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<title><![CDATA[Position: Senior Ecosystem-based Management Consultant, Kazakhstan]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA[Israel’s Role In Destabilizing Pakistan]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[By Jeff Gates When waging war &#8220;by way of deception,&#8221; the motto of the Israeli Mossad, we]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Jeff Gates When waging war “by way of deception,” the motto of the Israeli Mossad, well-timed crises]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Israel’s Role In Destabilizing Pakistan]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[PakAlert When waging war “by way of deception,” the motto of the Israeli Mossad, well-timed crises p]]></description>
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<p>When waging war “by way of deception,” the motto of the Israeli Mossad, well-timed crises play a critical agenda-setting role by displacing facts with what a target population can be deceived to believe. Thus the force-multiplier effect when staged crises are reinforced with pre-staged intelligence. In combination, the two often prove persuasive.</p>
<p>That duplicity was on display when U.S. lawmakers were induced to invade Iraq in response to the mass murder of 9-11. That crisis alone, however, was insufficient. Military mobilization required a “consensus” belief in Iraqi WMD, Iraqi ties to Al Qaeda, Iraqi mobile biological weapons, Iraqi meetings in Prague, and so forth. Though all were false, those “facts” proved sufficient to induce an invasion of Iraq.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:XULshQLOTNf-3M:http://gksat.tv/images/stories/news2/4-2009/mossad-logo.jpg" alt="" width="111" height="130" /></p>
<p>Such agent provocateur operations typically include collateral incidents as pre-staging for the intended main event. Ongoing incidents suggest a follow-on operation is underway. Recent history suggests we’ll see an orgy of evidence that plausibly indicts a pre-staged Evil Doer. Though Iran is an obvious candidate, Pakistan is also a possibility where outside forces have been destabilizing this nuclear Islamic nation with a series of violent incidents.</p>
<p><strong><span style="font-weight:normal;"><strong><strong>The Indo-Israel Alliance</strong></strong></span></strong></p>
<p>December 2007 saw the murder of former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. Mark Siegel, her <a href="http://pakalert.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/house-of-rothschild-no-one-can-understand-what-has-happened-to-the-planet-without-reading-this/" target="_blank">Ashkenazim</a> biographer and lobbyist, assured U.S. diplomats that her return was “the only possible way that we could guarantee stability and keep the presidency of Musharraf intact.”</p>
<p>President Pervez Musharraf had announced that resolution of the Israel-Palestine conflict was essential to the resolution of conflicts in Iraq and neighboring Afghanistan. That comment made him a target for Tel Aviv.</p>
<p>During Bhutto’s two terms as prime minister, Pakistani support for the Taliban—then celebrated as the freedom-fighting Mujahadin—enabled her to wield influence in Afghanistan while also catalyzing conflicts in Kashmir. By fueling tension with India, she also fueled an Indo-Israel alliance as Tel Aviv provided New Delhi an emergency shipment of artillery shells during a conflict over the Kirpal region of Kashmir.</p>
<p>In January 2009, Israel delivered to India the first of three Phalcon Airborne Warning &#38; Control Systems (AWACS) shifting the balance of conventional weapons in the region. That sale confirmed what Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had earlier announced: “Our ties with India don’t have any limitation….” That became apparent in April when Israel signed a $1.1 billion agreement to provide India an advanced tactical air defense system developed by Raytheon, a U.S. defense contractor.</p>
<p>In August 2008, <a href="http://pakalert.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/house-of-rothschild-no-one-can-understand-what-has-happened-to-the-planet-without-reading-this/" target="_blank">Ashkenazim</a> General David Kezerashvili returned to Georgia from Tel Aviv to lead an assault on separatists in South Ossetia with the support of Israeli arms and training. That crisis ignited Cold War tensions between the U.S. and Russia, key members of the Quartet (along with the EU and the UN) pledged to resolve the Israel-Palestine conflict.</p>
<p><strong><span style="font-weight:normal;"><strong><strong>More Game Theory Warfare?</strong></strong></span></strong></p>
<p>Bhutto’s murder ensured a crisis that replaced Musharaff with Asif Ali Zardari, her notoriously corrupt husband. By Washington’s alliance with Zardari, the U.S. could be portrayed as extending its corrupting influence in the region.</p>
<p>On August 7, 2008, the Zadari-led ruling coalition called for a no-confidence vote in Parliament against Musharraf just as he was departing for the Summer Olympics in Beijing. On August 8, heavy fighting erupted overnight in South Ossetia. As with many of the recent incidents in Pakistan, this violent event involved armed separatists.</p>
<p>But for pro-Israeli influence inside the U.S. government, would our State Department have installed in office the corrupt Hamid Karzai in Afghanistan, leading to record-level poppy production? Is the heroin epidemic presently eroding Russian society traceable to Israel’s infamous game theory war-planners? [See “<a href="http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/08/26/jeff-gates-how-israel-wages-game-theory-warfare/" target="_blank">How Israel Wages Game Theory Warfare</a>” and “<a href="http://www.middle-east-online.com/English/?id=34283" target="_blank">Israel and 9-11</a>” .]</p>
<p><img src="http://pakalert.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/mumbai-false-flag.jpg?w=548&#38;h=487" alt="mumbai false flag" /></p>
<p>In late November 2008, a terrorist attack in Mumbai, India’s financial center, renewed fears of nuclear tension between India and Pakistan. When the attackers struck a hostel managed by Chabad Lubavitch, an ultra-orthodox Jewish sect from New York, Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni announced from Tel Aviv: “Our world is under attack.” By early December, Israeli journalists urged that we “fortify the security of Jewish institutions worldwide.”</p>
<p>Soon after “India’s 9-11” was found to include operatives from Pakistan’s western tribal region, Zardari announced an agreement with the Taliban to allow Sharia law to govern a swath of the North West Frontier Province where Al Qaeda members reportedly reside.</p>
<p>Pakistani cooperation with “Islamic extremists” created the impression of enhanced insecurity and vulnerability for the U.S. and its allies. That perceived threat was marketed by mainstream media as proof of the perils of “militant Islam.”</p>
<p>With the Taliban and Al Qaeda portrayed as operating freely in a nuclear-armed Islamic state, Tel Aviv gained traction for its claim that a nuclear Tehran posed an “existential threat” to the Jewish state. Meanwhile Israel’s election of an ultra-nationalist/ultra-orthodox coalition further delayed resolution of the Israel-Palestine conflict.</p>
<p>More delay is destined to evoke more extremism and gain more traction for those marketing the “global war on terrorism.” Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni argued after the assault in Mumbai: “Israel, India and the rest of the free world are positioned in the forefront of the battle against terrorists and extremism.”</p>
<p>In announcing that list, Islamabad was indicted by its exclusion even though Pakistan is dominantly Sunni and, unlike Iran’s Shi’a , abhors theocratic rule. The fact patterns suggest that Pakistan, not India, was the target of the murderous terrorism in Mumbai.</p>
<p>Advised by legions of<a href="http://pakalert.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/house-of-rothschild-no-one-can-understand-what-has-happened-to-the-planet-without-reading-this/" target="_blank"> Ashkenazim</a>, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s recent mission to Islamabad was a diplomatic disaster. Abrasive and arrogant, America’s top diplomat reinforced Pakistani concerns that it is surrounded by hostile forces and that the nation is being set up to fail by Jewish nationalist advisers to a nation it considered an ally.</p>
<p>In a climate of heightened tensions, Clinton undermined U.S. interests, boosted the Israeli case for a global war on “Islamo-fascism” and lent credence to the Clash of Civilizations.</p>
<p><strong>Destabilization as a Prequel to Domination</strong></p>
<p>As Afghanistan and Pakistan join other nations being destabilized by outside forces, key questions must be answered:</p>
<p>Was India’s 9-11 a form of geopolitical misdirection meant to serve both the tactical goals of Muslim extremists and the strategic goals of Jewish nationalists? Who benefits—within Pakistan—from humiliation at the hands of India and the U.S.?</p>
<p>With Bhutto’s murder and Musharraf’s departure, the crisis in Mumbai drew Pakistani forces to the Indian border and away from the western tribal region. Was that the geostrategic goal of these well-timed crises? What role, if any, did Israel play?</p>
<p>Is delay in ending the occupation of Palestine part of an agent provocateur strategy? Was the latest assault on Gaza part of this strategy?</p>
<p>Each of these crises incrementally advanced the expansionist agenda of Colonial Zionists. Do these collateral incidents trace their origin to a common source? Is that source again using serial events to pre-stage a main event?</p>
<p>The public has an intuitive grasp of the source of this oft-recurring behavior. An October 2003 poll of 7,500 respondents in member nations of the European Union found that Israel was considered the greatest threat to world peace.</p>
<p>Is terrorism limited to “Islamo-fascists”? Are mass murders also deployed—from the shadows—as a strategy of geopolitical manipulation by those who Ashkenazim philosopher Hannah Arendt described as “Jewish fascists”?</p>
<p>Author, educator, attorney, merchant banker and adviser to policy-makers worldwide and U.S. Veteran</p>
<p>Jeff was counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance (1980-87) working for Democrat Russell Long, son of Louisiana Governor and U.S. Senator Huey P. Long. Specialist in employee benefits law—pensions, 401(k) plans, stock options, employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs), et.al. Tax-qualified employee benefit plans accounted for $17 trillion in assets (April 2007) and more than half the funds in the hands of institutional investors. As of 2007, ESOPs were in place in 11,500 firms nationwide, covering 10% of the U.S. workforce and holding $800 billion in assets. Law practice w/ former Senators Russell Long, Democrat of Louisiana and Paul Laxalt, Republican of Nevada, chairman of Ronald Reagan’s presidential campaigns.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Destabilizing Baluchistan, Fracturing Pakistan]]></title>
<link>http://nitrocario.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/destabilizing-baluchistan-fracturing-pakistan/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:11:05 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya A strong, stable, and powerful Pakistan, especially one that would be indepe]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[A strong, stable, and powerful Pakistan, especially one that would be independent, is not looked at ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Reconfiguring Rivers: Amudarya]]></title>
<link>http://socialhistorytimelines.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/reconfiguring-rivers-amudarya/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:39:39 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Beard&#8217;s text (1972) described European travelers&#8217; writings about the Transcaspian region]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Beard&#8217;s text (1972) described European travelers&#8217; writings about the Transcaspian region. His work predates the intensive revisiting of seemingly objective narratives through a more critical lens that occurred in cultural studies.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Traditionally the distinctive feature of the Transcaspian area is its isolation. Three of its boundaries are geographical barriers (the Caspian Sea, the Khirghiz Steppes, the Ferghana and Pamir mountain ranges) and the southern limits blocked from the sixteenth century until the last Russian annexations by the existence of Turkoman slave traders along the Atrak River and beyond. [...] None of the most famous British travelers- neither E. G. Browne, the Sherley Brothers, Richard Burton, nor even Thomas Coryate- went there at all. The accounts of those who did go into the Transcaspian are extremely useful for the study of Central Asian history. We often find them present at the battles and political discussions of the region (MacGahan at the fall of Khiva, O&#8217;Donavan at Geok Tepe), and we find one of them (Conolly) as involved in the political intrigue as it is possible to be. Central Asia seems in the long run to have been richer in travelers than in indigenous historians. There is much of course that we miss when reading an outsider&#8217;s view of local history [and] there is always a side to these books which shows the traveler&#8217;s own background and we can trace in them [...] the development of European attitudes towards the non-European world, from the merchants and the schemers of the seventeenth century to the missionaries and soldiers of the nineteenth (<a href="http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/cmr_0008-0160_1972_num_13_4_1900">Beard 1972</a>). &#8220;</p></blockquote>
<p>View <a style="color:#0000ff;text-align:left;" href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&#38;ie=UTF8&#38;t=h&#38;msa=0&#38;msid=100512295085060433494.000477142016377488d7f&#38;ll=46.229803,58.853982&#38;spn=21.278269,37.353516&#38;z=4&#38;source=embed">Reconfiguring Rivers: Amudarya-Oxus</a> in a larger map</p>
<p>DRAFT!<br />
<strong><br />
Multi-Civilizational Timeline of Selected Events Related to Central Asia</strong></p>
<p><strong>(858 &#8211; 824 BC)</strong> &#8220;Ancient country of northwestern Iran generally corresponding to the modern regions of Azerbaijan, Kurdistan and parts of Kermanshah. Media first appears in the texts of the Assyrian King Shalmaneser III (858 &#8211; 824 BC) in which peoples of the land of Mada are recorded. The inhabitants came to be known as Medes &#8230; see also 2 Kings 17:6: In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes&#8221; http://ancientneareast.tripod.com/Media_Medes.html Media, Medes, Mada,</p>
<p><strong>600 BC</strong> The ancient city of Afrasiab, Afrasyab, (later Samarkand) was founded in the 7th century B.C. &#8220;The historic town of Samarkand is a crossroad and melting pot of the world&#8217;s cultures. Founded in the 7th century B.C. as ancient Afrasiab, Samarkand had its most significant development in the Timurid period from the 14th to the 15th centuries. The major monuments include the Registan Mosque and madrasas, Bibi-Khanum Mosque, the Shakhi-Zinda compound and the Gur-Emir ensemble, as well as Ulugh-Beg&#8217;s Observatory (<a href="http://www.international.icomos.org/centre_documentation/bib/worldheritageinasia-pacific.pdf">UNESCO-ICOMOS. 2009-09:221)</a>.&#8221; Afrasiab</p>
<p><strong>c 500 BC. </strong>The earliest, Erk Kala, was founded c 500BC. Around 280 BC Erk Kala became the citadel for the much larger Hellenistic city of Antiochia Marginana (today known as Gyaur Kala) (<a href="http://www.ucl.ac.uk/merv/Research/Publications/LEAP/Overview/index.htm">Williams &#8220;dddd. </a>&#8221; Key words: The cities of Merv.</p>
<p>c. 280 BC Around 280 BC Erk Kala became the citadel for the much larger Hellenistic city of Antiochia Marginana (today known as Gyaur Kala).  (<a href="http://www.ucl.ac.uk/merv/Research/Publications/LEAP/Overview/index.htm">Williams &#8220;dddd. </a>&#8221; Key words: The cities of Merv.</p>
<p><strong>2nd Century BC</strong> &#8220;Present-day Yunnan is a province in Southwest China. Historically, Yunnan maintained close relationships with Southeast Asia, India, and Tibet, as archaeological findings and other studies have confirmed.1 As an interaction zone among several civilizations, Yunnan was influenced by and had an impact on other cultures. Scholars of China have named a trade route connecting the above regions the &#8220;Southwest Silk Road.&#8221;2 This international trade route geographically centered on Yunnan and Upper Burma. Yunnan&#8217;s importance, however, was based on far more than simply its location. Like Upper Burma, Yunnan is rich in precious metals such as gold and silver as well as other minerals such as tin, lead, and copper, and other local resources. In addition, Yunnan&#8217;s connections with the overland Silk Road and the maritime Silk Road greatly enhanced Yunnan&#8217;s role in transregional interactions. 1 This paper aims to demonstrate the global significance of Yunnan and to redraw the map of early Eurasian communication. While utilizing Chinese scholarship, I supplement Chinese scholars with non-Chinese sources to construct a more comprehensive picture of the Southwest Silk Road that in turn will add a new dimension to the Sino-foreign exchange and Eurasian communication. First, I will present a concise description of the road. Then, focusing on commercial items such as horses, silver, and cowries, I attempt to demonstrate the global importance of Yunnan by illustrating how Yunnan had shaped neighboring societies. Finally, the use of a world-system perspective will contribute to the ongoing world-system debates and add a new dimension to our understanding of Eurasian communications. <strong>Yunnan and Its Trans-Regional Trade: A Critique</strong>: Since the early twentieth century, scholarly investigations of the overland Silk Road and the maritime Silk Road have constructed a fundamental basis of the communication within the Eurasian supercontinent. While contributing a great deal to the understanding of ancient East-West exchange, studies of the above two silk routes have more or less overshadowed the third route, the so-called Southwest Silk Road from Southwest China via Burma to India.3 <span style="color:#ff9900;">The earliest textual source of the Silk Road is Zhang Qian&#8217;s exploration in the Western Regions (xiyu) in the late second century BCE, recorded by Sima Qian in his Shi Ji.</span><span style="color:#ff6600;"> Nevertheless, Zhang Qian&#8217;s report indeed leads to another Silk Road: a road connecting Southwest China with India, where he found Sichuan cloth (Shubu) and bamboo cane (Qiongzhu) in <span style="color:#339966;">Daxia (Bactria</span>). Emperor Wu of Han (140–87 BCE) then dispatched his envoys and troops to pacify local polities around Yunnan, with the expectation that he could open this road for his sake. His efforts, unfortunately, failed. </span>Because of Emperor Wu&#8217;s attempts, scholars in China for long time have paid a great deal of attention to this road. Many fragmentary and obscure records in Chinese historical writings prior to the Tang dynasty (618–907 CE) referred to the exchange between China and India through jungles, forests, rivers, and mountains from Sichuan, Yunnan, Burma, and Assam to India. We have no firsthand accounts of anyone completing this journey from early periods. Chinese documents after the Tang have detailed records, but they could offer little help for purposes of drawing a map of regions far away from the Chinese empire <a href="http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jwh/15.3/images/yang_fig02b.jpg&#38;imgrefurl=http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jwh/15.3/yang.html&#38;usg=___vtXouHAay5OXHswAjafmARAtfg=&#38;h=746&#38;w=647&#38;sz=89&#38;hl=en&#38;start=37&#38;um=1&#38;tbnid=W9n-qY_Df4VUNM:&#38;tbnh=141&#38;tbnw=122&#38;prev=/images%3Fq%3DBorassus%2Bflabelliformis%26ndsp%3D18%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26start%3D36%26um%3D1">(Yang 2004-09)</a>.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>1st century CE</strong> The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea was written by a Romanized Alexandrian in the 1st century CE. It gives the shoreline itinerary of the Red (Erythraean) Sea, starting each time at the port of Berenice. Beyond the Red Sea, the manuscript describes the coast of India as far as the Ganges River and the east coast of Africa (called Azania). </p>
<p><strong>AD 77-79 </strong> Roman scholar Pliny the Elder published his encyclopedia of natural history <em>Naturalis Historia</em> which attempted to cover all of ancient knowledge available to Pliny at the time. He called Nature the universal mother. His method of referencing original authors, extensive indexing content and covering as much information on all ancient knowledge that was available to him at the time, has become the model for later encyclopedias. The encyclopedia&#8212; but not its author survived the AD 79 eruption of Vesuvius. It was first translated into English by Philemon Holland in 1601 and then in 1855 John Bostock and H. T. Riley provided a second English translation which included the index. Pliny the Elder (<a href="http://old.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0137:head%3D%23746">77-79</a>)</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;In the vicinity, too, of India, is Bactriana, in which region we find bdellium,[1] that is so highly esteemed. This tree is of a black colour, and about the size of the olive; it has leaves like those of the robur, and bears a fruit similar to that of the wild fig, and in nature resembling a kind of gum. This fruit is by some persons called brochon, by others malacha, and by others, again, maldacon. When of a black colour, and rolled up in cakes, it bears the name of hadrobolon. This substance ought to be transparent and the colour of wax, odoriferous, unctuous when subjected to friction, and bitter to the taste, though without the slightest acidity. When used for sacred purposes, it is steeped in wine, upon which it emits a still more powerful odour. The tree is a native of both India and Arabia, as well as Media and Babylon; some persons give to the bdellium that is imported by way of Media, the name of <em>peraticum</em>.[2] This last is remarkable for its brittleness, while, at the same time, it is harder and more bitter than the other kinds; that of India, on the other hand, is moister, and gummy. This last sort is adulterated by means of almonds, while the various other kinds are falsified with the bark of scordastum, that being the name of a tree[3] the gum of which strongly resembles bdellium. These aduiterations, however, are to be detected&#8211;and let it suffice to mention it here, in relation to all other perfumes as well&#8211;by the smell, the colour, the weight, the taste, and the action of fire. The bdellium of Bactriana is shining and dry, and covered with numerous white spots resembling the finger-nails; besides which, it should be of a certain weight, heavier or lighter than which it ought not to be. The price of bdellium, in its pure state, is three denarii per pound. [p. 3117]&#8220;<br />
1. Fée remarks, that it is singular that a resinous gum, such as bdellium, should have been used in commerce for now two thousand years, and yet its origin remain unknown. Kæmpfer and Rumphus are of opinion, that the tree which produces it is the one known to naturalists as the Borassus flabelliformis of Linnæus, or the Lontarus of others [Genus: <a href="http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?20849" target="_blank">Lontarus Adans. Synonym of: Borassus </a>L. Family: Arecaceae subfamily Coryphoideae tribe Borasseae subtribe Lataniinae Altfamily: Palmae Genus number: 20849 MFB]. It is imported into Europe from Arabia and India, and is often found mixed with gum Arabic.<br />
2. peratikon; from periata gês &#8220;the remotest parts of the earth,&#8221; from which it was brought.<br />
3. The modern name of this tree is unknown.<br />
From CHAP. 19. (9.)&#8211;<a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Plin.+Nat.+12.19">Trees of Bactriana, Bdellium or Brochon, otherwise Malacha or Maldacon, Scordastum. Adulterations used in all spices and aromatics. The various tests of them and their respective values</a>.</p></blockquote>
<p>570 AD Birth of Mohammed in the city of Mecca, on the caravan route between Yemen and Syria. Mecca is also known for the Kaaba, containing the sacred Black Stone</p>
<p><strong>610 AD</strong> In Mecca Mohammed declared His Station as Prophet of God.</p>
<p><strong>622</strong> Year 1 of the Islamic calendar dating from the time Mohammed and His followers left Mecca.</p>
<p><strong>632</strong> Mohammed died. Islam spread throughout the Arabic world.</p>
<p><strong>c. 632 &#8211; 700 AD</strong> a new Islamic city of Sultan Kala was built to the west, although Gyaur Kala continued in use alongside this, becoming an industrial suburb  (<a href="http://www.ucl.ac.uk/merv/Research/Publications/LEAP/Overview/index.htm">Williams &#8220;dddd. </a>&#8221; Key words: The cities of Merv.</p>
<p><strong>c. 1400s</strong> The Timurid city of Abdullah Khan Kala was constructed to the south, to which was added a suburb, Bairam Ali Khan Kala, around the eighteenth century  (<a href="http://www.ucl.ac.uk/merv/Research/Publications/LEAP/Overview/index.htm">Williams &#8220;dddd. </a>&#8221; Key words: The cities of Merv.</p>
<p><strong>c. 1700s</strong> The Timurid city of Abdullah Khan Kala was constructed to the south, to which was added a suburb, Bairam Ali Khan Kala, around the eighteenth century.  (<a href="http://www.ucl.ac.uk/merv/Research/Publications/LEAP/Overview/index.htm">Williams &#8220;dddd. </a>&#8221; Key words: The cities of Merv.</p>
<p><strong>1789</strong> Antoine Laurent de Jussieu published <em>Genera Plantarum</em>, secundum ordines naturales disposita juxta methodum in Horto Regio Parisiensi exaratam. <a rel="nofollow" href="http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k96657w">Gallica</a> taxonomy, </p>
<p><strong>1879</strong> Russian campaign of 1879 against the Turkmen tribes, later avenged at Geok Deppe. See Marvin, C. 1880. <em>The Russian Campaign against the Turkomans</em>. London: W.H. Allen and Co.</p>
<p>Eye-witness account of  General Ivan Lazarov&#8217;s disastrous Russian campaign of 1879 against the Turkmen tribes, later avenged at Geok Deppe.</p>
<p><strong>1999</strong> State Historical and Cultural Park Ancient Merv, Turkmenistan. Merv &#8220;is the oldest and best-preserved of the oasis-cities along the Silk Route in Central Asia. The remains in this vast oasis span 4,000 years of human history. A number of monuments are still visible, particularly from the last two millennia (<a href="http://www.international.icomos.org/centre_documentation/bib/worldheritageinasia-pacific.pdf">UNESCO-ICOMOS. 2009-09:215)</a>.&#8221; Keywords: Murghab Delta</p>
<p><strong>Politics of Naming</strong></p>
<p><strong>Bactria, Daxia</strong>, Balkh (Persian: بلخ &#8211; Balḫ, Old Persian; Ancient Greek: Bactra), was an ancient city and centre of Zoroastrianism in what is now northern Afghanistan. Bactria (Bactriana), the ancient name of the country between the range of the Hindu Kush (Paropamisus) and the Oxus (Amu Darya), with the capital Bactra (now Balkh); in the Persian inscriptions Bākhtri. It is a mountainous country with a moderate climate. Today it is a small town in the Afghani province of Balkh, about 20 kilometers northwest of the provincial capital, Mazar-e Sharif, and some 74 km (46 miles) south of the Amu Darya River. It was one of the major cities of Khorasan. The ancient city of Balkh, in today&#8217;s Afghanistan was under the Greeks renamed Bactra, giving its name to Bactria.[citation needed] It was mostly known as the centre and capital of Bactria or Takharistan. Balkh is now for the most part a mass of ruins, situated some 12 km from the right bank of the seasonally-flowing Balkh River, at an elevation of about 365 m (1,200 ft). wiki</p>
<p>bdellium (pĕrātĭcum, i, n., = περατικόν, a species of the bdellium-tree, Plin. 12, 9, 19, 35.)</p>
<p><strong>Bukhara</strong>, &#8220;which is situated on the Silk Route, is more than 2,000 years old. It is the most complete<br />
example of a medieval city in Central Asia, with an urban fabric that has remained largely intact. Monuments of particular interest include the famous tomb of Ismail Samani, a masterpiece of 10th century Muslim architecture, and a large number of 17th-century madrasas  (<a href="http://www.international.icomos.org/centre_documentation/bib/worldheritageinasia-pacific.pdf">UNESCO-ICOMOS. 2009-09:219)</a>.&#8221; It was named as a protected site in 1993. Buchara, Bukhara, Uzbekistan,</p>
<p><strong>Itchan Kala</strong> &#8220;is the inner town (protected by brick walls some 10 m high) of the old Khiva oasis, which was the last resting-place of caravans before crossing the desert to Iran. Although few very old monuments still remain, it is a coherent and well-preserved example of the Muslim architecture of Central Asia. There are several outstanding structures such as the Djuma Mosque, the mausoleums and the madrasas and the two magnificent palaces built at the beginning of the 19th century by Alla-Kulli-Khan  (<a href="http://www.international.icomos.org/centre_documentation/bib/worldheritageinasia-pacific.pdf">UNESCO-ICOMOS. 2009-09:218)</a>.&#8221; It was named as a protected site in 1990.</p>
<p><strong>Kunya-Urgench</strong> &#8220;is situated in northwestern Turkmenistan, on the south side of the Amu Daria River.<br />
Urgench was the capital of the Khorezm region, part of the Achaemenid Empire. The old town contains a series of monuments mainly from the 11th to 16th centuries, including a mosque, the gates of a caravanserai, fortresses, mausoleums and a minaret. The monuments testify to outstanding achievements in architecture and craftsmanship whose influence reached Iran and Afghanistan, and later the architecture of the Mogul Empire of 16th-century India  (<a href="http://www.international.icomos.org/centre_documentation/bib/worldheritageinasia-pacific.pdf">UNESCO-ICOMOS. 2009-09:216).&#8221; </a>It was named as a protected World Heritage site in 2005.</p>
<p><strong>Merv</strong> &#8220;is the oldest and best-preserved of the oasis-cities along the Silk Route in Central Asia. The remains in this vast oasis span 4,000 years of human history. A number of monuments are still visible, particularly from the last two millennia <a href="http://www.international.icomos.org/centre_documentation/bib/worldheritageinasia-pacific.pdf">(</a><a href="http://www.international.icomos.org/centre_documentation/bib/worldheritageinasia-pacific.pdf">UNESCO-ICOMOS. 2009-09</a>.&#8221; Keywords: Murghab Delta</p>
<p><strong>Samarkand</strong> &#8220;The historic town of Samarkand is a crossroad and melting pot of the world&#8217;s cultures. Founded in the 7th century B.C. as ancient Afrasiab, Samarkand had its most significant development in the Timurid period from the 14th to the 15th centuries. The major monuments include the Registan Mosque and madrasas, Bibi-Khanum Mosque, the Shakhi-Zinda compound and the Gur-Emir ensemble, as well as Ulugh-Beg&#8217;s Observatory (<a href="http://www.international.icomos.org/centre_documentation/bib/worldheritageinasia-pacific.pdf">UNESCO-ICOMOS. 2009-09:221)</a>.&#8221; Afrasiab</p>
<p><strong>Webliographies and Bibliographies</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Anderson, Benedict. 1991 [1983]. &#8220;Census, Map and Museum.&#8221; <em>Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism</em>. London and New York: Verso.</li>
<li>Beard, Michael. 1972. &#8220;<a href="http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/cmr_0008-0160_1972_num_13_4_1900">European Travelers in the Trans-Caspian before 1917</a>.&#8221; <em>Persee</em>. 13:4:1900.</li>
<li>Dickens, Mark. 1995. &#8220;<a href="http://www.oxuscom.com/CA_History_Timeline.pdf">Major Events Relevant to Central Asian History</a>.&#8221; http://www.oxuscom.com/CA_History_Timeline.pdf</li>
<li> UNESCO-ICOMOS. 2009-09.  &#8220;<a href="http://www.international.icomos.org/centre_documentation/bib/worldheritageinasia-pacific.pdf">World Heritage in Asia and Pacific</a>.&#8221; UNESCO-ICOMOS Documentation Centre. http://www.international.icomos.org/centre_documentation/bib/worldheritageinasia-pacific.pdf</li>
<li>Marvin, Charles Thomas. 1880. <em>The Russian Campaign against the Turkomans</em>. London: W.H. Allen and Co. Also listed as &#8220;The Eye-Witnesses&#8217; Account of the Disastrous Russian Campaign against the Akhal Tekke Turkomans:<br />
Describing the march across the burning dessert, the storming of Dengeel Tepe, and the disastrous retreat to the Caspian.&#8221;</li>
<li> Marvin, Charles Thomas. 1881. Merv, the queen of the world. London: W. H. Allen. &#8220;And the scourage of the man-stealing Turkomans. White an exposition of the Khorassan question.&#8221;</li>
<li>Musselman, L. J. 2003. &#8220;<a href="http://www.fao.org/docrep/005/y9882e/y9882e11.htm">Trees in the Koran and the Bible</a>.&#8221; Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Unasylva. 54:213. ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/005/y9882e/y9882e00.pdf
<li>Nasr, S.H. 1996. <em>Religion and the Order of Nature</em>. New York, USA, Oxford University Press.
<li>Pliny the Elder. 1855. [AD 77-79].<em> <a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Plin.+Nat.+23.42">The Natural History</a>.</em> Translated by John Bostock, M.D., F.R.S. H.T. Riley, Esq., B.A. London. Taylor and Francis, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street.</li>
<li>Vincent, William. 1807. [1998] <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=P9cTAAAAYAAJ&#38;dq=The+Commerce+and+Navigation+of+the+Ancients+in+the+Indian+Ocean&#38;printsec=frontcover&#38;source=bl&#38;ots=xEt2d7kKsq&#38;sig=hwa-eA1Xo7-9w7B3OWz7Os8rBwM&#38;hl=en&#38;ei=GufxSszIKIaIsgP60pj4AQ&#38;sa=X&#38;oi=book_result&#38;ct=result&#38;resnum=1&#38;ved=0CAgQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&#38;q=&#38;f=false">The Commerce and Navigation of the Ancients in the Indian Ocean in Two Volumes</a>. Delhi: J. Jeffrey for Asian Educational Series.<br />
Google Books includes the maps produced c. 1800. Map 1a: Caspian Sea in top left, Most of Amudarya Rivershed???, Bactria to east of southern tip of Caspian Sea, Aria south west of Bactria, Great Desert spanning lower half of map,<br />
Oman bottom left of map; Map 1b: Caspian Sea in top right, Media in middle, Gulf of Persia in bottom right, </p>
<p>Vincent, William. 1807. The Commerce and Navigation of the Ancients in the Indian Ocean in Two Volumes. Volume I. London. Vol. I: The Voyage Of Nearchus From The Indus To The Euphrates (Around The Year 325 B.C.) Collected From The Original Journal Preserved By Arrian, And Illustrated By Authorities Ancient And Modern. Containing An Account Of The First Navigation Attempted By Europeans In The Indian Ocean. Vol. Ii: The Periplus Of The Erythrean Sea. Containing An Account Of The Navigation Of The Ancients From The Sea Of Seuz To The Coast Of Zanguebar.</p>
<li>Vincent, William. 1807. &#8220;The Periplus of the Erythrean Sea.&#8221; The Commerce and Navigation of the Ancients in the Indian Ocean in Two Volumes. Volume II. London.
