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Sunday, June 9, 2013
13-06-08/09 Occupy Tel Aviv #5: Sat Night - A visit to the Prime Minister's
The hosts: Royal Couple Bibi (bombing addict) and Sarah (fashionista) Netanyahu
WATCH VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JzQ0CUI5Vc
Jerusalem, June 9 - this Saturday night I decided to join the "not nice girls", who announced a party at the Prime Minister's. The dress code was evening/cocktail party black, woman had makeup and jewelry on. I had on freshly creased rayon black pants and contrasting black linen short sleeve shirt, my video camera and some extra cocktail napkins, just in case.
The first problem was that the venue was a bit vague: Our current Prime Minister holds three residences at full public expense, two in Jerusalem and one on the coast at Caesaria.
The chants were the same:
- "Government, corporations - a crime organization"
- "No to the tycoon state"
- "They take from the poor and give to the rich - what a corrupt government"
- "The essence is not to be afraid at all"
The number of participants was not that high, a few hundreds at the most. But it appeared that the Jerusalem Police panicked, in contrast with the Tel Aviv Police that handles the routine Saturday night events with ease. Live police blockades, police in riot gear, horse mounted police...
In the meanwhile, everybody was videotaping everybody else, like to true glitz event.
The police appeared to aim at blocking the demonstrators from moving anywhere, and the demonstrators engaged in a hide a seek. The demonstration would disperse, to meet again just 10 minutes later in another street corner, but in the process police would be dumbfounded where to go.
The overall experience became a night time tour of historic sites in West Jerusalem. We started near the Sergei House - a 19th century pilgrim's guest house from the Czarist period. From there we went through the arcade of the Notre Damme de France, to the corner of the walls of the old city of Jerusalem near the "New Gate", cut into the wall in the aftermath of the Crimean War, to the Franciscan Terra Sancta College. to the official residence of the prime minister.
Some dozen people were arrested, so the demonstration returned to the Russian Compound to the police station, to claim back the arrested demonstrators.
Part of the surreal scene was Arab and Ultra Orthodox Jewish spectators, who were full of questions, trying to figure out the agendas.
Overall, the drummers were superb, but the "not nice girls" are too narrowly focused on tactical and strategic goals, and they tend to see in the music just a nuisance...
I got home around 1:30am.
The next morning - no paper media coverage at all.
Saturday, June 8, 2013
13-06-08 Bilderberg convenes - with all the usual suspects
The complete list of participants remains confidential, as usual. Is Stanley Fischer among the rogues? jz
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Stephen Lendman
Activist Post
On June 5, the London Evening Standard headlined "No minutes, no press conferences - just the world's power brokers chewing the fat on the issues of the day. It's the Bilderberg conference - and it's coming to a suburb near you."
On June 6, it convened. It continues through June 9. It's a rite of spring. A previous article said British political economist Will Hutton calls attendees the "high priests of globalization."
Powerful movers and shakers have their own agenda. They're up to no good. They meet annually face-to-face. They conspire, collude and collaborate against populist interests. Their's alone matter.
According to Bilderberg Meetings.org:
Earlier articles discussed their agenda. Their ideal world isn't fit to live in. Democracy is verboten. They want one world government. They want unchallenged global dominance.
Their wish list includes universal rules they set, centralized global control, perpetual crises and wars, NATO operating worldwide, abolishing the middle class, establishing ruler-serf societies, and having unchallenged wealth and power in their hands.
They want what they say goes enforced as policy. Obedient serfs can expect subsistence crumbs at best. Non-believers will be eliminated. New world order priorities alone matter.
Bilderberg's Steering Committee includes a dozen prominent Americans. David Rockefeller's called an Advisory Group member.
He's attending. A published list excludes his name. He's called the master spider for good reason. He's been dominant for decades. On June 12, he turns 98. He's fading. Who'll replace him isn't clear.
In her book Web of Debt, Ellen Brown quoted economist/geopolitical analyst Hans Schicht saying:
They're meeting at Britain's five-star Grove Hotel. It's 18 miles from London. It's ideal for secluded meetings. While ongoing, police state security's enforced.
Operations go on round-the-clock. Area residents have to show police passports, drivers licenses, or other accepted photo IDs to go home, to work, or attend to other personal business.
Civil liberties are suspended. De facto martial law's in force. What Bilderberg rogues want they get. They want the worst of all possible worlds spread globally.
Prominent American attendees in alphabetical order include:
Roger Altman:
He's a former Lehman Brothers partner. He left before its dissolution. Perhaps he helped push it over the edge. He was Clinton's Deputy Treasury Secretary. He's a Bilderberg Steering Committee member.
He's founder and executive chairman of Evercore Partners. It's a prominent predatory investment banking advisory firm. It specializes in mergers, acquisition, divestitures, restructurings, financings and other strategic transactions.
It operates the old-fashioned way. It recommends leveraged buyouts, asset-stripping targeted companies, and leaving thousands of employees high and dry on their own.
Jeff Bezos:
He's Amazon's founder and CEO. It's the world's largest online retailer. Earlier he worked on Wall Street and for a New York-based hedge fund.
In March 2013, Forbes estimated his net worth at $25.2 billion.
Martin Feldstein:
He's Harvard University Professor of Economics. From 1982 - 1984, he was Reagan's Council of Economic Advisors chairman and chief economic advisor. He's National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) president emeritus. It's an elitist organization.
Many of its members have been conservative Nobel economics laureates. Others served as White House chairmen of the Council of Economic Advisors.
It's well known for announcing when recessions begin and end. It does so inaccurately. It ignores an ongoing protracted Main Street Depression.
In 2006, Feldstein was on Bush's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. In 2009, he served Obama in a likewise capacity.
His other affiliations include the Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission, and American Enterprise Group among others. He been a board member of several major corporations.
