Israel is making a big show of being concerned, and supporting Mubarak, because he has been so crucial to keeping peace all these years, thanks to the billions and billions and billions of dollars that US taxpayers funneled his way, although that part was not mentioned. The poor Israelis are worried.
Israel likes to put itself on the high horse. They love peace, they crave peace, blah blah blah. That way when they hop off to kick some ass, they can be all righteous about it because they really wanted peace more than anyone. As they never tire of explaining.
We think the US and Israel are stringing Mubarak along, and everyone else too for that matter, to SQUEEZE CONCESSIONS out of him. Mubarak has not been quite good enough. He could do a little more, before he goes. Then maybe things can take a turn for the worse, REGRETTABLY, since the Egyptian people are so angry, thereby JUSTIFYING some trusty self-defense action by the suitably worried parties. We're just guessing. We could be completely wrong.
Meanwhile, two charter flights out of Egypt carrying over 400 Israeli citizens landed in Ben-Gurion International Airport on Monday, with returning Israelis claiming that the week-long anti-governmental protests that have been sweeping Egypt were not as bad as they seemed. (Israel allows 800 Egyptian troops into Sinai)
The US Army's Aviation Regiment has mobilized for deployment to Egypt's Sinai Peninsula to back the Multinational Force and Observers (MFO) overseeing the Egypt-Israel peace treaty.
Connecticut National Guard Detachment 2, Company I, 185th Aviation Regiment of Groton left Connecticut on January 15 for Fort Benning, for further training and validation, a Press TV correspondent reported on Monday.
January 15th.....ten days before anything happened in Egypt.
You know what we call that sort of prescience here at Twelfth Bough? TOP FUCKING TALENT.
A people need leadership to bring their aspirations together into a movement to bring about change. Leadership brings together a people's aspirations and focuses them on a particular issue or person to effect change. In this way, leadership functions like a lens that focuses the rays of the sun to burn away what might otherwise rest in the sun unperturbed all day just as a despot may rule forever a people who have no social and political leaders. Remove genuine leaders, like Archbishop Oscar Romero, and there is no problem. . . . until next time. Rinse and repeat.
After the invasion of Iraq, squads of killers went around Iraq kidnapping and killing academics, teachers and doctors, anyone who could provide a focal point and leadership to the rest of their community. Judge John Roll may well have been an example of someone who showed principled opposition to the ruling powers in America and would likely have gone on to become an important leader. He was shot in the head; the preferred shot for military trained snipers these days....
So these 'people's revolutions' cannot be what they are presented as by our news media. The protests are largely real but the leadership is a different thing. Genuine leaders who represent the interests of the poor do not last long leaving those provided or corrupted by the elite they purport to be against. Currently, there are people on the streets in Cairo but their presence is being tolerated by the army and whoever is controlling it for their own reasons. There are numerous incidents apparently, where protesters are overwhelming the police and there are instances of torching police stations. But it all hinges on the army and what they will do.
I hope it ends relatively peacefully, but fear it won't because there are far greater forces involved who set this uprising in motion for their own psychopathic purposes.
We can help by sharing information on what is really going on, countering the narrative of lies.
Comrade Hossam is somebody I trust and admire: he is central in the protests in Cairo (and is a fine journalists too). Here is a sequence of his tweets:
"There r tens of thousands continuing the protests day and night in Tahrir Sq. Yesterday we almost stormed the Interior Ministry.
The police has vanished from the streets. They r barricaded inside their Interior Ministry, stationing snipers on buildings, shooting at us.
Live ammunition was used yesterday against us in Mohamed Mahmoud Street. I saw at least one person dead.
I'm ok, I have sustained injuries like everyone else from BB bullets and rubber bullets. But my family and I are fine.
IT IS NOT TRUE WHAT MSM IS BROADCASTING ABOUT PROTESTERS CALLING ON BARADIE TO LEAD TRANSITIONAL GOVT!
My neighborhood Nasr City, my city Cairo and in all Egyptian towns, popular committees r being formed by citizens to provide security.
Barricades r up, cars r checked by the shabab. Saboteurs r beaten up immediately on the spot.
The army in Tahrir r useless pieces of shit. They r not "protecting" the demonstrators as they were claiming.
The shootings around Lazoughli and the snipers firing at protesters yesterday happened as the army sat and watch.
WE DO NOT WANT THE ARMY! THE ARMY HAS BEEN RULING SINCE 1952. THEY R NOT NEUTRAL PLAYERS.
The curfew the army imposed is meaningless. We break it every night by continuing our protests in Tahrir.
MB activists were denounced by protesters around Lazoughli yesterday when they tried to stop people from marching on interior ministry
It is not true what some MSM outlets r broadcasting about the Muslim Brotherhood and the 6th of April leading the protests. It's complete BS
The protests have spontaneous leaders in most of the occasions. We won't let this upririsng to be hijacked by anybody.
