The industry, which promises total transparency to its customers in foreign governments and agencies, tries to keep its own activities as shielded from outside scrutiny as possible.

The buyers of digital surveillance technology are often from undemocratic countries, like Libya, Egypt, Tunisia and Syria, as well as Bahrain, where a German-Finnish company, Nokia Siemens Networks, sold its products. It was a joint subsidiary of two telecommunications giants, Nokia and Siemens, and is now owned by an investment fund registered in Guernsey, a tax haven in the English Channel. The fund, called Perusa, is managed by secretive businesspeople in Munich.

Nokia Siemens was already the subject of criticism in 2009, because of its dealings with Iran. When the fund took over the company that year, it was given a new name: Trovicor.

This is a special week for companies like Trovicor. The ISS World Asia Pacific conference, a trade show for technically adept intelligence agents, investigators and police detectives, began in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday. It is a marketplace for suppliers and buyers of surveillance technology -- and is often visited by officials from authoritarian countries.

Total Surveillance

The Cyber Warfare Europe conference, held in Berlin in September, was another key event for the intelligence and surveillance community. A former officer with the US Marines conducted the event in a windowless conference room at the Marriott Hotel.

A new, alarming attempt to create total surveillance at the expense of freedom was on display in Berlin. Functionality of the products is a priority, but so too is marketability. They are sold to any ruler who can afford it, no matter who he declares to be an enemy of the state and how he treats such so-called enemies. The attendees in Berlin seemed enthusiastic about what they were seeing, which included the latest tools for hacking into the suspects' computers. The providers of the software promise that they can even provide interested third parties with access to encrypted emails and telephone conversations.

Representatives of the Gamma Group, a conglomerate that owns two companies headquartered in a Munich office building, had their own booth at Cyber Warfare Europe. Gamma describes itself as a leader in the field of cyber surveillance. The current brochure on its flagship product, "FinFisher," reads like an investigator's wish list -- and a nightmare for civil rights activists. The 41-page brochure describes spy software for all kinds of devices and electronic eavesdropping situations.

Gamma offers a product, for example, known as an "active password sniffer," which is supposedly capable of hacking into password-protected data transmissions in online banking (SSL), as well as private, encrypted WLANs. A product called "FinSpy" is designed to facilitate live surveillance through webcams and microphones, download files without being detected, and even monitor Skype conversations and chats.

In its marketing videos, Gamma promises "full access to target systems," that is, the computers and mobile phones of those to be spied on. Of course criminals, as well as real or alleged regime opponents, should not be aware that any of this is taking place. The spy programs are installed on their computers through such tools as "fake software updates."

'Positive Feedback'

According to the videos, unsuspecting users download the spyware onto their devices when they update their Apple iTunes program or BlackBerry software. Once a BlackBerry, for example, has been infected, the originators of the "FinSpy Mobile" spyware can not only listen in on conversations and read text messages, but can also view contacts, photos, calendar entries and other files stored on the device -- no matter where in the world the device is being used at any given moment. Apple has just closed the security loophole that was being used for this purpose with a real iTunes update.

One of the presenters at the Berlin security conference was a slender Italian with the Milan firm Hacking Team, one of Gamma's main competitors. He described in detail how to hack into encrypted messages. Representatives from the United Arab Emirates, Malaysia and Indonesia, all countries with democratic deficits, listened with great interest.

The Italian explained that the encryption is not the place to start, because it is impenetrable, even by a supercomputer. The weak point, he told his audience, are the users. He then showed a video and proudly demonstrated how perfectly the surveillance works as soon the spyware is installed. According to the Italian, all it takes is the push of a button for investigators and other customers to listen in on a Skype conversation being conducted by their targets. The system also allows them to read emails or text messages.

The software is "in use with a few thousand target individuals on five continents," the man from Hacking Team said, noting that his company had achieved "high success rates" and received "a lot of positive feedback." His words were received with warm applause.

The Fine Line between Oppression and Crime Fighting

Abdul Ghani Al Khanjar knows full well the possibilities that the international surveillance industry offers its customers. One day, when he was in prison in Bahrain, he was taken to a room with a table and a chair in it. Both were screwed to the floor and placed so closely together that it was very difficult to sit down. Khanjar was ordered to sit down and then stand up again. But because of the narrow space between the table and chair, he could not stand up completely, and it became painful after only a few minutes. He was forced to stand in that position for a long time.

While Khanjar was standing, his torturer asked him to provide the names and addresses of enemies of the state. Khanjar replied that he did not associate with enemies of the state.

He was then suspended from a ceiling beam, with his wrists and ankles tied together.

A few days later, Khanjar was taken from his cell to an interrogation room once again, where he was made to sit down at a table facing a uniformed man with a few sheets of paper in his hand. They were verbatim transcripts of conversations Khanjar had had on his mobile phone before he was arrested in Bahrain. His torturers were only able to obtain the transcripts because of the Western surveillance technology in use at the time. The Bloomberg news agency was the first to report that during the time period in question, Bahrain was using technology produced by Nokia Siemens Networks, now Trovicor.

People like Khanjar are not completely without allies. As Arab government agencies and intelligence services upgrade their technology, a growing number of Western activists are providing support and assistance to the opposition. One of them is Jacob Appelbaum.

An Advocate for the Opposition

Appelbaum, an American, keeps tabs on the surveillance industry and has been involved in the fight against censorship on the Internet for years. He lives in the US state of Washington, but he is often on the road, helping Internet activists and bloggers worldwide remain anonymous on the Web. Appelbaum is a developer with the Tor project, software that is designed to enable people to surf the Web anonymously in times of growing surveillance. To do this, the software encrypts data and pushes it through various computers that are part of the Tor network.

In October, Appelbaum attended a conference in Tunis organized by Germany's Heinrich Böll Foundation and a Tunisian civil rights organization. Most of the invited attendees were bloggers from the Arab world. Appelbaum and a hacker friend gave a presentation on privacy and security in the use of mobile phones. His conclusion was simple. Privacy and security cannot exist together, Appelbaum said. His listeners glanced uneasily at their smart phones.

Appelbaum compares surveillance companies that sell their products to despots with companies in the Third Reich that supported the Nazis with modern technology. "Surveillance systems are weapons that are used to commit human rights violations," he says. According to Appelbaum, the examples of Egypt, Syria and Tunisia clearly illustrate "that the trade in spyware programs must be uncovered and stopped."

But business for companies like Trovicor, Gamma, Hacking Team and others is booming. TeleStrategies, the organizer of the ISS conferences, estimates annual global sales in the industry at $5 billion (€3.7 billion).

Many suppliers are quick to point out that their products are intended only for legal wire-tapping and skimming, or what they call "lawful interception." But when activists raided an office of the Egyptian intelligence service in Cairo, they discovered a file labeled "FinFisher." It contained a detailed bid that included various FinFisher applications sold by the Gamma Group. According to the documents, the system was priced at about €300,000. In other documents, analysts with Egyptian intelligence noted that they were particularly impressed with the ability to listen in on Skype conversations. Gamma's British subsidiary denied ever having supplied FinFisher products to Egypt.

Denials

The Gamma Group, which had not commented on the matter by Friday evening, isn't the only company that suddenly faces embarrassing questions as a result of the upheavals in the Arab world. According to MDR, a German public broadcasting network, bidding documents compiled by Syborg, a company located in the southwestern German state of Saarland, were found in Libya. Syborg manager Robert Lander explains that because of confidentiality requirements, his company "generally provides no information about customers, potential customers or solutions we offer." But, he added, Syborg has "not done any business with or in Libya to date."

It is thought that German surveillance technology has alsobeen delivered to Syria, as part of a surveillance system made by the Italian firm Area. For years, the Italians have used specialized software by the German firm Utimaco in their systems. But as Utimaco senior executive Malte Pollmann insists, Area only built a test version, and the Italians have just cancelled the entire project. "Our software was not used," says Pollmann.

Blue Coat, a US company, was also quick to issue denials after Internet activists revealed that Syrian authorities were filtering and censoring the Internet with the help of Blue Coat hardware. After initially declaring that it had not delivered anything to Syria, the company soon sheepishly admitted that Blue Coat technology was indeed being used. It must have been a shipment that was in fact bound for Iraq, a Blue Coat spokesman said.

Other industry representatives defend themselves just as adamantly, including Jerry Lucas, the organizer of the ISS conferences. He told the British newspaper The Guardian that it is not the responsibility of vendors to divide governments into good and bad. "we're not politicians … we're a for-profit company," Lucas said.

Trovicor officials were only willing to state that they could not publicly discuss customers and the details of agreements. But Christian Hollenberg of Perusa says that there is plenty of evidence on the effectiveness of surveillance techniques in the prevention of serious and very serious crime. Isn't it desirable, Hollenberg asks, to be able to more effectively fight off the attacks of Somali pirates on German commercial ships? And isn't it desirable that German soldiers in Afghanistan are better protected against attacks by jihadists?

A More Thoughtful Impression

Employees of a company like Trovicor "also go to work with the knowledge that they have played a part in preventing suffering," says Hollenberg. He adds that this has to be weighed against "potential unwanted consequences, especially in semi-democratic or undemocratic countries."

Hollenberg also points out that it's important to know "that electronic communication, especially for government offices, is no longer inaccessible anywhere in the world." For this reason, Hollenberg advises, citizens "in semi-democratic or undemocratic countries should refrain for their own safety from using such forms of communication for activities that could bring them into conflict with a regime in power."

There are some industry representatives who make a more thoughtful impression. After the Syria dealings of his partner Area were exposed, Utimaco executive Pollmann temporarily suspended relations with the company. He is now trying to identify the customers where Utimaco products have ended up in the last 15 years. "Dammit," he says, "I have no interest in our technology being used in Syria." But he also believes that suspending the sale of telecommunications technology to the Middle East is "wrong, because this technology, as the movements there have shown, also contains strong elements that promote freedom."

It is a twisted situation, but at its core it revolves around the question of what is more important, security or freedom, and where exactly the line should be drawn. This question isn't just important when it comes to the export of computer programs that can be used as weapons. It is also important and highly controversial in Germany, as police use of a government Trojan horse made by the firm Digitask has shown. And it isn't easy to answer, because both sides -- the intelligence and the civil rights communities alike -- have valid arguments.

Total monitoring leads to a police state, but total freedom from surveillance makes it more difficult for the government to fight crime effectively. Citizens want their privacy, while victims want to see perpetrators brought to justice.

In Bahrain, Abdul Ghani Al Khanjar acknowledges all of these aspects, including the horrifying technical possibilities and the conflicting arguments. He is sitting in his room, in front of the flowered curtain, trying to form an opinion. For a moment, he seems to be at a loss. But then he says that he is betting on politics and the civilization of power. He has no other option.

Translated from the German by Christopher Sultan

Zioconned Americans and the "West in General" have chosen willful ignorance over thoughtful critical thinking....

2011-11-29T02:53:00.001-08:00

Zioconned Americans and the "West in General" have chosen willful ignorance over thoughtful critical thinking....

“The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.” – Tacitus, The Annals of Imperial Rome

Pink Floyd – Comfortably Numb

As I observe the zombie like reactions of Americans to our catastrophic economic highway to collapse, the continued plundering and pillaging of the national treasury by criminal Wall Street bankers, non-enforcement of existing laws against those who committed the largest crime in history, and reaction to young people across the country getting beaten, bludgeoned, shot with tear gas and pepper sprayed by police, I can’t help but wonder whether there is anyone home. Why are most Americans so passively accepting of these calamitous conditions? How did we become so comfortably numb? I’ve concluded Americans have chosen willful ignorance over thoughtful critical thinking due to their own intellectual laziness and overpowering mind manipulation by the elite through their propaganda emitting media machines. Some people are awaking from their trance, but the vast majority is still slumbering or fuming at erroneous perpetrators.

Both the Tea Party movement and the Occupy Wall Street movement are a reflection of the mood change in the country, which is a result of government overreach, political corruption, dysfunctional economic policies, and a financial system designed to enrich the few while defrauding the many. The common theme is anger, frustration and disillusionment with a system so badly broken it appears unfixable through the existing supposedly democratic methods. The system has been captured by an oligarchy of moneyed interests from the financial industry, mega-corporations, and military industrial complex, protected by their captured puppets in Washington DC and sustained by the propaganda peddling corporate media. The differences in political parties are meaningless as they each advocate big government solutions to all social, economic, foreign relations, and monetary issues.

There is confusion and misunderstanding regarding the culprits in this drama. It was plain to me last week when I read about a small group of concerned citizens in the next town over who decided to support the Occupy movement by holding a nightly peaceful march to protest the criminal syndicate that is Wall Street and a political system designed to protect them. My local paper asked for people’s reaction to this Constitutional exercising of freedom of speech and freedom of assembly. Here is a sampling of the comments:

“What are those Occupy people thinking?! The whole concept is foreign to me. There are always going to be the haves and the have nots. Get over it. Blame yourself for not paying more attention in school or not working hard enough. Just wish people would take responsibility.”

“If they worked half as hard actually working as they do being a pain in everyone else’s ass, they’d be rich! Being born does not guarantee success or wealth. Only hard work does. Maybe we should let them all occupy a jail cell or two.”

“If the goal is to irritate hardworking suburban commuters on their way home, that sounds like the perfect time and location.”

“Let’s hope they don’t pitch tents and trash Lansdale. They need to look for a job, not occupy the streets.”

“I work, and even if I wasn’t working I wouldn’t (march); I would be out looking for a JOB!”

I was dumbfounded at the rage directed towards mostly young people who haven’t even begun their working careers and have played no part in the destruction of our economic system underway for the last 30 years. The people making these statements are middle aged, middle class suburbanites. They seem to be just as livid as the OWS protestors, but their ire is being directed towards the only people who have taken a stand against Wall Street greed and Washington D.C. malfeasance. I’m left scratching my head trying to understand their animosity towards people drawing attention to the enormous debt based ponzi scheme that is our country, versus their silent acquiescence to the transfer of trillions in taxpayer dollars to the criminal bankers that have destroyed the worldwide financial system. I can only come to the conclusion the average American has become so apathetic, willfully ignorant of facts and reality, distracted by the techno-gadgets that run their lives, uninterested in anything beyond next week’s episode of Dancing with the Stars or Jersey Shore, and willing to let the corporate media moguls form their opinions for them through relentless propaganda, the only thing that will get their attention is an absolute collapse of our economic scheme. Uninformed, unconcerned, intellectually vacant Americans will get exactly that in the not too distant future....

The ZIOCONNED and utterly corrupt Fed of Ben Shalom BERNANKE Threw $7 Trillion at the Big Banks, Without Telling Congress or Shareholders....

The Hill notes:

A top House Democrat is calling for a hearing with Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke following a report that the central bank secretly committed more than $7 trillion to save banks during the financial crisis.

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee ranking member Elijah Cummings (Md.) sent a letter on Monday to panel Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) requesting the committee look into how banks “benefitted from trillions of dollars in previously undisclosed government loans provided at below-market rates.”

“Many Americans are struggling to understand why banks deserve such preferential treatment while millions of homeowners are being denied assistance and are at increasing risk of foreclosure,” Cummings said.

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The request comes on the heels of a Bloomberg report that said the Fed secretly committed more than $7 trillion as of March 2009 to rescuing the nation’s top financial institutions, and that these banks “reaped an estimated $13 billion of income” on the below-market rates.

“Unfortunately, officials from many of these financial institutions declined to comment about these loans, including officials from Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Bank of America, Citigroup, and Morgan Stanley,” Cummings writes.

Information about the loans was withheld from Congress as lawmakers debated and passed the Dodd-Frank financial regulatory reform bill and Consumer Protection Act of 2010, Cummings said. Banks also failed to disclose the information to their shareholders.

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This “secret financing helped America’s biggest financial firms get bigger and go on to pay employees as much as they did at the height of the housing bubble,” according to economists cited in the report.

Indeed, as I’ve repeatedly noted, virtually all of the so-called help for homeowners is actually yet another bailout for the banks at the expense of homeowners.

All of this might make sense if throwing money at the banks would help the economy, but it is actually destroying the economy. Also, a large portion of bailout funds went to foreign banks. And we may be getting ready to do it again.

But since the banks have bought and sold Washington D.C., the perpetual, stealth bailouts will continue forever unless We the People stand up and “just say no”.

Greater Depression Hidden from View....

“Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened on the public funds, they conceive a hatred for justice, plan intrigues against the people and attack the democracy.” – Aristophanes, Plutus

The anger and vitriol directed at OWS protestors by middle class Americans is a misdirected reaction to a quandary they can’t quite comprehend. They know their lives are getting more difficult but aren’t sure why. They are paying more for energy, food, tuition, and real estate taxes, while the price of their houses decline and their wages stagnate. More than a quarter of all homeowners are underwater on their mortgage and many are drowning in credit card and student loan debt. At the same time, government drones tell them the economy is in its second year of recovery and corporate profits are at all-time highs. Government statistics, false storylines, and entitlement programs are designed to confuse the public and obscure the fact we are in the midst of another Depression. Everyone has seen the pictures of the Great Depression breadlines, farmers forced off their land during the dustbowl, and downtrodden Americans in soup kitchens. The economic conditions today are as bad as or worse than the Great Depression. This Depression is hidden from plain view because there are no unemployment lines, bread lines, or soup lines. We are experiencing an electronic Great Depression, as food stamps, unemployment compensation, Social security payments and welfare benefits are electronically delivered to millions of recipients.

There have been over 12 million foreclosure actions since 2007, with millions of Americans losing their homes. Another 16 million homeowners are underwater on their mortgages as home prices continue to fall and the economy sinks further by the day. The value of household real estate has fallen from $22.7 trillion in 2006 to $16.2 trillion today, a loss of $6.5 trillion concentrated among the middle class. In contrast, mortgage debt has only decreased by $600 billion mostly due to write-offs by the banks that created fraudulent mortgage products to lure Americans into debt.

The unemployment rate in the United States reached 25% during the Great Depression. The government manipulated fictional unemployment rate reported to the public by drones at the BLS is currently 9.0%. They conveniently ignore the millions of people who have given up looking for work and those who have taken jobs as part-time pickle ploppers at McDonalds, when they previously assembled automobiles at GM. The true number of unemployed/underemployed is 23%.

Since 2007, unemployment has officially gone up by 7 million. In reality, the same percentage of the working age population should be employed today as in 2007 (63%). Since only 58.4% of the working age population is employed today (lowest since 1983), another 4 million needs to be added to the official unemployment tally. The fact is there are 240 million working age Americans and only 140 million are employed. This means there are 100 million working age Americans not working, but our government only classifies 14 million of them as unemployed. There is certainly millions of stay at home moms, students, and legitimately disabled among the 86 million people classified as not in the labor force, but you can’t tell me that another 20 to 30 million of these people couldn’t or wouldn’t work if given the opportunity.

The deception in government reported figures is borne out by the most successful government program of the Obama administration, which has been adding participants at an astounding rate. The Food Stamp program has been a smashing success as we’ve added 13.8 million Americans to this fine program since Obama’s inauguration, a mere 43% increase in less than three years. There are now 45.8 million Americans dependent upon food stamps for survival, 14.7% of the U.S. population. This program began in 1969 and enrollment always surges during recessions and declines during recoveries. But a funny thing happened during our current “recovery”. The government reported our recession over in December 2009. It was certainly over for the Wall Street psychopaths as they rewarded themselves with $43 billion of bonuses in 2009/2010. The number of Americans on food stamps has risen by 6.8 million during this government sponsored “recovery”. You’ll be happy to know that Obama’s good buddy – Jamie Dimon – and his well run machine at JP Morgan earns hundreds of millions administering the SNAP program.

Since 2007, Federal government transfer payments have increased from $1.7 trillion annually to $2.3 trillion, a 35% increase in four years. This is surely a sign of a recovering economy. Bernanke’s zero interest rate policy has stolen $400 billion per year from senior citizens and savers and handed it to the very bankers who caused the pain and suffering of millions. Personal interest income has declined from $1.4 trillion to $1.0 trillion, while Wall Street faux profits have soared. The game plan of the oligarchy has been to transfer hundreds of billions from taxpayers to bankers, report profits through accounting entries reducing loan loss reserves, pump up their stock prices and convince clueless lemming investors to buy newly issued shares at inflated valuations. The plan has failed. The zero interest rate policy’s unintended consequences have caused revolutions throughout the Middle East and massive food inflation across the developing world.

The single biggest reason the middle class feel frustrated, angry and like they are falling behind is due to the Federal Reserve and the relentless never ending inflation they produce in order to support their masters on Wall Street and provide cover for the trillions in debt spending by politicians in Washington DC. It is no surprise that beginning in 1980 when government spending began to accelerate much more rapidly than government revenues, the government decided to “tweak” how it measured inflation. The government reports inflation at 3.5% today. The truth is inflation is running in excess of 10% if measured exactly as it was in 1980. That’s right, we have a recession and we have inflation in double digits. No wonder the masses are restless.

The reason middle class Americans are being methodically exterminated and driven into poverty is the monetary policies of the Federal Reserve. Since 1971, when Nixon extinguished the last vestiges of the gold standard and unleashed politicians to spend borrowed money without immediate consequence, the U.S. dollar has lost 82% of its purchasing power using the government manipulated CPI. In reality, it has lost over 90% of its purchasing power. The average American, after decades of being dumbed down by government sanctioned education, is incapable of understanding the impact of inflation on their lives. As their wages rise 2% to 3% per year and inflation rises 5% to 10% per year, they get poorer day by day. The Wall Street banks, who own the Federal Reserve, step in and convince the average American to substitute debt for real wealth in order to keep living the modern techno-lifestyle sold to them by mainstream corporate media.

The oligarchy of moneyed interests have done a spectacular job convincing the working middle class they should be angry at 20 year old OWS protestors, illegal immigrants and the inner city welfare class, rather than the true culprits – the Federal Reserve, Wall Street banks and mega-corporations. This is a testament to the power of propaganda and the intellectual slothfulness of the average American. U.S. based mega-corporations fired 864,000 higher wage American workers between 2000 and 2010, while hiring almost 3 million workers in low wage foreign countries, using their billions in cash to buy back their own stocks, and paying corporate executives shamefully excessive compensation. The corporate mainstream media treats corporate CEO’s like rock stars as if they deserve to be compensated at a level 243 times the average worker. The S&P 500 consists of the 500 biggest companies in America and while the executives of these companies have reaped millions in compensation, the stock index for these companies is at the exact level it was on July 9, 1998. Over the last thirteen years workers were fired by the thousands, shareholders earned 0% (negative 39% on an inflation adjusted basis), and executives got fabulously rich.

Man made inflation has stealthily devastated millions of lives over the last four decades. When the weekly wages of the average worker are adjusted for inflation, they are making 12% less than they did in 1971. Using a real non-manipulated measure of inflation, the average worker is making 30% less than they did in 1971. Sadly, our math challenged populace only comprehend their wages have doubled in the last forty years, without understanding the true impact of inflation. Thankfully, the Wall Street debt dealers with a helping hand from Madison Avenue propaganda peddlers stepped up to the plate and imprisoned the middle class with the shackles of $2.5 trillion in consumer debt. So, while real wages have fallen 30% since 1971, consumer debt has increased by 1,700%.

Americans have been snookered into renouncing their citizenship and converting to being mindless consumers. Citizenship requires a person to be actively engaged in the community with obligations to fellow citizens and future generations. Consumerism requires people to love things, embrace debt, worry about what others have, and become driven by the accumulation of possessions and the appearance of wealth. The disgusting exhibition that Madison Avenue maggots have coined Black Friday is the ultimate display of consumerism. In a nauseating display of senseless spending driven by retail conglomerates, Americans act like Pavlov’s salivating dogs by lining up for hours to stampede over and pepper spray other consumers to get the ultimate deal on that Chinese made toaster oven, Vietnamese made laptop, Korean made HDTV, or Mexican made tortilla maker. They don’t seem to grasp the irony of going deeper into debt buying cheap crap made in foreign countries by the workers who took their jobs. The mainstream media proclaims a hugely successful Black Friday as millions bought crap they didn’t need with money they don’t have, while millions more ate their Thanksgiving meals in food shelters – unreported by the media.This repulsive manifestation of consumerism is applauded and encouraged by our government, as described by George Monbiot:

“Governments are deemed to succeed or fail by how well they make money go round, regardless of whether it serves any useful purpose. They regard it as a sacred duty to encourage the country’s most revolting spectacle: the annual feeding frenzy in which shoppers queue all night, then stampede into the shops, elbow, trample and sometimes fight to be the first to carry off some designer junk which will go into landfill before the sales next year. The madder the orgy, the greater the triumph of economic management.”

The masses have been brainwashed by those in power into thinking consumer spending utilizing debt is essential for a strong economy, when the exact opposite is the truth. Saving and investment are the essential ingredients to a strong economy. Debt based spending only benefits bankers, mega-corporations, and politicians.

Mass Manipulation through ZIOCONNED Propaganda....

“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. …We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society. In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons…who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind.” – Edward Bernays, Propaganda, 1928

Edward Bernays, the father of propaganda to control the masses, would be so proud of his disciples running our country today. He clearly believed only an elite few were intellectually capable of running the show. Essentially, he hit upon the concept of the 1% telling the 99% what they should think and believe over eighty years ago. The mechanisms for controlling the thoughts, beliefs, and actions of the population are so much more efficient today. The conditioning begins when we are children, as every child will be bombarded with at least 30,000 hours of propaganda broadcast by media corporations by the time they reach adulthood. Their minds are molded and they are instructed what to believe and what to value. Those in control of society want to keep the masses entertained at an infantile level, with instant gratification and satisfying desires as their only considerations. The elite have achieved their Alpha status through intellectual superiority, control of the money system, and control of the political process. Their power emanates from eliminating choices, while giving the illusion of choice to the masses. People think they are free, when in reality they are slaves to a two party political system, a few Wall Street banks, and whatever our TVs tell us to buy.

Our entire system is designed to control the thoughts and actions of the masses. In many ways it is done subtly, while recently it has become more bold and blatant. It is essential for the ruling elite to keep control of our minds through media messages and the educational system. It is not a surprise that our public education system has methodically deteriorated over the last four decades. The government gained control over education and purposely teaches our children selected historical myths, social engineering gibberish and only the bare essentials of math and science. The government creates the standardized tests and approves the textbooks. We are left with millions of functionally illiterate children that grow into non-critical thinking adults. This is the exact result desired by the 1%. If too many of the 99% were able to ignore the media propaganda and think for themselves, revolution would result. This is why the moneyed interests have circled the wagons, invoked police state thug tactics, and used all the powers of their media machine to squash the OWS movement. It threatens their power and control.

“Experience has shown that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.” – Thomas Jefferson

A highly educated engaged citizenry would be a danger to the existing social order. The 1%, educated at our finest universities, does not want average Americans to obtain a great education for a reasonable price. They want them to get a worthless diploma at an excessively high price tag and become debt slaves to the Wall Street 1%. They want uneducated, indebted consumers, not educated productive citizens. Our republic has been slowly perverted since the time of its inception. The insidious process had been slow and methodical until 1913. The establishment of the Federal Reserve by an elite group of bankers and their politician friends and the establishment of a personal income tax created the conditions that have allowed a small cabal of powerful men to dictate the course of our economic, political, social, and military policies for the last 98 years. Anyone that chooses to open their eyes and awake from the propaganda induced stupor can see the result of allowing a small group of corrupt authoritarian men using their power to pervert our government into tyranny. The majority remains oppressed, buried under trillions of debt, while the shysters reap obscene profits, poison the worldwide economic system, and walk away unscathed in the aftermath of their crimes.

The ruling oligarchy has become so brazen in the last few years that it has attracted the attention of the critical thinking minority. The advent of the internet has allowed these critical thinking few to analyze the un-sanitized facts, discuss the issues, and provide truth amidst a blizzard of lies. The proliferation of truth telling websites (Zero Hedge, Mish, Financial Sense, Naked Capitalism) has allowed truth seekers to bypass the government sanctioned corporate media. The pillaging of society by the politically powerful, corrupt 1% is plain to see in the graphs below.

The divergence in household income was not the result of hard work, superior intellectual firepower, or the media touted entrepreneurial spirit of the rich. It was the result of the 1% capturing the economic and political system of the United States and using it to ransack the wealth of the formerly working middle class. The fatal flaw which will ultimately result in a fitting end for the powerful elitists is their egos. They are psychopaths, unable to feel empathy for their fellow man. Enough is never enough. They always want more. Life is a game to them. They truly believe they can pull the right strings and continue to accumulate more riches. But they are wrong. They are blinded by their hubris. There are limits to growth based solely on debt and we’ve reached that limit. The world is crumbling under the weight of crippling debt created by these Wall Street psychopaths, while the corrupted bought off politicians try to shift the losses from the bankers who incurred them to the citizens who have already been fleeced. Nomi Prins captures the essence of our current situation:

“Today, the stock prices of the largest US banks are about as low as they were in the early part of 2009, not because of euro-contagion or Super-committee super-incompetence (a useless distraction anyway) but because of the ongoing transparency void surrounding the biggest banks amidst their central-bank-covered risks, and the political hot potato of how many emergency loans are required to keep them afloat at any given moment. Because investors don’t know their true exposures, any more than in early 2009. Because US banks catalyzed the global crisis that is currently manifesting itself in Europe. Because there never was a separate US housing crisis and European debt crisis. Instead, there is a worldwide, systemic, unregulated, uncontained, rapacious need for the most powerful banks and financial institutions to leverage whatever could be leveraged in whatever forms it could be leveraged in. So, now we’re just barely in the second quarter of the game of thrones, where the big banks are the kings, the ECB, IMF and the Fed are the money supply, and the populations are the powerless serfs. Yeah, let’s play the ECB inflation game, while the world crumbles.”

