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A satanic world order - starting in the
cradle of civilisation, Iraq
Do please take the time to look
through the evidence compiled by the
9/11 truth movement.
Democratic institutions and rights, particularly
in the UK & US, are under sustained
covert attack.
War is terrorism with a bigger budget
You could be endangering your family and loved ones by not having read this book - 911 Synthetic Terror, Made in USA by Webster Griffin Tarpley
'And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet' Matthew 24:6
Between the lines - what the mainstream
press isn't telling us
http://www.rense.com/general45/drk.htm
Svetlana Kuzina
04/04/08
http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/cgi-bin/blogs/voices.php/2008/04/04/p24531
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A book written by former British intelligence officer John Coleman was recently released in Russia. Coleman details a conspiracy of the world's elite against mankind
Many people no longer believe that presidents, premier ministers and other "visible" officials rule their countries. Instead, they suspect that the real authority – one that is powerful, unwavering and secret – is concentrated in the hands of others. Like the masons for example. The truly paranoid have devised the so-called "International Conspiracy Theory," which tells how a handful of wealthy, highly positioned individuals rule the world. This group of decision-makers launches wars, invents deadly diseases and pumps the population full of narcotics, alcohol and pornography to get rid of the world's dead weight. Consequently, a population of 1 billion select individuals will someday remain. They will freely enjoy the blessings of nature – clean air, freshwater and natural food.
It seems ludicrous, but recently a British intelligence officer from MI6 has asserted that this secret international organization does exist in his book, "The Conspirators Hierarchy: The Committee of Three Hundred."
"During my career as an officer in British intelligence," Coleman writes, "I received access to strictly confidential documents on numerous occasions. Their contents were unexpectedly straightforward. I learned that there are powers that control the governments of many nations. I was taken aback and decided to inform a world living in ignorance. Imagine a powerful group that doesn't recognize any national borders that is involved in the financial, insurance, coal-mining, pharmaceutical and oil industries -- whose members only answer to the group. This is the ‘Committee of Three Hundred,' an elite group that has ruled the world from 1897. Its backbone today is the world's 300 most influential people."
Coleman writes that secret organizations and think tanks work for the Committee of Three Hundred. A list of these institutions follows.
As of 1921, the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) has consisted of the most influential individuals in the U.S. and Western world, ranging from current and previous presidents to CIA officials. The CFR was established by the American banker J.P. Morgan, and controls the U.S. Federal Reserve system, New York Stock Exchange and leading mass media.
In 1954, the Bilderberg Group held its original conference uniting the American and European elite. (The organization was named after the Hotel de Bilderberg in Oosterbeek in the Netherlands where the meeting took place.)
In 1973, a third influential structure came into being – the Trilateral Commission – consisting of representatives from the U.S., Europe and Japan. The organization's goal is to "create a mechanism of global planning and long-term repartition of resources."
Since 1968, the Club of Rome has been one of the most important foreign affairs divisions of the Committee of Three Hundred. The organization unites scholars, globalists, futurists and internationalists of various suites. The organization has its own private intelligence agencies and "borrows" information from Interpol, the FSB and Mossad.
The millionaire executive David Rockefeller controls the activities of these organizations.
A short list of periphery organizations lending assistance to these four intelligence giants are: Round Table, David Millner Group, Order of St John, The German Marshall Fund of the United States, The China Fund, Inc., Fabian Society, Black Nobility, Mont Pelerin Society, Hellfire Club and the Masons.
The mother of all international think thanks and research institutions is the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, which is beginning to help the Stanford Research Institute.
Coleman writes that past and present members of the Committee of Three Hundred include the Queen of England, the Queen of the Netherlands, the Queen of Denmark, European royal families, George Bush, Edward Carter, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, Winston Churchill, Francois Mitterrand, Jean Monet, Ernest Oppenheimer and his heir Henry.
In the mid-1990s, Russia was invited to participate in establishing a single world state.
"Boris Yeltsin adhered to the decrees of the Committee of Three Hundred in an experiment to bind Russia to the will of the ruling elite," writes Coleman.
Coleman describes the new world order as seen by the Committee of Three Hundred.
Leaders: There will be a single world state and monetary system ruled by unelected oligarchs and their royal lineage, who will appoint leaders from their own ranks in a feudal system as existed in the Middle Ages.
Religion: Only one religion will be permitted in the form of a state church. The church has existed secretly since 1920. All Christian churches will be prohibited.
Control: All individuals will have an identification number. The numbers will be entered into a composite file at NATO in Brussels together with details dossiers.
Family: Marriages will be canceled. Children will be taken from their parents at an early age. They will be raised at special institutions like state property. Free sex will be compulsory.
Children: If a woman gets pregnant after having two children, she will be immediately sent for an abortion and sterilization.
Resources: Only members of the Committee of Three Hundred and select individuals will have the right to make use of natural resources. Agriculture will be completely controlled by the Committee of Three Hundred, and food processing will be strictly controlled.
Social Policy: At least 4 billion "useless individuals" will be exterminated by 2050 as a result of territorial wars, organized deadly epidemics, quickly spreading diseases and hunger. Electrical energy, food and water will sufficiently provide for the white population of Western Europe and North America and only later different races. The populations of Canada, Western Europe and the U.S. will decrease more quickly than on other continents until the population reaches the controllable level of 1 billion. Of these individuals, 500 million will be Chinese and Japanese, who will be "chosen" as they have been subject to strict regulations and unquestioningly obeying authorities for centuries.
Coleman asserts that individuals who are party to the single world state are strenuously brainwashing the population, rewriting history, creating ideal individuals and working to decrease the population.
Profiling is a method developed in 1922 by an order of the Royal Institute of International Affairs. The method was based on principles similar to today's NLP, which helps to influence people's ideas and decisions. The method was used by Major John Riz, British military specialist, on 80,000 "guinea pigs" from the British Army and prisoners of war, who were subjected to many types of psychological testing. Later, a special brainwashing center for the civil population was established at the University of Sussex. This super-secret organization was called the Institute of Scientific Politics.
The Rockefeller Fund subsidized scholarly work to create an ideal history after the end of World War II, when Anglo-American troops naturally came out the winners.
The Rockefeller Fund is also sponsoring genetic maps of the qualities of the ideal human in closed laboratories on the basis of the genome to grow test-tube geniuses and docile invincible soldiers.
A program regulating the growth of the population was approved at a conference of the world state. Its main goal is to ensure a low birth level in countries outside Western civilization. The program covers 100 countries and utilizes measures such as the forced sterilization of men and women.
Vladimir Nikiforov, former KGB colonel, senior officer of the First Division of the Fifth Department of the Committee of Foreign Economic Relations, says the Masons have bought everything.
"In the 1980s, I was a supervisor in Southeastern Asia. I worked in Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia and China. Of course, I met with my colleagues from intelligence agencies and worked with the states of these nations. And on numerous occasions I was told about the existence of a world state in personal conversations. All presidents resist its dictatorship, but they know that they have long been puppets of this ruling system composing only 2 percent of the world's population – the richest individuals. I know for sure that the Queen of England and King of Spain and his wife are members. This so-called world state bought everything. They wage wars under the pretense of huge state interests and safety and invent artificial diseases such as the Bird Flu to control people and get rid of human dead weight. As a result, as I've been told, this secret world state will create a controllable mass. The center of the organization is in New York on Fifth Avenue in a large temple not far from where the twin towers were destroyed in 2001. They meet there from time to time."
2008 Svetlana Kuzina
SOURCE: http://www.effedieffe.com/content/view/2704/183/
The exposure of faked evidence for a thinktank report is a warning of the dangers of Britain's anti-Muslim media campaign
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2230012,00.html
Seumas Milne
Thursday December 20, 2007
The Guardian
Last Saturday, Ahmed Hassan, a 17-year-old Muslim student, was stabbed to death in an unprovoked attack by a gang of white youths at Dewsbury railway station in west Yorkshire. Two have now been charged with his murder, and police say they are investigating whether there was a racial or religious motivation. In the Muslim communities in Dewsbury and neighbouring Batley, where Hassan lived, there's little doubt about it. In the run-up to today's Eid festival, Hassan's family issued a statement saying they hoped their loss would help "unite the community and all faiths".
But divisions run deep in the area. The far-right British National party, which has increasingly turned its racist venom against Muslims in recent years, won over 5,000 votes in Dewsbury in the last general election, its highest tally in the country. Its leader, Nick Griffin, has argued that his party must capitalise on the "growing wave of public hostility to Islam currently being whipped up by the mass media". It's not hard to see why he sees an opportunity. Since the July 2005 bombings in London, there has been a stream of sensationalised and poisonous stories about Britain's Muslims.
This media onslaught - often based on research by apparently reliable thinktanks - has clearly fed anti-Muslim prejudice. Combined with hyped terror-plot reports, the point has now been reached where Britons are found in polls to be more suspicious of Muslims than are Americans or citizens of any other major European state. For many Muslims, that heightens a sense of intimidation and alienation. For a minority, it translates into Islamophobic violence on the streets: Asian people are now twice as likely to be stabbed to death as a decade ago, and four out of five convictions for religiously aggravated offences last year involved attacks on Muslims.
