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Report: Obama Spent $770 Million in Taxpayer Funds to Rebuild and Renovate Mosques Overseas

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3/10/2014

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A CBS news investigation found that the Obama State Department is sending millions of dollars to save mosques overseas — outraging taxpayer advocates and raising enormous questions about aid to potentially terror-supporting groups with U.S. foreign aid.

Millions more dollars have been sent to places like Cyprus. The State Department displays before and after pictures of mosques refurbished with U.S. tax dollars.

“I think it is very hard to explain to the American taxpayer right now whose having an extraordinary time paying bills and making ends meet that this is why we took this out of your paycheck, so we can fund this,” said Thomas.

The State Department declined a CBS Atlanta News request for an interview. Anchor Justin Farmer wanted to ask why are we using tax dollars to refurbish religious buildings overseas. The State Department did send CBS Atlanta News an e-mail saying that they are “fighting Islamic extremism by building relationships with Islamic leaders”.

Egyptian-American human rights activist Nonie Darwish told Farmer that trying to buy respect in the Middle East only shows our weakness.

“This part of the world has a lot of respect for power and America is not showing its power, it’s showing its appeasement. They are laughing all the way to the bank,” said Darwish.

Darwish was born in Egypt and is now a former Muslim. Darwish told Farmer that she moved to America and has written several books critical of radical Islam. Darwish said that most of the mosques in Egypt are run by extremists who have ordered former Muslims like herself to be killed.

“We are rebuilding mosques to support the radicals, not to support the moderates. We are building mosques to issue fatwas of death against people like me,” said Darwish.

Your tax dollars also fund computers and mosques in places like Tajikistan and Mali. At an ancient mud brick mosque in Mali, the State Department has provided Internet service and computer equipment to local imams.

Taxpayer watchdogs wonder how the State Department can explain paying for Internet service while Americans struggle through the worst recession in decades.

“To the average person who has probably seen their paycheck shrink and not grow, this could be an insult to them,” said Pete Sepp, President of the National Taxpayers Association.

With radical websites inciting violence and extremism worldwide, there are concerns that the taxpayer-funded Internet service could be misused.

“That is not the job of the U.S. because giving them Internet access to imams and Muslim preachers who hate America,” said Darwish.

Critics say that it is time to review funding for all federal programs that do not directly benefit taxpayers.

“We are spending money we don’t have and certainly we can cut items like this,” said Thomas.  http://toprightnews.com/?p=1929

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U.S. Taxpayers Subsidize Overseas Mosques

by GADI  ADELMANJanuary 17, 2012

The story of the U.S. State Department funding mosques overseas was uncovered in July 2010 when reporter Justin Farmer from ABC affiliate WSBTV Channel 2 in Atlanta Georgia did an investigative report. Farmers’ story focused on how the U.S. was spending its tax payer dollars while supposedly trying to cut the budget.
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I’ve written on this in the past, but I think it needs a re-visit. I don’t think that at a time when our own administration, Congress and Senate have to fight just to come to a 2 month budget agreement we as American taxpayers need to be funding mosques overseas.
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What’s more, I would bet my Burqa that most Americans have no idea that there hard earned money is going to rebuild mosques.
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President Barack Obama announced on January 5, 2012 his administration’s new military strategy, saying it will include cutting at least $487 billion in defense spending.
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The U.S. budget is so bad that we need to cut $487 billion in defense spending, but Hillary Clinton signed a check for $770 million from the U.S. State Department’s USAID program to rebuild Egypt’s sewer system. Funny I thought our own infrastructure here in the U.S. is in dire need of repair.
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But what was supposed to be a ‘sewer’ rebuild is much more. The USAID website shows both before and after pictures of one such mosque in Cairo, Egypt.
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It states,
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The Saleh Talai Mosque in historic Islamic Cairo, dating back to the 10th century, is now active, and open for prayers and tourists. This mosque suffered for decades from rising groundwater contaminated with sewage. USAID, as part of its $770 million Cairo Sewerage Program, allocated $2.3 million for lowering the groundwater at the mosque area, replacing the old sewage collector, and providing a healthier environment for people living in the area.
The Washington times reported on other mosques in August 2010 and emphasized how we are paying for “Muslim triumphalism”
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Americans also may be surprised to learn that the United States has been an active participant in mosque construction projects overseas. In April, U.S. Ambassador to Tanzania Alfonso E. Lenhardt helped cut the ribbon at the 12th-century Kizimkazi Mosque, which was refurbished with assistance from the United States under a program to preserve culturally significant buildings. The U.S. government also helped save the Amr Ebn El Aas Mosque in Cairo, which dates back to 642. The mosque’s namesake was the Muslim conqueror of Christian Egypt, who built the structure on the site where he had pitched his tent before doing battle with the country’s Byzantine rulers. For those who think the Ground Zero Mosque is an example of “Muslim triumphalism” glorifying conquest, the Amr Ebn El Aas Mosque is an example of such a monument – and one paid for with U.S. taxpayer funds.
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The Same report brought up what can only be called the most important question in this argument. Is it legal for our tax dollars to be used for religious purposes of any kind? The article reported the answer, yet it never received any traction in the media,
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But Section 205.1(d) of title 22 of the Code of Federal Regulations prohibits USAID funds from being used for the rehabilitation of structures to the extent that those structures are used for “inherently religious activities.” It is impossible to separate religion from a mosque; any such projects will necessarily support Islam.
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Well, call me doubtful, but I like to see things for myself so I went and read 205.1(d) of title 22 of the Code of Federal Regulations, it states plainly,
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(b) Organizations that receive direct financial assistance from USAID under any USAID program may not engage in inherently religious activities, such as worship, religious instruction, or proselytization, as part of the programs or services directly funded with direct financial assistance from USAID.
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One does not have to be an Iranian nuclear scientist to understand the above law. It is illegal, period.
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But it doesn’t end there; Dr. Laurie Roth wrote in the Canadian Free Press in August 2010,
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What I have uncovered is unacceptable, obscene and should be fought at all levels by the American people. Our State Department is using undisclosed amounts of US tax dollars to build and renovate Islamic Mosques in 27 different countries. They do this under an ‘outreach’ program with the purpose of fostering ‘good will’ in Muslim countries. The state department will not reveal just how much they spend on overseas, foreign programs but a very reliable source told me most likely it is in the hundreds of billions.
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Oh, so now it’s only hundreds of billions, no big deal when we are in debt for trillions.
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My own research found more than just 27 countries.  According to the Associated Press also August 2010,
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This year, the Obama administration will spend nearly $6 million to restore 63 historic and cultural sites, including mosques and minarets, in 55 nations, according to State Department documents.
So now it’s 55 countries not 27, but really, what are a few more minarets anyway.
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Former Egyptian Muslim and author Nonie Darwish stated during an interview about the U.S. rebuilding mosques, that trying to buy respect in the Middle East only shows our weakness,
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“This part of the world has a lot of respect for power and America is not showing its power, it’s showing its appeasement. They are laughing all the way to the bank.”
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“We are rebuilding mosques to support the radicals, not to support the moderates. We are building mosques to issue fatwas of death against people like me.”
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State Department documents also show that it is providing funding to buy inter-net computer service for the mosques. Darwish had this to say,
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“They call us the Great Satan. So, we’re giving them access to really get together against America.”
I have written a.bout Obama’s Muslim Outreach Program several times dating back to July 2010 but as usual each and every time I point out how much this current administration is trying to buy friendships with those that not only don’t like us, but quite frankly would rather see us dead, I get called an Islamaphobe.
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The U.S. tax payer dollars continue to flow for projects like this and others. As Jon Christianryter’s website reported,
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Fifty-five of sixty-three 2010 grants went to Muslim countries. But some of the grants to non-Muslims countries—like China—were nevertheless used to refurbish mosques or other Islamic artifacts.
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My question is who over sees this money once the check is written? Do we or for that matter, our State Department really know how it is being spent?
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 It’s bad enough that my tax dollars are going to rebuild mosques and minarets, but I want to know that know that none of that money is being used to buy weapons that are being used against our men and women in the military.
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I decided to see what I could find that was more current and came upon one such USAID audit. “The Office of Inspector General Audit of USAID/West Bank and Gaza’s Palestinian Health Sector Reform and Development Project”
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The audit is the most recent I could find dated January 5, 2012, so barely two weeks old.
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I figured this would be a good place to start, tax dollars going to health care in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, surely that money would go towards what it was intended and easily tracked.
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In the summary it explains,
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In September 2008, USAID awarded a 5-year, $56,907,081 contract to Chemonics International to implement the Palestinian Health Sector Reform and Development Project, known as the Flagship Project, to support efforts to reform the Palestinian health sector. USAID/West Bank and Gaza provided supplemental funding of $28,529,883 in September 2009, bringing the total contract amount to $85,436,964. Total disbursements for the project as of June 30, 2011, were $49,459,930. The mission had obligated $61,526,896 for the project as of June 30, 2011.
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Under the ‘Audit findings’ section it explains in the first paragraph the importance of “partners” as well as the rules set by USAID,
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“When contemplating an alliance approach to achieve a result, it is important to conduct due diligence on potential partners… According to ADS 201.3.11.9, “USAID Missions [Offices] should ensure that host country governments have major involvement in project and activity planning decisions.”
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The title of the very first section summed it all up, “USAID/West Bank and Gaza did not establish a reliable partnership with the Minister of Health.” It stated,
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Moreover, according to the mission’s health and humanitarian assistance team and the evaluation results, weak oversight by the mission allowed the project team to respond to Ministry requests that may have not been directly in line with the project’s strategic vision.
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The audit continues with all the wonderful work that was achieved with our tax dollars,
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The unreliable partnership with the Minister of Health developed because of the lack of focus in the original statement of work for the project. USAID/West Bank and Gaza also allowed the relationship to develop in this way by approving whatever the Minister requested, regardless of how the requests fit into the mission’s vision and focus for the project.
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“Approving whatever the Minister requested, regardless”? Makes you wonder what the Minister requested. The outcome of that section of the audit, it gives 3 recommendations so it won’t occur again in the future.
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The second section of the audit is simply titled “Some Reported Results Were Not Reliable”. Really? I don’t even need to elaborate on this. After explaining the importance on about budget, funding, project direction, and achieved results, it gives 2 more recommendations.
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No surprise at the title of the third section, “Contractor Reporting of Achievements Was Sometimes Misleading”. Misleading, would that not be the PC term for Lies? After this section there is of course another recommendation.
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Section 4 is titled “Contractor’s Vetting Information Was Incomplete”. In this section it actually stated,
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Weaknesses in data accuracy also weaken the project’s efficiency and antiterrorism efforts.
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Antiterrorism efforts? I thought this money was going to health reform and development. Perhaps proper health care will keep people from wanting to blow themselves up, I’m not sure on that one. At the end of section 4 as expected two more recommendations.
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The final part of the audit was the ‘scope’ and it states,
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We reviewed compliance by the mission and Chemonics with Executive Order 13224, “Blocking Property and Prohibiting Transactions with Persons Who Commit, Threaten To Commit, or Support Terrorism,” and with USAID/West Bank and Gaza Mission Order 21, “Anti-Terrorism Procedures.” Our antiterrorism compliance testing included reviews of relevant documentation, such as USAID/West Bank and Gaza’s agreement with Chemonics and eligibility notifications for trainees, subcontractors, and grantees.
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I for one am glad that the compliance of “transactions with persons who commit terrorism” was reviewed through relevant documentation, especially since that documentation was provided by the group that “did not establish a reliable partnership”, “reported results that were not reliable”, “reported of achievements that were sometimes misleading” and provided “vetting information that was incomplete”.
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Yes, our debt is growing and in the time it took me to write this it has risen over 2 million dollars. But no worries, we will still give money to our enemies to rebuild their mosques, after all we are sitting down with the Taliban, right?
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FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributing Editor Gadi Adelman is a freelance writer and lecturer on the history of terrorism and counterterrorism. He grew up in Israel, studying terrorism and Islam for 35 years after surviving a terrorist bomb in Jerusalem in which 7 children were killed. Since returning to the U. S., Gadi teaches and lectures to law enforcement agencies as well as high schools and colleges. He can be heard every Thursday night at 8PM est. on his own radio show “America Akbar” on Blog Talk Radio. He can be reached through his website gadiadelman.com
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Meanwhile Christian churches are burned down with the people inside them, they’re robbed and pillaged, hunted down, put to death-beheadings, stabbed with Crosses, raped, imprisoned, enslaved and their history cleansed – not unlike the EU who didn’t even deign to mention the word Christianity in their constitution.
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Was The Price Of Ukraine’s “Liberation” The Handover Of Its Gold To The Fed?

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March 11, 2014

A curious story, and one which should be taken with a mine of salt, has surfaced out of the pro-Russian newspaper Iskra, which reports – so far on an entirely unsubstantiated basis – that last Friday, in a mysterious operation under the cover of night, Ukraine’s gold reserves were promptly loaded onboard an unmarked plane, which subsequently took the gold to the US.

Image: Gold Bullion (Wiki Commons).

From the source:

Tonight, around at 2:00 am, an unregistered transport plane took off took off from Boryspil airport.

According to Boryspil staff, prior to the plane’s appearance, four trucks and two cargo minibuses arrived at the airport all with their license plates missing. Fifteen people in black uniforms, masks and body armor stepped out, some armed with machine guns. These people loaded the plane with more than forty heavy boxes.

After this, several mysterious men arrived and also entered the plane. The loading was carried out in a hurry. After unloading, the plateless cars immediately left the runway, and the plane took off on an emergency basis.

Airport officials who saw this mysterious “special operation” immediately notified the administration of the airport, which however strongly advised them “not to meddle in other people’s business.”

Later, the editors were called by one of the senior officials of the former Ministry of Income and Fees, who reported that, according to him, tonight on the orders of one of the “new leaders” of Ukraine, all the gold reserves of the Ukraine were taken to the United States.

Indicatively, according to the latest IMF figures, Ukraine’s official gold holdings are just over 40 tons, having doubled in the past decade:

So just more disinformation and propaganda surrounding the Ukraine, or something more?GATA has submitted an inquiry into the New York Fed to get official denial (because it certainly won’t get a confirmation) from the Liberty 33 folks.

Of course, the best source of validation, and refutation, of this story would be the people of Ukraine, alas since not even Americans are entitled to observe how much gold is in Fort Knox, somehow we doubt that the Central Bank of Ukraine will be any more lenient in providing visiting and viewing hours for its much more compact gold inventory. Especially since the local population is far more busy celebrating its “liberation” by western powers.

We hope, for their sake, they weren’t also just “liberated” of all their gold, which after a brief stay 80 feet below the surface at 33 Liberty, will promptly find its way either to the Bundesbank, or to the billionaire oligarchs, based either in London or elsewhere, and currently in charge of “post-liberation” Ukraine.

Finally, putting this into perspective, 40 tons of gold is roughly what China imports every ten days.

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EGYPT AND GOLD IN THE SOUTH – May 26th, 2013

The mining for minerals in Hala’ib triangle especially gold is part of the dispute between Egypt and Sudan. Actually in late 1970s or early 1980s the dispute surfaced when Sudan signed an agreement with some American or Canadian mining company to mine gold there “despite it is disputed territory and Egypt officially believes that the triangle is considered an Egyptian territory ” It is just an irony that despite the people there live in extreme poverty , they are surrounded by rich area of minerals above them gold mine Financial Al Mal Daily newspaper reporter Mohamed Ragab travelled to Hala’ib and filmed there the unofficial/illegal gold mining there. He did not say the exact location but it is between the cities of Hala’ib and Shalateen. The speaker in the video who is wearing the galabiya is not a native if I may say, he seems to be of Upper Egyptian origin.

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Gold mining in Hala’ib triangle

The people there extract gold from the gold veins found in that mount in the triangle for four years now. Amazingly the deal is as follows a guy comes with gold detector along with workers and a transportation vehicle and in the end the profit is divided by three. “The government does not interfere” says the Upper Egyptian guy who owns three gold detectors. For 6 months the government aka the army , the intelligence and state security in this area used to stalk those gold diggers but they stopped now. “The best government is in Hala’ib !!”  The man said with no regards to the people suffering there. Surprisingly in the end of that short yet extremely important clip we find out that there is some Gulf mining company digging for gold there. When it comes to the unofficial gold mining in Egypt , you will be surprised to know that no only some people in Hala’ib mine it unofficially but in other areas as well. Last month Al Shorouk newspaper reported exclusively that there is illegal gold mining taking place in Qena. Strangely I cannot find the report anymore in Shorouk official newspaper but I found a cached version from the report “Thank God for Google Cache service”

contin: http://egyptianchronicles.blogspot.com/2013/05/gold-rush-in-south.html#more

https://mediachecker.wordpress.com/2012/10/22/arab-spring-egypt/

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“Kosovo was historically a mining district for the former Yugoslavia. The industrial complex Trepča in Kosovska Mitrovica “was the largest mining operation in the former Yugoslavia”.[1][4] During the time of Yugoslavia, Kosovo possessed 50% of all of Yugoslavia’s nickel reserves, 36% of lignite, 48% of lead and zinc reserves, 47% of the magnesium reserves, and 32.4% of kaolinite reserves.”

Kosovo Natural Resources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_resources_of_Kosovo

Alexander Nubia – (Rothchild agents) - http://www.alexandernubia.com/cms/pages/3

http://www.mineweb.com/mineweb/content/en/mineweb-company-releases?oid=163399&sn=Detail

Sudanese Gold: http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/country/2011/myb3-2011-su.pdf

Rothschild Stooge Wilson. In office from 1913 to 1921. Rothschild Federal Reserve started 1913.

Rothschild stooge Wilson. Wilson in office from 1913 to 1921. Rothschild Federal Reserve started 1913.

The Federal Reserve is a private bank owned by about 6 families. Raping a nation’s wealth makes it easier by having a New World Government w/ no borders where bureauocrats make the laws aka no sovereignity. Gold and Silver have always been the Rothchilds preferred monetary system. Land – oil, pipelines, food and water their control.


Ukraine: Mr. Yatsenyuk Goes to Washington

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Yats is a well connected globalist operative

Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com March 12, 2014

Installed Ukrainian prime minister and former bankster Arseniy Yatsenyuk is expected to tell Obama “his country needs help to defend itself against neighboring Russia and also is expected to seek financial assistance from Washington,” the CIA’s Radio Free Europe website reports today.

