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Revealed: Secret plan to keep Iraq under US controlBush wants 50 military bases, control of Iraqi airspace and legal immunity for all American soldiers and contractors
A secret deal being negotiated in Baghdad would
perpetuate the American military occupation of Iraq indefinitely, regardless of
the outcome of the US presidential election in November.
The terms of the impending deal, details of which
have been leaked to The Independent, are likely to have an explosive political
effect in Iraq. Iraqi officials fear that the accord, under which US troops
would occupy permanent bases, conduct military operations, arrest Iraqis and
enjoy immunity from Iraqi law, will destabilise Iraq's position in the Middle
East and lay the basis for unending conflict in their country.
JIM
WATSON/AFP/Getty Images But the accord also threatens to provoke a political crisis in the US. President Bush wants to push it through by the end of next month so he can declare a military victory and claim his 2003 invasion has been vindicated. But by perpetuating the US presence in Iraq, the long-term settlement would undercut pledges by the Democratic presidential nominee, Barack Obama, to withdraw US troops if he is elected president in November. The timing of the agreement would also boost the Republican candidate, John McCain, who has claimed the United States is on the verge of victory in Iraq – a victory that he says Mr Obama would throw away by a premature military withdrawal. America currently has 151,000 troops in Iraq and, even after projected withdrawals next month, troop levels will stand at more than 142,000 – 10 000 more than when the military "surge" began in January 2007. Under the terms of the new treaty, the Americans would retain the long-term use of more than 50 bases in Iraq. American negotiators are also demanding immunity from Iraqi law for US troops and contractors, and a free hand to carry out arrests and conduct military activities in Iraq without consulting the Baghdad government.
The precise nature of the American demands has
been kept secret until now. The leaks are certain to generate an angry backlash
in Iraq. "It is a terrible breach of our sovereignty," said one Iraqi
politician, adding that if the security deal was signed it would delegitimise
the government in Baghdad which will be seen as an American pawn.
The US has repeatedly denied it wants permanent bases in Iraq but one Iraqi source said: "This is just a tactical subterfuge." Washington also wants control of Iraqi airspace below 29,000ft and the right to pursue its "war on terror" in Iraq, giving it the authority to arrest anybody it wants and to launch military campaigns without consultation. Mr Bush is determined to force the Iraqi government to sign the so-called "strategic alliance" without modifications, by the end of next month. But it is already being condemned by the Iranians and many Arabs as a continuing American attempt to dominate the region. Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the powerful and usually moderate Iranian leader, said yesterday that such a deal would create "a permanent occupation". He added: "The essence of this agreement is to turn the Iraqis into slaves of the Americans."
Iraq's Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, is
believed to be personally opposed to the terms of the new pact but feels his
coalition government cannot stay in power without US backing.
The deal also risks exacerbating the proxy war being fought between Iran and the United States over who should be more influential in Iraq. Although Iraqi ministers have said they will reject any agreement limiting Iraqi sovereignty, political observers in Baghdad suspect they will sign in the end and simply want to establish their credentials as defenders of Iraqi independence by a show of defiance now. The one Iraqi with the authority to stop deal is the majority Shia spiritual leader, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani. In 2003, he forced the US to agree to a referendum on the new Iraqi constitution and the election of a parliament. But he is said to believe that loss of US support would drastically weaken the Iraqi Shia, who won a majority in parliament in elections in 2005. The US is adamantly against the new security agreement being put to a referendum in Iraq, suspecting that it would be voted down. The influential Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has called on his followers to demonstrate every Friday against the impending agreement on the grounds that it compromises Iraqi independence. The Iraqi government wants to delay the actual signing of the agreement but the office of Vice-President Dick Cheney has been trying to force it through. The US ambassador in Baghdad, Ryan Crocker, has spent weeks trying to secure the accord. The signature of a security agreement, and a parallel deal providing a legal basis for keeping US troops in Iraq, is unlikely to be accepted by most Iraqis. But the Kurds, who make up a fifth of the population, will probably favour a continuing American presence, as will Sunni Arab political leaders who want US forces to dilute the power of the Shia. The Sunni Arab community, which has broadly supported a guerrilla war against US occupation, is likely to be split.
By Greg Palast for
TomPaine.com/OurFuture.org
[New York, May 22, 2008.]
