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The Zioconned US Military's Green Tech Strategy....

2012-02-09T05:57:00.001-08:00

The Zioconned US Military's Green Tech Strategy....

At Fort Carson, Colo., the Army partnered with a local energy provider to build a photovoltaic solar array on top of a closed landfill. The White Sands Missile Range project in New Mexico will provide the Army with 4.44-megawatts of installed photovoltaic capacity, saving 10 million kilowatt hours of electricity and $930,000 annually. When finished, White Sands will be the largest renewable energy project in the Army...

Last week this series started off with a look at why the military wants to reduce its dependence on fossil fuels and some of the ways in which it plans to do that. Today we’ll take a closer look at some of the specific technologies and products the military is pursuing and the various plans in place for making it all work.
Again, the military’s interest in clean technology and renewable energy, while certainly supported by federal policy, seems to be more about resource efficiency than any particular political agenda. And while the Solyndra debacle has had everyone complaining about the Department of Energy‘s loan guarantee program, when it comes to military projects the business case is very different.
In September 2011, for example, the U.S. Army announced a plan to install rooftop solar installations on as many as 160,000 privatized military residences in 33 states. The army announced that developer SolarCity would install, own and operate the rooftop arrays at 124 military bases. SolarCity announced that it would put Army veterans and military family members to work installing the panels. USRG Renewable Finance, the debt financing arm of US Renewable Group, announced that it would lend $344 million to SolarCity for the project, in partnership with BofA Merrill Lynch. Up to 80 percent of the loan would be guaranteed by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office. In this scenario, the risks are incredibly low. SolarCity has a clear interest in ensuring that its product is installed and operating properly–not only does it want to keep a large customer like the U.S. Army happy, but the better its panels operate, the more excess energy it might be able to sell back to the grid. The Army gets to lock in a guaranteed energy rate for the next several years through its power purchase agreement (PPA) with SolarCity, but doesn’t have to worry about the up-front costs or maintenance of the panels. USRG Renewable Finance and the DOE get a low-risk investment, and the solar industry gets greater scale (the Army installations would just about double the amount of installed rooftop photovoltaics in the country) and a solid showcase of its potential.
Perhaps more importantly, as the various branches of the military pinpoint which technologies and solutions work for them, their approach has not been to seek more appropriations, but to meet with private developers and investors who can help fund projects and eliminate the need for more government funding. The Department of Defense is prohibited from paying a premium for goods or services, which is an obvious hurdle when it comes to many renewable energy technologies, but it’s also driving innovation in the military’s strategy and could eventually help to drive down costs in the renewable energy sector.
As of September 15, 2011 the Army launched the Energy Initiatives Office, the mission of which is to engage the private sector in identifying and investing in big green power projects that could be built on the Army’s vast land holdings. The Army estimates it will need about $7.1 billion in investment over the next few years to meet its goal of using 25 percent renewable energy by 2025, and it doesn’t expect that money to come from the federal government.
Part of what makes the military’s renewable energy projects so attractive to would-be investors is that the service owns so much land that lends itself to such projects. A recent solar project installed at Edwards Air Force Base, for example, features three photovoltaic installations across the base, generating 3.4 megawatts of electricity. The project was developed by Borrego Solar, which leases the land the installations sit on from Edwards, and sells solar power to the base through a 10-year power purchase agreement.

We’re able to fulfill about 10 percent of energy needs on base with that system,” says Jon Gensler, federal project developer with Borrego. “They’re operating live missions out of Edwards and this gives them 10 percent of their energy over 10 years where they know what they’ll be paying for it.”

Gensler calls the Edwards project a great example of the willingness of the DOD to work closely with the private sector. In this case Borrego owns and operates the system, provides operational and maintenance support, leases land from Edwards and sells the base electricity. This sort of arrangement seems to be emerging as the DOD’s preferred way of getting renewable energy projects built, but Gensler says it hasn’t been without its obstacles.

Anywhere in the DOD, or really the government in general, having a third-party owning assets is not common” he says, but draws a corollary between what’s happening with renewable energy projects now and how the military privatized housing on bases a few years ago. “It’s a similar model–developers come and build housing for soldiers on bases, they own and operate those residences, and it keeps housing off the balance sheet of the military and converts a CapX expense to an operational expense, which saves taxpayer money on an annual basis. Now they’re looking to do the same thing with energy.

The bulk of renewable energy projects currently being considered or implemented by the country’s military bases are focused on distributed energy. By generating energy onsite, the military can help to ensure resiliency and reliability in its energy supply, which is clearly preferable to the vulnerability inherent in using energy from a source the military does not control.

With distributed energy projects, you can build plants at scale and ramp them up over time,” explains Tim Keating, VP of field operations and marketing at Skyline Solar, a Silicon Valley-based concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) company with contracts to develop solar plants at Edwards Air Force Base and Fort Bliss. “You can build one or two or three megawatts, and put those online in a local grid, so not only can you scale up over time, but you also don’t have to worry about all the issues associated with transmission. Thirty percent of power sent out on transmission lines is lost right off the top.”

Beyond Solar
It’s not just solar projects the military is looking at, but also technologies that improve the efficiency of everything from buildings to transport vehicles to jets and carriers. According to a recent report from analysts at Pike Research, among the key sectors that will receive significant Pentagon attention and investment over the next two decades are solar power for both permanent bases and temporary facilities; fuel cells for individual soldier power; microgrids for military facilities; and biofuels for military vehicles, particularly the Navy’s “Great Green Fleet” initiative to shift to a largely biofuels-driven fleet by 2016.
Pike analyst Peter Asmus says some military branches are getting into demand-response technologies first, often as a way to generate revenue for renewable energy, microgrid, and/or biofuels projects. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) will be enacting Order 745 this summer, which stipulates that any organization that effectively uses demand-response technologies to “balance supply and demand as an alternative to a generation resource … that demand response resource must be compensated for the service it provides to the energy market at the market price for energy.”
In other words, if you can deliver energy reductions that save the grid from needing to make more energy, you should be compensated, just as you would be if you were adding energy to the grid; reductions in demand should be valued at least the same as increases in supply. Because the cost of installing demand response software is far less than installing a large-scale renewable energy project, some bases are looking down that road first, planning to generate revenue through demand-response installations, which will then help fund renewable energy projects.
In other cases, bases are installing projects with capacity to produce more renewable energy than they need so that the sale of renewable energy credits can offset any premium incurred by replacing fossil fuels with renewables. And then there are products like Soladigm‘s Dynamic Glass and Global Solar’s rechargeable batteries, which, rather than imposing a premium, deliver lasting savings. Soladigm’s Dynamic Glass, which tints on demand in order to provide not only visual comfort and daylihgting, but also to reduce solar heat gain and thus air conditioning requirements, pays for itself immediately.

We have a clear vision to bring a product to market that is cost neutral on day zero,” says Soladigm VP of products Erich Klawuhn. “There’s no ROI or payback time because of the system-level savings that offset the premium in the glass. There’s immediate energy savings in terms of consumption, but it also helps to reduce peak load, which enables building designers to downsize the HVAC system they need. That value proposition holds pretty strong.

The value proposition for Global Solar is equally strong. The military had been in the habit of using non-rechargeable batteries, which it is now largely replacing with fewer rechargeable batteries and solar panels. A tactical team out for a three- to seven-day mission would typically need five to ten non-rechargeable batteries to supply enough power to operate a Sincgars (military radio) for the mission. These are one-use batteries, each of which costs $80 to $100, so that’s $400.00 to $1000.00 per mission. Global Solar can replace those five to ten batteries with two to three rechargeable batteries ($300 each) and their 62w solar panel ($800 each). These systems (called Sunlinq) pay for themselves in two to three missions and can be used 300 additional times or cycles before the batteries need replacing.
World’s Best Test-BedAbove and beyond the benefits these projects provide to the military itself, they provide a meaningful boost to jobs and innovation in the private sector as well.

The DOD is positioned to become the single most important driver of the cleantech revolution in the United States,” says Pike Research president Clint Wheelock. “In particular, military investment in renewable energy and related technologies can help bridge the ‘valley of death’ that lies between research & development and full commercialization of these technologies.

Soladigm’s Klawuhn concurs, noting that the current alignment between the Department of Energy and the Department of Defense is a real boon to cleantech companies.

The DOE funds and steers national labs, and they are the research organizations that lead into some development of commercial technology, but then that technology needs to go somewhere,” Klawuhn explains. “So the government can either leave it there or use the General Services Administration and the Department of Defense to lead those technologies to the pilot and implementation stages. I’d love to see more of those pilot projects.

More pilot projects are indeed likely to roll out over the next two decades. Pike Research forecasts the annual U.S. military spend on renewable energy at $10 billion a year by 2030, and the DOD is committed to continuing to test and deploy technologies that will reduce its consumption of fossil fuels...

Maurice Oldfield, Gay ZIONIST SPOOK was Britain's top spy in Washington ....

2012-01-23T03:31:00.001-08:00

Maurice Oldfield, Gay ZIONIST SPOOK was Britain's top spy in Washington at the time of the Kennedy assassination....
"The interviewer was a master spy, later to become head of the service...

"I felt his hand on my knee under the table.

"I thought it might be some sort of test, but when it began to creep up my thigh I decided that was the end of that." (So what's new about gay spies? - Independent)

Maurice Oldfield was boss of Britain's MI6 spy agency.
At university, a strong influence on Oldfield was Sir Lewis Bernstein Namier, born Ludwik Niemirowski, political secretary of the Jewish Agency for Palestine.
Lord Victor Rothschild "pressured to have Maurice Oldfield installed as intell boss, who in turn promoted other homosexuals, before being sacked by Margaret Thatcher in 1980 as details of visits by young boys to Oldfields home reached her." ("FOR KNOWLEDGE ITSELF IS POWER” Intelligence saying)
Maurice Oldfield became boss of Britain's MI6 in 1973.

In the early 1960s, Oldfield was Britain's top spy in the USA.

He worked with the CIA's James Jesus Angleton.
Maurice Oldfield's friend Tom Driberg (left) with the Russian spy Guy Burgess, friend of Lord Ted Rothschild. (BRITAIN RUN BY AGENTS OF FOREIGN POWERS?) Tom Driberg MP was a rent-boy loving spook with links to Russia and hence Israel. (SPOOKS AND SPARES; GIRL MODELS AND RENT BOYS)
Lady Onslow, a close friend of Oldfield, worked with the ex-Borstal organisation 'Teamwork Associates' in London.

Keith Littlejohn had spent time in Borstal and was known to Lady Onslow.
Lady Onslow stating shortly before her death that Oldfield and Keith Littlejohn became known to each other around 1970.
In 1972, MI6 recruited the Littlejohn brothers, petty criminals, to carry out bank robberies and bomb attacks in the Republic of Ireland.

MI6 said to them that there was "going to be a policy of political assassination" for which they were to make themselves available.
Ben Gurion and Teddy Kollek. Kollek was a close friend of Oldfield who was a frequent visitor to Israel.
After Oldfield's retirement, Oldfield confessed he had lied to cover up his homosexuality.

In 1987, Margaret Thatcher confirmed to the House of Commons that Oldfield was gay.

Boys at the Kincora Children's Home in Northern Ireland were reportedly 'used' by the security services.

The head of Britain's MI6, Sir Maurice Oldfield, was reportedly observed by his Special Branch guards partaking of Kincora's facilities. (The troubles: Google Books Result)

Allegedly, Oldfield shared boys with Russian spy Sir Anthony Blunt, Noel Coward, several bishops, and an archbishop. (Cached)
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is a spy novel by John le Carré, featuring George Smiley, who is said to be based on Maurice Oldfield.
According to "The Biggest Secret of World War II": during World war II, Maurice Oldfield was arrested with the King’s brother, the Duke of Kent, Prince George, a boyfriend to Sir Anthony Blunt.

"A policeman rounded up what he thought were 3 drunken street whores, only to find they were ... the HIGHEST in the land...

"Maurice Oldfield and the Duke of Kent ... had links to Victor Rothschild.

"Rothschild was Churchill’s mentor; he made Churchill’s decisions."

Famous gay spies include Britain's Guy Burgess, Sir Anthony Blunt, and Alex Kellar, director of MI5's F Branch (Communist subversion) (So what's new about gay spies? - Opinion - The Independent)
Victor Rothschild, who worked for various prime ministers, and for the security services. He was reported to have given away secrets to Israel
20 April 1987
The Times
"Mr Chapman Pincher, the author, who knew Sir Maurice during his intelligence career, says in a new book that he was a homosexual who consorted with young male prostitutes...

"There was particular concern over claims that Lord Whitelaw, when he was Home Secretary, received a report on Sir Maurice Oldfield's alleged homosexual activities from the then Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir David McNee, in the late 1970s. At that time, Sir Maurice was a special security co-ordinator in Northern Ireland after being brought out of retirement...

"According to Mr Pincher, in his book Traitors: The Labyrinths of Treason, Special Branch officers who were giving Sir Maurice round-the-clock protection throughout his Northern Ireland appointment, discovered that male prostitutes were visiting him in his flat in Westminster.
"A report was sent to the then Mr William Whitelaw, it was claimed, and Sir Maurice was warned by a senior minister 'in the most direct language' to curb his behaviour. It appeared that no further action was taken, although Sir Maurice resigned as Ulster security co-ordinator in 1980 through ill-health. He died a year later at the age of 65...

"There were reports in the Belfast newspapers, attempting to link Sir Maurice with the scandal over the Kincora welfare hostel for boys, which in 1980 was alleged to have been used for hiring out boys for homosexuals."

Julian AmeryJulian Amery frequently met Maurice Oldfield at the Savoy Grill.
Julian Amery was the son of Leopold Amery (1873-1955), who hid the fact that he was a Jew. (Le Cercle membership list - WikiSpooks)

Churchill once said of Leopold that he regarded the Empire as his own personal property.

Leopold was the author of the final draft of the Balfour Declaration, a trustee of the Rhodes Trust and a supporter of the Rothschild-Warburg-financed Paneuropa Union.
Julian Amery became chairman of the rightwing Le Cercle.
Julian was an MI6 operative.

He was co-founder of the CIA-sponsored Congress for Cultural Freedom and had links to Bilderberg and BCCI.

He was a member of the Other Club together with Lord Rothschild, Tony Blair and others.

According to Julian Amery: "The prosperity of our people rests really on the oil in the Persian Gulf, the rubber and tin of Malaya, and the gold, copper and precious metals of South- and Central Africa... If the communists [or anyone else] were to take them over, we would lose the lot..."

Julian Amery was a member of the Monday Club among whose leading figures were the Cecil family who have links to the Rothschilds and Oppenheimers.

Julian's brother John worked for Adold Hitler....

Brief History of the Zioconned crypto-Jewish Saudi Wahhabism and their thuggish ideological politics...

2011-11-29T09:36:00.000-08:00

Brief History of the Zioconned crypto-Jewish Saudi Wahhabism and their thuggish ideological politics...

^[2]