Timothy Geithner:
A previous article discussed his legacy of shame. His rap sheet includes various Treasury posts, IMF Policy Development and Review director, New York Fed president, vice chairman of the Fed's Open Market Committee (FOMC), and Obama's Treasury Secretary.
He partnered with former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson and Fed chairman Ben Bernanke. They planned the grandest of grand thefts. They implemented banker bailouts.
They looted the federal treasury. They stuck taxpayers with the bill. They debased the currency. They transformed America into an unprecedented money making racket.
He and other Bilderberg rogues want spread globally what they did to America. They conspired with their EU partners doing the same thing to Western Europe.
They bear full responsibility for today's global economic crisis. They planned it for greater wealth and power control.
Donald Graham:
He's Washington Post Company chairman and CEO. His holdings include TV stations, municipal cable systems, and Kaplan, Inc. It provides higher education testing, training, and professional courses. It's ethically and legally challenged.
It specializes in ripping off students. It does so for profit. It features scams and other fraudulent schemes. It sacrifices education for bottom line priorities.
It's faced numerous lawsuits. In 2007, a class-action one on overcharging was settled. It shows no signs of changing its ways. Doing business the old fashioned way matters most.
Robert D. Kaplan
His articles are featured in numerous scoundrel media publications. Defense Secretary Robert Gates appointed him to the Defense Policy Board. Bill Clinton and George W. Bush reportedly sought his counsel.
In 2011, Foreign Policy magazine called him one of the world's "top global thinkers." He's Stratfor Global Intelligence chief geopolitical analyst. According to Professor Daniel Drezner:
Professor Robert Farley added:
He calls Iran a potential regional hegemon. He says "Iranians do respond to pressure, but it has to be extreme."
At an earlier Davos World Economic Forum meeting, Stratfor's George Friedman addressed Iran saying, "There is a solution to (weapons) proliferation, and this is bombing them." Perhaps Kaplan's view is likeminded.
Henry Kissinger:
Previous articles discussed him. He was an early architect of new world order harshness.
He's a notorious war criminal. His rap sheet includes three to four million Southeast Asian war deaths.
He was instrumental in overthrowing Chile's democratic government. Augusto Pinochet replaced Salvador Allende. Reign of terror arrests, killings, torture and neoliberal harshness followed.
He backed Suharto’s brutal dictatorship. His Kopassus special forces terrorized Indonesians. Their record includes kidnappings, rape, torture, targeted killings, sweeping violence, mass murder, and other atrocities against anyone challenging his authority.
He supported his West Papua takeover. He OK'd his East Timor invasion. Over two hundred thousand East Timorese died. Around half a million more were displaced.
In two months, 10% of the population was annihilated. It was prelude for what followed.
Kissinger supported the Khmer Rouge's rise to power and reign of terror. He encouraged a Kurdish revolt against Saddam Hussein. He then abandoned them. He advised Bush and Cheney on Iraq policy.
He backed a 1974 Cypriot fascist coup. He defended Turkey's brutal invasion. He was complicit in Operation Condor. Pinochet and other Latin American despots reigned terror against alleged communists and political opponents. Tens of thousands perished.
He supported Pakistan’s "delicacy and tact" in overthrowing Bangladesh’s democratically elected government. Half a million deaths followed.
In 1974, his secret National Security Study Memorandum 200 (NSSM 200) called for drastic global depopulation. Developing nations are resource rich, he said. They're vital to US growth.
He wanted useless eaters eliminated. He said "Depopulation should be the highest priority of US foreign policy towards the Third World."
He supported involuntary mass sterilizations. He wanted birth control made a prerequisite for US aid. He wanted hundreds of millions eliminated by 2000.
He endorsed the worst of Israeli crimes. He deplores peace. He supports war and state terror. He symbolizes the worst of imperial lawlessness.
Henry Kravis:
He's co-chairman and co-CEO of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR). It calls itself "a leading global investment firm with deep roots in private equity, diversified capabilities….decades of financial and operational experience, broad industry knowledge, and a powerful network of global relationships."
It specializes in leveraged buyouts. It asset-strips companies for profit. It dumps thousands of employees doing so. It makes money the old fashioned way. Bottom line ones alone matter.
Forbes estimates his net worth at $4.5 billion. Balzac once said behind every great fortune lies a great crime.
Jessica T. Mathews:
She's a Bilderberg Steering Committee member. She's Carnegie Endowment for International Peace president. From 1977 - 1979, she was National Security Council Office of Global Issues director.
She held various other executive and legislative government posts. From 1980 - 1982, she was a Washington Post editorial board member.
Her husband is retired four-star Air Force General Charles G. Boyd. He's a Council on Foreign Relations program director. He's Business Executives for National Security president. He's a prominent Project on National Security Reform member.
Richard Perle:
He's a Bilderberg Steering Committee member. He's known as "the prince of darkness." He's a prominent uberhawk. He favors conflict over diplomacy. He served as Reagan's Assistant Secretary of Defense and Global Strategic Affairs. He was GW Bush's Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee chairman.
He's associated with the Project for the New American Century and American Enterprise Institute. Both organizations figured prominently in post-9/11 wars.
His other affiliations include the Hudson Institute, pro-Israeli front group Washington Institute for Near East Affairs (WINEP), the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), and Center for Security Policy among others.
David Petraeus:
He gained prominence as US Central Command head, International Security Assistance Force commander, and CIA director. Defrocking followed Petraeusgate.
A previous article said forget resignation over extramarital sex. Lots of elected and appointed Washington officials had affairs. Many likely have current ones.
Numerous former presidents had them. Defrocking never forced any from office.
Competence didn’t earn Petraeus four stars. Former peers accused him of brown-nosing his way to the top. It made him a brand as much as general.
Talk earlier surfaced about his presidential aspirations. In 2007, Time magazine made him runner-up Person of the Year.