I can’t make this up:
In a hotel room in Brussels, the chief executives of the world’s top oil companies unrolled a huge map of the Middle East, drew a fat, red line around Iraq and signed their names to it. The map, the red line, the secret signatures. It explains this war. It explains this week’s rocketing of the price of oil to $134 a barrel. It happened on July 31, 1928, but the bill came due now. Barack Obama knows this. Or, just as important, those crafting his policies seem to know this. Same for Hillary Clinton’s team. There could be no more vital difference between the Republican and Democratic candidacies. And you won’t learn a thing about it on the news from the Fox-holes. Let me explain. In 1928, oil company chieftains (from Anglo-Persian Oil, now British Petroleum, from Standard Oil, now Exxon, and their Continental counterparts) were faced with a crisis: falling prices due to rising supplies of oil; the same crisis faced by their successors during the Clinton years, when oil traded at $22 a barrel. The solution then, as now: stop the flow of oil, squeeze the market, raise the price. The method: put a red line around Iraq and declare that virtually all the oil under its sands would remain there, untapped. Their plan: choke supply, raise prices rise, boost profits. That was the program for 1928. For 2003. For 2008. Again and again, year after year, the world price of oil has been boosted artificially by keeping a tight limit on Iraq’s oil output. Methods varied. The 1928 “Redline” agreement held, in various forms, for over three decades. It was replaced in 1959 by quotas imposed by President Eisenhower. Then Saudi Arabia and OPEC kept Iraq, capable of producing over 6 million barrels a day, capped at half that, given an export quota equal to Iran’s lower output. In 1991, output was again limited, this time by a new red line: B-52 bombings by Bush Senior’s air force. Then came the Oil Embargo followed by the “Food for Oil” program. Not much food for them, not much oil for us. In 2002, after Bush Junior took power, the top ten oil companies took in a nice $31 billion in profits. But then, a miracle fell from the sky. Or, more precisely, the 101st Airborne landed. Bush declared, “Bring’m on!” and, as the dogs of war chewed up the world’s second largest source of oil, crude doubled in two years to an astonishing $40 a barrel and those same oil companies saw their profits triple to $87 billion. In response, Senators Obama and Clinton propose something wrongly called a “windfall” profits tax on oil. But oil industry profits didn’t blow in on a breeze. It is war, not wind, that fills their coffers. The beastly leap in prices is nothing but war profiteering, hiking prices to take cruel advantage of oil fields shut by bullets and blood. I wish to hell the Democrats would call their plan what it is: A war profiteering tax. War is profitable business – if you’re an oil man. But somehow, the public pays the price, at the pump and at the funerals, and the oil companies reap the benefits. Indeed, the recent engorgement in oil prices and profits goes right back to Bush-McCain “surge.” The Iraq government attack on a Basra militia was really nothing more than Baghdad’s leaping into a gang war over control of Iraq’s Southern oil fields and oil-loading docks. Moqtada al-Sadr’s gangsters and the government-sponsored greedsters of SCIRI (the Supreme Council For Islamic Revolution In Iraq) are battling over an estimated $5 billion a year in oil shipment kickbacks, theft and protection fees. The Wall Street Journal reported that the surge-backed civil warring has cut Iraq’s exports by up to a million barrels a day. And that translates to slashing OPEC excess crude capacity by nearly half. Result: ka-BOOM in oil prices and ka-ZOOM in oil profits. For 2007, Exxon recorded the highest annual profit, $40.6 billion, of any enterprise since the building of the pyramids. And that was BEFORE the war surge and price surge to over $100 a barrel. It’s been a good war for Exxon and friends. Since George Bush began to beat the war-drum for an invasion of Iraq, the value of Exxon’s reserves has risen – are you ready for this? – by $2 trillion. Obama’s war profiteering tax, or “oil windfall profits” tax, would equal just 20% of the industry’s charges in excess of $80 a barrel. It’s embarrassingly small actually, smaller than every windfall tax charged by every other nation. (Ecuador, for example, captures up to 99% of the higher earnings). Nevertheless, oilman George W. Bush opposes it as does Bush’s man McCain. Senator McCain admonishes us that the po’ widdle oil companies need more than 80% of their windfall so they can explore for more oil. When pigs fly, Senator. Last year, Exxon spent $36 billion of its $40 billion income on dividends and special payouts to stockholders in tax-free buy-backs. Even the Journal called Exxon’s capital investment spending “stingy.” At today’s prices Obama’s windfall tax, teeny as it is, would bring in nearly a billion dollars a day for the US Treasury. Clinton’s plan is similar. Yet the press’ entire discussion of gas prices is shifted to whether the government should knock some sales tax pennies off the oil companies’ pillaging at the pump. More important than even the Democrats’
declaring that oil company profits are undeserved, is their implicit
understanding that the profits are the spoils of war. ***************** Palast is currently working with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on investigation the latest attacks on the right to vote in America. Support this effort and receive a signed copy of Armed Madhouse from the author at Palast Investigative Fund. View Palast’s commentary on oil and war windfalls on Air America Radio’s Palast Report – on YouTube here.
José Can You See? Bush’s Trojan TacoBy Greg Palast
First, the summit planned for the N.O.
two years back was meant to showcase the rebuilt Big Easy, a monument to
can-do Bush-o-nomics. Well, it is a monument to Bush’s
leadership: The city still looks like Dresden 1946, with over half
the original residents living in toxic trailers or wandering lost and broke in
America.
The second reason Bush has kept this
major summit a virtual secret is its real agenda. More important,
the agenda-makers, the guys who called the meeting, must remain as far out of
camera range as possible: The North American Competitiveness Council.
Say what?
There will be other anti-SSP protesters in New
Orleans as well, from America’s populist Right. They are concerned that
the Security and Prosperity Summit is worse than the “NAFTA on steroids” that
Barlow fears. The populists see in the SPP a nascent “North American
Union,” and the elimination of the good old US of A.
They’re wrong, of course. The U.S.
of A. has been long eliminated, at least economically. The Competitiveness
Council is a multinational crew, with one shared set of country clubs, beach
homes, art collections, union busters and lobbyists knowing no borders.
Greg Palast is the author of the New York Times bestsellers, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy and Armed Madhouse: Sordid Secrets and Strange Tales of a White House Gone Wild. Sign up for Palast’s investigative reports for BBC on RSS feed at http://feeds.feedburner.com/gregpalast-articles
India: Major Protest Demands Coca-Cola Shut
Down Plant
Written by Nandlal Master, Lok Samiti,
Amit Srivastava Wednesday, 02 April 2008
Source: India Resource Center
Breaking a police barrier that attempted to keep the protesters 300 meters from the bottling plant, the villagers held a rally at the plant's gate accusing the company of creating severe water shortages in the area and polluting the water and land.