Suez workers in several factories r on strike, calling for the overthrowal of Mubarak.
Situation in Suez is catastrophic in terms of deaths and injuries. The police fought the people in the same way Israelis fight Palestinians
There r chants against Mubarak always, accusing him of being a traitor, a client to the US and Israel.
There is no love whatsoever the protesters hold towards the US govt and Obama. They r hypocrites.
The Popular Committees hold the seeds for what direct democracy could look like in the future. We need to focus on them instead of BARADIE!
Demonstrations continue in all Egyptian cities. People do not want Omar Suleiman. People want to see Mubarak on trial.
State Security Police Stations in Daqahliya, Kafr El-Sheikh, Rafah, Damanhour, and in many other places have been torched down by protesters
Pigs at Nasr City Police Stations 1 & 2 have barricaded themselves inside the stations, shooting live ammunition at proteters from inside.
I attended the protests in Nasr City yesterday b4 heading to Tahrir, and the police used live ammunition on protesters.
We need more protests abroad in front of Egyptian embassies. Pressure your govts to cut all sort of relations with the Mubarak regime.
I can't login to facebook or gmail from where I am. So anyone who is in touch with my sister Salma, tell her I and mom r doing well.
Gotta leave now and head back to the protests. Down with Mubarak. Down with Obama the hypocrite. Long live the Egyptian revolution."
PS I always teased Hossam and told him: when are you finally going to overthrow Mubarak? Well, he is finally doing it, along with the brave Egyptian people.
RECAP:
1. The police are using snipers and shooting live ammunition at the protesters. 2. The army is not protecting the people. Egyptians do not want the army. 3. The MB is not leading the opposition. Egyptians do not want the MB. 4. The situation in Suez is particularly violent, no doubt due to the STRATEGIC LOCATION. 5. There is no love for Obama or El Baradai. Egyptians do not want El Baradai. 6. Egyptians don't want Suleiman either. 7. Egyptians would like INFORMED PROTESTS FROM ABROAD IN FRONT OF EGYPTIAN EMBASSIES.
They looked to see if we can do without war. They looked high and low. They met time after time. They discussed. They argued. They wrote chapters. What did they find? NO. No, they said, we can't do without war.
REGRETTABLE.
This is what happens when you put sociopaths together to solve problems. They only ever find one God damned solution: DESTRUCTION.
This feeds directly into Israel's "fears." How convenient is that? Israel's "fears" will be justified. Israel can act in "self defense" to the slightest provocation.
"Our efforts are designed to continue and maintain stability and security in our region," Netanyahu said. "I remind you that the peace between Israel and Egypt has endured for over three decades, and our goal is to ensure that these relations continue."
...Egyptian troops on Sunday began to enter the resort town of Sharm El Sheik, according to Al Jazeera. The peace treaty signed between Israel and Egypt restricts the movement of Egyptian troops into the Sinai Peninsula, but Israel approved the entrance of troops, according to The New York Times.
"The greatest Israeli concern is that a change of regime in Egypt will bring instability in the short term and may cause the collapse of the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty and even lead to another military conflict in the region."
"In an Iranian point of view the collapse of the Mubarak regime and the rise of the "Muslim Brothers" will be a strategic victory against the West and in their long-term political and military campaign against the Jewish State."
"The Iranians will take maximum advantage of the current situation and will urge Syria, Hezbollah and Hamas to fill the vacuum. Israel may find itself in its most difficult time since the 1948 independence war."
Israel wants a war. They want it so badly. These are all justifications for war.
The slogans in Egypt are "Down with Mubarak, Down with the Regime". No anti-American posters have been reported... The overriding and destructive influence of the USA in Egypt and throughout the Middle East remains unheralded.
The foreign powers which operate behind the scenes are shielded from the protest movement.
No significant political change will occur unless the issue of foreign interference is meaningfully addressed by the protest movement.
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Our message to the protest movement:
Actual decisions are taken in Washington DC, at the US State Department, at the Pentagon, at Langley, headquarters of the CIA. at H Street NW, the headquarters of the World Bank and the IMF.
The relationship of "the dictator" to foreign interests must be addressed. Unseat the political puppets but do not forget to target the "real dictators".
The protest movement should focus on the real seat of political authority; it should target (in a peaceful, orderly and nonviolent fashion) the US embassy, the delegation of the European Union, the national missions of the IMF and the World Bank.
Meaningful political change can only be ensured if the neoliberal economic policy agenda is thrown out.
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The cooptation of the leaders of major opposition parties and civil society organizations in anticipation of the collapse of an authoritarian puppet government is part of Washington's design, applied in different regions of the World.
The process of cooptation is implemented and financed by US based foundations including the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and Freedom House (FH). Both FH and the NED have links to the US Congress. the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), and the US business establishment. Both the NED and FH are known to have ties to the CIA.
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The puppet masters support dissent against their own puppets?
Its called "political leveraging", "manufacturing dissent". Support the dictator as well as the opponents of the dictator as a means of controlling the political opposition.