Those in power are beginning to lose control. You can sense their desperation. Their propaganda is losing its impact as the pain for millions of Americans has become acute. The outrage and anger flaring across the country on a daily basis, reflected in the OWS movement, is just the beginning of a revolutionary period descending upon this nation. The existing social order will be swept away, but they will not go without a fight. They will use their control of the police, military and media to try and crush the coming rebellion.

The Dream is Gone....

“The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.” – Tacitus, The Annals of Imperial Rome

In addition to controlling the monetary system and brainwashing the inhabitants with relentless propaganda, the ruling class has used their control of the political process to impose thousands of laws, statutes, rules, and regulations upon the citizens. Again, an apathetic, distracted, trusting populace has been easily convinced that more laws will make them safe and secure. They have willingly sacrificed liberty, freedom and self reliance for the façade of safety, security and protection. The overwhelming number of government rules and regulations are designed to control you and insure your compliance and obedience to those in power. In a non-corrupt society inhabited by citizens willing to honor their obligations, government’s function is to insure property rights and defend the country from foreign invaders. Citizens don’t need to be herded like sheep with threats of imprisonment to do what is right. We don’t need 90,000 pages of regulations telling us the difference between right and wrong.

There were 400 pages of Federal Tax rules when the 1% personal income tax was implemented in 1913. Did the 18,000% increase in tax rules since 1913 benefit the average American or did they benefit the 1% who hires the lobbyists to write the rules which are passed into law by the politicians who receive their campaign contributions from the 1%? Do you ever wonder why you pay more taxes than a billionaire Wall Street hedge fund manager? Do you think our tax system is designed to benefit billionaires and mega-corporations when corporations with billions of income pay little or no taxes? Complexity and confusion benefits those who can create and take advantage of the complexity and confusion. Corporations and special interests have used their wealth to bribe politicians to design loopholes, credits, and exemptions that benefit their interests. The corruption of the system is terminal.

“The mistake you make, don’t you see, is in thinking one can live in a corrupt society without being corrupt oneself. After all, what do you achieve by refusing to make money? You’re trying to behave as though one could stand right outside our economic system. But one can’t. One’s got to change the system, or one changes nothing. One can’t put things right in a hole-and-corner way, if you take my meaning.” – George Orwell

The American people are paying the price for allowing a few evil men to gain control of our government. The American people cowered in fear as the 342 page Patriot Act was somehow written in a few weeks after 9/11, introduced in Congress on October 23, passed the House on October 24 with no debate, passed the Senate on October 25 with no debate, and signed into law on October 26 by George Bush. A law passed by the ruling elite that stripped Americans of their freedoms and liberties was passed using fear mongering false patriotism propaganda to squelch dissent and the American people had no say in the matter. The government has used fear to keep the American people under control. We now unquestioningly accept being molested in airports. We shrug as our intelligence agencies eavesdrop on our telephone conversations and emails without the need for a court order. It is now taken for granted that we imprison people without charging them with a crime and assassinate suspected terrorists in foreign countries with predator drones. Invading countries and going to war no longer requires a declaration of war by Congress as required by the Constitution. The State grows ever more powerful.

Therefore, it is no surprise that Americans sit idly by, watching their 52 inch HDTVs, as young people across the country are beaten, pepper sprayed, shot with rubber bullets and tear gas, and scorned and ridiculed by corporate media pundits for exercising their free speech rights to peacefully protest our corrupt system. The American tradition of civil disobedience is considered domestic terrorism by those in authority. Our beloved protectors in the Orwellian named Department of Homeland Security write reports classifying Ron Paul supporters and returning Iraq veterans as potential terrorists. If the powers that be get their way, the internet will be locked down and controlled, as it poses a huge threat to their thought control endeavors. Freedom to think, learn, question and organize resistance is unacceptable in the eyes of the elite. The country has reached a tipping point. Will enough right thinking Americans stand up and fight to bring down this corrupt system, or will we be herded silently to slaughter. The truth is there is something terribly wrong in this country. We are facing a myriad of problems that will require courage and common sense to overcome. We need only look in the mirror to find the guilty party. It is time to stop letting fear dictate our actions. Conflict is coming to this country due to the evil sanctioned by our corrupt leaders and the upright men and women who will bear the burden of destroying that evil.

Our civilization has adopted the worst aspects of the two most famous dystopian novels in history – Orwell’s 1984 and Huxley’s Brave New World. The question is whether the population of this country is too far gone to recover. The answer to that question will determine whether the country chooses authoritarian dictatorship or a renewal of our founding principles. Aldous Huxley understood the three pillars of Western civilization fifty years ago and that their destruction would result in a collapse of our economic system:

“Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you’d collapse. And while you people are over-consuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.”

The three pillars sustaining the American empire edifice of never ending war, ever accumulating debt and excessive consumerism are crumbling. The growing corruption and weight of un-payable debt have weakened the very foundation of our grand experiment. The existing structure will surely collapse. My entire adult life has tracked the decline of the American empire. I had become comfortably numb. I came to my senses and began to question all the Federal government/Wall Street/Corporate Media sponsored truths about eight years ago. Many others have also awoken and begun to challenge the false storylines dictated by those in power.

The young people leading the protests across this land are showing tremendous courage and a tenacity of spirit that has been dormant for decades among the lethargic, distracted, over-medicated public. Despite being subjected to government education conditioning, these young people have zeroed in on the enemy. They may not have all the solutions, but they have correctly identified the corrupt banking system as the central nervous system of this vampire squid sucking the life out of our nation. I will support any effort to shine a light on our crooked system. My three young sons deserve a chance at a better life than they will get under the thumb of this oligarchic criminal enterprise. As a child I caught a fleeting glimpse of the American Dream. I turned to look, but it was gone. I choose not to become comfortably numb. I choose to do whatever it will take to renew the opportunity for my sons to achieve the American Dream....

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Being Anti-War Is Labeled Terrorism....in ZIOCONNED USA and EUROPE....

According to the Department of Justice’s Inspector General (via AP), the FBI spied on an anti-war rally in Pittsburgh sponsored by a nonviolent anti-war and anti-discrimination group, pretending it was preventing terrorism:

The FBI gave inaccurate information to Congress and the public when it claimed a possible terrorism link to justify surveilling an anti-war rally in Pittsburgh, the Justice Department’s inspector general said Monday in a report on the bureau’s scrutiny of domestic activist groups.

Inspector General Glenn Fine said the FBI had no reason to expect that anyone of interest in a terrorism investigation would be present at the 2002 event sponsored by the Thomas Merton Center, a nonviolent anti-war and anti-discrimination group.

The surveillance was “an ill-conceived project on a slow work day,” the IG stated in a study of several FBI domestic terrorism probes of people affiliated with organizations such as Greenpeace and the Catholic Worker.

Earlier, in statements to Congress and in a press release, the FBI had described the surveillance as related to a terrorism investigation.

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The FBI has broad definitions that enable it to classify matters as domestic terrorism that actually are trespassing or vandalism, the inspector general said.

Regarding the Pittsburgh rally, controversy erupted in 2006 over whether the FBI had spied on protesters at the event several years earlier because of their anti-war views.

Promoters of peace in Maryland, Minneapolis, Chicago and elsewhere were also considered potential terrorists, as was an individual Quaker peace activist.

The Inspector General’s report confirms that – at least in some instances – anti-war views were specifically targeted:

The report concluded that, while the FBI probes were not generally predicated simply on the views of the targets, at least one FBI field office was focused on a group “as a result of its anti-war views.” It also found that “FBI agents and supervisors sometimes provided the [Office of the Inspector General] with speculative, after-the-fact rationalizations for their prior decisions to open investigations that we did not find persuasive.”

In addition, anti-war websites like AntiWar.com are listed on various terrorist watchlists: see number 16 here, and number 37 here.

AntiWar’s sin? It is (according to the watchlists):

An unusual site, essentially an isolationist right-wing/libertarian site consciously designed to appeal to anti-war activists from the left as well.

The irony, of course, is:

Americans want to put a stop to perpetual warfare:

Ron Paul is [partly] gaining popularity because he is against the never-ending War On Terror, and wants to bring the troops home. Americans are sick of the never-ending, ever-creeping war. See this and this.

As Talking Points Memo reported earlier this month:

“…Only about a quarter say the wars in Iraq (26%) and Afghanistan (25%) have lessened the chances of terrorist attacks in the United States,” the Pew report reads. “In both cases majorities say the wars either have increased the risk of terrorism in this country or made no difference.”

Top American military leaders agree, saying that the war on terror has weakened our national security [and it was planned before 9/11, and has little to do with terrorism.]

And a CBS News poll from November 11th found:

Three-quarters of Americans support US withdrawal from Iraq.
Two-thirds of Americans believe the Iraq War was not worth fighting.
Half of Americans oppose US involvement in Libya.
More than half of Americans want to end the war in Afghanistan.
Seventy per cent of Americans do not support military intervention to change dictatorships into democracies.
55% of Americans say Iran can be contained via diplomacy.
Only 15% of Americans support military intervention in Iran.

And Nobel-prize winning economists say war is destroying our economy.

Top American military and intelligence leaders, economists and the majority of Americans, by this logic, must be terrorists.

Nazi leader Hermann Goering’s famous statement is relevant to this issue:

Why of course the people don’t want war … But after all it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship … Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.

Is Everyone Who Criticizes the Government a Terrorist?

Of course, anti-war protesters shouldn’t take it too personally, since they are in good company:

According to Department of Defense training manuals, protest is considered “low-level terrorism”. And see this, this and this.

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The government is also using anti-terrorism laws to keep people from learning what pollutants are in their own community. See this, this, this and this.

Claims of “national security” are also used to keep basic financial information – such as who got bailout money – secret. That might not bode for particularly warm and friendly treatment for someone persistently demanding the release of such information.

The state of Missouri tried to label as terrorists current Congressman Ron Paul and his supporters, former Congressman Bob Barr, libertarians in general, anyone who holds gold, and a host of other people.

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And according to a law school professor, pursuant to the Military Commissions Act:

Anyone who … speaks out against the government’s policies could be declared an “unlawful enemy combatant” and imprisoned indefinitely. That includes American citizens.

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Government apologists are also eager to label anyone “taking a cynical stance toward politics, mistrusting authority, endorsing democratic practices, … and displaying an inquisitive, imaginative outlook” as worthy of a Stalinist trip to the insane asylum....

Ziad Takieddine: son deal avec Chirac, les paiements de Hariri et la corruption Generalisee a L'Elysee....

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Ziad Takieddine: son deal avec Chirac, les paiements de Hariri et la corruption Generalisee a L'Elysee....

Par Mediapart.fr,

Le deal s'est fait sous Chirac. Le marchand d'armes Ziad Takieddine a bien été payé d'une partie des commissions qu'il réclamait sur la vente des frégates à l'Arabie saoudite, au cœur de l'enquête des juges Van Ruymbeke et Le Loire. Ces paiements, promis en 1994 par le gouvernement Balladur mais bloqués sur instruction du président de la République fin 1996, auraient été partiellement effectués, entre 1997 et 1998, grâce à l'intervention du premier ministre libanais Rafic Hariri auprès de Jacques Chirac, d'après plusieurs documents et témoignages recueillis par Mediapart.

Selon un décompte effectué devant les juges, M. Takieddine a lui-même admis avoir conservé un montant de 70 millions de dollars sur une somme totale de 130 millions, qui a transité par une institution financière de M. Hariri, la Banque de la Méditerranée. M. Hariri se serait ainsi substitué à l'office d'armement Sofresa pour régler secrètement son dû à l'intermédiaire des balladuriens. Les contrats liant la Sofresa et les sociétés de M. Takieddine et ses associés ayant été simultanément détruits dans les sous-sols d'une banque suisse, le 10 mars 1997.

Le marchand d'armes, aujourd'hui mis en examen pour

MM. Hariri et Chirac© Reuters

«complicité et recel d'abus de biens sociaux», a maintenu le contact avec Rafic Hariri jusqu'à sa mort en 2005. Il avait d'ailleurs invité le premier ministre libanais chez lui, à l'occasion de la visite de Jean-François Copé à Beyrouth, en octobre 2003.

Alors que Ziad Takieddine a pointé du doigt, la semaine dernière, l'existence d'un «système bis» piloté par l'homme d'affaires Alexandre Djouhri, proche de Dominique de Villepin - une accusation démentie par l'intéressé et qui ne s'appuie pas sur des éléments inédits -, l'existence de paiements reçus par M.Takieddine sous Chirac laisse désormais entrevoir la possibilité d'un deal conclu entre ex-balladuriens et chiraquiens au sujet des commissions des frégates saoudiennes.

Ce scénario prend à contre-pied Dominique de Villepin, secrétaire général de l'Elysée à l'époque des faits, et l'ancien ministre de la défense Charles Millon qui avaient tous les deux affirmé avoir purement et simplement écarté les intermédiaires à cause des soupçons de corruption relevés par les services secrets français.

Dans un courrier inédit transmis aux juges (ci-dessous), Ziad Takieddine demande au premier ministre libanais, Rafic Hariri, d'intervenir auprès de son «ami» Jacques Chirac afin que soit réglé le contentieux naissant entre l'office d'armement Sofresa, dépendant de l'Etat, et les intermédiaires choisis par le gouvernement Balladur pour la vente des frégates à l'Arabie Saoudite dans le cadre du contrat Sawari 2.

Note Hariri

Dans cette lettre, M. Takieddine accuse les chiraquiens de vouloir «récupérer» ou «s'emparer» des sommes d'argent qu'il devait encaisser. Il évoque les menaces reçues d'un«émissaire du Président», lui demandant «de tout arrêter». Il se plaint d'être devenu «la tête à abattre».

«Ce qui apparait aujourd'hui, c'est un retour aux anciennes habitudes du pouvoir, consistant à mettre la main sur des sommes d'argent, faisant partie intégrante d'un contrat d'Etat, sur lequel ils ont toute l'autorité, dénonce-t-il, pour d'un côté contrôler les paiements, et de l'autre côté, (...) le faire tout discrètement en cachant toutes les allégations et leurs actes dans le très convenable secret défense».

« La France respectera tous ses engagements »

En soulignant «l'urgence de trouver une solution à ce problème grave», M. Takieddine sollicite un rendez-vous au premier ministre libanais «avant que les choses s'enveniment». Un processus d'arbitrage engagé à Genève risquait, de fait, d'ébruiter l'affaire, comme Mediapart l'a déjà raconté.

«J'ai pensé à M. Hariri, que je ne connaissais pas, mais qui était le seul capable de parler à son ami, M. Chirac, a expliqué M.Takieddine aux juges. J'en ai parlé au ministre des affaires étrangères libanais que je connaissais et lui ai remis une note de trois pages à l'attention de M. Hariri. Je lui expliquais tous les faits et lui demandais d'intervenir auprès du président Chirac pour qu'il puisse faire respecter les engagements de la France.»

De gauche à droite: Farès Bouez, ancien ministre, Ziad Takieddine, l'ambassadeur Lecourtier et Jean-François Copé.© (Mediapart)

C'est donc l'un de ses amis, l'ancien ministre des affaires étrangères du Liban, Farès Bouez, qui a introduit Ziad Takieddine auprès de Rafic Hariri. M. Bouez sera aussi l'un des hôtes de Jean-François Copé lors de sa visite au Liban en 2003, organisée par le même Takieddine.

Ziad Takieddine a demandé à Farès Bouez «de remettre cette note, qui était sous pli fermé, à M. Hariri dans l'avion qui les conduisait à New York, à la mi-septembre 1996». «A son arrivée à New-York, le ministre m'appelle pour m'informer que M. Hariri a lu la note devant lui et qu'il souhaite me rencontrer dès son retour à Paris trois jours plus tard», a expliqué Ziad Takieddine au juge Van Ruymbeke.

Une première rencontre avec Rafic Hariri a lieu «à 11 heures du soir, chez lui, place d'Iéna». «Il me dit qu'il a lu ma note. Il me dit que M. Chirac n'a pas pu faire cela, qu'il ne le croit pas. Je lui réponds que tout est vrai. Il m'informe qu'il doit déjeuner le lendemain avec M. Chirac et s'engage à m'appeler avant son départ à Beyrouth. Il m'appelle le lendemain à 15 h et me demande de l'accompagner à l'aéroport. Il m'indique, en route vers l'aéroport du Bourget, que le problème a été réglé et que la France respectera tous ses engagements.»

Dans la foulée, M. Takieddine aurait demandé «un écrit» au premier ministre libanais. «Il m'a répondu que M. Chirac ne rédigerait pas de papier. Je lui ai demandé s'il acceptait de se porter garant. Il ne voulait pas. Il me proposait que sa banque, la Banque Méditerranée à Beyrouth, puisse l'être. Je lui ai demandé si c'était lui ou si c'était M. Chirac qui allait tenir les engagements. J'ai senti une hésitation de sa part. Il me disait que ce n'était pas mon problème mais que les engagements seraient respectés.»

Un nouveau rendez-vous réunit Takieddine, Hariri et le prince Sultan, ministre de la défense saoudien, à Genève : «La veille de la rencontre, j'ai dîné avec Hariri à l'Intercontinental à Genève et le lendemain nous sommes allés voir le Prince Sultan, dans son palais à Genève, à 11 heures où nous l'avons rencontré trois-quarts d'heure».

M. Hariri aurait «tout raconté» au dignitaire saoudien : «son intervention à ma demande, sa rencontre avec le président Chirac et l'engagement de celui-ci à respecter tous les termes du contrat. Le président Chirac lui avait dit qu'il avait considéré par erreur qu'il y avait du financement illicite à travers ce contrat et que désormais il respecterait tous ses engagements.»

Villepin et Millon ont-ils menti ?

Du côté des balladuriens, le règlement de l'affaire semble avoir été un secret de Polichinelle. Thierry Gaubert, l'ami et ancien collaborateur de Nicolas Sarkozy, mis en examen dans l'affaire, a ainsi indiqué au juge avoir appris par Takiedddine

T. Gaubert

«qu'il avait trouvé un arrangement avec M. Rafic Hariri, qui avait fait le lien entre lui et Chirac pour le paiement de ses commissions liées à Sawari 2».

Lors de son audition, Ziad Takieddine a détaillé sa rémunération dans l'affaire des frégates vendues à l'Arabie saoudite.

De 1995 à 1997, il assure avoir été rémunéré par la partie saoudienne, sur un compte au Crédit suisse et/ou à la banque Audi de Genève. Les contrats signés prévoyaient en effet un délai de deux ans avant le paiement des commissions. «J'ai perçu au total un montant de l'ordre de 70-75millions de dollars payés par un avocat représentant le Prince Sultan, de 1995 à 1997, en quatre paiements», a révélé M. Takieddine.

Interrogé sur la somme globale reçue de M. Hariri après son intervention auprès de Jacques Chirac, le marchand d'armes s'est montré précis. «M. Hariri m'avait ouvert un compte à la Banque Méditerranée, Verdun, pour recevoir cet argent. Il y a d'abord eu 75 millions de dollars versés en avril 1997 puis, deux ou trois mois après, 45 millions de dollars.»

Cette somme de 130 millions de dollars, déjà évoquée dans les documents révélés début septembre par Mediapart, aurait été partagée avec le cheik Ali Ben Moussalem, un dignitaire saoudien présenté au début de l'été 1993 par M. Takieddine à Edouard Balladur et son directeur de cabinet, Nicolas Bazire, lui aussi mis en examen dans l'affaire.

«J'ai payé ce que je devais au cheik Ali Ben Moussalem

MM. Takieddine et Moussalem

a expliqué M. Takieddine.Selon mon souvenir, cela représentait, pour les 75 premiers millions de dollars, les deux-tiers, soit un montant de l'ordre de 50 millions de dollars. J'ai conservé un tiers, que j'ai versé sur un compte suisse. Les 45, je les ai conservés intégralement sur le compte que j'avais à la Banque Méditerranée au Liban. J'avais préalablement consulté le Prince Sultan qui m'avait tout laissé.»

L'addition est simple : le versement de Rafic Hariri aurait donc rapporté 70 millions de dollars à M. Takieddine, auquel il convient d'ajouter 75 millions versés directement par la partie saoudienne avant 1997.

L'intervention de Rafic Hariri auprès de Jacques Chirac et les paiements finalement effectués en faveur de Ziad Takieddine viennent désormais modifier le scénario jusqu'ici avancé par les responsables politiques chiraquiens.

Les scénarios de la corruption

L'ancien ministre de la défense Charles Millon avait en effet assuré l'an dernier avoir reçu l'ordre «dans les quinze jours»suivant sa nomination, en mai 1995, de «procéder à la révision des contrats d'armement», tandis que Dominique de Villepin confirmait la décision prise par le président Chirac«d'annuler certaines commissions». Nul n'a évoqué la possibilité d'un deal. Seulement voilà, celui-ci semble patent et désormais documenté.

Si Rafic Hariri s'est donc substitué à la Sofresa pour régler une partie des commissions, il reste à déterminer sur quels fonds il l'a fait. Ou comment il a été lui-même remboursé des 130 millions de dollars versés à M. Takieddine.

Deux hypothèses sont avancées. Selon M. Takieddine, M. Hariri aurait reçu, en échange de son intervention, le paiement par le royaume saoudien «de factures impayées» à hauteur de 1,3 milliard de dollars. Peu vraisemblable : c'est généralement le vendeur, et non pas l'acheteur, qui verse les commissions... L'origine des fonds est peut-être plutôt à chercher du côté français.

Selon Michel Mazens, ancien patron de la Sofresa, après avoir acté l'annulation officielle des contrats du réseau de M. Takieddine et de ses amis en mars 1997, l'office d'armement a reversé à l'industriel Thalès l'intégralité des commissions prévues.

«Tous les plannings de paiement du client saoudien ont été revus pour que la colonne qui devait payer le réseau "K" - nom du réseau Takideddine, NDLR - aille abonder le compte de l'industriel, Thalès, a déclaré M. Michel Mazens à Mediapart. C'est ce qui a été fait et mis en œuvre.»L'industriel était donc le dépositaire de ces fonds. Il était en capacité d'opérer éventuellement le dédommagement de M. Hariri. C'est la deuxième hypothèse.

Dans des explications successivement relayées par le Journal du Dimanche, Le Nouvel Observateur et Le Monde, Ziad Takieddine va plus loin et assure qu'un «système bis» a été mis en place au sein même de Sofresa. «En remplacement des sociétés Rabor et Estar, dont les contrats ont été détruits, il y a eu trois destinataires. Une partie a bénéficié à une société qui représente M. Chirac. Une autre partie a bénéficié à une autre société qui représente M. de Villepin. La troisième société est celle de M. Djouhri qui chapeaute les trois sociétés.»

A l'appui de sa démonstration, Ziad Takieddine a relevé les versements opérés par la Sofresa après son indemnisation par Rafic Hariri. Ces éléments apparus lors des perquisitions effectuées chez Sofresa - aujourd'hui rebaptisée Odas - en avril dernier ne font évidemment pas apparaître les noms de MM. Chirac, Villepin ou Djouhri.

Il s'agit de versements effectués en faveur de deux sociétés baptisées Parinvest (du groupe saoudien Bugshan) et Issham For Contracting Maintenance, qui ont respectivement reçu 85,4 millions et 1,4 milliard de francs de la Sofresa.

«Il n'y a aucune substitution de réseau, a expliqué de son côté l'ancien patron de Sofresa, M. Michel Mazens à Mediapart. Le groupe Bugshan a été l'un de nos relais, pour des travaux de maintenance sur place, dans le pays client. Quant à la somme importante en faveur de la société Issham, il s'agit d'un versement légal destiné à apurer les commissions prévues au contrat, avant la mise en œuvre de la convention OCDE, qui les interdisait à compter de juin 2000».

Pour tenter d'y voir plus clair dans le maquis comptable des commissions occultes du marché des frégates saoudiennes, les juges Van Ruymbeke et Le Loire ont demandé l'élargissement de leur enquête, pour l'instant limitée à la période 1993-95, aux années suivantes. C'est-à-dire à l'ère Chirac. Le parquet de Paris, à qui il revient de donner une réponse favorable (ou non) à la requête des juges, n'a pas encore rendu sa décision.

http://www.mediapart.fr/dossier/france/les-documents-de-takieddine

Amid Calls for 'Less Democracy,' German Security Agencies Caught Planting Spyware on Private Computers....

2011-11-10T05:27:00.001-08:00

BND Kowtows to MOSSAD and CIA...MOSSAD has a huge facility at Frankfurt Airport.....

Amid Calls for 'Less Democracy,' German Security Agencies Caught Planting Spyware on Private Computers....

Revelations by the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) that German secret state agencies are installing spyware on personal computers capable of transforming a PC's webcam and microphone into a listening device, sparked outrage across the political spectrum.

It has since emerged that despite legal requirements that police do so only with a warrant and only if surveillance intercepts are used to prevent threats to "life, limb or liberty," authorities are not complying with strict limits laid down by Germany's Supreme Court.

And while these disclosures may have ignited a political firestorm in Berlin, they will come as no surprise to readers of Antifascist Calling.

Three years ago, I reported that Germany's foreign intelligence service, the Bundesnachrichtendienst or BND, was caught up in a major scandal after the whistleblowing web site WikiLeaks, published documents which revealed that the agency had extensively spied on, and even recruited, journalists for use in illicit intelligence operations.

Recalling the CIA's long-running Operation Mockingbird program that enrolled journalists as spies in what are now euphemistically called "influence operations," the covert manipulation of the domestic and foreign press according to WikiLeaks, showed "the extent to which the collaboration of journalists with intelligence agencies has become common and to what dimensions consent is manufactured in the interests of those involved."

BBC News reported that "Bavaria has admitted using the spyware, but claimed it had acted within the law." And Deutsche Welle disclosed that "several additional German states have admitted to deploying spyware," including "Baden-Württemberg, Brandenburg, Schleswig-Holstein and Lower Saxony," but like their counterparts in Bavaria, those officials also claimed they had operated "within the parameters of the law."

As I have written many times, the secret state is bound by their own set of "laws." Normal rules and procedures which are supposed to protect citizens from unwarranted government intrusions are deemed inoperative for reasons of "national security."

In the United States, constitutional protections designed to guarantee the right of citizens to protest, enjoy a modicum of privacy in their daily lives or, at the most basic level, have their day in court before being executed, have been overthrown by two successive administrations who assert the right to conduct the affairs of state in secret, according to a set of legal guidelines which are unreviewable by any court.

It would appear that similar moves are underway in Germany.

'Backdoor Functionality'

The Chaos Computer Club revealed in their analysis that when they reverse engineered the program, variously dubbed "0zapftis", "Bundestrojaner" or "R2D2," they discovered that the spyware "found in the wild" and "submitted to the CCC anonymously," can "not only siphon away intimate data but also offers a remote control or backdoor functionality for uploading and executing arbitrary other programs. Significant design and implementation flaws make all of the functionality available to anyone on the internet."

Club researchers learned that "the trojan's developers never even tried to put in technical safeguards to make sure the malware can exclusively be used for wiretapping internet telephony, as set forth by the constitution court. On the contrary, the design included functionality to clandestinely add more components over the network right from the start, making it a bridge-head to further infiltrate the computer."

"The government malware can," analysts noted, "unchecked by a judge, load extensions by remote control, to use the trojan for other functions, including but not limited to eavesdropping."

"This complete control over the infected PC, is open not just to the agency that put it there, but to everyone. It could even be used to upload falsified 'evidence' against the PC's owner, or to delete files, which puts the whole rationale for this method of investigation into question."

Their study also "revealed serious security holes that the trojan is tearing into infected systems. The screenshots and audio files it sends out are encrypted in an incompetent way, the commands from the control software to the trojan are even completely unencrypted. Neither the commands to the trojan nor its replies are authenticated or have their integrity protected."

"We were surprised and shocked by the lack of even elementary security in the code. Any attacker could assume control of a computer infiltrated by the German law enforcement authorities," a CCC spokesperson commented. "The security level this trojan leaves the infected systems in is comparable to it setting all passwords to '1234'."

Nothing 'Magical' about this 'Lantern'

There are glaring similarities between the "R2D2" package deployed by German police and "Magic Lantern" software used by the FBI. As with Bureau spyware, the German program is a keystroke logging virus installed via a malicious email attachment or by exploiting operating system vulnerabilities.

When news of the FBI program first broke back in 2000, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) obtained documents under a Freedom of Information Act request relating to the system, which were part of a suite of surveillance tools then called Carnivore.

At the time, EPIC revealed that the FBI "had developed an Internet monitoring system that would be installed at the facilities of an Internet Service Provider (ISP) and would monitor all traffic moving through that ISP."

Once a user is spoofed into installing the malicious Trojan, it is activated when PGP encryption is used to enhance email security. When switched on, the Trojan will log the PGP password which will then allow the agents to read the encrypted communications unbeknownst to the sender. Since its first iteration in the 1990s, such programs are exponentially more sophisticated and are now capable of scooping-up virtually everything a user stores on a computer or handset.