The march and rally against Coca-Cola in Mehdiganj is the latest in a series of protests against the company in India where communities have accused Coca-Cola bottling plants for exacerbating the water crises through heavy extraction of water from the groundwater resource and polluting the groundwater and soil. The march and rally against Coca-Cola was preceded by a two-day conference in Mehdiganj on Right to Water. At the conference, Mr. Ghanshyam, a representative of the Uttar Pradesh State Pollution Control Board admitted that the Coca-Cola bottling plant in Mehdiganj did not have a current hazardous waste authorization from the Pollution Control Board required to operate. The authorization had expired on July 27, 2007 and the Pollution Control Board has sent a legal notice to Coca-Cola in this regard. "Coca-Cola has been operating illegally for the last 8 months and the Pollution Control Board and the state government must take immediate steps to shut down the bottling plant," said Nandlal Master of Lok Samiti, the primary organizer of the conference and protest. Coca-Cola's bottling plants in India generate hazardous waste and they have to obtain authorizations from the Pollution Control Board to ensure that the hazardous waste is handled as required by the Hazardous Waste (Management & Handling) Rules 1989.
March to Coca-Cola Plant in Mehdiganj Photo: India
Resource Center
The communities' claims of declining water tables (which Coca-Cola refutes) have also been confirmed by the latest data from the Ground Water Board, a government of India agency.
Data collected by the Ground Water Board confirm that ground water levels have dropped up to 8 meters (26 feet) in the first seven years of Coca-Cola's operations, from 1999 to 2006. The result has been the drying up of wells and hand water pumps in the vicinity of Coca-Cola's bottling plants, and continues to pose a significant crisis for farmers who also rely on the ground water resource to meet their needs. Over 80% of the community in Mehdiganj engage in agriculture, and groundwater remains the primary source of water for the community to meet all its water needs. "The Coca-Cola company is a gross violator of human rights in India by continuing to operate its plants in areas where the community is unable to meet its basic water needs. Do we need to satisfy Coca-Cola's thirst for water when even the farmers don't have enough water to make a living?" said Amit Srivastava of the India Resource Center, an international campaigning organization. "All of Coca-Cola's claims of being a socially responsible corporation ring hollow when weighed against its track record in India." The Coca-Cola company in India is under fire from various communities who have accused the company of creating severe water shortages and pollution. The Coca-Cola company was forced to agree to an assessment of its plants in India as a result of a sustained campaign internationally. The assessment of six plants (out of fifty Coca-Cola plants) released in January 2008 was conducted by the Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) and was a scathing indictment of Coca-Cola's operations in India. 
March to Coca-Cola Plant in Mehdiganj Photo: India
Resource Center
The assessment, which was paid for by the
Coca-Cola company, has recommended the closure of another bottling plant in
India-in Kala Dera, Rajasthan-because of the acute water situation. The
assessment also warned Coca-Cola on Mehdiganj, noting that the water tables
have been depleting and the aquifer is moving towards a semi-critical
situation. "Coca-Cola, Pepsico and other companies are plundering our natural resources. Water sustains life, and without water, life in not sustainable. The time has come to put an end to the misguided expropriation of our natural resources and assert the right to water to the communities to whom it belongs," said Medha Patkar of the National Alliance of People's Movements, who led the march and rally.
14 March 2008
The US administration is made up of a mixture of
bankers lawyers, and the C.E.O's of major oil companies. However, with the
amount of trickery, and smoke and mirrors that they use I think at one time or
another they must have all been magicians and good ones at that.
Read it carefully it makes sense and it is reminiscent of the "Anthrax" scare just after 911 you know the exact time when they were sliding ( or should I say railroading) the "patriot act" through.
The $200 billion bail-out for predator banks
and Spitzer charges are intimately linked
By Greg Palast Reporting for Air America Radio's Clout While New York Governor Eliot Spitzer was paying an 'escort' $4,300 in a hotel room in Washington, just down the road, George Bush's new Federal Reserve Board Chairman, Ben Bernanke, was secretly handing over $200 billion in a tryst with mortgage bank industry speculators. Both acts were wanton, wicked and lewd. But there's a BIG difference. The Governor was using his own checkbook. Bush's man Bernanke was using ours. This week, Bernanke's Fed, for the first time in its history, loaned a selected coterie of banks one-fifth of a trillion dollars to guarantee these banks' mortgage-backed junk bonds. The deluge of public loot was an eye-popping windfall to the very banking predators who have brought two million families to the brink of foreclosure. Up until Wednesday, there was one single, lonely politician who stood in the way of this creepy little assignation at the bankers' bordello: Eliot Spitzer. Who are they kidding? Spitzer's lynching and the bankers' enriching are intimately tied. How? Follow the money.
The press has swallowed Wall Street's line that
millions of US families are about to lose their homes because they bought homes
they couldn't afford or took loans too big for their wallets. Ba-LON-ey. That's
blaming the victim.
Here's what happened. Since the Bush regime came to power, a new species of loan became the norm, the 'sub-prime' mortgage and it's variants including loans with teeny "introductory" interest rates. From out of nowhere, a company called 'Countrywide' became America's top mortgage lender, accounting for one in five home loans, a large chunk of these 'sub-prime.' Here's how it worked: The Grinning Family, with US average household income, gets a $200,000 mortgage at 4% for two years. Their $955 a month payment is 25% of their income. No problem. Their banker promises them a new mortgage, again at the cheap rate, in two years. But in two years, the promise ain't worth a can of spam and the Grinnings are told to scram - because their house is now worth less than the mortgage. Now, the mortgage hits 9% or $1,609 plus fees to recover the "discount" they had for two years. Suddenly, payments equal 42% to 50% of pre-tax income. Grinnings move into their Toyota.