But now the seamy underbelly of this dangerous campaign is coming to light. At the end of October, the influential Conservative-linked thinktank Policy Exchange published a report entitled The Hijacking of British Islam, which claimed that 26 out of nearly 100 mosques surveyed had been found to be selling "extremist material, some of it antisemitic, misogynistic, separatist and homophobic". The story was given top billing by newspapers and broadcasters. "One in four British mosques is in the grip of extremism", the Sun screamed, while the Times splashed it across its front page under the headline: "Lessons in hate found at leading mosques".
But last week, BBC's Newsnight programme - previously not shy of running inflammatory items itself on the Muslim community - revealed that a forensic examination of five receipts provided by Policy Exchange for the material had found them to be either faked, written by the same person, and/or were not issued by the mosques in question. A sixth receipt was also regarded as unreliable.
It might be supposed that receipts from the other 20 mosques were nevertheless found to be authentic and that Policy Exchange's basic case held. Not so. Newsnight didn't have the resources to check them. But it has since emerged that in one of these cases, Edinburgh central mosque, the mosque authorities insist books said by Policy Exchange to have been found there were in fact dumped in its grounds after the report was published. In another, the Times has this week had to publish an apology to East London mosque chairman Dr Muhammad Abdul Bari, after reporting Policy Exchange's claim that the mosque was selling extremist literature.
Yesterday I contacted yet another mosque, Rochdale Central, claimed by Policy Exchange to have provided a receipt for extremist literature. No, said the imam, Hafiz Ikram, "we haven't got a bookshop and we don't sell books. Once or twice a year, people set up stalls in the carpark outside the mosque after Friday prayers, but they have nothing to do with us." That makes all nine receipts so far investigated either fabricated or inaccurate.
Policy Exchange insists it is standing by its research. But, given the evidence of falsification, it clearly cannot be regarded as reliable, nor can there be any confidence that the mosques supposedly surveyed were a representative sample. The thinktank has form in this area: earlier this year, the methodology and reliability of another heavily publicised report on Muslim separatism came under heavyweight academic attack. But it was still used by David Cameron to rubbish multiculturalism.
Charles Moore, Policy Exchange's chairman and former Daily Telegraph editor, claims Newsnight "told a small story" about dodgy receipts to "kill a much bigger story" - that "extremist literature was available in the mosques". But the extent of that availability is crucial: one of Policy Exchange's researchers told Newsnight they had had to go back three times to get hold of books. Of course, there are plenty of ultra-conservative and reactionary religious Islamic texts in circulation (though little of what Policy Exchange identified had anything to do with jihad) and those are most effectively challenged by other Muslims. You can also see ugly material in other religious institutions, such as the aggressively homophobic pamphlets I recently found on display in a south-west London church.
But the exaggeration of such phenomena and constant regurgitation of Muslim-baiting "research" by hard-right thinktanks like Policy Exchange and the Centre for Social Cohesion misleads the public and inflames ethnic tensions. It is also transparently driven by a neoconservative agenda that seeks to convince people that jihadist terror attacks in Britain are fuelled not by outrage at western violence and support for tyranny in the Muslim world, but by hatred of western culture and freedoms.
The roll call of those involved in Policy Exchange makes the point. Its policy director, Dean Godson, who blustered at Newsnight's presenter Jeremy Paxman last week, worked for the Reagan administration, was a signatory to the neocon Project for the New American Century, and was special assistant to the jailed former Telegraph owner Conrad Black. The report's author is Denis MacEoin, a pro-Israel campaigner who says he has "very negative feelings" about Islam. The thinktank's founders were Nicholas Boles, now Tory candidate for Grantham, and Michael Gove, author of that British neocon rallying cry Celsius 7/7 and now the Tory education spokesman. If Cameron cares anything for community relations, he should rein in these toxic attack dogs.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2230012,00.html
by Alf Mendes
The well-known security expert David Litchfield wrote an article in the Independent on Sunday of 7th October 2007 covering the shocking massacre - by bludgeoning and shooting - of some 200 poverty-stricken Hungarian Jews at a party hosted by Countess Margit Botthyany de Nemetujuar at her castle in Rechnitz on the Austro-Hungarian border on the 24th March 1945 - with the Soviet Army only 15 kms away! Litchfield adds that evidence of said massacre was confirmed by the advancing Soviet Army - and published in the USSR's "Red Star" on 12th of April 1945. The Austrians subsequently ensured that the event would receive no more publicity.
This evokes memories of that pivotally historic period of post-WW1 in Germany - and, in particular, the role played in it by America, who was soon embarked on a trail of events which still haunt us today.
The foregoing should be viewed against the following backdrop, which will quote a few events of pertinence taken from this author's "Bush-Law in the Land of Mammon".
At the turn of the 19th-20th century, One August Thyssen (a German Catholic) owned a bank and vast steelworks company which subsequently became the main supplier to the Wermacht in WW1. He had two sons, Fritz and Heinrich, the former becoming a member of the Nazi Party and taking over the business from his father when the latter died in 1926. It so happens that Countess Margit (above) was the daughter of the second son, Heinrich Thyssen, who, at the start of WW 1, adopted Hungarian citizenship, married the Hungarian Baroness Margrit Bornemisza de Kaszon - and changed his name to become Baron Thyssen Bornemisza de Kaszon.
With WW 1 nearly over, August formed the Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart in Rotterdam, and passed the responsibility of running it to Baron (Heinrich) Thyssen.
In 1920, the prestigious investment firm, W.A.Harriman & Co., had gained control of the German Hamburg-Amerika shipping line after negotiations with the latter's company and its bankers, M.M.Warburg (of whom, more later).
In 1922, Averell Harriman set up a branch of W.A Harriman & Co. bank in Berlin - and, while there, he met the Thyssen family, and agreed to help the latter with their plan to set up a bank in the US. Result? The setting up, in 1924, of the Union Banking Corporation (UBC) in New York with the Thyssen-owned Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart (see above).
In 1926, Prescott S. Bush snr., who had joined W.A.Harriman in 1924, was appointed Vice-President of the company. Fritz Thyssen now merged with Friedrich Flick's steel, coal & zinc conglomerate, the Silesian Holding Co. to form the new German Steel Trust with help from Clarence Dillon (old colleague of Prescott Bush's father) of the bank Dillon Read. The COE of this merged group was Albert Voegler, who had helped Hitler into power, and was director in the BHS bank and The Hamburg-Amerika Line (see above). Thus, Thyssen's accounts were now run through the W.A.Harriman group - and the German Steel Trust's corporate banking was handled by Dillon Read.
In 1931, W.A.Harriman merged with the British-American Brown Brothers investment firm to form the Brown Brothers Harriman.
At the end of WW 2, Fritz Thyssen was cross-examined, imprisoned for short spells, and eventually emigrated to Argentina in 1950, dying there the following year.
Suffice it to say here that a number of other American companies, such as Samuel Pryor and the Dulles Brothers, et al., carried out similar mergers with their German compatriots who were financing the Hitler regime - the Thyssens being one such. This is all well-documented common knowledge today.
At the end of WW 2 Rockefeller's Chase Manhattan Bank owned 31% of Thyssen. Today, having bought out the arms maufacturer, Krupp, and now known as the Thyssen Group (TBG), it is one of the world's wealthiest corporations.
In 1942, the US Alien Property Custodian froze the accounts of the Union Banking Corp. - releasing them in 1951, as a result of which Walker and his son-in-law Prescott Bush received one share each of UBC stock - at $750,000 each.
Here, the foregoing needs to be augmented by a not-so-well-publicised aspect of the matter - namely, the apparently puzzling fact that such a prestigious, wealthy German/Jewish family as the Warburgs should have assisted Hitler in as effective a manner as the Thyssens. Hence the following backdrop:
A Jew, known only as 'Simon of Cassel' settled at Warburg in Germany in 1559. Not being allowed in those days to have surnames of their own, own land, or trade, they became 'handlers' of money - and adopted the name of 'Warburg', and when, in the 17th century, they moved to Hamburg, they became bankers. In 1871, with General Bismarck Chancellor of the new German Reich, the Jews were now enfranchised.
In 1901, Max Warburg remained in charge in Hamburg while his brothers, Paul and Felix went to New York and became partners in the investment firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. Unhappy at the fact that, at that time, American banks were not centralised, Paul - with the collusion of Senator Aldrich, drew up a plan to centralise the system. This resulted in President Wilson signing an Act establishing the Federal Reserve Bank in December 1913!
By 1914, Warburg had become the leading German commercial bank, M.M.Warburg. Intriguingly, 100,000 German Jews, now enfranchised, served in the Germany Army in WW 1.