<li>Williams, Tim. &#8220;dddd. <a href="http://www.ucl.ac.uk/merv/Research/Publications/LEAP/Overview/index.htm">The landscapes of Islamic Merv, Turkmenistan: Where to draw the line?</a>&#8221; <em>Internet Archaeology</em>. 25:1.
<dt>This article by Tim Williams of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, &#8220;outlines approaches for interpreting the Islamic city of Sultan Kala (Merv), c. 8th-13th centuries AD, based upon aerial photographic and satellite imagery. Hierarchies of assumptions (identification of individual wall lines; which frame spaces, rooms and courtyards; which are grouped as parts of specific buildings; which are part of urban blocks) and ontologies (information about these assumptions and the variable confidence of interpretation, from the position of lines to spatial function) provide a dynamic structure for the presentation of data, interpretation and theory (<a href="http://www.ucl.ac.uk/merv/Research/Publications/LEAP/Overview/index.htm">Williams dddd). </a></dt>
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<li>Yang, Bin. 2004-09. &#8220;<a href="http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jwh/15.3/images/yang_fig02b.jpg&#38;imgrefurl=http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jwh/15.3/yang.html&#38;usg=___vtXouHAay5OXHswAjafmARAtfg=&#38;h=746&#38;w=647&#38;sz=89&#38;hl=en&#38;start=37&#38;um=1&#38;tbnid=W9n-qY_Df4VUNM:&#38;tbnh=141&#38;tbnw=122&#38;prev=/images%3Fq%3DBorassus%2Bflabelliformis%26ndsp%3D18%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26start%3D36%26um%3D1">Horses, Silver, and Cowries: Yunnan in Global Perspective</a>.&#8221; <em>History Cooperative</em>. 15:3. Northeastern University. Key words: Deep Internet, Deep Web.</li>
<li>Yoon, Carol Kaesuk. 2009. <em><a href="http://books.wwnorton.com/books/detail.aspx?ID=6008">Naming Nature: the Clash between Instinct and Science</a></em>. New York and London: W. W. Norton.</li>
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<p><strong>Outside links</strong></p>
<p><strong>Notes</strong></p>
<p><em>Internet Archaeology</em> is a journal whose contents are only available through registration and subscription. It is therefore part of the much less accessible Deep Web.</p>
<p>ICOMOS (International Council on Monuments and Sites)</p>
<p>Shortlink http://wp.me/pEVEP-C</p>
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<p><span style="font-weight:bold;">Nonviolence can be a major force for democratic  social change, but not when it becomes a tool for covert intervention.</span></p>
<p>A close-cropped, no-nonsense infantry officer, Col. <strong>Robert Helvey</strong> was studying at Harvard&#8217;s <a href="http://www.wcfia.harvard.edu/" target="_blank">Center for International  Affairs</a> on an <strong>Army</strong> fellowship. One day in 1987, he happened  upon a seminar led by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Sharp" target="_blank">Gene Sharp</a>,  a draft resister imprisoned for refusing to serve in <strong>Korea</strong> and  a systematic scholar of the kind of strategic non-violence that activists of my  generation had helped to develop in the free speech, civil rights, and anti-war  movements of the 1960s.<br />
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&#8220;I had an image of nonviolence as being a bunch of long-haired hippies,&#8221; Col.  Helvey recalled. But Dr. Sharp had come a long way from his <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhian" target="_blank">Gandhism</a> roots, and Helvey quickly realized that the older man&#8217;s approach had &#8220;nothing to  do with pacifism.&#8221; Sharp was talking &#8220;about seizing political power or denying  it to others,&#8221; and doing it without having to break things or kill people.</span></p>
<p>The idea fascinated Col. Helvey. He invited Sharp to lunch, spent time at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein_Institution" target="_blank"> Albert Einstein Institution</a> (AEI), which Sharp had created in Cambridge in  1983, and came to see his new mentor as &#8220;the Clausewitz of the nonviolence  movement.&#8221; An energetic disciple, Col. Helvey would in time become president of  AEI and a forceful champion of nonviolent conflict as a weapon of American  intervention in other countries.</p>
<p>Were these interventions good or bad? In my opinion, they had elements of both,  at least at the start. But they have become a major danger to democracy, not  least our own, and an increasing threat to the lives of those that the United  States and its allies encourage to make nonviolent revolutions.<br />
<!--more--> <strong>The art of political defiance</strong></p>
<p>Col. Helvey&#8217;s first intervention was in <strong>Burma</strong>, where he had  served as military attaché, reporting to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Intelligence_Agency" target="_blank"> Defense Intelligence Agency</a>. In December 1987, while still a serving  officer, he invited two Burmese expatriates to spend several days talking with  Gene Sharp about how best to overthrow their country&#8217;s brutal military rulers.  According to Helvey, the activists went back and explained Sharp&#8217;s thinking to  other of the regime&#8217;s opponents.</p>
<p>Retiring in 1991 from thirty years of active duty, Col. Helvey took up a new  career, traveling to the Burmese jungle village of Mannerplaw to run the first  of a long series of intensive training sessions in nonviolence for the <a href="http://www.iisg.nl/archives/en/files/d/10941905.php" target="_blank"> Democratic Alliance of Burma</a>. Gene Sharp helped design the courses, which  Helvey renamed political defiance. With armed struggle, he taught, you attack  the generals where they are strongest. With political defiance, you look to hit  them where they are weak.</p>
<p>”He used his military skills in strategic planning for nonviolent protest  methods,&#8221; one of Helvey&#8217;s trainees later told Reuters. &#8220;Everybody was fascinated  by Bob, because he was a military man and was applying that to non-violence.&#8221;</p>
<p>Training the Burmese opposition was a small-scale operation, and Washington paid  for it largely through its <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Endowment_for_Democracy" target="_blank"> National Endowment for Democracy</a>, or NED, which the Reagan administration  had created in 1983 to take over the funding of foreign interventions formerly  handled by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Intelligence_Agency" target="_blank"> Central Intelligence Agency</a>. Washington&#8217;s interest in Burma was obvious,  given its proximity to China and its enormous reserves of oil and natural gas.</p>
<p><strong>Bringing down a dictator</strong></p>
<p>In March 2000, Col. Helvey scored his biggest coup, running a 4-day training  session at the Hilton Hotel in Budapest for more than 20 militants from a <strong>Serbia</strong>n student group called &#8220;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otpor%21" target="_blank">Otpor!</a>&#8220;.  Helvey&#8217;s purpose was to teach the militants how to undermine the authority of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slobodan_Milo%C5%A1evi%C4%87" target="_blank"> Slobodan Milošević</a>, &#8220;the Butcher of the Balkans.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;His presentation was something that I had never seen in my life, and I have  seen maybe 200 trainings and maybe performed 200 or 300,&#8221; recalled one of  Otpor&#8217;s founders, <strong>Srdja Popovic</strong>. &#8220;I am really experienced. But  he is a miracle!&#8221; Returning to Serbia, Helvey&#8217;s students became the backbone and  creative masterminds of a multi-million dollar nonviolent revolution financed  and stage-managed by Washington, its European allies, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Soros" target="_blank">George Soros</a>&#8217;s <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Society_Institute" target="_blank"> Open Society Institute</a>.</p>
<p>The overthrow of Milošević in the former <strong>Yugoslavia</strong> led  Washington and its allies to finance and organize similar efforts all around the  periphery of the former <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union" target="_blank">Soviet Union</a>.  These included the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Revolution" target="_blank">Rose  Revolution</a> in Georgia in 2003, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_Revolution" target="_blank">Orange  Revolution</a> in <strong>Ukraine</strong> in 2004 and 2005, and the Pink or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_revolution" target="_blank">Tulip  Revolution</a> in <strong>Kyrgyzstan</strong> in 2005. In these interventions,  Otpor veterans taught what they had learned to militants in the other countries,  while hundreds of thousands of ordinary people risked beatings, jail, torture,  and even death. But, once the nonviolent protestors brought new governments to  power, Washington and the Western Europeans used their influence to extend the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO" target="_blank">North Atlantic  Treaty Organization</a> eastward, push for economic privatization and strengthen  Western sway over the oil, natural gas, and pipelines from the <strong>Caspian  Sea</strong>, <strong>Caucuses</strong>, and Central Asia.</p>
<p>Less publicly, Washington and its allies made Optor a permanent part of their  arsenal, as described by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STRATFOR" target="_blank">Strategic  Forecasting, Inc.</a><strong> </strong>(STRATFOR), a private intelligence newsletter  available by subscription. &#8220;Otpor strengthened its connections with Western  governments and nongovernmental organizations, which provided the group with  funding and limited amounts of intelligence about potential weaknesses in  regimes they were already targeting,&#8221; STRATFOR explained.</p>
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<blockquote><p>&#8220;The tactics used in the crucible in <strong>Belgrade</strong> were  	&#8216;marketed&#8217; in documentaries and training manuals. Otpor became more than  	&#8216;just&#8217; a student group and transformed itself into the <a href="/Documents%20and%20Settings/drh/My%20Documents/My%20Web%20Sites/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Center_on_Nonviolent_Conflict" target="_blank">Center for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies</a> (CANVAS). Among the  	group&#8217;s strongest allies are Freedom House and the Albert Einstein Institute  	and, through them, the 	<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agency_for_International_Development" target="_blank"> United States Agency for International Development</a> (USAID) and the 	<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Department_of_State" target="_blank"> US Department of State</a>.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>CANVAS itself has been anything but transparent about its funding and  intelligence ties to Western governments. But the group proudly put the STRATFOR  analysis on its website, while Freedom House confirmed in its annual report for  2001 that it received funding from NED, USAID, and the State Department and, in  turn, continued to fund the Otpor students. In 2005, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Institute_for_Peace" target="_blank"> U.S. Institute of Peace</a> provided a grant to CANVAS to publish Nonviolent  Struggle: 50 Crucial Points by Srdja Popovic and two other Otpor veterans. All  of which put the lie to the group&#8217;s oft-repeated claim that &#8220;CANVAS does not  accept any governmental funding.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>When a military coup fails</strong></p>
<p>In April 2003, Reuters reporter <a href="http://blogs.reuters.com/africanews/author/pascal-fletcher/" target="_blank"> Pascal Fletcher</a> went to a university campus in east <strong>Caracas</strong>.  On a closed classroom door, he found a sign that read, &#8220;Seminar on strategic  marketing.&#8221; Inside he found &#8220;representatives of <strong>Venezuela</strong>&#8217;s  broad-based but fragmented opposition, who are struggling to regroup after  failing to force <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Ch%C3%A1vez" target="_blank">Hugo Chávez</a> from office in an anti-government strike.&#8221; According to Reuters, they were  meeting with Col. Robert Helvey, &#8220;a consultant with the private US Albert  Einstein Institution.&#8221; Another AEI staff member, <strong>Chris Miller</strong>,  also participated.</p>
<p>Opponents of Chávez had previously met with Gene Sharp in Cambridge after the  failure of the U.S.-backed military coup against Chávez in 2002. These contacts  continued after Col. Helvey&#8217;s visit to Caracas and included a privately funded  workshop in March 2005 in Boston, in which two Otpor veterans took part. The  Center for Applied NonViolent Actions and Strategies (CANVAS) in Belgrade then  trained five student leaders from Venezuela in October 2005, and another four in  October 2007. CANVAS also set up an office in Venezuela in latter part of 2007.</p>
<p>&#8220;Another color revolution may be forming &#8212; in Latin America,&#8221; wrote the  sympathetic STRATFOR. &#8220;When you see students at five Venezuelan universities  hold simultaneous demonstrations, you will know that the training is over and  the real work has begun.&#8221;</p>
<p>Signs of this &#8220;<strong>Marigold Revolution</strong>&#8221; became visible in May 2007,  after Chávez refused to renew the broadcasting license for the privately owned <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Caracas_Televisi%C3%B3n" target="_blank"> Radio Caracas Televisión</a> (RCTV), which had openly backed the military coup  in 2002. The newly created Venezuelan Student Resistance took to the streets in  their thousands, proclaiming their nonviolence and dedication to free speech.  The student resistors then staged dozens of marches throughout the country to  oppose Chávez in a constitutional referendum in which he tried to remove term  limits so that he could run for president as many times as he wanted.</p>
<p>Mostly middle-class and leaning to the right, but including some on the left who  found Chávez autocratic, the protestors openly acknowledged their debt to Otpor  and the thinking of Gene Sharp. They painted their hands white to show their  innocent intentions. They put flowers into the rifle barrels of the security  forces. And, they staged street theater to mock Chávez and the constitutional  rewrite he was promoting. The students made a significant impact on the December  2007 referendum, which Chávez lost 51% to 49%, one of his only electoral  defeats.</p>
<p>Chávez put much of the blame on Gene Sharp and the Albert Einstein Foundation  for attempting to overthrow him with &#8220;a soft coup.&#8221; In a personal reply to  Chávez, Sharp offered his usual disavowal. &#8220;Our work,&#8221; he insisted, &#8220;has not  been backed by powerful political or economic interests in the United States or  internationally.&#8221;</p>
<p>Washington and its nonviolent allies are already preparing similar, if smaller,  interventions against populist governments in <strong>Ecuador</strong> and <strong>Bolivia</strong> and will likely use the same tactics against post-<strong>Castro</strong> <strong>Cuba</strong>.</p>
<p><strong>Iran&#8217;s <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Iranian_election_protests" target="_blank"> Green Revolution</a></strong></p>
<p>Nowhere has Washington&#8217;s encouragement of nonviolent revolution caused greater  grief than in Iran. While President Obama publicly appeared above the fray, his  State Department used its Persian language radio services and its considerable  influence with Twitter and Facebook to back the election campaign of the tainted  reformist <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir_Hossein_Mousavi" target="_blank"> Mir-Hossein Mousavi</a> and to spur on the popular protests against <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmadinejad" target="_blank">Mahmoud  Ahmadinejad</a> and the hard-line ayatollahs that back him. I have previously  written at length about the intervention itself. Here I want to consider what it  means, especially to those of us who support the aspirations of so many Iranians  for a freer and more democratic country.</p>
<p>Many friends hated that I raised the issue of American intervention. Few denied  the facts I presented. They simply preferred to turn a blind eye. All they  wanted to consider were inconclusive arguments that Mousavi had won the  election, which many reputable scholars still dispute, and the need to stand in  solidarity with the protestors, with which I agree. But, unless we explicitly  acknowledge and condemn the American intervention, our solidarity will end up  pouring more money into the National Endowment for Democracy, the CIA, and the  State Department&#8217;s propaganda radios. Do we really want to do that?</p>
<p>Other friends have argued that most of the money for training Iranians in  nonviolent protest came not from Washington but from private sources, primarily  Wall Street financier <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Ackerman" target="_blank">Peter  Ackerman</a> and his International Center on Nonviolent Conflict. This could be  true, though the funding of much of the training remains secret. But what  difference? Once Washington unleashed its propaganda radio and Internet  resources, it made little difference who trained the non-violent protestors.</p>
<p>Finally, and most important to me, the undeniable evidence of Western  intervention, both private and governmental, has made it far too easy for  Ahmadinejad to crack down on the Iranian protestors. We should clearly condemn  the crackdown and attempt to defend the activists. But our greatest show of  solidarity would be to stop Washington&#8217;s continuing intervention.</p>
<p><em>[A veteran of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement and the New Left monthly  Ramparts, Steve Weissman lived for many years in London, working as a magazine  writer and television producer. He now lives and works in France. For previous  articles by Steve Weissman on The Rag Blog, including those about Iran's "Green  Revolution," go <a href="http://theragblog.blogspot.com/search?q=By+Steve+Weissman" target="_blank"> here</a>.]</em></p>
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<p>by <a href="http://www.iamthewitness.com/DarylBradfordSmith_Rothschild.htm"><strong><span style="color:#0000ff;">Andrew Hitchcock</span></strong></a></p>
<p><strong>The Rothschilds have been in control of the world for a very long time, their tentacles reaching into many aspects of our daily lives, as is documented in the following timeline.  However, before you jump to the timeline, please read this invaluable introduction which will tell you who the Rothschilds are as oppose to who they claim to be.</strong></p>
<p>The Rothschilds claim that they are Jewish, when in fact they are Khazars.  They are from a country called Khazaria, which occupied the land locked between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea which is now predominantly occupied by Georgia.  The reason the Rothschilds claim to be Jewish is that the Khazars under the instruction of the King, converted to the Jewish faith in 740 A.D., but of course that did not include converting their Asiatic Mongolian genes to the genes of the Jewish people.</p>
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<p>You will find that approximately 90% of people in the world today who call themselves Jews are actually Khazars, or as they like to be known, Ashkenazi Jews.  These people knowingly lie to the world with their claims that the land of Israel is theirs by birthright, when in actual fact their real homeland is over 800 miles away in Georgia.</p>
<p>So, next time you hear an Israeli Prime Minister bleating about the so-called persecution of the Jews, consider this, every Prime Minister of Israel has been an Ashkenazi Jew.  Therefore when all these Prime Ministers have curried favour with the West for their re-establishment of a Jewish homeland, they have knowingly and deliberately lied to you, as they were never from that region, and they well know it, because it is they who call themselves Ashkenazi Jews.<br />
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<p>The Book of Revelation, Chapter 2, Verse 9, states the following which would appear to be about these Ashkenazi Jews:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;I know thy works, and tribulation and poverty, (but thou art rich) and <em>I know</em> the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but <em>are</em> the synagogue of Satan.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>The most wealthy bloodline in the world bar none and the leader of the Ashkenazi Jews in the world today is the Rothschild family.  As you will see in the timeline, the Rothschilds have obtained this position through lies, manipulation and murder.  Their bloodline also extends into the Royal Families of Europe, and the following family names:  Astor; Bundy; Collins; duPont; Freeman; Kennedy; Morgan; Oppenheimer; Rockefeller; Sassoon; Schiff; Taft; and Van Duyn.</p>
<p>However, these are not the only bloodlines to worry about.  You are probably aware of the centuries old pratice undertaken by many Ashkenazi Jews whereby they would change their name, in order for them to appear part of the dominant race of the country in which they lived, so as they could obtain influential positions in that country, which they would then exploit to serve their real masters elsewhere.  There is plenty of evidence to prove the Rothschilds continue that deceptive tradition.</p>
<p>Furthermore the Rothschilds are known to sire many children secretly that they can put into positions of power when required.  This started with the very first man who took the name Rothschild, who had a secret sixth son.  Finally, remember the world is a diverse place, I could if I wanted change my name to Rothschild, or any of the names listed above, and that would not make me part of this family anymore than converting to Judaism in 740 A.D. will make these Ashkenazis Jewish.</p>
<p>Please, therefore, do not automatically assume someone you see with the name Rothschild or any of the names listed above are part of the Rothschild criminal network.  Furthermore and most importantly, the majority of Ashkenazi Jews are innocent and not part of this network.  Check the facts out for yourself first, this article is designed to inform people who the enemy is, not single out people of a particular race or people with a particular surname, who may have nothing to do with this Rothschild criminal network.<br />
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<p><strong>1743:</strong> Mayer Amschel Bauer, an Ashkenazi Jew, is born in Frankfurt, Germany, the son of Moses Amschel Bauer, a money lender and the proprietor of a counting house.</p>
<p>Moses Amschel Bauer places a red sign above the entrance door to his counting house. This sign is a red hexagram (which geometrically and numerically translates into the number 666) which under Rothschild instruction will end up on the Israeli flag some two centuries later.</p>
<p><strong>1753:</strong> Gutle Schnaper, an Ashkenazi Jew (future wife of Mayer Amschel Bauer), born to respected merchant, Wolf Salomon Schnaper.</p>
<p><strong>1760:</strong> During this decade Mayer Amschel Bauer works for a bank owned by the Oppenheimers&#8217; in Hanover, Germany.  He is highly successful and becomes a junior partner. Whilst working at the bank he becomes acquainted with General von Estorff.</p>
<p>Following his father&#8217;s death, Bauer returns to Frankfurt to take over his father&#8217;s business. Bauer recognises the significance of the red hexagram and changes his name from Bauer to Rothschild, after the red hexagram or sign signifying 666 hanging over the entrance door (&#8220;Rot,&#8221; is German for, &#8220;Red,&#8221; &#8220;Schild,&#8221; is German for, &#8220;Sign&#8221;).</p>
<p>Now Mayer Amschel Rothschild, he discovers that General von Estorff is now attached to the court of Prince William IX of Hesse-Hanau, one of the richest royal houses in Europe, which gained its&#8217; wealth by the hiring out of Hessian soldiers to foreign countries for vast profits (a practice that continues today in the form of exporting, &#8220;peacekeeping,&#8221; troops throughout the world).</p>
<p>He therefore makes the General&#8217;s re-acquaintance on the pretext of selling him valuable coins and trinkets at discounted prices. As he plans, Rothschild is subsequently introduced to Prince William himself who is more than pleased with discounted prices he charges for his rare coins and trinkets, and Rothschild offers him a bonus for any other business the Prince can direct his way.</p>
<p>Rothschild subsequently becomes close associates with Prince William, and ends up doing business with him and members of the court.  He soon discovers that loaning money to governments and royalty is more profitable than loaning to individuals, as the loans are bigger and are secured by the nation&#8217;s taxes.</p>
<p><strong>1769:</strong> Mayer Amschel Rothschild is given permission by Prince William to hang a sign on the front of his business premises declaring that he is, &#8220;M. A. Rothschild, by appointment court factor to his serene highness, Prince William of Hanau.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>1770:</strong> Mayer Amschel Rothschild draws up plans for the creation of the Illuminati and entrusts Ashkenazi Jew, Adam Weishaupt, a Crypto-Jew who was outwardly Roman Catholic, with its organization and development.  The Illuminati is to be based upon the teachings of the Talmud, which is in turn, the teachings of Rabbinical Jews.  It was to be called the Illuminati as this is a Luciferian term which means, keepers of the light.</p>
<p>Mayer Amschel Rothschild marries Gutle Schnaper.</p>
<p><strong>1773:</strong> Amschel Mayer Rothschild born, the first of Mayer Amschel Rothschild’s sons. He like all his brothers who follow him, will enter the family business at the age of 12.</p>
<p><strong>1774:</strong> Salomon Mayer Rothschild born.</p>
<p><strong>1776:</strong>  Adam Weishaupt officially completes his organisation of the Illuminati on May 1 of this year.  The purpose of the Illuminati is to divide the goyim (all non-Jews) through political, economic, social, and religious means.  The opposing sides were to be armed and incidents were to be provided in order for them to:  fight amongst themselves; destroy national governments; destroy religious institutions; and eventually destroy each other.</p>
<p>Weishaupt soon infiltrates the Continental Order of Freemasons with this Illuminati doctrine and establishes lodges of the Grand Orient to be their secret headquarters.  This was all under the orders and finance of Mayer Amschel Rothschild and the concept has spread and is followed within Masonic Lodges worldwide to the present day.</p>
<p>Weishaupt also recruits 2,000 paid followers including the most intelligent men in the field of arts and letters, education, science, finance,and industry.  They were instructed to follow the following methods in order to control people.</p>
<blockquote><p>1)  Use monetary and sex bribery to obtain control of men already in high places, in the various levels of all governments and other fields of endeavour. Once influential persons had fallen for the lies, deceits, and temptations of the Illuminati they were to be held in bondage by application of political and other forms of blackmail, threats of financial ruin, public exposure, and fiscal harm, even death to themselves and loved members of their families.2)  The faculties of colleges and universities were to cultivate students possessing exceptional mental ability belonging to well-bred families with international leanings, and recommend them for special training in internationalism, or rather the notion that only a one-world government can put an end to recurring wars and strife.  Such training was to be provided by granting scholarships to those selected by the Illuminati.</p>
<p>3)  All influential people trapped into coming under the control of the Illuminati, plus the students who had been specially educated and trained, were to be used as agents and placed behind the scenes of all governments as experts and specialists.  This was so they would advise the top executives to adopt policies which would in the long-run serve the secret plans of the Illuminati one-world conspiracy and bring about the destruction of the governments and religions they were elected or appointed to serve.</p>
<p>4)  To obtain absolute-control of the press, at that time the only mass-communications media which distributed information to the public, so that all news and information could be slanted in order to make the masses believe that a one-world government is the only solution to our many and varied problems.</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>1777:</strong> Nathan Mayer Rothschild born.</p>
<p><strong>1784:</strong>  Adam Weishaupt issues his order for the French Revolution to be started by by Maximilien Robespierre in book form.  This book was written by one of Weishaupt&#8217;s associates, Xavier Zwack, and sent by courier from Frankfurt to Paris.  However en route there, the courier is struck by lightning, the book detailing this plan discovered by the police, and handed over to the Bavarian authorities.</p>
<p>As a consequence, the Bavarian government orders the police to raid Weishaupt&#8217;s masonic lodges of the Grand Orient, and the homes of his most influential associates.  Clearly, the Bavarian authorities were convinced that the book that was discovered was a very real threat by a private group of influential people, to use wars and revolutions to achieve their political ends.</p>
<p><strong>1785:</strong>  The Bavarian government outlaw the Illuminati and close all the Bavarian lodges of the Grand Orient.</p>
<p>Mayer Amschel Rothschild moves his family home to a five storey house in Frankfurt which he shares with the Schiff family.</p>
<p><strong>1786:</strong>  The Bavarian government publish the details of the Illuminati plot in a document entitled, &#8220;The Original Writings of The Order and Sect of The Illuminati.&#8221;  They then send this document to all the heads of church and state throughout Europe, but sadly their warning is ignored.</p>
<p><strong>1788:</strong> Kalmann (Carl) Mayer Rothschild Born.</p>
<p><strong>1789:</strong>  Due to the European ignorance of the Bavarian government&#8217;s warning, the Illuminati&#8217;s plan for a French Revolution succeeded from this year to 1793.  This revolution was a bankers&#8217; dream, it established a new constitution and passed laws that forbade the Roman Church from levying tithes (taxes) and also removed its exemption from taxation.</p>
<p><strong>1790:</strong> Mayer Amschel Rothschild states,</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Let me issue and control a nation&#8217;s money and I care not who writes the laws.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>1791:</strong> The Rothschilds get, &#8220;control of a nation&#8217;s money,&#8221; through Alexander Hamilton (their agent in George Washington’s cabinet) when they set up a central bank in the USA called the First Bank of the United States. This is established with a 20 year charter.</p>
<p><strong>1792:</strong> Jacob (James) Mayer Rothschild born.</p>
<p><strong>1796:</strong> Amschel Mayer Rothschild marries Eva Hanau.</p>
<p><strong>1798:</strong> John Robison publishes a book entitled, &#8220;Proofs of a Conspiracy Against All the Religions and Governments of Europe Carried on in the Secret Meetings of Freemasons, Illuminati and Reading Societies.&#8221;  In this book, Professor Robison of the University of Edinburgh, one of the leading intellects of his time, who in 1783 was elected general secretary of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, gave details of the whole Rothschild Illuminati plot.</p>
<p>He advised how he had been a high degree mason in the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, and had been invited by Adam Weishaupt to Europe, where he had been given a revised copy of Weishaupt&#8217;s conspiracy.  However, although he pretended to go along with it, Professor Robison did not agree with it and therefore published his aforementioned book.  The book included details of the Bavarian government&#8217;s investigation into the Illuminati and the French Revolution.</p>
<p>That same year on July 19th, David Pappen, President of Harvard University, lectured the graduating class on the influence illuminism was having on American politics and religion.</p>
<p>At the age of 21, Nathan Mayer Rothschild leaves Frankfurt for England, where with a large sum of money given to him by his father, he sets up a banking house in London.</p>
<p><strong>1800:</strong> Salomon Mayer Rothschild marries Caroline Stern.</p>
<p><strong>1806:</strong> Napolean states that it is his,</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;object to remove the house of Hess-Cassel from rulership and to strike it out of the list of powers.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>On hearing this, Prince William IX of Hesse-Hanau, flees Germany, goes to Denmark and entrusts his fortune valued at $3,000,000 at that time to Mayer Amschel Rothschild for safekeeping.</p>
<p>Nathan Mayer Rothschild marries Hannah Barent Cohen the daughter of a wealthy London merchant.</p>
<p><strong>1808:</strong> Nathan Mayer Rothschild has his first son born Lionel Nathan de Rothschild.</p>
<p><strong>1810:</strong> Sir Francis Baring and Abraham Goldsmid die. This leaves Nathan Mayer Rothschild as the remaining major banker in England.</p>
<p>Salomon Mayer Rothschild goes to Vienna, Austria and sets up the bank, M. von Rothschild und Söhne.</p>
<p><strong>1811:</strong> The charter for the Rothschilds Bank of the United States runs out and Congress votes against its renewal.  Nathan Mayer Rothschild is not amused and he states,</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Either the application for renewal of the charter is granted, or the United States will find itself involved in a most disastrous war.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>However the United States stands firm and the Charter is not renewed, which causes Nathan Mayer Rothschild to issue another threat,</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Teach those impudent Americans a lesson. Bring them back to colonial status.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>1812:</strong> Backed by Rothschild money, and Nathan Mayer Rothschild&#8217;s orders, the British declare war on the United States. The Rothschilds plan was to cause the United States to build up such a debt in fighting this war that they would have to surrender to the Rothschilds and allow the charter for the Rothschild owned First Bank of the United States to be renewed.</p>
<p>Mayer Amschel Rothschild dies. In his will he lays out specific laws that the House of Rothschild were to follow: all key positions in the family business were only to be held by family members; only male members of the family were allowed to participate in the family business, this included a reported sixth secret bastard son (It is important to note that Mayer Amschel Rothschild also has five daughters, so today the spread of the Rothschild Zionist dynasty without the Rothschild name is far and wide, and Jews believe the mixed offspring of a Jewish mother is solely Jewish); the family was to intermarry with it’s first and second cousins to preserve the family fortune (of the 18 marriages by Mayer Amschel Rothschild’s grandchildren, 16 were between first cousins &#8211; a practice known today as inbreeding); no public inventory of his estate was to be published; no legal action was to be taken with regard to the value of the inheritance; the eldest son of the eldest son was to become the head of the family (this condition could only be overturned when the majority of the family agreed otherwise).</p>
<p>This was straightaway the case and Nathan Mayer Rothschild was elected head of the family following his father, Mayer Amschel Rothschild’s death.</p>
<p>Jacob (James) Mayer Rothschild goes to Paris, France to set up the bank, de Rothschild Frères.</p>
<p>Nathaniel de Rothschild, the son in law of Jacob (James) Mayer Rothschild, born.</p>
<p><strong>1814:</strong> With regard to the $3,000,000 Prince William IX of Hesse-Hanau had entrusted to Mayer Amschel Rothschild for safekeeping, for an account of what happened next we turn to the Jewish Encyclopaedia, 1905 edition, Volume 10, page 494, which states,</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;According to legend this money was hidden away in wine casks, and, escaping the search of Napoleon&#8217;s soldiers when they entered Frankfurt, was restored intact in the same casks in 1814, when the elector (Prince William IX of Hesse-Hanau) returned to the electorate (Germany). The facts are somewhat less romantic, and more businesslike.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>This last line indicates the money was never returned by Rothschild to Prince William IX of Hesse-Hanau. The encyclopaedia goes on to state,</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Nathan Mayer Rothschild invested this $3,000,000 in, gold from the East India Company knowing that it would be needed for Wellington&#8217;s peninsula campaign.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>On the stolen money Nathan made,</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;no less than four profits:</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>i) On the sale of Wellington&#8217;s paper which he bought at 50 cents on the dollar and collected at par;<br />
ii) on the sale of gold to Wellington;<br />
iii) on its repurchase; and<br />
iv) on forwarding it to Portugal.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>1815:</strong> The five Rothschild brothers work to supply gold to both Wellington&#8217;s army (through Nathan in England) and Napoleon&#8217;s army (through Jacob in France), and begin their policy of funding both sides in wars. The Rothschilds love wars because they are massive generators of risk free debt.</p>
<p>This is because they are guaranteed by the government of a country, and therefore the efforts of the population of that country,  and it doesn&#8217;t matter if that country loses the war because the loans are given on the guarantee that the victor will honour the debts of the vanquished.</p>