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The CIA and the rest of its Mockingbird media, however, predictably fail to mention that Ukraine has lined up the usual globalist suspects in its drive to embrace the European Union, the IMF, World Bank, and deliver austerity in the former Soviet republic.

Yats, as the State Department calls Yatsenyuk, has a foundation in his name. Called “Open Ukraine,” its tagline is “Open Ukraine for yourself and for the world,” which actually translates into opening the country up to international banksters and assorted corporatist looters. Under the cover of “working with a young generation of artists, scholars, and community leaders who seek to implement social changes in different regions,” the Yats foundation offers yet another open door for the U.S. State Department, the National Endowment for Democracy, NATO, Chatham House, Horizon Capital, Swedbank, and the German Marshall Fund.

The direct participation of the State Department in deposing the elected leader of Ukraine and stacking the parliament with a coalition of ultra-nationalists, fascists, soccer hooligans and neo-Nazis is well-known, at least to folks who bother to research beyond the uniformly anti-Russian headlines proffered by the corporatist Mockingbird media.

The Chatham House is a British think tank operating like the Council on Foreign Relations and the Brookings Institute in the United States. Corporate members include Goldman Sachs International, Morgan Stanley, Lockheed Martin, Bloomberg, GlaxoSmithKline, Coca-Cola, and other transnational giants and bankster operations. This elite membership, writes Tony Cartalucci, “is involved in coordinated planning, perception management, and the execution of its corporate membership’s collective agenda.”

In order to dispel any confusion about what is in store for Ukraine, Roderic Lyne, deputy chairman of Chatham House, said in February the country sorely needs “tough love,” in other words the same sort of austerity “love” dispensed by the globalists in Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, and Spain where poverty is on the rise.

NATO is known for its collaboration with the CIA on Gladio “stay behind armies,” ostensibly designed to fight the commies if they invaded western Europe, but in fact used to subvert governments and political movements unacceptable to the global elite. In 1952 in Germany it was discovered that there was a fascist stay-behind army operating in the country. (See a timeline on NATO-Gladio connections.)

Earlier this month, researcher and author F. William Engdahl reported on a secretive neo-nazi military organization reportedly linked to NATO that played a decisive role in targeted sniper attacks and violence that led to the collapse of the elected Ukrainian government.

NATO was financed by the German Marshall Fund, which supports The Black Sea Trust for Regional Cooperation operating in Ukraine (and Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Georgia, Moldova, Romania, and the autonomous Krasnodar and Rostov regions of Russia). Its logo is proudly displayed on the Yats foundation partner page. The organization specializes in cobbling together “linkages between new EU member states and the countries of the Black Sea region” and pushing for “economic reform,” in other words moving these countries out of the Russian economic sphere into the EU-globalist sphere of economic domination.

Members of the German Marshall Fund, writes John Coleman, include David Rockefeller of Chase Manhattan Bank and luminaries from the Ford Foundation, the Club of Rome, the Committee of 300, the Aspen Institute, and other prestigious internationalist organizations. Members include the late Averill Harriman, Silvio Berlusconi, Madeleine Albright, William Jefferson Clinton and several lesser known globalist operatives and functionaries.

The German Marshall Fund, along with the corporate giants Ford, Lilly Endowment, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and corporations such as Time, Bechtel, Exxon, General Motors, Wells-Fargo, and others funded the Trilateral Commission, the premier globalist organization founded by David Rockefeller and Zbigniew Brzezinski in 1973.

It was also instrumental in funding the Council on Foreign Relations along with bankers from JP Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, Bernard Baruch, Jacob Schiff, Otto Kahn, and Paul Warburg. Funding now comes from major corporations such as Xerox, General Motors, Bristol-Meyers Squibb, Texaco, and others as well as the McKnight Foundation, Dillon Fund, Ford Foundation, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Starr Foundation, and the Pew Charitable Trust, writes Mark M. Rich (see The Hidden Evil: The Financial Elite’s Covert War Against the Civilian Population).

Despite the presence of these big league globalist players on Yats humble little foundation web page, we are assured that he is visiting Obama, Biden, and shaking hands with Secretary of State John Kerry because the United States is so very concerned about democracy in Ukraine, now supposedly under threat by the brutal Russian bear and the evil autocrat Vladimir Putin.

The global elite plan to carve Ukraine up like a stuffed pig and hand it to the likes of Horizon Capital, a private equity fund manager specializing in “profit potential” in Ukraine, Belarus, and Moldova. Yats also displays the logo of Swedbank, a mega financial services bank based in Sweden operating in Nordic and Baltic countries. Like banks based in the United States, Swedbank was a recipient of massive government bailouts during the so-called global financial crisis as a result of bad bets in the Baltic countries.

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Trader kills self in finance world’s latest suicide (11th banker)

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By Michael Gray

March 12, 2014 | 5:45pm

Trader kills self in finance world’s latest suicide

A Long Island Rail Road train pulls into the Jamaica station. A Manhattan trader committed suicide by leaping in front of a different train near Syosset Tuesday. Photo: Riyad Hasan

A Manhattan trader was killed Tuesday morning by a speeding Long Island Rail Road commuter train, marking at least the seventh suicide of a financial professional this year.

Edmund (Eddie) Reilly, 47, a trader at Midtown’s Vertical Group, jumped in front of an LIRR train at 6 a.m. near the Syosset train station.

He was declared dead at the scene.

Reilly’s identity was confirmed by Salvatore Arena, an LIRR spokesperson, who said an investigation into the incident was continuing.

Passengers on the west-bound express train told MTA investigators they saw a man standing by the tracks before he jumped in front of the train, Arena said.

“Eddie was a great guy,” Rob Schaffer, a managing director at Vertical, told The Post in an email. “We are very upset and he will be deeply missed.”

The divorced father of three had rented a house around the corner from his ex-wife, Michelle Reilly, in East Norwich, NY.

One family friend, who said he spoke to the trader on Sunday, told The Post that Reilly “didn’t look good.”

Separately:

■  Autumn Radtke, the CEO of First Meta, a cyber-currency exchange firm, was found dead on Feb. 28 outside her Singapore apartment. The 28-year-old American, who worked for Apple and other Silicon Valley tech firms prior to founding First Meta, jumped from a 25-story building, authorities said.

■  On Feb. 18, a 33-year-old JPMorgan finance pro leaped to his death from the roof of the company’s 30-story Hong Kong office tower, authorities said. Li Junjie’s suicide marked the third mysterious death of a JPMorgan banker. So far, there is no known link between any of the deaths.

■  Gabriel Magee, 39, a vice president with JPMorgan’s corporate and investment bank technology arm in the UK, jumped to his death from the roof of the bank’s 33-story Canary Wharf tower in London on Jan. 28.

■  On Feb. 3, Ryan Henry Crane, 37, a JPM executive director who worked in New York, was found dead inside his Stamford, Conn., home. A cause of death in Crane’s case has yet to be determined as authorities await a toxicology report, a spokesperson for the Stamford Police Department said.

■  On Jan. 31, Mike Dueker, chief economist at Russell Investments and a former Federal Reserve bank economist, was found dead at the side of a road that leads to the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in Washington state, according to the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department. He was 50.

■ On Jan. 26, William Broeksmit, 58, a former senior risk manager at Deutsche Bank, was found hanged in a house in South Kensington, according to London police.

http://nypost.com/2014/03/12/trader-throws-self-in-front-of-train-in-finance-worlds-latest-suicide/

1 – William Broeksmit, 58-year-old former senior executive at Deutsche Bank AG, was found dead in his home after an apparent suicide in South Kensington in central London, on January 26th.

2- Karl Slym, 51 year old Tata Motors managing director Karl Slym, was found dead on the fourth floor of the Shangri-La hotel in Bangkok on January 27th.

3 – Gabriel Magee, a 39-year-old JP Morgan employee, died after falling from the roof of the JP Morgan European headquarters in London on January 27th.

4 – Mike Dueker, 50-year-old chief economist of a US investment bank was found dead close to the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in Washington State.

5 – Richard Talley, the 57 year old founder of American Title Services in Centennial, Colorado, was found dead earlier this month after apparently shooting himself with a nail gun.

6 -Tim Dickenson, a U.K.-based communications director at Swiss Re AG, also died last month, however the circumstances surrounding his death are still unknown.

7 – Ryan Henry Crane, a 37 year old executive at JP Morgan died in an alleged suicide just a few weeks ago.  No details have been released about his death aside from this small obituary announcement at the Stamford Daily Voice.

8 – Li Junjie, 33-year-old banker in Hong Kong jumped from the JP Morgan HQ in Hong Kong this week.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-02-24/another-successful-banker-found-dead

Depending on who you include in the count, as many as nine bankers or traders have died suddenly within the last seven weeks alone.

Daily Mail report put the total higher:

Tragedy: Edmund Reilly ended his life near to the Long Island Rail Road station of Syosset on Tuesday morning
 Tragedy: Edmund Reilly ended his life near to the Long  Island Rail Road station of Syosset on Tuesday morning

There have been a spate of suicides  amongst financial services employees since the beginning of 2014. They’ve  occurred in London, the U.S. and Hong Kong. 

1 William Broeksmit, a 58-year-old  former senior executive for Deutsche Bank AG, was found dead in at home after  apparently taking his own life in South Kensington in central London, on January  26

2 Karl Slym, the 51 year old Tata  Motors managing director was discovered dead on the fourth floor of the  Shangri-La hotel in Bangkok on January 27

3 Gabriel Magee, the 39-year-old JP  Morgan employee, whodied after plummeting from the roof of the JP Morgan  European headquarters in London’s Canary Wharf on January 27

4 Mike Dueker, the 50-year-old chief  economist of US bank Russell Investments was discovered dead near to the Tacoma  Narrows Bridge in Washington State on January 31

5 Richard Talley, the 57 year old  founder of American Title Services in Centennial, Colorado, was found dead on  February 4 after apparently shooting himself with a nail gun.

6 Tim Dickenson, who was a U.K.-based  communications director at Swiss Re AG, died in late January, in as yet  unexplained circumstances

7 Ryan Henry Crane, the 37 year old  executive at JP Morgan died in an alleged suicide just a few weeks ago on  February 3 at his home in Connecticut

8 Li Junjie, 33-year-old banker in  Hong Kong jumped from the JP Morgan HQ in Hong Kong on February  19

9 James Stuart, the former National  Bank of Commerce CEO was found dead in Scottsdale, Arizona on the morning of  February 19. The cause of death has yet to be announced.

10 Autumn Radtke, the CEO of First  Meta, a digital currency exchange firm who was found dead on February 28 outside  her Singapore apartment.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2579769/Manhattan-trader-throws-commuter-train-mark-11th-suicide-financial-professionals-year-alone.html#ixzz2vr5Wc5an

Related:

Bitcoin CEO found dead in Singapore in apparent suicide (10th)

Another “Successful Banker” Found Dead (9th)

7th Banker has committed suicide

JPMorgan Vice President’s Death in London Shines a Light on the Bank’s Close Ties to the CIA

Why Are Banking Executives In London Killing Themselves?

6th Banker Commits Suicide

4th Financial Services Executive Found Dead; “From Self-Inflicted Nail-Gun Wounds”

Third Banker Commits Suicide Within a Week

Two top ranking American bankers working in  senior positions in London have committed suicide in the space of two days.


Hilde Johnson: UNMISS an additional crisis for South Sudan

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LAND GRABS!!!

http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2011/10/obama-sends-us-troops-to-uganda.html

By James Okuk

March 12, 2014 – What brought the UNMISS to South Sudan and what will make it to continue or discontinue operating in South Sudan? This is the essential question of concern these days; especially with the repeated errors committed by some careless UNMISS staff.

The UNMISS came to South Sudan by default as a result of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) signed between the Government of the Republic of the Sudan and the Sudan People Liberation Movement/Army in 2005. It was called UNMIS under UN Charter; Chapter Six and with Security Council Resolution 1590 dated 24th March 2005. Its core mandate by then was to ensure that the signed peace agreement was kept intact so that war is not invited back. Its Headquarters was in Khartoum with operation compounds scattered in Malakal, Juba and other limited parts of the country.

There was no much scrutiny and suspicion, particularly from side of the Government of Southern Sudan, regarding the operation of the UNMIS. All its personnel were perceived as friends of Southern Sudan with good will to help in peacekeeping endeavors.

The SPLM leaders might have thought that the UNMIS was for the interest of Southern Sudan against any violation from Khartoum that was known for dishonoring agreements. Thus, the UNMIS was allowed to transport whatever they wanted via any entry port in Southern part of the Sudan without cross-checking for authenticity.

The first test of the mandate of the UNMIS took place in Malakal when the Other Armed Forces (militias) of Gabriel Tangyinya under the pretext of Joint Integrated Units fought with the SPLA inside Military Headquarters (Giyada) in Malakal in December 2006, and again near the airport in February 2009.

However, the armed violence was contained quickly and there were limited fatalities, casualties and destruction on the side of the civilians. Malakal town was not brought to barbaric ruins except the looting of Upper Nile University by the Nuer Militias.  No civilians took refuge in UNMIS compound. Life went back to normal in Malakal.

Later when South Sudan became an independent country, the UNMIS quickly transformed itself into UNMISS, but under Chapter Seven of the UN Charter with Security Council Resolution 1996 dated 8th July 2011.

The UNMISS signed an agreement with the Government of South Sudan on status of its armed forces (SOFA) on 8th August 2011, similar to that signed with Government of Sudan on 28th December 2005.

It is stipulated in article IV of SOFA that, Quote: “UNMISS and its members shall refrain from any action or activity incompatible with the impartial and international nature of their duties or inconsistent with the spirit of the present arrangements. UNMISS and its members shall respect all local laws and regulations.” End Quote.

With the SOFA, the UNMIS continued to live in very nice honey-moons with the Government of Southern Sudan and so has it been with the Government of South Sudan, especially when Ms. Hilde F. Johnson took over as the Special Representative. Even the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon was so impressed that he found himself singing the SPLM slogan of “Oyee” during the celebrations for the Declaration of Independence on 9th July 2011. The UNMISS enjoying the good will and friendliness of the SPLM government of South Sudan.

But now and with the devastating crisis created by the SPLM and its military wing the SPLA for South Sudan, the UNMISS ‘honey-moons’ seems to be turning into ‘sourly-sun’. Suspicions, mistrust, scrutiny and hostile propaganda seems to be taking the central stage. The UNMISS leadership seems to be caught unaware.

The Kiir-Riek’s conflict has wounded the good faith that was wrongly put on the UNMISS by South Sudanese. Nowadays, you rarely see the lovely images and messages of Ms Hilde aired on the SSTV when meeting the top VIPs in Juba.

Instead, you see her being painted as a ‘crisis-maker’ with a pistol in her hands aimed at target of paralyzing the government. She has been removed from the status of a lover of Kiir’s government. She is now perceived as promoter and facilitator of Riek’s rebellion.

The UNMISS has started to take it tough on the SPLM government especially on human rights violations. The SPLM government has started to retaliate too. No more easy friendships and smiles any more. It is only tensions and pressures on each other. The real work has commenced!

Tough questions about the Special Representative of UNMISS (and her team) that were never asked before in the open are now being aired out publicly and with serious repercussions.

  • Who is Hilde F. Johnson and what are her ulterior motives in representing the UN with a special status in South Sudan?
  • Does she honestly care about the plight of the vulnerable South Sudanese or she is here only to enjoy herself with her darling friends?
  • Why did she not visit the UNMISS compounds in Malakal, Bentieu, Bor and Akobo since the time these became refugees camps for South Sudanese who escaped the devastating atrocities at their homes?
  • Is she here to use South Sudan as a ladder that can take her up in the top hierarchy of the UN when the term of Ban Ki-Moon is over?
  • Does she want to rule South Sudan under the UN Trusteeship if South Sudanese failed to stop the madness of mass killings against themselves and stalled at establishing an interim government?
  • What are the identities/nationalities and the hidden motives/leanings of the rest of her leadership team in UNMISS?
  • Why are the IDPs, especially in Malakal, not protected by the UNMISS from all sorts of insecurity, especially hunger, no-shelter and diseases that kill daily in its compound?
  • Why is the UNMISS not allowing/facilitating the media outlets to go and take footages that could tell the world in pictures and videos about the catastrophic and apocalyptic situation of the South Sudanese IDPs being hosted in its compounds?
  • Who said that the UNMISS is supposed to protect the vulnerable civilians in its compounds only and not outside its premises in the troubled South Sudan?
  • What is the purpose of the Chapter Seven of the UN Charter if its provisions are not applied by the UNMISS on the ground in South Sudan when civilians and their homes are ruined to ashes by those who don’t have respect for human dignity?
  • Why was the UN Security Council so adamant in prescribing Chapter Seven in Darfur but reluctant to use the granted Chapter Seven in South Sudan when so many dear lives of innocent civilians have been annihilated on the watch of UN armed forces?

Of course the UNMISS is appreciated for the work it did to open its gates to South Sudanese who were fleeing from death and fear of atrocious harms on them in their unsecured residences in the towns where violent conflicts erupted in South Sudan.

The UNMISS is also much appreciated for hosting the displaced vulnerable civilians in their compounds, though in inhumane environment that has been un-protective in other terms of security except firearms.

The UNMISS is appreciated for airlifting and relocating some South Sudanese IDPs from its compounds to Juba and other safer locations.

But I doubt whether the UNMISS is going to continue operating for long in South Sudan in the manner it is doing now.

If Ms Hilde F. Johnson did well in the time of peace and love in South Sudan, it should be acknowledged reversely now that she has failed to succeed in the time of war and animosities. The UN should start appreciating her irrelevance now in South Sudan and withdraw her and her top team honorable before it is too late.

Though the UNMISS personnel enjoy immunities and privileges in accordance with the diplomatic conventions and the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA); it should not be a surprise when an embarrassing status of persona none grata is declared on Ms Hilde and some of her staff. It has been seen in public demonstrations aired in the SSTV that she is unwanted in South Sudan

The UNMISS should not continue to take the Government of South Sudan for granted, especially with the proposal of the UN Trusteeship, aiming at occupying the hot chair of the elected President of the Republic of South Sudan. The UN should not undermine it that the current crisis was caused by competition for occupying the top government chair of power being occupied already by President Salva Kiir. If the UN is looking for additional crisis in South Sudan let it touch Kiir’s Chair of Power.