A 2007 exposé by Wired Magazine revealed that Magic Lantern's "computer and internet protocol address verifier" or CIPAV, "gathers a wide range of information, including the computer's IP address; MAC address; open ports; a list of running programs; the operating system type, version and serial number; preferred internet browser and version; the computer's registered owner and registered company name; the current logged-in user name and the last-visited URL."

And once that data was obtained, it was siphoned-off to the Bureau's technology laboratory in Quantico, Virginia via fiber optic splitter cables.

As whistleblower Babak Pasdar revealed in 2008, following earlier disclosures by AT&T whistleblower Mark Klein, Verizon, and other giant telecommunications firms, including AT&T, maintained a high-speed DS-3 digital line that handed the Bureau and other security agencies "unfettered" access to the carrier's wireless network, including billing records and customer data "transmitted wirelessly."

Just after the scandal broke, Wired Magazine disclosed that "two years before the Bavarian state in Germany began using a controversial spy tool to gather evidence from suspect computers, German authorities approached the Federal Bureau of Investigation to discuss a similar tool the U.S. law enforcement agency was using."

"Bavarian authorities," Wired reported, "began using their spyware in 2009. It's not known if that spyware is based on the FBI's, but in July 2007, German authorities contacted the FBI seeking information about its tool."

The FBI's assistant legal attache in Frankfurt "sent an email to Bureau colleagues on July 24, 2007, writing, 'I am embarrassed to be approaching you again with a request from the Germans ... but they now have asked us about CIPAV (Computer Internet Protocol Address Verifier) software, allegedly used by the Bu[reau]'."

The email uncovered by Wired was part of a huge cache of files obtained by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) in response to their 2007 Freedom of Information Act request for data on CIPAV.

In the years since those disclosures, secret state surveillance is more pervasive than ever and and now includes the "lawful interception" of GPS locational data streamed automatically to their manufacturers or hosting services by smart phones.

It appears that German secret state officials are playing a similar game. According to Der Spiegel, at least two agencies, the Bundeskriminalamt, or BKA, the federal crime investigation agency equivalent to the FBI, and some 16 Landeskriminalamt or LKAs, regional investigative bureaus, may have deployed the malware during wide-ranging investigations unrelated to terrorism.

Following Chaos Computer Club revelations, it is clear that German authorities have been caught red-handed violating a landmark decision by the Supreme Court. "The court," Der Spiegel noted, "specified that online spying was only permissible if there was concrete evidence of danger to individuals or society."

In a follow-up piece, Der Spiegel disclosed that the firm DigiTask was the spyware's developer. Along with hundreds of similar firms, DigiTask is a niche security outfit that develops applications for the so-called "lawful interception" market.

In 2008, WikiLeaks released two documents concerning "interception technology for Skype and SSL in Bavaria, Germany. The first document is a communication by the Bavarian Ministry of Justice to the prosecutors office, relating to cost distribution for the interception licenses between police and prosecution. The second document allegedly presents the offer made by Digitask, the German company developing the technology, and holds information on pricing and license model, high-level technology descriptions and other detail."

According to the WikiLeaks analysis, the DigiTask offer "introduces a basic description of the cryptographic workings of Skype, and concludes that new systems are needed to spy on Skype calls."

We were informed in that letter that German police were interested in standing-up a "Skype Capture Unit."

"In a nutshell: malware is installed onto a target machine, to intercept Skype Voice and Chat. Another feature introduced is a recording proxy, that is not part of the offer, yet would allow for anonymous proxying of recorded information to a target recording station. Access to the recording station is possible via a multimedia streaming client, supposedly offering real-time interception."

"Another part of the offer," WikiLeaks noted, was related to "an interception method for SSL based communication, working on the same principle of establishing a man-in-the-middle attack on the key material on the client machine. According to the offer, this method works for Internet Explorer and Firefox web browsers. Digitask also recommends using overseas proxy servers, to cover the tracks of all activities."

As it turns out those proxy servers were conveniently located in the United States. This raises the distinct possibility that information captured by German secret state officials is also being shared with "partner agencies" of their close NATO ally, the CIA, FBI and NSA.

This was confirmed by CCC's analysis of R2D2's code. "To avoid the location of the command and control server, all data is redirected through a rented dedicated server in a data center in the USA. The control of this malware is only partially within the borders of its jurisdiction."

"Considering the incompetent encryption and the missing digital signatures on the command channel, this poses an unacceptable and incalculable risk. It also poses the question how a citizen is supposed to get their right of legal redress in the case the wiretapping data get lost outside Germany, or the command channel is misused."

The short answer is, they can't.

Aside from lining the pockets of DigiTask shareholders, there are more sinister uses for the malware. As the World Socialist Web Site noted "the remote-control function could be used to load and execute malicious software, and to plant bogus digital evidence on the computer, which can then be detected if the computer was seized. A suspect would have no way of proving that this had happened."

This would certainly be a convenient way to "neutralize" a troublesome politician, journalist or over-eager anticorporate campaigner.

'Less Democracy'

Following similar efforts in the United States, evidence that police are illegally spying on German citizens using sophisticated malware developed for the government are neither benign nor accidental events.

As a recent article in German Foreign Policy disclosed, leading voices in Europe's largest state are "pleading for a transition toward 'less democracy'." A recent book, published under the title, Dare Less Democracy, claims that the "voice of the people" and the "'emancipatory Zeitgeist, putting everything into question,' has a too 'paralyzing influence" on current governance'."

"The author," the critical online leftist magazine observes, "demands to 'correct the system' for 'more efficient policy making.' These 'corrections' must include the dismantlement of democratic participation."

Author Laszlo Trankovits, the bureau chief of the Deutsche Presse Agentur in South Africa, who had previously worked for the agency in Washington "as its White House correspondent," explained "it should never be suggested that a 'democratic society can do away with inequality and establish social justice'."

"Trankovits," German Foreign Policy notes, is "a member of the elitist Rotary-Club." He demands that "the elite clearly 'commits itself to capitalism and profit,' and that 'intelligent forms of public relations' be used to communicate policy measures to the population. However, the demand for more 'transparency' is 'counterproductive and paralyzing' for any 'governance efficiency' and must be rejected."

That drivel such as this was penned by a journalist for Germany's leading news agency, to whit, that the media should serve as a propaganda mouthpiece for casino capitalist interests, is one more sign that democratic norms, already seriously eroded in the West, are now being rapidly jettisoned by our political masters.

With the global capitalist system on the verge of a repeat performance of the 2008 meltdown, and with a worldwide resurgence of opposition to the one-sided costs of saving a system of financial plunder borne by the working class, elite calls for "less democracy" are warning signs that stern measures, including blanket surveillance and naked police violence, are in the offing. ....

China's new ballistic missiles spark global fear....

2011-11-06T04:48:00.001-08:00

China's new ballistic missiles spark global fear....

http://zeenews.india.com/news/world/china-s-new-ballistic-missiles-spark-global-fear_739814.html

New Delhi: Chinese government’s decision to deploy four new nuclear capable ballistic missiles, including one that can be launched from submarines (SLBM), has sparked global fear and panic among its neigbouring states in the Indian-sub continent.

Federation of American Scientists has claimed in its assessment report that Beijing’s decision to deploy more nuke capable ballistic missiles will increase friction between the United States and China.

Moreover, the US administration of President Obama is concerned over Beijing’s continuous reluctance to define its minimum deterrence posture. This has raised a concern that despite international pressure China is continuously upgrading nuclear and missile arsenal.

The report prepared by top scientists Hans Kristensen and Robert Norris estimates that China currently possesses at least 240 nuclear warheads. The report, which not only points to China's intentions to target Washington by assigning a greater number of nuke warheads to its long-range missiles, it also highlights that Russia and India also fall under its missile range.

As per reports, Beijing is now relying more on its 7,200 km-range DF-31 missiles to target India and Russia than its previous DF-4 missiles.

New Delhi too has raised its concerns over China’s dubious nuke program. Indian officials claim that China is upgrading its nuke arsenals in a place called Delingha in central Qinghai province.

Since Delingha is only 2,000 km from Delhi, China considers it as a strategically important location for ballistic missile deployment. Interestingly, China does not consider other neighbouring countries like Nepal, Myanmar and Pakistan as potential targets.

“India was a potential target, but the Chinese nuclear policy is geared towards all potential adversaries, each of which has its own characteristics. India to the south is countered with medium-range missiles from central (Delingha region) and southern (Kunming region) China," Kristensen was quoted as saying by a leading news daily.

American nuke scientists further claims that China has approximately 140 land-based nuclear ballistic missiles, and is in process of deploying four new nuclear-capable ballistic missiles (the DF-21, DF-31, DF-31A, and JL-2).

By deploying the DF-31 ballistic missiles, China is taking over regional targeting of Russia, India.

In its report, the Federation of American Scientists claims that China's general military modernization appears to be focused on US-China scenarios. But the long border with Russia is a major military focus for Chinese general purpose military planning. And the border with India is another area of new interest and upgrades for Beijing....

EXPOSING MURDER: Federal Judge Myron Thompson...A story by Real Insiders ...

2011-10-27T03:54:00.000-07:00

EXPOSING MURDER: Federal Judge Myron Thompson...

Appointed to bench Sept. 1980 After representing narcotics officer’s widow...

By John Caylor

A story by Real Insiders ...

On the cold foggy night of January 31, 1979, Dothan, Alabama, “narcotics officer

Sgt. Robert Jackson” pulled into his driveway at 10:30 P.M. and was immediately

shotgunned to death from a double barrel 12 gage sawed-off shotgun by “Jimmy

Albritton, a Florida man” who was never identified as the shooter of the Mafia

contract murder - despite being a police officer.

Sgt. Jackson’s murder is the longest running murder cover up in Alabama’s and possibly
the nation’s history.

It has never been acknowledged or investigated and all reference to Jackson’s name or
his murder has been buried since “Myron Thompson persuaded Jackson’s widow to file
a civil law suit against the City of Dothan, Alabama.“

Thompson was immediately appointed a federal Judge and served as Chief Judge from
1991 to 98. All reference to Thompson’s former private law practice at Dothan, Alabama
has since been buried. Judge Thompson is the “Alabama Casino Bribery Judge.”

Civil Rights Attorney, Fred Gray who thought he was the nominee to the bench "was
floored" when he received a phone call from Alabama Senator Howell Heflin, Alabama of
the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee in the middle of the night while attending a

convention in Texas," according to my source (The family member who heard the death
bed confession of W.D. Williams, an Alabama car dealer - who hired the hit) spoke to
Gray and he continued that Gray related to him that Thompson was approved before
he was even nominated.

There is a long list of people who have been murdered which may now be tied back to
the contract murder of Sgt. Robert Jackson. First and foremost should be the death of
my former case agent, “Bobby Sides,” a United States Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms
agent, in 1981. Since that dreadful time in my life I’ve taken on a dogged determined effort
to bring these people to justice. I’ve gone through pure hell - as my life nears the
end the answers have suddenly come in person from people who, like me, have been
deeply involved and can’t shake loose from the truth, which Judge Thompson and these
evil people have insisted on concealing. I’ll admit that I have a personal stake in these
casino gambling and other racketeering caes involving all these people that I will put out
in the next few days - If I’m alive.

Being an investigative journalist, starting in my early twenties in 1970 working both
broadcast and print, then publishing an investigate reporting magazine in the Panhandle
of Florida for four years, now on-line with “insider-magazine.com”, my long experience
certainly gives me a better view of what is needed if anything to insure the free flow of
ideas and thought in our so-called democratic republic.

First and foremost, government interference and capitalism has failed to produce
anything resembling a free press since it’s inception. News reports have always been
biased and unfair and based upon advertising dollars, political bullying, or outright
lies, intimidation and physical violence and threats or very real arrests by law enforcement
officials who have most always been worse than the gangsters I’ve reported
on in over 40 years.

The misinformed public has always voted for corrupt politicians and pinned a gun and
badge on the biggest crooks in America, compliments of the corporate press who started

out as circular and funny paper printers looking for a way to feed their families.

They soon wound up being jailed, bullied and swayed to write all things favorable to

would be kings or their presses were burned and their lives shattered.

Over the past several decades I have often left the media business and started up
profitable computer and technology companies only to close them down and return to
my first love and that has always been uncovering and exposing the truth, being the
ass and controversial independent knowing my life has always been about doing the
right thing for society and not just my own wallet.

It’s difficult to explain to this generation of American’s who don’t give a damn about
the idea of freedom and what it really means to be at the forefront of the battle for
independence and equal justice for all.

I’m now 61 years old and tired because of all those battles fought with little money
and support from my loyal readers. The last two years I’ve been a fugitive from justice
from the state of Florida, whose politicians wanted to be rid of me so bad that they
outlawed free speech and managed to arrest me for requesting copies of public records
at the Bay County Courthouse in 2006, in connection with the boot camp death
case of a 14-year old black teenager.

More later - other media people who want to find me - Please call 360-656-5669 as
this is where I am now hiding near the Canadian and U.S. border as far away as you
can get without leaving my beloved country. My National Press Club in Washington,
D.C. membership contact information is incorrect since I have been in hiding....

The Dönmeh: The Middle East’s Most Whispered Secret...

2011-10-27T02:55:00.000-07:00

The Dönmeh: The Middle East’s Most Whispered Secret (Part II)...

"What will surprise those who may already be surprised about the Dönmeh connection to Turkey, is the Dönmeh connection to the House of Saud in Saudi Arabia."

Behind the whispers in Saudi Arabia.....

Part I

What will surprise those who may already be surprised about the Dönmeh connection to Turkey, is the Dönmeh connection to the House of Saud in Saudi Arabia.

An Iraqi Mukhabarat (General Military Intelligence Directorate) Top Secret report, “The Emergence of Wahhabism and its Historical Roots,” dated September 2002 and released on March 13, 2008, by the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency in translated English form, points to the Dönmeh roots of the founder of the Saudi Wahhabi sect of Islam, Muhammad ibn Abdul Wahhab. Much of the information is gleaned from the memoirs of a “Mr. Humfer,” (as spelled in the DIA report, “Mr. Hempher” as spelled the historical record) a British spy who used the name “Mohammad,” claimed to be an Azeri who spoke Turkish, Persian, and Arabic and who made contact with Wahhab in the mid-18th century with a view of creating a sect of Islam that would eventually bring about an Arab revolt against the Ottomans and pave the way for the introduction of a Jewish state in Palestine. Humfer’s memoirs are recounted by the Ottoman writer and admiral Ayyub Sabri Pasha in his 1888 work, “The Beginning and Spreading of Wahhabism.”

In his book, The Dönmeh Jews, D. Mustafa Turan writes that Wahhab’s grandfather, Tjen Sulayman, was actually Tjen Shulman, a member of the Jewish community of Basra, Iraq. The Iraqi intelligence report also states that in his book, The Dönmeh Jews and the Origin of the Saudi Wahhabis, Rifat Salim Kabar reveals that Shulman eventually settled in the Hejaz, in the village of al-Ayniyah what is now Saudi Arabia, where his grandson founded the Wahhabi sect of Islam. The Iraqi intelligence report states that Shulman had been banished from Damascus, Cairo, and Mecca for his “quackery.” In the village, Shulman sired Abdul Wahhab. Abdel Wahhab’s son, Muhammad, founded modern Wahhabism.

The Iraqi report also makes some astounding claims about the Saud family. It cites Abdul Wahhab Ibrahim al-Shammari’s book, The Wahhabi Movement: The Truth and Roots, which states that King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud, the first Kingdom of Saudi Arabia monarch, was descended from Mordechai bin Ibrahim bin Moishe, a Jewish merchant also from Basra. In Nejd, Moishe joined the Aniza tribe and changed his name to Markhan bin Ibrahim bin Musa. Eventually, Mordechai married off his son, Jack Dan, who became Al-Qarn, to a woman from the Anzah tribe of the Nejd. From this union, the future Saud family was born.

The Iraqi intelligence document reveals that the researcher Mohammad Sakher was the subject of a Saudi contract murder hit for his examination into the Sauds’ Jewish roots. In Said Nasir’s book, The History of the Saud Family, it is maintained that in 1943, the Saudi ambassador to Egypt, Abdullah bin Ibrahim al Muffadal, paid Muhammad al Tamami to forge a family tree showing that the Sauds and Wahhabs were one family that descended directly from the Prophet Mohammed.

At the outset of World War I, a Jewish British officer from India, David Shakespeare, met with Ibn Saud in Riyadh and later led a Saudi army that defeated a tribe opposed to Ibn Saud. In 1915, Ibn Saud met with the British envoy to the Gulf region, Bracey Cocas. Cocas made the following offer to Ibn Saud: “I think this is a guarantee for your endurance as it is in the interest of Britain that the Jews have a homeland and existence, and Britain’s interests are, by all means, in your interest.” Ibn Saud, the descendant of Dönmeh from Basra, responded: “Yes, if my acknowledgement means so much to you, I acknowledge thousand times granting a homeland to the Jews in Palestine or other than Palestine.” Two years later, British Foreign Secretary Lord Balfour, in a letter to Baron Walter Rothschild, a leader of the British Zionists, stated: “His Majesty’s government view with favor the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people . . .” The deal had the tacit backing of two of the major players in the region, both descendant from Dönmeh Jews who supported the Zionist cause, Kemal Ataturk and Ibn Saud. The present situation in the Middle East should be seen in this light but the history of the region has been purged by certain religious and political interests for obvious reasons.

After World War I, the British facilitated the coming to power of the Saud regime in the former Hejaz and Nejd provinces of the Ottoman Empire. The Sauds established Wahhabism as the state religion of the new Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and, like the Kemalist Dönmeh in Turkey, began to move against other Islamic beliefs and sects, including the Sunnis and Shi’as. The Wahhabi Sauds accomplished what the Kemalist Dönmeh were able to achieve in Turkey: a fractured Middle East that was ripe for Western imperialistic designs and laid the groundwork for the creation of the Zionist state of Israel.

Deep states and Dönmeh

During two visits to Turkey in 2010, I had the opportunity of discussing the Ergenekon “deep state” with leading Turkish officials. It was more than evident that discussions about the Ergenekon network and its “foreign” connections are a highly-sensitive subject. However, it was also whispered by one high-ranking Turkish foreign policy official that there were other “deep states” in surrounding nations and Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Syria were mentioned by name. Considering the links between Ergenekon and the Dönmeh in Turkey and the close intelligence and military links between the Dönmeh-descendent Sauds and Wahhabis in Arabia, the reports of close links between ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and his intelligence chief Omar Suleiman and the Binyamin Netanyahu government in Israel may be seen in an entirely new light… And it would explain Erdogan’s support for Egypt’s revolution: in Turkey, it was a democratic revolution that curbed the influence of the Dönmeh. The influence of Wahhabi Salafists in Libya’s new government also explains why Erdogan was keen on establishing relations with the Benghazi-based rebels to help supplant the influence of the Wahhabis, the natural allies of his enemies, the Dönmeh (Ergenekon) of Turkey.

Erdogan’s desire to set the historical record straight by restoring history purged by the Kemalists and Dönmeh has earned him vitriolic statements from Israel’s government that he is a neo-Ottomanist who is intent on forming an alliance with the Muslim Brotherhood in the Arab countries. Clearly, the Dönmeh and their Zionist brethren in Israel and elsewhere are worried about Dönmeh and Zionist historical revisionism, including their role in the Armenian and Assyrian genocide, and their genocide denial being exposed.

In Egypt, which was once an Ottoman realm, it was a popular revolution that tossed out what may have amounted to the Dönmeh with regard to the Mubarak regime. The Egyptian “Arab Spring” also explains why the Israelis were quick to kill six Egyptian border police so soon after nine Turkish passengers were killed aboard the Mavi Marmara, some in execution style, by Israeli troops. Dönmeh doctrine is rife with references to the Old Testament Amalekites, a nomadic tribe ordered attacked by the Hebrews from Egypt by the Jewish God to make room for Moses’s followers in the southern region of Palestine. In the Book of Judges, God unsuccessfully commands Saul: “Now go and strike Amalek and devote to destruction all that they have. Do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, and infant, ox, and sheep, camel and donkey.” The Dönmeh, whose doctrine is also present in Hasidic and other orthodox sects of Judaism, appear to have no problem substituting the Armenians, Assyrians, Turks, Kurds, Egyptians, Iraqis, Lebanese, Iranians, and Palestinians for the Amalekites in carrying out their military assaults and pogroms.

With reformist governments in Turkey and Egypt much more willing to look into the background of those who have split the Islamic world, Ataturk in Turkey and Mubarak in Egypt, the Sauds are likely very much aware that it is only a matter of time before their links, both modern and historical, to Israel will be fully exposed. It makes sense that the Sauds have been successful in engineering a dubious plot involving Iranian government agents trying to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to Washington in an unnamed Washington, DC restaurant. The Iraqi intelligence report could have been referring to the Zionists and Dönmeh when it stated, “it strives to . . . [the] killing of Muslims, destructing, and promoting the turmoil.” In fact, the Iraqi intelligence report was referring to the Wahhabis.

With new freedom in Turkey and Egypt to examine their pasts, there is more reason for Israel and its supporters, as well as the Sauds, to suppress the true histories of the Ottoman Empire, secular Turkey, the origins of Israel, and the House of Saud. With various players now angling for war with Iran, the true history of the Dönmeh and their influence on past and current events in the Middle East becomes more important...

On Wayne's piece The Dönmeh: The Middle East’s Most Whispered Secret" - this group is Wahhabi - refer to Wayne's article for their Saudi roots which are likely Jewish.

Three days after Wayne posted this article, the Wahhabi which are responsible for many terror attacks, struck again - this shooting occurred at the US embassy in Sarajevo last week.

The gunman was a young Bosnian Wahhabi man from Sandzak - a region in Serbia which is predominantly Wahhabi. Serbian police confirm that a number of individuals were arrested - video here. American police are now going to Sandzak to chase false-flag terrorists of last week's attack - link. The whole thing is about as authentic as the 9/11 investigation and the rest of the war on terror. (BTW, the Serbia-Sandzak Wahhabi have a strong connection to Thaci's KLA in Kosovo - both sides are controlled by CIA).

Compare to Wayne's recent writings about this Wahhabi group - note that this native Balkans Wahhabi group is notorious for its CIA ties and like the Saudi Dönmeh, the Sandzak (region of Serbia) offshoot is also Wahhabi. I very much believe that this is a part of the very same group Wayne wrote about which days after Wayne's article carried out this attack but this offshoot is not an imported terror cell but instead originates out of a native to the Balkans Wahhabi nest inside of Serbia where they have been living since the days of the Ottoman Turkish Empire. This Wahhabi plot goes back centuries.

: When I read Wayne's article on Donmeh from Saudi Arabia, I did not initially understand that we are talking about the same group I know well from the Balkans. It took the Sarajevo US embassy shooting being traced to Wahhabi in Sandzak (Serbia) for me to connect the dots - and realize that Wayne is describing the crypto-Jewish roots of this Saudi group which landed in Yugoslavia long ago via the Ottoman Empire - that is the same tribe which just shot up the US embassy in Sarajevo last week.

Wayne, this Sandzak group is definitely an offshoot of the same historic group you are describing - our Balkans Wahhabi started in Jerusalem and were put into the Serbian region of Sandzak by the Ottoman Empire. What is interesting about them - you describe the Saudi Wahhabi to have the same peculiarities I remember from the Balkans branch.

In the Balkans, this Wahhabi group in Sandzak was always native to a portion stretching across Serbia and Montenegro but this is - of all the Balkans tribes - truly the most secretive and militant and dangerous group which does NOT mix with anyone - not even other muslims - most of our Yugoslavia muslims were libeeral and culturally open - except for this ultra-secretive Sandzak Wahhabi bunch. They were always an enigma in Yugoslavia. They always stuck to themselves. They have always been known to be heavily mob-connected to powerful people in Turkey and somewhere in the Arab world. Wayne just connected those dots from the Balkans all the way to crypto-Jews under muslim cover in Saudi Arabia.

As to our division in the Balkans - the Sandzak Wahhabi - they are known to be ruthless and they played a SIGNIFICANT role in WW II in the Balkans - this muslim (!) group fought on the side of Germany and Italy AGAINST the native populations of the Balkans and was granted autonomy during WW II...strange? Hitler promised them the moon and in turn, they planned to connect everything from Saudi Arabia, Syria and Middle East to the fascist empire. It was always unclear what a secretive Balkans strange muslim group was doing with Hitler and Mussolini - but an old mystery is falling into place - I have since childhood known about this strange Wahhabi group in Sandzak and it took Wayne to connect the dots all the way to Saudi Arabia and this being a deeply closeted Jewish group under muslim cover....they are Zionist muslims of all things???

Look at this, Wayne - it is remarkable that this region is under Serbia but Turkey settles their disputes - Turkey was again called to mediate recently link. The Wahhabi in Sandzak want autonomy and it is long known they only listen to certain groups in Turkey, not Serbia which is the country where they live.

It looks like Zionists are doing in Sandzak what they did to Kosovo - stir it up and get their incumbent tribe to secede and chop off yet another piece of Serbia, as they did with Kosovo. Look at their presence: USAID is a massive presence in this small area, so is Soros under the name Helsinki Watch (an OSI-funded Soros group). They are NOT there to help Serbs - this goes straight to this Wahhabi group, they are working with the mufti (the Wahhabi government).

Look at the map of the region. See the diagonal location of Sandzak across Serbia and Montenegro - and Kosovo immediately adjacent. The Zionists already have Kosovo. They have the Wahhabi inside of Sandzak. The Rothschilds have such a firm grip on Montenegro that journalist Dejan Lucic in Serbia calls Montenegro "Terra Rothschildiana". If Zionists "free" Sandzak via these muslims who are crypto-Jews via autonomy to yet another piece of the former Yugoslavia chopped off, they would have sea port access via Montenegro as tiny Montenegro is virtually wholly owned by the Rothschilds since the 90s war. Balkanization continues ad infinitum into the micro-slivers of what was once Yugoslavia. USAID and Soros people are always the vultures whose presence announces some sort of major Zionist plan for the region.

Here is a link by a Serbian historian which ties this Sandzak Wahhabi group to an ancestor in Jerusalem and lands him via Ottoman Turks in Sandzak (Serbia) - and how it all connects to Rothschilds and Hitler himself - and how they tied to 1990s Bosnian president Alija Izetbegovic (who most definitely worked with Zionists against his own muslim people in the 90s)...link.

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War-The Fiscal Stimulus of Last Resort for the utterly corrupt and criminal US ZOG.....

2011-10-14T03:39:00.001-07:00

War-The Fiscal Stimulus of Last Resort for the utterly corrupt and criminal US ZOG.....

By Ellen Brown

“War! Good God, ya’ll. What is it good for? Absolutely nothin’!”

So went the Bruce Springsteen pop hit of the 1980s, first produced as an anti-Vietnam War song in 1969. The song echoed popular sentiment. The Vietnam War ended. Then the Cold War ended. Yet military spending remains the government’s number one expenditure. When veterans’ benefits and other past military costs are factored in, half the government’s budget now goes to the military/industrial complex. Protesters have been trying to stop this juggernaut ever since the end of World War II, yet the war machine is more powerful and influential than ever.

Why? The veiled powers pulling the strings no doubt have their own dark agenda, but why has our much-trumpeted system of political democracy not been able to stop them?

The answer may involve our individualistic, laissez-faire brand of capitalism, which forbids the government to compete with private business except in cases of “national emergency.” The problem is that private business needs the government to get money into people’s pockets and stimulate demand. The process has to start somewhere, and government has the tools to do it. But in our culture, any hint of “socialism” is anathema. The result has been a state of “national emergency” has had to be declared virtually all of the time, just to get the government’s money into the economy.

Other avenues being blocked, the productive civilian economy has been systematically sucked into the non-productive military sector, until war is now our number one export. War is where the money is and where the jobs are. The United States has been turned into a permanent war economy and military state.

War as Economic Stimulus

The notion that war is good for the economy goes back at least to World War II. Critics of Keynesian-style deficit spending insisted that it was war, not deficit spending, that got the U.S. out of the Great Depression.

But while war may have triggered the surge in productivity that followed, the reason war worked was that it opened the deficit floodgates. The war was a huge stimulus to economic growth, not because it was a cost-effective use of resources, but because nobody worries about deficits in wartime.

In peacetime, on the other hand, when the government was not supposed to engage in competitive enterprise. As Nobel Prize winner Frederick Soddy observed:

The old extreme laissez-faire policy of individualistic economics jealously denied to the State the right of competing in any way with individuals in the ownership of productive enterprise, out of which monetary interest or profit can be made . . . .

In the 1930s, the government was allowed to invest in such domestic ventures as the Tennessee Valley Authority, but this was largely because private sector investors did not believe they could turn a sufficient profit on the projects themselves. The upshot was that the years between 1933 and 1937 proved to be the biggest cyclical boom in U.S. history. Real gross domestic product (GDP) grew at a 12 percent rate and nominal GDP grew at a 14 percent rate. But when the economy appeared to be back on its feet in 1937, Roosevelt was leaned on to cut back on public investment. The result was a surge in unemployment. The economic boom died and the economy slipped back into depression.

World War II reversed this cycle by re-opening the money spigots. “National security” trumped all, as Congress spent with reckless abandon to “preserve our way of life.” The all-out challenge of World War II allowed Congress to fund a flurry of industrial activity, as it ran up a tab on the national credit card that was 120% of GDP.