White House and media spin praised his stellar performance. Before he fell from grace, he was called aggressive in nature, an innovative thinker on counterinsurgency warfare, a talisman, a white knight, a do-or-die competitive legend, and a man able to turn defeat into victory.
His former commander, Admiral William Fallon, called him "a piece of brown-nosing chicken shit."
He's more myth than man. His failures were called successes. His career advanced by being super-hawkish, brown-nosing the right superiors, lying to Congress, surviving the scorn of some peers, hiding his failures, hyping a fake Iranian threat, supporting Israel, unjustifiably claiming Iraq success, and boasting how he’d do it throughout the region.
He manufactured successes. He concealed failures. He's out of the public spotlight but not gone.
In March 2013, he became honorary Office of Strategic Services (OSS) chairman. It was the CIA' s predecessor organization.
He's also a City University of New York visiting professor. In May, UCLA named him Judge Widney Professor. He's Currahee Board of Trustees president. KKR named him KKR Global Institute chairman.
Robert Rubin:
He formerly chaired Goldman Sachs and Citigroup. He served as Clinton's Assistant to the President for Economic Policy, National Economic Council head and Treasury Secretary.
Time magazine once called him, Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan, and Deputy Treasury Secretary Larry Summers "The Committee to Save the World."
They did more wrecking than saving. They helped get Glass-Steagall repealed. They influenced Commodities Futures Modernization Act (CFMA) passage.
It legitimized swap agreements and other hybrid instruments. They're at the core of major financial problems. It prevented regulatory oversight of derivatives and leveraging. CFMA and Glass-Steagall's repeal made Wall Street a casino operating on only the house wins rules.
CFMA legitimized derivatives scams. Enron took full advantage. It fleeced investors and energy purchasers with impunity. It did so until its house of cards collapsed.
At the time, Alan Greenspan endorsed derivatives. He lied calling them a way to share risks. They turned an economic downturn into a protracted Main Street Depression.
Clinton/Rubin/Summers/Greenspan/Bernanke/Paulson/Geithner, and other co-conspirators engineered it.
Eric Schmidt:
He's Google executive chairman. Forbes estimates his net worth at $7.5 billion. He's a regular Bilderberg attendee. A previous article discussed his close Bilderberg ties.
Infowars reporters Paul Joseph Watson and Jon Scobie said Google's "merging" with Bilderberg.
It's "being recast as 'Google-Berg' - partly because of efforts on behalf of activists to tear away the veil of Bilderberg’s much cherished secrecy, and partly as a means of re-branding authoritarian, undemocratic secret gatherings of elites as trendy, liberal, feel-good philanthropic-style forums like Google Zeitgeist and TED."
Schmidt thinks "privacy is a relic of the past." He "plans to turn Google into the ultimate Big Brother."
He and Bilderberg members share common aims. In part, they reflect a "collectivist, permanently networked world (without) individuality and privacy." They're partnering for greater global control. Doing so makes Bilderberg's ideal world unfit to live in.
James Wolfensohn:
He's Australian born. He became a naturalized US citizen. From 1995 - 2005, he was World Bank president. Along with the IMF and other major international lending agencies, it debt entraps nations.
It wages financial war on humanity. It mandates structural adjustment harshness.
It prioritizes privatization of state enterprises, mass layoffs, deregulation, deep social spending cuts, wage freezes or cuts, corporate-friendly tax cuts, unrestricted Western corporate market access, trade unionism crushed or marginalized, and stiff repression targeting non-believers.
In 2005, Wolfsensohn founded Wolfensohn & Company. It's a global emerging markets private equity firm. It advises governments and large corporations doing business in emerging market economies.
Since 2006, Wolfensohn's also been Citigroup International Advisory Board chairman.
In 2009, he became a China Investment Corporation International Advisory Council member. In October 2010, he regained his Australian citizenship.
Robert Zoellick:
He's a prominent neocon. He was a Project for a New American Century member. He advocated post-9/11 wars.
Paul Wolfowitz succeeded Wolfensohn as World Bank president. Zoellick succeeded him. He served from 2007 to 2012.
He formerly was a Goldman Sachs managing director, as well as Deputy Secretary of State and US Trade Representative under GW Bush.
Under Reagan, he held various Treasury positions. He was Counselor to James Baker, Executive Secretary of the Department, and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions Policy.
He was GHW Bush's Under Secretary of State for Economic and Agricultural Affairs. He also served as Department Counselor.
In 1991 and 1992, he was Bush's G7 summit representative. He 1992, he served as White House deputy chief of staff.
From 1993 - 1997, he was Fannie Mae executive vice president. He bears much responsibility for helping to inflate the housing bubble.
During George Bush's 2000 presidential campaign, he was one among other self-styled "vulcans." Others included Condoleezza Rice, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Armitage, Richard Perle, Stephen Hadley, Scooter Libby, and Dov Zakheim.
The term alludes to the Roman god of fire and metalworking.
Zoellick's other past and present affiliations include Enron's advisory board, Alliance Capital, Said Holdings, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Aspen Institute's Strategy Group, former Defense Secretary William Cohen's Defense Policy Board, and the Center for Strategic and International Studies among others.
Other notable Bilderberg attendees include IMF head Christine Lagarde, European President Jose Manuel Barroso, former appointed Italian Prime Minister Mario (three-card) Monti, Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne, Goldman Sachs International chairman Peter Sutherland, as well as numerous other politicians, corporate bosses, investment firm heads, journalist insiders and others.
They comprise a virtual rogues gallery of scoundrels. An official list excludes likely figures kept private. Bill and Hillary Clinton were spotted arriving. Rumor suggests Obama and Britain's David Cameron may attend. Perhaps we'll know more later on.
Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net. His new book is titled How Wall Street Fleeces America: Privatized Banking, Government Collusion and Class War. Also visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com and listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network Thursdays at 10AM US Central time and Saturdays and Sundays at noon. All programs are archived for easy listening. http://www.progressiveradionetwork.com/the-progressive-news-hour/
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Activist Post
Friday, June 7, 2013
Bilderberg Conference Convenes
Stephen LendmanActivist Post
On June 5, the London Evening Standard headlined "No minutes, no press conferences - just the world's power brokers chewing the fat on the issues of the day. It's the Bilderberg conference - and it's coming to a suburb near you."
On June 6, it convened. It continues through June 9. It's a rite of spring. A previous article said British political economist Will Hutton calls attendees the "high priests of globalization."
Powerful movers and shakers have their own agenda. They're up to no good. They meet annually face-to-face. They conspire, collude and collaborate against populist interests. Their's alone matter.
According to Bilderberg Meetings.org:
Founded in 1954, Bilderberg is an annual conference designed to foster dialogue between Europe and North America.
Every year, between 120 -150 political leaders and experts from industry, finance, academia and the media are invited to take part in the conference.
About two thirds of the participants come from Europe and the rest from North America; one third from politics and government and the rest from other fields.
The conference is a forum for informal, off-the-record discussions about megatrends and the major issues facing the world.
Thanks to the private nature of the conference, the participants are not bound by the conventions of office or by pre-agreed positions.
As such, they can take time to listen, reflect and gather insights. There is no detailed agenda, no resolutions are proposed, no votes are taken, and no policy statements are issued.
The 61st Bilderberg meeting will take place at the beginning of June 2013 in the UK."
Earlier articles discussed their agenda. Their ideal world isn't fit to live in. Democracy is verboten. They want one world government. They want unchallenged global dominance.
Their wish list includes universal rules they set, centralized global control, perpetual crises and wars, NATO operating worldwide, abolishing the middle class, establishing ruler-serf societies, and having unchallenged wealth and power in their hands.
They want what they say goes enforced as policy. Obedient serfs can expect subsistence crumbs at best. Non-believers will be eliminated. New world order priorities alone matter.
Bilderberg's Steering Committee includes a dozen prominent Americans. David Rockefeller's called an Advisory Group member.
He's attending. A published list excludes his name. He's called the master spider for good reason. He's been dominant for decades. On June 12, he turns 98. He's fading. Who'll replace him isn't clear.
In her book Web of Debt, Ellen Brown quoted economist/geopolitical analyst Hans Schicht saying:
What has been good for Rockefeller, has been a curse for the United States. Its citizens, government and country indebted to the hilt, enslaved to his banks.
The country's industrial force lost to overseas in consequence of strong dollar policies (pursued for bankers not the country.Rockefeller's no longer the force he once was. "(S)ixty years of dollar imperialism (is ending). The day of financial reckoning is not far off any longer."
With Rockefeller's strong hand losing its grip and the old established order fading, the world has entered a most dangerous transition period, where anything could happenBilderberg rogues plan a world unfit to live in. They may end up destroying it in the process. It's hard imagining a more malevolent force. US members reflect the worst of what it stands for. More on some prominent ones attending below.
They're meeting at Britain's five-star Grove Hotel. It's 18 miles from London. It's ideal for secluded meetings. While ongoing, police state security's enforced.
Operations go on round-the-clock. Area residents have to show police passports, drivers licenses, or other accepted photo IDs to go home, to work, or attend to other personal business.
Civil liberties are suspended. De facto martial law's in force. What Bilderberg rogues want they get. They want the worst of all possible worlds spread globally.
Prominent American attendees in alphabetical order include:
Roger Altman:
He's a former Lehman Brothers partner. He left before its dissolution. Perhaps he helped push it over the edge. He was Clinton's Deputy Treasury Secretary. He's a Bilderberg Steering Committee member.
He's founder and executive chairman of Evercore Partners. It's a prominent predatory investment banking advisory firm. It specializes in mergers, acquisition, divestitures, restructurings, financings and other strategic transactions.
It operates the old-fashioned way. It recommends leveraged buyouts, asset-stripping targeted companies, and leaving thousands of employees high and dry on their own.
Jeff Bezos:
He's Amazon's founder and CEO. It's the world's largest online retailer. Earlier he worked on Wall Street and for a New York-based hedge fund.
In March 2013, Forbes estimated his net worth at $25.2 billion.
Martin Feldstein:
He's Harvard University Professor of Economics. From 1982 - 1984, he was Reagan's Council of Economic Advisors chairman and chief economic advisor. He's National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) president emeritus. It's an elitist organization.
Many of its members have been conservative Nobel economics laureates. Others served as White House chairmen of the Council of Economic Advisors.
It's well known for announcing when recessions begin and end. It does so inaccurately. It ignores an ongoing protracted Main Street Depression.
In 2006, Feldstein was on Bush's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. In 2009, he served Obama in a likewise capacity.
His other affiliations include the Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission, and American Enterprise Group among others. He been a board member of several major corporations.
Timothy Geithner:
A previous article discussed his legacy of shame. His rap sheet includes various Treasury posts, IMF Policy Development and Review director, New York Fed president, vice chairman of the Fed's Open Market Committee (FOMC), and Obama's Treasury Secretary.
He partnered with former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson and Fed chairman Ben Bernanke. They planned the grandest of grand thefts. They implemented banker bailouts.
They looted the federal treasury. They stuck taxpayers with the bill. They debased the currency. They transformed America into an unprecedented money making racket.
He and other Bilderberg rogues want spread globally what they did to America. They conspired with their EU partners doing the same thing to Western Europe.
They bear full responsibility for today's global economic crisis. They planned it for greater wealth and power control.
Donald Graham:
He's Washington Post Company chairman and CEO. His holdings include TV stations, municipal cable systems, and Kaplan, Inc. It provides higher education testing, training, and professional courses. It's ethically and legally challenged.
