The 2001 AUMF, (Authorization for Use of Military Force) was
based on Neo-Zionist lies and should be shit canned. What the 2001 AUMF did was take the authority
to wage war away from congress and place it in the hands of the Military
Industrial Complex and the rogue privatized Intelligence Agencies of the US,
Israel and Britain. Since our “elected”
officials are selected and funded by Wall Street and the Federal Reserve Bank,
war powers should require an overwhelming majority in congress order to wage
wars for profit at the expense of the American people.
After George W. Bush lost the 2000 Presidential in spite of
massive fraud perpetrated against the voters in Florida, W.’s brother Florida’s
Governor Jeb Bush declared W. the winner.
Due to the massive fraud the Florida State Supreme Court ordered a
recount. A corrupt U.S. Supreme Court dominated
by Zionists overruled the Florida Supreme Court and stopped the Florida
recount. In a 5-4 decision, the United
States Supreme court overturned the results of the presidential election and
installed the loser, George W. Bush as President of the United States.
Once the election results were overturned, in a lame duck
session the corrupt Zionist controlled US Senate passed the Commodity Futures
Modernization Act of 2000 which deregulated Wall Street’s derivatives
trading. Since that time there is in
excess of $700 trillion in derivatives trading per day, untaxed and
unregulated.
After the false flag attacks of 911, George W. Bush declared
the beginning of the 21st Century a new era of Crusades and the AUMF
was passed by congress authorizing President George W. Bush as the sole
“decider” when declaring war. With the
passing of the AUMF Vice President Dick Cheney declared the 1% Doctrine, if
there was a 1% chance of a terrorist attack America would act as if an attack
was imminent enabling a preemptive attack on any country the President deemed a
threat.
Excerpt:
Treason in High Places: Pentagon Zionists, AIPAC and Israel
The FBI investigation into Israeli espionage agents in the Pentagon
is part of a major struggle between prominent Zionists in the Pentagon and the
US security apparatus.
Ever since the Bush regime came to power there has been a fierce
political and organizational war between the Pentagon Zionists and their
militarist collaborators, on the one hand, and the professional military and
intelligence apparatus, on the other.
This conflict has manifested itself in a series of major issues
including the war in the Middle East, the rational for war, the relationship
between Israel and the US, the strategy for empire, as well as tactical
issues like the size of military force needed for colonial wars and the nature
of colonial occupation.
From 9/11/2001 to the invasion of
Iraq, the Pentagon Zionists and the
civilian militarists had the upper hand: they marginalized the CIA and
established their own intelligence services to ?cook the data?, they
pushed through the doctrine of sequential wars, beginning with Afghanistan and
Iraq and projecting wars with Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and other
Muslim countries.
The Pentagon Zionists increased
Israel?s power in the Middle East and promoted its expansionist colonization of
Palestine, at the expense of US
soldiers, budget busting expenditures and CIA objections.
The US military and security
apparatus has retaliated. First by debunking Zionist lies about Iraq?s weapons
of mass destruction, then by exposing the role of Zionist client Ahmed Chalabi
as a double agent for Iran, followed by
a two-year investigation of Pentagon Zionists passing documents to Israeli
military intelligence and the secret police, the Mossad.
More is at stake than a turf war
between the ?Israel First? Pentagon crowd and their opponents in the US
military, diplomatic corp and intelligence agencies. The fundamental issue is the
freedom of the US people to decide or at least influence their political
leaders and their appointees without being subject to the manipulation and
control by a foreign government (Israel) and their highly placed
agents in positions of power.
Israel has for decades subverted US foreign policy to serve its
interests through the organized power of major Jewish organizations in the
US. What is new in the current Pentagon spy case is that rather than pressuring
from the outside to secure favorable policies for Israel, the Israel loyalists are in
top positions within the government making strategic decisions about US global
policy and providing their Israeli handlers with secret documents pertaining
to top level discussions in the White House on questions of war and peace.
Today the politics of Pentagon and
AIPAC espionage is especially dangerous ? because what is at stake is a new US
and/or Israeli war on Iran which will ignite the entire Middle East. The move to high-level spying by
top Zionist policy-makers like Douglas Feith, Elliott Abrams, Paul Wolfowitz
and others in the Bush Administration is the culmination of a long series of
strategic policies promoted by AIPAC designed to enhance Israeli expansionist
goals in the Middle East…
Wolfowitz, Feith, Abrams, Perle,
Rubin et al were the most zealous promoters of the war against Iraq. They
worked closely with other Zionist ideologues like Bush speechwriter David Frum
to promote the notion of ?axes of evil?, to engage in a sequence of wars
against Muslim regimes hostile to Israeli colonial policy in Palestine and
beyond. Wolfowitz, Feith set up the
parallel ?intelligence? agency (the Office of Special Planning) run by fellow
Zionist Abram Shulsky using Chalabi to provide phony data on Iraq to
precipitate that war.
