President Obama was joined by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown (center) and French President Nicolas Sarkozy. (Jim Young/Reuters)
Obama has been ordered to attack Iran -- or else Israel will.
And note the order: U.S., Britain, France -- as if they all fell in by rank.
Given that a U.S.-sponsored coup is underway and everywhere in the media, I especially liked this one:
And here is something that may surprise you given the war-promoting demonization of the Iranians:
"As he concluded his sermon, Khamenei invoked the names of Shiite saints and began weeping."
What the hell is wrong with the Iranians? They actually have leaders that feel?
And here is a forgotten group of people you haven't heard much about lately:
In fact, the main trouble in the region is coming from the "rebels [who] rose in 2003." The unspoken reason why Eastern Africa is such a mess? The Israeli weapons-smuggling ring that the Somali pirates exposed with their taking of the Faina.
Speaking of Somalia:
Strange how the "terrorists" show up right after a peace deal, huh?
Btw, readers, Somalia is worse than Darfur but you would never know it from the MSM of AmeriKa.
That was after the U.S. called in Ethiopian troops to overthrow the security-bringing Islamists.
Don't hear much about those war crimes, do you?
Okay, on to the "HOT" WARS....
This photo not as colorful:
A boy whose house was destroyed by a US airstrike carried what was left of his belongings. Deadly airstrikes have prompted calls for better training to reduce civilian casualties. (Fraidoon Pooyaa/ Associated Press/File)
How would you like your mud-brick house to be flattened by "an Air Force B-1 dropped a 2,000-pound bomb.... troops called in F-18 fighter jet air strikes as well?"
And expect more of this because,
"the report does not recommend changes in tactics and procedures used in Afghanistan.... and the [chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen] has already said there is no reason to punish any US personnel."
No, the U.S. never punishes anyone for war crimes; that's only for the other guy.
And then the gall of the military to say that
"other recommendations include improving the military’s ability to get its side of the story in front of Afghans faster, something commanders say is frustratingly difficult. The US should be “first with the truth,’’ the report said."
Then start telling the truth about 9/11, the standdown orders, and war games.
And suddenly the Twitter phenomenon sure makes a lot of sense, doesn't it?
Didn't know they were up in Afghanistan, did you?
"A team based in Kabul will update and maintain the sites.... US troops already scour websites, respond to questions from individuals, and rebut what the military considers to be false information."
That's with YOUR TAX DOLLARS, America -- so your own government can run a propaganda operation on you.
Aren't the MSM newspapers enough? (Oh, right, no one is purchasing or reading them these days because of the atrocious journalism and out right lies).
Related: Twitter and Life in the Shitter.
Now watch this for true information, not military lies:
"The footage you are about to see is poignant, heart-wrenching, and often a direct result of U.S. foreign policy. In order to help the refugees whose lives have been shattered by U.S. foreign policy and military attacks, please provide aid through the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan. For more on Afghan civilian casualties, watch Director Robert Greenwald on MSNBC's The Ed Show.
Watch: VIDEO
Also related: Air strike on Afghanistan — an eyewitness account
How about next door?
Children queueing with their parents at a food distribution centre in Manyar, a town under curfew in the Swat valley. Photograph: Declan Walsh)
Of course, let us not forget the American costs, as much as the MSM would like us to forget:
"at least 4,316 members of the US military have died in Iraq since the war began in March 2003"
Yup, the cost of ZIONIST WAR LIES!
Let's not forget the Iraqis, either:
Ever notice that "Al-CIA-Duh" shows up just when the U.S. needs them (or relaxes the violence, as the case may be)?
Add some more lives to the over over one million (must be two million by now) Iraqis dead from this invasion and occupation.
And a people I will NEVER FORGET:
.... They want you to forget:
Read the whole article HERE""
Meanwhile, what is the mass-murderer-in-chief doing?
President Obama worked the grill during a White House Father’s Day event for teenagers and young men. (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)
Oh, isn't that special as he rains down missiles on Pashtuns and other innocent men, women, and children.
As for that vaunted "change" we keep hearing about, these are only the latest backtracks as Obama morphs into George W. Bush III:
"Obama's plan would.... [extend] President Bush's 2001 and 2003 tax cuts, as well as other tax cuts that are scheduled to expire."
And in the biggest stab in the back:
"A federal judge said yesterday that he wants to look at notes from the FBI’s interview with former Vice President Dick Cheney during the investigation into who leaked the identity of a CIA operative... arguments by Obama administration lawyers that sounded much like the reasons the Bush administration provided for keeping Cheney’s interview from the public.... that future presidents and vice presidents may not cooperate with criminal investigations if they know what they say could become available to their political opponents and late-night comics who would ridicule them"
Since when do LATE NIGHT COMEDY SHOWS factor into GOVERNMENT DECISIONS?!
So Obama is defending Dick Cheney's treason now?
I don't want to hear anymore Cheney vs. Obama stories, 'kay?
Cripes, even the names are still the same: "Rice.... the US ambassador to the United Nations"
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Incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad claimed victory in Iran's presidential election, unnerving the nation's urban elite. (Irib 1 TV via Associated Press)
What, the camera out of focus there? Professional reporter only took one shot? Or is that what the editors decided to go with?
Does it matter because whatever he's smoking looks like it kicks a**.
I guess the buzz wears off quick:
!['If [the results] were real, why did they arrest members of the opposition parties?' -- Fatemeh Haghighatjoo, decrying the reelection of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (above).](http://cache.boston.com/resize/bonzai-fba/Globe_Photo/2009/06/14/1245033179_8710/539w.jpg "'If [the results] were real, why did they arrest members of the opposition parties?' -- Fatemeh Haghighatjoo, decrying the reelection of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (above).")
"If [the results] were real, why did they arrest members of the opposition parties?" -- Fatemeh Haghighatjoo, decrying the reelection of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (above). (Majid/ Getty Images)
Think the war-promoting, agenda-pushing MSM was trying to make a point? He's unbalanced, right?
Oh, btw, he has no real power. Maybe that's why he's toking up, huh?
Good Hezbollah, I mean Lebanese hash, hmmm?
Actually, enough of the sarcasm, I don't want to insult the man because I actually respect him very much.
"The Precession of the Equinox and 2012.
Posted by Visible
Greetings Earthlings… welcome and unwelcome guests. I want to talk about 2012 today and a thing called ‘precession of the equinox’. I want to mention Newcomb’s Constant and Kepler’s Laws. I’d like to present periapsis and the Dwapara Yuga and… I think that should be enough. When I say, I want to talk these things, the truth is that I only want to bring them up and if you are curious enough you are going to look into them and you might speculate about what they have to do with each other and the approach of 2012. You might then consider what it is that uniquely defines the given moment on December 21st, 2012 astronomically speaking and you might give a look into the sunspot activity as well.
I don’t want to talk about this. I don’t want to talk about this. I don’t want to talk about this or 9/11 Netanyahoo or Mad Dog Avigdor Lieberman. I’m not going to talk about the magical missiles from
It doesn’t matter what ancient culture you visit or what ancient texts you read. They are uniform in their commentaries about a 26,000 year cycle. You can go to The Vedas and you can go to the Hopis; the Olmecs and the Mayans… the Incas and many others and you will find the same thing differently exposited but congruous with one another in the essential understanding. I’ve given you recourse to modern scientific theorems and presentations that you can use for a transparency overlay in respect of the old and the new in a precise embrace.
What you see around you; all the bankrupt constructs that have defiled and imprisoned the human spirit are headed for the ashcan and you are headed there too, if you find yourself unable to cut them loose. Your political and religious leaders are fools. They are hypocrites, demagogues, thieves and murderers and they are most certainly headed to the ashcan with or without their secret bunkers and midnight rustling of the wealth of the world.
Some of you are going to want to protest the continuing psychopathy of the few and the sycophancy of the many. Some of you are going to want to rebel and resort to guerrilla tactics. Some of you are going to step away from the big bat guano machine. Most of you are going to go along with the program and right into the ashcan. You are going to become the fertilizer for a new age. According to your personal destiny as it is compromised by personal choice you will do what you see fit. My suggestion is that you consider deeply who you are; where you are and what you are. It’s late in the game to change the world so you had better change yourself.
The false prophets, new age hucksters and snake oil salesmen… the high priests and pornographers of this insidious culture of low level sensuality and body worship are due for a big surprise. Everyone is due for a big surprise. Many of you are thinking we’re just going through another rough patch in the road. Many of you think this is just a period of readjustment and that it’s all going to clear up in a little while. It is not going to clear up. It is going to get much, much worse. It is already worse than you think but they’re not telling you that. Time enough for that when it can’t be concealed any longer.
A lot of people are making the choice to go down with the ship in an ‘alas
It is a most peculiar thing that the majority of the people cannot see this. Apparently it is always this way. I could speculate on the power of rampant self-interest; disregard for one’s surroundings, pleasure seeking as an ultimate course, unfathomable ignorance, highly magnetic delusion and obsession but it wouldn’t serve any useful purpose. Let those who are so inclined remain as they are and may those not so inclined continue as well.
I’m going to suggest that you give some serious attention to the links I have provided you and I’ll throw in a few films as well; 2012, Science or Superstition, Future by Design and The Reflecting Pool just because it’s such an uncanny pseudo-fictional account about 9/11 and one more considerate effort by another one of us wailing in the wilderness or laboring in the provinces. There are some really good people working all over the world on the behalf of everyone. It is a tragedy that there are so few but it is an inspiration to us all, should we be so inclined, to do what we can wherever we may be in respect of the coming paradigm shift.
The recent post on cycles and the post on liars are connected to this one as setups. Smoking Mirrors and the other blogs are going to be less and less concerned with ongoing phenomena and more concerned with practical considerations. As with anything, some transition time is going to be involved. I’ll be on the radio this Sunday night talking about these things here.
It makes no never mind to me whether people pay attention to me or to any of the other fellow travelers whose efforts are directed toward awakening and informing people. To be criticized by those complicit in their own doom is a not unwelcome imprimatur upon my efforts and the efforts of kindred spirits. Have at it with a will while that capacity remains with you.
Rather than offer any general advice where each reader’s situation is different according to location; family, occupation and viewpoint, I would rather extend that timeless exhortation, “seek and ye shall find”.
There is some form of agency that is well disposed to those who are well disposed to our common good and another agency that is not well disposed to those not well disposed to our common good and I would suggest they are both the same thing, representative of the outworking of cosmic law. Defining this agency is a fruitless effort because any effort in that regard will only serve to conceal it more. Each of us perceives destiny and their place in the mix through a different lens and perspective. However you see it the time has come to refine it. The time to inquire and seek with all intensity is at hand. I am confident that no effort in this regard will go unrewarded.
The dissolution of outworn forms is necessary for what is coming. As much as many will look with horror on what is coming, I submit that there are some numbers of us who will look on it with hope and an encouraging industry, brimming with focused purpose. You can think of it as a death rattle or you can think of it as birth pangs. It’s going to look differently to different people depending on how they are looking at it and what their intentions are.
I’m reminded of the admonition seen in the side window of an automobile, “objects in the mirror are closer than they appear”. Everyone always imagines that there’s going to be some kind of a reasonable warning period …while having ignored the repeated and increasingly more obvious warnings all along. Take it for what it’s worth.
"I’m not letting you go down without annoying you every step of the way. If that’s negative then so be it"
I know the feeling.
(Blog author's note: I alter this fabulous and perceptive author's titles not out of disrespect, but respect at the unexpected and prescient phrases, themes, and ideas that catch my eye in his brilliant essays)
"The Howdy Doody President
by Visible
I’m sure there are some readers who feel that I accentuate the negative over the positive in my postings here. My answer would be, “Do you want me to lie to you?” I’m not trying to get you to sleep with me. A lot of you can accomplish that without my help. Sometimes I feel like I’m in one of those zombie movies that I don’t watch because I am too busy avoiding the zombies in the street. Some things are very clear to me and they are clear to others as well. This gives me a confirmation about what I am seeing. I cannot understand why so many more people cannot see what is happening. I have to assume that it is because they are seeing what they want to see because reality doesn’t jibe with their plans for the future.
People pretend that something is other than what it is because they think that is going to influence the outcome. Maybe they’ve read about positive thinking or visualization. Maybe they’ve got Nom-Myoho-Renge-Kyo playing in the back of their heads or they’ve been having a liquid lunch with Louise Hay. I’m all for the power of positive thinking. I employ it on a regular basis but… I’m against pissing in my own ear and telling myself its rain.
I believe that if you lie to yourself then you are certain to lie to others. It might make you popular with a larger segment of the population. It might put you on the rubber chicken glad-handing circuit and maybe you get to sit on the couch with Oprah but the last thing we need any more of is beautiful liars who won’t see what’s in front of them and don’t mind taking others along for the ride. It’s exactly that kind of mentality that got you where you are today …and you want more?
Nadya Suleman is the poster girl for where Western Culture is at today. For all of the great things we could be up to and inquiring after, Fox News has the larger audience because it reduces everything to the basest and most common denominator. There’s a price for this and you can see what that price is by paying attention to what is disappearing. It’s that simple. If ever a culture needed a bitch-slapping it’s the one we’re afflicted with today. You will wake up or you will be woken up and your sugar plums are going to turn into Umeboshi plums with a Natal plum garnish.
I may like them but Umeboshi plums do not taste good on a deformed palate and Natal plum will stick you good. Nature has a way of telling you when something is wrong and it is called, ‘pain’. What you’ll do is look for an allopathic, pharmaceutical solution. What you’ll do is drink and deny. What you’ll do is try to escape but since it is a part of you, I am curious about where you think you’ll go without it tagging along. You can’t fix something by treating the symptoms but that’s what you want to do. You want to suppress the information that is telling you… you have to change your style.
Now you have a president who looks good. He talks good. He put the same people who created the present mess in charge of cleaning it up AND he’s got a Blackberry. I see a lot of foxes with smiles on their faces and a big chicken shortage. Obama sure does like to drop
In the meantime you won’t be hearing about any of those annoying questions concerning that airplane crash in
You want your system fixed? You want your world to operate with a semblance of order so that you can be industrious and enjoy the fruits of your labor? Eliminate the Federal Reserve. Put the right people in jail and take their money. Demand that a certain special interest group register as an agent of a foreign power. Support war crimes trials and do not purchase any product that has 729 on the bar code. That’s a start. That will do more for fixing the mess you are in than all of the gratuitous band aids on sucking chest wounds that are presently being employed. How come I know this and they don’t? Am I smarter than them? No… I’m honest and you should find the stones to be honest too.
You’ve been emasculated by banal entertainments and impossible dreams in a mechanical rabbit chase. The rabbit doesn’t get a carrot and neither do you. This rabbit doesn’t even eat carrots …and you’re not going to eat carrots any more than you’re going to eat Umeboshi plum are you? Sometimes the bitter pill is the one that will save your ass.
Don’t look at Obama. Look at who Obama is listening to. Look at the people Obama put into a position to tell him what is happening.
Over two years ago I told you what was going to happen to your economy. I’m not the Lone Ranger in that regard but rather one of a few. I’m telling you today that when what they intend for
You just don’t seem to want to learn so it happens again and again and again. Keep your eye on Howdy Doody and pay no attention to the men behind the curtain. You’re going to learn this time. This time you are going to take to the streets because you may well already be living on them or one step away.
