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Thursday 28 April 2011

Middle East In Transition Syrian Tanks Roll Into Cities as Security Crackdown Kills At Least 20



Edward Yeranian | Cairo



Witnesses say several thousand Syrian army troops, flanked by special forces, shot their way into the southern city of Daraa before dawn Monday, causing numerous casualties. Tanks reportedly began the assault, shelling the city as they moved in from four sides.

Videos distributed by human rights activists show black smoke over the city center and fires burning as shell-fire crackled in the background.

Reports say Syrian special forces stormed private homes to make arrests, Witnesses say snipers began shooting from rooftops and many victims remain lying in the streets.

Jordanian authorities said the main highway crossing between Jordan and Syria was closed to traffic and that two border posts were not allowing anyone to enter Syria.

Syrian rights activists say that security forces also encircled the Damascus suburbs of Douma and Madaamiya, arresting hundreds of people.

The crackdown came as Syrian government media condemned what was called the "crimes of armed gangs" and "outside plots to divide the country."  Syrian television reported that 15 members of the army and security forces were killed in recent violence.

The sister of one such victim said on state television she was proud that her brother had died to defend his country.

She says she is the sister of martyr Nihad Ayoub, and while she is sad her brother died, she thanks God for his sacrifice.

The Syrian government daily
Tishreen condemned what it called "outside media mobilization campaigns" against Syria, complaining that "freedom cannot be exercised amid chaos....without security for the country and its citizens."

But Nadim Houry of Human Rights Watch in Beirut called on the United Nations to begin an independent international investigation into what he said are "abuses that have occurred in Syria in the past five weeks."

He also urged the European Union and the United States to impose sanctions on the Syrian leadership, a move the Obama administration said it is considering.

The U.N.’s top human rights official, Navi Pillay, demanded that Syria curtail its crackdown and urged a "full and independent investigation" into the killings of protesters.


18 Years of Murderous Salvation

The American belief in benevolent mass murder is not a partisan disposition. Most liberals and conservatives alike take it for granted that, while the federal government’s armed agents sometimes act recklessly or carry out mistaken orders, their acts should never be seen as murder. 

The assumption is nearly universal that Obama, Bush and Clinton, whatever their partisan opponents might think, are not mass murderers in the mold of Gaddafi, or cult leaders along the lines of Koresh, when in fact our presidents are far worse than either of these men in terms of cultish power as well as sheer body count. 

All three of these chief executives, and many before them, have commanded the loyalty of far more subordinates willing to die on their orders than Koresh ever could, and have extinguished more innocent lives than Gaddafi ever did.
Waco and Libya are only the first and latest examples of U.S. humanitarian atrocities in the post-Cold War era. 

In both situations, we see the U.S. government leaving behind rubble and death, and the chattering classes agreeing that Washington has the innocents’ best interests at heart, even as it imposes sanctions on civilians or cuts them off from water, disregarding the very humanity of the victims of Uncle Sam’s explosions. When D.C. kills it is never seen as when others, whether private American citizens or foreign despots, do it.






When a private religious separatist allegedly molests children, it is an excuse for gassing children to death. But when the federal government molests children it is merely airport security. 

When a foreign dictator is allegedly about to kill tens of thousands of innocents, it is an excuse for another non-defensive U.S. presidential war. But when the U.S. government kills millions though sanctions, chemical warfare, conventional bombings and depleted uranium, it is simply the mainstream foreign policy consensus at work.

It is particularly hard to cut through these double standards when left-liberal presidents kill, as both sides of the spectrum benefit from pretending that these politicians are less trigger-happy than the conservatives. Yet Clinton and Obama have both revealed themselves to be as bloodthirsty as the Bushes before them.

Whether using the military to police the world or militarizing the police here at home, the federal government’s favorite activity appears to be killing. Thanks to the domestic precedent of Waco and the foreign-policy traditions of the last few presidents, there are now essentially no limits on the power of Washington to kill men, women and children, at home and abroad, and get away with it in the court of public opinion. Nothing gives the executive branch the free hand to snuff out human life like the promise of humanitarian salvation.

Libya: It’s Not About Oil, It’s About Currency and Loans

John Perkins
April 27, 2011
World Bank President Robert Zoellick Thursday said he hopes the institution will have a role rebuilding Libya as it emerges from current unrest.

Zoellick at a panel discussion noted the bank’s early role in the reconstruction of France, Japan and other nations after World War II.

“Reconstruction now means (Ivory Coast), it means southern Sudan, it means Liberia, it means Sri Lanka, I hope it will mean Libya,” Zoellick said.

On Ivory Coast, Zoellick said he hoped that within “a couple weeks” the bank would move forward with “some hundred millions of dollars of emergency support.”

We listen to U.S. spokespeople try to explain why we’re suddenly now entangled in another Middle East war. Many of us find ourselves questioning the official justifications.

We are aware that the true causes of our engagement are rarely discussed in the media or by our government.
While many of the rationalizations describe resources, especially oil, as the reasons why we should be in that country, there are also an increasing number of dissenting voices. 

For the most part, these revolve around Libya’s financial relationship with the World Bank, International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), and multinational corporations.

According to the IMF, Libya’s Central Bank is 100% state owned. The IMF estimates that the bank has nearly 144 tons of gold in its vaults. 

It is significant that in the months running up to the UN resolution that allowed the US and its allies to send troops into Libya, Muammar al-Qaddafi was openly advocating the creation of a new currency that would rival the dollar and the euro.

In fact, he called upon African and Muslim nations to join an alliance that would make this new currency, the gold dinar, their primary form of money and foreign exchange. They would sell oil and other resources to the US and the rest of the world only for gold dinars.

