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Syria: Endgame approaches as conspiracy continues [video]

Land Destroyer Report
January 11, 2012

Three people have reportedly been killed by security forces across Syria on Wednesday. Bashar Al-Assad has spoken to supporters in Damascus for the second time in the last 24 hours, reiterating his dismissal of calls to step down. He’s blaming the ten-month-long unrest in the country on foreign-funded terrorists, promising to crush them with extreme prejudice. The UN says Damascus has stepped up its crackdown on protesters, but Assad claims no order was ever given to fire on civilians. The President’s pledged commitment to Democratic reform, promising a referendum on a new constitution by March, and free elections soon after. RT talks to independent news editor James Corbett.

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See more of James Corbett’s work at his site, The Corbett Report. The cables and US State Department admissions James Corbett is referring to can be found in the excerpt below taken in part from, “IISS: Syria’s Opposition Is Armed” and “Syria’s Bashar Assad Speaks to Western Press.”

“The unrest in Syria from the beginning was entirely backed by Western corporate-financier interests and part of a long-planned agenda for region-wide regime change. Syria has been slated for regime change since as early as 1991. In 2002, then US Under Secretary of State John Bolton added Syria to the growing “Axis of Evil.” It would be later revealed that Bolton’s threats against Syria manifested themselves as covert funding and support for opposition groups inside of Syria spanning both the Bush and Obama administrations.

In an April 2011 CNN article, acting State Department spokesman Mark Toner stated, “We’re not working to undermine that [Syrian] government. What we are trying to do in Syria, through our civil society support, is to build the kind of democratic institutions, frankly, that we’re trying to do in countries around the globe. What’s different, I think, in this situation is that the Syrian government perceives this kind of assistance as a threat to its control over the Syrian people.”

Toner’s remarks came after the Washington Post released cables indicating the US has been funding Syrian opposition groups since at least 2005 and continued until today.

In an April AFP report, Michael Posner, the assistant US Secretary of State for Human Rights and Labor, stated that the “US government has budgeted $50 million in the last two years to develop new technologies to help activists protect themselves from arrest and prosecution by authoritarian governments.” The report went on to explain that the US “organized training sessions for 5,000 activists in different parts of the world. A session held in the Middle East about six weeks ago gathered activists from Tunisia, Egypt, Syria and Lebanon who returned to their countries with the aim of training their colleagues there.” Posner would add, “They went back and there’s a ripple effect.” That ripple effect of course is the “Arab Spring,” and in Syria’s case, the impetus for the current unrest threatening to unhinge the nation and invite in foreign intervention.”

January 30, 2012 | Categories: co-opting and/or destabilization, news, sovereignty, Syria, tyranny, videos | Leave a comment

‘Assad’s family attempts to escape Syria’

The Jerusalem Post
January 30, 2012

Sources tell Egyptian daily that Syrian security forces tried to help smuggle Syrian president’s family out of country.

Syrian security forces attempted to smuggle Syrian President Bashar Assad’s family out of the country, sources from the Syrian opposition told Al-Masry-Al-Youm Sunday evening, according to a report published by the Egyptian daily.

According to the report, security forces tried to aid the president’s wife Asma Assad, to escape via Damascus, along with his children, mother and cousin.

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[hat tip: Drudge Report]

January 30, 2012 | Categories: co-opting and/or destabilization, news, sovereignty, Syria, tyranny, war | Leave a comment

CFR Madmen Itching for a Nuclear Armageddon

By Servando Gonzalez
The Intel Hub
January 24, 2012

A few days ago, the U.S. Government officially declared that it is the right time to attack Iran. I am not talking about the bunch of corrupt puppet-politicians in Washington D.C., but about the true government of the U.S.

The January/February 2012 issue of Foreign Affairs, the Council on Foreign Relation’s organ, published an article by Matthew Kroenig under the suggestive and appealing title “Time to Attack Iran. Why a Strike Is the Least Bad Option.”

Kroenig is one of the new ambitious madmen carefully nurtured by the CFR masters as substitutes for the aging Kissingers, Brzezinkis and Cheneys.

According to Kroenig, “skeptics of military action fail to appreciate the true danger that a nuclear-armed Iran would pose to U.S. interests in the Middle East and beyond.” In the CFR conspirators’ lingo, “U.S. interests” actually mean the interests of Wall Street bankers, oil magnates and transnational corporations.

Now, given the fact that Russia and China most likely would not watch a U.S. direct attack on Iran sitting on their hands, one has to conclude that the conspirators’ goal is not anymore war-for-oil but war-for-total-destruction of most of this planet.

It seems that the CFR madmen have decided to resort to the best eugenics tool money can buy: total nuclear war. Actually, the Rockefellers and their minions at the CFR have been preparing for it since mid-last century, and apparently they have now concluded that the time is ripe for a nuclear holocaust that will liberate them from us, “useless eaters,”[1] so they can fully enjoy the planet’s natural resources that belong to them.

For many years, some people have mentioned the existence of an invisible government that actually controls this country.

Of course, the mainstream media has repeatedly told us that there is no such thing as an “invisible government,” and that the ones who claim the existence of such thing are just a bunch of kooks.

Now, however, it’s official. The Council on Foreign Relations has ordered their puppets in the White House, the Capitol and the Pentagon, that now is the right time to wage another unnecessary long, unwinnable war against a country that poses no threat to the security of the citizens of the United States. And the puppets are running like headless chickens following their masters’ orders.

The existence of this secret government was one of the world’s best-kept secrets. Some time ago, David Rockefeller himself admitted it when he thanked the mainstream media for keeping their secret.

During one of the secret meetings of the Bilderbergers —an international organization of globalist psychopathic conspirators closely linked to the CFR— in Baden-Baden, Germany, 1991, David Rockefeller, chairman of the CFR from 1970-1985, thanked his friends in the press for keeping the CFR out of the American eye:

We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity during those years. But the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supra-national sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.