These actions on the part of Freedom House and the National Endowment for Democracy, on behalf of the Bush and Obama administrations, ensure that the US funded civil society opposition will not direct their energies against the puppet masters behind the Mubarak regime, namely the US government.
These US funded civil society organizations act as a "Trojan Horse" which becomes embedded within the protest movement. They protect the interests of the puppet masters. They ensure that the grassroots protest movement will not address the broader issue of foreign interference in the affairs of sovereign states.
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The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt constitutes the largest segment of the opposition to president Mubarak. According to reports, The Muslim Brotherhood dominates the protest movement.
While there is a constitutional ban against religious political parties Brotherhood members elected to Egypt's parliament as "independents" constitute the largest parliamentary block.
The Brotherhood, however, does not constitute a direct threat to Washington's economic and strategic interests in the region. Western intelligence agencies have a longstanding history of collaboration with the Brotherhood. Britain's support of the Brotherhood instrumented through the British Secret Service dates back to the 1940s. Starting in the 1950s, according to former intelligence official William Baer, "The CIA [funnelled] support to the Muslim Brotherhood because of “the Brotherhood’s commendable capability to overthrow Nasser.”1954-1970: CIA and the Muslim Brotherhood Ally to Oppose Egyptian President Nasser, These covert links to the CIA were maintained in the post-Nasser era.
El Baradai + Muslim Brotherhood is not going to work out for the Egyptian people. That is the plan of the globalists. The Egyptian people should please RESIST the globalist suggestions and also RESIST being divided.
The globalists would like to have your heads on a plate.
· Mohandaseen is burning—we are surrounded by looters, and the army is just watching
· They are looting houses and we have no idea who these looters are
· My parents asked army tank guys and they said we cannot intervene!
· Everyone here is saying that Mubarak is being spiteful-he wants looters so that he can say-Look I gave you calm for 30 years? OK now you want to get rid of me? Well see the chaos my going can bring-Enjoy the unrest and the looting. Only I could have protected all of you!
· I was driving and 3 men with knives attacked me near Sudan street—I had to sort of run them over
· Big rumor that Mubarak is releasing prisoners and arming them so that they can infiltrate neighbourhoods and loot them
· Maadi, Street number nine-huge vandalism happening—There is looting everywhere in Rihab city, in Mohandasin, in Shubra. In Heliopolis there are plainsclothes police
· My parents are organizing all the baobabs in our street and making blockades to stop the looters
· There are Balkageyah (thugs) everywhere—all rich neighborhoods are being attacked
· I think he is fucked up yaani--He didnt resign---his speech instigated the violence---now looters and the poor think that when you know there is no hope you might as well get as much as you can as long as the chaos lasts--people were hopeful that he would go
· Maybe in other governates--people are more organized and closer to each other as community members...so they will organize better, perhaps—In Cairo it is difficult to control the chaos and disorder—there are 19 million people in this city who often don’t talk to each other and are so separated by class and money—I am wondering how they can organize together?
· The people in Cairo are fighting two things--they are fighting police forces but also now fighting looters
· People prayed the Salat ul Genaza, the funeral prayer after the evening prayers in Tahrir—we carried a body through the crush of thousands—I was crying, so many of us were crying
Who are the looters?
On the other hand, according to DEBKAfile, Mubarak sent defense minister Tantawi to Washington to beg for a crackdown. So does Mubarak want things to get out of hand, or not?
http://www.debka.com/article/20590/
debkafile's Washington sources report that in secret meetings, the Egyptian defense minister put the situation before President Barack Obama and a row of top US political, military and intelligence officials. He warned them that by advocating a soft hand with the demonstrators and responsiveness to their demands, American officials were doing more harm than good. Without a crackdown, he said, the regime was doomed.Tantawi also warned that the radical Muslim Brotherhood, which has stood aside from the opposition protests, was merely biding its time for the right moment to step in and take over. He asked the Obama administration for an urgent airlift of advanced riot control equipment. The American response to the case presented by Tantawi is not known. Disclosure of his trip to Washington might well add fuel to the fires of disaffection burning in cities across Egypt.
Mubarak may be under the impression that he can still hold onto power.
This would be a perfect time to demand concessions from him, to make him more compliant.
The death toll so far during Cairo's days of protests is much higher than reported in the news, according to doctors at one of Cairo's largest hospitals.
A resident doctor at the hospital who was assisting with surgeries yesterday told Al-Masry Al-Youm today that most of those admitted were not wounded, but dead. He estimated the number at more than 50.
The doctor said the wounds were from live bullets, not rubber bullets, and most appeared to be aimed at the head and heart, leading him to believe that orders to the riot police were to kill, not injure, the tens of thousands of protesters who took to the streets in anti-government protests this week.