<p>Whilst the Rothschilds are funding both sides in this war, they use the banks they have spread out across Europe to give them the opportunity to set up an unrivalled postal service network of secret routes and fast couriers.  The post these couriers carried was to be opened up by these couriers and their details given to the Rothschilds so they always were one step ahead of current events.</p>
<p>Furthermore, these Rothschild couriers were the only merchants allowed to pass through the English and French blockades. It was these couriers who also kept Nathan Mayer Rothschild up to date with how the war was going so he could use that intelligence to buy and sell from his position on the stock exchange in accordance with that intelligence.</p>
<p>One of Rothschild&#8217;s couriers was a man named Rothworth.  When the outcome of the Battle of Waterloo was won by the British, Rothworth took off for the Channel and was able to deliver this news to Nathan Mayer Rothschild, a full 24 hours before Wellington&#8217;s own courier.</p>
<p>At that time British bonds were called consuls and they were traded on the floor of the stock exchange. Nathan Mayer Rothschild instructed all his workers on the floor to start selling consuls. The made all the other traders believe that the British had lost the war so they started selling frantically.</p>
<p>Therefore the consuls plummeted in value which was when Nathan Mayer Rothschild discreetly instructed his workers to purchase all the consuls they could lay their hands on.</p>
<p>When news came through that the British had actually won the war, the consuls went up to a level even higher than before the war ended leaving Nathan Mayer Rothschild with a return of approximately 20 to 1 on his investment.</p>
<p>This gave the Rothschild family complete control of the British economy, now the financial centre of the world following Napolean&#8217;s defeat, and forced England to set up a new Bank of England, which Nathan Mayer Rothschild controlled.</p>
<p>Interestingly 100 years later the New York Times would run a story stating that Nathan Mayer Rothschild&#8217;s grandson had attempted to secure a court order to suppress publication of a book which had this insider trading story in it.  The Rothschild family claimed the story was untrue and libellous, but the court denied the Rothschilds request and ordered the family to pay all court costs.</p>
<p>Back to 1815, this is the year Nathan Mayer Rothschild makes his famous statement,</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;I care not what puppet is placed upon the throne of England to rule the Empire on which the sun never sets. The man who controls Britain&#8217;s money supply controls the British Empire, and I control the British money supply.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>He would go onto brag that in the 17 years he had been in England he had increased the £20,000 stake given to him by his father, 2500 times to £50 million.</p>
<p>The Rothschilds also use their control of the Bank of England to replace the method of shipping gold from country to country and instead used their five banks spread across Europe to set up a system of paper debits and credits, the banking system of today.</p>
<p>By the end of this century, a period of time that was known as the, &#8220;Age of the Rothschilds,&#8221; it is estimated that the Rothschild family controlled half the wealth of the world.</p>
<p>However something that did not go well for the Rothschilds this year was the Congress of Vienna, which started in September, 1814 and concluded in June of this year.  The reason for this Congress of Vienna, was for the Rothschilds to create a form of world government, to give them complete political control over much of the civilized world.</p>
<p>Many of the European governments were in debt to the Rothschilds, so they figured they could use that as a bargaining tool.  However the Tsar Alexander I of Russia, who had not succumbed to a Rothschild central bank, would not go along with the plan, so the Rothschild world government plan failed.</p>
<p>Enraged by this, Nathan Mayer Rothschild swore that some day he or his descendants would destroy the Tsar Alexander I&#8217;s  entire family and descendants.  Unfortunately he was true to his word and 102 years later Rothschild funded Bolsheviks would act upon that promise.</p>
<p>Interestingly, world government fanatic and Ashkenazi Jew, Henry Kissinger, did his doctoral dissertation on the Congress of Vienna.</p>
<p><strong>1816:</strong> The American Congress passes a bill permitting yet another Rothschild dominated central bank, which gives the Rothschilds control of the American money supply again.  This is called the Second Bank of the United States and is given a twenty year charter.  The British war against the America therefore ends with the deaths of thousands of British and American soldiers, but the Rothschilds get their bank.</p>
<p><strong>1818:</strong> Following the French securing massive loans in 1817 in order to help rebuild after their disastrous defeat at Waterloo, Rothschild agents bought vast amounts of French government bonds causing their value to increase.</p>
<p>On November 5th they dumped the lot on the open market causing their value to plummet and France to go into a financial panic. The Rothschilds then stepped in to take control of the French money supply. This was the same year the Rothschilds were able to loan £5,000,000 to the Prussian government.</p>
<p><strong>1821:</strong> Kalmann (Carl) Mayer Rothschild was sent to Naples, Italy.  He would end up doing a lot of business with the Vatican and Pope Gregory XVI subsequently conferred upon him the Order of St. George.</p>
<p>Also, whenever the Pope received Kalmann, he would give him his hand rather than the customary toe to kiss, which showed the extent of Kalmann&#8217;s power over the Vatican.</p>
<p><strong>1822:</strong> The emperor of Austria made the five Rothschild brothers Barons.  Nathan Mayer Rothschild chose not to take up the title.</p>
<p><strong>1823:</strong> The Rothschilds take over the financial operations of the Catholic Church, worldwide.</p>
<p><strong>1827:</strong> Sir Walter Scott publishes his nine volume set, The life of Napolean and in volume two he states that the French Revolution was planned by the Illuminati (Adam Weishaupt) and was financed by the money changers of Europe (The Rothschilds).</p>
<p><strong>1832:</strong>  President Andrew Jackson (the 7th President of the United States from 1829 to 1837), runs the campaign for his second term in office under the slogan, &#8220;Jackson And No Bank!&#8221;  This is in reference to his plan to take the control of the American money system to benefit the American people, not for the profiteering of the Rothschilds.</p>
<p><strong>1833:</strong>  President Andrew Jackson starts removing the government&#8217;s deposits from the Rothschild controlled, Second Bank of the United States and instead deposits them into banks directed by democratic bankers.</p>
<p>This causes the Rothschilds to panic and so they do what they do best, contract the money supply causing a depression.  President Jackson knows what they are up to and later states,</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;You are a den of thieves vipers, and I intend to rout you out, and by the Eternal God, I will rout you out.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>1834:  </strong>The Italian revolutionary leader, Guiseppe Mazzini, is selected by the Illuminati to direct their revolutionary program throughout the world and would serve in that capacity until he died in 1872.</p>
<p><strong>1835:</strong>  On January 30, an assassin tries to shoot President Jackson, but miraculously both of the assassin&#8217;s pistols misfired.  President Jackson would later claim that he knew the Rothschilds were responsible for that attempted assassination.  He is not the only one, the assassin, Richard Lawrence, who was found not guilty by reason of insanity, later bragged that powerful people in Europe had hired him and promised to protect him if he were caught.</p>
<p>The Rothschilds acquire the rights in the Almadén quicksilver mines in Spain. This was at the time the biggest concession in the world and as quicksilver was a vital component in the refining of gold or silver this gave the Rothschilds a virtual world monopoly.</p>
<p><strong>1836:</strong> Following his years of fighting against the Rothschilds and their central bank in America, President Andrew Jackson finally succeeds in throwing the Rothschilds central bank out of America, when the bank&#8217;s charter is not renewed. It would not be until 1913 that the Rothschilds would be able to set up their third central bank in America, the Federal Reserve, and to ensure no mistakes are made, this time they will put one of their own bloodline, Jacob Schiff, in charge of the project.</p>
<p>Nathan Mayer Rothschild dies and the control of his bank, N. M. Rothschild &#38; Sons is passed on to his younger brother, James Mayer Rothschild.</p>
<p><strong>1837:</strong>  The Rothschilds send one of their own, August Belmont, an Ashkenazi Jew, to America to salvage their banking interests defeated by President Andrew Jackson.</p>
<p><strong>1840:</strong> The Rothschilds become the Bank of England’s bullion brokers. They set up agencies in California and Australia.</p>
<p><strong>1841:</strong> President John Tyler (the 10th President of the United States From 1841 to 1845) vetoed the act to renew the charter for the Bank of the United States. He goes on to receive hundreds of letters threatening him with assassination.</p>
<p><strong>1844:</strong> Salomon Mayer Rothschild purchases the United Coal Mines of Vítkovice and Austro-Hungarian Blast Furnace Company that would go on to be one of the top ten global industrial concerns.</p>
<p>Benjamin Disraeli, an Ashkenazi Jew (who would go on to become British Prime Minister twice &#8211; the only admitted Ashkenazi Jew to do so) publishes Coningsby, in which he characterises Nathan Mayer Rothschild as,</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;the Lord and Master of the money markets of the world, and of course virtually Lord and Master of everything else. He literally held the revenues of Southern Italy in pawn, and Monarchs and Ministers of all countries courted his advice and were guided by his suggestions.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>1845:</strong> The Great American Patriot, Andrew Jackson (7th President of the United States) dies.</p>
<p>Before his death he is asked what he regarded his as greatest achievement.  He replies without hesitation,</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;I Killed The Bank,&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>This is in reference to the fact he banished the Rothschilds Second Bank of the United States in 1836.</p>
<p>Jacob (James) Mayer Rothschild (who by now had married his niece, Betty, Salomon Mayer Rothschild&#8217;s daughter), now known as Baron James de Rothschild, wins the contract to build the first major railway line across the country.</p>
<p>This was called the Chemin De Fer Du Nord and ran initially from Paris to Valenciennes and then joined with the Austrian rail network built by his brother (and wife&#8217;s father &#8211; all sounds a bit sordid doesn&#8217;t it) Salomon Mayer Rothschild.</p>
<p><strong>1847:</strong> Lionel De Rothschild now married to the daughter of his uncle, Kalmann (Carl) Mayer Rothschild, is elected to the parliamentary seat for the City of London.</p>
<p>A requirement for entering parliament was to take an oath in the true faith of a Christian. Lionel De Rothschild refused to do this as he was Jewish and his seat in parliament remained empty for 11 years until new oaths were allowed.  He must have been an invaluable representative for his constituency, bearing in mind he could never vote on any bill as he never entered parliament!  I wonder how he managed to keep his parliamentary seat for 11 years?</p>
<p><strong>1848:</strong> Karl Marx, an Ashkenazi Jew, publishes, &#8220;The Communist Manifesto.&#8221;  Interestingly at the same time as he is working on this, Karl Ritter of Frankfurt University was writing the antithesis which would form the basis for Freidrich Wilhelm Nietzsche&#8217;s,  &#8220;Nietzscheanism.&#8221;  This Nietzecheanism was later developed into Fascism and then into Nazism and was used to forment the first and second world wars.</p>
<p>Marx, Ritter, and Nietzsche were all funded and under the instruction of the Rothschilds.  The idea was that those who direct the overall conspiracy could use the differences in those two so-called ideologies to enable them to divide larger and larger factions of the human race into opposing camps so that they could be armed and then brainwashed into fighting and destroying each other, and particularly, to destroy all political and religious institutions.  The same plan put forward by Weishaupt in 1776.</p>
<p>Eva Hanau, Amschel Mayer Rothschild’s wife dies.</p>
<p><strong>1849:</strong> Gutle Schnaper, Mayer Amschel Rothschild’s wife dies. Before her death she would nonchalantly state,</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;If my sons did not want wars, there would be none.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>1850:</strong> Construction begins this decade on the manor houses of Mentmore in England and Ferrières in France, more Rothschilds Manors will follow throughout the world, all of them filled with works of art.</p>
<p>Jacob (James) Rothschild in France is said to be worth 600 million francs, which at the time was 150 million francs more than all the other bankers in France put together.</p>
<p><strong>1852:</strong> N.M. Rothschild &#38; Sons begins refining gold and silver for the Royal Mint and the Bank of England and other international customers.</p>
<p><strong>1853:</strong> Nathaniel de Rothschild, the son in law of Jacob (James) Mayer Rothschild, purchases Château Brane Mouton, the Bordeaux vineyard of Mouton, and renames it Château Mouton Rothschild.</p>
<p><strong>1854:</strong> Caroline Stern, Salomon Mayer Rothschild’s wife, dies.</p>
<p><strong>1855:</strong> Amschel Mayer Rothschild dies.</p>
<p>Salomon Mayer Rothschild dies.</p>
<p>Kalmann (Carl) Mayer Rothschild dies.</p>
<p><strong>1858:</strong> Lionel De Rothschild finally takes his seat in parliament when the requirement to take an oath in the true faith of a Christian is broadened to include other oaths. He becomes the first Jewish member of the British parliament.</p>
<p><strong>1861:</strong> President Abraham Lincoln (16th President of the United States from 1860 till his assassination in 1865) approaches the big banks in New York to try to obtain loans to support the ongoing American civil war.  As these large banks were heavily under the influence of the Rothschilds, they offer him a deal they know he cannot accept, 24% to 36% interest on all monies loaned.</p>
<p>Lincoln is very angry about this high level of interest and so he prints his own debt free money and informs the public that this is now legal tender for both public and private debts.</p>
<p><strong>1862:</strong> By April $449,338,902 worth of Lincoln’s debt free money has been printed and distributed. He states of this,</p>
<blockquote><p>“We gave the people of this republic the greatest blessing they ever had, their own paper money to pay their own debts.”</p></blockquote>
<p>That same year The Times of London publishes a story containing the following statement,</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;If that mischievous financial policy, which had its origin in the North American Republic, should become indurated down to a fixture, then that government will furnish its own money without cost. It will pay off debts and be without a debt. It will have all the money necessary to carry on its commerce.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>It will become prosperous beyond precedent in the history of civilized governments of the world. The brains and the wealth of all countries will go to North America. That government must be destroyed or it will destroy every monarchy on the globe.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>1863:</strong> President Abraham Lincoln discovers the Tsar of Russia, Alexander II (1855 – 1881), was having problems with the Rothschilds as well as he was refusing their continual attempts to set up a central bank in Russia.  The Tsar then gives President Lincoln some unexpected help.</p>
<p>The Tsar issued orders that if either England or France actively intervened in the American Civil War, and help the South, Russia would consider such action a declaration of war, and take the side of President Lincoln.  To show that he wasn&#8217;t messing about, he sent part of his Pacific Fleet to port in San Francisco and another part to New York.</p>
<p>The Rothschild banking house in Naples, Italy, C. M. de Rothschild e figli, closes following the unification of Italy. The Rothschilds use one of their own in America, John D. Rockefeller, to form an oil business called Standard Oil which eventually takes over all of its competition.</p>
<p><strong>1864:</strong> Rothschild, August Belmont, who by now is the Democratic Party&#8217;s National Chairman, supports General George McClellan as the Democratic nominee to run against President Abraham Lincoln in this year&#8217;s election.  Much to the anger of Belmont, President Lincoln wins the election.</p>
<p><strong>1865:</strong> In a statement to Congress, President Abraham Lincoln states,</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me, and the financial institutions in the rear. Of the two, the one in my rear is my greatest foe.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Later that year, on April 14, President Lincoln is assassinated, less than two months before the end of the American Civil War.</p>
<p>Following a brief training period in the Rothschilds London Bank, Jacob Schiff, a Rothschild, born in their house in Frankfurt, arrives in America at the age of 18, with instructions and the finance necessary to buy into a banking house there.  The purpose of this was to carry out the following tasks.</p>
<blockquote><p>1.  Gain control of America&#8217;s money system through the establishment of a central bank.<br />
2.  Find desirable men, who for a price, would be willing to serve as stooges for the Illuminati and promote them into high places in the federal government, the Congress, Supreme Court, and all the federal agencies.<br />
3.  Create minority group strife throughout the nations, particularly targeting the whites and blacks.<br />
4.  Create a movement to destroy religion in the United States, with Christianity as the main target.</p></blockquote>
<p>Nathaniel de Rothschild becomes Member of Parliament for Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire.</p>
<p><strong>1868:</strong> Jacob (James) Mayer Rothschild dies, shortly after purchasing Château Lafite, one of the four great premier grand cru estates of France. He is the last of Mayer Amschel Rothschild’s sons to die.</p>
<p><strong>1870:</strong> Nathaniel de Rothschild dies.</p>
<p><strong>1871:</strong>  An American General named, Albert Pike, who had been enticed into the Illuminati by Guissepe Mazzini, completes his military blueprint for three world wars and various revolutions throughout the world, culminating into moving this great conspiracy into its final stage.</p>
<p>The first world war is to be fought for the purpose of destroying the Tsar in Russia,as promised by Nathan Mayer Rothschild in 1815.  The Tsar is to be replaced with communism which is to be used to attack religions, predominantly Christianity.  The differences between the British and German empires are to be used to forment this war.</p>
<p>The second world war is to be used to forment the controversy between facism and political zionism with the slaughter of Jews in Germany a lynchpin in bringing hatred against the German people.  This is designed to destroy fascism (which the Rothschilds created) and increase the power of political zionism.  This war is also designed to increase the power of communism to the level that it equalled that of united Christendom.</p>
<p>The third world war is to be played out by stirring up hatred of the Muslim world for the purposes of playing the Islamic world and the political zionists off against one another.  Whilst this is going on, the remaining nations would be forced to fight themselves into a state of mental, physical, spiritual and economic exhaustion.</p>
<p>On August 15th of this year, Albert Pike writes a letter (now catalogued in the British Museum) to Guiseppe Mazzini in which he states the following,</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;We shall unleash the nihilists and the atheists and we shall provoke a great social cataclysm which in all its horror will show clearly to all nations the effect of absolute atheism; the origins of savagery and of most bloody turmoil.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>Then everywhere, the people will be forced to defend themselves against the world minority of the world revolutionaries and will exterminate those destroyers of civilization and the multitudes disillusioned with Christianity whose spirits will be from that moment without direction and leadership and anxious for an ideal, but without knowledge where to send its adoration, will receive the true light through the universal manifestation of the pure doctrine of Lucifer brought finally out into public view.A manifestation which will result from a general reactionary movement which will follow the destruction of Christianity and Atheism; both conquered and exterminated at the same time.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Pike, who having been elected as Sovereign Grand Commander of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry&#8217;s Southern Jurisdiction in 1859, was the most powerful Freemason in America.  He would retain that post for 32 years until his death in 1891.  He also published a book on the subject in 1872 entitled, &#8220;Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry,&#8221; in which he candidly states the following,</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;LUCIFER, the Light-bearer! Strange and mysterious name to give to the Spirit of Darknesss! Lucifer, the Son of the Morning! Is it he who bears the Light, and with its splendors intolerable blinds feeble, sensual or selfish Souls? Doubt it not!&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>1872:</strong>  Prior to Guiseppe Mazzini&#8217;s death this year, he makes another revolutionary leader named Adrian Lemmy his successor.  Lemmy will be subsequently succeeded by Lenin and Trotsky, then by Stalin.  The revolutionary activities of all these men are financed by the Rothschilds.</p>
<p><strong>1873:</strong> The loss making Rio Tinto copper mines in Spain, are purchased by a group of foreign financiers including the Rothschilds. These mines represented Europe’s largest source of copper.</p>
<p><strong>1875:</strong> On January 1 of this year Jacob Schiff, now Solomon Loeb&#8217;s son-in-law after marrying his daughter, Teresa, takes control of the banking house, Kuhn, Loeb &#38; Co.  He goes on to finance John D. Rockefeller&#8217;s Standard Oil Company, Edward R. Harriman&#8217;s Railroad Empire, and Andrew Carnegie&#8217;s Steel Empire.  This is all with Rothschild money.</p>
<p>He then identifies the other largest bankers in America at that time.  They are, J.P. Morgan who controls Wall Street, and the Drexels and the Biddles of Philadelphia. All the other financiers, big and little, danced to the music of those three houses.  Schiff then gets the European Rothschilds to set up European branches of these three large banks on the understanding that Schiff, and therefore Rothschild, is to be the boss of banking in New York and therefore America.</p>
<p>N M Rothschild &#38; Sons undertake a share issue to raise capital for the first channel tunnel project to link France to England, with half of its capital coming from the Rothschild owned Compagnie du Chemin de Fer du Nord.</p>
<p>This year Lionel De Rothschild also loans Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli the finance for the British government to purchase the shares in the Suez Canal, from Khedive Said of Egypt. This was done as the Rothschilds needed this access route to be held by a government they controlled, so they could use that government&#8217;s military to protect their huge business interests in the Middle East.</p>
<p><strong>1876:</strong> Otto von Bismarck states,</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;The division of the United States into two federations of equal force was decided long before the civil war by the high financial power of Europe.  These bankers were afraid that the United States, if they remained in one block and as one nation, would attain economical and financial independence, which would upset their financial domination over the world.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>The voice of the Rothschilds predominated. They foresaw the tremendous booty if they could substitute two feeble democracies, indebted to the financiers, to the vigorous Republic, confident and self-providing.Therefore they started their emissaries in order to exploit the question of slavery and thus dig an abyss between the two parts of the Republic.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>1879:</strong> Lionel de Rothschild dies.</p>
<p><strong>1880:</strong>  Rothschild agents begin formenting a series of pogroms predominantly in Russia, but also in Poland,<strong> </strong>Bulgaria and Romania.  These pogroms resulted in the slaughter of thousands of innocent Jews, causing approximately 2 million to flee, mainly to New York, but also to Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston and Los Angeles.</p>
<p>The reason these pogroms were initiated, was to create a large Jewish base in America, who when they arrived, would be educated to register as Democrat voters.  Some twenty years later, this would result in in a massive Democratic power base in the United States and be used to elect Rothschild front men such as Woodrow Wilson, to the Presidency, to carry out the bidding of the Rothschilds.</p>
<p><strong>1881:</strong> President James A. Garfield (The 20th President of the United States who lasted only 100 Days) states two weeks before he is assassinated,</p>
<blockquote><p>“Whoever controls the volume of money in our country is absolute master of all industry and commerce…and when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Edmond James de Rothschild has a son Maurice de Rothschild.</p>
<p><strong>1883:</strong> After 6,000 feet of tunnel in the channel tunnel project being excavated, the British government halt the project citing the fact that it would be a threat to Britain’s security.</p>
<p><strong>1885:</strong> Nathaniel Rothschild, son of Lionel De Rothschild, becomes the first Jewish peer and is takes the title of Lord Rothschild.</p>
<p><strong>1886:</strong> The French Rothschild bank, de Rothschild Frères obtains substantial amounts of Russia&#8217;s oil fields and forms the Caspian and Black Sea Petroleum Company, which quickly becomes the world&#8217;s second largest oil producer.</p>
<p><strong>1887:</strong> Opium trafficker in China, Edward Albert Sassoon, marries Aline Caroline de Rothschild, the grand-daughter of Jacob (James) Mayer Rothschild.  Aline Caroline&#8217;s father, Gustave, together with his brother, Alphonse, took over the Rothschild&#8217;s french arm following their father Jacob&#8217;s death.</p>
<p>The Rothschilds finance the amalgamation of the Kimberley diamond mines in South Africa. They subsequently become the biggest shareholders of this company, De Beers, and mine precious stones in Africa and India.</p>
<p><strong>1888:</strong> Noémie Halphen, future wife of Maurice de Rothschild born.</p>
<p><strong>1891:</strong> The British Labour Leader makes the following statement on the subject of the Rothschilds,</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;This blood-sucking crew has been the cause of untold mischief and misery in Europe during the present century, and has piled up its prodigious wealth chiefly through fomenting wars between States which ought never to have quarrelled.Whenever there is trouble in Europe, wherever rumours of war circulate and men’s minds are distraught with fear of change and calamity you may be sure that a hook-nosed Rothschild is at his games somewhere near the region of the disturbance.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Comments like this worry the Rothschilds and towards the end of the 1800’s they purchase Reuters news agency so they can have some control of the media.</p>
<p><strong>1895:</strong> Edmond James de Rothschild the youngest son of Jacob (James) Mayer Rothschild visits Palestine and subsequently supplies the funds to found the first Jewish colonies there, this is to further their long term objective of creating a Rothschild owned country.</p>
<p><strong>1897:</strong> The Rothschilds found the Zionist Congress to promote Zionism (a political movement with the sole aim of moving all Jews into a singularly Jewish nation state) and arrange its first meeting in Munich.  However due to extreme opposition from local Jews, who are quite happy where they are, this meeting has to be moved to Basle, Switzerland and takes place on 29 August. The meeting is chaired by Ashkenazi Jew, Theodor Herzl, who would state in his diaries,</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;It is essential that the sufferings of Jews….become worse….this will assist in realization of our plans….I have an excellent idea….I shall induce anti-Semites to liquidate Jewish wealth….The anti-Semites will assist us thereby in that they will strengthen the persecution and oppression of Jews. The anti-Semites shall be our best friends.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Herzl is subsequently elected President of the Zionist Organisation which adopts the, &#8220;Rothschild Red Hexagram or Sign,&#8221; as the Zionist flag which 51 years later will end up as the flag of Israel.</p>
<p>Edward Henry Harriman becomes a director of the Union Pacific Railroad and goes on to take control of the Southern Pacific Railroad. This is all financed by the Rothschilds.</p>
<p><strong>1898:</strong> Ferdinand de Rothschild dies.</p>
<p><strong>1901:</strong> The Jews from the colonies set up in Palestine by Edmond James de Rothschild, send a delegation to him which tell him,</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;If you wish to save the Yishuv (The Jewish settlement) first take your hands from it, and…for once permit the colonists to have the possibility of correcting for themselves what needs correcting.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Edmond James de Rothschild is very angry about this and states,</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;I created the Yishuv, I alone.  Therefore no men, neither colonists nor organisations have the right to interfere in my plans.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>The Rothschild banking house in Frankfurt, Germany, M. A. von Rothschild und Söhne, closes as there is no male Rothschild heir to take it on.</p>
<p><strong>1902:</strong> Philippe de Rothschild born.</p>
<p><strong>1905:</strong> A group of Rothschild backed Zionist Jews led by Georgi Apollonovich Gapon attempt to overthrow the Tsar in Russia in a Communist Coup.  They fail and are forced to flee Russia only to be given refuge in Germany.</p>
<p>The Jewish Encyclopaedia (Vol. 2, p.497) states,</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;It is a somewhat curious sequel to the attempt to set up a Catholic competitor to the Rothschilds that at the present time the latter are the guardians of the papal treasure.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>1906:</strong> The Rothschilds claim that due to growing instability in the region and increasing competition from Rockefeller (the Rockefeller family are Rothschild descendants through a female bloodline) owned Standard Oil, this is why they sell their Caspian and Black Sea Petroleum Company to Royal Dutch and Shell.  This is another example of the Rothschilds trying to hide their true wealth.</p>
<p><strong>1907:</strong> Rothschild, Jacob Schiff, the head of Kuhn, Loeb and Co., in a speech to the New York Chamber of Commerce, warns that,</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Unless we have a Central Bank with adequate control of credit resources, this country is going to undergo the most severe and far reaching money panic in its history.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Suddenly America finds itself in the middle of another typical run of the mill Rothschild engineered financial crisis, which ruins as usual ruins the lives of millions of innocent people throughout America and makes billions for the Rothschilds.</p>
<p><strong>1909:</strong> Jacob Schiff founds the National Advancement for the Association of the Coloured People (NAACP).  This was done to incite black people into roiting, looting and other forms of disorder, in order to cause a rift between the black and white communities.  Jewish historian, Howard Sachar, states the following in his book, &#8220;A History of the Jews in America,&#8221;</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;In 1914, Professor Emeritus Joel Spingarn of Columbia University became chairman of the NAACP and recruited for its board such Jewish leaders as Jacob Schiff, Jacob Billikopf, and Rabbi Stephen Wise.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Other Ashkenazi Jew co-founders included Julius Rosenthal, Lillian Wald and Rabbi Emil G. Hirsch.  It was not until 1920 that the NAACP appointed its first black president, James Weldon Johnson.</p>
<p>Maurice de Rothschild marries Ashkenazi Jew, Noémie Halphen.</p>
<p><strong>1911:</strong> Werner Sombart, in his book, &#8220;The Jews and Modern Capitalism,&#8221; stated that from 1820 on, it was the,</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Age of the Rothschild,&#8221; and concluded that there was, &#8220;Only one power in Europe, and that is Rothschild.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>1912:</strong> In the December issue of, &#8220;Truth,&#8221; magazine, George R. Conroy states of banker Jacob Schiff,</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Mr Schiff is head of the great private banking house of Kuhn, Loeb, and co, which represents the Rothschilds interests on this side of the Atlantic.He has been described as financial strategist and has been for years the financial minister of the great impersonal power known as Standard Oil.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>He was hand in glove with the Harrimans, the Goulds, and the Rockefellers in all their railroad enterprises and has become the dominant power in the railroad and financial power of America.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>1913:</strong> On March 4, Woodrow Wilson is elected the 28th President of the United States.  Shortly after he is inaugurated, he is visited in the White House by Ashkenazi Jew, Samuel Untermyer, of law firm, Guggenheim, Untermyer, and Marshall, who tries to blackmail him for the sum of $40,000 in relation to an affair Wilson had whilst he was a professor at Princeton University, with a fellow professor&#8217;s wife.</p>
<p>President Wilson does not have the money, so Untermyer volunteers to pay the $40,000 out of his own pocket to the woman Wilson had had the affair with, on the condition that Wilson promise to appoint to the first vacancy on the United States Supreme Court a nominee to be recommended to President Wilson by Untermyer.  Wilson agrees to this.</p>
<p>Jacob Schiff sets up the Anti Defamation League (ADL) in the United States.  This organisation is formed to slander anyone who questions or challenges the Rothschild global conspiracy as, &#8220;anti-semitic.&#8221;</p>
<p>Strangely enough, the same year that they do this they also set up their last and current central bank in America, the Federal Reserve. Congressman Charles Lindbergh stated following the passing of the Federal Reserve Act on December 23,</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;The Act establishes the most gigantic trust on earth. When the President signs this Bill, the invisible government of the monetary power will be legalized&#8230;&#8230;.The greatest crime of the ages is perpetrated by this banking and currency bill.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>It is important to note that the Federal Reserve is a private company, it is neither Federal nor does it have any Reserve. It is conservatively estimated that profits exceed $150 billion per year and the Federal Reserve has never once in its history published accounts.</p>
<p><strong>1914: </strong> The start of World War I.  In this war, the German Rothschilds loan money to the Germans, the British Rothschilds loan money to the British, and the French Rothschilds loan money to the French.</p>
<p>Futhermore, the Rothschilds have control of the three European news agencies, Wolff (est. 1849) in Germany, Reuters (est. 1851) in England, and Havas (est. 1835) in France.</p>
<p>The Rothschilds use Wolff to manipulate the German people into a fervour for war. From around this time, the Rothschilds are rarely reported in the media, because they own the media.</p>
<p><strong>1916:</strong>  On June 4, Ashkenazi Jew, Louis Dembitz Brandeis is appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States by President Wilson as per his agreed blackmail payment to Samuel Untermyer some three years earlier.  Justice Brandeis is also the elected leader of the Executive Committee for Zionist Affairs, a position he has held since 1914.</p>
<p>The middle of World War II.  Germany were winning the war as they were being financed by the Rothschilds to a greater extent than France, Italy and England, because Rothschilds, did not want to support the Tsar in Russia, and of course Russia was on the same side as France, Italy and England.</p>
<p>Then a significant event occurred.  Germany, although they were winning the war and not one foreign soldier had set foot on their soil, offered armistice to Britain with no requirement of reparations.  The Rothschilds were anxious to make sure this didn&#8217;t happen as they were expecting to make far more money off this war, so they played another card they had up their sleeve.</p>
<p>Whilst the British were considering Germany&#8217;s offer, Rothschild agent Louis Brandeis sends a Zionist delegation from America to Britain to promise to bring America into the war on the side of the British, provided the British agree to give the land of Palestine to the Rothschilds.</p>