The government ran up the largest debt in its history. Yet the hyperinflation, currency devaluation, and economic collapse predicted by the deficit hawks did not occur. Rather, the machinery and infrastructure built during that booming period set the nation up to lead the world in productivity for the next half century. By the 1970s, the debt-to-GDP ratio had dropped from 120% to less than 40%, not because people sacrificed to pay back the debt, but because the economy was so productive that GDP rose to close the gap.

Stimulus Without War

World War II may have created jobs; but like all wars, it took a terrible toll. Economist John Maynard Keynes observed:

Pyramid-building, earthquakes, even wars may serve to increase wealth, if the education of our statesmen on the principles of the classical economics stands in the way of anything better. [Emphasis added.]

War was the economic stimulus of last resort when politicians were so confused in their understanding of economics that they would not allow the government to go into debt except for national emergencies. But Keynes said there are less destructive ways to get money into people’s pockets and stimulate the economy. Workers could be paid to dig ditches and fill them back up, and it would stimulate the economy. What a lagging economy needed was simply demand (available purchasing power). Demand would then stimulate businesses to produce more “supply”, creating more jobs and driving productivity. The key was that demand (money to spend) must come first.

The Chinese have put workers to work building massive malls and apartment buildings, many of which are standing empty for lack of customers and purchasers. It may be a wasteful use of resources, but it has succeeded in putting wages in workers’ pockets, giving them the purchasing power to spend on products and services, stimulating economic growth; and unlike wasteful war spending, the Chinese approach has not involved death and destruction.

A less costly alternative would be Milton Friedman’s hypothetical solution: simply drop money from helicopters. This has been linked to “quantitative easing” (QE), but QE as currently applied is not what Friedman described. The money has not been showered on the people and the local economy, putting money in people’s pockets, stimulating spending. It has been dropped into the reserve accounts of banks, where it has simply accumulated without reaching the productive economy. “Excess” reserves of $1.6 trillion are now sitting in reserve accounts at the Federal Reserve. A helicopter drop of the sort proposed by Friedman has not been tried.

A Better Solution

War, digging ditches, and dropping money from helicopters could all work to stimulate demand and increase purchasing power, but there are better alternatives. Today we have major unmet needs — infrastructure that is falling apart, overcrowded classrooms, energy systems waiting for development, research labs in need of funding. The most cost-effective solution today would be for the government to stimulate the economy by spending on work that actually improves the standard of living of the people.

This could be done while actually reducing the national debt. In a recent article, David Swanson cites a study by Robert Greenwald and Derrick Crowe, looking at the $60 billion lost by the Pentagon to waste and fraud in Iraq and Afghanistan. They calculated that this money could have created 193,000 more jobs than its military use created, if diverted to domestic commercial purposes. Swanson goes on:

There are some other calculations in the same study . . . . If we had spent that $60 billion on clean energy, we would have created (directly or indirectly) 330,000 more jobs. If we'd spent it on healthcare, we'd have created 480,000 more jobs. And if we'd spent it on education, we'd have created 1.05 million more jobs. . . .

Let's say we want to create 29 million jobs in 10 years. That's 2.9 million each year. Here's one way to do it. Take $100 billion from the Department of Defense and move it into education. That creates 1.75 million jobs per year. Take another $50 billion and move it into healthcare spending. There's an additional 400,000 jobs. Take another $100 billion and move it into clean energy. There's another 550,000 jobs. And take another $62 billion and turn it into tax cuts, generating an additional 200,000 jobs. Now the military spending in the Department of Energy, the State Department, Homeland Security, and so forth have not been touched. And the Department of Defense has been cut back to about $388 billion, which is to say: more than it was getting 10 years ago when our country went collectively insane.

Labor and resources are sitting idle while the bogeyman of “deficits” deprives the population of the goods and services they could create. Diverting a portion of our massive war spending to peaceful use could add jobs, improve living standards, and add infrastructure, while reducing the national debt and balancing the government’s budget by increasing the tax base and government revenues.

Prepared for “The Military Industrial Complex at 50”, a conference in Charlottesville, VA, September 16-18, 2011.

SOCOM Boss Discusses “training proxy native forces and the machinations of the infamous White House Murder INC,... to overthrow hostile governments...

2011-10-03T08:49:00.001-07:00

SOCOM Boss Discusses “training proxy native forces and the machinations of the infamous White House Murder INC,... to overthrow hostile governments...”...

[This is as close as we will ever come to hearing a military official admitting that Americans are just as guilty of operating "proxy forces" in the AfPak region as Pakistan is....and in various parts of the World, using the infamous White House Murder INC,... What you will never hear one admit is that the forces USA are training and the missions they are training them for are TERRORISM, plain and simple. The good old USA is the number one trainer and supporter of terrorist forces in the world today, using the most infamous White House Murder INC,... . And it is not just proxy terrorism that American Special Forces and CIA/MOSSAD/MI6/DGSE/BND... are guilty of, it is the "direct action" missions in targeted countries, which amount to bombings, extra-judicial assassinations and sabotage, intended to implicate the host governments and militaries in "false flag" attacks.... Terrorism is terrorism, even when it is the work of USA's ZOG own hands.]

Special operations forces who specialize in indirect action to stand up local security forces are achieving even more success in Afghanistan than Joint Special Operations Command’s kill-or-capture operations, according to the admiral who commanded JSOC until early summer.

Speaking to the House Armed Services Committee’s emerging threats and capabilities subcommittee, Adm. Bill McRaven, the new head of U.S. Special Operations Command, pledged to increase the resources of the regional special operations commands that focus primarily on indirect action.

“I believe that our future — SOCOM’s future — lies in the theater special operations forces and making sure that they are robust enough to handle the problems in their particular geographic areas,” he said Sept. 22.

The special ops community that McRaven now commands has long been divided between units that specialize in direct action, or “kinetic,” kill-or-capture missions and those that specialize in indirect action, such as unconventional warfare (training a proxy native force to overthrow a hostile government) and foreign internal defense (training friendly host-nation forces to combat an insurgency).

The largest force that specializes in indirect action, indeed, the largest single element in SOCOM, is the Army’s Special Forces, for whom direct action is just one of seven doctrinal missions.

The most elite direct action forces fall under the operational control of JSOC, headquartered at Fort Bragg, N.C.

They include 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment – Delta, or Delta Force, 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment and 75th Ranger Regiment (all Army units) and the Navy’s Naval Special Warfare Development Group, or DevGru (sometimes called SEAL Team 6).

Many observers say JSOC played a significant role in turning the Iraq war around in 2006 and 2007 through the command’s relentless pressure on al-Qaida in Iraq’s networks, which it attacked using a combination of 10 or more raids a night and an ability to rapidly use intelligence gained on those raids to drive more missions.

JSOC, which McRaven led until June 10, is now similarly engaged in Afghanistan, where the admiral said it had recently conducted 2,000 raids in a year.

“I would contend that the reason the special operations forces on the kinetic side have been so successful in Afghanistan is because of that fusion of … ops and intel,” McRaven said.

But although McRaven is steeped in the direct action/JSOC world — he’s a SEAL who commanded a DevGru squadron and was deputy commander and then the most recent commander of JSOC — his testimony highlighted the role played by Special Forces, who have pioneered the establishment of Afghan Local Police forces, a program previously referred to as village stability operations.

“Our greatest success in Afghanistan has come from the Special Forces officers and [noncommissioned officers] who have been on the ground trying to change the landscape, if you will, in terms of our relationships with the Afghans,” he said. “The village stability operations, developing the Afghan Local Police, this is the most promising effort we have in Afghanistan right now.

“Much like Iraq, we’re not going to be able to kill our way to victory in Afghanistan,” McRaven said. “We’ve always understood that. Every soldier understands that you can’t do that in a counterinsurgency, so the effort that we’re putting into supporting the VSO, I think, is going to be critical.

“The real question is how do we take that concept of fusing ops and intel and get it down to the ALP level, the village stability operations level, and ensure that those young SF officers and NCOs and SEALs that are out there doing this have got the same sort of situational awareness that we have on the kinetic side.”

However, giving those special operators conducting indirect action missions the same quality of intelligence that informs JSOC’s kinetic missions would be harder, he said. “It’s a different requirement,” he said. “The kinetic side, frankly, is a lot easier than understanding the human landscape out there in the districts and the provinces.”

To that end, McRaven said, language training for all SOF officers and NCOs is one of his top priorities.

”We’re continuing to invest a lot of money in language because … I don’t think you can become culturally aware of a society until you can understand their language,” he said. “We’re putting a lot of investment in it and I know that’s going to pay huge dividends for us in the future.”

McRaven also told the subcommittee that as special operations forces are withdrawn from Iraq and Afghanistan over the next five to 10 years, he plans to strengthen the theater special operations commands. The TSOCs are the two-star headquarters inside the geographic combatant commands like European Command and Central Command and are responsible for the command and control of non-JSOC special operations forces in that theater. For instance, the special operations task force helping the Philippine armed forces in their operations against Islamist insurgents falls under Pacific Command’s theater special operations command, called Special Operations Command, Pacific Command, or SOCPAC. (However, the creation of a separate one-star special operations headquarters in Afghanistan cut CENTCOM’s theater special operations command out of the command and control function in Afghanistan.)

“One of the areas where I intend to put a lot of emphasis is building up the theater special operations commands, so that they have the entire spectrum of capability that I think they’ll need for the future,” McRaven said. This process would require different assets depending on the region, he said.

For instance, he said that “in certain cases,” such as disaster relief, SOCPAC “absolutely could” make use of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities delivered by unmanned aerial vehicles. However, said McRaven, who commanded European Command’s TSOC, “I’m sure our ability to fly into European air space with unmanned aerial vehicles is probably a nonstarter.”

US Fears and utter corruption, criminality, Greed and more... Drive USA's inevitable Decline...

2011-09-20T06:52:00.001-07:00

US Fears and utter corruption, criminality, Greed and more... Drive USA's inevitable Decline...

"There is nothing to fear but fear itself" proclaimed FDR shortly after he assumed office. How right he was! We, American people, have been led to heightened fear since the barbaric inside Job of 9/11 and on that fear we allowed our imperial presidents, GWB and BO, to bring our country to far greater loss than occurred a decade ago. Not the first such inculcation of fear by our treacherous presidents! We were persuaded to fear Communists in our State Department, Cubans 90 miles off Florida, Guatemalan efforts at democracy at modest land reform, similar national movements in Iran, in Vietnam and in Chile. Each such fear has brought us many consequences, some to this day, in US casualties and lost treasure. Now in Afghanistan and Iraq. Meanwhile, our militarism and violations of international law have given other nations valid reason to fear us. China does not have warships in the Caribbean; none reported so far. But we have warships that steam in the South China Sea.

China has not had a history of expansionism far beyond border disputes. The US certainly has had such a history, especially since 1898. Yet, we fear the Chinese! What irony! The Chinese are beating us economically. They have no reason to engage us. If they have a hostile intention, they can just sit back and watch us destroying ourselves through our international warring and financial profligacy.

Maybe FDR's declaration needs to be updated to "We have nothing to fear but ourselves."

Innocent Victim of American Imperialism..., utter corruption of the ZOG and the infamous White House Murder INC.

Much-celebrated Nixon-Kissinger embrace of China to counter Soviet Union in 1972 has come back to haunt The United States.

Afterall China was a pariah country in the world just like today’s North Korea until Nixon’s 1972 visit. All the West European and East Asian countries stayed away from China following the US lead until 1972 and embraced China after Nixon’s visit. While US would not give MFN status to Soviet Union (remember Jackson-Vanik amendment?) unless Russia shed Communism, it had no problem giving it to China’s Communist dictators with a capitalist mask. Trade with China expanded by leaps and bounds during 12 years of Republican rule beginning in 1981. After campaigning against butchers of Beijing in 1992 elections, even Bill Clinton became enthusiastic supporter of trade with China once he took lessons in foreign policy from Nixon in early 1993 during a special Whitehouse-arranged meeting. US also promoted China to a super power status by accepting it as a permanent UNSC member.

Had it not been for that Nixon embrace in 1972, China’s rise to super power status would have been far more slower with all the US, West European and East Asian markets closed to cheap Chinese products. Had it not been for that Nixon embrace, China’s technological progress would have been far slower in the absence of West’s technology transfers. Had it not been for that Nixon embrace, China’s military progress would have been far slower in the absence of huge forex reserves that China accumulated from the massive exports of cheap Chinese products and China used those forex reserves to acquire latest military technology.

Now China has U. S. by the tail - U. S. businesses are hooked to huge profits that cheap Chinese products generate for them as a walk through any Wal-Mart, Sears, Home Depot and Macy’s filled with cheap Chinese goods prove and the U. S. government is hooked to huge investments that China makes in U. S. treasury bills from the sales of cheap Chinese products to U. S. businesses. It is a win-win for China and loose-loose for U. S. in this free trade. It has been said as a joke that if U. S. ever goes to war with China, U. S. would have to ask China to send boots for U. S. soldiers to go and fight against Chinese soldiers!

If capitalist U. S. had an upper hand against Communist Soviet Union in the first cold war, then creditor China has an upper hand against debtor U. S. in this second cold war.

Little could Mao or Deng have imagined that by wearing a capitalist mask, their followers will beat capitalists at their own game. Lenin used to say that ’capitalists will sell us the ropes with which we will hang them’. With West selling such proverbial ropes in the form of technology transfers, Chinese Communists have proven that Lenin saying quite prophetic....

What is haunting the utterly corrupt ZOG US....

That since 1972, indeed since 1964, the US has wasted American lives and resources on wars and imperial projections of power cannot be blamed on China. Back even further, China cannot be blamed for responding with force, after warnings to the US, to Douglas McArthur's march towards the Yalu River. What is haunting the US are decades of arrogant militarism by its leaders, imperial overstretch as recognized in the writing of Paul Kennedy and, later, by Chalmers Johnson.

Not only our arrogant militarism but our corrupted leaders' subservience to American corporations by entering into trade agreements that resulted in the dismantling of our basic industries and the attrition of the US middle-class. Instead of making our own consumer goods, we became the chief exporter of arms and allowed the Pentagon to fasten its grip on the US economy by becoming a principal supporter of communities and employment throughout our country. Martel cannot blame China for those choices.

At the same time, we became the foremost source of terrorism in the world, especially after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Before fall of the Berlin Wall, we had achieved milestones in terrorism in Central, South America, and Asia by toppling legitimate, elected governments and by supporting regimes that murdered their own peoples. The hatred and blow-back that now haunt us from those crimes by our government cannot be blamed on improvements in US-China relations.

With all his emphasis on China, Martel would have us forget that during the 1960s, before Nixon, we were already importing large numbers of Volkswagens, Datsuns, Hondas, Volvos and Renaults, because US capitalists refused to innovate to meet not only changing domestic demand but the demands of the export market. American manufacturers were just as arrogant as the US foreign policy establishment.

Martel refers to "the butchers in Beijing". Does he doubt that our leaders in Washington are butchers to families in Afghanistan and Iraq?

Does Martel think that it is China's fault that the US makes wars on borrowed money? Is China less trapped by its vaults filled with US Treasury notes and bonds than the US is on made in China goods? Borrow a few dollars, and your lender has the upper hand. Borrow hundreds of billions of dollars and you dominate your lender. I think China is doing what it can to free itself of its dollar dependence. Are we withdrawing from our costly global bases and military commitments in favor of rebuilding our domestic economy and reducing our borrowing from China?

With the economies of western Europe and the US threatened by sovereign debt defaults in the PIGS, I don't think the Chinese (or anyone else) would proudly wear a capitalist mask, these days. Capitalism ultimately means the corruption of governments for the benefit of corporate interests; it means the withering of civil liberties and the wedding of corporations and government. It is called corporatism, a precursor to fascism....

Suppose the US gave a war, and the other side chose not to come. On August 1, 2011, the 84th anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army, China's Defense Minister said that China's military strategy was peace and prosperity. On September 6, 2011, China's Foreign Ministry released a White Paper that proclaimed that "peaceful development is China's strategic choice to realize modernization, make itself strong and prosperous, and make more contributions to the progress of human civilization." To win a war is competence; to win a war without fighting that war is genius. China has chosen to grow and prosper, and the US has chosen to commit suicide. The US blows up its computers, cell phones, digital cameras, and fertilizer, the basic components of smart munitions. The US destroys its ground and air vehicles. The US burns billions of gallons of its gasoline, aviation fuel, and diesel fuel. China sells their products for profit and uses their fuels to move passengers and cargo for profit. The US has chosen to destroy itself for decades with war while China has chosen to grow peacefully. The US is bankrupt, and China is rich. This is not China's fault; the stupid Americans have chosen suicide for themselves. The US is China's 2nd biggest trading partner in the world, after the EU, and China wants America to succeed, if only to collect repayment of US debts to China. China is the world's most responsible stakeholder, and the US is following insane, paranoid policies that will leave the US completely broken. When the US "bottoms out" like a drug addict, perhaps the US will recover from its addiction to the drugs, war and power.

See:

http://www.raceforiran.com/americas-quixotic-quest-for-hegemony-in-the-middle-east

Earlier this week, Flynt spoke at a New America Foundation event, “Beyond Primacy Rethinking American Grand Strategy and the Command of the Commons,” which can be watched by clicking on the video embedded above.

Flynt responded to a paper presented by two MIT doctoral students proposing a new American military posture. Flynt’s remarks focus on the foreign policy context for defense policy decisions; he argues that until the United States abandons its quixotic and counterproductive pursuit of hegemony in place like the Middle East, it will not be possible for Washington to take rational decisions about America’s military posture and defense policy.

For those who want to go directly to Flynt’s remarks, fast forward to around the 30.33 mark on the video....

AL-QAEDA ARE CIA MERCENARIES, LINKED TO DRUGS AND HEROIN TRADE GLOBALLY...

2011-09-08T07:47:00.000-07:00

Robin Cook, who died rather suddenly....

Al Qaeda are mercenaries, linked to the drugs trade.

Robin Cook was the UK government minister in charge of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, MI6.

Robin Cook revealed that 'al Qaeda' was 'a list of people working for the CIA'.

What happened to Robin Cook?

Robin Cook's affair with a young lady was splashed across the newspaper front pages.

Robin Cook then died rather suddenly....

http://www.salon.com/news/politics/barack_obama/?story=/opinion/greenwald/2011/09/01/obama

Al Qaeda-linked Abdulhakim Belhaj, aka Abdel- Hakim al-Hasidi, who has been put into power in Libya by NATO

On 7 September 2011, French academic Thierry Meyssan tells us more about Al Qaeda, and their use by the CIA in Libya and elsewhere. (www.voltairenet.org/a171328)

We paraphrase and summarise Meyssan's report, using our own words.

According to Meyssan:

1. Al Qaeda is a bunch of mercenaries used by the USA to fight in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Chechnya, Kosovo, Iraq, and now Libya, Syria and Yemen.

2. The boss of Al Qaeda in Libya, Abdel Hakim Belhadj, is now the military boss in Tripoli and is now in charge of organizing Libya's army.

3. In the 1980s, the CIA began recruiting mercenaries in Libya.

These mercenaries were trained in Pakistan by the billionaire Osama bin Laden.

4. In 1994, Osama bin Laden sent his Libyan mercenaries to kill Gaddafi.

5. On 1995, Osama's Libyan mercenaries were given the name Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG).

6. According to former UK spy David Shayler, Osama's LIFG was funded by the UK spy service MI6.

Panetta's family reportedly come from a town in Italy linked to organised crime.

7. Osama's Libyans moved to Afghanistan.

8. People linked to Osama's Libyan LIFG continue to operate on UK territory under MI6 protection.

9. On 6 March 2004, the LIFG leader Abdel Hakim Belhadj, who had fought alongside Osama bin Laden, was arrested in Malaysia.

Reportedly he was handed over to Gaddafi's Libya.

10. In 2005, Western spooks organised a meeting of anti-Gaddafi Libyans in London.

These included the Muslim Brotherhood and Osama's LIFG.

11. In 2005, a Libyan called Abu al-Laith al-Liby was able to 'escape' from the maximum security prison in Bagram (Afghanistan) and became one of the leaders of al-Qaeda.

Large numbers of Osama's Libyan LIFG fought in Iraq.

12. In 2007, Ayman al-Zawahiri and Abu al-Laith al-Liby announced that LIFG was part of Al-Qaeda.

Abu al-Laith al-Liby became Al-Qaeda’s No 2 man.

Prince Bandar Bin Sultan with Bush.

13. In 2008-2010 Gaddafi's Libya negotiated a truce with the LIFG. All members of Al-Qaeda were pardoned and released on condition they renounced violence.

14. Abdel Hakim Belhadj moved to Qatar.

15. In early 2011, Saudi Arabia's Prince Bandar Bin Sultan made a series of trips with the aim of revitalizing al Qaeda.

16. Recruitment offices were opened in Malaysia.

In Mazar-i-Sharif, more than 1,500 Afghans signed up for al Qaeda work in Libya, Syria and Yemen.

Reportedly, the Hebrew speaking Mohamed Atta flew drugs out of Venice, Florida, for the CIA.

17. On 17 February 2011, the "National Libyan Opposition Conference" organized a "day of anger" in Benghazi, which sparked the beginning of the recent war against Gaddafi.

On 23 February, LIFG's Imam Abdelkarim al-Hasadi proclaimed the creation of an Islamic Emirate in Derna, the most fundamentalist city in Libya.

The burqa was made mandatory and corporal punishment reinstated. Emir al-Hasidi has his own army.

18. All across "liberated" Cyrenaica, Al-Qaeda men have gone in for massacre and torture; they have specialized in slitting the throats of Gaddafi sympathizers, eye-plucking and cutting off the breasts of immodest women.

The following people have reportedly been:

(A) CIA assets

(B) involved in the drugs trade:

1. Osama bin Laden

2. David Headley, planner of the 2008 Mumbai attacks

3. Dawood Ibrahim, drug lord

4. Pakistan's president Zia ul Haq

5. Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, drug lord from Afghanistan

6. Monzer al Kassar, drug lord linked to Lockerbie.

How might the CIA be financing al Qaeda?

By involvement with drugs gangs?

At the time of Iran-Contra, Monzer al Kassar reportedly helped the CIA smuggle drugs out of Lebanon. (LOCKERBIE AND THE FINANCING OF 9 11)

In Pakistan the CIA worked with President Zia-ul-Haq, who "was running the drug trade."

In Afghanistan the CIA worked with Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, who was the top figure running the drug trade. (The Imperial Anatomy of Al-Qaeda. The CIA's Drug-Running ...)

Bin Laden, according to an official source, used profits from the drug trade to finance al Qaeda. (Los Angeles Times, September/15/01)

According to the New York Times, on 12/10/01, al-Qaeda's mujahedin worked with the US in Bosnia.

"Militants linked to Al Qaeda ... established connections with Bosnian organized crime figures.

"Officials said Al Qaeda ... found a route for the trafficking of heroin from Afghanistan into Europe through the Balkans."

Thus, the CIA knew that al-Qaeda was involved in heroin-trafficking. (Al-Qaeda, the Taliban, the Northern Alliance, and Drug-Trafficking)

David Headley worked for the US Drug Enforcement Administration.

The "close institutional relationship between the DEA and the CIA continues up to the present day". (Alfred W. McCoy)

According to Daniel Hopsicker: Barry Seal "told investigators that between March 1984, and August 1985, he made a quarter-million dollars smuggling up to 15,000 kilos of cocaine while working for the DEA." (Barry Seal)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gI_9aVJTUmk&feature=player_embedded

On 11 February 2010, Forbes reported

1. Al Qaeda (CIA) in North Africa ... "appears to be involved in the trafficking of Latin American cocaine through Africa to Spain".

2. Michael Braun, chief of operations at the DEA until 2008, says "There is more clear evidence showing al Qaeda's (CIA's) growing involvement in the Afghan heroin trade on the Pakistan side of the border."

3. Dawood Ibrahim runs a 5,000 member gang involved in narcotics and operates mostly from Pakistan, India and the United Arab Emirates.

According to the US government, Ibrahim shares smuggling routes with al Qaeda (CIA) and has worked with both al Qaeda and its affiliate, Lashkar-e-Taiba.

Lashkar has been blamed for carrying out the 2008 Mumbai attacks, possibly with Ibrahim's help.

4. According to a federal indictment, in 2006 a Pakistani financier for Lashkar-e-Taiba handed David Headley of Chicago $25,000 to conduct video surveillance in India in preparation for the Mumbai attack.

"Arif Qasmani, a chief Lashkar coordinator who has raised funds from crime boss Ibrahim, has been providing al Qaeda with supplies and weapons.

"In return al Qaeda loaned to Lashkar operatives who helped carry out the 2006 train bombings in Mumbai."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WcuYafh1ek&feature=player_embedded

"The CIA created a unit in Haiti, whose purported purpose was anti-drug activity, but was in reality 'used as an instrument of political terror', and was heavily involved in drug trafficking.

"The members of the unit were known to torture Aristide supporters... According to one U.S. official, the unit was trafficking drugs and never produced any useful drug intelligence" [11]
(CIA drug trafficking - Wikipedia)

According to Peter Dale Scott, Mexico's intelligence agency, the Dirección Federal de Seguridad, was in part a CIA creation.

DFS badges, "handed out to top-level Mexican drug-traffickers, have been labelled by DEA agents a virtual 'license to traffic.'"[7]

Scott says that "The Guadalajara Cartel, Mexico's most powerful drug-trafficking network in the early 1980s, prospered largely because it enjoyed the protection of the DFS, under its chief Miguel Nassar (or Nazar) Haro, a CIA asset."[7] (CIA drug trafficking - Wikipedia)

About Siderno, from where Panetta is hailing:

"The town is home to the 'Ndrangheta, a Mafia-type criminal organization based in Calabria. Several powerful criminal clans originate from the town. Siderno was the fiefdom of Antonio Macrì, the undisputed local boss until his demise in January 1975. Several of the criminal clans are sometimes involved in bloody feuds. The town is home to one of the 'Ndrangheta's biggest and most important clans, the Commisso 'ndrina, heavily involved in the global cocaine business and money laundering.

Several clans moved to Canada, in particular the Greater Toronto Area, home to what Canadian law enforcement call the Siderno Group, which has been here since at least the 1950s. "The criminal minds of Siderno are in Canada", according to the Siderno police force. One of them, Antonio Commisso, was arrested in June 2005."

Panetta's family tree:

http://www.politicalfamilytree.com/samples%20content/members/all_others/Panetta-CA-1.pdf

Spinning Iran's centrifuges, Iran's LEU is under the surveillance of the IAEA - and has been for decades.

2011-08-15T06:56:00.000-07:00

Spinning Iran's centrifuges, Iran's LEU is under the surveillance of the IAEA - and has been for decades.

By Yousaf Butt

Consider yourself warned - "[I]n the next few years Iran will be in position to detonate a nuclear device," so writes Ray Takeyh, confidently, in a recent Washington Post OpEd [1]. Why? Because the Iranian government willingly informed the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that it would begin installing additional centrifuges with higher capacity to enrich uranium. [2]

Just like fertilizer can be used to increase crop yields - or make bombs - uranium is a dual use material.

Uranium enrichment has been conflated with nuclear weaponization so often that it has morphed into a virtual bogeyman bomb itself - an absolutely impermissible activity for the likes of Iran to pursue. This was not always the case. In irony

that only history can muster, Iran's nuclear program was kicked off in the 1950s with the full encouragement and support of the United States, under the auspices of president Dwight D Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace program. [3]

In 1970, the US proposed installing 23 nuclear power plants in Iran by the year 2000. A 1976 directive by then-president Gerald Ford offered Iran a US-built reprocessing facility for extracting plutonium from nuclear reactor fuel, another key ingredient for making nuclear bombs. [4] This "nuclear fuel-cycle" infrastructure is precisely the type of technology the US is now keen to keep out of Iran.

While it would be nice if Iran stopped enriching uranium, does the international community have any right to insist on that? Unfortunately, none of treaties and legal agreements that Iran is party to have changed since the time of the shah: what was legal then is legal now. [5]

Iran is a signatory of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and, as such, is entitled to enrich uranium under IAEA safeguards, which it does. Argentina, Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Japan, the Netherlands, Pakistan, Russia, the United Kingdom and the US all enrich uranium without any fuss.

In Brazil's case, there actually ought to be some fuss: their leaders have publicly expressed great interest in nuclear weapons [6] and have - unlike Iran - restricted IAEA inspectors from full access to their main uranium enrichment facility. [6]

Uranium enrichment is useful for generating the fuel for nuclear power plants, and for making radioisotopes for medical and agricultural uses - and, yes, for nuclear weapons as well. Asking how many years Iran is from making a bomb only makes sense if we know - or suspect that - Iran has a nuclear weapons development program.

But earlier this year, the US Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper released a new National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on the Iranian nuclear program that could settle this question. [7]

This document represents the consensus view of 16 US intelligence agencies. Although the content of the new NIE is classified, Clapper confirmed in senate questioning that he has a "high level of confidence" that Iran "has not made a decision as of this point to restart its nuclear weapons program". [8]

This jibes with the Intelligence community's 2007 NIE, the unclassified version of which publicly stated that Iran wrapped up its nuclear weapons program in 2003. Recent State Department cables provided by WikiLeaks back this up - for instance State Department officials confirmed that some rehashed IAEA reports of suspicious Iranian activities in 2004 were "consistent with the 2003 weaponization halt assessment, since some activities were wrapping up in 2004". [9]

To be clear, what the NIE and the State Department cables refer to as Iran's "nuclear weapons program" (or "weaponization") pre-2003 was some possible - but disputed - evidence of research by Iranian scientists having to do building and potentially delivering a bomb, not a full-blown actual bomb factory.