Haytham A. K. Radwan

While Islam as a faith is the main religion in 48 countries, and Muslims around the globe are rapidly growing, Saudi Islam is the main sectarian movement in Saudi Arabia, and its influence is also rapidly growing. Acting as the protector of Islam through its own form of Islam, while it remains an American client state through its location, petrodollar’s cheque book, and American diplomatic and military protection, it could be argued that among the major influential players, Saudi Arabia’s policies, its own form of Islam, and its relations with the US, undoubtedly constitute one of the most serious threats to the security of the world today.
     Indeed, since the eighteenth century, and in conjunction with the Wahhabi religious establishment, Saudi Arabia became the centre for a new brand of religious imperialism based on sectarian movements. For nearly a century, the kingdom’s religious fervour kept the oil-rich country in the Western political camp. Today, the existence of radical Islamic groups is in part a legacy of the Saudi form of Islam, not Islam itself, and the Saudi-US alliance, and of political decisions made to address a different set of security concerns which helped no one accept the US projects.
     While Islam itself as a faith is not a threat to international security, it is Saudi Islam that is a threat. Indeed, it is fair to say that the problems within the Muslim world today rise not from Islam itself, but from the Saudi form of Islam, Muslim religious leaders who are relying on Saudi support, and their own interpretations of the Quran. It is also fair to say that questions pertaining to why Americans see Islam as a threat to world stability is because of the American failures to distinguish between Islam as a faith and Saudi Islam. In the US, Islam has been perceived as a threat to its civilization. However, while Americans knew that Islam itself is not a threat to their civilization, the majority of American politicians, journalists, and ideologists have ignored the truth that the threat is coming from Saudi Islam. This is seen as a tactic to avoid any damage to the relations with the House of Saud in order to keep economic and political interests alive.
    As a result, the Saudi-US relationship and the Saudi Wahhabi expansionist policy not only transform Muslim world politics, but also world politics. Saudaisation movements may expand into broader struggle throughout the Arab and Muslim nations and beyond. In some parts of the Muslim world, steps toward Saudaisation have already begun while the US is turning a blind eye to the Saudi rulers. At the same time, the US is also busy trying to convince the world that their policies towards Saudi Arabia is about promoting democracy and protecting human rights.
^[3]   Apart from the obvious results of such a conflict, such as loss of power in some Muslim countries, it would impact on the behaviour of other Western and non-Western states which could use the conflict for more ideological and tactical reasons. So, because religion has no borders, it could become global religious and sectarian conflicts.
     It is possible we are already seeing the war in Afghanistan, in Pakistan, in Iraq, in Lebanon, in Gaza, in Yemen and of course, the non-stoppable Wahhabi-American pressure on Syria.
Why? This is because Wahhabism itself is nothing more than an extension of Western imperialism. This short paper shed light on the roots and origin of the Saudi Wahhabism.
The Roots of Wahhabism:
      Although the origin of the Saudis’ current expansionist and extremist policy dates back to the religious and military alliance with the Wahhabi establishment, it was actually the British who initially provided the Saudis with the ideas of Wahhabism and made them its leaders for their own purposes to destroy the Muslim Ottoman Empire.[1] ^[4] Indeed, the intricate details of this intriguing British conspiracy are to be found in the memoirs of its master spy, titled “Confessions of a British Spy” (For details see Sindi 2004). [2] ^[5] In his memories, the British spy “Hempher” who was one of many spies sent by London to the Arabian Peninsula in order to destabilize the Ottoman Empire has stated:
“In the Hijri year, the Minister of Colonies sent me to Egypt, Iraq, Hejaz and Istanbul to act as a spy and to obtain information necessary and sufficient for the breaking up of Muslims. The Ministry appointed nine more people, full of agility and courage, for the same mission and at the same time. In addition to the money, information and maps we would need, we were given a list containing names of statesmen, scholars, and chiefs of tribes. I can never forget! When I said farewell to the secretary, he said, the future of our State is dependent on your success. Therefore you should exert your utmost energy”. (Nabhani, see also confession of a British spy). [3] ^[6]
As a result, a small Bedouin army was established with the help of British undercover spies. In time, this army grew into a major menace that eventually terrorized the entire Arabian Peninsula up to Damascus, and caused one of the worst Fitnah (violent civil strife) in the history of Islam.[4] ^[7] In the process, this army was able to viciously conquer most of the Arabian Peninsula to create the first Saudi-Wahhabi State.[5] ^[8]
After the death of Muhammad ibn Saud, his son, Abd al-Aziz, became Ad Diriyah’s new emir who captured Riyadh in 1773. By 1781, the al-Saud family’s territory extended outward from Ad Diriyah, located in the Arabian Peninsula’s central region of Najd, about one hundred miles in every direction. In 1788, Saud, son of Abd al-Aziz, was declared heir apparent. He led his Wahhabi warriors on more raids.[6] ^[9] To fight what they considered Muslim “polytheists” and “heretics”, the Saudis-Wahhabis shocked the entire Muslim world when in 1802, invaded Iraq’s Shiite majority, sacked Karbala, where Hussein, the grandson of the prophet Muhammad and the leading Shiite martyr is buried, and also demolished the massive golden dome and intricate glazed tiles above Hussein Bin Ali’s tomb, a holy shrine to Shiite Muslims. In the same year, the Saudi-Wahhabi warriors committed another atrocity in Taif, just outside Mecca. Again in 1810 they ruthlessly killed many innocent people across the Arabian Peninsula. They raided and pillaged many pilgrimage caravans and sever major cities in Hejaz including the two holiest cities of Makah and Medina.
In Makah they turned away pilgrims, and in Medina they attacked and desecrated Prophet Mohammad’s Mosque, opened his grave, and sold and distributed its valuable relics and expensive jewels.[7] ^[10] The Saudi-Wahhabi crimes angered the ottomans.
In 1818, an Egyptian army destroyed the Saudis-Wahhabis army and razed their capital to the ground. The Wahhabi Imam Abdullah al-Saud and two of his followers were sent to Istanbul in chains where they were publicly beheaded. The rest of the Saudi-Wahhabi clan was held in captivity in Cairo. The destruction of the Saudi-Wahhabi warrior’s alliance did not last long. It was soon revived with the help of British colonialist.[8] ^[11]
Accordingly, when Britain colonized Bahrain in 1820 and to expand its colonization in the area, the Wahhabi House of Saud sought British protection through Wahhabi Imams.[9] ^[12] As a result, the British sent Colonel Lewis Pelly in 1865 to Riyadh to establish an official British treaty with the Wahhabi House.[10] ^[13] Between 1871 and 1876, power changed hand seven times and the Wahhabis led more raids. This marked the end of the second Saudi state. This period however, kept the Wahhabi movement alive, ready to influence Muslims again in the twentieth century—and in the twenty-first.[11] ^[14]
The twentieth century’s Saudi Arabia comprises the third period of Wahhabis political power. It has changed Saudi Arabia dramatically and the Saudi-Wahhabi’s kingdom has changed the century significantly. The first interval began in 1902, when Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud captured Riyadh and proceeded to re-establish a Wahhabi Kingdom. In 1904, Abd al-Aziz captured Anaiza, an oasis near Hail. In 1913, he captured Al Hasa Province, but had no idea that he had just acquired a quarter of the world’s oil.[12] ^[15]
Not surprisingly, after his return from Al Hasa, the British helped ibn Saud with the establishments of the Ikhwan (Muslim Brotherhood), an army of fierce religious warriors. The Ikhwan looked for the opportunity to fight non-Wahhabi Muslims—and non-Muslims as well—and they took Abd al Aziz as their leader. The Ikhwan movement began to emerge among the Bedouin. They abandoned their traditional way of life in the desert and moved to an agricultural settlement. By moving to agricultural settlement, the Ikhwan intended to take up a new way of life to enforce a rigid Islamic orthodoxy.[13] ^[16]
To achieve his goals, on December 26, 1915, Abd al Aziz signed treaty with Sir Percy Cox, Britain’s political agent in the Arab Gulf. The British praised Abd al-Aziz as the greatest Arab man,[14] ^[17] and recognised his [Abd al- Aziz] sovereignty over Najd and Al-Hasa (central and eastern Arabia), while Abd al-Aziz promised the British that he would not have any dealing with any other country without the British approval and supplies.[15] ^[18] In addition, the British praised Abd al-Aziz despite his unattractive traits such as public beheading, amputations and floggings. The advisor of Abd al-Aziz for more over 30 years, Harry St John Philby, had described him as ‘the greatest Arab since the Prophet Muhammad’. Philby was sent to Arabia by the British government to assist Abd al-Aziz, perhaps to play kingmaker, in 1917.[16] ^[19]
Indeed, when in 1915, there were more than 200 hujar in and around Najd and nearly 100,000 Ikhwan waiting to fight, the British supplied Abd al-Aziz with weapons and money. The word hijra (hujar) was related to the term for the Prophet’s emigration from Mecca to Medina in 622. This period ended in 1934, with the declaration of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia under the leadership of Abd al-Aziz Ibn Saud.
Since then, Abd al-Aziz declared the relationship between oil and religion. Indeed, after establishing his British-made Wahhabi State, the Wahhabi king and imam Abd al-Aziz became an autocratic dictator who named the whole country after his own family, calling it the Kingdom of “Saudi” Arabia.[17] ^[20] Since then the House of Saud has allocated a significant amount of oil revenues to building Islamic schools and mosques throughout the Muslim world,[18] ^[21] which eventually has inspired radical Islam.[19] ^[22] At that time however, Abd al-Aziz had various goals: he wanted to take Hail from the Al Rashid’ clan, to extend his control into the northern deserts (Syria), and to take over the Hejaz and the Persian Gulf coast. While Cox openly encouraged Abd al-Aziz to attack al-Rasheed’s clans to divert them from helping the Ottomans he prevented him from taking over much of the Gulf coast, where they [the British] had established protectorates.[20] ^[23] They also opposed Abd al Aziz’s efforts to extend his influence beyond the Jordanian, Syrian, and Iraqi deserts because of their own imperial interests. But Abd al-Aziz continued his mission, and after he began the siege of Hail, the city surrendered to the Saudi’s warriors. In 1922, the Ikhwan warriors attacked Amman, the capital of Trans-Jordan. This caused problem with the British because, unlike Mecca and Medina, Hail had no religious significance. However, Abd al-Aziz apologised to the British. The British asked him to draw borders between his kingdom and Jordan, Iraq, and Kuwait.[21] ^[24]
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Today, although a few Wahhabi religious leaders have tried to “distant” themselves from the House of Saud’s brutality and anti-Islamic policies in a vain attempt to save Wahhabism’s image from further deterioration, most of the top Wahhabi religious leaders are still firmly behind the House of Saud. In fact, most Wahhabi leaders have openly supported the House of Saud’s unpopular domestic and foreign policies. Indeed, in the Arab nations, the rise of extremism in the form of the Wahhabi movement during the twentieth century could not have taken place without the huge investments made by the Al-Saud family in conjunction with the American in the name of democracy, freedom and human rights to destroy Arab nationalism, socialism, secularism, and of course Islam. This has intensified since the discovery of oil in the 1930s, reached its peak during World War II, and the Cold War, and took more extreme directions since the establishment of the Iranian Islamic Republic in 1979, and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in the same year.
References:

[1] ^[26] – Abdullah-M, S 2004, ‘Britain and the Rise of Wahhabism and the House of Saud’, Kana’an Bulletin, vol. IV, no. 361, pp. 1-9.

[2] ^[27] -Sindi, A-M 2004, ‘Britain and the Rise of Wahhabism and the House of Saud’, Kana’n bulletin, vol. IV, no. 361.

[3] ^[28] -Nabhani, Y Khulasat-ul Kalam, Dar-ul-kitab-is-sufi (the House of Sufi book), Cairo, Egypt, see also Confession of a British Spy and British Enmity Against Islam, available at: , .

[4] ^[29] Weston, M 2008, Prophets and Princes: Saudi Arabia from Muhammad to the Present, Wiley &Sons, Hoboken, New Jersey.

[5] ^[30] -Sindi, A-M 2004, ‘Britain and the Rise of Wahhabism and the House of Saud’, Kana’n bulletin, vol. IV, no. 361.

[6] ^[31] Weston, M 2008a, Prophets and Princes: Saudi Arabia from Muhammad to the Present, Wiley &Sons, Hoboken, New Jersey.

[7] ^[32] Ibid; Sindi, A-M 2004, ‘Britain and the Rise of Wahhabism and the House of Saud’, Kana’n bulletin, vol. IV, no. 361.

[8] ^[33] Ibid.

[9] ^[34] Weston, M 2008, Prophets and Princes: Saudi Arabia from Muhammad to the Present, Wiley &Sons, Hoboken, New Jersey; Troeller, G 1976, the Birth of Saudi Arabia: Britain and the Rise of the House of Saud, Frank Cass, London.

[10] ^[35] Lacey, R 1981, the Kingdom: Arabia and the House of Saud, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York.

[11] ^[36] Weston, M 2008, Prophets and Princes: Saudi Arabia from Muhammad to the Present, Wiley &Sons, Hoboken, New Jersey.

[12] ^[37] Ibid.

[13] ^[38] Ibid.

[14] ^[39] Aburish, SK 1994, A Brutal Friendship: the West and the Arab Elite, first edn, St. Martin’s Press, New York.

[15] ^[40] Weston, M 2008, Prophets and Princes: Saudi Arabia from Muhammad to the Present, Wiley &Sons, Hoboken, New Jersey.

[16] ^[41] Aburish, SK 1994, A Brutal Friendship: the West and the Arab Elite, first edn, St. Martin’s Press, New York.

[17] ^[42] Sindi, A-M 2004, ‘Britain and the Rise of Wahhabism and the House of Saud’, Kana’n bulletin, vol. IV, no. 361.

[18] ^[43] Long, D 1979, The Wilson Quarterly (1976), vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 83-91.

[19] ^[44] Redissi, H 2008, ‘The Refutation of Wahhabism in Arabic Sources, 1745-1932′, in Kingdom without Borders: Saudi Arabia’s Political, Religious and Media Frontiers, ed. A-R M, Hurst, London, pp. 157-177.

[20] ^[45] Aburish, SK 1994, A Brutal Friendship: the West and the Arab Elite, first edn, St. Martin’s Press, New York.

[21] ^[46] Weston, M 2008, Prophets and Princes: Saudi Arabia from Muhammad to the Present, Wiley &Sons, Hoboken, New Jersey.

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^[47]Haytham A. K. Radwan is a Syrian-Australian citizen living in Adelaide, Australia. He is currently completing Bachelor of Laws at the University of South Australia. He has completed a Masters in International Studies / Relations in 2011, and Bachelor degree in International Studies in 2006 at the University of South Australia. His Masters research examined Saudi Arabia’s Politics, Its Islam, and Its Relations with the U.S. As A Threat to World Stability: Myth or Reality. Haytham also studied Psychology and Education Studies in the early 1990s at Damascus University, Syria. He is been admitted into the Golden Key International Honour Society in 2006, awarded the University Merit Award in 2006, and the Chancellor’s Commendation in 2005 from the University of South Australia. ^[48]

The Euro teeters on the precipice and economic disaster beckons, as Frau Angela CIA MERKEL is flailing about aimlessly....

2011-11-24T03:38:00.000-08:00

The Euro teeters on the precipice and economic disaster beckons, as Frau Angela CIA MERKEL and Nicolas MOSSAD sarkozy are flailing about aimlessly....

On 22 December 1999, a letter appeared on the front page of Germany's leading conservative daily, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. It contained a searing attack on the country's most highly regarded statesman, Helmut Kohl, recently retired chancellor and much-feted architect of reunification. Kohl, then mired in an ugly party funding scandal, had to be cut loose, the letter urged, as teenagers must jettison their parents to grow into adults. The only way forward for his Christian Democrats was a complete break with their past.
It was a remarkable letter, a clinical and very public coup-de-grace delivered to an eminent, mortally wounded elder. What made it more remarkable was that the person who signed it was not one of the obviously thrusting young pretenders to Kohl's CDU throne, but a moon-faced and oddly unmemorable protege whom he used to refer to, dismissively, as das Mädchen: the girl.
Some like to see in this episode – which duly launched Angela Merkel on the stratospheric trajectory that would see her elected head of the centre-right CDU the following year and Germany's first woman chancellor barely five years after that – proof positive that she is a sharp, maybe even a ruthless opportunist, eminently capable of bold, decisive and, if necessary, dirty deeds to achieve her ends.
Others construe it more as an uncharacteristic moment of madness from a politician who otherwise has constructed an entire career on caution and consensus; a public figure so superficially unremarkable, so singularly lacking in passion or charisma that in nearly 25 years in politics she has (as her biographer puts it) "not made a single speech that stayed in the memory". A moderator, not a leader; a tactician, not a strategist.
She could, of course, be both. But what's becoming increasingly clear, as the euro teeters on the precipice and economic disaster beckons, is that if she is, a great many people – most of them, it has to be said, outside Germany – would actually quite like to see a bit more of the former, and rather less of the latter. A touch more of the bold and decisive, somewhat less of the calm and methodical. If possible.
Merkel is, after all, about the most important person in the world right now. As leader of the eurozone's undisputed economic powerhouse, she in effect holds the future financial wellbeing of all of us in her hands. And the worry is she's not up to the job. For all her undoubted qualities and undimmed domestic popularity (the pollsters, certainly, see no hint of a rival who could threaten her re-election in 2013, for a third successive term), Merkel – a pale, irredeemably frumpy, maddeningly hard-to-pin-down shadow of an Adenauer, a Brandt, a Kohl – is totally not what's needed, say her critics.
Some are downright damning. "Since the very beginning of this crisis, in 2007-8, Angela Merkel has not ceased providing us with the proof that she is really not the stuff of which great leaders are made," says Jean Quatremer, longstanding Brussels correspondent of the French daily Libération and a veteran observer of European affairs.
"She's navigating by sight, with no real political vision, and no authority. So much sluggishness, so much incapacity to grasp the gravity of the situation, takes the breath away ... Angela Merkel has now become Europe's principal problem."
Others are not quite as scathing, but no less despondent. Merkel's greatest failing, says Charles Grant, of the pro-European thinktank Centre for European Reform, is that she's either unwilling or unable to question prevailing German orthodoxies.
"Truly great political leaders, real statesmen – they can change the weather," Grant says. "They're prepared to think the unthinkable, to say and do things that they know will be deeply unpopular. Merkel just isn't naturally quite brave enough to do a Thatcher, even a Sarkozy, and try to actually change the way people think."
There's certainly little in the chancellor's background to cast her as a fearless challenger of the status quo. Born in July 1954 in Hamburg, she was only a few months old when her father, Horst Kasner, a dauntingly dedicated Lutheran pastor, and his wife moved to the parish of Templin in east Germany, not far from Berlin, where Kasner helped train other priests. The church was also next door to a centre for handicapped children that took up much of his attention.
Occasional visits back to the west gave Angela and her younger brother and sister a glimpse of life the other side of the Iron Curtain. But unlike many of her contemporaries, she never got itchy feet: perhaps uneasy at having a pastor for a father in an unambiguously atheist state, Merkel positively threw herself into the system.
She was a star student, at one point winning a trip to Moscow as a reward for her mastery of Russian. At the same time, she was a keen member of the socialist Free German Youth, or FDJ, organising expeditions and excursions and even, according to some, helping with publicity and propaganda. After school, it was on to Leipzig university to study physics, and eventually the East German Academy of Sciences in Berlin, as a research physicist.
On the home front, a 1977 marriage to Ulrich Merkel, a fellow student, ended after five years, and on moving to Berlin she met and eventually married a quantum chemist at Humboldt university, Joachim Sauer. Sauer stays well out of his wife's spotlight, although he will, gamely, escort the leaders' wives when Germany hosts international summits. For her part, Merkel, who never had children, claims still to do her bit domestically – the odd spot of shopping, sewing and cake-baking.
There's plenty in those early years, plainly, for cod psychologists to chew on. A distant, otherwise-engaged father whom she felt she could never sufficiently satisfy; a religious upbringing that valued hard work (everyone who knows her cites Merkel's prodigious appetite for that) and abhorred showiness; an academic discipline that rewards calm, methodical analysis rather than bravura out-of-the-box leaps of faith.
Equally, many have remarked on the ease with which Merkel navigated the murky waters of pre-reunification East German academe. That she succeeded in pursuing a successful scientific career without ever having to join the Communist party as an adult reveals, it is said, a rare ability to keep a low profile, make oneself unthreatening, negotiate awkward compromises.
At 35, she came late to politics, eventually getting involved through the burgeoning democracy movement shortly before the Wall came down in 1989. Showing impeccable timing and considerable political nous, she joined the CDU weeks before reunification. To Chancellor Kohl, she was a gift: an Ossi (former East German), a conservative, and a woman to boot. Three months later, Merkel found herself minister for woman and youth in his first post-reunification cabinet.
Merkel is a CDU oddity: a Protestant from the east, she heads a party whose core vote is Catholic and whose political roots are solidly in the west. Policy-wise, too, she's something of an enigma. Her hobbyhorses are climate change and Germany's ageing and shrinking population. But her socialist predecessor, Gerhard Schröder, pushed through the painful reforms that have allowed Germany to flourish today, and in her first term as chancellor her moderate, social-market conservatism was straitjacketed in a coalition with Schröder's SPD.
She has taken decisions to end conscription and, in the wake of Fukushima, to scrap nuclear power. But her second term, in a coalition with the liberal and increasingly unpopular Free Democratic party, has been largely dominated by the fallout from the global financial and economic crisis. Her response to this at home has been criticised as messy and hesitant, but it's hard to argue it did Germany's economy any actual harm.
But for most Germans, policies are not the point of Merkel. For them, what they know about her character far outweighs what they don't know about her ideas. Polls have for some time now showed her to be more popular than her party; that cautious, sensible, pragmatic style – her biographer, Gerd Langguth, has said she likes to "sit problems out", and rather than entertain grand ideas of a "historical mission" or "social vision" seeks "to solve today's problems, in a way that ensures she stays in power" – clearly resonates. A large majority plainly like the image of Germany that Merkel projects.
And that, when it comes to the current eurozone crisis, may be the nub of the problem.
Foreign critics may like to see Merkel as devoid of imagination; for Germans, she's level-headed. We portray her as dithering; in Germany, she brings to the summit table a much-needed dose of calm and reflection. A poll two weeks ago for the state broadcaster ARD found her personal approval rating had risen by nine points since October, to 57%. And she's not about to do anything that might upset that.
There's an ideological gulf, too, on the key question of economics. It doesn't help, concedes a German banker in Frankfurt who would rather not be identified, that few Germans, hardly anyone in the German government, and certainly none of Merkel's economic advisers "have ever read Keynes, or even begin to get market economics. To some extent, they're entitled not to, of course: they have the most successful economy in Europe. The trouble is, this thing is a hell of a lot bigger than Germany."
So it remains the Bundesbank's, Merkel's and Germany's deeply held conviction that discipline and austerity are the only ways out of the current crisis, and that any more generous solutions – collective Eurobonds, for example, or allowing the European Central Bank to act as a lender of last resort, both ideas touted in London and several other capitals – will only encourage more profligacy in Europe's irresponsible southern periphery.
"Her advisers are absolutely convinced they're right," says Grant, "and they won't take lessons from Anglo-Saxons. But there's a real danger that Merkel, neither an intellectual nor an economist, will go down as the woman who destroyed the euro because of this lack of boldness, this inability to challenge the intellectual climate in which she operates."
Moreover, many Germans believe the euro has become a kind of unfair and prohibitively expensive tax on their economic prowess. (It has also, of course, contributed greatly to their wellbeing, allowing the mighty German export machine to produce goods far more affordable in those ailing southern economies than they ever would have in Deutschmarks. But there's little political capital to be made from explaining that, and only very recently has Merkel started to make the effort.
Grant confesses he has changed his mind on Merkel: "In the beginning, I was a fan. She was brilliant at the early summits; brought everyone together, acted as peacemaker, got deals done. But since the eurozone crisis ... she's pandered to opinion. The very first Greek bailout, back in 2010, was delayed by months because of an election in North Rhine-Westphalia, which the CDU lost anyway."
(Away from the crisis, he detects a similar pattern: "On nuclear power, she did what she did because she faced tricky elections, especially in Baden-Wurtemburg. She's a follower, not a leader.")
In Brussels, Quatremer agrees: "She's no doubt a good captain when the weather is calm. But as soon as the seas get rough, she's incapable. I would seriously doubt, for example, whether this chancellor would have been capable of persuading her citizens to accept the euro, as Kohl did in his day, in the face of overwhelmingly hostile public opinion."
Constanze Stelzenmüller, a senior fellow with the German Marshall Fund in Berlin and former political editor of the Hamburg weekly paper Die Zeit, reckons at least one part of all this Merkel-bashing is simply misplaced. It's true, she says, that the chancellor's most striking characteristic is "her staying power. She's just still there. Like Thatcher, except Maggie was thrilling and terrifying and Merkel is neither. Like water drilling through granite."
Stelzenmüller also agrees that Merkel "leads from behind. She's undeniably a master tactician, always there at the finishing line ... but she favours strategic ambiguity. She'd doubtless say people like Blair and Obama are fools for saying out loud and up front what they're going to do, then failing to do it."
But like all German leaders, Stelzenmüller stresses, Merkel is severely constrained by the country's political structure, its Länder, coalition government, and a powerful constitutional court: "Few leaders are as responsive to public mood as Merkel, because none sail so close to the wind."
Robin Niblett, director of the Royal Institute of International Affairs, better known as Chatham House, readily concedes the point. "Being chancellor has some of the aspects of being US president," he notes. "You're simply not as in charge as people think you are. Cameron and Sarkozy, for example, have immeasurably more concentrated power than Merkel does."
But he too sees something deeper, more fundamental in the German leader's makeup: "She's highly methodical and thorough, yes. And she doesn't want to be rushed. But but she's not, like some, methodical and thorough enough to then go on and be bold. In the end, Merkel will always be cautious."
What the German chancellor seeks, Niblett reckons, is "an equilibrium. And when she's found it, she wants to keep it. That's her guiding principle. It strikes me there's almost a sense of insecurity about where Germany sits, psychologically, as a country. And she's just very worried indeed about fracturing it."
That patient, logical, methodical approach has sometimes appeared to pay off: forcing Greece, for example, to pledge more structural reforms, and winning a voluntary agreement from the banks to take a 50% haircut on Greek debt. And Merkel has been able to overcome her innate distaste for Nicolas Sarkozy (the French president is all she detests in a man, and in a leader: brash, flamboyant, impetuous, brimming with big but random ideas), to build a functioning relationship. But she may also have stored up trouble for herself by ruling out potential exit strategies, and by cosseting German voters, refraining for so long from telling them the truth: that Germany has not only profited from the euro, but helped cause its problems – German banks, after all, lent to Greeks, who used the money to buy German products.
Ultimately, Niblett concludes, "the worry has to be that she may be right in theory, but wrong in practice. That this crisis may turn out to be just so big and irrational that maybe a country like France, bolder, more mercurial, may have a better nose for it. The bottom line is, Merkel's style of leadership is simply not suited to the role the world needs Germany to play in the current crisis."
Unfortunately, that style of leadership is very much the one that Germany, in times of need, wants most. "Germans don't want ideological posturing or undue stridency or big, dramatic gestures," says the Frankfurt banker.
"They want a sensible, pragmatic leader who will truly represent Germany and not betray core German values, the things that matter most here: hard work, fiscal responsibility, the social market economy. For the moment, that's what we've got. And we're very happy with it, thank you."....

