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The Great Deception and the Greater Middle East Initiative

Samuel P Huntington was an influential political scientist from the United States of America whose works covered multiple sub-fields of political science. He authored Clash of Civilizations (1993, 1996) thesis of a post-Cold War new world order where he wrote “as long as Islam remains Islam and the west remains the west” meaning unless Islam changes to become like the west or the west changes to become like Islam then this clash of civilization would be inevitable.  America had to do something to counter this and devised a plan and strategy which they named The Greater Middle East initiative. I wonder how many of you have heard about this?

The most important foreign policy of America is The Greater Middle East Initiative. Most of America’s time and money when it comes to international relations on foreign policy is not spent on Russia or China but is spent on the Middle East. This initiative contains not only the Middle East but also Mauritania and Morocco, Pakistan and further beyond to the East. Note all of those countries targeted are majority Muslim nations.

In a November 2003 speech before the National Endowment for Democracy, President Bush reiterated his commitment to promoting democracy in Iraq and in the Middle East and likened his “forward strategy of freedom in the Middle East” to earlier U.S. commitments to see democracy spread throughout Eastern Europe. The President openly acknowledged in his speech that the United States has not been vigorous in pursuing the spread of democracy to the Middle East by noting that “60 years of Western nations excusing and accommodating the lack of freedom in the Middle East did nothing to make us safe, because in the long run stability cannot be purchased at the expense of Liberty (Bush Urges Commitment To Transform Mideast).

Although the Bush Administration had previously identified democracy promotion in the Middle East to be a foreign policy priority, analysts noted that President Bush’s November 2003 remarks foreshadowed new U.S. efforts to foster the spread of

reform and democracy in Arab and Muslim-majority countries. Read more here The Middle East Partnership Initiative(MEPI).

In the months following the President’s remarks, new plans emerged for encouraging democracy in the “greater Middle East.” On February 13, 2004, the English language website of the London-based Arabic daily Al Hayat published a draft copy of the proposed G84 “greater Middle East” plan, a working paper devised by U.S. Administration officials, in conjunction with European partners, to be presented at the June 8-10, 2004 G8 summit meeting in Sea Island, Georgia.

The draft plan drew upon data from the United Nations’ Arab Human Development Report of 2002 and 2003, which extensively outlined a number of development shortfalls facing the Arab world. Among other things, the draft paper called on G8 members to provide technical assistance to monitor elections, sponsor training programs for independent journalists, increase funding for non-governmental organizations, establish a Middle East development bank, and provide training to women interested in running for elective office in countries with upcoming parliamentary elections. Overall, the draft paper focused almost exclusively on reform and made little reference to the Arab-Israeli peace process. Read more here The Broader Middle East and North Africa .

In other words America had no intention of competing and clashing with a civilization, which would never have harmed the average person in the west in anyway, but would be a threat to the controlling corporations who control America’s every move and would mean an end to corruption.  So America decided to pump billions and billions in order to change Islam and had to make sure that Islam changed to adapt with the west.

They even went to such an extent that the RAND corporation published a book entitled “Civil Democratic Islam”.

In 2004, the G8 launched a Mid-East Reform plan.

What was the objective? To change Islam from an ideology, from a complete system of life which has government and politics and authority as a part of it into a religion in which we just do the five pillars of Islam. Have you not noticed how in Ramadan the president of America addresses us as if he’s our leader and wishes us a happy Ramadan? Bush, Clinton and Obama have all been doing it for the past decade where they address us and encourage us to fast, eat, pray and give more to charity. Do you know why? Because that’s all they want Islam to be. What they fear the most is the fact that the major battles have been won by Muslims during the holy month of Ramadan.

The whole aim of the initiative of the Greater Middle East was to make the whole region democratic and to introduce a new Islam. One of the titles they used was a “Civil Democratic Islam”. Civil means secular which means people make the laws that they want and they don’t come from any religion. It means that Sharia is eventually abolished and man made laws would be the rule to follow.

In order to achieve this they had to set up a strategy. The first was the “war on terror” where they destroyed Iraq and went into Afghanistan.

Iraq was intended to be the first Islamic Democratic model state, similar to that of what they are trying to introduce in Egypt today, what Turkey has become and what Tunisia is becoming. And they are still trying to implement this.

In 2002, former President Bill Clinton visited Turkey and said “Turkey will be a model for the rest of the region to follow”. In 2010 following the success, Clinton stated to university students “You have shown enormous respect for religion without being paralyzed by it, without using it as a political weapon.”

Since when has Islam paralyzed us? That statement on its own said enough. He went on to state that if they continued on this path of modernization and reconciliation that they would prove to the world that it’s not about religion. Isn’t it strange that Clinton addressed Islamists in such a way? Isn’t it strange how they support Islamists today? Do you understand what they are trying to implement here?

Where they have failed, they implemented another strategy in order to achieve their objectives.

Parallel to this, they prepared youth movements and the so called Islamist organisations in Arab countries to introduce this new civil democratic Islam. They have many strategies, if one didn’t work, they had another. When their Baghdad plan failed, they had Turkey and at the same time they had the Arab Spring in preparation.

As part of the Greater Middle East initiative they started to pressurize regimes to bring about change and reforms by backing some movements. In 2005 there was a movement called Kefaya in Egypt. The movement was short lived and the RAND corporation wrote an article on what lessons can be learned and why Kefaya failed in order to achieve success next time. After the failure they continuously pressurized regimes to reform and change. But Mubarak and Ben Ali and Qaddafi were not interested and wanted to hang on to power. And then the Arab Spring went into play… 

This lecture on the The Great Deception of the Arab Spring exposes the American plan to empower Islamists to implement secularism through the staged revolutions of the Arab Spring as part of its foreign policy for the region, the Greater Middle East Initiative (GMEI) in order to deceive the Ummah to reform Islam into a secular religion.

I would rather be left behind

For weeks I have not been bothered to read or even look at twitter apart from a few mentions I have received and a few tweets I have made, however last night I was sent a blackberry message with the following statements from Al Wefaq’s English twitter account.

 

Yes, Islam has everything to do with the present day, history, humanity and civilization as does Christianity and Judaism. In fact the most civilized people that walked the earth was when religion was sent to the people as a message of mercy from Allah (SWT). However, affiliation with Islam does not mean I must be forced to join the Wests crusade.

Tell me what is the course of history and civilization that I’m missing here if I miss the train for western imposed man made democracy? And then tell me, which stop have I missed? Was it the numerous stops at the White house where you all forgot Allah (SWT) and begged Obama and Washington for mercy and for him to choose sides?

Was it Charing Cross near “Down”ing street where the name fits our history and our future as long as we associate ourselves with their ways. Or I suppose you mean Cornavin Station where the United Nations is based as a judge on the whole of humanity when they are the nations made up of the worst human rights abuses mankind has ever encountered.

And then with no disrespect to the man but last week Al Wefaq followers pledged to die for a mere mortal. Are you ashamed to do it in the name of Allah (SWT) and yet you aren’t when it is for a man? What is wrong with the picture here? Is it just me? Everyone has their own mind set and I am know ones judge, but I am entitled to this opinion especially when Wefaq is preaching using Islam.

I don’t need to spend hours wondering anymore what has happened to the way people perceive the world we live in today.  They have forgotten their roots and their strength and the very essence of the message that was sent to us by God almighty, which in the end is the only message that counts. Religions that once ruled the world ruled with justice, not British or American brutally  imposed man made democracies.

Have we forgotten the Golden Age of Islam? While you all look to a United Nations man made charter for rules and regulations we have had the best provided to us by Allah (SWT). How many times do we need reminding that this was the very essence of civilization and humanity?

I no longer wonder what we are fighting for today but I fully understand the consequences of many misguided peoples actions in their quest that will result in just a disappointing man made facade. We are in a crisis and yet we are all still sleeping when we should be asking ourselves, what is it going to take? How much do we have to lose of our civilization and humanity before we all wake up? How many children have to be sacrificed before we wake up to what is happening due to the western orchestrated world?

Humanity left when people stopped preparing for death as they prepare for life. If we prepared for death as we prepare for life there wouldn’t be a single conflict on the face of the earth. And now you want to sell me a second hand car and if I buy it then I get to move forward and if I don’t I get left behind. Because that is what democracy is.

So is that what Al Wefaq are trying to say? That they want me to buy a second hand car or I will be left behind?

Is that what David Cameron told them to say? Is that what the president of the United States and congress told them to say? Recently David Cameron went on a global mission. What was that global mission? It was one of the most dishonest missions anyone can ever go on. And while he was Gulf and globetrotting, Britain’s’ foreign Affairs committee were discussing their relations  with Saudi and Bahrain.

Cameron set out on a mission to sell fighter jets, missiles, guns, bombs and to top the list took it upon himself to place on the top of his quest to flog democracy. That’s the democracy you have been promoting. But, what he forgot to mention is that while promoting democracy, back home in Britain they are increasingly getting a soiled name.

Democracy mixes money with power like no other political system. Go and ask. You don’t have to argue or agree with what I say. Ask the capital of democracy, the land of the free, the United States of America where money is the source of all power and dirty politics where money buys you politicians.