Earlier, Max Warburg helped finance HAPAG, the German-Amerika shipping line (see above), run by another Jew, Albert Ballin. HAPAG played a major role in building Germany's merchant and military fleets. Suffice it to add here that Warburg subsequently collaborated with Hitler on a number of issues: (a) he signed his approval of Hitler's decision to appoint Hjalmar Schacht as President of the Reichbank in March 1933; (b) in March 1933, the American-Jewish committee and the B'nai B'rith, (within which the Warburgs held much influence) issued a statement advising "that no American boycott against Germany be encouraged"; and (c) the Warburg bank played an important role in the Haavara Agreement of 1933 concluded between Hitler and the Zionists, whereby Jews emigrating to Palestine benefited - as did the Warburg Bank which served as a conduit for three quarters of the Haavara funds.
Max Warburg emigrated to America in 1938, dying there in 1946.
In view of the foregoing, one can only assume that a wealthy capitalist Jew in a country awash with anti-semitism stands a good chance of survival! Indeed, more than two-thirds of the German Jews survived the holocaust.
Two conclusions can be drawn from the foregoing: (1) Over the centuries religion has played a schismatic role, often resulting in genocide; (2) It is evidence enough that, in view of the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, Corporate America would soon embark on an anti-communist crusade by enlisting Hitler's help. From then on, their strategy would be to attain their capitalistic global domination - with not-a-little-help from the Bush kin.
Revised on - 03Sep07 - by Tony Gosling - www.public-interest.co.uk
Verint Systems, the Israeli security company contracted to manage and operate London Underground's CCTV network has become embroiled in a serious fraud case in New York. Ex Chief Executive of parent company Comverse Technologies, Jacob 'Kobi' Alexander faces legal action to bring him back to the U.S. for trial after absconding with $13 million and being arrested in Namibia.
Contractual arrangements are complicated by the collapse of Metronet which signed the thirty year CCTV contract with Verint ten months before the 7/7 London bombs.
The 'stock option backdating' scandal first came to light last year in the Wall Street Journal. Kobi Alexander is wanted for cheating shareholders out of nearly $6.5 million dollars by illegally backdating the buying and selling of lucrative stock options. Alexander is accused of laundering the money through accounts set up under fictitious names such as I. M. Fantom (I am phantom). The Securities and Exchange Commission, which regulates companies listed on the New York stock exchange, is seeking Alexander's extradition from Namibia on 35 counts of fraud.
Verint Systems, meanwhile, was suspended from the New York NASDAQ list in February 2007 because it hadn't filed financial statements required by law. Eyebrows have been raised particularly because Verint is entrusted with the safety and security of three million people a day on the tube.
Both companies are close relations with Western Intelligence Agencies. They provide telephone surveillance software and mobile phone voicemail software used to gather information on those suspected of being 'terrorists' or 'subversives'. They are also one of the companies providing systems for recording phone calls automatically through numbered menu systems.
Possibly more worrying are the close links between these companies and the Israeli Army. Both Kobi Alexander and the present CEO of Verint are ex Israeli Army officers. Chief Executive of Verint, Daniel Bodner, was an officer in the Israeli Engineers.
Latest news is that the two companies, Comverse and Verint, plan to split. Kobi Alexander's latest extradition hearing in Windhoek is on November 12th.
Serious concerns remain about the lack of London Underground CCTV images of the London Bombers on 7th July itself, as opposed to those published of a 'dummy run' of the bombing suspects two weeks earlier. Also an exercise on 7/7 by Visor Consultants with imaginary bombs at the exact four locations where the real bombs went off has raised more questions than it has answered.
Also to be considered is the vanishing CCTV footage from Stockwell Underground Station of the moments leading up to the killing of Brazilian Electrician Jean Charles De Menezes. LU staff handed checked and correct CCTV tapes over to the Metropolitan Police but were later told there was nothing on them.
The 2005 London bombs' targeting of innocent members of the public mirrors attacks in 1980 at Bologna Railway Station in Italy where 85 people died, and the Oktoberfest beer festival in Munich where 13 perished. These bombings were later discovered to have been carried out by far-right fascist units of NATO's Operation Gladio, not the left wing Red Brigades and Baader Meinhof as originally announced in the press.
These and other disturbing questions will only be answered, and the safety of London's transport staff and travelling public restored by a full and open public enquiry into the events of 7th July 2005.
References
Charles De Menezes Family Campaign - www.justice4jean.com
NATO's Secret Armies, Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe, Daniele Ganser, Cass Publishing, 2005.
BBC Radio 5 and ITN, interviews with Peter Power of Visor Consultants, 7th July 2005.
July 7 bombers staged dummy run, Police release new CCTV images, http://www.guardian.co.uk/attackonlondon/story/0,16132,1574256,00.html
U.S. SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION - Litigation Release No. 19796 / August 9, 2006 - http://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/2006/lr19796.htm
Kobi Alexander extradition hearing postponed again in Namibia - August 13, 2007 - http://www.newsday.com/business/ny-bzkobi0814,0,897713.story
I hope you have broadband. This IMHO is one of the most spun against and censored stories of all time. How much money and influence peddling has been spent to shut people up from exploring the truth is unbelievable.
The arrogant elite of this world - and in this film Diana, through the lips of Mohammed Al Fayed, fingers the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Philip, as the main perpetrator of Diana's murder. This is why the Diana issue will never go away until the public have closure and the guilty parties are behind bars, whoever they are.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8263501370427267909
http://www.911blogger.com/node/10905
To the American people, and to peace loving individuals everywhere:
Massive evidence has come to our attention which shows that the backers, controllers, and allies of Vice President Dick Cheney are determined to orchestrate and manufacture a new 9/11 terror incident, and/or a new Gulf of Tonkin war provocation over the coming weeks and months. Such events would be used by the Bush administration as a pretext for launching an aggressive war against Iran, quite possibly with nuclear weapons, and for imposing a regime of martial law here in the United States. We call on the House of Representatives to proceed immediately to the impeachment of Cheney, as an urgent measure for avoiding a wider and more catastrophic war. Once impeachment has begun, it will be easier for loyal and patriotic military officers to refuse illegal orders coming from the Cheney faction. We solemnly warn the people of the world that any terrorist attack with weapons of mass destruction taking place inside the United States or elsewhere in the immediate future must be considered the prima facie responsibility of the Cheney faction. We urge responsible political leaders everywhere to begin at once to inoculate the public opinion of their countries against such a threatened false flag terror operation.
(Signed) A Group of US Opposition Political Leaders Gathered in Protest at the Bush Compound in Kennebunkport, Maine, August 24-25, 2007
[link to jpg of declaration and signatures]
CYNTHIA MCKINNEY, FORMER US CONGRESSWOMAN, GEORGIA
CINDY SHEEHAN, CANDIDATE FOR US CONGRESS, CALIFORNIA
CRAIG HILL, CANDIDATE FOR US CONGRESS, VERMONT GREEN PARTY
BRUCE MARSHALL, CONVENOR, PHILADELPHIA PLATFORM
JAMILLA EL-SHAFEI, KENNEBUNK PEACE DEPARTMENT
WEBSTER G. TARPLEY, AUTHOR
ANN WRIGHT, COLONEL US ARMY RESERVE, FORMER US DIPLOMAT
DR. DAHLIA WASFI, WWW.LIBERATETHIS.COM
GEORGE PAZ MARTIN
JOHN KAMINSKI, LAWYER, IMPEACHMENT ACTIVIST
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=CHO20060810&articleId=2942
"Another [9/11] attack could create both a justification and an opportunity to retaliate against some known targets"
by Michel Chossudovsky
Global Research, August 10, 2006
One essential feature of "defense" in the case of a second major attack on America, is "offense", according to Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff: "Homeland security is one piece of a broader strategy [which] brings the battle to the enemy."(DHS, Transcript of complete March 2005 speech of Secr. Michael Chertoff)
In the month following last year's 7/7 London bombings, Vice President Dick Cheney is reported to have instructed USSTRATCOM to draw up a contingency plan "to be employed in response to another 9/11-type terrorist attack on the United States". Implied in the contingency plan is the certainty that Iran would be behind a Second 9/11.
This "contingency plan" uses the pretext of a "Second 9/11", which has not yet happened, to prepare for a major military operation against Iran, while pressure was also exerted on Tehran in relation to its (non-existent) nuclear weapons program.
What is diabolical in this decision of the US Vice President is that the justification presented by Cheney to wage war on Iran rests on Iran's involvement in a hypothetical terrorist attack on America, which has not yet occurred:
The plan includes a large-scale air assault on Iran employing both conventional and tactical nuclear weapons. Within Iran there are more than 450 major strategic targets, including numerous suspected nuclear-weapons-program development sites. Many of the targets are hardened or are deep underground and could not be taken out by conventional weapons, hence the nuclear option. As in the case of Iraq, the response is not conditional on Iran actually being involved in the act of terrorism directed against the United States. Several senior Air Force officers involved in the planning are reportedly appalled at the implications of what they are doing—that Iran is being set up for an unprovoked nuclear attack—but no one is prepared to damage his career by posing any objections. (Philip Giraldi, Attack on Iran: Pre-emptive Nuclear War , The American Conservative, 2 August 2005)
Are we to understand that US, British and Israeli military planners are waiting in limbo for a Second 9/11, to extend the war beyond the borders of Lebanon, to launch a military operation directed against Syria and Iran?