Now, what kind of American is 'sub-prime.' Guess.
No peeking. Here's a hint: 73% of HIGH INCOME Black and Hispanic borrowers were
given sub-prime loans versus 17% of similar-income Whites. Dark-skinned
borrowers aren't stupid – they had no choice. They were 'steered' as it's called
in the mortgage sharking business.
'Steering,' sub-prime loans with usurious kickers, fake inducements to over-borrow, called 'fraudulent conveyance' or 'predatory lending' under US law, were almost completely forbidden in the olden days (Clinton Administration and earlier) by federal regulators and state laws as nothing more than fancy loan-sharking. But when the Bush regime took over, Countrywide and its banking brethren were told to party hardy – it was OK now to steer'm, fake'm, charge'm and take'm. But there was this annoying party-pooper. The Attorney General of New York, Eliot Spitzer, who sued these guys to a fare-thee-well. Or tried to. Instead of regulating the banks that had run amok, Bush's regulators went on the warpath against Spitzer and states attempting to stop predatory practices. Making an unprecedented use of the legal power of "federal pre-emption," Bush-bots ordered the states to NOT enforce their consumer protection laws. Indeed, the feds actually filed a lawsuit to block Spitzer's investigation of ugly racial mortgage steering. Bush's banking buddies were especially steamed that Spitzer hammered bank practices across the nation using New York State laws. Spitzer not only took on Countrywide, he took on their predatory enablers in the investment banking community. Behind Countrywide was the Mother Shark, its funder and now owner, Bank of America. Others joined the sharkfest: Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch and Citigroup's Citibank made mortgage usury their major profit centers. They did this through a bit of financial legerdemain called "securitization."
What that means is that they took a bunch of junk
mortgages, like the Grinnings, loans about to go down the toilet and re-packaged
them into "tranches" of bonds which were stamped "AAA" - top grade - by bond
rating agencies. These gold-painted turds were sold as sparkling safe
investments to US school district pension funds and town governments in Finland
(really).
When the housing bubble burst and the paint flaked off, investors were left with the poop and the bankers were left with bonuses. Countrywide's top man, Angelo Mozilo, will 'earn' a $77 million buy-out bonus this year on top of the $656 million - over half a billion dollars – he pulled in from 1998 through 2007. But there were rumblings that the party would soon be over. Angry regulators, burned investors and the weight of millions of homes about to be boarded up were causing the sharks to sink. Countrywide's stock was down 50%, and Citigroup was off 38%, not pleasing to the Gulf sheiks who now control its biggest share blocks. Then, on Wednesday of this week, the unthinkable happened. Carlyle Capital went bankrupt. Who? That's Carlyle as in Carlyle Group. James Baker, Senior Counsel. Notable partners, former and past: George Bush, the Bin Laden family and more dictators, potentates, pirates and presidents than you can count. The Fed had to act. Bernanke opened the vault and dumped $200 billion on the poor little suffering bankers. They got the public treasure – and got to keep the Grinning's house. There was no 'quid' of a foreclosure moratorium for the 'pro quo' of public bail-out. Not one family was saved – but not one banker was left behind. Every mortgage sharking operation shot up in value. Mozilo's Countrywide stock rose 17% in one day. The Citi sheiks saw their company's stock rise $10 billion in an afternoon.
And that very same day the bail-out was decided –
what a coinkydink! – the man called, 'The Sheriff of Wall Street' was cuffed.
Spitzer was silenced.
Do I believe the banks called Justice and said, "Take him down today!" Naw, that's not how the system works. But the big players knew that unless Spitzer was taken out, he would create enough ruckus to spoil the party. Headlines in the financial press – one was "Wall Street Declares War on Spitzer" - made clear to Bush's enforcers at Justice who their number one target should be. And it wasn't Bin Laden. It was the night of February 13 when Spitzer made the bone-headed choice to order take-out in his Washington Hotel room. He had just finished signing these words for the Washington Post about predatory loans: "Not only did the Bush administration do nothing to protect consumers, it embarked on an aggressive and unprecedented campaign to prevent states from protecting their residents from the very problems to which he federal government was turning a blind eye." Bush, said Spitzer right in the headline, was the "Predator Lenders' Partner in Crime." The President, said Spitzer, was a fugitive from justice. And Spitzer was in Washington to launch a campaign to take on the Bush regime and the biggest financial powers on the planet. Spitzer wrote, "When history tells the story of the subprime lending crisis and recounts its devastating effects on the lives of so many innocent homeowners the Bush administration will not be judged favorably." But now, the Administration can rest assured that this love story – of Bush and his bankers - will not be told by history at all – now that the Sheriff of Wall Street has fallen on his own gun.
A note on "Prosecutorial Indiscretion."
Back in the day when I was an investigator of racketeers for government, the federal prosecutor I was assisting was deciding whether to launch a case based on his negotiations for airtime with 60 Minutes. I'm not allowed to tell you the prosecutor's name, but I want to mention he was recently seen shouting, "Florida is Rudi country! Florida is Rudi country!" Not all crimes lead to federal bust or even public exposure. It's up to something called "prosecutorial discretion." Funny thing, this 'discretion.' For example, Senator David Vitter, Republican of Louisiana, paid Washington DC prostitutes to put him diapers (ewww!), yet the Senator was not exposed by the US prosecutors busting the pimp-ring that pampered him. Naming and shaming and ruining Spitzer – rarely done in these cases - was made at the 'discretion' of Bush's Justice Department. Or maybe we should say, 'indiscretion.'