An army of ?Israel First? academic
and journalist ideologues wrote, spoke and acted to justify the US attack on
Iraq as the first part of a regional war to destroy any and all regimes
critical of Israeli expansionism. Cohen, Rubin, Kristol, Foxman, Ledeen and many others provided ?expert? propaganda on why US soldiers should kill
and be killed for Greater Israel…
The history of the key Zionists in the Pentagon reveals a pattern of
disloyalty to the US and covert assistance to Israel. Harold Rhode and
William Luti, both fanatical Pentagon Zionists under Feith , Wolfowitz and I.
Lewis Libby have been under investigation by the FBI for passing documents to Israel.
Rhode had his security clearance suspended recently…
It is clear that Israeli agents, not simply Zionists ideologues, infest
the top echelon of the Pentagon. The question is not merely a question of
taking this or that policy position in favor of Israel but of working
systematically on a whole range of issues to further Israeli power over and
against US imperial interests.
What is surprising is not the
current investigation over Israeli spies
in the Pentagon but why they have not been arrested, indicted and sentenced a
decade or two earlier…
President Bush has declared that he
is a ?wartime President? ? the US is officially involved in a colonial war of
aggression against the Iraqi people. In
these circumstances, espionage in time of war is a capital offense? even if the
spymasters are Israelis. It is no wonder that the Zionist and Israeli
propaganda machine is working overtime to undermine the espionage investigation…
The arrogance of Israeli power
in then US, which Sharon publically boasted about, is largely based on the
simple principle embraced by all Zionist zealots whether they are Ivy league
academics or neo-fascist felons (like Elliot Abrams) is ?What?s good for Israel is good for the
US?. ?Good for Israel? today means bloody US wars against Israel?s adversaries,
unconditional support for Israeli expansion and pillage of Palestine and
now spying on the US for the good of Israel…
Investigations and evidence are
usually enough to proceed with indictments, interrogations and the pursuit of
the leaders and foreign handlers in a major espionage case, especially in
wartime. Thousands of innocent South
Asians, Arabs and Muslims have been picked up and jailed on the most flimsy
excuses (?suspicions?). But in the case of Israeli-AIPEC-Pentagon espionage
the normal legal processes are inoperative.
The question of espionage
prosecution depends on political power – a
struggle between the Israeli State backed by the major Presidential candidates
and parties, the Zionist-American political machines and their mass media
acolytes on the one hand and, on
the other hand the FBI, professional intelligence apparatus (CIA, DIA), state
prosecutor and his investigatory staff and few stray political voices…
American citizens will have to face
a serious question: If the security services are incapable of defending our
country from foreign espionage in high places ? What is to be done? In
either case we face an imminent Zionist designed and promoted military attack
on Iran, which is likely to lead to a general conflagration which
can only benefit the neo-fascists who run the state of Israel. And
you are afraid of being called an anti-Semite for opposing the Israel?s
espionage and regional wars.
Nothing has changed since 2004, as a matter of fact it has
gotten worse. President Donald Trump is
the unwitting victim of the Zio-Evangelical plan to bring the Rapture into reality
in the 21st Century. Trump is
surrounded by the Zio-Evangelical zealots who were embedded into the American
government during the George W. Bush Administration. From George Eliason at The Saker:
Excerpt:
The Terrorists Among US- Traitors and Terror 3
The second part in this series
showed clearly that the US Intel
community has been overrun by untrainable and undependable people. The more facts that come out, the worse
the situation looks.
We trust these people to dissect and analyze critical pieces of
information and based on their
experience advise the President of the United States whether or not diplomacy,
spying, and covert action, sanctions, or even military engagement is warranted.
So, the big question in part 2
became, how do you induct over 3 million
new employees with no previous experience into what is supposed to be one of
the most complicated professions on the planet? Can this be done in less
than 5 years? The answer is you can’t.
Most of the Intel the US is using
right now comes from private sector sources.
Over 80% of the current NSA budget goes to subcontractors that can hire and
layoff on a per-project basis. There
is no loyalty to employees or government service. Loyalties are bought and sold
by the highest bidders as part of the daily grind to just make a living.