What I can say in a nut-shield is that it is only peace that would allow the UNMISS to continue operating gracefully in South Sudan. Hence, the UN should make it a priority to bring peace quickly to this unfortunately ‘born-to-suffer’ country. It is that peace that could give the UNMISS a renewed mandate to keep and also keep itself in South Sudan. But how will that peace comes when so many things have fallen apart?

Promotion of war through distribution of violence armaments is not going to make the UNMISS continue to operate in South Sudan. The UNMISS Neutrality is not going to be possible when war and destruction is on.

Who will the UNMISS protect if the civilians leave South Sudan to take refuge in the neighboring countries because of war escalation and lack of dignified assistance inside the inhumane UNMISS premises?

Who will the government of South Sudan govern if the neglected civilians lose confidence in their own country and take refuge under governments of neighboring countries?

Who will blame the neglected citizens of South Sudan if they got angry with both the government and the rebels and demand a referendum to become part of neighboring countries protecting and assisting them now?

I am really worried about the fate of my beloved Republic of South Sudan. May God come to our help before it is too late!

http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article50268

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(MC->George Soros Funded) Human Rights Watch calls to investigate war crimes in South Sudan

February 27, 2014 – (NAIROBI)  Both pro and antigovernment armed forces are responsible for serious abuses that may amount to war crimes in two key oil hubs in South Sudan during recent fighting, Human Rights Watch said today.

Human Rights Watch researchers visited Malakal and Bentiu, the capitals of two oil producing states, between January 29 and February 14, 2014. Researchers found that armed forces from both sides have extensively looted and destroyed civilian property, including desperately needed aid facilities, targeted civilians, and carried out extrajudicial executions, often based on ethnicity…..

http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article50127

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“Sudan has served as a proxy battlefield between the West and China for control over of its vast oil holdings and ultimately as part of a greater battle to control Africa’s resources. Sudan appears to have used the LRA as a sort of armed buffer between them and their neighbors, in particular, Uganda, ruled by an eager servant of the Continental European-Anglo-American agenda.” continued

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Hilde F Johnson:

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She currently serves as the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Mission in the Republic of South Sudan

Born in Arusha, Tanzania to parents who worked for the Norwegian Missionary Society, she came to Norway at the age of 7.[3] She was awarded a Cand. polit. degree at the University of Oslo in 1991, specializing in development anthropology.

She served as a member of the Standing Committee on Energy and the Environment. She served as Minister of International Development in Bondevik’s First Cabinet from October 1997 to March 2000 and held the same position in Bondevik’s Second Cabinet from October 2001 to October 2005.[4]

As minister, Hilde F. Johnson played a pivotal role in the peace process in Sudan, leading to the completion of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement between government and the Sudan People’s Liberation Army/Movement in 2005. She has engaged in peace building efforts and post crisis-transition processes in relation to a number of countries in Africa, Asia and Central America, notably the Horn of Africa, Sudan, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Timor Leste, Guatemala and the Great Lakes-region.

She has been involved in efforts to build coalitions for change, both of the UN, in the Bretton Woods Institutions (BWIs) and bilateral aid. In 1998, Johnson initiated the Utstein-group, a group of key likeminded development ministers from the UK, the Netherlands, Germany and Norway to spearhead this agenda. She worked closely with the senior leadership of the UN, the International Financial Institutions and the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and leaders of developing countries, to bring about better pro-poor development policies. She has served as Governor and member of the Board of the World Bank for Norway and the Nordic/Baltic Constituency.

Prior to joining UNICEF she served as Senior Advisor to the President of the African Development Bank in charge of Fragile States policies. Johnson was the co-chair of the Global Coalition for Africa for several years. She was selected a Global Leader of Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum in 2001 . She was member of the High Level Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor led by Madeleine Albright, and has served as a member of the Oxford University Taskforce on UK Energy, Development Assistance and Foreign Policy, led by Sir Chris Patten. Johnson was a member of the UNDP hosted Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor.

Johnson served as Deputy Executive Director[5] of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)from 2007-2011.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilde_Frafjord_Johnson

Rothchild-Un agents. What Arseniy Yatsenyuk is to Ukraine - Hilde Johnson is to South Sudan or the German-Dutch House of Orange – Princess Mabel aka Mabel Wasse Smit aka Mabel van Oranje and her UN Bosnian lobbying on behalf of her lover Bosnian FM Muhammed Sacirby. If one searches Hilde’ family background one can see how closely it resembles Obama’s history – (there is a “background type”.) These Rothchild agents are forcing countries to submit to the World Bank and IMF so as to steal the countries gold, silver, and all natural resources. It’s Serbia, Kosovo, the Colored Revolutions, Arab Spring-like destabilization redux where pennies are spent by corporists for indigent land….the UN and the global corporatists-financiers (led by NWG nations) usually has a “solution”.


British Corporation Mass Murdering Ugandans in UN Sanctioned Land Grab

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Beneath fraud, media spin, & UN stamps of approval, awaits an unfolding nightmare for the people of Africa and the world.

by Tony Cartalucci

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The New York Times recently reported in an article titled, “In Scramble for Land, Group Says, Company Pushed Ugandans Out,” that the British “New Forests Company” has evicted over 20,000 people from their land in Uganda to make way for tree plantations. Homes were burnt, people, including women and children, were brutalized and murdered during the long eviction process.

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However, the New York Times states that in this case “the government and the company said the settlers were illegal and evicted for a good cause: to protect the environment and help fight global warming.”

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The “group” the New York Times is referring to is Oxfam, which published a report titled, “The New Forests Company and its Uganda plantations,” detailing the activities of New Forests in Uganda and the evictions the New York Times gingerly describes in its article.

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Who is The New Forests Company?

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Meet “New Forests,” a UK-based firm that claims to be a “sustainable and socially responsible forestry company with established, rapidly growing plantations and the prospect of a diversified product base for local and regional export markets which will deliver both attractive returns to investors and significant social and environmental benefits.” Their corporate website is not short of the color green, nor of African people smiling and prospering, so apparently, we are left to believe, New Forests has made good on their mission statement.

Image: Taken from New Forests’ website, they proudly display the swath of destruction their company is responsible for, of course, instead of depicting the displacements, murders, and thuggery they are committing against the people of Africa, they place images of thriving trees. ….

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Meet Robert Deveruex, chairman of New Forests, one of the founding shareholders of The Virgin Group and former chairman of Soho House Group. He has spent a great deal of time and energy making what his corporation is doing in Africa appear to have a philanthropic spin. In an August 2010 Guardian article titled, “Robert Devereux donates £4m of art collection to set up African charity,” Devereux claims of his New Forests company that it “has a huge community development programme. It’s not philanthropy. We go to the community and we say, ‘We want to co-invest with you. If you provide what labour and materials you can, we’ll provide money for things that you can’t get.’”

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Devereux, however, never mentioned what happens if the community says, “no thanks.”

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Photo: Robert Devereux, a long time investor, a long time con-artist spinning his company’s despoiling of Africa as some sort of cutting-edge investment strategy that makes money and “helps” people. Even as Devereux made his disingenuous statements in 2010 regarding New Forests, the villagers in Uganda he was “helping” had already filed a court case a year earlier protesting the British company’s encroachment on their land. …

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Meet New Forests executive director and CEO Julian Ozanne, who previously worked for the Financial Times, advised US and European investment banks on business and political risk in Africa and worked for the global corporate-fascists nexus, the World Economic Forum.

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Also serving as a New Forest director is Jonathan Aisbitt, chairman of the investment firm, The Man Group, and previously a partner and managing director at the now notorious Goldman Sachs.

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There is also Avril Stassen, who is not only a director at New Forests but is also currently a principal at Agri-Vie Investment Advisers, which claims to be “focused on food and agribusiness in Sub-Sahara Africa with a mission to generate an above average investment return, as well as demonstrable socio-economic development impacts through its equity investments in food and agribusinesses.”

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In other words, buying up land in African nations people depend on to live, to instead broaden foreign investors’ portfolios and profits, all under the cover of feel good rhetoric and pictures of smiling Africans pasted all over their website and annual reports.

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A good website that seems to be keeping watch on Agri-Vie is Farmlandgrab.org, which in one short URL explains exactly the game Agri-Vie is playing.

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And finally, meet Sajjad Sabur, also a director at New Forests, as well as a managing director at HSBC, heading the mega-bank’s “Principal Investments Africa” branch which targets African businesses with management buyouts, growth capital and recapitalization “opportunities.” Sabur’s HSBC invesment arm has actually invested in New Forests.

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Quite clearly, this looks more like the profile of a Wall Street-London corporate-fascist hit team than anything at all involving humanitarian, environmental, or social concerns. And judging by Oxfam’s report and the subsequent attempt by the New York Times to mitigate the gravity of what the largest banks in the world are doing to Africa, it seems like a corporate-fascist hit is just what is unfolding in Uganda at New Forests’ hands.

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Globalization is Modern Day Imperialism by Anglo-American Bankers
Backtracking to New Forests’ mission statement, apparently “social responsibility” equates to murdering or displacing tens of thousands of Ugandans in their own nation, and “attractive returns” equates to the extraction and exportation of Ugandan resources for a corporation’s shareholders 4,000 miles away. What we are told is of significant “benefit” to society and the environment looks more like a textbook case of imperialism, perpetrated by British, surely new to being socially and environmentally responsible, but certainly not to imperialism nor gimmicks used to mask it behind noble causes.

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The New York Times reveals that the World Bank is also an investor in New Forests along with HSBC, and that the true nature of the scam goes beyond merely displacing tens of thousands to grow trees, but that the trees are being used for the purpose of selling contrived carbon credits, not even to provide tangible resources for economic activity. The New York Times also implicates the United Nations, which granted New Forests permission to “trade” with the Ugandan government regarding its 50-year lease to grow trees in the landlocked nation.

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The government of Uganda, led by President-for-life Yoweri Museveni for the last 25 years, was the result of a protracted civil war led by Museveni himself. After seizing power, he was immediately lauded by the West, embraced the World Bank and International Monetary Fund’s plans for restructuring his newly conquered nation, and has been running it as a dictator ever since. It is no surprise that Museveni is now selling his own people out, no doubt in exchange for his perpetual, unhindered rule, transiting a vast corporate media black hole enjoyed by regimes servile to Wall Street and London worldwide.

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The globalist New York Times has a long tradition of apologizing not just for Anglo-American bankers as they defile the planet, but defending their accomplices, Museveni apparently one of them. In a 1997 New York Times article titled, “Uganda Leader Stands Tall in New African Order,” Museveni is praised for his extraterritorial meddling throughout neighboring African states. The New York Times claims, “not only has Mr. Museveni resurrected his own impoverished nation from two decades of brutal dictatorship and near economic collapse, but he is also widely seen as the covert patron of rebel movements like the one that has just toppled Mobutu Sese Seko, the longtime dictator of Zaire.” The article then brushes off accusations that Museveni is dictator of a single party system of governance by providing Museveni’s own defense, that Uganda is pre-industrial and not ready for multiparty democracy.

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How resurrected Uganda is from poverty is a matter of debate, and certainly, the concept of poverty has taken on all new dimensions for over 20,000 Ugandans forced from their land by Anglo-American bankers and their willing accomplices in the Ugandan government. How Museveni plans on bringing Uganda past its “pre-industrial” state by handing over land to foreigners to grow trees on for the next 50 years, leaving his own people homeless, jobless, and destitute for an entire generation is also a profound mystery.

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What we are watching in Africa is the grotesque reality that is globalization peaking through the thick layer of lies, propaganda, spin, liberal ideologies, and imagery used to dupe the Western world, and increasingly many in the developing world. It is a reality that entails theft on a massive scale, human exploitation, mass-murder, collective punishment, and intimidation. For those that think Uganda is an isolated anomaly and are somehow able to dismiss the backgrounds of New Forests which represents an entire network designed specifically to exploit and strip mine all of Africa, one need look no further than Southeast Asia’s Cambodia. There, half way around the world from Uganda, another Western backed dictator-for-life, Hun Sen, has literally sold half his country to foreign investors, displacing hundreds of thousands at gunpoint in a nearly identical Wall Street-London land-grab.

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Globalization is a multi-billion dollar packaged update of the British Empire’s “spreading of civilization.” Designs of dominion and exploitation have historically always been accompanied by excuses seen as palatable for the masses who were expected to support and carry these designs to fruition for the ruling elite. While it is no longer fashionable to kill black and brown people while accusing them of being “savages,” it is still quite fashionable to consider them “undemocratic,” “backwards,” “overpopulating,” “terrorists,” and above all, “detriments to our environment.” At least, New Forests and New York Times seem to think so.

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Once again, the choice we the people have, upon learning of this, is to either detach in cowardice and apathy, or identify the corporations, banks, and institutions leading this “globalization,” expose them, boycott them, and ultimately replace them. Those of New Forests guilty of displacing, even murdering people simply for profit in a foreign nation, thousands of miles from their shores, don’t belong in business anymore.

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The darkest villains we face on earth today are not cave dwelling Islamic fundamentalists, Libyan colonels, or Americans selling sliver coins, instead, the most dangerous, degenerate, and detrimental members of the human race reside on Wall Street and in London’s financial institutions.

http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2011/09/british-corporation-mass-murdering.html

One element missing in the article is the participation of Continental Europe.

Change the name Robert Devereux to Pierre Omidyar, Gates, Branson, et al and one will find the same modus operandi, in fact, this modus operandi can be traced back to Rothchilds agent Cecil Rhodes Boer War(s) and Adolf Lüderitz’ – German South West Africa where there was one set of laws for the Europeans and one set of laws for the Africans (same thing happened in Ireland – Penal Laws). Remember these same corporist-financiers are not only ”concerned” about “global warming” but also “overpopulation”. It’s their opinion that Africa is  ”overpopulated” whereas one could safely argue it’s underpopulated in regards to their landmass, iow, not enough people to “till the fields” so to speak but it’s a good strategy for the corporist-financier land grabbers.


South Sudan: Protest denounces UN as weapons, including land mines, found in UN transport truck

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The Associated Press

UN-Rothchild agent – Hilde Johnson

A protester holds a placard showing an altered photo of the head of the United Nations in South Sudan, Hilde Johnson, as a group of South Sudanese demonstrate in support of President Salva Kiir and against “foreign encroachment” in Juba, South Sudan Monday, March 10, 2014. The rally participants marched through the city on Monday and shouted slogans of support for President Salva Kiir while also denouncing Hilde Johnson, the top U.N. official in the country, accusing Johnson of supplying arms to rebels fighting South Sudan’s government. (AP Photo/Mackenzie Knowles-Coursin)

MC->The AP are well-known for their false photographs so why they’re pointing out that this one is false is interesting to say the least – here’s only one of the AP’s false impression pictures from just a few days ago:  http://politix.topix.com/story/10830-ap-removes-photo-that-gives-false-impression-of-nazi-scouts

Associated Press           March 10, 2014       

By ILYA GRIDNEFF, Associated PressJUBA, South Sudan (AP) — Hundreds of young South Sudanese men marched in protest of the United Nations on Monday following the discovery of land mines inside a U.N. truck that was marked as carrying food.The rally participants marched through the city and shouted slogans of support for President Salva Kiir while also denouncing Hilde Johnson, the top U.N. official in the country. Protesters accused Johnson of supplying arms to rebels fighting South Sudan’s government.An internal U.N. security situation report over the weekend said the government impounded 12 U.N. trucks and the deputy governor of Lakes state requested the official cargo list. Last Thursday three South Sudan soldiers stopped and searched U.N. military vehicles on orders from superior officers following the impounding of the 12 trucks, the report said.

On Friday U.N. spokeswoman Ariane Quentier said it was “regrettable” a 12-truck U.N. convoy marked as food was discovered carrying weapons.

“The transport of cargo of general goods belonging to the Ghanaian battalion on its way to Bentiu. Several containers were wrongly labeled and inadvertently contained weapons and ammunition,” she said.

The discovery — as well as a video showing guns and land mines taken from the U.N. trucks that has been making the rounds on social media — has fueled even more skepticism of the U.N. here. Anti-U.N. sentiment began growing in January when President Kiir described the organization as a “parallel government” and ardent supporter of rebels.

Quentier declined to comment further on Monday and the U.N. has not explained why its soldiers would need land mines.

“If the guns found are going to U.N. troops, why do they have land mines too? Does the U.N. use land mines?” said Deng Gerang, one of Monday’s rally participants, voicing a common concern among the protesters.

Another protester, Deng Djames, 24, said South Sudan residents appreciate the U.N.’s assistance, but he said there needs to be a regime change at the top of the U.N. structure. “We want her to go. She assists the rebel leader Riek Machar,” he said.

South Sudan Vice President James Wani Igga told the protesters that the U.N. is was a colonial system trying to run the government’s administration. He was also critical of international aid groups for driving their agenda in South Sudan.

“If it’s a colonial system we need to fight, then that is good because now I am old. It makes me young again and I will go into the bush to fight,” he said to cheers and laughter.

The government’s major criticism of the U.N. is the protection its bases around the country provide for close to 70,000 citizens mostly from the Nuer tribe who say they fear reprisal attacks from the dominant Dinka tribe who support the government and Kiir.

Widespread violence broke out in South Sudan in mid-December, splitting the country’s military in two, with some supporting the government and others defecting to support the former vice president, Machar, an ethnic Nuer. [MC->Syria-Ukraine redux]

Aid groups estimate that thousands of people have died in the violence. Hundreds of thousands have been displaced. The top U.N. aid official has said that if residents don’t go home to plant crops before the coming seasonal rains the country will face severe hunger.

The latest mass violence occurred last week, when fighting broke out at a military barracks outside Juba. Government and military officials blamed the outbreak over a disagreement over pay, and officials said that five people were killed.

However, the death toll was later revised upward to 65 by a military spokesman. Several soldiers who refused to give their names, however, told The Associated Press the actual death toll was more than 100.

Copyright 2014 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

http://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2014/03/10/south-sudan-protest-against-un-after-weapons-found

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UN-MISS Denies Weapons Seized by South Sudan Included Landmines    


An anti-U.N. sign at a youth rally in Juba on March 10, 2014.

An anti-U.N. sign at a youth rally in Juba on March 10, 2014.

JUBA — United Nations officials have dismissed reports that landmines were found among weapons and ammunition seized last week on its way to Bentiu in South Sudan’s Unity state, and insisted that the shipment was not bound for rebels.