<p>The Rothschilds wanted Palestine for the following reason.  They had great business interests in the far east and desired their own state in that area along with their own military which they could use as an aggressor to any state that threatened those interests.</p>
<p>The British subsequently agree to the deal for Palestine and the Zionists in London contact their counterparts in America and inform them of this fact.  Suddenly all the major newspapers in America that up to that point had been pro-German turned on Germany running propaganda pieces such as:  German soldiers were killing Red Cross Nurses; German soldiers were cutting off babies hands, etc, in order to manipulate the American public against the Germans.</p>
<p>This same year, President Woodrow Wilson, ran a re-election campaign under the slogan, &#8220;Re-Elect The Man Who Will Keep Your Sons Out Of The War.&#8221;</p>
<p>On December 12, Germany and her allies offer peace terms to end the war.</p>
<p><strong>1917: </strong> As a result of Germany&#8217;s offer of peace the Rothschild war machine goes into overdrive in America, spreading propaganda which leads to President Wilson under the instructions of American Zionist leader and Supreme Court Justice, Louis Dembitz Brandeis, reneging on his promise to the electorate and taking America into the first world war on April 6.</p>
<p>As per the Rothschild Zionist promise to the British, to take America into the war, they decide they want something in writing from the British to prove that they will uphold their side of the bargain.  The British Foreign Secretary, Arthur James Balfour therefore drafts a letter which is commonly known as the, &#8220;Balfour Declaration,&#8221; which is reprinted below.</p>
<blockquote><p>Foreign OfficeNovember 2nd, 1917</p>
<p>Dear Lord Rothschild,</p>
<p>I have much pleasure in conveying to you, on behalf of His Majesty&#8217;s Government, the following declaration of sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations which has been submitted to, and approved by, the Cabinet.</p>
<p>His Majesty&#8217;s Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.</p>
<p>I should be grateful if you would bring this declaration to the knowledge of the Zionist Federation.</p>
<p>Yours sincerely,</p>
<p>Arthur James Balfour</p></blockquote>
<p>The Rothschilds order the execution by the Bolsheviks they control, of Tsar Nicholas II and his entire family in Russia, even though the Tsar had already abdicated on March 2.  This is both to get control of the country and an act of revenge for Tsar Alexander I blocking their world government plan in 1815 at the Congress Of Vienna, and Tsar Alexander II siding with President Abraham Lincoln in 1864.</p>
<p>It is extremely important for them to slaughter the entire family including women and children in order to make good on the promise to do so made by Nathan Mayer Rothschild in 1815.  It is designed to show the world what happens if you ever attempt to cross the Rothschilds.</p>
<p>U.S. Congressman Oscar Callaway informs Congress that J. P. Morgan is a Rothschild front and has taken control of the American media industry.  He states,</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;In March, 1915, the J.P. Morgan interests, the steel, shipbuilding, and powder interest, and their subsidiary organizations, got together 12 men high up in the newspaper world and employed them to select the most influential newspapers in the United States and sufficient number of them to control generally the policy of the daily press&#8230;&#8230;They found it was only necessary to purchase the control of 25 of the greatest papers&#8230;An agreement was reached.  The policy of the papers was bought, to be paid for by the month, an editor was furnished for each paper to properly supervise and edit information regarding the questions of preparedness, militarism, financial policies, and other things of national and international nature considered vital to the interests of the purchasers.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>1919:  </strong>In January, Ashkenazi Jews, Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg, are killed as they attempt to lead another Rothschild funded Communist coup, this time in Berlin, Germany.</p>
<p>The Versailles peace conference is held to decide reparations that the Germans need to pay to the victors following the end of the first world war.  A delegation of 117 Zionists headed up by Ashkenazi Jew, Bernard Baruch, bring up the subject of the promise of Palestine for them.  At this point the Germans realised why America had turned on them and under whose influence, the Rothschilds.</p>
<p>The Germans, naturally, felt they had been betrayed by the Zionists.  This is because, at the time the Rothschilds made their deal with Britain for Palestine, in exchange for bringing America into the war, Germany was the most friendly country in the world towards the Jews, indeed the German Emancipation Edict of 1822 guaranteed Jews in Germany all civil rights enjoyed by Germans.</p>
<p>Also, Germany was the only country in Europe which did not place restrictions on Jews, even giving them refuge when they had to flee from Russia after their first attempted Communist coup failed there in 1905.</p>
<p>Nevertheless, the Rothschilds had held up their side of the bargain to spill the blood of millions of innocents and as a result, Palestine is confirmed as a Jewish homeland, and whilst its handover to the Rothschilds takes place it is to remain under the control of Britain as the Rothschilds control Britain.  At that time less than one percent of the population of Palestine was Jewish.  Interestingly, the host of the Versailles peace conference is its boss, Baron Edmond de Rothschild.</p>
<p>The Versailles peace conference is also used as an attempt by the Rothschilds to set up a world government under the pretext of ending all wars (which they create).  This was called the, &#8220;League of Nations.&#8221;  Fortunately not enough countries accepted it and so it soon died.</p>
<p>On March 29th The Times of London reports on the Bolsheviks in Russia,</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;One of the curious features of the Bolshevist movement is the high percentage of non Russian elements among its leaders. Of the twenty or thirty commissaries, or leaders, who provide the central machinery of the Bolshevist movement, not less than 75% were Jews.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>It is reported that the Rothschilds were angry with the Russians because they were not prepared to allow them to form a central bank within their nation.  They therefore gathered groups of Jewish spies and sent them into Russia to drum up a revolution for the benefit of the common man, which was actually a takeover of Russia by a Rothschild controlled satanic elite.</p>
<p>These Jewish spies were, in age old deceptive Ashkenazi tradition, given Russian names, for example Trotsky was a member of the first group and his original name was Bronstein. These groups were sent to areas throughout Russia to incite riots and rebellion.</p>
<p>The Jewish Post International Edition, week ending January 24th 1991, confirms Vladimir Lenin was Jewish. Lenin is also on record as having stated,</p>
<blockquote><p>“The establishment of a central bank is 90% of communizing a nation.”</p></blockquote>
<p>These Jewish, Rothschild funded Bolsheviks would go on in the course of history to slaughter 60 million Christians and Non-Jews in Soviet controlled territory. Indeed the author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in his work, “Gulag Archipelago, Vol 2,” affirms that Zionist Jews <strong>created and administered the organized Soviet concentration camp system</strong> in which these tens of millions of Christians and Non-Jews died.</p>
<p>On page 79 of this book he even names the administrators of this the greatest killing machine in the history of the world. They are Aron Solts, Yakov Rappoport, Lazar Kogan, Matvei Berman, Genrikh Yagoda, and Naftaly Frenkel. All six are Zionist Jews. In 1970 Solzhenitsyn would be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for literature.</p>
<p>N. M. Rothschild &#38; Sons’ are given a permanent role to fix the world’s daily gold price. This takes place in the City of London offices, daily at 1100 hours, in the same room until 2004.</p>
<p><strong>1920:</strong> Winston Churchill (whose mother, Jenny (Jacobson) Jerome, was Jewish – meaning he is Jewish under Ashkenazi law as he was born of a Jewish mother) writes in an article in the Illustrated Sunday Herald, dated February 8th,</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;From the days of Illuminati leader Weishaupt, to those of Karl Marx, to those of Trotsky, this worldwide conspiracy has been steadily growing.And now at last this band of extraordinary personalities from the underworld of the great cities of Europe and America, have gripped the Russian people by the hair of their heads and become the undisputed masters of that enormous empire.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>1921:  </strong>Under the orders of Jacob Schiff the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is founded by Ashkenazi Jews, Bernard Baruch and Colonel Edward Mandell House.  Schiff gave his orders prior to his death in 1920, as he knew an organisation in America needed to be set up to select politicians to carry on the Rothschild conspiracy,and the formation of the CFR was actually agreed in a meeting on May 30, 1919 at the Hotel Majestic in Paris, France.</p>
<p>The CFR membership at the start was approximately 1000 people in the United States.  This membership included the heads of virtually every industrial empire in America, all the American based international bankers, and the heads of all their tax free foundations.  In essence all those people who would provide the capital required for anyone who wished to run for Congress, the Senate or the Presidency.</p>
<p>The first job of the CFR was to gain control of the press.  This task was given to John D. Rockefeller who set up a number of national news magazines such as Life, and Time.  He financed Samuel Newhouse to buy up and establish a chain of newspapers all across the country, and Eugene Meyer also who would go on to buy up many publications such as the Washington Post, Newsweek, ant The Weekly Magazine.</p>
<p>The CFR also needed to gate control of radio, television and the motion picture industry.  This task was split amongst the international bankers from, Kuhn Loeb, Goldman Sachs, the Warburgs, and the Lehmanns.</p>
<p><strong>1925:</strong>  This year&#8217;s Jewish Encyclopaedia, states of the existence of Ashkenazi Jews (who represent approximately 90% of so-called world Jewry), with the startling admission that the so called enemy of the Jews, Esau (also known as Edom, see Genesis 36:1), now actually represents the Jewish race, when on page 42 of Volume V it is stated,</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Edom is in modern Jewry.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>So what they&#8217;re basically saying is that these Ashkenazi Jews, who represent 90% of the so-called Jewish population, are actually gentiles or goyim themselves.</p>
<p><strong>1926:</strong> N. M. Rothschild &#38; Sons refinance the Underground Electric Railways Company of London Ltd which has a controlling interest in the entire London Underground transport system.</p>
<p>Maurice de Rothschild has a son, Edmond de Rothschild.</p>
<p><strong>1929: </strong> The Rothschilds crash the United States economy by contracting the money supply.</p>
<p><strong>1930:</strong>  The first Rothschild world bank, the, &#8220;Bank for International Settlements (BIS),&#8221; is established in Basle, Switzerland.  The same place as where 33 years earlier the first ever World Zionist Congress was held.</p>
<p><strong>1933:</strong> On January 30, Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany.  He drives Jews, many of which were Communist out of Governmental positions within Germany.  As a result of this, in July, the Jews hold a World Conference in Amsterdam during which they demand that Hitler re-instate every Jew back to his former position.</p>
<p>Hitler refuses and as a result of this, Samuel Untermyer, the Ashkenazi Jew who blackmailed President Wilson,and is now the head of the American delegation and the president of the whole conference, returns to the United States, and makes a speech on radio which was transcribed in the From the New York Times, Monday, August 7, 1933.  In the speech he made the following statements,</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;&#8230;the Jews are the aristocrats of the world&#8230;Our campaign is&#8230;the economic boycott against all German goods, shipping and services&#8230;What we are proposing&#8230;is to prosecute a purely defensive economic boycott that will undermine the Hitler regime and bring the German people to their senses by destroying their export trade on which their very existence depends&#8230;&#8230;Each of you, Jew and Gentile alike&#8230;must refuse to deal with any merchant or shopkeeper who sells any German-made goods or who patronizes German ships or shipping.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>As two thirds of Germany&#8217;s food supply had to be imported, and could only be imported with the proceeds of what they exported, if Germany could not export, two thirds of Germany&#8217;s population would starve, as there would be not enough food for more than one third of the population.</p>
<p>As a result of this boycott, Jews throughout America, would protest outside and damage any stores in which they found any products with, &#8220;Made in Germany,&#8221; printed on them, causing stores to have to dump these products or risk bankruptcy.</p>
<p>Once the effects of this boycott began to be felt in Germany, the Germans, who had demonstrated no violence towards the Jews up to this point, simply began boycotting Jewish stores in the same way the Jews had done to stores selling German products in America.</p>
<p>Rothschild financed IBM, supply machines to the Nazis which produce punch cards to help organize and manage the initial identification and social expulsion of Jews, the confiscation of their property and their extermination.</p>
<p>On November 16, President Roosevelt recognizes the Zionist regime of Stalin in Russia without consultation with Congress even as 8,000 Ukrainians march in protest in New York.</p>
<p>Also this year, President Roosevelt, born of a Jewish mother, therefore satisfying Ashkenazi rules of being Jewish, orders the all-seeing eye to be placed upon all new dollar bills along with the motto, &#8220;Novus Ordo Seclorum.&#8221;  This is latin for, &#8220;A New Order of the Ages.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>1934:</strong> Swiss banking secrecy laws are reformed and it becomes an offence resulting in imprisonment for any bank employee to violate bank secrecy. This is all in preparation for the Rothschild engineered Second World War in which as usual they will fund both sides.</p>
<p>Edmond de Rothschild dies.</p>
<p><strong>1936:</strong>  With regard to the increase in anti-semitism in Germany, Samuel Landman (at the time, secretary to the World Zionist Organisation), in his 1936 book, Great Britain, The Jews, and Palestine states the following of the United States entry into World War 1,</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;The fact that it was Jewish help that brought USA into the War on the side of the Allies has rankled ever since in German – especially Nazi – minds, and has contributed in no small measure to the prominence which anti-Semitism occupies in the Nazi programme.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>1938:</strong> On 7th November, a Jew, Herschel Grynszpan, assassinated Ernst vom Rath, a minor official at the German Embassy in Paris.  As a result of this German hostility towards Jews in Germany started to turn violent.</p>
<p>The Rothschilds Austrian banking house in Vienna, S. M. von Rothschild und Söhne, closes following the Nazi occupation of Austria.</p>
<p><strong>1939:</strong> I.G. Farben the leading producer of chemicals in the world and largest German producer of steel dramatically increases its production. This increased production is almost exclusively used to arm Germany for the Second World War.  This company was controlled by the Rothschilds and would go on to use Jews and other disaffected peoples as slave labour in the concentration camps. I.G. Farben also created the lethal Zyklon B gas that was used to exterminate the Jews.</p>
<p>On 1 September, the Second world war starts when Germany invades Poland.  This was because the German leadership were a Christian leadership, who understood that Soviet Russia was led by Rothschild funded Communists, and they feared that as the Soviet Union grew in strength, these Jewish Communists would invade and wipe all the Christians off the map.</p>
<p><strong>1940:</strong> Hansjurgen Koehler in his book, &#8220;Inside The Gestapo,&#8221; states the following, of Maria Anna Schicklgruber, Adolf Hitler&#8217;s grandmother,</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;A little servant girl…….came to Vienna and became a domestic servant…….at the Rothschild mansion…….and Hitler’s unknown grandfather must be probably looked for in this magnificent house.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>This is backed up by Walter Langer in his book, &#8220;The Mind Of Hitler,&#8221; in which he states,</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Adolf’s father, Alois Hitler, was the illegitimate son of Maria Anna Schicklgruber…….Maria Anna Schicklgruber was living in Vienna at the time she conceived. At that time she was employed as a servant in the home of Baron Rothschild. As soon as the family discovered her pregnancy she was sent back home…….where Alois was born.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>On the surface, it would appear Hitler was unlikely to be a Rothschild, but then again, when you discover the benefits that the Rothschilds got out of this war, both financially and politically, a Rothschild connection does not appear as outlandish as it may initially seem.</p>
<p><strong>1941:  </strong>President Roosevelt takes America into the second world war by refusing to sell Japan any more steel scrap or oil. Japan was in the midst of a war against China and without that scrap steel and oil, Japan would be unable to continue that war. Japan was totally dependent upon the United States for both steel scrap and oil.  Roosevelt knew this action would provoke the Japanese to attack America, which they subsequently did at Pearl Harbor.</p>
<p><strong>1942:</strong> Prescott Bush, father of future American Presidents’ George Herbert Walker and George W, has his company seized under the, “Trading With The Enemy,” Act. He was funding Hitler from America, whilst American soldiers were being killed by German soldiers.</p>
<p>Jews are also being slaughtered by these same soldiers. Interestingly the ADL never criticizes any of the Bushes for this.</p>
<p><strong>1943:</strong> February 18th, Zionist, Izaak Greenbaum, head of the Jewish Agency Rescue Committee, in a speech to the Zionist Executive Council states,</p>
<blockquote><p>“If I am asked, could you give from the UJA (United Jewish Appeal) monies to rescue Jews, I say, no and I say again no!”</p></blockquote>
<p>He would go onto state,</p>
<blockquote><p>“One cow in Palestine is worth more than all the Jews in Poland!”</p></blockquote>
<p>This is not a surprise, the whole idea of Zionist support for the slaughter of innocent Jews was to scare the survivors into believing that their only place of safety was Israel.  How else do you think the Zionists could ensure Jews leave the beautiful European cities in which they live, in order to settle in a desert!</p>
<p><strong>1944:</strong>  On 6 November Lord Moyne, British Minister Resident in the Middle East was assassinated in Cairo by two members of the Jewish terrorist group, the Stern Gang, led by future Prime Minister of Israel, Yitzhak Shamir.  He is also responsible for  an assassination attempt against Harold MacMichael, the High Commissioner of the British Mandate of Palestine, this same year.</p>
<p>Interestingly he also masterminds another successful assassination this year against the United Nations representative in the Middle East, Count Folke Bernadotte who, although he had secured the release of 21,000 prisoners from German camps during World War II, was seen by Yitzak Shamir and his terrorist collaborators as an anti-Zionist.</p>
<p>In Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, two further Rothschild world banks are created.  The International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the World Bank.</p>
<p><strong>1945:</strong> The end of the Second World War. It is reported that I.G. Farben plants were specifically not targeted in the bombing raids on Germany. Interestingly at the end of the war, they were found to have only sustained 15% damage.</p>
<p>The tribunals held at the end of the Second World War, to investigate Nazi War Crimes, censored any materials recording Western assistance to Hitler.</p>
<p>The Rothschilds take a giant step towards their goal of world domination when the second, &#8220;League of Nations,&#8221; called the, &#8220;United Nations,&#8221; was approved this year.</p>
<p><strong>1946:</strong>  On July 22 the future Prime Minister of Israel, Ashkenazi Jew, David Ben-Gurion, orders another future Prime Minister of Israel, Ashkenazi Jew, Menachem Begin, to carry out a terrorist attack on the King David Hotel in Palestine, to try and drive out the British.  As a result of this 91 people were killed, most of them civilians: 28 British, 41 Arabs, 17 Jews, and 5 others.  Around 45 people are injured.</p>
<p>Menachem Begin went on to proudly proclaimed himself as, &#8220;the father of modern terrorism.&#8221;  Just to put the gravity of the attack on the King David Hotel into perspective, it was at the time the biggest death toll as a result of single terrorist action ever and was only surpassed over forty years later by the Bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie.</p>
<p><strong>1947:</strong> The British who prior to World War 2 declared that there would be no more immigration of Jews to Palestine in order to protect the Palestinians from their acts of terror against both them and British soldiers, transfer control of Palestine to the United Nations.  The United Nations resolve to have Palestine partitioned into two states, one zionist and one arab, with Jerusalem to remain as an international zone to be enjoyed by all religious faiths.</p>
<p>This transfer was scheduled to take place on May 15, 1948.  The United Nations had no right to give Arab property to anyone, as indeed even thought the Jews owned 6% of Palestine at that time, resolution 181 granted the Jews 57% of the land leaving the Arabs who at that time had 94% with only 43%.</p>
<p>Information collected by the ADL in its spy operations on US citizens is used by the House Select Committee on Unamerican Activities. Subcommittee Chair Clare Hoffman dismisses the ADL’s reports on suspected communists as &#8220;hearsay.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>1948:</strong> In the Spring of this year, the Rothschilds bribe President Harry S. Truman (33rd President of the United States 1945 – 1953) to recognise Israel (Rothschild owned Zionist not Jewish territory) as a sovereign state with $2,000,000 which they give to him on his campaign train.</p>
<p>They then declare Israel to be a sovereign Jewish state in Palestine and within half an hour President Truman declared the United States to be the first foreign nation to recognise it.</p>
<p>The Flag of Israel is unveiled. Despite tremendous opposition the emblem on the flag is a blue coloured version of the Rothschild, &#8220;Red Hexagram or Sign.&#8221;</p>
<p>This angers many Jews who realise this Hexagram was used in the ancient mystery religions as the symbol of, &#8220;Moloch,&#8221; (described as a demon of unwilling sacrifice and is also interestingly the name of the stone owl the elite worship at Bohemian Grove), and, &#8220;Astaroth,&#8221; (described as the Lord Treasurer of Hell).</p>
<p>The Hexagram was also used to represent Saturn, which has been identified as the esoteric name for, &#8220;Satan.&#8221; This indicates that anyone killed in the name of Israel is actually a sacrifice to Satan. These dissenting Jews believe the, &#8220;Menorah,&#8221; the oldest Jewish symbol should be used and pointed out that the Hexagram is not even a Jewish symbol, but of course as the Rothschild Zionists use it that is what ends up on the Rothschild, I mean Zionist, I mean Israeli flag.</p>
<p>In the early hours of April 19, 132 Jewish terrorists from the Irgun gang, led by future Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, and the Stern gang, led by future Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, brutally massacre 200 men, women and children as they are sleeping peacefully in the Arab village of Deir Yassin.</p>
<p>Following the United Nations transfer of Palestine to an independent Jewish state and an independent Arab state on May 15, the Israelis launched a military assault on the Arabs with blaring loudspeakers on their trucks informing the Arabs that if they did not flee immediately, they would be slaughtered.</p>
<p>800,000 Arabs with the recent memory of the Deir Yassin massacre at the forefront of their minds, fled in panic.  They asked for help from nighbouring Arab states, but those states did not get involved as they were no match for the Israelis whose up to date military hardware had been supplied by the Jewish Stalinist regime in Russia.  Following this assault, the Jews now controlled 78% of the former Palestine as oppose to the 57% that had been given to them illegally by the United Nations.</p>
<p>The Palestinians, many of them Christians, were never paid compensation for their homes, property and businesses stolen from them during this illegal Jewish assault, and these people ended up in slum refugee cities of tents. Futhermore at least half of the Palestinians in their hurry to flee, left their birth certificates behind.  The State of Israel then passed a law that only those who could prove citizenship were allowed to return to Israel, thus meaning these 400,000 Palestinians could not return and lost all their property they had left there.</p>
<p>Ashkenazi Jew, David Ben-Gurion, one of the father founders of Israel and its first Prime Minister, candidly describes Zionist aims in his diary (21 May 1948) as follows,</p>
<blockquote><p>“The Achilles heel of the Arab coalition is the Lebanon. Muslim supremacy in this country is artificial and can easily be overthrown. A Christian State ought to be set up there, with its southern frontier on the river Litani.We would sign a treaty of alliance with this State. Thus when we have broken the strength of the Arab Legion and bombed Amman, we could wipe out Trans-Jordan, after that Syria would fall. And if Egypt still dared to make war on us, we would bomb Port Said, Alexandria and Cairo.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>We should thus end the war and would have but paid to Egypt, Assyria and Chaldea on behalf of our ancestors.”</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>1949:  </strong>On October 1, Mao Tse Tsung declares the founding of the People&#8217;s Republic Of China in Tiananmen Square, Beijing.  He is funded by Rothschild created Communism in Russia and also the following Rothschild agents:  Solomon Adler, a former United States Treasury official who was a Soviet Spy; Israel Epstein, the son of a Jewish Bolshevik imprisoned by the Tsar in Russia for trying to forment a revolution there; and Frank Coe, a leading official of the Rothschild owned IMF.</p>
<p><strong>1950:</strong> Israel passes their law of return, guaranteeing every Jew worldwide the right to dwell in the state of Israel, however the Palestinians even though they had lived there for 1300 years, were denied that right.</p>
<p>John Davitt, former chief of the Justice Department&#8217;s internal security section notes that the Israeli intelligence service is the second most active in the United States after the Soviets and of course both Israel and the Soviet Union are run by an Ashkenazi Jewish leadership.</p>
<p><strong>1951:</strong> On 1 April the Israeli Secret Intelligence Agency the Mossad, which will go on to terrorize the world, is formed. The motto of the Mossad is probably the most disgusting secret service motto in the world, it is,</p>
<p>&#8220;By Way Of Deception,<br />
  Thou Shalt Do War.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>1953:</strong> N. M. Rothschild &#38; Sons found the British Newfoundland Corporation Limited to develop 60,000 square miles of land in Newfoundland, Canada, which comprised a power station to harness the power of the Hamilton (later renamed Churchill) Falls. At the time this was the largest construction project ever to be undertaken by a private company.</p>
<p><strong>1954:</strong> &#8220;The Lavon Affair.&#8221;  Israeli agents recruit Egyptian citizens of Jewish descent to bomb Western targets in Egypt, and plant evidence to frame Arabs, in an apparent attempt to upset American/Egyptian relations. Israeli defense minister, Ashkenazi Jew, Pinhas Lavon is eventually removed from office, though many think real responsibility lay with David Ben-Gurion.</p>
<p>A hidden microphone planted by the Israelis is discovered in the Office of the US Ambassador in Tel Aviv.</p>
<p><strong>1955:</strong> Edmond de Rothschild founds Compagnie Financiere, Paris.</p>
<p><strong>1956:</strong> Telephone taps are found connected to two telephones in the residence of the US military attaché in Tel Aviv.</p>
<p><strong>1957:</strong> James de Rothschild dies and it is reported (by the Rothschild owned media) that he bequeaths a large sum of money to the state of Israel to pay for the construction of their parliament building, the Knesset. He states that the Knesset should be,</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;a symbol, in the eyes of all men, of the permanence of the State of Israel.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>On page 219 of his book, &#8220;Tales of the British Aristocracy,&#8221; L.G. Pine, the Editor of Burke’s Peerage, states that the Jews,</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;have made themselves so closely connected with the British peerage that the two classes are unlikely to suffer loss which is not mutual. So closely linked are the Jews and the lords that a blow against the Jews in this country would not be possible without injuring the aristocracy also.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Maurice de Rothschild dies in Paris.</p>
<p><strong>1962:</strong> de Rothschild Frères establishes Imétal as an umbrella company for all their mineral mining interests.</p>
<p>Frederic Morton publishes his book, The Rothschilds, in which he states,</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Though they control scores of industrial, commercial, mining and tourist corporations, not one bears the name Rothschild. Being private partnerships, the family houses never need to, and never do, publish a single public balance sheet, or any other report of their financial condition.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>This attitude reveals the true aim of the Rothschilds, to eliminate all competition and create their own worldwide monopoly.</p>
<p><strong>1963:</strong> On June 4th President John F. Kennedy (the 35th President of the United States 1961 – 1963) signs Executive Order 11110 which returned to the U.S. government the power to issue currency, without going through the Rosthchilds owned Federal Reserve.</p>
<p>Less than 6 months later on November 22nd , president Kennedy is assassinated by the Rothschilds for the same reason as they assassinated President Abraham Lincoln in 1865, he wanted to print American money for the American people, as oppose to for the benefit of a money grabbing war mongering foreign elite.</p>
<p>This Executive Order 11110, is rescinded by President Lyndon Baines Johnson (the 36th President of the United States 1963 to 1969) on Air Force One from Dallas to Washington, the same day as President Kennedy was assassinated.</p>
<p>Another, and probably the primary, reason for Kennedy&#8217;s assassination is however, the fact that he made it quite clear to Israeli Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion, that under no circumstances would he agree to Israel becoming a nuclear state.  The Israeli newspaper Ha&#8217;aretz on February 5, 1999, in a review of, Avner Cohen&#8217;s book, &#8220;Israel and the Bomb,&#8221; states the following,</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;The murder of American President John F. Kennedy brought to an abrupt end the massive pressure being applied by the U.S. administration on the government of Israel to discontinue the nuclear program&#8230;The book implied that, had Kennedy remained alive, it is doubtful whether Israel would today have a nuclear option.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Edmond de Rothschild establishes La Compagnie Financière Edmond de Rothschild (LCF), in Switzerland as a venture capital house. This later develops into an investment bank and asset management company with many affiliates. He also marries his wife Nadine and they have a son, Benjamin de Rothschild.</p>
<p><strong>1965:</strong> Israel illegally obtains enriched uranium from NUMEC (Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation).</p>
<p><strong>1967:</strong> The treatment of the Palestinians by the Zionist Jews, finally ignites enough anger in the Arab world for Egypt, Jordan and Syria to mobilise on Israel&#8217;s borders.  All of these three countries are suddenly attacked by Israel and as a result the Sinai which included Gaza was stolen from Egypt, and the West Bank and the Jordan River stolen from Jordan.</p>
<p>As a result of this, on June 8, the Israelis launch an attack on the USS Liberty with Israeli aircraft and motor torpedo boats, in an effort to blame it on Egypt, to bring America into the war on their side, and of course follow to the letter, their Mossad motto,</p>
<p>&#8220;By Way Of Deception,<br />
Thou Shalt Do War.&#8221;</p>
<p>As a result of their attack, 34 American servicemen were killed and 174 wounded.  Israel lies as usual, claiming it mistook this warship that was flying a large United States flag, for an ancient out-of-service Egyptian horse carrier El Quseir, that was 180 feet shorter.  They also claim the ship was in the war zone, when it was actually in international waters, far from any fighting.  The Israeli&#8217;s attack on this warship lasts for 75 minutes during which time they shoot up one of the United States flags, resulting in the sailors desperately raising another one.</p>
<p>In the aftermath of this attack, the American sailors who survived are warned by the United States military not to discuss the matter with anyone due to, &#8220;national security.&#8221;  This story gets no prominence in the Rothschild controlled mainstream media and as usual Israel is in no way even rebuked for their crimes by their subservient country of America.</p>
<p>The following day, June 9th, Israel illegally occupies the Golan Heights which it seizes from Syria. This area goes on to provide Israel with one third of its fresh water.</p>
<p>Israeli General Matityahu Peled, is quoted in Ha&#8217;aretz (19 March 1972) with the following statement,</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;The thesis that the danger of genocide was hanging over us in June 1967 and that Israel was fighting for its physical existence is only bluff, which was born and developed after the war.&#8221;  Another sickening and deceptive statement but again at least he&#8217;s consistent with the Mossad motto, &#8220;By Way Of Deception, Thou Shalt Do War.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>de Rothschild Frères is renamed Banque Rothschild.</p>
<p><strong>1968:</strong> Noémie Halphen, wife of Maurice de Rothschild dies.</p>
<p><strong>1970:</strong> While working for Senator Henry “Scoop” Jackson, Ashkenazi Jew, Richard Perle is caught by the FBI giving classified information to Israel. Nothing is done.</p>
<p>British Prime Minister Edward Heath makes Lord Victor Rothschild the head of his policy unit. Whilst he is in that role Britain enters the European Community.</p>
<p><strong>1973:</strong> In his book, None Dare Call It Conspiracy, Gary Allen states,</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;One major reason for the historical blackout on the role of the international bankers in political history is the Rothschilds were Jewish…….The Jewish members of the conspiracy have used an organisation called The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) as an instrument to try and convince everyone that any mention of the Rothschilds and their allies is an attack on all Jews.</p>
<p>In this way they have stifled almost all honest scholarship on international bankers and made the subject taboo within universities.</p>
<p>Any individual or book exploring this subject is immediately attacked by hundreds of ADL communities all over the country. The ADL has never let the truth or logic interfere with its highly professional smear jobs…</p>
<p>….Actually, nobody has a right to be more angry at the Rothschild clique than their fellow Jews…</p>
<p>….The Rothschild empire helped finance Adolf Hitler.&#8221;”</p></blockquote>
<p>George J. Laurer an employee of the Rothschilds controlled IBM, invents the UPC (Universal Product Code) barcode which will eventually be placed upon every item traded worldwide and bear the number, 666.  The Book of Revelation, Chapter 13, Verse 17 through 18, states the following in relation to this number,</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.Here is wisdom.  Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number <em>is</em> Six hundred threescore <em>and</em> six.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>The whole Satanic aims of the Rothschilds are now in full view of the world, everything bought or sold carries the mark of the beast, 666.</p>
<p>N. M. Rothschild &#38; Sons British Newfoundland Corporation, Churchill Falls project in Newfoundland, Canada, is completed.</p>
<p>N. M. Rothschild &#38; Sons also create a new asset management part of the company which traded worldwide. This eventually became, Rothschild Private Management Limited.</p>
<p>Edmond de Rothschild, a great-grandson of Jacob (James) Mayer Rothschild, bought the cru bourgeois estate of Château Clarke in Bordeaux.</p>