One day Jimmy the 1st year apprentice Intel guy might work for the US government.
Two weeks later he might work for the Ukrainian lobby doing Oppo-research.
Three weeks later he might work for a company that has both for clients. He
takes all the software packages with him as well as insight into the data he’s
gained or if it’s OSINT, the data
itself can change hands if it does so before being labeled “secret.”
Since 2015, I’ve watched the Intel industry go through radical changes
in a very short time. This started long before I interviewed Michael
Jasinski (MJ), the Assistant Professor Department of Political Science
University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh about this.
The following is professor
Jasinski’s remarks from the 2017 article and following that the interview we
did the other day. In literally 2 years the Intel community hiring standards have gone
from university researchers with at least some experience and education in the
field down to Jimmy who used to work at Walmart and is now an
intern at the CIA, FBI, DIA, DOD or fill in another agency of your choice.
Professor Jasinski had oversight over researchers that were later hired
by US Intel agencies following 9/11 and provided evaluations of them prior to
their employment…
MJ- “Considering how the intelligence community is depicted in the media
or in the movies (and clearly CIA “outreach” plays a role here), you’d think
Jedi Knights. The Justice
League. Gandalf. But if you ever had
personal contact with the “three-letter agencies” for any period of time, you’d
think different. My most recent experience with the “intelligence”
community was at MIIS, post-9/11 when
the agencies were coming there to hire, and they were hiring big.
They hired many of my research
assistants–I was doing what might be termed “open-source intelligence” on WMD
proliferation–and in the process, they’d ask me, their immediate supervisor,
for my opinion. So I’d tell them
point-blank: can’t read, can’t write, can’t analyze. I don’t care what their CV
says, the only language they can function in at any level in English. No matter, they’d get hired anyway.
Drug convictions? No matter,
they’d get hired anyway (at least at the time, the CIA would hire you if
you didn’t have any drug convictions within the last 3 years). Scary political views they wore on their
sleeve? No matter, they’d get hired anyway. All of my good assistants went to work for the UN, IAEA, major NGOs.
The dregs went to “intelligence.”
So
now when I see a) the “Russian interference” stories and b) the inability to
safeguard, and presumably use responsibly, your own cyber-warfare arsenal, I
can’t say I’m exactly surprised. But there are no shortcuts in this
kind of work. If you rapidly expand at
the cost of dramatically lowering standards, you (and the country) are going to
pay a price. We’re paying it right now…”
GE– Professor Jasinski, how do you feel about the idea of can’t
read, can’t write the language analyst types gaining NSA size tools and being
sent to spy into Russian infrastructure as bounty hunters looking for
threats?
MJ-It’s not unlike giving a monkey a live hand grenade, except that the
monkey in question would not run the risk of causing major power war. I
hope these reports are, essentially, disinformation, because NYT would never publish anything the
intel community doesn’t want to see published…
GE-How would you feel about these same analysts gaining manager positions
in the agencies and as the private contractor counterparts?
MJ– If in supervisory positions, they
will succumb to the First Law of Bureaucracy which is to protect and expand
turf, which in practical terms means more and more cyber-ops which are probably
already being touted as the new “smart bombs”– a perfect solution to every
national security problem, real or imagined. There will be lobbying, policy papers, entire think tanks funded by
agencies led by people interested in not only expanding cyber ops but
specifically expanding their own agency’s responsibility for cyber ops and
in order to do that, you have to have some “track record” of running cyber ops.
So you can imagine the potential for
rapid escalation…
GE-What is the potential of bounty
hunter hackers, IO pros, and private
spies fomenting war outside of all government policy or oversight?
MJ– This is a bit more complicated.
If the tools really proliferate among non-state actors, it’s the equivalent of
selling biowarfare kits in pharmacies all over the world. Anyone can get them, then launch anthrax/black plague/whatever attacks
on whatever individual, organization, city, or country they don’t like at the
moment. So that probably will not be allowed to happen, and we’ll see something like the de-facto ban
on shoulder-launched SAMs from being sold or given to non-state actors.
Even the war in Syria did not seem
to break that taboo. The bigger problem
is governments outsourcing cyberwar to quasi-private actors, in the same way,
propaganda has been outsourced to the likes of Bellingcat, censorship to Google
and Facebook, killing people to Eric
Prince.
So, for reasons of plausible
deniability, you could set up a Dirty Dozen-style outfit of cybercriminals
given suspended sentences in return for cooperating with the gov’t, then use them to stage cyber ops to benefit
the US gov’t, or at least the intel community, and do it with considerable
plausible deniability and moreover hide it in some “black” budget program. I do
wonder who all these Cozy Bears and Fancy Bears really are.