“It’s Howdy Doody time. It’s Howdy Doody time. It’s Howdy Doody time.” Buffalo Bob is played by Rahm Emanuel and Clarabelle the Clown is played by, “I’m a Zionist” Joe Biden. The gangs all here, maybe it’s time for Woody Willow too. Does it matter which puppet they use? Cartoon characters are climbing up out of the sidewalks and “Won’t Get Fooled Again” is coming out of the speakers. Feet are tapping while the lyrics are ignored. Conditions are noted while the causes are ignored. The pain is medicated while the origin’s ignored. All eyes are focused on the cell phone screen in the secret masturbation of the teenage girls we’ve become. The leg rocks up and down in steady rhythm as we dream of Prince Charming when we are actually Little Red Riding Hood. You get a different result when the fairy tale is real unless you’re reading the Brothers Grimm.
Go ahead… I can’t stop you. Dr. Feelgood is on the phone. Humanity… so much promise. All that hard work that we did and it has come to this? I know I just said this yesterday but it’s the same today. I’m not letting go of my faith in you. I’m not letting you go down without annoying you every step of the way. If that’s negative then so be it. If you will just join arms with your equally abused friends and neighbors there are no amount of puppets that can maintain this world as a vampires feeding ground. You have the power. They have only the illusion.
No matter what you may do or not do… the greatest thing you can do is to be aware. Merely by seeing and recognizing you unleash more garlic and holy water than you will ever need. See… recognize and declare “citoyen j’accuse.”
By James Petras
January 31, 2009 "Information Clearinghouse" --- Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany bombed, invaded and annexed countries and territories as a prelude to their quest for World Empire. Israel’s drive for regional dominance has followed in their footsteps, imitating their style: Indiscriminate aerial bombings of civilian and military facilities, a savage blitzkrieg led by armored vehicles, disdain and repudiation of all criticism from international agencies was accompanied by an open, military buildup for a new and bigger war against Iran. Like the Nazi leadership, who played on the ‘Bolshevik threat’, the Israeli high command has set in motion a vast world-wide propaganda campaign led by its world Zionist network, raising the specter of ‘Islamic terror’ to justify its preparations for a military assault on seventy-four million Iranians. Just as Nazi Germany interpreted the passivity, sympathy and impotence of the West when confronted by ‘facts on the ground’ as license for aggression, the Israeli military machine receives a powerful impetus for new wars by the Western governments’ inaction and flaccid response to its invasion of Lebanon, the bombing of Syria and now its Nazi style blitz and conquest of Gaza. For the Israeli high command, the impotence and complicity of the Western states, marks the way to bigger and bloodier wars to establish Israel’s supremacy and dominance of the Middle East, from the Red Sea to the Persian Gulf.
Gaza Blitz: Dress Rehearsal for an Assault on Iran
Israel’s military victory in Gaza is a dress rehearsal for a full-scale military assault on Iran. In the course of their Gaza extermination campaign, Israeli political and military strategists gained a great deal of vital information about: (1) the levels of complicity and impotence of European, North American and Arab states; (2) the high degree and depth of material and political support obtainable from the United States government in pulverizing adversaries; (3) the high degree of internal support among the Jewish electorate for even the most brutal killing fields; (4) the massive unquestioning backing of an offensive war from all the biggest and most politically influential and wealthiest Jewish-Zionist organizations in the US and Western Europe; (5) the weakness and ineffectiveness of the United Nations and the incapacity of the entire range of humanitarian organizations to limit Israel’s extermination campaign directed at destroying the very existence of an entire people; (6) the unconditional backing of the entire mass media and news agencies in the US and most of the mass media in Europe and the rest of the world; (7) the willingness of the liberal critics to equally blame the victims of extermination and the exterminators for the ‘violence’, thus neutralizing any effective consequential condemnation of the Israeli state; and (8) the adaptation of practically all the journalists, writers, academics and politicians to the entire euphemistic vocabulary of the Israeli propaganda office.
For example, sustained total war is called an ‘incursion’. Ten thousand aerial assaults by hundreds of Israeli helicopters and fighter-bombers are equated with sporadic harmless homemade rocket attacks as ‘violence’. Israeli targeting of thousands of civilian homes, hospitals and basic infrastructure are labeled ‘terrorist’ targets. Resistance fighters are labeled ‘Hamas terrorists’. The bombing of the Red Cross, the United Nations relief facilities, hospitals, mosques are called ‘mistakes’ or justified as ‘launching sites for Hamas terrorists.
Israeli political leaders have drawn the lesson from their dirty little ‘war’ that they can totally destroy a nation, decimate a society and murder and maim 7000 civilians with impunity. Israeli leaders learned they can carry out an offensive genocidal war without suffering breaks in diplomatic relations (except Mauritania, Qatar, Bolivia and Venezuela). The Israelis have successfully tested the loyalty and submissiveness of the major Arab regimes in the region and secured cooperation and acquiescence from Egypt, the ‘Palestinian Authority’, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. Israeli civilian-military leaders calculate that with this high degree of governmental complicity, combined with support from all the major Zionist leaders and mass media moguls, they can dismiss even large-scale street protests, repeated calls for boycotts and United Nations denunciations. Israeli leaders know that the criticism of major religious leaders and the growing number of Jewish dissidents, critical intellectuals and activists will have no consequential impact on Western governments nor lessen the fervor and loyalty of the major Jewish organizations.
Invisible Threats and Visible Impunity
The two potential threats to Israel’s genocidal offensive wars, namely, economic boycotts by important trading and investing countries and a cut-off of military aid, did not materialize. In North American the leading Zionist organizations ensured that the issue of a boycott was never even raised in the legislature and executive branches. In the US, AIPAC wrote resolutions and secured near unanimous passage (100% in the Senate, 90% in the Congress) of an AIPAC dictated resolution endorsing Israel’s invasion and slaughter. Moreover the Zionist colonized Pentagon authorized massive new shipments of missiles and 1000 pound bombs to re-supply Israel in the midst of its massacres of the Palestinians. Israel’s leaders gloated over the fact that Jewish Zionist Lobbies control over US policy went un-contested by the anti-war protestors. Few, if any, of the demonstrators around the world identified and denounced the role of the Zionist organizations in their own countries in making US, Canadian and European policy toward the Middle East.
Nothing exemplifies the total and blind subordination of the 51 Major American Jewish Organizations (see appendix #1) to Israeli foreign policy goals as two incidents during the Gaza Genocide. When the ‘51’ got wind that Secretary of State Condeleeza Rice was working to come up with a Security Council resolution calling for a cease fire in Gaza, to stop Israeli genocide, every major Jewish organization mobilized their entire membership to oppose her. As the Jewish weekly magazine, Forward, reports: “During a January 5 (2009) conference call with Jewish activists, Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chairman of the Conference of President of Major American Jewish Organizations, gave special priority to blocking the international body from taking a stand on the Gaza issue. ‘We need to work hard to ensure the Security Council doesn’t pass the resolution, Hoenlein said.’” (Forward January 15, 2009)
The second example of Zionist belief in Israeli supremacy over US Middle East policy and Presidential servility came in response to Israeli Prime Minister Olmert’s boast that he successfully dictated and imposed White House policy in the United Nation. According to the Forward: “Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert didn’t do anything wrong but he should have kept his mouth shut. That was the reaction of several Jewish leaders…’I have no problem with what Olmert did’, said Abraham Foxman, National Director of the Anti-Defamation League.” (Forward, January 15, 2009) Former AIPAC chief lobbyist Douglas Bloomfield, stated that he (an American citizen) had no problem with Israel dictating US policies but ‘it is a mistake to talk about it.’ (Forward, January 15, 2009). By talking about Israel’s power in Washington, it exposes the role of the Zionist Power Configuration in deciding US policies.
These examples demonstrate once again the indivisible links between Israel and its US-Zionist Fifth Column and their power to make US policy – even when it is a question of supporting genocide. These cases also illustrate the fact that the major American Jewish organizations will not tolerate the smallest White House deviation from any Israeli policy, even if it involves mass murder. It wasn’t enough that for 8 years, President Bush slavishly followed and funded Israel’s war machine: For US Jewish leaders it is 100% subservience up to and including his last day in office. As the Forward writes, “That tough words from Israel and the Jewish groups…serve as a message to the incoming (Obama) administrations…” (ibid).
In addition to capturing positions of political power, one of the highest priorities of all the major Zionist Jewish organizations in the US is to propagandize, apologize and fabricate stories on behalf of Israel. Even in the face of Israel’s most blatant violent crimes against Palestinians, condemned by the UN General Assembly, the International Red Cross and every humanitarian group, the principle American Jewish religious institutions and lobbies have demonstrated their loyalty to the state of Israel. The modus operendi as documented by their internal memos is to dominate the mass media through ‘plants’ – pro-Zionist journalist, academics, ‘experts’ and editors – who write and broadcast justifications and apologies for Israeli war crimes (parroting the line of the Israeli state) in the mass media. The Zionist propagandists then circulate the planted articles by their colleagues, giving the impression of broad public support when in fact they are reproducing prepared Israeli-Zionist propaganda. The style and substance of the Zionist propaganda operation is evident in its defense of Israel’s Gaza bloodbath. The style is the Big Lie, reminiscent of totalitarian regimes. It is worthwhile to sample a few examples from the main mouthpiece of the 51 Presidents of the Major American Jewish Organizations (PMAJO):
1. Denying Israeli war crimes and fabricating accounts minimizing the Jewish State’s killings. The Daily Alert (January 22, 2009) claimed that Israel killed only 600 Palestinians and “most were fighters.” The Daily Alert denied on site reports by major human rights workers, Red Cross officials, Palestinian and international doctors and medical workers and journalists, who risked their lives (and some died) documenting the nearly 1,400 deaths, over 2/3 of which were children, women and non-combatants.
2. Repeating Israeli propaganda justifying the bombing of the United Nations-run schools by claiming the schools were ‘infiltrated by Palestinian terrorists’ among the thousands of refugees (The Daily Alert, January 22, 2009). There was not a single armed resistance fighter found among the 40 bodies recovered from the rubble by the United Nations workers, International Red Cross and Palestinian medical crews at the girls’ elementary school; all were children, teachers and refugees. Every organization and individual eyewitness refutes the Zionist-American apology of the Israeli bombing of the school, including the entire European Union. The most bizarre fabrication printed in the Daily Alert is a headline, which read: “Hamas Shot from Civilian Neighborhoods” over an article by Rod Nordland (Newsweek), which, in fact, reports the opposite, “Everyone of the residents interviewed in eastern Jabeliya insisted that there had been no provocation from the area, no resistance fighters and no rocket launchings.”
3. The third lie is a whopper: “Israel Doing its Best to Help Gazans”, (Daily Alert, January 16, 2009). In fact, Israel blocked all medicine and medical equipment from entering Gaza, bombed hospitals, shot up ambulances, murdered doctors and medical aid workers and blocked all shipment of water, food and fuel. The Israelis bombed the main United Nations food and medical supply warehouse, destroying its entire contents. The US Zionists defended this bombing by citing Olmert’s blood libel that the destruction of thousands of tons of food was a “response to fire coming from the building.” The United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon was outraged by this barefaced lie as he visited the still smoldering UN warehouse to view the destruction while the US Secretary of State Rice crawled before the Israelis, begging them to “avoid (a repeat of) such incidents.” (Daily Alert, January 16, 2009)
4. “Saving Gaza by Destroying the Heart of Terror” (Daily Alert, January 16, 2009). The Jewish propaganda sheet reproduces an article by the ultra-nationalist Natan Sharansky, who advocates expelling all Palestinian Arabs from ‘Greater Israel’. In an article published in Bloomberg, Sharansky defended the destruction of over 10,000 houses, damaging over 40,000 homes, roads, hospitals, power installations, water and sewage installations, 121 industries and commercial workshops, 30 mosques, 29 educational institutions, farms, poultries, dairies, small fishing vessels and the fishing port (according to the Palestinian Center for Human Rights and cited in Stephen Lendman’s essay, “Israel Killed Everything but the Will to Resist”, January 25, 2009).
5. The Fifth Big Lie: “Israeli Pilot Tries to Avoid Hitting Civilians”, (Daily Alert, January 14, 2009). Photos published in all the international mass media refute this Zionist propaganda claim. The ghostly rubble of whole apartment blocks resembles a nuclear strike or an earthquake, according to the BBC reporters who finally made it into Gaza. Numerous European Parliamentary representatives and other on site visitors from throughout the world were shocked by the devastation. Not only did Israeli pilots target all civilian targets, but their ground troops assassinated unarmed civilians holding white flags and in some cases even small children attempting to flee. Surviving Palestinian children tell of their fathers executed in front of their families.
The Big Lie promoted by the leading Zionist organizations resonates from the Rabbinical pulpits, to their members and beyond: Informal phone surveys with rank and file members of local Zionists groups echoes the same lies and apologies, almost verbatim. In a word, neither facts, nor reports, nor universal condemnation, nor challenges by dissident rabbis, Jewish notables, writers and activists have made a dent on the major Jewish organizations and their agents in influential positions in the new Obama administration. They are the willing accomplices to mass murder in Gaza. They are active promoters of a pre-emptive aerial assault on Iran. They will unconditionally apologize for any crime against humanity that Israel perpetrates. Their academic apologists at Harvard defend Israeli Genocide as part of a ‘Just War’. In the face of universal condemnation they continue to cite the Holocaust and claim that they and their State are the only Moral People entitled to decide and judge, what is just and what is sacred Truth.
The Israeli leaders are perfectly aware of the ‘free hand’ with which their ‘Fifth Column’ operates, up to and including their prominent role in defense of genocide. Israeli leaders are assured that even when they launch a bigger, bolder and more destructive war (including the possibility of pre-emptive nuclear strike) against Iran or Syria/Lebanon, they can count on the million-member US Zionist lobby securing White House and US Congressional support. Israeli leaders now know for a fact that the anti-war movement will once again engage in inconsequential protests against the ‘shadows of power’ and not the real power wielders embedded in the Zionist Power Configuration.
Gaza: Testing the Subservience of the US Congress and the White House
By savaging Gaza with extreme brutality, Israel is testing the waters of US support for more offensive wars. Gaza allowed the Jewish leaders to measure the depth and scope of US Zionist political influence and their willingness to ‘go all the way’ when Israel decides to bomb 74 million Iranians in to the stone age. Or as the famous Israeli Zionist historian, Benny Morris, suggested in the New York Times July 18,2008, turn Iran “into a nuclear wasteland”.
Prime Minister Olmert’s public boasting that he pulled President Bush off the stage from an official public appearance and successfully ordered him to instruct the Secretary of State Condaleeza Rice to abstain from voting on her own authored resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza before the Security Council has many profound meanings. On the most obvious level Olmert’s revelation confirms the power of Israeli leaders over the White House. Secondly, the public nature of the exercise of power, tells the world that Israel can openly flaunt its capacity to humiliate and ridicule the President of the United States and later brag before Israeli officials with no adverse consequences. Thirdly it tells us that Israel has a greater say in US foreign policy than the American Secretary of State (or Foreign Minister). Fourthly it tells us that Israel decides how the US behaves, votes, vetoes and abstains in the Security Council, subject to Israeli approval.
Israel, the Zionist Fifth Column and Iran
Israel exercises power in the Middle East through its military weaponry. Its repeated threats and aerial and ground assaults on neighboring countries is a deliberate strategy to assert its regional supremacy. In recent years, Israel’s regional power has been enhanced by the Zionist Power Configuration in the US and Canada, who use the armed forces in their own countries to destroy any country that contests Israeli military supremacy. The classic case was the run-up to the US invasion of Iraq and the follow-up occupation, in which long-term Israel Firsters in the US Government played a deadly role in promoting the war.
