Trump @ 10:20[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vsTTZ64vuk]Trump A No Show At Fox Debate
Geopolitical expert Joel Skousen gives an in-depth discussion on the Oregon standoff and tells us why Trump will be a no show at Fox Debate.
Joel only gets to speak part of the time (big intro, long commercial), and Alex keeps interrupting him, but Joel’s segments still worthwhile.
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[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9i3DS3jTgbQ]Leaders Of The Dark Government Revealed
World Affairs Brief, December 24, 2015 Commentary and Insights on a Troubled World.
Copyright Joel Skousen. Partial quotations with attribution permitted. Cite source as Joel Skousen’s World Affairs Brief (http://www.worldaffairsbrief.com).
This Week’s Analysis:
2015 Year in Review
Republican Party Compromised Permanently
Globalists Struggle to Control Election
Economic Outlook is Weak
Foreign Affairs
Holiday Tip: The Real Story of Christmas
2015 YEAR IN REVIEW
The brief this week is coming a day early because Christmas falls on a Friday this year and I have a special holiday recommendation for your Christmas enjoyment. The last briefing of every year I reserve for a big picture overview of where we stand relative to the ongoing assault on our liberties. More than any other year in history, the US has lost a tremendous amount of goodwill in the world over its falsified war against terror. The entire world seems to be waking up to the fact that Western pretensions against terror are a fraud and Russia is clearly gaining in world leadership as several beleaguered nations are now appealing to Russia for help against terror instead of the US or NATO. At home in the US the Powers That Be (PTB) who control both political parties are up against a major rebellion in Republican ranks as the clear majority of conservatives don’t trust anything the establishment media says or what Republican leaders tell them. I will also cover the continuing threat of economic instability and war.
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FOREIGN AFFAIRS
The biggest threat to the stability of the Western world this year has been the sudden rise in refugees overflowing Europe’s borders. What people don’t see (because the news media never covers it) is that these could have been prevented from reaching Europe. Most of the refugees leaving Syria have come through Turkey, and then by boat to Greece or other parts of coastal Europe. The Turkish government obviously knew about these hundreds of thousands of desperate people as they headed for the coast. They did nothing to stop them, nor contain them. They didn’t even warn Europe of the coming onslaught. That’s because Turkey is part of the globalist plot to flood Europe with Muslims.
Contrary to what they say, stopping them is relatively easy. A simple sting operation could shut down the illegal armada of life-threatening ships ferrying people to Europe. You simple have a few government agents pose as refugees, find out which boats or are accepting refugees (at extortionary prices) and arrest the captains as they accept the money. The same tactic would stop the “coyote” guides taking illegals across the border from Mexico to the US. The Mexican government could shut down that pipeline in a month with sting operations.
The reason they don’t go after these facilitators is that these governments are willing participants in the globalist agenda. Globalists want to flood the US and Europe with illegals in order to create conflict, water down conservative voting patterns, and destroy western culture and religion.
Despite all the protests of people in the US and Europe, the PTB won’t be sending anyone back and they will only make a token effort to slow the flow. This ultimately will create the excuse for the government to crack down on anti-immigration organizations and brand them as perpetrators of hate.
The war on terror continues to exhibit evidence of government driven black operations. Both the terror attack in Paris and the mass shooting in San Bernardino were false flag operations that involved Muslim patsies to take the blame but shielding the taller Caucasian military hit-men who actually did the shooting, as I’ve documented in recent briefs.
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The purpose of the Paris attacks was to justify French emergency powers that allow unlimited surveillance, warrantless searches and detention without cause—plus the excuse to intervene militarily in Syria. The purpose of the San Bernardino mass shooting (a state with heavy gun restrictions) was to show that even tough gun laws don’t stop mass shooting—hence the need to confiscate all assault weapons, as the NY Times and the Huffington Post demanded.
Both false flag attacks heightened the public’s resistance to the wholesale admission of Muslim refugees. But, predictably, the establishment was able to demand more tolerance notwithstanding, and flat out refused to stop the flow or send refugees back home. In almost every way, it is more humanitarian and less costly to provide refugee facilities in Muslim countries than to allow such mass migrations to enter Europe, where there will always be cultural conflict.
The biggest setback for the globalists this year was the intervention of Russia in the conflict in Syria. As I’ve documented many times in the WAB, ISIS is a creation of US and British intelligence—a black operation to give the US the excuse to get back into Syria and bring down Assad. There is no such thing as moderate Syrian rebels; they are all radicals and in the employ of Western puppet states like Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Bahrain and Qatar; and led by Israeli-trained Arab provocateurs. That’s why ISIS has never attacked any of the forgoing countries.
Russia was not ignorant of what the US was doing—using fomented terror to overthrow governments and create chaos. It happened in Egypt and Libya and now Syria is in the globalist crosshairs. Putin saw an opportunity here to intervene, save Syria, and embarrass the US, as well as throw a monkey wrench in the globalist agenda.
One of the globalist strategies is to get a negotiated settlement that will oust Assad through a skewed electoral process, now that Russia has successfully halted the US surrogate war against Syria. RT had an excellent exposee on the upcoming peace conference and the critical issue of “who are the so-called peaceful rebels” who are going to represent the opposition.
The 20 non-Syrian countries participating in the Vienna process will ultimately decide 1. which Syrians will speak for the opposition at future talks, and 2. which Syrians will instead be labeled ‘terrorists’ to be slaughtered on the battlefield.
The Saudis shrewdly tried to grab front-runner advantage for their favorite Syrians by hosting a highly-publicized meeting in Riyadh that cobbled together a 34-member opposition ‘turnkey solution.’ But several countries balked at some of the Riyadh-cooked opposition, which consists of groups or individuals they think should be on the ‘terrorist’ list instead of the negotiating table.
Others on the Saudi shortlist don’t appear to be ‘representative’ of anybody, let alone the ‘Syrian people.’ They include several former heads of the now widely-discredited Syrian National Coalition (SNC), once viewed by Syria’s foes as the country’s ‘legitimate’ government-in-exile.
Meanwhile, US globalists are scrambling to figure out how to deter the Russian intervention, hoping to make it too costly for the Russians to stay, as in Afghanistan. The US assigned Turkey to shoot down a Russian SU-24 fighter/attack plane specifically so they could force Russia to bring in their latest defensive missiles and electronic jamming equipment. The US needs to know what the Russian top of the line equipment is capable of. This was one way to get the Russians to expose their hand and eavesdrop firsthand on Russian operations. Putin had wanted to avoid this by putting in second line equipment, without air defenses. The shootdown force him to expose his high tech military hand.
Lots of pundits were predicting an imminent confrontation between Russia and Turkey that would quickly escalate to WWIII—Turkey being a NATO member. However, Putin has not risen to take the bait, and won’t—because he isn’t ready to take on the West.
But what Putin has done in Syria has led to a dramatic increase in Russian leadership throughout the world. The US has been embarrassed numerous times by Russia documenting that the US has not been serious about attacking ISIS—particularly the oil well heads and transport trucks that send that oil to markets (like Israel). In addition, Russia and various European journalists have documented how Turkey is the conduit for both support and export oil revenue for ISIS. Turkey being a NATO member and US ally adds to the scandal of the West supporting ISIS.
Iraq was the first to turn to Russia for help eradicating ISIS on its territory, and now several other countries including Libya, Egypt and Bulgaria have started making appeals to Russia as the US “protection racket” has been totally ineffective in stopping terrorism. The list will continue to grow as other countries tire of US pressure and control.
In the big picture sense, all of this continues to downgrade the reputation of the US as the world’s peacekeeper and increase the world’s reliance on Russia for military muscle. This is essential to allowing Russia and China to stake out the moral ground to justify an eventual attack on the West, increasingly viewed as the “bully of the world.”
However, war is not imminent. Russia and China are still in a major building program for missiles, aircraft, ships and high-tech defense systems that won’t be ready until the early to middle of the next decade. Of course, one needs to be prepared early because the Russians may be lying about their rearmament timetable (beginning to middle of next decade). They don’t necessarily have to wait until full rearmament to launch a nuclear pre-emptive strike. Also, we don’t have any inspectors that have been inside Russia’s most secret weapons/bunker underground city, Yamantau Mountain, so they could be a lot farther ahead than they are saying.
Additionally, we have no way detailed knowledge of the state of China’s weapons systems. We do know what they are trying to develop, but we know little about how much is deployed. From hypersonic weapons to stealth fighters, China is busy trying to invent, borrow or steal any advanced technology it can. Even Russia, though in a temporary alliance with China to eventually take down the West, is leery of the Chinese Dragon. Both these communist nations intend to take down the other after the West is subdued.
I continue to stand by my contention that North Korea is the likely trigger event for WWIII—not the US–Russian hostilities in the Middle East or Ukraine. The latter would only justify a conventional confrontation, and only a nuclear pre-emptive strike on American military assets would justify sufficient panic to talk people into joining a militarized global government.
The North Korean threat, in contrast, cries out for a nuclear response from all parties—not only because North Korea has nuclear weapons and will use them to protect her turf during the war, but China will come to NK’s aid.
Because of the severe disadvantages of the South Korean and US troops vs the North (50K vs 2 million men under arms), the US would be forced to use tactical nukes (which are in South Korea) to stop or blunt the attack. That could easily allow China to justify a pre-emptive strike on America in response to US “first use.” If I’m right, any invasion of the South by the North Koreans is likely to produce a nuclear exchange within a week. Watch for it.
…several key factors:
1) Neither Russia nor China intends to strike civilian targets and get labeled as war criminals. They intend to first hit only military and communications targets and then blackmail the West into submission. Remember, they want to bring the West under their own version of the NWO, not destroy the West’s engine of production and innovation.
2) The destructive nuclear first strike will be preceded by an EMP strike which will take down the entire electrical grid from anywhere from 6 weeks to six months or longer. This means you will have to deal with massive social unrest, pillaging and mass migrations out of the cities—which will collapse without electricity or government services.
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Dumitru Duduman: The Russian Invasion of America — “It will start with the world calling for ‘peace, peace.’ Then there will be an internal revolution in America…. The government will be busy with internal problems. Then, from the oceans…” — The rapture will occur AFTER America is destroyed, as God destroys the enemies of Israel!
(vision) Dumitru Duduman: WHEN AMERICA GOES TO WAR WITH CHINA the RUSSIANS WILL STRIKE Alaska, Minnesota, Florida — “America’s sin has reached God. He will allow this destruction, for He can no longer stand such wickedness. God however, still has people that worship Him with a CLEAN HEART as they do HIS WORK. He has prepared a heavenly army to save these people”
[ audio ] Henry Gruver’s Three Visions: Russian (and Chinese) Invasion of America — “When Russia opens her gates and lets the masses go, the free world will occupy themselves with transporting, housing and caring for the masses, and will begin to let their weapons down, and will cry ‘peace and safety,’ and that’s when it will happen.”
(video) Dumitru Duduman: Wake Up America
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[mp3 audio] Henry Gruver’s Vision of America being invaded by Russia
[47-minute audio] Henry Gruver: Russian Invasion of America
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[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up0yoBx8Diw]Top Prepper Reveals Next Step in Global War
Alex Jones talks with expert prepper and author of Strategic Relocation Joel Skousen about the possibility of yet another war.
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrIFfq7CAOA]The Globalist Plan for the Middle East
Published on Nov 25, 2015
Joel Skousen breaks down the globalist players in the Middle East — their tactics and their ultimate goal.
Joel has often stated that the globalists intend to not let a major collapse happen, so the frogs will stay in the pot until it boils, when Russia/China EMP and Nuke US. An economic collapse would awaken the boiling frogs, which they can’t let happen. The USA must be taken out for their one-world government to take place.
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World Affairs Brief, October 9, 2015 Commentary and Insights on a Troubled World.
Copyright Joel Skousen. Partial quotations with attribution permitted. Cite source as Joel Skousen’s World Affairs Brief (http://www.worldaffairsbrief.com).
This Week’s Analysis:
NATO’s Hollow Challenge to Russia in Syria
Israel Suddenly finds ISIS in its Midst
Why the US Story on Afghan Hospital doesn’t add up
Expedited Citizenship for Refugees
The Collapse that didn’t Come in September
The Battle for House Speaker
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THE COLLAPSE THAT DIDN’T COME IN SEPTEMBER
September came and went without any of the predicted collapses. It is true that stocks took a tumble in late August, but the FED intervened with the secretive Plunge Protection Team and the DOW is back to its previous level. The blood moons never materialized either. Some of the collapse predictors are still holding out for December. We’ll be watching.
Very few of the collapse predictors ever admit they are wrong—in particular, Lindsay Williams, who has been predicting imminent collapse since 2011. Jonathan Cahn’s book, The Harbinger, was based on the Shemitah and the Blood Moons predictions from Jewish tradition. When nothing happened on either date, he explained away his failure thusly:
I have given warning concerning judgment. I have said that I believe America is rapidly advancing toward calamity – that we have crossed the line in our apostasy and defiance of God….
As for when these things are to take place, I have from the beginning always issued a strong caution, in spoken word and in writing, from “The Mystery of the Shemitah” itself onward – specifically that we cannot be dogmatic about timing, and that nothing has to take place on a particular date or season, or according to any set calendar, or even as God has done before.
For an in depth critique of Cahn’s work from a religious perspective, see Jonathan Cahn’s Con – Knowing the Difference Between Shemitah and Shinola by JD Hall: His introductory paragraph says:
As of this morning, Jonathan Cahn’s best-selling book, The Mystery of the Shemitah, ranked #2 in Amazon’s prophecy category, #3 in religion and #129 in books overall (it did rank at #1). Cahn’s prophetic oracles also graced the New York Times Best-Seller’s list. Cahn has been selling his predictions on almost every major news outlet out there, and up until the last minute yesterday, was digging into his predictions that a great “shaking” would take place across the world. The problem is, of course, it didn’t happen. The Shemitah ended last night at dark, beginning September 25 of last year. The predictions were not true.
But his books are all about the timing, so this explanation is very misleading. Michael Snyder of the perennial “Economic Collapse blog” tried to explain it this way:
Wake Up – A lot of people out there expected something to happen in September that did not ultimately happen. There were all kinds of wild theories floating around, and many of them had no basis in reality whatsoever. But without a doubt, some very important things did happen in September. As I warned about ahead of time, we are witnessing the most significant global financial meltdown since the end of 2008. All of the largest stock markets in the world are crashing simultaneously, and so far the amount of wealth that has been wiped out worldwide is in excess of 5 trillion dollars.
Not true at all. There have been declines, but hardly crashes and certainly no collapse. An economic collapse never comes unless caused by a catastrophic war which keeps people from engaging in any economy at all.
In addition to stocks, junk bonds are also crashing, and Bank of America says that it is a “slow moving trainwreck that seems to be accelerating“. Thanks to the commodity price crash, many of the largest commodity traders on the planet are now imploding. On Tuesday, the stock price of the largest commodity trader in Asia, the Noble Group, plummeted like a rock and commodity trading giant Trafigura appears to be in worse shape than either Glencore or the Noble Group. The total collapse of any of them could easily be a bigger event than the implosion of Lehman Brothers in 2008. So I honestly do not understand the “nothing is happening” crowd. It takes ignorance on an almost unbelievable level to try to claim that “nothing is happening” in the financial world right now.
Snyder is missing the point. He and others didn’t just predict that there would be stock market setbacks, they all used the word collapse, and that hasn’t happened. Even in his excuse he’s using the word “crash” which doesn’t apply to most of the markets even in Asia.
Related:
(vision) Dumitru Duduman: The Russian Invasion of America — “It will start with the world calling for ‘peace, peace.’ Then there will be an internal revolution in America…. The government will be busy with internal problems. Then, from the oceans…” — The rapture will occur AFTER America is destroyed, as God destroys the enemies of Israel!
(vision) Dumitru Duduman: WHEN AMERICA GOES TO WAR WITH CHINA the RUSSIANS WILL STRIKE Alaska, Minnesota, Florida — “America’s sin has reached God. He will allow this destruction, for He can no longer stand such wickedness. God however, still has people that worship Him with a CLEAN HEART as they do HIS WORK. He has prepared a heavenly army to save these people”
[ audio ] Henry Gruver’s Three Visions: Russian (and Chinese) Invasion of America — “When Russia opens her gates and lets the masses go, the free world will occupy themselves with transporting, housing and caring for the masses, and will begin to let their weapons down, and will cry ‘peace and safety,’ and that’s when it will happen.”
(video) Dumitru Duduman: Wake Up America
[2-hour audio] Henry Gruver with Steve Quayle: Visions of War – Visions of Heaven
[mp3 audio] Henry Gruver’s Vision of America being invaded by Russia
[47-minute audio] Henry Gruver: Russian Invasion of America
The WW3 Prophecies (includes prophecies by others)
RED DAWN: ASIAN MILITARY INVASION OF USA? (prophecies by many others)
Skousen: U.S. Intentionally Vulnerable to Nuclear Attack from China/Russia
[Updated December 2013] Joel Skousen: Year-End Big Picture Review of Threats — Russia/China invasion of U.S.A. TIMING discussed
China may have largest Pacific fleet by 2020 — and capability to destroy US military and intelligence satellites?
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(audio/text) Joel Skousen: With a Growing Russian Missile Threat, US is Still Disarming — “Russia says their missiles are for “containment” of the US, but we know they are preparing for a nuclear first strike on America”
(video) Joel Skousen: An Evil Pact Drives Globalists to Set Up USA for China/Russia Takeover | North Korea Will Be the Trigger
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CORRIE TEN BOOM: PREPARED For The COMING TRIBULATION — “Daddy, I am afraid that I will never be STRONG ENOUGH TO BE A MARTYR for Jesus Christ.” My father said, “OUR FATHER IN HEAVEN KNOWS when you will need the strength…. HE WILL SUPPLY ALL YOU NEED – JUST IN TIME.“
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[7-minute video sneak peek] The RAPTURE will take place “AFTER THE TRIBULATION” — “Christians, today, are NOT BEING WARNED about the events they will face in the great tribulation. To learn the truth about the rapture, we must look within the pages of the Bible, itself”
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[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzafZm48HB0]How Close is Nuclear War with Russia?
Alex Jones talks with strategic relocation expert Joel Skousen about the growing tensions between the United States of America and Russia and what that could mean for the future of the world as well as if he sees a nuclear war ahead of us.
“Israel sells US military technology to China all the time. And that gets to Russia….” – Joel Skousen (minute-15)
Joel mentions the Mossad/CIA connection at minute-30
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[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIyDNOO6G64]Joel Skousen – The Globalists & World War 3
Published on Feb 28, 2015
Joel Skousen with Jeff Rense, February 25, 2015.
On Ukraine, Russia, Poroshenko & Putin; The Globalists; Mao Zedong & Chiang Kai-Shek; Adolf Hitler & Poland; “Putin the most wealthy man in the world”; Putin & the Baltic States; Putin & the EU; Killing Small Independent Oil Companies; Angela Merkel is a former GDR-Communist; The Globalists’ Double-Deception With Double-Agents like Henry Kissinger and Alger Hiss; “Everybody’s lying and covering up, so there’s no way that the average individual can understand this”; “The bottom line is that Anglo-American Globalists are predators, who are out to take away our sovereignty and get us into a war and justify militarized global government”; “They need Russia and China to attack, that’s the only thing that explains why they’ve been building up Russia and China, giving them everything”; Phony Sanctions and Western Oil Companies in Russia; Russia’s Next Generation 100 ton ICBM missiles replace the SS-18 Satan; “Barack Obama will be preplaced by a controlled Republican in 2016”; John Hindley Jr.; No U.S. Border & Immigration; Ted Cruz & Israel; Rand Paul & Israel; Bolshevik Zionists; Labor Zionism; The Mossad & The CIA; “Israeli Arabs trained by the Mossad successfully infiltrated Iran, Iraq, Syria, etc and they now run most of ISIS and the most of other rebel Jihadist movements in Syria”; “The Israeli lobby is the most powerful lobby in the United States”; “8 Million votes disappeared in 2012”; Texe Marrs’ Weekly Newsletter on the 13 leading GOP Candidates and Israel; Billy Graham and Rabbi Tannenbaum of New York; Senator Ted Cruz & Goldman Sachs; Sheldon Adelson had a 100 Million dollars to donate to Republicans who backed Israel; The Rothschilds; Barack Obama & Henry Kissinger; Professional Disinformation Agents on the Internet; Staged Photoshopped ISIS Videos; WW3 and Elimination of Dissidents; NSA Director Mike Rogers; and more.
Putin also added something that came dangerously close to the truth: that the Islamic State itself did not appear out of nowhere and said that it was initially nurtured as a weapon against unwanted secular regimes. This was a more carefully crafted statement than his claim at the Sochi Olympics that the US had a role in directly creating ISIS. I think he softened his remarks knowing that the American public would reject a bolder and open pronouncement, coming from the distrusted Russian leader.
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World Affairs Brief, October 2, 2015 Commentary and Insights on a Troubled World.
Copyright Joel Skousen. Partial quotations with attribution permitted. Cite source as Joel Skousen’s World Affairs Brief (http://www.worldaffairsbrief.com).
This Week’s Analysis:
Russia Alters the Globalist Agenda in Syria
Refugee Flood and its Consequences just Beginning
John Boehner’s Sudden Departure
Obama Backs Away from Chinese Sanctions
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Another Mass Shooting to Drive the Gun Control Agenda
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RUSSIA ALTERS THE GLOBALIST AGENDA IN SYRIA
Russia initiated air strikes in Syria this week and although the effect on the ground is still unclear, the globalist agenda in Syria is reeling. The inadvertent offer by the US of a chemical weapons agreement and the immediate acceptance by Syria three years ago set back the timing of the US attack on Syria—until the US created ISIS as an excuse to get back into the battle. But Russia is using the same excuse for direct military intervention on behalf of Syria against ISIS (and other US-backed rebels) and this could halt to the whole US-led effort to remove Assad. If the Russians really start crushing ISIS it will also expose the US war on ISIS as an ineffective and half-hearted fraud. Defeating ISIS is not possible, even for the Russians, without ground troops, but it appears that Russia’s allies in Iran and Lebanon are going to provide the boots on the ground. Revolutionary Guards from Iran and Hezbollah guerrillas from Lebanon are formidable fighters and could provide the turning point against the US/UK-created ISIS.
The Russians have three fighter/attack squadrons at Latakia, Syria and The Times of Israel reported on the various Russian air force and Iranian ground force positions:
The newspaper quotes official sources as saying that each party will be responsible for particular areas of Syria, with Russia operating in Latakia, Hama and some parts of the Aleppo province, while Iran will be defending the capital Damascus and down to Quneitra on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights. The report also states that some 100 Iranian special forces trained in urban warfare have arrived in Damascus
All of this means that the Russians are organizing a direct blockade of the globalist agenda to take down Syria. As my readers know, I’m no fan of Russia, knowing of their ultimate intent to strike the West, but it is good to see the globalist agenda set back yet again, and watch the US and Britain scrambling to figure out a way around the Russian presence. I don’t think there is much that can be done except to bide their time and criticize each move Russia makes–and get other allies to do likewise.
Saudi Arabia, the globalist’s chief lackey in the region, urged Russia to end its military operations in Syria, but they were ignored. The Saudis have amply demonstrated by their flagging war against tiny Yemen that billions in high tech US military equipment doesn’t guarantee success.
The US is now making false claims against the Russians just like they did to Assad (attacking his own citizens with chemical weapons and barrel bombs). The big claim yesterday was that the Russians hit civilians in their latest airstrikes. The Russians have denied it, demonstrating that their targets were far way from civilian areas—purposely to avoid this charge.
As the pro-Russian Sputnik News eagerly proclaimed, the globalists are up to their old tricks in falsifying evidence about Russian civilian casualties. White Helmet organization (a foreign NGO funded by globalists like George Soros) claimed that 33 civilians were killed including 3 children.
However, the false claim was immediately exposed: Twitter users discovered that the photo of the wounded girl was actually taken on September 25, 2015, five days ago. In her recent interview with Sputnik, investigative journalist and peace activist Vanessa Beeley pointed out that the White Helmets (formerly called the Syria Civil Defense) was not created by Syrians and certainly does not operate in Syria’s interests. Funded by the UK, US and the Syrian Opposition Party, the controversial organization works mainly with the rebel group Jabat al-Nusra, the infamous al-Qaeda affiliate.