More recently, however, perhaps encouraged by their successes, some influential members of the puppet government — the one that some disinformers and brainwashed fools still call “our government”— have openly acknowledged the existence of a true, secret government.

Speaking at the at 45th Munich Conference on Security Policy at the Hotel Bayerischer Hof on February 8, 2009, National Security Advisor Major General James Jones, told those in attendance exactly what his chain of command is:

As the most recent National Security Advisor of the United States, I take my daily orders from Dr. Kissinger, filtered down through General Brent Scowcroft and Sandy Berger, who is also here. We have a chain of command in the National Security Council that exists today.[2]

The fact was also recognized by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on a speech at the opening of the new CFR headquarters in Washington D.C., July 15, 2009.

I am delighted to be here in this new headquarters. I have been often to, I guess, the mother ship at New York City, but it is good to have an outpost of the Council right here down the street from the State Department. We get a lot of advise from the Council, so, this would mean I won’t need that far to go to be told how we should be doing and what we should think about the future.[3]

This is not, however, the first time CFR agents express the conspirators’ ideas about the need to attack Iran. Way before Dr. Strange Kroenig encouraged itchy fingers in the Pentagon to push the red button, other CFR minions have repeatedly done it.

As early as 2002, neocon (neocommie?) Irving Kristol, acting as a CFR mouthpiece, expressed the conspirators’ idea that Iran was a rogue state whose threat against the U.S. was too obvious to be ignored.[4]

A few years later, CFR member and Cold War enthusiast Graham Allison, expressed a similar idea in an alarmist book he wrote about nuclear terrorism.

According to Allison, “Iran today is the leading example of a country that is simultaneously exploiting the current nonproliferation regime and sneaking around it.” [5] Currently, however, that assertion can easily be applied to the U.S.

Obviously, the CFR eugenicist madmen have plans to survive the nuclear holocaust they want to create.

In the early sixties CFR conspirator Nelson Rockefeller was frantically selling the idea of building nuclear shelters in every American building, and American schoolchildren were hiding under their desks rehearsing for a coming nuclear attack.

Millions of Americans saw photographs in Life magazine of Governor Nelson Rockefeller, a messianic proponent of fallout shelters, sitting in a mockup of the Concrete Block Shelter in a New York City bank in 1960.

Rockefeller installed shelters in his homes in Pocantico, New York, Washington, D.C., and in the Governor’s mansion in Albany, New York. He even tried, unsuccessfully, to pass a law that would have required every New York State resident to have a family fallout shelter.

In November 1961, an article by Gilbert Burck appeared in Fortune magazine outlining the plans of Nelson Rockefeller, Edward Teller, Herman Kahn, and Chet Holifield for an enormous network of concrete lined underground fallout shelters throughout the United States sufficient to shelter millions of people to serve as a refuge in case of nuclear war.[6]

The name “Iron Mountain” refers to the location where the first and the last meetings of a secret Study Group on global eugenics took place.[7]

It is highly revealing that Iron Mountain in upstate New York, near the Hudson River, is not far from the Rockefeller Family’s compound at the Pocantico Hills.

Moreover, deep below Iron Mountain, the Rockefellers built a huge underground bunker to be used as an emergency nuclear shelter to survive a nuclear holocaust.[8] The bunker is also the emergency headquarters for Shell, Manufacturers Hanover, Standard Oil of New Jersey, and other Wall Street firms and multinational corporations.

Nelson Rockefeller was obsessed with nuclear shelters. After a visit to India in 1973, Jawaharlal Nehru told some friends, “Governor Rockefeller is a very strange man. All he wants to talk about is bomb shelters.”[9]

India’s then-prime Minister was not off the mark. After Nelson became the Governor of New York, he ordered to be build, and paid for it with his own money, a nuclear shelter for the Executive Mansion, another for his apartment building on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan [10] as well as the one I mentioned above in the Rockefeller’s compound in upstate New York at the Pocantico Hills.

He also ordered a giant nuclear shelter built in Albany, for an alternative seat of government, in case of nuclear attack.[11]

All these shelters were kept ready at all times, with canned food and water replaced periodically to ensure freshness.

The Albany shelter was actually a bunker designed to withstand a direct nuclear blast and its radioactive residue, and was connected to the NORAD alert system through a sophisticated communications setup second only to the ones used by the Pentagon.

More recently, on July 5, 2010, Cuba’s state-run media published Fidel Castro’s prediction that nuclear war will soon break out as the result of an U.S. conflict with Iran. A few days later, a happy, smiling Castro explained in greater detail his prediction on a taped interview aired on July 12 on Cuban television.

According to Castro, nuclear war could break out if the U.S. tries to militarily enforce sanctions against Iran for its nuclear program. “When they launch war, they’re going to launch it there. It cannot help but be nuclear,” he said. “I believe the danger of war is growing a lot. They are playing with fire.”

On August 6, 2010, Castro brought the subject again when, in an address to the Cuban parliament that marked his first official government appearance since emergency surgery four years ago, he appealed to President Obama to stave off global nuclear war.

Given the fact that most of Castro’s predictions have become true, there are enough reasons to be alarmed. Is the Cuban tyrant a Caribbean Nostradamus, a soothsayer that has the ability to see the future? Actually not. What Castro has, though, is a direct channel of communication with powerful people who have the ability to alter and change the future according to their will

I am talking about the Wall Street bankers, oil magnates and CEOs of transnational corporations entrenched at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), particularly the Rockefellers, the true head of the invisible government of the United States. Proof of it is most of the events that Castro has prognosticated were made possible thanks to the efforts of CFR members infiltrated in the U.S. government.

Two of the most cherished dreams of the Rockefellers are depopulation and deindustrialization. That is precisely what the New World Order is all about.

According to the Rockefellers and their lackeys, the world is overpopulated, and they need to get rid of the excess baggage — that is, “useless eaters” like you and me — which they think is no less than 85 percent of the current levels of population.