From the late 1980’s to the present, the US Zionist Power Configuration has been in the forefront of a campaign to promote a US military confrontation with Iran in collaboration with Israel. The Zionist military proposals gained tremendous momentum during the 8 years of the Bush Administration. The ZPC mounted an unrelenting mass media propaganda campaign demonizing Iran, fabricating and disseminating falsified accounts of its nuclear programs, infiltrating and occupying key positions in the US Treasury Department (led by Stuart Levey) aggressively bludgeoning other governments, industries, banks and investors to boycott Iran. Zionist Treasury Department officials hope to strangle and weaken Iran’s economy in order to soften it up for a military strike. No other single or combined force in North America, or, for that matter, any place in the world (except Israel) has played as big a role in promoting an offensive war against Iran as the Zionist politicians and officials in the US government. They were aided and abetted by Jewish lobbies, Zionist propaganda centers, multi-billionaires and hundreds of Jewish community organizations.
Major Jewish religious organizations play a very influential role as conduits of Israeli propaganda and are an important force within the principle Zionist umbrella organizations (e.g. Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations or CPMAJO). Fully one-fifth of the Conference (see appendix for a full list)1 is made up of clerical-Zionist organizations, whose principle function is promoting Israeli goals through direct intervention in US politics at all levels. A memo from one group, the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, issued on January 3, 2009, outlines their detailed strategy in defense of Israel’s Gaza massacre: “Every congregation should issue a statement supporting Israel. Solicit statements from elected officials at the city, state or provincial, or federal levels. Solicit statements from local religious, ethnic and other prominent personalities. Monitor and respond to media coverage. Whenever possible, enlist non-Jews as well as public officials and prominent spokespeople to demonstrate their support for Israel.” The memo then proposes a series of “talking points on the situation in the Gaza Strip” that repeats verbatim the identical propaganda fabrications of the Israeli political-military high command: Affirming Israel’s peaceful intentions, blaming Hamas as the aggressor and claiming that “Israel, as always, is doing everything within its powers to limit non-combatant casualties in Gaza.” The Jewish clerics in the United Synagogues tell their faithful congregants to ignore the more than 5000 civilian casualties and the 1,300 deaths, of which three quarters are women, children and unarmed civilians, the sixty schools and the tens of thousands of homes and the dozen mosques demolished, the condemnations of war crimes by the United Nations, Red Cross and every Israeli and Palestinian human rights groups.
The strategy paper issued by the religious Conservative Jews is very similar to that followed by the entire network of 51 religious and secular groups affiliated with the ‘Presidents’. This highlights the way in which a highly disciplined, well-financed minority captures and multiplies its power far beyond its own membership, ‘leveraging’ influential Gentiles, the mass media at all levels and public figures into a powerful juggernaut in defense of Israeli genocide in Gaza today and for war against Iran tomorrow.
Israel’s Military Threat to Iran
Israel, contrary to some leftist skeptics, had advanced operational plans to launch a massive aerial assault on Iran. On several occasions in the recent past, Israel has planned several aerial attacks on Iran, only to be thwarted by the Bush White House. The Jewish state has publicly announced that it will unilaterally strike Iran if it continues its legal, internationally recognized, right to enrich uranium. The most likely winner in this February’s national elections, Binyamin Netanyahu, has publicly stated that a military attack on Iran is at the top of his agenda – a message which has activated all the major Zionist-Jewish organizations in the US to redouble their efforts to secure US compliance, support and active collaboration. On January 7, 2009 The London Sunday Times, quoting several high level Israeli military sources, reported that, “Israel has drawn up secret plans to destroy Iran’s uranium enrichment facilities with tactical nuclear weapons. Two Israeli Air Force squadrons are training to blow up an Iranian facility using low-yield nuclear ‘bunker-buster’…Robert Gates, the new (sic) US Defense Secretary, has described military action against Iran as a ‘last resort’ leading Israeli officials to conclude that it will be left to them to strike. The preparations have been overseen by Major General Eliezar Shkedi, Commander of the Israeli Air Force.” (Times on Line, January 7, 2009). A subsequent article in the pro-Israel New York Times (January 11, 2009) by David Sanger, a prominent Zionist sympathizer, reported that “President Bush deflected a secret request by Israel last year (2008) for specialized bunker-busting bombs it wanted for an attack on Iran’s main nuclear complex…the Bush administration was particularly alarmed by an Israeli request to fly over Iraq to reach Iran’s major nuclear complex…The White House denied that request outright.” Sanger goes on to claim that the Israelis were furious at a detailed report by 16 US intelligence agencies (The National Intelligence Estimate) which demonstrated that Iran had halted development of a nuclear warhead in 2003 because it undermined Israeli efforts to secure US collaborations for a military attack on Iran. Sanger spends several paragraphs trying to bolster the Israeli unsubstantiated claims regarding Iran’s nuclear program framing the case for a unilateral Israeli attack…which he dates began “early 2008” but was stalled by opposition from the US military.
The forthcoming Israeli national elections (February 10, 2009) promise to accelerate Israeli plans for a massive military assault on Iran, as the polls indicate that the majority of Jewish voters will elect the ultra-militarist Zionist Binyamin Netanyahu, a favorite of the most influential Zionist-American organizations. In a very recent interview with the Wall Street Journal (January 24, 2009), Netanyahu speaks of Iran as the ‘terrorist mother base” and “that Israel cannot accept an Iranian terror base (Gaza) next to its major cities.” He then goes on to justify the Israeli murder of civilians because, he claims, the Palestinian resistance (“terrorists”) “hide behind civilians”. The Wall Street journalist, one Brett Stephens, in complete awe and wonder at the feet of the Israeli leader, writes approvingly of Netanyahu’s justifications for an attack on Iran, “the threat of a nuclear Iran poses a much greater danger to the world than the economic crises…this poses an existential threat to Israel directly…” Stephens goes on to sum up Netanyahu’s position toward Obama: “If diplomacy fails and the US does not resort to military force, Israel will decide to go it alone…”
Israeli leaders have temporarily backed off attacking Iran – launching, instead, the Gaza assault to weaken any possible resistance among Palestinians to an Israeli war against their Muslim ally in Teheran. The Israeli war plans toward Iran will be reinforced with the new Obama Presidency. With the rise to power of the ultra-Zionist Dennis Ross as Chief Adviser on to President Obama on Iran and Hillary (“We will obliterate Iran”) Clinton as Secretary of State, the question of a US backed Israeli preemptive attack on Iran looms closer to becoming a reality. As late as two months ago Ross signed on to a document, which provided a ‘roadmap’ to war with Iran. Zionist infestation of the entire policy-making apparatus of the Obama regime means that any official military or intelligence opposition to an Israeli attack on Iran will be blunted and their spokespersons marginalized.
The Obama Regime and Israel
The Obama regime is, if anything, even more penetrated from the top to bottom and from Executive offices to Congress with Zionists in positions to influence every strategic decision having any relation to Middle East policy.
The Jewish Telegraph Agency (January 20, 2009), the principle news agency of American Jewish-Zionist publications, provides a detailed list of the ‘pro-Israel’ Zionists in strategic Middle East positions in the Obama regime. The evidence of Zionist control is overwhelming and the consequences are deadly to any ‘balanced’ peace negotiations and extremely promising for Israel’s war ambitions in the regions:
1. Dennis Ross will be an influential adviser on Iran policy. Ross is an advocate of intensifying sanctions to undermine negotiations and force the military option.
2. Richard Holbrooke, appointed as Obama’s envoy to Afghanistan, is a prominent Zionist who served as UN envoy under Clinton. He has recently headed an ad hoc group called United Against a Nuclear Iran, which advocates military action against Iran if it does not submit to an Israeli-dictated cessation of its legal nuclear energy program.
3. George Mitchell, Obama’s envoy to the Palestine-Israel conflict, is one of the four co-chairs of the Zionist front group, Bipartisan Policy Center, which propose a step by step approach, from sanctions to embargo to naval blockade to a military strike on Iran.
4. Dan Shapiro and Puneet Talwar will collaborate on Middle East policy at the National Security Council. Shapiro, in consultation with Israel, was “key in shepherding the Syrian Accountability Act through the Senate (a measure that imposed tough sanctions on Syria). Shapiro drafted Obama’s cringing, belly crawling speech to the AIPAC conference in Washington on May 2008. Puneet Talwar will handle Persian Gulf issues – including Iran. He was a staffer of former Senator and current Vice President Joe Biden and was a close collaborator and conduit for AIPAC.
5. Eric Lynn is heading for a White House Middle East policy job. He started his career as an AIPAC intern in 1998 and continued as a staff person for Congressman Peter Deutsch, “one of the most committed pro-Israel figures in Congress.” Lynn spent a year in Israel, imbibing Zionist military culture and learning Hebrew.
6. James Steinberg and Jacob ‘Jack’ Lew have been named as Clinton’s deputies at the State Department. Steinberg has been in a ‘strong relation with the pro-Israel community’ and was a conduit for Israeli pressure on Arafat to capitulate to Israeli demands. Jack Law will direct economic stimulus overseas. He is an orthodox-Zionist, who will use American economic resources to back Israeli militarism and reward or punish its adversaries. A former head of a Citigroup investment unit, he holds between $50,000 to $100,000 in Israel State Bonds.
7. Samantha Power, once a critic of Israeli war crimes in 2002 for which the Zionist Power Configuration had her removed from the Obama campaign in March 2008. She was ‘rehabilitated’ and re-incorporated as a member of the Clinton transition team after an ‘abject apology’ to Israel.
8. Cass Sunstein, a lifetime Zion-Lib, is head of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs – a key propaganda arm of the Obama regime.
9. Rand Beers was lead national security adviser to Senator Kerry during his presidential campaign of 2004 and ‘built close relations’ with the pro-Israel political apparatus. As adviser to Homeland Security, he will ‘likely be a linchpin as Israel and the US forge a closer alliance’ (Jewish Telegraph Agency January 20, 2009).
10. Lee Feinstein and Mara Rudman are Zionist veterans from the Clinton Administrations. Feinstein is a lead adviser of Secretary of State Clinton and Rudman is Senior Foreign Policy Adviser of President Obama.
11. Susan Rice, UN Ambassador appointed by Obama, signed on to a Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP) paper last summer calling for greater Israeli-US coordination for an embargo and military attack on Iran. WINEP is a well-known propaganda mill for Israel’s most fanatical, bellicose and unconditional supporters. In her Senate testimony, Rice denounced the United Nation General Assembly’s criticism of Israel’s Gaza bloodbath.
At the head of Obama’s foreign policy regime, Vice Presiden Biden (“I am a Zionist”), Secretary of State Clinton (“demolish Iran”) and Secretary of Defense Gates (a holdover from the Israeli-dominated Bush Administration) have put in place the most Zionist-infested Middle East policy regime in US history. This regime is neither by background, loyalties or commitments prepared to open serious negotiations with Iran, or to ‘broker’ an end of Israeli occupation of Palestine. On the contrary, their close ties with the Zionist Power Configuration and long-term commitment to Israeli militarism and expansionist policies ensure that the Obama regime will proceed toward collaboration with the Jewish State in a military confrontation with Iran. Everyone on Obama’s team supported the Israeli carnage in Gaza and endorsed Israel’s efforts to destroy the democratically elected Hamas government and prop up the discredited and corrupt quisling clique headed by Abbas.
The Obama Presidency has achieved what many observers thought impossible: It has placed more Zionist in more strategic power positions with a greater commitment to war with Iran than even the Bush Administration. Given Obama’s appointments and his own personal subservience to Israeli leaders it is difficult to imagine the 16 major intelligence services issuing a report refuting Israel’s fabrications about Iran’s nuclear program, as happened under Bush. Even more egregious, given the Zionist stranglehold on the White House, it is unlikely that Obama would block a proposed Israeli air assault on Iran as Bush is reputed to have done.
The Israeli war strategy toward Iran follows the ‘salami tactics’ of its Nazi forerunner: Attacks are designed for maximum destructiveness against civilian infrastructure, against countries and leaders opposed to any Israeli aggression toward Iran. Israel bombed and invaded Lebanon. It bombed Syria. Israel savaged Gaza. Its ‘lobby’ has extended and enforced global economic sanctions through the forceful intervention of a Zionist infested Treasury Department. Obama’s top economic adviser, the ultra-Zionist Lawrence Summers, promotes tighter sanctions, boycotts and embargoes against the designated enemies of Israel: policies pointing toward war.
‘Peace’ Negotiations Geared Toward War
The likelihood that the Obama regime will move the world closer to an offensive war with Iran is not based on idle speculation or selected quotes from his presidential campaign. No one can take serious President Obama or his Secretary of State Clinton’s advocacy of ‘negotiations with Iran’, when they are accompanied by conditions unacceptable to Iran’s sovereignty or national interests. The Obama regime openly threatens war if Iran does not accept unilateral disarmament with intrusive inspection of its strategic defense installations, allowing Israel and the US a unique opportunity for pinpointing vital targets for their first wave of attack.
What conclusively demonstrates Obama’s drive to war with Iran is his appointment of the most zealous Zionist militarist, Dennis Ross, to the key strategic position dealing with Iran.
Obama appointed Ross to the post of ‘Special Envoy to Iran’. He will act as Czar of Middle East policy. George Mitchell is his envoy on Israel-Palestine negotiations, a typical ‘good cop’ (Mitchell) strategy to counter the ‘bad cop’ (Ross). Ross, who is often called ‘Israel’s Lawyer’, is the ultimate Zionist, a crown prince of the US Zionist Jewish Lobby in all of its major undertakings regarding Iran. Ross is a founding leader of AIPAC, the principle and most powerful Israel First Lobby in Washington. He has been a lifelong and influential ZionCon ideologue, who successfully led the campaign in favor of the invasion of Iraq. He is among the most prolific and influential writers and propagandists at the Zionist-financed propaganda mill, WINEP (Washington Institute for Near East Policy), which has produced the most bellicose position papers pushing US military intervention in favor of Israel’s expansionist ambitions. During the Clinton years, Ross was appointed head of the US ‘mediation’ committee during the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations (1999-2000). In that position, he acted as ‘Israel’s lawyer’ according to a fellow US Zionist diplomat. He scuttled all possibility of any acceptable compromise by “following Israel’s lead.” He set up the conditions, which made Palestinian rejection inevitable while placing the blame on that embittered people. Ross has a profound influence on Obama’s politics to Israel.
Ross is a leader in a relatively new Zionist front group, known as the ‘Bipartisan Policy Center’. The ‘Center’ recently published a report entitled, “Meeting the Challenge: US Policy Toward Iranian Nuclear Development.” This roadmap for war with Iran was produced by a task force, which included Ross and two other extremist Zioncons, the dual-Israel-US citizen Michal Makovsky and Michael Rubin. Ross’ endorsement of the ‘Report’ reflects his rejection of any possibility of a negotiated agreement with Iran, which would accept Iran’s legal right to a uranium enrichment program as recognized by international treaty.
A recently reported wrinkle in Dennis Ross’ appointment to the Obama Cabinet is his role as current Chairman of the Jerusalem-based Jewish People Policy Planning Institute, under the Jewish Agency, which is an official part of the Israeli Government. His current work for an Israeli government agency could place Ross at odds with the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), a Federal statute that requires individuals working on behalf of a foreign government to register as such - something Ross has never done.