Next, the US complained that the Russians are using unguided bombs instead of smart bombs to make the claim of civilian collateral damage stick. But that level of inaccuracy is only important if you are trying to bomb right next to civilian areas, which the Russians were not. Ironically, it is the US that has a bad reputation of hitting civilians even when using smart bombs and drone strikes. The Russians may be using old technology to deny US intelligence any information on Russian advanced weaponry, which they have.
Russian surveillance drones are being used over parts of Syria where non-ISIS rebel groups are deployed, specifically those in Idlib Province that threaten Latakia where much of the Alawite minority elite live that run Syria. Assad is also Alawite.
That is in line with the US complaint that Russian airstrikes are taking place in areas not controlled by ISIS. That is true and this is the heart of the difference over US and Russian aims in Syria. The US wants to remove Assad, no matter what, and has funded numerous radical jihadists in order to create what they say is a “civil war” in Syria. After the US was thwarted by its own mistake in offering Assad a chemical weapons deal, it had to carve out half of its radical terrorists in Syria and turn them into ISIS. This way, the US can claim that the other “moderate” rebels are worthy of continued direct support, including air support if attacked.
All of this duplicity about good and bad rebels in Syria requires a high degree of deception in military planning about targets. The US has to use surrogates like Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Bahrain to get supplies to ISIS and it has to make sure that targeting of ISIS is done by (probably) a single high level compromised targeting officer at Central Command who knows how to pick targets that make it appear the US is fighting ISIS while evading targets that would really damage ISIS. So, empty buildings, lone pickup trucks, and individuals may be fine, but not major weapon depots or conglomerations of heavy military equipment.
As a former military fighter/attack pilot I can tell you that this kind of manipulation requires a virtual wall of separation between target analysts (who read satellite data and make recommendations), and the head decider so they can’t argue and interact with the guy who makes the decisions—lest it become obvious he is working under a different set of rules than they are.
None of the pilots must know about this secret agenda and neither must the intermediate military target analysts who pass the targets up the line each day. All they know is that certain high value targets always get rejected, without explanation—or delayed so that when finally authorized, the pilots are already at “bingo fuel” (min. necessary to return to base). There’s a minor rebellion going on in military ranks as pilots and briefers are beginning to see a pattern of sabotage by our own government just like what happened to us in Vietnam.
This is why the US will never be able to take Putin up on his invitation to coordinate military strikes. The US keeps complaining about the potential dangers of conflict in the skies over Syria but they can’t afford to sit down at a table with the Russians and compare intelligence and targets. Why? Because the Russians would quickly see that the US is protecting ISIS, as the US would fail to provide intel on really good ISIS targets, and if the Russians did so, based on their own satellite reconnaissance, they would observe the US representatives trying to talk them out of hitting those targets.
Russia has said it is establishing an intelligence sharing operation in Baghdad so that Iran, Iraq and Syria can pool intelligence about ISIS, which controls wide stretches of territory in Iraq and Syria. The US responded immediately with pressure on Iraq not to share any US provided intel. Col. Steven Warren of the Pentagon said, “The Iraqi Ministry of Defense has given us [United States] assurances that our information will be appropriately protected.
One other thing that worries the US is that with Russian forces tracking not only their own strikes but US, French and British operations in Syria, they are in a position to know the US isn’t really hitting high value targets. In the first 24 hours since the Russian air war began, the US made only one sortie, instead of the normal average of 8 per day, denying Russia this compromising intel.
Here is my summary of the devastating effects of the Russian intervention in Syria is having on the globalist agenda:
1. Russia has grabbed the leadership spotlight. Obama’s message at the UN was filled with the same old lies and hollow claims about terror threats justifying US intervention, but his words fell noticeably flat. The world is tired of US leadership and the continual war on terror that the US can never seem to win. Many are suspicious that the US isn’t trying and there was a sense of expectation as the world watches for answers and gave Putin a chance, despite his predation in Ukraine.
Putin’s speech echoed the dissatisfaction of even the Western world over the US-directed war in Syria by uttering the telling words, “Do you realize what you’ve done?” He never called the US by name, but instead referred to that “post-Cold War sole center of dominance” which needs to own up to the consequences of its decisions.
Ever since the US engineered the attack on its own World Trade Center, it has had nearly free reign to intervene at will around the world in the name of protecting us from terror—never mind that neither Iraq nor Afghanistan had anything to do with the WTC demolition.
Putin also made the point that US fomenting of the various Arab Spring uprisings have left those countries nearly stateless and almost without law and order (Libya, Egypt and Syria) as well as spawning millions of refugees—a problem that will not be solved by taking down Assad and allowing a jihadist rabble to run roughshod over Syria.
Putin said, “It is already evident that the vacuum of power, which arose in a number of Middle East and North African countries led to the creation of zones of anarchy, which have immediately been filled by extremists“
Putin too can play the refugee card, even though he knows the refugee flood will weaken the West (serving Russia’s long-term goals) “The refugees need compassion and support, but this issue can only be solved radically by reestablishing statehood where it has been destroyed.”
The pro-Russian Sputnik news cataloged some of the media reaction to Putin’s leadership coup:
“Vladimir Putin is back — and stealing Barack Obama’s thunder on the world’s stage”… “Putin’s message at the UN podium Monday was a simple one: US interventions and unilateralism have backfired in the Middle East, and it is time to try something new,” –CNN
The New York Post praised Putin and called him “the world’s most powerful leader” though they lamented that our own president had put him in that position. “The baton was officially transferred Monday to the world’s new sole superpower — and Vladimir Putin willingly picked it up.”
“Putin’s speech shows who is in charge”… The “Obama administration’s impotence and failure to bring any sort of resolution to [the] Syrian civil war or to curb ISIS significantly has allowed Putin to take the initiative.”… “The last time Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke at the United Nations General Assembly, exactly 10 years ago, he made do with a five-minute speech extolling the UN’s virtues. On Monday, it was a different, much more aggressive Putin. He spoke for 20 minutes and presented a clear and forceful foreign policy for his country” –Haaretz
Putin also added something that came dangerously close to the truth: that the Islamic State itself did not appear out of nowhere and said that it was initially nurtured as a weapon against unwanted secular regimes. This was a more carefully crafted statement than his claim at the Sochi Olympics that the US had a role in directly creating ISIS. I think he softened his remarks knowing that the American public would reject a bolder and open pronouncement, coming from the distrusted Russian leader.
The pro-Russian news media never misses a story that tends to confirm US backing of terror. Here’s Sputnik News again:
Syrian rebel fighters trained by the United States provided ammunition and equipment to an al-Qaeda-linked group this week, a spokesman for the Pentagon has confirmed. The US Central Command (CENTCOM) said on Wednesday around 70 participants of the US train-and-equip program returned to Syria from a training camp in Turkey over the weekend. The group that operates as the New Syrian Force (NSF) was later thought to have defected to the Nusra Front.
“Today the NSF unit contacted Coalition representatives and informed us that on Sept. 21-22 they gave six pick-up trucks and a portion of their ammunition to a suspected Nusra Front intermediary,” Navy Capt. Jeff Davis said as quoted by The Blaze.
First reports of so-called moderate Syrian fighters, which were trained to fight militant groups like the Nusra Front and the notorious ISIL jihadist group, claimed the NSF had given up arms in exchange for safe passage.
Earlier this month, the Pentagon admitted that only five out of the over 5,000 fighters trained in the $500-million US program were actually fighting on the ground. The figure was later revised to nine.
2. The US is forced to change policy on Assad. As Sputnik News eagerly noted,
The US has changed its policy on Syria: instead of calling for the immediate ousting of Syrian President Assad, it now says it should be an “orderly, managed transition” unlike the one the US pursued in Iraq, US Secretary of State John Kerry said in his interview with CNN.
“For a period of time, all of the coalition was saying he [Bashar Assad] had to leave immediately, that was the original statement way back,” said the US secretary of state.
“We’ve changed that. Over a period of time we said no, that is not going to work. We need to have an orderly transition, managed transition so that you don’t have fearful retribution, loss of life, you don’t have a vacuum, you don’t have an implosion. All of these things are legitimate concerns.”
Actually, the push for Assad to immediately resign wasn’t “way back” or done “over a period of time.” It was US policy right up to the Russian intervention this week. His attempt to back date the change was a blatant attempt to save face and downplay the effect of Russia’s latest move.
3. This puts the Iran attack on indefinite hold. The US was counting on ISIS to take down Assad (a demand of Israel before going through with the attack on Iran’s nuclear project) so the US and Israel could get on with the agenda of declaring Iran in violation of the newly inked nuclear treaty and take down Iran.
Now the US is stuck abiding by the Iran agreement which will give Iran more time to improve her arms if sanctions are removed.
4. How does this change things in the Middle East? The long-term agenda of the globalists in the Middle East is to neutralize or compromise all of the Arab and Muslim power centers and make Israel (under control of the globalists) the dominant military power.
The key target of this policy was Iran, being the only Muslim country intent on become independent of East and West for the full range of military and nuclear weapons.
Unlike Iraq (which Russia promised to support against the US) it does not appear that Russia is going to let Syria fall to Western mandated chaos—though direct conflict with the US will be avoided so as to NOT trigger a world war. The Russians aren’t ready for that, by a long shot.
That is why Russia is still playing the minimalist role with no combat troops. “We are going to use only the air force,” said Russian Federation Council member Ivanov “We are not speaking of achieving anybody’s ambitions, as our Western partners regularly accuse us,” Mr. Ivanov said. “We are speaking exclusively about the national interests of the Russian federation.”
Well, that’s not exactly true. I think Putin is enjoying sticking a wrench into the globalist agenda and the world is cheering. Putin also gets the benefit of putting Russia back in the game of world leadership and his success in Syria acts as a diversion from his stealth war in Ukraine, as noted by the NY Times.
Mr. Putin’s motives for interfering in Syria are seen as having both international and domestic angles. On the international front, he wants to restore Russian influence as a global power and to try to force an end to the diplomatic and financial isolation the West imposed after Moscow seized Crimea and supported separatists in southeast Ukraine. Domestically, he wants to draw attention away from the Ukraine conflict and to the troubles it has caused, as well as to burnish his image as an international actor who solves problems.
But the big question remains: How will the globalists react to their stymied agenda? I don’t think they have figured out yet how to overcome this development, but here’s my best guess:
Since they cannot now control the outcome of Syria (ISIS won’t be able to win against the Russian air force, backed up by Iranian and Hezbollah troops), they may use the Israelis to take down Assad. The Israelis have long used the excuse that Syria is supplying Hezbollah to invade Syrian airspace. Now that Hezbollah troops are in Syria, Israel may use that as an excuse to attack Assad. The Israelis have also long maintained that Iran is a mortal enemy so the presence of Iranian troops in Syria is a red line for them. Kurt Nimmo of Infowars.com has that story:
Israeli Likud Minister Yuval Steinitz will tell the United States, Russia and other world powers Israel will not tolerate Iranian forces near its border, the Jerusalem Times reported on Tuesday.
“In all of our discussions, first and foremost with the United States, but also with Russia and the rest of the world powers, we must make sure that the Iranian forces will stay in Iran,” Steinitz told Israel’s Army Radio. “Nobody wants to see Russian forces in the area of the Golan Heights, but we definitely don’t want to see Iranian forces near Israel,” he added.
In August it was reported that Israel is preparing for a possible ground invasion of Syria… The Israelis began large division-scale training in the occupied Golan Heights in mid-August under the pretext ISIS may invade and also citing the presence of Hezbollah fighters in Syria.
The announcement of invasion preparations coincide with the possibility Israel may move its borders east “to protect the Druze and other non-hostile populations that are today threatened by the Islamists,” the website reported.
On Tuesday Israel Today reported the country “fears unintentional exchanges of fire between its own forces and the Russian military in Syria. Such a flare-up between Israeli and Iranian forces could give Tehran the excuse it needs to launch a long-range missile assault on the Jewish state.” [Nonsense.]
The other possibility is for the US to goad the Saudis into attacking Syria. They have a long-running and growing feud with Iran and Syria. It is no secret that the Saudis are also seeking long-range missiles and nuclear weapons in preparation for the eventual showdown with Iran. With US urging, they could always use the presence of Iranian troops in Syria to justify going after them—perhaps even in tandem with Israel.
In summary, the globalists will always look to the options that provide the most conflict, not peace, so you can be assured this will not turn out well for the Middle East or the Western world which will continue to bear the brunt of the refugees globalist wars create.
By the way, the claims about a Chinese aircraft carrier in Syria are bogus. There is only one training carrier in the Chinese fleet, and it is not combat ready, and not in Syria. J. E. Dyer of Liberty Unyielding is an expert in military intel and she offers this analysis:
China may deploy her navy to Syria in the coming days, but there are no reliable indications that any Chinese navy arrivals are imminent. Taking the reports one by one:
1. The web has exploded in the last few days with relays of a vague report from Al Masdar News that Chinese military personnel are expected to arrive in Syria in the next six weeks. That could happen. Now that it’s clear U.S. power will not be used in any decisive way in Syria, China may indeed see utility in putting down a serious political stake in the outcome there. More on that at another time.
The Al Masdar report also says that a Chinese naval ship entered the Mediterranean through the Suez Canal on Tuesday, 22 September, with its destination unconfirmed.
Although it’s possible a warship made that transit, it appears unlikely at the moment. For one thing, it’s very doubtful that a Chinese warship is traveling by itself.
For another, the Chinese naval ships known to be deployed in the region are on task elsewhere – and if there had been an additional deployment of a Chinese warship (or warships), outside of the known, announced task forces, it’s all but unthinkable that there wouldn’t have been any reporting of it from India.
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She also mentions that there was an image of Russian ships that was being tweeted and embedded all over the web as “Chinese warships.” So be careful of these salacious stories. And, she gave links to the “previous spin-ups about Chinese warships in the Eastern Med. The first one (from September 2013) raged like wildfire around the web, but was simply not true. In the second case, the Chinese warship did make a port visit in Cyprus, but never actually went to Syria.”
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[Why-they-hate-US video] Webster Tarpley: Syria & Iran, the Colorado Shooting — We are murdering Syrians, falsely blaming it on Assad in order to justify invasion so Syria can’t strike us when we/Israel strike Iran. The German people are being told while our presstitutes go along with the deception.
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FIRST, ON A PERSONAL NOTE:
As a long-time (since the ’90s) listener to Joel Skousen, Dr. Stanley Monteith, Alex Jones, and others like-minded, for many years I ignored the Jewish issue entirely (as the posting dates in this ToBeFree blog show), believing that globalism was not a Jewish issue.
In some cases, I have even taken a defensive role. For example, I remember fairly strongly telling those manning a Spotlight Newspaper booth in ’99 that this isn’t about the Jews, which I actually feel badly about saying now.
A few years ago, I finally allowed myself to deeply investigate this super touchy issue — having seen how brutally Israel responded to the Gaza flotilla, Mavi Marmara, and then laughed and partied in the streets about it. I also saw how horribly cruel they were to the USS Liberty. And I took a good look at how they really do treat their Palestinian neighbors, today. I looked at the real history of how Israel was created through terrorism by “the Jews” (not all of the ‘Jews’ are actually Jews), driving the Palestinians off of their lands, creating the Gaza refugee problem. A famous Israeli General’s son, Miko Peled and others helped me see.
But it didn’t fully make sense until I found the videos and writings of Ted Pike, who shows that the root cause of this issue is spiritual, and is basically no different than what Jesus experienced and warned about while on earth — the leaven/yeast of the Pharisees, which was their Talmudic, occultic thought they learned while in Babylon. My favorite video on this subject is:
I believe this shows the heart of the conspiracy that continues to this day:
In the post below, Joel Skousen mentions David Duke’s recent appearance on The Alex Jones Show. David points out how Jews really do control Hollywood, the media, banking, our government and our horrible, warmongering foreign policy. To them, this really is a racial thing, because they believe they’re humans and non-Jews are animals, according to the Talmud, as Ted Pike explains:
It is also now clear that hardline, Talmudic Jews were the architects of 9/11, which they needed to convince the evangelicals and patriotic Americans to support their destabilizing, NWO, Middle East wars.
When I finally found out how much the Zionists were involved in bringing about the NWO, and how this is a spiritual conspiracy against non-Jews, I felt like I had been robbed by those whom I trusted, who said it’s not a Jewish issue — those whom I have followed for years.
Now, I finally understand why many patriots are upset with Alex Jones’ cover-up of this Jewish conspiracy element that I believe is the dominant drive to accomplish Satan’s NWO goal, and to launch the anti-Christ from Jerusalem.
If Alex and the others would have been straight with us [Alex does this largely by the guests he has and does not have on his show] about the true nature of the NWO conspiracy, perhaps we’d still have an intact United States, instead of a nation that is a sitting duck, vulnerable to be invaded by Russia and China, a process that Joel has been documenting for decades, and which Alex only once in awhile will point out — usually only by occasionally having Joel Skousen on. I do think that Alex does divert attention away from these key dangers we face — pushing short-term fear issues instead — that turn out to rarely happen.
I’m glad that Joel is bringing up this Jewish issue, but I think he perhaps doesn’t fully enough understand the key, spiritual issue behind Zionism and Satan’s NWO plans — how this is the same issue that Jesus dealt with while on earth, birthed in the corrupted Egyptian and Babylonian thought the Jews learned while in captivity — which is a racial supremacist issue in which the Jews [though not all who say they are Jews are] believe they have a right to rule the world by whatever means necessary — no matter how cruel or vile, including running the porn industry, corrupting through education and psychology, in addition to what I mentioned above.
They really do dominate in these and the other key areas. And this deception is going about mostly unnoticed, so that most evangelicals are even falling for it, and in some cases even enable the abuser, as in supporting our post-9/11, reverse-Christian wars and the police state that Rupert Murdoch’s (a Jew) Fox News pushes.
Regarding the article Joel quotes from, below, I agree with this statement that Joel didn’t quote:
Alex Jones’ impetus is to ignore the prominent and perhaps dominant role that Jews play in that equation and only focus on the Anglo Gentile element.
Also, Joel does say this in his article, below, which I agree with:
I continue to emphasize, it is not because of their Semitism per se, but rather because of their pride in their idea of mental superiority and commitment to an evil system of control.
So probably Joel does understand to some degree the Talmudic source of their “evil system of control.” Though, this isn’t just a “mental superiority,” but a racial superiority, according the texts that most rabbis hold most dear.
We need to look at all of the players, and not avoid these key, racial supremacist, NWO architects, who think they’re far superior to everyone else, and are entitled to destroy our civilization so they can survive to rule.
Unlike many Christians who believe in replacement theology (that God doesn’t have a plan for the Jews), I do believe that many of the true, ethnic Jews will someday repent, but only after they realize that Israel is doomed unless God miraculously steps in — right before the end of this world:
I also understand that many Jews are not involved in this conspiracy. And regarding those who are, Jesus told us to love our enemies — but unlike many evangelicals today — he stood up to them, instead of aiding and abetting them.
We need to warn the people about what is really going on, including who the real players are, and what is the root, spiritual source of the problem. I believe it’s not just Satanism, but a specific brand of Satanism, based in the Talmud and the Kabbalah.
Again, I highly recommend watching this video to understand the nature of this sinister problem that is full speed ahead:
God bless!
Jeff
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World Affairs Brief, September 25, 2015 Commentary and Insights on a Troubled World.
Copyright Joel Skousen. Partial quotations with attribution permitted. Cite source as Joel Skousen’s World Affairs Brief (http://www.worldaffairsbrief.com).
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THE JEWISH QUESTION IN CONSPIRACY
There is a small but vocal group of conspiracy believers that believe most of the world’s evils can be attributed to a Jewish conspiracy. I’ve been asked by several subscribers to address this issue, but it would take a small book to give a complete answer. For now I’ll comment on a recent critique by Brandon Martinez of the Alex Jones/David Duke debate.
One of the problems with the Jewish conspiracy crowd is that anyone who doesn’t attribute everything in the conspiracy lexicon to Semitism must be a betrayer of the cause or worse, compromised agents of government (co-intel-pro). Alex Jones has often been accused of that because he was supposedly married to a Jewish wife and hired a low level staffer who used to be a secretary at Stratfor. Martinez is a Jewish conspiracy believer, but one that is at least able to see other points of view [my comments in brackets]:
For years Alex Jones has been criticized as a kosher spin artist who jumps through hoops to avoid talking about Zionism and Jewish power. He and his alt-media outfit Infowars has, since its inception, served to misdirect the sheeple into a myriad of dead-ends. Jones’ modus operandi has always been to evoke elusive and shadowy phantoms to throw people off the trail of the Zionists.
Knowing Alex personally, I can tell readers that this is simply not true. Jones avoids the unnecessary controversy of pointing at Jews because he knows that all the Jews on the “other side” of liberty are globalists. It is sufficient to attack globalism rather than attack the Jews directly, and it is certainly unhelpful to attack globalists Jew for being Jewish because that isn’t the core issue.
Finally, to his credit, Jones went out on a limb and had David Duke, a veritable expert on the “Jewish question,” on his show. They went at it for more than two hours. This show was more of an extended David Duke monologue than a real debate. Throughout the interview/debate, Jones said basically nothing to counter Duke on any point, and just kept repeating the platitude that “Jews are a diverse people” who are not monolithic. [But that’s an important point. You can’t lump all Jews in with those that are drawn to the halls of power and which become globalist leaders, like Henry Kissinger.]
Even that claim is false. Jews may differ with each other on inconsequential issues … but when push comes to shove, all but a tiny handful of principled Jews – most of whom call themselves ‘ex’ Jews – side with their tribe and its corrupt leadership against the collective enemy who the rabbis have taught them to fear and hate, the Goyim. Even among the Jewish leadership there is disagreement, but only on the methods and strategies used to subjugate the Goyim, not on the ultimate end goal of global Jewish hegemony as prophesied in Jewish religious texts. [This is the essence of the Jewish conspiracy claims. Some conspiratorial writings do exist, but as a general rule globalist Jews are not religious at all, don’t care about their people or Israel except as a means to be exploited in the cause of increased world power.]
Now, while Duke clearly has a superior position to that of Jones, that is not to say that he doesn’t have shortcomings of his own. Critics could argue that Duke is engaged in one-track thinking where he searches out the Jewish factor in every issue, while downplaying and neglecting all other dynamics. Granted, Duke does do this. His characterization of all non-Jews involved in globalist institutions like the Federal Reserve, the CFR, the Bilderberg Group, etc., as well as in government and media power positions, as mere screens or front-men for Jews is somewhat simplistic, and errs on the side of being a reverse apologist for Gentile criminals [a good critique of the all-consuming philosophy that possesses the Jewish conspiracy types].
Obviously not all wars and conflicts on earth have been started by Jews. Obviously not all corruption and evil in the world emanates from Jews. However, as Duke successfully argues on the show, Jewish supremacists are disproportionately powerful and have been the leading element behind a significant amount of corruption, wrongdoing and malfeasance, particularly leveled against those who promote the strictly Jewish conspiracy is that they sometimes engage in sloppy research and unempirical argumentation. For instance, they will label anyone in a position of influence with a remotely Jewish-sounding name a Jew without any real research or documentation to back it. This methodology is flawed because Jewish-sounding names that end in Stein, Rosen, Berg, etc., are of German origin.
Obviously not all Jews are “bad” and not all of the world’s problems can be laid at their feet. But with that said, it must be recognized that powerful Jews who adhere to a supremacist and messianic ideology have played a significant role in creating and exacerbating many terrible calamities throughout history in pursuit of their own sectarian ends. And they continue to occupy a large seat, if not the largest seat, at the table of world power.
Mostly true, but as I continue to emphasize, it is not because of their Semitism per se, but rather because of their pride in their idea of mental superiority and commitment to an evil system of control. Jews in power would throw their own people under the bus if it served globalist purposes. It’s ruthlessness and evil we should fight against, not any particular class or group, even if they do predominate in an evil movement. It is sufficient to fight against globalism, and when you do so you target all of the conspiring Jews that are part of that problem. Their ethnic background isn’t the issue and never will be.