Mohamed ElBaradei, the Nobel Peace Prize recipient who spent more than a decade as the director of the IAEA, recently told investigative journalist Seymour Hersh that he had not "seen a shred of evidence that Iran has been weaponizing, in terms of building nuclear-weapons facilities and using enriched materials ... I don't believe Iran is a clear and present danger. All I see is the hype about the threat posed by Iran." [10]

Indeed, every year, the IAEA has confirmed that Iran has complied with its nuclear materials' accountancy. There has never been any diversion of nuclear material into any alleged weapons program. Ever.

So, unless Iran starts a real nuclear weapons program it will never make the bomb - no matter how much enrichment takes place.

The only "evidence" of Iran's nuclear weapons program is its refusal to grant the IAEA completely unfettered access to whatever facilities the IAEA would like to inspect. But since the Iranian government has not ratified the "Additional Protocol" agreement it has no obligation to open every door to the IAEA.

Pretty much everything the US and its allies have done with regards to Iran's nuclear program has been counter-productive: the sanctions have improved Iran's domestic scientific capabilities. [11]

The assassination of Iranian scientists has led to one of the victims-to-be - Professor Fereydoun Abbasi-Davani - to be named head of the Iran's Atomic Energy Organization and therefore, automatically, one of the vice-presidents of the country. [12] And cyber-warfare, like the STUXNET virus suspected to be the work of US and Israel, [13] has not made a significant dent in Iran's enrichment capabilities: to the contrary, the Iranians have reportedly begun deploying second- and third-generation centrifuges which may boost their enrichment capability three-fold. [14]

So what to do?

Call off the cyber-warfare. Call off the assassinations. Call off the sanctions.

Not only are United Nations sanctions counterproductive, they are not even legal. The UN charter clearly outlines the conditions needed to kick off such sanctions - only after a determination of "the existence of any threat to the peace, breach of the peace, or act of aggression" is found, something that has never been done.

Far from marching towards making a nuclear bomb, Iran has repeatedly offered to place additional restrictions on its nuclear program well in excess of its legal obligations, including opening the program entirely to joint US participation and limiting the number of centrifuges they operate. More recently they agreed to a Turkish-Brazilian brokered deal to export their enriched uranium for fabrication into reactor fuel abroad. In each case, the US deliberately undermined or ignored these offers.

The underhanded way in which the US and its allies are misusing the IAEA to issue trumped up reports about Iran's alleged - and it should be stressed many years' past - "intransigence" over possible military activities threatens the very legitimacy of that agency.

The 118 nations that make up the non-aligned movement (NAM) - ie the real "international community" - have raised howls (or, at least, what passes for "howls" in diplomatic circles) about how politicized the agency has become lately [15].

In a statement read during an IAEA board of governors meeting, representatives of the NAM nations noted "with concern, the possible implications of the continued departure from standard verification language in the summary of the report of the director general [Yukio Amano]". [16]

As it turns out, Amano himself comes with some baggage attached. Leaked cables cast him as "solidly in the US court" on Iran. [17]. To save the legitimacy of the IAEA, Amano should give serious thought to gracefully resigning his post.

Surely, Iran should be stopped - but only when it does things that are illegal. A lot of dust has been kicked up recently because Iran has expressed interest in enriching uranium to 19.75% as fuel for the Tehran Research Reactor so that it can produce medical isotopes. (Normally, reactors used for generating nuclear power use uranium of 3.5% enrichment.) But anything less than 20% is considered low-enriched uranium (LEU) by the IAEA - not highly enriched uranium (HEU) as some have reported.

And in fact there is nothing in the law stopping Iran from enriching uranium to any level it pleases, so long as it does so under IAEA safeguards.

The most objective reading of Iran's intentions is that it may be stockpiling enough LEU to give itself a "break-out" option to weaponize in the future - unfortunately for the US and its allies, there is nothing illegal about that. The fault lies with NPT that allows such behavior - not with Iran. The US may as well insist that Iran also not produce fertilizer since that, too, can be used in bombs.

Iran could certainly take its stock of LEU and enrich it to a grade required for making bombs, but its LEU is under the surveillance of the IAEA - and has been for decades.

Diverting this material for military purposes would be discovered by the IAEA. So either Iran could cheat and get caught, or it could kick out the IAEA inspectors. [18] These, then, should be the real "red-lines" for taking any tougher actions on Iran.

Notes
1. The march toward a nuclear Iran Washington Post, August 4.
2. See here - subscription required.
3. See America's on-again/off-again love affair with Iran's nuclear program. Race for Iran, June 8, 2011.
4. Past Arguments Don't Square With Current Iran Policy Washington Post, March 27, 2005.
5. See America's on-again/off-again love affair with Iran's nuclear program. Race for Iran, June 8, 2011.
5. Jose Alencar, Brazil VP, Says Country Should Build Nuclear Arms Huffington Post. September 25, 2009.
6. Brazil's Nuclear Ambitions, Past and Present NTI, September 2006.
7. See here.
8. See here.
9. See here
10. How real is the nuclear threat? By Seymour M Hersh.
11. The march toward a nuclear Iran Washington Post, August 4, 2011.
12. Mossad behind string of assassinations in Iran Froeign Policy, August 2, 2011.
13. Israeli Test on Worm Called Crucial in Iran Nuclear Delay New York Times, January 15, 2011.
14. Iran Claims Progress Speeding Nuclear Program Wall Street Journal, August 4, 2011.
15. The IAEA and Syria: A New Paradigm for Noncompliance? Carnegie Endowment, June 17, 2011.
16. Non-Aligned Movement backs Iran Asia Times Online, September 17, 2010.
17. WikiLeaks cable portrays IAEA chief as 'in US court' on Iran nuclear program Christian Science Monitor, December 2, 2010.
18. How to Deal with Iran The New York review of Books, February 12, 2009.

Yousaf Butt is a nuclear physicist and is currently serving as a scientific consultant to the Federation of American Scientists on global security issues. Previously, he was a fellow on the Committee on International Security and Arms Control at the US National Academy of Sciences, and on the Global Security Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists.

What you see and hear on the news about Libya and Syria are Hollywood-produced CIA/MOSSAD/MI6/BND/DGSE/SIMI/CSIS illusions.....

2011-06-16T06:58:00.000-07:00

What you see and hear on the news about Libya and Syria are Hollywood-produced CIA/MOSSAD/MI6/BND/DGSE/SIMI/CSIS illusions.....

June , 2011 -- Obomba and his CIA handlers follow "Wag the Dog" script, even down to the rape scenes....

In the 1999 flick "Wag the Dog," White House aides try to build up anger against Albania by showing a phony Albanian young woman, played by Kirsten Dunst, trying to escaping rape at the hands of Albanian troops. The "rape" was faked and filmed in a studio, complete with a blue screen. The intent of the phony rape was to divert the public's attention away from a presidential sex scandal and build up support for military action against Albania.

Fast forward to today and we see such "made in Hollywood" tactics being played out in Libya. On March 26, Eman al-Obeidy, said to be a Libyan law student and an aspirant journalist originally from Tobruk in rebel-held eastern Libya, entered the Rixos Hotel, the headquarters for the international media and claimed she was gang raped and kidnapped by Colonel Muammar Qaddafi's military forces at a security checkpoint in Tripoli.

Al-Obeidy was bruised and scratched and said she entered the hotel by passing herself off as a member of the hotel staff. She claimed that the Libyan security forces recognized her accent from eastern Libya and then proceeded to rape her. Al-Obeidy, like the Kirsten Dunst character in "Wag the Dog," became an instant media celebrity. For the anti-Qaddafi journalists nested at the Rixos, including those from The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, CNN, Reuters, and the Associated Press, Al-Obeidy immediately became a cause célèbre with her tale of rape and being held in subhuman conditions by her assailants, who had the help of black African "mercenaries." The black "mercenary tale would soon be debunked and Al-Obeidy's rape story also began to lose credibility.

Libyan government officials opened a criminal case against Al-Obeidy's accused attackers and Saadi Qaddafi, the son of the Libyan leader, met with her after she was released from detention in Tripoli. Al-Obeidy was permitted to conduct interviews with the CNN's celebrity in-breed Anderson Cooper and National Public Radio, among others. Al-Obeidy was permitted to air her grievances against the Libyan government and parrot Libyan rebel propaganda talking points from Tripoli. Eventually, Al-Obeidy ended up in Tunisia, after she said she was spirited out of Tripoli disguised as a Berber with the help of a defecting Libyan army officer. Somehow, Al-Obeidy managed to evade detection by over 50 security checkpoints on the coastal highway from Tripoli to the Tunisian border and enter Tunisia without any difficulties. This reporter, even with a Libyan visa and a Libyan diplomatic escort, was held up for at least one hour while crossing back into Tunisia from Libya. The delays were prompted by the border bureaucracies of both Libyan and Tunisian immigration and customs officials.

On May 5. Al-Obeidy was in Tunis, courtesy of French diplomats who met her at the border, and by May 11, she was in Doha, Qatar, courtesy of the Libyan rebel Transitional National Council. It was apparent that Al-Obeidy's propaganda value for the rebels and the West still had some currency because she was in the same city where Al-Jazeera has its broadcast headquarters. However, something went wrong in Qatar, an ally of the Libyan rebel movement and the NATO military offensive against Libya. Al-Obeidy was suddenly deported by Qatar. Al-Obeidy resorted to the same histrionics she employed against Qaddafi's government: she claimed she was beaten by Qatari authorities, although she withheld rape charges in Qatar's case. The Qatar press denied Al-Obeidy's charges that she was beaten in Doha. The Libyan authorities claimed that Al-Obeidy had a history of mental illness and the events in Qatar lend credence to Tripoli's contention about Al-Obeidy's truthfulness.

We learned in Tripoli that Qatari officials were not satisfied with Al-Obeidy's story or that proffered by her rebel movement handlers. The Qataris deported Al-Obeidy back to Benghazi, however, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton intervened and sent a U.S. government aircraft to Europe to fly her to political asylum in the United States. The United States arranged for Al-Obeidy to travel to Malta and on to Vienna where she was picked up by State Department officials. CNN, which through its MI-6 intelligence-linked reporter Nic Robertson, followed Al-Obeidy's case with a priority zeal, reporting that after being deported from Qatar she ended up, via Italy, in a refugee camp in Timisoara, Romania, which, of course, is getting the scene for the drama closer to Albania, the manufactured antagonist in "Wag the Dog."

Just a few weeks after the Al-Obeidy debacle, the puff piece-entranced Western media found a new heroine in the Middle East. Amina Abdullah Araf al-Omari said she was a Syrian-American lesbian woman blogging from Syria. It was later reported that Amina had been kidnapped by Syrian security forces and was being held incommunicado. It was later revealed that Amina was, in reality, Tom MacMaster, a 40-year old PhD student at Edinburgh University in Scotland. "Amina" had posted "her" anti-Syrian government diatribes on the lesbian website LezGetReal run by executive Paula Brooks. But less than 24-hours after "Amina" was exposed as MacMaster, Brooks, who billed herself as a lesbian woman with three children living in the Washington DC area, was, in fact, Bill Graber, a 58-year old man from Ohio...

Cass Sunstein, President Obama's "information czar," is on the record favoring the use of Wikileaks/CIA/MOSSAD and websites to spread disinformation and propaganda. In the case of Libya and Syria, Sunstein's policies appear to be fully underway. It is also noteworthy to point out that General Keith Alexander, the director of the National Security Agency, who is also the commander of the U.S. Cyber-Command, which is tasked with carrying out offensive information warfare operations on the Internet, was an attendee at the recent Bilderberg meeting in St. Moritz, Switzerland. High on the agenda of the secretive and elite group was how to salvage what is becoming a quagmire in Libya. It is certain that Alexander offered up some enticing high-tech tricks to the gathering of the cabal that actually runs the despicable side of the world....

Hundreds of Tribes with Flags to be born, courtesy of CIA/MOSSAD/DGSE/MI6/BND Shenanigans...

2011-06-06T05:26:00.000-07:00

Hundreds of Tribes with Flags to be born, courtesy of CIA/MOSSAD/DGSE/MI6/BND Shenanigans...

Par Pierre Hillard, docteur en science politique^[1] et essayiste français.

Frémissant fin 2010 et désormais bouillonnant depuis 2011, le monde musulman connaît des bouleversements qui ont pris de court les diplomaties de tous les continents. Des manifestations de masse secouent les structures politiques héritées de la Seconde guerre mondiale ou de la décolonisation. Sur fond de pauvreté et de corruption généralisées, les foules sunnites et chiites exigent un changement radical. La démocratie, des élections libres, une plus grande liberté des médias et autres éléments propres à l’épanouissement de l’homme doivent désormais régir les structures politiques musulmanes.

Ces revendications ne peuvent que satisfaire les dirigeants et les opinions publiques des nations européennes et américaines. Cependant, cette présentation idyllique se doit d’être vue sous l’angle de la réalité politique. En effet, « la comédie humaine », chère aux romans d’Honoré de Balzac, nous a appris que les grands événements sont toujours le fruit des actions d’une élite. Les masses ont toujours été utilisées comme instrument en faveur d’une politique bien définie. « Agitez le peuple avant de s’en servir » comme se plaisait à le rappeler le diplomate Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand qui, en ce domaine, s’y entendait.

L’architecture générale du nouvel ordre mondial en préparation

Pour mieux comprendre les bouleversements en cours dans les pays musulmans, nous devons aller du général au particulier. En effet, la trame de fond à l’origine de tous ces événements réside dans le développement du nouvel ordre mondial qui est plus qu’une idéologie ; c’est une mystique. Il s’agit de favoriser partout l’émergence de blocs continentaux européen, africain, Nord-américain ou Sud-américain politiquement unifiés et régis par des lois communes. L’ensemble de ces blocs doit constituer l’architecture générale d’une gouvernance mondiale réunissant une humanité indifférenciée et nomade. Cette politique prend déjà forme avec la création d’une assemblée parlementaire mondiale au sein des Nations Unies (APNU : Assemblée Parlementaire des Nations Unies)[1] sous la direction de l’Allemand Andréas Bummel[2].

Une monnaie mondiale doit structurer l’ensemble. Le FMI a déjà annoncé la couleur en avril 2010 en plaidant en faveur d’une monnaie planétaire (le Bancor) régie par une banque centrale mondiale (Reserve accumulation and International Monetary Stability)[3]. Ceci implique l’abandon du dollar et une réforme complète du système financier mondial. Cependant, cette construction babélienne ne peut s’élever qu’à la condition d’imposer une uniformisation des esprits. Une unité de pensée, des réflexes psychologiques communs, un esprit consumériste et un hédonisme effréné doivent codifier les ressorts profonds de l’âme humaine. Or, dans cette affaire, l’Islam ne rentre pas dans cette configuration.

Cette opposition est renforcée par une caractéristique fondamentale de l’Islam par rapport au monde occidental. En effet, les pays issus du résidu de civilisation chrétienne reposent sur la distinction entre le temporel et le spirituel. En revanche, la religion musulmane n’obéit pas à cette caractéristique en fusionnant le temporel et le spirituel. L’Islam est en même temps une foi et une loi. C’est pour cette raison que la société civile, par exemple, n’a jamais pu naître en terre d’Islam. Cette présentation factuelle est indispensable à retenir car elle permet de comprendre que ces deux mondes sont sur des parallèles civilisationnelles.

Au lendemain de la chute du mur de Berlin, les élites anglo-saxonnes ont accéléré le rythme en permettant l’édification d’une Union européenne assujettie à leurs intérêts[4] en coopération avec l’Allemagne[5]. Cette Union européenne doit, théoriquement pour 2015, constituer un partenariat transatlantique complet[6] avec le Nouveau monde qui lui-même est appelé à s’unifier dans le cadre d’une Union nord-américaine[7] selon les vœux du Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)[8]. Cependant, face à la montée en puissance du monde asiatique, en priorité chinois, Londres et Washington veulent s’assurer le contrôle complet des hydrocarbures en provenance des pays Sud-méditerranéens et du Proche-Orient. L’indépendance acquise du Sud-Soudan avec le soutien intéressé des Anglo-Saxons s’explique en raison de riches réserves pétrolières qui, désormais, échappent à Pékin. Cette politique en direction de l’Afrique du Nord et du Proche-Orient fut appuyée dès 1995 par l’Union européenne qui lança le « Processus de Barcelone »[9]. L’objectif officiel était : 1) la définition d’un espace commun de paix et de stabilité ; 2) la construction d’une zone de prospérité partagée avec l’instauration progressive d’une zone de libre-échange ; enfin 3) le rapprochement entre les peuples.

En raison de résultats peu probants, la Commission européenne passa à la vitesse supérieure en 2003 en lançant la « Politique européenne de voisinage » (PEV)[10]. Cette dernière consiste à imposer aux pays du pourtour Sud-méditerranéens le modèle euro-atlantiste en leur présentant toute une série de normes à intégrer : l’économie de marché, le respect des droits de l’homme ou encore l’Etat de droit. Dans l’esprit des concepteurs européistes, des normes communes doivent gérer tous les pays de part et d’autre de la Méditerranée. Une intégration complète doit conduire à l’union d’un Occident « civilisé » à celui d’un Orient « compliqué ». En fait, en filigrane, ce qui nous est proposé, c’est la tentative de restauration de l’Empire romain soudée à une excroissance géographique Nord-américaine. En matière d’intégration, les textes de la PEV sont très clairs. Ils stipulent : « Le concept qui se trouve ancré dans la politique européenne de voisinage est celui d’un cercle de pays partageant les valeurs et objectifs fondamentaux de l’UE et s’engageant dans une relation de plus en plus étroite allant au-delà de la coopération, c’est-à-dire impliquant un niveau d’intégration économique et politique important »[11].

En raison de cette dynamique, il fut décidé en 2007 la création d’une Union pour la Méditerranée sous l’impulsion du président Sarkozy. L’objectif officiel était de renforcer et d’accélérer le processus d’intégration des deux rives de la Méditerranée. Cependant, le projet fut fondamentalement remanié sous la pression de la chancelière Merkel appuyée par la Fondation Bertelsmann[12]. En effet, en raison du poids croissant de l’Allemagne en Europe centrale et orientale, les autorités françaises ont cherché à contrebalancer cette tendance en créant une forme de Mitteleuropa Sud-méditerranéenne sous la seule influence de la France. Dans la première mouture d’Union pour la Méditerranée, seuls les pays riverains étaient intégrés au club. Flairant une politique de création de zone d’influence contraire à ses intérêts, Berlin exigea et obtint que tous les pays de l’UE participent à cette Union pour la Méditerranée. Comme le précisa clairement la chancelière : « Si par exemple, nous construisons une Union pour la Méditerranée qui verrait uniquement la participation des Etats riverains de la Méditerranée disposant des instruments financiers de l’Union européenne, je le dis tout net ; d’autres diront : nous devons mettre sur pied une Union de l’Europe de l’Est avec par exemple, l’Ukraine (…).

Alors, il se passera quelque chose que je tiens pour très dangereux. Il se pourrait que l’Allemagne se sente plus concernée de son côté par les pays d’Europe centrale et orientale tandis que la France, elle, se tourne du côté de la Méditerranée. Cela réveillerait des tensions à l’intérieur que je ne veux pas. C’est pourquoi, il faut être clair : la responsabilité à l’égard de la Méditerranée est aussi l’affaire d’un Européen du Nord au même titre que l’avenir des frontières de la Russie et de l’Ukraine est l’affaire de ceux originaires de la Méditerranée. Si nous n’arrivons pas à arrêter ce mouvement, alors l’Union européenne à mon sens retournerait à son stade primitif (…) »[13]. Le président Sarkozy s’inclina permettant à l’Allemagne, principal contributeur financier européen, de faire d’une pierre deux coups : maintien de son influence en l’Europe de l’Est tout en étendant et renforçant ses liens vers le Sud de la Méditerranée. Désormais baptisé « Processus de Barcelone : Union pour la Méditerranée », cette victoire allemande fut le 1870 de la diplomatie française.

La destruction programmée

En fait, le lancement officiel de la politique de déstructuration étatique et civilisationnelle des pays musulmans du Maroc à l’Afghanistan peut être daté au 7 février 2004. En effet, lors de la 40è Conférence de Munich sur la politique de sécurité sous l’égide de l’OTAN[14], Joschka Fischer, ministre des Affaires étrangères du chancelier Schröder, présenta un véritable programme politique à appliquer aux pays musulmans de concert avec les Etats-Unis. Porte-parole des travaux de différents think tanks américains (Rand, Canergie Endowment, National Endowment for Democracy, …)[15] ou allemands (la Fondation Bertelsmann, …)[16], Joschka Fischer rappela la nécessité d’une « stratégie commune » euro-américaine en deux points : 1) le lancement d’un processus méditerranéen commun de l’OTAN et de l’Union européenne ; 2) une « Déclaration pour un avenir commun » pour tous les pays du Proche et Moyen-Orient. Outre l’imposition de réformes touchant les domaines politiques, économiques et militaires à l’image des pays du bloc euro-atlantique, le ministre allemand proposa une refonte complète du système juridique, éducatif et social, la création d’ONG ainsi que le développement de la société civile, du dialogue interreligieux, la promotion des droits de l’homme en général et de l’égalité homme/femme en particulier pour l’ensemble du monde musulman. Toutes ces mesures doivent, selon l’expression même du ministre, favoriser « l’intégration de leurs économies », le tout reposant « sur la conviction que la modernisation du Proche-Orient élargi sera décisive pour notre sécurité commune au XXIè siècle. Faire participer les populations du Proche et Moyen-Orient aux conquêtes de la mondialisation est donc dans notre plus grand intérêt »[17].

Ces mesures révolutionnaires destinées à fondre le monde musulman dans les principes euro-atlantistes et mondialistes furent confirmées, le 27 février 2004, lors de la signature de « l’Alliance germano-américaine pour le XXIè siècle »[18] à Washington entre le chancelier Schröder et le président Bush. Outre le rappel des mesures proclamées à Munich, il est clairement affiché que : « Nous devons construire un véritable partenariat qui relie l’Europe et l’Amérique aux pays du Proche et Moyen-Orient afin de travailler ensemble avec les pays et les peuples de cette région dans un cadre permettant d’atteindre des buts ciblés et de vivre paisiblement les uns à côté des autres (…) ».

En fait, ces affirmations épousent parfaitement les objectifs de la politique du « Grand Moyen-Orient » lancée par l’administration Bush, désormais baptisée « Nouveau Moyen-Orient » (New Middle East) sous le plume de Richard Haass président du CFR dans la revue Foreign Affairs en 2006[19]. Cette coopération euro-américaine est d’autant plus significative qu’elle se retrouve dans les travaux de la Fondation Bertelsmann qui a développé une double politique à l’égard d’Israël et du monde musulman. Dans un premier temps, il s’agit dans le cadre du « Dialogue germano-juif »[20] d’intégrer Israël à l’architecture politique, économique et militaire euro-atlantique. L’Etat hébreu doit constituer un pilier du judaïsme en liaison avec deux autres piliers : les judaïsmes européen et américain. Dans un deuxième temps, cette politique ne peut se concrétiser qu’à la condition de réussir à arrimer le monde musulman à cette construction géopolitique. C’est tout l’enjeu des « Discussions de Kronberg »[21] qui, depuis 1995, permettent des discussions entre euro-américains et élites musulmanes afin d’inciter ces dernières à adopter les principes politico-philosophiques des euro-atlantistes dans les structures internes des pays d’Afrique du Nord et du Proche-Orient. Or, ces discussions achoppent en raison de la fusion du spirituel et du temporel propre à l’Islam. Et c’est là où les autorités américaines ont d’une certaine manière lâché le morceau.

Le Vatican II de l’Islam

En juin 2006, un article intitulé « Frontières de sang » sous la signature de Ralph Peters et paru dans la revue militaire américaine Armed Forces Journal (AFJ), a présenté une carte recomposant le Proche-Orient en fonction des critères ethniques et religieux[22]. Tous ces pays voient leurs frontières bouleversées. En fait, son auteur s’inspire largement des travaux de l’islamologue britannique proche de Zbigniew Brzezinski (conseiller du président Obama), Bernard Lewis. Ce dernier est l’auteur de l’expression « Choc des civilisations »[23] reprise avec succès par Samuel Huntington. Pour Bernard Lewis, il s’agit de balkaniser le monde musulman afin de créer de mini-Etats pétroliers plus faciles à contrôler. Un modèle de restructuration appelé « arc de crise » fut présenté dans la revue « Time » en janvier 1979[24]. Cette recomposition complète repose sur le principe du « divisez pour mieux régner ». Cependant, derrière l’aspect politico-économique, la mystique mondialiste s’attaque au cœur du monde musulman concernant un point méconnu de nos sociétés matérialistes. En effet, la nouvelle carte présente un remaniement révolutionnaire : un « Etat sacré islamique » regroupant Médine et la Mecque au sein d’une Arabie Saoudite complètement désarticulée et dont l’éclatement aurait de fatales répercussions sur l’économie mondiale (grandes difficultés d’approvisionnement en pétrole) et sur la stabilité du dollar. Comme le précise son auteur : « La cause principale de la large stagnation du monde musulman réside dans le traitement réservé à la Mecque et à Médine considérés comme leur fief par la famille saoudienne. Les lieux saints de l’Islam soumis au contrôle de la police d’Etat de la part d’un des plus bigots et oppressifs régimes au monde ont permis au Saoud (ndlr : la famille régnante d’Arabie Saoudite) de projeter leur croyance wahhabite à la fois intolérante et disciplinée au-delà de leurs frontières. (…) Imaginez comme le monde musulman se sentirait mieux si la Mecque et Médine étaient dirigés par un Conseil représentatif tournant issu des principales écoles et mouvements de l’Islam dans le monde au sein d’un Etat sacré islamique – une sorte de super Vatican musulman – où l’avenir de la foi serait débattu au lieu d’être arbitrairement fixé »[25].

En effet, parler de l’intégration du monde musulman à l’axe euro-atlantique et aux principes du nouvel ordre mondial signifie que cela ne peut se faire qu’à la condition de modifier radicalement leurs référents religieux et, par ricochet, politiques, économiques, sociaux et psychologiques. La mystique mondialiste veut imposer son baptême permettant la mise en forme d’un panthéisme. La création d’un « Etat sacré de l’Islam » et d’un « Conseil représentatif tournant » en mesure de modifier la religion de l’intérieur correspond à l’instauration d’un Vatican II de l’Islam. Pour rappel, les préceptes de l’Eglise catholique étant incompatibles avec la doxa mondialiste, il fut nécessaire de favoriser un aggiornamento complet grâce à Vatican II (1962-1965) afin de permettre aux successeurs de saint Pierre de soumettre la doctrine catholique à l’idéologie mondialiste dans le cadre d’une Agapè inversée et célébrée dans le Temple des Nations Unies. Ce fut affirmé sans ambiguïtés par Jean XXIII qui, dans son encyclique Pacem in terris de 1963[26], rappelait la nécessité d’un « pouvoir supranational ou mondial » qui ne soit pas institué de force permettant « l’établissement d’une organisation juridico-politique de la communauté mondiale ». Cette affirmation fut reprise par Benoît XVI qui n’hésita pas à encourager l’humanité à s’engager « dans l’édification d’un nouvel ordre mondial » dans son message de Noël en 2005[27]. Ce pape réitéra son engagement, dans son encyclique Veritas in caritate de 2009, en appelant à créer une « autorité politique mondiale » en liaison avec l’ONU[28]. C’est la même démarche qui attend les pays musulmans si le projet consistant à entièrement déstructurer cette zone géographique du Maroc à l’Afghanistan arrive à son terme. Cette politique de dissolution et de recomposition doit favoriser les luttes entre sunnites et chiites, entre musulmans et chrétiens et conduire à une confrontation brutale avec le sionisme. De ce magma en fusion, un « Islam des Lumières » doit théoriquement émerger du chaos engendré par la mystique mondialiste afin de l’intégrer aux dogmes de la gouvernance mondiale. L’heure de vérité a sonné. Finalement, les auteurs de ce drame aux conséquences incalculables (politiques, économiques, énergétiques et en vies humaines) suivent à la lettre les fameux vers du poème de Goethe, « L’apprenti sorcier », qui rappelaient : « Les esprits que j’ai réveillés ne veulent plus m’écouter ».

Pierre Hillard
(mecanopolis.org)

Pierre Hillard est l’auteur de « La marche irrésistible du nouvel ordre mondial », aux Editions François-Xavier de Guibert......