In the face of mounting political unrest, Egypt took the unprecedented step of severing all Internet connections and shutting down its cellphone services—with the cooperation of international firms..Egyptian authorities asked mobile operators to "turn down the network totally," said Vittorio Colao, chief executive of U.K.-based Vodafone Group PLC, which owns 55% of Egypt's largest carrier, Vodafone Egypt.
Jon Alterman, Mideast director at CSIS called him a "very reassuring" point man for both the US-Egyptian and Israel-Egyptian relationship.
"Diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks help illustrate that point." DON'T THEY ALWAYS?
A report on an April 2009 meeting with Suleiman and Mike Mullen confirms that Suleiman's overarching regional goal was combating radicalism in Gaza, Iran and Sudan.
"It is intended to send a message that if Hosni Mubarak leaves, the system remains. It is not reassuring to the protesters, butit is reassuring to people who fear that Egypt might be slipping into chaos." ~ Jon Alterman
Right. Who cares about reassuring the protesters. Better to reassure people who FEAR that Egypt might be slipping into chaos.
Who would be afraid of Egypt slipping into chaos? Israeli citizens?
''We think the regime is holding its ground and won't be closed as a regime but there is a lot of uncertainty as to the next move,'' the official said.
We're not at all sure what's going on, but we think probably some people would like
to keep the chaos at just the right temperature.
Whatever happens, it will JUSTIFY something. We'll know more about what's going on when we see what is considered a JUSTIFIED RESPONSE by the US and Israel.
From Global Research: Dividing the Middle East and North Africa, by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
February 10, 2008
The Nazemroaya article makes the following points:
1. NATO decided to divide North Africa into "spheres of influence" between the EU (Franco-German) and US (Anglo-American) interests.
2. Europe's borders would expand eastward, all the way to Turkey.
Joschka Fischer, former German minister, stated that the terrorist bombings in London, Britain and Madrid, Spain revealed that the Middle East “is truly our [Europe’s] backyard, and we in the E.U. must cease our shortsightedness and recognize that.”
3. "The whole Mediterranean is slated to eventually fall within the European Union’s sphere of influence."
That includes the North African countries. France and Germany play the lead role in this integration.
"This is another case where cooperation with the Franco-German entente, is in the interest of both and Britain and America. To insure a strong Anglo-American role, NATO has been involved, and Israel has been integrated into the framework for a Mediterranean Union. Israel’s role in this process also hinges upon its bilateral relationship with Turkey."
4. Turkey plays a pivotal role.
5. "A country’s economic policy is what determines its status in the eyes of Washington and London."
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Are we seeing a coordinated plan to reset North Africa?
We see a stable country, Tunisia, receive the Jasmine Revolution from the globalists.
In the 1970s and 1980s Arab states began making strategic water alliances.
the Egypt-Israel North Sinai Agricultural Development Project (NSADP)
the Southeast Anatolia Development Project (GAP)
the Syria-Iraq reaction against the effects of the GAP
the Turkey-Israel “Peace Pipeline”
These alliances altered the balance of power in the region.
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat promised Nile water to Israel back in the 1970s.
There are many potential repercussions, however, for other users of Nile waters, especially for Sudan and Ethiopia. There also is a two-fold geopolitical danger for the Arab word: first, Israel may hold West Bank waters hostage for an increase in the Gaza water supply. In the future, Israel may also claim the right of a downstream user to increase its share of Nile River water. The U.N., through the Convention on the Law of Non-Navigational Use of International Watercourses, has given downstream users priority over those countries upstream.
Thanks to the UN, all such arrangements have been structured to benefit Israel.
With the U.N.’s May 21, 1997 adoption of the Convention on the Law of Non-Navigational Use of International Watercourse, Israel is identified as a downstream country in all of the above scenarios. In the future, therefore, Israel will be able to demand and receive a larger portion of the water.
The obstacles and prohibitions [of delivering the Nile water to Israel - ed.] are not the Egyptian government… Sadat promised it to them.
The prohibitions and obstacles are due to the stance of the Egyptian people, and objections of some active states and the states of its sources.
...Anwar As-Sadat promised Zionists in his speech in 1979 in Haifa to give them the Nile water, and said it is presented as a MONUMENT TO THE PEACE RECORD contributed by the Egyptian people in the name of millions of Moslems, and shall be like Zamzam water (which is from a well at the Kaaba compound) For believers!!! As-Sadat spoke about the peace canal that he wants to build under the Suez canal to transfer the Nile water to the Sinai and the Negev desert in the south of occupied Palestine. And he sent a letter to Begin who was the Zionist state’s Prime Minister at the time, promising to have it reach Jerusalem… Begin replied saying, “If the Nile water means that we have to give up Jerusalem, we don’t want it.”)… More than one Zionist source commented about the presence of the Bilharzias in the Nile water, As-Sadat replied, “they want it with or without Bilharzias!!!”
But as it turns out, Egypt has not yet given Israel the Nile.
Egypt has perhaps given Israel many other things, but not the water.