Professor Jasinski’s point is well
taken. What would the world be like if
anyone could get their hands on aggressive NSA state-level tools and point them
at their neighbor?
When he taught the people that
would eventually become CIA and FBI OSINT agents and managers, the transition from State to privatized
Intel was in its infancy. Part 2 of the series showed Richard Clarke made
the US Agency transitions to the privatization of Intel. UK PM David Cameron labeled the man that got the job transitioning US
agencies to privatized Intel an idiot. That
was Steve Emerson and his sidekick and former gift shop cashier, the lovely
Rita Katz.
From the 1990s into the 2000s and
2010s, all of the elite hack, defense,
and attack tools were purposely labeled freeware for anyone that decided to
pick them up. This means the scenario
professor Jasinski labeled as a nightmare is already coming true.
A researcher made an elite hacking
tool out of the info in the Vault 7 leak.
And most of the tools in their primary form are available online free of
charge.
Why did this happen?
The Guardian made the point in
November 2014 with “Our choice isn’t
between a world where either the good guy’s spy or the bad guy’s spy. It’s a
choice of everybody gets to spy or nobody gets to spy…”
This has been gradually developing
into the norm in America. Your safety and the safety of your loved
ones, not to mention the rest of the world is in the hands of otherwise
unhireable people that
are learning as they go to hack and attack foreign countries and domestic
civilians…
But because of the work they do for both the U.S. government and private
corporations, few restrictions are placed on them. Where they are supposed
to be supervised by the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), in some
cases they are supervising themselves and other companies and training DNI
agencies to act like them…
It is only along this line, the NYT
article U.S. Escalates Online Attacks on Russia’s Power Grid can be
comprehended. Why is the military
leaving the nation’s Commander in Chief blinded from what has the potential to
spark a hot war? How?
While Jimmy works at the ODNI this week, the DOD uses 1st year Intel
intern Jimmy’s brother Gary. Gary has
a solid 6 months behind him as a privatized operator to carry out OSINT against
Russian assets.
Do you think I’m exaggerating? My
first thought is ole’ Gary made a mess the US government was going to get taken
behind the shed for. But, why would the
DOD get behind this hacking operation and alienate their Commander in Chief?
Why not invoke plausible deniability? Do they think Trump will take the ODNI
use of private sector apprentices to heart and fire them?
This is part of an ODNI and DOD
Intel policy change. The DOD has been using private citizens
like ole’ Gary for a while. Now, it almost seems like they bring these guys
into a room and really chat them up before letting them loose to wreak havoc on
society. Ole’ Gary, you are
a supa’ spy! Yes, you are. Yes, you are! Now go get me sum red Ruskies!..
It seems Ole’ Gary and the Podunk
crew received new and improved titles. They
are bounty hunters and privateers. This is immensely important and will be
the subject of the next article in the series. All they need to do is go back to the room and
get chatted up again and they can start their new careers. I’ve been
researching this cottage industry and watching it develop since 2015. The
Privatized NSA Army is Attacking YOU!..
CIA morale plummets as Trump
becomes president and CIA veterans say spat with Trump could have real-world
consequences.
The problem is most of the morale slump is coming from private
contractors that are doing the actual work. Contrary to popular belief, the CIA would be relegated to the level
of Keystone Cops if they had real agents face forward online every day. So,
what does this mean?
Ole Jimmy and Gary want to feel the
part. They want to dress the part. They want to live the part. Their lack of
GEDs just won’t allow it to happen. Sorry, Jimmy. Sorry, Gary. The CIA doesn’t
offer apprenticeships. But, because they
do work indirectly for the CIA, they pretend they are CIA and use their real
CIA tools on their neighbors…
IF U.S. INTELLIGENCE IS QUESTIONABLE AND UNTRUSTWORTHY, THERE IS NO
SINGLE GREATER THREAT TO THE PLANET TODAY. Members of an intelligence community who try to circumvent the democratic
process should be prosecuted no matter who they are or who they are trying to
undermine.