The ‘Report’ advocates a preemptive Israeli aerial bombing and missile campaign against Iran should the US and Europe fail to strike first. This Dennis Ross-endorsed ‘Report’ proposes a total naval and air blockade and embargo of Iran as a prelude to a US attack on Iran’s vital infrastructure. This document called on Obama to ‘bring in troops and material to the region under the cover of the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts, thus maintaining a degree of strategic and tactical surprise.’ In other words, Obama’s forthcoming appointment of Ross to head his regime’s Middle East Policy Advisory Group places an unconditional advocate and promoter of genocidal war with Iran in a key strategic foreign policy position.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Dennis Ross will do everything in their power to promote and justify a US-Israeli joint attack on Iran. Ross and Clinton will begin with phony negotiations based on unacceptable ultimatums. This will be followed by acts of war in the form of Gaza style embargos designed to starve and impoverish the people of Iran, and conclude with a Gaza-style aerial blitzkrieg. Given the extraordinary number of Zionists appointed by Obama in every key level of his government, the possibility of any internal debate or dissent over the Ross roadmap for war in Israel’s interest is minimal. Obama has put together a policy-making elite so closely linked and loyal to the Israeli military that it precludes any type of meaningful negotiations with Iran.
Possible External Constraints on Zionist-Israeli-US War on Iran
The only effective deterrent to a Gaza style Israeli assault on Iran is Teheran’s capacity for military retaliation, especially accurate long-range missiles capable of reaching Israel’s principle military sites, infrastructure and related support systems. Given the Israeli leaders lack of any moral constraints and their immersion in a militarist ideology, in which brutal force and widespread violence are the primary means of projecting power and securing Israeli public support, a costly massive military counter-attack is probably the most effective deterrent to force its leaders to reconsider Israel’s military-driven foreign policy.
While Israeli militarists adopt a ‘defensive’ rhetoric, their strategy is to weaken Iran’s defense capability and make it more vulnerable to military threats and diplomatic pressure in a lead-up to a pre-emptive aerial assault. International inspections by United Nation agencies are only carried out of Iranian sites but not of US regional military instillations, including their nuclear-armed war ships and submarines, or of Israel’s nuclear weapons sites and nuclear weapon laboratories. The one-sided inspections provide a wealth of information on Iranian military capacity and defense locations and of advanced strategic research laboratories. UN inspections prior to the US invasion of Iraq identified key defense installations and Iraqi scientists, their places of work and homes, which were used in bombing missions and the subsequent assassination campaign against top Iraqi scientists. This kind of information was crucial in guiding Israel’s bombing and missile assaults and assassination of leaders and their families during its invasions of Lebanon and Gaza.
The Israeli dictated and US Zionist implemented economic boycott of Iran is clearly directed toward undermining both Iranian living standards and the performance of their economy, similar to what the Jewish state imposed on Gaza. It is part of the ‘softening up’ campaign prior to its all out attack.
Today however, despite a sustained effort by all top Zionist functionaries in the US government and the intense pressures of its lobbies on US pension fund managers, the embargo has not crippled the Iranian economy. Especially with the onset of the recession, the decline of world markets and the growing energy demands of China, there are numerous Western and Asian multinationals eager to trade with Iran and to ignore Israeli and US Zionist pressures.
Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza has finally forced important cracks in the overseas Zionist monopoly over Jewish opinion. The leading Jewish communal organizations and their spiritual spokespeople continue to support each and every crime from the bombing of Red Cross ambulances and clinic to United Nations schools, food and medical supplies warehouses and refugee centers. This has finally provoked vigorous opposition among leading Jewish intellectuals, writers and other professionals.
New organizations and personalities have emerged within the Jewish community, which have forcibly repudiated Israel’s genocide. Some Jewish activists have taken bold direct actions, occupying Israeli consular offices in a few major cities and calling for a total boycott of Israeli goods and academic exchanges. Others have confronted Zionist apologists in public forums and press conferences. While the number and influence of Jewish critics of Zionist war crimes is small, their importance is found in giving legitimacy and encouraging millions of otherwise intimidated and silent Gentiles to ‘come out’. As a result, an unprecedented number of people in the West have voiced their horror and opposition to the Zionist military juggernaut and expressed their support for economic boycotts against Israel. While Jewish and Gentile mass opposition neither stopped or weakened Israel’s massacre of Gazan civilians, it has laid the political and organizational basis to launch a massive campaign against the US Zionist war plans against Iran.
Israel’s military successes have created an irrational triumphalist war fever among all of its leaders and their enthusiastic supporters in the million member Jewish-Zionist organizations in the US. This has led them to underestimate the catastrophic costs of a war with Iran. An Israeli-US sneak attack on Iran will unleash major military and political retaliatory action throughout the Middle East. This will certainly inflict major human, military, political and economic losses on many US military installations in the Gulf region. This is especially the case in Iraq and the adjoining client Gulf States, where US military forces are highly vulnerable. An Israeli assault might lead to the destabilization or overthrow of Arab client states. Moreover, Iran may retaliate by successfully launching accurate long-range missiles, which will target major Israeli military complexes and adjoining population centers.
Given the enormous worldwide disgust and horror at Israel’s war crimes in Gaza and the hatred evoked by the prospect of new aerial assaults on millions of Iranians, Tehran’s reprisals against Israel and the US are not likely to raise much condemnation. More likely, most people will feel a sense of righteous vindication, that finally the arrogant bully is finally getting paid back for its assaults on unarmed, imprisoned civilians in Gaza. Just as the British survivors of Nazi V-2 rocket attacks on English population centers cheered the firebombing of Dresden, vast sections of public opinion may greet an Iranian retaliatory strike on Israel as a valid deterrent for its serial atrocities against humanity.
One of the most effective threats to Israel’s genocidal war drive is the launching of investigations into Israeli war crimes, the establishment of tribunals to try Israeli military and political leaders for their crimes against humanity (Financial Times, January 16, 2009 page 5). Israeli leaders have advised their soldier-criminals they will be provided with legal protection. The leaders have expressed concern that they themselves may be subject to citizen arrests and tried by overseas courts. Several governments are filing war crimes charges before the International Criminal Court in The Hague. The problem with laying charges on Israeli war criminals is where to draw the line between military-political leaders who directed the war crimes and the field officers, who implemented the policies violating the Geneva Conventions. For example, identifying the officials who specifically barred medical and emergency workers for over four days from evacuating wounded and starving civilians, including small children, from the site of a horrific Israeli massacre of Gazan civilians. What about the great masses of Israeli Jewish citizens who were so elated by the bombing of whole civilian neighborhoods that some Israelis set up observation posts with picnic baskets to survey the ongoing carnage? The same Israelis “delighted in the images, splashed across the front pages, of smiling Israeli soldiers riding home on tanks in victory post.” (Financial Times, January 26, 2009). Mass Israeli elation, political intoxication and embrace of the perpetrators of the killing of unarmed people may be repugnant to world opinion, but it is not a sufficient offense to merit an international tribunal. However it is subject to the same moral repudiation, which many of us felt toward the German people who celebrated Hitler’s savage bombing of Soviet, Polish and Balkan cities. Even if the Zionist-controlled White House succeeds in using its veto on the United Nations Security Council to prevent a war crimes investigation of Israeli leaders, the presentation of charges and possible arrests in several European countries will force the Israeli leaders to reflect on their pariah status and might inhibit their push for a murderous war with Iran.
Israelis currently dismiss out of hand the opprobrium of world opinion as irrelevant to its ongoing military offensive. This causes the Jewish state to overlook the importance of world opinion in eroding strategic political support in the future. Many observers believe hundreds of millions of Arab citizens and multitudes of non-Arabs and non-Muslims are coming to believe that Israel and its overseas Zionist Fifth column will only understand the language of force since they routinely practice state terrorism to impose their interests on captive, impoverished people. As a result, many analysts argue that it is understandable that the weapons of choice for the victims of Israel will inevitably rely on sustained, organized and militarized people’s resistance. In these circumstances the current crop of anemic, impotent, collaborationist Arab leaders and regimes may be overthrown and a new combative and consequential leadership could emerge, one which consults and draws its mass support from the deepest feelings of national dignity and profound hatred of Zionist imposed humiliations.
Conclusions
Israel’s Gaza war is leading its leaders and its strategically placed overseas agents in the US political system to overreach and to pursue a new war with Iran, as part of a regional strategy to secure imperial power. The Obama Administration and the newly elected Israeli prime minister share more than overlapping policy-makers and long-term commitments to military-driven empire building. They have made it clear that they will proceed in setting in motion a series of diplomatic and economic moves destined to prepare the stage for launching a genocidal war against Iran. This will be in line with Obama’s rhetoric of recreating a Jewish-Afro-American alliance, one based on Israeli interests and American lives! The only deterrent to new wars of extermination is mass action, which increases the political, economic and military costs for Israeli aggression. Only when Israeli casualties mount, when Zionist exploiters and bankers suffer losses, when its academics and tourist sites are boycotted, then and only then will the Israelis and their US acolytes begin to rethink their blind adherence to militarist policies. It is only then that they will rethink their irrational Judeo-centric vision of a world made by and for the one Chosen People living in the Only Moral State in the world.
Unfortunately it may take some military shocks to dispel these tribal fantasies. History teaches us that there is nothing like a bloody defeat to end the Superman Complex.
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"Israel: Determined to Destroy the World
by The Old Codger Throughout the world, Israel’s invasion of Gaza was inappropriate and “over the top,” except in America and Israel. The world has typically been at odds with America over Israel. Only one US President has ever “stood up” to Israel, and that was President Dwight D. Eisenhower when he threatened dire consequences to Israel if it did not withdraw from Gaza in 1956.
Since Eisenhower, all subsequent administrations have been sympathetic and supportive with all that Israel does at the very least. The apex of full approval of Israel was on June 8, 1967 when Israel bombed the USS Liberty killing 34 sailors, There is scant evidence that the Obama administration will be any different in general. This is especially true when the long running disputes between Iran and Israel are factored in.
In a Nut Shell
Israel has been emboldened by its recent invasion of Gaza and is totally oblivious to the sentiments of the rest of the world. Most Americans, particularly those on the right, which includes virtually all born again Christians and Evangelical Christians fully supported the invasion with the rationalization that Israel has the divine right to defend itself. Little consideration is given to Israel’s treatment of Palestinians in general.
Both Israel and Hamas are claiming victory as a result of the latest invasion. The claim of victory by Hamas can be easily discounted as arrogance and bravado. They took a ‘licking, but keep on ticking’ as it is quite easy to find new recruits in an area hit by poverty, and little hope for a future. The reality is that even though Hamas is calling for the destruction of Israel, it is poorly positioned to do much more than inflict minor damages on Israel when compared to the damages that Israel has inflicted on Hamas and Gaza.
Israel, in claiming victory over Hamas, is also claiming that it has sent a clear and strong message to Iran, which is also calling for the decimation of Israel. Once again, Israel invokes rhetoric that it has the right to defend itself against its enemies and those who wish to destroy the country. Whether Iran poses a clear and serious threat to Israel is specifically unknown. What is known is that Iran is creating a nuclear program, presumably for peaceful purposes and that it is a significant importer of Russian arms. It is also actively engaged in developing its own weapons.
Israel has a decades long history of making preemptive strikes against any country it views as a threat. Even though Israel claims it is abandoning its preemptive strike policy in favor of developing a missile defense shield, it has yet to discard that tactic. Since 2005, Israel has been actively promoting, and attempting to engage the United States into making a preemptive strike against Iran’s nuclear reactors. Conversely, Iran advocates making a preemptive strike against Israel. There can be little doubt, given Israel’s history, that they are serious. Whether Iran is serious in its threats is an unknown. No one knows what Iran’s capabilities are.
A Preemptive Strike On Iran
A preemptive strike on Iran is possible by either Israel or the United States acting individually or in concert with each other. The possibilities are greater that it will be initiated by Israel given that America is still stinging from the faulty and unreliable information that Israel provided concerning WMDs in Iraq. Whether Israel’s intelligence was deliberately falsified so that the ends would justify the means is unknown. The only known factor is that Israel wanted Saddam gone, which would give it the motivation to falsify intelligence or even manufacture it.
America has expressed a great desire, along with the rest of the world, with the exception of China and Russia, to ensure that Iran does not possess a nuclear weapon. Russia in particular would be well served by such possession. China would not see any benefits or lack of benefits, but continually refuses to become involved in it trading partner’s affairs.
Had the Republicans remained in power, it is extremely likely that an attack on Iran by America, either directly or by supporting Israel, would have been extremely likely. Whether such an attack is likely by the new Obama administration is an unknown. What is also unknown is what, if any, control the new administration will be able to exert over Israel. Given the possible new heads of state in Israel in February, it is unlikely that anyone will be able to exert any control over Israel.
Israel chose to attack Hamas at the end of the Bush administration because it knew Bush would be supportive and also to test the waters with the soon to be Obama administration. Hence, they inflicted as much damage as possible but made sure that they withdrew from Gaza just hours before Obama was sworn into office. Obama, by not taking a position on the attacks prior to becoming president, presented an unknown for Israel. Rest assured the waters will be tested. America’s response to any UN reports will be one test that Israel will pay attention to.
Regardless of America’s responses, the odds are in Israel’s favor that America will come to its defense. It has long been America’s policy to come to the defense of Israel regardless of blame that could and can be attributed to Israel. Hence, it is not a question of if Israel attacks Iran, but when.
The Road To Armageddon
The road to Armageddon is not paved with good intentions. Despite Israel’s attempts to convince the world that whatever it does is in self defense, in the absence of any concrete knowledge, those claims are suspect. Israel’s foreign policy verges on paranoia: Any one who does not agree with it is anti-Semitic, and thus committed to seeing the destruction of Israel. Therefore, it has plenty of real as well as imagined enemies throughout the world.
Given Obama’s plans to withdraw American troops, a move that is being welcomed by Iraq, Israel knows that it will need to move quickly to ensure that America can readily come to its defense. Once the American troops and equipment have largely departed Iraq, Israel will become vulnerable. With American troops in Iraq, Iran will have a viable and reachable target in theory, thus protecting Israel from imminent destruction. Hence, Israel will, without a doubt, drop bombs on Iran before that happens regardless of America’s verbal commitment to back them up. They will, if necessary, rely on history. Hence, it is not a question of if Israel invades Iran, it is only a question of when.
When Israel attacks Iran, all hell will begin to break loose in the region. Would-be terrorists will have numerous ideological reasons to target Israel and its primary supporter, America. Given Israel’s vindictive nature, and propensity to inflict the most damage possible, it will likely bomb Iran’s oil fields. Whether or not that happens, there is little doubt that Iran’s oil exports would suffer for a period of time.Both China and India are highly reliant on Iranian oil and gas. Prior to the economic downturn, Iran was exporting over 350,000 barrels a day to China. If the oil flow is disrupted, it will over time, impact China’s already struggling economy. This could negatively impact China’s continued investments in America, which is highly reliant on that money.
It is a foregone conclusion if Iran decides to respond to an attack by Israel that the United States will get involved. This too could place China in an untenable position with Iran given their close ties. China recently signed a $1.7 billion contract with Iran to assist in developing its oil fields, much to the chagrin of the United States. China, by its nature, would do everything possible to avoid being in the middle between American and Iran, but it would be impacted none the less.