Don’t argue with me, go and ask how democracy is in India where corruption is rife, or Russia where Putin is famous for it. Go and ask Bangladesh, Iraq, Afghanistan… democracy mixes money and power and corrupts politicians.

And yet the global mission goes on, sold to us like a second hand car salesman sells a faulty car with no brakes and a faulty engine by not just Cameron, but by “big brother” NATO nations. I wonder if Cameron ever mentioned how democracy locks up Muslims without trial or evidence for seven to eight years without even a charge like the case of Babar Ahmad? And yet he has the ghoul to tell us that he stands for freedom and democracy and what’s worse is that you all believe it. And you bought it.

Again, democracy mixes money with power like no other political system and the only result is destruction. If that is the civilization, history and democracy that you want me to convert to, I would rather be left behind.

 

 

 

Bahrain: A Public Campaign Demanding the Removal of the US Ambassador

They constantly promote to the entire globe that we were dealing with democracies, well that’s what they want you to think they are, (although they are far from the theory) so in a true sense of the word, democratic nations as they constantly reiterate should respect  people and their demands. Right? In this case a petition is being raised by the people in Bahrain in order for their demands to be respected. I am curious to see if petitions make a difference ( they are the masters of petitions after all) with the constantly termed”democratic” United States. I am curious to see how public opinion really counts, if at all. Dare I hold my breath..

Shaikh Abdul Latif Al Mahmood: A public campaign to sign a letter to the President of the United States demanding the removal of the American ambassador to Bahrain and replacing him

In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful

Praise be first and foremost to Allah(SWT).Prayer and Peace be upon the Messenger, who was a mercy to the world, and on his family, companions and those who followed until the day of judgment. 

It is known for a Muslim to praise and thank Allah(God) in the times of joy, as well as the times of woe. As God says in Surah Al Baqarah, 216, “Perhaps you hate a thing and it is good for you; and perhaps you love a thing and it is bad for you. And Allah Knows, while you know not.”

The crisis has increased strength, awareness and wisdom in people of Bahrain as days have passed with an increased level of insight from lessons and situations we have been through due to the crisis which we collectively suffer to this day from its effects. It is only by God’s grace on us that the crisis has raised our Strength, Solidity, Solidarity, Awareness and Wisdom when handling situations on the level of leaders, and the level of people.  Cohesion and openness is of importance between the leaders and the people and we all should participate when confronting danger. From the lessons learned through the crisis we should learn and continue unified  with transparency between the leaders and the people. We should also participate in confronting the dangers and troubles and handle situations to maintain the entity and entirety of the country and protect it as well as maintain the religions and dignity.

A country has four parts.

Faith, land, people and political power. Without them, the country has no existence in the national or international community.

As an Arabic poet said long ago, people can’t fix a problem when they have no one to lead, meaning, they do not have a leader, and a leader without people has no value. The country’s strength and presence is from the strength of its politically aware people, and active civic organizations as well as their leaders.

We’ve learned from the crisis that a country in our time is only strong through political awareness, civic organizations and working in all fields. Without political awareness, the nation becomes misguided easily towards the enemy and hypocrites who are cunning and who will use naivety to their advantage. Without civic organizations, political as well as social awareness and working in all fields, the puppets fall into the hands of foreign nations that want to deceive the nation for personal selfish interests at the cost of the country and its people.

Some countries and international organizations are manipulating Bahrain and its people. We saw how America, Iran and European countries including Britain manipulated the entire nation.

Never take those governments at face value. One of the oldest well known tricks of politics is that those governments use a legitimate front as a cover for their sinister objectives. What appears to be a legitimate cause is announced in order to rally mass public opinion where beneath the surface lies illegitimate intentions which have been at work. Some of these government have perfected the skill very well. International organizations are still involved for example human rights organizations like Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Doctors without Borders. Of course there are many others and they are run directly or indirectly by countries that participated in the conspiracy. Besides that there are unions and international labor, etc that orients politically for the interests of those countries and groups.

These countries have exploited some international agreements that Bahrain has signed. They were signed with only good intentions. Bahrain’s good will has been abused and used against the country and has been pressurize by those countries that participated in the illegitimate acts against Bahrain.

We have discovered that these human rights organizations do not apply their concerns as it isn’t attributed to the agreements with human rights only unless the abuse happened from the countries institutions. In doing so this confirms that they protect violence and terrorism against the institution as well as those who conspired against the country and the citizens. For those who have practiced terrorist operations, violence, worked and are still working on overthrowing the regime, encouraging disobedience resulting in chaos, attacking citizens, killing and vandalizing homes as well as destroying public and private property, the organizations say that its none of their concerns.

But we have got God, and praise be to God that he’s been with the Bahraini nation that was unaware of what was conspiring around them. God united us in Al Fateh to prevent the cunning and the hypocrites as it is said in the Quran “And they schemed, and Allah schemed and Allah is the best of schemers”

The importance of a movement is to express the public and country’s interests. We were united in Al Fateh and we are in need of a public movement to draw attention to the heads of conspiring countries and their legislative and executive authority.

It is our, as well as the nations and civic organizations duty to draw attention to what these conspiring nations, organizations and individuals have received from officials and representatives of those countries and organizations in the countries that are being abused, such as is Bahrain. We pray that they may realize the enormity of their illegitimate policies that they follow which abuses countries and nations in order to correct their policies.

A public campaign to sign a letter to President of the United States demanding the removal of the American ambassador to Bahrain and replacing him.

Applying what we have benefited from this lesson, political groups, individuals and societies have embarked on a public campaign to send a letter to the American President warning him about the danger of his foreign policies that the American administration has followed with regards to the relations between them and the Bahraini nation and gives the Ambassador in Bahrain responsibility of forwarding wrong deliberate reports that made the American administration a part of the conspiracy that Bahrain has faced the past two years which has become worse since assigning Mr Thomas C. Krajeski  as an ambassador for the United States of America in Bahrain. The public campaign demands the American president remove him and assign someone else to improve relations between the American administration and the Bahraini nation as a whole.

The importance of participation is for all respected citizens who are 15 years old and above. It is required from every loyal respected citizen that’s protective of Bahrain and its people to join along with his family and everyone around them in this campaign by signing this letter that will be raised to the American President, in order to inform the American administration that the damage that occurred in Bahrain wasn’t limited on the relations between the two countries, but it also involved the Bahraini people of all ages including the young generations that represent the biggest percentage of the people.

This public campaign is also open for all of the people of Bahrain to join, from all religions, beliefs, belongings and race. They are all the people of Al Fateh  that God has made the first shield to break the conspiracy on Bahrain.

May God protect Bahrain and its people from all bad, guide those who have lost their way, strengthen the will of the undecided and those who are scared astray and protect us from wrong-doers oppression to stand by Bahrain and its people. May God enlighten their hearts with his love, and make us to the world, merciful as when God sent the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), the last Prophet(pbuh) who was a mercy on the world.

Prayers and peace be upon the Prophet Muhammad(pbuh), his family and his companions.

For more information contact @TGONU

 

 

Remember Our Final Destination

Nearly every war the world has ever encountered has been for the sake of  power, control and wealth.  Our blood is just for their business. Power, control and wealth for a selfish few. The millions of men and women fight battles for a sake of a handful who in the end, like them, will only turn to dust. Where is the justification in that? Is it justified because they say it’s justified? 

The main reasons have always been over oil, land, natural resources and that has been why wars happen. Look at the world today and the turmoil and ask yourself, where did it all start, who is really behind it and who benefits from it. I have written about this many times and if you haven’t read or understood, it’s time to do your research.

Not one of their wars can be justified.

The mass media and world wide governments constant attacks with their propaganda on jihad in Islam is as if their wars are justified yet ask yourselves, what are they fighting for and how many have died?

They create propaganda under the name of human rights, democracy and freedom in order to privilege the selected few. The common person will never and has never benefited. They work day and night working on a facade and offer money in order for a selected recommended few to falsify and create a screen that the masses will fall for.

The Western world and mass controlled media always rises to the occasion to condemn Islam while they forget that the most bloodshed that has ever been shed has been by “Christians”. The Europeans who managed to turn a religion that is in its essence very peaceful into a deformed version that suits each time and each crusade.

In the 20th century alone, Western and/or Christian powers have been responsible for at least twenty times more deaths than have Muslim powers in the whole of Islamic history.

The facts speak for themselves, just look at the numbers. How many Muslims were killed in the name of Christianity during the Crusade wars? How many people were killed in Europe due to their religious feuds? Millions of people lost their lives for the sake of the European religious wars.

The Europeans have succeeded in doing what no one else has done and that is in the elimination of the population of three continents on the face of the earth, that has never happened before. The elimination of North America, South America, and Australia. The only population that remains is for archaeological studies as artifacts of the past. The Aborigines and the native Americans that are now living, are paraded in the name of “humanity” when and as needed and for the purpose of research.

The only justified war is in the name of Allah (SWT)(God almighty) and yet is mocked and condemned and treated as unjustified whereas in reality it is the only justified war.

It should be noted that those who are in constant referral to the term dialogue and peace when referring to conflicts around the world have been the cause of the most bloodshed in the history of the world and in the present day. Nothing has changed.