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Secret but not forgotten: Israel’s facility 139 — Where Palestinian, Lebanese, and other Arab prisoners are detained and subjected to torture
Kucinich: WE ACCEPT the Slaughter of the Innocent BECAUSE WE’VE ALREADY Slaughtered the Innocent
Kucinich: “U.S. Weapons Being Illegally Used to Kill Children”
Kucinich: UN should investigate Israeli Gaza strikes — “this…is disproportionate indiscriminate mass violence”
One-third of Gaza dead, injured are children
Ron Paul: The Invasion of Gaza and its Implications for America — Blowback!
One Very Brave Palestinian Woman
Devvy Kidd: Bomb Iran now because…uh, what’s the reason? — Puppets of the new world order elites automatically smear anyone who questions our foreign policy with regards to Israel as “anti-Semitic.” Of course, most people don’t even know what that label means other than it’s the kiss of death for politicians and journalists who are trying to be rational and fair in making an informed decision.
How Come Israelis Can Criticize Israel, But Americans Can’t?
Charles Lindbergh’s – September 11, 1941 Des Moines Speech. Provocateuring for war then just as now — “They planned to create a series of incidents which would force us into the actual conflict.” “I am not attacking either the Jewish or the British people. Both races, I admire. But I am saying that the leaders…”
Does Talmud Teach Pedophilia, Incest, Bestiality?
Netanyahu admits on video he deceived US to destroy Oslo accord
Netanyahu: ‘America is easily moved’ (unaware camera) | Lies about Iran – history
[Video] 60 Minutes: Meir Dagan, former Israeli CHIEF of MOSSAD tells Lesley Stahl that an AIRSTRIKE anytime soon AGAINST IRAN is premature and COULD LEAD TO *DISASTER*!
Most of Israel’s military leaders are against war on Iran — Netanyahu and Barak are the power-over warmongers
[Haaretz poll] 60% of Israelis are dissatisfied with Prime Minister Netanyahu, who is pushing to bomb Iran
Dr. Stan: Is War With Iran A Set-up? Lies that led US into all of the wars in the last 120 years! “It’s really all about bringing about the one-world government.”
Peace activist Kenneth O’Keefe defends his Gaza aid flotilla actions to the attack-dog BBC journalist: “If you wanted peace, and you carried out the policies of Israel…. It’s like America saying it wants peace, yet conducting State sponsored terrorism in Iraq and Afghanistan. That’s a lie. Israel is lying. They don’t want peace…”
Hero US Marine Disarms Israeli Commandos — Kenneth Nichols O’Keefe was later beaten by the Israelis — Look at his face!
Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney sets the record straight on Israel’s aid flotilla massacre
Inhumane Israelis CELEBRATE attack on Turkish Aid Ship – in front of Turkish Embassy,Tel Aviv
Sean Stone (Oliver Stone’s son): Should the United States Bomb Iran? Sean Stone returns from Iran — ATTACKING IRAN COULD MAKE THINGS WORSE for ISRAEL!
[Illustration] USA and Israel totally ignore: “Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit, says the Lord.” Who are we listening to instead?
[OPINION] ‘Christian’ backed Republicans Plot Israel-Iran Apocalypse and the Collapse of the US Economy
Protesters assaulted and spit on by “Christians United for Israel” Summit Attendees
Hagee: “Unrepentant Heretic” — The church is embarrassed to name Christ to those He first came to redeem — the lost sheep of the house of Israel. It disobeys Christ’s great commission to spread the gospel to the whole world, starting with Jerusalem.
Pat Robertson Advocates Israel Bombing Iran Before 2008 Election
Pastor Baldwin: Ron Paul’s Israel Problem [Evangelicals Led Astray?]
Ron Paul’s Biggest Eye-Opener: ‘Christian’ Evangelicals Pushing Preemptive War in the Name of Spreading Christian ‘Love’
World Affairs Brief, September 11, 2015 Commentary and Insights on a Troubled World.
Copyright Joel Skousen. Partial quotations with attribution permitted. Cite source as Joel Skousen’s World Affairs Brief (http://www.worldaffairsbrief.com).
This Week’s Analysis:
Keeping the Terror of 9/11 Alive
US Upset with Russian Presence in Syria
The New UN Agenda 2030
Jeb Bush’s Involvement in 9/11 Cover-up
Microsoft Now Spying through Windows 7 & 8
Conservatives Try to Block Illegal Iran Deal
Trump Shows why he wouldn’t really Change Things
[…]
JEB BUSH’S INVOLVEMENT IN 9/11 COVERUP
The CIA faked airplane training in Venice, FL for the named hijackers to cover for the real hijackers who were hired by the CIA and trained on real airliners in the Middle East. Daniel Hopsicker has researched the CIA connection to the Venice flight school. He documents in this article how the government came in and removed all the police records about the flight school and its owner and flew them out of Florida on a military C-130. Gov. Jeb Bush was personally on that flight and knew about this hiding of the compromising files.
On the campaign trail in New Hampshire two weeks ago, Jeb Bush was asked a question for which he clearly wasn’t prepared, which hearkened back to Bush’s time as Florida Governor.
Newly-minted radio talk show host Mike Jackman asked this probing question: “According to Sergeant Marty (Mike) Treanor and other law enforcement officials in Sarasota Florida, the files pertaining to 9/11 hijacker pilots Marwan Al-Shehhi and Mohamed Atta from Huffman Aviation Flight School in Venice Florida were loaded onto two Ryder trucks and driven onto a C-130 cargo plane which left Sarasota the day after 9/11. “Is it true that you were onboard the C-130? And, if so, can you tell us what became of the files?”
According to those who were there, a certain amount of discomfort ensued. Bush, who has appeared as limp as overcooked spaghetti on the campaign trail, visibly stiffened. “No. Not true,” he replied. Then, as an aside to those sitting in the front row of his town hall meeting, he said, “How weird.” Bush began taking another question, then stopped. His voice rising slightly to convey indignation, he said, “I was in the Emergency Operations Center trying to make sure the state of Florida was safe…That’s what I did.”
Jackman’s question refers to evidence uncovered during my investigation into the activities of the 9/11 hijackers in Venice. And somewhere in there Jackman had also referenced Wally Hilliard and Rudi Dekkers, [a Dutch foreign national] the principals in Hoffman Aviation. When he did, one observer noted, Bush seemed to freeze slightly.
Perhaps that has something to do with the little-known fact that a Learjet belonging to Hilliard, who owned the Venice flight school that trained both pilots who flew planes into the World Trade Center Towers, had been caught carrying 43 pounds of heroin by DEA agents in July of 2000. Just weeks earlier, Jeb Bush’s Secretary of State, the infamous Katherine Harris, had heaped praise on Hilliard’s start-up commuter airline, Florida Air.
Mike (Marty) Treanor from the Venice Police Department… was the first person to tell me of Jeb Bush’s flight to Washington with the files from Huffman Aviation and the Venice Police Department. But not the last.
Treanor wasn’t a flake, or a name I made up. He’d been quoted in national news reports right after 9/11… Moreover, he wasn’t afraid of speaking his mind. He was openly critical of a Venice Chief of Police— even filing a complaint against him for improperly handling a criminal investigation—for more than a year before the Chief was forced out. And that’s why I think, when I spoke with him, in 2002, he told the truth. Because that’s who he was. He was an honest local cop.
Treanor said he couldn’t tell us if Dekkers [owner of Huffman Aviation who had a CIA background] had been in any trouble in Venice. All of his files were gone. I asked, “Gone?” Gone and never to return. “The FBI took all our files, everything. They loaded the files right outside this window,” Treanor said, indicating the parking lot outside the station, ‘into two Ryder trucks, then drove them onto a C-130 military cargo plane at the Sarasota airport, which took off for Washington with Jeb Bush aboard”
Much later, I received confirmation that Jeb Bush was aboard the C-130 that took off from Sarasota Airport. It came from the man who had been in charge of the flight crew [a pilot]… But when this man asked to remain anonymous, I completely understood… the man who confirmed that Jeb Bush was aboard the C-130 was, I knew for a fact, also a CIA pilot, with experience flying Lockheed C-5 Galaxy military cargo planes, among the largest military aircraft in the world.
In addition to confirming Jeb Bush’s presence on the plane, he had one other piece of startling, and dispiriting, news. Everyone I’d spoken to with knowledge of the flight had assumed the files from Huffman Aviation, and the criminal records of the Venice Police Department, were being flown to FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C.
The FBI never got them. The files never got there. They were diverted to McLean Virginia… home of the CIA. Repeated phone calls to the Venice Police Department on whether the files were ever returned received no response. It doesn’t take a psychic to figure out that means they were never returned. Somebody should ask Jeb Bush what he knows about that.
That wouldn’t do any good, but at least my readers know of Bush’s involvement in the 9/11 coverup, along with his brother the president. Of course, it was VP Cheney who was managing the attack from the White House situation room. Bush, the puppet president, was only playing his role at the elementary school that day.
Related:
(video) A&E for 9/11 Truth Architect Richard Gage on C-SPAN 8/1/14 — “The ends of the BEAMS were partially EVAPORATED! That takes 4000 DEGREE temperatures. The only thing we’re aware of that can create that is thermite”
(video) POWERFUL 9/11 Documentary Airs on PBS Across Colorado!!!!!!!
(6-minute video) 9/11 Incontrovertible Proof the Government is Lying — Low-temp kerosene/paper fires could not have MELTED, radically bent WITHOUT CRACKING, and even FUSED steel
(video) Top architect explains why 9/11 buildings were brought down by controlled demolition and Al Qaeda didn’t have the technology or access to do it. Who did? Two months before the ELEVATOR MODERNIZATION PROJECT, Nick ROCKEFELLER predicted a 9/11-like event to trigger war!
(audio) Airline Captain Philip Marshall with John B. Wells on ‘Coast to Coast AM’ 9/8/12: “The Big Bamboozle: 9/11 and the War on Terror” — Fasten your seatbelt — the sad truth is that all of the solid evidence points to a dark collaboration between members of the Bush Administration and a covert group of Saudi government officials. The hijackers were trained at a CIA-operated airport in Arizona.
(video) Bush & Cheney Knew About 9/11 Months Before It Happened Says Whistleblower, Susan Lindauer, Charged Under Patriot Act
(audio) The Other 9/11 Suspects: Cheney, Rumsfeld, etc. — Insider, Kevin Ryan on ‘Coast to Coast AM’ with John B. Wells, 8/31/13 — WTC was designed to survive an impact of airliners and certified to withstand intense fires!
Joel Skousen: Best Evidence – 9/11 attacks a government black operation from beginning to end
A PNAC Primer: How We Got Into This Mess
(video) Nick Rockefeller Predicted “Event” To Trigger War Eleven Months Before 9/11
[13-minute video] The Official 9/11 Story Defies Science — Experts PROVE that sooty black burning JET FUEL (kerosene) DOES NOT MELT STEEL!!!
(video) Psychologists Explain 911 Denial — Fear, Pride…. “We need the truth in order to heal.”
David Rockefeller: “I’m PROUD of” being “part of a SECRET CABAL working AGAINST the best interests of the United States”
(video) Molten Steel Found at Ground Zero Weeks After 9/11
Architect Richard Gage on 9/11 truth: “98% of those who watch this presentation end up agreeing with us…. We really only get called conspiracy theorists and kooks by those who are UNWILLING TO LOOK at the evidence.”
(video) 9/11 Masterminds – Explosive Connections
(video) 9/11 Molten-Steel Smoking Gun! Brian Williams (NBC) presents the WTC Metorite — “Exposed to TEMPERATURES AS HOT AS THE INNER EARTH”
Swedish Structural Engineer: WTC Towers Did Not Collapse from Fire
[Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth Video] 9/11: Explosive Evidence – Experts Speak Out, Full-length
(video) Pentagon security camera shows 757 sized object before fireball on 9/11 — My test demonstrates
9/11 Pentagon: What the Physical Evidence Shows — 757 landing gear, wheel hub, fuselage part — severed lamp poles
(HD video) 9/11 Pentagon Attack – Behind the Smoke Curtain – Barbara Honegger — Massive amount of research shared!
(video) Pentagon security camera shows 757 sized object before fireball on 9/11 — My test demonstrates
All of my 9/11 truth posts in reverse chronological order (latest posts appear first, 10 posts per page)
World Affairs Brief, July 31, 2015 Commentary and Insights on a Troubled World.
Copyright Joel Skousen. Partial quotations with attribution permitted. Cite source as Joel Skousen’s World Affairs Brief (http://www.worldaffairsbrief.com).
This Week’s Analysis:
Backgrounder on Republican Candidates
Jeb Bush
Chris Christie
Marco Rubio
Rick Santorum
John Kasich
George Pataki
Lindsey Graham
Carly Fiorina
Ted Cruz
Rand Paul
Ben Carson
Donald Trump
Scott Walker
Jim Gilmore
Mike Huckabee
Rick Perry
Bobby Jindal
[…]
RAND PAUL
The junior senator from Kentucky is the son of Ron Paul, the most principled of the modern statesman. Sadly, however, the younger Paul seems to think he can get farther ahead than his father by playing up to the establishment and changing the Republican agenda to become more amenable to the growing benefit-corrupted majority. He unwisely endorsed Mitch McConnell over the much more conservative challenger Matt Bevin and got nothing in return.
Still, he does stand up and fight for the right causes on most occasions. Like Ted Cruz, Paul does not shy away from directly challenging the establishment when necessary. Both have filibustered to keep gun restrictions at bay and Paul has done a lot to try and stop the renewal of the Patriot act and block NSA domestic spying.
But of all the true conservative/libertarian candidates on the Right, Paul has some formidable obstacles to a successful campaign. In fact, there is significant evidence that his campaign is in disarray due to staff differences and lack of money. As Politico.com noted,
Senator Paul has raised significantly less than most major candidates, pulling in $6.9 million, including a $1.6 million transfer from his Senate committee. Affiliated super PACs have raised only $5 million. Meanwhile, Jeb Bush’s super PAC has raised $103 million, and Ted Cruz’s got over $37 million. By comparison, in the last two quarters of 2007, Ron Paul, who had literally zero percent name ID in early internal analyses, raised $25.2 million,
Ron Paul achieved that by a grass roots appeal to small donors. Rand could do that too if he’d take a more principled approach and stop compromising. That’s why his father’s followers are so loyal.
Dr. Paul also has some serious distractions with family problems. His wife reportedly is not supportive of his run for the president and much of that is due to a single problem son. As the Wonkette.com wrote,
Rand Paul’s son, Young Master William Hilton Heir of Rand And Ron Paul, has a bit of a problem. He just can’t stop getting drunk when he is not supposed to. Like, when he is underage. Or driving a vehicle… According to the citation, Lexington police found Paul at 11:24 a.m. sitting in the driver’s seat of a maroon 2006 Honda Ridgeline that had collided with a parked vehicle. The report said Paul was “belligerent” and had “a strong odor of alcohol,” bloodshot eyes and slurred speech… Paul was charged at the hospital with DUI and failure to maintain required auto insurance. Why are we being so mean to Rand Paul’s dumb 22-year-old kid? It’s not just because he is majoring in “communications.” No, it’s because this is his THIRD TIME getting in trouble for unlawful boozing — before noon! — and being a jerk.
Inexcusably, Rand Paul failed to respond to an invitation to speak at my brother’s huge Freedom Fest convention in Las Vegas last week. Marco Rubio showed and so did Donald Trump to a packed audience of 2800 people. Every network camera was rolling to film more outlandish statements by Trump so they can have ammunition to bash the conservative position.
These kinds of campaign failures are hurting Sen. Paul in the polls—and the establishment would love to see Paul ousted from the debates. In the latest NBC News/Marist poll, Paul’s support in New Hampshire has declined from 14% to 4%. If that trend continues, he’ll be out of the running soon.
Despite some compromises disappointing to hard line conservatives, Rand Paul is still very much a future force to be reckoned with now that the PTB are pushing liberals like Jeb Bush and Chris Christie. Rand Paul and Ted Cruz are the ones the establishment is out to beat.
Abortion [Solid]
Life begins at conception. (Jul 2010)
Opposes federal abortion funding. (Aug 2010)
Prohibit federal funding for abortion. (May 2011)
Budget and Economy [Solid]
Reform the tax code; address the national debt. (Apr 2015)
Federal Reserve is insolvent, by private bank standards. (Feb 2015)
Audit the Fed: currently no jurisdiction to do so. (Feb 2015)
Roll back federal spending to 2008 levels. (Jan 2012)
Bank bailout was bad policy & helped no banks in KY. (Oct 2010)
Disapprove of increasing the debt limit. (Jan 2012)
Civil Rights (and false rights) [Solid]
Marriage for heterosexuals; contracts for same-sex couples. (Apr 2015)
I don’t believe in rights based on your behavior. (Mar 2015)
Opposes affirmative action. (Aug 2010)
Supports Amendment to prevent same sex marriage. (Aug 2010)
Crime and Police [Solid]
Stop transferring military equipment to local police forces. (May 2015)
Restore federal right to vote to non-violent felons. (Apr 2015)
Defend the whole Bill of Rights, including speedy trials. (Feb 2015)
Defend the 4th & 5th Amendments against Big Government. (Feb 2015)
Death penalty is a state issue. (Jul 2014)
Many criminal statutes lack requirement of criminal intent. (Sep 2012)
Eliminate the Lacey Act (s a conservation law in the United States that prohibits trade in wildlife, fish, and plants)
Drugs [Good libertarian position, but needs to increase penalties for crimes under the influence of drugs]
Jailing people for 10 years for marijuana is ridiculous. (Nov 2014)
Whites & blacks use drugs, but prisons are full of blacks. (Jul 2014)
War on drugs has unintentionally had a racial outcome. (Jun 2014)
Don’t promote marijuana but don’t jail non-violent criminals. (Mar 2013)
Favors legalizing medical marijuana. (May 2010)
Exclude industrial hemp (Marijuana plant) from definition of marijuana. (Aug 2012)
Education [Good]
Federal student loans are ok, if within spending limits. (Apr 2013)
Allow school choice for everyone, white, brown, or black. (Feb 2013)
No Child Left Behind is federal takeover of schools. (Feb 2012)
Support homeschooling and parental responsibility. (Jul 2010)
Energy [Good, except for Keystone pipeline]
Cut red tape to allow energy freedom & traditional energy. (Apr 2015)
Compete on the free market, including nuclear plants. (Jan 2015)
Develop mineral & energy resources on public lands. (Jan 2015)
Supports Keystone XL, plus domestic oil & gas exploration. (Jan 2015)
Test older gas pipelines for explosion safety. (Sep 2012)
End subsidies to solar companies; they’re donation kickbacks. (Mar 2012)
Unelected EPA should not regulate greenhouse emissions. (Oct 2010)
Environment
EPA regulations cost $15 trillion in 2012. (Sep 2012)
EPA enforcement nullifies due process and judicial review. (Sep 2012)
Land rules made by delusional government interventionists. (Sep 2012)
Navigable waters should mean permanently flowing. (Sep 2012)
Voted NO on protecting ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes ecosystems. (May 2013)
Foreign Policy [Good at non-intervention, doesn’t see the phony war on terror]
Keep on mind on Iran nukes but don’t trust the ayatollahs. (Apr 2015)
Oppose bombing Assad in Syria because it strengthens ISIS. (Apr 2015)
Create & arm a Kurdish state as support against ISIL. (Apr 2015)
War only when all other measures are exhausted. (Apr 2015)
U.S. intervention in Libya strengthened Islamic State. (Apr 2015)
Stand with Israel Act: no US funds to Palestinian Authority. (Apr 2015)
2011: eliminate all foreign aid & rebuild America instead. (Apr 2015)
50-year embargo with Cuba hasn’t worked; lift it. (Dec 2014)
End US aid to countries that burn our flag. (Mar 2013)
Exit the UN; maintain US sovereignty. (Nov 2010)
Free Trade [Solid]
Participated with Raw Milk Freedom Riders civil disobedience. (Sep 2012)
Health Care [Solid, except for vaccine support]
Health system was over-regulated before ObamaCare. (Apr 2015)
Encourage vaccines, with religious exceptions. (Feb 2015)
Parents own their children, and can choose to not vaccinate. (Feb 2015)
Compassion cannot be delivered in the form of coercion. (Jan 2015)
Supports tort reform & free-market principles. (Jan 2015)
ObamaCare cuts hundreds of choices down to just four. (Nov 2013)
Protect vitamin manufacturers from unreasonable regulations. (Sep 2012)
ObamaCare is still unconstitutional, despite Supreme Court. (Aug 2012)
No mandatory mental health screening in schools. (Nov 2011)
Opposes government-run healthcare. (Aug 2010)
Defund, repeal, & replace federal care with free market. (Jul 2010)
Military and Homeland Security [Good]
Need NSA reform, but not the USA Freedom Act. (Nov 2014)
The Patriot Act is intrusive; it’s what the Founders feared. (Feb 2011)
Allow challenges to NSA in open court, not FISA court. (Nov 2013)
13-hour filibuster against drone strikes targeting Americans. (Mar 2013)
Immigration [Compromising]
Legal status for 11 million illegals after we secure border. (Apr 2015)
National ID card for all citizens protects national security. (Apr 2015)
Status quo is untenable; we must do some sort of reform. (Jun 2014)
Move beyond amnesty, but eventually to path to citizenship. (Jun 2014)
Illegals are not bad people, but we have to control border. (Apr 2014)
Latinos support GOP stances of faith and family values. (Jun 2013)
Legal status, but not citizenship, for illegal immigrants. (Mar 2013)
Taxes and jobs [Solid]
Help the unemployed by lowering taxes dramatically. (Mar 2014)
Unemployment insurance ok if fully paid for & short-term. (Jan 2014)
Extending unemployment benefits does disservice to workers. (Dec 2013)
National Right-to-Work Act: no forced unionization. (Feb 2013)
Welfare [OK except for SS changes—answer is to stop robbing the fund, and to limit benefits to total contributions adjusted for inflation]
Raise retirement age to save program for younger generation. (Apr 2015)
Supports private retirement accounts. (Aug 2010)
Taxes [Mixed—flat tax doesn’t eliminate IRS and distorts the economy, punishing high prices products with reduction in sales]
EZ Tax: $700B tax cut via 17% flat tax. (Apr 2015)
Balanced budget and a simple, fair tax system. (Feb 2015)
Economic growth comes when we lower taxes for everyone. (Jan 2014)
Stand firm and say NO to any MORE tax hikes!. (Feb 2013)
Opposed to increasing taxes during recession. (Feb 2011)
[…]
SUMMARY:
Sadly, there are no uncompromising Ron Paul’s in the lineup this election season. While even the uncontrolled Republican candidates have their weak points (all except Rand Paul indirectly support the globalist policies of intervention), the establishment is sufficiently concerned about Cruz and Paul to pull out all the stops to see they don’t achieve the nomination. Still, it isn’t enough for me to support any of them. I don’t have confidence in any significant change unless a president-elect understands the globalist conspiracy we are up against.
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Related:
Steve Quayle: “There are no political solutions to spiritual problems”
(POWERFUL Video) How Ron Paul Was Cheated Out Of Presidency
All of my Joel Skousen posts (10 posts per page; latest appear first)
World Affairs Brief, August 14, 2015 Commentary and Insights on a Troubled World.
Copyright Joel Skousen. Partial quotations with attribution permitted. Cite source as Joel Skousen’s World Affairs Brief (http://www.worldaffairsbrief.com).
This Week’s Analysis:
The Increasing Onslaught on Trump
State Department’s Outrageous Claims Against Assad
British Troops on the Ground in Syria
Chris Christie’s 9/11 Skeleton in the Closet
Russian Separatist Admits Russian Involvement in Ukraine
Atomic Bombing Anniversaries nothing to Celebrate
Eleanor on $10 Bill?
EPA Toxic Spill
The Chinese Devaluation of the Yuan
Gerald Celente’s Collapse Prediction
[…]
STATE DEPARTMENT’S OUTRAGEOUS CLAIMS ABOUT ASSAD
You know that the Obama administration is getting ready to finish off Bashar al-Assad by the way they continue to demonize this mild mannered, Western-trained Medical Doctor. Yes, his father was a tyrant and in bed with both the Soviets and the CIA but the son is different. He is not guilty of the chemical weapons claims the US makes, nor is he guilty of genocide. In fact, he is trying to stop the coming genocide that will be unleashed when the US-trained rebels and ISIS take power. Witness the recent anti-Assad campaign by the State Department, as outlined by Stephen Lendman. I don’t usually quote from Lendman who will defend anything Marxist no matter what, but in this case it happens to coincide with the truth:
It’s been coming for a long time – facilitated by repeated Big Lies about Bashar al-Assad, ignoring his overwhelming public support, especially for defending Syria responsibly against imported Islamic State and other takfiri terrorists, enlisted by Washington as foot soldiers to topple his government.