Hummm, so “Your
safety and the safety of your loved ones, not to mention the rest of the world
is in the hands of otherwise unhireable people.” So when the world was told that 17 US Intelligence
Agencies confirmed Russia interfered in the 2016 election to get Trump elected,
that intelligence was gathered by “unhireable people.” The Zio-Evangelicals now have complete
control over the intelligence that is given to the American President to make
life and death decisions. These zealots
want to complete the destruction of American started under George W. Bush and
advanced by Barack Obama to bring forth the Armageddon. From Julian Borger at The Guardian:
Excerpt:
‘Brought to Jesus’: the evangelical grip on the Trump administration
The influence of evangelical
Christianity is likely to become an important question as Trump finds himself
dependent on them for political survival
In setting out the Trump
administration’s Middle East policy, one
of the first things Mike Pompeo made clear to his audience in Cairo is that he
had come to the region as “as an evangelical Christian”. In his speech at the American University
in Cairo, Pompeo said that in his state department office: “I keep a Bible open
on my desk to remind me of God and his word, and the truth.”
The secretary of state’s primary
message in Cairo was that the US was
ready once more to embrace conservative Middle Eastern regimes, no matter
how repressive, if they made common cause
against Iran.
HIS SECOND MESSAGE WAS RELIGIOUS. In his visit to Egypt, he came across as
much as a preacher as a diplomat. He talked about “America’s innate
goodness” and marveled at a newly
built cathedral as “a stunning testament to the Lord’s hand”.
'Toxic Christianity': the evangelicals creating champions for Trump
The desire to erase Barack Obama’s
legacy, Donald Trump’s instinctive embrace of autocrats, and the private
interests of the Trump Organisation have all been analysed as driving forces
behind the administration’s foreign policy. The gravitational pull of white evangelicals
has been less visible. But it could have far-reaching policy consequences.
Vice President Mike Pence and Pompeo both cite evangelical theology as a
powerful motivating force.
Just as he did in Cairo, Pompeo called on the congregation of a
Kansan megachurch three years ago to join a fight of good against evil. “We will continue to fight these
battles,” the then congressman said at the Summit church in Wichita.
“It is a never-ending struggle … until the rapture. Be part of it. Be in the
fight.”
For Pompeo’s audience, the rapture invoked an apocalyptical
Christian vision of the future, a final battle between good and evil, and the second coming of Jesus Christ,
when the faithful will ascend to heaven and the rest will go to hell.
For many US evangelical Christians, one of the key preconditions for
such a moment is the gathering of the world’s Jews in a greater Israel
between the Mediterranean and the Jordan River. It is a belief, known as
premillenial dispensationalism or Christian
Zionism – and it has very real potential consequences for US foreign policy.
It directly colours views on the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and indirectly, attitudes towards Iran, broader
Middle East geopolitics and the primacy of protecting Christian minorities. In
his Cairo visit, Pompeo heaped praise on
Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, for building the new cathedral, but made no
reference to the 60,000 political prisoners the regime is thought to be
holding, or its routine use of torture.
Pompeo is an evangelical Presbyterian, who says he was “brought to
Jesus” by other cadets at the West Point military academy in the 1980s… As Donald Trump finds himself ever more
dependent on them for his political survival, the influence of Pence, Pompeo
and the ultra-conservative white Evangelicals who stand behind them is likely
to grow.
“Many of them relish the second coming because for them it means
eternal life in heaven,” Andrew Chesnut, professor of religious studies at
Virginia Commonwealth University said. “There is a palpable danger that people
in high position who subscribe to these beliefs will be readier to take us into
a conflict that brings on Armageddon…”
Scary stuff when religio-crazies and unhireable stooges
control the government, not because the people voted for them but because they
were placed there by external forces bent on destroying America. Talk about your “death to America” nuts. If there is any doubt that these
Zio-Evangelicals are preparing for the Armageddon let this article by Whitney
Webb put those doubts to rest. From MintPress:
Excerpt:
In Israel the Push to Destroy Jerusalem’s Iconic Al-Aqsa Mosque Goes
Mainstream
This ancient site that dates
back to the year 705 C.E. is being targeted for destruction by extremist groups
that seek to erase Jerusalem’s Muslim heritage in pursuit of colonial ambitions and the fulfillment of end-times
prophecy.
The iconic golden dome of the Dome
of the Rock and Al-Aqsa mosque, located on the
Temple Mount or Haram el-Sharif, is the third holiest site in Islam and is
recognized throughout the world as a symbol of the city of Jerusalem. Yet,
this ancient site that dates back to the year 705 C.E. is being targeted for
destruction by increasingly influential extremist groups that seek to erase
Jerusalem’s Muslim heritage in pursuit
of colonial ambitions and the fulfillment of end-times prophecy.