I find their constant referral to peace ties ironic while the earth is bleeding in the name of holding on to resources that don’t belong to them, in order to keep the masses under their constant control.

In the meantime while they call for peace and dialogue they are currently engaging with people on the ground offering finance to civil societies in order to convince them to testify and create a new facade that will be far worse than what we saw occur in the history of mankind and what was once termed the Arab Spring, will become rivers of blood.

If only people would pause for a while and remember. Very few think about their final destination because if they really did, the world would be a peaceful place.

“We the human race, living on this earth are under the perception that we belong here, and that this is our residence and home. We don’t know and we don’t want to know the fact that we are on a train and that the train is going through stations to another final destination.  The world that we live in is just one of these stops, one of these stations, but we do not belong here. We have a ticket that has three slips.

We  live in the womb for nine months and then when we come out, one slip is torn off from the ticket. And then we live in donya (life) for a while, and when we are dying the second slip from the ticket is torn out.

And then we have one slip left, a ticket to hell fire or heaven, and that is our final destination.We don’t belong here, we are travelling. And that is why Prophet Muhammed(PBUH) said “Be in this world as if you are a traveller”” – Imam Anwar Al Awlaki

“Everyone shall taste death. And only on the Day of Resurrection shall you be paid your wages in full. And whoever is removed away from the Fire and admitted to Paradise, he indeed is successful. The life of this world is only the enjoyment of deception”[Al-Qur'an 3:185]

“Deal with differences, don’t eliminate differences”

 

 

 

 

 

Our Blood, their Business

I found this article and felt the need to share. While the world is in turmoil and stretching to combats far worse than the last two world wars placed together, ask yourselves, uprisings, conflicts, wars, who benefits? Does the average person involved benefit? While you’re fighting a war in the name of whatever the mass controlled Zionist media has sold, someone is reaping the benefits of your blood. This is not a war in the name of good and God, but in the name of corporations, control and greed for a few. Here is a speech delivered in 1933 that can answer some questions and just imagine how much they make today as our blood and battles are only beneficial for their business.

Major General Smedley Butler wrote “War is a racket. It always has been..”

It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.

A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small “inside” group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.

In the World War [I] a mere handful garnered the profits of the conflict. At least 21,000 new millionaires and billionaires were made in the United States during the World War. That many admitted their huge blood gains in their income tax returns. How many other war millionaires falsified their tax returns no one knows.

How many of these war millionaires shouldered a rifle? How many of them dug a trench? How many of them knew what it meant to go hungry in a rat-infested dug-out? How many of them spent sleepless, frightened nights, ducking shells and shrapnel and machine gun bullets? How many of them parried a bayonet thrust of an enemy? How many of them were wounded or killed in battle?

Out of war nations acquire additional territory, if they are victorious. They just take it. This newly acquired territory promptly is exploited by the few – the selfsame few who wrung dollars out of blood in the war. The general public shoulders the bill.

And what is this bill?

This bill renders a horrible accounting. Newly placed gravestones. Mangled bodies. Shattered minds. Broken hearts and homes. Economic instability. Depression and all its attendant miseries. Back-breaking taxation for generations and generations.

For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired to civil life did I fully realize it. Now that I see the international war clouds gathering, as they are today, I must face it and speak out.

Again they are choosing sides. France and Russia met and agreed to stand side by side. Italy and Austria hurried to make a similar agreement. Poland and Germany cast sheep’s eyes at each other, forgetting for the nonce [one unique occasion], their dispute over the Polish Corridor.

The assassination of King Alexander of Jugoslavia [Yugoslavia] complicated matters. Jugoslavia and Hungary, long bitter enemies, were almost at each other’s throats. Italy was ready to jump in. But France was waiting. So was Czechoslovakia. All of them are looking ahead to war. Not the people – not those who fight and pay and die – only those who foment wars and remain safely at home to profit.

There are 40,000,000 men under arms in the world today, and our statesmen and diplomats have the temerity to say that war is not in the making.

Hell’s bells! Are these 40,000,000 men being trained to be dancers?

Not in Italy, to be sure. Premier Mussolini knows what they are being trained for. He, at least, is frank enough to speak out. Only the other day, Il Duce in “International Conciliation,” the publication of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said:

“And above all, Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace… War alone brings up to its highest tension all human energy and puts the stamp of nobility upon the people who have the courage to meet it.”

Undoubtedly Mussolini means exactly what he says. His well-trained army, his great fleet of planes, and even his navy are ready for war – anxious for it, apparently. His recent stand at the side of Hungary in the latter’s dispute with Jugoslavia showed that. And the hurried mobilization of his troops on the Austrian border after the assassination of Dollfuss showed it too. There are others in Europe too whose sabre rattling presages war, sooner or later.

Herr Hitler, with his rearming Germany and his constant demands for more and more arms, is an equal if not greater menace to peace. France only recently increased the term of military service for its youth from a year to eighteen months.

Yes, all over, nations are camping in their arms. The mad dogs of Europe are on the loose. In the Orient the maneuvering is more adroit. Back in 1904, when Russia and Japan fought, we kicked out our old friends the Russians and backed Japan. Then our very generous international bankers were financing Japan. Now the trend is to poison us against the Japanese. What does the “open door” policy to China mean to us? Our trade with China is about $90,000,000 a year. Or the Philippine Islands? We have spent about $600,000,000 in the Philippines in thirty-five years and we (our bankers and industrialists and speculators) have private investments there of less than $200,000,000.

Then, to save that China trade of about $90,000,000, or to protect these private investments of less than $200,000,000 in the Philippines, we would be all stirred up to hate Japan and go to war – a war that might well cost us tens of billions of dollars, hundreds of thousands of lives of Americans, and many more hundreds of thousands of physically maimed and mentally unbalanced men.

Of course, for this loss, there would be a compensating profit – fortunes would be made. Millions and billions of dollars would be piled up. By a few. Munitions makers. Bankers. Ship builders. Manufacturers. Meat packers. Speculators. They would fare well.

Yes, they are getting ready for another war. Why shouldn’t they? It pays high dividends.

But what does it profit the men who are killed? What does it profit their mothers and sisters, their wives and their sweethearts? What does it profit their children?

What does it profit anyone except the very few to whom war means huge profits?

Yes, and what does it profit the nation?

Take our own case. Until 1898 we didn’t own a bit of territory outside the mainland of North America. At that time our national debt was a little more than $1,000,000,000. Then we became “internationally minded.” We forgot, or shunted aside, the advice of the Father of our country. We forgot George Washington’s warning about “entangling alliances.” We went to war. We acquired outside territory. At the end of the World War period, as a direct result of our fiddling in international affairs, our national debt had jumped to over $25,000,000,000. Our total favorable trade balance during the twenty-five-year period was about $24,000,000,000. Therefore, on a purely bookkeeping basis, we ran a little behind year for year, and that foreign trade might well have been ours without the wars.

It would have been far cheaper (not to say safer) for the average American who pays the bills to stay out of foreign entanglements. For a very few this racket, like bootlegging and other underworld rackets, brings fancy profits, but the cost of operations is always transferred to the people – who do not profit.

CHAPTER TWO

WHO MAKES THE PROFITS?

The World War, rather our brief participation in it, has cost the United States some $52,000,000,000. Figure it out. That means $400 to every American man, woman, and child. And we haven’t paid the debt yet. We are paying it, our children will pay it, and our children’s children probably still will be paying the cost of that war.

The normal profits of a business concern in the United States are six, eight, ten, and sometimes twelve percent. But war-time profits – ah! that is another matter – twenty, sixty, one hundred, three hundred, and even eighteen hundred per cent – the sky is the limit. All that traffic will bear. Uncle Sam has the money. Let’s get it.

Of course, it isn’t put that crudely in war time. It is dressed into speeches about patriotism, love of country, and “we must all put our shoulders to the wheel,” but the profits jump and leap and skyrocket – and are safely pocketed. Let’s just take a few examples:

Take our friends the du Ponts, the powder people – didn’t one of them testify before a Senate committee recently that their powder won the war? Or saved the world for democracy? Or something? How did they do in the war? They were a patriotic corporation. Well, the average earnings of the du Ponts for the period 1910 to 1914 were $6,000,000 a year. It wasn’t much, but the du Ponts managed to get along on it. Now let’s look at their average yearly profit during the war years, 1914 to 1918. Fifty-eight million dollars a year profit we find! Nearly ten times that of normal times, and the profits of normal times were pretty good. An increase in profits of more than 950 per cent.

Take one of our little steel companies that patriotically shunted aside the making of rails and girders and bridges to manufacture war materials. Well, their 1910-1914 yearly earnings averaged $6,000,000. Then came the war. And, like loyal citizens, Bethlehem Steel promptly turned to munitions making. Did their profits jump – or did they let Uncle Sam in for a bargain? Well, their 1914-1918 average was $49,000,000 a year!

Or, let’s take United States Steel. The normal earnings during the five-year period prior to the war were $105,000,000 a year. Not bad. Then along came the war and up went the profits. The average yearly profit for the period 1914-1918 was $240,000,000. Not bad.