Diaa Eddin al-Qoussi, former advisor to the minister of irrigation, told Al-Masry Al-Youm that Mubarak’s statements clearly demonstrate that Egypt will not give up its Nile water quota in order to satisfy Israel. He added that Mubarak’s statements further emphasize that Egypt rejects any negotiations which aim to bring Nile water to Israel.
Maybe, perhaps, patience has begun to wear thin. Maybe it doesn't matter anymore how nicely Mubarak cooperated on all those other items.
And in addition to this water angle, the is the oil and gas under the waters of the Mediterranean. Who gets all of that?
"Israel has always said that their territorial waters extend to 12 miles from its coast, now they have backtracked and said that it extends to 200 kilometres. That would be well and good if the same logic would correspond to dividing this gas for Egypt....
Question of whom or whose is the oil? Egypt? And it falls within its 200 kilometres. Israeli entrepreneurs who financed U.S. oil companies? What Israel now says that it is not 12 miles but 200 miles? In southern Cyprus? The British enclave? How can we say that Lebanon would not have anything? Or the same European Union that desperately wants gas? Sounds like the groundwork is being laid for some huge war."
A bird scientist has isolated weather radar imagesthat he says show exactly what killed the 5,000-or-so birds that fell dead from the sky over Beebe, Ark., on New Year's Eve.
Sidney Gauthreaux, a biological sciences professor at a Clemson University lab that studies radar images of birds, said a cloud burst on weather radar animation captures a series of pulsesof startled birds taking flight in the Little Rock suburb.
That's right. Those pulses are the startled birds taking flight.
"There is no question that the exodus of birds from the roost is visible in the radar display images," Gauthreaux said in a statement released by the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission. "The first exodus occurred about 10:20 [p.m.] and contained approximately 6,000-7,000 birds per cubic kilometer. ... At 11:21 p.m., another pulse of birds with a slightly smaller density left the roost."
The commission declared this week that three labs now confirm the bird deaths, which spooked Beebe residents and piqued the interest of conspiracy theorists, were caused by blunt force trauma.
Wow pretty late fireworks they have down there.
The pulses are the startled birds taking flight. The birds died by blunt force trauma.
How do the radar images "show exactly what killed the 5000-or-so birds"?
The labs found loud noises, probably fireworks, sent the birds soaring into the air and into trees, houses, windows and other stationary objects.
Aha, so the loud noises, PROBABLY FIREWORKS, startled the birds and made them crash into stationary objects.
We don't have time to blog at the moment, but would like to draw your attention to several things going on:
1. Oregon officer shooting suspect is paranoid (link under photo)
Minor offenses, suspect descends into paranoia, commits ghastly crime, smiles for the camera.
WALDPORT, Ore. (AP) — The man accused of shooting and critically wounding a police officer began to act erratically six months ago, his friends say, slipping deeper into a depression after a breakup and entertaining paranoid fantasies about being pursued by police.
Narrative: People who distrust authorities are paranoid and likely to commit heinous crimes?
WASHINGTON -- The United States is warning Americans of the potential for terrorist attacks in the east African nations of Burundi and Uganda next month, possibly by Somali extremists with links to al-Qaida.
February, American interest, al-Qaeda linked Islamic terrorists, etc.
Narrative: Al Qaeda terror Al Qaeda terror Al Shabab terror Islamic terror they hate us for our freedoms terror blah blah blah?
5. NO NEWS from the Tri-Border Area of Paraguay, Brazil & Argentina. Quiet as a church mouse down there.
The mystery has come to haunt Mexico as unrelentingly as one of its beloved soap operas: where is Bermeja, an island off the Yucatan coast that appears to have vanished without trace?
The disappearance of Bermeja is no laughing matter – it would allow Mexico to extend its maritime border some 55 miles further north, helping it to fight off what it sees as American encroachment on its claims to potentially vast oil reserves in the Mexican Gulf.
Hunger for news of the missing island has intensified – along with bizarre speculation about what could have happened to it – as Mexico and America ponder a new drilling agreement. Mexico’s hunt for Bermeja has been given urgency by BP’s announcement last week of a big find in the Gulf, the latest in a series of discoveries that has turned the area into one of the oil world’s most promising exploration regions.
"Mr Ivanov, a former KGB officer and senior Kremlin official, said the flood of the drug from Afghanistan posed a threat to Russia's national security. ...He said the drug was partly to blame for rising crime and a fall in Russia's population...."Drug trafficking has become a key negative factor for demography and a blow to our nation's gene pool... [and] a challenge to Russia's civilisation."
...The Russian health ministry says Russia has up to 2.5 million drug addicts out of a population of some 140 million, most of them aged between 18 and 39....The CND's World Drugs Report for 2008 reported that China was estimated to have about 2.3 million users of opiates, though how many of those used heroin was unclear."