Obama upped the stakes a year ago by authorizing the bombing of Syrian infrastructure targets, a bandit diktat without Security Council or congressional authorization – on the phony pretext of fighting IS.
Now in collaboration with Turkey, plans are to establish illegal buffer and no-fly zones in northern Syria bordering southeastern Turkey. [The real reason for the buffer zone is not to fight against ISIS, but to fight against the Kurds who have a stronghold on the area as well as on the border areas inside Turkey.] Its airbases are being used to bomb Syrian sites – again on the phony pretext of fighting IS. Belligerent comments from Washington suggest full-scale war may be imminent.
[…]
Related:
Skousen: US and Israeli Involvement with ISIS — The UN has now published a report that claims that Israeli Defense forces have regular contact with ISIS — The main motive behind the US funding of and creation of ISIS is to take down Assad. Israel is refusing to bomb Iran until Syria is eliminated as a retaliation threat
(video) Skousen: Israeli Mossad Directs ISIS – with CIA to take down Assad, so Israel can bomb Iran
Washington Post: Former CIA Officials Admit To Faking Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein— “The actors were drawn from some of us darker-skinned employees” (‘bin Laden’)
Joel Skousen: More on Death of SEAL Team Six in Afghanistan — The evidence of direct witnesses to the raid on the claimed bin Laden compound say only one chopper landed and it crashed and burned when leaving, killing all aboard. I concluded that the raid was a set up to fake bin Laden’s death (having died years before) to boost Obama’s popularity. Seal Team Six members on the raid died there, so another helicopter crash was planned in Afghanistan which the military could claim had these same members were on board—thus allowing them to explain to parents why their sons wouldn’t be coming home…
10 Facts That Prove The Bin Laden Fable Is a Contrived Hoax
U.S.-Backed ISIS Beheads American Journalist — U.S. government provided weapons and training to the same jihadists in Syria who later crossed into Iraq!
NSA Doc Reveals ISIS Leader is U.S., BRITISH and ISRAELI Intelligence Asset | Israel’s Hornet Nest Strategy
“(video) U.S. Intelligence: Rebels Used Sarin — And is there a moral imperative to bomb Syria even if there were 400 children killed? How about 500,000 killed by US foreign policy that Albright said was worth it?
[Why-they-hate-US video] Webster Tarpley: Syria & Iran, the Colorado Shooting — We are murdering Syrians, falsely blaming it on Assad in order to justify invasion so Syria can’t strike us when we/Israel strike Iran. The German people are being told while our presstitutes go along with the deception.
Joe Biden (2012 Hypocrisy): If Romney Wins, We’ll Go To War With Syria | CNN (2012): ROMNEY has accused Obama and his administration of being weak in dealing with President Bashar al-Assad, and has called for the United States and allies to ARM SYRIAN REBELS
The 2022 Winter Olympics will be held on February 4-20, 2022 in China. (source)
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World Affairs Brief, August 6, 2015 Commentary and Insights on a Troubled World.
Copyright Joel Skousen. Partial quotations with attribution permitted. Cite source as Joel Skousen’s World Affairs Brief (http://www.worldaffairsbrief.com).
This Week’s Analysis:
How Debates are Manipulated
Establishment Working to Save Planned Parenthood
US Starts to Intervene Directly against Syria
Chinese Naval Projections for 2020
Passport Revocation Powers
Officer Broke Navy Rule Defending Himself
Obama Implementing Cap and Trade by Edict
Don’t Use Windows 10
Russian Electronic Warfare now Superior to US Military’s
[…]
CHINESE NAVAL PROJECTIONS BY 2020
More and more analysts are beginning to wake up about China—though our government continues to both criticize China and downplay and deny and threat. Prashanth Parameswaran writing for The Diplomat reports on China’s projected developments for their blue water navy by the year 2020—when I’ve predicted China will first begin to have the firepower to think about attacking the West.
Much has been written about China’s ongoing efforts to become what President Xi Jinping called a “great maritime power” and how the United States should respond… In a recent paper delivered at a two-day CNA conference on Chinese maritime power, seen by The Diplomat, Rear Admiral Michael McDevitt, a senior fellow at the Center for Naval Analyses (CNA), projects what China’s ‘far seas’ navy will look like in 2020 and how it would rank alongside the United States and other players – Britain, France, Japan, India and Russia. Getting a sense of the PLAN’s ‘far seas’ capabilities is important since it tells us the extent to which it might be able to project power further from China’s shores.
According to his projections, on paper by 2020 China’s navy will already increasingly look like a smaller version of the U.S. Navy and will be “the second most capable ‘far seas’ navy in the world.” In five years, the PLAN’s capabilities would dwarf most other navies – China would have as many aircraft carriers as Britain and India, more nuclear attack submarines than either Britain or France, and as many AEGIS-like destroyers as all the other non-US navies combined. China would have two aircraft carriers, 20-22 AEGIS like destroyers and 6-7 nuclear attack submarines, while United States would have eleven aircraft carriers; 88 AEGIS like destroyers; and 48 nuclear attack submarines.
Despite this, the US keeps helping the Chinese military train alongside the US in exercise after exercise. Alex Newman of The New American explains:
In 2013, the Obama administration shocked the world by inviting Communist Chinese troops to the United States to train with American forces for the first time in history. Ostensibly aimed at practicing “disaster management,” the U.S.-Communist China military exercises raised widespread alarm among national security experts. And while the Pentagon downplayed the risk and denied in comments to The New American that any weapons were involved, Chinese officials were boasting of “weapon demonstration, technique exchange, and cooperative action.” Earlier in 2013, a senior Chinese general, who in 2005 threatened to destroy hundreds of U.S. cities with nuclear weapons, led a “military exchange program” delegation to Washington, D.C. from Beijing.
The next year, again for the first time in history, Obama offered further opportunities for Chinese forces to gather sensitive intelligence on how the U.S. military works — this time by inviting Beijing’s Navy to participate in the “RIMPAC war games.” Hosted off the American coast by the U.S. Pacific Command, RIMPAC is the largest multinational maritime exercise in the world. And by allowing the Chinese regime’s ships to participate, Beijing was able to gather important insight into the U.S. military’s “tactics, techniques and procedures” (TTPs), according to analysts. Beijing was invited again this year, even as it steps up its aggressive actions against U.S. Navy ships in international waters… Beijing is taking full advantage of the opportunities to learn about the U.S. military and how it operates, too.
The West is ever eager to placate China in order to keep the world asleep to the inevitable and lethal threat she presents. Incredibly, despite a record low snow season in China’s mountains (which normal disqualifies anyone bidding on the Winter Olympics),
IOC President Thomas Bach… announced to the world on Friday in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia that Beijing won the bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympic Games, making the Chinese capital the first city to host both summer and winter Olympics.
He said the IOC’s decision meant tremendous to China. “It is about 300 million people who are expected to benefit from the 2022 Winter Olympics. This awards us a great opportunity to promote winter sports among them. It will be a marvelous project, an everlasting legacy. It will be an unprecedented feat pulled off by China and IOC, ” he said.
Yes, a marvelous propaganda stunt on behalf of China—just as the Beijing Summer Olympics were. Hitler took similar advantage of the 1936 Olympics to showcase the glories of Nazism. The only upside to this kowtowing to China is that it almost certainly guarantees that China will not go to war with the West until she gains the full propaganda value of these Olympics in 2022. So, you have at least that much time to prepare. Don’t put it off, however; it can easily take 10 years just to get your garden and animal skills where you can produce (most) of your own food.
The Chinese stock markets continue to slide. Beijing’s amateurish but massive interventions in the markets have not paid off. Chinese shares suffered their biggest one-day drop in over eight years this week, but still the market is up 70% over last year, so it is just a bubble bursting, not a collapse. Part of the renewed downward slide is from investors discovering that China lied about its debt levels so local billionaires are liquidating their assets and shifting them to Western or other Asian markets.
Related:
Skousen: U.S. Intentionally Vulnerable to Nuclear Attack from China/Russia
[Updated December 2013] Joel Skousen: Year-End Big Picture Review of Threats — Russia/China invasion of U.S.A. TIMING discussed
(7-minute video) Skousen: Elite Building Bunkers For Coming Nuclear Strike
China may have largest Pacific fleet by 2020 — and capability to destroy US military and intelligence satellites?
China Preparing to Target U.S. Aircraft Carriers — The WU-14 can penetrate missile defense systems by traveling at up to ten times the speed of sound!
(audio/text) Joel Skousen: With a Growing Russian Missile Threat, US is Still Disarming — “Russia says their missiles are for “containment” of the US, but we know they are preparing for a nuclear first strike on America”
(video) Joel Skousen: An Evil Pact Drives Globalists to Set Up USA for China/Russia Takeover | North Korea Will Be the Trigger
New Russian Submarines Are So Silent That The U.S. Navy Calls Them “Black Holes” — An earlier model armed with long-range cruise missiles sailed around in the Gulf of Mexico for weeks without being detected in 2012!
Skousen: Analysis of Strategic Threats in the Current Decade
[Updated May 2010] Joel Skousen: Analysis of Strategic Threats in the Current Decade — The Big Picture!
(vision) Dumitru Duduman: The Russian Invasion of America — “It will start with the world calling for ‘peace, peace.’ Then there will be an internal revolution in America…. The government will be busy with internal problems. Then, from the oceans…” — The rapture will occur AFTER America is destroyed, as God destroys the enemies of Israel!
(vision) Dumitru Duduman: WHEN AMERICA GOES TO WAR WITH CHINA the RUSSIANS WILL STRIKE Alaska, Minnesota, Florida — “America’s sin has reached God. He will allow this destruction, for He can no longer stand such wickedness. God however, still has people that worship Him with a CLEAN HEART as they do HIS WORK. He has prepared a heavenly army to save these people”
[ audio ] Henry Gruver’s Three Visions: Russian (and Chinese) Invasion of America — “When Russia opens her gates and lets the masses go, the free world will occupy themselves with transporting, housing and caring for the masses, and will begin to let their weapons down, and will cry ‘peace and safety,’ and that’s when it will happen.”
(video) Dumitru Duduman: Wake Up America
[2-hour audio] Henry Gruver with Steve Quayle: Visions of War – Visions of Heaven
[mp3 audio] Henry Gruver’s Vision of America being invaded by Russia
[47-minute audio] Henry Gruver: Russian Invasion of America
The WW3 Prophecies (includes prophecies by others)
RED DAWN: ASIAN MILITARY INVASION OF USA? (prophecies by many others)
CORRIE TEN BOOM: PREPARED For The COMING TRIBULATION — “Daddy, I am afraid that I will never be STRONG ENOUGH TO BE A MARTYR for Jesus Christ.” My father said, “OUR FATHER IN HEAVEN KNOWS when you will need the strength…. HE WILL SUPPLY ALL YOU NEED – JUST IN TIME.“
12 Reasons NOT To Expect a PRE-Trib Rapture
In-studio with Infowarrior Alex Jones: Pastor Anderson Reveals Pre-Trib Rapture Deception — “Before the year 1830, EVERY denomination, every type of Christianity taught that the rapture took place AFTER the tribulation, because that’s what the Bible explicitly says.”
[7-minute video sneak peek] The RAPTURE will take place “AFTER THE TRIBULATION” — “Christians, today, are NOT BEING WARNED about the events they will face in the great tribulation. To learn the truth about the rapture, we must look within the pages of the Bible, itself”
Pastor Steven Anderson in Infowars studio: The Truth Left Behind — “The PRE-tribulation rapture is not based on ANY scripture.” The “Left Behind” series was fiction.
All 100+ of my Joel Skousen posts (10 posts per page; latest appear first)
World Affairs Brief, June 26, 2015 Commentary and Insights on a Troubled World.
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WILL ECONOMIC COLLAPSE PREDICTIONS FINALLY COME TRUE THIS FALL?
Each year about this time there are several internet analysts predicting a massive economic collapse in October. This year it is a tsunami of hype that may or may not come true. Even Ron Paul’s comments about the un-sustainability of the dollar and the collapse of the entire US financial system added fuel to the fire. But my biggest issue is with the predictions of imminent collapse. In the past four or five years that I have been tracking these collapse predictions, they always come up empty. Sadly, rather than admit error, the collapse crowd peddles the same theme next year with even more scary scenarios. Most analysts are not wrong about the root problems of debt, speculation and fiat money, but they do not understand or address the massive manipulation of the markets by government and the powers of the FED—who can keep things going and postpone collapse until war comes when they will claim it is not their fault. This week, I will explain why any collapse prediction is invalid without coming to grips with the power of manipulation and the fact that there are no signs that globalists are maneuvering to let it fall.
October seems to be the favored month to trigger market crashes considering the manipulated stock market crashes of 1929 and 1987, but September is also historically a bad month. This time the shaky European bond market is providing fodder for the “sky is falling” crowd, where big liquidity problems threaten to create panic. The irrational US stock market, on the other hand, continues to rise, driven by new money from the FED and the same bandwagon effect that got people in trouble in 1929. The big difference between now and then, as I just mentioned, is the degree of control the FED has over money creation, interest rates, and secret relationships with “Too Big to Fail” banks and Wall Street investment houses that are used as conduits for liquidity injections into the markets in order to cause, halt, or take advantage of panic buying or selling.
Let’s begin with a piece by Michael Snyder, of the Economic Collapse Blog, who persistently makes the case for collapse.
Not since the financial crash of 2008 have so many prominent people issued such urgent warnings about a specific time period. Almost daily now, really big names are coming out with chilling predictions about what they believe is going to happen during the second half of 2015. But it isn’t just that these people have a “bad feeling” about things. The truth is that we are witnessing a confluence of circumstances and events in the second half of this year that is unprecedented.
This is something that I covered in a previous article that went mega-viral all over the Internet entitled “7 Key Events That Are Going To Happen By The End Of September.” [None of which are real indicators of economic collapse. Unfortunately, many of the seven are based on the flawed hype of Jonathan Cahn, author of books about Blood Moons and Shemitah prophecies focusing on Jewish calendars that I don’t believe are definitive or reliable.] Personally, I have never been more concerned about any period of time than I am about the second half of 2015.
Just a few days ago, I received an email that contained a chilling message from Lindsey Williams. You can view the same message that came to my email right here. According to Lindsey Williams, the elite insider that he is in contact with told him that there will be a global financial collapse between September and December of this year…
“WARNING! From Lindsey Williams… My elite friend indicated that they have a World Wide Financial Collapse scheduled between September and the end of December 2015. You may have just THREE (3) months to prepare!”
I think the notion that the PTB have it calendared for this fall is disinformation. The real insiders would know a more precise time frame (so these few can make money off the collapse rather than go down with it). This “insider tip” about getting prepared implies that the PTB intend to create more than just economic chaos. Many pundits on the conservative side keep saying (based on other bogus insiders like the “DHS informant”) that the globalist-engineered collapse will cause social unrest which, in turn, will justify martial law.
This is very bad analysis because the government would clearly get the blame. The only way to trigger a full collapse is to cut the money supply drastically and fail to provide liquidity when thousands of speculators are in trouble. There are hundreds of FED watchers who would know to the day when the FED cut the money supply and caused a collapse.
But if they wait until the coming world war then they can blame all these horrific changes on the enemy—which is why the globalists are so eager to provoke the war. It has worked before and it will work again, diverting the blame from them to the war. These globalists aren’t stupid and always seek to use deception and crises to cover for their evil agenda.
Snyder continues: I have a ton of respect for Lindsey Williams, and I would listen to what he has to say very carefully. Back in 2008, an elite insider told him that the price of oil would drop from $140 a barrel to $40 a barrel, and it happened. This time around, Williams has been telling us throughout 2013 and 2014 that a global financial collapse was not going to happen during those years, and he was right about that. But now he is sounding the alarm that one is going to come by the end of this calendar year.
Snyder’s praise is a very selective recitation of Williams’ track record focusing only on the few times he has been right. What Snyder fails to tell his readers is that Williams was predicting collapse, based on his insider’s tips from 2010 through 2012. And he predicted collapse on and off during 2013 and 2014 until he retracted them for a brief time knowing that his track record was so dismal.
I’m absolutely certain that Williams is being played for a fool by his contacts. As I’ve written before in the WAB, nobody who is an insider is going to get away with leaking the globalist’s intentions to someone like Pastor Williams (who may be sincere) who will parade those tips to the whole world—at least not without getting caught. The NSA tracks all communications, especially those of insiders to make sure no one “talks out of school.” If this source keeps talking to Williams it is only because it is planned and he is spreading disinformation to make Williams look like a fool—which he is for believing him.
Many years ago Pastor Williams did get some good info from semi-insider Ken Fromm, CEO of ARCO, about the US capping huge oil finds in Alaska to keep US oil off the market and drive prices up. But I don’t believe Fromm was a full insider, who are all evil. Fromm just happened to be on the receiving end of threats by government to shut down a major oil find. Fromm complied but was not on board with the agenda. He used his access to those who directed him to get a glimpse of the secret control system that was running our government. He passed these concerns on to Williams, who sold them to the public as info from an insider—which wasn’t technically true.
There’s a difference between having dealings with government controllers, as Fromm did, and being one of them, which Fromm was not. After Fromm died, Williams began to get tips from one or two others claiming to be insider friends of Fromm and authorized to leak information to Williams. Williams had set himself up as someone who had “insider sources” and I believe the government set this follow-on trap for him, knowing that Williams would become an innocent accomplice in spreading disinformation.
It is true that his new sources gave him one dramatic and true tip in 2008, about the timing of the end of the rise in gasoline prices. As any oil insider at the time knew, there was a conspiracy to drive the price of oil upward by keeping supplies off the market. Controlled oil companies were filling every available land based oil storage tank with oil and every idle oil tanker offshore in order to keep supplies off the market. These sources happened to know that all the storage capacity was full in the fall of 2008, and therefore could predict almost to the week when oil would start flowing again to the refineries, dropping prices.
This grand tip made Williams a star—and also a sucker for the future bad tips he would get from his “insiders.” Although Williams has a way of continually spinning his tips in a positive way, he has never owned up to the failures. I tried to warn subscribers clear back in 2011 and 2012 about Williams and the collapse crowd (excerpt from the WAB June 29, 2012):
I field more questions from subscribers and preppers each week on the subject of economic collapse than any other topic, despite having covered in the WAB numerous reasons why neither hyperinflation nor a complete and sudden collapse of the dollar can happen this year or in the next couple of years. In fact, a total collapse could never be sudden just because of the sheer size of the dollar pool internationally.
Yet there is an unending flow of predictions of complete and imminent collapse coming from both the uninformed and the informed financial newsletter writers on the conservative/libertarian side. The latter should know better, but simply haven’t thought this out very well and are using the hype to generate sales of newsletters, financial products or the need to redeem themselves from their long litany of failed collapse predictions already posted.
Pastor Lindsey Williams is continuing to push the banking holiday/collapse scenario based upon his bogus insider sources. My late friend Bob Chapman [The International Forecaster] also got fooled into believing the various scenarios supposedly touted by law enforcement people claiming that the banks were going to close down due to an imminent collapse. That was in August of 2010. But even though that failed, Bob continued to push the collapse scenario.
There is absolutely no reason why the FED would call a banking holiday which would cut off people’s access to money. The economy would collapse within weeks, and they would get the blame. As long as they’ve got the means to keep creating money, there simply is no rationale for this. People who continue to make these claims simply don’t understand either the power of the Fed or the plans of the PTB.
The list of those calling for imminent collapse is growing longer by the week, but it doesn’t mean it is any more true. R.G. Allen, Robert Kiyosaki, Gonzalo Lira, Mike Maloney, Mike Dillard (who’s been pushing the collapse of the EURO for years now and still won’t stop despite the failure of his predictions), and more recently the National Inflation Association, Porter Stansberry and Sandy Leeds are all pushing imminent collapse. While economic fundamentals are crying out for a collapse, these good people don’t understand the powerful nature of the conspiracy we are dealing with and their ability to manipulate the economic numbers.
Even Peter Schiff is predicting collapse by 2014, as reported by Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul of Beacon Equity Research—and she’s a believer too.
As you can see, all of these were wrong on timing. But they’ll be right eventually—in a way. It’s true that fiat money always ends badly, but the financial PTB know this and don’t want to be left holding the bag. That’s why they will continue to keep up the illusion of recovery until there is a sufficient external crisis (probably war) that will justify a new world fiat currency—and it won’t be a gold-backed currency despite the wishful thinking of those hyping China’s accumulation of gold reserves. The Michael Snyder piece continues:
Martin Armstrong is someone else that has been sounding the alarm about the second half of this year. In fact, Armstrong says that he has “warned that the Big Bang was coming since 1985.” [Yes, those were the old “hard money” conference days of Howard Ruff and Jim Blanchard—all of whom thought the collapse would come in the 80’s and then the 90’s. There were stock market corrections like 1987, but NONE even came close to collapse.]
In the past, I have written entire articles about economic cycle theories and what they indicate is coming in our future. [People who build models based on historical cycles can be pretty convincing, but conspiracies and manipulation of markets can’t be tracked by cycle theories.] Armstrong has developed one of his own, and he calls it the Economic Confidence Model. According to the ECM, the “sovereign debt Big Bang” is scheduled to happen by the end of 2015.
There are many aspects that are lining up with the turn in Armstrong’s ECM from the Blood Moon and the Jewish Year for forgiving the debts, to France imposing restrictions on cash in September… [I don’t view these as valid indicators of government changing the way they manage the markets.]
In case you are tempted to dismiss this as nonsense, Armstrong has pointed out that his ECM has been accurate “to the day” in the past. Of course the 1987 crash bottomed to the day with the ECM confirming that was the low. The same took place in 1994 where the U.S. share market bottomed right to the day, once again confirming this was an important low.
In fact Martin did not “call” any of these crashes way back when. My brother Mark (Forecasts and Strategies) was one of the few who actually made an open warning about the stock crash of 1987 by pointing to all the signs that were there. And Peter Schiff did call the crash of mortgage backed securities in 2008. But he hasn’t been as prescient since.
Armstrong has reconstructed his model to conform to the economic patterns of the past. But over time these economic indicators have ceased to become a reliable predictor of market action because of manipulation. Government intervention under the table is the most powerful factor today, not fundamentals. Economic instability abounds all the time and yet markets continue to be propped up by easy money (at near zero interest rates) flowing to insider big banks that keep investing in the huge speculative markets.
The government even has a “plunge protection team” of Wall Street insiders that have access to nearly unlimited FED funds in order to counter any trends that might cause runaway computer selling. Only a minority of individual investors make up the markets today. It’s the big banks, investment houses, hedge funds funds, and speculators that drive the markets.
So will the ECM be right again this time? Only time will tell, but it should be noted that the global bond market is already starting to crash. If Armstrong ultimately turns out to be correct, we could be on the verge of a major turning point.
Snyder is partly right about bonds being in trouble. But the big problem is mostly in European bonds due to the threat of a Greek default spreading to other heavily indebted EU nations. Spain, Italy and Portugal are not far behind Greece. As Yahoo Finance reported,
On Greece, the IMF made some concessions to Greek negotiators on the crucial subjects of value-added tax and pensions. These have been sticking points this week, and the IMF has been the most uncompromising of Greece’s official creditors. The IMF’s willingness to bargain suggests that Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras can save face and keep Greece on the euro, as most of his citizens would prefer (according to polls).
This tends to confirm my prediction that the EU globalist powers will do everything to keep the lower southern tier of nations in the EU at whatever cost. The trouble with the Greek people is that they want both—to maintain their bankrupt welfare state and stay in the EU.
Overall, bonds are in trouble in large part because of the threat of a Greek sovereign debt default. For traders, bond liquidity and predictable interest payments are the attraction (in normal times, it is easy to always find buyers among conservative investors, pension funds, and bond funds) but pensioners themselves tend to buy and hold bonds to maturity, collecting the regular interest payments. To them the threat of a sovereign default is even more serious. Right now, because of the instability over a potential Greek default, liquidity in the trading of bonds has been badly hurt and that is why bonds are in decline. As Bloomberg noted,
There are three things that matter in the bond market these days: liquidity, liquidity and liquidity. How — or whether — investors can trade without having prices move against them has become a major worry as bonds globally tanked in the past few months. As a result, liquidity, or the lack of it, is skewing markets in new and surprising ways.