...حيث لا يجرؤ الآخرون

المحامية مي خريش

فيما كان البطريرك مار بشارة بطرس الراعي يجول على المناطق اللبنانية كافة، كاسراً بإنفتاحه حواجز الخوف من الآخر، داعياً للحوار وللتلاقي، للمسامحة وللغفران، لبناء لبنان العيش المشترك، شارحاً للمزارع في المناطق النائية أن ما قاله في باريس هو نفسه ما يقوله في أصغر ضيعة في لبنان، لأنه نابع من قناعات وخوف ليس فقط على مصير مسيحيي لبنان بل على مسلميه أكثر.
بالتزامن مع إنفتاح البطريرك ومده للجسور، وبينما كان في قانا يزرو ضريح الشهداء الذين سقطوا على أيدي العدو الإسرائيلي، في الجنوب الأرض المقدسة، في الجنوب أرض المقاومة، كان في المقلب الآخر من المشهد اللبناني والمسيحي تحديداً فئة مجتمعة في ملعبٍ رياضيٍ تستمع لخطابٍ مذهبيٍ فئويٍ لا بل تحريضيٍ من ذاك الذي فرض يوماً نفسه بالقوة والدم والإنتفاضات قائداً على المسيحيين بخديعة شعار "حماية المجتمع المسيحي" فما كان أمامه وحفاظاً على بقائه قائداً أوحداً رغماً عن المسيحيين إلا أن ألغى كل من عارضه من رفاق السلاح وسياسيين ومفكرين ورجال دين، فكان يجرؤ حيث لا يجرؤ ولا يمكن أن يجرؤ أحد على إرتكاب الويلات بحق أهله ورفاقه وأبناء دينه ومجتمعه.

"حيث لا يجرؤ الآخرون"، أعادنا مُطلق هذا الشعار إلى زمن حسبنا أنه نسيه أو إتعظ منه، ولكن على من تقرأ مزاميرك يا داوود.
لم يتوجه هذا المُنظر وداعية كانتون "من كفرشيما للمدفون" بخطابه إلى مسيحيي لبنان بل تعداه إلى مسيحيي الشرق ليحثهم على التثبت بمسيحيتهم وعدم التخلي عنها تحت أي ضغط من الضغوط، أن لا يكونوا أهل ذمة، وأن لا يتقوقعوا في قمقم الخوف من خلال هواجس ليست محصورة بالمسيحيين فقط، لكنه غاب عن بال هذا المُبشر أن مخطط "الشرق الأوسط الجديد" يقوم على تفتيت هذه المنطقة إلى دويلات مذهبية لا مكان للمسيحيين فيها وقد تجلى هذا الأمر بهجرة مسيحيي العراق والتضييق على أقباط مصر والأهم في قضم دولة فلسطين ليس فقط لمنع الفلسطنيين من العودة بل لإلغاء كل معالم المسيحية عن هذه الأرض المقدسة.

تجرأ هذا العسكري المخضرم على دعوة حزب الله على تسليم سلاحه كما فعل هو في يوم من الأيام، متجاهلاً عن قصد أن الفرق بينه وبين حزب الله بُعد السماء والأرض، فسلاحه كان موجهاً للداخل للترهيب ولفرض الخوات وإلغاء الآخر، بينما سلاح حزب الله حرر الجنوب في العام 2000 وهزم الجيش الذي لا يُقهر في تموز 2006، هذا السلاح الذي أصبح يُشكل قوة ردع لعدو غاصب إسمه إسرائيل، كيف يتجرأ على هذه الدعوة التي لا تأتي بالنفع إلا على العدو الإسرائيلي؟ كيف لنا أن نتخلى عن المقاومة وأراضينا ما تزال محتلة؟ كيف نتخلى عن المقاومة والفلسطنيين ما زالوا في المخيمات في لبنان، كيف نتخلى عن المقاومة ولا يوجد سلام شامل وعادل في المنطقة؟ كيف نتخلى عن المقاومة ولغاية تاريخه لم تلتزم إسرائيل بتنفيذ أي قرار من القرارات الدولية؟
حاولتُ جاهدةً أن أحلل لماذا تفوه هذا الرجل بما تفوه به، فلم أجد له أي مبرر غير أنه ما زال يحن إلى ماضيه الأسود، إلى حيث كان يجرؤ حيث لا يجرؤ الآخرون.

'printemps Arabe' et le plan de division israelien du monde Arabe de Oded Yinon mis en pratique, en petites entités se faisant la guerre

2011-06-06T05:17:00.000-07:00

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Quelles sont les analogies entre les Revoltes du 'printemps Arabe' et le plan de division israelien du monde Arabe de Oded Yinon mis en pratique, en petites entités se faisant la guerre sur criteres ethnico-tribaux-religieux ....

LE DOSSIER SUR LE TERRORISME ISRAELIEN...UNE STRATEGIE POUR ISRAEL DANS LES ANNEES 1980   Par Oded YINON

(Traduction Israel Shahak)