It specializes in ripping off students. It does so for profit. It features scams and other fraudulent schemes. It sacrifices education for bottom line priorities.
It's faced numerous lawsuits. In 2007, a class-action one on overcharging was settled. It shows no signs of changing its ways. Doing business the old fashioned way matters most.
Robert D. Kaplan
His articles are featured in numerous scoundrel media publications. Defense Secretary Robert Gates appointed him to the Defense Policy Board. Bill Clinton and George W. Bush reportedly sought his counsel.
In 2011, Foreign Policy magazine called him one of the world's "top global thinkers." He's Stratfor Global Intelligence chief geopolitical analyst. According to Professor Daniel Drezner:
What Kaplan and George Friedman share is a sense of geographical determinism that allows them to claim predictive powers.They and like-minded ideologues advance amoral national interest priorities. Resource control weighs heavily.
Professor Robert Farley added:
Kaplan's talent is to tell the powerful what they want to hear with the veneer of both theoretical insight and empirical knowledge, while possessing neither.His book Balkan Ghosts allegedly influenced Clinton's thinking on Serbia, Bosnia and Kosovo. Its dark side analysis characterized Yugoslav people as primitive and violent.
He calls Iran a potential regional hegemon. He says "Iranians do respond to pressure, but it has to be extreme."
At an earlier Davos World Economic Forum meeting, Stratfor's George Friedman addressed Iran saying, "There is a solution to (weapons) proliferation, and this is bombing them." Perhaps Kaplan's view is likeminded.
Henry Kissinger:
Previous articles discussed him. He was an early architect of new world order harshness.
He's a notorious war criminal. His rap sheet includes three to four million Southeast Asian war deaths.
He was instrumental in overthrowing Chile's democratic government. Augusto Pinochet replaced Salvador Allende. Reign of terror arrests, killings, torture and neoliberal harshness followed.
He backed Suharto’s brutal dictatorship. His Kopassus special forces terrorized Indonesians. Their record includes kidnappings, rape, torture, targeted killings, sweeping violence, mass murder, and other atrocities against anyone challenging his authority.
He supported his West Papua takeover. He OK'd his East Timor invasion. Over two hundred thousand East Timorese died. Around half a million more were displaced.
In two months, 10% of the population was annihilated. It was prelude for what followed.
Kissinger supported the Khmer Rouge's rise to power and reign of terror. He encouraged a Kurdish revolt against Saddam Hussein. He then abandoned them. He advised Bush and Cheney on Iraq policy.
He backed a 1974 Cypriot fascist coup. He defended Turkey's brutal invasion. He was complicit in Operation Condor. Pinochet and other Latin American despots reigned terror against alleged communists and political opponents. Tens of thousands perished.
He supported Pakistan’s "delicacy and tact" in overthrowing Bangladesh’s democratically elected government. Half a million deaths followed.
In 1974, his secret National Security Study Memorandum 200 (NSSM 200) called for drastic global depopulation. Developing nations are resource rich, he said. They're vital to US growth.
He wanted useless eaters eliminated. He said "Depopulation should be the highest priority of US foreign policy towards the Third World."
He supported involuntary mass sterilizations. He wanted birth control made a prerequisite for US aid. He wanted hundreds of millions eliminated by 2000.
He endorsed the worst of Israeli crimes. He deplores peace. He supports war and state terror. He symbolizes the worst of imperial lawlessness.
Henry Kravis:
He's co-chairman and co-CEO of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR). It calls itself "a leading global investment firm with deep roots in private equity, diversified capabilities….decades of financial and operational experience, broad industry knowledge, and a powerful network of global relationships."
It specializes in leveraged buyouts. It asset-strips companies for profit. It dumps thousands of employees doing so. It makes money the old fashioned way. Bottom line ones alone matter.
Forbes estimates his net worth at $4.5 billion. Balzac once said behind every great fortune lies a great crime.
Jessica T. Mathews:
She's a Bilderberg Steering Committee member. She's Carnegie Endowment for International Peace president. From 1977 - 1979, she was National Security Council Office of Global Issues director.
She held various other executive and legislative government posts. From 1980 - 1982, she was a Washington Post editorial board member.
Her husband is retired four-star Air Force General Charles G. Boyd. He's a Council on Foreign Relations program director. He's Business Executives for National Security president. He's a prominent Project on National Security Reform member.
Richard Perle:
He's a Bilderberg Steering Committee member. He's known as "the prince of darkness." He's a prominent uberhawk. He favors conflict over diplomacy. He served as Reagan's Assistant Secretary of Defense and Global Strategic Affairs. He was GW Bush's Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee chairman.
He's associated with the Project for the New American Century and American Enterprise Institute. Both organizations figured prominently in post-9/11 wars.
His other affiliations include the Hudson Institute, pro-Israeli front group Washington Institute for Near East Affairs (WINEP), the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), and Center for Security Policy among others.
David Petraeus:
He gained prominence as US Central Command head, International Security Assistance Force commander, and CIA director. Defrocking followed Petraeusgate.
A previous article said forget resignation over extramarital sex. Lots of elected and appointed Washington officials had affairs. Many likely have current ones.
Numerous former presidents had them. Defrocking never forced any from office.
Competence didn’t earn Petraeus four stars. Former peers accused him of brown-nosing his way to the top. It made him a brand as much as general.
Talk earlier surfaced about his presidential aspirations. In 2007, Time magazine made him runner-up Person of the Year.
White House and media spin praised his stellar performance. Before he fell from grace, he was called aggressive in nature, an innovative thinker on counterinsurgency warfare, a talisman, a white knight, a do-or-die competitive legend, and a man able to turn defeat into victory.
His former commander, Admiral William Fallon, called him "a piece of brown-nosing chicken shit."