America cannot afford a war in Iran. China cannot afford to cut off its funding to America. However, if push came to shove, China would abandon America in favor of its own people. The impact on America would be significant, and potentially devastating.
Iran is not an isolated country, despite all efforts by America to isolate it. It has oil and gas contracts with China, Japan, India and Pakistan. It also has a contract to develop off-shore oil fields with Venezuela. Russia also has close ties with Iran as well as Venezuela. Other than Japan, none of these countries have what could be described as a “smooth relationship” with the United States.
Many scenarios can be extrapolated. Short of Iran just licking its wounds, which isn’t likely, each scenario can play out into one disaster or another. The financial ramifications during a global recession would probably be the worst, but those could lead to uprisings and more terrorist activities.
A Partial Solution
It is extremely doubtful that Israel would think of the ramifications of its actions. It places itself first in everything that it does, without any regard for the impact their actions have on any one else. Given fragile world economies today, the impact of anything that it does will be felt around the world.
Israel cannot be relied on to act responsibly. If any country has any chance of bringing about responsible actions by Israel it is the United States, but it will not be easy.
Israel needs to take the first steps to bringing about peace in the region. It needs to open the borders to the Gaza Strip and allow humanitarian aid through unobstructed. It also needs to retreat to the pre-1967 boarders without exception. At the same time, it needs to open up its nuclear program to inspections by the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) and give a full and complete disclosure.
Doing those things will be the first step towards opening up dialogue with others in the region. Peace in that region cannot be achieved if one country is holding all the “cards” and demanding that other countries have no or inferior cards.
There is little doubt that Israel will resist all of these suggestions or requirements and not acquiesce to anything. This is problematic for not only the United States but also the rest of the world. The fact of the matter is that Israel wants peace only on its terms, and to the detriment of those it is warring with.
Until Israel is contained within its borders, it will continue to pose a threat to not only the region, but the world. So far, the rhetoric from the Obama administration has been that it will continue to cater to the whims of Israel. Peace will never be obtained in that manner. Israel will thus be subjected to continued threats of annihilation, which will only serve to further exacerbate an already volatile situation.
--MORE--"We just got done with three weeks of open warfare in Gaza. We saw white phosphorus (supplied to Israel by the United States), tungsten flechette rounds (supplied to Israel by the United States), miscellaneous incendiaries (supplied to Israel by the United States), precision guided bombs (supplied to Israel by the United States) dropped from aircraft (supplied to Israel by the United States), missiles (supplied to Israel by the United States) fired from helicopters (supplied to Israel by the United States) ... but we never saw any of these weapons Israel accuses Iran of supplying to Gaza.
More than that, for the limited times we had a live camera feed from Gaza we saw Israeli aircraft and helicopters circling back and forth low over the city, apparently well aware that the Gazans did not have man portable surface to air missiles with which to fight back. There are no reports that the Gazans were able to engage Israeli tanks with anti-tank rockets.
If the Gazans were smuggling anything in through those tunnels other than food, it would have been employed in the last 3 weeks.
It is time to enforce UN Resolution 242."
Related (a good read): Comparison of military strength of Israel and the Palestinians
U.S. Support of Israeli War Against Gaza May Trigger Depression
"Unusually Large U.S. Weapons Shipment to Israel: Are the US and Israel Planning a Broader Middle East War?
A very large delivery of US weaponry to Israel consisting of 3,000 tons of "ammunition" is scheduled to sail to Israel. The size and nature of the shipments are described as "unusual": "Shipping 3,000-odd tons of ammunition in one go is a lot," one broker said, on condition of anonymity.
"This (kind of request) is pretty rare and we haven't seen much of it quoted in the market over the years," he added. "Shipping brokers in London who have specialized in moving arms for the British and U.S. military in the past said such ship charters to Israel were rare. (Reuters, Jan 10, 2009).....
The reinforcement of Israel's missile defenses combined with the large shipments of US weapons are part of an escalation scenario, which could lead the World under an Obama Administration into a broader Middle East war.
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To most, the language appears all-too-familiar and not unlike the childhood story of the “boy who cried wolf”. Indeed, it has all the hallmarks of the typical fear-mongering all have come to know all-too-well in recent years featuring a paranoid Zionist military commander working for a notoriously paranoid nation and warning of the next “holocaust” if everyone does not immediately stop what they are doing, pay strict attention and follow the prescribed course of action as laid down by the Jewish state.
Speaking recently at a conference at the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University, Israel’s Minister of Defense Ehud Barak sternly warned his audience (and the world at large) that “If Iran acquires a nuclear weapon, it could try to attack the United States,” specifying that if the Islamic Republic built “even a primitive nuclear weapon” similar to the one used in “destroying Hiroshima” that she would “not hesitate to load it on a ship, arm it with a detonator operated by GPS and sail it into a vital port on the east coast of North America.”
The first thing in his statement sticking out like a sore thumb is his confidence, stating UNEQUIVICALLY that Iran “Would not hesitate” in detonating a nuclear weapon against the world’s most powerful nation. This is the same United States by the way that presently has enough firepower parked off Iran’s coast to destroy her 1,000 times over. This in itself begs the following question–Is this yet another case of the organically unstable Zionist mindset that has become all-too-familiar these days or is there something else? In other words–What does he know that others–including the most sophisticated intelligence agencies working for the US government–don’t know?
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I hope these photographs expose some of the lies AmeriKa's Zionist-controlled AmeriKan MSM is telling about Iran.
For MANY MORE PHOTOS, please (I beg you) to go HERE
And you also get a message from ole St. Mahmoud, I mean, President Ahmadinejad.
"Israel lobby fails to silence Ahmadinejad’s Christmas message
By Stuart Littlewood
27 December 2008
Stuart Littlewood applauds Britain’s Channel 4 TV for screening Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Christmas message and notes the speed with which Israel’s stooges in the UK Parliament, Foreign Office and elsewhere raced with one another to condemn the broadcast.
Israel's stooges in the UK wasted no time orchestrating a tidal wave of protest against Channel 4 TV's showing of a Christmas message by Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
The MP Philip Davies, a Friend of Israel, said that the address was "completely unacceptable on every level" but didn't explain why. "His previous comments don't strike me as being in tune with what most people feel at Christmas time. He is an offensive man and the last person you would want to use for a Christmas message." Speak for yourself, Mr Davies.
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Israel’s ambassador, Ron Prosor, complained that Ahmadinejad's government "leads Christ’s followers to the gallows". Channel 4’s decision to broadcast the message was a “sick and twisted irony” and a "scandal and a national embarrassment" because the Iranian president "denies the Holocaust, advocates the destruction of the sovereign State of Israel, funds and encourages terrorism, executes children and hangs gay people."
Mr Prosor himself represents a thuggish regime that is forcing children to eat grass and rummage through waste tips for food this Christmas in order to survive. I'm talking about Israel’s illegal siege of Gaza, of course. His government’s crimes against humanity, violations of human rights and all-round racist vileness are recorded elsewhere so there’s no need to amplify. Let’s just say that Mr Prosor is in no position to criticize others or indeed to lecture us on what constitutes a national embarrassment. He has plenty of his own.
Even the TaxPayers' Alliance had to stick its oar in. They were upset because Channel 4 receives a bit of state funding and taxpayers' money was being used "to give a platform to a regime that despises democracy, oppresses women and gay people and has made clear its dislike for everything Britain stands for".
The Foreign Office, which many feel is infected with pro-Israel bias, also issued a ticking off. "President Ahmadinejad has during his time in office made a series of appalling anti-Semitic statements," announced a spokeswoman, presumably referring to the famous remark where he quoted the late Ayatollah Khomeini as saying that "this regime occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time", a proposition that many people agree with. Israeli propaganda twisted it to read “Israel must be wiped off the map”.
The Foreign Office went on to say that the broadcast would "cause offence and bemusement not just at home but among friendly countries abroad".
Well, I listened carefully and also read the text of Mr Ahmadinejad's message and could find nothing offensive or objectionable. On the contrary, Mr Davies, it was quite acceptable on all levels. I found myself applauding when Mr Ahmadinejad told us that the world is suffering because "some leaders are estranged from God". How very true of the dross that leads the West.
I was nodding approval again when he talked of “the indifference of some governments and powers towards the teachings of the divine Prophets, especially those of Jesus Christ".
And I liked his upbeat view that a wave of hope is gathering momentum – "hope for a brighter future and hope for the establishment of justice, hope for real peace, hope for finding virtuous and pious rulers who love the people and want to serve them".
Whether he actually meant what he said is a matter for discussion. But the words and the message were OK.
Well done Channel 4 for resisting pressure from those who are desperate to shut down discourse that might stray from the pro-Israel propaganda line. And thank you Mr Ahmadinejad for addressing us on Christmas Day.
Stuart Littlewood is author of the book Radio Free Palestine, which tells the plight of the Palestinians under occupation. For further information please visit www.radiofreepalestine.co.uk.
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And what struck me most about his message?
"We believe, Jesus Christ will return, together with one of the children of the revered Messenger of Islam and will lead the world to love, brotherhood and justice."
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
We're rapidly approaching our eighth consecutive wartime Christmas, and I suppose I should be used to the horror of it all by now. But no dice.
I'm not getting used to anything. Instead I'm realizing that I think of Christmas much as I think of the Glorious War On Terror.
I hate it. I wish it were over. And I wish we would never have another one.
Every aspect of Christmas during wartime strikes me as gross and disgusting and totally perverted; or perhaps I should say it strikes me as even more gross, disgusting and perverted than it does in peacetime.
This year in particular:
I do not wish to give or receive any gifts.
I do not wish to chop down any trees and bring them into my house.
I do not wish to hang any lights or ornaments.
I do not wish to buy or consume any seasonal foods or beverages.
I do not wish to host or attend any festive gatherings.
I do not wish to visit or be visited by anyone.
And I'm tired of being sneered at because none of these things appeal to me.
I feel exactly the same way about the Glorious War crimes: the noble war crimes that are still going on in Afghanistan and Iraq, the proxy war crime that is still going on in Somalia, the mostly undeclared war crime being waged against Pakistan, the threats of unprovoked war crimes against Iran and Venezuela, the clandestine war crimes being waged against most of Africa, and most of South America, and big parts of Asia, and so on, and on and on ... and that's not to mention the home front: the war against the Constitution, the war against your job, the war against your savings, and especially the war that's being waged against the truth -- not only by the government and the complicit major media but by much of the so-called "independent" media as well.I look around and I see all this and I just don't see anything worth celebrating.
It's all gross and perverted ... and the people who revel in it disgust me to no end.
I understand that there's no analytical value in any of this; it won't help anyone to overthrow any tyrants or to throw off any chains. But if you find yourself feeling exceptionally repulsed by all the festivities this Christmas, it might help you to know you're not alone.
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It does, WP!
Also see: Christmas And The GWOT [2]: Personal Salvation And National Destruction
Att - Messrs. Vladimir Putin, Hu Jintao, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Hugo Chavez, Hassan Nasrallah, Fidel Castro, et al,
Dear Sirs,
The Western bloc-media has declared you the villains of the world. You know as well as I do that none of you, nor your countries, nor your people, will ever get a break in the Western media. The entire media sings from the same song-sheet with a simple message. Each of you is a variation of Orwell's Emmanuel Goldstein. Collectively you are those whom we must hate.
To be honest, I don't know where your heads are at precisely. But I'm assuming that you understand how the world works. I'm assuming that you're perfectly aware that the Reserve Banks of the world are privately owned and what this means. Tie this power to the undeniable bloc nature of the media and its refusal to acknowledge this power, and it's no great feat of logic to arrive at the conclusion that the media is, in essence, a machine to cloud our minds to the nature of our subjugation.
Effectively we all participate in a mad charade, an idiotic drunken parlour game, wherein the perpetual topic-du-jour is that old chestnut 'What's to be done?' To obey the rules of the game we must discuss this topic in every way possible but we must never mention the chief protagonists, which is to say, international banking. The entire perverse system of monetary policy, and control of the means of exchange, must be dealt with, not as a human contrivance subject to alteration, but as an act of God that may not be questioned.
I notice that you all play within the parlour game rules. And some of you do quite well occasionally. Mr Putin has had some interesting footage showing him staring down a tiger and displaying his martial arts ability. Hats off. But between these minor efforts (which, trust me, the media did its best to spin as vaguely comedic, or undignified, or otherwise as 'not quite the thing') and, say, the watertight depiction of Russia as the ogre of Ossetia, it's small potatoes. But all of you receive the same thing.
In China, never mind the tirelessness of Hu Jintao throwing himself amongst the people struck homeless in that earthquake, nor the millions of servicemen and women he then mobilised into a fearless hands-on disaster relief (which the American government could watch as a 'How to' if the welfare of their citizens was worth tuppence to them), the Western media barely batted an eyelid. Besides, their reporters were far too busy looking for Chinese citizens unhappy with their government. And they found them, sure enough, one after another. (Well, shit, eh? Like this is difficult - Pick a country, any country). With this as the perpetual template, unsurprisingly we in the West will only ever know of the Chinese as villains. And when the bankers move against China (à la David Sassoon and his opium wars) we in the deluded West will righteously cheer its destruction. And geez, you can hardly blame us - all we know is what we are told.
Perhaps you have your fingers crossed. Just like Tariq Aziz. He was the Iraqi Foreign Minister in the run up to the invasion of Iraq. It didn't matter how much he kowtowed and did as he was ordered (always scrupulously obeying the rules of the parlour game). His handing over of the complete 40,000 pages detailing the weapons programme and allowing the CIA-infested weapons inspectors to wander all over his sovereign nation was never going to make a lick of difference to Iraq's inevitable bombing. And that's the lot of anyone who plays within the rules of the parlour game. You will always be on the back foot. It's not your game and if you stay within it, you will lose. And lose big. Destruction-of-your-nation big. I'm sure you get it.
In any conflict, whoever follows the agenda set by their opponent will always be on the back foot, always reduced to defensive tactics. It stands to reason. The only way to 'win' (exactly the wrong word but let's carry on) is to seize the initiative. And the only way to do this is to Call The Game. The game isn't hidden from public view for no reason. Nor does its veiled nature add some minor degree of utility to the whole caper. This veil of delusion is the single crucial function by which the enterprise succeeds or fails. Pull away that veil and start a global public discussion on the true nature of reserve banking (and the role the media plays as its handmaiden) and the bankers (and their media monkeys) will be forced into unfamiliar territory. I expect that even wrongfooted like this they will still be formidable opponents. But at least you'll have them on the back foot.
So. Rather than stand in front of the UN and call George Bush the devil, or mouth generalities about peace amongst men of good will, why not call the game? I'm not going to say that this is easy. Packing the history of international banking and control of the world's money supply into fifteen minutes is no easy task. But it can be done. Hell, if you want a hand, for an absurdly modest fee I'm your man. The comment section is below, and world leaders are perfectly welcome, ha ha.
But forget me, I'm nobody. This will be your gig. In English 'your' can be singular and plural. Take it here as the plural. Acting in concert will be vital. Each of you must reinforce the others and put out a consistent, coordinated and coherent message. And the beauty of it is that all you will have to do is: tell the truth; not waste time on red-herrings; and stick to your guns. The last part of this will not be easy. God knows that in this bullshit world there's nothing braver than the man who tells the truth. And we all know how powerful those who control the money supply are. They whacked Kennedy and got away with it. And they can whack you too. But only if you're a singleton. Act in concert and the possibility of your silencing becomes ever more unlikely.