Spain, for instance, must pay more to borrow money than Italy for 30 years, even though Spain is considered safer by credit raters. Why? The Italian bond market is twice as big as the Spanish one — and, therefore, more liquid.
The same thing is happening around the world. Bonds in smaller, less-traded markets like Finland, Singapore and Canada are starting to fall out of favor. And with the Federal Reserve preparing to raise U.S. interest rates, investors want to know they can sell in a hurry if debt markets turn volatile.
But to put things in perspective global bond prices have only fallen between 8 and 12% and much of this is in anticipation of a rise in interest rates—which the FED continues to postpone and postpone. The investment world doesn’t really expect a wholesale collapse of the entire financial system anymore—even though it is ultimately inevitable as Ron Paul keeps saying.
Ron Paul rightly believes that continual deficits and money creation cannot continue indefinitely. But he clearly doesn’t understand that the FED can keep things afloat a lot longer by keeping overall inflation of the money supply below 10%-15%. He also doesn’t have much understanding of the coming war agenda, which is the globalist’s escape manuever to avoid blame. Ron doesn’t even see the Russian threat. Like most libertarians, he kind of assumes that all the enemies of the globalists must be our friends. Not true.
Not seeing the crisis creation path of war, it’s easy for Ron to get caught up in the collapse predictions based upon the economy’s shaky fundamentals. That’s why he’s been hired on to imminent collapse predictors including Stansberry Research who pays him for his commentary. Stansberry is a perennial collapse prediction firm that sells alternative investment plans and buys time on alternative news web sites to promote their interviews with Paul. That’s why Ron Paul’s collapse predictions are everywhere on the web.
I’ve listened to his video presentations and I’m disappointed at their lack of detailed economic analysis as well as the utter lack of discussion over the role of the FED’s manipulation of markets. Without discussing how, why or what the FED is doing, (beyond creating money) one can’t make a credible case for imminent collapse.
As for the claims by the collapse crowd that the dollar is about to implode let me reiterate some very clear arguments I made in that 2012 WAB about what has to happen for a currency to collapse to occur. None of these are happening yet and my arguments have not been addressed by the collapse crowd:
Let me quickly review, once again, the reasons why a collapse or devaluation of the dollar, hyperinflation, or the dollar quickly losing its reserve currency status is not imminent and can’t happen quickly any time in the next few years:
1) Collapse: Collapse of a currency can only happen if it becomes relatively worthless in a short period of time. Inflation of the currency at high rates is the only thing that can cause this, ending either in devaluation and/or hyperinflation. Neither of these are real threats to the dollar currently despite the huge debt crisis.
2) Devaluation: Devaluation happens when a currency value is pegged to another at a fixed exchange rate, and the smaller currency inflates at a more rapid rate than the pegged currency causing an imbalance in demand which eventually causes the peg to be broken and a new fixed rate set. The dollar isn’t pegged to anything—it’s the standard. In a non-pegged system an informal devaluation can only occur if the dollar is being inflated at a much higher rate than other currencies. That isn’t happening because every other currency is inflating about the same rate proportional to their base as is the dollar. In fact, other currencies approve of US inflation, because it allows them to inflate their currency while maintaining the same relative exchange rate with the dollar.
3) Hyperinflation: Two things must be present for hyperinflation to happen. First, you must start with a relatively small money supply that can be expanded multiple times. The dollar base is so large, after having been inflated and spread around the world for so long that it literally can’t be inflated rapidly as compared to smaller currencies. The quantity of dollars in circulation is estimated at $300 trillion (not counting the huge non-monetized economy of derivatives, contracts and hedges perhaps as big as $500T). The FED could create $30T a year and it wouldn’t exceed 10% inflation rate. Even that huge amount isn’t hyperinflation, which results in panic spending due to rapidly rising prices. Second, a nation has to have an automatic injection mechanism to put increasing quantities of money into the pockets of consumers so they can keep up with rising prices, otherwise the inflation kills stops economic growth. We don’t have that, and what we do have (food stamps, unemployment compensation, Soc. Sec., etc,) isn’t effectively indexed to inflation. Without the public’s ability to get more money each month as in Germany in 1936, the economy retracts as people can’t keep up, and spending decreases—again stopping hyperinflation and causing stagflation.
4) Loss of Reserve Status. This also can’t happen anytime soon since the dollar base is so much larger than any other currency. You’d have to print up probably 5 times the existing quantities of Euros to supplant the dollar and that would have devastating inflationary effects on the Eurozone. The same with the British Pound. No one would trust the Chinese Yen because there’s no transparency there either. What about a basket of currencies? —The same problem exists there as in the EU—even their strict rules about one nation expanding their Euros over another, the southern tier of nations found ways of cheating. No one can trust any of these voluntary agreements anymore.
If there is a real threat right now, it’s the huge derivatives and hedge fund bubble—trillions of dollars committed in contracts but almost without actual asset backing. No big paper investment happens today with CDS derivative insurance or hedging, and little of that can actually be paid to the beneficiary if a sufficient crisis develops. However, this mainly affects the huge speculative economy—and these have the most power to get a bailout from their fellows at the FED.
Rather than see a collapse coming this year or even by 2014, I think we are going to see another mild inflationary recovery (not a true recovery), but one where inflation finally starts to overpower deflationary forces and people start to spend again, and hire. It won’t be big, but it will help the PTB extend this debt spiral until the end of the decade where even bigger world conflicts will help them escape final blame. Don’t underestimate the power of the PTB to keep inflating enough to stave off default and yet keep inflation below 10%.
That said, we are dealing with conspiracies here—and the PTB could simply decide to pull the plug on the economy. All they would have to do is stop intervening in the huge derivative market to keep those contracts from defaulting, as they have been recently in Europe. The derivatives bubble is by far the largest ponzi scheme ever—trillions in promises to pay without any means to make good on all those promises, even after the hedges balance out the excess exposure.
In fact, the derivative mess has been threatening to collapse ever since AIG in 2008, and yet the financial PTB continue to stop the derivative contracts from being collected on. In Europe, for example, they kept insisting that no default had occurred when investors in Greek bonds had to take a 50% haircut (loss on their bond investments). Hence no one could make good on those CDS default swap insurance policies (which are sold as guarantees on all these big risky investments). They change the rules all the time, and control the higher powers that might rule those changes illegal. I think they can keep this up for several more years.
Armstrong makes the prediction that people will start to disbelieve government and its power to stabilize and that this will bring down the system:
This next turning point should be the peak in the concentration of capital and confidence in government. From there on out, 2015.75 [September 2015] should mark the change in trend where people will start to disbelieve government on a grand scale. The debt markets that peak precisely with the target are going to get the worst of it.
Investment legend Jim Rogers agreed:
I suspect in the next year or two we will see some kind of major, major problems in the world financial markets. I would suspect when we have this correction, it’s going to cause central banks to panic. There’s going to come a time when there is not much the central banks can do when they have lost all credibility. When governments have lost all credibility. They will print and spend and borrow, but there comes a time when people are just going to say We don’t want to play this game anymore. And at that point, the world has serious, serious problems because there’s nothing to rescue us.
But these two opinions have one major flaw—people have no other place to go. Government will always have a “solution” controlled by them for any crisis, especially the ones they create. They don’t care if people “don’t want to play this game anymore.” What other choice is there? They put people in prison for trying to establish a competing gold backed currency.
One of the most dramatic warnings about collapse came from Alex Jones in his special video alert relaying how he had “two different calls” from “extremely prominent wealthy people” warning him about what is coming by the end of this year and asking him why he isn’t leaving the United States “before October.” He concludes that “the elite” are leaving the country and you should too.
I think that’s an incorrect deduction about the elite. The real insider elite aren’t leaving the country, even though some do have offshore residences and most have offshore bank accounts. The elite are even building sheltering structures under their resort homes because they know a nuclear war is coming.
Yes, there is a wave of wealthy people, like the ones calling Alex, hell bent on getting out of the country to what they think are safe havens like Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. As the most noted author in the country on Strategy Relocation, I get tons of calls about off-shore retreat strategies, but I can’t recommend them. It’s not a smart strategy at all.
These people labor under the very mistaken impression that somehow the rest of the world is not going to be affected by the eventual collapse of the US dollar and the US economy, which isn’t true. All of these foreign destinations are heavily reliant on world trade, tourism and the stability of the dollar. All of their budgets are in deficit—some worse than others—but none are going to be able to provide American ex-patriots the current cheap, peaceful expat lifestyle they all read about on the net.
Worse yet for the Pacific island retreats is the threat of conquest in the next world war. China is planning to conquer their part of the world—exactly like Japan did in WWII—to seize all of the island territory on the Pacific ring. This will include Australia (where China has already bought up all the mineral rights), New Zealand and the Pacific islands. Try factoring in a Chinese occupation into your retreat plans (and the need to blend in or hide in order to survive) and the US begins to look pretty good.
A lot of people think they are going to be able to avoid the affects of the coming nuclear war by being in South America or in the Pacific. Yes, it’s true, there probably won’t be many nuclear targets in those areas, but that’s only a small part of the threats you face in war. Almost half the nations in South America presently have outright communist or former communist leaders who are actively promoting ties with Russia and China. Every nation will have to choose sides in a world war and with the growing reputation of the US as the bully of the world I wouldn’t count on a favorable long-term reception for Americans in foreign countries.
When these nation’s socialist welfare budgets become even more bankrupt than they are (look at Venezuela) the rapacious Left goes after foreign property owners and bank accounts first. Mexico has confiscated dollar accounts twice already.
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Some summary comments:
While I have spoken out vigorously against the imminent collapse of the dollar and the entire fiat money system short of war (which is still a few years away), I do believe it is likely that there will be a significant correction in both the bond and stock markets—as much as 20%. If that happens this fall, the collapse crowd will say it’s a collapse, but it won’t be. The FED will intervene and it has a lot more room to expand the money supply before reaching high levels of inflation.
Remember, that economies NEVER completely collapse except under conditions of war where there is a major destruction and dislocation of structures and people—or hyperinflation, which is unlikely without any formal indexing system to allow people to keep paying higher and higher prices.
Even the “Great Depression” was not a true collapse of the economy. 75% were still employed. Yes, some were devastated financially by excessive speculation and lost everything, and many people lost their jobs because consumption nearly stopped. The big problem in the depression was that the poor had very little to fall back on, either in terms of housing, supplies, or family to lean on.Today, in contrast, even the poor are rich by comparison to the depression, with multiple cars, entertainment sets, clothes, and welfare payments. Only a war of partial destruction and the taking down of the electric grid could obliterate those accumulated assets that currently allow people to escape much of the current economic consequences.
I’m not a fan of the FED or its power to keep bailing things out, but I do know that they have even more manipulation ability than we know about and will use it to avoid losing control, and energize people against them. They have a major war agenda they are building for, which will trounce the growing opposition to globalist structures they keep trying to shove down our throats. Maintaining the appearance that they have the solutions is crucial. I think the PTB are fully aware of the risks in the current speculative economy and are working overtime to keep thing afloat—not for benevolent reasons, but to maintain power.
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gs-Y8jX9zk]Joel Skousen World Affairs Brief
Published on Apr 19, 2015
In this fascinating interview, Joel Skousen explains why the Ukraine ri sing was a a stealth Russian invasion aided by the West. He explains how the fall of The Berlin Wall was nothing more than a false flag and how this ties into the Hegelian Dialectic, Victoria Nuland’s use of profanity towards the European Union, Henry Kissinger, The Bilderberg Group, Barak Obama, The Council on Foreign Relations, ISIS, The War on Terror, Svoboda, and how all right wing racist movements are run by the CIA, our march towards World War 3 and when we can expect the WAR to start, how to prepare, what to do, and the implications towards yourself and your children. Joel is a mastermind on geo political content and this interview is not to be missed.
“Conservatives have been fed a long line of propaganda by the likes of Dinesh D’Souza (Film: “Obama’s America”) about having a Marxist/Muslim president and that all conservative troubles will be over once he is out of office. Not true. He’s controlled by others and so will the next President, even if Republican.”
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I’m thinking the super tight security may be to hide from the public Jeb Bush and the others who are not on the official list that must keep their attendance secret.
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Joel says here that the official list contains only about half of who really attend:
This photo is from a few years ago:
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[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk5VLT8KY_Q]Joel Skousen Bilderberg Austria 2015
Published on Jun 12, 2015
My good friend Joel Skousen gave me some more of his valuable time to discuss the reality of what may or may not be taking place in Austria over the next week. He highlights some of the major players and the topics that may be covered, Kissinger, Rothchild, Rockefellar the people who pull the strings for the major corporation. It is a another fascinating interview with one of the leading global geo political minds on the globe right now. this man is always in demand so please feel free to download this audio from sound cloud and keep it for prosperity, as when the Internet comes down you will need to have your own copies of what really is happening on planet earth as those who win the war write the history.
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“Conservatives have been fed a long line of propaganda by the likes of Dinesh D’Souza (Film: “Obama’s America”) about having a Marxist/Muslim president and that all conservative troubles will be over once he is out of office. Not true. He’s controlled by others and so will the next president, even if Republican.”
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World Affairs Brief, June 12, 2015 Commentary and Insights on a Troubled World.
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BILDERBERG GROUP—WHAT ARE THEY REALLY UP TO?
The annual Bilderberg meeting is going on this weekend at a secluded resort in Austria. Thanks to the efforts of anti-globalists to protest and report on these super-secret conventions, public distrust is growing against the globalist elite and their collusion with governments and the media. While the annual meeting used to be a total secret, they now put out a partial list of attendees and a partial agenda—but their most sensitive members and private discussions are still secret. What the Bilderberg meeting is not, is as important as what it is. It is not the meeting of the top globalist leaders in the world. Rather, it is more like an international convention of globalists where a few of the very top leaders meet with both old regular members as well as new up and coming globalists who are being vetted as to their receptivity to the globalist agenda. Some in attendance are told of the next crucial moves in advance of a New World Order without any effective national sovereignty.
As typical of most conventions, there will be a lot of formal presentations given in general sessions. The list of topics are: Artificial Intelligence (presented by Google’s DeepMind division—of interest to globalists for various aspects of people control), Cybersecurity, Chemical Weapons Threats, Current Economic Issues, European Strategy (for EU treaty changes), How to keep Greece in the EU despite default, How to keep Britain in the EU, Globalization goals and progress (Trans Pacific Partnership and Transatlantic partnerships as stepping stones to globalism), Iran (use of the nuclear deal to eventually condemn Iran and justify an attack), NATO problems, Russia (how to manage Russian aggressiveness without stopping it), and finally US Elections (how to promote their favored globalist candidates).
These all contain controversial aspects and there will undoubtedly be smaller sessions for key globalist implementers where detailed conspiratorial strategies will be discussed. For this and other reasons, the group requires extreme security measures to keep out the prying eyes and ears of anti-globalist journalists who would love to infiltrate and listen in. This is why the meetings are being held at remote luxury resorts rather than city locations. Austrian police have set up military-style check points on all roads and trails leading to the small mountain community of Telfs-Buchen. All regular guests have been required to leave so that there will be no witnesses to the secret members who attend who are not on the public list.
Alex Jones’ Infowars.com crew is always there to document the constant harassment of the press, and there was plenty to see and hear. In this link, editor at large, Paul Joseph Watson writes about the UK Guardian reporter badgered by Austrian police deep into the night. They were probably told to target the Guardian for that paper’s role in publishing the Edward Snowden revelations. Watson concludes correctly,
While journalists at the G7 meeting were pampered, given goodie bags, free food halls and relaxation rooms, reporters at Bilderberg 2015 in Austria have been under constant surveillance and harassment.
Let’s look at who’s who at Bilderberg. Do not make the mistake that all the biggest globalists attend. They do not. Zbigniew Brzezinsky, a Polish born globalist on par with Henry Kissinger isn’t on the list. Every year the biggest controllers meet at some other location months prior to plan the secret agenda for Bilderberg and determine the list of attendees, including those that will be public and those to remain secret. Bilderberg is only a small part of the dozens of globalist organizations that have been created to make sure that they will survive even if one or two organizations are exposed. To name just a few:
The Trilateral Commission, Council on Foreign Relations (with a EU branch in Berlin and its sister organ in the UK—the Royal Institute of International Affairs), Club of Rome, Committee of 300, the Bohemian Grove, and the Aspen Institute. There are also historic links that go back to various Masonic Orders, and to the Vatican—both still strong in Europe.
Besides a host of government leaders, attendees in 2015 include the founders and CEOs of major internet corporations like Amazon, Facebook and Google, major petroleum companies like BP, and Shell and almost every multinational financial institution. Here’s a link to the public list of attendees, which is by no means complete.
The roster is limited to about 140 participants but I estimate the real list is almost double that—because so many require that their names be kept secret so the public will not know of their globalist allegiance. Below is my summary of some of the more important names, grouped into various classes so you can more easily see how they fit into the globalist control agenda. I have also added additional information about certain key people, to show you who high business and government circles also have a secret role in the globalist conspiracy:
Government Officials, current and former (nationalities have been abbreviated, INT = international. I’ll decipher the first occurrence of others if not obvious, and point to some people of interest in bold):
Henry A Kissinger, Chairman, Kissinger Associates [Former National Security Advisor to Nixon and Ford. More details on him below.]
Ursula von der Leyen, Minister of Defense DEU (Germany)
Jens Stoltenberg, Secretary General, NATO
Alexander Stubb, Prime Minister FIN (Finland)
Katrin Suder, Deputy Minister of Defense DEU
Alain Juppé, Mayor of Bordeaux, Former Prime Minister FRA
Heinz Fischer, Federal President AUT (Austria)
Alfred Gusenbauer, Former Chancellor of the Republic of Austria AUT
George Osborne,First Secretary of State and Chancellor of the Exchequer GBR
Charles Michel, Prime Minister BEL
Mark Rutte, Prime Minister NLD (Netherlands)
Thomas E Donilon [Former U.S. National Security Advisor to Obama. The NS advisor is almost always the “handler” of any puppet president as far as foreign affairs.]
Jim Messina [Currently chief advisor to Hillary Clinton. Formerly White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations under Obama from 2009 to 2011 and campaign manager for Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign. He is also a senior adviser to the UK Conservative Party proving that this party is really not “conservative.”]
John R. Allen, Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL, US Department of State USA [Another retired Marine Corps General like globalist James Jones the past Deputy Commander of U.S. Central Command.]
Edward M. Balls, Former Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer GBR [Shadow refers to the opposition in UK which forms a parallel “shadow” cabinet to the majority government—this shows the globalist control of both sides.]
José Barroso, Former President of the European Commission PRT [Very Left-wing globalist, still active, who has been pushing for treaty changes that damage national sovereignty.]
Laurence Boone, Special Adviser on Financial and Economic Affairs to the President FRA
Mikael L Damberg, Minister for Enterprise and Innovation SWE
Karel De Gucht, Former EU Trade Commissioner, State Minister BEL
Jeroen Dijsselbloem, Minister of Finance NLD
Christina Markus Lassen, Head of Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, DNK (Denmark)
Bankers: All large banking firms are connected to the globalist agenda, but not all are represented each year. This is still a broad international sampling of some powerful international banking and investment banking houses:
James D. Wolfensohn, USA [10 yr Chair of World Bank, Austrian-American lawyer.]
Mary Erdoes, CEO, JP Morgan Asset Management USA
Robert B. Zoellick, Chairman, Board of International Advisors, The Goldman Sachs Group USA [US Trade Representative to push global trade agreements.]
Peter D. Sutherland, UN Special Representative; Chairman, Goldman Sachs IRL
Paul M. Achleitner, Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Deutsche Bank DEU
Ana P. Botín, Chairman, Banco Santander ESP (Spain)
W. Edmund Clark, Retired Executive, TD Bank Group CAN
David I. McKay, President and CEO, Royal Bank of Canada CAN
Benoît Coeuré, Member of the Executive Board, European Central Bank INT
Douglas J. Flint, Group Chairman, HSBC Holdings plc GBR
Stuart Levey, Chief Legal Officer, HSBC Holdings USA [First Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence at Department of the Treasury.]
Erich Hampel, Chairman, UniCredit Bank Austria AUT
Kenneth M. Jacobs, Chairman and CEO, Lazard USA [on the board of the globalist Brookings Institution, and also on the Steering Committee of Bilderberg who decide attendees each year.]
Adolf Scholten, CEO, Austrian Kontrollbank AUT
Karl Sevelda, CEO, Raiffeisen Bank International AUT
Klaas H.W. Knot, President, De Nederlandsche Bank NLD
Intelligence, Security Directors: These are important to globalists because the phony war on terror is being used to drive the reduction in civil rights as a result of false flag terror attacks.
Thomas Ahrenkiel, Director, Danish Intelligence Service (DDIS) DNK
Patrick Calvar, Director General, DGSI FRA
Wolfgang Ischinger, Chairman, Munich Security Conference [where Kissinger was honored]
Konrad Kogler, Director General, Directorate General for Public Security AUT
Pierre Maudet, VP Swiss State Council, Department of Security, Geneva CHE
Globalist business leaders: The first group are major tech firms which are suspected of being tools of government surveillance like Google, Microsoft, and LinkedIn. Then there are major automobile and electronic corporations, etc.
Craig J. Mundie, Mundie & Associates [Microsoft VP, Bilderberg Steering Committee.]
Eric E. Schmidt, Executive Chairman, Google Inc. USA [Dedicated globalist pushing Ingestible ID Chips, a globalist people control agenda, etc.]
Demis Hassabis, VP of Engineering, Google DeepMind GBR
Regina Dugan, VP for Engineering, Advanced Technology and Projects, Google USA [developing more secret projects useful to a New World Order.]
Reid Hoffman, Co-Founder and Executive Chairman, LinkedIn USA [Like Bill Clinton he got indoctrinated in globalism at Oxford University and as a Marshall Scholar.]
Peter A. Thiel, President, Thiel Capital USA [He provides millions for controlled Republican candidates, showing how globalists work both sides of the political spectrum.]
Roger C. Altman, Executive Chairman, Evercore USA [American investment banker and Democratic politician. He served as Deputy Secretary of the Treasury from 1993 to 1994 in the Clinton administration.]
Vin Weber, Partner, Mercury LLC USA [Former “conservative” Congressman from MN that paved the way for the grand Republican deception under Newt Gingrich (Contract with America). Weber became an NPR commentator on health issues but never revealed that he was a paid lobbyist for several large health insurance companies. He was a neocon and helped create the globalist conflict creation paper called Project for the New American Century (PNAC).]
James A. Johnson, Chairman, Johnson Capital Partners USA [was involved in selecting Obama’s running mate for the 2008 election and John Kerry’s running mate, John Edwards, who gave a speech at Bilderberg in Italy that same year.]
Kenneth Griffin, Founder and CEO, Citadel Investment Group, LLC USA [The only conservative billionaire Republican on the list that doesn’t have a public connection to globalism. He claims to be a “Reagan Republican” and supported Mitt Romney for president. Perhaps he’s being recruited.]
Thomas Enders, CEO, Airbus Group DEU
John Elkann, Chairman and CEO, EXOR; Chairman, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles ITA
Svein Richard Brandtzæg,President and CEO, Norsk Hydro ASA NOR
John Kerr, Deputy Chairman, Scottish Power GBR
Henri de Castries, Chairman, Bilderberg Meetings; Chairman AXA Group, FRA
Wolfgang Hesoun, CEO, Siemens Austria AUT
Joe Kaeser, President and CEO, Siemens DEU
Jean-Dominique Senard, CEO, Michelin Group FRA
Alex Karp, CEO, Palantir Technologies USA [Security and spyware programming for federal, and state governments.]
Klaus Kleinfeld, Chairman and CEO, Alcoa USA [German-born board member of Citigroup and Bilderberg.]
Carola Lemne, CEO, The Confederation of Swedish Enterprise SWE
Carl-Henric Svanberg, Chairman, BP plc; Chairman, AB Volvo SWE
Globalist-oriented Tax Exempt Foundations: These are all dedicated globalists that push the NWO agenda through speeches, scholarships and position papers—very influential.
Robert E. Rubin, Co Chair, Council on Foreign Relations; Former Sec. of the Treasury USA
William Burns, President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace USA [A long standing globalist organization. Also past deputy Sec. of State, got his globalist initiation at Oxford University, where he studied as a Marshall Scholar].