"Iran is the top country of drug addicts with 4-5 million addicted, as much as 1.6 million of those are heroin addicts. There are atleast 31 deaths every day in Tehran only. This also creates a huge problem with HIV/AIDS. Officially 50,000 iranians are infected with HIV. Probably much more due to the sharing of syringes amongst the drug addicts."
1) Intelligence agencies are fragmented and in competition.
2) Creating and sustaining a strategy of tension between the US and Russia JUSTIFIES the continued military-industrial complex buildup in Central Asia.
We do not think the US military has any plans, at any time ever, to leave Afghanistan. That might explain why the US military is all over Afghanistan and building bases. And Afghanistan lies between Russia, China and Iran, so it's perfect. It is a perfect place from which to DESTABILIZE various populations, for example, by giving them heroin.
As long as terror exists in Pakistan and Afghanistan, the US military can justify staying. The military has to stay to control the distribution of the weapon: heroin.
Well, we have a $1.344 trillion black economy. Surely there's some money around to fund some "rogue" people who like to find terrorists under rocks in Afghanistan and Pakistan, JUSTIFYING the continued US military occupation, which seems to be about controlling the heroin trade and driving a wedge between Iran, China and Russia.
Aangirfan has recently published a whole series of articles about Tunisia including articles that presaged the coup there. This coup can be seen as another chapter in the undeclared war on Russia and China by the NATO Powers for world dominion.
The Tunisian coup has the CIA/Mossad's and NATO's fingerprints all over it. One of the points Aangirfan also made was that Tunisia had made trade agreements with China. Why would this be a problem to US/NATO? China and Russia (along with Iran which is a strategic asset to both of them) constitute the only real stumbling block to world domination by the people who control the West's economic and military forces. Principal among these people are the international bankers.
Kay Griggs, a historian, explained in her 1998 interviews that the CIA is a red herring, because the big decisions really come down from SHAPE, ie: NATO.
"He originally was with the military and then he went into New York City Police Department and did crossover work with Central Intelligence Agency and while he was with the military until his death, he was with Military Intelligence, Counter Intelligence Corps. ...The agency, the CIA, was bringing in drugs and dad was the liaison between organized crime families because my father was a made man with organized crime; he rode both sides of the fence." ~ Desiree Ferdinand
Again, as Kay Griggs explains, NATO would supercede the CIA. "The CIA is a red herring, because the big decisions really come down from SHAPE, ie: NATO."
Recall the recent allegations against Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci, who was named as the boss of a brutal organized crime ring specializing in butchering enemies for their kidneys, assassinations, beatings, drugs and weapons smuggling. NATO put Thaci in power.
Gangsters may be easy to control because they have limited motivations, generally money and power. Putting gangsters in key positions and keeping gangsters happy makes the traffic (drugs, humans, weapons, organs, money) flow smoothly. The traffic generates money. Some of the money stays in the black economy to finance who knows what off the books, and some gets laundered into the "real" economy.
Perhaps certain technologies, like X-wars technologies, are funded through the black economy.
Perhaps some people have to be assassinated (or at least character assassinated) when they threaten to expose a piece of the plan. We think of John Wheeler, Judge Roll, Dr. Wakefield, Ben Ali, etc.
To get back to World War III - underway, James states:
"China and Russia (along with Iran which is a strategic asset to both of them) constitute the only real stumbling block to world domination by the people who control the West's economic and military forces. Principal among these people are the international bankers."
The international bankers and NATO likely perceive China and Russia (and Iran) as problems to be overcome.
How do these forces normally overcome opponents? Several ways. One is by infiltration. COINTELPRO. By placing people deep inside these countries to attempt to control them from within. This is why, perhaps, sometimes countries do things that don't seem to make sense, given their known strategic interests.
Along those lines, two considerations:
1) How much US military technology has made its way to China over the years through espionage?
2) What is the status of the new special relationship between Israel and China?
"Rothschild has had offices in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Malaysia since the 1970s. It opened an office in Australia in 1968... "The Chinese are pragmatic people, they know that in the long run they have got to have foreign capital."" ~ Evelyn de Rothschild, Rothschilds to China
Chinese TV made a documentary in twelve episodes, Israel, the land of milk and honey, which will soon be broadcast on CCTV-2, then on the other satellite channels in China.This documentary was shot in high definition, with a big budget and using the State of Israel.It presents Jewish culture as a beacon of human thought on a par with the Chinese culture.A private screening was held in Beijing attended by leaders of CCTV and the Embassy of Israel.
The "Beijing Consensus" was coined by Joshua Cooper Ramo, a Jew, who speaks Mandarin and lives between NYC and Beijing, and is the youngest managing director ever at Kissinger Associates, and before that the youngest senior editor ever at TIME Magazine.
China needs "help" from people like Ramo to deter "some on the fringes of US politics" who want to turn China into a "pariah."
"Based on more than a hundred off the record discussions,the Beijing Consensus captures the excitement of a country where change, newness and innovation are rebounding around journal articles, dinner conversations and policy-debates with mantra-like regularity."