Cheney's proposed "contingency plan" did not focus on preventing a Second 9/11. The Cheney plan is predicated on the presumption that Iran would be behind a Second 9/11 and that punitive bombings could immediately be activated, prior to the conduct of an investigation, much in the same way as the attacks on Afghanistan in October 2001, allegedly in retribution for the alleged support of the Taliban government to the 9/11 terrorists. It is worth noting that one does not plan a war in three weeks: the bombing and invasion of Afghanistan had been planned well in advance of 9/11. As Michael Keefer points out in an incisive review article:
"At a deeper level, it implies that “9/11-type terrorist attacks” are recognized in Cheney’s office and the Pentagon as appropriate means of legitimizing wars of aggression against any country selected for that treatment by the regime and its corporate propaganda-amplification system.... (Keefer, February 2006 )
In a timely statement, barely a few days following the onslaught of the bombing of Lebanon, Vice President Cheney reiterated his warning: "The enemy that struck on 9/11 is fractured and weakened, yet still lethal, still determined to hit us again" (Waterloo Courier, Iowa, 19 July 2006, italics added).
"Justification and Opportunity to Retaliate against ...the State Sponsors [of Terrorism]"
In April 2006, Defense Secretary Donald H. 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.
"Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld has approved the military's most ambitious plan yet to fight terrorism around the world and retaliate more rapidly and decisively in the case of another major terrorist attack on the United States, according to defense officials.
The long-awaited campaign plan for the global war on terrorism, as well as two subordinate plans also approved within the past month by Rumsfeld, are considered the Pentagon's highest priority, according to officials familiar with the three documents who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak about them publicly.
Details of the plans are secret, but in general they envision a significantly expanded role for the military -- and, in particular, a growing force of elite Special Operations troops -- in continuous operations to combat terrorism outside of war zones such as Iraq and Afghanistan. Developed over about three years by the Special Operations Command (SOCOM) in Tampa, the plans reflect a beefing up of the Pentagon's involvement in domains traditionally handled by the Central Intelligence Agency and the State Department. (Washington Post, 23 April 2006)
This plan is predicated on the possibility of a Second 911 and the need to retaliate if and when the US is attacked:
"A third plan 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.
This plan details "what terrorists or bad guys we would hit if the gloves came off. The gloves are not off," said one official, who asked not to be identified because of the sensitivity of the subject. (italics added, WP 23 April 2006)
The presumption of this military document, is that a Second 911 attack "which is lacking today" would usefully create both a "justification and an opportunity" to wage war on "some known targets [Iran and Syria]".
The announcement on August 10 by the British Home Office of a foiled large scale terror attack to simultaneously blow up as many as ten airplanes, conveys the impression that it is the Western World rather than the Middle East which is under attack.
Realities are twisted upside down. The disinformation campaign has gone into full gear. The British and US media are increasingly pointing towards "preemptive war" as an act of "self defense" against Al Qaeda and the State sponsors of terrorism, who are allegedly preparing a Second 911. The underlying objective, through fear and intimidation, is ultimately to build public acceptance for the next stage of the Middle East "war on terrorism" which is directed against Syria and Iran.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=CHO20060810&articleId=2942
14Jun07
- Mail on Sunday - The gentlemen's club for the rich and famous that worships
a 1980s Page 3 girl
By SHARON CHURCHER in New York and ALAN RIMMER in London
A former British topless model has become the extraordinary obsession of members of Americas most illustrious and secretive men's club, which is trying to track her down in time for its 100th anniversary party next month.
The Bohemian Grove Club holds an annual summer camp at which members, who include Henry Kissinger, former President George Bush Senior, Clint Eastwood and Bob Weir, founder member of Sixties rock band the Grateful Dead, debate world politics, perform weird mock Druid ceremonies and, it turns out, ogle a poster of a blonde in a thong.
The Mail on Sunday can reveal that she is one-time Bond girl and 1976 Miss Wales, Sian Adey-Jones, 49, whom we have tracked down to Ibiza.
Having posed for the poster in 1980 at the
height of her career as a Page 3 pin-up and appeared in the 1985 007 film A View To A Kill, she now lives on the island with her Italian husband Rocco, son Dylan, 14, and adopted daughter Tallulah, four.
She was bemused to learn that some of America's wealthiest men wanted to "honour" her with a black-tie dinner at the clubs 2,700-acre forested compound north of San Francisco this summer.
Since club rules ban all women except those employed to work at events, they cannot invite Sian herself.
Instead, they want her to send them a "formal greeting" - with a current picture of herself.
Sian said: "I'm flattered to be in the hearts and minds of such important people but my modelling career is in the past now. And, since they are so secretive, how do I know if this will be a nice gentlemens dinner or men leaping around doing weird and distasteful things in a forest?"
The £5,000-a-year club's strict code bans its 2,300 members from discussing its activities but, speaking on condition of anonymity, the 25 members leading the hunt for Sian assured us that their intentions were honourable.
One of them, a California financier, said: "The poster hangs on the outside wall of a cabin in an area of the camp called Skidoo and has become rather famous throughout the club because of the artistic photography and the beauty of the subject.
"This summer will be the 100th anniversary, so we thought a black-tie dinner honouring her would be a nice thing to do.
"We would like to read out a message from her, maybe something along the lines of Miss Adey-Jones saying, "I am glad I could improve on your ambience."
"And we'd
like a current snapshot, which we'll show alongside the poster. We just want
to do something nice for a woman who has meant so much to us."
Though the poster has been displayed at the camp for 27 years, the members had no idea of Sian's identity and asked California internet expert Raymond Lopez to help.
He said: "Someone thought she was the former British model Caroline Cossey, who was a Bond girl in For Your Eyes Only.
That would have been fascinating because Caroline is a transsexual who was born a boy but when I found her in Atlanta, where she now lives, she said, "I hate to disappoint you but it's Sian Adey-Jones."
"The organisers of the Miss Wales competition in 2004 had held an event with former winners but Sian didn't participate so they couldn't help.
"Finally, we got a number for Sian's mother in Wales but, maybe because of the time difference, she never replied to our messages. With the dinner fast approaching, members have been worrying that they were running out of time."
Next month's dinner will be preceded by traditional club rituals, which include an arcane Druid rite, the Cremation of Care, in which torch-wielding men in crimson robes burn an effigy representing the cares of the world and high-living that they leave behind for 17 days.
They insist the idea is to concentrate on lofty discussions about the state of the world. But Sian said she needed to be convinced.
"This sounds like rich and famous men banning women so they can run around like Boy Scouts," she said.
A club spokesman said the members seeking Sian were "very nice fellas". He added: "It sounds like a sweet idea and if she sends them a greeting, they will be as pleased as a bunch of boys could possibly be."
* They dress as women and get drunk
The Bohemian Grove Club has been called the world's most exclusive old boys' club.
Tony Blair, John Major and Prince Philip have reputedly been guests at the California estate where its 2,300 luminaries meet twice a year - for a long weekend in May and 17 days in July - under a veil of secrecy.
They are lodged in clusters of log cabins, including the Skidoo Encampment, where Sian's image is hung.
With a combined worth estimated at £50billion, they say their goal is to "draw inspiration from nature" while they hammer out new solutions to world problems.
Visitors have reported, however, that their rituals include getting "howling drunk", dressing up as women and burning an effigy called "Care" under a giant statue of an owl.
Peter Phillips, a sociology professor who has been a guest at the club, insists:
"It's all very tongue-in-cheek." Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger delivers a breakfast lecture every July on topics that have included the Iraq War.
"Part of the tradition is that Henry should be interrupted at the start of his talk by a Mexican band," says a member. "After they play a tune, the band withdraws and Henry continues."
May 27, 6:43 PM (ET)
By NASSER KARIMI
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070527/D8PD0JUG0.html
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran summoned the Swiss ambassador Sunday to protest what it called recently uncovered U.S. espionage networks, state television reported, the day before the Islamic republic planned ambassador-level talks with the U.S. on Iraq.
The Iranian Foreign Ministry's head of American affairs met with Ambassador Philippe Welti and demanded "necessary explanation" of spy networks Iran announced it had uncovered Saturday.
The Swiss embassy has been working as the U.S. interest section in Iran ever since Washington broke its diplomatic ties with the country in response to Iranian militant students storming the U.S. embassy in Tehran in 1979.
"Recently, several espionage networks were identified that were active, under guidance of the U.S. intelligence apparatus, to commit infiltration and sabotage in western, central and southwestern areas of the country," the television quoted the Iranian official, Ahmad Sobhani, as saying in the meeting.