Some observers may have noticed the growing effort by some Israeli
government and religious officials to remove the Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa
mosque from the Jerusalem skyline, not only erasing the holy site in
official posters, banners and educational material but also physically removing
the building itself.
For instance, current Knesset
member of the ruling Likud Party, American-born Yehuda Glick, was also the
director of the government-funded Temple Institute, which has created relics
and detailed architectural plans for a temple that they hope will soon replace
Al-Aqsa. Glick is also close friends
with Yehuda Etzion, who was part of a failed plot in 1984 to blow up Al-Aqsa
mosque and served prison time as a result.
“In the end we’ll build the temple
and it will be a house of prayer for all nations,” Glick told Israeli newspaper
Maariv in 2012. A year later, Israel’s Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel stated
that “[w]e’ve built many little, little temples…but we need to build a real
Temple on the Temple Mount.” Ariel
stated that the new Jewish Temple must be built on the site where Al-Aqsa
currently sits “as it is at the forefront of Jewish salvation…”
In recent years, a centuries-old effort by what was once a
small group of extremists has gone increasingly mainstream in Israel, with
prominent politicians, religious figures and political parties advocating for
the destruction of the Dome of the
Rock and Al-Aqsa mosque in order to fulfill a specific interpretation of an
end-times prophecy that was once considered fringe among practitioners
of Judaism.
As Miko Peled, Israeli author and
human-rights activist, told MintPress, the
movement to destroy Al-Aqsa and replace it with a reimagined Temple “became
notable after the 1967 war,” and has since grown into “a massive colonial project that uses religious, biblical mythology
and symbols to justify its actions” — a project now garnering support
from both religious and secular Israelis.
While the push to destroy Al-Aqsa
and replace it with a physical Third Temple has gained traction in Israel in
recent years, this effort has advanced at a remarkably fast pace in just the
past few weeks, owing to a confluence of factors. These factors, as this report will show, include the upcoming
revelation of the so-called “Deal of the Century,” the push for a war with Iran
and Lebanon’s Hezbollah, and the Trump administration’s dramatic lenience
in regards to the activity of Jewish extremist groups and extremist settlements
in Israel.
These factors correlate with a quickening of efforts to destroy Al-Aqsa
and the very real danger the centuries-old holy site faces. While the U.S.
press has occasionally mentioned the role of religious extremism in dictating
the foreign policy of prominent U.S. politicians like Secretary of State Mike
Pompeo, it has rarely shone a light on
the role of Jewish extremism in directing Israel’s foreign policy — foreign
policy that, in turn, is well-known to influence American policies.
When taken together, the threats to
Al-Aqsa are clearly revealed to be much greater than the loss of a physical
building, though that itself would be a grave loss for the world’s Muslim
community, which includes over 1.8 billion people. In addition, the site’s destruction would very likely result in a
regional and perhaps even global war with clear religious dimensions.
To prevent such an outcome, it is essential to highlight the role that
extremist, apocalyptic interpretations of both the Jewish and Christian faiths
are playing in trends that, if left unchecked, could have truly terrifying
consequences. Both of these extremist groups are heavily influenced by
colonial ambitions that often supersede their religious underpinning.
In Part I of this two-part series,
MintPress examines the growth of extremist
movements in Israel that openly promote the destruction of Al-Aqsa, from a
relatively isolated fringe movement within Zionism to mainstream prominence in
Israel today; as well as how threats
to the historic mosque have grown precipitously in just the past month…
The second part of this series will
detail the influence of this extremist
movement in Israeli politics as well as American politics, particularly among Christian Zionist politicians in the United
States. The ways in which this movement’s goal have also influenced
Israeli and U.S. policy — particularly in
relation to the so-called “Deal of the Century,” President Donald Trump’s
recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, and the push for war against Iran
and Lebanon’s Hezbollah — will also be examined.
Two centuries in the cross-hairs
Though efforts to wrest the contested
holy site from Jordanian and Palestinian control have picked up dramatically in
recent weeks, the Al-Aqsa mosque
compound had long been targeted prior to Israel’s founding and even prior to
the formation of the modern Zionist movement.
Donald Trump ran his presidential campaign on “Making
America Great Again” and putting American interests first. His administration has largely been taken
over by “Never Trump” Zio-Evangelicals hell bent on the destruction of America. It’s not just the Zio-Evangelicals in his
Administration, it is the Zionists in congress that are also endangering
America. From Lew Rockwell:
Excerpt:
“New laws, enacted by Congress
last year, allow such ‘clandestine military activity’ in cyberspace to go ahead
without the president’s approval.