<p><strong>1976:</strong>  Ashkenazi Jew, Harold Rosenthal, aide to Ashkenazi Jew, Senator Jacob Javits, states,</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Most Jews do not like to admit it, but our god is Lucifer.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>1978:</strong> Ashkenazi Jew, Stephen Bryen, then a Senate Foreign Relations Committee staffer, is overheard in a Washington D.C. hotel offering confidential documents to top Israeli military officials.</p>
<p>Bryen obtains a lawyer, Nathan Lewin, and the case heads for the grand jury, but is mysteriously dropped. Bryen later goes to work for Richard Perle.</p>
<p><strong>1979:</strong> The Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty in 1979 was underwritten by United States aid which pledged $3 billion annually to Israel from the United States taxpayer (not even a drop in the ocean when you consider the amount they make off the Federal Reserve).</p>
<p>Shin Bet (the Israeli internal security agency) tries to penetrate the US Consulate General in Jerusalem through a “Honey Trap”, using a clerical employee who was having an affair with a Jerusalem girl.</p>
<p>Baron and Baroness Phillipi de Rothschild in a joint venture with Robert Mondavi, begin the construction of a pyramid in Napa Valley, California, where the leader/founder of the Church Of Satan, Ashkenazi Jew, Anton LaVey, was based. This is known as Opus 1 (which means, the first work), and the front for this temple is that it is a winery.</p>
<p><strong>1980:</strong> The global phenomenon of privatisation starts. The Rothschilds are behind this from the very beginning in order to seize control of all publicly owned assets worldwide.</p>
<p><strong>1981:</strong> Banque Rothschild is nationalised by the French government. The new bank is called, Compagnie Européenne de Banque. The Rothschilds subsequently set up a successor to this French bank, Rothschild &#38; Cie Banque (RCB), which goes on to become a leading French investment house.</p>
<p><strong>1982:</strong>  From September 16 to 18, future Prime Minister of Israel and then Defence Minister, Ashkenazi Jew, Ariel Sharon, orchestrates Israel&#8217;s invasion of Lebanon, which provided ariel lighting in order to facilitate the killing of between 1000 and 2000 men, women and children in the Sabra and Shatila massacres.</p>
<p><strong>1985:</strong> Eustace Mullins publishes, &#8220;Who Owns The TV Networks,&#8221; in which he reveals the Rothschilds have control of all three major U.S. Networks, which are: NBC; CBS; and ABC.</p>
<p>The New York Times reports the FBI is aware of at least a dozen incidents in which American officials transferred classified information to the Israelis, quoting (former Assistant Director of the F.B.I.) Raymond Wannal. The Justice Department does not prosecute.</p>
<p>Richard Smyth, the owner of MILCO, is indicted on charges of smuggling nuclear timing devices to Israel.</p>
<p>N. M. Rothschild &#38; Sons advise the British government on the privatisation of British Gas. They subsequently advise the British government on virtually all of their other privatisations of state owned assets including: British Steel; British Coal; all the British regional electricity boards; and all the British regional water boards.</p>
<p>A British MP heavily involved in these privatisations is future Chancellor of the Exchequer, Norman Lamont, a former Rothschild banker.</p>
<p><strong>1986:</strong> Mordechai Vanunu a technician at Dimona, Israel&#8217;s nuclear installation, from 1976 to 1985, discovers that the plant was secretly producing nuclear weapons.</p>
<p>His conscience made him speak out and in 1986 he provided the London Sunday Times with the facts and photos they used to tell the world about Israel&#8217;s nuclear weapons programme.</p>
<p>His evidence showed that Israel had stockpiled up to 200 nuclear warheads, with no debate or authorisation from it own citizens. On 30th September 1986, Vanunu was lured from London to Rome. There he was kidnapped, drugged and shipped to Israel.</p>
<p>After a secret trial he was sentenced to 18 years for, &#8220;treason,&#8221; and, &#8220;espionage,&#8221; (something Israel are very familiar with) though he had received no payment and had communicated with no foreign power.</p>
<p>He goes on to be held in complete isolation for 11 years, only allowed occasional visits from his family, lawyer and a priest, conducted through a metal screen. Although he completes his sentence, the Israeli government continues to hold him against his will.</p>
<p><strong>1987:</strong> Edmond de Rothschild creates the World Conservation Bank which is designed to transfer debts from third world countries to this bank and in return those countries would give land to this bank. This is designed so the Rothschilds can gain control of the third world which represents 30% of the land surface of the Earth.</p>
<p>On April 24 the Wall Street Journal reveals the, &#8220;Role of Israel in Iran-Contra Scandal Won&#8217;t be Explored in Detail by Panels.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>1988:</strong> The ADL initiate a nationwide competition for law students to draft anti-hate legislation for minority groups.  That competition is won by a man named, Joseph Ribakoff, whose thesis proposes that not only must hate motivated violence be banned, but also any words which stimulate: supiscion; friction; hate; and possible violence, these must also be criminalised.</p>
<p>This ADL prize-winning paper suggests that not only should state-agencies monitor and restrict free speech in general, but they should also censor all films that criticize identifiable groups.  Furthermore, even if the person making the statement can justify it, for example Christians criticizing homosexuality because the bible expressly forbids it, Ribakoff asserts that the truth is to be no defence in court.</p>
<p>The only proof a court will need in order to secure a conviction of hate speech is that something has been said, and a minority group or member of such group has felt emotionally damaged as a result of such criticism.  Therefore, under these proposals which the ADL will have forced into law all over the world less than 15 years later, Jesus Christ would have been arrested as a hate criminal.</p>
<p>This law is designed to protect the Rothschild conspiracy from being revealed in that if you criticize the Rothschilds criminal cabal, you will be targeted as anti-semitic, and thus risk imprisonment.</p>
<p>Philippe de Rothschild dies.</p>
<p><strong>1989:</strong> Many of the satellite states in Eastern Europe, through the influence of Glasnost, become more open in their demands of freedom from Communist governance in their Republics.</p>
<p>Many revolutions happen in 1989, most of them involving the overthrow of their respective Communist governments and the replacement of them with Republics.</p>
<p>Thus, the hold the Communists had over Eastern Europe (the Iron Curtain) becomes very weak. Eventually, as a result of Perestroika and Glasnost, Communism collapses, not only in the Soviet Union but also in Eastern Europe.</p>
<p>In Russia, Boris Yeltsin (whose wife is the daughter of Joseph Stalin’s marriage to Rosa Kaganovich) and the Republican government takes steps to end the power of the Communist party by suspending and banning the party and seizing all their property.</p>
<p>This symbolised the fall of Communism in Russia, and resulted in the start of a mass exodus of 700,000 Jews from the former Soviet Union to Israel.</p>
<p>In the Israeli Journal, Hotam (24 November 1989), there is a report of a speech that then Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister, Ashkenazi Jew, Binyamin Netanyahu, gave to students at Bar Ilan University in which he states,</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Israel should have exploited the repression of the demonstrations in China, when world attention focused on that country, to carry out mass expulsions among the Arabs of the territories.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>The London and Paris Rothschilds announce the launch of a new subsidiary, Rothschild GmbH, in Frankfurt, Germany.</p>
<p><strong>1991:</strong>  Following the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait on August 2, 1990, on January 16 of this year the United States and Britain began an aerial bombing campaign of targets within Iraq.  On 24 February the ground campaign commenced which was to last 100 hours until on February 28 when a horrendous war crime occurred.</p>
<p>This crime was the slaughter of 150,000 Iraqi troops with fuel air bombs.  These Iraqis were fleeing on a crowded highway from Kuwait to Basra.  President George Herbert Walker Bush ordered United States military aircraft and ground units to kill these surrendering troops, they were then bulldozed into mass unmarked graves in the desert, some still alive.</p>
<p>President Bush then ordered a cessation of hostilities.  What was the significance of this slaughter and President Bush declaring the war over on this day?  Well it was the day the, &#8220;Day of Purim,&#8221; fell on this year.  This the day the Jews celebrate their victory over Ancient Babylon, now based within the borders of Iraq and a day when the Jews are encouraged to get bloody revenge against their perceived enemies.</p>
<p>At the Bilderberg Conference on June 6 to 9 of this year, in Baden-Baden, Germany, David Rockefeller (a Rothschild) made the following statement,</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine, and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost 40 years.  It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world, if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years.But the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government.  The super-national sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practised in past centuries.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>1992:</strong> In March, former Federal Reserve Board Chairman, Paul A. Volker became Chairman of the European banking firm, J. Rothschild, Wolfensohn and Co.</p>
<p>Stephen Bryen, caught offering confidential documents to Israel in 1978, is serving on board of the pro-Israeli Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs while continuing as a paid consultant, with security clearance, on exports of sensitive US technology.</p>
<p>“The Samson Option,” by Seymour M. Hersh reports,</p>
<blockquote><p>“Illicitly obtained intelligence was flying so voluminously from LAKAM (a secret Israeli intelligence unit, a Hebrew acronym for Scientific Liaison Bureau) into Israeli intelligence that a special code name, JUMBO, was added to the security markings already on the documents. There were strict orders, Ari Ben-Menashe recalled, “Anything marked JUMBO was not supposed to be discussed with your American counterparts.”</p></blockquote>
<p>The Wall Street Journal reports that Israeli agents apparently tried to steal Recon Optical Inc&#8217;s top-secret airborne spy-camera system.</p>
<p>On September 16th Britain’s pound collapses when currency speculators led by Rothschild agent, Ashkenazi Jew, George Soros, borrow pounds and sell them for Deutsche Marks, in the expectation of being able to repay the loan in devalued currency and to pocket the difference.</p>
<p>This results in the British Chancellor of the Exchequer, Norman Lamont, announcing a rise in interest rates of 5% in one day and as a result drives Britain into a recession which lasts many years as large numbers of businesses fail and the housing market crashes.</p>
<p>This is right on cue for the Rothschilds, after they had privatised Britain’s state owned assets during the 1980’s, driven the share price up, and then collapsed the markets so they could buy them up for pennies on the pound, a carbon copy of what Nathan Mayer Rothschild did to the British economy 180 years before, in 1812.</p>
<p>It cannot be overstated that the Chancellor of the Exchequer at that time, Norman Lamont, prior to becoming a MP, was a Merchant Banker with N. M. Rothschild and Sons, who he joined after reading Economics at Cambridge.</p>
<p><strong>1993:</strong> Norman Lamont leaves the British government to return to N. M. Rothschild and Sons as a director, after his mission to collapse the British economy to profit the Rothschilds is accomplished.</p>
<p>Former Congressman, Paul Findley publishes his seminal book, Deliberate Deceptions: Facing the Facts About the U.S. Israeli Relationship.</p>
<p>In this book he lists the 65 United Nations Member Resolutions against Israel from the period 1955 to 1992, and the 30 United States vetoes on Israel’s behalf which if not made would have seen Israel have 95 resolutions against them at this point.</p>
<p>No matter, even with Israel’s puppet the United States helping them terrorise others, the 65 Resolutions passed against Israel are more than all the Resolutions passed against all other countries combined.</p>
<p>Not that Israel care too much about the views of the United Nations when you consider that less than two weeks after Israel’s attack on the USS Liberty (an attack designed to sink the Liberty and blame it on Egypt prompting the USA into a war with Egypt on behalf of Israeli Lies, remember the Mossad motto, “By Way Of Deception, Thou Shalt Do War”), the Israeli Foreign Minister, Aba Eban, stated of the United Nations,</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;If the General Assembly were to vote by 121 votes to 1 in favor of, &#8220;Israel,&#8221; returning to the armistice lines (pre June 1967 borders), &#8220;Israel,&#8221; would refuse to comply with the decision,&#8221; New York Times – 19 June 1967.</p></blockquote>
<p>The ADL is caught operating a massive spying operation on critics of Israel, Arab-Americans, the San Francisco Labor Council, ILWU Local 10, Oakland Educational Association, NAACP, Irish Northern Aid, International Indian Treaty Council, the Asian Law Caucus and the San Francisco Police.</p>
<p>Data collected was sent to Israel and in some cases to South Africa. Pressure from Jewish organizations forces the city to drop the criminal case, but the ADL settles a civil lawsuit for an undisclosed sum of cash.</p>
<p><strong>1995:</strong> Former atomic energy scientist, Dr Kitty Little claims the Rothschilds now control 80% of the world’s uranium supplies giving them a monopoly over nuclear power.</p>
<p>The Defense Investigative Service circulates a memo warning US military contractors that,</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Israel aggressively collects (US) military and industrial technology.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>The report stated that Israel obtains information using,</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;ethnic targeting, financial aggrandizement, and identification and exploitation of individual frailties,&#8221; of US citizens.</p></blockquote>
<p><a name="1996"></a><strong>1996:</strong> A General Accounting Office report, &#8220;Defense Industrial Security: Weaknesses in US Security Arrangements With Foreign-Owned Defense Contractors,&#8221; found that according to intelligence sources, &#8220;Country A,&#8221; (identified by intelligence sources as Israel, Washington Times, 22 February 1996),</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;conducts the most aggressive espionage operation against the United States of any US ally.&#8221;<br />
A pdf file of the report is here:<br />
<a href="http://www.gao.gov/archive/1996/ns96064.pdf">www.gao.gov/archive/1996/ns96064.pdf</a>An unformated text version is here:<br />
<a href="http://fas.org/man/gao/gao9664.htm">http://fas.org/man/gao/gao9664.htm</a><br />
 </p></blockquote>
<p>The Jerusalem Post (30 August 1996) quoted the report,</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;“Classified military information and sensitive military technologies are high-priority targets for the intelligence agencies of this country.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>The report described, &#8220;An espionage operation run by the intelligence organization responsible for collecting scientific and technologic information for (Israel) paid a US government employee to obtain US classified military intelligence documents.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs (Shawn L. Twing, April 1996) noted that this was,</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;a reference to the 1985 arrest of Jonathan Pollard, a civilian US naval intelligence analyst who provided Israel&#8217;s LAKAM espionage agency an estimated 800,000 pages of classified US intelligence information.&#8221;<br />
<a href="http://www.washington-report.org/backissues/0496/9604014.htm">www.washington-report.org/backissues/0496/9604014.htm</a></p></blockquote>
<p>The GAO report also noted that, &#8220;Several citizens of (Israel) were caught in the United States stealing sensitive technology used in manufacturing artillery gun tubes.&#8221;</p>
<p>An Office of Naval Intelligence document, &#8220;Worldwide Challenges to Naval Strike Warfare&#8221; reported that,</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;US technology has been acquired (by China) through Israel in the form of the Lavi fighter and possibly SAM (surface-to-air) missile technology.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Jane&#8217;s Defense Weekly (28 February 1996) noted that, &#8220;until now, the intelligence community has not openly confirmed the transfer of US technology (via Israel) to China.&#8221;  The report noted that this, &#8220;represents a dramatic step forward for Chinese military aviation.&#8221; (Flight International, 13 March 1996).</p>
<p>Amschel Rothschild, 41, is strangled with the heavy cord of his own towel robe in his hotel room in Paris. French Prime Minister orders the French Police to close their investigation, and, Rupert Murdoch, born of a Jewish mother and so a Jew by Ashkenazi standards, instructs his editors and news managers around the world to report it as a heart attack, if they need to report it at all.</p>
<p>On 12 May United Nations Ambassador and Ashkenazi Jew, Madeleine Albright, when appearing on 60 Minutes, was asked the following by correspondent Lesley Stahl, in reference to the years of United States led economic sanctions against Iraq,</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;We have heard that half a million children have died. I mean, that is more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>To which Ambassador Albright replied,</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;I think that is a very hard choice, but the price, we think, the price is worth it.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Her comments cause no public outcry.  In fact, the holocaust of half a million Iraqi children is positively admired by the United States government when you consider less than 8 months later, President Clinton appointed Albright as secretary of state.  Whilst appearing before the Senate Committee, who were considering her appointment, Albright is literally chomping at the bit for the blood of more Iraqi children and she states,</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;We will insist on maintaining tough UN sanctions against Iraq unless and until that regime complies with relevant Security Council resolutions.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>1997:</strong> An Army mechanical engineer, Ashkenazi Jew, David A. Tenenbaum, &#8220;inadvertently,&#8221; gives classified military information on missile systems and armored vehicles to Israeli officials (New York Times, 20 February 1997).</p>
<p>The Washington Post reports US intelligence has intercepted a conversation in which two Israeli officials had discussed the possibility of getting a confidential letter that then-Secretary of State Warren Christopher had written to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.</p>
<p>One of the Israelis, identified only as, “Dov,” had commented that they may get the letter from, “Mega,” the code name for Israel’s top agent inside the United States.</p>
<p>US ambassador to Israel, Martin Indyk, complains privately to the Israeli government about heavy-handed surveillance by Israeli intelligence agents.</p>
<p>Israeli agents place a tap on Ashkenazi Jew and daughter of a Rabbi, Monica Lewinsky’s, phone at the Watergate and record phone sex sessions between her and President Bill Clinton. The Ken Starr report confirms that Clinton warned Lewinsky their conversations were being taped and ended the affair. Interestingly, at the same time, the FBI’s hunt for, &#8220;Mega,&#8221; is called off.</p>
<p>On 29 October Edmond de Rothschild dies in Geneva. Interestingly on the exact same day Anton Szandor LaVey, the founder of the Church of Satan also dies, who in his book, &#8220;Satan Speaks,&#8221; he states in relation to <a href="http://www.iamthewitness.com/Protocols-of-Zion.htm"><span style="color:#0000ff;">The Protocols Of The Elders Of Zion</span></a>,</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;The first time I read the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, my instinctive reaction was, So what&#8217;s wrong with THAT? Isn&#8217;t that the way any master plan should work? Doesn&#8217;t the public deserve &#8211; nay, demand &#8211; such despotism?&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Kofi Annan becomes Secretary General to the United Nations. He is married to Nane Lagergren, a Rothschild, who he wed in 1984.</p>
<p><strong>1998:</strong> The European Central Bank is set up in Frankfurt, the city from which the Rothschilds originate.</p>
<p><strong>2000:</strong> George W. Bush is elected (so they tell me) President of the United States. Bush and his family claim to be descendants of the House of Plantagenet which is descended from the Royal House of Judah.</p>
<p><strong>2001:</strong> On September 11th the attack on the World Trade Center is orchestrated by Israel with the complicity of Britain and America, under the orders of the Rothschilds as a pretext for removing the liberty of people worldwide in exchange for security, just as happened with the Reichstag fire in Germany where the citizens were lied to in order to give up liberty for security.</p>
<p>They also will use the attacks to gain control of the few nations in the world who don’t allow Rothschild central banks and so less than one month after these attacks, US forces attack Afghanistan, one of only 7 nations in the world who don’t have a Rothschild controlled central bank.</p>
<p>Less than a week before the 9-11 attack on 5 September, the so-called lead hijacker Mohamed Atta and several other hijackers made a still-unexplained visit onboard one of Pro Israeli lobbyist, Ashkenazi Jew, Jack Abramoff’s casino boats.</p>
<p>No investigation is undertook as to what they were doing there. It is discovered that US drug agents’ communications have been penetrated. Suspicion falls on two companies, AMDOCS and Comverse Infosys, both owned by Israelis. AMDOCS generates billing data for most US phone companies and is able to provide detailed logs of who is talking to whom.</p>
<p>Comverse Infosys builds the tapping equipment used by law enforcement to eavesdrop on all American telephone calls, but suspicion forms that Comverse Infosys, which gets half of its research and development budget from the Israeli government, has built a back door into the system that is being exploited by Israeli intelligence and that the information gleaned on US drug interdiction efforts is finding its way to drug smugglers.</p>
<p>The investigation by the FBI leads to the exposure of the largest foreign spy ring ever uncovered inside the United States, operated by Israel. Half of the suspected spies have been arrested when 9-11 happens.</p>
<p>On 9-11, 5 Israelis are arrested for dancing and cheering while the World Trade Towers collapse. Supposedly employed by Urban Moving Systems, the Israelis are caught with multiple passports and a lot of cash.</p>
<p>Two of them are later revealed to be Mossad. As witness reports track the activity of the Israelis, it emerges that they were seen at Liberty Park at the time of the first impact, suggesting a foreknowledge of what was to come. The Israelis are interrogated, and then eventually sent back to Israel.</p>
<p>The owner of the moving company used as a cover by the Mossad agents abandons his business and flees to Israel. The United States Government then classifies all of the evidence related to the Israeli agents and their connections to 9-11.</p>
<p>All of this is reported to the public via a four part story on Fox News by Carl Cameron. Pressure from Jewish groups, primarily AIPAC, forces Fox News to remove the story from their website. Two hours prior to the 9-11 attacks, Odigo, an Israeli company with offices just a few blocks from the World Trade Towers, receives an advance warning via the internet.</p>
<p>The manager of the New York Office provides the FBI with the IP address of the sender of the message, but the FBI does not follow this up. The FBI is investigating 5 Israeli moving companies as possible fronts for Israeli intelligence.</p>
<p>It is revealed that prior to the attack millions of dollars of put options on both American Airlines and United Airlines, were traded.  The FBI have promised to followed the purchasers up, but have never revealed their findings.  That is because this would lead directly to Israel, the state behind the 911 attacks.</p>
<p>Following the World Trade Center attack, anonymous letters containing anthrax are sent to various politicians and media executives.  Like the 9-11 attack this is immediately blamed on Al-Qaeda , until it is discovered that the anthrax contained within those letters is a specific type of weaponized anthrax made by a United States military laboratory.</p>
<p>The FBI then discover that the main suspect for these anthrax letters is a Ashkenazi Jew, Dr. Philip Zack, who had been reprimanded several times by his employers due to offensive remarks he made about Arabs.  Dr. Philip Zack, was caught on camera entering the storage area where he worked at Fort Detrick which is where the Anthrax was kept.  At this point, both the FBI and the mainstream media stopped making any public comments on the case.</p>
<p>Jewish Defence League Chairman since 1985, Ashkenazi Jew, Irv Rubin is jailed for allegedly plotting to bomb a mosque and the offices of a Arab-American congressman.  He dies shortly after slitting his throat in a suicide attempt, before he can be brought to trial.</p>
<p>One week prior to the WTC attack, the Zim Shipping Company moves out of its offices in the WTC, breaking its lease and costing the company $50,000. No reason has ever been given, but Zim Shipping Company is half owned by the State of Israel (The Rothschilds).</p>
<p>On October 3, Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, makes the following statement to Ashkenazi Jew, Shimon Peres, as reported on Kol Yisrael radio.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Every time we do something you tell me America will do this and will do that&#8230;.I want to tell you something very clear, don&#8217;t worry about American pressure on Israel.  We, the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans know it.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>2002:</strong> Webster&#8217;s Third New International Dictionary (Unabridged), re-printed in 2002, provides a new definition of Anti Semitism which has not been updated since 1956. It reads,</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Anti-Semitism: (1) hostility toward Jews as a religious or racial minority group, often accompanied by social, political or economic discrimination (2) opposition to Zionism (3) sympathy for the opponents of Israel.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>It was definition (2) and (3) that were added in the 2002 edition, just before the USA decide to invade Iraq under orders from the State of Rothschild, I mean Israel.   Also this year, the Prime Minister of Israel, war criminal, Ariel Sharon, orders the massacre in the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank.  Best get that definition updated to protect these criminals.</p>
<p>The DEA issues a report that Israeli spies, posing as art students, have been trying to penetrate US Government offices. Police near the Whidbey Island Naval Air Station in southern Washington State stop a suspicious truck and detain two Israelis, one of whom is illegally in the United States. The two men were driving at high speed in a Ryder rental truck, which they claimed had been used to, &#8220;deliver furniture.&#8221;</p>
<p>The next day, police discovered traces of TNT and RDX military-grade plastic explosives inside the passenger cabin and on the steering wheel of the vehicle. The FBI then announces that the tests that showed explosives were, &#8220;false positived,&#8221; by cigarette smoke, a claim test experts say is ridiculous.</p>
<p>Based on an alibi provided by a woman, the case is closed and the Israelis are handed over to INS to be sent back to Israel. One week later, the woman who provided the alibi vanishes.</p>
<p><strong>2003:</strong> The United States invade Iraq on 19 March, which this year is the holy, &#8220;Day of Purim,&#8221; in the Jewish calendar. This, &#8220;Day of Purim,&#8221; is a day the Jews celebrate their victory over Ancient Babylon, now based within the borders of Iraq, how interesting.</p>
<p>What is also significant is that the previous U.S. led invasion of Iraq ended on the Day of Purim ten years earlier with the slaughter of 150,000 fleeing Iraqis under the current President&#8217;s father, George Herbert Walker Bush.  Purim is also the time when the Jews are encouraged to get bloody revenge against their perceived enemies.</p>
<p>Ancient Babylon, I mean Iraq, is now one of six nations left in the world who don’t have a Rothschild controlled central bank. This war is mainly about stealing Iraq’s water supply for Israel and is being fought with the blood of the American military which the State of Rothschild, I mean Israel control.</p>
<p>Israel has always struggled for water, it had to steal the Golan Heights from Syria which provided Israel with one third of its fresh water 36 years before, yet still in Israel water extraction has surpassed replacement by 2.5 billion metres in the last 25 years.</p>
<p>This means the water is far more precious to them than the oil reserves which are the second largest reserves of oil on the planet.</p>
<p>Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamed states in a speech,</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Jews rule the world by proxy. They get others to fight and die for them.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>The Police Chief of Cloudcroft stops a truck speeding through a school zone. The drivers turn out to be Israelis with expired passports. Claiming to be movers, the truck contains junk furniture and several boxes.</p>
<p>The Israelis are handed over to immigration. The contents of the boxers are not revealed to the public.</p>
<p>Israel deploys assassination squads into other countries, including the United States. The US Government does not protest.</p>
<p><strong>2004:</strong> Two years into an investigation of AIPAC’s (The American Israel Public Affairs Committee – the largest political lobbying group in the USA with over 65,000 members whose only purpose is to use the USA for the purposes of Israel) possible role as a spy front for Israel, Ashkenazi Jew, Larry Franklin, a mid-level Pentagon Analyst is observed by the FBI giving classified information to two officials of AIPAC suspected of being Israeli spies.</p>
<p>AIPAC hires lawyer Nathan Lewin to handle their legal defense, the same lawyer who defended suspected Israeli spy Stephen Bryen in 1978. Larry Franklin worked in the Pentagon Office of Special Plans, run by Richard Perle, at the time Perle (who was caught giving classified information to Israel back in 1970) was insisting that Iraq was crawling with weapons of mass destruction requiring the United States to invade and conquer Iraq.</p>
<p>There were no WMDs, of course, and Perle has dumped the blame for the, &#8220;bad intelligence,&#8221; on George Tenet. But what is known is that the Pentagon Office of Special Plans was coordinating with a similar group in Israel, in Ariel Sharon’s office.</p>
<p>With two suspected Israeli spies (at least) inside the office from which the lies that launched the war in Iraq originated, it appears that the people of the United States are the victims of a deadly hoax, a hoax that started a war using the blood and money of American citizens for the purposes of Israeli oppression.</p>
<p>The leaking of the investigation of AIPAC to the media on August 28th, 2004 gave advance warning to other spies working with Franklin. The damage to the FBI’s investigation was completed when United States Attorney General John Ashcroft ordered the FBI to stop all arrests in the case.</p>
<p>Like the Stephen Bryen case and the hunt for, &#8220;Mega,&#8221; this latest spy scandal seems destined by officials who have their own secret allegiances to protect, barring a massive public outcry.</p>
<p>Police near the Nuclear Fuel Services plant in Tennessee stop a truck after a three mile chase, during which the driver throws a bottle containing a strange liquid from the cab. The drivers turn out to be Israelis using fake identifications. The FBI refuses to investigate and the Israelis are released.</p>
<p>Two Israelis try to enter Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base, home to eight Trident submarines. The truck tests positive for explosives.</p>
<p>The National Director of the ADL, Abraham H. Foxman, publishes a book entitled, &#8220;Never Again?  The Threat Of The New Anti-Semitism,&#8221; in which he states that the New Testament&#8217;s &#8220;lie,&#8221; that the ancient Pharisees were responsible for the death of Christ, has been responsible for anti-semitism throughout the millennia and thus the New Testament of the bible is, &#8220;hate speech,&#8221; and should be censored or banned.</p>
<p><strong>2005:</strong> On January 20, President Bush makes the following statement as part of his second inaugural address, &#8220;When our Founders declared a new order of the ages.&#8221;  This is not true.  The founders did not declare a, &#8220;new order of the ages,&#8221; President Roosevelt did when in 1933, he put it&#8217;s latin translation, &#8220;Novus Ordo Seclorum,&#8221; on the dollar bill.</p>
<p>On 7 July the London Underground Network is bombed. Israel’s Finance Minister, Binyamin Netanyahu is in London on the morning of the attacks in order to attend an economic conference in a hotel over the underground station where one of the blasts occurred, but stayed in his hotel room instead after he had been informed by Israeli intelligence officials attacks were expected.</p>
<p>There are now only 5 nations on the world left without a Rothschild controlled central bank: Iran; North Korea; Sudan; Cuba; and Libya.</p>
<p>Physics Professor, Stephen E. Jones of Brigham Young University publishes a paper in which he proves the World Trade Center buildings could have only been brought down in the manner they were by explosives. He receives no coverage in the mainstream media for his scientific and provable claims.</p>
<p><strong>2006:</strong> The Edmond De Rothschild Banque, a subsidiary of Europe&#8217;s Edmond De Rothschild family bank group in France, becomes the first foreign family bank that has obtained approval of the China Banking Regulatory Commission and entered China&#8217;s financial market.</p>
<p>The ADL ruthlessly leans on governments throughout the world to pass hate crimes legislation, as they are scared that the criminal cabal that is Israel and the Rothschilds is being exposed more and more on a daily basis, predominantly on the internet.  Their job is to protect this criminal network and what better way to do it than by passing laws in which anyone who exposes a Jewish criminal becomes a criminal.</p>
<p>David Irving is sentenced to three years in jail in Austria, for denying the holocaust.  It is important to note that the only historical event you can be arrested for questioning is the holocaust.  This is because this has been the Rothschilds greatest weapon in brainwashing <strong>YOU, THE STUPID GOY!</strong> is that the Jews are so poor and persecuted when in actual fact they control the vast majority of international finance and international corporations throughout the world.</p>
<p>Notes: </p>
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<li>Hitchcock also wrote a history for the <strong>bankers</strong>: <a href="http://www.iamthewitness.com/DarylBradfordSmith_Bankers.htm">DarylBradfordSmith_Bankers.htm</a></li>
<li>One of our listeners added images and photos and turned this Rothschild document into a <strong>PowerPoint presentation</strong>. It is very large; 67 megabytes: <a href="http://www.iamthewitness.com/doc/RothschildsTimeline.ppt">RothschildsTimeline.ppt</a><br />
If you don&#8217;t have PowerPoint, get a free PowerPoint viewer from Microsoft <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=428D5727-43AB-4F24-90B7-A94784AF71A4&#38;displaylang=en">here</a>.</li>
<li>Hitchcock has this Rothschild history available as a <strong>paper book</strong> in the <strong>UK</strong>:<br />
<a href="http://www.thesynagogueofsatan.com/">www.theSynagogueOfSatan.com</a></li>
<li>The book is sold in the <strong>USA</strong> by Texe Marrs <a href="http://www.texemarrs.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&#38;Store_Code=catalog&#38;Product_Code=bboa_synagogue_of_satan">here</a>.</li>
<li>We  also have an <strong>interview</strong> with Hitchcock at <a href="http://www.iamthewitness.com/DarylBradfordSmithInterviews_Hitchcock18Oct2006.html">this page</a>.</li>
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<p>Definition of <strong>Zionism</strong>:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>an organization of Jews whose goal is to create a nation for Jews.</em></p></blockquote>
<p>Definition of <strong>Judaism</strong>:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>Jews collectively who practice a religion based on the Torah and the Talmud.</em></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="color:#ff0000;"><span style="font-size:x-small;">Resources</span></span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.historyforsale.com/html/prodetails.asp?documentid=91569&#38;start=1">Here is a link</a> to 6 pages of autographs from the 1929 Zionist congress with some very interesting names on it.<br />
Main page: <a href="http://www.historyforsale.com/html/default.asp">www.historyforsale.com</a><br />
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<p><span style="color:#ff0000;"><span style="font-size:x-small;">Sources</span></span></p>
<p>Holy Bible &#8211; King James Version</p>
<p>Proofs of a Conspiracy Against All the Religions and Governments of Europe Carried on in the Secret Meetings of Freemasons, Illuminati and Reading Societies &#8211; John Robison &#8211; 1798</p>
<p>The Life of Napolean &#8211; Sir Walter Scott &#8211; 1827</p>