He's more myth than man. His failures were called successes. His career advanced by being super-hawkish, brown-nosing the right superiors, lying to Congress, surviving the scorn of some peers, hiding his failures, hyping a fake Iranian threat, supporting Israel, unjustifiably claiming Iraq success, and boasting how he’d do it throughout the region.
He manufactured successes. He concealed failures. He's out of the public spotlight but not gone.
In March 2013, he became honorary Office of Strategic Services (OSS) chairman. It was the CIA' s predecessor organization.
He's also a City University of New York visiting professor. In May, UCLA named him Judge Widney Professor. He's Currahee Board of Trustees president. KKR named him KKR Global Institute chairman.
Robert Rubin:
He formerly chaired Goldman Sachs and Citigroup. He served as Clinton's Assistant to the President for Economic Policy, National Economic Council head and Treasury Secretary.
Time magazine once called him, Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan, and Deputy Treasury Secretary Larry Summers "The Committee to Save the World."
They did more wrecking than saving. They helped get Glass-Steagall repealed. They influenced Commodities Futures Modernization Act (CFMA) passage.
It legitimized swap agreements and other hybrid instruments. They're at the core of major financial problems. It prevented regulatory oversight of derivatives and leveraging. CFMA and Glass-Steagall's repeal made Wall Street a casino operating on only the house wins rules.
CFMA legitimized derivatives scams. Enron took full advantage. It fleeced investors and energy purchasers with impunity. It did so until its house of cards collapsed.
At the time, Alan Greenspan endorsed derivatives. He lied calling them a way to share risks. They turned an economic downturn into a protracted Main Street Depression.
Clinton/Rubin/Summers/Greenspan/Bernanke/Paulson/Geithner, and other co-conspirators engineered it.
Eric Schmidt:
He's Google executive chairman. Forbes estimates his net worth at $7.5 billion. He's a regular Bilderberg attendee. A previous article discussed his close Bilderberg ties.
Infowars reporters Paul Joseph Watson and Jon Scobie said Google's "merging" with Bilderberg.
It's "being recast as 'Google-Berg' - partly because of efforts on behalf of activists to tear away the veil of Bilderberg’s much cherished secrecy, and partly as a means of re-branding authoritarian, undemocratic secret gatherings of elites as trendy, liberal, feel-good philanthropic-style forums like Google Zeitgeist and TED."
Schmidt thinks "privacy is a relic of the past." He "plans to turn Google into the ultimate Big Brother."
He and Bilderberg members share common aims. In part, they reflect a "collectivist, permanently networked world (without) individuality and privacy." They're partnering for greater global control. Doing so makes Bilderberg's ideal world unfit to live in.
James Wolfensohn:
He's Australian born. He became a naturalized US citizen. From 1995 - 2005, he was World Bank president. Along with the IMF and other major international lending agencies, it debt entraps nations.
It wages financial war on humanity. It mandates structural adjustment harshness.
It prioritizes privatization of state enterprises, mass layoffs, deregulation, deep social spending cuts, wage freezes or cuts, corporate-friendly tax cuts, unrestricted Western corporate market access, trade unionism crushed or marginalized, and stiff repression targeting non-believers.
In 2005, Wolfsensohn founded Wolfensohn & Company. It's a global emerging markets private equity firm. It advises governments and large corporations doing business in emerging market economies.
Since 2006, Wolfensohn's also been Citigroup International Advisory Board chairman.
In 2009, he became a China Investment Corporation International Advisory Council member. In October 2010, he regained his Australian citizenship.
Robert Zoellick:
He's a prominent neocon. He was a Project for a New American Century member. He advocated post-9/11 wars.
Paul Wolfowitz succeeded Wolfensohn as World Bank president. Zoellick succeeded him. He served from 2007 to 2012.
He formerly was a Goldman Sachs managing director, as well as Deputy Secretary of State and US Trade Representative under GW Bush.
Under Reagan, he held various Treasury positions. He was Counselor to James Baker, Executive Secretary of the Department, and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions Policy.
He was GHW Bush's Under Secretary of State for Economic and Agricultural Affairs. He also served as Department Counselor.
In 1991 and 1992, he was Bush's G7 summit representative. He 1992, he served as White House deputy chief of staff.
From 1993 - 1997, he was Fannie Mae executive vice president. He bears much responsibility for helping to inflate the housing bubble.
During George Bush's 2000 presidential campaign, he was one among other self-styled "vulcans." Others included Condoleezza Rice, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Armitage, Richard Perle, Stephen Hadley, Scooter Libby, and Dov Zakheim.
The term alludes to the Roman god of fire and metalworking.
Zoellick's other past and present affiliations include Enron's advisory board, Alliance Capital, Said Holdings, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Aspen Institute's Strategy Group, former Defense Secretary William Cohen's Defense Policy Board, and the Center for Strategic and International Studies among others.
Other notable Bilderberg attendees include IMF head Christine Lagarde, European President Jose Manuel Barroso, former appointed Italian Prime Minister Mario (three-card) Monti, Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne, Goldman Sachs International chairman Peter Sutherland, as well as numerous other politicians, corporate bosses, investment firm heads, journalist insiders and others.
They comprise a virtual rogues gallery of scoundrels. An official list excludes likely figures kept private. Bill and Hillary Clinton were spotted arriving. Rumor suggests Obama and Britain's David Cameron may attend. Perhaps we'll know more later on.
Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net. His new book is titled How Wall Street Fleeces America: Privatized Banking, Government Collusion and Class War. Also visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com and listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network Thursdays at 10AM US Central time and Saturdays and Sundays at noon. All programs are archived for easy listening. http://www.progressiveradionetwork.com/the-progressive-news-hour/
13-06-08 Occupy the Israeli Supreme Court, re: Public Housing Act; Launch Sunday, June 23, ahead of "preliminary review" of petitions on July 1
Unaffordable housing is the core issue of social protest in Israel today. The executive branch disregards that Public Housing Act and unlawfully took NIS 3 billions accumulated for public housing under the Act. The Israeli Supreme Court colludes with disregard of the law by refusing to accord due process to petitions against the executive on this matter.