Nous publions ici l'essentiel d'un texte paru a Jerusalem en fevrier 1982 dans le n° 14 de la revue en hebreu Kivunim, organe de la World Zionist Organization (Organisation sioniste mondiale). II a ete traduit en anglais et publie en juin 1982 par Israel Shahak, l'infatigable defenseur israelien des droits de I'homme. Faute de place, nous n'avons pas reproduit ici les notes en bas de page. Les premieres pages du texte ne concernent pas directement le Moyen-Orient. L'auteur y constate que dans le monde d'aujourd'hui la morale ne joue plus guere de role et que ce sont les besoins materiels qui l'emportent. II affirme aussi que I'URSS utilisera la force nucleaire pour s'imposer. Rappelons une derniere fois que ce texte a ete publie au debut de 1982. Depuis 1967, les Soviets ont transforme la maxime de Clausewitz en : "La guerre est la continuation de la politique par des moyens nucleaires," et ils en ont fait la devise qui guide toute leur politique. Deja, ils sont aujourd'hui en train de realiser leurs objectifs dans notre region et a travers le monde, et la necessite de s'y opposer devient l'element majeur dans notre politique de securite interieure et bien entendu celui du reste du monde libre. C'est la notre defi exterieur majeur. C'est pourquoi le monde arabo-musulman n'est pas le probleme strategique majeur que nous affronterons dans les annees quatre-vingts, bien qu'il represente la principale menace contre Israel grace a sa puissance militaire grandissante. Le monde, avec ses minorites ethniques, ses factions et crises internes, qui est etonnamment auto-destructeur, comme on peut le voir au Liban, en Iran non-arabe et maintenant aussi en Syrie, est incapable de surmonter ses problemes fondamentaux et ne constitue pas ainsi une menace reelle a long terme pour l'Etat d' Israel, mais seulement a court terme ou son pouvoir militaire immediat a une grande importance. A long terme, ce monde sera incapable d'exister a l'interieur de son cadre actuel dans les zones qui nous entourent sans devoir subir des transformations revolutionnaires authentiques. Le monde arabo- musulman est construit comme un chateau de cartes provisoire agence par des etrangers (la France et la Grande Bretagne dans les annees 1920), sans que les souhaits et les desirs des habitants aient ete pris en compte. Ce monde a ete divise arbitrairement en 19 Etats, tous produits de combinaisons de minorites et de groupes ethniques hostiles les uns aux autres de sorte que chaque Etat arabe musulman subit aujourd'hui une destruction de l'interieur et dans quelques uns d'entre eux une guerre civile fait deja rage. La plupart des Arabes, 118 sur 170 millions, vivent en Afrique, en majorite en Egypte (45 millions). A part l'Egypte, tous les Etats du Maghreb forment un melange d' Arabes et de Berberesnon-arabes. En Algerie la guerre civile fait rage dans les montagnes de Kabylie entre les deux nations du pays. Le Maroc et l'Algerie sont en guerre au sujet du Sahara espagnol, outre les luttes internes de chacun d'entre eux. L'Islam militant met en danger l'integrite de la Tunisie et Kaddafi fomente des guerres qui sont destructrices du point de vue arabe, de la part d'un pays peu peuple et qui ne peut pas devenir une nation puissante. C'est pour cela qu'il avait tente dans le passe des unifications avec des Etats qui sont plus authentiques, comme l'Egypte et la Syrie. Le Soudan, l'Etat le plus ecartele dans le monde arabo-musulman d'aujourd'hui est le produit de quatre groupes hostiles les uns aux autres, une minorite arabo-musulmane sunnite qui gouverne une majorite d'Africains non-arabes, paiens et Chretiens. En Egypte, il y a une majorite de musulmans sunnites faisant face a une importante minorite de Chretiens qui est dominante en Haute-Egypte (quelque 7 millions d'entre eux) de sorte que meme Sadate, dans son discours du 8 Mai, exprima sa peur qu'ils ne reclament un Etat autonome, quelque chose d'identique a un «second» Liban Chretien en Egypte. Tous les Etats arabes a l'Est d'lsrael sont dechires et infestes de conflits internes encore plus nombreux que ceux du Maghreb. La Syrie n'est pas differente fondamentalement du Liban a l'exception du regime militaire fort qui la gouverne. Mais la guerre civile reelle qui a lieu de nos jours entre la majorite sunnite et la minorite chiite alaouite regnante (pas plus de 12 % de la population) prouve la gravite du probleme interieur. THE ISRAELI TERRORISM FILE L'Irak n'est pas, encore une fois, essentiellement different de ses voisins, bien que sa majorite soit chiite et que la minorite sunnite soit regnante. Soixante-cinq pour cent de la population n'a pas droit au chapitre en politique, ou une elite de 20 % tient le pouvoir. En outre, il y a une importante minorite kurde dans le Nord, et si ce n'etait la fermete du regime, de l'armee et les revenus petroliers, l'etat futur de l'lrak ne serait pas si different de celui du Liban dans le passe ou de la Syrie aujourd'hui. Les germes de conflit interieur de guerre civile sont deja visibles aujourd'hui, surtout apres 1' accession de Khomeiny au pouvoir en Iran, un leader que les chiites en Irak percoivent comme leur chef naturel. Toutes les principautes du Golfe et 1' Arabie saoudite reposent sur un chateau de sable qui ne contient que du petrole. Au Koweit, les Koweitis ne representent que le quart de la population. A Bahrain, les chiites sont a nouveau la majorite, mais ce sont les sunnites qui sont au pouvoir. II en est de meme a Oman et au Yemen du Nord. Meme au Yemen du Sud marxiste il y a une minorite chiite assez importante. En Arabie Saoudite, la moitie de la population est etrangere, egyptienne et yemenite, mais une minorite saoudienne detient le pouvoir. La Jordanie est en realite palestinienne, gouvernee par une minorite bedouine trans-jordanienne, mais le plus gros de l'armee et certainement l'administration sont maintenant palestiniens. En fait, Amman est aussi palestinienne que Naplouse. Tous ces pays ont des armees relativement puissantes. Mais ici aussi il y a probleme. L'armee syrienne actuelle est en majeure partie sunnite avec un corps d'officiers alaouite ; l'armee irakienne est aussi chiite avec des commandants sunnites. Cela a une grande signification pour le long terme, et c'est pourquoi il ne sera pas possible de maintenir la loyaute de l'armee pour une longue duree en dehors du seul denominateur commun : l'hostilite envers Israel, et meme cela est aujourd'hui insuffisant. Les autres Etats musulmans, face aux Arabes, aussi divises qu'ils soient, partagent le meme sort. La moitie de la population iranienne parle le persan, 1' autre moitie est d'origine turque. La population turque est composee d'une majorite de musulmans sunnites (50 %), et deux importantes minorites, 12 millions d'Alaouites chiites et 6 millions de Kurdes sunnites. En Afghanistan, il y a 5 millions de chiites qui constituent le tiers de la population. Le Pakistan sunnite a quinze millions de chiites qui mettent en danger l'existence de l'Etat. Ce tableau des minorites nationales ethniques s'etendant du Maroc a l'lnde et de la Somalie a la Turquie indique l'absence de stabilite et une degenerescence rapide de la region entiere. Quand ce tableau est ajoute au tableau economique, nous voyons comment toute la region est edifiee comme un chateau de cartes, incapable de resister a ses problemes graves. Dans ce monde geant mais eclate il y a quelques groupes prosperes et une enorme masse de pauvres. La plupart des Arabes ont un revenu annuel moyen de 300 dollars. C'est la situation en Egypte, dans les pays du Maghreb, sauf la Libye, et en Irak. Le Liban est dechire et son economie est en train de tomber en ruines. C'est un Etat dans lequel il n'y a pas de pouvoir central, mais seulement cinq autorites souveraines de facto (chretienne dans leNord, soutenue par la Syrie et sous l'autorite du clan des Franjie, a l'Est une zone sous controle syrien direct, au centre une enclave chretienne controlee par les Phalangistes, dans le Sud et jusqu'au Litani une region a majorite palestinienne controlee par l'OLP , l'Etat Chretien du Commandant Haddad et un demi million de chiites. La Syrie est dans une situation encore plus difficile et l'aide qu'elle obtiendra avec son union avec la Libye ne sera pas suffisante pour affronter les problemes fondamentaux materiels et l'entretien d'une grande armee. L'Egypte est dans une situation encore pire : des millions de gens sont au bord de la famine, la moitie de la main d'oeuvre est sans emploi, et le logement est rare dans cette zone la plus peuplee du monde. A l'exception de l'armee, il n'y a pas un seul ministere fonctionnant efficacement et l'Etat est dans un etat de banqueroute permanente et dependant entierement de l'assistance etrangere americaine accordee depuis la paix. II existe dans les Etats du Golfe, 1' Arabie saoudite, la Libye et 1' Egypte, la plus grande concentration d'argent et de petrole du monde, mais ceux qui en profitent sont de petites elites qui manquent d'un large soutien de base et de confiance en soi, ce qu'aucune armee ne saurait garantir. L' Arabie saoudite avec tout son equipement ne pourrait defendre le regime des vrais dangers interieurs et exterieurs, et ce qui s'est passe a la Mecque en 1980 en est un exemple parmi d' autres. Une situation triste et explosive entoure Israel et lui pose des defis, des problemes, des risques mais aussi des occasions d'une portee considerable pour la premiere fois depuis 1967. II y a de grandes chances que les occasions manquees a ce moment puissent se realiser dans les annees 1980 a un point et dans des dimensions que nous ne pourrions meme pas imaginer aujourd'hui. La politique de «paix» et le retour des territoires, sous la pression des Etats-Unis met en peril la realisation des nouvelles possibilites qui s'offrent a nous. Depuis 1967, tous les gouvernements d'Israel ont lie nos buts nationaux a des besoins politiques etroits d'une part et, de l'autre, a des opinions interieures destructives qui ont neutralise nos capacites a l'exterieur eta l'interieur. Le fait de n'avoir pu faire un pas en direction de la population arabe dans les nouveaux territoires, acquis au cours d'une guerre qui nous a ete imposee, est l'erreur strategique majeure commise par Israel au lendemain de la Guerre des Six Jours. Nous LE DOSSIER DU TERRORISME ISRAELI EN nous serions epargnes depuis lors le plus amer et le plus dangereux des conflits si nous avions donne la Jordanie aux Palestiniens qui vivent en Cisjordanie. En faisant cela, nous aurions neutralise le probleme palestinien que nous affrontons maintenant, et pour lequel nous avons trouve des solutions qui ne sont vraiment pas du tout des solutions, tel que des compromis territoriaux, ou l'autonomie, ce qui revient en realite au meme. Aujourd'hui, nous faisons face tout d'un coup a d'immenses possibilites pour changer la situation en profondeur, et cela nous le ferons dans cette decennie, autrement nous ne survivrons pas en tant qu'Etat. Au cours des annees 1980, l'Etat d'Israel devra realiser des changements d'une portee considerable a l'interieur, dans son regime politique et economique, parallelement a des changements radicaux dans sa politique etrangere, afin de faire face aux defis globaux et regionaux de cette nouvelle periode. La perte des champs petroliferes du Canal de Suez, des enormes reserves de petrole, de gaz et d'autres ressources dans la peninsule du Sinai qui est geomorphologiquement identique aux riches pays producteurs de petrole de la region, debouchera sur un manque d'energie dans un proche avenir et detruira notre economie interieure : le quart de notre PNB aussi bien que le tiers du budget sont utilises pour l'achat de petrole. La recherche des matieres premieres dans le Neguev et sur la cote ne changera pas dans un prochain avenir cet etat de choses. Recuperer la peninsule du Sinai, avec ses ressources actuelles et potentielles, est done une priorite politique a laquelle les accords de paix de Camp David font obstacle. La faute incombe bien stir au gouvernement israelien actuel et aux gouvernements qui ont prepare le chemin pour le compromis territorial, depuis 1967. Les Egyptiens n'auront pas besoin de respecter les traites de paix apres le retour du Sinai, et ils feront tout ce qu'ils peuvent pour reintegrer le monde arabe et se rapprocher de l'URSS afin de se procurer de l'aide et de l'assistance militaire. L'aide americaine n'est garantie que pour une courte periode du fait que les conditions de la paix et l'affaiblissement des Etats-Unis d'Amerique a l'interieur comme a l'exterieur conduiront a une reduction de l'aide. Sans petrole et le revenu qu'on en tire, avec les enormes depenses actuelles, nous ne serons pas capables de franchir 1982 dans les conditions actuelles et nous devrons agir afin de revenir au statu quo qui existait au Sinai avant la visite de Sadate et le traite de paix fautif signe avec lui en mars 1979. Israel a deux voies majeures a travers lesquelles il atteindra cet objectif, l'une directe et 1' autre indirecte. L'option directe est la moins realiste a cause de la nature du regime et du gouvernement en Israel aussi bien de la sagesse de Sadate qui obtint notre retrait du Sinai, ce qui fut, au lendemain de la Guerre de 1973, sa plus importante realisation depuis son accession au pouvoir. Israel ne rompra pas unilateralement le traite, ni aujourd'hui ni en 1982, a moins d'etre fortement contraint economiquement et politiquement et que l'Egypte fournisse a Israel l'excuse de reprendre le Sinai pour la quatrieme fois de notre courte histoire. Ce qui reste done, e'est l'option indirecte. La situation economique en Egypte, la nature du regime et sa politique pan-arabe, amenera apres avril 1982 une situation dans laquelle Israel sera force d'agir directement ou indirectement afin de reprendre pour longtemps le controle du Sinai en tant que point strategique economique et reserve d'energie. L'Egypte ne represente pas un probleme strategique militaire du fait de ses problemes internes et pourrait etre ramenee a sa situation du lendemain de la Guerre de 1967 en pas plus d'une journee. Le mythe de l'Egypte en tant que puissant leader du monde arabe fut aneanti des 1956 et sans aucun doute il ne survecut pas en 1967, mais notre politique qui rendit le Sinai fit du mythe un «fait». Cependant, en realite, la puissance de l'Egypte par rapport a Israel seul et au reste du monde arabe s'est reduite de 50 % depuis 1967. L'Egypte n'est plus l'avant-garde politique dans le monde arabe et elle est economiquement au bord de la crise. Sans aide etrangere, la crise eclaterait le lendemain. A court terme, du fait du retour du Sinai, l'Egypte gagnera plusieurs avantages a nos depens, mais seulement a court terme jusqu'en 1982, et cela ne changera pas l'equilibre a son avantage, et amenera probablement sa chute. L'Egypte se donne deja, dans sa politique interieure, l'image d'un cadavre et d'autant plus si Ton tient compte de la montee du conflit entre musulmans et Chretiens. Depecer territorialement l'Egypte en regions geographiques distinctes, e'est le dessein politique d'Israel dans les annees 1980 sur son front occidental. L'Egypte est divisee et morcelee en plusieurs ilots de pouvoir. Si l'Egypte se desintegre, des pays comme la Libye, le Soudan ou meme les pays plus lointains ne continuerons pas a exister dans leur forme actuelle et connaitront a leur tour la chute et la dissolution de l'Egypte. La perspective d'un Etat Chretien copte en Haute-Egypte, parallelement a un certain nombre d'Etats faibles avec un pouvoirtres localise, et sans un gouvernement centralise comme de nos jours, cette perspective est la cle pour un developpement historique, qui prit du retard uniquement a cause du traite de paix, mais qui semble inevitable a long terme. Le front occidental, qui parait en surface plus problematique, est en fait moins complique que le front oriental, ou la plupart des evenements saillants sont de fraiche date. La dissolution totale du Liban en cinq provinces doit servir de precedent pour le monde arabe dans sa totalite, y compris l'Egypte, la Syrie, l'lrak et la Peninsule arabique. La dissolution de la Syrie et plus tard de l'lrak en zones exclusivement ethniques ou religieuses comme au Liban, est l'objectif principal d'Israel pour le long terme sur son front oriental, tandis THE ISRAELI TERRORISM FILE que la dissolution du pouvoir militaire de ces Etats constitue un objectif principal dans le court terme. La Syrie se disloquera en fonction de sa structure ethnique et religieuse en plusieurs Etats comme de nos jours au Liban, de sorte qu'on aura un Etat alaouite le long de la cote, un Etat sunnite dans la region d'Alep, un autre Etat sunnite a Damas hostile a son voisin du Nord, et les Druzes qui erigeront un Etat, peut-etre meme sur notre Golan, et certainement dans le Hauran et dans le Nord du Jourdain. Cet etat des choses sera la garantie de la paix et de la securite pour le long terme dans la region, et cet objectif est deja aujourd'hui a notre portee. L'Irak, riche en petrole d'un cote, et dechire interieurement de l'autre, est un candidat garanti pour les objectifs d'Israel. Sa dissolution est meme encore plus importante pour nous que celle de la Syrie. L'Irak est plus fort que la Syrie. C'est la puissance irakienne qui constitue dans le court terme le plus grand danger pour Israel. Une guerre Irak-Iran dechirera l'lrak et provoquera sa chute interieure meme avant qu'il ne soit capable d'organiser une bataille sur un large front contre nous. N'importe quel conflit inter-arabe nous sera profitable dans le court terme et raccourcira la voie pour l'objectif encore plus important, celui de la dislocation de l'lrak en groupes comme en Syrie et au Liban. En Irak, une division en provinces selon des criteres ethnico- religieux comme en Syrie du temps de l'Empire ottoman est possible. Ainsi, trois (ou plus) Etats existeront autour des trois importantes villes : Bassorah, Baghdad et Mossoul, et les regions chiites du Sud se separeront des regions sunnites et kurdes au Nord. II est possible que la confrontation irano-irakienne puisse approfondir cette polarisation. La Peninsule arabique est une candidate toute naturelle a la dissolution du fait des pressions interieures et exterieures, et la chose est inevitable surtout en Arabie Saoudite. Nonobstant le fait que sa puissance economique, fondee sur le petrole, demeure intacte ou qu'elle puisse diminuer a long terme, les fissures internes et les depressions sont un developpement evident et naturel a la lumiere de la structure politique presente. La Jordanie represente un objectif strategique immediat dans le court terme, mais non dans le long terme, parce qu'elle ne constitue pas une menace reelle dans le long terme apres sa dissolution, la fin du long regne du Roi Hussein et le transfert du pouvoir aux Palestiniens dans le court terme. II n'y a aucune chance pour que la Jordanie puisse continuer d'exister dans le long terme dans sa structure actuelle et la politique d'Israel, en periode de guerre comme en periode de paix, doit etre orientee vers la liquidation de la Jordanie sous sa forme actuelle et le transfert du pouvoir a la majorite palestinienne. Changer le regime a l'Est du Jourdain amenera la fin du probleme des territoires densement peuples dArabes a l'Est du Jourdain. Que ce soit en periode de guerre ou de paix, Immigration a partir des territoires et leur gel demographique et economique sont les garanties pour un prochain changement sur les deux rives du Jourdain, et nous devons etre plus actifs dans l'acceleration de ce processus dans l'avenir le plus proche. Le projet d'autonomie doit etre aussi rejete, aussi bien que n'importe quel compromis ou division des territoires car, selon les plans de l'OLP et ceux des Arabes israeliens eux-memes, le plan Shefa'amr de septembre 1980, il n'est plus possible de continuer a vivre dans ce pays dans la situation actuelle sans la separation des deux nations, les Arabes vers la Jordanie et les juifs vers les regions a l'Ouest du Jourdain. Une coexistence authentique et la paix regneront dans le pays seulement quand les Arabes auront compris que, sans un pouvoir juif s'etendant du Jourdain a la mer ils n'auront ni existence ni securite. lis n'auront une nation a eux et la securite qu'en Jordanie. A l'interieur d'Israel, la distinction entre les zones de 1967 et les autres territoires, ceux de 1948, a toujours ete sans signification pour les Arabes et de nos jours elle n'a plus aucune signification pour nous. Le probleme doit etre envisage dans sa totalite, sans aucune division, comme celle de 67. II doit etre clair, dans n'importe quelle situation politique future ou n'importe quelle constellation militaire, que la solution du probleme des Arabes indigenes viendra seulement quand ils reconnaitront l'existence d'Israel dans des frontieres sures jusqu'a la riviere du Jourdain et au-dela, en tant que notre besoin existentiel dans cette epoque difficile, 1' epoque du nucleaire dans laquelle nous entrerons bientot. II n'est plus possible de vivre avec trois- quarts de population juive sur une bande cotiere dense qui est trop dangereuse a l'ere nucleaire. La dispersion de la population est done l'objectif strategique interieur du plus grand interet; autrement, nous cesserons d'exister a l'interieur de n'importe quelle frontiere. La Judee, la Samarie et la Galilee sont l'unique garantie de notre existence nationale et, si nous ne devenons pas la majorite dans les regions montagneuses, nous ne regnerons pas dans le pays, et nous serons comme les Croises qui ont perdu le pays qui n'etait de toute maniere pas le leur, et dans lequel ils n'etaient que des etrangers pour commencer. Reequilibrer le pays demographiquement, strategiquement et economiquement est aujourd'hui l'objectif le plus grand et le plus central. Mettre la main sur la ligne de partage des eaux de Bersheeba jusqu'a la Haute Galilee est l'objectif national engendre par la perspective strategique majeure qui est la colonisation de la partie la plus montagneuse du pays, aujourd'hui vide de juifs. Realiser nos buts sur le front oriental depend d'abord de la realisation de notre objectif strategique interieur. La transformation de la structure politique et economique, capable d'aider a la realisation de ces LE DOSSIER DU TERRORISME ISRAELI EN objectifs strategiques, est la cle de l'achevement du changement entier. Nous avons besoin de passer d'une economie centralisee dans laquelle le gouvernement a un role central, a un marche libre et ouvert, aussi bien que de cesser de dependre du contribuable americain pour developper avec nos propres moyens une authentique infrastructure economique productive. Si nous ne sommes pas capables de realiser ce changement librement et volontairement, nous y serons forces par les developpements mondiaux, surtout dans les domaines de 1' economie, de l'energie et du politique, et par notre propre isolement croissant. D'un point de vue militaire et strategique, l'Occident dirige par les USA est incapable de resister a l'ensemble des pressions de l'URSS de par le monde, et Israel doit pour cela se tenir seule dans les annees 80, sans aucune assistance etrangere, militaire ou economique, et ceci est aujourd'hui dans nos possibilites, sans compromis. Des changements rapides dans le monde vont produire un changement dans la condition des juifs dans le monde, pour lesquels Israel deviendra non seulement un dernier recours mais aussi la seule alternative existentielle. Nous ne pouvons pas assurer que les juifs americains et les communautes d'Europe et d' Amerique latine continueront d'exister dans l'avenir dans la forme actuelle. Notre existence dans ce pays meme est sure et il n'y a aucune force qui pourrait nous en deloger ni par la violence ni par la ruse (methode de Sadate). Malgre les difficultes de la politique erronee de «paix» et le probleme des Arabes israeliens et celui des territoires, nous pouvons traiter efficacement ces problemes dans un avenir pre visible. Le commentaire d'Israel Shahak II faut clarifier trois elements importants pour pouvoir comprendre les possibilites les plus significatives pour la realisation de ce plan sioniste pour le Moyen-Orient, et aussi pourquoi il doit etre publie. Les conditions militaires de ce plan. Nous n'avons pas mentionne jusqu'ici les conditions militaires de ce plan, mais lors des multiples occasions ou Ton vient a «expliquer» dans des reunions privees un plan de ce genre a des membres de l'establishment israelien, cet aspect militaire est alors clarifie. II est suppose que les forces militaires israeliennes, dans toutes ses branches, sont insuffisantes pour assumer 1' occupation d' aussi vastes territoires que ceux qui ont ete mentionnes plus haut. En realite, meme en temps de «troubles» palestiniens intenses, les forces de l'armee israelienne sont trop dispersees. La parade est la methode de gouverner au moyen des «forces de Haddad» ou des «Associations de villages* : des forces locales soumises a des «chefs» completement dissocies de la population, n'ayant meme pas derriere eux de structure feodale ou de parti (comme en ont les Phalangistes, par exemple). Les «Etats» proposes par Yinon sont des «Territoires de Haddad» ou des «Associations de villages», et leurs forces armees en seraient a n'en pas douter similaires. En plus, la superiorite militaire israelienne serait dans de telles conditions beaucoup plus grande qu'elle ne Test meme maintenant, de sorte que tout mouvement de revoke serait «puni» soit par une humiliation massive comme en Cisjordanie et dans la Bande de Gaza, ou par bombardement et effacement de villes, comme aujourd'hui (Juin 1982) au Liban, ou par les deux. Afin d'y parvenir, le plan, comme il est explique oralement, appelle a l'etablissement de garnisons a des endroits strategiques entre les mini-Etats, pourvues de forces destructives mobiles. En fait, nous avons vu quelque chose de similaire dans le territoire de Haddad et nous verrons certainement le premier exemple de ce systeme fonctionner soit dans le Sud du Liban ou dans tout le Liban. II est evident que les suppositions militaires enoncees plus haut, et aussi le plan dans sa totalite, dependent aussi du fait de savoir si les Arabes vont continuer d'etre plus divises que maintenant, et de l'absence en leur sein de tout mouvement progressiste de masse. II se peut que ces deux conditions soient ecartees des que le plan sera bien avance, avec des consequences qui sont imprevisibles. Pourquoi est-il necessaire de publier ce plan en Israel. La raison de la publication est la nature double de la societe israelo-judaique : une grande etendue de liberie et de democratic, surtout pour les juifs, combinee a l'expansionnisme et la discrimination raciale. Dans une telle situation, l'elite judeo-israelienne (du fait que les masses suivent la tele et les discours de Begin) a besoin d'etre persuadee. Les premiers pas dans ce processus de persuasion sont d'ordre oral, comme on l'a indique plus haut, mais il vient le temps ou cela devient insuffisant. Le materiel ecrit doit etre produit au benefice de «persuadeurs» et «explicateurs» plus stupides (par exemple les officiers de rang moyen qui sont, THE ISRAELI TERRORISM FILE d'habitude, remarquablement stupides). lis «l'apprennent» alors plus ou moins et le prechent aux autres. II faut remarquer qu'Israel, et meme le Yishouv (l'ensemble des juifs en Palestine des annees 1920), a toujours marche de cette facon. Je me rappelle moi-meme bien (avant d'etre «en opposition*) comment la necessite de la guerre avec l'Egypte m'aete expliquee, a moi et a d' autres un an avant la guerre de 1956, et comment la necessite de conquerir «le reste de la Palestine occidentale quand nous en aurons l'occasion» etait expliquee dans les annees 1965-67. Pourquoi suppose-t-on qu'il n'y ait pas de risque particulier venant de l'exterieur concernant la publication de tels plans ? De tels riques peuvent venir de deux sources, pour autant que 1' opposition principale interieure demeure tres faible (une situation qui pourrait changer du fait de la guerre contre le Liban) : le monde arabe, y compris les Palestiniens, et les Etats-Unis. Le monde arabe s'est montre nettement incapable d'une analyse minutieuse et rationnelle de la societe judeo-israelienne, et les Palestiniens n'ont pas ete dans l'ensemble meilleurs que le reste. Dans une telle situation, meme ceux qui sont en train de crier contre les dangers de l'expansionnisme israelien (qui sont assez reels), le font non a partir de connaissance effective et detaillee, mais par croyance dans le mythe. Un bon exemple en cela, c'est la croyance tres persistante en l'existence d'un inscription, qui n'existe pas, sur le mur de la Knesset, du verset de la Bible qui decrit Israel comme s'etendant du Nil a l'Euphrate. Un autre exemple, ce sont les declarations persistantes et completement fausses qui sont faites par quelques-uns des leaders arabes les plus importants, au sujet des deux raies bleues du drapeau israelien qui symboliseraient le Nil et l'Euphrate, alors qu'ils sont en fait repris des raies du chale de prieres juif (Talit). Les specialistes israeliens supposent qu'en fin de compte les Arabes ne feront pas attention a leurs discussions serieuses sur l'avenir, et la guerre du Liban leur a donne raison. Alors pourquoi ne pourraient-ils pas continuer avec leurs vieilles methodes de persuasion des autres Israeliens ? Une situation fort similaire se retrouve aux Etats-Unis, au moins jusqu'a maintenant. La plupart des commentateurs plus ou moins serieux prennent leurs informations sur Israel, et l'essentiel de l'opinion qu'ils s'en font, de deux sources. La premiere consiste en articles de la presse americaine «liberale», rediges presque totalement par des admirateurs juifs d'Israel qui, meme s'ils se montrent critiques de quelques aspects de l'Etat d'Israel, pratiquent loyalement ce que Staline avait l'habitude d'appeler «la critique constructive)). (En fait, ceux d'entre euxqui se targuent d'etre «anti-staliniens» sont en realite plus staliniens que Staline, avec Israel comme leur Dieu qui n'a pas failli). Dans le cadre de ce culte critique, Israel est cense avoir toujours de «bonnes intentions)) et ne «fait que des erreurs», de sorte qu'un tel plan ne pourrait etre l'objet de discussion - exactement comme les genocides bibliques commis par des juifs ne sont pas mentionnes. L'autre source d' information, leJerusalem Post, adopte une politique similaire. Ainsi, tant que la situation existe dans laquelle Israel est reellement une «societe fermee» au reste du monde, parce que le monde veut fermer ses yeux, la publication et meme le commencement de la realisation d'un tel plan est realiste et faisable. 17juinl982 Gazette du Golfe et des banlieues (premiere serie), n°4, mai 1991. Publication originale: Zionist Plan for the Middle East (Special Document, No 1) Oded Yinon, Israel Shahak, Interlink Pub Group Inc; Paperback - 1 June, 1982 ISBN: 0937694568. Seems to be out of print. Traduction d'abordparue dans La Revue d'etudes palestiniennes, N° 5, Paris, automne 1982, p. 73-84. «««««««««««ooo>»»»»»»»»» LE DOSSIER DU TERRORISME ISRAELI EN La version anglaise de notre ami Israel Shahak, qui a traduit de I'hebreu: The Zionist Plan for the Middle East I fan slated and edited by Israel Shahak Publisher's Note The Association of Arab-American University Graduates finds it compelling to inaugurate its new publication series, Special Documents, with Oded Yinon's article which appeared in Kivunim (Directions), the journal of the Department of Information of the World Zionist Organization. Oded Yinon is an Israeli journalist and was formerly attached to the Foreign Ministry of Israel. To our knowledge, this document is the most explicit, detailed and unambiguous statement to date of the Zionist strategy in the Middle East. Furthermore, it stands as an accurate representation of the "vision" for the entire Middle East of the presently ruling Zionist regime of Begin, Sharon and Eitan. Its importance, hence, lies not in its historical value but in the nightmare which it presents. The plan operates on two essential premises. To survive, Israel must 1) become an imperial regional power, and 2) must effect the division of the whole area into small states by the dissolution of all existing Arab states. Small here will depend on the ethnic or sectarian composition of each state. Consequently, the Zionist hope is that sectarian-based states become Israel's satellites and, ironically, its source of moral legitimation. This is not a new idea, nor does it surface for the first time in Zionist strategic thinking. Indeed, fragmenting all Arab states into smaller units has been a recurrent theme. This theme has been documented on a very modest scale in the AAUG publication, Israel's Sacred Terrorism (1980), by Livia Rokach. [See below ] Based on the memoirs of Moshe Sharett, former Prime Minister of I srael, Rokach's study documents, in convincing detail, the Zionist plan as it applies to Lebanon and as it was prepared in the mid-fifties. The first massive Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1978 bore this plan out to the minutest detail. The second and more barbaric and encompassing Israeli invasion of Lebanon on June 6, 1982, aims to effect certain parts of this plan which hopes to see not only Lebanon, but Syria and Jordan as well, in fragments. This ought to make mockery of Israeli public claims regarding their desire for a strong and independent Lebanese central government. More accurately, they want a Lebanese central government that sanctions their regional imperialist designs by signing a peace treaty with them. They also seek acquiescence in their designs by the Syrian, Iraqi, Jordanian and other Arab governments as well as by the Palestinian people. What they want and what they are planning for is not an Arab world, but a world of Arab fragments that is ready to succumb to Israeli hegemony. Hence, Oded Yinon in his essay, "A Strategy for Israel in the 1980's," talks about "far-reaching THE ISRAELI TERRORISM FILE opportunities for the first time since 1967" that are created by the "very stormy situation [that] surrounds Israel." The Zionist policy of displacing the Palestinians from Palestine is very much an active policy, but is pursued more forcefully in times of contlict, such as in the 1947-1948 war and in the 1967 war. An appendix entitled "Israel Talks of a New Exodus" is included in this publication to demonstrate past Zionist dispersals of Palestinians from their homeland and to show, besides the main Zionist document we present, other Zionist planning for the de- Palestinization of Palestine. It is clear from the Kivunim document, published in February, 1982, that the "far-reaching opportunities" of which Zionist strategists have been thinking are the same "opportunities" of which they are trying to convince the world and which they claim were generated by their June, 1982 invasion. It is also clear that the Palestinians were never the sole target of Zionist plans, but the priority target since their viable and independent presence as a people negates the essence of the Zionist state. Every Arab state, however, especially those with cohesive and clear nationalist directions, is a real target sooner or later. Contrasted with the detailed and unambiguous Zionist strategy elucidated in this document, Arab and Palestinian strategy, unfortunately, suffers from ambiguity and incoherence. There is no indication that Arab strategists have internalized the Zionist plan in its full ramifications. Instead, they react with incredulity and shock whenever a new stage of it unfolds. This is apparent in Arab reaction, albeit muted, to the Israeli siege of Beirut. The sad fact is that as long as the Zionist strategy for the Middle East is not taken seriously Arab reaction to any future siege of other Arab capitals will be the same. Khalil Nakhleh July 23, 1982 Foreword by Israel Shahak The following essay represents, in m y opinion, the accurate and detailed plan of the present Zionist regime (of Sharon and Eitan) for the Middle East which is based on the division of the whole area into small states, and the dissolution of all the existing Arab states. I will comment on the military aspect of this plan in a concluding note, Here I want to draw the attention of the readers to several important points: 1. The idea that all the Arab states should be broken down, by Israel, into small units, occurs again and again in Israeli strategic thinking, For example, Ze'ev Schiff, the military correspondent of Ha'aretz (and probably the most knowledgeable in Israel, on this topic) writes about the "best" that can happen for Israeli interests in Iraq: "The dissolution of Iraq into a Shi'ite state, a Sunni state and the separation of the Kurdish part" {Ha'aretz 6/2/1982). Actually, this aspect of the plan is very old. 2. The strong connection with Neo-Conservative thought in the USA is very prominent, especially in the author's notes. But, while lip service is paid to the idea of the "defense of the West" from Soviet power, the real aim of the author, and of the present Israeli establishment is clear: To make an Imperial Israel into a world power. In other words, the aim of Sharon is to deceive the Americans after he has deceived all the rest. [Rememberthese prophetic lines have neen written 20 years ago! ggb ] LE DOSSIER DU TERRORISME ISRAELI EN 3. It is obvious that much of the relevant data, both in the notes and in the text, is garbled or omitted, such as the financial help of the U.S. to Israel. Much of it is pure fantasy. But, the plan is not to be regarded as not influential, or as not capable of realization for a short time. The plan follows faithfully the geopolitical ideas current in Germany of 1890-1933, which were swallowed whole by Hitler and the Nazi movement, and determined their aims for East Europe. Those aims, especially the division of the existing states, were carried out in 1939-1941, and only an alliance on the global scale prevented their consolidation for a period of time. The notes by the author follow the text. To avoid confusion, I did not add any notes of my own, but have put the substance of them into this foreward and the conclusion at the end. I have, however, emphasized some portions of the text. I srael Shahak June 13, 1982 A Strategy for Israel in the Nineteen Eighties by Oded Yinon This essay originally appeared in Hebrew in Kivunim (Directions), A Journal for Judaism and Zionism; Issue No, 14, Winter, 5742, February 1982, Editor: Yoram Beck. Editorial Committee: Eli Eyal, Yoram Beck, Amnon Hadari, Yohanan Manor, Elieser Schweid. Published by the Department of Publicity/The World Zionist Organization, Jerusalem. At the outset of the nineteen eighties the State of Israel is in need of a new perspective as to its place, its aims and national targets, at home and abroad. This need has become even more vital due to a number of central processes which the country, the region and the world are undergoing. We are living today in the early stages of a new epoch in human history which is not at all similar to its predecessor, and its characteristics are totally different from what we have hitherto known. That is why we need an understanding of the central processes which typify this historical epoch on the one hand, and on the other hand we need a world outlook and an operational strategy in accordance with the new conditions. The existence, prosperity and steadfastness of the Jewish state will depend upon its ability to adopt a new framework for its domestic and foreign affairs. This epoch is characterized by several traits which we can already diagnose, and which symbolize a genuine revolution in our present lifestyle. The dominant process is the breakdown of the rationalist, humanist outlook as the major cornerstone supporting the life and achievements of Western civilization since the Renaissance. The political, social and economic views which have emanated from this foundation have been based on several "truths" which are presently disappearing -- for example, the view that man as an individual is the center of the universe and everything exists in order to fulfill his basic material needs. This position is being invalidated in the present when it has become clear that the amount of resources in the cosmos does not meet Man's requirements, his economic needs or his demographic constraints. In a world in which there are four billion human beings and economic and energy resources which do not grow proportionally to meet the needs of mankind, it is unrealistic to expect to fulfill the main requirement of THE ISRAELI TERRORISM FILE Western Society, [1] i.e., the wish and aspiration for boundless consumption. The view that ethics plays no part in determining the direction Man takes, but rather his material needs do -- that view is becoming prevalent today as we see a world in which nearly all values are disappearing. We are losing the ability to assess the simplest things, especially when they concern the simple question of what is Good and what is Evil. The vision of man's limitless aspirations and abilities shrinks in the face of the sad facts of life, when we witness the break-up of world order around us. The view which promises liberty and freedom to mankind seems absurd in light of the sad fact that three fourths of the human race lives under totalitarian regimes. The views concerning equality and social justice have been transformed by socialism and especially by Communism into a laughing stock. There is no argument as to the truth of these two ideas, but it is clear that they have not been put into practice properly and the majority of mankind has lost the liberty, the freedom and the opportunity for equality and justice. In this nuclear world in which we are (still) living in relative peace for thirty years, the concept of peace and coexistence among nations has no meaning when a superpower like the USSR holds a military and political doctrine of the sort it has: that not only is a nuclear war possible and necessary in order to achieve the ends of Marxism, but that it is possible to survive after it, not to speak of the fact that one can be victorious in it. [2] The essential concepts of human society, especially those of the West, are undergoing a change due to political, military and economic transformations. Thus, the nuclear and conventional might of the USSR has transformed the epoch that has just ended into the last respite before the great saga that will demolish a large part of our world in a multi-dimensional global war, in comparison with which the past world wars will have been mere child's play. The power of nuclear as well as of conventional weapons, their quantity, their precision and quality will turn most of our world upside down within a few years, and we must align ourselves so as to face that in Israel. That is, then, the main threat to our existence and that of the Western world. [3] The war over resources in the world, the Arab monopoly on oil, and the need of the West to import most of its raw materials from the Third World, are transforming the world we know, given that one of the major aims of the USSR is to defeat the West by gaining control over the gigantic resources in the Persian Gulf and in the southern part of Africa, in which the majority of world minerals are located. We can imagine the dimensions of the global confrontation which will face us in the future. The Gorshkov doctrine calls for Soviet control of the oceans and mineral rich areas of the Third World. That together with the present Soviet nuclear doctrine which holds that it is possible to manage, win and survive a nuclear war, in the course of which the West's military might well be destroyed and its inhabitants made slaves in the service of Marxism-Leninism, is the main danger to world peace and to our own existence. Since 1967, the Soviets have transformed Clausewitz' dictum into "War is the continuation of policy in nuclear means," and made it the motto which guides all their policies. Already today they are busy carrying out their aims in our region and throughout the world, and the need to face them becomes the major element in our country's security policy and of course that of the rest of the Free World. That is our major foreign challenge. [4] The Arab Moslem world, therefore, is not the major strategic problem which we shall face in the Eighties, despite the fact that it carries the main threat against Israel, due to its growing military might. This world, with its ethnic minorities, its factions and internal crises, which is astonishingly self- destructive, as we can see in Lebanon, in non-Arab Iran and now also in Syria, is unable to deal successfully with its fundamental problems and does not therefore constitute a real threat against the State of Israel in the long run, but only in the short run where its immediate military power has great import. LE DOSSIER DU TERRORISME ISRAELI EN In the long run, this world will be unable to exist within its present framework in the areas around us without having to go through genuine revolutionary changes. The Moslem Arab World is built like a temporary house of cards put together by foreigners (France and Britain in the Nineteen Twenties), without the wishes and desires of the inhabitants having been taken into account. It was arbitrarily divided into 19 states, all made of combinations of minorites and ethnic groups which are hostile to one another, so that every Arab Moslem state nowadays faces ethnic social destruction from within, and in some a civil war is already raging. [5] Most of the Arabs, 118 million out of 170 million, live in Africa, mostly in Egypt (45 million today). Apart from Egypt, all the Maghreb states are made up of a mixture of Arabs and non-Arab Berbers. In Algeria there is already a civil war raging in the Kabile mountains between the two nations in the country. Morocco and Algeria are at war with each other over Spanish Sahara, in addition to the internal struggle in each of them. Militant Islam endangers the integrity of Tunisia and Qaddafi organizes wars which are destructive from the Arab point of view, from a country which is sparsely populated and which cannot become a powerful nation. That is why he has been attempting unifications in the past with states that are more genuine, like Egypt and Syria. Sudan, the most torn apart state in the Arab Moslem world today is built upon four groups hostile to each other, an Arab Moslem Sunni minority which rules over a majority of non- Arab Africans, Pagans, and Christians. In Egypt there is a Sunni Moslem majority facing a large minority of Christians which is dominant in upper Egypt: some 7 million of them, so that even Sadat, in his speech on May 8, expressed the fear that they will want a state of their own, something like a "second" Christian Lebanon in Egypt. All the Arab States east of Israel are torn apart, broken up and riddled with inner conflict even more than those of the Maghreb. Syria is fundamentally no different from Lebanon except in the strong military regime which rules it. But the real civil war taking place nowadays between the Sunni majority and the Shi'ite Alawi ruling minority (a mere 12% of the population) testifies to the severity of the domestic trouble. Iraq is, once again, no different in essence from its neighbors, although its majority is Shi'ite and the ruling minority Sunni. Sixty-five percent of the population has no say in politics, in which an elite of 20 percent holds the power. In addition there is a large Kurdish minority in the north, and if it weren't for the strength of the ruling regime, the army and the oil revenues, Iraq's future state would be no different than that of Lebanon in the past or of Syria today. The seeds of inner conflict and civil war are apparent today already, especially after the rise of Khomeini to power in Iran, a leader whom the Shi'ites in Iraq view as their natural leader. All the Gulf principalities and Saudi Arabia are built upon a delicate house of sand in which there is only oil. In Kuwait, the Kuwaitis constitute only a quarter of the population. In Bahrain, the Shi'ites are the majority but are deprived of power. In the UAE, Shi'ites are once again the majority but the Sunnis are in power. The same is true of Oman and North Yemen. Even in the Marxist South Yemen there is a sizable Shi'ite minority. In Saudi Arabia half the population is foreign, Egyptian and Yemenite, but a Saudi minority holds power. Jordan is in reality Palestinian, ruled by a Trans-Jordanian Bedouin minority, but most of the army and certainly the bureaucracy is now Palestinian. As a matter of fact Amman is as Palestinian as Nablus. All of these countries have powerful armies, relatively speaking. But there is a problem there too. The Syrian army today is mostly Sunni with an Alawi officer corps, the Iraqi army Shi'ite with Sunni commanders. This has great significance in the long run, and that is why it will not be possible to retain the loyalty of the army for a long time except where it comes to the only common denominator: The hostility towards Israel, and today even that is insufficient. THE ISRAELI TERRORISM FILE Alongside the Arabs, split as they are, the other Moslem states share a similar predicament. Half of Iran's population is comprised of a Persian speaking group and the other half of an ethnically Turkish group. Turkey's population comprises a Turkish Sunni Moslem majority, some 50%, and two large minorities, 12 million Shi'ite Alawis and 6 million Sunni Kurds. In Afghanistan there are 5 million Shi'ites who constitute one third of the population. In Sunni Pakistan there are 15 million Shi'ites who endanger the existence of that state. This national ethnic minority picture extending from Morocco to India and from Somalia to Turkey points to the absence of stability and a rapid degeneration in the entire region. When this picture is added to the economic one, we see how the entire region is built like a house of cards, unable to withstand its severe problems. In this giant and fractured world there are a few wealthy groups and a huge mass of poor people. Most of the Arabs have an average yearly income of 300 dollars. That is the situation in Egypt, in most of the Maghreb countries except for Libya, and in Iraq. Lebanon is torn apart and its economy is falling to pieces. It is a state in which there is no centralized power, but only 5 de facto sovereign authorities (Christian in the north, supported by the Syrians and under the rule of the Franjieh clan, in the East an area of direct Syrian conquest, in the center a Phalangist controlled Christian enclave, in the south and up to the Litani river a mostly Palestinian region controlled by the PLO and Major Haddad's state of Christians and half a million Shi'ites). Syria is in an even graver situation and even the assistance she will obtain in the future after the unification with Libya will not be sufficient for dealing with the basic problems of existence and the maintenance of a large army. Egypt is in the worst situation: Millions are on the verge of hunger, half the labor force is unemployed, and housing is scarce in this most densely populated area of the world. Except for the army, there is not a single department operating efficiently and the state is in a permanent state of bankruptcy and depends entirely on American foreign assistance granted since the peace. [6] In the Gulf states, Saudi Arabia, Libya and Egypt there is the largest accumulation of money and oil in the world, but those enjoying it are tiny elites who lack a wide base of support and self-confidence, something that no army can guarantee. [7] The Saudi army with all its equipment cannot defend the regime from real dangers at home or abroad, and what took place in Mecca in 1980 is only an example. A sad and very stormy situation surrounds Israel and creates challenges for it, problems, risks but also far-reaching opportunities for the first time since 1967. Chances are that opportunities missed at that time will become achievable in the Eighties to an extent and along dimensions which we cannot even imagine today. The "peace" policy and the return of territories, through a dependence upon the US, precludes the realization of the new option created for us. Since 1967, all the governments of Israel have tied our national aims down to narrow political needs, on the one hand, and on the other to destructive opinions at home which neutralized our capacities both at home and abroad. Failing to take steps towards the Arab population in the new territories, acquired in the course of a war forced upon us, is the major strategic error committed by Israel on the morning after the Six Day War. We could have saved ourselves all the bitter and dangerous conflict since then if we had given Jordan to the Palestinians who live west of the Jordan river. By doing that we would have neutralized the Palestinian problem which we nowadays face, and to which we have found solutions that are really no solutions at all, such as territorial compromise or autonomy which amount, in fact, to the same thing. [8] Today, we suddenly face immense opportunities for transforming the situation thoroughly and this we must do in the coming decade, otherwise we shall not survive as a state. LE DOSSIER DU TERRORISME ISRAELI EN I n the course of the Nineteen Eighties, the State of I srael will have to go through far-reaching changes in its political and economic regime domestically, along with radical changes in its foreign policy, in order to stand up to the global and regional challenges of this new epoch. The loss of the Suez Canal oil fields, of the immense potential of the oil, gas and other natural resources in the Sinai peninsula which is geomorphologically identical to the rich oil-producing countries in the region, will result in an energy drain in the near future and will destroy our domestic economy: one quarter of our present GNP as well as one third of the budget is used for the purchase of oil. [9] The search for raw materials in the Negev and on the coast will not, in the near future, serve to alter that state of affairs. (Regaining) the Sinai peninsula with its present and potential resources is therefore a political priority which is obstructed by the Camp David and the peace agreements. The fault for that lies of course with the present Israeli government and the governments which paved the road to the policy of territorial compromise, the Alignment governments since 1967. The Egyptians will not need to keep the peace treaty after the return of the Sinai, and they will do all they can to return to the fold of the Arab world and to the USSR in order to gain support and military assistance. American aid is guaranteed only for a short while, for the terms of the peace and the weakening of the U.S. both at home and abroad will bring about a reduction in aid. Without oil and the income from it, with the present enormous expenditure, we will not be able to get through 1982 under the present conditions and we will have to act in order to return the situation to the status quo which existed in Sinai prior to Sadat's visit and the mistaken peace agreement signed with him in March 1979. [10] Israel has two major routes through which to realize this purpose, one direct and the other indirect. The direct option is the less realistic one because of the nature of the regime and government in Israel as well as the wisdom of Sadat who obtained our withdrawal from Sinai, which was, next to the war of 1973, his major achievement since he took power. Israel will not unilaterally break the treaty, neither today, nor in 1982, unless it is very hard pressed economically and politically and Egypt provides Israel with the excuse to take the Sinai back into our hands for the fourth time in our short history. What is left therefore, is the indirect option. The economic situation in Egypt, the nature of the regime and its pan-Arab policy, will bring about a situation after April 1982 in which Israel will be forced to act directly or indirectly in order to regain control over Sinai as a strategic, economic and energy reserve for the long run. Egypt does not constitute a military strategic problem due to its internal conflicts and it could be driven back to the post 1967 war situation in no more than one day. [11] The myth of Egypt as the strong leader of the Arab World was demolished back in 1956 and definitely did not survive 1967, but our policy, as in the return of the Sinai, served to turn the myth into "fact." In reality, however, Egypt's power in proportion both to Israel alone and to the rest of the Arab World has gone down about 50 percent since 1967. Egypt is no longer the leading political power in the Arab World and is economically on the verge of a crisis. Without foreign assistance the crisis will come tomorrow. [12] In the short run, due to the return of the Sinai, Egypt will gain several advantages at our expense, but only in the short run until 1982, and that will not change the balance of power to its benefit, and will possibly bring about its downfall. Egypt, in its present domestic political picture, is already a corpse, all the more so if we take into account the growing Moslem-Christian rift. Breaking Egypt down territorially into distinct geographical regions is the political aim of Israel in the Nineteen Eighties on its Western front. Egypt is divided and torn apart into many foci of authority. If Egypt falls apart, countries like Libya, Sudan or even the more distant states will not continue to exist in their present form and will join the downfall and THE ISRAELI TERRORISM FILE dissolution of Egypt. The vision of a Christian Coptic State in Upper Egypt alongside a number of weak states with very localized power and without a centralized government as to date, is the key to a historical development which was only set back by the peace agreement but which seems inevitable in the long run. [ 13] The Western front, which on the surface appears more problematic, is in fact less complicated than the Eastern front, in which most of the events that make the headlines have been taking place recently. Lebanon's total dissolution into five provinces serves as a precendent for the entire Arab world including Egypt, Syria, Iraq and the Arabian peninsula and is already following that track. The dissolution of Syria and Iraq later on into ethnically or religiously unqiue areas such as in Lebanon, is Israel's primary target on the Eastern front in the long run, while the dissolution of the military power of those states serves as the primary short term target. Syria will fall apart, in accordance with its ethnic and religious structure, into several states such as in present day Lebanon, so that there will be a Shi'ite Alawi state along its coast, a Sunni state in the Aleppo area, another Sunni state in Damascus hostile to its northern neighbor, and the Druzes who will set up a state, maybe even in our Golan, and certainly in the Hauran and in northern Jordan. This state of affairs will be the guarantee for peace and security in the area in the long run, and that aim is already within our reach today. [14] Iraq, rich in oil on the one hand and internally torn on the other, is guaranteed as a candidate for Israel's targets. Its dissolution is even more important for us than that of Syria. Iraq is stronger than Syria. In the short run it is Iraqi power which constitutes the greatest threat to Israel. An Iraqi- Iranian war will tear Iraq apart and cause its downfall at home even before it is able to organize a struggle on a wide front against us. Every kind of inter- Arab confrontation will assist us in the short run and will shorten the way to the more important aim of breaking up Iraq into denominations as in Syria and in Lebanon. In Iraq, a division into provinces along ethnic/ religious lines as in Syria during Ottoman times is possible. So, three (or more) states will exist around the three major cities: Basra, Baghdad and Mosul, and Shi'ite areas in the south will separate from the Sunni and Kurdish north. It is possible that the present Iranian-Iraqi confrontation will deepen this polarization. [15] The entire Arabian peninsula is a natural candidate for dissolution due to internal and external pressures, and the matter is inevitable especially in Saudi Arabia. Regardless of whether its economic might based on oil remains intact or whether it is diminished in the long run, the internal rifts and breakdowns are a clear and natural development in light of the present political structure. [16] Jordan constitutes an immediate strategic target in the short run but not in the long run, for it does not constitute a real threat in the long run after its dissolution, the termination of the lengthy rule of King Hussein and the transfer of power to the Palestinians in the short run. There is no chance that Jordan will continue to exist in its present structure for a long time, and Israel's policy, both in war and in peace, ought to be directed at the liquidation of Jordan under the present regime and the transfer of power to the Palestinian majority. Changing the regime east of the river will also cause the termination of the problem of the territories densely populated with Arabs west of the J ordan. Whether in war or under conditions of peace, emigrationfrom the territories and economic demographic freeze in them, are the guarantees for the coming change on both banks of the river, and we ought to be active in order to accelerate this process in the nearest future. The autonomy plan ought also to be rejected, as well as any compromise or division of the territories for, given the plans of the PLO and those of the Israeli Arabs themselves, the Shefa'amr plan of September 1980, it is not possible to go on living in this country in the present situation without separating the two nations, the Arabs to Jordan and the Jews to the LE DOSSIER DU TERRORISME ISRAELI EN areas west of the river. Genuine coexistence and peace will reign over the land only when the Arabs understand that without Jewish rule between the Jordan and the sea they will have neither existence nor security. A nation of their own and security will be theirs only in Jo rd an. [17] Within Israel the distinction between the areas of '67 and the territories beyond them, those of '48, has always been meaningless for Arabs and nowadays no longer has any significance for us. The problem should be seen in its entirety without any divisions as of '67. It should be clear, under any future political situation or mifitary constellation, that the solution of the problem of the indigenous Arabs will come only when they recognize the existence of Israel in secure borders up to the Jordan river and beyond it, as our existential need in this difficult epoch, the nuclear epoch which we shall soon enter. It is no longer possible to live with three fourths of the Jewish population on the dense shoreline which is so dangerous in a nuclear epoch. Dispersal of the population is therefore a domestic strategic aim of the highest order; otherwise, we shall cease to exist within any borders. Judea, Samaria and the Galilee are our sole guarantee for national existence, and if we do not become the majority in the mountain areas, we shall not rule in the country and we shall be like the Crusaders, who lost this country which was not theirs anyhow, and in which they were foreigners to begin with. Rebalancing the country demographically, strategically and economically is the highest and most central aim today. Taking hold of the mountain watershed from Beersheba to the Upper Galilee is the national aim generated by the major strategic consideration which is settling the mountainous part of the country that is empty of J ews today. [18] Realizing our aims on the Eastern front depends first on the realization of this internal strategic objective. The transformation of the political and economic structure, so as to enable the realization of these strategic aims, is the key to achieving the entire change. We need to change from a centralized economy in which the government is extensively involved, to an open and free market as well as to switch from depending upon the U.S. taxpayer to developing, with our own hands, of a genuine productive economic infrastructure. If we are not able to make this change freely and voluntarily, we shall be forced into it by world developments, especially in the areas of economics, energy, and politics, and by our own growing isolation. [19] From a military and strategic point of view, the West led by the U.S. is unable to withstand the global pressures of the USSR throughout the world, and Israel must therefore stand alone in the Eighties, without any foreign assistance, military or economic, and this is within our capacities today, with no compromises. [20] Rapid changes in the world will also bring about a change in the condition of world Jewry to which Israel will become not only a last resort but the only existential option. We cannot assume that U.S. Jews, and the communities of Europe and Latin America will continue to exist in the present form in the future. [21] Our existence in this country itself is certain, and there is no force that could remove us from here either forcefully or by treachery (Sadat's method). Despite the difficulties of the mistaken "peace" policy and the problem of the Israeli Arabs and those of the territories, we can effectively deal with these problems in the foreseeable future. THE ISRAELI TERRORISM FILE Conclusions - by Israel Shahak Three important points have to be clarified in order to be able to understand the significant possibilities of realization of this Zionist plan for the Middle East, and also why it had to be published. The Military Background of The Plan The military conditions of this plan have not been mentioned above, but on the many occasions where something very like it is being "explained" in closed meetings to members of the Israeli Establishment, this point is clarified. It is assumed that the Israeli military forces, in all their branches, are insufficient for the actual work of occupation of such wide territories as discussed above. In fact, even in times of intense Palestinian "unrest" on the West Bank, the forces of the Israeli Army are stretched out too much. The answer to that is the method of ruling by means of "Haddad forces" or of "Village Associations" (also known as "Village Leagues"): local forces under "leaders" completely dissociated from the population, not having even any feudal or party structure (such as the Phalangists have, for example). The "states" proposed by Yinon are "Haddadland" and "Village Associations," and their armed forces will be, no doubt, quite similar. In addition, Israeli military superiority in such a situation will be much greater than it is even now, so that any movement of revolt will be "punished" either by mass humiliation as in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, or by bombardment and obliteration of cities, as in Lebanon now (June 1982), or by both. In order to ensure this, the plan, as explained orally, calls for the establishment of Israeli garrisons in focal places between the mini states, equipped with the necessary mobile destructive forces. In fact, we have seen something like this in Haddadland and we will almost certainly soon see the first example of this system functioning either in South Lebanon or in all Lebanon. It is obvious that the above military assumptions, and the whole plan too, depend also on the Arabs continuing to be even more divided than they are now, and on the lack of any truly progressive mass movement among them. It may be that those two conditions will be removed only when the plan will be well advanced, with consequences which can not be foreseen. Why it is necessary to publish this in I srael? The reason for publication is the dual nature of the Israeli-Jewish society: A very great measure of freedom and democracy, specially for Jews, combined with expansionism and racist discrimination. In such a situation the Israeli-Jewish elite (for the masses follow the TV and Begin's speeches) has to be persuaded. The first steps in the process of persuasion are oral, as indicated above, but a time comes in which it becomes inconvenient. Written material must be produced for the benefit of the more stupid "persuaders" and "explainers" (for example medium-rank officers, who are, usually, remarkably stupid). They then "learn it," more or less, and preach to others. It should be remarked that Israel, and even the Yishuv from the Twenties, has always functioned in this way. I myself well remember how (before I was "in opposition") the necessity of war with was explained to me and others a year before the 1956 war, and the necessity of conquering "the rest of Western Palestine when we will have the opportunity" was explained in the years 1965-67. Why is it assumed that there is no special risk from the outside in the publication of such plans? Such risks can come from two sources, so long as the principled opposition inside Israel is very weak (a situation which may change as a LE DOSSIER DU TERRORISME ISRAELI EN consequence of the war on Lebanon) The Arab World, including the Palestinians, and the United States. The Arab World has shown itself so far quite incapable of a detailed and rational analysis of Israeli-Jewish society, and the Palestinians have been, on the average, no better than the rest. In such a situation, even those who are shouting about the dangers of Israeli expansionism (which are real enough) are doing this not because of factual and detailed knowledge, but because of belief in myth. A good example is the very persistent belief in the non-existent writing on the wall of the Knesset of the Biblical verse about the Nile and the Euphrates. Another example is the persistent, and completely false declarations, which were made by some of the most important Arab leaders, that the two blue stripes of the Israeli flag symbolize the Nile and the Euphrates, while in fact they are taken from the stripes of the Jewish praying shawl (Talit). The Israeli specialists assume that, on the whole, the Arabs will pay no attention to their serious discussions of the future, and the Lebanon war has proved them right. So why should they not continue with their old methods of persuading other Israelis? In the United States a very similar situation exists, at least until now. The more or less serious commentators take their information about Israel, and much of their opinions about it, from two sources. The first is from articles in the "liberal" American press, written almost totally by Jewish admirers of Israel who, even if they are critical of some aspects of the Israeli state, practice loyally what Stalin used to call "the constructive criticism." (In fact those among them who claim also to be "Anti-Stalinist" are in reality more Stalinist than Stalin, with Israel being their god which has not yet failed). In the framework of such critical worship it must be assumed that Israel has always "good intentions" and only "makes mistakes," and therefore such a plan would not be a matter for discussion--exactly as the Biblical genocides committed by Jews are not mentioned. The other source of information, The Jerusalem Post, has similar policies. So long, therefore, as the situation exists in which Israel is really a "closed society" to the rest of the world, because the world wants to close its eyes, the publication and even the beginning of the realization of such a plan is realistic and feasible. I srael Shahak June 17, 1982 J erusalem About the Translator Israel Shahak (1933-2001) was a professor of organic chemistly at Hebrew University in Jerusalem and the chairman of the Israeli League for Human and Civil Rights. He published The Shahak Papers, collections of key articles from the Hebrew press, and was the author of numerous articles and books, among them Non-Jew in the Jewish State, Israel's Global Role: Weapons for Repression, published by the AAUG in 1982. Notes (Yinon article) 1. American Universities Field Staff. Report No. 33, 1979. According to this research, the population of the world will be 6 billion in the year 2000. Today's world population can be broken down as follows: China, 958 million; India, 635 million; USSR, 261 million; U.S., 218 million Indonesia, 140 million; Brazil and J apan, 110 million each. According to the figures of the U.N. Population Fund for 1980, there will be, in 2000, 50 cities with a population of over 5 million each. The population of the Third World will then be 80% of the world population. According to J ustin Blackwelder, U.S. Census Office chief, the world population will not reach 6 billion because of hunger. THE ISRAELI TERRORISM FILE 2. Soviet nuclear policy has been well summarized by two American Sovietologists: Joseph D. Douglas and Amoretta M. Hoeber, Soviet Strategy for Nuclear War, (Stanford, Ca., Hoover Inst. Press, 1979). In the Soviet Union tens and hundreds of articles and books are published each year which detail the Soviet doctrine for nuclear war and there is a great deal of documentation translated into English and published by the U.S. Air Force, including USAF: Marxism- Leninism on War and the Army: The Soviet View, Moscow, 1972: USAF: The Armed Forces of the Soviet State. Moscow, 1975, by Marshal A. Grechko. The basic Soviet approach to the matter is presented in the book by Marshal Sokolovski published in 1962 in Moscow: Marshal V. D. Sokolovski, Military Strategy, Soviet Doctrine and Concepts (New York, Praeger, 1963). 3. A picture of Soviet intentions in various areas of the world can be drawn from the book by Douglas and Hoeber, ibid. For additional material see: Michael Morgan, "USSR's Minerals as Strategic Weapon in the Future," Defense and Foreign Affairs, Washington, D.C., Dec. 1979. 4. Admiral of the Fleet Sergei Gorshkov, Sea Power and the State, London, 1979. Morgan, loc. cit. General George S. Brown (USAF) C-JCS, Statement to the Congress on the Defense Posture of the United States For Fiscal Year 1979, p. 103; National Security Council, Review of Non-Fuel Mineral Policy, (Washington, D.C. 1979,); Drew Middleton, The New York Times, (9/15/79); Time, 9/21/80. 5. Elie Kedourie, "The End of the Ottoman Empire," Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 3, No. 4, 1968. 6. Al-Thawra, Syria 12/20/79, Al-Ahram, 12/30/79, Al Ba'ath, Syria, 5/6/79. 55% of the Arabs are 20 years old and younger, 70% of the Arabs live in Africa, 55% of the Arabs under 15 are unemployed, 33% live in urban areas, Oded Yinon, "Egypt's Population Problem," The Jerusalem Quarterly, No. 15, Spring 1980. 7. E. Kanovsky, "Arab Haves and Have Nots," Thejerusalem Quarterly, No.l, Fall 1976, Al Ba'ath, Syria, 5/6/79. 8. In his book, former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin said that the Israeli government is in fact responsible for the design of American policy in the Middle East, after June '67, because of its own indecisiveness as to the future of the territories and the inconsistency in its positions since it established the background for Resolution 242 and certainly twelve years later for the Camp David agreements and the peace treaty with Egypt. According to Rabin, on June 19, 1967, President Johnson sent a letter to Prime Minister Eshkol in which he did not mention anything about withdrawal from the new territories but exactly on the same day the government resolved to return territories in exchange for peace. After the Arab resolutions in Khartoum (9/1/67) the government altered its position but contrary to its decision of J une 19, did not notify the U.S. of the alteration and the U.S. continued to support 242 in the Security Council on the basis of its earlier understanding that Israel is prepared to return territories. At that point it was already too late to change the U.S. position and Israel's policy. From here the way was opened to peace agreements on the basis of 242 as was later agreed upon in Camp David. See Yitzhak Rabin. Pinkas Sherut, (Ma'ariv 1979) pp. 226-227. 9. Foreign and Defense Committee Chairman Prof. Moshe Arens argued in an interview (Ma'ariv, 10/3/80) that the Israeli government failed to prepare an economic plan before the Camp David agreements and was itself surprised by the cost of the agreements, although already during the negotiations it was possible to calculate the heavy price and the serious error involved in not having prepared the economic grounds for peace. The former Minister of Treasury, Mr. Yigal Holwitz, stated that if it were not for the withdrawal from the oil fields, Israel would have a positive balance of payments (9/17/80). That same person said two years earlier that the government of Israel (from which he withdrew) had placed a noose around his neck. He was referring to the Camp David agreements (Ha'aretz, 11/3/78). In the course of the whole peace negotiations neither an expert nor an economics advisor was consulted, and the Prime Minister himself, who lacks knowledge and expertise in economics, in a mistaken initiative, asked the U.S. to give us a loan rather than a grant, due to his wish to maintain our respect and the respect of the U.S. towards us. See Ha'aretzl/5/79. Jerusalem Post, 9/7/79. Prof Asaf Razin, formerly a senior consultant in the Treasury, strongly criticized the conduct of the negotiations; Ha'aretz, 5/5/79. Ma'ariv, 9/7/79. As to matters concerning the oil fields and Israel's energy crisis, see the interview with Mr. Eitan Eisenberg, a government advisor on these matters, Ma'ariv Weekly, 12/12/78. The Energy Minister, who personally signed the Camp David agreements and the evacuation of Sdeh Alma, has since emphasized the seriousness of our condition from the point of view of oil supplies more than once... see Yediot Ahronot, 7/20/79. Energy Minister Modai even admitted that the government did not consult him at all on the subject of oil during the Camp David and Blair House negotiations. Ha'aretz, 8/22/79. 10. Many sources report on the growth of the armaments budget in Egypt and on intentions to give the army preference in a peace epoch budget over domestic needs for which a peace was allegedly obtained. See former Prime Minister Mamduh Salam in an interview 12/18/77, Treasury Minister Abd El Sayeh in an interview 7/25/78, and the paper Al Akhbar, 12/2/78 which clearly stressed that the military budget will receive first priority, despite the peace. This is what former Prime Minister Mustafa Khalil has stated in his cabinet's programmatic document which was presented to Parliament, 11/25/78. See English translation, ICA, FBIS, Nov. 27. 1978, pp. D 1-10. According to these sources, Egypt's military budget increased by 10% between fiscal 1977 and 1978, and the process still goes on. A Saudi source divulged that the Egyptians plan to increase their military budget by 100% in the next two years; Ha'aretz, 2/12/79 and Jerusalem Post, 1/14/79. 11. Most of the economic estimates threw doubt on Egypt's ability to reconstruct its economy by 1982. See Economic Intelligence Unit, 1978 Supplement, "The Arab Republic of Egypt"; E. Kanovsky, "Recent Economic Developments in the Middle East," Occasional Papers, The Shiloah Institution, June 1977; LE DOSSIER DU TERRORISME ISRAELI EN Kanovsky, "The Egyptian Economy Since the Mid-Sixties, The Micro Sectors," Occasional Papers, June 1978; Robert McNamara, President of World Bank, as reported in Times, London, 1/24/78. 12. See the comparison made by the researeh of the Institute for Strategic Studies in London, and research carried out in the Center for Strategic Studies of Tel Aviv University, as well as the research by the British scientist, Denis Champlin, Military Review, Nov. 1979, ISS: The Military Balance 1979-1980, CSS; Security Arrangements in Sinai., .by Brig. Gen. (Res.) A Shalev, No. 3.0 CSS; The Military Balance and the Military Options after the Peace Treaty with Egypt, by Brig. Gen. (Res.) Y. Raviv, No. 4, Dec. 1978, as well as many press reports including El Hawadeth, London, 3/7/80; El Watan El Arabi, Paris, 12/14/79. 13. As for religious ferment in Egypt and the relations between Copts and Moslems see the series of articles published in the Kuwaiti paper, El Qabas, 9/15/80. The English author Irene Beeson reports on the rift between Moslems and Copts, see: Irene Beeson, Guardian, London, 6/24/80, and Desmond Stewart, Middle East I nternmational, London 6/6/80. For other reports see Pamela Ann Smith, Guardian, London, 12/24/79; The Christian Science Monitor 12/27/79 as well as Al Dustour, London, 10/15/79; El Kefah El Arabi, 10/15/79. 14. Arab Press Service, Beirut, 8/6-13/80. The New Republic, 8/16/80, Der Spiegel as cited by Ha'aretz, 3/21/80, and 4/30-5/5/80; The Economist, 3/22/80; Robert Fisk, Times, London, 3/26/80; Ellsworth Jones, Sunday Times, 3/30/80. 15. J. -P. Peroncel-Hugoz, Le Monde, Paris 4/28/80; Dr. Abbas Kelidar, Middle East Review, Summer 1979; Conflict Studies, ISS, July 1975; Andreas Kolschitter, Der Zeit, (Ha'aretz, 9/21/79) Economist Foreign Report, 10/10/79, Afro-Asian Affairs, London, J uly 1979. 16. Arnold Hottinger, "The Rich Arab States in Trouble," The New York Review of Books, 5/15/80; Arab Press Service, Beirut, 6/25-7/2/80; U.S. News and World Report, 11/5/79 as well as El Ahram, 11/9/79; El Nahar El Arabi Wal Duwali, Paris 9/7/79; El Hawadeth, 11/9/79; David Hakham, Monthly Review, I DF, J an. -Feb. 79. 17. As for Jordan's policies and problems see El Nahar El Arabi Wal Duwali, 4/30/79, 7/2/79; Prof. Elie Kedouri, Ma'ariv 6/8/79; Prof. Tanter, Davar 7/12/79; A. Safdi, Jerusalem Post, 5/31/79; El Watan El Arabi 11/28/79; El Qabas, 11/19/79. As for PLO positions see: The resolutions of the Fatah Fourth Congress, Damascus, August 1980. The Shefa'amr program of the Israeli Arabs was published in Ha'aretz, 9/24/80, and by Arab Press Report 6/18/80. For facts and figures on immigration of Arabs to Jordan, see Amos Ben Vered, Ha'aretz, 2/16/77; Yossef Zuriel, Ma'ariv 1/12/80. As to the PLO's position towards Israel see Shlomo Gazit, Monthly Review; July 1980; Hani El Hasan in an interview, Al Rai AI'Am, Kuwait 4/15/80; Avi Plaskov, "The Palestinian Problem," Survival, ISS, London J an. Feb. 78; David Gutrnann, "The Palestinian Myth," Commentary, Oct. 75; Bernard Lewis, "The Palestinians and the PLO," Commentary Jan. 75; Monday Morning, Beirut, 8/18-21/80; Journal of Palestine Studies, Winter 1980. 18. Prof. Yuval Neeman, "Samaria -- The Basis for Israel's Security," Ma'arakhot 272-273, May/June 1980; Ya'akov Hasdai, "Peace, the Way and the Right to Know," Dvar Hashavua, 2/23/80. Aharon Yariv, "Strategic Depth -- An Israeli Perspective," Ma'arakhot 270-271, October 1979; Yitzhak Rabin, "Israel's Defense Problems in the Eighties," Ma'arakhot October 1979. 19. Ezra Zohar, In the Regime's Pliers (Shikmona, 1974); Motti Heinrich, Do We have a Chance Israel, Truth Versus Legend (Reshafim, 1981). 20. Henry Kissinger, "The Lessons of the Past," The Washington Review Vol 1, Jan. 1978; Arthur Ross, "OPEC's Challenge to the West," The Washington Quarterly, Winter, 1980; Walter Levy, "Oil and the Decline of the West," Foreign Affairs, Summer 1980; Special Report--"Our Armed Forees-Ready or Not?" U.S. News and World Report 10/10/77; Stanley Hoffman, "Reflections on the Present Danger," The New York Review of Books 3/6/80; Time 4/3/80; Leopold Lavedez "The illusions of SALT" Commentary Sept. 79; Norman Podhoretz, "The Present Danger," Commentary March 1980; Robert Tucker, "Oil and American Power Six Years Later," Commentary Sept. 1979; Norman Podhoretz, "The Abandonment of Israel," Commentary J uly 1976; Elie Kedourie, "Misreading the Middle East," Commentary J uly 1979. 21. According to figures published by Ya'akov Karoz, Yediot Ahronot, 10/17/80, the sum total of anti-Semitic incidents recorded in the world in 1979 was double the amount recorded in 1978. In Germany, France, and Britain the number of anti-Semitic incidents was many times greater in that year. In the U.S. as well there has been a sharp increase in anti-Semitic incidents which were reported in that article. For the new anti-Semitism, see L. Talmon, "The New Anti-Semitism," The New Republic, 9/18/1976; Barbara Tuchman, "They poisoned the Wells," Newsweek 2/3/75. http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/1993 http://http://www.opinion-maker.org/2011/06/israelis-rush-for-second-passports/ Le texte d'Oded Yinon est souvent cite, mais rarement reproduit en entier. II a disparu de plusieurs sites ou il etat cense se trouver. Voir, en dernier lieu, Published by the Association of Arab-American University Graduates, Inc., Belmont, Massachusetts, 1982, Special Document No. 1, (ISBN 0-937694-56- 8)

