Monday, May 02, 2011

CIA/MOSSAD/MI6/BND/DGSE/SISMI… False Flag attacks, 9/11, OBL and the Charades continue.


CIA/MOSSAD/MI6/BND/DGSE/SISMI… False Flag attacks, 9/11, OBL and FDDC Charades continue.

GOP must be boiling mad. Obama laid claim to their favorite wars and their favorite bogeyman, too...

9/11 was an inside Job Wall to Wall, with 19 Patsies, OBL & Al-CIAda. Every intelligence agency in the World, worthy of that name, knows it perfectly well since 2001.


The Courageous President of Italy, Cossiga said it out loud, as well as some Japanese Parliamentarians, Ahmadinejad and many others. The 9/11 truth movement, filled with Architects, Engineers, US officers from NORAD, DIA etc., US Pilots, NYC Firefighters and Policemen, demolition experts, scholars & more, is alive and kicking. The American people deserve better than this utter monstrosity of sheer propaganda, ever since the advent of the PNAC/Ziocon Killers/assassins of the most infamous White House Murder INC, in 1995, and the American people will reclaim their Government and Congress soon enough. Encouraging signs appear all over the great US Campuses. They are the only ones capable of changing this Cabal of war criminals for good.


USA has become a Banana Republic since 2000, on par with the old Soviet Politburo, North Korea, Eric Honecker’s East Germany, Pravda, Tishreen, the 3rd Reich and Zimbabwe, to name a few. The crumbling Empire is too desperate and pulling all the Stops from its dirty bag of Tricks, and much more is in the Pipeline. The worst part is that ALL the Western world, the MSM, the UKUSA alliance of evils, the UN, NATO,EU, the Arab stooges & puppets, etc. are singing the same ZIOCON tunes, babbling, blathering, and regurgitating the same fallacies about 9/11, Al-CIAda and the bogus war on “terror”.

You think CIA/MOSSAD/MI6/BND/DGSE/SISMI… False Flag

attacks are rare and far between, think again, 9/11 was only their

latest savage and barbaric attack, and a prelude to the most

Infamous White House Murder INC, in the Levant and Worldwide.

They still have no shame and continue their charade of OBL,

Al-CIAda and utter FDDC Propaganda, reminiscent of the 3rd Reich.

Les attentats commis en Belgique (“Les tueurs fous du Brabant”),
en Allemagne (bombe à la Fête de la bière à München), en Italie
(la bombe à la gare de Bologne, par exemple), commis par des
groupes militaires ou paramilitaires d’extrême-droite, sous-traitants
de Gladio, branche secrète et terroriste de l’OTAN, dirigée de fait
par la C.I.A.

La Belgique, la Suisse et l’Italie sont les seuls pays qui aient soumis
Gladio sur leur sol à une enquête parlementaire, lesquelles ont subi
tous les obstacles possibles pour protéger les coupables et
commanditaires au plus haut niveau…
Alors que l’Europe est progressivement scindée en deux blocs à la fin
de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, les Américains et les Britanniques
mettent en place des armées secrètes, des réseaux appelés «Stay
Behind», destinés à réagir en cas d’invasion soviétique. Mais alors
même qu’une attaque russe devient improbable, ces réseaux ne seront
jamais démantelés. Avec l’appui et l’instigation de la CIA, Ils sont même
à l’origine d’actes de terrorisme et responsables de la mort d’innocents
civils. A chaque fois que la gauche menaçait d’accéder au pouvoir, ils
ont usé de la force et sont intervenus dans les processus démocratiques
nationaux. Parfois, ils ont été protégés par les forces de police et les
services de sécurité pour préserver leur capacité de nuisance et de
Terreur, Made in CIA, NATO & USA.

En France, on sait que le coup du 13 mai 1958 a été favorisé
par le Département d’Etat et son instrument Gladio, tout frétillants
d’aise de voir arriver un dictateur militaire en France. Plus tard,
réalisant leur erreur, ils ont aidé et armé l’OAS, chargée notamment
d’assassiner Charles De Gaulle…

Après plusieurs étapes, De Gaulle a finalement expulsé l’OTAN en 1966,
qui doit déménager de Marly-le-Roi à Mons et Casteau, en Belgique, et
qui déplace son siège de Paris à Bruxelles.

Citation de: http://www.ena.lu

Extraits de l’enquête de Daniele Ganser :

Quand le juge Felice Casson a dévoilé le Gladio…
http://www.voltairenet.org/article162546.html

Quand le Gladio fut découvert dans les États européens…
http://www.voltairenet.org/article162685.html

Gladio : Pourquoi l’OTAN, la CIA et le MI6 continuent de nier…
http://www.voltairenet.org/article162763.html

Les égouts de Sa Majesté
http://www.voltairenet.org/article163017.html

La guerre secrète, activité centrale de la politique étrangère de
Washington
http://www.voltairenet.org/article163478.html

La guerre secrète en Italie
http://www.voltairenet.org/article163905.html

(L’assassinat d’Aldo Moro, attribué au Brigades rouges, était dû en
réalité au Gladio…)

La guerre secrète en France
http://www.voltairenet.org/article169477.html

La guerre secrète en Espagne
http://www.voltairenet.org/article169649.html


Osama is a man who by all reasonable accounts (even from Benazir Bhutto) died years ago.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnychOXj9Tg


At a time when the USA has a president with a record low approval rating, a CIA under more fire than ever for killing innocents in Pakistan and a widespread acceptance the war on terror is a failure I find it hard to believe that they finally found a man they've been after for 20 years.

Even worse is that they have just assassinated Osama Bin Laden and had the nerve to say it is "justice" well done shows me they don't care for the rule of law nor due process that their own constitution guarantees.

I heard a quote that sums up the news and times we live in, "the lies we hear are the children of lies".

And the pics sold to us as "Osama dead" are about 2 years old and circulated on the internet big time back then. Ha, ha! How can u get sheeple more distracted (from a serious matter like Obama's birth certificate)? By "killing" an imaginary enemy like Ben Laden. Well done, moron!



Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Bill Clinton cashes in dirty $$ while his "wife" looks the other way....


Bill Clinton cashes in dirty $$ while his "wife" looks the other way....

April , 2011 -- Bill Clinton: Bag man for Nigerian and other money?

On March 25, 2011, former President Bill Clinton was in Lagos, Nigeria for the ThisDay annual awards for Excellence and Good Governance at the posh Eko Hotel. Clinton was in Nigeria in his capacity as the head of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI). Informed sources have told us that Clinton's CGI fund has been raking in millions of dollars from dubious and suspect businessmen and government leaders around the world. The former President's money raising activities are being conducted with the full knowledge of the U.S. State Department and his wife, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Clinton, according to the official record, departed Lagos to speak to the 2nd Global Sustainability Symposium in Manaus, Brazil on March 27. However, we have been informed that Clinton made a stop after visiting Nigeria and Brazil in the Cayman Islands. The purpose, we are told, was to make a sizable deposit in a Grand Cayman bank account.

In the wee hours of May 28, Clinton's private jet arrived at Owen Roberts International Airport on Grand Cayman. The official reason for Clinton's Cayman stopover was to speak at the "Embracing our Common Humanity fundraiser at the Ritz-Carlton on March 28. US Secret Service and Royal Cayman Islands Police Service personnel accompanied Clinton's motorcade to a residence on Grand Cayman.

With reports that Clinton has benefited from the financial largess of unscrupulous mining tycoons from Canada to Kazakhstan, suspicions have been raised that the purpose of Clinton's stopover in the Caymans was to deposit some ill-gotten loot from Nigeria, which has become a virtual kleptocracy as a result of the siphoning off of billions in revenues generated by the Nigerian oil industry, and from international businessmen cronies who Clinton met in Brazil.



Suspicions raised after Bill Clinton's plane arrives in early morning in Grand Cayman.