Despite their efforts for many years of trying to kill the rest of us by different means, which include conventional wars, artificially created viruses, lethal prescription drugs and vaccines, and the poisoning of water and the environment, humans have proved to be extremely resilient.

Therefore, it seems that the Rockefellers and their criminal associates at the CFR may have concluded that only a nuclear Armageddon can do the job, and it seems that they are working hard to spoil our day. Moreover, they are preparing to survive it.

Since the beginning of this century this select group of sociopaths have been frantically buying huge tracts of land in Patagonia, the southernmost region of Chile and Argentina.[12]

Apparently they believe that this region is the best location to survive a nuclear Armageddon that will destroy most of the northern hemisphere.

Among the eugenicist billionaires[13] who have bought land in Patagonia are the Rockefellers,[14] Ted Turner, Bill Gates, Paul Allen, Fred Smith, George Soros, Warrent Buffett, the Bushes, the Castros,[15] Carlo and Luciano Benetton, Daniel Lerner, Joseph Lewis, Ward Lay, Henry Paulson and Mark Tercek, just to name a few.

Actually, this is not a new idea. Patagonia was the region chosen by the Nazis as a hiding place after Germany’s defeat. So, it doesn’t come as a surprise that the American Nazis, some of which helped Nazi criminals escape to avoid justice, have chosen the area to survive.

I think it would be a great idea to ask Russia’s Prime Minister Putin to, instead of American cities, target a few nuclear missiles to Patagonia. In case of an all-out nuclear war they have provoked, it would be an act of poetic justice to give the eugenicist rats a taste of their own medicine.

Notes:

[1] See, Paula Demers, “Eliminate the Useless Eaters,” http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20Government/AIDS%20and%20Population%20Elimination/kill_the_useless_eaters.htm.

[2] Remarks by National Security Adviser Jones at 45th Munich Conference on Security Police, http://www.cfr.org/defensehomeland-security/remarks-national-security-adviser-jones-45th-munich-conference-security-policy/p18515.

[3] “Hillary Clinton: ‘CFR Tells Government What It Should Be Doing’”, PrisonPlanet.com, July 16, 2009, http://www.prisonplanet.com/hillary-clinton-cfr-tells-government-what-it-should-be-doing.html.

[4] William Kristol, “And Now Iran: We Can’t Rule Out the Use of Military Force,” The Weekly Standard, January 23m 2006, Vol. 11, Issue 18. According to Kristol, Iran is a rogue state. One can easily say that CFR agents have changed the United States into a rogue state whose threat against the world cannot be ignored.

[5] Graham T. Allison, Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe (New York: Owl Books, 2004), pp. 161-162.

[6] Fortune, November 1961, pp.112-115.

[7] See, Leonard C. Lewin, Report From Iron Mountain: On the possibility and Desirability of Peace (New York: The Free Press, 1996.

[8] Alan B. Jones, How the World Really Works (Paradise, California: ABJ Press, 1996), pp. 132-13.

[9] Nehru quoted in Newsday, December 12, 1973.

[10] Michael Kramer and Sam Roberts, I Never Wanted To Be Vice-President of Anything!” An Investigate Biography of Nelson Rockefeller (New York: Basic Books, 1976), P. 219.

[11] Phil Tracy, “The Albany Bunker,” The Village Voice, February 15, 1973.

[12] Adrian Salbuchi, “Argentina: Targeted by World Government – Danger over ‘Patagonia’!,” October 21, 2010, http://www.asalbuchi.com.ar/2010/10/argentina-targeted-by-world-government-danger-over-patagonia/. Also, Adrian Salbuchi, “La Patagonia argentina y chilena en peligro,” January 10, 2012, RT, http://actualidad.rt.com/mas/blogs/salbuchi/blog_34659.html

[13] See, Servando Gonzalez “Billionaires for Eugenics,” The Intel Hub, May 8, 2011, theintelhub.com/2011/05/08/billionaires-for-eugenics/.

[14] Pereyra Mele Córdoba, “La patagonia para Los Rockefeller Boys?,” February 13, 2006, http://mamanga.blogspot.com/2006/02/la-patagonia-para-los-rockefeller-boys.html.

[15] The Castros and their minions have been buying real estate mostly in Chile.

Servando Gonzalez is a Cuban-born American writer, semiologist and intelligence analyst. He has written books, essays and articles on Latin American history, intelligence, espionage, and semiotics. Servando is the author of Historia herética de la revolución fidelista, The Secret Fidel Castro, The Nuclear Deception and La madre de todas las conspiraciones, all available at Amazon.com.

He also hosted the documentaries Treason in America: The Council on Foreign Relations and Partners in Treason: The CFR-CIA-Castro Connection, produced by Xzault Media Group of San Leandro, California, both available at the author’s site at http://www.servandogonzalez.org.

His latest book, Psychological Warfare and the New World Order: The Secret War Against the American People just appeared and is available at Amazon.com. Or download a .pdf copy of the book you can read on your computer or i-Pad.

Servando’s new book, OBAMANIA: The New Puppet and His Masters, is already available at Amazon.com.

January 27, 2012 | Categories: depopulation, news, sovereignty, true culprits, tyranny | Leave a comment

Report: Russia to deliver combat jets to Syria

Business daily Kommersant cites source close to Russia’s Rosoboronexport state arms trader, that $550-million deal envisages delivery of 36 Yak-130 aircraft.

Haaretz.com
January 23, 2012

Russia has signed a contract to sell combat jets to Syria in a show of support for President Bashar Assad’s regime, a newspaper reported Monday.

The business daily Kommersant said, citing a source close to Russia’s Rosoboronexport state arms trader, that the $550-million deal envisages the delivery of 36 Yak-130 aircraft. A spokesman for Rosoboronexport refused to comment on the report.