Angela Merkel is a weak CIA stooge and an ultra cautious, ultra boring conservative....who was parachuted by CIA on Helmut KOHL....Period!

She's quite obviously a paid-up CIA member of those who's sole purpose is to **** everyone else over while smiling behind the thin veil of governmental responsibility......
By now it's pretty obvious that those of these ilk are merely serving the (excuse me) top 1% who own everything from the media (that most people take as out-right truth) to the banking system and all the worlds energy resources. It's really quite obvious and not even far fetched, anymore. Chimp with half a brain starting to catch on.
They're all rich and paid-off to screw us all, to facilitate processes and someone else's regime and I wouldn't trust any of them to bake a cake let alone run countries and handle financial affairs....they are ALL utterly corrupt to the core....

I was living and working in Germany when shortly before an election she went on TV to declare that multiculturalism in Germany had been a total failure, without offering up a single solution or any reason why this might be the case, simply in order to curry favor with the CDU's largely xenophobic lower middle class base. I found this grossly irresponsible in a country that still struggles with neo-Nazism and through my own experience has quite a lot of difficulty integrating foreign workers or indeed treating foreigners like they are human beings. Also Germany isn't that socially democratic, it is an institutionally racist country, there is no minimum wage and millions work full time for 500 Euros a month in jobs that are supposed to be reserved for young apprentices but due to loopholes the government refuses to close, actually aren't....
In terms of the Euro, Germany has benefitted from the Euro which is an undervalued currency in terms of the German economy, this is why everyone here raves about Berlin being so cheap but when you are actually working there it seems expensive. The Euro is undervalued in Germany because Germany is rich, and its value is dragged down by Greece, Italy and Spain, meaning Germany's exports are cheap and Germany is attractive to foreign investors and foreign workers. If Germany left the Euro, or if club med left, the German currency would soar and price it out of markets and cities like Berlin would be as expensive as London overnight. This is why Merkel isn't doing anything other than attempting to buy off the peripheral Eurozone countries and teach them patronizing lessons in economics, so what if half of them are on the dole....

The German government is using its power in a very negative way; a way which pretty much everyone who knows anything about the subject seems to think is cruelly (and potentially catastrophically) wrong. If Merkel is Queen of Europe, she's a reine fainéante. But as I said, I think her inactivity gives the illusion of greater power than she has, at least for positive leadership.
Until recently I've hoped that the politicians knew vaguely what they were doing. I didn't want to be one of those people who emerges for any controversy to declare that everyone in a position of power is clearly an idiot and/or criminal and utterly corrupt.... But as time's gone on it's become horribly obvious that the world is just stumbling from one part of this crisis to the next....because of utter corruption and barbaric criminality, gone on for much too long without any punishement on Wall Street, in DC and on main street as well in most Zioconned countries and beyond...Just look at ALL these UNSC resolutions since 1947 that have gone for Decades without any enforcement....

Berlusconi-style parties being copied in neighboring nations....

2011-10-22T23:46:00.000-07:00

Berlusconi-style parties being copied in neighboring nations....

October , 2011 -- Israeli official enjoys "bunga bunga" parties in Balkans...

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is not the only Mediterranean leader who enjoys "bunga bunga" orgies at private villas.

Balkan intelligence sources report that Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has recently been a noted guest at villas in Banka Luka, the capital of the Srpska Republic region of Bosnia-Herzegovina, hosting similar parties featuring a number of young women who are available for sexual encounters.

Lieberman, who represents the illegal West Bank settler Yisrael Beiteinu Party in the coalition government of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, has been traveling to countries that have remained uncommitted to supporting Palestine's bid to join the United Nations. Lieberman has made a number of trips to the Republic Srpska, the other component of the Bosnian Muslim-Croat Federation that comprises Bosnia-Herzegovina. A current member of the UN Security Council, Bosnia-Herzegovina, whose Foreign Minister Sven Alkalaj, is Jewish, has seen a full-court press by Israel to abstain or vote no on Palestine's UN application. Israel and the United States want to deny Palestine nine votes in the Security Council, thus averting a promised U.S. veto of the nascent nation's UN bid.

The Muslim and Croat co-presidents of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bakir Izetbegovic and Zeljko Komsic, respectively, support Palestine's UN membership application. However, the Bosnian Serb member of the tripartite presidency, Nebojsa Radmanovic, is opposed.

The President of the Republic Srpska, not to be confused with the Republic of Serbia, Milorad Dodik, has struck up a personal friendship with Lieberman. Dodik was feted in Israel last year and Lieberman has made several trips to the Republic Srpska, not all of which had diplomacy as a primary concern.

Lieberman was on a visit with Israeli businessmen in May and he just returned a few weeks ago. However, Lieberman has made several unofficial trips to Banja Luka, where we are told he attends Berlusconi-style parties with younger women. Lieberman, a former night club bounder from Moldova, has been associated with a number of Jewish eastern European, Belarusian, and Russian mafia figures, some of whom have been investing heavily in Republic Srpska and other Balkan nations, including Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria, Macedonia, and Romania. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called Lieberman a "mafia boss" two years ago.

One of Lieberman's best friends is Uzbekistan-born Israeli billionaire businessman Michael Cherney, aka Mikhail Chernoy, who has reputed mob ties in Bulgaria. Both have been under criminal investigations in various countries....

Colombian Footballer Detained in Saudi Arabia Over ‘Sleeveless Shirt’ and Jesus tattoos...

2011-10-13T08:41:00.000-07:00

Footballer detained in Saudi Arabia over ‘sleeveless shirt’ and tattoos

Pino inks Al Nasr Club from Saudi Arabia, without knowing ink on his arms is a crime there....

Colombian Footballer Detained in Saudi Arabia Over ‘Sleeveless Shirt’ and Jesus tattoos...

Saudi Arabia’s religious police detained Colombian footballer Juan Pablo Pino while he was shopping at a mall with his wife because he wore a shirt without sleeves, his tatoos visible....

Riyadh/NationalTurk- The 24-year-old Colombian footballer, who currently plays for the Saudi Al-Nasr club, was at the mall in the Saudi capital Riyadh with his pregnant wife when members of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice seized him. “They then put him and his wife in their car and waited until executives from Al-Nasr club came and sorted it out. Pino and his wife were handed to the club officials after a brief detention
“Following the incident on Friday, Pino’s pregnant wife is living in a state of anxiety and is demanding that she and her husband leave Saudi Arabia, a extreme Muslim kingdom ruled by Shariah (muslim canonical laws). Al Nasr club has asked its Argentine coach Gustavo Costas and his wife to try and persuade Pino’s wife to change her mind but their attempts have been futile.” (read HERE).

The Russian-Israeli mafia has a proper name, assigned by Belgian police: Nebula....

2011-09-02T10:22:00.000-07:00

The Russian-Israeli mafia has a proper name, assigned by Belgian police: Nebula....

http://iamthewitness.com/books/Raphael.Johnson/The.Judeo-Russian.Mafia.pdf

September , 2011 -- Classified Belgian police report on Nebula receives another look...

In the mid-1990s, a report prepared by the Belgian police, which looked into the assassination of former Belgian Deputy Prime Minister and Belgian Socialist Party leader Andre Cools, in a gangland-style murder in 1991, is getting a fresh look after reports have surfaced about Mossad links to neo-Nazi, anti-Muslim gangs, some with criminal underpinnings, that are masquerading as legitimate political movements in Belgium, the Netherlands, and other countries. The renewed interest in the Belgian police report, known as the ATLAS Report, is of special interest following the recent massacre of Norwegian socialist youth on Utoya island and a deadly bombing in downtown Oslo carried out by pro-Zionist, neo-Nazi Anders Behring Breivik.

The ATLAS Report's detailed investigation of Zionist players in global financial scandals dovetails with recent comments by officials of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood that the former corrupt regime of Hosni Mubarak represented a "Talmudic dictatorship" imposed on Egypt by international players. The comments made by the Brotherhood were highlighted in a recent seminar on Islam and democracy held in Jakarta by the Jakarta Foreign Correspondents' Club.

Before Cools's murder, Belgium had been wracked by Italian Gladio-style "strategy of tension" (or, as in Turkey today, Ergenekon) right-wing terrorist attacks, including death squad hits and bombings, which were initially blamed by authorities on leftist guerrilla groups such as the Communist Combatant Cells. Cools's hometown of Liege was the center of the nexus of organized crime syndicates and the right-wing Gladio cells. However, it was not the revelation that Cools and other top Belgian politicians were involved in Belgium's right-wing "deep state" that brought down their house of cards but the infamous Agusta helicopter scandal.

Agusta, the Italian helicopter manufacturer and a licensee of Bell helicopters of the United States, bribed Socialist Party leaders, including Cools and then-NATO Secretary General Willy Claes, a friend of Cools, to cement a Belgian Army contract for 42 helicopters, which would replace the Army's aging French Alouette helicopters. Cools was to have received $10 million in bribes but the cash he received turned out to be counterfeit. Cools, in retaliation, threatened to tell all he knew about the Agusta deal and much more. It was Cools's threat to go public that earned him two bullets while he was sitting in his car next to his girlfriend. One bullet struck Cools in the head, the other to his chest. His girlfriend was also hit but she survived. What Cools threatened to expose was an intricate network of terrorists, nuclear smugglers, drug dealers, diamond and gold smugglers, and weapons merchants who were ultimately tied to Mossad and a shadowy network of influential European Jewish Zionists, a network known as "Nebula." The details on Nebula are contained in the ATLAS report. The ATLAS report is also the main subject of a 400-page book on Belgium's deep state politics to be published in Belgium in the Dutch language in 2012.

The Confidential "Not to be used in court proceedings" ATLAS report was issued by the Special Investigations Unit of the Belgian gendarmerie in Liege on November 21, 1994. It is clear that the authors of the report realized the problems they faced in pointing to Jewish criminal networks as a major force behind Europe's "strategy of tension" and the financial contrivances established to support acts of terrorism and other illegal acts. The report in its introduction states ". . . some information is still being cross checked. Several files have already been examined by various police services, who have been able to corroborate some data, even if Justice [Ministry] has not always followed-up on them. Day to day events show us that some files never go anywhere and some others will no doubt never lead anywhere, for various reasons [emphasis added].

The report states: "To understand ‘Nebula’, one has to abandon the established path of logic as far as finances and politics are concerned. No longer can there be mention of nation states, of political party colors or of any economic coherence. Our conclusion would be that, over 20 years, some economical forces, some of which are of the mafia-type linked to the political power and organized crime structures, have reached the 4th level of money laundering, in other words: Absolute Power."

The ATLAS Report also identified who the Belgian police believed was a kingpin of Nebula. It is also noteworthy how Costa Rica is identified as a major nexus for the worldwide network. The information about Russian-Israeli Mafia control of Costa Rica has been verified by recent information obtained by WMR from Costa Rican sources. The ATLAS Report states:

"We have been informed about a person who appears to be one of the mysterious top leaders in several countries, (including ours).

This person is portrayed as being the ‘éminence grise’, the de facto director of most of the big multinational companies whose structures are being used to launder large amounts of capital. This person is: PRZEDBORSKI, Felix, born 12 December 1930, ‘stateless’, husband to Helène KRYGIER, formerly living in TERVUREN.

On the subject of this person, we have been told that:

-He has a double nationality: Belgium + Costa Rica.

We have been able to confirm that he obtained Belgium nationality on 6 September 1978, a few days before his emigration to Costa Rica. His wife, born 5 June 1931, obtained Belgian nationality on 28 December 1950.

-He is Ambassador of Costa Rica to IAEA in Vienna (anti-nuclear commission) and allegedly also holds the position of minister plenipotentiary of this same country at the European Economic Community as well as to France (where has offices on Avenue Wilson, Paris).

-He actually lives in Costa Rica, where he owns the property BELLA VISTA in the San José Country Club, Escazu/San José-Costa Rica.

-He regurly resides in our country, in Tervuren, Lorrainedreef n° ?, where he is the subscriber of telephone number 02/7679584 (Secret)."

One of Przedborski's sons is also identified by Belgian police as a Nebula kingpin and heir apparent to his father: "(2) Named Daniël. Lawyer in Brussels and Geneva. He allegedly wishes to take over the leadership of the ‘Nebula’. His wife is said to be the daughter of a mafia godfather, close to CRAXHI (ex prime-minister of Italy, mentioned in operation MANI PULITE)*. Have found his address: (first names André-Marc, Daniel), born 7 May 1954 in Berchem-St-Agathe, Belgian, Lawyer, husband to BIALETTI, Alessandra, living in Switzerland since 11 December 84-Plateau de Frontanex n. 9C in 1208 Geneva (extremely expensive/up-scale quarter of Geneva). Subject still maintains attorney offices in Brussels, Avenue du Vert Chasseur n. 42 in 1180 Uccle (phone 02/3752408)

-----Ed. note: *Operation Clean Hands during 1990s targeting corruption by several Italian politicians, including Silvio Berlusconi.
The ATLAS Report identifies the activities of Przedborski: "The structure being headed by Félix PRZEDBORSKI is involved in trafficking various items worldwide:
DIAMONDS, WEAPONS, DRUGS, NUCLEAR MATERIAL, MONEY LAUNDERING, INFLUENCE PEDDLING.

To this end an economical-political structure has been erected in the last 40 years over which he reigns as the Absolute Master.

Although illiterate, he speaks 7 or 8 languages and is gifted with an extraordinary cunning intelligence, which has left him totally without any moral value whatsoever.
It is said that the financial foundation of his Group is estimated at 7 billion USD.
It is often said that to get on top of the hill, one has to surround himself with only the best. This is what Przedborski has practised, ‘buying’ the greatest economists, lawyers, etc. ... pushing his friends into leadership positions in several countries. For the security of his person and that of his group, Felix has called upon the security services of an ex-Mossad Colonel.