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“The pictures that have been circulating on the Internet, claiming that landmines are among the cargo, are not correct. The pictures show, in fact, crowd control equipment,” U.N. Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) Force Commander, Major General Delai Johnson Sakyi of GHANA (my emphasis) said.

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South Sudanese officials said Friday they intercepted 11 United Nations trucks carrying weapons, in violation of a U.N. rule that arms should be transported by air only in the country for security reasons.

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The arms were in a shipment of “general goods” in which “several containers were wrongly labeled and inadvertently contained weapons and ammunition. This is regrettable,” UNMISS said in a statement.

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Ayuen Guet Roor, one of the organizers of a youth rally this week at which  protesters chanted anti-U.N. slogans and carried banners that were hostile to the global body, said he believes the weapons were destined for anti-government troops. But Sakyi insisted the seized weapons “were never intended to serve any other purpose than that of peace and protection of South Sudanese civilians.”

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“They were not intended for the use of any other entity than for the new Ghanaian contingent, and they were not being transported clandestinely. This is also why we readily agreed to the inspection of the cargo at the checkpoint in Rumbek,” he said.

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A joint U.N.-South Sudan investigation into the shipment was due to begin Thursday.

http://www.voanews.com/content/landmines-weapons-seized-south-sudan-unmiss/1870578.html

 The trusting South Sundanese usually waved the UN trucks on w/o inspections – one can only surmise that a whistleblower let the cat out of the bag…GOLDMINES have killed and maimed tens of thousands of Africans – thereagain banning DDT in Africa has also killed tens of thousands of souls.

There are well over 10 million stockpiled mines awaiting destruction per the UN. Massive tracts of land are still infested and thus too dangerous for productive use which is a unique and dangerous way of keeping the people off the land in order to preserve it for the global-corporist-financiers…kinda like the reason the US government grabs millions of acres in the US for “conservation”…


Rothschilds’ Glencore South Sudan Oil Grab

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BBC-AFP Demonstrators demanded the resignation of UN South Sudan envoy Hilda Johnson.BBC-AFP Demonstrators demanded the resignation of UN South Sudan envoy Hilda Johnson.

Rothchild-UN agent – Hilde F Johnson – (gun is photoshopped in order to make the statement that the UN is allegedly supplying weapons and LANDMINES to the ”rebels”)

by Dean Henderson

 

The BBC reported yesterday that over 1,000 people protested in the South Sudanese capital Juba after a UN convoy marked as carrying food was caught ferrying weapons to rebels loyal to former government deputy Riek Machar.  The rebels, who began attacking the government in December, are known as The White Army.  More precisely they are the Rothschilds’ army.

On July 9, 2011 South Sudan became the world’s 193rd nation. Less than a week later violence has erupted in South Kordofan – an area on the new border between Sudan and South Sudan which is controlled by Sudan and rich in oil.

Not content with the seizure of South Sudan’s oilfields via independence, the Rothschild-led Eight Families banking cartel now seeks to push the new border further north, creating more bloodshed while grabbing yet more crude oil from the Sudanese people.

For decades Western intelligence agencies backed the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) in an attempt to lop off the southern half of Sudan for the Four Horsemen of Oil. The region contains 75% of Sudan’s oil reserves.

What became Africa’s longest running civil war finally came to an end when Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir was pressured into ceding the southern part of his country to the IMF/World Bank vampires after the conflict they created left more than 2 million people dead. [1]

Within days of declaring itself a sovereign nation, South Sudan’s state oil company, Nilepet formed a joint venture with Glencore International Plc to market its oil. Glencore is controlled by the Rothschilds. The PetroNile joint venture will be 51 percent controlled by Nilepet and 49 percent by Glencore. [2]

Within days of declaring independence South Sudan’s new President Salva Kiir Mayardit signed a law formally establishing the Central Bank of South Sudan. Sudan is one of five countries – along with Cuba, North Korea, Syria and Iran – whose central bank is not under the control of the Rothschild-led Eight Families central banking cartel. It is therefore no coincidence that the currency of this newest Rothschild oil fiefdom is called the South Sudan Pound. [3]

Already in 1993 Sudanese President al-Bashir had accused Saudi Arabia of providing arms to Johnny Garung’s Sudanese People’s Liberation Army (SPLA).  The Israeli Mossad also supplied the SPLA for years through Kenya with CIA approval.  In 1996 the Clinton Administration announced that military aid to Ethiopia, Eritrea and Uganda was to be used to arm the SPLA for an offensive on Khartoum. [4]

When that bloody endeavor failed, the Eight Families henchmen began arming rebels in Chad. Chad has long been an important country in both Exxon Mobil and Chevron Texaco’s North Africa oil production schemes. Chadian President Idriss Déby , who came to power in 1991, was cozy with Big Oil. He also ranked 16th on Parade Magazine’s 2009 World’s Worst Dictator list. [5]

The Chad-based rebels had two purposes. The CIA’s House of Saud paymaster provided support for the National Front for Salvation (NFS), which attempted to overthrow Libyan President Mohamar Qaddafi. In 1990, following a successful Libyan-backed counter-coup against the Chad government which was sponsoring the NFS, the US evacuated 350 NFS leaders with Saudi financing.  The US restored $5 million in aid to the dictatorial Kenyan government of Daniel Arap Moi so that Kenya would house the NFS leaders, whom other African governments refused to take.  Arap Moi later figured in CIA covert operations in Somalia, where the Saudis had also financed counterinsurgency. [6]

South Sudanese Oil Grab - www.alarabiya.netSouth Sudanese Oil Grab - www.alarabiya.net

Western intelligence agencies then used the government of Chad to finance the Justice & Equality Movement (JEM). From bases in Chad, these terrorists launched forays into the Darfur region of Sudan, creating a massive refugee crisis, while opening a second northern front in Big Oil’s SPLA-led southern flank war against Sudan. [7]

Western media predictably blamed the conflict in Darfur completely on the Sudanese government and the liberal idiocracy was led along by their naive noses, ala Yugoslavia. In March 2009 the Eight Families’ favorite kangaroo court – the International Criminal Court (ICC) – charged Sudanese President al-Bashir with war crimes. There was no mention of JEM in the ICC charges.

By the end of August 2006, Chad’s President Déby had taken a left turn, calling for Chad to get a 60% stake of its domestic oil output after decades of receiving “crumbs” from the foreign companies which ran the industry. He singled out Chevron and Petronas for refusing to pay taxes totalling $486.2 million. [8]

In 2008 Sudanese President al-Bashir attended Déby’s re-election inauguration, signaling a warming of relations that would eventually end the Darfur conflict. With al-Bashir still sitting atop huge oil reserves, the Eight Families now cooked up a plan for South Sudan to cecede from Sudan. Reeling from the constant attacks on his people which had left two million dead, al-Bashir was forced into agreeing with the split.

With violence flaring in Sudanese-controlled and oil-rich South Kordofan and President Salva Kiir behaving less like a puppet of late, it appears that the SPLA and their Glencore/Rothschild sponsors are not content to have stolen most of Sudan’s oilfields.  Like all good bloodsucking vampires, they want them all.


Footnotes:

 

  • [1] “South Sudan: The World’s Newest Fragile Oil-Rich Petrostate.” www.oilprice.com. John Daly. 7-11-11
  • [2] “South Sudan’s Oil Company Forms Joint Venture With Glencore to Sell Oil.” www.bloomberg.com. Matt Richmond. 7-12-11.
  • [3] “South Sudan Establishes Central Bank As It Receives Its New Currency”. www.wireupdate.com. BNO News. 7-15-11
  • [4] “US to Aid Regimes to Oust Government”. David B. Ottaway. Washington Post. 11-10-96
  • [5] “The World’s Ten Worst Dictators”. Parade Magazine. 3-23-09
  • [6] “Mercenary Mischief in Zaire”. Jane Hunter. Covert Action Information Bulletin. Spring 1991.
  • [7] “Sudanese Warplanes Hit Darfur Rebels Inside Chad.” Sudan Tribune. 6-3-09
  • [8] “Petronas Disputes Chad’s Tax Claims.” Aljazeera. 8-30-06

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/03/11/rothschilds-glencore-south-sudan-oil-grab/

Related:

Hilde Johnson: UNMISS an additional crisis for South Sudan

British Corporation Mass Murdering Ugandans in UN Sanctioned Land Grab

South Sudan: Protest denounces UN as weapons, including land mines, found in UN transport truck

The ICC was established by funding from George Soros. He continues to fund it with his “Open Society Foundation” – Pierre Omidyar (his wife is a member of the board of the NGO’s) also funds it along with the usual other foundations and western governments.



The Rothschild’s Template for War

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Wednesday, March 12th, 2014

I’ve always had a passion for history, and I first started to realise how governments and the media collaborate to manufacture ‘history’ through the study of the Boer War.

by Ian Greenhalgh

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The Boer War was the first historical incident that I learned was completely different to how the accepted history tells us it was.

The actuality of what happened to provoke that war and who was behind it wasn’t hidden very deeply, in fact it was barely hidden at all.

Cecil Rhodes provoked it by sending 500 heavily armed British mercenaries into the Boer state (The Jameson Raid) in order to provoke a rebellion against the Boer government by the British settlers and merchants living there.

The Boers (farmers) surrounded this group well short of its objective, forced its surrender and humiliated Rhodes and the British Government. Rhodes knew that all he had to do to conquer the Boer state was provoke war, that was the reason for sending those 500 men, he knew they would not succeed, but he knew that sending 500 Britishers to start an uprising of Britishers in the Boer states would provoke the Boers into taking some action against it’s British minority.

Rhodes could then use his cosy relationship with the British press to spin this into Boer attacks on poor innocent British settlers and that would soon have the British public clamouring for it’s government to send troops to teach these damn Boers a lesson for daring to lay hands on British citizens.

The situation I just described fits exactly into the standard model of regime change that we have seen implemented many times since 1945 by the CIA-M16-Mossad-European intelligence (in reality, they largely operate as a single agency).

Let me lay it out in it’s basics:

  1. Send foreign mercenaries into the victim state to foment ‘revolt’.
  2. Provoke the victim state into using its armed forces to oppose the foreign invaders.
  3. Have the media present this lawful defensive action by the victim state as the cruel oppression of a dictatorship.
  4. Send your armed forces to complete the job of regime change.
  5. Establish a new puppet regime with a banking system consisting of a privately held central bank that issues currency on a debt basis, thus enslaving the population.

It really is that simple, and it has been carried out so many times, currently it is being done in Syria, a couple of years ago we saw an absolutely blatant and textbook case in Libya, before that Iraq and Afghanistan.

In the case of the Boer War, the motivating factor was two-fold, firstly, the Boer states were sat on top of one of the largest gold deposits on the globe, with the extra benefit of their being lots of diamonds and other precious minerals.

Secondly, the Boers were a group of Europeans (Dutch Calvanists, French Heugenots, German Protestants) who had turned their back on the established order and had established for themselves an independent homeland outside of the global financial system, they had a government owned and controlled central bank that issued debt-free currency backed by gold, which meant they had zero inflation and zero interest on credit.

Quite obviously, such a state and financial system is diametrically opposed to how the banking systems of all other countries work (at the time of the Boer War, both Britain and the US had currencies backed by gold but neither had a state-owned and controlled central bank) and was not acceptable to the international bankers who control the world – The Rothschilds and their partners/vassals.

It was no secret that Cecil Rhodes worked for the Rothschilds and they were the ones who financed all of his murderous, grandiose plans for imperial conquest and exploitation of native peoples. Therefore the Boer war is a straightforward case of an agent of the Rothschilds using Rothschild money to arm a group of mercenary terrorists then sending these gangsters to attack a state from the inside thus provoking war between the state and the state controlled by the Rothschilds (Britain).

It is no secret that the Rothschilds loaned the British Government money to finance the war so the 1 million British and Empire troops who served in South Africa were effectively mercenaries hired and paid for by the Rothschilds.

Hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians died as a result, no-one knows how many Boer civilians died, but at least 30,000 died in the British concentration camps alone, no-one knows how many were killed on their own farms and homesteads.

Therefore, my study of the Boer War lead me to understand how wars are planned, organised, provoked and financed, and who is behind this evil mechanism that slaughters innocent people en-masse in order to funnel all of the world’s gold into the hands of a handful of families who control the world’s financial system.

You can take the pattern I just explained and apply it to almost any conflict since the Boer War, it will fit like a glove.

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/03/12/the-rothschilds-template-for-war/

An excellent, well explained, and well used template. I usually use the Balkans. One can clearly see the Rothchilds as Consigliere employees to the Doge of the German-Dutch House of Orange and German-English House of Windsor.

Venice was led by the doge and their consigliere ducale - then there were their paid assassins or hit-men…


Americans Sick and Tired of Wars for the Global Elite

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Establishment apologists step up to dismiss George Washington’s warning

Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com March 13, 2014

A poll released earlier this week reveals Americans are following the advice of George Washington and Ron Paul that the United States should mind its own business and avoid getting involved in the Ukraine crisis.

Obama at odds with the American people he supposedly represents.

“The poll reflects a war-weary American public that is still very reticent to get involved in international conflicts,” reports The Washington Post. “The American people were similarly opposed to military intervention in Syria last year, despite President Obama calling for the use of force and seeking congressional approval for action.”

56 percent of respondents to a Pew Research poll said the United States government and military should “not get too involved in the situation,” while 8 percent said the U.S. should consider “military options.” 29 percent said the Obama administration needs to take a “firm stand” against Russia’s supposed incursion into Ukraine.

On Wednesday it was reported Ukraine had conducted a surveillance flight over its border with Russia under the 1992 Open Skies treaty. The flight confirmed Russia has not amassed its military on the border. The coup government in Kyiv claims Russia moved 220,000 troops, 1,800 tanks and 400 helicopters on its eastern border.

Arizona Republican Senator John McCain told Andrea Mitchell of MSNBC last week he did “not see a military option” in Ukraine “and it’s tragic.” He said the United States has not attacked Russia due to Obama’s “feckless” foreign policy and because the administration has “been near delusional in thinking that the Cold War was over.”

Despite McCain’s reproof, Secretary of State John Kerry said earlier this month the administration would be open to using the military against Russia in Ukraine. “The hope of the U.S. and everybody in the world is not to see this escalate into a military confrontation,” he said.

David Brooks, writing for The New York Times on Monday, lamented the war weariness of the American people. He characterized it as Americans believing “that the U.S. should be less engaged in world affairs” and no longer interested in helping “solve the world’s problems.” Always the establishment apologist, Brooks said Americans “have lost faith in the idea that American political and military institutions can do much to shape the world. American opinion is marked by an amazing sense of limitation — that there are severe restrictions on what political and military efforts can do.”

Brooks did not provide specific examples how “political and military efforts” shaped Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya. In Libya, for instance, political chaos following the invasion by the United States and NATO in 2011 has paralyzed the country and may result in its break up. Brooks did not bother to mention the niggling fact the participation of the United States in the military effort resulted in an estimated 30,000 dead people. Iraq also faces disintegration along political, ethnic and religious lines.

“Brooks uses the words ‘should be less engaged’ instead of ‘mind its own business’ which is the language that Pew used. But hey, it’s David Brooks. His job is to make government stench come off as potpourri,” writes Chris Rossini.

George W. Bush characterized millions of Americans opposed to the invasion of Iraq as little more than a “focus group” and the Obama administration, despite pledges to the contrary and withered olive branches, has continued the Bush neocon agenda more or less uninterrupted as the script appearing on Obama’s teleprompter demands. McCain and Kerry may talk about militarily confronting a nuclear super power over minor issues in Russia’s backyard, but military action is becoming increasingly circumscribed for the establishment as Americans voice their distaste for endless war.

http://www.infowars.com/americans-sick-and-tired-of-wars-for-the-global-elite/

If all these wars are “really necessary” why aren’t the “elites” and their children serving in the military?

 

 


The Scary Side of the Ukraine Troika

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by PETER LEE counterpunch.org March 13, 2014

Pepe Escobar put me onto these pictures, both taken a few weeks before the new ruling troika’s accession to power in late February.  Victoria Nuland in the first, Baroness Ashton in the other.  Pretty clear from these formal portraits that a formal anointment by the US and the West was underway.  The three are Yarsenyi Yatsenyuk, Vitali Klitschko, and Oleh Tyahnybok.