But if you stay silent, stay isolated, one way or another they're going to whack you anyway. You and your whole nation. The bloc-media hasn't invested all this time and capitol painting each of you as the enemy for nothing. They don't do this lightly. They do this because they are the part of the machine that is going to destroy you. How about this - the media is the laser that paints the target so that the bomb knows where to go. The bomb is us, sure enough. Make no mistake, you are lit up by that laser.
Forget living in the shadows. The media-laser loves it there. The media doesn't just light things up, they actually render in the shadow also. In fact, this rendering of shadow is their primary purpose. If anything they're better at that than casting light. The only strategy for dealing with this mastery of darkness is to flood the whole place with the broad daylight of truth.
It's easy and it's hard. But the time is now, you're the men for the job, and no job was more worth doing. You know this is true.
I have a dream. I dream that you're not the servants of the bankers. I dream that you're possessed of intellect, of free will, and of big balls. I dream that you're men whose place in history will be that reserved for those who usher in an era. An era free from delusion. An era of peace and prosperity. A second Enlightenment, perhaps. It's not impossible. And all things being equal, why wouldn't you pick this dream? Who but a slave would follow someone else's dream of warfare, starvation, misery and suffering? Are you not masters of which dreams you choose? If you are serious, bold, act in concert, and stay true, this false dream is yours to smash. You will be your own masters and earn the thanks of a world freed of delusion and subjugation. That's my dream. What's yours?
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For what other reason could these two lame ducks be meeting?
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LIMA, Peru — .... Prime Minister Stephen Harper of Canada told Mr. Bush on Saturday that he wished him “all the best” if they did not see each other before Jan. 20, when Barack Obama is sworn in.
“Before forced retirement,” Mr. Bush shot back....
He's NOT LEAVING, folks!!!!
in addition to Saturday’s speech, his schedule consists of meetings with fellow world leaders, a gala dinner Saturday night, and a drop-in at the United States Embassy....
On Monday in Washington, Mr. Bush will be back to saying goodbye, this time to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel, who is stepping down amid corruption allegations and whose approval ratings are even worse than Mr. Bush’s.... the two leaders will talk about “the path forward” in the next two months.
Translation: When do we BOMB IRAN!!!!!!!
Do these guys understand the term LAME DUCK?!!
“I’m sure that Prime Minister Olmert will want to talk about old times, but also what the future holds,” press secretary Dana Perino said.
Umm, WHAT FUTURE?! BOTH of these guys are GONE SOON, right?
Right?
RIGHT?
RIIIIIIIIGGGHHHHTTTTTT?!!!!!
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"Although the conservative clerics who took over the country after the 1979 ouster of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi hoped to ossify women's traditional roles, they set in place dynamics that liberated them"
(Is there really anything to type? Comment once more on the lying jewsmedia of AmeriKa? I'm getting tire of that, and I am getting damn sick of their anti-Muslim bias, too!)
"Iranian women quietly triumph; For 3 decades they navigate restraints to bolster status" by Borzou Daragahi, Los Angeles Times | November 23, 2008
TEHRAN - .... Obscured from public view, Iran's women have quietly navigated restrictions of politics, religion, and tradition over the last three decades to bolster their status and take positions of power.
Although the conservative clerics who took over the country after the 1979 ouster of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi hoped to ossify women's traditional roles, they set in place dynamics that liberated them. As the clerics launched literacy drives and built hundreds of colleges around the country, Iran's literacy rate rose from less than 50 percent in the 1970s to 85 percent today.
Instead of creating a powerful new Islamic generation, they pushed the country into the modern age, raising the ambitions and savvy of young Iranians, half of them women, who began to question society's rules and strictures. "It's one of the ironies of the revolution that women's sense of self has become much stronger," said Pardis Mahdavi, an Iranian-American anthropologist who teaches at Pomona College in Southern California....
Here, why don't you take a look at one:
Community activist Nazanin Gohari has turned her living room in Tehran into a library for women. (Newsha Tavakolian/Polaris for The Los Angeles Times)
Have you HAD IT with the JEW LIES about Muslims and their women like I have? This is why I DO NOT BELIEVE in "female suiciders" and all the alleged abuses by the likes of the "Taliban," et al.
Hey, they could very well be true; however, you are asking me to believe a LYING, Muslim-hating, agenda-pushing, enemy-creating, war-promoting, Zionist propaganda and that I simply will DO NO LONGER!!! So even if they did tell the truth (which they never do), I STILL WOULD NOT BELIEVE THEM!!
That's what happens when YOU LIE ALL THE TIME, jewsmedia!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Related: How I Came to Love the Veil
Also consider:
"They sat in one girl’s home telling their story, their faces uncovered only because no man was present. But when Mohammed Matloob, the father of one of the girls, walked into the room, the other three quickly pulled their head scarves over their faces. His daughter, Nagina, 16, ordered him to leave the room, which he did, with a surprised shrug."
Aren't the children beautiful?
Oh, AmeriKa, you have been SO LIED TO by your shitty little jewsmedia!!!!
"Salesman convicted of spying executed
TEHRAN - Iran executed an electronics salesman convicted of relaying information on the country's nuclear program and other sensitive data to Israel's Mossad intelligence agency, a judiciary spokesman said yesterday. Ali Ashtari was hanged Nov. 17 after being sentenced to death on June 30. It was the country's first known conviction for espionage linked to Israel in almost a decade (AP)."
Either get out and head back to Israel, scum, or meet your makers!!!!
"Western powers believe Iran's declared program to refine uranium to the low level required for civilian nuclear energy is a front"
Sigh. Yeah, it is "western powers" -- as if Israel has nothing to do with it.
Does the crap-chucking ever end, MSM?
Related: AmeriKa's Terrorism (see links within)
How Israel Got the Nuclear Bomb
Oh, and a small reminder: Iran is NOT Building a Nuclear Bomb
"Iran disputes that it holds enough uranium for bombs" by Mark Heinrich, Reuters | November 22, 2008
VIENNA - Iran yesterday rejected reports it had enriched enough uranium to make an atom bomb, saying this would require steps it had ruled out, like expelling United Nations inspectors and quitting the Non-Proliferation Treaty.
An International Atomic Energy Agency report this week said Iran had stockpiled 1,385 pounds of low-enriched uranium so far, an amount US analysts told the New York Times was enough to upgrade into a nuclear weapon.
Related: The Nuclear Expert Who Never Was
Western powers believe Iran's declared program to refine uranium to the low level required for civilian nuclear energy is a front for gaining the means to reprocess it into highly-enriched material for bombs on short notice.
Iran's envoy to the atomic energy agency said that for Iran to militarize enrichment operations would require a complex, time-consuming reconfiguration of the process that inspectors could not fail to notice unless they were kicked out.
Yeah, the WHOLE WORLD KNOWS that USRAEL is a LYING SACK Of SHIT, so... btw, WHO HASN'T SIGNED the NPT?! Only ALLIES like ISRAEL, PAKISTAN and INDIA!!! Yes, I AM TIRED of the ZIONIST BIAS and WAR-MONGERING BULLS***!!!!!
Iranian Ambassador Ali Asghar Soltanieh told reporters after an IAEA briefing about the report, provided for its 35-nation Board of Governors:
"This information has no technical basis and gives wrong and misleading information to the public....
That's what Zionist news outlets and organozations are for, sir!
In Natanz [main enrichment plant], all material produced goes into a closed container sealed by IAEA seals and watched by cameras. As soon as anyone wanted to touch the seals, the next second the whole world would know.... Because of this it is absolutely impossible to rearrange and use this low-enriched uranium to turn into high-enriched. It means stopping inspections, stopping cameras and coming out of the NPT, and we will not do that." --more--"
Why do I believe the IRANIANS more than my own government or the lying whores of ISRAEL?"Iran favors Obama's 'change'; Hopes for renewed relations with US" by Farah Stockman, Globe Staff | November 21, 2008
TEHRAN - .... Three days after the US election, the Iranian government invited reporters from several American publications, including The Boston Globe, to attend the 15th International Festival and Exhibition of Press and News Agencies in Tehran for the first time.... --more--"
"Maliki tries to rally support for US security pact; Calls it a step to sovereignty; 1st provincial vote since 2005 slated" by Christopher Torchia, Associated Press | November 19, 2008
WTF? Yesterday they made it sound like it was a done deal! Aaaaaaaaahhh!!!!
BAGHDAD - .... Many Iraqis have mixed feelings about the presence of 150,000 American soldiers on their soil. They yearn for the prompt departure of foreign forces and a restoration of national pride after years of bloodletting, but recognize that their institutions, particularly the security forces, may be too fragile to stand on their own....
I mean, I just can't take the crapola anymore. Of course, Americans wouldn't have to worry about unreasonable pride if we were occupied by a murderous army, and I'm sure our feelings would be mixed. Yeah, I am tired of the Zionist racism passing as "news."
Such is the suspicion about the long-term intentions of the United States in the oil-rich Middle East that Maliki sought to dampen conspiracy theories circulating among skeptics that he made a shadow deal allowing for an open-ended American presence.
I wouldn't doubt it!! I wouldn't doubt it at all!!! Of course, no reason the Iraqis should be suspicious of our motives or anything. I mean, the Project for the New American Century and their blueprint don't mean anything, right?
"I assure you that there are no secret clauses or annexes in the agreement, nor permanent military bases in Iraq," the prime minister said. "Iraq will never be a conduit or a staging ground for an attack on any other nation."
I will HOLD YOU to that, Maliki, because I KNOW WE HAVE BUILT THEM!!!! As for a staging ground for attack, we don't need ya! We got aircraft carriers in every ocean.
The promise that Iraq would not serve as a launching pad for attacks on neighbors, particularly US adversaries Iran and Syria, was vital to the pact's success. Both those countries opposed the deal and Iraq, whose Shi'ite-led government has close ties to Iran, can ill-afford their hostility.
First of all, IRAN APPROVED of it YESTERDAY, so I don't know WTF this guy is getting at; secondly, look at how the biased MSM is trying to implicate Iran as the controller of Iraq. They got 150k troops on the ground? Yeah, that's what I thought. Sigh.
Iran was surprisingly receptive to the pact after the Iraqi Cabinet approved it Sunday, possibly reflecting appreciation for a definite timetable for American withdrawal as well as a desire to improve relations with Washington before President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration.
I love it when AP contradicts itself in a subsequent paragraph. They must think we are fooking stoo-pid out here!!!
Obama has pledged to start pulling out combat troops immediately after taking office on Jan. 20.
Obama never said that! Immediately? Then he's gonna make me happy!
And wait until you get a load of this:
Michael Hanna, an analyst at the Century Foundation, a New York-based research center, said a continuing but finite presence of US troops in Iraq could benefit Iran because it provides "retaliatory options" as Tehran pursues a nuclear program despite opposition from the West.
Ha-ha-ha-ha!!!! You gotta be kidding me!!!!!
Yeah, IRAN BENEFITS from U.S. TROOPS being there!!!
O.K., then LETS BRING OUR BOYS HOME!!!!!!! After all, CUI BONO if we stay!!
Ha-ha-ha-ha!!!!
Oh, also notice how it is again inferred that Iran is making a bomb.
"At the moment, having the Americans just next door is, paradoxically, the greatest insurance against a US attack or air strike and allows their closest Iraqi allies to consolidate their power internally," Hanna wrote in an e-mail.
Yeah, I always feel safe when a guy threatening to beat me up is next door and not half a world away!
PFFFFFFTTTT!!!!
Washington has accused Iran of providing resources and training to militants in Iraq, though security has improved dramatically since 2007 because of the US troop surge, a Sunni Arab revolt against Al Qaeda in Iraq, and a cease-fire by a Shi'ite militia. --more--"
Yup, always gotta slip in the propaganda about Iran in Iraq. And WTF is with the "security?" One day it's good, the next day it is fragile? Whatever PROPAGANDA is called for, right, AP?!!
"US-Iraq pact poses test for Iraq's security forces" by Hamza Hendawi, Associated Press Writers | November 17, 2008
BAGHDAD --The U.S.-Iraqi security pact now before parliament calls for U.S. forces to leave Iraq's cities by June 30 in recognition of an improved security climate, but the deadline poses a key test for Iraqi forces in places like Baghdad and the northern city of Mosul where attacks still occur daily.
It is a gamble that Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, emboldened by recent military successes, is willing to take -- partly because of growing confidence in the capabilities of Iraqi forces. U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker described the security gains as "superlative" at a Monday signing ceremony of the agreement with Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari....
One minute everything is going our way, the next minute:
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White House press secretary Dana Perino defended the deal even though it includes a timeline for U.S. troop withdrawals -- a point that President George W. Bush had long opposed as a sign of defeat in the war that began in 2003. "We just keep getting success after success on the security front in Iraq," Perino said. "And when you work with a partner on a negotiation, you have to concede some points."
Unless it is the U.S. Congress and the American people; then they don't concede a damn inch!
Adm. Mike Mullen told a Pentagon news conference that he has consulted the top U.S. commanders in Iraq and that they all believe the agreement allows enough time for the Iraqis to be ready to defend themselves. Neighboring Syria, a longtime U.S. adversary, blasted the pact, saying it rewarded the Americans. But Iran, a sworn U.S. enemy that had been a bitter critic of the pact, took a surprisingly positive stand....
U.S. and Iraqi officials acknowledge that the capabilities of Iraqi security forces have been improving, but doubts persist on whether they have in place a reliable logistical support network, enough discipline and the willingness to operate above the sectarian bias that defines political life in Iraq.
We are NOT GOING ANYWHERE, folks, and I am sick of that damn sectarianism lie, too!!!!
Their test will be all the more difficult because recent security gains are thought to be fragile and continued attacks by al-Qaida and other insurgent groups in Baghdad, Mosul and in much of central and northern Iraq could undermine those hard-won gains.
Yup, and WE KNOW WHO IS BEHIND those FALSE-FLAG "terror events!"
CUI BONO?
Renewed doubts about the security forces came Sunday from a senior politician from the once-dominant Sunni Arab minority. Addressing a news conference, Adnan al-Dulaimi said Iraq's army must mirror Iraq's religious and ethnic diversity, a thinly veiled reference to the Shiite domination of the force.
I thought everything was 'superlative?"
The Iraqis, however, will not be entirely alone in the cities come July. The U.S. forces would be withdrawn to outlying bases, and the agreement entitles the Iraqis to request the help of the Americans when they need it in the face of a major security threat. U.S. military personnel were expected to continue training the Iraqis until their last day here: Dec. 31, 2011.
IF that is our LAST DAY there!!!
U.S. officials said the pact was testimony to the improved capability of Iraq's forces and security gains made in the past year, thanks to the dispatch of 30,000 additional U.S. troops in 2007, or the "surge"; a Sunni revolt against al-Qaida militants; and a cease-fire by a powerful Shiite militia. --more--"
Yup, surge worked, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah....
TEHRAN - Iran took a surprisingly positive stance yesterday on the Iraq-US security pact after months of harshly denouncing the deal, which would keep US troops in Iraq for three more years..... Comments in the state media and from one of the clerical state's most powerful figures signaled Tehran may be taking the view that no matter what it dislikes in the deal, it will eventually mean the departure of the Americans....
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Iran and Syria, which view the US presence as a threat to their security and regional influence, have said an immediate withdrawal of US forces from Iraq would be best. Iraq sought to allay their fears, amending the pact to include a ban on cross-border attacks staged from Iraq.Of course, the AP implication is that they should not! I'm sick of the garbage AmeriKan "journalism," folks.