The Clinton Foundation has been cited by a number of critics for its lack of transparency. The Foundation's main benefactors are Canadian mining magnate and Clinton friend Frank Giustra and Mexican telecommunications multi-billionaire and the world's richest man Carlos Slim Helu. Giustra's business links to the Kazakhstan dictator Nursultan Nazarbayev and the Kazakh state uranium agency Kazatomprom have served as a basis to criticize Clinton's own business links, using the veneer of the Clinton Foundation, to collect money from some of the world's most unsavory leaders and business interests.

The Clinton Foundation has also received millions of dollars from Saudi Arabia, Jamaica, Italy, Qatar, Brunei, Norway, Dubai, Kuwait, and the Dutch National Lottery. The foundation's corporate donors have included the former Blackwater security company and Colombia's Gold Service International, a firm with close ties to the former Colombian President and human rights criminal Alvaro Uribe. The Clinton Foundation has also attracted sizable contributions from Canadian zinc and copper mining companies, as well as from Israeli-American Zionist businessman Haim Saban, Canadian billionaire Edgar Bronfman, Jr., the American Jewish Committee, and disaster capitalist George Soros....

In Manaus, Clinton called for the United States and Brazil to cut greenhouse gas emissions. However, in Nigeria and Brazil Clinton apparently benefited personally from green cash emissions...

Contract fraud in USA reaches into the upper echelons of the Democratic and Republican parties.


Contract fraud in USA reaches into the upper echelons of the Democratic and Republican parties.

April , 2011 -- More to DC corruption case than meets the eye...

There's an old saying in journalism that there is no news story if a dog bites a man, However, if a man bites a dog, that is something that rises to the level of a reportable event. The same situation exists, of course, with corruption in the District of Columbia government.

In a lawsuit filed before the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on October 15, 2010, the construction company Cheeks of North America, Inc. (CNA) alleges that a
consortium of inter-linked construction firms have successfully bid on road and highway construction and repair contracts in DC that have effectively frozen out other competitors.

CNA also charges that
the firms that have reaped millions of dollars in construction contracts, including increased funding made available by President Obama's "stimulus" package, have been siphoned off in kickbacks to top DC politicians from the winning bidders.

The civil case has been assigned to U.S. Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly. The suit by CNA owner John C. Cheeks, charges that Fort Myer Construction Corp., Anchor Construction LLC, Capitol Paving of DC, Inc., Civil Construction, LLC, and A&M Concrete Corporation have rigged bids to ensure that the five companies, all with inter-locking directors and officers, that resulted in the "near total subversion of the control mechanism of the infrastructure contracts in the District of Columbia."

Also named in the lawsuit, among others, are former DC Mayor Adrian Fenty; DC Attorney General Peter J. Nickle; the DC Water and Sewer Authority; the DC Department of Transportation; and DC Councilman Jim Graham, the chairman of the Council Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Current Mayor Vincent Gray, although not named in the suit, is said to have known about the bid-rigging while serving as DC Council President, according to sources familiar with the case. One DC Council member who is said to be clean in the affair is the previously scandal-plagued mayor Marion Barry.

The corruption involving rigged construction and other infrastructure contracts might be chalked up as "more of the same" except for one major wrinkle. WMR has been told that the FBI has been trying to close down the rigged construction contract operation, said to extend from Washington DC to New York and Philadelphia over the past ten years. However, after some brief success in New York, the DC federal investigation of the multi-million dollar scam has encountered a slowdown with U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. WMR has been told by informed sources that the Superior Court for the District of Columbia has been part of an attempt to stymie the prosecution of the construction corruption principals. Holder was appointed as a judge on the DC Superior Court by President Reagan in 1988.

In addition, WMR has been told by informed sources that the construction contract corruption involves DC Delegate to the House of Representatives Eleanor Holmes-Norton and House Democratic Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. WMR has also learned that the FBI has been investigating the multi-city contract fraud as part of an overall investigation of organized crime syndicates that have taken over government construction bidding and contract award processes. The FBI's focus has been on New York, Washington, DC, Philadelphia, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.

Politicians who have received campaign donations from the construction consortium principals named as defendants in the CNA suit include Fenty; Graham; DC Council Members Kwame Brown, Muriel Bowser,and Phil Mendelson; and former DC Mayor Anthony Williams. National-level politicians who received donations from the construction cartel include Hillary Clinton for her 2008 presidential campaign, John McCain for his 2008 presidential campaign, and Virginia Senator Mark Warner.

John Cheeks, WMR has been informed, has received a number of death threats since blowing the whistle on construction contract fraud. Cheeks has also been followed. The FBI, we are told, is aware of the threats against Cheeks but also appears to have been constrained in aggressively pursuing the fraudsters from higher-ups in the Justice Department.



Monday, April 25, 2011

I-Phone, Android, etc. back doors are courtesy of the NSA.


April , 2011 -- I-Phone, I-Pad, Microsoft, office, Sun, Java, Android, etc. back doors are courtesy of the NSA.

NSA: Spying on innocent Americans since 1952....

News reports that Apple's I-Phone and I-Pads, as well as Google's Android operating system-enabled phones can track a user's location, as well as Internet activities, is nothing new, according to a well-placed intelligence source. In fact, the Apple and Google "spy ware" is courtesy of a deal struck with the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), which is the ultimate recipient of the location and web data being collected by Apple and Google.

NSA's aggressive insistence that it have "back door" access to state-of-the-art commercial communications products was on display in the 1990s when Britain's Ministry of Defense discovered eight different back doors installed in Windows 98 and subsequent releases of the operating system. Microsoft is a long-time partner of the NSA in ensuring that its products are accessible by the American eavesdropping agency.

Although Britain's Government Communications Headquarters is a signals intelligence (SIGINT) partner of the NSA, a "rainbow team" representing computer security experts, drawn from multiple British government agencies. discovered the NSA back doors while conducting a security evaluation of Britain's latest tank battlefield system. While back engineering the Microsoft source code at their research facility at Farnborough, the team discovered the eight NSA back doors.

Microsoft threatened legal action against the British government for what the firm considered to be the illegal examination of its source code. However, after the British government claimed Crown immunity and threatened to leak the information about the NSA back doors to the media, Microsoft backed down. Britain removed the eight back doors and was able to secure its tank and other battlefield systems from the NSA.

Apple, Facebook and Google, like Microsoft, have remained quiet about the surveillance capabilities of their products. Our intelligence source stresses that the silence from Apple and Google is being directed by the actual developer of the surveillance back doors, the NSA....


Wednesday, April 06, 2011

KIM PHILBY : WHO WAS HE WORKING FOR?

Kim Philby

Kim Philby trained James Jesus Angleton. (The Cambridge Spy Ring - The Education Forum)

Kim Philby was a spy, but for whom was he really working?

Harold "Kim" Philby (1912 – 1988) was born in India.

His father, Harry St. John Philby, was a British spy.

St John Philby, left, and family

In 1921, Harry St. John Philby 1921, became UK head of the Secret Service in the British Mandate of Palestine.

He was in favour of Jewish immigration into Palestine. He got to know the Rothschilds. (St John Philby - Wikipedia)

In the 1930s, Harry St John Philby worked for Standard Oil of California (Socal), helping it get control of oil in Saudi Arabia.

Harry St John Philby, aided by Allen Dulles, helped Saudi Arabia negotiate a deal to allow Saudi oil to reach Hitler's Germany. (St John Philby - Wikipedia )

Victor Rothschild joined MI5 during the Second World War. After the liberation of France, Rothschild worked with Dick White, Kim Philby and Malcolm Muggeridge at the MI6 offices established at the Rothschild family mansion in Paris. Edward Heath, in 1970, appointed him head of the government's Central Policy Review Staff. Later Margaret Thatcher appointed Rothschild as her unofficial security adviser.

While a student at Cambridge University, Kim Philby began his long friendship with Victor Rothschild.

Lord Victor Rothschild became an important memeber of the British security services, and reportedly gave away many secrets to Russia and Israel.

At Cambridge, Kim Philby also got to know Maurice Dobb; a Communist sympathizer'. Dobb put Kim Philby in contact with the Communist underground in Vienna, Austria.