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Tyahnybok, the one least familiar to Western readers—and for very good reason, as shall be seen– is the leader of the Svoboda Party and a real piece of work, according to his Wikipedia entry:

 

Political career

In October 1991 Tyahnybok became a member of the Social-National Party of Ukraine.[9] He is characterised as representative of Ukraine’s far right. From 1994 till 1998, Tyahnybok served as a member of the Lviv Regional Council.[10] In 1998, Tyahnybok was first elected to the Ukrainian Parliament as a member of Social-National Party of Ukraine,[9] in the parliament he became a member of the People’s Movement of Ukraine fraction.[9] In 2002, Tyahnybok was reelected to the Ukrainian parliament as a member of Victor Yushchenko’s Our Ukraine bloc.[9] In parliament he submitted 36 motions for debate, but the parliament adopted only four of them.[11] In the majority of his motions he opposed the introduction of the Russian language as the second official state language, proposed recognition of the fighting role of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and Ukrainian Insurgent Army during World War II, called for the lustration of former communist officials, security service officers and undercover agents, and demanded the prohibition of communist ideology.[11] None of these motions were adopted.[11]

On July 20, 2004, Tyahnybok was expelled from the Our Ukraine parliamentary faction[9][12] after he made a speech in the Carpathian Mountains at the gravesite of a commander of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army.[12] In the speech, which was aired on television in the summer of 2004, he made comments like:[13]

“[You are the ones] that the Moscow-Jewish mafia ruling Ukraine fears most“[12]

and

They were not afraid and we should not be afraid. They took their automatic guns on their necks and went into the woods, and fought against the Moskali, Germans, Kikes and other scum who wanted to take away our Ukrainian state.“[11]

In his defence Tyahnybok said he had not offended Russians by calling them an occupying force as this was based on historical fact. He also denied that he was anti-Semitic, saying he was rather pro-Ukrainian.[14][15] The head of the State Committee of National Migration (Derzhkomnatsmihratsia) Hennadiy Moskal published an open letter with insulting content towards the head of the AU Freedom. The Prosecutor’s office filed criminal charges of inciting ethnic hatred, but later closed the case for lack of offense. Since that time Mr. Tyahnybok has won nine court cases in that regard. By the decisions of courts it was recognized that the criminal case was raised unlawfully, and the actions of TV-channel “Inter” that showed the footage of the Tyanybok’s speech as well as the Head of the Derzhkomnatsmihratsia H. Moskal were recognized as ones that insult the honor and dignity Oleh Tyahnybok and caused him a moral damage. The actions around that issue led to creation of the “Program in defense of Ukrainians”. Tyahnybok stated in 2012 “this speech is relevant even today” and “All I said then, I can also repeat now”.[4]

Since February 2004 Tyahnybok has headed the All-Ukrainian Union “Freedom”.[10]

In April 2005, Tyahnybok co-signed an open letter to President Yushchenko calling for a parliamentary investigation into the “criminal activities of organized Jewry in Ukraine.”[4][16]

Tyahnybok stood as a candidate for the post of Mayor of Kiev during the Kiev local election in 2008.[11] In the elections Leonid Chernovetskyi was reelected with 37.7% of the vote, while Tyahnybok received 1.37% of the vote.[11][17]

Tyahnybok’s results in the presidential elections of 2010

Tyahnybok was a candidate for President of Ukraine in the 2010 presidential election for the All-Ukrainian Union “Freedom”. He received 352,282 votes, or 1.43% of the total.[18] Most of his votes he received in the historic Halychyna oblasts – Lviv oblast, Ternopil oblast and Ivano-Frankivsk oblast accounted to 5% of the vote.[19] In the second round, Tyahnybok did not endorse a candidate. He did presente a list of some 20 demands second round candidate Yulia Tymoshenko had to fulfil first before gaining his endorsement – which included publicizing alleged secret deals Tymoshenko had with Vladimir Putin and ridding herself of what he called Ukraine-haters in her close circles.[20]

During the 2010 Ukrainian local elections his party won between twenty and thirty percent of the votes in Eastern Galicia where it became one of the main forces in local government.[6][21]

During the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election Tyahnybok was (re-)elected (he was top candidate on his party list) into the Ukrainian parliament; when his party won 38 seats.[22][23][24] Tyahnybok was elected leader of the party’s parliamentary faction.[25]

In December 2012 Tyahnybok was voted Person of the Year by readers of Ukraine’s leading news magazine, Korrespondent.[4]

Political positions

Tyahnybok regards Russia as Ukraine’s biggest threat.[13] He has accused the Medvedev presidency of “waging virtual war on Ukraine along many fronts – in the information sphere and the diplomatic sector, within the energy trade and throughout the world of international PR spin.”.[6] He is pro-NATO and critical of the European Union, but supports a Europe of free nations. According to polls both stances put him at odds with the majority of Ukrainians.[13] Tyahnybok also wants to deprive Crimea of its autonomous status and Sevastopol of its special status.[26][27]

Tyahnybok wants to introduce a “nationality” section into Ukrainian passport, a visa regime with Russia, and for Ukrainians to pass a Ukrainian language test to work in the civil service.[28]

Tyahnybok wants to re-establish Ukraine as a nuclear power.[28] He believes this would stop the “Russian virtual war on Ukraine” (mentioned above).[6]

Here’s a picture of Tyahnybok doing what looks like national socialist, excuse me, social-national calisthenics:

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Thanks, Wikipedia.  I guess Khodorkovsky neglected to read Wikipedia before he declared there were no fascists or Nazis in Maidan.

As to why Victoria Nuland and Catherine Ashton cherish Tyahnybok, or at least hold their noses, ignore his blatant anti-Semitism, Ukraine ethnic chauvinism, and flirtations with fascism, the explanation can be found within the final passage in his Wikipedia entry:

In an opinion poll conducted on December 7–17, 2013, respondents showed that in a hypothetical presidential election between Viktor Yanukovych and Tyahnybok, results found that Tyahnybok would win with 28.8% of the popular vote, versus Yanukovych’s 27.1%.[31] Another poll taken on January 42–February 2, 2014 across all regions of Ukraine showed that in a presidential race between Tyahnybok and incumbent Yanukovych, 54.% of the population would vote for Tyahnybok.[32]

In other words, with pro-Russian candidates off the ballot, Tyahnybok is a dominant political power in Ukraine.  He certainly is a bigger votegetter than Yatsenyuk, whose main responsibility is to negotiate with the West over financial aid and the EU package, and Vitali Klitschko, who is seen as a political tyro.  [MC->the World Bank and IMF "shock economics" package]

In recognition of Tyahnbyok’s clout, Svoboda members got the posts of Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Agriculture, Minister of Ecology, and a acting prosecutor general.  A founder of the Social Nationalist party was made secretary of the Ukraine National Security and Defense Council.

Looks like Ukraine might be in for a prolonged session of Strategic Patience (TM), my shorthand for the US persisting with spectacularly flawed policies because

1) the pain and cost is mostly borne overseas

2) the United States can step in and claim credit for confronting the problems itself created, but without ever addressing or removing the underlying causes and

3) there is always the hope that things will get so bad that everybody will just give up and America will get its way.

Peter Lee edits China Matters. His ground-breaking investigation into the NSA, The NSA and Its Enablers, appears in the October issue of CounterPunch magazine. He can be reached at: chinamatters (at) prlee. org.

counterpunch.org

Tyahnybok reminds me of Mussolini.

Wikipedia (mentioned above) is scrubbed in favor of their funding foundations which are:

This page reflects gifts received between May 1, 2009 and June 30, 2010.

This page reflects gifts received as of July 1, 2013. See 2012-2013 Benefactors

George Soros is a major contributor – a number of his agents are on the Wiki Advisory Board.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2452070/posts


International journalists refute claims of Russian forces in Crimea

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March 13, 2014

Western media and the self-proclaimed government in Kiev are ranting about the “Russian invasion” in Crimea. However, international journalists on the scene are struggling to find any evidence of these claims and paint quite a different picture.

“When I traveled to Crimea, I expected to find what I saw back home: images of a mighty Russian military storming Ukraine, of protests and politicians claiming that an invasion was taking place right in front of our eyes,” journalist Manuel Ochsenreiter told RT in Simferopol. “I confess I did see one Russian tank [a war memorial], but it has been here since the 1940s.”

The city is the region’s capital, and has seen many photos of men wearing military uniforms emerge online, with claims that they are Russian soldiers.

“I saw people who admit they aren’t soldiers, even though they wear uniforms and they are armed,” the journalist told RT.

Also on the ground is journalist Ryan O’Neill, who is in Sevastopol, and who told RT there is indeed a military presence in the city — but completely legal.

“It [the military presence] has been here for ages, and that’s because this is the home of the Russian Black Sea fleet, which has been legally based here for years,” O’Neill said.

A local resident told O’Neill that the city hasn’t been going through much of a change.

“I’m studying here in Sevastopol for four years, and, you know, this has always been like a military city. I think that nothing changed,” she said.

However, there is a change in “the formation of self-defense groups” on the Crimean territory, as O’Neill stressed. The groups “set up the checkpoints and pledged allegiance to the regional authorities,” but “these are not Russian troops,” the journalist said.

“The authorities may not be quite coping in a situation like this,” one of the self-defense members told RT. “That is the reason the self-defense squads exist. We are just people who feel it’s our duty to protect our native city. I’m from Sevastopol myself, and I’ve spent my whole life here.”

“We maintain public order, look out for any provocations, and make sure that nobody attacks journalists and the rest of the people,” he added.

There are also the former members of the Ukrainian military who switched sides after the coup toppled the government.

The troops say they are protecting the region from the far-right and the Kiev self-proclaimed government, O’Neill reported.

http://rt.com/news/crimea-no-russian-…

Yes, so this info is from RT and not the BBC, what’s the difference – pray tell?

I’ve had some experience regarding conflicting notions of happenings based on propaganda. When I lived in Belfast, in times of conflict, I would travel to other areas of Europe or the USA and was shocked by the palaver that was printed, because what was happening in small areas of the Falls and Shankill Roads, was hyped as happening all over the north of Ireland and in some cases all of Ireland.

I think they – the EU - want a war with Ukraine (and Syria…) and are using the corporatist-financista media to beat the war drums. Sorry but I’m not buying into their CEO Obama nor his blabber. We’re done – no more war – period!


Malaysia Air Flight 370 Facts of the Flight and 10 Possible Scenarios

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March 13th, 2014 | Posted by

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Here is the #MH370 situation update. I will try to update this article as conditions change.

Let us first start with the basics. The statistics as initially reported are incorrect. Here are the stats for the flight.

The ADS-B transponder of an aircraft is transmitting data twice per second. FR24 saves data every 10-60 second depending on altitude. Data is normally saved once per 60 seconds. By analyzing all our databases and logs we have managed to recover about 2 signals per minute for the last 10 minutes.

Time of departure: 16:41+- Last position Time UTC: 17:21 Lat: 6.97 Lon: 103.63 Alt: 35000 Speed: 471 knots Heading: 40

This is less than one hour of flight, which is contrary to the reported duration of around 2 hours. This flight only lasted 38-40 minutes on radar.

Coincidence: Pan Am Flight 103 was in the air 38 minutes.

Between 17:19 and 17:20 the aircraft was changing heading from 25 to 40 degrees, which is completely according to flight plan. Previous flights of MH370 on both 4 March and 8 March did the same at the same position. The last 2 signals are both showing that the aircraft is heading in direction 40 degrees.

We have heard reports in media that MH370 may have turned around. I have not seen this in the evidence from the tracking database. This could have happened if the aircraft suddenly lost altitude, as FR24 database coverage in that area is limited to about 29000 feet. There were no emergency squawk alerts for flight MH370 before coverage was lost of the aircraft. Playback for flight MH370 is available on the following page.

Click Here to see the radar screen of the flights in the area and what seems to be a huge Radar “Blink”

There is a clock rolling on the left legend under search

You should pay attention to the following aircraft:

MAS 370    This is Malaysian Air 370    Departed at 16:41    You can find the airport from which he departed on the left    mid portion of the screen under the word Malaysia.
KAL 672     Korean Airlines Flt 872    Departed at 16:14    This aircraft is flying north our of Kuala Lumpur. Very erratic     flight.    It disappears then reappears at the moment  MAS 370 Disappears
UAE 419    United Arab Emirates     Flt 419    Overflies Brunei          at 16:39    This aircraft enters from the middle right-hand of the screen.    It flies across the Ocean toward Bangkok. However previous flights    are in a substantially different flight path from Sydney to Bangkok.    This aircraft disappears and then reappears after FLT370 disappears.

It is apparent that a huge radar “blind spot” has occurred in the area that did not previously exist. This Radar interference cause many aircraft to leave the radar screen in a 1 hour period, only one did not return on radar.

Malaysia’s Department of Civil Aviation’s Director General Azharuddin Abdul Rahman briefs reporters at a press conference on search and recovery efforts within existing and new areas for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane,Sepang, Malaysia, March 10, 2014.

A Malaysian police official displays a photograph of 19-year-old Iranian Pouri Nourmohammadi, one of the two men who boarded missing Malaysia Airlines MH370 flight using stolen European passports.

This combination of images released by Interpol and displayed by Malaysian police in Sepang, Malaysia, on March 11, 2014, shows Pouri Nourmohammadi, 19, (left) and Delavar Seyedmohammaderza, 29, who allegedly boarded the now-missing Malaysia Airlines jet

We are evaluating this information. There are several scenarios. Pandora, by Grumman Northrop Technologies can interfere with long distance tracking of aircraft, thus creating large areas where the transponders are unable to effectively communicate and radar signals are blocked. Some of the possible causes for the plane disappearing include:

  • A CATASTROPHIC STRUCTURAL FAILURE. Most aircraft are made of aluminum, which is susceptible to corrosion over time, especially in areas of high humidity. Given the plane’s long history and impressive safety record, experts suggest that a failure of the air frame, or the plane’s Rolls-Royce Trent 800 engines, is unlikely.
  • More of a threat to the plane’s integrity is the constant pressurization and depressurization of the cabin for takeoff and landing. In April 2011, a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 made an emergency landing shortly after takeoff from Phoenix after the plane’s fuselage ruptured, causing a 5-foot tear. The plane, with 118 people on board, landed safely. But such a rupture is less likely in this case. Airlines fly the 777 on longer distances, with many fewer takeoffs and landings, putting less stress on the air frame.
  • “It’s not like this was Southwest Airlines doing 10 flights a day,” Hamilton said. “There’s nothing to suggest there would be any fatigue issues.”
  • BAD WEATHER. Planes are designed to fly through most severe storms. However, in June 2009, an Air France flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris crashed during a bad storm over the Atlantic Ocean. Ice built up on the Airbus A330′s airspeed indicators, giving false readings. That, and bad decisions by the pilots, led the plane into a stall causing it to plummet into the sea. All 228 passengers and crew aboard died. The pilots never radioed for help.

In the case of Saturday’s Malaysia Airlines flight, all indications show that there were clear skies.

  • PILOT DISORIENTATION. Curtis said that the pilots could have taken the plane off autopilot and somehow went off course and didn’t realize it until it was too late. The plane could have flown for another five or six hours from its point of last contact, putting it up to 3,000 miles away. This is unlikely given that the plane probably would have been picked up by radar somewhere.But it’s too early to eliminate it as a possibility.
  • FAILURE OF BOTH ENGINES. In January 2008, a British Airways 777 crashed about 1,000 feet short of the runway at London’s Heathrow Airport. As the plane was coming in to land, the engines lost thrust because of ice buildup in the fuel system. There were no fatalities.

Loss of both engines is possible in this case, but Hamilton said the plane could glide for up to 20 minutes, giving pilots plenty of time to make an emergency call. When a US Airways A320 lost both of its engines in January 2009 after taking off from LaGuardia Airport in New York it was at a much lower elevation. But Capt. Chesley B. “Sully” Sullenberger still had plenty of communications with air traffic controllers before ending the six-minute flight in the Hudson River. Even with engine loss, there would have been communications. Unlikely scenario

  • A BOMB. Several planes have been brought down including Pan Am Flight 103 between London and New York in December 1988. There was also an Air India flight in June 1985 between Montreal and London and a plane in September 1989 flown by French airline Union des Transports Aériens which blew up over the Sahara. Good Possibility given the circumstances,however no debris field tends to negate this for now.
  • HIJACKING/COMMANDEERING. A traditional hijacking seems unlikely given that a plane’s captors typically land at an airport and have some type of demand. But a 9/11-like hijacking is possible, with terrorists forcing the plane into the ocean. In today’s climate there are other possibilities that include the hostage taking for political motives. The South China Sea is amuck with terrorists and struggling nations.The Radar abnormalities could indicate some advanced operation to take an aircraft from under the nose of controllers. In addition to this, it is a possibility that the aircraft was commandeered for use as a negotiating tool or warning.
  • PILOT SUICIDE. There were two large jet crashes in the late 1990s — a Silk Air flight and an Egypt Air flight– that are believed to have been caused by pilots deliberately crashing the planes. Government crash investigators never formally declared the crashes suicides but both are widely acknowledged by crash experts to have been caused by deliberate pilot actions.
  • ACCIDENTAL SHOOT-DOWN. There have been incidents when a country’s military unintentionally shot down civilian aircraft. In July 1988, the United States Navy missile cruiser USS Vincennes accidently shot down an Iran Air flight, killing all 290 passengers and crew. In September 1983, a Korean Air Lines flight was shot down by a Russian fighter jet. Note: Vietnam had just taken delivery of an advanced Russian Black Hole Submarine with Ground to Air missile capability. Normal procedures for the acquisition of such a vessel include a series of training and certification runs. The zone where Flight 370 was shot down was shallow enough to allow a safety net for secret training exercises. Relatively few aircraft fly the route at the time of the loss of Flt 307. Considering that fact, it would be fruitless to trust in any investigation information coming from Vietnam officials
  • DELIBERATE TAKE-DOWN.  This differs substantially form any of the previous possible causes.  Reasons for an intentional take down could include intimidating a particular entity to align or fall behind certain politics of a civil or governmental/Semi- governmental entity. Powerful organizations exist that will not hesitate at intimidating, or assassinating at will.

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It is my opinion, that there are far too many irregularities involved in this incident for it to be a simple aviation accident. Absent of a debris field, the most likely scenario, in my opinion, is a commandeering. Toward what end remains to be seen.

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/03/13/malaysia-air-flight-370-facts-of-the-flight-and-9-possible-scenarios/

Hijacked. Planes don’t just disappear unless the transponder is switched off and the plane’s diverted after the fact. When a plane goes down, they start where the last transponder signal was received, and then they follow the airplane’s scheduled flight path to look for wreckage. The only reason they wouldn’t find any wreckage is if the plane went a different direction AFTER the transponder signal was lost. So, I don’t know anyone capable of stealing a jetliner, or anything like that, but hijacking is the only remaining probability when examining the facts. One does wonder with all the spying and satellite resources-technology we have that a jumbo jet can just disappear.

Why did they cut off the lower extremities of the Iranians in the picture…


Did Russia Just Move Its Treasury Holdings Offshore?

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Min Zeng wsj.com March 14, 2014

An exterior view of the Bank of Russia building in Moscow. European Pressphoto Agency

Foreign central banks’ Treasury bond holdings parked at the Federal Reserve dropped by the most on record in the latest week. Some analysts think the crisis in Ukraine is sparking the move.

Their theory: Russia is shifting its Treasury bond holdings out of the Fed and into offshore accounts. That way, Russia would be able to buy or sell its portfolio if the U.S. and its European allies impose economic sanctions amid growing geopolitical tensions in Ukraine.

Treasury securities held in custody for foreign official and international accounts tumbled by $105 billion in the week that ended Wednesday, according to weekly data released late Thursday. That shrank Treasury bond holdings by foreign central banks to a 15-month low of $2.855 trillion, though still near a record high of $3.02 trillion set in December.

Relations between the West and Russia have deteriorated sharply in recent days as Crimea prepares to hold a referendum Sunday on whether to split from Ukraine and join Russia. Ukraine, the European Union and the U.S. view that vote as illegal. The U.S. and Germany warned that Russia could face economic sanctions if the crisis worsens.

“The upcoming referendum in Crimea and multiple threats of sanctions could have triggered a significant reallocation of Treasurys to non-US custodians,” said Shyam Rajan, interest rate strategist at Bank of AmericaBAC -2.10% Merrill Lynch in New York.