4. In order to understand this ‘Nebula’, one has to go back to the end of WWII, when PRZEDBORSKI allegedly was held prisoner in AUSCHWITZ , where he became friends with Belgian co-prisoners, among whom was the father of the late minister André Cools. [Ed. note: other source says KZ Mauthausen, not Auschwitz.]
Apparently Przedborski was liberated by a Russian general, for whom Przedborski set up some black market trafficking (jeans, Rolex ...) Around 1950 PRZEDBORSKI left Russia, but he always stayed in contact. His Belgian co-prisoners have taken care of things so he could come over to our country. Even at this early stage, PRZEDBORSKI was in contact with:

-CIA (Vienna station, Rome station) (the CIA appears to still be playing a role in this Nebula, in particular in respect of arms smuggle, for which payments were
transferred via GEOFFREY’s Bank).
-The VATICAN
-Italian MAFIA

5. In 1956, PRZEDBORSKI was arrested in Germany for his involvement in the trafficking of nuclear materials with some Chinese. Chancelor Adenauer apparently intervened personally to keep him out of jail. (The file on this subject was filed at the BKA Bundes Kriminal Amt under the codename SPRINGER). It is rather amazing to find that PRZEDBORSKI continued the nuclear deals even when being a member of the IAEA in Vienna in his capacity of Ambassdor of Costa Rica! Have confirmed that PRZEDBORSKI Félix was indeed listed in the IAEA in Vienna as being Ambassador of Costa Rica.

6.Toward the end of the 70s, beginning of the 80s, PRZEDBORSKI allegedly directed a Belgium-based international arms smuggle, in exchange of which drugs (heroin) were delivered. PRZEDBORSKI was a friend Carlos MONGE (president of Coast Rica-deceded)
who had made him honorary consul of this Central-American nation neighbouring NICARAGUA and PANAMA.

He [Przedborski] initially has set up a heroin smuggle with the help of the Ambassadors of this country, among whom the Ambassador to Luxembourg and Geneva. Same for the Ambassadors in Warsaw and Moscow (apparently arrested with 24 kg of heroin)

-The weapons have been shipped from FN Fabrique Nationale via the airport of Bierset (Liège) being initially aircargoed to NANTES / FRANCE from where they were flown to Costa Rica (to SANTA ELENA, a vast region inside that country).
On the way back, drugs were flown in.

-In this arms trafficking , we were told, following persons were involved:

a. André COOLS, ex-minister, assassinated;
b. Roger BOAS (ESCO company)
c. Abraham SHAVIT- assistant to Roger BOAS-personal friend of Israel minister BEGIN. It is said that André Cools stayed at Shavit’s place whenever he visited Israel.
d. Guy Mathot, ex-minister
e. Paul Vanden Boeynants, ex-premier
f. Fernand Beaurir, general commandant of the gendarmerie.

Apparently Henri SIMONET (at the time has was Foreign Affairs minister and had Alfred CAHEN and Anne-Marie LIZIN working for him) was in the know of this. It is said that some Irangate weapons transited through this network to the Contras in Nicaragua (In this context it appeared that PRZEDBORSKI addressed a US president by his first name).

7. Around 1983, PRZEDBORSKI hired an ex-Mossad colonel to ensure his security
and that of his group.

PRZEDBORSKI had known this colonel, who, still working for Mossad, intervened unofficially to liberate the daughter of the international arms trafficker ‘Raymond NAKACHIAN’ (phonetic spelling). After which the colonel and his team quit the Mossad and started working for Przedborski.

This colonel served as a middleman to set-up shop in Belgium for Ketib-El-Ketib (Lebanese financier) deceased??, to set-up shop for the PLO in Brussels. He also took care of the military training of CONTRAS and CALI Cartel personnel.

8. Around 1985/86, Leon DEFERM (personal friend of Guy Mathot, Edmond Leburton and Michel Daerden etc...) was introduced to PRZEDBORSKI, for whom he started to launder large amounts of money.

(In this context we were told of the involvement of French CGE Compagnie Générale des Eaux and Lyonnaise des Eaux)

It is interesting to note that Przedborski and Deferm shared a mistress by the name of Helena KOHLBRUNER, who was recently arrested in Geneva in possession of (securities / shares / bonds / notes).

-The person who introduced DEFERM was the Brussels lawyer Marc KADANER who was instrumental in the Nebula operations. KADANER allegedly held control over Bernard ANSELME, francophone community minister, who, rumor has it, can often be found drunk at 10 a.m. We were told that another lawyer working for the Nebula was Mr AFSCHRIFT whose services were highly appreciated by the Russians.

9. In 1993 , following the ratification of the GATT, the European Economic Community revised the banana import quota. This revision could have been effective had it not been for the omission of one country from the resolution: Germany, where the transit of bananas remained authorized.

This decision of the CEE was apparently influenced by a conference that Przedborski organized at the occasion of a reception party at his private home in TERVUREN.
Following people attended:
-the president of Colombia,
-the president of Honduras,
-the president of Nicaragua,
-Mr Jacques Delors (president of the EEC commission)
-Mr Frederic Velghe ( director Caisse Privée Bank)
-a certain Le Hoday

All illegal transhipments were routed through the Zeebrugge Northsea terminal, via the Eurocomer company, whose main financier was Caisse Privée Bank.

Info is transmitted to us, we cannot link this with the banana-terminal at Zeebrugge. Rather it is to be stipulated that it was through the terminal of the GHENT port that about $5.000.000 were laundered with the help of Alain De Rouck of Ghent and more specifically through the ELECTRORAIL company. We were told that Jean-Pierre VAN ROSSEM had set-up this laundering structure and that part of the laundered money was transferred to the Cayman Islands via Banque Brussel Lambert.

10. We obtained information on various of PRZEDBORSKI’s money laundering intermediaries.
a. BERCOVITCH (two brothers)

-the first being employed in the diamond business, not involved.
-the second is an art dealer, owner of the BERCO art galleries in ANTWERP, BRUSSELS and KNOKKE.

Their lawyer was Me ROGGEN, daughter of the next character.

b. ROGGEN, Yvan (ex-governor of the Brabant province)

-member of the Grande Loge
-also honorary consul of Costa Rica
-private secretary of PRZEDBORSKI

c. the KRIWIN family (ex bankers)

-of which one daughter Anne is a lawyer at the Brussels bar

d. the SCHEYVEN family (father and son)

-one of the richest families in Belgium;
-(covert?) financiers of the PSC party [Christian Popular Party]
-active member of the CEPIC and financier of the PSC via the AMELINCKX construction company.

[CEPIC was an extreme right wing group centered on PSC minister Paul Vanden Boeynants-linked to Cercle Pinay]

e. Frederic VELGHE (Caisse Privée Bank)

f. Pierre SALIK (a big importer of money for PRZEDBORSKI)

-his daughters were once the fiancées of PRZEDBORSKI’s sons. We do not know why they never married.

-this person obviously is very important within the Nebula, especially in respect of the operations conducted by his son-in-law Michel DWEK (Belgian aged ca. 35)

-works together with Ronald BRUCKNER (see below)

-works together with his nephew Serge BORENSTEIN, who takes care of money transfers via PRAGUE.

g. Serge BORENSTEIN (ca. 45 years of age-nephew of Pierre SALIK)

-residing in Prague, formerly the capital of Czechoslovakia. Initially this was the main route for Przedborski to launder the proceeds of his criminal activity.

-as to this figure, we got info from the Chinese criminal milieu: he served as a middleman for the acquisition of a real estate complex including the restaurants CITY OF THE DRAGON in Brussels (17 mll $) and Liège ( 12 mll $)-(see YANG file)

h. A MIAMI company (Florida/USA): NEW REPUBLIC

This company had an account at the CGER [ASLK, Algemene Spaar-en Lijfrente Kas]
Managed exclusively by PRZEDBORSKI Felix (mentioned supra) and Farouk KHAN (of the KHAN-gang). This account was liquidated in 1990 (when the new law on money laundering took effect) and the funds -2 bn $- were transferred to IRAQ.

i. Another company was mentioned that apparently was one of the most important ones and that was recently acquired by the Russians: COMUELE S.A.

This company, acquired in the early 80s, held ‘stock value’ of about 1.3 M$.
Since then a total of 200 M $ has been transferred in particular by Serge BORENSTEIN in Prague.

The company holds offices in ZAIRE, NETHERLANDS, LUXEMOURG.
In this company the following persons hold a position (cross checked with VAT number 403.340.648-Commerce Register nr Brussels 15.175-Capital 681.441.715 Belgian Francs= ca. 22 M $)

According to our informant:

X-Bruno GOLDBERGER
(According to National Registers born in Czechoslovakia on 20 October 1947, of American nationality, divorced from Susana KASZIRER in 1989-see below-stricken from the ANTWERP population registers on 16 December 1994)
Real estate agent in Brussels

-works for a certain ‘GLOBUS GROUP’ (??? Nationality unknown)
-he mediated the entry of the Russians into COMUELE co
-he was introduced to the Russians by Maurice TEMPELSMAN, widower friend of Jacqueline Kennedy, herself widow of the American president)
-he allegedly met the Russians on the occasion of (his or her) birthday party in Brussels in 1994. One of these Russians was Mike BRANDWAIN (director of the M&S International company of Antwerp, being mentioned in the BLACKSTONE file as well as in a file on the Russian Mafia in New York-US Customs, July 1994)

Another Russian was called ADIC from Antwerp.

-At this dinner, some serious threats were exchanged. The Russians had invested 100 M $ in the COMUELE SA, it was said that the source of the money was Israel.
The reason was (according to our info) that the company capital was increased in 1990 but the Americans refused to participate. It was on this occasion that the Russians were invited in and consequently were swindled out of the 100 M $ they had hoped to launder or to invest.

According to HELP , the cy capital was increased from 9 M $ to 22 M $ in 1992. The previous increase in cy capital was in 1989, lifting it to 3 M $ only.

X-Michel WOLF
-Belgian living in the Liège region
-manager of a.o. the Michel Wolf & Brothers cy
-parking, parking meters etc..

X-Arthur FOGEL
-presently president of the SOGEPA company (Chaussée de Vleurgat n. 243 in 1050 Brussels)
-it has been reported that Bruno GOLDBERGER and Arthur FOGEL were looking for new company associates for COMUELE, candidates being the WOLF brothers and a certain BAUMANN
-on BAUMANN we can testify that he actually lives in PULLY near LAUSANNE in Switzerland, Chemin Chamblande 19, employé of UNIMEDICA cy of Froideville (near Lausanne).
-owns a residence on the beachfront at Saint Jean Cap Ferrat (S France)
-his working permit is actually under scrutiny from the Swiss authorities
-has studied Law and Finances in Antwerp and in the USA
-works for fiduciary companies in France & Switzerland
-appears to have become enormously wealthy, setting up money laundering systems, takes care personally of money transfers for the Russians.

X-Daniel WEECKERS
-Brussels broker
-adress Avenue Fr Roosevelt 94, Brussels
-works for ‘Groupe ‘DEFI’
-has business relations with Max TERET of FNAC and CANAL + (it was apparently through this French television company and through LYONNAISE DES EAUX that large amounts of money have been laundered on behalf of PRZEDBORSKI and/or others among which CREDIT LYONNAIS)
-his name was dropped as a candidate successor to PRZEDBORSKI.

X-Pierre SALIK
-involved personally or via companies whose names start with JA or JU.

X-the Russians
-recently took up some positions in the cy; there is a certain ADIC of Antwerp.
-we’re talking about Russian mafiosi here
-among who the famous Mike Brandwain

X-Shilo MILLER

-is not officially on the cy records
-he represented the Israeli partners (who provided the 100 M $ ???)
-no further info available on this person

j. A particular laundering network within the PRZEDBORSKI group has been brought to our attention: the DIAMOND network of Antwerp.

The basis of PRZEDBORSKI’s wealth appears to have been the diamond trade and smuggle. As early as the 50s, when he arrived in Belgium, PRZEDBORSKI reportedly already enjoyed the friendship of the King of KASAI [rich province of the Belgian Congo] (To this end a structure has been set-up via Antwerp by the aforementioned Maurice TEMPELSMAN, a certain GOLDFINGER and a certain Leo SIMON). This network (see item J.) seems to exist independently and is only used on occasion by PRZEDBORSKI.

Involved in it are the following persons:

X-Sylvain LINKER
-Belgian, notary public at JUMET
-this person is the founder of the front companies used for money laundering
-had some trouble with justice after having orchestrated the theft of his own paintings

X-Richard DAVIDOVITCH

-diamond trader of Antwerp

X-Michel KÖNIG
-diamond trader of Antwerp

X-The TACHE brothers

-diamond traders of Antwerp

X-the GOLDBERG brothers

-diamond traders of Antwerp
-the wife of one of the brothers is a judge in Antwerp

X-the ex-director of Sociéte Nationale d’Aviation Française (UTA)

X-the ex-director of IAL, Israel Air Lines, Ben ARI (father), also on the board of directors of the Liège-Bierset Airport.

X-Charles BORNET, a Brussels lawyer
x-Xavier MAGNEE

-Brussels lawyer, ex- president of the bar

X-the JACKIAN family (father & son)

-both lawyers, the father being an ex-president of the bar

k. we have been informed of the names of the banks involved in the PRZEDBORSKI group for money laundering:

-COLBERT Bank (named after the ex-minister of France)
-GLOBAL Bank of DÜSSELDORF
-DISCOUNT Bank with offices in Luxemburg and Geneva
-NATIONAL REPUBLIC BANK with offices in Luxembourg and New York. It seems that a certain SAFRA is in charge of the special transfers.

We have noticed that this bank is also being used by:

a.Paul Vanden Boeynants, ex-minister, ex-prime minister
b.Roger BOAS, from the ASCO company
c.Abraham SHAVIT
d.The MOSSAD

11. It is reported that within his Group, PRZEDBORSKI is assisted by the following persons

a. Bruno GOLDBERGER (see above)
-ex-husband of Suzanna KASZYRER, daughter of Joseph. We have been informed that in the early 80s Bruno GOLDBERGER has set-up a financial structure that later proved to be used a diamonds laundering operation by his father-in-law. When GOLDBERGER discovered this, he quit. Apparently there must have been a court case involving diamond traders and the ABN-AMRO Bank.

In the course of the proceeding someone must have spilled the beans. This person then ‘jumped’ to his death from the 47th floor a NY building. It is said that the killing was ordered by Joseph KASZYRER.

b. Pierre SALIK

-involved in the COMUELE Co directly or through front companies whose names start with JA or JU.

-is in contact with the Australian billionaire Allan BOND.

(Allan BOND: Australian aged ca. 50, acknowledged billionaire in Australia.

Owner of millions of hectares of property on which drugs culturescare grown.
Associate of Albert FRERE (who helped BOND penetrate the Belgian market;
Owns 4.8% of Groupe Bruxelles Lambert-since he holds >5%, no declaration is required under Belgian law. Has initiated very important company take-overs in the USA.)

c. Ronald BRUCKNER (Belgian ca. 35 years of age)

-works in Germany for the East-European countries, a.o. Russia
-works in direct liaison with Michel DWEK (son-in-law of Pierre SALIK)

d. CALUWE-PUTSEYS ass. lawyers

-a member of the CALUWE family is member of the Loge du Grand Orient.
-this cabinet took charge of the defense of Pierre SALIK and Roland BRUCKNER
Who got ensnared in some smuggling operation with the eastern countries. It is said that they induced a procedural error by having some documents stolen, thus claiming that the defense attorneys had been unable to study the evidence. The theft was arranged when the files were transferred. The investigating judge was Guido BELLEMANS.

e. VANDERELST, Brussels lawyers (father & son)

1.Raymond (father):

-PRZEDBORSKI’s attorney,
-Attorney for the Loge du Grand Orient of Belgium of which he is a member.
-Personal advisor to King Albert II
-Works or has worked for the cabinet of Pierre LAMBERT

2. Michel (son)
-was arrested in the case of the kidnapping of ex-premier Paul Vanden Boeynants, with the HAEMERS-gang

f. Koen BLIJWEERT (Belgian)

-very active in the money laundering business
-son of Renaat BLIJWEERT, directorof the now bankrupt AMELINCKX construction cy.

g. Jacques MAISON
-Brussels political figure (involved in city finances)
-involved in the affair of the (securities / stocks / bonds / funds/ notes)
-is the point-of-contact for a Luxembourg-based ‘ godfather’
-actually engaged in organizing funds to the tune of 100-130 M $ for the ‘Eastern Countries’

h. Lionel PERL

-ca 45 years of age
-has been awarded a honorary title ‘Grande Distinction’ by SOLVAY Cy
-works from Antwerp, laundering Russian capital
-worked for several banks, was kicked out of Bank de GROOF after it was discovered that he had installed a laundering mechanism in the bank.

i. Cardinal BELLINI
-lives in Brussels, Avenue Bellevue 55 or 57
-Vatican representative for real estate matters outside of Italy

Please note that pope Paul II, who is a friend of PRZEDBORSKI’s, after his OPUS DEI sponsored ascent to the pontificate, has appointed cardinal Rossi as the manager of
Vatican real estate in Italie. The right hand of ROSSI was none other than cardinal Marcinkus who himself got entangled in the securities (bonds, stock..) affair linked to the Banco Ambrosiano debacle.

j. Patrick FOCQUET (Belgian)

-ex employee of TUBEMEUSE cy
-held a position in the SOCOFIN cy and Bank NAEGELMAECKERS

k. David PINSENT (American)

-manager of the peanut company PLANTATION TRUST

12. PRZEDBORSKI , Grand Master of the Jewish Loge, very influential in the political world either by friendship or corruption.

His business relations were:

a. André COOLS
-Belgian ex-minister, assassinated;
-PRZEDBORSKI had a special relationship with Cools, given the old friendship with Cools senior.
-they frequently met and got into man-to-man talks in ANTIBES / FRANCE

b. Willy DECLERK
-Belgian ex-minister
-actually member of EEC
-it is said that he is at the orders of PRZEDBORSKI

c. Willy CLAES

-Belgian ex-minister of Foreign Affaird (last position held)
-actually Secretary General of NATO in Brussels

d. Alfred CAHEN

-Belgian Ambassador to FRANCE
-his spouse is Mme Nicole de BEAUVAY, formerly first honorary assistant to Queen Fabiola. She left the royal court when her husband took up his diplomatic position in Paris.
-Master of the Loge
-friend of late King Baudouin
-friend of Willy CLAES
-ex secretary general of Foreign Affairs ministry (headed by Mr SIMONET) where he issued a diplomatic passport to PRZEDBORSKI in 1986.
-at that moment in time, Anne-Marie LIZIN worked with SIMONET as well. LIZIN, given her intimate relationship with SIMONET, had the opportunity to collect evidence about the aforementioned arms deals, which could have resulted in her ‘immunity’. She was also the mistress of André COOLS.

e. François MITTERAND
-president of FRANCE

f. Pierre BEREGOVOY
-French ex-minister
-committed suicide last year

g. Jacques DELORS

-president of the ECC commission
-French ex-minister of finances
-possible candidate for the French presidential elections
-worked for Banque de France [France National Bank]

h. ?? MERLY

-mayor of the city of ANTIBES/ FRANCE

We have been told that nearly all of Cap d’Antibes is the personally owned by PRZEDBORSKI who lives in a stunning property in the street ‘Impasse Félix’, named after him.

Following persons have been reported there:
-André COOLS
-Baron EMPAIN
-Didier PINEAU VALENCIENNES of the SCHNEIDER GROUP, involved in money laundering affair.