Jessica T. Mathews, Past President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace USA
Karim Sadjadpour, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace USA [Iran specialist, Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in Davos.]
Zoë Baird, President, Markle Foundation USA [Democrat lawyer nominated by President Bill Clinton as the first woman to be Attorney General of the United States but withdrew when it was discovered she hired an illegal alien and evaded employment taxes.]
Marie-Josée Kravis, Vice Chair, Hudson Institute USA [Third wife of billionaire financier Henry Kravis. She is CFR member.]
James Mattis, Hoover Institution, Stanford University USA [Former US General. A lot of high ranking US officers become globalists. The government provides lots of training classes in global affairs to high ranking officers.]
Richard N Perle,. Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute USA [Highly placed neocon and promoter of the need for a New Pearl Harbor (PNAC position paper).]
David H. Petraeus, Chairman, KKR Global Institute USA [Another globalist general who has friends in high places: The former CIA Director was forced to resign for security breaches with a mistress, but “An array of friends in high places came to the aid [of] Petraeus as he faced sentencing for providing classified data to his mistress, newly released court papers show. Senator Lindsey Graham,former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair, former national security advisor Tom Donilon, Graham Allison, founding dean of Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government; Senator Dianne Feinstein, a California Democrat; Stephen Hadley, national security advisor to President George W. Bush; retired Admiral William McRaven, former commander of U.S. Special Operations Command; and retired Admiral Mike Mullen, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff [Shows all these people are connected into the system of protection for insiders.] were among almost three dozen people who wrote a federal judge urging leniency for Petraeus. [It worked, proving that insiders have immunity.] The former general was sentenced to two years probation… and also ordered to pay a $100,000 fine for giving classified material to Paula Broadwell, his biographer with whom he had an extramarital affair.]
Media: In the past major US news media have attended, as attested to by a remark made by David Rockefeller: “We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years … It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national autodetermination practiced in past centuries.” – 1991 at Bilderberg.
So, obviously the following attending media, being collaborators with globalists were not harassed, but neither were they there to report. US media failed to show up to cover the event and were conspicuously absent from the public list of attendees unlike prior years. They are obviously embarrassed by exposure to the above Rockefeller leak.
Rona Fairhead, Chairman, BBC Trust GBR
John Micklethwait, Editor-in-Chief, Bloomberg LP USA [Left the Economist to join Bloomberg. Bloomberg coverage of Bilderberg failed to mention that he was attending]
Zanny Minton Beddoes, Editor-in-Chief, The Economist GBR [Economist began as a far left-wing publication and now is globalist, though it has some pretty good analysis of foreign nations—absent any revelations about globalist intentions.]
Martin H. Wolf, Chief Economics Commentator, The Financial Times GBR
Oscar Bronner, Publisher, Standard Verlagsgesellschaft AUT
Andrew Coyne, Editor, Editorials and Comment, National Post CAN
Trine Eilertsen, Political Editor, Aftenposten NOR [Notice, often the top people don’t attend to avoid notoriety, but send a globalist underling to represent them.]
Merete Eldrup, CEO, TV 2 Danmark A/S DNK
Lilli Gruber, Executive Editor and Anchor “Otto e mezzo”, La7 TV ITA
Higher Education People (in and out of government):
Martin S. Feldstein, US Econ Roundtable; Professor of Economics, Harvard University USA
Niall Ferguson, Professor of History, Harvard, Gunzberg Center for European Studies USA
Sergei Guriev, Professor of Economics, Sciences Po RUS [Russians and Chinese are rarely invited to Bilderberg.]
Victor Halberstadt, Professor of Economics, Leiden University NLD
Shiraz Maher, Senior Research Fellow, ICSR, King’s College London GBR
Investigative journalist and author of “The True Story of the Bilderberg Group,” Daniel Estulin, talked about the Biderberg Group this week on Coast to Coast AM. He said that this year’s meeting hosted a particularly powerful roster of individuals, along with higher levels of security surrounding the conference. Globalist groups like Bilderberg and CFR seek to consolidate power under a central government, he said.
Estulin goes off the deep end a bit by predicting that technological advances will soon transform the very nature of humanity itself. He claims that the children alive now are surely the last generation of 100% humans, and that “their children are going to be transhuman, post-human, nano-machines, and cyborgs,” —the result of the amazing revolution in synthetic biology, which is advancing exponentially. Such technologies will be used by elite groups like the Bilderbergs, he says, to control humanity.
My opinion: The globalists may be trying to hijack technology to change humanity, but these atheists don’t understand that God has certain limits on how much He allows evil to mess with planet earth as a testing place for humanity.
David Rockefeller (100 yrs old) is still one of the top globalist leaders in the world, though he doesn’t travel anymore. Ron Mann, head of special projects in the White House under the Reagan administration related to me a telling story about the power of David Rockefeller:
Mann had been tasked to organize an economic conference at the White House during the Reagan presidency. It was by invitation only. Before it started David Rockefeller walked in even though he was not invited. He sat down by Robert McNamara, the head of the World Bank and began to talk. Ron approached him and politely told him that the meeting was by invitation only and that that seat was taken, but Rockefeller ignored him. He overheard Rockefeller tell McNamara, “Now remember, Bob, don’t commit to anything more or less than what I told you.”
So, here you have a man who can walk into the White House uninvited and give orders to the head of the World Bank. That speaks volumes about being “above the law, and government.”
In his autobiography, Memoirs, David Rockefeller belittled and made fun of conspiracy believers:
If the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) raises the hackles of the conspiracy theorists, the Bilderberg meetings must induce apocalyptic visions of omnipotent international bankers plotting with unscrupulous government officials to impose cunning schemes on an ignorant and unsuspecting world.
He obviously knew about his reputation as a globalist conspirator so he ends the discussion depicting globalism as a virtue and admitted to being a proud adherent:
Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States characterizing my family and me as ‘internationalists’ and conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure – one world, if you will. If that’s the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.
Henry Kissinger has long been the most public champion of globalist policy and has been directly manipulating US foreign policy for these ends even beyond his term as National Security Advisor to Pres. Nixon. In the 1992 Bilderberg Meeting at Evians, France, he is reported to have promoted the theory of how crises can be used to overturn people’s reluctance to accept external control,
Today, America would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told that there were an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by the World Government.
But the most telling conspiratorial evidence concerning Kissinger comes from James Jones, Obama’s first National Security Adviser (foreign policy handler) in 2009 at the Munich Security Conference, which has just given Kissinger an international award.
Thank you for that wonderful tribute to Henry Kissinger yesterday. Congratulations. As the most recent National Security Advisor of the United States, I take my daily orders from Dr. Kissinger, filtered down through General Brent Scowcroft and Sandy Berger, who is also here. We have a chain of command in the National Security Council that exists today.
Now that’s proof of conspiracy. That’s not a legal chain of command. Henry Kissinger, no longer in the employ of the US government and had no legal authority to give daily orders to the National Security Council which directs the President on US foreign policy. That’s evidence of external control of our government by globalist powers. This quotation is still on the CFR website today at the above link. Why hasn’t it been purged? Apparently they no longer fear that an informed public can stop this agenda, knowing that the compliant media won’t ever make this quotation an issue. They have dutifully never mentioned Jones’ remark to the public.
Kissinger is almost always present—and little wonder—he is the most visible of the political grand masters that manipulate governments around the world. He was largely responsible for the sellout of South Vietnam at the Paris Peace Talks, the giving away of advanced missile technology to Russia during the Nixon administration and the betrayal of Free China to Red China at the UN—not just replacing them, but giving them a seat on the Security Council with veto power.
After leaving the National Security Agency, where he served as the handler for President Nixon (who was kept semi-incapacitated much of the time with mood-altering medication–Robert Dallek’s “Nixon and Kissinger”), he formed Kissinger and Associates where he continued to ply his globalist trade worldwide. For example, he was the first visitor on the calendar for newly minted Spanish President Jose Maria Aznar in 1996.
Aznar admitted in an interview with Inaki Gabilondo that Kissinger, who didn’t speak Spanish and knew little about Spain, was “explaining to me ‘how the world worked.’” —Meaning who was really in charge and what he had to do to stay in compliance with the global Powers That Be (PTB). Aznar played his role obediently and was rewarded after leaving politics with a directorship of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp—even though he had zero background in running a news organization.
Other regular attendees, and some are not on the official list, are Barack Obama, Prince Charles, Bill Gates, Eric Schmidt, Rupert Murdoch, Tony Blair, Bill and Hillary Clinton, George HW Bush Sr. and son George W. Bush. Jeb Bush is believed to have been there secretly this week, but has denied that he is stopping in for the Bilderberg meeting. But who would know if he did? Security is tighter than a war zone and some of the secretive attendees arrive in darkened limos or even helicopters.
Finally, let me comment on the controversial origins of Bilderberg. Michael Snyder published his version of the origins of this globalist threat to humanity on his blog. He is generally on target but I will explain where I differ with his analysis of the Nazi connection:
When you want to discover what an organization is really all about, it is important to dig down to the roots. And when you uncover the roots of the Bilderberg Group, you find some very unsettling things. It turns out that the Bilderberg Group has had Nazi connections from the very beginning, and it continues to advance the agenda of the Nazis to this very day.
In reality, the globalist conspiracy was in operation decades before Hitler and his National Socialists came to power in Germany. It didn’t rise from the ashes of Nazism, and globalists are not Nazis per se. Globalists created WWI and controlled the Treaty of Versailles with its impossible reparations payments in gold Reichsmarks. Their goal was a New World order called the League of Nations, which failed. But onerous reparations would guarantee yet another war by crushing Germany’s economy and forcing them to attack the West yet again. Wall Street advisors to the German finance ministry convinced them to inflate their currency to pay off the reparations in paper money, which ended in hyperinflation and financial collapse. In the end, it made most Germans hostile to free markets which were not really to the blame. That, in turn, gave rise to the twin evils of social engineering: socialism and communism, and Hitler would play off of the fear of the more radical communists to bring National Socialism to victory.
During World War II, the Nazi effort to unite all of Europe (and ultimately the rest of the world) through war failed miserably. When the war ended, those that believed in that dream decided that another approach would be necessary.
The destruction of Germany and the Nazis in WWII was planned, not compensated for because the globalist were working through Nazism. The globalists supporting Nazism were not Nazis—just using it to tear down certain powerful German institutions that were resistant to globalist control before the war. Globalists believe in using conflict to create change, and the key aspect of WWII was the justification for the globalists to build up an even worse enemy than Hitler—Soviet communism—which would drive Western foreign policy for the next period of conflict. Peace and diplomacy would be the deception foisted upon the West to justify permissiveness of the new Soviet threat.
The idea for the common currency that the European Union uses today, the euro, was conceived and developed by the Bilderberg Group [true]. This organization has always been at the forefront of European unity, but most people have no idea where it came from [true].
Well, the truth is that the Bilderberg Group first met in 1954, and one of the key founders of the group was Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands. [Actually, he wasn’t a key formulator or founder, but the front man who the globalists could use to disarm public opinion, which was opposed to global governance.] Not only was he a founder, Prince Bernhard actually served as the organization’s chairman until 1976 [a figurehead only]. So why is this important? Most people do not realize this, but Prince Bernhard actually belonged to the Nazi Party at one time. The following is an excerpt from an article that appeared in the Telegraph…
“Bernhard, a secret history” has revealed that the prince was a member of the German Nazi party until 1934, three years before he married Princess Juliana, the future queen of the Netherlands… He left all the groups on leaving university in December 1934, when he went to work for the German chemical giant, IG Farben.
What these writers are not allowing for is that liberals like Bernhard are often attracted early on in life to socialist promises but then get converted over to the greater power of the globalists. Barak Obama is a perfect example. He was an ideological Marxist in his formative years but switched to a globalist puppet when they promised him wealth and a seat in the US Senate. Conservatives have been fed a long line of propaganda by the likes of Dinesh D’Souza (Film: “Obama’s America”) about having a Marxist/Muslim president and that all conservative troubles will be over once he is out of office. Not true. He’s controlled by others and so will the next president, even if Republican.
And Prince Bernhard’s association with IG Farben also links him to the Nazis. [Not really. IG Farben was supported before the war by Wall Street globalists, who were investing in all aspects of the Nazi war machine (see Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler, by Sutton). This was globalism building an enemy which they would eventually defeat, giving rise to yet larger enemies—the Russians and Chinese communists.]
John Foster Dulles was instrumental in helping the Bilderberg Group get established. His brother, Allen Dulles, was responsible for Operation Paperclip which enabled large numbers of Nazi scientists (among others) to come into the United States and start working for the U.S. government in various capacities. [Not because the Dulles brothers were a bunch of Nazi sympathizers, but rather because they were trying to harness the advanced technology and evil means of controlling people that the Nazis had developed.]
The “godfather” of the Bilderberg Group is a former U.S. Secretary of State named Henry Kissinger. He has attended the gathering almost every single year, and he will be there once again in 2015. This is a man that is so committed to globalization that he even wrote a book entitled “World Order“
Of course nobody associated with the Bilderberg Group would ever use the word “Nazi” to describe themselves. That term has become so associated with evil that nobody wants anything to do with it. But the values and the principles of the Nazis endure in organizations such as the Bilderberg Group. The ultimate goal, of course, is a one world government that dominates the entire planet.
Only the last sentence is completely correct. The globalists have never viewed themselves as Nazis or Communists but rather use these more virulent forms of control as agents for change by creating wars and conflict. The globalists view their brand of mixed capitalism as more sophisticated than strong-arm tactics and more capable of achieving control without engendering the opposition that blatant tyranny does. The globalist deception is far more sophisticated than what the Nazis or Soviets conceived. Globalists are the true Masters of Deceit.
Transcribed by Jeff Fenske from this video:
“The acceleration really more is the fact that there is less resistance anymore, because of the dumbing down of the people.”
“We’re losing the battle in large part, because even our conservatives are trying to work by rules rather than tap into the spiritual Source that can direct us more specifically. … Things are so much more complex than just ‘restore the Constitution.'”
“These are glitzy, social networks with attractive, talking head women and presenters. But they’ll never talk about conspiracy — not one mention. In fact, FOX News has Hannity and O’Reilly who will literally excoriate a person who even hints that he believes in conspiracy.”
“I was a pretty good violator of conscience, relative to homework when I was growing up — always being prompted to do my homework before I went out and played. I was always violating it, got some bad grades because of it, until I learned: hey, this signal is here to help. And when I finally buckled down and started really listening, I realized: boy, this God is trying to really make you better, and He’s after you all the time.
But the more you listen, and the more you use self-control to obey, the greater the blessings come, the better things work out in life. I can hear to tell you, pushing almost 70 years, nobody is a success in life; nobody makes good decisions about children, about getting married, any of those things, unless they tie into the voice of the Lord, that still, small voice inside your mind.”
– Joel Skousen
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“Undoubtedly, when we get in the quiet, still place of the Most High, which I can’t hardly stand to do….”
– Alex Jones
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[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCOY-WRu78c]The Spiritual Evil Force Behind Violence
Part II of this interview:
(video) Skousen: Israeli Mossad Directs ISIS – with CIA to take down Assad, so Israel can bomb Iran
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1X9_WMyCGE]Joel Skousen: The Summer Of Rage
A federal court ruled that Section 215 of the Patriot Act did not authorize bulk data collection, whereas the Freedom Act contains provisions to actually give the government that authority. …
Note that the so-called USA Freedom Act only addresses phone data collection and leaves untouched all the email data collection which is total. It also doesn’t address the total tracking of internet activity.
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World Affairs Brief, June 5, 2015 Commentary and Insights on a Troubled World.
Copyright Joel Skousen. Partial quotations with attribution permitted. Cite source as Joel Skousen’s World Affairs Brief (http://www.worldaffairsbrief.com).
PATRIOT ACT EXPIRES, SPYING CONTINUES
The media dutifully parroted the government claim this week that the NSA was dismantling whole spy buildings in compliance with the expiration of the PATRIOT Act, but there is no evidence of this whatsoever. Stopping domestic spying has never been an option for the NSA, and it will never stop. In fact, domestic spying is not about finding terrorists but about tracking dissidents and anti-government activists and their followers in the USA. The USA Freedom Act, which supposedly limits government spying, is a ploy to make it appear as if the NSA is being severely limited. Public outrage will now subside thinking that domestic spying is now restricted. It is not and that is why this “reform” bill was allowed to pass and why Obama will quickly sign it into law.
The NY Times gave an interesting commentary on the behind-the-scenes acrimony and maneuvers between government shills like Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky) and his fellow Kentucky Senator, Rand Paul who is sincerely trying to stop government spying. The Times has subsequently published several pieces taking potshots at Paul—who is clearly the one they must not allow to be the GOP nominee for president:
The expiration of three key provisions of the Patriot Act means that, for now, the N.S.A. will no longer collect newly created logs of Americans’ phone calls in bulk. It also means that the F.B.I. cannot invoke the Patriot Act to obtain, for new investigations, wiretap orders that follow a suspect who changes phones, wiretap orders for a “lone wolf” terrorism suspect not linked to a group, or court orders to obtain business records relevant to an investigation.
However, the Justice Department may invoke a so-called grandfather clause to keep using those powers for investigations that had started before June 1, and there are additional workarounds investigators may use to overcome the lapse in the authorizations. [The government will always find some loophole or procedure to keep justifying what they want to do.]
Mr. McConnell and other national security hawks who failed to continue the program badly underestimated the shift in the national mood, [first time the Times has admitted that] which has found its voice with Democrats and the libertarian wing of the Republican Party. The moment also put him at odds with Mr. Paul, whom he has endorsed for president. [Only because Paul endorsed McConnell for re-election with an expectation for a quid pro quo.
Mr. Paul’s effort [to block the PATRIOT Act extension] clearly angered many of his Republican colleagues, who met without him an hour before the Senate began to vote Sunday night. Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona [a neocon warmonger], who sparred with Mr. Paul on the floor over procedure, said later that Mr. Paul was not fit for the White House job he seeks. “I’ve said on many occasions that I believe he would be the worst candidate we could put forward,” he said.
Even as senators were trickling into the Capitol from the airport, Mr. McConnell attempted to extend some aspects of the law. He asked senators to consider a two-week continuation of the federal authority to track a “lone wolf” terrorism suspect not connected to a state sponsor and to conduct “roving” surveillance of a suspect, rather than of a phone number alone, to combat terrorists who frequently discard cellphones [the phony justifications go on and on].
But Mr. Paul objected, and Mr. McConnell denounced from the Senate floor what he called “a campaign of demagoguery and disinformation” about the program.
Many are celebrating the demise of the PATRIOT Act and its replacement with the USA Freedom Act, thinking that the establishment was defeated and only reluctantly accepted the Freedom Act. This comment by Philippe Gastonne is typical:
Almost everything the president says about the USA Freedom Act is false. He does not at all “welcome” the law’s passage. If Obama had his way, Congress would have never even considered this law because the National Security Agency’s illegal activities would still be secret.
He’s wrong about Obama not welcoming the passage of the Freedom Act. Obama will sign it because it actually authorizes spying in a more direct way than the PATRIOT Act ever did. And its requirements that the NSA access the now privately collected data via FISA court warrants are simply a fig leaf of token compliance. For years the secret FISA court has gone through the motions of authorizing a few thousand warrants for the NSA each year, all the while knowing that the NSA was spying on everything and everyone. The warrants are there to give lip service to the constitution’s fourth amendment, while covering for massive violations in secret.
The USA Freedom act is thus a masterful ploy to defuse growing public opposition to government domestic spying and make them think real reform is taking place. Let me walk you through the deception.
The government had long contended that Section 215 of the PATRIOT ACT authorized domestic telephone data collection. It did not and that is why they also maintained that their interpretation of the section was secret, and that the public wasn’t entitled to know. The Electronic Freedom Foundation (EFF) explains how this came unraveled.
EFF sued the Department of Justice (DOJ) on the 10th anniversary of the signing of the USA PATRIOT Act in October 2011 for answers about “secret interpretations” of a controversial section of the law. In June 2013, a leaked FISA court order publicly revealed that “secret interpretation”: the government was using Section 215 of the Patriot Act to collect the phone records of virtually every person in the United States.
Prior to the revelations, several senators warned that the DOJ was using Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act to support what government attorneys called a “sensitive collection program,” targeting large numbers of Americans. The language of Section 215 allows for secret court orders to collect “tangible things” that could be relevant to a government investigation – a far lower threshold and more expansive reach than a warrant based on probable cause. The list of possible “tangible things” the government can obtain is seemingly limitless, and could include everything from driver’s license records to Internet browsing patterns.
In response to a court order in our lawsuit, in September 2013, the government released hundreds of pages of previously secret FISA documents detailing the court’s interpretation of Section 215, including an opinion excoriating the NSA for misusing its mass surveillance database for years. In October 2013, the government released a second batch of documents related to Section 215, which showed, among other things, that the NSA had collected cell site location without notifying its oversight committees in Congress or the FISA court.
Now that their legal standing was undermined, the PTB had to concoct a strategy to change it that was a similar to the ploy used to establish the Federal Reserve. The original FED legislation was designed by powerful banking forces, who then pretended to oppose it so that the public with their anti-banking sentiment would be fooled into backing what the banks opposed.
In like manner Obama and the government falsely pretended that they were adamant that the PATRIOT Act provisions needed to be extended past last Monday’s sunset clause deadline. Rand Paul’s filibuster of the Patriot Act extension was sincere but he unknowingly played into their hands. It seemed strange to me that Paul’s filibuster ended because he didn’t have the votes to sustain it and yet the establishment then failed to find the votes to extend the PATRIOT Act.
Something was wrong with this picture. The establishment could have rounded up the votes to extend the act, but allowed it to expire instead. Then the press went to work promoting this new reform bill that would supposedly bow to public pressure and restrict the NSA. It sounded too good to be true, and it was. The US has billions of dollars in equipment all around the world tapping into every cable, fiber, microwave and satellite transmission network around the world. Those that believe these tentacles are being dismantled are woefully naive. The Washington Post wrote,
On Tuesday, a bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced a bill aimed at blocking the National Security Agency from collecting the phone records of millions of Americans. The effort was described by its sponsors as a balanced approach that would ensure the NSA maintains an ability to obtain the data it needs to detect terrorist plots without infringing on Americans’ right to privacy.
Congress failed to advance similar legislation last year, and some officials say the agency should not face new constraints at a time of deep concern over the threat from terrorist groups such as the Islamic State
Actually, the reason “similar” legislation did not advance last year is that the original bill outright prohibited spying directly or via the phone companies. The Freedom Act’s supposed “balanced” approach leaves the door wide open to spying. It pretends to limit NSA spying, but really authorizes it openly—which had never been done before. Ron Paul agrees
Passing the Freedom Act did not reform government snooping, so much as it made it legitimate, according to three-time presidential candidate Ron Paul. He asserts that Democrats and Republicans alike seek to reduce liberty for a promise of security.
“One thing in Washington, when they have the ‘reform’ of something, you cannot trust them, because reform usually means they’re making things a lot worse,” Ron Paul told Larry King on Politicking, Tuesday evening. “I think the reform act is a very, very dangerous thing. It’s not a slight improvement, as some people argue.”
The Freedom Act, adopted by the Senate on Tuesday and quickly signed by President Obama, actually makes the situation worse, Paul argued. A federal court ruled that Section 215 of the Patriot Act did not authorize bulk data collection, whereas the Freedom Act contains provisions to actually give the government that authority.
“That’s why a lot of people are voting for the reform act,” Paul said. “But actually it’s making things worse. Because the first thing is, it’s making government a partner with Big Business, so Verizon and AT&T are doing the government’s work. I don’t like that, I don’t like the mixture.”
Ever since WWII, Bell Telephone was allowing warrantless phone tapping by the government, though this pales in comparison with today’s total surveillance. Actually the big phone companies have always been in bed with government—this just makes it official. Electronic Frontier Foundation Executive Director Cindy Cohn said that the major American telecommunications companies will continue to cooperate eagerly with the US government and carry out its wishes just as during the past 14 years. “[Verizon and AT&T] have demonstrated that they are willing to cooperate with the US government”
The US phone and Internet providing corporations “do not have an obligation… to serve as an intelligence arm of the government,” the EFF Director said. “Most of these companies keep this information for at least 18 months,” she added. Cohn also said that the American public is kept in the dark about their rights to privacy and protection from surveillance because the US government refuses to inform them.