State televison reported Saturday that the spy networks were "comprised of infiltrating elements from the Iraqi occupiers" using shorthand for the U.S and its allies.
The Iranian TV broadcast reported that Welti promised to relay Iran's protest to Washington. The White House has said it does not confirm or deny allegations about intelligence matters.
The diplomatic protest comes as the U.S. and Iran prepare to meet in Baghdad on Monday. Both sides say the talks will focus solely on the security situation in Iraq.
Also Sunday, Iran said it had "no exact report" about an Iranian-American employee of a U.S. foundation promoting democracy who went missing after traveling to his homeland. Kian Tajbakhsh is one of several people believed detained in Iran amid rising tensions with the United States.
The urban planning consultant, who has also worked for the World Bank, was detained around May 11, according to George Soros' Open Society Institute. The private foundation encourages democracy-building in countries around the world.
"We have no exact report about him from official authorities," said Mohammad Ali Hosseini, spokesman for Iran's Foreign Ministry, when asked about Tajbakhsh.
The Open Society Institute has called for his release, saying he was consulting on "projects that we undertook openly and with the knowledge of the Iranian government."
Hosseini also said he had no information about another Iranian-American, Ali Shakeri, who was supposed to leave Iran and fly to Europe on May 13 but never arrived at his destination. Shakeri is a founding board member at the University of California, Irvine's Center for Citizen Peacebuilding.
Earlier this month, Iranian authorities arrested Haleh Esfandiari, director of the Middle East Program at the Washington-based Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Iran accuses Esfandiari, also an Iranian-American, of working for a group trying to topple its government. Esfandiari's family and the center deny the claims.
Another Iranian-American, Parnaz Azima, a journalist for the U.S.-funded Radio Farda, has been prohibited from leaving Iran since her passport was seized in January. Robert Levinson, a former FBI agent, disappeared in March after going to Iran's resort island of Kish.
Reporters Without Borders also has said a French-Iranian journalism student, Mehrnoushe Solouki, was arrested in February. She was released in March on bail but her passport was taken away and she has been unable to leave the country, it said.
Link here to New Statesman article explaining her plans
Time for a British version of Islam by Ruth Kelly - Published 09 April 2007
http://www.newstatesman.com/200704090013
see also - http://clearblogs.com/albalaagh/
Over several weeks there has been much local concern about a government sponsored religious education project in mosques. The concerns proved correct when the curriculum launch failed to accommodate the many concerns about the contents. Whilst people in our community see a need for our institutions to be more relevant, especially to better serve the needs of the young, and most are not against some revision to the curriculum, the newly launched 'Nasiha' program seems to have received more than just external funding - it seems to have received external input to the content. Examples about terrorism and crime stereotype our community in an unacceptable way and will alienate more than help community engagement. It is for this reason we do not support its widespread implementation. The statement of solidarity signed by so many was a local attempt to make our feelings felt on this matter so that general lessons can be learned.
A Joint Statement about Ruth Kelly’s British version of Islam, from Mosques, Institutions, Scholars and Leaders
Over the past months the Muslim community has received much understandable scrutiny. However along with this it has faced judgment and blame, led by the government and by some of the national media. Despite a comprehensive rejection of violence against any civilians from every quarter of this community the Muslim community and its institutions have been accused of ‘radicalization’ of youth, fostering ‘terrorism’ and harbouring ‘extremists’. Mosques and Imams have generally become labelled as the hotbeds of such activity based upon one single case study. Hijab/Niqab and faith schools have been labelled as marks of separation with no good evidence. Communities have become more polarized and suspicious of each and not more cohesive. We were recently disturbed when Ruth Kelly fuelled this atmosphere by calling for a British version of Islam - linking current Islamic practice itself with extremism and terrorism.
The result, we fear will be greater fear and tension in society, and a feeling that Muslims do not have a right to comment on political affairs for fear of being labelled extremists. In order to try to plan a way forward from this mess we the undersigned jointly declare the following:
1) It is not possible to create a harmonious society by demonizing faiths and beliefs. Rather the teaching of the core Islamic values will lead to good citizens within society, not simply reinforcing stereotypes about terrorism to children.
2) Problems with our community institutions are best addressed by the community itself, from the Islamic values upon which these institutions are based, and not through government intervention.
3) Improving the quality of after-school and weekend madrassahs/Quran classes should be about producing distinct Muslim personalities who will contribute to wider society and not confused with security policies under the banner of the "war on terror".
4) Policies and projects such as the new Curriculum Nasiha being piloted which are aimed at improving personalities, communities and society driven by the government's questionable 'war on terror' policies are destined to fail, and may indeed make matters worse, and hence should be rejected.
25th May 2007
Signed by (In alphabetical order)
Mosques, Groups and Institutions
Abu Hurayra Academy, Bradford
Al Ameen Masjid, Bradford
Al Azhar Academy, Bradford
Al Hudaa Institute, Bradford
An Noor Women’s Group
Association of Imams, Mosques and Scholars (AIMS), Bradford
Bradford Shura Board, Council for Mosques
Dar Ul Ifta, Bradford
Friends of Al-Aqsa- Bradford Branch
Hizb ut Tahrir, Bradford
Islamic Society, Bradford University
Islamic Tarbiyya Centre, Bradford
Madrassah Madania Tahfeezul Quran, Bradford
Madrassa Taleem Ud Deen, Bradford
Masjid Bilal, Bradford
Masjid Hamza, Bradford
Masjid Umar, Bradford
Masjid Uthman, Bradford
Noorul Islam Masjid, Bradford
Riaz Ahmed, West Yorkshire Truth Movement
Shahjalal Masjid, Bradford
The Bradford Institute of Discourse
Community and Religious Leaders
Councillor Riaz Ahmed, Bradford Moor Ward
Councillor Qasim Khan, Manninhgam
Councillor Zafar Ali, Keighley Central
Councillor Zameer Hussain Shah, Bowling & Barkerend
Imam Kamran Bashir - Local Imam and Minister of Religion, Toller Lane Mosque,
Bradford
Moulana Abu Baqr - Undercliffe Masjid
Moulana Ahmed Desai - Masjid Quba, Bradford
Moulana Fazal Daad - Abu Bakr Masjid, Bradford
Moulana Hafeez - Nimra Majid, Bradford
Moulana Ibraheem - Madni Masjid, Bradford
Moulana Irshaad-Muslim Association of Bradford, Jamia Masjid, Bradford
Moulana Uthman - Abdullah ibn Masood Institute, Bradford
Mufti Mohammed Zubair Butt, Sharia Advisor, Institute of Islamic Jurisprudence,
Bradford
Mufti Saif Ul Islam - Head of JKN, Bradford
Muhammed Alyas Karmani - Imam and Khuteeb Jamia Ahl - Hadeeth,
Bradford/Huddersfield
Nisar Deen- Generation X Youth
Ridwan Harris- President IFE, Bradford
Shaykh Ahmed Ali - Al Mahadul Islami, Bradford
School Governors and Teachers
Abdul Jabbar - Governor
Dilnawaz Choudhary - Dawatul Islam / Social Worker, Bradford
Dr M Zahid – Lecturer, Bradford
Fozia Mehmood - Teacher
Gulraiz Khan – Teacher
Mahmoona Anwar - Parent Governor
Mehboob Khan - Teacher/Mental Health Worker
Nasser Hanif - Secondary Teacher and Governor -Ramim Mohammed -
Parent governor
Saima Zeb –Islamic Society Bradford University – Sisters
Representative
Saraj Mohammad - Community governor –
Shabana Khan - Parent Governor
Shazia Hussain – Teacher
Zaynab Bibi - Parent Governor
"Devil crept into the Heaven, God overslept on the 7th, the New World Order was born on Sep 11th".
21May07 - By Alf Mendes
On November 2nd 2006, in the aftermath of Macedonia’s election on July 5th 2006, the newly-elected Prime Minister, Nicola Gruevski (of the centre right VMRO-DPME Party), addressed a speech to The American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham). It was a speech which clearly reflected the servility of ‘servant’ to ‘master’ - of the Macedonian government to the American Corporate Establishment. - which is understandable when viewed against the recent history of the former Yugoslav Republic, as covered by this author in previous articles: “An Alternative View of the Yugoslav Crisis”; “The Balkans Have Their Uses”; & “The Balkan Problem”.
Suffice it to add here that, like other breakaway Yugoslav republics, Macedonia is now in a somewhat chaotic state - perhaps best revealed by Shmuel (Sam) Vaknin in his article in February ‘07, “Don’t Hurry to Invest in Macedonia”, from which the following quotes - of pertinence - are taken:
(a) “The previous VMRO-DPME government (1999-2002), in which Gruevski served as Minister of Finance, plundered the country shamelessly”.
(b) “Macedonia’s post-electoral euphoria faded, in July 2006, into arduous coalition-building negotiations replete with arm-twisting by the worried representatives of the ‘international community’” - Gruevski ensuring that the Albanian party, DPA, would be excluded from his government.