13. Presently PRZEDBORSKI group is working on a large scale tourist real estate project (1800 square KM) in Costa Rica (SANTA ELENA), a 2 Bn $ investment.

Involved in this project:

-the chain CONRAD and Romi BARON (formerly of the MONITOR Cy and CENTRE ROGIER in Brussels)
-‘GAONE’ from Geneva
-Leon DEFERM

14.Felix PRZEDBORSKI is reported to be ill, so an internal succession struggle is developing.

Candidates:

a. Daniel PRZEDBORSKI (his son, lawyer in Brussels)

b. Daniel WEECKERS (broker, involved in COMUELE S.A.)

c. Two or three Frenchmen:
Among who Max TERET, friend of Felix PRZEDBORSKI, director of CANAL + (through which money was laundered in cooperation with Lyonnaise des Eaux)

15. We were able to piece together following chronology:

1984: association of A. FOGEL and B. GOLDBERGER on the one hand, and Joseph KASZIRER on the other. They set-up a structure for real estate investment, founding a company for each acquisition, functioning as a recycling machine for cash derived from ‘black’ dealings in diamonds in Antwerp and NY.

The general set-up being taken care of by Charles DILLEY (Brussels lawyer) via a Luxemburg holding cy , funds being transferred via ABN-AMRO Bank and NATIONAL REPUBLIC BANK of NY.

1987: splitting of association, but FOGEL and GOLDBERGER stick together.

Two events then follow:
1-they meet BAUM and STEINMETZ.
2-they get in touch with D. WEECKERS and through him with
PRZEDBORSKI Felix (his daughters being engaged to the SALIK sons)
SALIK, Pierre (associate of GOLDBERGER in SOGEPA Cy and others)
BORENSTEIN, Serge (nephew of SALIK)
COOLS André

1988/89. Big merger with COMUELE of which they grab control through Daniel WEECKERS.

1990. Felix PRZEDBORSKI has liquidated his account (the NEW REPUBLIC account) at
CGER (ASLK) so 2 Bn $ are transferred and Serge BORENSTEIN gets the washing machine started in PRAGUE.

The COMUELE Cy is getting into financial trouble, needs capital urgently.
The Americans refuse to participate to increase capital.

GOLDBERGER enters the Russians via Maurice TEMPELSMAN, they accept to invest 100 Mn $. It is stipulated that the capital originates from Israel. FOGEL and GOLDBERGER are aware of that.

The Americans exit the company.

By the end of 1994, COMUELE is unable to pay interests due.
October 1994: the Russians get real angry and threaten several people, they invite GOLDBERGER to UKRAINE for some explanations.

16. The reasons for our transmitting this report before having cross-checked are multiple.

(not relevant)

17. Let’s not forget that this Nebula controls most of the money transfers worldwide and also controls the highest political authorities.

This Nebula could, if so desired, put pressure on most of the important cities worldwide and get control over the almost everything (energy supply, water supply, environment), through corruption. This has been going on for several years.

Let’s not forget that this same Nebula provides the security forces, police and military to several countries, including their equipment (weapons, communications etc..).

Listed as being part of this structure:

GEC General Electric Cy (weapons, water supply, etc..
ALSTHOM
BELL
ALCATEL: communications
SCHNEIDER
CGE COMPANIE GENERALE DES EAUX
LYONNAISE DES EAUX
Etc..

(signed)
HODY, Jean-Marie DECK, Didier
1 MDL 1 MDL

Reviewed,

GRAFF, Commandant
Officer Resp BSR.

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The assassinations, suicides, and defenestrations associated with Nebula appear linked to another high-profile murder of a West German politician, Uwe Barschel, which was previously reported by WMR on August 26, 2009:

"The neocons, in their normal group think fashion, are now teaming up to launch all-out attacks on Scotland for releasing from prison convicted PanAm 103 bomber Abdelbeset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi. Some neocons are urging a boycott of Scottish products and tourism. Of course, the demonization of Scotland comes as Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu visits Prime Minister Gordon Brown in London and follows Israeli attacks on Sweden's government over an Aftonbladet report on Israelis trafficking in Palestinian body parts removed from the bodies young Palestinians killed by Israeli troops, Ireland's former President and UN Human Rights Commissioner Mary Robinson for receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Obama, and Norway over a boycott of Israeli products by a Norwegian regional government. The blaming of Libya for the take down of PanAm 103 was concocted by the CIA and Mossad, working in tandem, to cover up their activities related to weapons smuggling with Iran in the 1980s. Had Iran been officially blamed for the December 1988 attack on PanAm 103, retaliation for the USS Vincennes attack on an Iran Air Airbus-300 in July 1988, the lucrative joint CIA-Mossad weapons smuggling program to and from Iran during the Iran-Iraq war would have become an embarrassment. Therefore, a cover story was created to blame Libya for the bombing and two Libyan agents, Megrahi, who was later convicted, and Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah, who was acquitted based on the same flimsy and dubious evidence used to convict Megrahi, were named as the perpetrators.
The Iranian connection was never revealed by the CIA, which was under orders to cook the intelligence to pin the blame for Lockerbie on Libya.
A declassified Air Intelligence Agency, formerly SECRET NOFORN WNINTEL, dated March 4, 1991, states that Iranian Interior Minister Ayatollah Ali Akbar Mohtashemi ordered the attack on PanAm 103 in retaliation for the Iran Airbus downing by the U.S. Navy. The relevant paragraph in the redacted report states: 'Mohtashemi is closely connected with the Al Abas and Abu Nidal terrorist groups. He is actually a long-time friend of Abu Nidal. He has recently paid 10 million dollars in cash and gold to these two organizations to carry out terrorist activities and was the one who paid the same amount to bomb Pan Am flight 103 in retaliation for the U.S. shootdown of the Iranian Airbus. Mohtashemi has also spent time in Lebanon.'
Two veteran ABC News correspondents, one in Paris and the other in Nicosia, later told this editor that the wire transfer of $10 million from Iran via a Greek bank to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley for the construction of the Pan Am 103 bomb was intercepted by the National Security Agency (NSA) and the British Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) Ayios Nikolaos listening station in Cyprus. Both correspondents said the blaming of Libya for the Lockerbie bombing was fantasy from the beginning. It was later revealed that Nidal, who later was given asylum by Saddam Hussein in Baghdad and died there under suspicious circumstances in 2002, had alternately worked for the CIA, Mossad, and Egyptian and Kuwaiti intelligence.
The CIA and Mossad went to extreme lengths to keep their secret arms smuggling network to Iran from exposure. This was during the time of the Iran-contra scandal and the transition from Ronald Reagan to George H. W. Bush. Bush was deeply enmeshed in the Iran-contra scandal and its links to the smuggling of weapons to Ayatollah Khomeini's government in Iran.
In 1987, the up-and-coming Christian Democratic Union Premier of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, Uwe Barschel, began objecting to the use of Hartenholm airport in his state for the smuggling of weapons to and from Iran. The Iranian-run airport was also used to smuggle nuclear materials and drugs. Barschel was lured to the Hotel Beau-Rivage in Geneva by what WMR was told were CIA and Mossad agents operating under diplomatic cover with the assistance of the Federal German Bundesnacrichtendienst(BND) intelligence service. On October 11, 1987, Barschel was discovered dead and fully-clothed in his hotel room's water-filled bathtub. The drug Lorazepam was found in his blood stream. The autopsy of Barschel indicated force was used against him before his death.
Years ago, the editor was provided with copies of TOP SECRET CIA cables intercepted by East German intelligence in 1987. The cables are between the military attache at the US. Embassy in Bern and the Joint Chiefs' Intelligence and Threat Analysis Center (ITAC) at the Pentagon, with copies to the CIA's Deputy Director of Operations and the Director of the NSA, that suggest that the decision was made to assassinate Barschel, code named "Perch," after two agents, a CIA agent code named "Lokal" and a Mossad agent code-named "Rabbi" met with Barschel in Geneva, code named "Laketown," only to discover the Schleswig-Holstein Premier was "unyielding" to their demands about permitting his state to be used for Iranian arms and drug smuggling. The German word for the fish "perch" is "Barsch."
The second intercepted CIA cable states: "Jerry took Perch to Temple met with Lokal and Rabbi at 2130 Perch unyielding refuses coop Rabbi ordered disposition alternative w asap advise no act." In can be assumed that the CIA was being informed that Mossad was recommending that Barschel be eliminated and the CIA was informing Langley that no action was required on the part of the CIA.
Two days after Barschel's meeting with the CIA and Mossad agents, his body was discovered in the bathtub in Room 317 at the Beau-Rivage.
A little over a year later, Pan Am 103, would be blown up over the skies of Scotland. To protect the Iranian-CIA-Mossad smuggling link, Libya would be framed for the attack. And in an added bonus, a group of CIA and Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) personnel who may have been aware of the CIA's connections to the Iran-contra and Israeli weapons smuggling operations with Iran happened to be on board the ill-fated Boeing 747: Matthew Gannon, the CIA's deputy station chief in Beirut; Major Chuck McKee, assigned to the DIA station in Beirut; Ronald Lariviere, a security officer at the U.S. embassy in Beirut; and Daniel O'Connor, a security officer at the U.S. embassy in Nicosia. Assistant Deputy Director Michael S. Bernstein, a special agent for the Office of Special Investigation at the Department of Justice.
Scottish Justice Minister Kenny MacAskill, who is under tremendous political fire for releasing Megrahi to Libya while he lives his last days with prostate cancer, may still have the last triumph. Megrahi is vowing to present new evidence establishing his innocence. Barack Obama, who shows more and more by his actions that he still answers to his old employer, the CIA -- while he worked for the CIA front Business International Corporation and perhaps before and after -- wants Megrahi kept under house arrest in Libya.
There is little wonder why the Israel Lobby and Obama and FBI director Robert Mueller are so incensed over MacAskill's actions. Mueller was assistant to Attorney General Richard Thornburgh in 1989 and prosecuted both Megrahi and Fhimah, as well as long-time CIA operative Manuel Noriega of Panama. Obama and Mueller are clearly trying to cover the tracks of their respective agencies as Megrahi prepares to tell all."
On November 2, 2010, WMR reported on the strong Israeli and Mossad influence over the government of Costa Rica: "On October 28, Nicaragua accused Costa Rica of staging cross border raids by Costa Rican paramilitary police into Nicaraguan territory. Costa Rica has been warning Nicaragua against dredging the San Juan River inside Nicaraguan territory. Costa Rica, which fancies itself as an ecological 'green haven,' claims the dredging of the river is causing environmental damage. But as WMR previously reported, Costa Rica, which is backed by George Soros 'civil society' agents of influence, as well as Israeli intelligence agents, is trying to paint Nicaragua as an aggressive destroyer of the environment.
On November 1, Costa Rica claimed that Nicaraguan troops had taken up position on Calero island in the San Juan River and which is claimed by both countries. Nicaragua claims that its troops are in the area to control drug trafficking from Costa Rica, which WMR previously reported involved Costa Rican police and inteligence personnel. In a statement published by The Washington Post, Nicaraguan Army chief of staff General Julio Aviles confirmed WMR's previous report stating the drug trafficking from Costa Rica is controlled by an ex-patriate Nicaraguan family operating from San Jose, the Costa Rican capital.
WMR has also learned that the paramilitary operatives operating out of Costa Rica, including CIA and Mossad agents, are now looking at extending their destabilization operations into El Salvador, now governed by the leftist Farabundo Marti Liberation Front government of President Mauricio Funes, an ally of Ortega in Nicaragua. The tactic being used by the Chinchilla-Lieberman regime in San Jose is the same as that being used against Nicaragua: flood El Salvador with cocaine to increase drug gang warfare and instability.
Most of the drug smuggling from Costa Rica into Nicaragua and El Salvador is being conducted by Russian-Israeli mafiosi figures operating under diplomatic cover at the Israeli embassy in San Jose. Others officially operate in San Jose as 'Russian Martial Arts' trainers, however, they are actually Israeli Defense Force 'Krav Maga' trainers.
One of the Mossad suspects, now wanted by INTERPOL, in the assassination of a Palestinian official in Dubai was susoected of making death threats and engaging an an attempted kidnapping in Costa Rica but the Costa Rican government declined prosecution. The Israeli suspect's false identity in the Dubai assassination is Kevin Daveron, born 2/2/1972, Ireland Passport 980975, alias Jonathan Lewis Graham (stolen identity from a United Kingdom passport.

Ex-Israeli commandos operating in Costa Rica with the blessing of Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman (not known to be a relation to Costa Rica's pro-Zionist Vice President Luis Lieberman Ginsburg; Avigdor hails from Moldova while Luis is of Polish descent) operate under the cover of the Mossad-linked security firm Bitajon Shar, which has been connected, according to WMR's Central American sources, to the destabilization efforts on the Costa Rican borders with Nicaragua and El Salvador."
In updated information provided to WMR from Costa Rican sources, the Costa Rican charged with the assassination of popular Argentine folk singer Facundo Cabral in Guatemala in July is tied to the Mossad-linked criminal druig smuggling network operating throughout Central America and Mexico. Alejandro Jiménez Gonzalez, charged in the killing of Cabral, is the Costa Rican leader of a Central American money laundering syndicate. The actual target of the assassination may have been Cabral's driver, Nicaraguan Elite nigh clubs owner Henry Farinas, who reportedly received protection from the Nicaraguan government of Daniel Ortega, a prime target of the Israeli syndicates in Costa Rica. In addition to Guatemala, Farinas owns night clubs in Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Panama and he has, in the past, been linked to the CIA. However, because of his links to Ortega, Farinas may have had a falling out with Langley, which used friendly Mossad operatives to target him in Guatemala, but ended up killing Cabral instead.
WMR has reported extensively on the activities of the Russian-Israeli Mafia but, thanks to the ATLAS Report from the Belgian police, the Mafia now has a proper name: Nebula....

http://www.counter-currents.com/2011/04/the-cold-war-axis-soviet-anti-zionism-the-american-right-part-1/

http://www.counter-currents.com/2011/04/the-cold-war-axis-part-2/

http://www.counter-currents.com/2011/04/the-cold-war-axis-part-3/

Walid Jumblatt goes where CIA/MOSSAD say he should go….

2011-06-07T13:17:00.000-07:00

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Most Lebanese “politicians” are mere stooges and puppets, they are just cogs in the wheel and not those that exercise power....

IDF Commander of the Herev Battalion Lieutenant-Colonel Shadi Abu Fares is a DRUZE skunk and a friend of the ZIOCONNED Walid CIA JUMBLATT....

The HEREV battalion is the main Israeli force deployed along the Lebanese border for over a decade....

No other battalion is as familiar with the Lebanese border as the Druze Battalion. Its combatants have spent the last decade deployed in the area.

But even they can't predict what shape the next conflict will take. "The main scenario we are preparing for is one of infiltration which also entails an abduction threat," Lt. Col. Abu Fares says.

Walid CIA Jumblatt can retire from politics tomorrow and Druze long-term interest would be better off. Being obsessed about the interest of the sect is a self-serving falsification that sold all too well. The prosperity of the “Castle” is the key. Think of him this way and Jumblatt is an open book...., a CIA book wall to Wall since the mid-70s when Walid Jumblatt was recruited by CIA....

Walid Jumblat is unprincipled and any attempt to whitewash his flip flops as being an asset is very misplaced , in my opinion....

Jumblatt like characters cannot survive in any other political environment where the electorate demand consistency , reliability and accountability. Jumblat does not have to worry about any of these things because his position of power does not depend on either his knowledge, hardwork or charisma. His power is inherited, he is a scion , a feudal lord who does not have to take into consideration what his “serfs” think.

A major contradiction in Walid Jumblatts’ life is his efforts to market himself as a Progressive Socialist when he is neither.
What would you call a capitalist who becomes a socialist for a while then becomes a capitalist again and then back to socialist? Would you ever refer to such a person as prescient or clever? I hope not. Such a person is best described as opportunistic, unprincipled and untrustworthy. No one wants a fare weather friend.

I am sure that Walid Jumblatt does not perceive himself to be that way. He thinks that he is shrewd and that through “Takya” he is protecting the safety of his tribe.

“Takya is sort of a self defense mechanism that the Druze developed when their very existence was in jeopardy. The Moslem majority looked down with suspicion upon these Druze upstarts and was marshalling its vastly superior power and resources to squash the religious “deviants”. That is when the Druze decided to adopt the concept of “Takya” or pretense. It was decided that the Druze could avoid the wrath of the majority if they act as if they have assimilated when in reality they can go on practicing in secret their true beliefs. This flexibility was not meant to be genuine but was to be employed only in order to deceive.” This is the way described on Oct 10 , 2009 in the following post http://rationalrepublic.blogspot.com/2009/10/political-takya.html
Mr. Jumblatt believes currently that it is his job to be a centrist with leanings towards March 8 but wants to act as the bridge between the two camps. But can he be trusted or is all of this an act?

Walid Jumblatt is a CIA asset since the Mid-70s and he still is a full-fledged CIA/MOSSAD asset today….even when he makes occasional U-Turns… or a make-believe U-Turn. It is always meant to be a move that serves better CIA and mostly on their Direct instructions. He is most useful to CIA when he can meet directly with Bashar Assad, his close team and Sayyed Hassan Nasrallh and the Clown Berri…etc. [ Knowing intentions and inner thinking of Leaderships does not come from OSINT..., it comes from direct meetings and face to face dialogue.]

Walid Jumblatt goes where CIA/MOSSAD say he should go…., Hence his enduring Friendship with Jeffrey Feltman…and many “others” from the other side of the pond, in Russia, the EU, Qatar, Turkey & even today in KSA….

I am even willing to say that Walid Jumblatt’s U-Turn in 09 was done knowing full well what was being planned for Syria, Hezbollah & Iran down the line, which is what we are seeing today in Syria, and soon enough in Lebanon and probably Iran, if the zioconned crazies on the Potomac get their way this summer .

Notice how Saad Hariri is giving clear instructions to his puppets never to criticize Walid Jumblatt, no matter what Jumblatt says about Hariri and his Clique… because Hariri probably knows what you guys don’t…. Takya becomes quite handy in this environment and is second nature for the slick Jumblatt. This time though, he knows that his life is on line more than ever before....