So, in this case, those new laws are protecting American interests… by keeping
the sitting president out of the loop. What a (scary) time to be alive…”
“I think this is the most dangerous
moment in American-Russian relations, at least since the Cuban missile crisis,”
Cohen said. “And arguably, it’s more dangerous, because it’s more complex.
Therefore, we—and then, meanwhile, we have in Washington these—and, in my
judgment, factless accusations that
Trump has somehow been compromised by the Kremlin.
So, at this worst moment in
American-Russian relations, we have an American president who’s being politically
crippled by the worst imaginable—it’s unprecedented. Let’s stop and think. No American president has ever been
accused, essentially, of treason. This is what we’re talking about here, or
that his associates have committed treason.”
“Imagine, for example, John Kennedy
during the Cuban missile crisis,” Cohen said. “Imagine if Kennedy had been accused of being a secret Soviet Kremlin
agent. He would have been crippled. And the only way he could have proved
he wasn’t was to have launched a war against the Soviet Union. And at that
time, the option was nuclear war…”
For all the outrage that liberals
display whenever a high-profile Republican utters the phrase “deep state”, it
sure is interesting that the
Commander-in-Chief has found himself in a situation where he is at the whim of
a collective of warmongers who are advancing pre-existing agendas
against a nation they perceive as a geostrategic threat to US hegemony. It begs
the question, who is really in charge?
Who is really in charge indeed? In some ways the purpose of the “inevitable”
war against the country of Iran is to cover up the impending doom of the end of
the U.S. dollar domination. As stated in
the opening of this blog post “there is in excess of $700 trillion in
derivatives trading per day, untaxed and unregulated” and those trillions have
to be on the books somewhere. From Geopolitics:
Excerpt:
Provoking Iran Could Start a War and Crash the Entire World Economy
Tensions in the Persian Gulf are reaching a point of no return. In
recent weeks, six oil tankers have
been subjected to Israeli sabotage disguised to look like Iranian attacks
to induce the United States to take military action against the Islamic
Republic. Some days ago Iran rightfully
shot out of the sky a US Drone.
In Yemen, the Houthis have finally started responding with cruise and ballistic
missiles to the Saudis’ indiscriminate attacks, causing damage to the Saudi
international airport of Abha, as well as blocking, through explosive drones,
Saudi oil transportation from east to west through one of the largest pipelines
in the world.
As if the political and military
situation at this time were not tense and complex enough, the two most
important power groups in the United States,
the Fed and the military-industrial
complex, both face problems that threaten to diminish Washington’s status as a
world superpower.
The Fed could find itself defending
the role of the US dollar as the world reserve currency during any conflict in the Persian Gulf that would
see the cost of oil rise to $300 a barrel, threatening
trillions of dollars in derivatives and toppling the global economy.
The military-industrial complex
would in turn be involved in a war that it would struggle to contain and even
win, destroying the United States’ image
of invincibility and inflicting a mortal blow on its ability to project power
to the four corners of the world.
Just
look at how surprised US officials were about Iran’s capabilities to shot down
an advanced US Drone:
“Iran’s ability to target and destroy the high-altitude American drone,
which was developed to evade the very surface-to-air missiles used to bring
it down, surprised some Defense
Department officials, who interpreted it as a show of how difficult Tehran
can make things for the United States as it deploys more troops and steps up
surveillance in the region.”
The Fed and the defense of the dollar
The US dollar-based economy has a huge debt problem caused by post-2008
economic policies. All central
banks have lowered interest rates to zero or even negative, thus
continuing to feed otherwise dying economies.
The central bank of central banks,
the Bank for International Settlements, an entity hardly known to most people,
has stated in writing that “the outstanding notional amount of
derivative contracts is 542 trillion dollars.” The total combined
GDP of all the countries of the world is around 75 trillion dollars.
With the dimensions of the problem
thus understood, it is important to look at how Deutsche Bank (DB), one of the
largest financial institutions in the world, is dealing with this. The
German bank alone has assets worth about 40 trillion dollars in derivatives,
or more than half of annual global GDP.
Their
solution, not at all innovative or effective, has been to create yet another
bad bank into which to pour at least 50 billion dollars of long-term assets,
which are clearly toxic.
Reuters explains:
“The bad bank would house or sell
assets valued at up to 50 billion euros ($56 billion) – after adjusting for
risk – and comprising mainly long-dated derivatives. The measures are part of a significant
restructuring of the investment bank, a
major source of revenue for Germany’s largest lender, which has struggled to
generate sustainable profits since the 2008 financial crisis.”