Russian entities held $138.6 billion of Treasury debt as of December 31 which includes both official and private holdings, according to the Treasury Department’s website.

“This is only speculation on our part, but it seems likely that the Russian authorities had more than $100 billion of Treasury debt in custody at the Fed, and it doesn’t seem implausible that they moved it to a jurisdiction where it would be less vulnerable to a U.S. asset freeze,” said Lou Crandall at Wrightson ICAP LLC.

Foreign central banks can park their Treasury bond holdings at the Fed or other banks that offer custody services. Putting Treasury holdings at the Fed makes it easy to buy or sell dollar-denominated assets, similar to the NY Fed housing gold of many foreign central banks, analysts said.

“It’s likely cheaper for the central banks than having other, commercial custodian banks hold the positions on their behalf,” said Anthony Cronin, a Treasury bond trader at Société Générale SA. “If they did transfer these assets out of the Fed, they could have gone to Russian banks or any other offshore bank that provides custodian services.”

Some analysts said central banks other than Russia’s could be selling Treasurys to prop up their local currencies. Many emerging-market currencies fell sharply in January as concerns grew about the health of developing economies.

Despite the selling by central banks, Treasury bond prices have strengthened for each trading session this week as investors sought protection from the haven market over worries about Ukraine’s geopolitical tensions and China’s slowing economy.

The benchmark 10-year note’s yield was recently at 2.633% Friday, down over 0.1 percentage points for the week. It has fallen from a six-week peak above 2.8% made after last Friday’s better-than-expected U.S. jobs report. When bond prices rise, their yields fall.

Some traders took the bond market’s strength as a sign foreign central banks merely transferred their bonds to different accounts, rather than selling them.

“If central banks were selling that much Treasurys, the market would have noticed and would not have traded as well as it has this week,” Mr. Cronin said.

A spokesman from the New York Fed declined to comment Friday.

http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2014/03/14/did-russia-just-dump-its-treasury-holdings/

Makes sense…


More good news for polar bears: Ice habitat higher now than in 70′s-80′s

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picture credit – telegraph.co.uk

Posted on March 13, 2014 source

The Davis Strait polar bear subpopulation is said to be ‘vulnerable’ to the supposed effects of global warming because, like Hudson Bay, Davis Strait sea ice retreats every summer, leaving polar bears on land for several months.

However, Davis Strait bears have been upgraded to ‘stable’ status, according to the latest table (2013) issued by the IUCN Polar Bear Specialist Group (see their boundary map for Davis Strait bears below). Recent development of sea ice in the region can only improve that rating.

[More background here and heremap-DavisStrait

It seems that sea ice in Davis Strait is well above normal for this time of year – a recent announcement by the Canadian Ice Service (CIS) says it’s 10% above average, higher than it’s been in 25 years (h/t S. Goddard).

The Canadian Ice Service, an arm of Environment Canada, said there is 10 per cent more ice this year compared to the 30-year average.

We probably haven’t seen a winter this bad as far as ice for the past 25 years,” said Voight, referring to both the amount and thickness of the ice.

He said the Gulf of St. Lawrence is covered and some areas are “quite severe.” [my bold]

Full story here.

Latest ice map (March 12) below from the US National Snow and Ice Data Service (NSIDC).

As I pointed out recently here, Barents Sea ice is below average this year, largely due to natural variation in the Atlantic Multidecal Oscillation (AMO), but is higher over the western Atlantic (Sea of Okhotsk ice is below average too but there are no polar bears there).

There is lots of ice around Labrador and Newfoundland, however.

Sea ice extent 2014 March 12 NSIDC

I thought I let you see exactly what CIS are talking about: what did the ice look like 25 years ago, in 1989? What about 35 years ago, in 1979, the start of the satellite record for sea ice? It might surprise you.

Here’s today’s map from CIS:

Sea ice extent Canada 2014 March 13_CIS

Here are some NSIDC maps from 25 years ago (1989) and 35 years ago (1979 and the early 1980s). The only ones they provide are month-end averages (e.g. Feb/1979), so I’ve provided an end-Feb and end-March for a few years (I threw in the map for Feb. 2007, the last year of the latest polar bear population survey in Davis Strait, at the very end):

Sea ice extent 1989 Feb end_NSIDC

Sea ice extent 1989 March end_NSIDC

Sea ice extent 1979 Feb average_NSIDC

Sea ice extent 1979 March average_NSIDC

Sea ice extent 1980 February average_NSIDC

Sea ice extent 1981 February average_NSIDC

Sea ice extent 1982 February average_NISDC

Sea ice extent 1983 Feb average_NSIDC

Sea ice extent 1984 February average_NSIDC

Sea ice extent 2007 Feb average_NSIDC

http://polarbearscience.com/2014/03/13/davis-strait-polar-bear-habitat-higher-now-than-in-1979-and-early-1980s/



Obama Administration Turns the Internet Over to the Globalists

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Plans to impose a censorship and mass surveillance framework may now commence

Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com March 15, 2014

On Friday the U.S. Commerce Department released its grasp on the internet. Oversight of ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, will be passed on to the “global internet community” next year. ICANN, under a Commerce Department contract, has issued domain names since 2000.

ICANN president praises global control over internet.

The United States has played a leading role in managing internet technology but has faced pressure to globalize management of the internet over the last few years.

“We will not accept a proposal that replaces the NTIA role with a government-led or an intergovernmental solution,” said National Telecommunications & Information Administration boss Larry Strickling. The NITTA is an agency within the Commerce Department.

During the World Summit on Information Society more than a decade ago, it was proposed that governments not have too much control over the internet. “The international management of the Internet should be multilateral, transparent and democratic, with the full involvement of governments, the private sector, civil society and international organizations.”

In the intervening years the United Nations and the European Union have jostled for control the internet. During a meeting in Dubai last year the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the telecom branch of the United Nations, demanded rules governing the internet be rewritten. Specifically, the international organization proposed deep-packet inspection authority that would allow it to monitor and censor content on the internet. The United States walked out of the conference in protest.

Hamadoun Toure, Secretary-General of the ITU, released the fourth and final ITU/WTPF-13 report in May, 2013, outlining groundwork for internet governance and regulatory topics. The report calls for the creation of “Global Principles for the governance and use of the Internet” and proposes resolution of issues pertaining to “use of Internet resources for purposes that are inconsistent with international peace, stability and security.”

The proposed changes were backed by China, Russia, Brazil, India and other UN members. 

“Internet freedom’s foes around the globe are working hard to exploit a treaty negotiation that dwarfs the importance of the [U.N.'s 2012 World Conference on International Telecommunications] by orders of magnitude,” warned outgoing U.S. Federal Communications Commissioner Robert McDowell in testimony before Congress in a joint U.S. House subcommittee hearing on international Internet governance last February.

The European Union has proposed censoring the internet to protect children and fight terrorism. The Clean IT project proposed the creation of a censorship and mass surveillance framework for EU countries funded by the European Commission. “The Clean IT project aimed to start a constructive dialogue between governments, businesses and civil society to explore how to reduce the terrorist use of the internet. This dialogue resulted in a set of general principles and an overview of possible best practices,” the Clean IT Project web page explains. The plan called for police to patrol Facebook and other social networks in search of “extremist material” and propaganda. In addition to allowing users to flag “terrorist” content and turn other users in to the police, the proposals called for eliminating anonymity on the internet.

In addition to censorship, the ICANN transfer will allow for a globalist taxation scheme. “While the Obama administration says it is merely removing federal oversight of a non-profit, we should assume ICANN would end up as part of the United Nations,” former Bush administration State Department senior advisor Christian Whiton told The Daily Caller. “If the U.N. gains control what amounts to the directory and traffic signals of the Internet, it can impose whatever taxes it likes. It likely would start with a tax on registering domains and expand from there.”

The UN and EU have sketched out how the future internet will work. Now that ICANN has relinquished control of the medium, globalist institutions can move forward with plans to scrub the internet of all content unacceptable to the global elite and their apparatchiks at the United Nations and, as well, turn it into a revenue generating cash cow.

http://www.infowars.com/obama-administration-turns-the-internet-over-to-the-globalists/

Fadi’ been working on this for years: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fadi_Chehad%C3%A9

EU bids to end US dominance in internet control EU Observer ^ | 14.02.14 @ 09:29 | Benjamin Fox

The European Commission wants to end US control over the governance of the internet, according to a report.

The EU paper on “Europe’s role in shaping the future of Internet governance” calls for an international group to replace the California-based Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which manages the assignation of domains such as .com, .co.uk and .org to new websites.”

“We have 18 months to find ‘new governance’ for a single Internet”, says ICANN CEO.

From the Silicon angle….Interesting as ICANN’S Ceo struggles with his own statements…..

http://siliconangle.com/blog/2014/01/10/icanns-fadi-chehade-says-we-have-18-months-to-find-new-governance-for-a-single-internet-or-else/

The Manchurian Candidate!

Taking into consideration that - “The UN and EU have sketched out how the future internet will work.” - my primary thoughts are…

“Taxes”, “Redistribution”, “Censor”.

What if ICAAN doesn’t like a website? One must assume they can refuse to register the name and free speech a thing of the past. I expect the “taxes” to come in the form of a licence fee. One can also expect a jump in registration dollars – currently .us is the cheapest but apparently that’s “not fair”…free market will take a dump for the good of the “global village” and we’ll all be equally poor which is only “fair” – net neutrality - “the neutrality of the network, a democratic area where we can protect freedom of expression.”


Malaysia’s Bersih & the Facade of “Clean Elections” (IMF frontman Anwar Ibrahim)

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A foreign-funded movement for a foreign-serving agenda.

by Tony Cartalucci

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Image: (RT) Despite Bersih’s best efforts to portray itself as apolitical, it is clearly led for and by Malaysia’s US-backed opposition, with the IMF’s Anwar Ibrahim leading the coalition. Here, Anwar Ibrahim (center) can be seen speaking to a Bersih rally in Malaysia.

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No one would honestly suggest that cleaning up politics and holding any given government accountable for their actions is not an honorable, noble cause. It is honorable indeed, however, when such a movement takes to the streets but is funded by a foreign government and led by a servants of foreign interests it becomes obvious it has been hijacked in order to exploit the aspirations of a frustrated public for a self-serving agenda. Such a movement will ultimately fail to achieve the goals it proclaims to support and will give rise to corruption and tyranny the likes of which its followers could not imagine.

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A recent example of this phenomenon is unfolding in the streets and within the political scene of Malaysia where a movement calling themselves “Bersih,” or the “Coalition for Clean and Fair Elections” has captured the minds and imaginations of Malaysia’s youth and progressive enclaves, both in Malaysia and around the world. While Bersih’s leader Ambiga Sreenevasan claims ad nauseum “we are fighting for free and fair elections,” what she fails to share quite as often with her impressionable, well-intentioned followers is the fact that her movement is also funded and has received training from the United States government and a host of foreign corporate-funded foundations.

Bersih leader Ambiga Sreenevassan

The Malaysian Insider reported on June 27, 2011 that Bersih leader Ambiga Sreenevassan “admitted to Bersih receiving some money from two US organisations the National Democratic Institute (NDI) and Open Society Institute (OSI) — for other projects, which she stressed were unrelated to the July 9 march.” A visit to the NDI website revealed indeed that funding and training had been provided by the US organization – before NDI took down the information and replaced it with a more benign version purged entirely of any mention of Bersih. For funding Ambiga claims is innocuous, the NDI’s rushed obfuscation of any ties to her organization suggests something more sinister at play.

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Photo: NDI’s website before taking down any mention to Malaysia’s Bersih movement. (click image to enlarge)

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Casting further doubt on Bersih’s real agenda is the involvement of Malaysia’s opposition front Pakatan Rakyat whose coalition members promised to bring in hundreds of thousands of supporters to take part in the July 9th, 2011 Bersih 2.0 rally. The opposition front is led by Anwar Ibrahim and a coalition of opposition parties with a long history of affiliation with Anwar. That Anwar Ibrahim himself was Chairman of the Development Committee of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) in 1998, held lecturing positions at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, was a consultant to the World Bank, and a panelist at the Neo-Con lined National Endowment for Democracy’s “Democracy Award” and a panelist at a NED donation ceremony – the very same US organization funding and supporting Bersih – casts irrefutable doubt on their official agenda for “clean and fair elections.”

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Photo: Taken from the US National Endowment for Democracy’s 2007 Democracy Award event held in Washington D.C., Anwar Ibrahim can be seen to the far left and participated as a “panelist.” It is no surprise that NED is now subsidizing his bid to worm his way back into power in Malaysia. (click image to enlarge)

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In reality, Bersih’s leadership along with Anwar and their host of foreign sponsors are attempting to galvanize the very real grievances of the Malaysian people and exploit them to propel themselves into power. While many may be tempted to suggest that “clean and fair elections” truly are Bersih and Anwar’s goal, and that US funding via NED’s NDI and billionaire bankster George Soros’ Open Society are entirely innocuous, a thorough examination of these organizations, how they operate, and their admitted agenda reveals the proverbial cliff Bersih is leading its followers and the nation of Malaysia over.

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NED, NDI, IRI, & Freedom House are run by warmongering imperialists We begin our thorough examination of these organizations with a look at the board of directors of NED, which funds NDI and who, judging by their supposed mission to support “freedom around the world,” should be filled with Nobel Peace Prize laureates, accomplished diplomats, and definitive examples of democracy in action. Instead, we have John Bohn who traded petrochemicals, was an international banker for 13 years with Wells Fargo, and is currently serving as a principal for a global advisory and consulting firm, GlobalNet Partners, which assists foreign businesses by making their “entry into the complex China market easy.” Surely Bohn’s ability to manipulate China’s political landscape through NED’s various activities both inside of China and along its peripheries constitutes an alarming conflict of interests. However, it appears “conflict of interests” is a reoccurring theme throughout both NED and Freedom House.

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Video: Noam Chomsky in 1993 on the NED’s projects in Nicaragua: “It’s about what you would expect from a bipartisan democracy campaign – it’s an attempt to impose what is called democracy, meaning rule by the rich and the powerful, without interference by the mob but within the framework of formal electoral procedures.” (MC->video not available)

Bohn is joined by Rita DiMartino who worked for Council on Foreign Relations corporate member AT&T as “Vice President of Congressional Relations” as well as a member of the CFR herself. Also representing the Fortune 500 is Kenneth Duberstein, a board member of the war profiteering Boeing Company, big oil’s ConocoPhillips, and the Mack-Cali Realty Corporation. Duberstein also served as a director of Fannie Mae until 2007. He too is a CFR member as are two of the companies he chairs, Boeing and ConocoPhillips.
We then consider several of the certified warmongers serving upon NED’s board of directors including Francis Fukuyama, Zalmay Khalilzad, Will Marshall, and Vin Weber, all signatories of the pro-war, pro-corporate, utterly insane Project for a New American Century. Within the pages of documents produced by this “think tank” are pleas to various US presidents to pursue war against sovereign nations, the increase of troops in nations already occupied by US forces, and what equates to a call for American global hegemony in a Hitlerian 90 page document titled “Rebuilding Americas Defenses.” As we will see, this warmongering think tank serves as a nexus around which fellow disingenuous “rights advocate” Freedom House also gravitates.

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The “Statement of Principles,” signed off by NED chairmen Francis Fukuyama, Zalmay Khalilzad, and Vin Weber, states, “we need to accept responsibility for America’s unique role in preserving and extending an international order friendly to our security, our prosperity, and our principles.” Of course by “international order” they mean meddling beyond the sovereign borders of the United States and is merely used as a euphemism for global imperialism. Other Neo-Con degenerates that signed their name to this statement include Freedom House’s Paula Dobriansky, Dan Quayle (formally), and Donald Rumsfeld (formally), along with Paul Wolfowitz, Dick Cheney, Eliot Cohen, and Elliot Abrams.
A PNAC “Statment on Post-War Iraq” regarding a wholehearted endorsement of nation-building features the signatures of NED chairman Will Marshall, Freedom House’s Frank Carlucci (2002), and James Woolsey (formally), along with Martin Indyk (Lowy Institute board member, co-author of the conspiring “Which Path to Persia?” report), and William Kristol and Robert Kagan both of the warmongering Foreign Policy Initiative. It should be noted that the Foreign Policy Initiative (FPI) is, for all intents and purposes, PNAC’s latest incarnation and just recently featured an open letter to House Republicans calling on them to disregard the will of the American people and continue pursuing the war in Libya. The FPI letter even suggests that the UN resolution authorizing the war in the first place, was holding America “hostage” and that it should be exceeded in order to do more to “help the Libyan opposition.”

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An untitled PNAC letter addressed to then US President George Bush regarding a general call for global warmongering received the seal of approval from Freedom Houses’ Ellen Bork (2007), Ken Adelman (also former lobbyist for Thailand’s Thaksin Shinawatra via Edelman - (MC->and a Clintonite), and James Woolsey (formally), along with Neo-Con degenerates Richard Perle, William Kristol, Robert Kagan, and the always disingenuous demagogue Daniel Pipes.

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Other notable corporate-fascists populating NED’s board of directors include (MC->neoliberals):
William Galston: Brookings Institution (board of trustees can be found on page 35 here). Moises Naim: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (corporate funding here). Robert Miller: corporate lawyer. Larry Liebenow: US Chamber of Commerce (a chief proponent of SOPA), Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE). Anne-Marie Slaughter: US State Department, Council on Foreign Relations (corporate members here), director of Citigroup, McDonald’s Corporation, and Political Strategies Advisory Group. Richard Gephardt: US Representative, Boeing lobbyist, Goldman Sachs, Visa, Ameren Corp, and Waste Management Inc lobbyist, corporate consultant, consultant & now director of Ford Motor Company, supporter of the military invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003. Marilyn Carlson Nelson: CEO of Carlson, director of Exxon Mobil. Stephen Sestanovich: US State Department, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, CFR. Judy Shelton: director of Hilton Hotels Corporation & Atlantic Coast Airlines.
It is safe to say that the National Endowment for Democracy is not interested in any shape, form, or way in “supporting freedom around the world,” nor Malaysia’s “clean and fair elections,” but rather leveraging these ideals to establish an insidious, self-serving, global corporate oligarchy. Within the confines of PNAC, and its successors, the Foreign Policy Initiative and the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, these supposed “democracy and human rights advocates” have engineered and promoted the continuation of the most obscene and horrendous chapters of mass murder, invasion, occupation, and unrelenting war in recent human history.