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[hat tip: Pakalert Press]

January 27, 2012 | Categories: co-opting and/or destabilization, news, Russia, sovereignty, Syria, tyranny, war | Leave a comment

The Syria debacle – part II

By Madison Ruppert
Editor of End the Lie
January 20, 2012

This is part two in my new series following the complex developments in the Syrian uprising which I began just days ago. For previous coverage of this issue please scroll to the bottomof the article to find a reading list of previous material I have written.

Today the Washington Post reported that senior officials in the Obama administration have said that they are preparing to close the American embassy in Damascus and evacuate all personnel if President Bashar al-Assad cannot provide additional security.

If Assad cannot give additional security to the U.S. embassy, they reportedly plan to close the facility by the end of January.

Officials said that the United States is not alone in pulling their diplomatic missions out of Syria with other Western countries and Arab embassies making similar moves over the past week.

Currently they are still in talks with Assad’s government and have not reached a final decision.

Yet, they do say that there have been no visible results in terms of additional protection for the embassy.

This is hardly a surprise given that U.S. Ambassador Robert Ford previously met with leading figures in the opposition, a move which not only rightly enraged the Assad government but also the Syrian people who reacted in a violent manner.

“We have serious concerns about the deteriorating security situation in Damascus, including the recent spate of car bombs and about the safety and security of embassy personnel,” said a statement from the United States’ State Department.

“We have requested that the government of Syria take additional security measures to protect our embassy, and the Syrian government is considering that request. We have also advised the Syrian government that unless concrete steps are taken in the coming days we may have no choice but to close the mission,” the statement said.

The car bombs mentioned are part of no less than three unexplained car bomb attacks recently which killed up to 80 people in the Syrian capital of Damascus which was previously relatively peaceful.

Emphasizing that these car bombings are unexplained is quite important as there is a good chance those responsible very well might be the Western-backed opposition forces and their armed insurgent arm (arguably a terrorist organization) known as the Free Syrian Army (FSA).

The FSA have bragged about attacking government targets in the past, so bombings in the capital very well might be an attempt to create chaos and further destabilize the Assad regime.

The process of removing personnel from the American embassy began last week, reportedly due to the bombings.

The Syrian government put the blame for the bombings on al Qaeda, while some activists predictably pointed the finger at the Syrian government itself, according to the Washington Post.

Of course, this would be completely illogical as car bombings in the nation’s capital only serve to further destabilize Assad’s power and erode his support.

A poll commissioned as part of the Doha Debates – thus sponsored by Qatar which has called for foreign military intervention in Syria – actually found that the majority of Syrians do not, in fact, want Assad to resign immediately.

The poll found that 81% of the Arabs questioned (over 1,000 which is far from a huge sample) wanted Assad to step down but since these individuals are not Syrians, their opinion is completely irrelevant.

Therefore, with 55% of the public supporting him, I can see absolutely no reason why he would seek to weaken such support by conducting bombings which make the Syrian people feel as though they are in danger under his rule.

The Obama administration has, unsurprisingly, not ruled out possible involvement in the attacks on the part of the Syrian government, but unnamed American officials stated that signs indicate Syrian and Iraqi militants linked to al Qaeda were involved.

“It smells like a terrorist attack and looks like a terrorist attack, but none of us knows for sure,” the anonymous official said, according to the Washington Post.

Logic alone would tell us that the most likely culprits would be militant opposition forces like the FSA who would benefit from such a terrorist operation.

By murdering innocent people in Damascus, they could say that Assad cannot even keep control over his own capital and keep his people safe, proving that he should step down from power immediately before more people die.

The specifics of the security measures being sought by the United States for the embassy have not been disclosed.

U.S. officials also refused to comment on if there had been specific threats to the embassy other than saying that the car bomb attacks “have brought the situation in Syria to another level.”

The Washington Post says that if Sunni extremists had come from Iraq to become involved in the Syrian uprising “it would add an alarming new dimension to what has been an overwhelmingly peaceful uprising that has been brutally attacked by the decades-old dictatorship.”

Of course, for those of us who have been paying attention, it is quite obvious that it has not been “an overwhelmingly peaceful uprising” but in fact both sides have engaged in violent acts since the beginning.

The Washington Post cites “Many Syrian opposition activists” (the typically ambiguous label leveraged by the Western media to control the narrative by giving a false sense of consensus) who “already are concerned about signs of a creeping Islamization of the revolt,” much like what is occurring in every other nation embroiled in the so-called Arab Spring revolts.

They claim nonsensically, “the failure of the West to intervene will open the door to Islamists, threatening the kind of destabilization that took hold in Iraq following the U.S. invasion there.”

Of course to most analysts like myself, this is nothing short of laughable.

Western intervention will not help stifle the Islamist element in the uprisings; in fact it will just serve to reinforce this anti-Western Islamist sentiment.

This is because many people will see the intervention has unwelcome meddling in their domestic affairs, which is exactly what it is.

Informed citizens would know immediately that the West will move in, destroy the infrastructure, and then loot the nation’s natural resources and wealth by getting all the contracts to rebuild the same infrastructure they destroyed.

We have seen this exact process in Libya and I do not see how any individual in the Arab world would think Western intervention is a good idea after seeing what happened there.

It appears that the car bomb attacks – if they are indeed carried out by the FSA – are achieving exactly what I believe they could be trying to do.

The anonymous senior official in the Obama administration cited by the Washington Post made this very clear in saying that the deteriorating security situation in Syria “demonstrates further that Assad is losing control of the country and reinforces our point that Assad has lost all legitimacy.”

Knowing that these bombings are in fact hurting the Assad regime, as I said, how could they still say that his government might be involved?

We can apply the classic qui bono logic here and in doing so realize that all roads lead to the armed insurgent groups like the FSA.

The Washington Post speculates that in explicitly warning that they might close the embassy, the Obama administration might be “signaling Assad that [the Obama administration’s] patience is running out.”