The Israeli executive branch disregards the Public Housing Act
Three petitions for Conditional Decrees have been filed by various parties (former Housing Minister, Members of Knesset, Non profit organizations) against the Israeli government and its various ministers for their refusal to comply with the Public Housing Act. [1]
According to media reports close to NIS 3 billions have been accumulated by now under the Act.
Where is the money?
Why does the government refuse to comply with the law and expand public housing using these funds?
The Israeli Supreme Court disregards the Regulations of the Courts
In none of the petitions has been accorded Due Process so far. In none of the petitions has the Supreme Court issued a Conditional Decree, asking the executive to come and explain its conduct to the Court. [2[
Instead of duly conducting Conditional Decree Petition procedures in compliance with the Regulations of the High Court of Justice, the Supreme Court is conducting "Preliminary Review" which has no foundation in the law.
The Supreme Court of the State of Israel, sitting as High Court of Justice and due review of petitions, is charged with protection of rights and the Rule of Law in the State of Israel.
Instead, the Supreme Court colludes with the executive in contempt of the Rule of Law.
In short: The executive and the judiciary jointly deceive the People.
Our response
Occupy the Supreme Court - a protest encampment in front of the Supreme Court during the week preceding the "Preliminary Review" of the Public Housing Act petitions on July 1, 2013.
Ground breaking - June 23, 2013.
Additional Details
Joseph Zernik
Occupy Tel Aviv
LINKS:
[1] Israeli Supreme Court records of three Conditional Decree petitions, related to the Public Housing
[2] Regulations of the Israeli High Court of Justice
Thursday, June 6, 2013
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13-06-07 US: The surveillance state
WND
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/06/the-scandals-and-the-surveillance-state/#cVXri2DrYjSPyAlS.99
BETWEEN THE LINES
THE SCANDALS AND THE SURVEILLANCE STATE
Exclusive: Joseph Farah stresses solution to exploding Obama spying incidents
- The U.S. government has obtained a top secret court order that requires Verizon to turn over the telephone records of millions of Americans to the National Security Agency on an “ongoing daily basis.”
- The Obama administration is secretly carrying out a domestic surveillance program under which it is collecting business communications records involving Americans under a hotly debated section of the Patriot Act, according to a highly classified court order.
- The Obama administration acknowledged that it is collecting a massive amount of telephone records from at least one carrier, reopening the debate over privacy even as it defended the practice as necessary to protect Americans against attack.
- The National Security Agency has long justified its spying powers by arguing that its charter allows surveillance on those outside of the United States, while avoiding intrusions into the private communications of American citizens. But the latest revelation of the extent of the NSA’s surveillance shows that it has focused specifically on Americans, to the degree that its data collection has in at least one major spying incident explicitly excluded those outside the United States.
- U.S. border agents should continue to be allowed to search a traveler’s laptop, cellphone or other electronic device and keep copies of any data on them based on no more than a hunch, according to an internal Homeland Security Department study. It contends limiting such searches would prevent the U.S. from detecting child pornographers or terrorists and expose the government to lawsuits.
- The FBI is unhappy that there are communications technologies it cannot intercept, and wants a new requirement that software makers and communications companies create a back door so they can listen in when they want.
If these headlines appeared over the course of a 10-year period, there would be plenty to worry about in terms of privacy rights in the United States. But, amazingly, these news stories all appeared in just one day – yesterday – in the reports of news organizations around the world.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/06/the-scandals-and-the-surveillance-state/#cVXri2DrYjSPyAlS.99
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
13-06-04 Israel: Inching toward occupation by the United States
Yet another US military base building project in Israel... Although the publication below presents the Israeli government resentment as arising from information exposed to the enemies, it may just as well be that the Israeli government never wanted the Israeli public to know about these projects. No public discussion has been heard of the entire notion of US military bases in Israel. It appears that decision has been made a while ago to give up sovereignty and pave the way for US military occupation. jz
===13-06-04 הסיפוח הזוחל של ישראל על ידי צבא ארה"ב נמשך בהתמדה===
העיתונות הזרה מדווחת על מכרז בנייה שלישי, על פי ספירתי בחודשים האחרונים, של צבא ארה"ב בישראל. המכרזים הקודמים היו לבניית בונקרים תת-קרקעיים בבסיסים מרכזיים של צה"ל, ככל הנראה מרכזי שליטה ובקרה.
הפרסום להלן מדווח על מורת רוח בממשלת ישראל לגבי פרסום המכרז השלישי, הקשור להצבת המערכת האנטי-בליסטית חץ 3, מחשש שפרטים מסווגים יפלו לידי האויב. אך סביר להניח שממשלת ישראל רצתה לא פחות לשמור את העניין מחוץ לדיון הציבורי בישראל.
ההחלטה לתת לצבא ארה"ב לבנות מתקנים בבסיסי צה"ל מרכזיים כמוה כוויתור על ריבונות ישראלית, והפיכת ישראל לסוג של דרום קוריאה, או אולי בדרך לסוג של פקיסטאן... אך הציבור לא קיבל אפילו הודעה על כך, כל שכן לא שותף בקבלת ההחלטה...
דר' יוסף צרניק
מאהל המחאה, ת"א
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- osted on Monday, June 3, 2013
U.S. publishes details of missile base Israel wanted kept secret
By Sheera Frenkel | McClatchy Foreign Staff
TEL AVIV, Israel — Israel’s military fumed Monday over the discovery that the U.S. government had revealed details of a top-secret Israeli military installation in published bid requests.
The Obama administration had promised to build Israel a state-of-the-art facility to house a new ballistic-missile defense system, the Arrow 3. As with all Defense Department projects, detailed specifications were made public so that contractors could bid on the $25 million project. The specifications included more than 1,000 pages of details on the facility, ranging from the heating and cooling systems to the thickness of the walls.