20 January 2008
Lead in comments Terry: Hand
www.fortruth.org
The news media are often selective when it
comes to reporting on many topics. The Holocaust and the inhuman way that
Iraqi, and Afghan people were treated by their respective persecutors are
front page stories selected because they serve a political agenda. They
are continually slipped into articles and news bulletins on a regular and
continuous basis, as and when they are needed for effect, or to mold
public opinion in a certain way.
These stories make us [the North American public] gasp in disbelief, while at the same time we try to empathize with the sufferers. We are appalled and outraged that these despotic leaders can be so cruel to their subjects. Yet other stories of human suffering and genocide are all but totally ignored by the media. Examples would be the slaughter in East Timor, Rwanda, the US invasion of Panama and dozens of other places that produced atrocities. The reporting of the East Timor massacre (supported by the US, CIA) amounted to one small article buried in the central pages of the newspaper. The death toll of civilians in Panama reported but grossly understated. And let us not forget the way north American history is whitewashed, clinically sterilized, and changed in order for it to be taught in our US, and Canadian school systems. No mention of the genocide of native Americans in both Canada and the USA. No mention of bounty placed on the scalps of native men, women and children. No mention of the sterilization of native women (as recent as 1970). No mention of the acquisition of native land by the churches, and subsequent sale of the lands to logging companies. Because after all we are the good guys, we are the ones that help our US neighbours police the world. We don't have to send troops overseas to seek and correct injustice and corruption, or genocide. It is right here on our doorstep and it needs to be exposed. It needs to be accepted for what it is and it needs to be settled, it needs to taught. Because if we ignore history, as well as our sins we are doomed to repeat it. In a continuing and tireless effort Rev. Kevin Annett has been fighting Government, RCMP, and church bureaucracy in Canada for the past 12 years. He has been fighting to uncover the facts surrounding the deaths of about 50,000 native American children in Residential Schools run by various churches ( places of so called sanctuary).
You will read below how his
efforts are now starting to break down the wall of lies and deception. He
has finally forced his story and his cause into the mainstream media.
People are now becoming aware of the past and ongoing injustices that
occurred right here on Vancouver Island, in BC, and in the rest of
Canada. Kevin whom I know personally has a very compelling movie
"Unrepentant" that you can watch on Kevin's
website
"Hidden From History"
for free. Rev Kevin Annett is to be
commended for his work and his tenacity in bringing this story to
the world. "what is Truth?-Truth is that which exposes a lie!"
Vic Beck 2006
And now the article:
Emboldened Survivors Confront Clergy
and Churchgoers in Vancouver, BC Canada
Comment:
17 January 2008
What many people don't know is that apart from
the oil. US corporations were involved building massive infrastructures in Saudi
Arabia back in the 1960s and 70s. big bucks for these US conglomerates but many
treaties and deals were also made. Deals including support for votes in the UN
when needed. Kind of like the Mafia calling in favours / favors . Also the
United States helped set up OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting
Countries).
The deal with OPEC is that they are obliged to trade using US currency It's kind of like money laundering only on a large scale. The CIA were doing the same thing with opium / cocaine out of Afghanistan which they purchased from their good friends the Taliban. In fact the CIA are single handedly responsible for the birth of the current drug crises in North America. But that's another issue and after all they do get funding help from the "War On Drugs". One of the reasons (not the only reason) that the USA needed to get control of Iraq, Iran, and at some point Venezuela is these guys won't play ball with the US of A. They [Iraq, Iran, Venezuela] trade using Euros this is ticking off the US administration no end, you see they [USA] need liquidity. The whole stock market needs liquidity and right now it's just like a huge bubble that is about to burst. I hope you are investing some of your money into gold and silver coins cause you will need them when the stuff hit's the fan. If you get the chance I highly
recommend you read the book "Confessions Of an Economic Hit Man" by John Perkins
(he is an ex Economic Hit Man). This book alone will make you amazed at
how little you know about this world we live in. You can view it on Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Economic-Hit-Man-Currents/dp/1576753018 George of Arabia:
Bend over, pull out your wallet and kiss your Abe ‘goodbye.’ The Lincolns have got to go - and so do the Hamiltons and Jacksons. Those bills in your billfold
aren’t yours anymore. The landlords of our currency - Citibank, the It’s mornings like this, when I wake up hung-over to photos of the King of Saudi Arabia festooning our President with gold necklaces, that I reluctantly remember that I am an economist; and one with some responsibility to explain what the hell Bush is doing kissing Abdullah’s camel. Let’s begin by stating why Bush is not in Saudi Arabia. Bush ain’t there to promote ‘Democracy’ nor peace in Palestine, nor even war in Iran. And, despite what some pinhead from CNN stated, he sure as hell didn’t go to Riyadh to tell the Saudis to cut the price of oil. What’s really behind Bush’s hajj to Riyadh is that America is in hock up to our knickers. The sub-prime mortgage market implosion, hitting a dozen banks with over $100 billion in losses, is just the tip of the debt-berg. Since taking office, Bush has doubled the federal debt to more than $5 trillion. And, according to US Treasury figures, on net, foreign investors have purchased close to 100% of that debt. That’s $3 trillion borrowed from the Saudis, the Chinese, the Japanese and others. Now, Bush, our Debt Junkie-in-Chief, needs another fix. The US Treasury, Citibank, Merrill-Lynch and other financial desperados need another hand-out from Abdullah’s stash. Abdullah, in turn, gets this financial juice by pumping it out of our pockets at nearly $100 a barrel for his crude. Bush needs the Saudis to charge us big bucks for oil. The Saudis can’t lend the US Treasury and Citibank hundreds of billions of US dollars unless they first get these US dollars from the US. The high price of oil is, in effect, a tax levied by Bush but collected by the oil industry and the Gulf kingdoms to fund our multi-trillion dollar governmental and private debt-load. The US Treasury is not alone in its frightening dependency on Arabian loot. America’s private financial institutions are also begging for foreign treasure. Yesterday, King Abdullah’s nephew, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, already the top individual owner of Citibank, joined the Kuwait government’s Investment Authority and others to mainline a $12.5 billion injection of capital into the New York bank. Also this week, the Abu Dhabi government and the Saudi Olayan Group are taking a $6.6 billion chunk of Merrill-Lynch. It’s no mere coincidence that Bush is in Abdullah’s tent when the money-changers made the deal just outside it. Bush is there to assure Abdullah that, unlike Dubai’s ports purchase debacle, there will be no political impediment to the Saudi’s buying up Citibank nor the isle of Manhattan. So what? I mean, for the average American about to lose their job and their bungalow it doesn’t matter a twit whether it’s Sheik bin Alwaleed who owns Citibank or Sheik Sanford Weill, Citi’s past Chairman. It’s the price paid to buy back our money from abroad that’s killing us. Despite the Koranic prohibition on charging interest, the Gulf princes demand their pound of flesh, exacting a 7% payment from Citibank and 9% from Merrill. That hefty interest bill then pushes adjustable rate mortgages into the stratosphere and pushes manufacturing into China by making borrowing and energy costs impossible to overcome. Forget the cost of health care: General Motors’ interest burden quintupled in just two years. As the great economist Paddy Chayefsky wrote in the film The Network: “The Arabs have taken billions of dollars out of this country, and now they must put it back. … It is ebb and flow, tidal gravity…. There are no nations, there are no peoples. There is only one vast and immense, interwoven, multi-national dominion of petro-dollars. … There is no America. There is no ‘democracy.’ The world is a business, one vast and ecumenical holding company, for whom all men will work.”
The Bush Administration, rather than tax Americans to cover our deficits or make the banks suffer the consequences of their predatory lending practices, is allowing the Saudis to charge us big time at the pump with the understanding they will lend it all back to us - so the party never has to stop. It has been reported that the President’s Secret Service men traveling with him seemed embarrassed by the eye-popping loads of diamond and gold gifts which they have to carry back for President Bush. They need not feel they have taken too much from their hosts: Bush has assured Abdullah that the King can suck it back out through our gas tanks. Greg Palast is the author of The Network: The World as a Company Town, in the New York Times bestseller, Armed Madhouse. Hear Ed Asner read from the book and the film ‘The Network’ at www.gregpalast.com
What does it take to swing an election
and control a country?
Sunday 13 January 2008
1) Ensure that the majority of the voting
public are "dumbed down"
2) Smear your competitions character by
calling them Racist (see
video)
3) Direct the news media (Fox News) to exclude candidates hostile to the corporate, military industrial complex ideals (See the video) 4) Direct the news media (Fox News) to remove debate footage that may be adverse to ideals (See the video)
5) "Rig" Electronic voting machines to
acquire ballots (as shown below).
Result: Democracy "in-action". Fascism in action Electronic Voting Fraud NH.
What do the Council On Foreign Relations (CFR),
North American Union (NAU), Security Prosperity Partnership (SPP) And the 2008
US Candidates have in common? View and decide for yourself.
What you don't know CAN hurt you!
Ron Paul says there is
"soft fascism" in the US
Source:
The Real News
Michael Ratner assesses the presidential candidates on civil rights issues in US Monday January 7th, 2008
NAFTA CEMENTING A NORTH
AMERICAN UNION
By: Devvy
December 31, 2007
"Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this
consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the
triumph." Thomas Paine, The American Crisis, No. 1 December 19, 1776
Millions of Americans are now aware of the plan
for a North American Union (NAU)/Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP).
This awareness came via the Internet thanks to
Phyllis Schafly
and Dr. Jerome Corsi (video).
Lou Dobbs has given it an extraordinary amount of exposure during his
shows on CNN; the rest of CNN ignores it. The silence by ABC, CBS,
NBC, MSNBC, and FAUX (FOX) "news" networks has been
deafening. The attack by legends in their own minds, i.e.,
pusillanimous individuals like Michael Medved,
have been remarkable and a shame upon their so-called profession.
If you are not familiar with this final step in
the complete and total destruction of our sovereign republic, I strongly
recommend you
go to this web
site and watch this fully documented and
factual slide presentation on this plan which I call treason. The
definition of treason is: disloyalty or treachery to one's country or
it's government. Treason is any attempt to overthrow the government or
impair the well-being of a state to which one owes allegiance; the crime
of giving aid or comfort to the enemies of one's government. I don't
believe it is inappropriate to use the word treason when it comes to
this plan to integrate America into one region with all the trappings of
totalitarian government.