George Soros recently said that China would be the world's next major economy, replacing the US economy. So a strong China is in the cards, but only if it is under the CONTROL of the international bankers. That's the trick.
In the video below George Soros is asked what is his "nightmare scenario" if the US does not go along with the new financial world order. He says China will make bilateral relations, as it already does.
"I think that a world of bilateral relations is less desirable than a continuation of a multi-lateral system. But the system we have now has actually broken down only we haven't quite recognized it. And so you need to create a new one, and this is the time to do it." (around minute 8:30)
Soros likes the system we have now, which has destroyed this country. He PREFERS the one-size-fits-all EU-style one-world-currency idea to nations acting in their own best interests and making independent, bilateral arrangements. But the system we have now is broken, and the banksters need to manage the transition to a new system.
"Well, certainly, a decline in the value of the dollar is necessary in order to compensate for the fact that the US economy will remain rather weak, will be a drag on the global economy. China will emerge as the motor replacing the US consumer. [notice the smiles. - ed.] Of course it's a smaller motor because the Chinese economy is much smaller, so the world economy will have less of a motor, so it will move forward slower than it has in the last 25 years. But China will be the engine driving it forward and the US will be actually a drag that's being pulled along through a gradual decline in the value of the dollar. So there will be a slow decline in the value of the dollar, a managed decline, and that will be the adjustment that needs to be accomplished. Now it could get out of hand, and certainly the fear of inflation will precede inflation itself."
The fear of the event will precede the actual event. Sounds like a plan.
Other methods of controlling nations include isolation and force. This option is generally only used on small, weak countries with no chance of resisting. China does not fit that description. Neither does Russia. Neither does Iran for that matter. (World War III)
Currently, there are missile emplacements around both these countries with more planned. The recent sinking of the South Korean warship Cheonan inadvertently exposed another missile threat to China. It seems that a US nuclear submarine was also sunk at the same time and may well have exchanged torpedoes with the ROK Navy ship, the Cheonan. The US nuclear submarine was hiding behind a South Korean Island and would have been undetectable by the North Koreans. It was also very close to Pyongyang, as in approximately 100mls. What wasn't mentioned in the article but obvious on a larger map was that this presumably nuclear armed US submarine was only about 500mls (as the missile flies) from Beijing in the other direction; far closer than any other possible missile emplacement . The article linked above hints at this being an ongoing situation with various US submarines on rotating duty there. Being clandestine, this submarine had no threat value for the time being, only strike value and first strike, at that. So, this is serious stuff.
There is simply no way the US and NATO could hope to invade and occupy China, though. The only way it could be done would be to lay siege to it and eventually force a capitulation. It would be quite useless for China to counter or pre-emptively attack its enemies if the enemy amounted to the rest of the world. What we have been witnessing in recent years is the continuous expansion of NATO and the forming of satellite organisations to include countries such as Australia, Japan and many Middle East Countries. So all this suggests a strategy of isolation of China from the rest of the world. And even little countries such as Tunisia are a pebble in the shoe of this plan as it goes forward. NATO has been courting Tunisian military commanders and I would expect Tunisia to announce some formal inclusion in NATO or one of its satellite organisations during the coming year should the coup remain successful.
On one hand, they want to make China stronger. On the other hand, they want to keep China under control.
Another method of controlling nations is to instigate a "revolution," like in Tunisia, which puts the desired gangster in power. Also spoken openly as "regime change" for "axis-of-evil" type nations like Iran. But for smaller, strategic nations, expect "people power" revolutions named after colors and flowers. See: Aangirfan's extensive work on Tunisia over the past several weeks.
Also note the events in Kyrgyzstan from last April. Note the strategic importance of the Stans in general.
Tunisia, as a prosperous and socially stable country, is/was also influential with neighbouring states, Libya, (and here also) Algeria and Morocco through its example. NATO, no doubt, wants to make a different kind of example of Tunisia. The truth may out yet and unravel this takeover. Let's hope so. Libya and Algeria have oil agreements with China and Morocco has growing trade ties with China.
Throughout all this the “Elephant in the Room' is NATO. Despite it having no ongoing purpose after the fall of the USSR, it has never-the-less expanded relentlessly not only further eastwards through Europe but throughout the whole globe. There can be only one purpose to this; the control and eventual domination and absorption of Russia and China in a formal or informal One World Government, a unipolar empire.
Though NATO is heavily involved in wars such as in Afghanistan, Iraq and now Pakistan and various other smaller conflicts around the world including skirmishes into Iran, these conflicts in no way justify its existence. But by providing live-fire wars (even to the point of supporting the other side), these conflicts provide the excuse for inclusion of sovereign states military forces from all over the globe into an active supra-national military force and this process conditions these countries and their military personnel to taking orders from extra-national authorities. In the process all member countries are losing their military sovereignty along with the slow ongoing loss of their economic and political sovereignty. So the "Global War On Terror" is really about turning the United States' allies into captive vassal states; absorbing them into its imperial empire and then using this empire to isolate and strangle Russia and China.