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الصفاقة البارزة من دول عربية بائسة، ورائحة العنصرية والاستعمار التي تفوح من أنوف الغربيين، والاستعلاء الكريه الصادر عن الجانب التركي، كل ذلك يقود إلى نقطة واحدة: فصل جديد من المواجهة مع التيار الداعم للمقاومة

وليد جنبلاط، الذي يتمنى اليوم لو تنشق الأرض وتبتلعه، بدل إخضاعه للامتحان الأقسى في تاريخه السياسي. يعرف وليد جنبلاط أنه رسب، وهذه المرة لا مجال للمساعدة، لا من الجمهور ولا من صديق، ولا من أقرب المقربين. ويمكن أن يكون الحل

الأفضل عنده، تقريب موعد خروجه من رئاسة حزبه وطائفته وبالابتعاد سريعاً... مباشرة نحو نيويورك

الثورات العربية تحت عربات الاستعمار الجديد

سيشعر حكام دول الخليج بأن النار لا تقف في وجهها جدران فولاذية ولا قوات متعددة الجنسية. وما دام الجميع معجَبين هذه الأيام بالربيع العربي، فها هو يقترب من حيث لا يحتسبون

لجنبلاط: أنت ديكتاتور طائفي والغدر ليس شطارة

"تعليقا على تصريحات النائب وليد جنبلاط وآخرها خلال المقابلة التي أجرتها معه محطة تلفزيون المنار مساء الجمعة الماضي، والتي تطرق فيها الى حريات الشعوب وحقوق الإنسان ملقيا الدروس والمواعظ عن الدكتاتورية والفساد والإجرام والسرقة والقتل وغيرها، فقد رأى أن عموم اللبنانيين يعرفون تماما أن كل تلك الإرتكابات وألأوصاف إنما تنطبق على النائب جنبلاط قبل أي أحد آخر، وحيث يكفيهم أن يتذكروا ما فعله ويفعله، كديكتاتور طائفي صغير في لبنان، في إرهاب خصومه من الدروز وغير الدروز، وفي الفساد في الدولة وغير الدولة، وما أمر به من مجازر وإغتيالات، ليس أقلها تهجير وقتل آلاف المسيحيين في الجبل وقضية إغتيال سماحة العلامة الشيخ صبحي الصالح والمستشار الرئاسي الدكتور محمد شقير وكثيرون غيرهم وصولا الى دوره المباشر والمعروف في مؤامرة شهود الزور وإعتقال الضباط الأربعة وتهديد عائلاتهم وأولادهم بالقتل، مستغلا بأبشع الصور جريمة إغتيال الرئيس الشهيد رفيق الحريري".
أضاف : "ربما من حسنات القدر ورحمته بلبنان واللبنانيين أن جنبلاط لا يملك الحجم ولا القوة اللذين يسمحان له بالتحكم المطلق بمصير البلاد والعباد ، وإلا لكانوا عانوا منه ومن مزاجيته وساديته وإضطراباته النفسية ما لم يشهده الليبيون من معمر القذافي ولا الروس من جوزيف ستالين . اللبنانيون يعرفون أن جنبلاط هو مزيج من هذين الإثنين معا تحت قناع حضاري مزيف تسكنه ذهنية إقطاعية من القرون الوسطى تجعله يظن نفسه وعن خطأ أنه أبدا فوق الحساب والمحاسبة. هو مع الثورات العربية وتحرير الشعوب وتطيير الأنظمة حيث لا مال ولا نفط، وهو ضد الشعوب والثورات ومع الأنظمة حيث المال والنفط. هو مع المحكمة الدولية وتمويلها من أجل العدالة وهو في الوقت نفسه مع حماية وتمويل شهود الزور الذين ضللوا تلك العدالة.

هو تارة مع الأميركيين ويريد منهم أن يقضوا على المقاومة في لبنان وأن يجتاحوا دمشق، وهو تارة أخرى مع سوريا والمقاومة متباهيا بأنه قتل جنود المارينز الأميركيين في خلده. وهو في كل تلك الحالات مكشوف لدى الجميع ويعتبر أنه يضحك على الجميع لكنه لا يخدع أحدا إلا نفسه. هو يعتقد بأن الشطارة تكمن في الغدر والتقلبات مرة مع صديق ومرة مع خصم أو عدو ، وإلى أن يجتمع قريبا ضده الصديق والخصم أو العدو، فهو يتجبر ويطعن حين يقوى ثم يزحف ويهادن حين يضعف، وربما فات النائب جنبلاط، المتهم زورا هذه المرة بأنه قارئ جيد للتطورات، أن يدرك أن الزمن الحالي هو زمن الجد وليس زمن الألاعيب والبهلوانيات، وانه زمن الكبار وليس زمن الصغار الذين يكبرون في الفتنة كما تعود، و أنه ربما من الأجدى به أن يكتفي بإلقاء الدروس والمواعظ على نفسه وأن يكف عن التمادي وإستغباء الناس، وهو يدرك تماما أنه لو كان مقيما في بلد غير لبنان لكان قابعا في سجون إحدى المحاكم الدولية لجرائمه المشهودة ضد الإنسانية خلال الحرب اللبنانية، و ليس ذلك ببعيد".

بالبحث عن الحقيقة، فإن جدول الأعمال الفعلي لمن يقف خلف المحكمة وخلف التحقيقات وخلف الاتهامات، انتقل إلى مستوى جديد، وبلاعبين جدد أيضاً

كالحديث عن الفِرَق الموسيقية العالمية الكبيرة المتخصصة في عزف الابداعات الكلاسيكية، فيقول اولاً، ان دور أي عازف رئيسي في الفرقة مثلاً مهم جداً. إذ ان اي نشازمنه يعطِّل الحفل سواء اذا اخطأ في قراءة "النوتة" او في متابعة حركات "المايسترو". ويقول ثانياً، ان قائد الفرقة هو صاحب الكلمة فيها. ويقول ثالثاً، ان العازف المشار اليه لا يستطيع ان يخطىء، وخصوصاً اذا تعمّد ذلك، لأنه يستثير بذلك قائد الفرقة واصحاب المسرح والمشاهدين. وطبيعي ان يعرّضه ذلك للعقاب

الأفضل عنده، تقريب موعد خروجه من رئاسة حزبه وطائفته وبالابتعاد سريعاً... مباشرة نحو نيويورك

بعضاً من الجزر والمكسرات يا أكرم... حكاية من الثمانينات عن شهيّب

عاد أكرم شهيّب بعد غياب استمرّ منذ موقعة 7 أيّار. عاد أكرم شهيّب بأمر، طبعاً، وقد يعود ليختفي بأمر، طبعاً. أكرم شهيب كان نجماً في «ثورة حرّاس الأرز» وتفنّن في وضع شال الأرز حول عنقه. كان في التحليل ندّاً لفارس سعيد. وعودة شهيّب تزامنت مع تقلّبات جديدة لوليد جنبلاط، لكن إقامة شهيّب في الإعلام قد تطول وقد تقصر، وفق حسابات لا يعلم بها إلا الراسخون في علم التقلّب والانتهازيّة والتحوّل، الذي لا يفقه فيه أحد أكثر من وليد جنبلاط.

لا تدري بماذا تشعر وأنت تراقب وزراء جنبلاط ونوّابه وهم يتكيّفون مع تقلّباته واستداراته الانتهازيّة السريعة. أحياناً تشعر بالشفقة عليهم، وخصوصاً أنّ البيك الجنبلاطي لا يتورّع عن السخرية منهم وتقريعهم في العلن: ألم يصفهم قبل سنوات بالغباء فقط لأنّهم لم يتكيّفوا بالسرعة المناسبة مع واحد من تقلّباته السريعة؟ ألا يشعرون بالدوار مع هذه التقلّبات؟ ألا يُصابون بذلك الداء الذي يصيب من ينتقل من حيّز زماني في الكرة الأرضيّة إلى آخر بسرعة رحلات الطائرات؟ وكيف لا تشعر بشيء من الشفقة نحو من يتحرّك كعصيّ أحمد الأسعد في زمن الإقطاع الشيعي (القضاء التام على الإقطاع الشيعي كان من إنجازات الحرب الأهليّة، من يعمل حساباً لعلي عسيران، مثلاً، الذي لم ينطق في سنوات نيابته إلا في «ويكيليكس»)؟ كيف لا تشعر بشيء من الشفقة إزاء من يتحرّك في حيّز من المهانة عندما يُطلب من النائب والوزير الجنبلاطي تعليق كرامته ومبادئه على شمّاعة، قبل الانضمام إلى القائمة الجنبلاطيّة؟ طبعاً، تضم القائمة الانتخابيّة الجنبلاطيّة (من أيّام كمال جنبلاط) مموّلين لا يفتحون أفواههم قطّ: من منكم ومنكنّ مثلاً سمع صوت نعمة طعمة؟ يرد اسم نعمة طعمة في الصحف اللبنانيّة عندما يستقلّ جنبلاط طائرته الخاصّة في رحلات «البزنس» الخاصة به المطعّمة بشيء من السياسة (لكن هل ينفصل «البزنس» عن السياسة عند وليد جنبلاط؟). ومن مفارقات الحرب الأهليّة الكثيرة أنّ زعيم الحركة الوطنيّة بالوراثة (وتلك مفارقة بحدّ ذاتها) هو الأكثر حرصاً على التقيّد بشروط الزعامة الإقطاعيّة البائدة وتقاليدها ومراسمها. أي إنّ قائد حلم التغيير الذي حملته الحركة الوطنيّة اللبنانيّة هو أشد مُتمسّك بالتقاليد والأعراف الإقطاعيّة وما قبل الإقطاعيّة. حتى ترميم «قصر» المختارة يدخل في هذا الحيّز (من يزُر القصور التاريخيّة في أوروبا يدرك أنّ أياً من قصور لبنان لا يستحق صفة القصر، وأنّ الصفة تدخل في باب المبالغة اللبنانيّة التقليديّة).

ولكن في الحديث عن نوّاب جنبلاط ووزرائه، لا يمكنك إلا أن تعبّر من جهة أخرى عن عدم احترام فائق لنماذج بشريّة ترتضي في القرن الحادي والعشرين أن تؤدي دور الأدوات أو البيادق أو الرجال الآليّين الذين قرأنا عنهم في مجلّات «سوبرمان» القديمة. من يرتضي أن يغيّر قناعاته وتصريحاته بأمر بين ليلة وضحاها؟ من يرتضي أن يكون مرتمياً في أحضان النظام السوري يوم الاثنين، ثم يُؤمَر بأن يؤيّد الاحتجاجات على النظام السوري يوم السبت؟ الأمر لا يستحق الشفقة بتاتاً إلا إذا سلّمنا (على طريقة الزعامة الجنبلاطيّة) بأنّ الناس ليسوا سواسية كأسنان المشط، وأنّ هناك من يولد ليأمر وهناك أكثريّة تولد لتطيع وتصغي وتنفّذ. لا، الشفقة غير واردة، ولا يجوز أن تكون واردة. الأسوأ، أنّ هناك نماذج من الطاعة عند هؤلاء تصيبك بأكثر من الامتعاض العادي: وائل أبو فاعور مثلاً يصطنع أكثر من غيره الاقتناع بالتحوّل والتقلّب الذي يقوم به، مُتكيّفاً مع تقلّبات البيك الجنبلاطي، لكن الحديث هو عن أكرم شهيّب.

روى لي قبل سنوات ... عن أكرم شهيّب حكاية من الثمانينات. كان ... في دمشق وكان أن صودف وجود وليد جنبلاط فتوافقا على اللقاء. دعاه الأخير إلى جناحه في فندق «الشيراتون» على ما أذكر. دخل ... وجلس مع جنبلاط ليحتسيا كأساً من الخمر. نظر ... فوجد أنّ أكرم شهيّب يقف في زاوية في الجناح الذي كان جنبلاط يقيم فيه. وكان جنبلاط يصيح نحوه بأوامر: بعضاً من الجزر، يا أكرم. أو بعضاً من المكسّرات، يا أكرم، الخ. وكان أكرم يقدّم ما يُطلب منه بصمت وطاعة، لكن ... الذي كان يعرف شهيّب من عاليه تضايق من المشهد، فطلب منه أن يجلس معهما ويشاركهما الشراب. رفض شهيّب ورفض جنبلاط، الذي علّق بأنّه أفضل حيث هو، أو كلام من هذا القبيل. هذا يكفي للتمهيد لحديث عن دور شهيّب في سلّم القيادة الجنبلاطيّة.
أكرم شهيّب أو غيره من نواب جنبلاط ووزرائه يتحرّكون بأمر ويصمتون بأمر.... هم تحت رحمة البيك الجنبلاطي و .... إن استدار استداروا، وإن قفز قفزوا، وإن نطق هزوا رؤوسهم بالموافقة الحماسيّة.

قد تكون الطائفة الدرزيّة من أكثر الطوائف الرازحة تحت وطأة الحكم والزعامة الإقطاعيّة. هذا جزء من التركة الجنبلاطيّة التي عرفت كيف تستخدم الحرب لإحداث المزيد من التراص الطائفي. ووزراء جنبلاط تمرّسوا في ما تمرّس هو به. أكرم شهيّب أو مروان حمادة أو غازي العريضي أطنبوا مثلهم مثل معلّمهم «أبو البوصلة» في تبجيل النظام السوري على مرّ العقود. وكان بعضهم مثله مثل المعلّم «أبو البوصلة» يتحدّث في السرّ في ما لا يتحدّث به في العلن، لكن السجل العام موجود، وأكرم شهيّب كان فصيحاً في مديح النظام السوري، كما كان وليد جنبلاط نفسه (لكن جنبلاط تقتضي الأمانة القول كان أقرب إلى الزمرة الحاكمة التي ارتكبت مجزرة حماة في 1982)، لكن لا دور لأحد منهم خارج الدور المرسوم له من جنبلاط نفسه. قد يكون مروان حمادة الاستثناء ربّما بسبب قربه الشديد من رفيق الحريري، الذي كان (على طريقة ياسر عرفات في التعامل مع المنظمات الفلسطينيّة) يجول على التنظيمات والكتل النيابيّة في لبنان لابتياع من يشاء منها. حظي حمادة بموقع وثيق الصلة.

برز أكرم شهيّب، مثل علاء الدين ترّو، في الميدان في الحرب الأهليّة (فيما برز غازي العريضي في ميدان الإذاعة الجنبلاطيّة أثناء الحرب). وحروب الحزب التقدّمي الاشتراكي حروب محض طائفيّة لا علاقة لها بالاشتراكيّة ولا بالتقدميّة. صحيح أنّ جنبلاط في ساعات التخلّي أو التجلّي أو التخلّي عن التخلّي (العمليّة عويصة وتحتاج إلى شروح تعصى على الجهّال) يشيد من وقت لآخر بحزبه وبدوره في المقاومة، لكنّ أحداً لم يفدنا بعد عن دور الحزب التقدّمي الاشتراكي في مقاومة إسرائيل. أين، وكيف؟ من يفيدنا؟ حتى في سنوات الحرب الأهليّة الأولى في 75 ـــــ 76 نأى الحزب بنفسه عن المشاركة في أكثر حقب الحرب علمانيّة في القتال، ووطنيّة في المواجهة. وكانت العلاقة بين كمال جنبلاط وكميل شمعون كافية لعزل الجبل برمّته عن الحرب الضروس الجارية من حولهما.

وأكرم شهيّب برز في حرب الجبل، على ما قيل: وهي واحد من أقبح فصول الحرب اللبنانيّة لأنّه لا جدال في وحشيّتها وفي طائفيّتها (من دون الإنكار أنّ القوّات [ نخبة من القتلة وأدوات الفتنة والعملاء, سمير جعجع مجرم وقاتل ومفجر لدور العبادة ] هي التي تتحمّل مسؤوليّة إشعال تلك الحرب، كما تتحمّل مسؤوليّة إشعال معظم الحروب في لبنان، بالنيابة عن إسرائيل أو بالنيابة عن طموحاتها الطائفيّة). والقادة في الحزب التقدّمي الاشتراكي يصعدون وينزلون بمزاج من الزعيم الأوحد في الحزب، وقد رفّع أخيراً عضواً من الطائفة الشيعيّة تدليلاً على عدم طائفيّة الحزب. وكان شهيّب يمثّل الحزب في لجان وقف إطلاق النار الكثيرة أثناء الحرب. هكذا، برز في إعلام الحرب، على الأقل.

وفي شريط على «يوتيوب» يبدو أكرم شهيّب كمنسّق بين الحزب التقدمي الاشتراكي وقوات الاحتلال الإسرائيلي، ومن بدا كأنّه نسّق بين الحزب التقدّمي الاشتراكي وقوّات الاحتلال الإسرائيلي في الجبل ينسّق اليوم بين الحزب نفسه وحزب مقاومة إسرائيل في لبنان. إنّها الخفّة (بالمعنييْن) في التعاطي السياسي. ولقد سمح جنبلاط لشهيّب بأن يبرز في حركة آل سعود في لبنان بعد اغتيال رفيق الحريري (يأسف وليد جنبلاط لعدم إدراج «ثورة الأرز» في المنهج الدراسي اللبناني. معه حق. ولماذا لا تُدرج أيضاً نصائح وليد جنبلاط للعدوّ الإسرائيلي أثناء حرب تمّوز في المنهج الدراسي أيضاً؟ هي جزء من «ثورة الأرز». ولماذا لا يُدرج أيضاً كيف أنّ قائد الحركة الوطنيّة اللبنانيّة ردّ على اجتياح إسرائيل للبنان عبر «النأي» بحزبه عن مقاومة إسرائيل، وعبر استقبال خاص وحميم لشمعون بيريز في عقر قصر المختارة، حيث بقي جنبلاط سعياً للسترة بعد الغزو؟ و«ثورة الأرز» تستحق أن تُدرج في المنهج الدراسي: إما السعودي وإما الأميركي، ولكن ما علاقتها بتاريخ لبنان؟).

برز شهيّب في «ثورة الأرز» تلك، وصالَ وجالَ وشال الأرز لم يفارق عنقه. استطاب شهيب الدور الجديد الذي اختطّه جنبلاط لنوابه ووزرائه... اختار غازي العريضي أن ينخرط في «ثورة الأرز» كما خاض غمارها شهيّب، لكن مع البيك الجنبلاطي ليس هناك عفويّة في التحرّك من قبل النوّاب والوزراء. قد يكون الفارق في الأداء جزءاً من توزيع الأدوار. وعندما برم جنبلاط ويمم شطر النظام السوري واستخباراته من جديد بعد 2008، اختار النظام السوري وحزب الله أن يكون غازي العريضي هو صلة الوصل لأنّه تلوّث مثل الآخرين باعتناق عقيدة «حرّاس الأرز»، التي وسمت الحركة التي تسمّي نفسها «استقلاليّة» لأنّها ربطت مصير لبنان بمصير المخطط الأميركي الإسرائيلي، وفي هذا بالمعيار اللبناني الكثير من الاستقلال، وخصوصاً إذا كان الرجل الأبيض يكثر من زياراته إلى لبنان للإشراف على تنفيذ المخطط بحذافيره.