As someone who fought hard against NAFTA when I
ran for Congress against a liar named CON-gressman Wally Herger (R-CA),
I knew back in 1993 how devastating NAFTA would be to our three most
important job sectors that made America great: ag, manufacturing and
industrial. CON-gressman Herger said he would vote against it. He wrote
a letter to the California Ag Bureau six days before the vote laying out
why it was so dangerous and then just like the high paid hooker he is,
voted for it. Herger admitted he never read NAFTA as most members of
Congress also did not. These lackeys voted on a huge trade agreement,
but never read it. Despite massive opposition at the time, this
unconstitutional treaty was passed by a stupid, greedy Congress and
signed into law by Marxist Bill Clinton. While I applaud Rep. Marcy
Kaptur's bill (click
here), never mind re-negotiating or get out -
GET US OUT! This is the vehicle to implement a North American Union.
We are now starting to see the provisions kicking in at hyper speed to
finally destroy these united States of America and let me lay it out
crisp and clear:
The destruction of NAFTA was felt within the first
18 months and has continued to destroy our sovereignty and job bases
ever since. In the first few years, over 4,000 factories closed down,
small towns became dying towns. To date MILLIONS of jobs have been lost
with more all the time because of
the evil called out
sourcing. America continues to lose in the
fair trade arena; instead we are steadily being crushed by the evil of
"free" trade. In 1995, American businesses were notified by the IRS that
that under NAFTA, they would have to make all of their federal
employment taxes by electronic transfer;
view this document
here. Why? The same reason we the people are
being taxed to death to pay for new infrastructure inside Mexico:
one world government. One worker base of three countries merged into
one region, all under the same homogenized laws.
Despite the massive invasion of illegal aliens
crossing over our borders, neither Marxist Bill Clinton or globalist
George Bush, made any effort to stop it and millions of Americans -
especially post 911 - simply could not understand why Bush has
steadfastly refused to do what President Eisenhower
did so
effectively. Many of us who have been in the
trenches for decades knew and now millions more know: a North American
Union means just that. No borders, no sovereign nations, just one big
region for these diabolically evil men and women who lust for raw power
to rule over us and they don't care who they destroy on their path to
supreme imperialism.
Earlier this year, another sword was thrust right at the heart of our
American truckers and the safety of we the people: the Bush
Administration pushed through the Mexican truck invasion. While outraged
Americans and the truckers rallied and demanded this insanity not be
allowed to roll onto U.S. soil past the 25-mile neutral zone, it has
been pushed through anyway. Why? Because it's a provision of NAFTA.
Please see the links below for history.
Back in August, I wrote a comprehensive piece
titled,
Stop the NAU/SPP - what does that really mean?
It's all about money and power gained through anti-American trade
policies. It's about flooding this republic with even more dangerous
junk from sadistic, brutal communist countries like China. It is the
epitaph of an American Republic if not stopped.
As I wrote in previous columns about the Texas
Trans Corridor and the NAU, this planned destruction of America didn't
just crop up in 2005; it probably took at least ten years for the EIRs
(Environmental Impact Reports/Statements) alone. Now it's gone into warp
speed because millions of Americans have caught on and are on the war
path.
Now I give you further proof of the perfidy of
elected public servants.
Please click here to see
this document. This document is S.B. 1120, a
bill passed in the Arizona State Legislature and signed by their
governor in April, 1993. This legislation somehow got categorized as an
emergency: "Sec.|5.||Emergency. This act is an emergency measure that is
necessary to preserve the public peace, health or safety and is
operative immediately as provided by law."
This "emergency" bill was to: A. The office of Sonora is established in
the office of the governor. Promote a greater understanding and
facilitate the implementation of the north American free trade agreement
and, 2. Facilitate the flow of information and act as a liaison in the
establishment of commercial relationships between Sonora, Mexico and
this state.
NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) was not signed into law by
Marxist Bill Clinton until December 8, 1993, yet this agreement between
a state governor and a state in a foreign country was reached eight
months before Clinton sold US out. So sure were the forces who own
Washington, D.C., that they would get NAFTA passed - despite
overwhelming opposition by we the people - agreements were already being
entered into for trade far in advance of the vote by the U.S. Congress.
How they must have laughed at we the people as we fought so hard to stop
NAFTA.
In November, 2007, Sen. Karen Johnson and Rep.
Russell Pearce, true constitutionalists who serve the people of Arizona
with honor and the hearts of warriors,
raised the
question of the legality of this because the
current Arizona governor, another flaky air head female, Janet
Napolitano, entered into new agreements with the State of Sonora,
Mexico. The documents below are short, but you need to read them because
this is the cementing of the North American Union - all in the name of
trade and big bucks for foreign countries and corporate giants in this
country who have sold US out - raw and without apology.
November 15 News Release: Napolitano, Bours to
strengthen regional opportunities. Binational Plenary to Bring Business,
Education, Community Leaders Together. Phoenix – Governor Janet
Napolitano and her Sonoran counterpart, Governor Eduardo Bours will
unite members of the Arizona-Mexico Commission (AMC) and the Comisión
Sonora-Arizona (CSA) in Ciudad Obregon, Sonora for a two-day binational
meeting starting today."
November 16 News Release;
Declaration of Cooperation: These four pages
lay it all out and it means death to this Union.
Governors Lead Border Region Economic Development, Growth
- Public, Private Sectors from Ariz.,
Sonora Aim to Bolster Region
The push for a National ID is one of the major tools needed by this
North American Union. It has nothing to do with terrorists, it has
everything to do with tracking and following your every move - along
with the integrated citizenry of Canada and Mexico with ours. The
Arizona-Sonora Commission is taking credit for the 3-in-1 ID:
Phoenix -
"Governor Janet Napolitano and U.S. Homeland
Security Secretary Michael Chertoff today signed a Memorandum of
Agreement (MOA) to move forward on the creation of Arizona's 3-in-1 ID -
a voluntary identification that complies with Arizona's driver's license
standards, the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI) and can be
used in the work eligibility process." Voluntary my arse. Read link
number seven below.