However, I would argue that they have been attempting to give that impression for months now and instead this move might be a warning that foreign military intervention is just over the horizon.

The Washington Post also mentions that Robert Ford returned to Syria last month after he was removed in October due to threats.

These threats were hardly surprising given that Ford not only vocally criticized the Assad government on the official embassy website (behavior hardly becoming of a diplomat) but even met with opposition leadership which clearly angered the many pro-Assad Syrians.

It seems the United States either doesn’t know or doesn’t care that Syrians do not take kindly to the United States openly getting involved in Syria’s domestic problems.

The Washington Post writes that, “Officials emphasized the importance of maintaining direct contact with opposition leaders and providing the opportunity of real-time reporting from Damascus.”

Do American officials really think that having a close relationship with opposition leaders will make them look impartial or evenhanded in their approach to Syria’s problems?

The Washington Post makes sure to highlight the Assad government’s security efforts, saying “Damascus felt as though it was under siege. Soldiers sealed off several major roads and checkpoints dotted the city. Outside one of the main offices of the security branches, there were sandbagged machine gun positions. Soldiers wearing flak jackets and machine guns kept guard.”

This is hardly a drastic measure given that the FSA has attacked government targets several times.

Furthermore, it is almost guaranteed that whatever police state measures they have in place pale in comparison to the security situation near American military facilities or in places like Washington.

Al Arabiya is also reporting today that “Pressure mounted on the Arab League Friday to seek U.N. intervention in the face of growing exasperation that the bloc’s hard-won observer mission in Syria has failed to staunch 10 months of killing as [the] death toll mounted across the country.”

However, U.N. intervention is very unlikely given Russia and China’s opposition to such an operation.

Many analysts, myself included, say it is much more likely for the West to create something like the “coalition of the willing” created to invade Iraq outside of the U.N.

General Mohammed Ahmed Mustafa al-Dabi is preparing to report to foreign ministers of Arab League nations who will then decide if the Arab League’s observer mission will be extended for another month.

Meanwhile, Burhan Galiun, the head of the opposition’s Syrian National Council, traveled to Cairo in an attempt to get Arab ministers to refer the findings of the Arab League’s observer mission to the United Nations Security Council for what Al Arabiya called “tough action.”

Of course this is ignoring the veto power of Russia and China – both nations wholly opposed to another foreign intervention after the horrific Libyan intervention.

An official statement from the Syrian National Council (SNC) said that Ghaliun planned to “ask the head of the Arab League and Arab foreign ministers to transfer the file on Syria to the U.N. Security Council with a view to securing a decision to establish a buffer zone and a no-fly zone.”

It is hard to understand why anyone would call for a no-fly zone over Syria after seeing what NATO and the Arab League nations did in Libya, but then again given that many of the SNC’s members are not even inside Syria at the moment; it is somewhat understandable that they would be divorced from the situation on the ground.

“The SNC delegation will insist that the report contain a clear text concerning the ‘genocide’ and ‘war crimes’ carried out by the [Syrian] regime against unarmed civilians,” the SNC’s statement said.

This makes it clear that they care not what the observers actually find, but instead care only that they come to the conclusions the SNC and the West want.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) said that the Arab League should urge the United Nations Security Council to impose more targeted sanctions which should include an arms embargo.

However, this is one again failing to recognize the strong opposition in the Security Council from Russia and China.

The Arab League’s panel on Syria is set to meet Saturday before the foreign ministers meet.

This panel is far from objective, with Qatar chairing the panel and calling for Arab troops to invade Syria, as I discussed in the previous part of this series.

However, French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe claimed such an approach was not in the works in an interview published today in the French Ouest-France daily.

“In the present regional context we are not working towards such a scenario,” Juppe claimed.

On the other hand, French President Nicolas Sarkozy gave a much different impression of France’s position.

Sarkozy said that France would not silently stand by and watch the crackdown occur, hinting that indeed such an approach was being considered, if not planned as the Russians have been saying for a long time now.

“We cannot accept the ferocious repression by the Syrian leadership of its people, a repression that has led the entire country into chaos, and a chaos that will help extremists of all kinds,” Sarkozy said.

Sarkozy also seems to hold the delusional position that the United Nations Security Council must vote in condemnation of the crackdown and support the Arab League’s mission in Syria, despite the fact that Russia and China have made it clear no United Nations Security Council resolutions targeting Syria will be passed.

Repeatedly saying that the Security Council should do something doesn’t change this fact, although far too many individuals seem to not realize this.

In an interview with BBC’s world service recently, I heard a representative of the SNC repeating these same statements while constantly contradicting herself when confronted with the facts.

In a span of about five minutes the representative said that they represent the people demonstrating on the streets then said that they do not represent anyone and thus are not legitimate in the traditional sense because no one voted for them.

It was an incredibly painful interview with the BBC presenter lobbing softballs in the SNC representative’s direction just to have the representative fall on her face trying to swing at it.

The BBC presenter’s most important point, one which was likely made unintentionally, was made when the presenter pointed out that most of the SNC not only doesn’t live in Syria currently but in fact many haven’t lived there for years.

The woman being interviewed had not even been in Syria since she was around 10-years-old, proving that she is no more connected to Syria’s domestic affairs and on-the-ground daily reality that most Westerners.

Sufian Allaw, Syria’s Oil Minister said yesterday that the sanctions imposed by the European Union and the United States were in fact having a drastic economic impact on Syria. “We have suffered important losses as a result of our inability to export crude oil and petroleum products,” Allaw said, citing over $2 billion in losses since September 1.

The sanctions have also hurt the Syrian currency, pushing it down to record lows which hurts the average Syrian civilian more than anyone else.

Adib Malayeh, the governor of Syria’s central bank said that they will be introducing a managed float of the currency this coming week, which is essentially devaluing the currency, according to the Financial Times.