(c) “Politics, venality, and terrorism are the sole venues of social mobility in this tiny, landlocked, country of 2 million impoverished people.”
(d) “The country is a shambles. In the wake of a civil war, the official unemployment rate is 31-35 percent. Close to 70,000 people work in the bloated central and local administrations. The trade deficit is an unparalleled 17 percent of GDP. In 2001, the budget deficit climbed to 5 percent, though it was since halved.”
And (e) “But, with Kosovo's independence looming across the border, the restive Albanians are likely to coerce the enfeebled Macedonia into translating this numerical reality into political and economic clout. The Macedonians are likely to resist. The West will intervene. Macedonia is facing a hot spring and a sizzling summer.”
The US/NATO Camp Bondsteel on the Kosovo/Macedonia border must be gearing up for action! Of one thing we may be sure: Vaknin is/was in a position to know Macedonia - after all, he, an Israeli with a Ph.D. in Philosophy, Graduate of numerous courses in Finance Theory and International Trading, and a Certified Financial Analyst, was, from 1996 to 1999, a financial consultant to leading businesses in Macedonia, and., intriguingly, from 1999 - 2002 acted as advisor to the Macedonian government - and its then Minister of Finance, Nikola Gruevski (see above).
Conclusion: the Balkan broth could soon boil - with not-a-little-help from the recent election of Tomislav Nikolic (of the Serb Radical Party) as Speaker of the Serbian parliament - a man who makes no secret of the fact that he promulgates closer ties with Russia, rather than with the EU and the West in general. Moreover, on May 11th ‘07, Serbia took over the chairmanship of the Council of Europe for the next six months, while Montenegro becomes the 47th member of said Council. Enough said!
Not a single news outlet in the English language appears to have picked up on the esoteric message which flashed between George W. Bush and our very own Queen Elizabeth yesterday. And her nibbs was none too pleased at the skull and bonesman's public display of Illuminism.
With a wink Bush made a deliberate error as an excuse to bring up the magical date of 1776 in front of a 7000 live audience and the world's media. That's the date in roman numerals printed on the back of every American dollar and the date of the formation of the New Godless Order, often mistranslated but widely understood as the 'New World Order' the Illuminati's plan to control the world.
!! Check the pix in the Evening Standard article below !!
Blundering Bush makes ANOTHER gaffe as he winks at the
Queen
When you've just made it sound like the Queen is more than 200 years old, there may be a few ways of recovering from the gaffe.
But turning to her and giving her a sly wink is probably not included in any book of royal etiquette.
Is he winking at One? The President turns to the Queen and winks after his slip-up
That's what happened yesterday after George Bush mangled his greeting to the Queen on her state visit to the U.S.
Stumbling over his words, he came perilously close to suggesting that the monarch had toured the States in 1776.
And although the President's following wink was initially rewarded with a regal glare, the Queen did at least seem to see the funny side of the blunder.
After the blunder the President paused and turned to the Queen to acknowledge his gaffe, joking that she "gave me a look that only a mother could give a child."
Ripples of laughter echoed around those gathered at the event and the President laughed off the mistake and continued his speech.
The monarch and the Duke of Edinburgh flew into the American capital for a two-day stay - the finale of their East Coast trip the other side of the Atlantic.
They were officially welcomed by Mr Bush and his wife Laura on the lawn of the White House in front of 7,000 guests, from members of Congress to Oval Office staff.
The Queen will deliver a keynote speech before heading
to a garden party at the British ambassador's residence with Hollywood A-listers
expected to be among the 750 guests.
In the evening, Mr Bush will don his white tie and tails for the state dinner as he and the First Lady pull out all the stops to entertain the royals.
It is the first white-tie affair of the Bush administration.
But The New York Times has been pondering: "How does George W Bush, a towel-snapping Texan who puts his feet on the coffee table, drinks water straight from the bottle and was once caught on tape talking with food in his mouth, prepare for a state dinner with the Queen?
"With tips from an etiquette guide, of course - and a little gentle prodding from his wife."
Mr Bush is the leader who once greeted Prime Minister Tony Blair with: "Yo, Blair. How are you doing?"
It is hoped that gaffe-prone President Bush will manage to host the state visit without any hiccups.
He hasn't been so successful in the past, however. He once admitted to the Queen he was the black sheep of his family and then turned to her and asked "Who's yours?"
The encounter came at the White House in 1991 when his father was in power. The Queen, wisely, did not reply.
Barbara Bush stepped in and warned the monarch: "Don't answer that."
President Bush is known for his Texan drawl and informal approach and the Queen's visit to Washington is the ultimate test of his manners and grasp of royal etiquette.
USA Today remarked today: "The Yanks will endeavour to impress the Brits, the true sultans of ceremony."
The paper added: "Bush is famous for his opposition to formality and staying up late, but he is nevertheless going all out for the Queen."
White House aides have apparently described the dinner in the Queen's honour as the social event of the entire Bush presidency.
George Bush's father, George Bush Snr, branded it "the hottest ticket in town."
The Times remarked: "It will be closely watched by the social elite for its collision of cultures - Texas swagger meets British prim.
"Dinner attire is white tie and tails, the first and, perhaps, only white-tie affair of the Bush administration.
"The president was said to be none too keen on that, but bowed to a higher power, his wife."
Mr Bush apparently likes to be in bed by 10pm, but the entertainment will stretch well into the evening.
The Bushes have hosted four other state dinners - for Mexico, Poland, the Philippines and Kenya - but never opted for the white-tie dress code before.
The Queen is ushered to a waiting car after arriving in Washington today
The star entertainment is being kept under wraps. During the Reagan years, Frank Sinatra sang for the Queen in 1983 on her trip to California.
The Queen danced with President Ford in 1976, but it is not known whether she will take to the floor with Mr Bush.
Vice President Dick Cheney, secretary of state Condoleezza Rice, defence secretary Robert Gates and General Peter Pace, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, will be among the select 134 guests.
Mrs Bush will be wearing an Oscar da La Renta gown and her staff have co-ordinated with the Queen's dresser to make sure their outfits do not clash, the Washington Post reports.
Mrs Bush knows the importance of pre-planning her wardrobe. Last year, three women showed up at a reception she was at in the same red de la Renta dress she was wearing, forcing her to rush off to change.
At the banquet, Mr Bush will sit next to the Queen at Table 12, while Mrs Bush will join Philip at Table 11.
The monarch's dislike of spicy foods has been taken into consideration for the menu, personally selected by Mrs Bush.
The royal visit to DC is likely to be something of a distraction amid controversy over Mr Bush's veto of Congress's war funding bill which set a timetable for the withdrawal of US troops from the Gulf.
Washington has also been dealing with the fallout of the "DC Madam" sex scandal which brought the resignation of a top US State Department official who confirmed he had been a client of a woman accused of running a high-class prostitution ring.
The Queen's last visit to the White House was in 1991 in the wake of the first Gulf War when George Bush Snr was in power.
Whether the Queen will mention Iraq in her speech remains to be seen.
As the Queen gave an address all that could be seen of her above the podium and microphones was her hat.
Someone forgot to put the small raised platform in place ready for the royal VIP. The next day the Queen quipped as she made another speech: "I do hope you can see me today."
This time, she will stand on a custom-made step. The Queen praised Mr Bush Snr in 1991 for his "outstanding leadership" in the Gulf conflict and gave reassurances about post-war problems, saying: "great enterprises seldom end with a tidy and satisfactory flourish". She also presented him with the Churchill award.
It is not known if the current President Bush will get an award this time. A Buckingham Palace spokeswoman refused to comment.
26Mar07
- Warning - Harry in danger of assassination
Dear Sir/madam
Please pass to the relevant authorities within Prince Harry's regiment, which I believe is the Blues and Royals. and to the Intelligence Corps., and/or any other relevant unit/office.
It has come to my attention that Prince Harry may be assassinated by Mossad or even another allied 'friendly' intelligence service in Iraq. And the assassination then blamed on Arabs. This would be a double disaster for Britain tying us into an even more intractable war and would be a criminal act against the young lad. He believes that if he does not go he will be labelled a 'coward'.
I am not, repeat not, spreading this as an idle piece of gossip but because I know the way the Mossad operate (as I trust you do too) as 'masters of deceit' and because several people have told me they believe it will happen, these are people who do not believe his mother died in an 'accident' if you take my meaning.
Harry's assassination could be carried out to specifically further the following two NATO, Israeli and US war aims.
1. to divide the Arabic and Western peoples.
2. to take over Iran, then the remainder of the Middle East.
I am particularly suspicious because I have uploaded this information and picture to the 'open publishing' news site UK Indymedia and it has been 'hidden' five times, despite evoking some interesting comments from the public and not contravening their editorial guidelines.