In Vienna, Kim Philby fell in love with Litzi Friedmann (née Alice Kohlmann), a Communist of Hungarian Jewish origins.

Kim Philby and Litzi Friedmann married 1934. Reportedly, Litzi recruited Kim Philby as a Soviet spy.

Kim Philby became a journalist and a member the Anglo-German Fellowship, which supported the Nazi Party in Germany.

In 1936, Litzi and Kim Philby split up. They divorced in 1946.

In 1937, Kim Philby traveled to Spain, reporting on the civil war for The Times, and apparently working for Soviet intelligence.

Kim Philby 'trumpeted' the victories of the fascists and was awarded the Red Cross of Military Merit by Franco in 1938.

John Philby (son of Kim), Kim Philby, George Blake, in Moscow. In 1948, when John Philby was five, Guy Burgess came to stay for a holiday at the Philbys sprawling villa in Turkey. "John's mother resented Burgess and his close relationship with her husband, and began staging accidents to claim attention; she once reported being mugged in her car, and on another occasion set fire to the living room, suffering serious burns. She was later sent to a Swiss clinic for treatment. Philby was posted to the United States the following year." Website for this image

While in Spain, Philby had an affair with Frances Doble, Lady Lindsay-Hogg, an actress and aristocratic divorcée who was an admirer of Francisco Franco and Adolf Hitler.

In 1940, Philby began living with Aileen Furse in London. Their first three children were Josephine, John, and Dudley Thomas.

In 1940, Walter Krivitsky, a Soviet spy who had defected to the West, was interviewed by MI5 officers in London.

Krivitsky claimed that a certain Soviet intelligence agent had worked as a journalist for a British newspaper during the civil war in Spain.

In 1940, Philby was working for MI6.

In 1944, Philby became head of MI6's Section Nine, which kept an eye on Communist activities.

Reportedly, James Jesus Angleton had his suspicions about Philby's loyalties.

In August 1945, Konstantin Volkov, a high-ranking Soviet spy in Istanbul, wanted to defect to Britain.

Volkov claimed to know the names of three Soviet agents inside Britain. Philby warned the Soviets about Volkov, who was sent back to Moscow.

In February 1947, Philby was appointed head of British intelligence for Turkey, and posted to Istanbul with his second wife, Aileen, and their family.

In 1949, Philby became chief of British intelligence in Washington.

He was responsible for liaising with the newly-formed CIA.

From September 1949, the British and American intelligence services had been developing a plan to topple the communist regime in Albania.

Albanian émigré guerrillas were trained by British and American forces, and from 1950 to 1952, these guerrilla forces were parachuted into Albania.

Thanks to Philby, the Albanian regime was able to capture and kill the guerrillas.

Guy Burgess

In October 1950, Guy Burgess, Philby's 'flamboyantly homosexual' Cambridge colleague and fellow Soviet spy came to work at the British Embassy in Washington.

Burgess took up residence in the Philby family home.

J. Edgar Hoover complained that Burgess used British Embassy cars to avoid arrest when he cruised Washington in pursuit of homosexual sex.

The morning after a certain party at Philby's house, a guest found "Kim and Guy in bed together drinking champagne."

In May 1951, Burgess, and his fellow Soviet spy Donald Maclean, fled to Moscow.

Philby returned to London to be quizzed by MI5.

In July 1951, Philby 'resigned' from MI6

In October 1955, Philby was officially cleared by Foreign Secretary Harold Macmillan, who told the House of Commons, "I have no reason to conclude that Mr. Philby has at any time betrayed the interests of his country."

In August 1956, Philby was sent to Beirut; Lebanon as a Middle East correspondent for The Observer and The Economist.

He was still working for MI6.

Philby began an affair with Eleanor, wife of New York Times correspondent Sam Pope Brewer.

Aileen Philby died in England in 1957.

Philby married Eleanor in 1959.

In 1961, the KGB's Anatoliy Golitsyn defected to the United States from his post in Helsinki.

Golitsyn produced evidence pointing to Philby being a Soviet agent.

In 1962, Nicholas Elliott, an MI6 officer, interviewed Philby in Beirut.

Philby confessed that he worked for the Soviets.

On 23 January 1963, Philby vanished from Beirut and eventually turned up in Moscow.

Reportedly, the KGB did not trust Philby.

Philby began an affair with Donald Maclean's wife, Melinda.

Philby divorced Eleanor.

In 1971, Philby married Rufina Ivanova Pukhova, a Russo-Polish woman twenty years his junior, with whom he lived until his death in 1988.

According to Rufina, in the late 1960s Philby attempted suicide by slashing his wrists.

And what of Philby's 'friend' Angleton?

Angleton, who was of the pro-Israel faction in the CIA. He was head of Counter Intelligence at the CIA from 1954 - 1975.

There is a theory that the key people in the CIA have always worked on friendly terms with the key people in the KGB and the key people in Mossad.


And Jewish folks are very influential in certain countries.

According to Haaretz, "Every appointee to the American government must endure a thorough background check by the American Jewish community."
(American Jews eye Obama's 'anti-Israel' appointees - Haaretz ...
)

James Jesus Angleton worked for the CIA.

He may also have worked for Mossad.

He may have realised that Mossad always worked closely with the KGB.

USS Liberty

A Spotlight report, of 21 November 1977, claimed that Angleton conspired with Israel to attack the USS Liberty. (USS Liberty)

Reportedly, Angleton believed the sinking of the Liberty could be used as a "Pearl Harbour" type of incident to turn Americans against the Arabs.



It was Angleton who negotiated an agreement whereby Israel and America agreed not spy on each other. LOL (Book Reviews: Every Spy a Prince)

(The agreement was nullified by Admiral Stansfield Turner, when he was Jimmy Carter's CIA director. But, Mossad contined to work closely with the CIA.They are Siamese Twins today..........)


Terence Hawkes wrote that Angleton's friendship with Mossad "gave him a major role in preserving Israel's secrecy in respect of Suez.

"As the officer in charge of the Israeli 'account', he supported the Israeli atomic bomb programme." (James Jesus Angleton by Michael Holzman reviewed by Terence Hawkes TLS)

After Angleton died, a memorial to him was erected in Jerusalem.

James Jesus Angleton's father, according to a close friend, Max Corvo, was "ultra-conservative" and a fascist sympathizer. (James Angleton)

It was during World War II that James Jesus Angleton became a spy.

Reportedly Angleton helped set up Operation Gladio, which involved CIA militias carrying out acts of muderous terrorism in Italy.

"Angleton built on family and business connections in Italy to lay the basis of Gladio...

"He also helped notorious Nazi/fascist mass-murderers such as Junio Valerio 'Black Prince' Borghese elude justice at war's end." (Cached)

Philby, friend of the KGB and MOSSAD.

In 1943 Angleton was sent to London to be trained by MI5 officer Kim Philby, who turned out to be a friend of the KGB and Mossad. (James Angleton)

In 1951 Angleton was sent to Israel where he helped to set up Mossad.

According to Eustace Mullins (CHAPTER FIVE - The CIA - 3): "While CIA station chief in Rome, the CIA's Angleton "worked closely with the Zionist terrorists Teddy Kollek and Jacob Meridor, and later became chief of the Israeli desk at the CIA, helping Philby to set up the lavishly funded international Mossad espionage operation, all paid for by American taxpayers..."

In 1951, the CIA was investigating Kim Philby, the top MI6 agent working in Washington.

The CIA director, Walter Bedell Smith, asked Angleton and William Harvey to write separate reports on Philby. (James Angleton)

Harvey concluded that Philby was a Soviet spy.

Angleton defended Philby.

Smith took the advice of Angleton.

Philby escaped to the Soviet Union in 1963.

Reportedly, Kim Philby was assisted in escaping to the Soviet Union by the Israeli Mossad (Sunday Telegraph, April 16, 1989) Cached.