Dominique Strauss-Kahn's defense team rife with ex-CIA, FBI, cops, and high-level political operatives....

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Dominique Strauss-Kahn's defense team rife with ex-CIA, FBI, cops, and high-level political operatives....

May , 2011 -- The powerful global network that protects gangsters like Strauss-Kahn ramps up its strategy...

If Bernard Madoff had ripped off billions of dollars from Presbyterians instead of fellow Jewish investors, it is doubtful he would now be serving a 150-year prison term at the Butner Federal Correctional Complex in North Carolina, nicknamed "B'nai Butner" because of its kosher kitchen and number of high-profile Jewish inmates, including convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard, whose release to Israel is being demanded by Israeli government officials, including Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and President Shimon Peres.

The disgraced former managing director of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, now faces criminal charges that he sexually assaulted and forcibly imprisoned a Guinean immigrant chambermaid at the Sofitel Hotel in midtown Manhattan. Strauss-Kahn's defense strategy is beginning to emerge. Strauss-Kahn's legal team is now assembling a top-shelf group of lawyers, ex-CIA and ex-U.S. diplomat public relations shills, and, more ominously, a private investigative firm composed of a former head of the criminal division of the Manhattan District Attorney's Office and former FBI and Secret Service officials. Their job, in addition to trumping the prosecution headed by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance, Jr., the son of the late Secretary of State, will be to dig up dirt on Strauss-Kahn's victim, Nafissatou Diallo, a 32-year old widow from Guinea who is raising a 15-year old daughter on a chambermaid's salary.

As with so many modern-day neo-cons, Strauss-Kahn was once a leftist. The erstwhile French Communist helped man the barricades during the Paris student and worker riots of 1968. Strauss-Kahn eventually traded in his Molotov cocktails and Marxist hymn book for the Porsche limousines, the most expensive Jewllery and vintage champagnes. Strauss-Kahn helped to transform the French Socialist Party into a party that walked in lockstep with the global bankers and elites, a fate that also befell the British Labor Party, the Canadian Liberal Party, and America's Democratic Party. The wealthy elites merely "bought" the leftist and pro-union parties of the West and Strauss-Kahn, like Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, David Ignatieff, Bill and Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama, was there to eagerly cash the checks and IOUs.

The downfall of Strauss-Kahn, in many ways, was similar to that of one-time Republican uber-lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Both Strauss-Kahn and Abramoff have some wild notions that they were besieged by anti-Semites hiding behind every tree. Strauss-Kahn once opined that his "Jewishness" would be used by his enemies during his race for the French presidency. French and American Jewish leaders conjured up an outrageous charge that was not even used by Abramoff's most avid supporters: Strauss-Kahn was the new Alfred Dreyfus, the French military officer who was charged by France with treason in 1894, allegedly because he was Jewish.

After his indictment and conviction, Abramoff rallied a number of rabbis to his cause. Abramoff was a darling of the Orthodox Jewish community, having built the Orthodox Eshkol Academy in Maryland and funneling proceeds from his illegal deals with Indian tribes to buy "security" equipment for illegal Jewish settlers on the West Bank of Palestine. Calls for leniency in sentencing Abramoff, who once called native Americans "fucking morons, monkeys, and troglodytes," came from leading Orthodox Jewish rabbis. Like Strauss-Kahn, placed into the sex crime unit at New York's Rikers Island prison, Abramoff maintained a persecution complex while an inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution in western Maryland. Rabbi Herzl Kranz, the head of the school built by Abramoff, even suggested that Abramoff be released to his custody. Eventually, Abramoff was released to a halfway house to serve out his sentence. Abramoff's continued "punishment" was at a kosher pizzeria in Baltimore, not a treatment center for crack addicts in northwest Washington. Strauss-Kahn's home detention on 71 Broadway, in the heart of downtown Manhattan. Tough deals for those who feel persecution because of their religion.

Strauss-Kahn's defense team includes former CIA and U.S. Foreign Service officials working for the Washington, DC-based public relations firm, TD International. It was the same firm Strauss-Kahn hired in 2007 to lobby for his appointment to the IMF's top job. TD International appears to favor the sleaziest of politicians. It's client list includes former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, the darling of the neocons who stands accused of corruption. TD International's officers include W. Ross Newland III, the CIA's station chief in Bucharest in the late 1980s during the anti-Ceausescu uprising, as well as in Havana and Buenos Aires. TD International also includes its boss, CIA Operations Directorate veteran William Green, as well as former U.S. diplomats Steve Fleishmann and Ron Slimp. The head of TD International's Houston office is Fred Enochs, a former CIA officer who managed operations in over 70 countries.

TD International has worked with two sub-contractors, Glover Park Group (GPG) and Dezenhall Resources. In 2005, it was disclosed that GPG had a relationship with Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. to disrupt Nielsen ratings operations to benefit News Corp., which owns Fox Television and Fox News. GPG has also represented the governments of Turkey, Taiwan, the Republic of Georgia, and Colombia, Europe's Airbus in its U.S. Air Force tanker proposal -- which ultimately went to Boeing -- Dubai Aerospace, and the City of London in the UK. GPG's partners have included James Steinberg, the current Deputy Secretary of State; former Bill Clinton press secretary Joe Lockhart, a founding partner; Howard Wolfson, Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign's communications director; and Susan Brophy and Joel Johnson, both senior aides to President Clinton.

The links of the Clinton-linked GPG to Strauss-Kahn's defense does not bode well for the prosecution of Strauss-Kahn. Bill Clinton approved an eleventh hour pardon for a successful escapee from American justice -- Marc Rich -- the multi-billionaire dual Israeli-U.S. citizen whose pardon was arranged by his defense attorney, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, who was, himself, later convicted of obstruction of justice and perjury in the investigation of the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson.

Dezenhall Resources Ltd. of Washington is a crisis management firm. Last year. Greenpeace sued two chemical companies, Dow and Sasol, and Dezenhall. Dezenhall and another firm, Ketchum, were accused of hiring off-duty cops to spy on Greenpeace. The surveillance included "dumpster diving," the gathering of sensitive documents from the garbage. The involvement of such a firm with Strauss-Kahn's designated public relations firm could spell real trouble for the sexual assault victim as well as Vance's prosecution team. Although the New York Police Department deserves kudos for grabbing Strauss-Kahn out of the first class section of an Air France plane before he could flee to the safety of his native France, New York's "finest" have also had a sordid history of corruption. Mr. Vance and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly should carefully vet the police and detectives who may be involved in evidence gathering and retention in the case against Strauss-Kahn.

When Dezenhall teamed up with Michael Jackson's defense team amid the pedophilia allegations, the firm was termed "secretive" in media reports.

However, Strauss-Kahn's use of Guidepost Solutions LLC of New York, an international private investigation firm, poses even greater risks for the prosecution team and the Guinean assault victim. The unfolding strategy for the defense, according to press accounts, will be to portray sex between Strauss-Kahn and the chambermaid as "consensual," notwithstanding the fact that Strauss-Kahn has a sordid history of sexually harassing female journalists, other maids -- including one in Mexico and elsewhere...-- and subordinates.

Guidepost was formed in 2010 by Bart Schwartz and former IBM security director Joe Rosetti. Schwartz is a former prosecutor for the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York. Rosetti formed the SafirRosetti firm in 2002 with former New York City Police Commissioner Howard Safir. In 2002, SafirRosetti opened a Washington office. It was headed by former Kroll Associates North America manager Richard Rosetti. SafirRosetti was partly owned by Omnicom, a Washington-based holding company whose empire included a number of public relations assets, including Fleishman-Hillard, Inc.; Porter Novelli International; Ketchum; Chlopak, Leonard, Schecter; Clark & Weinstock; Cone Public Relations; Mathews Media Group; Russ Reid; Steve Cram and the Washington Speakers Bureau.

Guidepost is owned by SolutionPoint International, which consults with state and federal law enforcement agencies, posing potential conflicts-of-interest in the case against Strauss-Kahn. Another major conflict-of-interest looms in the Strauss-Kahn case. Guidepost's advisers include Robert McGuire, a former New York Police Commissioner.

Last March, Guidepost Solutions acquired OSO Group, an international investigation firm, thus expanding, Guidepost's international reach. OSO Group was founded by John Gibbons, the former Chief of the Justice Department's Criminal Division for both the Northern and Eastern Districts of California and Deputy Chief of the Organized Crime and Racketeering Strike Force in Los Angeles. Gibbons also opened offices for the CIA-linked Kroll Associates in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Hong Kong. OSO Group was billed as "the first commercial counterespionage group established in the private sector."

Time will tell whether Ms. Diallo, a struggling widow and mother who left her native Guinea under difficult circumstances, will see justice prevail. However, given the nature of the team of ex-CIA spooks, G-men, private gumshoes, PR flacks, and lawyers -- all with significant political and law enforcement connections -- assembled by Strauss-Kahn and his friends, the deck appears to be stacked greatly against the sex crime victim. In what may be more ominous for the victim, the network of ex-spooks and law enforcement officials have links to those who previously served at the CIA station and U.S. embassy security detachment in Conakry, the Guinean capital. These agents-for-hire can be expected to scour Guinea for any evidence they can use to disparage the sexual assault victim and if they come up empty-handed, they can be relied on, in typical neocon fashion, to forge documents to libel the victim.

Rather than see a Madoff-style conviction and prison sentence, Strauss-Kahn appears to be waltzing himself into a situation where he will be described as the "victim" of a conspiracy. Already, there are reports surfacing that Strauss-Kahn's resignation letter sent to the IMF contained more than five paragraphs. a reported three-page letter allegedly contained information about knowledge that Strauss-Kahn obtained as IMF chief that concerns high-level manipulation of the American financial system. Strauss-Kahn's "gray mailing" may be directed more to his defense team of ex-CIA, FBI, and former high-level federal officials so that they, in turn, can threaten the U.S. government with drastic consequences if the criminal proceedings against him continue....