<p>Coningsby &#8211; Benjamin Disraeli &#8211; 1844</p>
<p>The Communist Manifesto &#8211; Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Martin Malia &#8211; 1848</p>
<p>Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry &#8211; Albert Pike &#8211; 1872</p>
<p>The Rothschilds, Financial Rulers Of Nations &#8211; John Reeves &#8211; 1887</p>
<p>The Jews and Modern Capitalism &#8211; Werner Sombart &#8211; 1911</p>
<p>Great Britain, The Jews, and Palestine &#8211; Samuel Landman &#8211; 1936</p>
<p>Pawns In The Game &#8211; William Guy Carr &#8211; 1937</p>
<p>Inside The Gestapo &#8211; Hansjurgen Koehler &#8211; 1940</p>
<p>Barriers Down &#8211; Kent Cooper &#8211; 1942</p>
<p>The Mind Of Adolf Hitler &#8211; Walter Langer &#8211; 1943</p>
<p>The Empire Of The City &#8211; E. C. Knuth &#8211; 1946</p>
<p>The Jewish State &#8211; Theodor Herzl &#8211; 1946</p>
<p>The Curious History of the Six-Pointed Star &#8211; G. Scholem &#8211; 1949</p>
<p>Secrets Of The Federal Reserve &#8211; Eustace Mullins &#8211; 1952</p>
<p>Tales Of The British Aristocracy &#8211; L. G. Pine &#8211; 1957</p>
<p>Red Fog Over America &#8211; William Guy Carr &#8211; 1958</p>
<p>A Jewish Defector Warns America (Spoken Word Recording) &#8211; Benjamin H. Freedman &#8211; 1961</p>
<p>The Rothschilds &#8211; Frederic Morton &#8211; 1962</p>
<p>The Illuminati and the Council on Foreign Relations (Spoken Word Recording) &#8211; Myron Fagan &#8211; 1967</p>
<p>Ben-Gurion: The Armed Prophet &#8211; Michael Bar-Zohar &#8211; 1967</p>
<p>The Hidden Tyranny &#8211; Benjamin Freedman &#8211; 1971</p>
<p>None Dare Call It Conspiracy &#8211; Gary Allen &#8211; 1972</p>
<p>The Gulag Archipelago, Vol. 2, Parts 3 and 4 &#8211; Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn &#8211; First English translation published 1975.</p>
<p>Wall Street And The Rise Of Hitler &#8211; Anthony C. Sutton &#8211; 1976</p>
<p>The Rosenthal Document &#8211; Walter White, Jr. &#8211; 1978</p>
<p>Two Rothschilds And The Land Of Israel &#8211; Simon Schama &#8211; 1978</p>
<p>The Six Pointed Star &#8211; Dr O. J. Graham &#8211; 1984</p>
<p>The Last Days In America &#8211; Bob Fraley &#8211; 1984</p>
<p>Who Owns The TV Networks &#8211; Eustace Mullins &#8211; 1985</p>
<p>The Samson Option: Israel&#8217;s Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy &#8211; Seymour M. Hersh &#8211; 1991</p>
<p>A History of the Jews in America &#8211; Howard M. Sachar &#8211; 1992</p>
<p>Deliberate Deceptions: Facing the Facts About the U.S. Israeli Relationship &#8211; Paul Findley &#8211; 1993</p>
<p>Descent Into Slavery &#8211; Des Griffin &#8211; 1994</p>
<p>Bloodlines Of The Illuminati &#8211; Fritz Springmeier &#8211; 1995</p>
<p>Jewish History, Jewish Religion &#8211; Israel Shahak &#8211; 1994</p>
<p>Satan Speaks &#8211; Anton Szandor LaVey &#8211; 1998</p>
<p>The Elite Serial Killers of Lincoln, JFK, RFK &#38; MLK &#8211; Robert Gaylon Ross &#8211; 2001</p>
<p>Never Again?  The Threat Of The New Anti-Semitism &#8211; Abraham H. Foxman &#8211; 2004</p>
<p>The Elite Don’t Dare Let Us Tell The People &#8211; Robert Gaylon Ross &#8211; 2004</p>
<p>Codex Magica &#8211; Texe Marrs &#8211; 2005</p>
<p> </p>
<p> <a href="http://www.iamthewitness.com/DarylBradfordSmith_Rothschild.htm">http://www.iamthewitness.com/DarylBradfordSmith_Rothschild.htm</a></p>
<p><a href="http://stevenjohnhibbs.wordpress.com/">http://stevenjohnhibbs.wordpress.com/</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://atomicnewsreview.org/2009/10/25/the-history-of-the-house-of-rothschild/%26title%3DThe%2BArticle%2BTitle"> <img border="0" src="http://cdn.stumble-upon.com/images/120x20_su_black.gif" alt=""/></a></p>
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<p>Interview de Jean Bricmont par Candice Vanhecke, réalisée dans le cadre de son mémoire de fin d’études en journalisme, à l’Université Libre de Bruxelles (2009) intitulé : Le droit d’ingérence humanitaire dans la presse française. Cas des guerres du Kosovo (1999) et de Géorgie (2008) vues par <em>Marianne</em> et <em>Le Nouvel Observateur</em>.</p>
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<p id="article-complet"><strong>Candice Vanhecke : Que pensez-vous du traitement médiatique de la guerre en Ossétie du Sud qui a eu lieu l’été dernier ?</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Jean Bricmont :</strong> Le plus grand mal. En fait, les journalistes ont traité la guerre en Géorgie d’une manière exactement inverse à celle dont ils avaient traité la guerre du Kosovo. Pourtant, la situation en Géorgie était à bien des égards similaire à celle du Kosovo. Dans les deux cas, on était en présence d’une population entrée en dissidence par rapport au pouvoir central. Là où les deux cas divergent, c’est que le Kosovo faisait depuis longtemps partie de la Serbie, tandis que l’Ossétie du Sud a été rattachée à la Géorgie sur des bases administratives à l’époque de l’Union soviétique. C’est pourquoi la volonté des Géorgiens de récupérer l’Ossétie du Sud me semble bien plus discutable que dans le cas des Serbes et du Kosovo.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Ce que les Géorgiens ont fait en Ossétie l’été dernier, c’est un peu comme si <em>aujourd’hui</em> les Serbes voulaient reprendre le Kosovo, ce que je ne souhaite certainement pas. S’ils le faisaient, il y aurait un déluge d’attaques à leur encontre dans la presse occidentale, alors que, quand Saakachvili a décidé de bombarder les Ossètes pour les forcer à réintégrer le giron géorgien, manifestement tout le monde trouvait ça compréhensible. De même, les Russes ont été très critiqués pour être venus en aide aux Ossètes alors que l’OTAN a été félicitée pour avoir soutenu les Albanais du Kosovo. On peut donc s’indigner de la réaction de la presse par rapport à la guerre de Géorgie mais cette réaction n’a pourtant rien d’étonnant.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Elle illustre parfaitement le principe développé par Noam Chomsky et Edward Herman selon lequel il y aurait de « bonnes » et de « mauvaises victimes ». Lorsqu’un crime, qu’il s’agisse d’une guerre ou d’un attentat, est commis et qu’il émane du camp occidental ou d’un allié de l’Occident, les victimes de celui-ci sont considérées comme de « mauvaises victimes », ce qui signifie qu’on ne parle quasiment pas d’elles dans la presse et qu’on va présenter l’événement sous le jour qui nous est le plus favorable. Et la presse réagit de manière inverse lorsque c’est le camp opposé qui commet un crime et fait des victimes. Un bel exemple de ce principe de « bonnes » et de « mauvaises victimes » nous a ainsi été donné récemment avec le coup d’Etat au Honduras. On a présenté le président chassé du pouvoir comme quelqu’un qui voulait monopoliser celui-ci en changeant la Constitution pour pouvoir briguer un nouveau mandat. Or, n’importe quel dirigeant a le droit de vouloir changer la Constitution. Sarkozy l’a fait et personne n’a hurlé au déni de démocratie pour autant.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">On constate donc qu’il y a systématiquement une politique du deux poids, deux mesures qui est appliquée par les médias, c’est-à-dire que si ce sont les « ennemis » de l’Occident qui commettent des crimes, qui envahissent leur voisin, etc. alors les victimes sont mises en avant, tandis que dans le cas inverse on en parle peu. C’est quelque chose de totalement prévisible. Pour ce qui est du Honduras, la lutte pour le rétablissement de la démocratie y continue, mais on en parle très peu &#8211; comparons seulement avec l’Iran.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Donc cette fameuse notion d’ingérence humanitaire, il n’y aurait que les Occidentaux qui pourraient la revendiquer ?</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Chomsky donne l’exemple de l’intervention indienne au Pakistan oriental. Le Pakistan occidental, c’est ce qu’on appelle aujourd’hui le Pakistan, et le Pakistan oriental, c’est l’actuel Bangladesh. Dans les années 70, il y a eu une guerre d’indépendance du Pakistan oriental vis-à-vis du Pakistan occidental. Le Pakistan occidental a envoyé des troupes dans la partie orientale, lesquelles ont commis de nombreux massacres. Les Indiens sont intervenus, ce qui a rendu possible l’indépendance du Bangladesh. A l’époque, presque tout le monde en Occident a vivement critiqué cette intervention. Autre exemple : Pol Pot et les Khmers rouges. En général, leurs atrocités sont invoquées pour justifier le droit d’ingérence. Mais ce que l’on oublie, c’est que le régime de Pol Pot a pris fin grâce à l’intervention du Vietnam. Et à ce moment-là, en 1979, les Vietnamiens ont également été très critiqués. On peut discuter de la légitimité des interventions indienne et vietnamienne en termes de violation du droit international &#8211; mais c’étaient des interventions qui avaient des effets très humanitaires. Or ces interventions n’ont jamais été considérées en Occident sous cet angle. Presque par définition, le droit d’ingérence n’est légitime que si c’est nous qui l’exerçons.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Le principe de l’ingérence humanitaire autorise l’intervention, y compris militaire, de pays puissants dans les affaires intérieures de pays plus faibles (manifestement, l’ingérence ne peut jamais aller que dans ce sens-là). Or tout le droit international est fondé sur l’idée qu’il faut empêcher ce genre d’intervention, et cela en partie à cause de la politique allemande avant et pendant la guerre. Il ne faut pas oublier qu’une des premières agressions hitlériennes s’est faite en 1938 par l’annexion du pays des Sudètes, partie de la Tchécoslovaquie peuplée à l’époque par une minorité germanophone et germanophile, qui a en général bien accueilli sa « libération » du joug tchèque.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">On reproche toujours aux dirigeants français et anglais de l’époque d’avoir accepté cette annexion à Munich mais la question qui s’est posée à ce moment-là, c’était justement de savoir s’il fallait permettre ou non une « ingérence humanitaire » (libérer une minorité qui se considérait comme opprimée). Il faut savoir ce que l’on veut. Ou bien il était légitime que les Allemands viennent en aide à la minorité germanophone en Tchécoslovaquie, et alors l’accord de Munich était acceptable ; ou bien ce ne l’était pas, pour des raisons plus globales de droit international, mais alors on ne voit pas pourquoi certaines politiques actuelles, qui prônent l’ingérence humanitaire, le sont. L’ironie, c’est que l’invocation de « Munich » est la tarte à la crème de la propagande de guerre. Dès qu’on propose la tenue de négociations ou l’acceptation de compromis, par exemple aujourd’hui avec l’Iran, le camp belliciste nous ressort Munich comme paradigme de la lâcheté et de la capitulation face au « Mal ». Alors que Munich était l’acceptation, d’une certaine façon, du « droit d’ingérence » avant la lettre.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Selon vous, l’intervention de la Russie en Géorgie marque-t-elle l’entrée dans une ère où chaque grande puissance autre que les Etats-Unis et l’Europe risque de se lancer dans des guerres sous des prétextes humanitaires ?</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Ca, c’est le problème de la boite de Pandore que l’on ouvre mais qu’ensuite on ne sait pas comment refermer, comme l’a dit Chirac lors de l’invasion de l’Irak. Ceci dit, on l’avait déjà ouverte lors de la guerre du Kosovo à laquelle Chirac n’était apparemment pas très favorable. Mais Chirac savait bien que vu la pression des médias, un refus d’entrer en guerre lui aurait coûté la présidentielle face à un Jospin qui, lui, était favorable à l’intervention de l’OTAN.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Bertrand Russell disait que discuter des responsabilités de la Première Guerre mondiale, c’est un peu comme discuter des responsabilités d’un accident de la route dans un pays où il n’y a pas de code de la route. A l’époque en effet, il n’y avait pas ou peu de principes régissant les rapports des Etats entre eux. Rien n’interdisait aux Austro-hongrois d’imposer des conditions telles que celles qu’ils ont voulu imposer aux Serbes. Après l’attentat de Sarajevo en 1914, les Austro-hongrois ont présenté aux Serbes dix impératifs. L’un d’entre eux était similaire à celui figurant dans les accords de Rambouillet avant la guerre du Kosovo, à savoir que la police austro-hongroise pourrait imposer sa loi en Serbie même. Et les Serbes ont accepté les neuf premiers points sauf le dernier. A partir de ce moment, les Austro-hongrois sont entrés en guerre et le reste de l’Europe a été plongé dans la tourmente. En 1999, c’était pratiquement la même chose qui s’est passé, puisque les accords de Rambouillet prévoyaient que les soldats de l’OTAN pourraient bivouaquer, faire autant de manœuvres qu’ils le souhaitaient, etc. en Serbie même. Les Serbes ont refusé et l’OTAN a bombardé la Serbie. Il est vrai que cela n’a pas entraîné de guerre mondiale, mais cela a beaucoup renforcé le militarisme occidental, qui s’est trouvé ainsi, même aux yeux de l’opinion « progressiste », une justification humanitaire. La relative faiblesse de l’opposition aux guerres en Irak et en Afghanistan trouve en partie son origine là.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Alors qu’à l’époque, les médias affirmaient que tous les moyens diplomatiques avaient été épuisés à Rambouillet&#8230;</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Mais ils font ça à tous les coups ! Anne Morelli explique dans son livre <em>Principes élémentaires de propagande de guerre</em> les dix « commandements » de la propagande. Prenez n’importe quelle guerre et vous verrez que ces principes s’appliquent à chaque fois, en particulier celui qui consiste à dire que tous les recours diplomatiques ont échoué. Le problème c’est qu’avec les guerres du Kosovo, d’Irak, d’Afghanistan mais aussi les guerres israéliennes, on a légitimé la guerre comme seul moyen de résoudre les conflits. Lors de la guerre du Kosovo, l’Italie a enfreint l’article de sa Constitution qui dit que « L’Italie renonce à la guerre comme moyen de résoudre les conflits. » Après la Deuxième Guerre mondiale, un slogan avait cours en Allemagne : « plus aucune guerre ne partira du sol allemand ». On constate que c’est un principe qui est totalement passé à la trappe. Et qui a fait passer ce principe à la trappe en Allemagne ? Les Verts, en collaboration avec la social-démocratie. C’étaient eux qui étaient au pouvoir à l’époque et Joska Fischer, qui était ministre des Affaires étrangères, était à fond pour la guerre, tout comme Cohn-Bendit d’ailleurs. Seuls les Verts, qui avaient milité contre les missiles dans les années 80 et qui étaient « pacifistes » et « antifascistes », pouvaient légitimer une guerre menée en partie par l’Allemagne contre un pays qu’elle avait occupé pendant la Deuxième Guerre mondiale. Si d’autres forces politiques allemandes avaient fait cela, on les aurait soupçonnées de revanchisme ou de militarisme.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Je me rappelle avoir discuté avec un membre important du parti Ecolo (belge) qui n’était pas au courant des accords de Rambouillet. J’en avais pris connaissance sur Internet via des sources américaines. Le <em>New York Times</em>, lui, n’a évoqué le contenu des accords que deux jours après l’arrêt des bombardements . Ce n’est pas un hasard. Avec les moyens dont ils disposent pour accéder aux informations, si les journaux veulent les avoir, ils les ont. Ce qui est d’ailleurs frappant, c’est de voir que des informations de ce type ne sont pas vraiment secrètes. Et ce qui est le plus important pour la critique du militarisme, ce ne sont pas les théories du complot sur le 11 septembre, auxquelles je ne crois pas une seconde, mais les documents publiquement disponibles, comme les accords de Rambouillet ou les « mémos de Downing Street » , qui sont passés sous silence par les médias et malheureusement peu utilisés par les pacifistes.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Après les guerres du Kosovo, d’Irak, d’Afghanistan mais aussi de Géorgie, pensez-vous que le droit international et l’ONU aient encore un avenir ou ont-ils été définitivement enterrés avec ces guerres ?</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">J’espère qu’ils ont encore un avenir car je ne pense pas que l’agression d’un pays contre un autre puisse résoudre les problèmes, quels qu’ils soient. Premièrement, il faut bien se rendre compte que la plupart des pays du monde continuent à défendre la conception classique du droit international, qui est fondé sur le respect de la souveraineté nationale. De plus, Bush, bien qu’il ait commis des crimes monstrueux, a eu l’avantage si on peut dire, d’avoir mis les Etats-Unis dans une situation impossible ; et pas seulement les Etats-Unis, mais aussi les défenseurs du droit d’ingérence humanitaire. Les règles instituées en 1945 ont été faites pour ne pas connaître à nouveau des situations telles que celle qui avait permis à Hitler d’envahir la Tchécoslovaquie (et à Bush d’envahir l’Irak). On peut évidemment changer ces règles. Mais on ne peut revenir à un état de vide juridique international. Or le droit d’ingérence humanitaire, c’est cela : rien ne définit qui a le droit de s’ingérer, ni à quelle condition et, en pratique, cela revient à légitimer le droit du plus fort.</p>
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<p><strong>Un autre problème qui se pose, c’est que cette ingérence n’est jamais mise en œuvre que lorsqu’il y a des intérêts économiques ou géostratégiques qui sont en jeu&#8230;</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Pour le Kosovo, il n’y avait pas vraiment beaucoup d’intérêts directs en jeu, à part le fait, mais qui est plus idéologique qu’économique, de donner une légitimité « humanitaire » à l’Otan. Evidemment, on peut toujours trouver des intérêts, si l’on en cherche, mais toutes les guerres ne s’expliquent pas par des intérêts économiques ou géostratégiques. Il y a une vraie dynamique idéologique qui sous-tend certaines interventions. La Bosnie a été la cause sacrée de toute une génération ; c’est pourquoi, quand il y a eu la crise du Kosovo, il y avait une véritable volonté d’intervenir « pour des raisons humanitaires », au moins dans les médias et une partie de l’opinion. De plus, on peut dire que c’était une sorte de guerre « de gauche ». Une guerre de gauche menée par l’Otan mais une guerre de gauche quand-même. Joska Fischer et les Verts allemands étaient pour, Jospin l’était davantage que Chirac&#8230; Je pense vraiment que l’ingérence humanitaire est une espèce de religion de notre temps. Le christianisme ou la mission civilisatrice l’ont été dans le passé.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Evidemment il y a toujours de l’économie partout donc on peut toujours trouver des intérêts économiques « cachés », si l’on veut. Mais il faut aussi raisonner en termes psychologiques, pour voir dans quelle mesure c’est vraiment l’économie qui est la raison principale des interventions et des guerres. L’argument qui contrecarre l’idée que toute raison de faire la guerre est forcément de nature économique, c’est qu’on peut toujours s’arranger autrement qu’en déclenchant des guerres pour faire du commerce et du profit. Il est par exemple indéniable que les capitalistes américains font des fortunes en Chine et au Vietnam, maintenant qu’il y a la paix entre ces pays et les Etats-Unis. On peut également penser que, s’il y avait la paix au Moyen-Orient, les territoires occupés pourraient être un nouveau Singapour. On pourrait y faire fortune. Il y a là-bas une main-d’œuvre relativement qualifiée et que l’on peut faire travailler à bas prix. C’est cynique de dire cela, évidemment, mais si l’on raisonne vraiment d’un point de vue économique, les capitalistes peuvent faire beaucoup plus de profit en temps de paix que par la guerre. Evidemment, quand il y a une guerre, cela profite toujours aux marchands d’armes et aux entreprises de reconstruction. Mais il faut se rendre compte qu’il y a aussi un aspect irrationnel dans la guerre, y compris d’un point de vue capitaliste global. Lisez Bertrand Russell à ce sujet, il est très intéressant . Il s’est toujours battu contre l’analyse marxiste de la guerre de 14-18 en termes purement économiques parce qu’il était frappé par la part d’irrationnel qui accompagnait cette guerre. Les attachements nationalistes sont une composante essentielle de cette part d’irrationnel. Ils ont peut-être une lointaine base économique mais une fois qu’ils existent, ils ont leur dynamique propre. La Palestine fournit sans doute l’exemple actuel le plus net de ce genre de situations. Il n’y a aucune base réellement économique à ce conflit, ni d’ailleurs au soutien occidental à Israël.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Oui mais à cette époque-là, la Yougoslavie était quand-même une économie fermée et Milosevic refusait de l’ouvrir à l’économie de marché&#8230;</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Ce n’est pas tout à fait vrai. Ce sont les sanctions internationales qui ont empêché de faire de la Serbie une économie ouverte. C’est une erreur de voir Milosevic comme une espèce de stalinien qui voulait fermer l’économie. Milosevic a hérité d’une économie qui était celle de Tito qui n’était pas franchement fermée mais qui n’était pas non plus tout à fait ouverte. Il a voulu ménager la chèvre et le chou et ne pas vendre son pays à l’encan (comme l’ont fait ses successeurs), mais il ne faut pas oublier qu’il y avait des sanctions contre la Serbie qui dataient de l’époque de la guerre de Bosnie. Milosevic souhaitait faire lever ces sanctions. Si vous subissez des sanctions et que vous voulez les lever, cela signifie que vous voulez plus d’ouverture, pas moins. Je ne vois pas du tout cette guerre comme ayant principalement des mobiles économiques. Je verrais plutôt cela comme une sorte de croisade .</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Mais il y avait aussi des raisons géostratégiques, non ?</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Oui, les Américains ont maintenant leur base dans les Balkans mais ça leur sert  à quoi ?</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Il y a quand-même le Moyen-Orient qui n’est pas trop loin…</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Pas trop loin, mais pas si près que cela non plus. Ils peuvent mettre des bases dans les Emirats. Ils ont des bases en Turquie, aussi. Si vous allez travailler un jour dans une grande bureaucratie, vous verrez les influences du type bureaucratique qui sont aussi quelque chose qui échappe à l’analyse du type marxiste, économiste, etc. L’armée américaine, c’est, entre autre, une immense bureaucratie. Prenez par exemple les bases américaines au Japon. Depuis la guerre du Vietnam et la détente avec la Chine, elles ne servent à rien. Les Etats-Unis ont des troupes là-bas et les gens jouent au golf&#8230; les soldats ont la belle vie. Si vous aimez le sport et êtes un peu macho, c’est la planque parfaite.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Ces bases serviraient donc surtout à maintenir l’idée qu’il y a un empire qui garde le contrôle&#8230;</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Oui mais il faut aussi voir les intérêts économiques à tous les niveaux, c’est-à-dire qu’évidemment il y a des intérêts économiques, mais ce ne sont pas nécessairement ceux de la classe capitaliste en tant que telle. Il y a les intérêts économiques des gens du Pentagone, des marchands d’armes, des lobbyistes, qui se superposent avec l’idéologie de domination mondiale, pour que, régulièrement, une « nouvelle menace » permette d’obtenir du Congrès une augmentation du budget de la Défense. Et si quelqu’un proteste, la presse lui tombe dessus et affirme qu’il n’est pas patriote. On a donc affaire à une multitude d’intérêts. Mais, dans la mesure où cette politique militariste entraîne des coûts élevés, elle n’est pas nécessairement dans l’intérêt des capitalistes, pris dans leur ensemble.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Marx voyait les gouvernements comme une sorte de conseil d’administration collectif de la bourgeoisie. C’est en partie vrai, mais, de ce point de vue, certaines politiques militaristes et impérialistes doivent être considérées comme de la mauvaise gestion.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Dans le cas d’Israël, par exemple, il apparaît de plus en plus clairement que le lobby sioniste aux Etats-Unis a une influence décisive sur la politique américaine au Moyen-Orient . Le degré d’engagement américain en faveur d’Israël est totalement irrationnel et ne répond à aucun de leurs intérêts. En particulier, Israël n’a jamais aidé en quoi que ce soit les Etats-Unis à contrôler le pétrole. Par ailleurs, cet engagement n’atteint un tel niveau nulle part ailleurs. Ce soutien ne s’explique que par la pression constante du lobby sioniste couplée à la culpabilisation liée aux événements de la guerre de 40-45. Chaque cas doit être analysé séparément. Il n’y a pas de formule générale qui explique les guerres par l’impérialisme ou le capitalisme, même s’il y a de nombreux facteurs dans ces systèmes qui créent des conditions propices aux guerres. Mais les guerres restent (heureusement) des événements relativement rares, comparés mettons aux échanges économiques, qui eux sont constants. Et évidemment, les guerres se produisaient bien avant la naissance du capitalisme.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Jusqu’à un certain point, je vois la guerre contre la Serbie comme la conséquence de l’impérialisme humanitaire, idéologie qui s’est par la suite mélangée avec la lutte contre le terrorisme dans le cas de l’Irak et de l’Afghanistan. En gros, j’aurais tendance à dire qu’on « vend » la guerre contre le terrorisme à la population, qui est assez intelligente pour comprendre que, si on a de l’argent pour faire de l’humanitaire, on a autre chose à faire que la guerre ; et la guerre humanitaire, on la « vend » aux intellectuels, qui sont assez intelligents pour comprendre que la menace terroriste est surfaite. La population a du bon sens, mais manque d’information ; les intellectuels ont de l’information, mais manquent souvent de bon sens.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Donc pour vous, la raison principale à la guerre du Kosovo découlerait surtout de l’idéologie de l’ingérence humanitaire ?</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Quand ils ont commencé la guerre, ils ont pensé que cela durerait trois-quatre jours. J’avais entendu à la radio que les Serbes avaient besoin de quelques bombardements pour se retirer du Kosovo. D’après les médias, ils étaient contents qu’on les bombarde, comme ça ils avaient une excuse pour se retirer du Kosovo. Pour les Serbes, le Kosovo avait un caractère quasi-sacré , c’est pourquoi ils ne se sont retirés qu’après un certain temps, sous la menace d’anéantissement complet de leur pays et parce que les Russes les ont laissés tomber. Par ailleurs, les Serbes ont signé, à la fin de la guerre, des accords qui auraient pu être acceptés à Rambouillet et qui n’ont pas été respectés par la suite. En effet, ces accords prévoyaient, entre autre, le retour au Kosovo de mille policiers serbes pour protéger les Serbes du Kosovo, ce qui leur aurait été bien utile, mais qui ne s’est jamais produit.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Dans le déclenchement de cette guerre, les facteurs idéologiques ont joué un grand rôle. Souvent les pacifistes insistent sur les mobiles économiques, réels ou supposés des guerres, sans doute parce que cela montre les fauteurs de guerre comme « vraiment méchants », parce que cupides. Mais si la guerre est plutôt due au fanatisme religieux ou nationaliste ou à des idéologies comme la mission civilisatrice ou l’ingérence humanitaire, je ne vois pas pourquoi cela la rend plus légitime ou sympathique. Et si l’on est persuadé que très peu de gens bénéficient en fait des guerres, même dans les classes dirigeantes, cela renforce les arguments pacifistes. Dans le cas d’Israël, où l’aspect irrationnel est le plus fort, si la classe dirigeante américaine suivait ses véritables intérêts, ce qui pourrait bien arriver un jour, le soutien à Israël s’effondrerait.</p>
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<p>OK, so hands up, who thinks the agreement between Turkey and Armenia is a big deal for the rest of Europe?</p>
<p>Although it is indeed a <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/news/2009/10/091010_armturk_nh_pcm.shtml">huge milestone in the history of the two nations</a>, it is doubtful that many who are not from the countries will think that it has much of a direct consequence for the rest of Europe.</p>
<p>Armenia&#8217;s neighbour, and Turkish buddy Azerbaijan, however, is decidely unhappy with this accord. Although at first glance it would appear that they have nought to do with what is a bi-national agreement, they too have a big stake, and one which European foreign ministers will be watching with the utmost interest.</p>
<p>This dates back to 1993, when Armenia invaded Azerbaijan. This was a result of the Azeris trying to militarily subdue an enclave within their own borders, which is occupied mainly by ethnic Armenians.</p>
<p>Armenia now wants the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave to be recognised as part of their own territory before anything can go further.</p>
<p>OK, so far you will no doubt be thinking, all very interesting, but so what?</p>
<p>The answer to that comes in the countries geographical positions. Azerbaijan lies on the Caspian Sea, which happens to have huge oil resources.</p>
<p>In 2014, the Nabucco oil pipeline is due to open, pumping oil from Azerbaijan&#8217;s Caspian Sea coast to an EU desparate to bypass the complications of routing it through Russia.</p>
<p>Armenia effectively blocks the route of this pipeline, which could only otherwise run through Russia, Georgia or Iran. Somehow I don&#8217;t think it would be a good idea to go through any of them.</p>
<p>As proven by the <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7839053.stm">gas crisis this January</a> which caused a predictably hysterical response, this is something that has a great importance for the whole of Europe as it looks to wean itself off Russian energy.</p>
<p>If the issue doesn&#8217;t get resolved, you might just hear a bit more about it, as EU foreign ministers get more nervous ahead of 2014.</p>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><div id="attachment_639" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 460px"><a href="http://bettecox.wordpress.com/2009/10/11/smokescreen/caspianseamap/" rel="attachment wp-att-639"><img src="http://bettecox.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/caspianseamap.png" alt="Caspian Sea and littoral states" title="Caspianseamap" width="425" height="" class="size-full wp-image-639" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Caspian Sea and littoral states</p></div>The troubling headlines in major media recently, I begin to wonder, could they be something of a smokescreen? Like a magician&#8217;s sleight of hand designed to guide our eyes away from something else going on? It&#8217;s just a thought. </p>
<p>Here&#8217;s what brought on that thought &#8211; Qom. Not the holy mountain in Iran and not the nuclear facility supposedly beneath it. No, the big lake north of it. The Caspian Sea.</p>
<p>Recently I came across a news reference to the Caspian Sea and looked it up on a world map. As I stared at the size and location of it, I felt my innate curiosity stirring. I decided to look for other online news references to it. </p>
<p>I found next to nothing on western news sites. However, three separate articles about the Caspian Sea appeared in the Fars News online yesterday. I found several more published there in recent months.</p>
<p>The more I read, the more I wanted to read about the Caspian Sea and its littoral states (the five countries that share its coastline &#8211; Russia, Azerbaijan, Iran, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan). Before the breakup of the USSR, only two of those states were included, Russia and Iran, and they had an agreement that spelled out who could do what and where on the Caspian Sea.</p>
<p>Since then, however, with three more countries added, that initial agreement has been dismantled or ignored, and the five countries involved have failed to agree on a new one. (That is not to say they haven&#8217;t been busy doing their own thing in the sea. They have.)</p>
<p>Why should anyone on this side of the world care? Energy. Gas and Oil. Money. Power. Vast gas and oil reserves lie under the Caspian Sea, and many countries want it. Top of the list are Iran, Russia, the United States &#8211; and China. </p>
<p>Below are some of the Fars News articles I&#8217;ve read today and links to them. You won&#8217;t find China mentioned in those, but I found quite a few references to China&#8217;s interest in the Caspian Sea energy development in other sources. I&#8217;ve included links to a couple of those as well.</p>
<p><div id="attachment_662" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 410px"><a href="http://bettecox.wordpress.com/2009/10/11/smokescreen/centralasiapipelines/" rel="attachment wp-att-662"><img src="http://bettecox.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/centralasiapipelines.jpg" alt="Central Asian Pipelines" title="centralasiapipelines" width="400" height="383" class="size-full wp-image-662" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Central Asian Pipelines</p></div><br />
It seems that China has been buying up major percentage interests in some oil companies, whether owned or operated in those littoral states. </p>
<p>From a September 29th article titled &#8220;New Player in Caspian Sea Power Corridor:&#8221; </p>
<p>&#8220;It was reported on the 16th of April 2009 that amid the world economic crisis Kazakhstan borrowed from China 10 billion dollars during N. Nazarbayev’s visit to Beijing. The Chinese CNPC Company bought a 50% stake of “Mangistaumunaigaz” for 1.4 billion dollars&#8230; Chinese companies already own a third of Kazakhstan-produced oil&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;China’s policy of advancing towards the Caspian Sea region resources is seen also in Turkmenistan. (A pipeline is being constructed from Turkmenistan to China and should be operational in 2010.)&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="http://arirusila.wordpress.com/2009/09/29/new-player-in-caspian-sea-power-corridor/">http://arirusila.wordpress.com/2009/09/29/new-player-in-caspian-sea-power-corridor/</a></p>
<p>You can read more about this in &#8220;SCO Yekaterinburg summit and China’s energy offensive towards the Caspian Sea (II),&#8221; <a href="http://en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=2240">http://en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=2240</a></p>
<p><div id="attachment_647" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 260px"><a href="http://bettecox.wordpress.com/2009/10/11/smokescreen/afghanistan_pipeline/" rel="attachment wp-att-647"><img src="http://bettecox.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/afghanistan_pipeline.jpg" alt="Proposed pipeline" title="afghanistan_pipeline" width="200" height="" class="size-full wp-image-647" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Proposed pipeline</p></div>The United States government has a decided political and military  interest in a different pipeline, one that will lead from Turkmenistan through Afghanistan and Pakistan.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s a quote from the September 29 blog article mentioned above: &#8220;There is some base to claim that U.S. military&#8217;s involvement in Afghanistan is directly related to the large reserves of natural gas in Turkmenistan&#8230; demand to increase troop levels in Afghanistan jumped a bit along with the recently publicized discovery of the very large natural gas reserves in the Yoloten-Osman gas fields in southern Turkmenistan.&#8221; </p>
<p><a href="http://arirusila.wordpress.com/2009/09/29/new-player-in-caspian-sea-power-corridor/">http://arirusila.wordpress.com/2009/09/29/new-player-in-caspian-sea-power-corridor/</a></p>
<p>Here are the several articles I read on Fars News online today:</p>
<p>Fars News 2009-07-24:</p>
<p><strong>Iran Discovers 46 Oil Fields in Caspian Sea</strong></p>
<p><div id="attachment_644" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 260px"><a href="http://bettecox.wordpress.com/2009/10/11/smokescreen/caspianseaoilrig/" rel="attachment wp-att-644"><img src="http://bettecox.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/caspianseaoilrig.jpg" alt="Caspian Sea semi-submersible oil rig, Iran-Alborz" title="CaspianSeaOilRig" width="200" height="" class="size-full wp-image-644" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Caspian Sea semi-submersible oil rig, Iran-Alborz</p></div>TEHRAN (FNA)- Forty-six oil exploration fields have been identified in the Caspian Sea, Iranian Oil Minister Gholam Hossein Nozari said. According to Nozari, eight of the fields are presently ready for exploitation.</p>
<p>The comment came as Iran launched its domestically-built 14,000-ton offshore platform in its territorial Caspian waters to increase its oil output. Iran says the semi-submersible drilling rig called Iran-Alborz is the largest in the Middle East, press tv reported.</p>
<p>The platform can operate at water depths up to 1,030 meters and can drill down to 6,000 meters under the seabed. Nozari went on to add that Iran plans to build a new oil pipeline linking the northern port of Neka in the Caspian Sea to the southern port of Jask in the Gulf of Oman.</p>
<p>Earlier Iranian Deputy Oil Minister Noureddin Shahnazizadeh said that initial studies for the $2 billion pipeline had been concluded and that the ministry would move to sign a contract soon.</p>
<p>Iran, the world&#8217;s fourth-largest oil producer, has given priority to exploring its northern territorial waters in the Caspian Sea. The largest enclosed body of water on the planet is estimated to have oil reserves of 17 billion to 44 billion barrels.</p>
<p>The maritime and seabed boundaries of the Caspian have yet to be demarcate among Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, the Russian Federation, and Turkmenistan &#8212; the five countries bordering the Sea. </p>
<p><a href="http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8805020617">http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8805020617</a></p>
<p>Fars News Agency 11 Oct 2009</p>
<p><strong>Iran against Presence of 3rd Parties in Caspian Sea</strong></p>
<p>TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki announced that Iran is against the presence of &#8220;a third state or organization&#8221; in the Caspian Sea. </p>
<p>[Bette: I'm not sure who they mean by third state or organization; China?]