(Lord Victor Rothschild was allegedly one of the other top Soviet spies in the UK ; Soviet spy Guy Burgess was close to Rothschild.)

In 1954 CIA boss Allen Dulles appointed Angleton as chief of the CIA's counter-intelligence section.


Angleton provided information to the Warren Commission.

Some people have claimed that Angleton was involved in covering up the CIA's involvement in the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

Golitsin

Angleton interviewed Anatoli Golitsin, a KGB agent who defected to the CIA.

Golitsin suggested that W. Averell Harriman had been a Soviet spy, while he was the U.S. Ambassador to Russia during the Second World War. (James Angleton)

According to Eric Margolis, Angleton "became an active 'asset' or at least very close ally of Israel’s Mossad, and a champion of Israel’s causes in Washington." (FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT, by Eric Margolis)

Clare Edward Petty, of the CIA's Special Investigation Group (SIG), concluded that there was an "80-85 percent probability" that Angleton was a Soviet spy. (James Angleton)

Kissinger

In 1973, James Schlesinger temporarily became Director of the CIA.

Angleton gave Schlesinger a list of people that he thought were Soviet agents.

This list included Harold Wilson, the British prime minister, Olof Palme, the Swedish prime minister, Willy Brandt, chairman of the West German Social Democratic Party, Averell Harriman, the former U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union, Lester Pearson, the Canadian prime minister and Henry Kissinger, the National Security Adviser and Secretary of State under President Richard Nixon.

Schlesinger thought Angleton was suffering from paranoia.

In mid 1973, William Colby became the Director of the CIA.

Colby was not impressed with Angleton.

Colby said he could not find any evidence "that we ever caught a spy under Jim". (James Angleton)

So, are the key spooks often in league with each other?

The newspaper Scotland on Sunday reported, on 16/9/ 2001, that Osama bin Laden made his fortune in part by working with Jewish-Russian mafia operations in Qatar KSA and Cyprus.

According to Wayne Madsen, "The Bin Laden drug network ... intersects with Geneva-based financial entities established by George H. W. Bush while he was CIA director and Vice President and President of the United States." -

Reportedly, "Angleton had an alliance with ... the Mafia, dating from 1944 when he was an O.S.S. officer in Italy.

"'Operation Gladio' ... was based on Angleton's fascist-Mafia connections, and employed ... the Mafia to assassinate some who couldn't be bribed, e.g. Prime Minster Aldo Moro." (Cached)


International banking and Mafia Fascists...

Thus the question 'Was Philby a communist or a fascist?' becomes irrelevant. He was both! He was whatever served. If International Banking needs to prod the fascists, and then later it needs to prod the communists, then bullshit artists like Philby and Angleton et al will simply swap hats.

For the Rothschilds, wars are dandy and should someone tumble to this agent or that agent (wearing this hat or that hat) so much the better! Like they care if terrestrial powers tear each other apart or tear themselves apart without any outside assistance. It's all good.

The Rothschilds or course don't exist as such and laugh their heads off when we the idiot masses shake our fists at the CIA, or the communists, or whomever the TV points us at.


Monday, March 28, 2011

More WikiLeaks selective releases of cables endanger other governments...


March , 2011 -- More WikiLeaks selective releases of cables endanger other governments...

We are following up on our March 24-25 report on how the selective release of US State Department cables from the US embassy in Jakarta was being used to damage President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono of majority Muslim Indonesia and even incite a revolution against him....

Assange said to be working for Mossad and CIA interests....

In what appears to be a concerted effort to create more political havoc in Muslim nations, we have now learned that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange passed cables sent by the then U.S. ambassador to Turkey, Eric Edelman, a notorious neocon and Israel supporter, to the Turkish newspaper Taraf in order to damage the election chances of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party. The leaked cables were then translated into Turkish and published by the newspaper. The cables mainly consisted of criticisms of the AK Party and Erdogan by Edelman, particularly of the AK Party's more independent foreign policy on the Middle East...

We have learned from knowledgeable Turkish sources that Turkish intelligence suspects that Assange has been working for some time for Israel's Mossad and the CIA in using selectively-leaked classified State Department cables, most of which contain information gleaned from diplomatic cocktail receptions and translations of local newspapers, to bring about rebellions against leaders of Muslim and Arab nations...

The WikiLeaks cable release operation, from the outset, targeted the government of a number of countries, but not Israel...

Interference in Turkish domestic politics by the United States and Israel has prompted severe criticism from a number of Turkish leaders. At a Turkish-American Friendship dinner held in midtown Manhattan on March 24, Mehmet Ali Sahin, speaker of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, said that a year ago, in March 2010, "groups in the U.S. were working against Turkey." Sahin was referring to the Israeli attack on the Turkish vessel Mavi Marmara, which was transporting aid to Gaza and was attacked by Israeli military forces in international waters. A Turkish-American citizen, Furkan Dogan, was killed in the attack. Neither President Obama or Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ever called Dogan's family and offered condolences... The Israel Lobby, among the "groups" to whom Sahin was obviously referring, launched a vicious propaganda campaign against the organizers of the Gaza aid fleet -- largely through the auspices of the Israeli-influenced corporate media...

Sahin stated that "no country has the right to impose its policies on other countries," a remark that may also echo Turkey's thoughts on the current Western military attacks on Libya....
Anonymous has another stark warning for the world's elites: it is currently conducting data matching and fusion of information contained in the State Department cables and banking data and hacked email it has obtained from around the world... The picture that Anonymous is painting is one of the State Department being part and parcel of a global "pay-to-play" operation for foreign and U.S. defense contracts and the siphoning of kickbacks by world leaders to numbered bank accounts in Switzerland, the Cayman Islands, Liechtenstein, and elsewhere. From the information gleaned from multiple sources by Anonymous, it is clear that the CIA facilitates America's "pay-to-play" system of corruption and contract fraud...

The video below has singled out one-time George W. Bush political counselor Rove for special attention... Anonymous has discovered that Rove has traveled the world cutting deals between foreign governments and U.S. defense firms, including those involving Europe's EADS and the controversial US Air Force refueling tanker contract, as well as Swedish Saab fighter contracts with other nations. Rove's deals also involved Swedish firms, including those owned by the Wallenbergs, receiving U.S. defense contracts, including radar system deals, in return for the rendition of individuals in Sweden to Egypt and Syria for torture by an joint Egyptian-CIA apparatus headed up by Egypt's new vice president and former Mukhabarat intelligence chief Omar Suleiman, who is also known as "Sheik Al Torture." and with Asef Shawkat in Syria's MI who is one of the Chief Liaison with US intelligence .

The global payola scam also involved top French government officials who benefited from sweetheart rendition and defense contract deals with Tunisia and Egypt. French Prime Minister Francois Fillon apparently took more than a free vacation to Egypt from the Mubarak government. French Foreign Minister Michele Alliot-Marie, a former French defense minister, also received more than just a free Christmas vacation, along with her Cabinet minister husband, from Tunisia's dictator Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali before he was ousted in a popular revolt. What Anonymous has discovered is a global pattern of such kickbacks in return for lucrative contracts and the world's elites growing wealthier as a result. The graft and corruption globally is sweeping, with details of pay-offs to then-Prime Minister Tony Blair and his ministers by BP in return for releasing accused Lockerbie bomber
Abdelbaset al-Megrahi from a Scottish prison to Libya in return for lucrative Libyan oil concessions and a defense contract with Sri Lanka during the Bush administration that permitted that nation's government to commit a genocidal campaign against ethnic Tamils being just the tip of the iceberg...

State Department cables previously leaked and those that have to be revealed show that U.S. diplomats are the prime facilitators of U.S. graft and corruption, with member companies of the US Chamber of Commerce and top Pentagon contractors reaping a financial whirlwind as a result.