Only Qwest Telephone Company objected to NSA spying on its equipment in the beginning and the government made an example of its CEO, Joseph P. Nacchio, for his refusal to give customer data to the National Security Agency. He was convicted of trumped up charges of insider trading in Qwest stock on April 19, 2007. Since then there has been little opposition by telecommunication executives.
Note that the so-called USA Freedom Act only addresses phone data collection and leaves untouched all the email data collection which is total. It also doesn’t address the total tracking of internet activity. Documents leaked by Edward Snowden in response to the passage of the phony reform bill show that the US government has been doing warrantless surveillance of Americans’ Internet traffic for years.
But one of the most important issues here has hardly been addressed—the fact that Congress cannot authorize that which is unconstitutional. All warrantless spying is a violation of the 4th Amendment. Law professor Orin Kerr explains:
Don’t overlook one key feature of surveillance reform and the passage of the USA Freedom Act: It came from legislation, not the Fourth Amendment. A court had wrongly allowed the bulk surveillance program that Congress had not actually authorized. When the public became aware of the program, Congress restricted the program by passing a new law.
Note what wasn’t a significant influence on the reform: the Fourth Amendment. All but one of the judges who ruled on the issue concluded that the Fourth Amendment wasn’t implicated by the bulk telephony metadata law. In the one case where a judge ruled that the prior program violated the Fourth Amendment, that court stayed the ruling on appeal and the court of appeals on review seemed pretty skeptical about the ruling at oral argument.
The USA Freedom Act is a legislative reform. Given how surveillance debates so often focus on the role of the Fourth Amendment and the courts, it’s worth flagging that the reforms here came from Congress.
That speaks volumes about how little Congress thinks about the restrictions of the Constitution. The courts, which have a duty to enforce the constitution, are also controlled by powerful forces beyond government and refuse to do so.
World Affairs Brief, June 5, 2015 Commentary and Insights on a Troubled World.
Copyright Joel Skousen. Partial quotations with attribution permitted. Cite source as Joel Skousen’s World Affairs Brief (http://www.worldaffairsbrief.com).
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US AND ISRAELI INVOLVEMENT WITH ISIS
The UN has now published a report that claims that Israeli Defense forces have regular contact with ISIS. Nathaniel Downes has the story:
Traditionally such groups as ISIS have relied upon Saudi Arabia for support. [Actually, the Saudis are only acting as a surrogate for the US, who, in turn, give the corrupt Saudi royal family protection against any Arab Spring uprisings.]
In a new report from the UN, it is revealed that the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) were maintaining regular contact with members of the so-called Islamic State since May of 2013. Initial reports from the IDF stated that this was only for medical care for civilians, but that story fell apart when the UN observers identified direct contact between IDF forces and ISIS soldiers, including giving medical care to ISIS fighters. Observations even included the transfer of two crates from the IDF to ISIS forces, the contents of which have not been confirmed at this time. Further the UN report identified what the Syrians label a crossing point of forces between Israel and ISIS, a point of concern brought before the UN Security Council. This report from the UN strengthens the claims by the Syrian regime that Israel is heavily involved in operations within the nation.
I’ve long maintained that the only way the US and Britain can run false flag terror operations like ISIS and al-Qaeda is by using highly trained Israeli-Arab infiltrators and spies.
This is part of a continuing pattern of Israeli support for the Islamic State. It was only two months ago that Israel attacked Syrian forces in opposition to ISIS forces. Israeli attacks even killed an Iranian military adviser for the Syrian military just two weeks ago. The U.S.’s financing of ISIS, part of the effort against Syrian president Assad, is well documented, as well. That the efforts to undermine the Assad regime were in turn strengthening the same terrorist group which recently set a Jordanian pilot on fire to set an example is conveniently ignored by the higher up military command.
He’s right; the main motive behind the US funding of and creation of ISIS is to take down Assad. Israel is refusing to bomb Iran until Syria is eliminated as a retaliation threat. Brandon Turbeville at Activist Post writes about the recent Pentagon admission that the US has been supporting ISIS since before the Benghazi scandal broke:
On May 18, Judicial Watch published a selection of recently declassified documents that were obtained from the US Department of Defense and the US State Department as a result of a lawsuit filed against the US government. The lawsuit and most of the documents contained within the release revolved around the Benghazi scandal but a deeper look into the documents dating back to 2012 reveal an even bigger story – that the US and NATO have admitted in their own documents to supporting al-Qaeda and ISIS in Syria and Iraq.
The documents demolish the “official story” of Western governments promoted from the beginning of the Syrian crisis until the present day – that the “rebellion” was organic, grassroots, and made up of moderates and freedom-loving democracy proponents. The document states unequivocally that “The Salafist [sic] the Muslim Brotherhood, and AQI are the major forces driving the insurgency in Syria.” It points out that “The West, Gulf countries, and Turkey support the opposition; while Russia, China, and Iran support the regime.” Tellingly, the report then states that “AQI supported the Syrian opposition from the beginning, both ideologically and through the media . . .”
Indeed, the documents clearly admit that the crisis unfolding in Syria was never a moderate rebellion fighting for democracy, it was made up of fighters from the Muslim Brotherhood and al-Qaeda (al-Qaeda In Iraq/Al-Nusra Front) from the very beginning.
The document continues in its revelations by stating that:
“Opposition forces are trying to control the eastern areas (Hasaka and Der Zor), adjacent to the western Iraqi provinces (Mosul and Anbar), in addition to neighboring Turkish borders. Western countries, the Gulf states and Turkey are supporting these efforts. This hypothesis is most likely in accordance with the data from recent events, which will help prepare safe havens under international sheltering, similar to what transpired in Libya when Benghazi was chosen as the command center of the temporary government.”
“Opposition forces,” of course, are al-Qaeda, al-Nusra Front, and ISIS, as mentioned and defined earlier by the DIA document. Thus, any questions of whether or not the US and its NATO/GCC allies have been supporting jihadists and terrorists, should be answered with the admissions made within these pages.
What is also well-known but now finally admitted to by the US government itself is the plan to establish “buffer zones” and “safe zones” on the Libyan model inside Syria. Such a plan has been covered extensively by myself and Tony Cartalucci (as well as many others in the alternative media) when the concept was considered a “conspiracy theory.”
In regards to geopolitical concerns and the breakup and destruction of the Syrian government as well as the Iraqi leadership, the document states:
If the situation unravels there is the possibility of establishing a declared or undeclared Salafist principality in eastern Syria, (Hasaka and Der Zor), and this is exactly what the supporting powers to the opposition want, in order to isolate the Syrian regime, which is considered the strategic depth of the Shia expansion (Iraq and Iran).
This “Salafist principality” is obviously the Islamic State, particularly when one visualizes the maps of territory claimed by the jihadist organization. As the DIA document admits, the expansion of the ISIS principality is taking place with the support and assistance of Western powers. This much is evidenced by the fact that the ISIS fighters running rampant across Iraq and especially Syria could never have been able to do so were it not for the support given to them by the GCC and NATO. These fighters certainly could never have held such territory if Western military assistance, Saudi money, and Turkish/Israeli logistics and intelligence had not been provided to them.
According to Brad Hoff, [managing editor of Levant Report] a former US Marine who served during the early years of the Iraq War and as a 9/11 first responder at the Marine Corps Headquarters in Battalion Quantico from 2000 to 2004, the just released Pentagon report for the first time provides stunning affirmation that:
“US intelligence predicted the rise of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL or ISIS), but instead of clearly delineating the group as an enemy, the report envisions the terror group as a US strategic asset.”
Critics of the US-led strategy in the region have repeatedly raised questions about the role of coalition allies in intentionally providing extensive support to Islamist terrorist groups in the drive to destabilize the Assad regime in Syria.
The conventional wisdom is that the US government did not retain sufficient oversight on the funding to anti-Assad rebel groups, which was supposed to be monitored and vetted to ensure that only ‘moderate’ groups were supported.
However, the newly declassified Pentagon report proves unambiguously that years before ISIS launched its concerted offensive against Iraq, the US intelligence community was fully aware that Islamist militants constituted the core of Syria’s sectarian insurgency.
Steve Chovanec of Global Research, provides specific evidence of how the US is going easy on ISIS to make sure it isn’t defeated in Iraq:
The fall of Mosul in June of 2014… was simply given away to by a battle-hardened army of 350,000 men to a lightly armed brigade of roughly 1,300 Islamists(3), the commanding military officers specifically ordering their subordinates to leave their weapons for the jihadi’s and to flee. One Iraqi army soldier described that, “on the morning of June 10 his commanding officer told the men to stop shooting, hand over their rifles to the insurgents, take off their uniforms, and get out of the city.”
Had this “remarkable” fall been desired by the US-coalition in order to “isolate” the “strategic depth of Shia expansion” in Iraq? Or rather “Had the senior Iraqi commanders been instructed by their Western military advisers to hand over the city to the ISIS terrorists? Were they co-opted?” as Professor Michel Chossudovsky had asked when this occurred?
Similarly, the more recent fall of Ramadi is equally as dubious. The US-led coalition, which had promised to defend Iraq against the Islamic State, basically allowed Ramadi to fall, conducting only 7 airstrikes during the battle, which is such a low number as to be completely irrelevant. The remarkably weak excuse was that a great sandstorm had prevented them from conducting regular attacks. This despite the fact that the next day ISIS was holding victory parades among perfectly clear skies, the militants assembling in massive rows down the wide open street. With no “sandstorm” excuse, airstrikes could have easily wiped out entire factions of the extremists the US is supposedly fighting, yet none occurred. Why? Had this too been desired by the US-coalition in order to “isolate” the “strategic depth of Shia expansion” in Iraq?
Wahda Al-Jumaili, an advisor to Iraq’s parliamentary speaker, speaking of the city’s fall the day after stated “Whether this was the result of treason, neglect, or conspiracy, or a regional or international plot… Even the international coalition has played a bad role. People saw the international coalition dropping weapons for ISIS. They dropped heavy weaponry to the forces of terrorism in Ramadi. This is an act of treason by the international coalition forces.”
This, however, is not the first time an Iraqi politician has accused the US-coalition of dropping weapons and aid to ISIS, this is instead a phenomenon that has been going on for some time now, in one incident two British planes were even shot down by the Iraqi’s under charges that they were dropping weapons to ISIS. Photographic evidence was taken of the downed planes. Iraqi parliamentarian Jome Divan stated that “The international coalition is only an excuse for protecting the ISIL and helping the terrorist group with equipment and weapons. The coalition has not targeted ISIL’s main positions in Iraq.” This being only one of a plethora of Iraqi politicians who have consistently been making these claims for some time now.
In any event the spillover to Iraq and the fall of Mosul and Ramadi were predictable consequences of the Wests’ Syria policy, and in some instances it appears as though the West aided in their fall, so at the very least they were an accepted consequence in the strategy against Syria and Iran, and at the worst they were an intended partition of Iraq.
Related:
(video) Skousen: Israeli Mossad Directs ISIS – with CIA to take down Assad, so Israel can bomb Iran
World Affairs Brief, May 22, 2015 Commentary and Insights on a Troubled World.
Copyright Joel Skousen. Partial quotations with attribution permitted. Cite source as Joel Skousen’s World Affairs Brief (http://www.worldaffairsbrief.com).
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US FAILS TO TRULY CONFRONT CHINA THREAT
Newly released satellite images show a dramatic expansion in China’s construction of artificial islands in the disputed Spratly Islands, a series of South China Sea reefs. While China’s aggressiveness in taking territory all around the South China Sea is the main worry, half a dozen countries are also vying for rights in the area. Here’s what Wikipedia says about this:
The Spratly Islands dispute is an ongoing territorial dispute between Brunei, China (People’s Republic of China), Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan (Republic of China), and Vietnam, concerning ownership of the Spratly Islands, a group of islands and associated “maritime features” (reefs, banks, cays, etc.) located in the South China Sea. The dispute is characterized by diplomatic stalemate and the employment of low-level [thus far] military pressure techniques (such as military occupation of disputed territory) in the advancement of national territorial claims. All except Brunei occupy some of the maritime features.
The Spratly Islands are important for economic and strategic reasons. The Spratly area holds potentially significant, but largely unexplored, reserves of oil and natural gas; it is a productive area for world fishing; it is one of the busiest areas of commercial shipping traffic; and surrounding countries would get an extended continental shelf if their claims were recognized. In addition to economic incentives, the Spratlys sit astride major maritime trade routes to Northeast Asia, giving them added significance as positions from which to monitor maritime activity in the South China Sea and to potentially base and project military force from.
In 2014, China drew increased international attention due to its dredging activities within the Spratlys, amidst speculation it is planning to further develop its military presence in the area. In April 2015 satellite imagery revealed that China was rapidly constructing an airfield on Fiery Cross Reef within the Spratlys. Only China (PRC), Taiwan (ROC), and Vietnam have made claims based on historical sovereignty of the islands. The Philippines, however, claims part of the area as its territory under UNCLOS, an agreement parts of which have been ratified by the countries involved in the Spratly islands dispute.
See this map for color coding of which nations are occupying which islands. You can see that this is a royal diplomatic mess that is never going to be resolved peacefully—especially with China, the 800 lb gorilla in the room, claiming outright and exclusive sovereignty. This is China’s official response:
China has indisputable sovereignty over the Nansha Islands [Chinese name for Spratly Ils] and adjacent waters. The Chinese government has been carrying out construction and maintenance work on some of the Nansha Islands reefs, mainly in order to improve the living and working conditions of personnel stationed there, to improve relevant functions the islands and reefs provide, to better safeguard national territorial sovereignty and maritime rights and interests, to better meet China’s international responsibilities and obligations in maritime search and rescue, disaster prevention and mitigation, marine scientific research, weather observation, environmental protection, navigation safety, fishery production services and other areas. Such construction is within China’s sovereignty and is fair, reasonable and lawful, and does not affect or target any country, and is thus beyond reproach.
After the construction, the islands and reefs will be able to provide comprehensive services to meet various civilian demands in addition to satisfying necessary military defense requirements.
The UK Guardian has a dramatic picture of just how advanced construction is on this “reef” It is noteworthy that China has not made any threats so far about driving other nations out of these islands. That will come after it establishes a military presence there. So far all the other nations can do is protest loudly and wring their hands. They look in vain for the US to stop the Chinese intrusions.
The runway and related facilities on the Nansha Island is part of establishing a “string of pearls” series of outposts China is building with air and naval port facilities, much like Japan did prior to WWII. The Pacific ocean area is huge and you can’t control it or the islands without bases far from the Chinese mainland.
That is why it is important for the US to intervene in Chinese expansion while it is still developing. If it waits until China has a full set of extended sea bases it will be impossible to confront her aggression later on.
Malaysia is one of the few nations taking military action against commercial fishing boats that have worked Malaysian water without permission. Over the past few years she has rounded up about 40 vessels and brought them to port. The crews were released, but Malaysia just blew up or burned all of the vessels this week according to the AP:
Indonesian authorities blew up and sank 41 foreign fishing vessels Wednesday as a warning against poaching in the country’s waters. The vessels from a variety of countries were blown up in several ports across the archipelago, which has some of the world’s richest fishing grounds.
The initial headlines sounded like all this was done in a military naval confrontation but it was not. Compare this to the United States claims that it is actively confronting China in the Spratlys. When you see the fine print it’s only naval and air patrols that are just observing.
In order to fool the American people into thinking the US is taking action to counter China, the Pentagon allowed CNN reporters to go aboard a navy P8-A Poseidon, America’s most advanced surveillance and submarine-hunting aircraft, knowing that China would, as usual, make threatening radio calls to the plane. This happens on all US surveillance flights, but CNN made it out like this was something new. They wrote,
Wednesday’s mission was specifically aimed at monitoring Chinese activities on three islands that months ago were reefs barely peaking above the waves. Now they are massive construction projects that the U.S. fears will soon be fully functioning military installations.
The Chinese navy issued warnings eight times as a U.S. surveillance plane on Wednesday swooped over islands that Beijing is using to extend its zone of influence. The series of man-made islands and the massive Chinese military build-up on them have alarmed the Pentagon, which is carrying out the surveillance flights in order to make clear the U.S. does not recognize China’s territorial claims. The militarized islands have also alarmed America’s regional allies.
Well, if they don’t recognize China’s claims, then why are our naval patrol craft restricting themselves to the 12 mile limit around the Chinese construction sites on the islands? Last week I pointed out in the WAB that a senior US official said “We’re just not going within the 12 miles — yet,” a tacit international recognition of a 12 mile limit around any nation’s sovereign territory.
Why would they recognize any such limit unless they were trying to placate China’s intent to take over the Spratly Islands—where they are building a new airfield for future military purposes? Watch how the US will continue to bluster and caution even as China puts down concrete and buildings on the ground. They will never do anything to interdict this military growth until it’s already operational and too late to stop short of going to war! CNN also said,
Former CIA Deputy Director Michael Morell told CNN’s Erin Burnett Wednesday night that the confrontation indicates there is “absolutely” a risk of the U.S. and China going to war sometime in the future.
The top US military brass may well be yes-men to the globalist civilian leaders above them, but they certainly know where all this permissiveness is headed—eventual war. That is exactly why China is building not only more ICBMs and hiding them in underground tunnels, but building a modern blue-water navy capable of roaming the entire Pacific. This looks much like Japan as it was preparing for WWII against the US. Defense Tech estimates that the Chinese Navy will out build the US and exceed it in number of ships by 2020.
China has plans to grow its navy to 351 ships by 2020 [US combat ships are less than 300] as the Chinese continue to develop their military’s ability to strike global targets…
The 2014 U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission recommended to Congress the U.S. Navy respond by building more ships and increase its presence in the Pacific region – a strategy they U.S. military has already started. [Actually, it’s mostly talk. The US doesn’t have the naval forces to cover both the Middle East and the Pacific.] The commission asked Congress to increase its Pacific fleet up to 67 ships and rebalance homeports such that 60-percent of the force is based in the region by 2020.
Defense analysts have questioned where the U.S. Navy has the resources and funding to expand its presence in the Pacific adequately enough to meet the emerging Chinese threat. Critics point to the sweeping sequestration cuts as an example of the budgetary challenges that U.S. Navy officials face.
In other news, there is a good possibility the Mistral helicopter carriers that France was building for Russia (and halted due to sanctions over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine) may end up going to China—if France pays Russia about $700 million for breaking the contract. But as Sputnik News reported, Russia really didn’t need the ships, which they can build. They were paying for the weapons technology, which France already provided them in data form free of charge:
Commenting on the ongoing tussle over the Mistral deal, Russian businessman and journalist Dmitri Lekuh argued that Russia needed the technology the ships contained, not the ships themselves, adding that France’s refusal to deliver the ships has served only to humiliate their own shipbuilding industry.
In his Sunday blog post for the Russian informational portal Odnako, Lekuh commented that “It has never been a secret to anyone that Russia was never particularly interested in large floating hunks of metal. That is not to say that they were completely unnecessary. A good homeowner will find a place for any piece of iron, as the saying goes.”
According to Lekuh, what Russia really needed from the Mistral deal was the technology. This included the SENIT-9 combat information system, “military navigation systems and group battle management systems. We needed modern large vessel assembly technology, which we had earlier lost as a result of the turmoil our country experienced in the domestic economy during the 90s…Everything else, including the handsome ships being built in proud French docks, was seen as nothing more than a necessary burden.”
Lekuh argued that the French government has behaved in a manner which has humiliated its own weapons producers, noting that “in the interests of Uncle Sam…the French gave Russia all its interesting documentation for free.”
World Affairs Brief, April 17, 2015 Commentary and Insights on a Troubled World.
Copyright Joel Skousen. Partial quotations with attribution permitted. Cite source as Joel Skousen’s World Affairs Brief (http://www.worldaffairsbrief.com).
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KEEPING A MUZZLE ON CHINA CRITICS IN THE US
I’ve had US intel personnel admit to me off the record that they are continually warned against saying anything in public that would appear negative about Russia cheating on treaties or Chinese rearmament. Now we have a case of muzzling a high ranking US officer for criticizing China. The AsiaSentinel.com has the story:
Intelligence chief sidelined for warning China is preparing for war with Japan. American naval officers who publicly raise concerns about China’s military capabilities and intentions can find themselves sidelined, their careers stunted. That is the case of Capt. James Fanell, formerly the chief of naval intelligence for the U.S. Pacific Fleet.
Fanell was recently reassigned from his sensitive intelligence post. His remarks at several forums that China is preparing for war with Japan were embarrassing to the navy’s leadership, which is focused on building ties with a newly assertive China’s military.
That report also confirms what I have said numerous times: that in spite of Chinese aggression in the Far East, the US policy continues to be one of appeasement. Note in this Bloomberg piece how US Admiral Locklear (an old pro-China hand) comments on China’s taking of more land for bases in the East China Sea and yet says nothing about intervening to stop it. Instead, he’s always pushing for more “joint military exercises” with China to show “friendship.”
China claims about four-fifths of the South China Sea, home to some of the world’s busiest shipping lanes, under a so-called nine-dash line drawn on a 1940s map. Vietnam, the Philippines, Taiwan, Malaysia and Brunei also claim territory in the waters. China’s island building program in the South China Sea may result in it gaining control of some of the world’s most important waterways, the U.S.’s most senior military commander for Asia said.
“If this activity continues at pace, is that it — those would give them de facto control” of the maritime territory they claim, Admiral Samuel Locklear, head of the U.S. Pacific Command, told the U.S. Senate. Locklear said China could install long-range detection radars, base warships and warplanes on the islands, potentially giving it the ability to enforce an air defense identification zone.
Satellite photos this month showed images of Chinese dredgers at work at Mischief Reef in the Spratly Islands, a feature also claimed by Vietnam, the Philippines and Taiwan. President Barack Obama said April 10 that the U.S. is concerned that China is using its “muscle and power” to dominate smaller countries in the region.
But neither threat any action to stop this aggression. And the Chinese are already building their first long runway on the Spratleys —not just dredging.
World Affairs Brief, May 15, 2015 Commentary and Insights on a Troubled World.
Copyright Joel Skousen. Partial quotations with attribution permitted. Cite source as Joel Skousen’s World Affairs Brief (http://www.worldaffairsbrief.com).
This Week’s Analysis:
Osama bin Laden Exposé a Fraud
US Nuclear Missile Assessment is Dismal
US Bluster Toward China, Nothing More
DHS Busing Somalis into California from Mexico
More Evidence of US Role with ISIS
Push for Bad Trade Deal
Oil Price War
GMO Crops get a Foot in the Door in Europe
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US BLUSTER TOWARD CHINA, NOTHING MORE
I can see the back story to this: the Pentagon politicians are worried about looking weak in the face of increasing Chinese aggression in the Far East, so they decide to take a hard verbal stand—but that’s all it is, talk. The announcements this week are just rhetoric with no intention on backing it up with military power. The Wall Street Journal said,
The Pentagon announced this week that it is considering [take note that no action is required] deploying military ships and planes to patrol territory near China’s newly built islands in the South China Sea. Such a plan, if approved by the White House, would open a new phase in the struggle to shape Asia’s balance of power. [Now here’s the wishful thinking] U.S. policy makers and their Asian counterparts have long hoped that as China becomes more internationalized, it would gradually embrace political [reform]….
Bill Gertz, of the Washington Free Beacon is a hard liner against Russia and China, but even he gets deceived by the token moves by the Pentagon:
In a major policy shift, the Pentagon declared Wednesday the United States will directly defend U.S. national security interests in the South China Sea against China’s expansive and illegal maritime claims.
But Gertz apparently forgot to listen to the part where a senior US official said “We’re just not going within the 12 miles — yet,” a tacit international recognition of a 12 mile limit around any nation’s sovereign territory. Why would they recognize any such limit unless they were trying to placate China’s intent to take over the Spratley Island reef—where they are building a new airfield for future military purposes? Watch how the US will continue to bluster and caution even as China puts down concrete and buildings on the ground. They will never do anything to interdict this military growth until it’s already operational and too late to stop short of going to war!
The Australian Herald-Sun quoted China as demanding that “US warships keep away from disputed South China Sea islands” Gertz continues.