<p>Based on deals reached between Iran and the former Soviet Union, no other country can launch shipping or conduct fishing in the sea except its littoral states, Mottaki told a one-day summit on the Caspian Sea&#8217;s legal regime in Tehran.</p>
<p>Mottaki also called on the Caspian states to avoid an arms race in the region, saying Tehran believes the largest lake in the world should remain &#8216;the sea of peace, friendship, and stability&#8217;, press tv reported.</p>
<p>He emphasized that establishing a balance, between the number of military forces and equipment and the &#8216;joint potential threats&#8217; in the region, is essential.</p>
<p>The Iranian foreign minister underlined that there is an urgent need for an appropriate security mechanism to monitor joint measures in the sea.</p>
<p>The Iranian top diplomat added that the Islamic Republic believes any decision on the legal regime of the sea should be taken by a consensus among the five littoral states.</p>
<p>He also noted that any decision outside such a structure for the Caspian Sea &#8216;lacks legitimacy and will not be put into practice&#8217;.</p>
<p>The legal status of the Caspian Sea has been blurred since the breakup of the Soviet Union. Prior to that, Iran and the Soviet Union equally shared the resources of the lake.</p>
<p>After the breakup of the USSR, three newly independent states-Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan-bordering the Caspian Sea appeared on the scene, with their own demands.</p>
<p>Despite extensive negotiations, no agreement has been signed for the final legal status of what is in fact not a &#8217;sea&#8217;, but the largest lake in the world.</p>
<p>Mottaki went on to say that the Islamic Republic will not allow any country to carry out excavation activities for energy resources in Iran&#8217;s 20 percent share of the sea, until its legal status is finalized. He reiterated that Iran desires a &#8220;fair&#8221; share of the sea&#8217;s resources.</p>
<p>The maritime and seabed boundaries of the Caspian Sea have yet to be demarcated among Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia and Turkmenistan, the five countries bordering the Sea. </p>
<p><a href="http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8807170892">http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8807170892</a></p>
<p><strong>MP: Caspian States Should Focus on Compilation of Legal Regime</strong></p>
<p>TEHRAN (FNA)- Spokesman of parliament&#8217;s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Kazem Jalali on Thursday encouraged the Caspian states to focus on compilation of a legal regime for the Caspian Sea. Addressing a conference on the Caspian Sea, Jalali added that the sea faces greater challenges to the same degree it is important.</p>
<p>&#8220;One of the most important tests of the Islamic Republic which will be judged by the coming generations is the Caspian Sea legal regime,&#8221; the Islamic republic news agency quoted Jalali as saying.</p>
<p>Littoral states have reached the conclusion to share out the sea which was also accepted by Iran, he said. But there are still disagreements over the division of the sea-bed, he noted.</p>
<p>Jalali further contended that Iran has laid essential structures for the issue in proportionate with its significance and the challenges faced by it. Of course, this cannot negate the efforts of the Foreign Ministry and presidential representative in the Caspian Sea affairs, the lawmaker said.</p>
<p>The Caspian Sea the largest enclosed body of water on Earth by area, variously classed as the world&#8217;s largest lake or a full-fledged sea. It has a surface area of 371,000 square kilometers and a volume of 78,200 cubic kilometers.</p>
<p>It was perceived as an ocean by its ancient coastal inhabitants, presumably because of its saltiness and seeming boundlessness. It has a salinity of approximately 1.2%, about a third the salinity of most seawater. </p>
<p><a href="http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8807170845">http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8807170845</a></p>
<p>Fars News 2009-09-12:</p>
<p><strong>Berdimuhamedow: Turkmenistan Ready to Join Nabucco Pipeline</strong></p>
<p>TEHRAN (FNA)- Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow announced on Saturday that his country has the necessary resources to join the Nabucco gas pipeline.</p>
<p>(See more about Nabucco and map below.)</p>
<p>The Nabucco gas pipeline project worth €7.9 billion envisages gas supply from the Caspian region to the EU countries. Construction of the gas pipeline was scheduled for 2011. The first supplies will be launched in 2014. Maximal capacity of the pipeline will hit 31 billion cubic meters per year.</p>
<p>The proposed 3,300-kilometer Nabucco pipeline aims to carry natural gas from Central Asia via Turkey and the Balkan states to Austria, bypassing Russia and Ukraine.</p>
<p>The Turkmen president pointed to the newly discovered gas fields, Yolatan and Othman, in the southern parts of his country, and said that huge gas reserves of the two fields have made it possible for Turkmenistan to join major international gas pipeline projects.</p>
<p>Reminding that the Nabucco pipeline is at the center of the international community&#8217;s attention, he added that development of gas and oil fields, construction of new facilities for refining oil and gas, construction of gas terminals, employment of modern technologies in his country&#8217;s oil and gas sectors are among Ashgabat&#8217;s priorities.</p>
<p>The gas discovery has made Turkmenistan much hopeful about picking up a bigger share of the international market. Following the discovery of the two huge gas fields, Ashgabat made a deal with Tehran to build a new pipeline to transfer Turkmen gas to its southern neighbor.</p>
<p>&#8220;Given the closeness of Turkmenistan&#8217;s gas resources to Iran&#8217;s border, a new gas pipeline is to be constructed in near future for transferring Turkmen gas to Iran in addition to the existing Korpeje-Kurt Kui pipeline,&#8221; Iranian Ambassador to the country Mohammad Reza Forqani told FNA in July.</p>
<p>Turkmenistan has agreed to boost the volume of its natural gas exports to Iran to 14 billion cubic meters (bcm) from the current 8 bcm following the start of operation of the new gas pipeline between the two countries.</p>
<p>The new pipeline from the eastern Turkmen town of Dauletabad to Iran will have a capacity of 12.5 bcm of gas per year. Turkmenistan has also undertaken to increase the quantity of its gas exports to Iran to 20 bcm in the future.</p>
<p>Meantime, analysts and international observers underlined that materialization of the Nabucco gas pipeline project depends on supplying the needed gas for the pipeline. </p>
<p><a href="http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8806211403">http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8806211403</a></p>
<p>Fars News 2009-08-29:</p>
<p><strong>Iran, Russia Ready to Boost Ties</strong></p>
<p>TEHRAN (FNA)- The Islamic Republic of Iran and Russia here on Friday called for further expansion of all-out ties between the two states. During their meeting, Iran&#8217;s Ambassador to Moscow Mahmoud-Reza Sajjadi and Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexei Borodavkin underlined the need for promotion of bilateral political, economic, trade and banking cooperation.</p>
<p>The two countries decided to hold a session of Iran-Russia Joint Economic Commission in Tehran soon. The two officials voiced readiness to carry out joint projects in the areas of energy and transportation, the Islamic republic news agency reported.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, the Iranian envoy called for transportation of Russian goods to Iran by Iran&#8217;s shipping at the Caspian Sea. They also underscored the need for exchange of political and economic delegations between the two states. </p>
<p><a href="http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8806070681">http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8806070681</a></p>
<p>Fars News 2009-08-14:</p>
<p><strong>Russia to Hold North-South Transport Corridor Rally</strong></p>
<p>TEHRAN (FNA)- The Republic of Kalmykia of the Russian Federation is slated to hold the International North-South Transport Corridor (INSTC) rally. A multi-modal transportation established by Iran, Russia and India in St. Petersburg in September 2000, the INSTC connects the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf to the Caspian Sea via Iran, which is then connected to St. Petersburg and North Europe via the Russian Federation, press tv reported.</p>
<p>The event, which is said to be a rival for the famous Paris-Dakar rally, will start next year with the aim of introducing and promoting the North-South Transport Corridor.</p>
<p>The INSTC was expanded to include eleven new members, namely Azerbaijan, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkey, Ukraine, Belarus, Oman, Syria and Bulgaria.</p>
<p>Introducing the Iran path as a safe transportation route from Asia to Europe and introducing the economical and commercial potentials of the countries along INSTC are among the other aims of the project. </p>
<p>Fars News 2009-06-05:</p>
<p><strong>US Pressing Nabucco Scheme without Iran</strong></p>
<p><div id="attachment_673" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 460px"><a href="http://bettecox.wordpress.com/2009/10/11/smokescreen/nabucco_gas_pipeline-en-svg/" rel="attachment wp-att-673"><img src="http://bettecox.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/nabucco_gas_pipeline-en-svg.png" alt="Nabucco Gas Pipeline" title="Nabucco_Gas_Pipeline-en.svg" width="425" height="" class="size-full wp-image-673" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Nabucco Gas Pipeline</p></div>TEHRAN (FNA)- The US announced that it does not support Iran&#8217;s involvement in the Nabucco gas pipeline until Tehran &#8216;changes its policies&#8217;. The US special envoy for Eurasian energy issues Richard Morningstar said that Iran can only join the gas pipeline undertaking after the normalization of ties between Tehran and Washington, press tv reported.</p>
<p>He told a group of reporters in Ankara on Thursday that inviting Iran to the project without a resolution to the standoff over its nuclear program could &#8220;have a negative effect.&#8221; &#8220;We don&#8217;t want to change our policy unless Iran changes its policy,&#8221; AP quoted Morningstar as saying.</p>
<p>The pipeline is to link the Caspian Sea region, the Middle East and Egypt to the European Union via Turkey. The Nabucco consortium, which aims at decreasing Europe&#8217;s dependence on Russian natural gas, has been unable to find sufficient gas supplies necessary for the feasibility of the project.</p>
<p>Turkey, which is a member of the consortium, has repeatedly voiced its support for Iran&#8217;s involvement in the project. </p>
<p><a href="http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8803150550">http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8803150550</a></p>
<p>So. That&#8217;s some of what I&#8217;ve read about this subject today, all from non-western news media sources. Maybe natural disasters, economic worries and Iranian uranium-enrichment facilities aren&#8217;t deliberate smokescreens. But the absence of western news about these multi-faceted, multi-nation Caspian Sea developments makes me curious. </p>
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<link>http://underinformation.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/new-player-in-caspian-sea-power-corridor/</link>
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<dc:creator>satyrikon</dc:creator>
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<blockquote><p><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial;"><span style="font-size:11pt;">“A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some spot of native land, where it may get the love of tender kinship for the face of the earth, for labors of men go forth to, for the sounds and accents that haunt it, for whatever will give that early home a familiar unmistakable difference amidst the future widening of knowledge.” G. Eliot.</span></span></span></p></blockquote>
<p>What would we do for peace and security? A generation ago the world witnessed a unified human spirit remove the shackles of dictatorship in Eastern Europe and begin a quest of liberty not seen in generations.  Even stronger today is that same spirit of freedom found in other areas of the world; like Georgia, Ukraine, and even Iraq, and the same belief that freedom is the right given to all mankind.  This simple pursuit of what is believed to be a god given right is always in peril if the new generation is cautious.</p>
<p>Without the support of America and its allies, the spirit of freedom that is taking hold elsewhere in the world could be lost. I call attention to the Caucasus region. Nestled between Russia, the Black Sea, Turkey, the Caspian Sea, and Iran, this region holds vital global interests. Without support, the fragile peace that is being built here could give way to instability and conflict that would threaten nearby regions as well. Over a year ago, the world watched as Russia easily overtook the Republic of Georgia. For nearly a century, this region of the world has pursued the right to exist.  The support of America, NATO, and the European Union will be the deciding factor in this struggle.</p>
<p>Peace and security go hand and hand. It is the basic desire and above all else a simple need for a prosperous society. Lessons learned in the Iraq war and even the American Revolution tell us that for there to be a meaningful victory, a true peace process is needed.</p>
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<p><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial;"><span style="font-size:11pt;"> There first must be an end of hostilities and reconciliation, followed with peace building, followed by the peacemaking, and finally, lasting peace with a feeling of security in one’s own pursuit of life. In order for this process to be possible, a mix of civilian and military agencies must support it.  Only when a society is truly free, is a society able to pursue life, liberty, and happiness.  When a society is happy, that is when a nation is at peace; it is also when a nation is prosperous and secure.</span></span></span></p>
<p>It is the new generation’s responsibility to carry the ideals of liberty and help those who seek a peaceful, prosperous society.  As the generation who liberated Europe did not finish until the nations were rebuilt, so must this generation see that the current wars are not fought in vain. This generation must also be vigilant in protecting the nations who seek freedom and watch the regions that need a helping hand as our nation once did when it was a fragile collection of states.  Americans must be braver and more ready to help carry the torch of freedom and liberty because without the two there can be no peace and security for any nation.</p>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><span style="color:#000080;"><span style="font-family:Linux Libertine;"><span style="font-size:small;"><strong>Competition – or development – of EU&#8217;s eastern gas supply routes has intensified this year.  Both EU/U.S. backed Nabucco and Russia&#8217;s South Stream have made deals to guarantee realization of new pipelines until 2015.   The EU’s new “southern corridor” &#8211; Nabucco as essential part of it &#8211; has been dubbed a version of U.S. “Silk Road Strategy” aimed to block Russia from gas fields around Caspian Sea and its connection to Iran.  Russia on the other hand wants direct access to EU markets without transit via Ukraine.</strong> </span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0;"><a href="http://www.shanghai-gas.com/wp-content/themes/this-just-in/images/header_images/header4.jpg"><span style="font-family:Linux Libertine;"><span style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></a><img class="aligncenter" src="http://www.shanghai-gas.com/wp-content/themes/this-just-in/images/header_images/header4.jpg" alt="" width="430" height="107" /></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0;"><span style="color:#000080;"><span style="font-family:Linux Libertine;"><span style="font-size:small;">Until this summer the gas game has be seen as battle between Russia and West.  Now the world economic crisis and current low price of gas have brought a new player to game in fuel sector &#8211; China.  With its financial strength China has now had ability to intensify its offensive towards the Caspian Sea energy sources especially in Kazakhstan (especially oil) and Turkmenistan (especially gas).  Will the outcome be, that both Russia and Western powers with their companies will lose Caspian oil and gas while it will flow to East?  Not necessary but from now on one can not ignore China as key player in region.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0;"><span style="color:#000080;"><span style="font-family:Linux Libertine;"><span style="font-size:small;">As main source related to energy game in Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan I have used </span></span></span><span style="color:#000080;"><span style="font-family:Linux Libertine;"><span style="font-size:small;">Ajdar Kurtov&#8217;s fine article “<a href="http://en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=2240">SCO Yekaterinburg summit and China’s energy offensive towards the Caspian Sea” </a></span></span></span><span style="color:#000080;"><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><a href="http://en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=2240"><span style="font-family:Linux Libertine;"><span style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></a></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0;"><span style="color:#000080;"><span style="font-family:Linux Libertine;"><span style="font-size:small;"><strong>Kazakhstan</strong></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0;"><span style="color:#000080;"><span style="font-family:Linux Libertine;"><span style="font-size:small;">Back in the 1990s Kazakhstan made easily available its mineral wealth to American, British, French and Italian companies. The bulk of the profit generated was channeled to Kazakhstan’s new partners. A threat loomed large of Kazakhstan turning into a third-world country with a raw exports role to play for the highly-advanced states.</span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0;"><span style="color:#000080;"><span style="font-family:Linux Libertine;"><span style="font-size:small;">However, Kazakhstan growing stronger economically, socially and politically while the world hydrocarbons market prices shooting up early this century made Kazakhstan leaders think better of their old stands. </span></span></span><span style="color:#000080;"><span style="font-family:Linux Libertine;"><span style="font-size:small;">The new conditions prompted Kazakhstan to reconsider the earlier signed agreements, and Astana specifically proclaimed the objective of establishing state control over the oil and gas sector. </span></span></span><span style="color:#000080;"><span style="font-family:Linux Libertine;"><span style="font-size:small;">The Kazakh authorities brought pressure to bear on the foreign companies in a bid to force the latter to accept changes to the earlier signed contracts.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0;"><a href="http://www.stratfor.com/files/mmf/6/1/61485f2608c6cf1b425f5df23ac4b7b095dc6f40.jpg"><span style="font-family:Linux Libertine;"><span style="font-size:small;"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://www.stratfor.com/files/mmf/6/1/61485f2608c6cf1b425f5df23ac4b7b095dc6f40.jpg" alt="" width="424" height="405" /></span></span></a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0;"><span style="color:#000080;"><span style="font-family:Linux Libertine;"><span style="font-size:small;">The national company “KazMunaiGaz” was made responsible for advancing Kazakhstan’s state interests in the oil and gas field institutionally.  Initially Kazakhstan leaders applied much the same tactic to pursue the same objective to one of Kazakhstan’s three oil refineries, the Pavlodar refinery, which is located by the Russian border and technologically oriented to Russian oil refining. The facility was privatized in January 1997 and the government’s stake placed in management by the US CCL Oil Ltd. Company on the terms of a public-private partnership agreement. But the Kazakh government prematurely terminated the agreement a few years later and handed over a 51% stake to the OAO “Mangistaumunaigaz”. The company later brought its stock of shares to 58%, with 42% of the Pavlodar oil refinery’s stock capital owned by the state. After that the national company “KazMunaiGaz” bought 51% of the “Mangistaumunaigaz” stock of shares from Indonesia’s Central Asia Petroleum and consequently gained control over the facility. </span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0;"><span style="color:#000080;"><span style="font-family:Linux Libertine;"><span style="font-size:small;">It was reported on the 16th of April 2009 that amid the world economic crisis Kazakhstan borrowed from China 10 billion dollars during N. Nazarbayev’s visit to Beijing. The Chinese CNPC Company bought a 50% stake of “Mangistaumunaigaz” for 1.4 billion dollars. </span></span></span><span style="color:#000080;"><span style="font-family:Linux Libertine;"><span style="font-size:small;">Kazakhstan leaders are ousting western partners from the hydrocarbons market and refusing to meet Russian companies halfway, while losing ground to China. Chinese companies already own a third of Kazakhstan-produced oil, or more than 20 million tonnes per year. The purchasing of Kazakhstan’s “Mangistaumunaigaz” assets by China’s CNPC further tightens China’s grip on the Kazakh oil market and weakens the positions of Russia and the West in Kazakhstan’s fuel and energy complex.</span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0;"><span style="color:#000080;"><span style="font-family:Linux Libertine;"><span style="font-size:small;">China’s policy of advancing towards the Caspian Sea region resources is seen also in Turkmenistan. Ashgabat has long discussed the construction of a 6,500 kilometer gas pipeline from Turkmenistan to China to Japan. The construction project was due to be carried out in 10 years and was pretty costly (11 billion dollars, of which some 1.7 billion dollars would account for the sea section of the pipeline). Later the easterly direction of Turkmen natural gas deliveries was sort of “updated”, namely the option for laying a pipeline to Japan was dropped, with China having been made the only terminal point of delivery. </span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0;"><span style="color:#000080;"><span style="font-family:Linux Libertine;"><span style="font-size:small;">A more important development for Turkmenistan in 2006 was the republic’s president S. Niyazov’s visit to China in early April. The main agreement in a package he signed in Beijing was the General intergovernmental agreement on the implementation of the Turkmenistan – China gas pipeline project and on selling natural gas from Turkmenistan to the People’s Republic of China in the volume of 30 billion cubic metres annually for 30 years since the time the gas pipeline was commissioned, which was due in 2009. </span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0;"><span style="color:#000080;"><span style="font-family:Linux Libertine;"><span style="font-size:small;">The new Turkmenistan-China gas pipeline will be nearly 6,500 kilometres, with over 180 kilometres due to be laid in Turkmenistan, 530 kilometres, &#8211; in Uzbekistan, 1,300 kilometres, &#8211; in Kazakhstan, and over 4,500 kilometres, &#8211; in China. The overall cost of the project makes up some 20 billion dollars. 17 billion cubic metres of Turkmen gas were due to be annually exported through the development of new gas fields, while the remaining 13 billion cubic metres of annual gas exports,- through the construction of gas purification and treatment plants at the largest gas condensate field Bagtyyarlyk.<img class="alignright" src="http://www.chinapage.com/map/turkmenistan-khorgos-pipeline.jpg" alt="" width="524" height="231" /> </span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:.49cm;margin-bottom:.49cm;"><span style="color:#000080;"><span style="font-family:Linux Libertine;"><span style="font-size:small;">The construction of the pipeline (Turkmenistan-China) got under way in 2008 when Russian Company “Stroytransgaz” won 395 m€ contract for laying the Turkmen section of project and also  plant to purify and dehydrate gas and a gas-measuring station. The Turkmen stage is expected to be finished by December 2009 and the entire pipeline in late 2010. </span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0;"><span style="color:#000080;"><span style="font-family:Linux Libertine;"><span style="font-size:small;">On February 21st 2009 the Iranian and Turkmeni governments signed an agreement that will give Iran the rights to develop the Yolotan gas field in Turkmenistan. The deal will help Iran resolve gas supply problems in its north-eastern provinces. Turkmenistan will sell Iran an additional 350 billion cubic feet of gas annually, more than doubling current supplies of almost 300 bcf a year, according to the agreement first disclosed by Iran’s official media and later confirmed by Turkmenistan.</span></span></span><span style="color:#000080;"><span style="font-family:Linux Libertine;"><span style="font-size:small;">Iran also recently offered to invest $1.7 billion for a 10 percent stake in the second phase of Azerbaijan’s huge Shah-Deniz gas field which will come on line by 2014. Iran already has a 10 percent share in the first phase and it wants to import large volumes of gas from the Azeri field. For Iran, the deals couldn’t be better suited to its objectives. It’s economically unviable currently to supply gas to its isolated, north-eastern third of the country. Getting gas from Turkmenistan would therefore make more Iranian gas available for export to Turkey. </span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0;"><span style="color:#000080;"><span style="font-family:Linux Libertine;"><span style="font-size:small;"><strong>Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI)</strong></span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0;"><span style="color:#000080;"><span style="font-family:Linux Libertine;"><span style="font-size:small;">The Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI)  pipeline on the other hand would feed natural gas into downstream economies that are desperate for natural gas supplies. Afghanistan is the first of these, and energy shortages are rarely discussed as one of the problems of their economy, but with only 10 &#8211; 12% of the populace having access to electricity and with only limited natural gas resources (perhaps enough for a 100 megawatt power station), the country needs to import natural gas in large volumes. Pakistan is still desperate for help with natural gas and other energy fuels. But so far there is no pipeline to help.</span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0;"><span style="color:#000080;"><span style="font-family:Linux Libertine;"><span style="font-size:small;">There is some base to claim that U.S.military&#8217;s involvement in Afghanistan is directly related to the large reserves of natural gas in Turkmenistan. While the U.S. military may be a wholly owned subsidiary of the international (i.e. American and British)oil companies), its anyway clear that demand to increase troop levels in Afghanistan jumped a bit along with the recently publicized discovery of the very large large natural gas reserves in the Yoloten-Osman gas field in southern Turkmenistan. </span></span></span></p>
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<li><span class="western"><span style="color:#000080;"><span style="font-family:Linux Libertine;"><span style="font-size:small;">In March 1999, the U.S. Congress adopted the Silk Road Strategy Act, which defined America’s broad economic and strategic interests in a region extending from the Eastern Mediterranean to Central Asia. The act was revised in 2006 to include the energy interests of the US as one of the primary reasons for the US to be in Afghanistan &#8211; note no reference to Osama Bin Laden or Al Qaeda ;The Silk Road Strategy (SRS) outlines a framework for the development of America’s business empire along an extensive geographical corridor. The successful implementation of the SRS requires the concurrent &#8220;militarization&#8221; of the entire Eurasian corridor as a means to securing control over extensive oil and gas reserves, as well as &#8220;protecting&#8221; pipeline routes and trading corridors. This militarization is largely directed against China, Russia and Iran. </span></span></span></span><span class="western"><span style="color:#000080;"><span style="font-family:Linux Libertine;"><span style="font-size:small;">More about background of this battle in my article</span></span></span></span><strong class="western"><span style="color:#000080;"><span style="font-family:Linux Libertine;"><span style="font-size:small;"> “</span></span></span></strong><span style="color:#000080;"><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="font-family:Linux Libertine;"><span style="font-size:small;"><em><a href="../2008/11/04/is-guuam-dead/">Is GUUAM dead?</a></em><a href="../2008/11/04/is-guuam-dead/">”</a></span></span></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="color:#000080;"><span style="font-family:Linux Libertine;"><span style="font-size:small;">As said the new pipeline will run through Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan to Xinjiang in western China. Xinjiang is becoming increasingly important as a transit route for gas pipelines from Russia and Central Asia. Given the vast region’s location several thousand kilometers inside China, it is impractical for the Chinese to protect fully the long stretches of pipelines through Xinjiang’s vast mountains and deserts so they are trying to eliminate the militant groups before the pipelines become operational. So far the unrest in Xijiang has be seen based to ethnic questions.  The energy aspect explains why China&#8217;s response to unrest is and will be strong also in future. </span></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="color:#000080;"><span style="font-family:Linux Libertine;"><span style="font-size:small;">Summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization that was called in Yekaterinburg on the 16</span></span></span><span style="color:#000080;"><sup><span style="font-family:Linux Libertine;"><span style="font-size:small;">th</span></span></sup></span><span style="color:#000080;"><span style="font-family:Linux Libertine;"><span style="font-size:small;"> of June. Besides some universal ideas in statements and declarations the SCO Energy Club has to this day failed to come up with a cooperation model that would suit all member-states. China&#8217;s actions on the ground will lay the basis for </span></span></span><span style="color:#000080;"><span style="font-family:Linux Libertine;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-style:normal;">actual</span></span></span></span><span style="color:#000080;"><span style="font-family:Linux Libertine;"><span style="font-size:small;"> energy cooperation in the SCO framework since instead of some remote private owner China as state (via state-owned company) is implementing the projects.  Promoting energy cooperation in SCO framework must from now on take the “Chinese Factor” seriously.</span></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="color:#000080;"><span style="font-family:Linux Libertine;"><span style="font-size:small;">The bad news for Russia is that there is a customer willing to take all the gas that Turkmenistan has for sale: China. It has been steadily gaining access to the energy wealth of Central Asia, while ousting American, European and Russian companies from the area. Beside oil and gas the Chinese are simultaneously planing to transport also the mineral resources in question to China’s western border.</span></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="color:#000080;"><span style="font-family:Linux Libertine;"><span style="font-size:small;">For contest between EU&#8217;s Nabucco and Russia&#8217;s South Stream China&#8217;s actions favor later.  Today&#8217;s arrangements are securing gas for South Stream while Nabucco still is searching supply.  It is more clear that Nabucco should be filled with Iraqi and/or Iranian gas and political aspects related to this may delay finding(private) investors and the implementation of project as whole.  In bottom line while Russia is taking its part from old gas fields and China from old and new gasfields the Nabucco pipe still is more than half empty. </span></span></span></li>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0;"><em><span style="color:#000080;"><span style="font-family:Linux Libertine;"><span style="font-size:small;">More about background of Nabucco/South Stream battle in my articles &#8220;<a href="http://arirusila.wordpress.com/2009/05/21/is-it-time-to-bury-nabucco-2/">Is it time to bury Nabucco?</a>&#8221; and &#8220;<a href="http://arirusila.wordpress.com/2009/05/15/eu%e2%80%99s-big-choice-%e2%80%93-nabucco-or-south-stream/">EU&#8217;s big choice &#8211; Nabucco or South Stream?</a>&#8221; </span></span></span><span style="color:#000080;"><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><a href="../2008/11/04/is-guuam-dead/"><span style="font-family:Linux Libertine;"><span style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></a></span></span></em></p>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>    I want to tell you about my grandpa. His name is Zait. My grandpa was born in 1921 in Mangistay, the west of Kazakhstan near Caspian sea. His father was a respectable, rich man and had 3 children.<strong> In 1930-1932 in Kazakhstan and other Soviet republics started the process called dispossession of the kulaks</strong>. Kulaks were people who were not poor and who had any property. Everything was confiscated from land to cattle, everything that was earned by hard work. Moreover all kulaks and their families became the subjects of repressions. The family of my grandpa could be repressed too, so my great grandfather decided to leave all and to put to flight from the country with his family: wife and three sons. They ran to Russia and this road was very difficult.</p>
<p>During their escape my great grandfather died because of infarction. So <strong>great grandma and children were left without the head of the family, but they had to continue their flight.</strong> Fortunately grandpa, his brothers and mom still achieved the point of destination- Russia. They settled in Orenburg city. At this period my grandpa was only 12 years old, his younger brother was 10 years old and elder brother was 17. My grandpa at the age of 12 decided himself to stay in Orenburg’s orphan’s home with his younger brother. He made this decision in order to help his family to survive, because it would be very hard for his mother to keep three children. Great grandma was opposed to his 12 years old son’s decision, <strong>she didn’t want to leave her children in the orphan’s home, however she had to agree because it was the only way to survive.</strong> My great grand mother lived with the elder son in Orenburg and always visited her younger sons. She soon realized that the orphan’s home was very good; there her children received good education. My grandpa was taught how to play on a great variety of musical instruments and developed his musical talent. In 1941 my grandpa at the age of 20 and his brothers were called for army because the Great Patriotic War started.</p>
<p>    During the War grandpa received a lot of different medals, orders, ribbons and other awards of honor and bravery. In 1943 he and his battalion were encircled by enemies and taken to captivity.<strong> The whole battalion was sent to Italy. There grandpa was held in concentration camp till the end of the War.</strong> In 1945 my grandpa was released and sent back to Russia.</p>
<p>After all he finally returned to his mother, his elder brother returned from the war too. But the younger brother of my grandpa was missing in action during the Great Patriotic War. <strong>Grandpa was trying to find his brother all his life.</strong> In 1947 grandpa married to my grandma, whose name was Zia. They lived near grandpa’s mother in their own house. In 1950 my grandma gave a birth to my aunt and three years later my mom was born. My mother has three sisters. My grandpa lived in this house near the Ural River in Orenburg region whole his life. My mother and her sisters moved to Kazakhstan when they became grown up. My grandpa died in 2001 when I was 9 years old. When I was a child me, my family, all my aunts and their families used to visit him very often.</p>
<p>I decided to write about my grandpa- <strong>Zait because despite severe periods in his life he always smiled a lot, he was always very cheerful and kind.</strong> My grandpa for me is the evidence of human’s strength, will, bravery and kindness. He underwent many ordeals and never gave up. Every time when I think about my grandpa a great feeling of pride and admiration arouse in me!!!</p>