Anonymous plans to release 40 more videos outlining the connections between U.S. political leaders and top-level bribery and kickbacks, including a deal worked out by then-President George W. Bush between Saudi Arabia and Boeing that saw Boeing receive a major Saudi Air Force contract in return for the King of Saudi Arabia receiving a plane similar to the Boeing 747 used as Air Force One. In the deal, Bush pocketed a "handling fee" that ended up in a Bush numbered account from a Saudi numbered account in an off-shore bank. And the trove of fused data from the cables and financial and email data show that Bush and Rove are not alone in receiving payola from his fronting for U.S. firms: the recipients of bribes and kickbacks include Hillary and Bill Clinton, Dick Cheney, Vice President Joe Biden, and President Obama. Anonymous has uncovered details of Obama personally lobbying overseas for Boeing, with the now "accepted" practice of kickbacks ending up in the president's off-shore accounts. Boeing is headquartered in Obama's hometown of Chicago. And when it comes to this level of corruption, America can always count on its political police force, the FBI, to protect the criminals and attack the sources of the information, as the G-men are now doing to Anonymous....
Access to the cables did not come from hacking into the network but from individuals who had legitimate access and clearances. It was Anonymous that provided the cables to Wikileaks. And Anonymous is planning on conducting leaks of more enhanced information, the combination of cable information with financial banking information to expose leaders around the world as corrupt. Anonymous did not give Wikileaks the "entire store." In addition to the Secret cable traffic from SIPRNet, Anonymous claims to have cables with classifications higher than Secret, traffic that sheds more light on the overriding role that "neocons and Zionists" play in shaping American foreign policy...

Anonymous apparently includes members inside the U.S. government who have access to classified information and who are determined to break America's chains to Israel by exposing more classified information. The original access to classified networks by Anonymous members came as a result of the government hiring consultants to examine the possible penetration of classified Pentagon networks by foreign intelligence agencies. In fact, the actual source of the State Department cables seen as most damaging to the interests of the neocons and Zionists is described to us as "an anti-Zionist/neocon faction" operating inside the U.S. government. Wikileaks and Assange, on the other hand, have done their best to suppress the cables seen as most damaging to neocon and Israeli interests...

It is the penetration of the State Department's communications networks by Anonymnous that prompted Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to call all of America's ambassadors, consuls general, and special envoys to Washington for an unprecedented diplomatic "all hands" meeting. We have learned that Clinton briefed the envoys on the State Department's security problems and that information sent over channels through to be safe was no longer guaranteed security. Other means of communicating sensitive information from overseas posts to Washington were apparently discussed. In addition, the fallout from bigger and more damaging leaks of classified cables matched with off-shore banking information and emails was also discussed with the envoys. The fallout includes the spread of Tunisia- and Egypt-style popular revolts around the world and the need by the diplomats to be prepared for a surge in anti-American attitudes globally...

The word on the street is that the world's "military-industrial-political" complex is worried about further releases of sensitive information and is bracing itself for a global rebellion when the true nature of the world's elites is revealed around the world. Anonymous has an ultimate target based on what it has managed to obtain from computers and networks around the world: the Council on Foreign Relations and the Rockefeller family. It is now obvious why Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) wants an Internet "kill switch" to be thrown by the president of the United States. Their futures depend on it...


Sunday, March 13, 2011

“Al-CIAda” Creates “Cosmo” Magazine?–Seriously, You Guys Are Freakin’ Morons...


“Al-CIAda” Creates “Cosmo” Magazine?–Seriously, You Guys Are Freakin’ Morons...

By DAILY MAIL REPORTER

The cover of Al-Shamikha magazineThe cover of Al-Shamikha magazine

Al-Qaeda has launched a women’s magazine that mixes beauty and fashion tips with advice on suicide bombings.

Dubbed ‘Jihad Cosmo’, the glossy magazine’s front cover features the barrel of a sub-machine gun next to a picture a woman in a veil.

There are exclusive interviews with martyrs’ wives, who praise their husbands’ decisions to die in suicide attacks.

The slick, 31-page Al-Shamikha magazine – meaning The Majestic Woman – has advice for singletons on ‘marrying a mujahideen’.

Readers are told it is their duty to raise children to be mujahideen ready for jihad.

And the ‘beauty column’ instructs women to stay indoors with their faces covered to keep a ‘clear complexion’.

They should ‘not go out except when necessary’ and wear a niqab for ‘rewards by complying with the command of Allah Almighty’.

A woman called Umm Muhanad hails her husband for his bravery after his suicide bombing in Afghanistan.

And another article urges readers to give their lives for the Islamist cause.

It advises: ‘From martyrdom, the believer will gain security, safety and happiness.’

More traditional content for a women’s magazine includes features on the merits of honey facemasks, etiquette, first aid and why readers should avoid ‘towelling too forcibly’.

A trailer for the next issue promises tips on skin care – and how to wage electronic jihad.

The magazine includes exclusive interviews with the wives of martyrs, who praise their husband's suicide missions. A beauty column instructs women to keep their faces covered and stay indoors The magazine includes exclusive interviews with the wives of martyrs, who praise their husband’s suicide missions. A beauty column instructs women to keep their faces covered and stay indoors....

The first issue’s editorial explains that the magazine’s goal is to educate women and involve them in the war against the enemies of Islam.

It says: Because women constitute half of the population – and one might even say that they are the population since they give birth to the next generation – the enemies of Islam are bent on preventing the Muslim woman from knowing the truth about her religion and her role, since they know all too well what would happen if women entered the field of jihad.

‘The nation of Islam needs women who know the truth about their religion and about the battle and its dimensions and know what is expected of them.’

The publication is being distributed online by the same Al-Qaeda media wing behind Inspire, a similarly slick magazine that encourages young Muslims in the West to commit terrorist atrocities.

James Brandon at anti-extremism think tank Quilliam, said: ‘Al-Qaeda see how effective magazines are at pushing the ideals of western culture and want to try the same thing.

‘As a result they have come up with a jihadist’s version of Cosmopolitan magazine.’

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Will China attack Siberia or just buy it out?



Will China attack Siberia or just buy it out?

As China gets more and more desperate because of the continued drought, it will look north to its Russian neighbor for water and arable land to feed the millions of starving Chinese....Or, Will Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Africa become the breadbasket of China?

It may not have to attack Siberia, it could just buy it outright...a new peaceful war?

Paper says China seeking to "assimilate" Russia's Far East....

http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/first-victories-in-the-invasion-of-russia-china-to-have-titanium-usa-hits-wsr-1494110/1/20

The analysis on China's oil dependency is spot on .... but this same analysis can also be applied to the U.S., Europe, India, Japan, etc.....

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/oilandgas/8369641/Why-oil-is-so-important-to-China.html

Anonymous. BBC Monitoring Former Soviet Union. London: Feb 9, 2011.

Abstract

It is significant that the Chinese authorities are already setting up special organs on their own territory to manage the zones of assimilation in Russia. "The Heilongjiang Administration has formed a special leadership group responsible for resolving issues that arise in the process of constructing and developing foreign industrial and agricultural zones," the Chinese state agency reports (Heilongjiang is a border province neighboring on Russia with a population of more than 38 million and its administrative centre in Harbin). Thus, the process of assimilating Russia's Far East is being managed and controlled not so much from Moscow or Khabarovsk as from Harbin - more exactly, from the "special leadership group" set up by Chinese officials in the Heilongjiang Province Administration. The management of Chinese zones on Russian territory from the PRC is perfectly justified - after all, he who pays the piper calls the tune. Investment to the tune of 3 billion dollars - if the calculations of the Chinese themselves are to be believed - constitutes a major financial resource which exceeds the subsidies from Moscow to the local budgets.

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Nezavisimaya Gazeta website, Moscow, in Russian 9 Feb 11; p 2/BBC Monitoring/(c) BBC

Text of report by the website of heavyweight Russian newspaper Nezavisimaya Gazeta on 9 February

[Editorial: "Chinese invest in Russian regions more than Moscow does. Administrations to manage Far East are being set up in PRC"]

China is actively assimilating the territory of Russia's Far East, investing far greater funds in this region than the Russian Government. According to an NCNA report, Chinese investors have established 34 special Chinese zones in Amur Oblast, Maritime Kray, Khabarovsk Kray, and also the Jewish Autonomous Region, where they have invested approximately 3 billion dollars. For comparison: Moscow is promising to transfer to these regions' budgets almost three times less money this year - the equivalent of less than 1 billion dollars.