MENA quoted Ahmed al-Tayyeb, the grand imam of Cairo’s al-Azhar, the highest seat of Sunni Muslim learning according to Al Arabiya, urging “Arab rulers to take the necessary measures to halt bloodshed in Syria,” quite clearly hinting at foreign intervention.

In addition to all of the unilateral sanctions currently being leveraged against Syria, the European Union is expected to expand the sanctions against Syria to include individuals, institutions and companies as well.

Before the oil sanctions were imposed back on September 2, the European Union purchased the majority of Syria’s estimated 130,000 barrels of oil exports every day.

As we saw with Iraq, the people who are ultimately hurt the most by the sanctions aren’t the governments and corporations they are supposed to target, but instead everyday people who have absolutely no ability to change their government’s policies.

This led to the deaths of countless Iraqis and likely will lead to the deaths of many Syrian civilians.

The unfortunate reality is that we will likely not see the impact these sanctions have until years after they have already impacted the lives of innocent people.

The push for foreign intervention is only increasing by the day and I sincerely hope that people around the world – but especially in the Western nations that are pushing so hard to oust Assad like the United States and the United Kingdom – start fighting back against the tide of disinformation in order to give a more accurate impression of what is really going on there.

We must also realize that the majority of Syrians do not want Assad to be removed from power right now, and if the West really values democracy as they so often claim to, then this will be respected.

Unfortunately, democracy only counts to them when they say it does and when the democracy aligns itself with Western interests.

However I do think that through raising awareness of the situation in Syria and what is really going on there, we can avoid an all-out conflict which would undoubtedly involve Russia and whatever foreign powers decided to take part in the intervention.

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The Syria debacle – part I

By Madison Ruppert
Editor of End the Lie
January 18, 2012

I have been writing about Syria and the attempts at pushing a foreign intervention on the nation for months now (see the bottomof the article for a partial list of previous works on the subject).

I believe it has become such a multifaceted and important issue that I must devote a series to covering the developments as I have done with Iran and the global growth of the United States’ and NATO’s hegemony.

As the days go by the tensions between the West and Syria only get more pronounced, especially when it comes to the increasingly vocal opposition from Russia.

Russia’s opposition is far from something new. They were one of the first nations to come to Syria’s defense and protect – or at least attempt to protect them – from foreign meddling.

This has incarnated in many forms, some overt and military in nature – like the delivery of anti-aircraft missile systems and most recently a Russian naval group docking in the Syrian port of Tartus – others political, like the statements of the head of the Russian Security Council, Nikolai Patrushev.

The political rhetoric has become increasingly heated and firm, and today’s news is no different.

The President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, and the Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin reportedly had a phone conversation in which they “affirmed the need to defend the independence and [sovereignty] of Syria and Iran from the siege and interference in their internal affairs carried out by colonialist countries,” according to Syria’s SANA.

This is just another affirmation of Russia’s staunch opposition to any foreign intervention in Syria and Iran which is indeed a real threat, despite any assurances otherwise coming from the wholly untrustworthy Western establishment.

The Venezuelan Foreign Ministry said that Chavez and Putin also discussed the strategic ties between the two nations in the fields of finance, the economy, commercial and industrial matters and military cooperation as well.

What remains to be seen is how Russia will actually step in on Syria’s behalf if the press to intervene in Syria continues.

Russia and China have both blocked increased sanctions when they were brought to the United Nations Security Council, but it is unclear exactly what they would do if the West ignores the writing on the wall and conducts another intervention like in Libya.

Russia has made their military presence in the region very well-known and their transfer of advanced military equipment underlines their position.

China, on the other hand, is a bit of a more unknown variable in this equation.

They have repeatedly voiced their distaste with the Western attempts at intervening in Syrian domestic affairs and blocked new sanctions, but it is unclear if China would take up arms in defense of Syria if it came down to such a situation.

If Russia were to take action and come under threat from the Arab League, NATO or the West as a whole, I think it is only logical to assume that China very well might come to Russia’s aid.

The Arab League has had a very interesting role in the Syrian conflict, given that most leaders of Arab League states are little more than Western puppets.

The League’s observer mission has been characterized as a failure in some quarters, and I found the entire situation quite ironic given the presence of a general accused of creating the brutal “janjaweed,” which was responsible for some of the worst atrocities during the Darfur genocide, in the Arab League’s observer force.

Yesterday China’s Xinhua reported that the Syrian Foreign Ministry has totally rejected Qatari Emir’s suggestion of dispatching Arab troops into Syria, supposedly to help curb the violence.

This is hardly a stupid move on Syria’s part, given that Qatar is now openly admitting that their forces were running most of the ground operations for the rebels in Libya.

Knowing this, it is only logical to think that the Qatari forces would not, in fact, act to help stop the violence but instead encourage it and run operations for the armed opposition in order to enact regime change.

Ultimately, the whole uprising is about regime change, as the opposition has made it clear time and time again that they will not consider negotiations with President Bashar al-Assad nor any option that does not involve Assad being removed from power completely.

The Syrian Foreign Ministry stated that they absolutely reject any calls like the ones coming from Qatar as it could not only make the situation worse but also set the precedent for a greater foreign intervention in Syria’s domestic affairs.

Of course, al Jazeera, the Qatari state-funded propaganda house which operates under the guise of anti-Western alternative news (laughable though the claim may be, many consider it indeed to be such an outlet) would utilize their position to push for a greater intervention just as they did in Libya.

Pointing to the failure of the Arab League’s observers to stop the violence in Syria, Qatar Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al Thani stated that he was in favor of deploying Arab troops into Syria.

Statements like this are regularly made, usually claiming that such a move would stop or at least decrease the violence.

Based on what we’ve seen in Libya, I think it is hardly an accurate assumption to make. Bringing in armed foreign troops to solve a domestic conflict is hardly conducive to peace.

In making the statement, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al Thani made himself the first Arab leader to openly call for military intervention in Syria, saying, “For such a situation … some troops should go to stop the killing.”