Tensions are set to escalate in the South China Sea as China seeks assurances [they aren’t seeking assurances but demanding] the United States will not send warships to test its determination to lay claim to a string of remote, strategic islands.
China urged “the relevant country” to “refrain from taking risky and provocative actions to maintain the regional peace and stability”, Hua told reporters. Since 2010, China has been actively asserting sovereignty over what it calls the “Nanyang” Sea, known in the West as the South China Sea, a 5.6 million square kilometre stretch of water, islands and reefs between it, Vietnam, Malaysia, Taiwan and the Philippines. Hua said China’s upholds the international principal of freedom of navigation in the area — but that doesn’t mean foreign forces can operate freely there.
What China is doing is setting up a “string of pearls” chain of bases that can support naval and air power essential to her war plans. This is the time for the US to step in and stop the expansion—not after the bases get built. But they won’t do this, because the US wants this coming war. It will dally and delay, harking continually to the virtues of diplomacy, until it’s too late.
Of greatest concern should be the fact that the US now admits that China has created Multiple Individual Reentry Warheads (MIRV) for its DF-5 missiles. As the anti-war, and anti-nuclear pacifist site, FAS.org wrote,
The biggest surprise in the Pentagon’s latest annual report on Chinese military power is the claim that China’s ICBM force now includes the “multiple independently-targetable re-entry vehicle (MIRV)-equipped Mod 3 (DF-5).”
And they also note that,
Indian weapons designers have already hinted that India may be working on its own MIRV system and the US Defense Intelligence Agency recently stated that “India will continue developing an ICBM, the Agni-VI, which will reportedly carry multiple warheads.”
Meanwhile, the US just removed all its multiple warheads from its remaining ICBMs.
World Affairs Brief, May 8, 2015 Commentary and Insights on a Troubled World.
Copyright Joel Skousen. Partial quotations with attribution permitted. Cite source as Joel Skousen’s World Affairs Brief (http://www.worldaffairsbrief.com).
This Week’s Analysis:
The Garland Attack and ISIS’ Bogus Claims
Miriam Carey was Murdered by Capitol Police
More on the Baltimore Prosecution of Police
The Government’s Surveillance Database on Dissidents
Jade Helm: More Bogus Claims
Avoid “Welcoming Cities”
Greeks Tax Cash Withdrawals to Stem Flow
NK Threatens US with Nukes
New Russian Super Tank—Armata
Appeals Court Ruling Against NSA Spying Gutless
Huckabee Running for President, Again?
World News Daily Disinformation Site
Correction from NORAD on Cheyenne Mountain
Preparedness Tip: EMP Scenarios
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JADE HELM: MORE BOGUS CLAIMS
The Jade Helm 15 military exercise is real and it is practicing to capture and extract dissidents, but martial law is not imminent and the Wal-Mart closings are not involved. You can find an excellent review of the truth and hype by the New American. What is of particular interest is how the media is using conservative’s belief in all the false hype to discredit what is true about conspiracy. I’ve always maintained that this is one of the main purposes of the government putting out false stories about DHS buying 2 billion rounds of ammo etc. Using NSA spying techniques they are tracking who believes it and who passes the rumor on.
Here’s another bad rumor that is put out by government disinformation experts—that hundreds of boxcars are being readied with shackles inside for prisoners. The false rumor even names the company in Portland, Oregon that makes them—Gunderson Steel.
Recently, I knew someone who lived near where I live in Portland, Oregon. He worked at Gunderson Steel Fabrication, where they make railroad cars. Now, I knew this fellow for the better part of 30 years, and he was kind of a quiet type. He came in to see me one day excited, and he told me ‘they’re building prisoner cars.’ He was nervous. Gunderson, he said, had a contract with the federal government to build 107,200 full length railroad cars, each with 143 pairs of shackles.
Notice how they always provide details to bolster confidence in the supposed-leaker—he’s the “quiet type” or a “good Christian” (who wouldn’t lie), etc…. Fortunately the rumor was debunked by a real employee:
This article gave me a good laugh. But it is sad to see such balderdash on Portland indymedia. This nonsense appeared a while ago saying the same thing. I’ve worked at Gunderson Inc for many years, so let’s get a few facts straight. One we haven’t built boxcars for a few years now in Portland. They are made down in Mexico; we only build container cars these days. The ‘shackles’ are dimples which are with a small piece of metal going across which is used for tying goods down.
Think about it, why would you bother putting prisoners in shackles anyway [good point]. The Nazis in Germany just herded people onto a box car at the point of a gun, and then shut the door. It’s hard to cut through steel with your finger nails. And they could just use the containers if they wanted to transport prisoners, like they have used in Afghanistan and Iraq. And who the hell is Brent Gunderson? Gunderson has been owned by Greenbrier since around 1985. There is no ‘Brent’ or any other Gunderson on the board at Greenbrier.
That’s just one part of the secret suicidal nuclear policies taking place in our US strategic defenses. My readers are familiar with PDD-60 (decreed in 1997, but still in force) instructing our nuclear forces not to rely on “launch on warning,” but to prepare to absorb a nuclear first strike and “retaliate after.” But absorbing an enemy’s first strike would take out all our 450 land based Minuteman III missiles, which have just been reduced to a single warhead!
Also in 1997 Bill Clinton declared the US would unilaterally agree to keep half of our ballistic missile subs in port to make them easier for the Russians to target—a supposed “confidence building” measure. These suicidal gestures clearly foretell our government’s willingness to let us take the first hit which destroys most of our military forces and gives our leaders the excuse to convince the West to form a militarized global government and army in order to prosecute the war. Mark my words, you’ll see that happen someday.
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World Affairs Brief, May 1, 2015 Commentary and Insights on a Troubled World.
Copyright Joel Skousen. Partial quotations with attribution permitted. Cite source as Joel Skousen’s World Affairs Brief (http://www.worldaffairsbrief.com).
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CHINA-RUSSIA MISSILE DEAL
While the rest of the former Soviet client states like Syria and Iran are left begging for Russia to give them the outdated S-300 anti-aircraft and anti-missile system they’ve paid for, China is now to receive the highly effective Russian S-400 system, the world’s best anti-missile missile. Unlike the US ABM this missile packs a warhead of 50 lbs of high explosives. Popular Science has the story:
The S-400 SAM has a range of 400km, effective against many targets that Russia (or China) would face, such as stealth and conventional fighters, bombers, cruise missiles and ballistic missiles.
In April 2015, both Anatoly Isaikin, CEO of Russia’s arms sales Rosoboronexport agency, and Du Wenlong, a senior member of the PLA Academy of Military Science, have stated that China will take delivery of the S-400 SAM. The Moscow Times reports that the deal was negotiated for $3 billion, to deliver 6 S-400 battalions. With each battalion consisting of 6 transport erector launch (TEL) vehicles, China would have 36 launch vehicles.
The S-400 is the longest range SAM system in the world. It first entered into Russian service in 2007, and has capability to intercept ballistic missiles and high speed aircraft, while its 91N6E can locate and track stealth aircraft at standoff (100km+) distances. The most infamous of the S-400’s three missiles is the 40N6, which has an astounding range of 400km. The 40N6’s extreme range would allow S-400 TELs on China’s coast to shoot down aircraft anywhere over Taiwan. The smaller 250km-ranged 48N6 and 120km-range 9M96E2 missiles are also equally lethal against fighters, bombers, early warning and electronic warfare aircraft, as well as cruise and ballistic missiles.
More importantly, the newest Russian system has the latest radar anti-jamming technology to thwart the usual attempts by US planes to jam the ABM guidance and controls systems. None of the Russian ABMs given to Saddam Hussein were able to counter US radar jamming (ECM) aircraft which blinded the S-200 system. In like manner Israel has been able to penetrate Syria’s ABM network at will using jamming technology.
One of the reasons the Russians did not come to Iraq’s defense as promised is that allowing the attack to go forward allowed them to eavesdrop on the entire spectrum of US jamming techniques, so they could design counter-jamming technology into the S-400. If the US goes up against a real opponent in the future, it is not going down with the overwhelming ease of Desert Storm.
The S-400 will supplement China’s Russian-made S-300 and domestic HQ-9 long-range SAMs, while its 30K6E command system can even interlink with other Russian made SAMs, like the S-400 and TOR-M1, both of which China already fields. The S-400s would likely be operated by the PLA Air Force (PLAAF), which has historically operated China’s land based long-range air defense systems. While the 40N6’s long range could theoretically cover all of Taiwan’s air space, they would most likely protect major bases like the Hainan submarine pens, important cities such as Beijing and Shanghai, or hide within the inland mountains of Fujian and Guangdong
The 91N6E “Big Bird” AESA radar can locate and track stealth aircraft at standoff (100km+) distances, while it can detect high altitude targets like ballistic missiles at distances of up to 600km.
The deal is significant to regional security as well as geopolitics. China’s improved air defense capabilities will greatly complicate any efforts to conduct aerial operations or missile attacks against the Chinese mainland, even with stealthy drones, longer-ranged cruise missiles, or new bombers, all part of the new US “third offset” plan. In wartime, the S-400 could even support Chinese airstrikes by knocking out enemy fighters flying above their own bases and cities. On the strategic level, the S-400 sale would facilitate Sino-Russian cooperation, as well as facilitate other sales and joint projects like submarines and space operations.
In contrast, the US has purposely designed an ABM missile system with a non-explosive kinetic hit vehicle that must make physical contact with the incoming warhead to do the job. Why would you do that when the missile still weighs about the same as one with an explosive warhead, but is handicapped by having to have pin-point accuracy at a moving target of 10k mph? It doesn’t make sense unless you want to communicate to the Russians that you don’t intend to stop their missile attack effectively.
That’s just one part of the secret suicidal nuclear policies taking place in our US strategic defenses. My readers are familiar with PDD-60 (decreed in 1997, but still in force) instructing our nuclear forces not to rely on “launch on warning,” but to prepare to absorb a nuclear first strike and “retaliate after.” But absorbing an enemy’s first strike would take out all our 450 land based Minuteman III missiles, which have just been reduced to a single warhead!
Also in 1997 Bill Clinton declared the US would unilaterally agree to keep half of our ballistic missile subs in port to make them easier for the Russians to target—a supposed “confidence building” measure. These suicidal gestures clearly foretell our government’s willingness to let us take the first hit which destroys most of our military forces and gives our leaders the excuse to convince the West to form a militarized global government and army in order to prosecute the war. Mark my words, you’ll see that happen someday.
In lock-step with this suicidal doctrine the AP just reported on the idiotic remarks of a former General of US Strategic Command pushing them take US missiles off any alert status. I’ll explain why his reasoning is completely bogus.
Taking U.S. and Russian missiles off high alert could keep a possible cyberattack from starting a nuclear war, a former commander of U.S. nuclear forces says, but neither country appears willing to increase the lead-time to prepare the weapons for launch.
Retired Gen. James Cartwright said in an interview that “de-alerting” nuclear arsenals could foil hackers by reducing the chance of firing a weapon in response to a false warning of attack. Essentially adding a longer fuse can be done without eroding the weapons’ deterrent value.
A study led by Cartwright proposes to adjust the missile command and control system so that it would take 24 hours to 72 hours to get the missiles ready for launch.
Cartwright said cyberthreats to the systems that command and control U.S. nuclear weapons demand greater attention. While the main worry once was a hacker acting alone, today it is a hostile nation-state, he said, that poses more of a threat even as the Pentagon has improved its cyberdefenses.
Wrong on all counts, and he knows better. He’s promoting this as a globalist stooge, not based on his military knowledge. First, US missiles are not subject to hacking as they are not connected to the internet. They are hardwired to command centers and have alternate backup means of communication, none of which are related to the internet. The launch code is impossible to imitate, discover or bypass even by those manning these launch centers.
Second, NORAD has many safeguards against a lone or erroneous missile launch causing a mass retaliation by our missile forces. 1) we do have ABMs that, though few in number and with a 50% success rate, are capable of bringing down a hypothetical errant missile. 2) Our spy satellites must confirm multiple missile launches toward America in order to trigger a launch alert. These satellites track the heat signature of a missile and there’s no mistaking their reliability. 3) you cannot tolerate a longer delay for missile launch than is currently built into the system if you are going to have any Launch on Warning deterrent value. Once enemy missiles are detected by our satellites, you have approximately 20 minutes to get our missiles out of their silos and on their way before warheads hit. The general’s stupid suggestion of putting our missiles behind a 24 hour delay ensures that they couldn’t respond to an incoming attack. Even a 30 minute delay would be too late.
And that’s my point: Cartwright’s suggestion seems to be playing by PDD-60, prepping the public to accept, in the name of peace, a dangerous strategy that will guarantee a first strike on our military forces. Currently our missile forces still are on alert and expect to launch on warning of an incoming attack. I have long hypothesized that the launch codes will not be relayed to them by the White House in order to deny them the ability to launch and force us to “absorb” the first strike. Military commanders no longer have any emergency secondary launch codes to use in case of non communication with the White House—also thanks to PDD-60.
So if Cartwright’s suicidal proposal gains traction with the establishment, and you see this 24 hour delay enacted, you’ll know it is meant to guarantee we can’t launch on warning. This would give partial cover for the globalists advisors running the White House since they wouldn’t have to explain afterward why they didn’t send the launch codes—although I’m sure they could concoct some technical excuse for the failure.
Cartwright, by the way, is the lead author of a report published Wednesday by the Global Zero Commission, an Leftist group co-founded by a former Air Force nuclear missile launch control officer Bruce Blair, who became a rabid anti nuclear zealot. It is hardly unbiased.
Meanwhile Russia and China are busy doing joint military exercises on land and sea on a large scale and collaborating on a number of other weapons projects including, tanks, drones, and a new jumbo jet.
Sputnik News, one of the newest of the Russian news outlets, announced that Russia is to renew production of the Tu-160 (Blackjack) supersonic strategic bomber and missile carrier. The Blackjack bomber is the Russian version (and obvious copycat) of the US B-1 supersonic bomber, still in operation (in limited numbers). The B-1B Lancer is the supersonic component of the USAF’s long-range bomber force, along with the venerable B-52 and the Stealth flying wind, the B-2 Spirit.
Russia Insider, also a new addition to the pro-Russian Internet News services, summarized the growing Russian Navy which still has a ways to go to challenge the West:
The Pacific Fleet, in particular, has been growing as of late. Already it is the second largest Russian fleet, with 73 vessels, including 23 submarines and 50 surface warships, according to The Diplomat.
One of its more notable recent additions is a new Borei-class nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines (SSBN). The Pacific Fleet received one of the Borei-class SSBNs in 2013, and is expected to ultimately have at least six of them. Furthermore, the Pacific Fleet is expected to receive the first six deliveries of Russia’s new Yasen-class attack nuclear submarines (SSGN).
Russia Today, (RT) the original “new” Russian News service aimed at US rightwing audiences detailed China’s latest heavy fighter/attack plane based, as usual, on a Russian design:
China’s advanced J-11D heavy fighter jet takes maiden flight. The upgraded D variant of China’s J-11 fighter jet, a copy of the Russian Sukhoi Su-27, has made its maiden flight, Chinese media reported. The jet reportedly has new radar and an air refueling system.
The J-11D model, which was tested in the air for the first time on Wednesday, incorporates technologies developed for the J-16 fighter jet. It is reported to have better active phased array radar, use more composite materials in its wings and tail, and be capable of firing more advanced air-to-air missiles like PL-10 and PL-15.
Remember that even though much of the Russian and Chinese weapons are imitations of US technology, they make up for what they may lack in technical superiority by producing more in quantity, and at a much lower price than US weapons. In a future war of attrition the expensive high-tech, but limited quantity, of US weapons may prove insufficient for the threat.
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Related:
Skousen: U.S. Intentionally Vulnerable to Nuclear Attack from China/Russia
[Updated December 2013] Joel Skousen: Year-End Big Picture Review of Threats — Russia/China invasion of U.S.A. TIMING discussed
(7-minute video) Skousen: Elite Building Bunkers For Coming Nuclear Strike
China may have largest Pacific fleet by 2020 — and capability to destroy US military and intelligence satellites?
China Preparing to Target U.S. Aircraft Carriers — The WU-14 can penetrate missile defense systems by traveling at up to ten times the speed of sound!
(audio/text) Joel Skousen: With a Growing Russian Missile Threat, US is Still Disarming — “Russia says their missiles are for “containment” of the US, but we know they are preparing for a nuclear first strike on America”
(video) Joel Skousen: An Evil Pact Drives Globalists to Set Up USA for China/Russia Takeover | North Korea Will Be the Trigger
New Russian Submarines Are So Silent That The U.S. Navy Calls Them “Black Holes” — An earlier model armed with long-range cruise missiles sailed around in the Gulf of Mexico for weeks without being detected in 2012!
Skousen: Analysis of Strategic Threats in the Current Decade
[Updated May 2010] Joel Skousen: Analysis of Strategic Threats in the Current Decade — The Big Picture!
(vision) Dumitru Duduman: The Russian Invasion of America — “It will start with the world calling for ‘peace, peace.’ Then there will be an internal revolution in America…. The government will be busy with internal problems. Then, from the oceans…” — The rapture will occur AFTER America is destroyed, as God destroys the enemies of Israel!
(vision) Dumitru Duduman: WHEN AMERICA GOES TO WAR WITH CHINA the RUSSIANS WILL STRIKE Alaska, Minnesota, Florida — “America’s sin has reached God. He will allow this destruction, for He can no longer stand such wickedness. God however, still has people that worship Him with a CLEAN HEART as they do HIS WORK. He has prepared a heavenly army to save these people”
[ audio ] Henry Gruver’s Three Visions: Russian (and Chinese) Invasion of America — “When Russia opens her gates and lets the masses go, the free world will occupy themselves with transporting, housing and caring for the masses, and will begin to let their weapons down, and will cry ‘peace and safety,’ and that’s when it will happen.”
(video) Dumitru Duduman: Wake Up America
[2-hour audio] Henry Gruver with Steve Quayle: Visions of War – Visions of Heaven
[mp3 audio] Henry Gruver’s Vision of America being invaded by Russia
[47-minute audio] Henry Gruver: Russian Invasion of America
The WW3 Prophecies (includes prophecies by others)
RED DAWN: ASIAN MILITARY INVASION OF USA? (prophecies by many others)
CORRIE TEN BOOM: PREPARED For The COMING TRIBULATION — “Daddy, I am afraid that I will never be STRONG ENOUGH TO BE A MARTYR for Jesus Christ.” My father said, “OUR FATHER IN HEAVEN KNOWS when you will need the strength…. HE WILL SUPPLY ALL YOU NEED – JUST IN TIME.“
12 Reasons NOT To Expect a PRE-Trib Rapture
In-studio with Infowarrior Alex Jones: Pastor Anderson Reveals Pre-Trib Rapture Deception — “Before the year 1830, EVERY denomination, every type of Christianity taught that the rapture took place AFTER the tribulation, because that’s what the Bible explicitly says.”
[7-minute video sneak peek] The RAPTURE will take place “AFTER THE TRIBULATION” — “Christians, today, are NOT BEING WARNED about the events they will face in the great tribulation. To learn the truth about the rapture, we must look within the pages of the Bible, itself”
Pastor Steven Anderson in Infowars studio: The Truth Left Behind — “The PRE-tribulation rapture is not based on ANY scripture.” The “Left Behind” series was fiction.
All 100+ of my Joel Skousen posts (10 posts per page; latest appear first)
World Affairs Brief, April 17, 2015 Commentary and Insights on a Troubled World.
Copyright Joel Skousen. Partial quotations with attribution permitted. Cite source as Joel Skousen’s World Affairs Brief (http://www.worldaffairsbrief.com).
NORAD MOVING BACK INTO CHEYENNE MOUNTAIN
I was extremely critical of NORAD moving out of their nuclear bunker complex at Cheyenne Mountain and into Peterson AFB in Colorado Springs, CO. In 2006 Admiral Tim Keating, who commanded both NORAD and the U.S. Northern Command, said the government’s best intelligence “led them to believe a missile attack from China or Russia was very unlikely.”
But it also guaranteed that when NORAD is targeted with nuclear weapons the entire city of Colorado Springs would be destroyed with it because they were now housed in the open at Peterson AFB. Now the Daily Mail surprises us with information that NORAD is moving back to the mountain bunker complex. Strange that we have to learn this through the Brits.
Why IS the US military moving back into ‘Stargate’ base deep under the Rocky Mountains a decade after it was abandoned? The Cheyenne Mountain Complex is one of the icons of the Cold War – a self-contained and sufficient town buried under the Rockies meant to be impervious to a Soviet nuclear barrage.
It was home to the North American Aerospace Command (NORAD), scanning the skies for Russian missiles and the military command and control center of the United States in the event of World War Three. The Cheyenne Mountain Complex is home to more than 1,000 personnel and is able to operate as an underground town for months with fresh water and food. It shut down nearly ten years ago as the threat from Russia seemed to subside, but this week the Pentagon announced that Cheyenne Mountain will once again be home to the most advanced tracking and communications equipment in the United States military.
The shift to the Cheyenne Mountain base in Colorado is designed to safeguard the command’s sensitive sensors and servers from a potential electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack, military officers said.
Admiral William Gortney, head of NORAD and Northern Command, said that ‘because of the very nature of the way that Cheyenne Mountain’s built, it’s EMP-hardened.’ ‘And so, there’s a lot of movement to put capability into Cheyenne Mountain and to be able to communicate in there,’ Gortney told reporters. ‘My primary concern was… are we going to have the space inside the mountain for everybody who wants to move in there, and I’m not at liberty to discuss who’s moving in there,’ he said.
I find it hard to believe that our entire space command bought into the phony fall of the Soviet Union—sufficient to leave the safety of Cheyenne Mountain (and at great expense to move). They knew about EMP clear back then. In any case, this is another piece of evidence that the PTB know that eventually there will be a nuclear attack on America.
World Affairs Brief, April 24, 2015 Commentary and Insights on a Troubled World.
Copyright Joel Skousen. Partial quotations with attribution permitted. Cite source as Joel Skousen’s World Affairs Brief (http://www.worldaffairsbrief.com).
WALMART STORE CLOSURES—RUMORS AND HYPE
About the only thing you can say for sure about the sudden closure of five Walmart stores is that the official excuse that they are closed permanently due to “plumbing problems” is a lie. All kinds of wild conspiracy rumors have emerged such as those claiming that DHS is building an underground tunnel network, or that they are being commandeered by FEMA to use for housing the mass of illegals from Central America. The notorious KGB disinformation outfit, calling themselves the “EU Times” (which has no physical presence in the EU) capitalized on this phony conspiracy to add their own twist that, “special forces have taken over the stores.” Don’t ever believe or pass on any “news” that comes from the fake “Sorcha Faal” or “EU Times.”
But as Jobs with Justice said, Walmart’s excuse “doesn’t hold water” and is most likely just taking revenge on stores whose employees gave them the most labor trouble and forced Walmart to increase their minimum wage labor costs, increasing expenses by billions.
Walmart suddenly announced that it would be immediately closing five stores for at least six months due to “plumbing problems.” While the company claimed the problems have persisted for the last few years, in each incident, Walmart only gave employees a few hours’ notice that their stores were closing.
But if there were catastrophic plumbing problems, the leaks and the smells would have been very noticeable and city inspectors would have had to be involved and condemned the stores. None of that happened in any of the five stores.
According to ABC News, “no plumbing permits have been pulled in any of the five cities where the stores were suddenly closed for at least six months.” The cities where locations were closed include: Brandon, Florida; Pico Rivera, California; Livingston, Texas; Midland, Texas; and Tulsa, Oklahoma.
And to confirm the vindictiveness of this move Walmart’s spokesperson, Delia Garcia, claimed “these are not layoffs” just before clarifying that “everyone will have to reapply as if new employees” once the stores reopen. Normally, laid off employees would be given automatic rights to their jobs back. This policy indicates they don’t intend to hire back those who protested.
Given Walmart’s well-documented track record of retaliating against employees who speak out for better working conditions, it’s much more likely that this recent spate of store closings is just the latest effort to silence dissent within the company’s workforce.
This wouldn’t be the first time Walmart has abruptly closed a store that just so happens to employ a large number of outspoken and well-organized employees. In 2005, Walmart closed a store in Quebec shortly after its employees at the store voted in favor of forming a union. The Canadian Supreme Court later ruled that Walmart’s actions were illegal and ordered the company to compensate the fired employees.
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