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/03/365971.html
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/03/366036.html
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/03/366061.html
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/03/366065.html
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/03/366120.html
Someone does not want people discussing the possibility that Harry might be killed for political and/or economic ends and particularly by rogue elements on our own side!
If you are in any doubt of my sincerity please have a look at the detail in the following two reports I have just done - neither of which has been published by any newspaper or news organisation. Nevertheless the stories are indeed true and have not been published in print because of the gravity of their implications and the possibility of the papers being sued.
enc.
1. Crooks & the IDF in charge! London Underground security compromised
2. Corrupt chief constable of Avon & Somerset police
kind regards,
Tony Gosling
freelance journalist
Sunday 8th April 2007 - Exclusive
Alf Mendes
The present chaotic impasse in the Mid/Near-East is the result of an American unprincipled, planned strategy. Hardly surprising, given one other indisputable fact: namely, that the US Administration has been under the control of a capitalist corporate establishment for over a century - and, as such, is now a crypto-democracy with strong overtones of fascism, helped in no small measure by the well-established fact that Corporate America played a crucial role in fostering the Nazis in Germany. Indeed, the definition in the American Readers Digest Dictionary of 'fascism' being "A philosophy and system of government that advocates or exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership together with an ideology of belligerent nationalism" (authors' italics) is, after all, as close a description of the US Administration as one can get!
The aim of this article is to substantiate this by examining, briefly, the important role played by one John Robert Bolton II in said Administration.
Born in 1948 in Baltimore, Maryland - of British parentage - he won a scholarship to the McDonough School in Maryland, where, as a teenager, he ran the 'Students for Goldwater' campaign for the presidency in 1964. (NB: Goldwater was a right-winger who lost the election.) Bolton's right-wing Republican ideology was now well-rooted - and he became a fellow-student of G.W.Bush at Yale University, graduating with a BA in 1970. While there, he had become a member of the Yale Political Union - and from 1970 to 1974 he studied law at Yale Law School, graduating with a JD. It is of pertinence to add here that, though a strong supporter of the Vietnam war, he enlisted in the National Guard in order to ensure that he did not serve in that war (G.W.Bush had acted similarly). As Bolton wrote in his Yale 25th reunion book "I confess I had no desire to die in a Southeast Asian rice paddy. I considered the war in Vietnam already lost." - a man of principle!
1974 to 1981, he became an Associate at the Washington office of the law firm Covington & Burling, which had strong ties to the notorious Yale-based Skull & Bones fraternity (of which G. W. Bush, G.H.W Bush and Prescott Bush Jnr. are and had been members).
1981 to 1983, Bolton was appointed General Counsel and then Assistant Administrator for Program & Policy Coordinator for the US Agency for International Development (USAID) - under Reagan & Bush Snr. - returning to Covington & Burling from 1983 to 1985.
1985 to 1989, he was now appointed Assistant Attorney General in the Department of Justice, and, as such, he opposed both the awarding of financial reparations to Japanese-Americans held in World War II era internment camps, and any investigation into the Iran-Contra matter.
1989 to 1993, appointed Assistant Secretary for International Organisation Affairs at the Department of State.
1993 to 1999, Bolton was a partner in the law firm of Lerner, Read, Bolton &McManus.
1997 to 2000, he served both as Assistant to James Baker (who was then Kofi Annan's personal envoy to the Western Sahara) - and as Senior Vice-President of the right-wing think-tank, the American Enterprise Institute. There, in Morocco, the Baker/Bolton team ensured that the UN resolution condemning Morocco's taking over of the Western Sahara territory - which belonged to the indigenous Sahrawi people - would fail.
2001 to 2005, Bush Jnr. appointed him Undersecretary of State for Arms Control & International Security. As such, one of Bolton's main aims was to ensure that Americans would be exempted from prosecution by the impending International Criminal Court. This he accomplished by 'persuading' (by threats of withdrawal of economic aid, military assistance, et al.) many countries to sign bilateral agreements with the US, thus ensuring said exemption.
Another of his responsibilities being to 'prevent proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction' - which turned out to be an excuse for invading Iraq two years later.
In 2001, a bio-weapons conference was held, in Geneva, to endorse a UN proposal to enforce the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention. Bolton derailed this conference by claiming that this would have put US national security at risk, by allowing inspections of suspected US weapon sites!
Bolton's view of the UN is fascinatingly important, inasmuch as it is
confirmation of the fact that the UN is - and has been from the start - an
underling of the US (ref: this author's article: "In the Name of the
Interhational Community"). As the following quotes from his speeches reveal:
"There is no such thing as the United Nations. There is only the international community, which can only be led by the only remaining superpower, which is the United States...(adding)..The Secretariat building in New York has 38 stories. If you lost ten stories today, it wouldn't make a bit of difference." (1994 Global Structures Convocation);
"The United Nations can be a useful instrument in the conduct of American foreign policy." http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/itps/0597/ijpe/pj2bolt.htm;
In a 1998 letter to Clinton: "American policy cannot continue to be crippled by a misguided insistence on unanimity in the UN Security Council." (http://www.theindyvoice.com/index.blog?entry_id=417960).
On March 7 2005, Bush Jnr. nominates Bolton to be US Ambassador to the UN, but is unable to receive confirmation of this by the Senate. Bypassing said Senate, on August 1st 2005, Bush appoints Bolton to the position anyway - ignoring the fact that, as noted in the Washington Times of 15th November 2005, Bolton had warned that the US had the option of relying on regional or other international organisations to advance its goals if the UN proved inadequate!
However this 'recess appointment' of Bolton meant that he would have to be renominated - and confirmed later by the Senate. Bush formally submitted this re-nomination in November 2006 - but, the Democratic Party, by winning the Mid-Term election, ensured that Bolton would not gain confirmation. Bolton 'resigned' his UN ambassadorship, and was replaced by the Afghan/American Ambassador to Iraq, Khalilzad, in February 2007.
Bolton wasted no time in publicly critisising Blair's response to Iran over the recent latter's seizure of the 15 British sailors and marines as pathetically weak, emphasising that Blair should have been threatening "real pain, real economic sanctions", adding that "Britain has got to be tougher here". In effect, master admonishes servant for acceding to the 'axis-of-evil' too readily.
The above is by no means a comprehensive coverage of Boltons' career - but is surely sufficient enough to substantiate the role played by the US Administration as laid out in the opening paragraph of this article?
by Tony Gosling
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A report for the UK 911 Truth campaign presented by Tony Gosling in the Mahatma Gandhi Hall, Indian YMCA, Fitzroy Square London W1T 6AQ on Monday 19th March 2007.
Comverse Technology - www.cmvt.com
Wiretapping, phone billing and mobile phone voicemail software developers. An Israeli company now at the centre of $8bn fraud enquiry in New York. Comverse share six directors with a wider network of linked companies also under investigation. Comverse took over Hong Kong company Multivision Intelligence Surveillance Ltd. in January 2006 but Comverse directors didn't file the financial information required by law. Delisted from NASDAQ and stock trading suspended on 1st February 2007 because of financial mismanagement and non-filing of essential accounting information along with Verint Systems who are now also NASDAQ delisted.
Verint Systems - www.verint.com
All activities of this business are directed by Comverse Technology who own 57% controlling stock. Two thirds of Verint's business is security products used by law enforcement and intelligence services to intercept voice, video and email traffic, the other third is call centre monitoring and employee evaluation software. Approx 1000 employees worldwide. Awarded contract for all London Underground's CCTV in September 2004 by privatised 'Metronet Rail' who, in turn, have a 30 year contract from the UK government to manage London Underground security. Privatisation was imposed against wishes of elected Greater London Authority (GLA) by Gordon Brown's Treasury Department.
Verint CEO Daniel Bodner is a former senior Israeli army officer who gets $4m annual benefits (including salary). Verint currently being investigated by Office of Fair Trading (OFT) and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over proposed merger with Witness Systems Inc. for possible phone monitoring technology monopoly. Verint rumoured to be targeted by IBM for takeover.
'Nextiva Transit' is Verint's networked hi-tech CCTV system now being installed on 'London Underground platforms and remote portions of track'. The system is programmed to automatically 'watch for people loitering on transit platforms or people wearing heavy coats on hot summer days'.
Verint spokesman Alan Roden was referring to London's July 7th 2005 bombing claims when he told Michael Fickes, 'video proved an effective investigation tool and highlights the value of networked video in mass transit systems'. An article in Government Security website went on to say that using CCTV images 'London police had discovered who was responsible and arrested many, if not all, of the perpetrators who remained alive.' Quotes and articles such as this misrepresent the historical record. No CCTV image of any of the four alleged bombers on the London Underground on 7th July 2005 has been disclosed, neither were there any perpetrator arrests, as all four suspects allegedly blew themselves up.