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Photo: NED’s long reach: Thai protesters in Bangkok rallied at the Malaysian Embassy on behalf of Bersih protesters that were arrested preceding the July 9th rally in Kuala Lumpur. The event was covered by NED-funded Prachatai, featuring NED-funded protesters drawn from the “People’s Empowerment Foundation,” protesting on behalf of NED’s NDI-funded Bersih movement in Malaysia.

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In turn, NED, an organization that Malaysia’s Anwar Ibrahim is an active participant in, funds a myriad of propagandists and sub-funding arms, most notably Freedom House, the International Republican Institute and the National Democratic Institute which is on record funding Malaysia’s Bersih movement. Disingenuous, warmonger-infested advocacy groups like Freedom House have been relentlessly campaigning in support of Bersih. A selection of their “reports” can be read below, and seen cited by the international corporate media to bolster Bersih’s non-existent legitimacy.

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A selection of Freedom House’s rhetorical support for Malaysia’s Berish:
Arrests in Advance of Rally for Electoral Reforms in Malaysia Raise Deep Concerns” “Malaysian Government’s Brutal Crackdown Violates Fundamental Rights” “Freedom of Association Under Threat: The New Authoritarians’ Offensive Against Civil Society” “Letter to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Re: Malaysian Government Crackdown
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The Council on Foreign Relations
The Council on Foreign Relations, a US based think tank that represents the collective interests and agenda of the Fortune 500 corporations that constitute its membership has also weighed in on Malaysia’s Bersih movement, decidedly behind the foreign-funded organization and applauding the division it is creating within Malaysian society. It should be noted that the CFR praises the “fine” coverage of Bersih by Australian National University’s New Mandala blog run by imposter-academic Andrew Walker. Walker in turn, has been recently caught denying his involvement with the Lowy Institute, yet another collection of fraud academics, fake journalists, and policy wonks all in the employ of the Fortune 500.

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George Soros & Open Society Institute (OSI)
George Soros’ Open Society Institute not only was cited by Bersih leader Ambiga Sreenevasan as having funded her opposition street-front, but is also funding a myriad of corporate agenda-serving “democracy and human rights advocacy” groups providing rhetorical support and contrived metrics cited by the corporate media to further lend Bersih legitimacy. Open Society funds NDI partner organization “Transparency International” which also receives funding from Exxon, General Electric, Shell, Pfizer, British Petroleum, HSBC Holdings, and Procter & Gamble. Soros’ Open Society also funds Amnesty International (page 10) and Human Rights Watch which have both rushed to Bersih’s defense before, during, and after their July 9th street rally.

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Soros-funded Human Rights Watch’s support for the Malaysian Bersih movement:
Malaysia: Investigate Crackdown on Pro-Democracy March” “Malaysia: End Crackdown on Peaceful Campaigners” “Malaysia: Free 30 Peaceful Political Activists” “Joint Letter to Prime Minister on Violations against Bersih 2.0
It should be noted that the “joint letter” was signed off by fellow Soros and Fortune 500-funded Amnesty International, as well as NED, Soros, and Tides Foundation-funded International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH).

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Soros-funded Amnesty International’s support for the Malaysian Bersih movement:
Malaysia: Further information: Repression continues after reform rally” “Malaysia: Police use brutal tactics against peaceful protesters” “Malaysia: Hundreds of Peaceful Protesters Arrested” “Malaysia: Malaysian activists held in secret detention” “Malaysia: MP, activists detained for protesting” “Malaysia: End mass repression of pro-reform activists” “Malaysia: Joint open letter: Human Rights Violations against Bersih 2.0

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Conclusion
If there was any doubt in one’s mind regarding the nature of the National Endowment for Democracy, George Soros’ Open Society, and the myriad of contrived self-appointed international arbiters serving the globalists’ agenda, who they support, and why, reading the signed confession put out by the Project for a New American Century, calling for American global hegemony should lay it to rest. Just as the British Empire and the Romans before them leveraged the concept of spreading “civilized society” to sell their aspirations of global conquest to an ignorant population, the modern Anglo-American corporate-financier oligarchy is leveraging the concepts of spreading “human rights,” “democracy,” and “freedom” to sell their emerging “international order.”  This is an order described by Neo-Con degenerate Robert Kagan as serving “the needs of the United States and its allies, which constructed it,” and clearly not the liberal democratic utopia many progressive activists believe they are contributing to.

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Image: The modern day imperial networks building the Anglo-American corporate-financier “international order.” (click on image to enlarge)

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Consider the insidious methods used by the Romans to pacify and conquer entire populations by “integrating” them into their own Roman “international order.”

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From HistoryWorld.net:
‘His object was to accustom them to a life of peace and quiet by the provision of amenities. He therefore gave official assistance to the building of temples, public squares and good houses. He educated the sons of the chiefs in the liberal arts, and expressed a preference for British ability as compared to the trained skills of the Gauls. The result was that instead of loathing the Latin language they became eager to speak it effectively. In the same way, our national dress came into favour and the toga was everywhere to be seen. And so the population was gradually led into the demoralizing temptation of arcades, baths and sumptuous banquets. The unsuspecting Britons spoke of such novelties as ‘civilization’, when in fact they were only a feature of their enslavement.’

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Tacitus Annals of Imperial Rome, translated Michael Grant, Penguin 1956, 1975, page 72
Indeed the alleged “free and fair elections,” proposed to Malaysia by the likes of NED and Freedom House to be carried out by foreign-funded Bersih, are nothing more than features of Malaysia’s own enslavement. For a look into Malaysia’s future, one should consider Egypt’s recent turmoil – turmoil many Bersih supporters eagerly hold up as an inspiration for their current movement.

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As Egyptians rallied to “free” themselves, they toppled a nationalist government and ushered in Mohammed ElBaradei, a stooge in full service of the United States via the International Crisis Group, alongside unlikely allies like the President of Israel Shimon Peres, Bank of Israel’s Stanley Fischer, and America’s geopolitical meddler Zbigniew Brzezinski. Just recently, Senator John McCain, chairman of the International Republican Institute, a NED-funded NGO on record for being behind the “Arab Spring,” took with him members of various Fortune 500 corporations for a tour of newly “freed” Cairo. Their agenda is “economic liberalization” and the total integration of Egypt’s once sovereign economy into the Anglo-American empire. Like the ancient British, the Egyptian youth are dazzled with their new Western trappings and their new liberal democracy, courtesy of the insidious, unseen tentacles emanating from the globalist oligarchy and led by a known agent of the West.

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Malaysia faces similar crossroads and must decide for themselves if they will clean up their government themselves through pragmatism, truly independent grassroots activism, and technical solutions to solve the problems they face as a sovereign nation, or if they will follow a feckless, self-defeating political agenda manipulated and led by foreign interests, dividing and destabilizing their nation so that foreign powers can sweep into power their stooges and once again direct Malaysia’s destiny for them, to the benefit of no Malaysian.
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For more information please read: “In-depth: Foreign Meddling in Malaysia” & “Globalist Sedition takes to Malaysian Streets

http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2011/07/malaysias-bersih-facade-of-clean.html

Ambiga Sreenevassan has received lots of rewards, oops, awards. Nobel coming sooooon….

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SHOCK POLITICAL TWIST: MH370 pilot was 'obsessed' with Anwar Ibrahim, M'sian PM may QUIT SOON

KUALA LUMPUR - Amid intensifying calls for Prime Minister  Najib Razak to step down to take responsibility for mishandling the missing  flight MH370 crisis, and after days of secretly holding the doomed pilot’s  laptop, the Malaysian authorities have suddenly ‘loosened’ their lips in what  appears to be a bid to draw in and tarnish Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim.

The 66-year-old Anwar is Najib’s political arch rival, and who the day before  the plane went missing on Saturday, [Ibrahim] had been convicted and jailed on sodomy  charges that many have opined were manifestly trumped up by the Najib  regime.

In fact when the news of the missing airplane first broke, political cynics  had privately termed the tragedy as a ‘Godsend’ for the 60-year-old PM, who  stood to face a crippling backlash from the Malay community, the country’s  predominant electorate, for resorting to ‘political dirty tricks’ to shut out  another Malay leader.

However, the fire could not be contained and the MH370 tragedy may instead  sound the political death knell for Najib himself. Expected to resign shortly,  there is concern that Najib was trying to deflect blame and further smear his  political nemesis on the way out from power.

Najib to step down  soon

Over the past three days, rumors of Najib’s imminent resignation had turned  red-hot and political watchers from his Umno party told Malaysia  Chronicle that he had been ‘forced’ to agree to give up his post following  tremendous pressure from party seniors, and would announce his decision  soon.

Meanwhile, the UK’s Mail on Sunday reported  the Malaysian police were investigating the  possibility that the pilot of  missing Flight MH370 had hijacked his own  aircraft in a bizarre political  protest.

Prime Minister Najib (left) and  flamboyant wife Rosmah (second left) were accused of instigating Anwar’s former  office aide, Saiful Bukhari (third left) to file a sodomy complaint against the  Opposition chief (right).

Political watchers believe the  beleaguered Najib has finally succumbed to pressure from party mentors such as  ex-premier Mahathir Mohamad and ex-finance minister Daim Zainuddin to quit, and  are expecting an announcement to be made soon.

‘Political fanatic’ pilot had attended  Anwar’s trial, expressed disgust at verdict

The  Mail on Sunday said it had learned that  Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah was an  ‘obsessive’ supporter of Malaysia’s  opposition leader, Anwar Ibrahim.

And hours before the doomed flight left Kuala  Lumpur it is understood  53-year-old Shah attended a controversial trial in  which Ibrahim was  jailed for five years.

Campaigners  say the politician, the key  challenger to Malaysia’s ruling party, was  the victim of a long-running smear  campaign and had faced trumped-up  charges.

 Police  sources have confirmed that Shah was  a vocal political activist – and  fear that the court decision left him  profoundly upset.

It was against  this background that, seven  hours later, he took control of a Boeing  777-200 bound for Beijing and carrying  238 passengers and crew.

Timeline: The above graphic shows how the situation may have developed

Four people checked in but did not fly.

Sudden ascent and dive points to cockpit takeover

Sudden ascent and dive points to cockpit  takeover

The final picture: The missing jet is pictured her in February this year above Polish airspace

The final picture: The missing jet is  pictured her in February this year above Polish airspace.

Yesterday, Malaysian police  searched his  house in the upmarket Kuala Lumpur suburb of Shah Alam,  where he had installed  a home-made flight simulator. But this newspaper  can reveal that investigators  had already spent much of last week  examining two laptops removed from Shah’s  home. One is believed to  contain data from the simulator

 Confirming  rising fears, Malaysia’s prime  minister Najib Razak announced yesterday  that MH370 was deliberately steered  off course after its communication  system was switched off. He said it headed  west over the Malaysian  seaboard and could have flown for another seven hours  on its fuel  reserves.

It is not yet  clear where the plane was  taken, however Mr Razak said the most recent  satellite data suggests the plane  could have been making for one of two  possible flight corridors. The search,  involving 43 ships and 58  aircraft from 15 countries, switched from the South  China Sea to the Bay  of Bengal in the Indian Ocean.

US investigators say faint ‘pings’ were being  transmitted for several hours after the flight lost contact with the ground.

Meanwhile,  military radar showed the jet  climbed to 45,000ft – above its service  limit – which could have been a  deliberate attempt to knock out the  passengers and crew.

Anwar Ibrahim is a broadly popular  democracy  icon and former deputy prime minister whose prosecution on a  charge of sodomy  is seen by many Malaysians as political persecution.

The  raids on Captain Shah’s home appeared  stage-managed as a display of  intent after the Prime Minister said the focus of  the investigation was  now on ‘crew and passengers’ as a result of the latest  leads.

But investigators have told the Mail on  Sunday inquiries into the background of the pilot actually began days  earlier.

Malaysian  police, helped by FBI agents from  the US, are looking into the  political and religious backgrounds of both  Zaharie and his co-pilot.  Zaharie’s home was sealed off yesterday as police  spent an hour inside.

However,  a senior investigation source said  two laptops were taken from the  property in low-key visits by police early last  week despite a series of  denials by officials that his home had been searched  or raided.

One  laptop taken away is thought to contain  data from the flight simulator  while a second contained little information.  Zaharie’s personal laptop  was not found, and is thought to have been with him  in the cockpit of  the plane, the source said.

Activist: Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah
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Also raided: Fariq Abdul Hamid

Investigation: Pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah,  left,  was a political activist who attended a tense trial on the day of the   flight, investigators believe. He was flying service MH370 alongside  Fariq  Abdul Hamid, right, from whom investigators have been keen to  deflect  suspicion.

Hunt: Investigators have riaded the houses of both pilots. Pictured is where co-pilot Hamid lives in an upmarket Kuala Lumpur suburb

Hunt: Investigators have raided the houses of  both pilots. Pictured is where co-pilot Hamid lives in an upmarket Kuala   Lumpur suburb

 Zaharie’s  co-workers have told investigators  the veteran pilot was a social  activist who was vocal and fervent in his  support of Ibrahim.

‘Colleagues  made it clear to us that he was  someone who held strong political  beliefs and was strident in his support for  Anwar Ibrahim,’ another  investigation source said. ‘We were told by one  colleague he was  obsessed with politics.

Democracy icon, Anwar was jailed  for 5 years

Anwar Ibrahim is  a broadly popular  democracy icon and former deputy prime minister whose  prosecution on a  charge of sodomy is seen by many Malaysians as political  persecution.

Campaigners say the politician, the key  challenger to Malaysia’s ruling party, was the victim of a long-running  smear  campaign and had faced trumped-up charges.

Captain  Shah, who is thought to have  attended the trial in Putrajaya hours  before flying, is thought to be incensed  by the verdict.

Co-workers have told  investigators the  veteran pilot was a social activist who was vocal and  fervent in his support of  Ibrahim.

Investigators said: ‘We are looking into the  theory that Zaharie’s political beliefs  may be a factor. There are huge  sensitivities surrounding this but we  cannot afford not to pursue any angle  brought to our attention.’

In  their interviews, colleagues said Zaharie  told them he planned to  attend the court case involving Anwar on March 7, just  hours before the  Beijing flight, but investigators had not yet been able to  confirm if he  was among the crowd of Anwar supporters at court.

Zaharie  is believed to be separated or  divorced from his wife although they  share the same house, close to Kuala  Lumpur’s international airport.  They have three children, but no family members  were at home yesterday:  only the maid has remained there.

Political dirty tricks and  bullying the norm in Malaysia

The   revelations about Zaharie’s political  affiliations are highly sensitive   in a country where political dirty tricks  are widespread.

One  of  the investigation sources said: ‘We  are looking into the theory that   Zaharie’s political beliefs may be a factor.  There are huge   sensitivities surrounding this but we cannot afford not to  pursue any   angle brought to our attention.’

Separately,   a police source told the Mail  on Sunday: ‘I can confirm our   investigations include the political and  religious leanings of both   pilots.’

Zaharie  joined  Malaysia  Airlines in  1981. He became a captain about ten years  later   and has clocked up  18,360 hours of flying experience.

A Malaysian govt conspiracy right from  the beginning?

In  the days after Flight MH370 disappeared,  Zaharie was affectionately  described as a good neighbour and an eccentric ‘geek’ who had a flight  simulator at home simply because he loved his work so  much.

Malaysian  officials initially appeared keen  not to direct any suspicion towards  Zaharie or his co-pilot, 27-year-old Fariq  Abdul Hamid, who was last  week revealed to have invited two women passengers  into the cockpit and  smoked on an earlier flight to Phuket.

But  evidence of the way the plane’s  transponder and communication systems  were disabled and the way the plane was  expertly flown over the Indian  Ocean apparently using navigational waypoints  meant only a skilled  aviator could have been at the controls. Investigators  were also baffled  by why, if hijackers took over the plane, there was no Mayday  call or  signal from the two pilots to say the cockpit had been  breached.

At  yesterday’s press conference, the  suspicion over the pilot’s  involvement mounted as prime minister Najib Razak  said that  investigators had found ‘deliberate action’ on board the plane  resulted  in it changing course and losing contact with ground crews.

As  a result of the new information,  Malaysian authorities had ‘refocused  their investigation on crew and passengers  aboard’, he said. Police  sealed off the area surrounding Zaharie’s home and  searched the house  shortly after the press conference.

Mr  Razak said the new satellite evidence  shows ‘with a high degree of  certainty’ that the one of the jet’s  communications devices – the  Aircraft and Communications Addressing and  Reporting System  was  disabled just before it had reached the east coast  of Malaysia. ACARS is  a service that allows computers aboard the plane to relay  in-flight  information about the health of its systems back to the  ground.

Shortly  afterwards, near the cross-over  point between Malaysian and Vietnamese  air traffic controllers, the plane’s  transponder, which emits an  identifying signal, was switched off or, less  likely, failed.

According to a military radar, the aircraft  then turned and flew back over Malaysia before heading in a north-west  direction.

Search: Investigators from countries around the world have been scouring the oceans

Search: Investigators from countries around  the world have been scouring the oceans

A  satellite was able to pick  up a ‘ping’ from the plane until 08:11 local time,  more than seven hours  after it lost radar contact, although it was unable to  give a precise  location. Mr Razak went on to say that based on this new data,   investigators ‘have determined the plane’s last communication with a  satellite  was in one of two possible corridors – north from the border  of Kazakhstan and  Turkmenistan through to northern Thailand, and south  from Indonesia to the  southern Indian Ocean.

 If  as suspected the plane was diverted into  the Indian Ocean, the task of  the search teams becomes more difficult, as there  are hundreds of  uninhabited islands and the water reaches depths of around  23,000ft.

Countries  in the plane’s potential  flightpath have now joined a huge effort to  locate the missing passengers, but  China described the revelation as  ‘painfully belated’. And FBI investigators  say the disappearance of  MH370 may have been ‘an act of piracy’ and that the  possibility that its  hundreds of passengers are being held at an unknown  location has not  been ruled out.

 Meanwhile,  leading aviation lawyer James  Healy–Pratt, who is helping relatives,  said Malaysian Airlines had declined to  buy Boeing’s Airplane Health  Management system, which monitors systems in real  time and could have  alerted it to any potential problems, rather than having to  recover a  black box.