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13-06-04 The Great and the Greater Depressions
Now that we entered the Greater Depression, interest in the Great Depression is growing, see below. And if the Great Depression was so good, the Greater Depression will be even better! jz
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How Fox News Misleads Its Viewers
John Stossel's revisionist history of the Great Depression.
June 3, 2013 |
Last week, John Stossel gave a master class in how Fox News keeps its viewers misled and misinformed on economic issues, concluding with the bombshell "fact" that "think about the Depression. That was before there was any welfare state at all. How many people starved? No one."
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13-06-04 Radical thinking on Obama's BC
I met in Tel Aviv a young, educated American, who self-identified as a lefty. Everything went fine, until he discovered that I was a partial-birther (no pun intended).
"So you think he was born in Africa?". "I really don't care", I answer, "It is just that the records of the Commander in Chief are funny!".
Published on April 27, 2011 by Dan Pfeiffer White House Communications Director:
So then I had to go back with him through the records online, looking again at some of these things after quite a while. (see the guided tour below).
After about half the guided tour the guy asks me: "So why did they do such an amateurish job at it?
My radical answer on that is two-fold:
a) Because it was just a joke from the beginning, and
b) Because they can get away with it.
JZ
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Let's take for example the "Certificate of Live Birth" and "Birth Certificate", on the "White House Blog".
A. CERTIFICATE OF LIVE BIRTH:
1) The 2011 blog post starts:
"In 2008, in response to media inquiries, the President’s campaign requested his birth certificate from the state of Hawaii. The state sent the campaign the President’s birth certificate, the same legal documentation provided to all Hawaiians as proof of birth in state, and the campaign immediately posted it on the internet. That birth certificate can be seen here (PDF)."
2) When you go to that link:
You find a PDF image, titled "Certification of Live Birth", where the certificate number is redacted, an obvious alteration, while the bottom of the same image says: "Any alterations invalidate this certificate"...
3) And what is the source of this important document on the "White House Blog"?
The bottom of the PDF indicates that it was printed out from http://msgboard.snopes,com/
That particular link does not go anywhere now, but the site itself, the source of the "White House Blog" record is:
Which defines itself as:
"the definitive Internet reference source for urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and misinformation. "
B. LONG FORM BIRTH CERTIFICATE
1) The immediate source of the record was advertised as the Hawaii State government. That notion is supported on the "White House Blog" by the following note: "Correspondence with the Hawaii State Department of Health can be seen here (PDF)."
2) When you go to that link:
You find a letter by Loretta Fuddy, Director of Health at State of Hawaii Department of Health, dated April 25, 2011, which states that in response to request by our Dear President, "two certified copies of the original certificate of live birth" are provided as Enclosure.
3) The "Enclosures" of Ms Fuddy's letter are however missing.
4) The correspondence with the State of Hawaii, was presumably paper based, as shown.
However, instead of the paper certified copy of the Certificate of Live Birth, we are shown on the White House Blog a digital image, the infamous one:
5) Wait a minute, didn't Ms Fuddy say that she certified the copies?
You would expect the copy to show somewhere a wet ink stamp "True Copy of the Original" with the hand signature of Ms Fuddy. None appears with the image of the LFBC on the White House Blog.
6) That image of the LFBC is further shown at:
It originated on paper, then bound in a book, which created the curl on the left side of the record. It was then microfilmed, then printed or captured and processed electronically, to add the green mesh background. However, the digital green mesh did not match the curl from the bound paper, and when an attempt was made to compensate for that, a funny hole in the green mesh was created at the top left corner of the document...
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White House Blog: http://www.whitehouse.
President Obama's Long Form Birth Certificate
Ed. Note: Read the transcript of the President's remarks following this release or watch the video here.
In 2008, in response to media inquiries, the President’s campaign requested his birth certificate from the state of Hawaii. The state sent the campaign the President’s birth certificate, the same legal documentation provided to all Hawaiians as proof of birth in state, and the campaign immediately posted it on the internet. That birth certificate can be seen here (PDF).
When any citizen born in Hawaii requests their birth certificate, they receive exactly what the President received. In fact, the document posted on the campaign website is what Hawaiians use to get a driver’s license from the state and the document recognized by the Federal Government and the courts for all legal purposes. That’s because it is the birth certificate. This is not and should not be an open question.
The President believed the distraction over his birth certificate wasn’t good for the country. It may have been good politics and good TV, but it was bad for the American people and distracting from the many challenges we face as a country. Therefore, the President directed his counsel to review the legal authority for seeking access to the long form certificate and to request on that basis that the Hawaii State Department of Health make an exception to release a copy of his long form birth certificate. They granted that exception in part because of the tremendous volume of requests they had been getting.President Barack Obama's long form birth certificate can be seen here (PDF):
At a time of great consequence for this country – when we should be debating how we win the future, reduce our deficit, deal with high gas prices, and bring stability to the Middle East, Washington, DC, was once again distracted by a fake issue. The President’s hope is that with this step, we can move on to debating the bigger issues that matter to the American people and the future of the country.
Dan Pfeiffer is White House Communications Director
13-06-04 Hollywood-DC coordination, worthy of the soviets...
t increasingly appears the new trend in Hollywood, is to issue every quarter an A movie, supporting deplorable US conduct at home or abroad. This quarter - the hunting down of Julian Assange and Bradley Manning. I cannot remember when was last time Hollywood was so close to DC, probably during WW II? But it all sounds very soviet to me... jz
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The persecution of Manning and Assange is not an isolated act. It is part of a terrifying assault against our most important civil liberties and a free press. Manning and Assange are the canaries in the mineshaft. They did not seek to sell the documents that WikiLeaks published or to profit personally from their release.
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