There you have some of the steel and powder earnings. Let’s look at something else. A little copper, perhaps. That always does well in war times.

Anaconda, for instance. Average yearly earnings during the pre-war years 1910-1914 of $10,000,000. During the war years 1914-1918 profits leaped to $34,000,000 per year.

Or Utah Copper. Average of $5,000,000 per year during the 1910-1914 period. Jumped to an average of $21,000,000 yearly profits for the war period.

Let’s group these five, with three smaller companies. The total yearly average profits of the pre-war period 1910-1914 were $137,480,000. Then along came the war. The average yearly profits for this group skyrocketed to $408,300,000.

A little increase in profits of approximately 200 per cent.

Does war pay? It paid them. But they aren’t the only ones. There are still others. Let’s take leather.

For the three-year period before the war the total profits of Central Leather Company were $3,500,000. That was approximately $1,167,000 a year. Well, in 1916 Central Leather returned a profit of $15,000,000, a small increase of 1,100 per cent. That’s all. The General Chemical Company averaged a profit for the three years before the war of a little over $800,000 a year. Came the war, and the profits jumped to $12,000,000. a leap of 1,400 per cent.

International Nickel Company – and you can’t have a war without nickel – showed an increase in profits from a mere average of $4,000,000 a year to $73,000,000 yearly. Not bad? An increase of more than 1,700 per cent.

American Sugar Refining Company averaged $2,000,000 a year for the three years before the war. In 1916 a profit of $6,000,000 was recorded.

Listen to Senate Document No. 259. The Sixty-Fifth Congress, reporting on corporate earnings and government revenues. Considering the profits of 122 meat packers, 153 cotton manufacturers, 299 garment makers, 49 steel plants, and 340 coal producers during the war. Profits under 25 per cent were exceptional. For instance the coal companies made between 100 per cent and 7,856 per cent on their capital stock during the war. The Chicago packers doubled and tripled their earnings.

And let us not forget the bankers who financed the great war. If anyone had the cream of the profits it was the bankers. Being partnerships rather than incorporated organizations, they do not have to report to stockholders. And their profits were as secret as they were immense. How the bankers made their millions and their billions I do not know, because those little secrets never become public – even before a Senate investigatory body.

But here’s how some of the other patriotic industrialists and speculators chiseled their way into war profits.

Take the shoe people. They like war. It brings business with abnormal profits. They made huge profits on sales abroad to our allies. Perhaps, like the munitions manufacturers and armament makers, they also sold to the enemy. For a dollar is a dollar whether it comes from Germany or from France. But they did well by Uncle Sam too. For instance, they sold Uncle Sam 35,000,000 pairs of hobnailed service shoes. There were 4,000,000 soldiers. Eight pairs, and more, to a soldier. My regiment during the war had only one pair to a soldier. Some of these shoes probably are still in existence. They were good shoes. But when the war was over Uncle Sam has a matter of 25,000,000 pairs left over. Bought – and paid for. Profits recorded and pocketed.

There was still lots of leather left. So the leather people sold your Uncle Sam hundreds of thousands of McClellan saddles for the cavalry. But there wasn’t any American cavalry overseas! Somebody had to get rid of this leather, however. Somebody had to make a profit in it – so we had a lot of McClellan saddles. And we probably have those yet.

Also somebody had a lot of mosquito netting. They sold your Uncle Sam 20,000,000 mosquito nets for the use of the soldiers overseas. I suppose the boys were expected to put it over them as they tried to sleep in muddy trenches – one hand scratching cooties on their backs and the other making passes at scurrying rats. Well, not one of these mosquito nets ever got to France!

Anyhow, these thoughtful manufacturers wanted to make sure that no soldier would be without his mosquito net, so 40,000,000 additional yards of mosquito netting were sold to Uncle Sam.

There were pretty good profits in mosquito netting in those days, even if there were no mosquitoes in France. I suppose, if the war had lasted just a little longer, the enterprising mosquito netting manufacturers would have sold your Uncle Sam a couple of consignments of mosquitoes to plant in France so that more mosquito netting would be in order.

Airplane and engine manufacturers felt they, too, should get their just profits out of this war. Why not? Everybody else was getting theirs. So $1,000,000,000 – count them if you live long enough – was spent by Uncle Sam in building airplane engines that never left the ground! Not one plane, or motor, out of the billion dollars worth ordered, ever got into a battle in France. Just the same the manufacturers made their little profit of 30, 100, or perhaps 300 per cent.

Undershirts for soldiers cost 14¢ [cents] to make and uncle Sam paid 30¢ to 40¢ each for them – a nice little profit for the undershirt manufacturer. And the stocking manufacturer and the uniform manufacturers and the cap manufacturers and the steel helmet manufacturers – all got theirs.

Why, when the war was over some 4,000,000 sets of equipment – knapsacks and the things that go to fill them – crammed warehouses on this side. Now they are being scrapped because the regulations have changed the contents. But the manufacturers collected their wartime profits on them – and they will do it all over again the next time.

There were lots of brilliant ideas for profit making during the war.

One very versatile patriot sold Uncle Sam twelve dozen 48-inch wrenches. Oh, they were very nice wrenches. The only trouble was that there was only one nut ever made that was large enough for these wrenches. That is the one that holds the turbines at Niagara Falls. Well, after Uncle Sam had bought them and the manufacturer had pocketed the profit, the wrenches were put on freight cars and shunted all around the United States in an effort to find a use for them. When the Armistice was signed it was indeed a sad blow to the wrench manufacturer. He was just about to make some nuts to fit the wrenches. Then he planned to sell these, too, to your Uncle Sam.

Still another had the brilliant idea that colonels shouldn’t ride in automobiles, nor should they even ride on horseback. One has probably seen a picture of Andy Jackson riding in a buckboard. Well, some 6,000 buckboards were sold to Uncle Sam for the use of colonels! Not one of them was used. But the buckboard manufacturer got his war profit.

The shipbuilders felt they should come in on some of it, too. They built a lot of ships that made a lot of profit. More than $3,000,000,000 worth. Some of the ships were all right. But $635,000,000 worth of them were made of wood and wouldn’t float! The seams opened up – and they sank. We paid for them, though. And somebody pocketed the profits.

It has been estimated by statisticians and economists and researchers that the war cost your Uncle Sam $52,000,000,000. Of this sum, $39,000,000,000 was expended in the actual war itself. This expenditure yielded $16,000,000,000 in profits. That is how the 21,000 billionaires and millionaires got that way. This $16,000,000,000 profits is not to be sneezed at. It is quite a tidy sum. And it went to a very few.

The Senate (Nye) committee probe of the munitions industry and its wartime profits, despite its sensational disclosures, hardly has scratched the surface.

Even so, it has had some effect. The State Department has been studying “for some time” methods of keeping out of war. The War Department suddenly decides it has a wonderful plan to spring. The Administration names a committee – with the War and Navy Departments ably represented under the chairmanship of a Wall Street speculator – to limit profits in war time. To what extent isn’t suggested. Hmmm. Possibly the profits of 300 and 600 and 1,600 per cent of those who turned blood into gold in the World War would be limited to some smaller figure.

Apparently, however, the plan does not call for any limitation of losses – that is, the losses of those who fight the war. As far as I have been able to ascertain there is nothing in the scheme to limit a soldier to the loss of but one eye, or one arm, or to limit his wounds to one or two or three. Or to limit the loss of life.

There is nothing in this scheme, apparently, that says not more than 12 per cent of a regiment shall be wounded in battle, or that not more than 7 per cent in a division shall be killed.

Of course, the committee cannot be bothered with such trifling matters.

CHAPTER THREE

WHO PAYS THE BILLS?

Who provides the profits – these nice little profits of 20, 100, 300, 1,500 and 1,800 per cent? We all pay them – in taxation. We paid the bankers their profits when we bought Liberty Bonds at $100.00 and sold them back at $84 or $86 to the bankers. These bankers collected $100 plus. It was a simple manipulation. The bankers control the security marts. It was easy for them to depress the price of these bonds. Then all of us – the people – got frightened and sold the bonds at $84 or $86. The bankers bought them. Then these same bankers stimulated a boom and government bonds went to par – and above. Then the bankers collected their profits.

But the soldier pays the biggest part of the bill.

If you don’t believe this, visit the American cemeteries on the battlefields abroad. Or visit any of the veteran’s hospitals in the United States. On a tour of the country, in the midst of which I am at the time of this writing, I have visited eighteen government hospitals for veterans. In them are a total of about 50,000 destroyed men – men who were the pick of the nation eighteen years ago. The very able chief surgeon at the government hospital; at Milwaukee, where there are 3,800 of the living dead, told me that mortality among veterans is three times as great as among those who stayed at home.

Boys with a normal viewpoint were taken out of the fields and offices and factories and classrooms and put into the ranks. There they were remolded; they were made over; they were made to “about face”; to regard murder as the order of the day. They were put shoulder to shoulder and, through mass psychology, they were entirely changed. We used them for a couple of years and trained them to think nothing at all of killing or of being killed.