The US, the other G-8 countries, the World Bank, IMF, BIS, and multinational corporations do not look kindly on leaders who threaten their dominance over world currency markets or who appear to be moving away from the international banking system that favors the corporatocracy. 

Saddam Hussein had advocated policies similar to those expressed by Qaddafi shortly before the US sent troops into Iraq.

In my talks, I often find it necessary to remind audiences of a point that seems obvious to me but is misunderstood by so many: that the World Bank is not really a world bank at all; it is, rather a U. S. bank. Ditto, its closest sibling, the IMF. 

In fact, if one looks at the World Bank and IMF executive boards and the votes each member of the board has, one sees that the United States controls about 16 percent of the votes in the World Bank – (Compared with Japan at about 7%, the second largest member, China at 4.5%, Germany with 4.00%, and the United Kingdom and France with about 3.8% each), nearly 17% of the IMF votes (Compared with Japan and Germany at about 6% and UK and France at nearly 5%),and the US holds veto power over all major decisions. 

Furthermore, the United States President appoints the World Bank President.
So, we might ask ourselves: What happens when a “rogue” country threatens to bring the banking system that benefits the corporatocracy to its knees? What happens to an “empire” when it can no longer effectively be overtly imperialistic?

One definition of “Empire” (per my book The Secret History of the American Empire) states that an empire is a nation that dominates other nations by imposing its own currency on the lands under its control. 

The empire maintains a large standing military that is ready to protect the currency and the entire economic system that depends on it through extreme violence, if necessary. 

The ancient Romans did this. So did the Spanish and the British during their days of empire-building. Now, the US or, more to the point, the corporatocracy, is doing it and is determined to punish any individual who tries to stop them. Qaddafi is but the latest example.

Understanding the war against Quaddafi as a war in defense of empire is another step in the direction of helping us ask ourselves whether we want to continue along this path of empire-building. Or do we instead want to honor the democratic principles we are taught to believe are the foundations of our country?

History teaches that empires do not endure; they collapse or are overthrown. Wars ensue and another empire fills the vacuum.

The past sends a compelling message. We must change. We cannot afford to watch history repeat itself.
Let us not allow this empire to collapse and be replaced by another. Instead, let us all vow to create a new consciousness. 

Let the grass-roots movements in the Middle East – fostered by the young who must live with the future and are fueled through social networks – inspire us to demand that our country, our financial institutions and the corporations that depend on us to buy their goods and services commit themselves to fashioning a world that is sustainable, just, peaceful, and prosperous for all.

We stand at the threshold. It is time for you and me to step across that threshold, to move out of the dark void of brutal exploitation and greed into the light of compassion and cooperation.






Thursday 14 April 2011

The New World Government









The NWO (New World Order) is not an original idea it was decided long ago what our futures would look like.
Over the last 15 years there has been many obstacles in the form of geopolitical wars all over our planet , most of these wars have been started by foreign nations that have no reason to fight other than for greed, power and fulfilling their own political agendas.
Many have fought and died for their country due to a patriotic duty and misplaced loyalty to their nations leadership, trusting soldiers and listening to lies and deception not knowing the full story of why they are fighting.  
These high powered men and women lead their armies into conflict under false pretense without any regard for human life, demanding outrageous contribution from taxes, towards these wars pushed onto general populous again backed by lies and deception.
The world economy has been taking a massive hit , every time these political tyrants start these selfish and cowardly acts of genocide - thats right I said it, Genocide. 
Everyday innocent people suffer from great tragedies such as loss of loved ones, friends and close colleagues. It doesn't really matter about the kind of relationship that we share with these people, as every relationship that we have with someone will always make some kind of impact in our lives and define who we are as a person.
So, What have we learned over the past 100 years, my answer to that is, not much really, as we keep making the same mistakes, we keep putting our trust in a system which keeps failing us , we keep giving away our liberties and freedoms without a fight. The little victories we have won over the years have been trivial compared to our overall civil freedoms, which should be our right.
What defines us as human beings is the ability to think and act for ourselves. This has fueled our civilization with science , religion and technology freedom of thought and speech.
Throughout history we have made good and bad decisions, some of these decisions have put us in the predicament we find ourselves in today. Scientists today have a lot to answer for , Nuclear Fusion should never have been used in the fashion it is today. If we really wanted a safe unlimited power we could have harnessed the most natural resource, the ocean. Look at the hydro electric systems throughout the world.
Currently, nuclear power comes from is big kid in the playground and as we all know, who ever has the most Nukes is the bully in the playground. Why cant the money spent on defense, be spent on creating life, not destroying it with all these brilliant minds. You would think we could put them to better use. 
Wars have been started against countries on the basis of becoming threats to us according to larger nations and government leaders, but why do we believe these leaders when the constantly lie , cheat and bankrupt our countries into debt that we don't fully understand.
This is not isolated to one country, we all have the same issue we have been lead by cowards down a dangerous path into a future of untold debt, a cesspool of confusion and still none of us understand why we keep giving fools power. 


The definitions of government;
Government - An organized entity that, in addition to having

governmental character, has sufficient discretion in the

management of its own affairs to distinguish it as separate 


from the administrative structure of any other governmental


unit. See also Population of Interest.

When are we going to take back our freedom, stop acting like


sheep and kick these dictators to the curb. I am sick and tired


of loosing sleep over how our government leaders are 


proposing, planing, creating and implementing laws, without


disclosing the full intention of the laws with the people of their




countries in which they govern.









I have a great strategy in mind, lets get all the world leaders in


one room including their government patsies and stick them in


a cage match with each other, give them as much ammo as


required and let them all fight out their differences. 


If that doesn't work lets see how they like the gas chamber


because they have all been found guilty of murder and 


treason. 

People should rise up, wake up and be noticed, ask questions


and demand answers?