Once again, this is operating on the nonsensical assumption that for some reason bringing armed troops into a conflict would not increase violence but in fact decrease it.

We saw how well that worked in Libya, not to mention Iraq, both of which are still rife with violence and civil strife.

The Syrian Foreign Ministry’s statement was quite strongly worded, saying that Syria “rejects all kinds of foreign intervention in its affairs, under any title, and would confront any attempt to infringe upon Syria’s sovereignty and integrity of its territories.”

What exactly they mean by “confront” isn’t quite clear but I believe it is safe to assume that they mean they would meet military intervention with military confrontation in hopes that Russia and perhaps China would come to their aid.

Syria also stated that while they are agreeing to stick to the Arab League’s plan, they ask for Arab nations and the Arab League as a whole to make an effort “to stop all instigating campaigns and media mobilization that aim to ramp up the situation in Syria.”

I believe this to be a not-so-subtle jab at Qatar which has used its propaganda arm to shape the narrative throughout the so-called Arab Spring since the beginning.

The statement also said that Arab states should assist Syria in blocking the movement of weapons into Syria in order to “reinforce stability and security that would pave the way for a constructive national dialogue that aims to find a political solution to the crisis in Syria.”

Unfortunately, it seems this hope is a bit misguided, as the Syrian opposition – especially the armed insurgent group the Free Syrian Army – have repeatedly stated that they have no interest in “a constructive national dialogue” nor a political solution unless it involves complete regime change.

The Arab League’s monitors began their mission in Syria on December 26, 2011 and they are due to issue an assessment on January 21.

Contrary to the Western narrative, the Syrian government states that the violence in Syria is being incited by terrorists and foreign-backed armed gangs, which is not entirely untrue as the establishment media makes out.

Indeed the United States has been busted funding anti-government propaganda stations which were beamed into Syria via satellite.

The United States’ ambassador to Syria has also openly met with opposition leadership, a move which elicited a violent reaction from the Syrian people.

According to Syrian government reports, over 2,000 army and security personnel have been killed during the uprising.

The Free Syrian Army, for one, has openly bragged about attacking government forces, even blowing up government transport vehicles.

The United Nations has estimated the death toll to be over 5,000 although their numbers are based largely – if not entirely – upon the unverified reports of so-called “activists” and “human rights groups” which have dubious intentions.

While NATO has repeatedly denied that they are working towards a no-fly zone over Syria along with so-called “humanitarian corridors” or “buffer zones” along the borders, Russia today dismissed these claims and insisted that they have information that such tactics are currently being discussed.

“Our partners int he West are in fact discussing a no-fly zone, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told reporters in Moscow, according to Bloomberg.

“There are other ideas being realized, including humanitarian convoys, in the hope they could provoke a response from government forces, border guards,” Lavrov added.

Lavrov also said that Russia would continue to block any attempt at passing a resolution for military intervention in the United Nations Security Council.

He also dismissed the American condemnation of Russian arms shipments to Syria, saying that they were not violating international law by simply supplying Syria with weapons.

Indeed this is true and one must consider the almost laughable hypocrisy displayed by such statements coming from the United States when they are providing the weaponry to Bahrain used to crack down on their own domestic uprising.

Both the European Union and the United States have already put an arms embargo against Syria in place.

The United States’ ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, stated that the U.S. has “very grave concern[s]” about Russian arms being given to the Assad government.

One must wonder if this is because it would allow the government to put up a greater level of resistance to foreign intervention and Western-backed armed insurgent groups currently operating in Syria.

These statements echo ones I reported on previously made by Patrushev which at the time were by far the most heated we had seen.

Patrushev stated that Turkey may play a key role in such an operation and unsurprisingly the same day Turkey along with the United Kingdom and France all denied that such a move was a possibility.

However, the French denial makes very little sense when one remembers that in November Alain Juppe, the French Foreign Minister, suggested that military forces should establish humanitarian corridors to deliver aid in Syria.

Of course the aid would likely only be delivered to anti-Assad groups and insurgents, while pro-government demonstrators and citizens would probably end up getting shafted as they were in Libya.

There is very little we can do at this point to stop another bloody foreign intervention other than spreading the awareness of this campaign.

Please make an effort to share this article and other works by myself and the many others who have been bringing attention to this situation as much as humanly possible.

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Iran: a quickly evolving geopolitical imbroglio – part VII

The aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVN-65) underway in the Atlantic Ocean (Photo credit: US Navy)

By Madison Ruppert
Editor of End the Lie
January 23, 2012

With the European Union passing new sanctions on Iranian oil exports and freezing the assets of the Iranian central bank and the suspicious murder of yet another Iranian military figure, the grim situation in Iran does not seem to be letting up.

Ramin Mehmanparast, the spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry called the EU’s new sanctions “psychological warfare” aimed at trying to halt Iran’s nuclear program, an assessment which I think is hardly inaccurate.

Russia has already come out against the new EU sanctions, saying in a statement, “Under pressure of this sort, Iran will not make any concessions or any corrections to its policies.”

Seeing as Iran is doing nothing more than pursuing the same civilian nuclear technology as every other Western nation, I do not think this statement is out of line in any way.

However, as the weeks and months have passed, it has become clear that the United States and the West in general will not be satisfied with the fact that Iran is not pursuing the development of nuclear weapons, something which United States Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta had to admit himself.

It appears that they will not give up until Iran has given up all hopes of a domestic nuclear program for energy or research purposes, something which is hardly fair or justified.

The European Union’s sanctions are arguably the harshest that have been passed thus far.

They include an immediate halt to any and all new contracts for Iranian crude oil and other petroleum products.

However, existing contracts are allowed to run until July, meaning that Iran will not feel the full force of these sanctions for some time.

The 27 nation European Union also froze all assets belonging to the Iranian central bank, something which will likely end up hurting the average Iranian citizen more than anyone else, just like the rest of the sanctions.