Then, suddenly, we discharged them and told them to make another “about face” ! This time they had to do their own readjustment, sans [without] mass psychology, sans officers’ aid and advice and sans nation-wide propaganda. We didn’t need them any more. So we scattered them about without any “three-minute” or “Liberty Loan” speeches or parades. Many, too many, of these fine young boys are eventually destroyed, mentally, because they could not make that final “about face” alone.

In the government hospital in Marion, Indiana, 1,800 of these boys are in pens! Five hundred of them in a barracks with steel bars and wires all around outside the buildings and on the porches. These already have been mentally destroyed. These boys don’t even look like human beings. Oh, the looks on their faces! Physically, they are in good shape; mentally, they are gone.

There are thousands and thousands of these cases, and more and more are coming in all the time. The tremendous excitement of the war, the sudden cutting off of that excitement – the young boys couldn’t stand it.

That’s a part of the bill. So much for the dead – they have paid their part of the war profits. So much for the mentally and physically wounded – they are paying now their share of the war profits. But the others paid, too – they paid with heartbreaks when they tore themselves away from their firesides and their families to don the uniform of Uncle Sam – on which a profit had been made. They paid another part in the training camps where they were regimented and drilled while others took their jobs and their places in the lives of their communities. The paid for it in the trenches where they shot and were shot; where they were hungry for days at a time; where they slept in the mud and the cold and in the rain – with the moans and shrieks of the dying for a horrible lullaby.

But don’t forget – the soldier paid part of the dollars and cents bill too.

Want to know more? You can read the rest here

Open Letter to The White House, President Barack Obama, Congress and the US Senate

I just read this and it is very important to share and be informed as to the tactics of the United States administration and its recent visit of their special envoy Rashad Hussain.

The original link can be found on the altajam3 website.

 

Statement from The Gathering of National Unity, Authenticity Association (Al Asaala) and the Islamic Manbar Association
كُتب يوم مايو 24, 2013 بواسطة nua1

Open Letter to The White House, President Barack Hussein Obama, Congress and the United States Senate

On Thursday 23rd of May 2013, President Barack Obama’s special  envoy from the Organisation of the Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Mr Rashad Hussain, paid a private visit to Shaikh Isa Qassim (representative of Mr Ali Khamenei the general leader of the Iranian revolution) in Bahrain after the police inspected his house in search of a group of terrorists and vandals that attacked police officers with bullets and hid in that specific area. The police also inspected other houses in the vicinity, which is a common practice in light of the circumstances.

Mr Rashad Hussain confirmed that he would meet up with the representatives of the political national associations, at 6pm on that same day and despite the  appointment to meet up with representatives of TOGNU, Authenticity Association (Al Asaala) and the Islamic Manbar association, he ended up cancelling the appointment 10 minutes before the suggested time.

It is an insult and ignorance on the importance and value of including all political and national societies and individuals to share their view which has been avoided on many occasions which will result in a distorted view of the reality.

It is also very unprofessional and falls under the assumption that the special envoy has no interest or respect towards the political national associations and does not consider them as a legitimate voice despite the fact that they represent a majority.

This seems intentional and confirms the  stance of the United States of America’s Foreign Affairs as well as the American Administration obvious public and clear statement of support to terrorism in Bahrain. It also shows very clearly their support towards the Iranian government plans to export the revolution to their neighbours starting with Bahrain following the destruction and penetration of Iraq.

This will extend to the GCC and cause sedition (fitna) between religions, beliefs and different races which feeds the visible American strategy as well as a few Western countries to “re-break” the countries of the Arab and Islamic world (and redraw the “New Middle East Map”), based on religion and sectarian reasons as the American administration has done in Iraq.

This visit from the American president special envoy to the representative of the Iranian leader, Mr Ali Khamanei in Bahrain is considered support from the American administration and backing up forces that want to breakdown the continuing dialogue by any means. 

This also holds the administration responsible to everything Bahrain has faced, is facing and will be facing. Damage has been inflicted on the people of different religions, race, beliefs, political directions and thoughts by terrorists and vandalising campaigns that are occurring, and will occur.

This policy isn’t surprising from the American administration. The American President at the United Nations called upon the government of Bahrain to negotiate with terrorists whilst ignoring the majority representatives of the Bahraini people of all sects that stood as one hand against the sordid conspiracy on Bahrain.

It is also well documented that earlier the Deputy Ambassador of the United States as well as US embassy members in Bahrain visited every injured person, even if the injury was extremely minor(those who are called political activists) to check on them and announce their support of the United States Embassy and the American administration to their movement against Bahrain.

Following the visit of Mr Rashad Hussain, the special envoy of the American President from the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation to Shaikh Isa Qassim it has been exposed to the people of Bahrain  the Gulf and the world combined that while the American administration’s claims to fight for human rights and to stand without those who demand it and those who have had their rights violated, in reality it is only a label used whenever they want, and ignored whenever they want to reach out for their goal in order to make their strategy work.

The strategy is not based on human rights but on tearing the Arab and Islamic world apart by working hand in hand with every advocate that is racist and sectarian in order to achieve new drawn borders.

Does the pressure from the American administration towards Bahrain and its people commensurate with what’s happening to the Syrian people, in which more than 90,000 human lives have been lost as well as the ongoing terror that has destroyed every angle and aspect of their lives and infrastructure. The killing of women and children by Hezbollah with the help of Iran and with the Russians who provide every support from the army to weapons and consultants.

And does it commensurate what’s happening in Iraq from vandalising rights based on sectarian reasons and the support of the sectarian government that has been given all reins by the American administration which has been pressuring with the support of Iran so it wouldn’t be blocked and in order to get the majority vote in government elections.

Or does it commensurate with what’s happening in Iran where there is constant terrorism, killing and executions based on sect and religion like the struggle of the large Arab population in Ahwaz and Azar as well as the Baloch population and the people of Sunna and Jamaa, and many more under the theocracy of the Iranian regime.

The fact is clear. Bahrain is not Syria, neither is Bahrain Iran, and we certainly don’t want to become another Iraq.

We are placing these facts in front of the people of Bahrain, the Arab and Islamic world, and in front of Americans so everyone can realize how much violation the American administration is responsible for which in reality is against human rights and not in the name of defending human rights.

Mr Thomas Krajeski the ambassador of the United States in Bahrain leans towards providing support to terrorists and the uprisings and has been given instructions which is against Bahrain, against peace for its people and which is not in the interest of Bahrain or its people and which has been authorised by the American administration and the American Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 

It is imperative and important in the situation we are facing today to discuss and actively cooperate with all political parties and people in Bahrain in order to comprehend the views of all Bahrainis and not just one organisation that only represents one sect of society.

As the United States constantly refers to  Bahrain as an ally it has yet to show good faith to all Bahrains good people who all deserve the right regardless of sect or political stance as a basic human right, to be included in the future of their nation and to be included in the future of the dangerous dilemma that will affect the entire region.

TOGNU / The Islamic Manbar association / the Authenticity Association Al Asaala

Petrodollar

If it’s one thing that the masses fail to comprehend is that the whole world could be against you and if the truth is on your side, eventually you are bound to win. Looking at the Arab Spring and the events that have occurred in the Middle East over the last few decades it is our duty to never compromise our faith or the truth, regardless of consequence.  Truth will always prevail even if you are one against thousands, eventually.

Today we live in a world where we are in a struggle to raise awareness to the truth where the mass media has failed and raise awareness against  falsehood. In the end truth must vanquish falsehood. We live in a facade that we have been warned about time and time again.

The main reasons and explanation to the way the world is governed today which the mainstream media rarely, if ever, discusses is the inner workings of the petrodollar system and how it has motivated, and even guided, America’s foreign policy in the Middle East for the last several decades.

To what length is the United States willing to go to maintain the petrodollar system? Knowledge is power and the more we can absorb, the more we understand what we face.

Jerry Robinson described the Petrodollar Wars in comprehensible details.

Beating the Iraq War Drums – Before 9/11

On September 11, 2001, America’s relations with the Middle East would be altered forever.

The tragic events of that day still live on in the memory of every American. The dreadful carnage in New York City, Washington D.C., and Shanksville, Pennsylvania was heart-rending to the billions around the world who watched the terror unfold before their eyes on live television.

Interestingly, just five hours after American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld began ordering his staff to develop plans for a strike on Iraq — despite the fact that there was absolutely no evidence linking the country, or its leader Saddam Hussein, to the 9/11 attacks.

When reports later came in that three of the hijackers involved in the 9/11 attacks were connected to Al Qaeda, Rumsfeld reportedly became so determined to find a rationale for an attack on Iraq that “on 10 separate occasions he asked the CIA to find evidence linking Iraq to the terror attacks of Sept. 11.”

The CIA repeatedly came back empty-handed.

On September 12, 2001, despite zero evidence against Iraq, Defense Secretary Rumsfeld proposed to President George W. Bush that Iraq should be “a principal target of the first round in the war against terrorism.” Bush, along with his other advisors, including Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, strongly supported the idea that Iraq should be included in their attack plans. Colin Powell, then Secretary of State urged constraint however, stating that “public opinion has to be prepared before a move against Iraq is possible.”