Iranian state media also toned down opposition to the agreement. "It is a deal about withdrawal of US troops from Iraq," state television said in a commentary yesterday, calling it "a victory" for Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's government. --more--"
So NO PROBLEM, huh? Gonna be OUT in THREE YEARS, no less, right?
"Iraqi, American critics speak up on security pact; Sunnis, Sadrists forge an unlikely association" by Campbell Robertson and Steven Lee Myers, New York Times News Service | November 18, 2008
Yeah, about that: Memory Hole: The Dream Vacation
Memory Hole: The Uniters of Islam
Occupation Iraq: Sectarian Saviors
"Under Saddam Hussein, Iraq's million or so Christians for the most part coexisted peacefully with Muslims, both the dominant Sunnis and majority Shiites (New York Times October 17, 2007).... Sunnis, Shi'ites, and Christians lived side by side; many intermarried"
Ouch, Amurka!! You clear now about those "unappreciative Iraqis," readers?
The Muslim-hating, war-promoting, agenda-pushing, ZIONIST NEWS SOURCE isn't helping either. Also see Occupation Iraq: Israel's IEDs and related links.
BAGHDAD - Iraqi and American critics of a security agreement governing US troops in Iraq voiced their objections yesterday, a day after the Iraqi Cabinet approved the pact and sent it to Parliament for ratification.
In Iraq, opposition has created an unlikely association between the followers of anti-American Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, who rejected the agreement out of hand, and some Sunni politicians, including ones who support the deal but are trying to wrest concessions from the Iraqi government....
A signing ceremony yesterday morning attended by Ryan C. Crocker, the US ambassador, and Hoshyar Zebari, the Iraqi foreign minister, marked the end of the negotiations, which took almost a year; members of Parliament cannot make further changes to what is now an international agreement.
Sounds like a DONE DEAL then!
The vote is scheduled for Monday. If the agreement passes, it will go to the three-member presidency council for approval. --more--""Iran detains 10 spies near Pakistan border
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran detained 10 spies carrying $500,000 in cash who had entered the Islamic Republic illegally from neighbouring Pakistan, state television said on Saturday. Modern espionage cameras and maps of sensitive regions in Iran were found when the group was detained in Iran's south-eastern Sistan-Baluchestan province bordering Pakistan, the report said.
Television did not give any details on their nationality or say when they were detained. Sistan-Baluchestan is a volatile province known for frequent clashes between security forces and well-armed drug smugglers. Iran has in the past accused the United States and Britain of trying to destabilize the country by supporting ethnic minority rebels operating in sensitive border areas. --more--"
I don't even have to say it. Related: AmeriKa's Terrorism
"Deadly border clash jeopardizes truce; Four Hamas gunmen killed, Israeli wounded" by Isabel Kershner, New York Times News Service | November 13, 2008
Palestinians brought the body of a Hamas fighter into a hospital in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza Strip, yesterday. (Said Khatib/ AFP/ Getty Images)
JERUSALEM - Four Hamas gunmen were killed in a clash with Israeli soldiers along the Gaza border yesterday, further testing a shaky truce that took effect in June....
An Israeli Army spokeswoman added that the military carried out two airstrikes in open areas during the confrontation, and that the soldiers had chased the gunmen, who also fired mortars at the troops, inside Gaza. Witnesses told the independent Palestinian news agency Maan that Israel had fired two missiles, one near a mosque and another near a school, while fighters were in the area.
Ayman Taha, a spokesman for Hamas, the Islamist group that controls Gaza, blamed the escalation on Israel and was quoted by Reuters as saying, "There will be a painful response against the Zionist enemy." Both Hamas and Israeli officials have recently expressed their interest in renewing the six-month truce, which is due to expire in December. But over the past week it has begun to fray.
And CUI BONO? You get tired of this Israeli crap!
At least six Palestinian militants were killed in a clash and an Israeli airstrike on Nov. 4 after an Israeli force entered Gaza to destroy a tunnel Israel said was intended for use in the abduction of soldiers.
So says lying Israel!
Over the following days Palestinians fired dozens of rockets and mortar shells at Israel. All landed in open areas and caused little damage.
Hmmmmm?
In response, Israel closed down the commercial crossings where basic goods pass into Gaza, allowing in only a limited amount of fuel on Tuesday.
And CUI-frikkin'-BONO?
Christopher Gunness, the spokesman for the UN Relief and Works Agency that provides assistance to Palestinian refugees, said on Tuesday that food distributions to 750,000 Gazans would come to a halt today unless the organization was able to get in wheat and other essential goods. Peter Lerner, a military spokesman, said yesterday that no decision had been made regarding the reopening of the crossings.
In Gaza City yesterday, Ahmed Yousef, a senior adviser to the Hamas foreign ministry, denied a report that Hamas was maintaining contact with members of President-elect Barack Obama's team, and that they had met secretly prior to the American elections.
Oh?
Yousef was quoted on Tuesday in Al-Hayat, a London-based Arabic newspaper, saying that contact had first been made with Obama's advisers on the Internet and that meetings were then held in Gaza. "They advised us not to reveal this information lest it influence elections or be manipulated by McCain's campaign," Al-Hayat quoted him as saying. Yousef said that the reporter had misunderstood him, and that he had been in contact with some Democrats to try to clarify Obama's positions on Hamas and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but not with Obama team members.
Translation: The Zionist MSM is "exaggerating" again.
With that, Yousef called on Obama to open his doors "to people with different perspectives and opinions on the conflict." He also asked the president-elect to "act to lift the illegal Israeli siege." --more--"
That is what we are ALL HOPING FOR, sir!!!!
Just a coincidence, right?
"Iran tests new missile that can reach Europe; Regional stability harmed, US says" by Ali Akbar Dareini, Associated Press | November 13, 2008
TEHRAN - Iran said it successfully test-fired a new generation of long range surface-to-surface missile yesterday - one that could easily strike as far away as southeastern Europe with greater precision than earlier models.
The Sajjil is a solid fuel high-speed missile with a range of about 1,200 miles, Defense Minister Mostafa Mohammed Najjar said on state television. At that range, it could easily strike Iran's foe Israel and go as far as southeastern Europe. Solid-fuel missiles are more accurate than the liquid fuel missiles of similar range currently possessed by Iran. The country has had a solid-fuel missile with a shorter range - the Fateh, able to fly 120 miles - for several years.
The Islamic Republic News Agency said the test was conducted yesterday, and television showed the missile being fired from a desert launching pad. Najjar said the missile was a defensive weapon and not a response to threats against Iran. He didn't name any country, but Israel has recently threatened to take military action against Iran to stop Tehran from developing a nuclear bomb.
Good thing they aren't working on one then.
Najjar said the missile was part of a "defensive, deterrent strategy . . . specifically with defensive objectives."
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Israel's Foreign Ministry refused comment about the test. In Washington, the State Department said the missile tests were not good for the stability of the region and were another sign that US plans to construct a missile shield in Europe are critical to international security. Department spokesman Robert Wood said Washington hoped Russia, which has criticized the proposed shield, would recognize the threat posed by Iran and realize the system is not aimed at Russia.
They just said it was a DEFENSIVE weapon!!! And notice how the newspaper placed ISRAEL'S non-comment before AmeriKa's position?
The name "Sajjil" means "baked clay," a reference to a story in the Koran in which birds sent by God drive off an enemy army attacking the holy city of Mecca by pelting them with stones of baked clay. Iran has intensified its domestic missile development in recent years, raising concerns of the United States and its allies at a time when they accuse the country of seeking to build a nuclear weapon. Iran denies it wants to build a bomb, saying its nuclear program is aimed only at generating electricity. --more --"
I'm tired of the Zionist drum beating for war, you know that?
Russia
"Gates: Nation's ties to West pose no threat to Russia" by Lolita C. Baldor, Associated Press | November 13, 2008
Of course, when the shoe is on the other foot and Russia is making entreaties to Cuba and Vene=zuela, the U.S. starts going into hypocritical conniption fits, but you aren't supposed to think of that, readers.
TALLINN, Estonia - Defense Secretary Robert Gates said yesterday that Russia should not feel threatened when Eastern European countries strengthen their ties to the West. Speaking briefly to reporters after meeting with Estonian Prime Minister Andrus Ansip, Gates said they discussed Russia's recent behavior, including its invasion of Georgia in August.
How about discussing GEORGIA'S PROVOCATIONS, Bob?
"Russia has no need to impede a sovereign country's desire to more fully integrate with the West," said Gates, as he stood next to Ansip. "Doing so is not a threat to Russian security, nor is further cooperation on cyber issues."
Cyber issues?
Asked about his country's security, Ansip said that he fully expects that NATO would defend Estonia, which is a member of the North Atlantic alliance. Gates added that the United States continually reviews its assessment of the security situation in the region and that officials from US European Command were in Estonia last month for talks on the matter.
Gates is visiting Estonia for the first time to attend a meeting of NATO defense ministers in a deliberate show of support for Eastern European nations, including the Baltics and Ukraine. The meeting comes as tension rises between Moscow and Washington, including ongoing discord over US plans to put a missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic.
Yeah, nothing like sticking a thumb in Russia's eye -- but don't worry about it (poke, poke)!!
Yesterday there were reports that the Kremlim has rejected a second set of US proposals meant to ease Russian objections to the planned missile defense system. According to Russian news agencies, an unnamed Kremlin official said Moscow was prepared to work with Washington on European security. But the official accused the Bush administration of trying to limit the incoming Obama administration's choices on the issue.
You're kidding? All I've been hearing is smooth transition, smooth transition. Ya mean the Bushies are being dinks?
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Anyone notice how the oil companies brought the public right to the brink, got 'em to lock in high oil prices for the winter, then -- as the war focus turned toward Iran and sanctions, the price started to drop so that now Iran's economy is hurting? But their isn't any market manipulation (nice how the low oil prices aren't pressuring an already distressed economy, huh?) or anything.
"Crude prices plunge on cut in '09 forecast" by Bloomberg News | November 12, 2008
NEW YORK - .... Pump prices are following futures lower. Regular gasoline, averaged nationwide, declined 2 cents to $2.22 a gallon, AAA, the nation's largest motorist organization, said yesterday on its website. The fuel has tumbled 46 percent from the record $4.11 a gallon reached on July 17. --more--"
"America's terrorism
T.J. Bronson
November 5, 2008
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We can’t continue to ignore the ongoing war in Iraq…I mean Afghanistan. Wait, no — Pakistan. Next on the list: Syria and Iran. It’s getting hard to keep track of all the attack campaigns and wars that our country is supposedly winning
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Middle Eastern countries are, quite understandably, very sensitive about aggression from the United States. Attacking another country is more than enough reason to say the U.S. has just gotten itself into another war. Think about it: If one of the people you hated the most decided to come push you or bump into you, if you were that bitter and angry toward them, you would feel entitled to take action. This is the same thing, just on a grander scale.
And these acts aren’t the end. The Bush administration is trying to apply this expanded self-defense idea to militant targets located in camps in Iran. This should strike fear into everybody’s hearts. Launching an attack inside Iran will undoubtedly provoke retaliation and consequences no one can imagine at the moment … but none of them are good.
George W. Bush and his administration are on the out. There are only so many more days that they can direct the action. But what goes on in the next three months will determine the future of this country for some time. None of us can honestly say that we saw this attack coming in advance, so there’s a limit to how much say we can possibly have in his last days in office. I’m not the only person who can’t remember what this “war on terror” was even supposedly about. But based on its actions, it seems that the U.S. is becoming the very thing that it claims to be fighting against: terrorists.
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"[An] act of terrorism, means any activity that (A) involves a violent act or an act dangerous to human life that is a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or any State, or that would be a criminal violation if committed within the jurisdiction of the United States or of any State; and (B) appears to be intended (i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population; (ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or (iii) to affect the conduct of a government by assassination or kidnapping."
"The hope that Iranians will blame their own government for their hardships, and that their complaints will influence the regime"
Also see: U.S. Government Harbors Terrorist Jundallah
Operation Ajax
Iranian airliner shootdown
M.E.K.
Bush Authorizes New Covert Action Against Iran
Bush Promised to Bomb Iran
Obama Will Bomb Iran
WHO are the TERRORISTS?
Oh, and a small reminder: Iran is NOT Building a Nuclear Bomb
Needless to say, I oppose any further U.S. aggression and call for an IMMEDIATE HALT to the current slaughter.
Already talking about it.
I'm glad someone reads the New York Times because I never do, not since the first of last year (a resolution that stuck); nor am I visiting their web site much (if at all).
"Obama advisers discuss preparations for war on Iran
by Peter Symonds
6 November 2008
On the eve of the US elections, the New York Times cautiously pointed on Monday to the emergence of a bipartisan consensus in Washington for an aggressive new strategy towards Iran. While virtually nothing was said in the course of the election campaign, behind-the-scenes top advisers from the Obama and McCain camps have been discussing the rapid escalation of diplomatic pressure and punitive sanctions against Iran, backed by preparations for military strikes.
The article entitled “New Beltway Debate: What to do about Iran” noted with a degree of alarm: “It is a frightening notion, but it not just the trigger-happy Bush administration discussing—if only theoretically—the possibility of military action to stop Iran’s nuclear weapons program… [R]easonable people from both parties are examining the so-called military option, along with new diplomatic initiatives.”
Behind the backs of American voters, top advisers for President-elect Barack Obama have been setting the stage for a dramatic escalation of confrontation with Iran as soon as the new administration takes office....
As the New York Times noted on Monday, Obama defense adviser Richard Danzig, former navy secretary under Clinton, attended a conference on the Middle East convened in September by the same pro-Israel think tank. He told the audience that his candidate believed that a military attack on Iran was a “terrible” choice, but “it may be that in some terrible world we will have to come to grips with such a terrible choice”. Richard Clarke, who was also present, declared that Obama was of the view that “Tehran’s growing influence must be curbed and that Iran’s acquisition of a nuclear weapon is unacceptable.” While “his first inclination is not to pull the trigger,” Clarke stated, “if circumstances required the use of military force, Obama would not hesitate.”
While the New York Times article was muted and did not examine the reports too deeply, writer Carol Giacomo was clearly concerned at the parallels with the US invasion of Iraq. After pointing out that “the American public is largely unaware of this discussion,” she declared: “What makes me nervous is that’s what happened in the run-up to the Iraq war.”
Giacomo continued: “Bush administration officials drove the discussion, but the cognoscenti were complicit. The question was asked and answered in policy circles before most Americans know what was happening… As a diplomatic correspondent for Reuters in those days, I feel some responsibility for not doing more to ensure that the calamitous decision to invade Iraq was more skeptically vetted.”
The emerging consensus on Iran in US foreign policy circles again underscores the fact that the differences between Obama and McCain were purely tactical. While millions of Americans voted for the Democratic candidate believing he would end the war in Iraq and address their pressing economic needs, powerful sections of the American elite swung behind him as a better vehicle to prosecute US economic and strategic interests in the Middle East and Central Asia—including the use of military force against Iran.
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"I was told by a source whom I trust that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel sought a promise from Bush that he would bomb Iran before he left office.
With an OBAMA WIN, I think the prospects are MORE LIKELY than EVER!!
Bush is FULFILLING PROPHECY!! Why can't Amerika see it?