‘If the  transponder was manually disabled  then one can only hope that the black  boxes were not also manually disabled,’ he said. ‘Otherwise, the truth  will never be known.’ – Daily Mail, Agencies,  Malaysia Chronicle

Full article: http://www.malaysia-chronicle.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=244482:shock-political-twist-after-days-of-secretly-holding-pilots-laptop-is-msian-pm-out-to-blame-anwar?&Itemid=2#ixzz2w6GFQ1kY

We all have our thoughts on this horrific event. Prayers for the souls and families.

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Who were the 4 people who checked in but didn’t get on board?

This horrific event was about money. Who stands to gain the most?

Follow the money…

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MC-> Bersih leader with Anwar Ibrahim – Muslim Brotherhood’…People’s Justice Party –  (Parti Keadilan Rakyat.)

trendy malaysians?
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east or western?
Muslim Brotherhood helpers?
Opposition makes gains in Malaysian election

People’s Justice Party candidate Nurul Izzah (r) and her husband celebrate after she won a parliamentary seat in Kuala Lumpur in Malaysian election, March 8, 2008. (They’re currently in the process of divorcing.)

Nurul Izzah with her father Anwar Ibrahim – 2012

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Hidden in plain sight, army of dupes prepare for “Asian Summer.”

- by Tony Cartalucci

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Bangkok, Thailand July 2, 2011 – A tiny handful of Marxists, dupes, and shills converged in Bangkok today in what would seem like nothing more than a footnote in the day’s news. In reality, it was actually the surfacing fin of a shark prowling the political waters of Southeast Asia. While Bangkok certainly has enough foreign-funded troubles of its own, the protest was actually held at the Malaysian Embassy regarding “political prisoners” (MC->here we go again) the Malaysian government is allegedly holding. What was particularly telling was the tiny, very familiar, clenched fist logo adorning the protesters’ clothing and banners.

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The US National Endowment for Democracy (NED)-funded Prachatai propaganda outfit dutifully reported in their article, “Solidarity protest for clean and fair elections and immediate release of Bersih activists,” that on July 1, “students, activists and press gathered outside the Malaysian Embassy, Bangkok, in response to the Malaysian Government’s arrest of more than a hundred members of the coalition network Bersih 2.0 consisting of various Malaysian human rights organizations campaigning for reforms in the electoral system.” Joining the protest, according to the Bangkok Post, was the People’s Empowerment Foundation, another National Endowment for Democracy-funded front group.

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Malaysia Too

MC->”free and fair elections” - trendy…

Photos: Adorning the back of one Thai protester’s brown t-shirt and the red banner of Malaysia’s PSM, is the now ubiquitous Otpor clenched fist. The US-funded Serbian organization Otpor, would later become CANVAS and train US-backed revolutionaries all over the world. Now apparently movements are combining their efforts regardless of nationality in an attempt to replace national governments with a homogenous, centrally funded and controlled civil society network. For more on CANVAS see “Fake Revolutions.”

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The so-called “political prisoners” these protesters were supporting, come from the US National Democratic Institute supported Malaysian “Bersih 2.0″ group and the openly Marxist “Malaysian Socialist Party (PSM)” who began sporting the Otpor fist on their flags and shirts in 2009, long after Otpor became CANVAS, and long after CANVAS began training armies of dupes internationally. While a fair argument can be made for PSM that the clenched fist has more to do with Marxism than possible ties to CANVAS, no argument can be made that PSM isn’t working on behalf of long time globalist-stooge Ibrahim Anwar and his “People’s Justice Party” (Parti Keadilan Rakyat.)

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Ibrahim Anwar, like Thaksin Shinawatra of Thailand, or Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mohammed ElBaradei of Egypt, has deep connections with the degenerate Wall Street-London corporatocracy that go back several years. Anwar was Chairman of the Development Committee of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund in 1998, held lecturing positions at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University (a rock where the worst examples of humanity constantly crawl out from beneath), and a consultant to the World Bank. In 2007, Anwar was a panelist at the Neo-Con lined National Endowment for Democracy’s “Democracy Award” and a panelist at a NED donation ceremony.

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Photo: NED-funded National Democratic Institute openly admits to funding, supporting, and training Malaysia’s Ibrahim Anwar’s street mobs, but then alters their website to obfuscate these admissions. Pictured above is the website before its alteration. (click to enlarge)

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It would be safe to say that Anwar’s current political opposition movement in Malaysia most likely has support from these degenerates he has long consorted with. And indeed it is true, Anwar’s proxy street movement, Bersih and now “Bersih 2.0” has received training, support, and funds from the NED-funded National Democratic Institute. In an attempt to cover up NDI’s overt ties to this now exposed organization, the NDI website openly admitting to funding Bersih has been altered where no mention of it’s name can be found. However, Google’s cached version of the page can still be seen (as of July 2, 2011).

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Bersih 2.0 claims it is endorsed by Soros-funded Amnesty International and has admitted on at least one occasion to receiving funds from the National Democratic Institute and George Soros’ Open Society. Anwar, Bersih 2.0, and the PSM are planning a rally on July 9th to call for “clean elections,” ahead of the 13th general elections to be held in mid-2012. With Thai elections on July 3, and the nation most likely soon to be in the throes of another color revolution, Malaysian opposition’s July 9th rally, should it get out of hand, would constitute two simultaneous major political conflagrations in Southeast Asia.
That Thai dupes, Marxists, and NED-funded organizations are working in a coordinated fashion with their fellow NED/NDI-funded mobs in Malaysia signifies not a nation-wide foreign-funded destabilization, but an attempted regional-wide destabilization.
Myanmar.

Here she’s with the warmonger McCain. Note the background – NDI – IRI

Added to the mix is former UN employee and Noble Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been leading the opposition in Southeast Asia’s Myanmar and garnering support from every corporate cadre, think-tank, and organization imaginable.

. She was a finalist in the Chatham House Prize 2011, and not surprisingly a benefactor of Freedom Now’s services as well. Freedom Now receives funding from the Moriah Fund, the Lantos Foundation which includes Israeli President Shimon Peres as an “adviser,” Real Networks Foundation (which also funds Democracy Now) and the Charles Bronfman Prize which proclaims on its website “Jewish Values. Global Impact.” Freedom Now also receives “pro-bono” legal support from the Pillsbury law firm, a CFR corporate member.

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Aung San Suu Kyi herself, was born into an immensely wealthy and politically well connected family. She studied abroad, worked for the UN in New York City, and received a Ph.D from the University of London before returning to Myanmar to lead a “pro-democracy” movement. Whatever her convictions may really be, the West has fully hijacked her movement as a means of removing the current military junta and replacing it with one more conducive to their corporate agenda, which most assuredly has nothing to do with “democracy for the people.”

Photo: Aung San Suu Kyi ID card from when she worked at the United Nations in New York City.
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In 2007 there was the so-called “Saffron Revolution,” which was made a spectacle of by the corporate-owned media but gained little ground. Despite the rhetoric, the artificial aura of credibility and heroism built-up around yet another Nobel Peace Prize wearing crowbar trying to pry out another obstacle in the path of globalization, Myanmar’s color revolutions have proven ineffective.

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However, just in time for Thailand’s July 3rd elections, and Bersih’s July 9th demonstrations in Malaysia’s capital of Kuala Lumpur, Aung San Suu Kyi is planning her own attempt at stirring up political unrest by going on a “national tour.” While both Thailand and Malaysia’s opposition parties are fully funded and backed by the global corporatocracy, Myanmar’s opposition is also officially a recipient of US-funded CANVAS training – the organization responsible for training the Egyptian, Iranian, and Lebanese activists currently trying to destroy their own national sovereignty.

Video/Image: NED and Soros organized mobs clamor around Malaysia’s embassy in Bangkok, Thailand – with SEAPA executive director Gayathry Venkiteswaran explaining to a crowd why Western proxy Anwar Ibrahim and his opposition’s involvement in Bersih should not be condemned and for Bersih supporters to vigorously deny that the movement is “opposition run.” SEAPA is funded by convicted criminal George Soros, and the US State Department’s warmongering, corporate financier-lined National Endowment for Democracy and Freedom House. Both within Malaysia and beyond, the Bersih mobs are demonstratively led by Western proxies insidiously manipulating impressionable, youthful crowds.

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Unlike during their 2011 protests, Bersih is now taking to the streets with the full knowledge of what “pro-democracy” protests have yielded in Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, and Syria – chaos, destabilization, violence, and the inevitable installation of overt client regimes bent in service to Wall Street and London. They are now openly the recipients of convicted criminal George Soros’ Open Society Institute, which is quickly losing its luster as its vast global ties are exposed by an ever-expanding alternative media.

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In Tunsia we see the rise of one of Anwar Ibrahim’s National Endowment for Democracy contemporaries, Moncef Marzouki who was declared “president” after US-backed mobs took to Tunisia’s streets in early 2011 and overthrew the government there. Since Marzouki’s installation into power, he has promptly backed Western policy in regards to Libya and now Syria, most recently severing ties with Damascus to help bolster the West’s campaign of isolating and eventually topping Syria’s government.

Moncef Marzouki

Photo: Tunisia’s new “president,” Moncef Marzouki, a veteran Western collaborator whose last two decades of political activity, much like Anwar Ibrahim of Malaysia, have been supported and subsidized by the US government and US corporate-financier funded foundations.

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The pieces are not just in place for an inevitable attempted color revolution in Thailand, but a coordinated region wide conflagration of political unrest and most certainly violence. Opposition movements all falling under the same funding and same dubious associations with Western corporate-financier backers are moving in tandem to make the next few following months a summer of upheaval, chaos, and bloodshed. The only positive aspect of the “Asian Summer” will be the fact that nations, the alternative media, and the people have the deceptive nature of the engineered “Arab Spring” in thoughtful hindsight.

http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2011/07/cia-coup-army-uncovered-in-asia.html

http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2012/04/wall-street-fills-malaysian-streets.html

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Flashback: Anwar Ibrahim Found Not-Guilty In Sodomy Trial

[...]Previous posts have discussed Ibrahim’s 2008 arrest on the sodomy charges in a seeming repeat of the events of 1998.

Anwar Ibrahim has many known ties to the global U.S Muslim Brotherhood including helping to found the International Institute of Islamic Thought IIIT) where he currently serves as a director,  serving as a trustee for the World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY) during the 1970′s and early 1980′s, and appearances at numerous Brotherhood-linked conferences. As noted in a previous post, Ibrahim was scheduled to speak at a conference in Istanbul that featured a large number of prominent speakers with ties to the global Brotherhood. Another recent post also discussed Ibrahim’s appearance at a Saudi economic forum. Media coverage on Ibrahim generally ignores this history which may be explained by a recent article from the Malaysian media on how Ibrahim has reinvented himself. http://globalmbreport.org/?p=5595

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 Wan Azizah replaces her husband Anwar [Ibrahim] in by-election           

by mazwin nik anis AND rahimy rahim

March 10, 2014

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Substitute candidate: Dr Wan Azizah announcing her candidacy at a press conference in Kajang. With her is Anwar. - Bernama

Substitute candidate: Dr Wan Azizah announcing her candidacy at a press conference in Kajang – shown with her husband Anwar Ibrahim - Bernama

Dr Wan Azizah has announced her candidacy for the Kajang by-election that will be held March 23 and she is out to prove that she is not a “seat warmer” for her husband.

People can call me a seat warmer or whatever they like. But I know and the party knows that I’m more than that. I’m here with a purpose, which is to fight for the people,” she said.

Dr Wan Azizah replaced her husband Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim as the Pakatan Rakyat candidate in the by-election.

This is not the first time that Dr Wan Azizah is contesting “on behalf” of Anwar. She stood in the Permatang Pauh parliamentary constituency in the 1999, 2004 and 2008 general elections, a seat held by her husband before he was jailed for corruption.

However, a few months after the 2008 polls, she relinquished her post to make way for a by-election which Anwar won.

Anwar could not contest in the Kajang by-election after the Court of Appeal on Friday overturned his acquittal on sodomy charges and sentenced him to five years in prison. (MC->he was found guilty of sodomising his former aide.)  Sources – the star - mole.

hmmmmm

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It’s quite uncanny how Muslim Brotherhood “helper” Anwar Ibrahim (and his political family) affiliations are a near carbon copy of all the other pre-selected sock-puppets in the so-called recent “democracy promoting”; April Spring, Colored Revolutions, today Ukraine, and yesterday; Karzi-Afghanistan, Allawi-Iraq…the Balkans etc…(a revisit to Kemal and CUPs and one might discover a similar theme)

George Soros, US/UK/Continental EU/UN/NATO …they fund it their name is on it.

A thought…could the pilot of the missing plane be a member of the Muslim Brotherhood…


At least 5 gold mines in Malaysia are under foreign listed companies

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By CHOONG EN HAN
han@thestar.com.my

November 5, 2012

PETALING JAYA: While gold mining is not a new business activity in Malaysia, it does not seem to have any significant domestic capital market participation.

But the striking fact remains that at least five of the country’s gold mines are part of the assets of many listed companies abroad.

Among them is a Raub mine operated by Raub Australian Gold Mining Sdn Bhd, which in turn is a subsidiary of Peninsular Gold Ltd, listed on London Stock Exchange’s Alternative Investment Market.

The company is under the control of Datuk Seri Andrew Kam Tai Yeow with a 29.5% stake, who is also its chairman and chief executive.

Peninsular Gold is the only listed gold company with assets in Malaysia that is managed by locals, while the others seem to have foreign ownership (partly) and management.

But although profitable, Peninsular Gold’s earnings are paltry for now.

For its six-months ended December 2011, the company recorded a net profit of £86,049 (RM421,734) on revenue of £6.805mil (RM33.35mil). The year before, it reported a profit of £657,283 (RM3.22mil) on revenue of £14.19mil (RM69.54mil). Its market capitalisation stands at around £18mil (RM88mil).

Peninsular Gold’s plans have been to use better technology in the extraction of gold at its Raub plant, which has a proven reserve of 202,000 ounces of gold.

Industry experts say there are three major mines in Malaysia  located in Raub, Penjom and Selinsing, in Pahang.

Since June 2011, the Penjom mine has changed ownership. Norwegian Avocet Mining PLC divested its interest in the mine, which is now under the wings of privately held PT Bukit Makmur Mandiri Utama, Indonesia’s second-largest mining contractor.

Details of the mine has been off the radar but according to last known data, the mine had produced 39,150 ounces of gold for the nine-months ended Sept, 2010.

The Selinsing mine, operated by Canada’s Monument Mining Ltd, is another well-established gold mine, with a production of 44,585 ounces of gold recorded for its year ended June 2012. The mine lays claim to having one of the lowest production costs at US$306 (RM930) per ounce.

Monument Mining is also exploring other mining projects in the country, including the Mengapur polymetalic project near Sri Jaya, Pahang. The mine is said to have deposits of copper, sulphur, iron, gold and silver.

Another interesting miner is Singapore-listed CNMC Goldmine Holdings Ltd which has the rights to the 2,370 acres Sokor gold field. CNMC reckons that this gold field is the most prospective but undeveloped hard rock gold mining area in Malaysia.

In June, CNMC announced its gold reserves rose by 20% to 82,000 ounces.

CNMC is founded by one Lin Xiang Xiong, a Chinese national who is the chief advisor for China International Trade to the Kelantan state government.

For its six months ended June, the company recorded a net profit of US$482,646 (RM1.46mil) on a revenue of US$5.178mil (RM15.74mil).

Over in East Malaysia, a new kid on the block has emerged in the form of Canadian firm Olympus Pacific Minerals Inc. Olympus acquired the 1,400-sq-km Bau gold project as a result of the merger with Zedex Minerals Ltd in 2009, and now has a 83.25% interest in the project.

The project has 560,000 ounces of indicated gold and another 1.89 million ounces of inferred gold.

The Bau region is a historic gold field with many geological similarities to the Carlin District of Northern Nevada, which is one of the world’s largest gold fields.

Largely focused in South-East Asia, Olympus is the largest gold producer in Vietnam and operates several underground narrow vein gold mines and an open-pit gold mine at its two production sites in Vietnam. It also has a gold field in the Philippines.

http://www.thestar.com.my/story.aspx/?file=%2f2012%2f11%2f5%2fbusiness%2f12272344&sec=business

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Government controlled Petronas Oil and Gas

“PETRONAS, short for Petroliam Nasional Berhad, is a Malaysian oil and gas company that was founded on August 17, 1974. Wholly owned by the Government of Malaysia, the corporation is vested with the entire oil and gas resources in Malaysia and is entrusted with the responsibility of developing and adding value to these resources. PETRONAS is ranked among Fortune Global 500‘s largest corporations in the world.”

The Petronas Twin Towers

“PETRONAS was not the first company to extract oil or gas in Malaysia. It was Royal Dutch Shell that began the oil exploration in Sarawak, then under the White Rajahs, at the end of the 19th century. In 1910, the first oil well was drilled in Miri, Sarawak. This became the first oil producing well known as the Grand Old Lady. Shell was still the only oil company in the area in 1963, when the Federation of Malaya, having achieved independence from Britain six years before, united with Sarawak and Sabah, both on the island of Borneo, and became Malaysia. The authorities in the two new states retained their links with Royal Dutch Shell, which brought Malaysia’s first offshore oil field onstream in 1968.

Meanwhile, the federal government turned to Esso, Continental Oil, and Mobil, licensing exploration off the state of Terengganu, in the Malay Peninsula, the most populous region and the focus of federal power. By 1974, however, only Esso was still in the area.”

“Further, an agreement between Malaysia and Indonesia, signed in 1969, had settled doubts and disputes about each country’s claims over territorial waters and offshore resources at a time when both were heavily indebted to Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) governments and banks as well as to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank.” contin: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petronas

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  • Send foreign mercenaries into the victim state to foment ‘revolt’ (MC-> infiltrate peaceful protests).
  • Provoke the victim state into using its armed forces to oppose the foreign invaders.
  • Have the media present this lawful defensive action by the victim state as the cruel oppression of a dictatorship.
  • Send your armed forces to complete the job of regime change.
  • Establish a new puppet regime with a banking system consisting of a privately held central bank that issues currency on a debt basis, thus enslaving the population.

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It would appear that Malaysia have a history with the IMF and World Bank, which will be in their favor – know thy enemy), unless they vote the Muslim Brotherhood (Freedom and Justice Party) into power…


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