In fairness, however, Washington had already been preparing for a new invasion of Iraq. The Los Angeles Times reported that one year prior to the attacks of 9/11, the U.S. began constructing Al Adid, a billion dollar military base in Qatar with a 15,000-foot runway, in April 2000. What was Washington’s stated justification for the new Al Adid base, and other similar ones in the Gulf region? Preparedness for renewed action against Iraq.

Here’s a Pentagon document dated March 5, 2001, entitled Foreign Suitors for Iraqi Oil Field Contracts. It details how Iraq’s oil fields would be carved up and outsourced to Western oil companies two full years before the war. It would later be revealed that an invasion of Iraq was at the top of the Bush administration’s agenda only 10 days after his inauguration, which was a full eight months before 9/11.

In an explosive book entitled Against All Enemies by Bush’s former counter terrorism director, Richard A. Clarke, the author recounts life inside the Bush Administration in the days immediately following the 9/11 attacks:

“The president in a very intimidating way left us, me and my staff, with the clear indication that he wanted us to come back with the word there was an Iraqi hand behind 9/11 because they had been planning to do something about Iraq from before the time they came into office. I think they had a plan from day one they wanted to do something about Iraq. While the World Trade Center was still smoldering, while they were still digging bodies out, people in the White House were thinking: ‘Ah! This gives us the opportunity we have been looking for to go after Iraq.’” Read more The Petrodollar Wars.

 

William R. Clark was among those who questioned the status quo answers and Washington’s stated motives regarding the invasion of Iraq. In his book, Petrodollar Warfare, Clark claims that the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq was not based upon “violence or terrorism, but something very different, yet not altogether surprising – declining economic power and depleting hydrocarbons.”

Clark’s work was heavily influenced by another author named F. William Engdahl and his book, The Century of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order.

According to research conducted by both Clark and Engdahl, the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq was not exclusively motivated by Iraq’s connection to the terrorist groups who masterminded the 9/11 attacks. Nor was it out of a concern for the safety of the American public or out of sympathy for the Iraqi people and their lack of freedom or democracy.

Instead, Clark and Engdahl both claimed that the U.S.-led invasion was inspired predominantly by Iraq’s public defiance of the petrodollar system.

According to page 28 of Clark’s book:

“On September 24, 2000, Saddam Hussein allegedly “emerged from a meeting of his government and proclaimed that Iraq would soon transition its oil export transactions to the euro currency.”

Not long after this meeting, Saddam Hussein began preparing to make the switch from pricing his country’s oil exports in greenbacks to euros. As renegade and newsworthy this action was on the part of Iraq, it was sparsely reported in the corporate-controlled media. Am I surprised? Well no, not really. 

Clark comments on the limited media coverage on page 31 of his book:

“CNN ran a very short article on its website on October 30, 2000, but after this one-day news cycle, the issue of Iraq’s switch to a petroeuro essentially disappeared from all five of the corporate-owned media outlets.”

By 2002, Saddam had fully converted to a petroeuro – in essence, dumping the dollar. On March 19, 2003, George W. Bush announced the commencement of a full scale invasion of Iraq.

The petrodollar system was created or established in the 1970′s and has been the driving force in the United States both economically and politically. It has been the driving force for most wars and conflicts that we live today.

I suggest for knowledge that my readers read Petrodollar Wars. This article focuses specifically on the 2003 Iraq war. A follow-up article should also be read which details the Petrodollar connection to the Afghanistan war, the Libyan war, and now, the build up to a war with Syria and Iran.

Like Iraq, Libya’s Gaddafi decided to move away from the petrodollar in favor of a gold-based currency. Threatening the petrodollar has resulted in bloody consequences and bloody removals of people from power. After taking control of the region, U.S. and NATO armed rebels executed Gaddafi in cold blood and immediately setup the Libyan Central Bank that would serve the petrodollar. Read more here.

America’s survival is on the survival of their economy (what’s left of it) and that is focused on the survival of the petrodollar.

Jerry Robinson wrote: What Would Happen If The Petrodollar System Ended Tomorrow?

Allow me to briefly explain the impact that a sudden loss of the petrodollar system would have upon the United States of America.

Foreign nations would begin sending a flood of U.S. dollars back to the United States in exchange for the new currency needed for oil.


The Federal Reserve would lose their ability to print more dollars to solve America’s economic problems.


The Treasury Secretary and the Federal Reserve Chairman would meet to determine the best course of action.


That action would involve an immediate and dramatic increase in interest rates to reduce America’s money supply.


Hyperinflation would ensue temporarily while the interest rates took time to take full effect.


All oil-related prices, including gas prices, would reach outrageous levels.


Washington would soon realize that the total amount of money in the system would have to be dramatically slashed even further, leading to an even higher increase in interest rates.


The clueless American public would demand answers. Those on the left would blame the right . The right would blame the left . And both political parties would seek to blame the Federal Reserve.


People with adjustable rate debts would be crushed and massive layoffs would occur as businesses would be suffering from the high interest rates.


Asset prices across the board would plummet in value.


Amid the financial carnage, an economic recovery eventually would begin to take place. But this new American economy would be tremendously smaller due to a drastically reduced money supply.

This brief scenario is far from exhaustive and is probably very incomplete. But I provide it to help you understand the great economic damage that you and I, and our nation in general, would sustain if the petrodollar system were to collapse suddenly.

The Washington elites are intimately aware of how serious the economic situation could become if the petrodollar system collapsed. After all, they were the architects and masterminds of the entire system. And if one considers Washington’s policies since the mid-1970′s, it is evident that they have no intention of allowing the petrodollar system to fail. However eventually all “good” things come to an end, and nothing lasts forever.

I used to ask myself why it would be so difficult to just go to the center of the village, which would save thousands if not millions of lives, but after reading and studying many sources I have come to the conclusion that it would never have been in their interests to even come close to the center of any village as this would conclude in the demise of the Petrodollar and in turn the end of the United States with super deleted and no power left at all.

 

Rouzbeh and Trita Parsi: Both sides of the Atlantic

On January 17th, 2013, the Institute for Middle East Strategic Studies (IMESS) held a seminar on “Europe, Iran, and the Arab Developments”. The IMESS resident and visiting fellows, faculty members, and a number of PhD  and postgraduate students from different universities in Tehran attended the seminar. The one thing that doesn’t really strike me but will as always come as an “unexpected blow” or “surprise for those who live in a constant denial of the Iranian factor, is the fact that Arab developments are discussed and raised in Iranian orchestrated seminars and yet they claim that they are never concerned or interfere in Arab affairs.

The director of IMESS Dr. Kayhan Barzegar, moderated the session. Kayhan Barzegar is a Senior Research Fellow at the CSR, the Department of Foreign Policy Studies. He is also an Assistant Professor of International Relations at Science and Research Campus, Islamic Azad University, and a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Middle East Strategic Studies in Tehran. Some of his work includes Balance of Power (Great-Iran-com) and Iran Foreign Towards Iraq and Syria as well as The Shia Factor in Iran’s Foreign Policy. 

The seminar was held with the participation of Dr. Rouzbeh Parsi, a senior research fellow at the European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS). I previously wrote about Trita Parsi and the National Iranian American Council.

Rouzbeh Parsi is the brother of Trita Parsi who recently blogged together on the 31st Anniversary of the Iranian Revolution. One thing that made sense is the tactics and style the Iranian regime uses which is to “coerce the Iranian people to acquiesce to the absolute rule of an unelected guardian, the government is accomplishing a revolution in a literal sense, by creating a circular movement that ends where it started.”

Rouzbeh has been a Research Fellow at the Paris based European Union Institute for Security. He deals with Iran, Iraq and what they so constantly term, the Persian Gulf.( However I prefer to use the term Arabian Gulf as history proves the Gulf has always been surrounded by Arabs).

Previously he was a Lecturer at the Department of Interdisciplinary Human Rights Studies (2003-2009) at Lund University Sweden which he helped set up. He holds a PhD in History from Lund University on identity formation and nationalism in modern Iran. Rouzbeh’s research interests include the domestic political developments of Iran and their foreign policy implications, governance and political culture in Iran and Iraq, and regional relations. He has worked on the development and change of political concepts that while universal are also locally embedded, e.g. modernisation, religion, nationalism and secularisation. Funny the term secularisation when Iran is far from it.

Rouzbeh, who you can follow on twitter here is not surprisingly a follower and concerned with the Bahrain Human Rights all Wrong crew and a commentator when it comes to Bahrain.

Funny that Toby forgets to comment on the Iranian regime PR that he is discussing Bahrain with. And still, he will never admit the influence of Iran.

The European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS) is the Union’s agency dealing with the analysis of foreign, security and defence policy issues. The Institute was set up in January 2002 as an autonomous agency under the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) to foster a common security culture for the EU, support the elaboration and projection of its foreign policy, and enrich the strategic debate inside and outside Europe. Based in Paris, with an antenna in Brussels, the EUISS is now an integral part of the new structures that underpin the further development of the CFSP/CSDP.

The Institute’s core mission is to provide analyses and fora for discussion that can be of use and relevance to the formulation of EU policy. In carrying out that mission, it also acts as an interface between European experts and decision-makers at all levels- read more here of how they are all interconnected.

The Institute is funded by the EU member states according to a GNP-based formula. It is governed by a Board, chaired by the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy (HR), which lays down its budgetary and administrative rules and approves its work programme.