مناسبة الكلام عن أكرم شهيّب أنّه كان صامتاً منذ تقرّب معلّمه جنبلاط «أبو البوصلة» ـــــ وبوصلة جنبلاط لا تتحرّك لكشف المصائر السياسيّة أو التقلبّات الإقليميّة، بل هي تتجه إلى مصادر المال والتمويل ـــــ من النظام السوري ومن حزب الله. كان أكرم شهيب الذي امتشق بندقيّة في حرب 7 أيار (وهي استغرقت أكثر من حروب داحس والغبراء وفق العويل والنحيب اللذين صاحباها في إعلام الحريري وإعلام آل سعود) ودافع عن الجبل بوجه هجمة ظالمة (ظالمة لأنّ البيك الجنبلاطي لم يكن يريد إلا إعطاء المعلومات عن شبكة اتصالات حزب الله لـ... الرأي العام ـــــ ولإسرائيل، لأنّ الخريطة التي أصدرها مروان حمادة وجال بها على العواصم العربيّة والغربيّة كانت للنفع العام). أكرم شهيّب تحوّل إلى المنسّق الميداني للعلاقة مع حزب الله. وشهيّب الذي كان صامتاً طيلة تلك الفترة بدأ بالنطق منذ أشهر معدودة فقط. بقي صامتاً ربما لأنّه استطاب الإقامة في ربوع «ثورة حرّاس الأرز» وفي حضور اجتماعات الأمانة العامّة لـ14 آذار (التي تترقّبها جماهير الشعب العربي عن كثب لأنّ تلك الأمانة ـــــ كما تقول هي ـــــ هي التي ألهمت الانتفاضات في العالم العربي. بمعنى آخر ومن دون تواضع مصطنع، فريد حبيب وعمّار حوري وأكرم شهيّب هم الذين دفعوا الشعب العربي نحو الثورة.... من الغريب أنّ هناك من يختلف مع هذه النظريّة الدامغة، بالرغم من الحلف الوثيق بين نظام حسني مبارك وحركة 14 آذار اللبنانيّة حتى لا نخلط بينها وبين شقيقتها حركة 14 آذار السوريّة، التي وجهت بياناً مكتوباً بنَفَس المكتب الإعلامي الحريري، موجهاً إلى الشعب اللبناني، لم تتطرّق فيه بكلمة إلى الجرائم التي ارتُكبت في لبنان ضد عمّال ومواطنين سوريّين في غمرة «ثورة حرّاس الأرز»).

وقد اختار شهيّب أن يصدح في موضوع بات مختصّاً فيه، وهو موضوع اختطاف الزعيم البعثي السابق، شبلي العيسمي. شهيّب يصفه دوماً بـ«المناضل الكبير»، وقد قيل فيه بعد اختطافه ما لم يُقل في جورج حبش بعد وفاته («....»). هنا تبرز مفارقة أو تناقض. ظننا أنّ أكرم شهيب، بعدما انخرط في «ثورة حرّاس الأرز»، بات يحب الحياة والديموقراطيّة كثيراً، وبات ينبذ البعثيّة لأنّها «شموليّة»، كما يرد في مصطلحاتهم الجديدة ـــــ ظريف كيف يستبطن الفريق الموالي لأميركا في العالم العربي خطاب اليمين الأميركي ضد الشيوعيّة العالميّة، في خطابه ضد أعدائه المحليّين، لكن شبلي العيسمي كان جزءاً من النظام البعثي نفسه في سوريا في الستينات، وعاد وانضم إلى جناح صدّام حسين في البعث بعد الانشقاق الشهير. لا ندري من هو الذي اختطف شبلي، وقد لا نعلم عن قريب. ستُسجّل ضد مجهول، على الطريقة اللبنانيّة المعهودة، والرجل لا يملك المليارات ولم يقدّم خدمات جلّى للمخططات الأميركيّة الصهيونيّة، ولم يكن بيدقاً بيد آل سعود: أي إنّ أميركا لن تؤلّف له لجنة تحقيق دوليّة. قد يكون النظام السوري هو المسؤول، أو أنّه من المرجّح أنّه مسؤول عن جريمة الاختطاف. إنّ جرائم البعثيّين ضد بعضهم البعض (في لبنان وفي خارجه) أفظع من جرائم البعثيّين ضد غيرهم، هذا مع استسهال الإجرام على أنواعه عند البعث. وقد نشط النظامان السوري والعراقي البعثيان في اغتيال قادة بعثيّين من الطرف الآخر، وخصوصاً إذا كان البعثي المذكور قد اختار ترك القطر نحو القطر الآخر انشقاقاً. سلسلة طويلة من الجرائم والسيّارات المفخّخة المبتادلة في هذا الصدد. وقد صفّى النظام السوري في لبنان عدداً لا بأس به من منشقّين بعثيّين عبر السنوات (بدءاً باغتيال محمّد عمران في طرابلس في 1972، وأدّى ذلك إلى تفاهم قسري بين الحكومتيْن في لبنان وسوريا على عدم إيواء لبنان أيّ منشقّين أو معارضين سوريّين، إلى أن تغيّرت المعادلة بعد اغتيال رفيق الحريري)، إضافةً إلى بعثيّين عراقيّين (حتى لا ندرج تفجير السفارة العراقيّة في بيروت). طبعاً، النظام الصدّامي لم يقصّر هو الآخر في التفجيرات والجرائم ضد النظام البعثي الخصم.

لكن لماذا هذه الحماسة المُفاجئة من شهيّب نحو خطف «المناضل الكبير» شبلي العيسمي؟ هل هو المخطوف الوحيد في لبنان، وهل لأنّ القضيّة «إنسانيّة» كما يزعم الإنساني شهيّب؟ هل كان شهيّب وقادة 14 آذار سيرفعون الصوت لو أنّ الاستخبارات السعوديّة قد اختطفت معارضاً سعوديّاً في لبنان، كما فعلت في 1979 بمساعدة حركة فتح ضد ناصر السعيد، مع العلم أنّ رفيق الحريري سعى إلى إغلاق محطة «الجديد» فقط لأنّها استضافت معارضاً سعوديّاً من لندن؟ ثم متى تنتهي تلك الكذبة التي تنشط فيها القوّات اللبنانيّة، عن أنّ كل المخطوفين في لبنان اختطفهم النظام السوري، مع الاعتراف بأنّ النظام السوري اختطف لبنانيّين وفلسطينيّين وسوريّين من لبنان عبر السنوات؟ إنّ قوّات سمير جعجع وحزب الكتائب مسؤولان عن العدد الأكبر من الخطف أثناء سنوات الحرب (والحزب التقدمي الاشتراكي قام هوبالعدد الأكبر الآخر بالخطف، لكن التصفية بالفؤوس عجّلت في معرفة مصائر المخطوفين). والشعب اللبناني يستسهل النظريّات والأكاذيب التي تبرّئ ذمّة اللبنانيّين، وتحمّل المسؤوليّة عن أفعالهم وقبائحهم إلى آخرين على أن يكونوا عرباً (الرجل الأبيض محظي في لبنان).
بصرف النظر عن المعاناة العائليّة والإنسانيّة لخطف رجل تسعيني يستحق أن يُطلق من الأسر، لكن تصوير العيسمي على أنّه«المناضل الكبير» أو الديموقراطي الكبير يتناقض مع سيرة الرجل، وخصوصاً في سنوات خدمته لصدّام حسين ونظامه القمعي. وهذا يوضح بالكامل طبيعة الأهداف السياسيّة لأكرم شهيّب ومن دفعه إلى تبنّي القضيّة. كيف تكون يا أكرم شهيّب ضد النظام الشمولي في سوريا، ومعه في حالة صدّام حسين، والعقيدة هي واحدة والقمع عينه (طبعاً، جنبلاط وشلته النيابيّة والوزاريّة لم يكونوا يعلمون عن الطبيعة الإجراميّة للنظام السوري في عقود التحالف الوثيق معه عبر العقود). يمكن مناصرة قضيّة شبلي العيسمي من منظار إنساني، والمطالبة بكشف مصيره دون تزوير تاريخه: إنّ معارضة النظام السوري لا تتوافق مع مناصرة النظام الصدّامي، إذا كان المعيار كما يقول شهيّب هو حب الديموقراطيّة. قد يكون اهتمام شهيّب عائد إلى ظرف المكان: فمدينة عاليه هي عرين شهيّب، لكن هذا يطرح أسئلة إنسانيّة لشهيب: أين كان حسه الإنساني عندما تعرّض عمّال سوريّون أبرياء لجرائم خطف وتعذيب وقتل في منطقة عاليه، وخصوصاً بعد اغتيال جبران تويني؟ ومن سيكشف مصير 700 من العمال السوريّين الذين تعرّضوا للخطف بعد اغتيال الحريري (لم يشر بيان المجلس الوطني السوري، الذي نشر ملصقاً يشكر فيه الملك السعودي، وابتاع مساحة في جريدة الأمير خالد بن سلطان لنشره، إليهم ولو بكلمة، لكن المجلس فرع مثل فرع 14 آذار عند الأمير مقرن.....). ولماذا لم تتحرّك الحميّة عند أكرم شهيب إزاء وضع العمال السوريّين في منطقة عاليه، حيث جالت عصابات «مجهولة الهويّة السياسيّة» تصطاد عمّالاً سوريّين في محطات الوقود في المنطقة؟

لا يؤدي شهيب دوراً من عنده، ولا يحيد عن تقلّبات وليد جنبلاط. اللحاق به يصيب المرء باللهاث وبضيق التنفّس، لكن من نشأ على الطاعة وكسب منها، يستسهل إهمال القناعات والمبادئ حبّاً بالزعيم الأوحد (تباحث وليد جنبلاط، على ما قرأنا في شأن الثورات العربيّة، مع أمير قطر: لعلّ الاثنين توافقا على مبدأ نبذ الوراثة السياسيّة العائليّة)، لكن دور شهيب يبدو نافراً بصورة خاصّة، لأنّ اهتمامه بأمر العيسمي تلازم مع التحوّل الأخير لوليد جنبلاط. لو طال أمد تحالف جنبلاط مع النظام السوري وأجهزة استخباراته، لما فتح شهيب فاه في أمر العيسمي، لكن شهيّب لا يهاب المواقف والتحديّات، وهو سيستمرّ في المطالبة بكشف مصير العيسمي إلا إذا أتاه الأمر من المختارة بالتنديد بالعيسمي، وبالهتاف لخاطفيه. احبسوا أنفاسكم وأنفاسكن

“Secrets ... Can Be Kept Reliably ... For Decades … Even Though They Are Known to THOUSANDS of Insiders”

2011-05-26T00:54:00.000-07:00

Judges, prosecutors and journalists all know that collusion happens every day....

Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme was a conspiracy. The heads of Enron were found guilty of conspiracy, as was the head of Adelphia. Numerous lower-level government officials have been found guilty of conspiracy. See this, this, this, this and this.
Time Magazine's financial columnist Justin Fox writes:
Some financial market conspiracies are real ...
Most good investigative reporters are conspiracy theorists, by the way.
Indeed, conspiracies are so common that judges are trained to look at conspiracy allegations as just another legal claim to be disproven or proven by the evidence.

Federal and all 50 state's codes include specific statutes addressing conspiracy, and providing the punishment for people who commit conspiracies.
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Conspiracy is a very well-recognized crime in American law, taught to every first-year law school student as part of their basic curriculum. Telling a judge that someone has a "conspiracy theory" would be like telling him that someone is claiming that he trespassed on their property, or committed assault, or stole his car. It is a fundamental legal concept.
Obviously, many conspiracy allegations are false (if you see a judge at a dinner party, ask him to tell you some of the crazy conspiracy allegations which were made in his court). Obviously, people will either win or lose in court depending on whether or not they can prove their claim with the available evidence. But not all allegations of trespass, assault, or theft are true, either.
Proving a claim of conspiracy is no different from proving any other legal claim, and the mere label "conspiracy" is taken no less seriously by judges.

Indeed, even Obama's information tzar - who advocates using the power of the state to shut down talk of conspiracies - admits:

Some conspiracy theories, under our definition, have turned out to be true ... The Watergate hotel room used by Democratic National Committee was, in fact, bugged by Republican officials, operating at the behest of the White House. In the 1950s, the CIA did, in fact, administer LSD and related drugs under Project MKULTRA, in an effort to investigate the possibility of 'mind control.'” [This post isn't going down the rabbit hole of mind control.]

Can't Hide It

Those accusing Goldman Sachs, Dick Cheney or some other powerful people of conspiring to enrich their interests are often met with the argument that "someone would have spilled the beans" if there had really been a conspiracy.
But famed whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg explains:

It is a commonplace that "you can't keep secrets in Washington" or "in a democracy, no matter how sensitive the secret, you're likely to read it the next day in the New York Times." These truisms are flatly false. They are in fact cover stories, ways of flattering and misleading journalists and their readers, part of the process of keeping secrets well. Of course eventually many secrets do get out that wouldn't in a fully totalitarian society. But the fact is that the overwhelming majority of secrets do not leak to the American public. This is true even when the information withheld is well known to an enemy and when it is clearly essential to the functioning of the congressional war power and to any democratic control of foreign policy. The reality unknown to the public and to most members of Congress and the press is that secrets that would be of the greatest import to many of them can be kept from them reliably for decades by the executive branch, even though they are known to thousands of insiders.

History proves Ellsberg right. For example:

One hundred and thirty thousand (130,000) people from the U.S., UK and Canada worked on the Manhattan Project. But it was kept secret for years

A BBC documentary shows that:

There was "a planned coup in the USA in 1933 by a group of right-wing American businessmen . . . . The coup was aimed at toppling President Franklin D Roosevelt with the help of half-a-million war veterans. The plotters, who were alleged to involve some of the most famous families in America, (owners of Heinz, Birds Eye, Goodtea, Maxwell Hse & George Bush’s Grandfather, Prescott) believed that their country should adopt the policies of Hitler and Mussolini to beat the great depression"
Moreover, "the tycoons told General Butler the American people would accept the new government because they controlled all the newspapers." Have you ever heard of this conspiracy before? It was certainly a very large one. And if the conspirators controlled the newspapers then, how much worse is it today with media consolidation?

7 out of the 8 giant, money center banks went bank rupt in the 1980's during the "Latin American Crisis", and the government's response was to cover up their insolvency. That's a cover up lasting several decades

Governments have been covering up nuclear meltdowns for fifty years to protect the nuclear industry. Governments have colluded to cover up the severity of numerous other environmental accidents. For many years, Texas officials intentionally under-reported the amount of radiation in drinking water to avoid having to report violations

The government's spying on Americans began before 9/11 (confirmed here and here. And see this.) But the public didn't learn about it until many years later. Indeed, the the New York Times delayed the story so that it would not affect the outcome of the 2004 presidential election

The decision to launch the Iraq war was made before 9/11. Indeed, former CIA director George Tenet said that the White House wanted to invade Iraq long before 9/11, and inserted "crap" in its justifications for invading Iraq. Former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill - who sat on the National Security Council - also says that Bush planned the Iraq war before 9/11. And top British officials say that the U.S. discussed Iraq regime change one month after Bush took office. Dick Cheney apparently even made Iraqi's oil fields a national security priority before 9/11. And it has now been shown that a handful of people were responsible for willfully ignoring the evidence that Iraq lacked weapons of mass destruction. These facts have only been publicly disclosed recently

These examples show that it is possible to keep conspiracies secret for a long time, without anyone "spilling the beans".

Discipline

To anyone who knows how covert military operations work, it is obvious that segmentation on a "need-to-know basis", along with deference to command hierarchy, means that a couple of top dogs can call the shots and most people helping won't even know the big picture.

Moreover, those who think that co-conspirators will brag about their deeds are forget that people in the military or intelligence or who have huge sums of money on the line can be very disciplined. They are not likely to go to the bar and spill the beans like a down-on-their-luck, second-rate alcoholic robber might do.

Finally, people who carry out covert operations may do so for ideological reasons -- believing that the "ends justify the means". Never underestimate the conviction of an idealogue.

"All Wars Are Based on Propaganda"
Tom Brokaw notes:

All wars are based on propaganda.

There are numerous examples, such as dressing corpses in fake uniforms and planting false intelligence on them to mislead enemies.
In addition, governments from around the world have admitted to false flag terror. In all of these cases, more than a handful of people were involved in planning, funding and carrying out the attacks. And yet no one spilled the beans or – if someone did – they were not believed.

For example:

The CIA admits that it hired Iranians in the 1950's to pose as Communists and stage bombings in Iran in order to turn the country against its democratically-elected prime minister

Israel admits that an Israeli terrorist cell operating in Egypt planted bombs in several buildings, including U.S. diplomatic facilities, then left behind "evidence" implicating the Arabs as the culprits (one of the bombs detonated prematurely, allowing the Egyptians to identify the bombers, and several of the Israelis later confessed) (and see this and this)

The former Italian Prime Minister, an Italian judge, and the former head of Italian counterintelligence admit that NATO, with the help of the Pentagon and CIA, carried out terror bombings in Italy and other European countries in the 1950s and blamed the communists, in order to rally people’s support for their governments in Europe in their fight against communism. As one participant in this formerly-secret program stated: "You had to attack civilians, people, women, children, innocent people, unknown people far removed from any political game. The reason was quite simple. They were supposed to force these people, the Italian public, to turn to the state to ask for greater security" (and see this)(Italy and other European countries subject to the terror campaign had joined NATO before the bombings occurred)

As admitted by the U.S. government, recently declassified documents show that in the 1960's, the American Joint Chiefs of Staff signed off on a plan to blow up AMERICAN airplanes (using an elaborate plan involving the switching of airplanes), and also to commit terrorist acts on American soil, and then to blame it on the Cubans in order to justify an invasion of Cuba. See the following ABC news report; the official documents; and watch this interview with the former Washington Investigative Producer for ABC's World News Tonight with Peter Jennings. Official State Department documents show that - only nine months before - the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and other high-level officials discussed blowing up a consulate in the Dominican Republic in order to justify an invasion of that country. (While the Joint Chiefs of Staff pushed as a serious proposal for Operation Northwoods to be carried out, cooler heads fortunately prevailed; President Kennedy or his Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara apparently vetoed the plan)

The South African Truth and Reconciliation Council found that, in 1989, the Civil Cooperation Bureau (a covert branch of the South African Defense Force) approached an explosives expert and asked him "to participate in an operation aimed at discrediting the ANC [the African National Congress] by bombing the police vehicle of the investigating officer into the murder incident", thus framing the ANC for the bombing

An Algerian diplomat and several officers in the Algerian army admit that, in the 1990s, the Algerian army frequently massacred Algerian civilians and then blamed Islamic militants for the killings (and see this video; and Agence France-Presse, 9/27/2002, French Court Dismisses Algerian Defamation Suit Against Author)

Former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Hugh Shelton says that a Clinton cabinet member proposed letting Saddam kill an American pilot as a pretext for war in Iraq (and see this)

According to the Washington Post, Indonesian police admit that the Indonesian military killed American teachers in Papua in 2002 and blamed the murders on a Papuan separatist group in order to get that group listed as a terrorist organization.

The well-respected former Indonesian president also admits that the government probably had a role in the Bali bombings

As reported by BBC, the New York Times, and Associated Press, Macedonian officials admit that the government murdered 7 innocent immigrants in cold blood and pretended that they were Al Qaeda soldiers attempting to assassinate Macedonian police, in order to join the "war on terror".