Chinese investment in Russian lands is not just a private initiative by enterprising neighbors - vegetable growers, lumberjacks, and industrialists - but a clear state policy to assimilate new territories. "With the permission of the governments of China and Russia Chinese entrepreneurs may open industrial and agricultural zones in Russia, including zones of processing, stock raising, construction, timber cutting, and wholesale markets," NCNA explains.

It is significant that the Chinese authorities are already setting up special organs on their own territory to manage the zones of assimilation in Russia. "The Heilongjiang Administration has formed a special leadership group responsible for resolving issues that arise in the process of constructing and developing foreign industrial and agricultural zones," the Chinese state agency reports (Heilongjiang is a border province neighboring on Russia with a population of more than 38 million and its administrative centre in Harbin). Thus, the process of assimilating Russia's Far East is being managed and controlled not so much from Moscow or Khabarovsk as from Harbin - more exactly, from the "special leadership group" set up by Chinese officials in the Heilongjiang Province Administration. The management of Chinese zones on Russian territory from the PRC is perfectly justified - after all, he who pays the piper calls the tune. Investment to the tune of 3 billion dollars - if the calculations of the Chinese themselves are to be believed - constitutes a major financial resource which exceeds the subsidies from Moscow to the local budgets. Thus, in 2011 federal subsidies "to level out budgetary provision" are planned to the tune of approximately 170 million dollars for Amur Oblast, approximately 74 million dollars for the Jewish Autonomous Region, 234 million dollars for Khabarovsk Kray, and 344 million dollars for Maritime Kray. It is clear that these amounts bear no comparison with the 3 billion dollars in Chinese investments.

Of course, the possibility cannot be ruled out that the Chinese were not being modest and put the maximum value on their investments in Russia's Far East. It is possible that the amount of investment does not, in actual fact, reach the stated 3 billion dollars. Nevertheless, the state agency's official report on multibillion-dollar investments in Russia means that the authorities in the Celestial Kingdom are emphasizing their interest in assimilating our eastern territories - "in earnest and for a long time," moreover. At the same time the Chinese themselves emphasize the natural nature of their economic expansion into Russia. "The opening of zones in Russia by Chinese investors is mutually advantageous for both sides," Song Kui, a specialist at Heilongjiang Social Sciences Academy, believes, cited by NCNA. First, this makes it possible to increase the level of openness of China's border regions and to place superfluous work hands. Second, it helps the development of the Far East, increases collection of local taxes, and resolves the problem of the manpower shortage. Only we cannot understand why investment in the Far East is being initiated not by the Russian but the Chinese authorities, which are capable of organizing investment in promising production facilities and arranging production of output that is in demand both in Russia and in China.

Credit: Nezavisimaya Gazeta website, Moscow, in Russian 9 Feb 11; p 2

Or, Will Ukraine become the breadbasket of China?

Late January, Timothy Snyder - a Yale University history professor - packed auditoria and lecture halls at St Vladimir Institute in Toronto and the University of Toronto and spoke to an evenly distributed crowd from the Ukrainian, Polish and Jewish communities about his recent book, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin.

Kudos’ to the organizers.

Prof. Snyder starts his lecture with the shocking finding that 17 million people were killed between 1933 and World War II, with a concentration of 14 million in the “bloodlands” - Ukraine, Poland and Belarus. Both Hitler and Stalin viewed Ukraine as a strategic asset; an eastern pastoral paradise, which Hitler even called “the Garden of Eden”. Nazi Germany was not self-sufficient in food. Hitler’s plan for the destruction of the Soviet Union would bring Ukraine’s breadbasket under German control, making Germany unassailable. Equally for Stalin, mastery of Ukraine was a precondition and proof of the triumph of his version of socialism. Germany concluded that Ukraine was “agriculturally and industrially the most important part of the Soviet Union.” After all, it produced 90% of all the food. According to Germany’s long term colonial plan, the western Soviet Union would become an agrarian colony dominated by Germans. This required the murder, displacement, assimilation or enslavement of 40 million people. Hitler believed that Germany would secure Ukrainian food and Caucasian oil in a matter of weeks after the invasion of the Soviet Union. When the War dragged on and the Soviet Union didn’t collapse, Jews in Ukraine were blamed for the Nazi failure and the Nazi extermination process started.

I had the chance to ask Prof. Snyder a question after his talk. What lessons can we learn from your book about preventing a similar deliberate, policy-triggered famine today, since historians are fond of saying that history is important to study so that we don’t repeat past mistakes? Without missing a beat, Snyder referred to his recent article in The New Republic on October 28, 2010, which was called: The Coming Age of Slaughter: Will Global Warming Unleash Genocide?

The recent World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland had food security as the main topic. While the figure of 17 million deaths in the “bloodlands” is hard to comprehend, today, over 50 times that number, or 925 million people mostly in Africa and South Asia are at risk of famine and starvation, says the UN.

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One troubling scenario involves China, the most populous country on earth that has just half of the world average of fertile cropland per capita and one quarter the world average of potable water per capita. China has bought every hectare of available arable farmland in Africa and is exporting food back to feed hungry Chinese, who are suffering from the worst persistent droughts in six decades in the northern wheat-growing provinces. These exports have led to food shortages, price spikes and famine in some African countries. To add to their troubles, much of China’s potable water comes from Himalayan glaciers, which are now melting and shrinking. (see my b;og post Melting Himalayan glaciers & weather extremes caused by Indian & Chinese pollution, soot (carbon black) and not CO2)

To solve its food and water scarcity problem, it is quite plausible the China could soon invade Siberian Russia to secure precious water and cropland, becoming the next geopolitical conflict hotspot. This will become even more acute because in just 6 short years, China plans to build the largest mega city on the planet with a population of 43 million and they all have to eat and drink.

Grains are becoming scarce not just in Africa and China but around the world too, due to climate change, after floods in the Prairies in Canada, droughts in America, floods in Australia and Pakistan and last summer’s fires in Russia. Over 30 countries are now at risk of food shortages and famine including Tunisia, Egypt and Albania (totally ignored by the mass media in the West), whose government regimes are crumbling after massive street protests.

But, if you thought Ukraine is safe, you’d be wrong. According to the Nomura Food Vulnerability Index (NFVI), Ukraine is in 20th spot out of 80 countries at risk of a food crisis, due to high food inflation and the high percent of household wages going to purchase food – over 61%. (see The 25 Countries Whose Governments Could Get Crushed By Food Price Inflation )

Read report here

#1 Bangladesh

#2 Morocco

#3 Algeria

#4 Nigeria

#5 Lebanon

#6 Egypt

#7 Sri Lanka

#8 Sudan

#9 Hong Kong

#10 Azerbaijan

#11 Angola

#12 Romania

#13 Philippines

#14 Kenya

#15 Pakistan

#16 Libya

#17 Dominican Republic

#18 Tunisia

#19 Bulgaria

#20 Ukraine

#21 India

#22 China

#23 Latvia

#24 Vietnam

#25 Venezuela

(#30 Russia, #40 South Korea )

After recent trade talks, China along with Egypt, Libya and the United Arab Emirates are secretly eyeing the Ukrainian breadbasket, just like Hitler and Stalin did seven decades ago, not just for imports of grains, but to buy or lease land directly to ship crops back to feed their hungry people. A land grab resembling Chinese tactics in Africa-that could sideline the Ukrainian farmer, and potentially, lead to famine down the road.

While Ukraine is self-sufficient in grain production and exports today – it’s number ten in the world in grain exports, but its food exports total only 0.9 percent of GDP. So far, Ukraine has exported 5.9 million tonnes of grain since the beginning of this marketing year - July 2010. But, it won't take much to turn Ukraine into a net food importer from a grain exporter.