At the EUISS, Rouzbeh Parsi has published on Iran’s nuclear programme, political developments and regional affairs. He organises seminars in Paris and Sweden and participates in international conferences and advises policy makers in EU institutions and Member States. A note to be made  regarding the European Union Institute for Security Studies is that there are no Arab academics.

The Iranian influence has spread across the world and it has been establishing itself worldwide for decades.

During the IMESS seminar Rouzbeh stated the following “We should also remember that Europe has had no influence on the Persian Gulf region. How can a European country promote democracy in the Persian Gulf littoral states? If all the Arab countries are dependent on a single country, that country is the U.S. These countries have so far had less cooperation with Europe regarding security concerns and Europeans do not wish to offer such cooperation to the extent that the Arab countries desire. The reason is that the EU does not wish to enter this area. Even if Europe enters the region it should cooperate with the U.S. regarding the establishment and promotion of democracy in these countries. Business, yes! I mean Europe is interested in to cooperate regarding the business issues. But if Europe cooperates with Bahrain for instance on security issues, then the European Union will also be responsible for what the Bahraini regime does or refuses to do. Of course some of the European countries have separately agreed to cooperate and they have taken some steps in this regard. The European Union, however, has so far refused to do so because it does not want to take the responsibility. “

More recently I read an article called What does the Gulf think of the Arab Awakening? I have to ask, who was actually contacted from the actual Arabian Gulf (besides Iran and the usual anti Gulf State bloggers) although Dr Ulrichsen naturally recommends it. If you read it, it’s as if @Dr_Davidson wrote it with the constant referral to “soft power”.

The first edition, edited by Fatima Ayub, focuses on how they view the Arab Awakening, again the main concerns is Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and of course Bahrain.

Fatima Ayub’s connections?

 

The European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) is the first pan-European think-tank. Launched in October 2007, its objective is to conduct research and promote informed debate across Europe on the development of coherent and effective European values-based foreign policy. It is independent and has no connection to the institutions of the EU. See below for information about its various sources of funding.

Like his brother, Rouzbeh who also attends NIAC’s meetings in USA, keeps a close contact with Iranian embassy in Paris and has obtained an influential job in EU’s Iran policy making circles. He advocates increased trade and engagement with Iran despite EU’s new policy of hardening sanctions while dissuading support for the real opposition. The pair recently attended the European Parliament’s Delegation for Relations with Iran, read more “Iranian Embassy” Inside The European Parliament

Trita is the expert when it comes to keeping tabs and a constant Iranian regime lobbying power in the United States and Rouzbeh does the same in Europe. A match made in heaven for the Iranian regime but a disaster for the Arab world.

 

 

 

 

Bahrain: Human Rights Watch, the Truth Revealed

Human Rights bias against Bahrain Gov تحيز هيومن رايتس ووتش ضد حكومة البحرين

via WikiLeaks GCC

Human Rights Watch unfair statements and reports on Bahrain. Human Rights Watch has issued many bias reports on Bahrain. One of the reports was issued by the organisation in 2011.

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Wherever the Western system of democracy has been absorbed, society has been dismantled

 

I read the Saban Centre Brookings report “The New Sectarianism  The Arab Uprisings and the Rebirth of the Shi‘a-Sunni Divide.” One of the only parts that they probably got right was the praise and thanks to their “intellectually” copied input. There is nothing new and this is no rebirth, and in my opinion this has nothing to do with the real sense of religion, it has more to do with individuals using religion to establish their purpose. In modern day, religion is being used as a weapon of war in order for individual selfish gains. For centuries people have used religion just to gain or maintain power.

Another point they got right is the “Sunni awakening”. What they failed to understand however is that the awakening which has been long over due is because of their interference, perseverance, preparation  and plot which has beneficially prepared us for the days to come. Nothing was intellectual about it the report and nothing they wrote was actually new. You only have to read who the input was provided by and the sources used to actually understand where it was all coming from. Before I go on I want to reiterate what Islam really teaches us and which many fail to comprehend and many ignore.

“Whoever kills a single soul for other than a soul (killed) or for corruption in the earth , it is as he killed all humanity together, and whoever saved the life of a single soul, it is though he has saved the life of all humanity together“ Quran Surah al-Ma’lda Ayah 32

Many people do not realize that the divide between Sunni and Shia was initiated by a political disagreement over who would succeed the Prophet Muhammad(pbuh) as the leader of the new Muslim community. It was not a fundamental rift in religious ideology. Those who were later to be called the Sunnis believed that he did not designate a successor and left it to the community to decide; while those who would later be called the Shia believed that Ali(a.s), the cousin and son-in-law of the Prophet(pbuh), was chosen by the Prophet(pbuh) to succeed him (although there is no proof that the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) designated a successor). Early on, though, there weren’t any doctrinal differences. Over time, this split developed and eventually there arose some points of religious disagreement and individuals started to indoctrinate there own man mad versions like Vilayat-e-Faqih for their own political gains.

The writer in the Saban Centre Brooking’s report states that the “Shi‘a in Bahrain have made an effort to convince the world that they do not want to be aligned with Iran. However, attitudes there are beginning to change as more radical Bahraini Shi‘a turn to Iran or its proxies for help.” But then a picture says it all and it has always been that way. ( read more here)

Picture : Qassim Al Hashimi( IFLB/ AL WEFAQ)

The results they wish to ascertain in my opinion, is their New Middle East divided map according to only to their geopolitical needs and interests and by emphasizing on Religious divisions they can achieve that. It is a common fact that from the onset of the uprisings in 2011, the mass media was heavily reporting the term “Sunni, Shia, Shia majority, Sunni minority” without even a consensus. How fitting with the new re-designed map.

Bahrain is one of their gateways. It seems the United States, their partners and their research dupe us into debt, allowing them to seize our resources - while they bomb, loot and shoot everyday- think and pink tanks were definitely rushed to meet a deadline that only they would agree upon to implement what some imbociles would still churn and turn as a “conspiracy” despite the fact that everything is out there as plain as day.

It makes one wonder how much grant money was spent to reproduce the copy pasted written report which perhaps could have fed thousands of children living below the poverty line around the world. In fact it could have perhaps have funded homes and houses for poor Bahrainis they so often like to whine about and let’s not forget the homeless millions that lay on the street of the “democratic” United States. The amount of money spent on promoting democracies and uprisings could have been used to line the streets of the world with gold. Wouldn’t it have been far easier to feed the world then destroy?

If only they would spend that money on people, on needs and at least instead of war mongering and hatred on good deeds. The simple chaotic forthcoming disaster could easily have been avoided if they just went to the center of the village.

There is nothing new about the 73 pages they concocted and as for the” tough deadline” that will be used as an excuse if anyone decides to question it. The United States main concern, “to protect and advance its geopolitical and economic interests”. It’s not about the people, never has been about people so wake up, it’s about protecting their own interests and I have said this so many times that I sound like a played back broken tape recorder.

The new claim is that “it is domestic politics that now drives foreign policy—not the other way around.” They claim that “it is local figures who instigated the uprisings and who are likely to play significant roles in the future”. What they so “cleverly” fail to “intellectually” input is who trained the “domestic political entities”, who nurtured and raised them and who is supporting them in the front line quite visibly.

The writer pens, “As a result of this shift in the power dynamics in Arab states, the United States must now also take religion into account in policy formation. Many local actors who are influencing events are either sheikhs, clerics, or pious Muslims who believe Islam should play a central role in their lives.”

Reading that I pondered and remembered a Nieman Harvard report.“In discussions with younger protestors, some of whom showed me how they built Molotov cocktails, it became clear many of them had a different idea of democracy. Changing the family law, so that Shia women could get a divorce? The answer was, “Only if Ayatollah Isa Qassim says so!” Would they stop the violence so that the new dialogue would have a chance? Again the answer, “If Ayatollah Isa Qassim says so.”

I wonder what kind of “policy formation” would be in the United States benefit?An obvious observation would be that this policy is being encouraged to lean towards dealing with  Shia clerics that can control the streets (when they want) and can take decisions without consulting anyone.  Why deal with the masses when they can deal with one to achieve their goals. However the United States needs to understand following the results in Iraq that this is a path of destruction and not construction.

Over the last several decades, the United States government has claimed to have significantly changed its policies toward the Middle East, now a Saban Centre Brookings report  addresses that religion should be taken into account in policy formation? It has always been in the name of Religion.  If it wasn’t the Crusaders murdering and raping in the name of Christianity, it was the Persians in the name of their Nazi-pagan gods. Needless to mention the Mongols who burned down our cities, filling the Euphrates with our books and our blood, the Romans who enslaved and crucified us …… to this very day, the name is all that changes.

The Iranians have been bastardizing our faith for almost 1,400 years, our faith to which we attribute the only identity we have. We make the mistake of saying that they are plotting to destroy us. They aren’t plotting anymore and with the help of our “allies” and the already signed their treaties with “Rome”, they are executing.

It’s all about the U.S. insisting on imposing its hegemony on the Arab world and they will create anything in order to do that. Under the guise of spreading “freedom”(that the simple uneducated “only if Ayatollah Isa Qassim Says so” person swallows), they have actually increased chaos and insecurity throughout the Middle East.