Former Department of Justice lawyer John Yoo suggested in 2005 that the US should go on the offensive against al-Qaeda, having “our intelligence agencies create a false terrorist organization. It could have its own websites, recruitment centers, training camps, and fundraising operations. It could launch fake terrorist operations and claim credit for real terrorist strikes, helping to sow confusion within al-Qaeda’s ranks, causing operatives to doubt others’ identities and to question the validity of communications.”

United Press International reported in June 2005:

U.S. intelligence officers are reporting that some of the insurgents in Iraq are using recent-model Beretta 92 pistols, but the pistols seem to have had their serial numbers erased. The numbers do not appear to have been physically removed; the pistols seem to have come off a production line without any serial numbers. Analysts suggest the lack of serial numbers indicates that the weapons were intended for intelligence operations or terrorist cells with substantial government backing. Analysts speculate that these guns are probably from either Mossad or the CIA. Analysts speculate that agent provocateurs may be using the untraceable weapons even as U.S. authorities use insurgent attacks against civilians as evidence of the illegitimacy of the resistance.

Quebec police admitted that, in 2007, thugs carrying rocks to a peaceful protest were actually undercover Quebec police officers

At the G20 protests in London in 2009, a British member of parliament saw plain clothes police officers attempting to incite the crowd to violence

There are many other instances of false flag attacks used throughout history proven by the historical evidence. See this, this and this.

In summary, the claim that conspiracies couldn't have happened or else we would have known when someone bragged about their deeds completely false.

Conspiracies are generally not discovered unless the facts are aggressively investigated and prosecuted....

'OSAMA BIN LADEN'S HOUSE BUILT BY 'CIA FRIEND' DAWOOD IBRAHIM FOR US MILITARY?

2011-05-23T04:16:00.000-07:00

Dawood Ibrahim, allegedly a friend of the CIA.

'OSAMA BIN LADEN'S HOUSE BUILT BY 'CIA FRIEND' DAWOOD IBRAHIM FOR US MILITARY? A genuine US Safe House For CIA & Co.
The 'Osama bin Laden compound' in the Pakistan town of Abbottabad has a special design.

Reportedly, it is a design used by the US military.

Reportedly, the US military use this design for constructing secret and safe homes for top officers in dangerous zones.

(Did Dawood's construction firm build 'Osama's' Abbottabad home? / Did Dawood's construction firm build 'Osama's' Abbottabad home ...)
"Highly placed sources in Indian intelligence" reveal that the contract to build such homes in Pakistan has been given to Safari Construction.

Safari Construction is reportedly owned by Dawood Ibrahim.

(Did Dawood's construction firm build Osama's Abbottabad home?)

Reportedly, Dawood Ibrahim is an asset of the CIA.

According to the media, Pakistan intelligence agencies reveal that Dawood's construction company, Safari, is building many houses in Abbottabad.

They also reveal that Dawood has had a large home in Abbottabad for some years.

(Did Dawood's construction firm build Osama's Abbottabad home?)

Who might have been staying in the so called 'Osama Compound'?

Most likely it would have been people working for the CIA and its friends.

This might explain the reports that it was Pakistan forces who attacked the compound.
"A poll published in Pakistan shows that 66% of people believe the man killed (at Abbottabad) was not Osama bin Laden" (Al-CIAda statement should kill off Bin Laden conspiracy theories) The CIA did have a safe house in Abbottabad. (CIA Occupied Safe House in Abbottabad)

"Gangster Dawood Ibrahim slipped out of Karachi ... on Monday evening, just hours after US Navy Seals (arrived) ... in Abbottabad."

"The gangster ... flew down to Islamabad and (was) then taken to a safe house in Murree by (his) ISI handlers." (Dawood, Shakeel fled Karachi day after Osama kill)

Dawood Ibrahim Dawood Ibrahim of the CIA?
Reportedly, Ibrahim has joint casino interests with the CIA in Katmandu.
Reportedly, this involves money laundering for top Indian politicians. (Wayne Madsen sees Dawood Ibrahim link to Mumbai Attacks)

"The United States showed a 'lack of enthusiasm' in getting underworld don Dawood Ibrahim deported to India from Pakistan despite making some initial efforts, says senior BJP leader L K Advani.

"Advani, in his memoir 'My Country My Life', notes with deep disappointment America's reticence in pressing Pakistan to hand over Dawood, wanted in connection with 1993 Mumbai serial blasts, to India." - ('US showed lack of interest in Dawood's deportation')
"Ibrahim is believed to be one of the men behind the terror attacks in Mumbai." (Fears of a Mumbai Redux: The Story Behind Germany's Terror Threat)

And it was an American agent, David Headley, who planned the Mumbai attacks. (DAVID HEADLEY AND OSAMA BIN LADEN)
HEADLEY, LIKE DAWOOD IBRAHIM, LINKED TO 1993 BOMBINGS ...
The UK spooks protect Dawood Ibrahim?
(http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1411796,00.html)

Iqbal Mirchi lives in Hornchurch, in England.

Iqbal Mirchi is wanted by police in India for murder and his part in a terrorist bombing campaign.

He is allegedly among the top 50 global drug barons; according to the US authorities he is the right-hand man of Dawood Ibrahim, head of the 'D' company, a worldwide mafia.

Bombs in Mumbai in 1993 killed over 300 people.

Mirchi's name was linked to the bombings.

According to Mirchi: 'a senior police officer told me that my name would be attached to false charges unless I paid millions of rupees in bribes.

'I refused and moved to Dubai.'

Mirchi admits having met Dawood Ibrahim in Dubai.

Dawood has been described as 'the most dangerous man in the world'.

As well as drugs and terrorism, the D company is involved in gold smuggling, gambling, counterfeit currency, diamond trading, contract killing, extortion and film financing.

It is said to have a 60 per cent stake in the Bollywood film industry.

Dawood is also known to have met Osama Bin Laden and, in the aftermath of 9/11, allowed his smuggling network to be used to enable senior al-Qaeda operatives to flee Afghanistan.
Dawood Ibrahim seems to be untouchable.
(http://www.satribune.com/archives/apr4_10_04/P1_arun.htm

China-risers should pause for breath...

2011-05-19T06:44:00.000-07:00

China-risers should pause for breath...By Tom Engelhardt

Tired of Afghanistan and all those messy, oil-ish wars in the Greater Middle East that just don't seem to pan out? Count on one thing: part of the United States military feels just the way you do, especially a largely sidelined navy - and that's undoubtedly one of the reasons why, a few months back, the specter of China as this country's future enemy once again reared its ugly head.

Back before 9/11, China was the favored future uber-enemy of secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld and all those neo-cons who signed onto the Project for the New American Century and later staffed George W Bush's administration. After all, if you wanted to build a military beyond compare to enforce a long-term Pax Americana on the planet, you needed a nightmare enemy large
enough to justify all the advanced weapons systems in which you planned to invest.

As late as June 2005, neo-con journalist Robert Kaplan was still writing in the Atlantic about "How We Would Fight China", an article with this provocative subhead: "The Middle East is just a blip. The American military contest with China in the Pacific will define the twenty-first century. And China will be a more formidable adversary than Russia ever was." As everyone knows, however, that "blip" proved far too much for the Bush administration.

Finding itself hopelessly bogged down in two ground wars with rag-tag insurgency movements on either end of the Greater Middle Eastern "mainland", it let China-as-Monster-Enemy slip beneath the waves. In the process, the navy and, to some extent, the air force became adjunct services to the army (and the marines). In Iraq and Afghanistan, for instance, navy personnel far from any body of water found themselves driving trucks and staffing prisons.
It was the worst of times for the admirals, and probably not so great for the flyboys either, particularly after Secretary of Defense Robert Gates began pushing pilotless drones as the true force of the future. Naturally, a no-dogfight world in which the US military eternally engages enemies without significant air forces is a problematic basis for proposing future air force budgets.

There's no reason to be surprised then that, as the war in Iraq began to wind down in 2009-2010, the "Chinese naval threat" began to quietly reemerge. China was, after all, immensely economically successful and beginning to flex its muscles in local territorial waters.

The alarms sounded by military types or pundits associated with them grew stronger in the early months of 2011 (as did news of weapons systems being developed to deal with future Chinese air and sea power). "Beware America, time is running out!" warned retired air force lieutenant general and Fox News contributor Thomas G McInerney while describing China's first experimental stealth jet fighter.

Others focused on China's "string of pearls": a potential set of military bases in the Indian Ocean that might someday (particularly if you have a vivid imagination) give that country control of the oil lanes. Meanwhile, Kaplan, whose book about rivalries in that ocean came out in 2010, was back in the saddle, warning: "Now the United States faces a new challenge and potential threat from a rising China which seeks eventually to push the US military's area of operations back to Hawaii and exercise hegemony over the world's most rapidly growing economies." (Head of the US Pacific Command Admiral Robert Willard claimed that China had actually taken things down a notch at sea in the early months of 2011 - but only thanks to American strength.)

Behind the overheated warnings lay a deeper (if often unstated) calculation, shared by far more than budget-anxious military types and those who wrote about them: that the US was heading toward the status of late, great superpower and that, one of these years not so far down the line, China would challenge us for the number one spot on the seas - and on the planet.

The usefulness of a major enemy
You know the background here: the victor in the Cold War, the self-proclaimed "sole superpower" ready to accept no other nation or bloc of nations that might challenge it (ever), the towering land that was to be the Roman Empire, the British Empire, and the Vulcans rolled into one.

Well, those dreams are already in history's dustbin. If opinion polls are to be believed, a gloomy American populace now senses that the sun has set on American fantasies of ultimate dominance with what seems like record speed. These days, the US appears capable of doing little with its still staggering military might but fight Pashtun guerillas to a draw in distant Afghanistan and throw its air power and missile-armed drones at another fifth-rate power in a "humanitarian" gesture with the usual destruction and predictable non-results.

Toss in the obvious - rotting infrastructure, fiscal gridlock in Washington, high unemployment, cutbacks in crucial local services, and a general mood of paralysis, depression, and confusion - and even if the Chinese are only refurbishing a mothballed 1992 Ukrainian aircraft carrier as their first move into the imperial big time, is it really so illogical to imagine them as the next "sole superpower" on planet Earth?

After all, China passed Japan in 2010 as the globe's number two economy, the same year it officially leaped over the United States to become the world's number one emitter of greenhouse gases. Its growth rate came in at something close to 10% right through the great financial meltdown of 2008, making it the world's fastest expanding major economy.

By mid-2010, it had 477,000 millionaires and 64 billionaires (second only to the US), and what's always being touted as a burgeoning middle class with an urge for the better things. It also had the world's largest car market (the US came in second), and the staggering traffic jams to prove it, not to speak of a willingness to start threatening neighbors over control of the seas. In short, all the signs of classic future imperial success.

And those around the US military aren't alone in sounding the alarm. Just this month, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) quietly posted a report at its website indicating that by 2016, the "age of America" would be over and, by one measure at least, the Chinese economy would take over first place from the American one.

With growing fears in the military-industrial complex of future cuts in the Pentagon budget (even though, as of now, it's still rising), there will undoubtedly be increased jockeying among the armed services for slices of the military pie. This means an increasing need for the sort of enemies and looming challenges that would justify the weapons systems and force levels each service so desperately wants.

And there's nothing like having a rising power of impressive proportions sink some money into its military (even if the sums are still embarrassingly small compared to the United States). In the Chinese case, it also helps when that country uses its control over rare earth metals to threaten Japan in a dispute over territorial waters in the East China Sea, begins to muscle neighbors on the high seas, and - so rumor has it - is preparing to name its refurbished aircraft carrier, which might be launched this summer, after the Qing Dynasty admiral who conquered the island of Taiwan.

The unpredictability of China
Still, for all those naval and air power types who would like to remove American power from a quicksand planet and put it offshore, for those who would like to return to an age of superpower enmity, in fact, for all those pundits and analysts of whatever stripe picking China as the globe's next superstar or super evildoer, I have a small suggestion: take a deep breath. Then take this under advisement: we've already been through a version of this once. Might it not be worth approaching that number-one prediction with more humility the second time around?

As a start, let's take a stroll down memory lane. Back in 1979, Ezra Vogel, Harvard professor and Asian specialist, put out a book that was distinctly ahead of its time in capturing the rise to wealth and glory of a new global power. He entitled it Japan as Number One: Lessons for America, and in praising the ways Japanese industry operated and the resulting "Japanese miracle," the title lacked only an exclamation point. Vogel certainly caught the temper of the times, and his scholarly analysis was followed, in the 1980s, by a flood of ever more shrill articles and books predicting (in fascination or horror) that this would indeed someday be a Japanese world.

The only problem, as we now know: 'tweren't so. The Japanese economic bubble burst around 1990 and a "lost decade" followed, which never quite ended. Then, of course, there was the 2011 earthquake-cum-tsunami-cum-nuclear-disaster that further crippled the country.

So how about China as Number One: Lessons for America? After all, its economy is threatening to leave Japan in the dust; if you were one of its neighbors, you might indeed be fretting about your offshore claims to the mineral wealth under various local seas; and everyone knows that Shanghai is now Blade Runner without the noir, just 40-story towers as far as the eye can see. So what could go wrong?

As a specialty line, our intelligence services offer new administrations predictions on the world to come by projecting present trends relatively seamlessly into a reasonably similar future. And why shouldn't that be a logical way to proceed? So if you project Chinese growth rates into the future, as the IMF has

just done, you end up with a monster of success (and assumedly a military with a global reach). It's not that hard, in other words, to end up with the US Navy's nightmare enemy.

But so much on our present planet suggests that we're not in a world of steady, evolutionary development but of "punctuated equilibrium", of sudden leaps and discontinuous change. Imagine then another perfectly logical scenario: What if, like Japan, China hits some major speed bumps on the highway to number one?

As you think about that, keep something else in mind. China's story over the last century-plus already represents one of the great discontinuous bursts of energy of our modern moment. To predict most of the twists and turns along the way would have been next to impossible.

In 1972, in the wake of the Cultural Revolution that Mao Zedong had set in motion six years earlier, to take but one example, no intelligence service, no set of seers, no American would have predicted today's China or, for that matter, a three-and-a-half-decade burst of Communist Party-controlled capitalist industrial expansionism. The pundit who offered such a prediction then would have been drummed out of the corps of analysts.

No one at the time could have imagined that the giant, independent but impoverished communist land would become the expansive number two capitalist economy of today. In fact, from the turn of the previous century when China was the basket case of Asia and a combined Japanese/Western force marched on Beijing, when various great powers took parts of the country as their own property or "concessions," followed by ensuing waves of warlordism, nationalism, revolutionary ferment, war with Japan, civil war, and finally the triumph of a communist regime that united the country, the essence of China's story has been unpredictability.

So what confidence should we now have in projections about China that assume more of the same, especially since, looking toward the future, that country seems like something of a one-trick pony? After all, the ruling Communist Party threw the dice definitively for state capitalism and untrammeled growth decades ago and now sits atop a potential volcano. As the country's leaders undoubtedly know, only one thing may keep the present system safely in place: ever more growth.

The minute China's economy falters, the minute some bubble bursts, whether through an overheating economy or for other reasons, the country's rulers have a problem on their hands that could potentially make the Arab Spring look mild by comparison. What many here call its growing "middle class" remains anything but and there are literally hundreds of millions of forgotten peasants and migrant workers who have found the Chinese success story less than a joy.

A revolutionary tradition for the ages
It might take only a significant economic downturn, a period that offered little promise to Chinese workers and consumers, to unsettle that country in major ways. After all, despite its striking growth rates, it remains in some fashion a poor land. And one more factor should be taken into consideration that few of our seers ever consider. It's no exaggeration to say that China has a revolutionary tradition unlike that of any other nation or even region on the planet.

Since at least the time of the Yellow Turban Rebellion in 184 CE, led by three brothers associated with a Taoist sect, the country has repeatedly experienced millenarian peasant movements bursting out of its interior with ferocious energy. There is no other record like it. The last of these was undoubtedly Mao Zedong's communist revolution.

Others would certainly include the peasant uprising at the end of the Ming Dynasty in the 17th century and, around the time of the American Civil War, the Taiping Rebellion. It was led by a man we would today call a cultist who had created a syncretic mix of Chinese religions and Christianity (and who considered himself the younger brother of Jesus Christ). Before Qing Dynasty forces finally suppressed it and a series of other rebellions, an estimated 20 million people died.

When Chinese leaders banned and then tried to stamp out the fast-spreading Falun Gong movement, they were not - as reported here - simply "repressing religion"; they were suppressing what they undoubtedly feared could be the next Taiping Rebellion. Even if few intelligence analysts in the West are thinking about any of this, rest assured that the Communist rulers of China know their own history. That's one reason why they have been so quick to crack down on any Arab-Spring-like demonstrations.

In addition, though I'm no economist, when I look around this planet I continue to wonder (as the Chinese must) about the limits of growth for all of us, but certainly for a vast country desperate for energy and other raw materials, with an aging population, and an environment already heavily polluted by the last 40 years of unchecked industrial expansion.

There is no question that China has invested in its military, put together a powerful (if largely defensive) navy, elbowed its neighbors on questions of control of undersea mineral rights, and gone on a global search to lock up future energy resources and key raw materials.

Nonetheless, if predictions were to be made and trends projected into the future, it might be far more reasonable to predict a cautious Chinese government, focused on keeping its populace under control and solving confounding domestic problems than an expansively imperial one. It's almost inconceivable that, in the future, China could or would ever play the role the US played in 1945 as the British Empire went down. It's hard even to imagine China as another Soviet Union in a great global struggle with the United States.

And speaking of the conjunctures of history, here's another thought for the US Navy: What if this isn't an imperial planet any more? What if, from resource scarcity to global warming, humanity is nudging up against previously unimagined limits on unbridled growth? From at least the 17th century on, successive great powers have struggled over the control of vast realms of a globe in which expansion seemed eternally the name of the game. For centuries, one or more great powers were always on hand when the previous great imperial power or set of powers faltered.

In the wake of World War II, with the collapse of the Japanese and German empires, only two powers worthy of the name were left, each so mighty that together they would be called "superpowers". After 1991, only one remained, so seemingly powerful that it was sometimes termed a "hyperpower" and many believed it had inherited the Earth.

What if, in fact, the US was indeed the last empire? What if a world of rivalries, on a planet heading into resource scarcity, turned out to be less than imperial in nature? Or what if - and think of me as a devil's advocate here - this turned out not to be an imperial world of bitter rivalries at all, but in the face of unexpectedly tough times, a partnership planet?

Unlikely? Sure, but who knows? That's the great charm of the future. In any case, just to be safe, you might not want to start preparing for the Chinese century quite so fast or bet your bottom dollar on China as number one. Not just yet anyway.

Stealth has the smell of success

China's J-20 fighter prototype, if its stealth and supersonic cruise capabilities are fully developed, would qualify as a "game changer" in the Asia-Pacific region; in practical terms, this would mean the "block obsolescence" of most Asian air defense systems. The strategic choices available to the United States and its allies for dealing with the J-20 are very limited.
- Carlo Kopp