It’s plausible that the current Ukrainian regime-the Party of Regions, desperate for revenues, will arrange secret loans-for-land swaps. Watchdog groups in Ukraine should monitor for changes in the constitution, land privatization and visa-free travel of Chinese farm laborers, which would benefit China and others and threaten Ukraine’s food security....


Unstringing China's strategic pearls....
By Billy Tea

Ever since the term "String of Pearls" was coined by a team of experts at United States-based consultancy Booz Allen in 2004, journalists and academics have overplayed China's supposedly malevolent involvement with countries along its Sea Lines of Communication (SLOC), which stretch from the South China Sea to the Indian Ocean.

For them it was easy to believe that China, a country once known more for its bloody Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989 and one-child population control policy than its strategic might, had a hidden strategy to build military bases along its SLOC. Now, with the recent announcement that China plans to increase its military budget by 12.7% year-on-year, the "String of Pearls" strategy is expected to receive new critical attention and commentary.

There is still scant concrete evidence that China is currently or in the near future planning to build and maintain military bases along its SLOC. Indeed, to date the controversial theory is based more on speculation than fact. According to the 2005 Washington Post article that galvanized the debate, the "String of Pearls" refers to China's supposed aim to leverage diplomatic and commercial ties to build strategic bases stretching from the Middle East to southern China in order to protect its energy interests as well as "broader security objectives".

A map taken from the original Booz Allen report shows that China is intimately involved with countries along its SLOC in the Indian Ocean, including Bangladesh, Pakistan, Myanmar and Sri Lanka. In the Washington Post article, China was said to be building a container port facility at Chittagong, Bangladesh but at the same time was "seeking much more extensive naval and commercial access".

In Myanmar, China was supposedly building naval bases and had established electronic intelligence gathering facilities on the nearby Coco islands in the Bay of Bengal [1]. At Hainan Island, the supposed first in the chain of strategic pearls off the coast of China, the article said China was being allowed to "project air and sea power". Moreover, based on the Booz Allen map, China was said to be establishing a naval base and surveillance facilities in Pakistan.

Viewing a map of China's SLOC, there is certainly a correlation between China's relations with these countries and its energy security policy. Nearly 80% of China's fuel is imported, mostly from the Middle East and North Africa, and those shipments must travel through several strategic "choke points" along the way, including through the particularly narrow Strait of Malacca. But correlation does not always signify a causal effect.

The "String of Pearls" theory is based partially on the fact that China possesses one of the world's largest commercial shipping fleets and relies heavily on international maritime commerce. Energy imports carried on tankers from the Persian Gulf and Africa traverse often treacherous regions, including the threat of long-range pirates operating from Somalia. In accordance with those threats, China has developed diplomatic, economic and military relations with respective Indian Ocean countries. However, it is a large hypothetical leap to assert these relations are driven by a longer-term desire to construct actual military bases along its SLOC.



Ever since the publication of the Washington Post's alarmist article, journalists and researchers have hyped China's intentions in the Indian Ocean. For example, Commander Kamlesh Kumar Agnihotri, a research fellow at New Delhi's National Maritime Foundation, penned a paper in February 2010 entitled: "Chinese Quest for a Naval Base in the Indian Ocean - Possible Options for China" that weighs and outlines China's supposed "global power projection thinking". Retired Indian army Brigadier S K Chatterji painted a more threatening portrait of China's involvement with South Asian countries in his September 2010 article "Chinese String of Pearls could Choke India".

Strategic commerce
In analyzing China's supposed strategic "pearls", three key characteristics stand out. First and foremost, China does have some involvement in the identified ports. But with the exception of Sri Lanka's Hambantota and perhaps Myanmar's Sittwe, they are used not only by China and there are currently no signs whatsoever of any developments for future military purposes.

Second, while there is no denying that China has an interest in building relations with strategically located countries, it is important to understand the great power context these countries face. To openly side with China over other regional powers, including India and the United States, would be extremely risky diplomacy for these smaller countries.

Indeed, in today's globalized world, choosing one great power's side over another's unnecessarily limits countries' economic and political options. That's especially true for less-developed countries like Myanmar, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka - all of which are reliant on foreign trade, aid and investment and for development purposes need all they can get. In the current geopolitical context, countries stand to gain the most by subtly playing great power off one another, rather than committing to one in particular.

Third, government officials in the respective "pearl" countries have openly repudiated reports they have given China any preferential treatment and that Beijing is quietly building and/or planning to build military bases in their sovereign territories.

Hainan Island, located off China's coast in the South China Sea and often referred to as the first pearl in the chain, has often been at the center of this debate. In 2008, the United Kingdom-based Daily Telegraph newspaper claimed that China had built a secret underground nuclear submarine base at Yulin Naval Base on the southern tip of Hainan.

The report followed on US estimates that China would have five operational nuclear submarines, each capable of carrying 12 JL-2 nuclear missiles, by 2010. [2] Because Hainan island is China's sovereign territory, there has been no denial that Beijing maintains a military base there. Whether or not the base is dedicated more to securing China's SLOC or asserting its territorial claims in the South China Sea is less clear.

Bangladesh's Chittagong port is the country's principal seaport, currently handling around 92% of its import-export trade. The cash-strapped government in Dhaka does not have the finances needed to modernize the port and China, a long standing ally, recently agreed to help fund upgrades. [3] Bangladeshi authorities along with their Chinese counterparts set out an $8.7 billion development plan to raise bulk cargo handling capacity to 100 million tons and containers handling of three million 20 feet equivalent unit containers annually by 2055. [4] The ambitious plan also involves the development of a deep sea port and a road connecting Bangladesh to China via Myanmar. [5]

Because Chittagong port handles the majority of the country's trade, the scheme would appear to make rational business sense from China's perspective and the planned new connecting roadway. In 2010, India, Nepal and Bhutan also received Bangladesh's approval to use the port for trade. Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dipu Mani said in March last year he had tried to woo China into a similar agreement, but as of 2011 there has not been any development suggesting China will use the port for its trade. [6]

The strengthening of Sino-Bangladeshi relations is a matter of strategic concern for both India and the US. Mani has stated publicly that China's involvement in building a deep sea port was only for economic purposes. He said that Bangladesh was acting as a "bridge" between China and India and would never let its territory be used for military attacks. [7] Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said that the plans were part of her government's strategy to connect Bangladesh to the greater Asian region in order to develop its markets and promote economic growth "in the interest of the people of this country." [8]

Myanmar's Sittwe port, a small facility considered another of China's "pearl", is situated approximately 265 kilometers south of Chittagong. However, it was India - not China - that agreed to a contract with Myanmar in April 2009 for the development of the so-called Kaladan Transport Project, which includes plans for the development of the Sittwe port. The Indian company Essar Projects is currently building a coastal port at Sittwe and a river jetty at Paletwa.

As part of the same project, an additional 120 kilometers of road will be built in Myanmar from the river terminal in Paletwa to the India-Myanmar border in the northeast. The project is scheduled for completion in three years at a cost of between $75-$120 million, which will be financed entirely by New Delhi.

Both countries hope that the project will boost trade links between ports on India's eastern seaboard and Myanmar's western Arakan (Rakhine) State. From there, goods will be shipped along the Kaladan River from its confluence near Sittwe to Paletwa in Myanmar's Chin State and by road to India's Mizoram State, which will provide an alternative route for the transport of goods to India's landlocked northeast.