What they have forgotten in the process, (and they like to turn a blind eye to)  is while their quest and crusade for hegemony, Iran is rapidly expanding its influence across the Middle East by force, intimidation and persuasion. Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates told Bloomberg.com that Iran “ didn’t create the Arab Spring or start it, but they are clearly trying to exploit it wherever they can,” even in Iraq and Afghanistan.  (Read more on Paving the way for Iran hegemony).

What they have also achieved and admitted in their Saban Brookings 73 page report is the obvious aim that “As Arab societies become more politically active and aware at home in the aftermath of the uprisings, fighting Israel is less of a priority, especially because there are so many domestic crises.” Why am I not surprised….

But we do know who fueled the fires and created the Arab Spring. What a plot in action. What a partnership. The Arab region is a major Western political engineering project. Following the end of the bipolar world order, and riding on the tide of the Third Democratization wave, a broad coalition of Western actors, national, international and non-governmental, engaged in promoting liberal democracy in the Arab region.

Although US democracy promotion in the early 1990s did not prioritize that region, in 1995 the instructed failing EU launched its Barcelona Process, which aimed at creating a ‘ring of friendly countries’ in the southern Mediterranean neighborhood by stick and carrot measures involving, for example, conditions for cooperation based on assessments of the Arab countries’ performance in the fields of human rights and democracy. Their partners mainly Iranian regime sympathizers and Hezbollah  supporters read more here- Partnerskab for dialog og reform regionalt medieprogram.

Hillary Clinton’s speech at the NDI in 2011 clarified the situation on the force behind the fire with “I think it is important to recognize that back when the streets of Arab cities were quiet, the National Democratic Institute was already on the ground, building relationships, supporting the voices that would turn a long Arab winter into a new Arab Spring”

It’s no secret that the “Arab Spring” was premeditated and engineered by the West and their partners around the world, for selfish gains in the Middle East, there are many hands all battled to destroy and control.  And as of Iran, they walk hand in hand. Iran and Hezbollah’s media had set the stage long before the state of national safety and had been relaying protest areas and rally venues well in advance via their outlets. I remember switching on to Al Alam TV on a Monday where the reporter would inform the public of a gathering that would occur on a Thursday with the timing and the location.

Media as much as non-governmental organizations have been the tools of foreign policy, however what many don’t seem to realize or adhere is that the people representing the NGO’s are Hezbollah and Iran regime sympathizers and supporters.  Don’t take my word, go and look up the NGO’s and look at the General Secretary names or board members and you will find same names pop up with their own bias one sided political not really human rights agenda, they are like a political under the guise of human rights mafia. Instead of using purely military force, the US has now moved to using NGOs as tools in its foreign policy implementation. 

Over the last several decades, the United States government has claimed to have significantly changed its policies toward the Middle East. Fact of the matter is there has always been chaos in some shape or form, there has to be, how else does the west survive? However this is by far was the worst with uprisings in modern times with revolutions affecting every corner of mainly only the Arab world. I repeat that in 2006 the center for democracy was established in Lebanon. Ralph Peters in the Armed Forces Journal wrote “How a better Middle East would look“. Read more The Arab Agenda.

The “New Middle East” project was introduced publicly by Washington and Tel Aviv with the expectation that Lebanon would be the pressure point for realigning the whole Middle East and thereby unleashing the forces of “constructive chaos.” This “constructive chaos” -which generates conditions of violence and warfare throughout the region, which we can see occurring- would in turn be used so that the United States, Britain, and Israel could redraw the map of the Middle East in accordance with their Geo-strategic selfish self interest needs and objectives and Iran “accidentally” (like what happened in Iraq)will be one of the beneficiaries along the way.

Secretary Condoleezza Rice stated during a press conference that “what we’re seeing here [in regards to the destruction of Lebanon and the Israeli attacks on Lebanon], in a sense, is the growing (the ‘birth pangs’) of a ‘New Middle East’ and whatever we do we [meaning the United States] have to be certain that we’re pushing forward to the New Middle East and not going back to the old one”.

“We’re not going back to the old one”, if those words don’t strike you, then I’m not sure what does. And while it is documented there are those that will claim it to be a conspiracy theory.  The words Rice had uttered in 2006 had actually been written in 1996 in a document entitled “A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm”.

The first casualty in their despicable disastrous catastrophic agenda is to undermine the Arab and Islamic world as their mass bias propaganda portrays one side as good and demonizing the other as “evil.” They have used every level from a critical Big Lie to their second layers where  they don’t care if it’s the truth as long as it’s plausible. Their third strategy, they withhold the other side’s point of view. This is a fact that I can personally prove as I addressed Human Rights Watch, Frontline defenders, Freedom House, Amnesty International  as well as the international media like CNN, BBC, AlJazeera, NBC, Standard News and more with  highly false critical information with the only response from one reporter as “food for thought”. The rest didn’t respond at all.

Since the Arab Spring began we have watched the demonisation of leaders and anyone that supports them. It is as if we are no longer allowed to have a freedom of our own opinion and if we do we are ridiculed and mocked to the mass media like sheep fed to the paid pack of hungry wolves,  as they design alleged false flag atrocities as factual stories to whip up and strengthen emotional reactions in order to deceive and gain public opinion.

The report mouth pieces Al Wefaq rhetoric “For example, dialogue could begin with government proposals to implement some of the BICI recommendations which specifically address the sectarian divide: the integration of personnel from all communities in Bahrain into the security forces; the establishment of a more professional media with professional standards and an end to the hate speech in the state-run media; and the development of a reconciliation program to address the political, social, and economic inequities that affect all Bahrainis, no matter their religious identities” 

Had the writer researched a little they would have understood that this is false and there are all sects in security present. The establishment of a more professional media I have to agree is a must and following the international mass media bias I looked at the way Bahrain handled the media as a reaction to an action. For real permanent changes in the way state-run media is run, there will have to be an understanding or agreement with the international media who have to also get involved and establish a non bias role. Following the events and for nonoccurrence, everyone has the right to be heard and the ignorance to one side while amplifying the other does not remedy the issue.

Reconciliation plans will be very difficult to harvest with the constant past in the picture with many bloggers on social media reawakening and referring to century old no longer disputed history. Economically there has to be changes made with new schemes in place to establish a local work force. Many countries around the world have established youth training schemes, awards, re-education programs and the governments usually bare the costs and also provide the students with a small income while they study. As a Human Resource consultant I have noticed that in Bahrain a lot of money is spent on administration and nothing much goes into application.  Bahrainis should be given priority for jobs and housing. Bahrain doesn’t need to fall into a new trap. Foreigners are being hired into certain positions that Bahrainis are more than qualified and willing to do.

The writer states and note Al Wefaq constantly iterates the same view   “In addition, the United States should insist that the Bahraini government lead this dialogue and not leave it up to al Wefaq and the National Unity Gathering to conduct the dialogue without the government’s strong hand. Government participation should include other figures in addition to the crown prince, who had planned to be the key government representative in 2011, to show that there is broad support across rival factions within the state.” 

The United States have done enough and it would be advisable that they no longer advise what they assisted to predetermine. Chaos and instability has solved nothing and neither does it prosper the collective but only a few greedy selfish individuals.

Opposing political parties should first solve their differences without external interference or reference and establish an agreement between themselves on points they wish to conclude on and raise, however, this will be difficult to address with the constant violent protests that erupt daily. This should be harshly questioned and raised as to why the political organisations involved in any form of dialogue that claim to look for peaceful outcomes sit in silence as if condoning the actions and that itself must be more than just frowned upon.

It’s time for serious prevention and punishment for any acts of terrorism. Terrorism has never solved any dispute and as global history proves fuels many more dangerous fires. Its time to break off and investigate any organisational or individual funding for these groups and backers. Laws should be in place to prosecute any act of terrorism condoning or anyone funding. Terrorism is not civil disobedience, it is simply terrorism.

Transparency is essential to every society. Dialogue and negotiation that involves the whole population should not be held behind closed doors. Question and answer sessions should be available to those who are not invited to participate and questions should be answered whether you agree or disagree with their stance. The whole community was harmed by the uprising and should be entitled to understand what is being discussed and be able to dispute. Not everyone has someone representing them in the dialogue and to avoid future misunderstanding and repetitive disputes this is essential.

The majlis,an important Arab tradition, should be reinstated for citizens to air their concerns. It worked in the past, it can work again. NATO nations have been working in different fronts, one is the destruction of traditional society so that people can be absorbed into the Global society which has become or is now known as the “modern Western civilization”. Their other front is to control resources around the world which they use to blackmail other nations. The third is to use military power to advance the monetary agenda in order to create one currency. 

To preserve what little we have left, tribal relations should remain intact keeping the common bond on elementary loyalty to the tribe and obedience to the chief of the tribes. Modern political democracy will destroy the tribal bonds (which is what Al Wefaq and the West would like to implement) and its system in elections which is what they want to implement is where the individual becomes the unit of the state which presides over the destruction of the social bonds of cohesion. Wherever the Western system of democracy has been absorbed, society has been dismantled.

Is that what you want…