We see there is a role for China in the New World Order, should China cooperate with the international banksters and not with countries like Iran and Russia.
The training of this worldwide military force under live-fire conditions is swallowing lives whole and these lives need to be supplied and replaced readily. This appetite will get greater as time goes on. It will be necessary for the US and NATO to demonstrate to the Russian and Chinese governments that they have the ability to wage long term and protracted warfare if they are going to pose a credible threat to Russia's and China's survival that culminates in the capitulation of these countries to NATO. Ironically, I believe is the reason for the de-industrialisation (war industries aside) of the US and the UK particularly; to provide the manpower for this military machine through unemployment. (World War 2, which killed millions, was preceded by the Great Depression).
The Vietnam War demonstrated conclusively that military drafts, conscription, don't work. The US campaign in Vietnam collapsed because the troops mutinied. And they mutinied because they were forced to be there against their will. Their choice was taken away from them. This is not a problem faced by the leaders of a volunteer army. Todays enlistees think they are choosing to join regardless of the fact that economically they don't see an alternative. And this is the key.
One favorite way TPTB manipulate us is by arranging events so that the options narrow inexorably until we have "no choice" but to do the thing they wanted to do in the first place. By destroying the US economy, people will "choose" the military because they have no other meaningful options. World War III:
China has helped the bankers implement this plan of restricted employment options by taking over the consumer manufacturing removed from the UK/US and elsewhere so that domestic manufacturing could not compete price-wise. It has cost China, too, because this consumer production has not supplied the domestic demand in China and has drawn resources away from infrastructure development that could have has added long term benefits for the Chinese population and it would have also used up resources that could have gone into military defenses of one sort or another. Importantly for the bankers, China has become dependent on this consumer market and will, no doubt, suffer social unrest as it winds down eventually due to ever shrinking markets world wide and probably leaving many Chinese manufacturers with bad debts denominated in useless (after massive inflation) US dollars. So the economies of the US and the UK and elsewhere have been deliberately run down to create this situation of very limited choice of employment for its citizens. The economy, no doubt, will continue to get worse to feed the growing appetite of this monster. The effect of this shrinking employment situation, the growing disincentives to travel outside the US (and tourism into the US) and the growing isolation, the growing inanity of the pubic programming, the militarization of police forces and the ominous FEMA Camps, is to increasingly turn American society into one big military encampment. It is being accomplished through increasing restrictions on freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of movement together with increasing poverty and fear mongering. For this drive to increasing poverty to have any credibility, there cannot be any alternative prosperous societies to give the lie to it. And certainly no prosperous societies that are outside the NATO fold and “trading with the Enemy”, Russia and China, and becoming prosperous in the process. So Tunisia was a threat in this manner, too. Other North African countries were following this example, some of them with resources, too, such as oil as noted. These would soon, if not already, show up the crime that is Nigeria and that is Egypt, too, to the rest of the world.
Latin America plays an important role in whether this will succeed or fail. World War III:
Other countries outside the US/NATO fold include the ALBA countries of Central and South America and the Caribbean; Venezuela, Cuba, Bolivia, Ecuador and Nicaragua together with Honduras until their recent US backed coup. Haiti was drawing closer to the ALBA countries until the earthquake and subsequent US re-invasion. Most of these countries have oil, too, including Haiti, believe it or not. Huge deposits apparently. My . . . , that was a close call for the US! Still, they have the unhappy prospect of Cuba exploiting its oil with the help of the Russians and the Chinese. This could lead to prosperity right on the doorstep of the US. Hmmm . . . can't have that . . . really. I think we can expect increasing “terrorist” attacks and more coup attempts against these ALBA countries and them also being blamed for attacks elsewhere. If you read the article linked just above you will also see that peak oil is a myth and no doubt was part of the planning together with the global warming myth in justifying the ongoing impoverishment of Western societies to feed this multi-headed Hydra war machine.
Though this unacknowledged world war is in process, the NATO countries and their military forces have a long way to go yet till they are in a position to lay siege to Russia and China. There are problems ahead for them. There are shifting alliances within the Elite causing some headaches for the bankers. Also, there are still quite a few countries to subvert or overwhelm and some of them like the Latin American ALBA countries (not to mention Russia and China themselves) are getting stronger by the day. The US and the principal NATO countries also need the blind co-operation of their constituent populations. Of course, they need this information and their motivation to remain hidden from the Western populations to be successful. Will the cat get out of the bag?
We agree that Latin America provides a convenient place for various narrative threads to tie together. The narrative of Hezbollah in South America, for instance, brings the "terrorism" of the Middle East through Africa and into South America and, so we are told, up through Mexico and into the US.
Terrorism justifies military force. Military force requires bodies. People without jobs will be available for the military. Everyone else should stay home and shut up and remain in fear.
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