Currently it seems that the Iranian currency is being hurt most by the sanctions, with the value dropping to record lows compared to the US dollar.

Seeing how roughly 80% of Iranian oil revenue is derived from their exports, these latest sanctions coming from the EU could severely damage the Iranian economy and skyrocket the cost of living for average Iranians due to the devalued currency.

Whereas a year ago the Iranian rial was trading roughly 10,500 to the US dollar, it is now trading around 21,000 to the dollar.

Obviously this is a massive devaluation and in just the short period from Friday to Monday, the rial dropped around 14% in value.

We must keep in mind who these sanctions are hurting: working Iranians and others who do not have access to foreign currencies or the assets to absorb such an immense devaluation of their currency.

For those unfortunate Iranians that are just scraping by and do not have some kind of foreign investments to protect their assets, these sanctions could very well be a matter of life and death.

With the European sanctions on Iranian oil exports, Iran will likely be forced to turn East and sell at a discount to those operating outside of the Western markets.

However, the United States has been pressuring Asian nations to move away from Iran as well, something which has the potential to be quite devastating if the US manages to get Japan, South Korea and India to cut off Iranian crude.

With these latest sanctions, Iran has renewed their threats to close the Strait of Hormuz, something which led the United States to make some remarkably pointed statements about what they would do if Iran decides to close off the strait.

Many analysts, myself included, believe the chances of Iran actually following through with their threats to close the strait are quite slim.

This is because it is likely the case that Iran is well aware of the fact that the West is getting “an itchy trigger finger” as it were, and thus any remotely aggressive move would be exploited and used to justify an attack on Iran.

The United States’ Ambassador to NATO, Ivo Daalder, stated that international navies will work together to keep the Strait of Hormuz open amidst renewed Iranian threats to close the channel through which an estimated 20-40% of the world’s oil passes (estimates are chronically unreliable and the same publications will routinely publish the 20% number and the 40% number without reconciling the massive difference).

“I have not looked at the exact military contingency plannings that there are and how long that would take,” Daalder said on BBC Radio 4′s “Today” program, according to Bloomberg.

“But of this I am certain: the international waterways that go through the Strait of Hormuz are to be sailed by international navies including ours, the British and the French and any other navy that needs to go through the Gulf; and second, we will make sure that happens under every circumstance,” he added.

It is important to note here that the British have already deployed their most advanced warship to the region and the United States appears to be increasing their presence there with the USS Abraham Lincoln moving into the 5th Fleet’s area of responsibility (AOR) which includes the Persian Gulf region.

Furthermore, the United Kingdom’s defense ministry said in an e-mailed statement that American, British, and French warships sailed as a group through the Strait of Hormuz.

According to the statement, this was done not in an attempt to provoke the Iranians as I suspect it was intended to do, but instead “to underline the unwavering commitment to maintaining rights of passage under international law.”

“I am convinced that the Straits of Hormuz need to remain open and that we need to maintain this as an international passageway and we will do what needs to be done to ensure that is the case,” Daalder said to the BBC.

While this statement is somewhat cryptic, what is clear is that a military strike is not only on the table but a viable and quite possibly imminent option.

In my analysis of this situation, which has now stretched into a seven part series (see the end of the article for a list of links to previous articles in this series) with more to come and many other materials outside of this series to be read on End the Lie (click here to see a list of articles related to Iran), it has become clear to me that the West wants to attack Iran but will not do so without having some justification which would not be politically and diplomatically unpopular.

This justification could be real, or could very well be contrived through the use of a false flag attack in the blueprint of the now infamous Gulf of Tonkin incident which brought the United States into Vietnam.

Indeed I believe that the chances of a false flag attack are growing with the presence of the USS Enterprise in the region.

The USS Enterprise would be the perfect target for a false flag attack, because like the World Trade Centers which were plagued by asbestos, the Enterprise would cost a great deal to decommission.

The USS Enterprise, or CVN-65, was launched all the way back in 1960 and originally ordered in 1957 and is scheduled to be decommissioned next year.

The Enterprise has actually been in operation since 1962 and boasts a whopping 8 Westinghouse A2W nuclear reactors, meaning that all of this would have to be disposed of in the costly manner in which nuclear waste is supposed to be dealt with.

The Enterprise, or “Big E,” is an incredibly symbolic vessel due to the fact that she is the longest naval vessel on the planet, and is the second oldest commissioned vessel in the US Navy.

The Big E has also been in operation for the longest of any aircraft carrier at 51 consecutive years.

Originally, she was slated to be decommissioned in 2014 or 2015, but the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010 changed this to 2013.

If a false flag attack was carried out on the USS Enterprise and then blamed on Iran to justify an attack, it would be hitting two birds with one stone.

Firstly, it would save the military a great deal of money dealing with the process of decommissioning the vessel and handling the eight nuclear reactors.

Secondly, it would give the West the justification they have sought to attack Iran while keeping the international community on their side.

It would also make it harder for Russia and China to come to Iran’s aid in a politically popular manner as it would just appear that they are helping the aggressor.

The sad fact is that we know our military and intelligence establishment is capable of such an operation as evidenced by the Gulf of Tonkin incident and other false flag attack plans like Operation Northwoods.

Hopefully our so-called leaders are not psychopathic enough to carry out such an operation but given the historical precedent and the current situation in the region, it is hardly possible to rule it out entirely.

Previous installments in this series:

Iran: a quickly evolving geopolitical imbroglio

Iran: a quickly evolving geopolitical imbroglio – part II

Iran: a quickly evolving geopolitical imbroglio – part III

Iran: a quickly evolving geopolitical imbroglio – part IV

Iran: a quickly evolving geopolitical imbroglio – part V

Iran: a quickly evolving geopolitical imbroglio – part VI

January 27, 2012 | Categories: Iran, news, sovereignty, tyranny, war | Leave a comment

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