Oh, and a small reminder: Iran is NOT Building a Nuclear Bomb
by Michel Chossudovsky
Global Research, October 31, 2008
For several years now, senior officials of the Bush administration including the President and the Vice President have intimated, in no certain terms, that there will be "a Second 9/11".
Quotations from presidential speeches and official documents abound. America is threatened:
"The near-term attacks ... will either rival or exceed the 9/11 attacks... And it's pretty clear that the nation's capital and New York city would be on any list..." (Former DHS Secretary Tom Ridge, December 2003)
"You ask, 'Is it serious?' Yes, you bet your life. People don't do that unless it's a serious situation." (Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, December 2003)
"... Credible reporting indicates that Al Qaeda is moving forward with its plans to carry out a large-scale attack in the United States in an effort to disrupt our democratic process... (Former DHS Secretary Tom Ridge, 8 July 2004)
"The enemy that struck on 9/11 is weakened and fractured yet it is still lethal and planning to hit us again." (Vice President Dick Cheney, 7 January 2006)
"We are still a nation at risk. Part of our strategy, of course, is to stay on the offense against terrorists who would do us harm. In other words, it is important to defeat them overseas so we never have to face them here. Nevertheless, we recognize that we've got to be fully prepared here at the homeland." (President George W. Bush February 8, 2006)
"Our main enemy is al Qaeda and its affiliates. Their allies choose their victims indiscriminately. They murder the innocent to advance a focused and clear ideology. They seek to establish a radical Islamic caliphate, so they can impose a brutal new order on unwilling people, much as Nazis and communists sought to do in the last century. This enemy will accept no compromise with the civilized world.... (President George W. Bush, CENTCOM Coalition Conference, May 1, 2007)
"[W]e now have capabilities in science and technology that raise the very realistic possibility that a small group of terrorists could kill not only thousands of people, as they did on September 11th, but hundreds of thousands of people. And that has changed the dimension of the threat we face." (Michael Chertoff, Homeland Security Secretary, Yale University, April 7, 2008.
We're fighting a war on terror because the enemy attacked us first, and hit us hard. ... Al Qaeda's leadership has said they have the right to "kill four million Americans,... For nearly six years now, the United States has been able to defeat their attempts to attack us here at home. Nobody can guarantee that we won't be hit again. ... (Vice President Dick Cheney, United States Military Academy Commencement, West Point, New York, May 26, 2008)
[emphasis added]
All these "authoritative" statements point in chorus in the same direction: The enemy will strike again!
"Second 9/11": Historical Background
The presumption of a Second 9/11 has become an integral part of US military doctrine. America is under attack. The US military must respond preemptively. In the immediate wake of the invasion of Iraq (April 2003), various national security measures were put in place focusing explicitly on the eventuality of a second attack on America. In fact these procedures were launched simultaneously with the first stage of war plans directed against Iran in May 2003 under Operation Theater Iran Near Term (TIRANNT). (See Michel Chossudovsky, "Theater Iran Near Term" (TIRANNT), Global Research, February 21, 2007).
The Role of a "Massive Casualty Producing Event"
Former CENTCOM Commander, General Tommy Franks, in an magazine interview in December 2003, had outlined a scenario of what he described as "a massive casualty producing event" on American soil [a Second 9/11. Implied in General Franks statement was the notion and belief that civilian deaths were necessary to raise awareness and muster public support for the "global war on terrorism":
"[A] terrorist, massive, casualty-producing event [will occur] somewhere in the Western world - it may be in the United States of America - that causes our population to question our own Constitution and to begin to militarize our country in order to avoid a repeat of another mass, casualty-producing event." (General Tommy Franks Interview, Cigar Aficionado, December 2003)
Franks was obliquely alluding to a "Second 9/11" terrorist attack, which could be used to galvanize US public opinion in support of martial law. The "terrorist massive casualty-producing event" was presented by General Franks as a crucial political turning point. The resulting crisis and social turmoil resulting from the civilian casualties would facilitate a major shift in US political, social and institutional structures, leading to the suspension of constitutional government. (See Michel Chossudovsky, Bush Directive for a "Catastrophic Emergency" in America: Building a Justification for Waging War on Iran? Global Research, June 24, 2007)
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As of 2005, the presumption of a "Second 9/11" had become an integral part of military planning. Statements emanating from the White House, the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security point to a growing consensus on the necessity and inevitability of a second terrorist attack on a major urban area in the US.
In the month following the July 2005 London bombings, Vice President Cheney is reported to have instructed US Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) to draw up a contingency plan "to be employed in response to another 9/11-type terrorist attack on the United States". The "contingency plan" uses the pretext of a "Second 9/11" to prepare for a major military operation against Iran. (Philip Giraldi, Attack on Iran: Pre-emptive Nuclear War, The American Conservative, 2 August 2005)
In April 2006, the Pentagon, under the helm of Donald Rumsfeld, launched a far-reaching military plan to "fight terrorism" around the World, with a view to retaliating in the case of a second major terrorist attack on America. The presumption of the Pentagon project was that an "Attack on America" by an "outside enemy" would result in the loss of American lives, which in turn would be used to justify US military actions in the Middle East war theater. The covert support of US intelligence to Islamic terrorist organizations (the "outside enemy") slated to carry out the attacks, was of course not mentioned.
Various "scenarios" of a Second 9/11 attack on the Homeland were envisaged. According to the Pentagon a second attack on America, would serve an important policy objective. The three Pentagon documents consisted of an overall "campaign plan" plus two "subordinate plans". The second "subordinate plan" explicitly focused on the possibility of a "Second 9/11" and how a second major attack on American soil might provide "an opportunity" to extend the US led war in the Middle East into new frontiers:
"[It] sets out how the military can both disrupt and respond to another major terrorist strike on the United States. It includes lengthy annexes that offer a menu of options for the military to retaliate quickly against specific terrorist groups, individuals or state sponsors depending on who is believed to be behind an attack. Another attack could create both a justification and an opportunity that is lacking today to retaliate against some known targets, according to current and former defense officials familiar with the plan. (Washington Post, 23 April 2006, emphasis added)
Martial Law
Since 2003, various procedures have been adopted regarding the enactment of Martial Law in the case of a so-called "National Catastrophic Emergency". Under martial law, the military would take over several functions of civilian government including justice and law enforcement.
Initiatives in the area of Homeland Security outlined the precise circumstances under which martial law could be declared in the case of a second 9/11. In May 2007, a major presidential National Security Directive was issued (National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive NSPD 51/HSPD 20) which explicitly envisaged the possibility of a Second 9/11:
NSPD 51 is tailor-made to fit the premises of both the Pentagon's 2006 "Anti-terrorist Plan" as well Vice President Cheney's 2005 "Contingency Plan". (See Michel Chossudovsky, Bush Directive for a "Catastrophic Emergency" in America: Building a Justification for Waging War on Iran?, Global Research, June 24, 2007). The directive establishes procedures for "Continuity of Government" (COG) in the case of a "Catastrophic Emergency". The latter is defined in NSPD 51/HSPD 20, as
"any incident, regardless of location, that results in extraordinary levels of mass casualties, damage, or disruption severely affecting the U.S. population, infrastructure, environment, economy, or government functions."
NSPD 51 is predicated on the notion that America is under attack and that the "Catastrophic Emergency" would take the form of a terror attack on a major urban area. "Continuity of Government," or "COG," is defined in NSPD 51 as "a coordinated effort within the Federal Government's executive branch to ensure that National Essential Functions continue to be performed during a Catastrophic Emergency."
More recently, in May 2008, another National Security Presidential Directive was put forth by the White House entitled Biometrics for Identification and Screening to Enhance National Security (NSPD 59, HSPD 24). NSPD59 complements NSPD 51. The new directive is not limited to KSTs, which in Homeland Security jargon stands for "Known and Suspected Terrorists", it includes various categories of domestic terrorists, the presumption being that these domestic groups are working hand in glove with the Islamists.
"The ability to positively identify those individuals who may do harm to Americans and the Nation is crucial to protecting the Nation. Since September 11, 2001, agencies have made considerable progress in securing the Nation through the integration, maintenance, and sharing of information used to identify persons who may pose a threat to national security." (NSPD 59)
NSPD 59 goes far beyond the issue of biometric identification, it recommends the collection and storage of "associated biographic" information, meaning information on the private lives of US citizens, in minute detail, all of which will be "accomplished within the law" (For further details see Michel Chossudovsky, "Big Brother" Presidential Directive: "Biometrics for Identification and Screening to Enhance National Security", Global Research, June 2008).
NSPD is explicitly directed against American citizens, who are now categorized as potential terrorists. While "conspiracy theorists" have been accused of cogitating regarding the possibility of a Second 9/11, most of the insinuations emanate from official US sources including the White House, the Pentagon and Homeland Security. The fact that a "massive casualty producing events" could be used as part of a US foreign policy agenda is diabolical. The official statements are grotesque.
Bipartisan Consensus in the Presidential Election Campaign: "Al Qaeda will Strike Again"
While the presidential election campaign has avoided the issue of a Second 9/11, both candidates have acknowledged the dangers of a second attack. Both Barack Obama and John McCain have underscored their resolve to protect America against Al Qaeda:
[Question: Who's the enemy?] "Al Qaeda, the Taliban, a whole host of networks that are bent on attacking America, who have a distorted ideology, who have perverted the faith of Islam, and so we have to go after them." (Barack Obama in response to Bill O'Reilly, Fox News, September 5, 2008
"We have dealt a serious blow to al Qaeda in recent years. But they are not defeated, and they'll strike us again if they can." (John McCain, Acceptance Speech, September 5, 2008)
Mainstream Media Report: "The Need" for a Second 9/11
While the Washington Post leaked the substance of the Pentagon's classified documents pertaining to the "opportunity" of a Second 9/11, the issue has not been the object of mainstream commentary or analysis. It is worth noting, however, that in an August 2007 Fox News interview, "A Second 9/11" was heralded as a means to create awareness and unite Americans against the enemy.
Broadcast on Fox News, Columnist Stu Bykofsky claimed that America "needs" a new 9/11 to unite the American people, because they have "forgotten" who the enemy is. He also claimed that "there will be another 9/11", and Fox New Anchorman John Gibson concurred. Civilian casualties would contribute to uniting the country and creating awareness:
"it’s going to take a lot of dead people to wake America up" said John Gibson. [emphasis added]
While Stu Bykofsky's controversial article in the Philadelphia Daily News (August 9, 2007) was, at the time, considered as outlandish, what Bykovsky was actually saying was not very different from the Pentagon's ploy (modeled on Operation Northwoods) concerning the role of "massive casualty producing events" in triggering "a useful wave of indignation", thereby galvanizing unbending public support for a military/ national security agenda.....
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Is it going to be something like this, to be blamed on them?
Please see: Iran is NOT Building a Nuclear Bomb
Since the New York Times is the owner and parent of the Boston Globe, maybe you should know this, readers:
Israel Writes The New York Times News Pages
The New York Times: Israel's Mouthpiece
New York Times Admits Israel Controls U.S.
The New York Times Tells Another War-Mongering Lie
Also see: Look What Came With the Sunday Times
WE the People should always believe whatever Israel says, especially in regards to the events surrounding 9/11.
Don't you think people are being a bit too hard on Israel and her involvement in 9/11? They wouldn't attack us and blame that on some Muzzies, would they?
Our Israeli buddies would never lie to us, right?
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"Russia is determined to bring NATO's expansion eastward to a halt
Eric Walberg
Online Journal
Wednesday, Sept 17, 2008
NATO’s metamorphosis from Cold War Euro-policeman into the unabashed global military arm of the United States over the past 18 years has left a trail of debris from the Balkans to Afghanistan that will take decades to clear. It is a flagrant violation of the agreement James Baker III made with Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev that the US would not extend the borders of NATO eastwards in return for Moscow allowing a united Germany to be a member of NATO.
Russia was still in disarray and in no position to protest when the Eastern European countries and the Baltics joined, but as this policy of expansion turned into a blatant encirclement of Russia and a conquest of the Middle East, a furious, now self-confident Russia has finally drawn the line, at least in its immediate neighbourhood, with Georgia and Ukraine the last straws.
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Bush Agrees to War on Iran
The United States has agreed to sell to Israel 1,000 of the very advanced bunker buster GBU-39 bombs. This is a major development as the Bush Administration had denied previous recent Israeli requests for large numbers of this weapon system. The GBU-39 has a stand off range of 110 km and uses pop-out wings with extremely accurate fire and forget technology. It is capable of penetrating 90 cm of steel reinforced concrete. This indicates that the Israeli Government has succeeded in its request that America allow it to attack Iranian nuclear facilities. The GBU-39s will be used extensively in attacks on Iranian targets, as well as on Syrian and Hezbollah high value targets in both Syria and Lebanon.
The Israeli political landscape is about to change. I have been expecting former Israeli Prime Minister, and super war hawk, Benyamin Netanyahu to make a well timed major move. Current Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is about to resign due to his ongoing criminal troubles. Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and Transport Minister Shaul Mofaz are in a tight battle to win the vote on Wednesday as Kadima Party Chairman, with the right to attempt to form a new government. However, it appears that Bibi Netanyahu has put together a deal with Labor Party leader, former PM and current Defense Minister Ehud Barak, and the ultra-religious Shas Party to form a government with Bibi as Prime Minister in a few days time.
Count on Bibi Netanyahu lighting a blowtorch in the dry kindling that is the Middle East.
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"Iran had stockpiled 1,050 pounds of low-enriched uranium so far.... It would need 3,740 pounds to convert into high-enriched uranium, or HEU, for fueling an atom bomb."
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Gee, where did the so-called intelligence come from?
"... There are some indications, moreover, that the MEK obtained the documents not from an Iranian source but from Israel's Mossad..."
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That explains everything!
"The U.S. neoconservative agenda to Sacrifice the Fifth Fleet - The New Pearl Harbor
by Michael E. Salla, M.A., Ph.D.
The Canadian
Saturday November 10, 2007
The Bush administration has covered up and ignored dissenting Pentagon war games analysis that suggests an attack on Iran's nuclear or military facilities will lead directly to the annihilation of the Navy's Fifth Fleet now stationed in the Persian Gulf. Lt. General Paul Van Riper led a hypothetical Persian Gulf state in the 2002 Millennium Challenge war games that resulted in the destruction of the Fifth Fleet. His experience and conclusions regarding the vulnerability of the Fifth Fleet to an asymmetrical military conflict and the implications for a war against Iran have been ignored. Neoconservatives within the Bush administration are currently aggressively promoting a range of military actions against Iran that will culminate in it attacking the U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet with sophisticated cruise anti-ship missiles. They are ignoring Van Riper's experiences in the Millennium Challenge and how it applies to the current nuclear conflict with Iran.
Iran has sufficient quantities of cruise missiles to destroy much or all of the Fifth Fleet which is within range of Iran's mobile missile launchers strategically located along its mountainous terrain overlooking the Persian Gulf. The Bush administration is deliberately downplaying the vulnerability of the Fifth Fleet to Iran's advanced missile technology which has been purchased from Russia and China since the late 1990's. The most sophisticated of Iran's cruise missiles are the 'Sunburn' and 'Yakhonts'. These are missiles against which U.S. military experts conclude modern warships have no effective defence. By deliberately provoking an Iranian retaliation to U.S. military actions, the neoconservatives will knowingly sacrifice much or all of the Fifth Fleet. This will culminate in a new Pearl Harbor that will create the right political environment for total war against Iran, and expanded military actions in the Persian Gulf region.
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