Formerly American corporate giants and local
entities are buying
membership into the Arizona-Sonora Commission
and I hope you will
boycott their
products and services starting today.
Either we use our consumer dollars to fight off
this massive effort to reduce our middle class to poverty and the poor
into beggars or we have no one to blame but ourselves. Well, not me
because I have stood my ground since 1994 regarding NAFTA and buying
foreign products.
One more document:
This is a letter from Napolitano and Brother
Huckabee, who has fooled the Evangelical Christian Right with his folksy
God-talk, to Michael Chertoff, Commissar of Fatherland Security. It
reaffirms Brother Huck's commitment to implement the Nazi-style "Real
ID." And, why wouldn't he? His newly appointed advisor on foreign policy
is none other than Richard Haas, president of the
treasonous Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
who believes our national sovereignty should be
scraped in
favor of world government. Make no mistake
about it: Brother Huckabee has been kissed and blessed by the traitors
working to destroy this republic. Not to mention the Huckster's coddling
of illegals and his
rolling out the
welcome mat for a Mexican Consulate in Little
Rock to help illegals stay in this country and
steal jobs and
classroom seats from Americans.
I have found more of these commissions with the State of Texas. No doubt
California has also entered into them. The state legislatures all open
for business next week in their new sessions as does Congress.
NumbersUSA, ALIPAC and others have been phenomenally successful in
leading the way in the fight against this illegals invasion. I sincerely
believe we all need to put forth a massive push in January and keep the
pressure on until we stop the NAU/SPP and NAFTA Super Highway. This
massive illegals invasion and the NAU are integral to each other. I hope
the aforementioned organizations will vigorously begin a massive
campaign to join the rest of us to defeat this final push to destroy
America as a free and independent nation.
Rep. Virgil Goode (R-VA)
introduced a very important
bill that did not get passed in Congress in
the last session. We must demand the same bill gets reintroduced and
demand Congress stop this now - right along with the states who haven't
committed to rejecting the NAU. It's too late to stop the Texas Trans
Corridor, although we can boycott using it and I will. But, we
can and we must stop this treason. It will require an all out assault on
the state legislatures and Congress.
There is no more time. The final pieces of
the puzzle have emerged and these arrogant elitists think we are just
going to sit back and allow our republic to be dissolved. They're badly
mistaken. Please see Dr. Edwin Vieira's important legal analysis on this
very issue (click
here). I know time is an issue because we're
under attack from a thousand stabs at us every day. However, this has to
be our number one priority or everything else is going to be moot. The
links below are web sites to help you get involved and become part of
America's army of freedom fighters who are dead serious about stopping
the NAU/SPP, the National ID (Sovietization of America), NAIS and the
NAFTA Super Highway to Hell.
Yes, 911, bringing our troops home and so many
more issues are vitally critical, but if we lose our sovereignty
and allow any further erosion of our constitution and the Bill of
Rights, we're going to be toast. This illegals invasion has been beyond
devastating to this country. Bush and these other poltroons in
Washington, D.C., have deliberately allowed us to be over run at the
border because of their agenda and now they're dangerously close to
firing the final shot. Stop buying foreign
because you're funding our destruction. This whole rotten scheme is
all about running American manufacturing and agriculture into oblivion
and making us a nation dependent upon foreign countries for our very
survival. Insanity! See link number 11 below for sources to more than
20,000 products and thousands of American companies who want your
business.
Those who are wishing Happy New Year! as if 2008
is going to be just another year of corruption, high gas prices and
Democrats fighting Republicans are in major denial. I know tonight is
New Year's eve and everyone wants to go celebrate whatever. However, if
you're not going out, I highly recommend you watch a movie. It's called
ENDGAME: Blueprint for Global Enslavement -
free on the Internet. Oh, it's not as
"entertaining" as 'I am Legend' or some asinine "reality" show, but
unlike these silly Hollywood movies and TV, this is as real as it gets.
Hopefully, it will upset and anger Americans so that they finally see
that we have little time left. Particularly horrifying in ENDGAME is the
fully documented segment on eugenics. The Nazi's were deep into this
race based social experimentation designed to improve the white race
through eugenics or "creating a better world by improving the human gene
pool." What do you think Planned Parenthood is for?
Get involved this week. No snow skiing. Forget a trip to Hawaii
to lay around in the sun or play golf. We have to start our war against
the NAU/SPP and the NAFTA Superhighway now. We must all make the
commitment to refuse any National ID. Federal employees are sickened
because their job depends on accepting one. They are being forced to
give up their rights and privacy or kiss their job good bye. We must
demand that Congress pass a bill immediately to get the U.S. out of the
NAFTA treaty and stop that NAFTA Super Highway. This must be a top
priority because it is the foundation from which all the rest of this
treachery is being birthed. If we don't stop this, our children and
grand children will have no future except as a peasant class serving
their world masters and that is no exaggeration. Talk is cheap. What we
need are warriors to get the job done. We have the numbers. We have to
stay focused.
Get involved here:
1 -
Stop the NAU Learning Links:
1 -
Best slide
presentation on NAU/SPP |
Varanasi,
India - Over 1,500 villagers marched to the Coca-Cola company's bottling plant
in Mehdiganj in Varanasi in India yesterday demanding that the bottling plant
shut down immediately.
national treasury of China and the House of Saud - are foreclosing and evicting
all Americans from the US economy.