Thus, not only has Deutsche Bank
accumulated tens of billions of dollars in unsuccessful options and securities,
it seeks to obtain a profit that has been elusive since 2008, the year of the
financial crisis. Deutsche Bank is full
of toxic bonds and inflated debts kept alive through the flow of quantitative
easing (QE) money from the European
Central Bank, the Fed and the Japanese Central Bank.
Without QE, the entire Western
world economy would have fallen into recession with a chain of bubbles
bursting, such as in public and private debt.
If the economy was recovering, as
we are told by soi-disant financial experts, the central-bank rates would rise.
Instead, rates have plummeted for about a decade, to the extent of becoming
negative loans.
If the Western financial trend is
undoubtedly heading towards an economic
abyss as a result of the monetary policies employed after 2008 to keep a dying
economy alive, what is the rescue plan for the US dollar, its status as a
global-reserve currency, and by extension of US hegemony? SIMPLY PUT, THERE IS NO RESCUE PLAN.
There could not be one because the next financial crisis will undoubtedly
wipe out the US dollar as a global reserve currency, ending US hegemony
financed by unlimited spending power. All countries possessing a modicum
of foresight are in the process of de-dollarizing their economies and are converting strategic reserves from US or
US-dollar government bonds to primary commodities like gold.
The military-industrial complex and the harsh reality in Iran
In this economic situation that
offers no escape, the immediate geopolitical effect is a surge of war threats
in strategic locations like the Persian Gulf. The risk of a war of aggression against Iran by the Saudi-Israeli-US
axis would have little chance of success, but it would probably succeed in
permanently devastating the global economy as a result of a surge in oil
prices.
The risk of war on Iran by this triad seems to be the typical ploy of
the bad loser who, rather than admit defeat, would rather pull the rug out from
under everyone’s feet in order to bring everybody down with him. Tankers
being hit and then blamed on Iran with no evidence are a prime example of how
to create the plausible justification for bombing Tehran.
Upon closer examination, it becomes apparent that the actions of
Bolton and Pompeo seem to be aligned in prolonging the United States’ unipolar
moment, continuing to issue diktats to other countries and failing to
recognize the multipolar reality we live in. Their policies and actions are accelerating the dispersal of power
away from the US and towards other great powers like Russia and China,
both of which also have enormous influence in the Persian Gulf.
The threat of causing a conflict in
the Persian Gulf, and thereby making the
price of oil soar to $300 a barrel, will not save US hegemony but will rather
end up accelerating the inevitable end of the US dollar as a global reserve
currency.
Trump is in danger of being crushed between a Fed that sees the US
dollar’s role as the world’s reserve currency collapse, and the need for the
Fed to blame someone not linked to the real causes of the collapse, that is
to say, the monetary policies adopted through QE to prolong the post-crisis
economic agony of 2008.
At the same time, with Trump as president, the
neocon-Israeli-Saudi supporters see a unique opportunity to strike Iran, a
desire that has remained unchanged for 40 years.
As foolish as it may seem, a war on
Iran could be the perfect option that satisfies all power groups in the United
States. The hawks would finally have
their war against Tehran, the world economy would sink, and the blame would fall entirely on Trump. The
Donald, as a result, would lose any chance of being re-elected so it makes
sense for him to call off possible strikes as he did after the US drone was
shot out of the sky.
While unable to live up to his
electoral promises, Trump seems to be aware that the path laid out for him in
the event of an attack on Iran would lead to his political destruction and
probably to a conflict that is militarily unsustainable for the US and
especially its Saudi and Israeli allies.
It would also be the catalyst for the collapse of the world economy.
In trying to pressure Iran into new
negotiations, Trump runs the risk of
putting too much pressure on Tehran and giving too much of a free hand to the provocations of
Pompeo and Bolton that could end up triggering a war in the Strait of Hormuz…
Our future is now in the hands of President Donald J.
Trump. Can he avoid war, will he win
this epic battle against the Zio-Evangelical forces in his administration? Can he ward off attacks from the War Whores
in Congress? Will his Attorney General
Barr be able to clean out the alphabet soup of intelligence agencies run by
foreign interests? Those are the
questions that determine if America will survive.
In the meantime the Military Industrial Complex Coup that
was begun in earnest under the unelected “born again Christian President George
W. Bush” is temporarily on hold. Trump has pulled in the reins on
Zio-Evangelical Rapture plans for now but how long before Trump is overthrown
or impeached for the crime of putting the interests of America first and Making
America Great Again?