Comverse's directors
Jacob 'Kobi' Alexander, chief executive
Target of FBI, Wall Street Journal and Securities & Exchange Commission fraud enquiry in New York, declared fugitive in August 2006. Wanted on 35 criminal counts including stock option backdating, conspiracy, securities fraud, money laundering and bribery. Arrested after 7 week manhunt in Namibia in September 2006. Travelling via. Israel he transferred $17m to Namibia, bought a luxury house and formed a new construction, tourism and agriculture company. Now building 200 low income homes for workers at the new 'Langer Heinrich' uranium mine. Alexander's extradition hearing begins in Windhoek on April 25th 2007, he's facing up to 20 years jail in New York. Known to be a close associate of former Chinese president Jiang Zmein.
David Kreinberg, chief financial officer
Turned state's evidence, pleaded guilty and told New York FBI that Comverse CEO Alexander offered him financial inducements to take the rap for everything. CEO Jacob Alexander allegedly offered him $2m and he refused, offered him $5m and he still refused, then, according to Kreinberg, Alexander said "name your price". To be sentenced February 23rd 2007.
William Sorin, company lawyer
Pleaded guilty. Paid $3.1 million fine at the end of 2006 as compensation for fraudulent activities. Permanent ban on acting as a company lawyer.
Conclusions
Roughly three million people a day use the London Underground network. Since privatisation, contracts are also shrouded in double walls of secrecy to protect both 'national security' and 'commercial confidentiality'. But with that secrecy comes a caveat of absolute 100% trust and loyalty to the travelling public of London who use the tube network. Instead what we find is a company with 24 hour access to the entire tube network, run by a senior ex Israeli army officer, whose former employers are engaged in a largely covert war against Arabs for land and oil. Bodner's present employers are wanted in New York on 40 plus criminal counts, implicated in multi-million dollar fraud and conspiracy and facing several long jail sentences.
This report has been time-consuming and difficult because of the immense secrecy surrounding the security businesses involved. Though I have sent the story to the Evening Standard and the BBC for London it has not, to my knowledge, been reported. As a result tube staff & public are almost entirely unaware of the criminal nature of this firm entrusted with the safety of millions of Londoners.
The covenant of trust required by all those who use and work on the tube has been broken. For the safety of all Londoners contracts with Verint Systems must be immediately suspended by Metronet Rail, the GLA or the Government pending a transparent investigation into Verint and Comverse. Also control of the London Underground CCTV network must be wrested from those with close ties to the Israeli armed forces until the Middle East conflict is over.
References
http://www.creativemac.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=112636
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/24/business/24comverse.html
http://govtsecurity.com/mag/preventing_mass_transit/
http://news.tmcnet.com/news/2007/03/12/2408239.htm
http://biz.yahoo.com/e/060327/vrnt8-k.html
http://www.verint.com/corporate/releases_view.cfm?article_level1_categ ory_id=7&article_level1_id=724&pageno=1&year=2007
All of the preceding information can be verified on the internet. For further information please contact Tony Gosling 10-12 Picton Street, BRISTOL, BS6 5QA. 0117 944 6219 www.public-interest.co.uk & www.officialconfusion.com
See also the July 7th Truth campaign at www.julyseventh.co.uk
(this article was submitted for approval by the July Seventh campaign but subsequently rejected with no good reason being given - it was also deleted by the moderators at www.arrse.co.uk)
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"The maintenance of secrets acts like a psychic poison which alienates the possessor from the community" Carl Jung
Inasmuch as that prestigious accounting/consulting firm, KPMG, has played a crucial role on the global scene over the past century (and, indeed, is the epitome of this article’s title)- it is therefore both important & pertinent to note its concise history - as follows:
In 1870 - in London - William Barclay Peat founded the accounting firm William Barclay Peat & Co.
In 1897 - in NY City - James Marwick & Roger Mitchell founded the accounting firm Marwick, Mitchell & Co.
In 1911 - the 2 above companies merged to form the Peat Marwick International (PMI), a world-wide accounting/consulting firm.
In 1917 - in Amsterdam - Piet Klynveld founded the accounting firm Klynveld Kraayenhof & Co.
In 1979 - Klynveld merged with Deutsche Treuhand-Gesellschaft & McLintoch Main Lafrenz to form Klynveld Main Goerdeler (KMG).
In 1983 - the first two-above named firms merged to form the firm Peat Marwick Mitchell.
In 1987 - Peat Marwick Mitchell merged with Klynveld Main Goerdeler to form the KPMG (Klynvold, Peat, Marwick & Goerdeler).
In January 2000 - KPMG LLP (Limited Liability Partnership) transferred its consulting business to KPMG Consulting Inc. (Note the ‘Inc.’ - here we have a merger of 4 companies of different nations, now incorporated into one by its ‘incorporator’ - America.
In October 2002 - KPMG Consulting Inc. changed its name to BearingPoint, Inc. - the Enron/Andersen collapse scandal somewhat hastening the company’s decision to change its name. BearingPoint was subsequently destined to play an active role on the global scene - as will become apparent below. Under the leadership of the then Chairman and CEO Randolph Blazerfont, BearingPoint underwent a dramatic expansion by acquiring most of Arthur Andersen's worldwide consulting operations. From 1990 through 2002 KPMG/BearingPoint had received federal contracts worth $539,720,000.
In early 2003, BearingPoint bought KPMG Consulting AG (subsequently renamed BearingPoint GmbH)
As KPMG Consulting Inc., it subsequently won contracts under USAID for the reconstruction of the former Yugoslavian republics where it had been working since 1999 - using its operating group, Barents Group LLC (a KPMG LLP subsidiary). Result? - by 2003 after the end of hostilities in Yugoslavia, thousands of refugees had still not returned home; unemployment was very high (over 40% in Bosnia); & industrial productivity had collapsed - the IMF foreseeing a drop in economic aid to Bosnia from $699m to $218m in 2007.
At this point, it is of importance to note that in his State of the Union address in January 2002, President George W. Bush called for the creation of a USA Freedom Corps to connect millions of Americans to volunteer service opportunities across the country and around the world. This resulted in more than 575 companies and business organizations representing more than 4 million employees and countless consumers coming together to create a nationwide effort called the aptly-titled “Business Strengthening America” (BSA). (The first Director of USA Freedom Corps was one John Bridgeland, Assistant to the President of the United States. Prior to that, Bridgeland had served as Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of the Domestic Policy Council at the White House. It should also be noted that he had co-directed the policy transition for the Bush-Cheney Presidential Transition team and was Deputy Policy Director for the Bush-Cheney 2000 Presidential campaign).
And the Committee To Encourage Corporate Philanthropy (CECP) would play a vital role in all of this. This was a committee set-up in 1999 to provide ‘a forum for CEOs and Chairpersons to discuss important issues relating to corporate philanthropy, corporate stewardship, and volunteer service’. (for the corporate establishment to lay claim to‘philanthropy was - to put it mildly - duplicitous). NB. Randolph Blazerfont was a member of CECP.
In January 2003, BearingPoint won a $3.95 million contract from the World Bank to help the transitional government in Afghanistan upgrade its accounting system, & in March 2003, USAID awarded BearingPoint a three-year, $39.9 million contract to help rebuild the country's economic infrastructure - with an option to extend the contract for another two years, bringing the total amount of that award to $64.1 million. Situation in Afghanistan today? - chaotic
In July 2003, USAID awarded BearingPoint a $9 million initial award to facilitate Iraq's economic recovery. The first year of the contract is worth up to $79,583,885. According to the contract, the estimated value, including the two option years, is $240,162,668. BearingPoint then hired the New Jersey-based engineering firm Louis Berger Group as a subcontractor to oversee the collection and destruction of old Iraqi currency and the introduction of a new one. Situation in Iraq today? - chaotic.
On Aug. 14, 2003, BearingPoint announced it had overstated its net income and earnings per share for the first three quarters of Fiscal Year 2003 by $10.8 million. The announcement caused BearingPoint's stock value to plummet 23 % in one day, and on November 10th 2004 Blazerfont resigned after four years in the post, & was replaced by Harry You. Twelve days later, BearingPoint announced a $93 million accounting error, and said CFO Robert Falcone would retire at the end of the month. In May 2005 a lawsuit was brought against the company in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia - alleging that it had artificially inflated the price of its securities - the 4 executives involved being Randolph Blazerfont, Michael Donahue, Robert Lamb and Lamb's successor, Robert Falcone. As of Sept. 26th 2006, BearingPoint continues to ‘preserve its rights’ in this current lawsuit.
The foregoing is by no means a comprehensive coverage of KPMG/BearingPoint’s activities on the global scale - but is enough to illustrate its inability to cope with the many problems facing it - problems caused by the arrogantly stupid tactics of Corporate America, which is bent on world domination. Here is an undemocratic (yes, it uses a manipulated voting system), fascistic capitalist nation which, over the past century, has: helped finance the German Nazi regime; atom-bombed Japan: suborned the UN; and invaded Korea; Vietnam; Yugoslavia; Iraq; Afghanistan - et al.
The only conclusion to be drawn from this is that if we earthlings do nothing about this, we deserve what we will get - Chaos!