China is using the current port at Sittwe but its main interest is in the Kyaukphyu port in Rakine state and its access to the Bay of Bengal in order to pipe oil and gas from the Middle East and Africa to its land-locked southern and western hinterlands. Beijing is currently building two parallel oil and gas pipelines that will connect Kyaukphyu port to the Chinese city of Kunming in southern Yunnan province.
The oil pipeline will terminate in the city of Kunming, while the 2,806-kilometer natural gas pipeline will extend to China's Guizhou and Guangxi provinces. [9] It will allow Chinese oil tankers from Africa and the Middle East to pipe their fuel loads directly to China, therefore avoiding the potential strategic choke point of the Malacca Strait. The estimated construction cost of both pipelines is $3.5 billion, in addition to the development of an offshore gas field worth $3 billion, both of which will be financed largely by China. [10]

Rudimentary radar
Myanmar's Coco Islands, another supposed "pearl", have been allegedly used by China to gather signal Intelligence (SIGINT) and electronic Intelligence (ELINT) in the east Indian Ocean. News reports have claimed China intends to build naval bases on the islands in order to observe Indian naval and missile launch facilities in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands to the south and movements of the Indian navy and other navies throughout the eastern Indian Ocean. [11]

Because of the controversy, China and Myanmar invited Indian officers to visit the contentious premises. In 2006, Indian naval delegations were unable to find any evidence to confirm these intelligence-gathering suspicions. The radars they inspected on the islands were characterized as "rudimentary". In September 2009, Vice Admiral Anup Singh, flag officer commanding-in-chief of India's Eastern Naval Command, stated that up until then there had been no signs of Chinese naval movements in the region. [12]

A 2008 report entitled "Burma's Coco Islands: Rumours and Realities in the Indian Ocean" written by Myanmar security expert Andrew Selth argued that the lack of verifiable data regarding China's involvement in the Coco Islands had complicated the issue. He wrote that "credulous" media reporting, often pushed by individuals with their own agendas, led to the "myth" of a Chinese military base on the Coco Islands. [13] As of late 2009, there was no tangible evidence of China's military presence in the region and its supposed use of the Sittwe port for present or future military activities.

Sri Lanka's Hambantota port, yet another alleged "pearl", was previously a small fishing harbor on the country's southern coast and is located on the primary sea route connecting Europe to Asia. Sri Lanka has proposed to build a modern port facility near the existing harbor and first pitched the idea in 2005 to India, which had already refurbished the World War II-vintage oil-tank farm at Trincomalee. New Delhi was not interested in the project and China later agreed to fill the financing gap. In February 2007, Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa signed eight agreements, including the Hambantota project, during an official visit to Beijing.

By 2023, Hambantota is projected to have a liquefied natural gas refinery, aviation fuel storage facilities, three separate docks to give the port a transshipment capacity and dry docks for ship repairs and construction. The project also envisages that the port will serve as a base for bunkering and refueling. [14] The Hambantota project is part of a larger $6 billion post-war infrastructure revitalization drive and China is among many countries now actively investing in the country. [15]

Priyath Wickrama of Sri Lanka's Ports Authority had been contacted by India, Singapore, Russia, Australia, Middle Eastern countries and major shipping lines to express their interest in the project, according to a Reuters report. [16] In dire need of reconstruction after years of civil war, the Rajapakasa government played its card to the highest bidder, which happened to be China. Rajapakasa has strongly repudiated any hints that China was given preferential treatment over other bidders. [17]

Empty docks
Pakistan's Gwadar port, on the Mekan Coast in Balochistan province, is considered the last on the chain of "pearls". According to the Pakistani government, Chinese companies have poured at least $15 billion into Baloch projects, including investments in oil refinery, copper and zinc mines, and a deepwater port at Gwadar in the Gulf of Oman. [18] The port is envisioned as a new gateway for trade between the Central Asian Republics (CARs), the Persian Gulf region, Afghanistan, Iran, and China's Xinjiang and Sichuan provinces and its Tibetan region.

Although China contributed an estimated 80% of Gwadar's construction costs, the port has actually been run by the Port of Singapore Authority (PSA) since 2007 and contractually will be for the next 40 years. Business in Gwadar has been slow, partly due to the proximity of the competing Chabahar port in Iran that India helped construct. The conditions and environment in the surrounding area of Chabahar has made it easier for business to flow to Afghanistan and the CARs.

A budding strategic partnership between Iran, India and Russia will help to establish a multi-model transport link connecting Mumbai in India with Russia's Saint Petersburg and thus provide Europe and the CARs access to Asia and vice versa. Iran and Afghanistan have signed an agreement to give Indian goods destined for Central Asia and Afghanistan preferential treatment and tariff reductions at Chabahar Port. [19]

So far, China has preferred to use the port facilities at Karachi rather than Gwadar for maintaining vessels used in its anti-piracy patrols. In August 2009, in transit to and from the Gulf of Aden for anti-piracy operations, China's Huangshan and Weishanhu vessels used Karachi's port for rest and replenishment. [20] China's preference for Karachi's ports to manage its anti-piracy operations would thus seem to undermine the hypothesis that it plans to eventually use Gwadar as a military facility.

Yet "String of Pearls" speculation still swirls around the under-utilized facility. Nawab Mohammad Aslam Raisani, head of Pakistan's Balochistan province, has pledged to challenge in court what he has characterized as a "one-sided" deal with Singapore's PSA to run Gwadar. [21]

In 2009, Gwadar port handled about $700 million in cargo, less than half of its capacity, and PSA has apparently not invested any of the agreed $525 million it pledged in its agreement with the government. [22] The dispute has sparked rumors about a possible Chinese "takeover" of the port, though both Pakistan and China have denied the speculation. Raisani has reportedly said "Why can we not operate it ourselves? We have trained people." [23]

Stringing together the current status of China's involvement at each of the Indian Ocean port facilities in question, the "String of Pearls" theory quickly comes undone. With the exception of Hainan Island, where China has built a military base on its own territory, there is no clear sign that China has military base ambitions in Chittagong, Gwadar, Hambantota, or Sittwe.

It is significant that government officials in all the concerned countries have strongly refuted speculation that China would be allowed to use their sovereign ports as clandestine military bases, present or future. It is in each of the Indian Ocean countries' interest to balance Chinese, Indian, and US influence in the region. And all the evidence available so far indicates that's precisely what they are doing.

Notes
1.
http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pdffiles/pub721.pdf, Christopher J. Pehrson, July 2006.
2.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/1917167/Chinese-nuclear-submarine-base.html, Daily Telegraph, May 1, 2008.
3.
http://www.cpa.gov.bd/
4. http://in.reuters.com/article/idINIndia-46904220100314, Reuters, Mar 14, 2010.
5.
http://www.cpa.gov.bd/home.php?option=article&page=57&item=development_plan
6. http://in.reuters.com/article/idINIndia-46904220100314, Reuters, Mar 14, 2010.
7.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8687917.stm, BBC, May 17, 2010.
8.
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/China-endorses-Bangladesh-Myanmar-road-project/articleshow/6058366.cms, Economic Times, Jun 17, 2010.
9.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2010-06/04/content_9932066.htm, China Daily, Jun 4, 2010.
10,
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6120MQ20100203, Reuters, Feb 3, 2010.
11.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/47042535/The-String-of-Pearls 12. http://www.hindustantimes.com/No-report-of-Chinese-movement-in-Indian-waters-near-Andamans/Article1-452392.aspx , Press Trust Of India, Sept 10, 2009.
13.
http://www6.cityu.edu.hk/searc/Data/FileUpload/294/WP101_08_ASelth.pdf, Andrew Selth, November 2008.
14.
http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?265026
, Outlook India, Apr 12, 2010.
15.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE6701C120100801, Reuters, Aug 1, 2010.
16. Ibid.
17.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/16/business/global/16port.html, New York Times, Feb 15, 2010.
18.
http://www.forbes.com/global/2010/0510/companies-pakistan-oil-gas-balochistan-china-pak-corridor.html, Forbes Asia Magazine, dated May 10, 2010.
19.
http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/tale-two-ports, YaleGlobal , Jan 7, 2011.
20.
http://www.andrewerickson.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Kostecka_Places-and-Bases_PLAN-IO_NWCR_2011-Winter.pdf , Daniel J. Kostecka, Naval War College Review, Winter 2010, Vol. 64, No. 1.
21.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSSGE6A600F20101109?pageNumber=1, Reuters, Nov 9, 2010.
22. Ibid.
23. Ibid.