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<td colspan="2" valign="top">Publié le 11 septembre 2009</td>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">A<span style="font-weight:bold;">lors que les Etats-Unis tentent, depuis le 11 septembre 2001, d&#8217;accélérer leur projet de transformation du monde à l&#8217;image de la société démocratique et libérale rêvée par leurs pères fondateurs, les civilisations non occidentales se dressent sur leur chemin et affirment leur volonté de puissance.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">La Russie, en particulier constitue un obstacle géopolitique majeur pour Washington. Elle entend défendre son espace d&#8217;influence et montrer au monde qu&#8217;elle est incontournable sur le plan énergétique.</p>
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<p>L&#8217;un des auteurs classiques de la géopolitique, Halford J. Mackinder (1861-1947), un amiral britannique, qui professa la géographie à Oxford, défendait comme thèse centrale que les grandes dynamiques géopolitiques de la planète s&#8217;articulaient autour d&#8217;un cœur du monde (heartland), l&#8217;Eurasie. Pivot de la politique mondiale que la puissance maritime ne parvenait pas à atteindre, l&#8217;Eurasie avait pour cœur intime la Russie, un Empire qui « occupait dans l&#8217;ensemble du monde la position stratégique centrale qu&#8217;occupe l&#8217;Allemagne en Europe ».</p></div>
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<p>Autour de cet épicentre des secousses géopolitiques mondiales, protégé par une ceinture faite d&#8217;obstacles naturels (vide sibérien, Himalaya, désert de Gobi, Tibet) que Mackinder appelle le croissant intérieur, s&#8217;étendent les rivages du continent eurasiatique : Europe de l&#8217;Ouest, Moyen-Orient, Asie du Sud et de l&#8217;Est.</p></div>
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<p>Au-delà de ces rivages, par-delà les obstacles marins, deux systèmes insulaires viennent compléter l&#8217;encadrement du heartland : la Grande-Bretagne et le Japon, têtes de pont d&#8217;un croissant plus éloigné auquel les États-Unis appartiennent.</p></div>
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<p>Selon cette vision du monde, les puissances maritimes mondiales, les thalassocraties que défend Mackinder, doivent empêcher l&#8217;unité continentale eurasiatique.</p></div>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">Elles doivent donc maintenir les divisions est/ouest entre les principales puissances continentales capables de nouer des alliances (France/Allemagne, Allemagne/Russie, Russie/Chine) mais aussi contrôler les rivages du continent eurasiatique.</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">Cette matrice anglo-saxonne, que l&#8217;on peut appliquer au cas de l&#8217;Empire britannique au XIXe siècle, comme à celui de la thalassocratie américaine au XXe siècle, reste un outil pertinent pour comprendre la géopolitique d&#8217;aujourd&#8217;hui.</p>
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<p>La théorie de Mackinder nous rappelle deux choses que les thalassocraties anglo-saxonnes n&#8217;ont jamais oubliées : il n&#8217;y a pas de projet européen de puissance (d&#8217;Europe puissance) sans une Allemagne forte et indépendante (or l&#8217;Allemagne reste largement sous l&#8217;emprise américaine depuis 1945) ; il n&#8217;y pas d&#8217;équilibre mondial face au mondialisme américain sans une Russie forte.</p></div>
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<p>L&#8217;Amérique veut l&#8217;Amérique-monde ; le but de sa politique étrangère, bien au-delà de la seule optimisation de ses intérêts stratégiques et économiques du pays, c&#8217;est la transformation du monde à l&#8217;image de la société américaine. L&#8217;Amérique est</p></div>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">messianique et là est le moteur intime de sa projection de puissance. En 1941, en signant la Charte de l&#8217;Atlantique, Roosevelt et Churchill donnaient une feuille de route au rêve d&#8217;un gouvernement mondial visant à organiser une mondialisation libérale et démocratique. Jusqu&#8217;en 1947, l&#8217;Amérique aspira à la convergence avec l&#8217;URSS dans l&#8217;idée de former avec celle-ci un gouvernement mondial, et ce, malgré l&#8217;irréductibilité évidente des deux mondialismes américain et soviétique. Deux ans après l&#8217;effondrement européen de 1945, les Américains comprirent qu&#8217;ils ne parviendraient pas à entraîner les Soviétiques dans leur mondialisme libéral et ils se résignèrent à rétrécir géographiquement leur projet : l&#8217;atlantisme remplaça provisoirement le mondialisme.</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">Puis, en 1989, lorsque l&#8217;URSS vacilla, le rêve mondialiste redressa la tête et poussa l&#8217;Amérique à accélérer son déploiement mondial. Un nouvel ennemi global, sur le cadavre du communisme, fournissait un nouveau prétexte à la projection globale : le terrorisme islamiste. Durant la Guerre froide, les Américains avaient fait croître cet ennemi, pour qu&#8217;il barre la route à des révolutions socialistes qui se seraient tournées vers la Russie soviétique. L&#8217;islamisme sunnite avait été l&#8217;allié des Américains contre la Russie soviétique en Afghanistan. Ce fut le premier creuset de formation de combattants islamistes sunnites, la matrice d&#8217;Al Qaida comme celle des islamistes algériens&#8230; Puis il y eut la révolution fondamentaliste chiite et l&#8217;abandon par les Américains du Shah d&#8217;Iran en 1979. Le calcul de Washington fut que l&#8217;Iran fondamentaliste chiite ne s&#8217;allierait pas à l&#8217;URSS, contrairement à une révolution marxiste, et qu&#8217;il offrirait un contrepoids aux fondamentalistes sunnites.</p>
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<p>Dans le monde arabe, ce furent les Frères musulmans qui, d&#8217;Egypte à la Syrie, furent encouragés. Washington poussa l&#8217;Irak contre l&#8217;Iran, et inversement, suivant le principe du « let them kill themselves (laissez-les s&#8217;entretuer) » déjà appliqué aux</p></div>
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<p>peuples russe et allemand, afin de détruire un nationalisme arabe en contradiction avec les intérêts d&#8217;Israël. L&#8217;alliance perdura après la chute de l&#8217;URSS. Elle fut à l&#8217;œuvre dans la démolition de l&#8217;édifice yougoslave et la création de deux Etats musulmans en Europe, la Bosnie-Herzégovine puis le Kosovo.</p></div>
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<p>L&#8217;islamisme a toujours été utile aux Américains, tant dans sa situation d&#8217;allié face au communisme durant la Guerre froide, que dans sa nouvelle fonction d&#8217;ennemi officiel depuis la fin de la bipolarité. Certes, les islamistes existent réellement ;</p></div>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">ils ne sont pas une création imaginaire de l&#8217;Amérique ; ils ont une capacité de nuisance et de déstabilisation indéniable. Mais s&#8217;ils peuvent prendre des vies, ils ne changeront pas la donne de la puissance dans le monde.</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">La guerre contre l&#8217;islamisme n&#8217;est que le paravent officiel d&#8217;une guerre beaucoup plus sérieuse : la guerre de l&#8217;Amérique contre les puissances eurasiatiques.</p>
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<p>Après la disparition de l&#8217;URSS, il est apparu clairement aux Américains qu&#8217;une puissance continentale, par la combinaison de sa masse démographique et de son potentiel industriel, pouvait briser le projet d&#8217;Amérique-monde : la Chine. La formidable ascension industrielle et commerciale de la Chine face à l&#8217;Amérique fait penser à la situation de l&#8217;Allemagne qui, à la veille de la Première Guerre mondiale, rattrapait et dépassait les thalassocraties anglo-saxonnes. Ce fut la cause première de la Première Guerre mondiale.</p></div>
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<p>Si la Chine se hisse au tout premier rang des puissances pensent les stratèges américains, par la combinaison de sa croissance économique et de son indépendance géopolitique, et tout en conservant son modèle confucéen à l&#8217;abri du démocratisme occidental, alors c&#8217;en est fini de l&#8217;Amérique-monde. Les Américains peuvent renoncer à leur principe de Destinée manifeste (Principle of Manifest Destiny) de 1845 ainsi qu&#8217;au messianisme de leurs pères fondateurs, fondamentalistes biblistes ou franc-maçons.</p></div>
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<p>Alors que l&#8217;URSS venait à peine de s&#8217;effondrer, les stratèges américains orientèrent donc leurs réflexions sur la manière de contenir l&#8217;ascension de la Chine.</p></div>
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<p>Sans doute comprirent-ils alors toute l&#8217;actualité du raisonnement de Mackinder. Les Anglo-Saxons avaient détruit le projet eurasiatique des Allemands, puis celui des Russes ; il leur fallait abattre celui des Chinois. Une nouvelle fois la Mer voulait faire pièce à la Terre.</p></div>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">La guerre humanitaire et la guerre contre le terrorisme seraient les nouveaux prétextes servant à masquer les buts réels de la nouvelle grande guerre eurasiatique : la Chine comme cible, la Russie comme condition pour emporter la bataille.</p>
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<p>La Chine comme cible parce que seule la Chine est une puissance capable de dépasser l&#8217;Amérique dans le rang de la puissance matérielle à un horizon de vingt ans. La Russie comme condition parce que de son orientation stratégique découlera largement l&#8217;organisation du monde de demain : unipolaire ou multipolaire.</p></div>
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<p>Face à la Chine, les Américains entreprirent de déployer une nouvelle stratégie globale articulée sur plusieurs volets :</p></div>
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<p>L&#8217;extension d&#8217;un bloc transatlantique élargi jusqu&#8217;aux frontières de la Russie et à l&#8217;ouest de la Chine.</p></div>
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<p>Le contrôle de la dépendance énergétique de la Chine.</p></div>
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<p>L&#8217;encerclement de la Chine par la recherche ou le renforcement d&#8217;alliances avec des adversaires séculaires de l&#8217;Empire du Milieu (les Indiens, les Vietnamiens,les Coréens, les Japonais, les Taïwanais&#8230;).</p></div>
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<p>L&#8217;affaiblissement de l&#8217;équilibre entre les grandes puissances nucléaires par le développement du bouclier anti-missiles.</p></div>
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<p>L&#8217;instrumentalisation des séparatismes (en Serbie, en Russie, en Chine, et jusqu&#8217;aux confins de l&#8217;Indonésie) et le remaniement de la carte des frontières (au Moyen-Orient arabe).</p></div>
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<p>Washington a cru, dès 1990, pouvoir faire basculer la Russie de son côté, pour former un vaste bloc transatlantique de Washington à Moscou avec au milieu la périphérie européenne atlantisée depuis l&#8217;effondrement européen de 1945. Ce fut</p></div>
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<p>la phrase de George Bush père, lequel en 1989 appelait à la formation d&#8217;une alliance « de Vladivostok à Vancouver » ; en somme le monde blanc organisé sous la tutelle de l&#8217;Amérique, une nation paradoxalement appelée, par le contenu même de son idéologie, à ne plus être majoritairement blanche à l&#8217;horizon 2050.</p></div>
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<p>L&#8217;extension du bloc transatlantique est la première dimension du grand jeu eurasiatique. Les Américains ont non seulement conservé l&#8217;OTAN après la disparition du Pacte de Varsovie mais ils lui ont redonné de la vigueur : premièrement l&#8217;OTAN est passé du droit international classique (intervention uniquement en cas d&#8217;agression d&#8217;un Etat membre de l&#8217;Alliance) au droit d&#8217;ingérence. La guerre contre la Serbie, en 1999, a marqué cette transition et ce découplage entre l&#8217;OTAN et le droit international. Deuxièmement, l&#8217;OTAN a intégré les pays d&#8217;Europe centrale et d&#8217;Europe orientale. Les espaces baltique et yougoslave (Croatie, Bosnie, Kosovo) ont été intégrés à la sphère d&#8217;influence de l&#8217;OTAN. Pour étendre encore l&#8217;OTAN et resserrer l&#8217;étau autour de la Russie, les Américains ont fomenté les révolutions colorées (Géorgie en 2003, Ukraine en 2004, Kirghizstan en 2005), ces retournements politiques non violents, financés et soutenus par des fondations et des ONG américaines, lesquelles visaient à installer des gouvernements anti-russes. Une fois au pouvoir, le président ukrainien pro-occidental demanda naturellement le départ de la flotte russe des ports de Crimée et l&#8217;entrée de son pays dans l&#8217;OTAN.</p></div>
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<p>Quant au président géorgien il devait, dès 2003, militer pour l&#8217;adhésion de son pays dans l&#8217;OTAN et l&#8217;éviction des forces de paix russes dédiées depuis 1992 à la protection des populations abkhazes et sud-ossètes.</p></div>
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<p>À la veille du 11 septembre 2001, grâce à l&#8217;OTAN, l&#8217;Amérique avait déjà étendu fortement son emprise sur l&#8217;Europe. Elle avait renforcé l&#8217;islam bosniaque et albanais et fait reculer la Russie de l&#8217;espace yougoslave.</p></div>
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<p>Durant les dix premières années post-Guerre froide, la Russie n&#8217;avait donc cessé de subir les avancées américaines. Des oligarques souvent étrangers à l&#8217;intérêt national russe s&#8217;étaient partagés ses richesses pétrolières et des conseillers libéraux proaméricains entouraient le président Eltsine. La Russie était empêtrée dans le conflit tchétchène, remué largement par les Américains comme d&#8217;ailleurs l&#8217;ensemble des abcès islamistes. Le monde semblait s&#8217;enfoncer lentement mais sûrement dans l&#8217;ordre mondial américain, dans l&#8217;unipolarité.</p></div>
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<p>En 2000, un événement considérable, peut-être le plus important depuis la fin de la Guerre froide (plus important encore que le 11 septembre 2001) se produisit pourtant : l&#8217;accession au pouvoir de Vladimir Poutine. L&#8217;un de ces retournements de l&#8217;histoire qui ont pour conséquences de ramener celle-ci à ses fondamentaux, à ses constantes.</p></div>
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<p>Poutine avait un programme très clair : redresser la Russie à partir du levier énergétique. Il fallait reprendre le contrôle des richesses du sous-sol des mains d&#8217;oligarques peu soucieux de l&#8217;intérêt de l&#8217;Empire. Il fallait construire de puissants opérateurs pétrolier (Rosneft) et gazier (Gazprom) russes liés à l&#8217;Etat et à sa vision stratégique. Mais Poutine ne dévoilait pas encore ses intentions quant au bras de fer américano-chinois. Il laissait planer le doute. Certains, dont je fais d&#8217;ailleurs partie puisque j&#8217;analysais à l&#8217;époque la convergence russo-américaine comme passagère et opportune (le discours américain de la guerre contre le terrorisme interdisait en effet momentanément la critique américaine à propos de l&#8217;action russe en Tchétchénie), avaient compris dès le début que Poutine reconstruirait la politique indépendante de la Russie ; d&#8217;autres pensaient au contraire qu&#8217;il serait occidentaliste. Il lui fallait en finir avec la Tchétchénie et reprendre le pétrole. La tâche était lourde. Un symptôme évident pourtant montrait que Poutine allait reprendre les fondamentaux de la grande politique russe : le changement favorable à l&#8217;Iran et la reprise des ventes d&#8217;armes à destination de ce pays ainsi que la relance de la coopération en matière de nucléaire civil.</p></div>
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<p>Pourquoi alors l&#8217;accession de Poutine était-elle un événement si considérable ?</p></div>
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<p>Sans apparaître à l&#8217;époque de manière éclatante, cette arrivée signifiait que l&#8217;unipolarité américaine, sans la poursuite de l&#8217;intégration de la Russie à l&#8217;espace transatlantique, était désormais vouée à l&#8217;échec, et avec elle, par conséquent, la grande stratégie visant à briser la Chine et à prévenir l&#8217;émergence d&#8217;un monde multipolaire.</p></div>
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<p>Au-delà encore, nombre d&#8217;Européens ne perçurent pas immédiatement que Poutine portait l&#8217;espoir d&#8217;une réponse aux défis de la compétition économique mondiale fondée sur l&#8217;identité et la civilisation. Sans doute les Américains, eux, le comprirent-ils mieux que les Européens de l&#8217;Ouest. George Bush n&#8217;en fit-il pas l&#8217;aveu lorsqu&#8217;il avoua un jour qu&#8217;il avait vu en Poutine un homme habité profondément par l&#8217;intérêt de son pays ?</p></div>
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<p>Le 11 septembre 2001 offrit pourtant l&#8217;occasion aux Américains d&#8217;accélérer leur programme d&#8217;unipolarité. Au nom de la lutte contre un mal qu&#8217;ils avaient eux-mêmes fabriqués, ils purent obtenir une solidarité sans failles des Européens (donc plus d&#8217;atlantisme et moins « d&#8217;Europe puissance »), un rapprochement conjoncturel avec Moscou (pour écraser le séparatisme tchétchéno-islamiste), un recul de la Chine d&#8217;Asie centrale face à l&#8217;entente russo-américaine dans les républiques musulmanes ex-soviétiques, un pied en Afghanistan, à l&#8217;ouest de la Chine donc et au sud de la Russie, et un retour marqué en Asie du Sud-est.</p></div>
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<p>Mais l&#8217;euphorie américaine en Asie centrale ne dura que quatre ans. La peur d&#8217;une révolution colorée en Ouzbékistan poussa le pouvoir ouzbek, un moment tenté de devenir la grande puissance d&#8217;Asie centrale en faisant contrepoids au grand frère russe, à évincer les Américains et à se rapprocher de Moscou. Washington perdit alors, à partir de 2005, de nombreuses positions en Asie centrale, tandis qu&#8217;en Afghanistan, malgré les contingents de supplétifs qu&#8217;elle ponctionne à des Etats européens incapables de prendre le destin de leur civilisation en main, elle continue de perdre du terrain face à l&#8217;alliance talibano-pakistanaise, soutenue discrètement en sous-main par les Chinois qui veulent voir l&#8217;Amérique refoulée d&#8217;Asie centrale.</p></div>
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<p>Les Chinois, de nouveau, peuvent espérer prendre des parts du pétrole kazakh et du gaz turkmène et construire ainsi des routes d&#8217;acheminement vers leur Turkestan (le Xinjiang). Pékin tourne ses espoirs énergétiques vers la Russie qui équilibrera à l&#8217;avenir ses fournitures d&#8217;énergie vers l&#8217;Europe par l&#8217;Asie (non seulement la Chine mais aussi le Japon, la Corée du Sud, l&#8217;Inde&#8230;).</p></div>
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<p>Le jeu de Poutine apparaît désormais au grand jour. Il pouvait s&#8217;accorder avec Washington pour combattre le terrorisme qui frappait aussi durement la Russie. Il n&#8217;avait pas pour autant l&#8217;intention d&#8217;abdiquer quant aux prétentions légitimes de la Russie : refuser l&#8217;absorption de l&#8217;Ukraine (car l&#8217;Ukraine pour la Russie c&#8217;est une nation sœur, l&#8217;ouverture sur l&#8217;Europe, l&#8217;accès à la Méditerranée par la mer Noire grâce au port de Sébastopol en Crimée) et de la Géorgie dans l&#8217;OTAN. Et si l&#8217;indépendance du Kosovo a pu être soutenue par les Américains et des pays de l&#8217;Union européenne, au nom de quoi les Russes n&#8217;auraient-ils pas le droit de soutenir celles de l&#8217;Ossétie du Sud et de l&#8217;Abkhazie, d&#8217;autant que les peuples concernés eux-mêmes voulaient se séparer de la Géorgie ?</p></div>
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<p>Mackinder avait donc raison. Dans le grand jeu eurasiatique, la Russie reste la pièce clé. C&#8217;est la politique de Poutine, bien plus que la Chine (pourtant cible première de Washington car possible première puissance mondiale) qui a barré la route à Washington. C&#8217;est cette politique qui lève l&#8217;axe énergétique Moscou (et Asie centrale)-Téhéran-Caracas, lequel pèse à lui seul ¼ des réserves prouvées de pétrole et près de la moitié de celles de gaz (la source d&#8217;énergie montante). Cet axe est le contrepoids au pétrole et au gaz arabes conquis par l&#8217;Amérique. Washington voulait étouffer la Chine en contrôlant l&#8217;énergie. Mais si l&#8217;Amérique est en Arabie Saoudite et en Irak (1ère et 3e réserves prouvées de pétrole), elle ne contrôle ni la Russie, ni l&#8217;Iran, ni le Venezuela, ni le Kazakhstan et ces pays bien au contraire se rapprochent. Ensemble, ils sont décidés à briser la suprématie du pétrodollar, socle de la centralité du dollar dans le système économique mondial (lequel socle permet à l&#8217;Amérique de faire supporter aux Européens un déficit budgétaire colossal et de renflouer ses banques d&#8217;affaires ruinées).</p></div>
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<p>Nul doute que Washington va tenter de briser cette politique russe en continuant à exercer des pressions sur la périphérie russe. Les Américains vont tenter de développer des routes terrestres de l&#8217;énergie (oléoducs et gazoducs) alternatives à la toile russe qui est en train de s&#8217;étendre sur tout le continent eurasiatique, irriguant l&#8217;Europe de l&#8217;Ouest comme l&#8217;Asie. Mais que peut faire Washington contre le cœur énergétique et stratégique de l&#8217;Eurasie ? La Russie est une puissance nucléaire.</p></div>
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<p>Les Européens raisonnables et qui ne sont pas trop aveuglés par la désinformation des médias américains, savent qu&#8217;ils ont plus besoin de la Russie qu&#8217;elle n&#8217;a besoin d&#8217;eux. Toute l&#8217;Asie en croissance appelle le pétrole et le gaz russe et iranien.</p></div>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">Dans ces conditions et alors que la multipolarité se met en place, les Européens feraient bien de se réveiller. La crise économique profonde dans laquelle ils semblent devoir s&#8217;enfoncer durablement conduira-t-elle à ce réveil ? C&#8217;est la conséquence positive qu&#8217;il faudrait espérer des difficultés pénibles que les peuples d&#8217;Europe vont endurer dans les décennies à venir.</p>
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<div><span style="font-weight:bold;">Aymeric CHAUPRADE</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-weight:bold;">Source: </span><a href="http://www.theatrum-belli.com/archive/2009/09/11/aymeric-chauprade-la-russie-obstacle-majeur-sur-la-route-de.html#more" target="_blank">THEATRUM BELLI : blog pluridisciplinaire de polémologie</a></div>
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<title><![CDATA[Poems About Iran by Douglas Gilbert, " Persian Girl Away In Ireland "]]></title>
<link>http://mojoepoe.wordpress.com/2009/09/03/persianireland/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 08:17:31 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Doug</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Persian Girl Away In Ireland A gentle voice is floating around ethereal from doom to dune and in the]]></description>
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<p><em>Persian Girl Away In Ireland</em></p>
<p>A gentle voice is floating around ethereal<br />
from doom to dune and in the dusty sky,<br />
the summer&#8217;s gone and all the grave are crying<br />
my only child<br />
must go<br />
and I must hide</p>
<p>but bring me back an Irish four-leaf clover<br />
from all my friends who&#8217;ve known a sorrow too<br />
for it is I who&#8217;s here on slopes of mountains<br />
on Caspian beech I lean to wave my love to you</p>
<p>But arrive you may when all the fish are dying<br />
from sea of green and in Caspian Sea<br />
and if I&#8217;m dead, as shot by beech or elm tree<br />
you&#8217;ll place a wreath of clover adrift the sea</p>
<p>and drink the wine forbidden with some caviar<br />
your Irish friends will make a wake for me.<br />
If love can skip a stone above Caspian<br />
your love for me will not be any blasphemy</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll save my love for you until<br />
you are<br />
with me</p>
<p> &#8212;Douglas Gilbert<br />
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<a href="http://www.lulu.com/versely"><span style="font-size:180%;"><u><strong><em>Books</em> by Douglas Gilbert</strong></u></span></a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Report: AF-PAK War And The Battle For Oil]]></title>
<link>http://siyasipakistan.wordpress.com/2009/08/20/report-af-pak-war-and-the-battle-for-oil/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:44:27 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>agaahipk</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[By Brother Nathanael Kapner PakAlertPress.com Report WHEN ANNOUNCING HIS NEW AFGHANISTAN AND PAKISTA]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p style="text-align:justify;">By <a href="http://www.realzionistnews.com/" target="_blank">Brother Nathanael Kapner</a></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong><a href="http://www.pakalertpress.com/" target="_blank">PakAlertPress.com Report</a></strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><a href="http://pakalert.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/pic-of-the-day-210509.jpg" target="_blank"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-9396" title="pic of the day - 210509" src="http://pakalert.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/pic-of-the-day-210509.jpg?w=500&#038;h=403#38;h=403" alt="pic of the day - 210509" width="500" height="403" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">WHEN ANNOUNCING HIS NEW AFGHANISTAN AND PAKISTAN POLICY on March 27, 2009, <a href="http://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/obama_defeat_al_qaida/2009/03/27/196753.html" target="_blank">Obama vowed</a> “to disrupt and dismantle” the Taliban in Pakistan and Afghanistan and to “prevent their return to either country in the future.” But who are the Taliban? Any Afghan or Pakistani who resists the US-led occupation.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><a href="http://pakalert.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/pedest.jpg" target="_blank"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-9374" title="pedest" src="http://pakalert.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/pedest.jpg?w=395&#038;h=431#38;h=431" alt="pedest" width="395" height="431" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Obama takes a huge leap beyond Bush’s Afghanistan policy in naming the issue “Af-Pak” — that is, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/28/us/politics/28prexy.html?_r=1" target="_blank">widening </a>the carnage in Afghanistan into Pakistan by moving US troops and launching deadly drones across the Pashtun-populated border.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Although Zionist Jews and imperialist war hawks <a href="http://www.understandingwar.org/otherwork/why-taliban-are-winning-now" target="_blank">applaud</a> Obama for his new “Af-Pak” approach to his unwinnable war, others <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123837495311668059.html" target="_blank">contend</a> that he should have renamed the imperialist war, “Pak-Af,” to emphasize that from the perspective of US interests, the heart of the problem lies in Pakistan. Why?</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Harvard professor of International Affairs, Graham Allison, <a href="http://www.hks.harvard.edu/news-events/news/commentary/real-afghan-issue-is-pakistan" target="_blank">argues</a>: “We must insure that developments in Afghanistan would not undermine Pakistan’s assistance in eliminating al Qaeda — and that Pakistan’s arsenal of nuclear weapons would not fall into the hands of terrorists such as Osama bin Laden.” (Sorry, Graham – al Qaeda <a href="http://pakalert.wordpress.com/2009/08/19/video-bbc-now-admits-al-qaeda-never-existed/" target="_blank">does not exist </a>and Osama bin Laden is <a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/osama_dead.html" target="_blank">dead for over four years</a>.)</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">The question must be asked: What vital national interest does the US have in the region? <a href="http://www.putlearningfirst.com/language/20rhet/bushat.html" target="_blank">Bush stated </a>that <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/28/us/politics/28prexy.html" target="_blank">America’s goal</a> was “to defend the freedom of the Afghans to raise their children free from fear.”</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">But after subjecting Afghan children to the mortal “fear” of US bombs being rained on them daily, Bush changed America’s goal in his <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0524-03.htm" target="_blank">February 2003 speech</a> to the neocon Jews of the American Enterprise Institute to: “building a nation that could stand as a model of democracy in the Muslim world.” And thus, the Zionist-inspired <a href="http://www.aei.org/outlook/15845" target="_blank">Bush Doctrine </a>was born.</p>
<h2 style="text-align:justify;">IRAN &#38; PAKISTAN SIGN PIPE LINE DEAL</h2>
<p style="text-align:justify;">IN A SECRET MEETING SEQUESTERED from the Jewish-controlled press, Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad and Pakistani President Ali Zardari <a href="http://www.ensec.org/index.php?option=com_content&#38;view=article&#38;id=199:iran-pakistan-pipeline-irans-new-economic-lifeline&#38;catid=96:content&#38;Itemid=345" target="_blank">signed a pipeline deal</a> on May 24, 2009 <a href="http://www.jamestown.org/single/?no_cache=1&#38;tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=35076" target="_blank">during a summit </a>in Tehran in which Afghan President Hamid Karzai participated. The two countries plan to connect their economies via exported Iranian gas flowing to Pakistan daily. Construction of the pipeline is due to start in September 2009.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><a href="http://pakalert.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/ipidest.jpg" target="_blank"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-9375" title="ipidest" src="http://pakalert.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/ipidest.jpg?w=430&#038;h=265#38;h=265" alt="ipidest" width="430" height="265" /></a><br />
<a href="http://www.heritage.org/Research/AsiaandthePacific/bg2139.cfm" target="_blank">Discussions began</a> in 1993 between Pakistan and Iran for the pipeline which Iran later proposed extending into India. Dubbed the “peace pipeline,” the Iran–Pakistan–India pipeline (IPI) would traverse from Iran’s gas fields through the Pakistani city of Khuzdar. By expanding into India, Pakistan would <a href="http://www.ensec.org/index.php?option=com_content&#38;view=article&#38;id=199:iran-pakistan-pipeline-irans-new-economic-lifeline&#38;catid=96:content&#38;Itemid=345" target="_blank">amass</a> huge transit fees.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">The Zionist-controlled West sees the deal as having adverse implications for their global petropolicy. For Moscow, the Zionist West’s nemesis, is eager to<a href="http://www.ensec.org/index.php?option=com_content&#38;view=article&#38;id=199:iran-pakistan-pipeline-irans-new-economic-lifeline&#38;catid=96:content&#38;Itemid=345" target="_blank"> join </a>the Iran-Pakistan project in a dominant role. Gazprom is offering to act both as the construction contractor and as the pipeline operator after its completion.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">While for Zionist-controlled America the IPI pipeline is an anathema, for Russia it is an opportunity. Moscow has been concerned that Iranian gas might compete with Russian exports on the European market. A constituency within the European Union that seeks to lessen its dependence on Russia has been <a href="http://www.argumentations.com/Argumentations/StoryDetail_11774.aspx" target="_blank">advocating </a>the construction of the Nabucco pipeline to pump Caspian Sea gas to Europe which would bypass Russia.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://pakalert.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/nabdest1.jpg" target="_blank"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-9377" title="nabdest" src="http://pakalert.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/nabdest1.jpg?w=500&#038;h=245#38;h=245" alt="nabdest" width="500" height="245" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">It is therefore in Russia’s interest to derail the Nabucco Project by diverting Iran’s gas away from Europe and locking it through IPI to the Asian market which for Russia is secondary (80% of Gazprom’s export profits come from the Western European market). To this end, Gazprom is keen to participate in the Iran-Pakistan pipeline project. View <a href="http://www.jamestown.org/single/?no_cache=1&#38;tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=35076" target="_blank">Entire Story</a> <a href="http://www.jamestown.org/single/?no_cache=1&#38;tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=35076" target="_blank">Here</a>, <a href="http://www.heritage.org/Research/AsiaandthePacific/bg2139.cfm" target="_blank">Here</a> &#38; <a href="http://www.ensec.org/index.php?option=com_content&#38;view=article&#38;id=199:iran-pakistan-pipeline-irans-new-economic-lifeline&#38;catid=96:content&#38;Itemid=345" target="_blank">Here</a>.</p>
<h2 style="text-align:justify;">AMERICA DUPED BY PUTIN</h2>
<p style="text-align:justify;">COINING THE TERM “PIPELINEISTAN” to describe the vast network of pipelines in oil-rich Central Asia, <a href="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/KC26Ag01.html" target="_blank">the Asia Times sees</a> the Af-Pak conflict “at the core of “Pipelineistan.” As the Asia Times <a href="http://atimes.com/c-asia/DA25Ag01.html" target="_blank">points out</a>: it’s no coincidence that the map of terror in Central Asia is practically interchangeable with the map of oil.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">How could Russia, the chief energy-player in Eurasia, not interpret the invasions of Afghanistan and Pakistan as a straightforward war for “Pipelineistan?” For plans to destroy the Taliban for <a href="http://www.thedebate.org/thedebate/afghanistan.asp" target="_blank">opposing </a>the American pipeline Unocal, was <a href="http://www.thedebate.org/thedebate/afghanistan.asp" target="_blank">decided</a> long before 9/11.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Obama and his war handlers, (David Rockefeller, Brzezinski, Gates, Jones), are scrambling to find “pipeline” alternatives besides the stalled Nabucco Project. Here are the options:</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><a href="http://pakalert.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/tapidest.jpg" target="_blank"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-9378" title="tapidest" src="http://pakalert.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/tapidest.jpg?w=500&#038;h=298#38;h=298" alt="tapidest" width="500" height="298" /></a><br />
<a href="http://www.independent-bangladesh.com/200803313829/business/india-to-join-turkmenistan-afghanistan-pakistan-gas-pipeline.html" target="_blank"><strong>Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India Pipeline – TAPI</strong></a> would carry natural gas from Turkmenistan via Kandahar in Afghanistan to central Pakistan and on to India. Purpose – to usurp Russia’s energy hold on Europe by diverting Iran’s energy for European consumption. Still in its planning stages, Af-Pak instability and Russia’s <a href="http://www.upi.com/Energy_Resources/2008/03/20/Analysis-Iran-and-Turkmen-gas/UPI-31331206033241" target="_blank">bagging </a>of Turkmenistan energy <a href="http://www.heritage.org/Research/AsiaandthePacific/bg2139.cfm" target="_blank">undermine </a>the pipeline’s viability.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><a href="http://pakalert.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/ambodest.jpg" target="_blank"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-9379" title="ambodest" src="http://pakalert.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/ambodest.jpg?w=500&#038;h=242#38;h=242" alt="ambodest" width="500" height="242" /></a><br />
<a href="http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:y0m5k4BQwLIJ:www.demirovski.com/doc/AMBO%2520Sum.doc+Albanian+Macedonian+Bulgarian+Oil+Corporation+Pipeline+Azerbaijan&#38;cd=10&#38;hl=en&#38;ct=clnk&#38;gl=us" target="_blank">Albanian Macedonian Bulgarian Oil Corporation Pipeline – AMBO</a> would bring oil from the Caspian basin (<a href="http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:y0m5k4BQwLIJ:www.demirovski.com/doc/AMBO%2520Sum.doc+Albanian+Macedonian+Bulgarian+Oil+Corporation+Pipeline+Azerbaijan&#38;cd=10&#38;hl=en&#38;ct=clnk&#38;gl=us" target="_blank">mainly Azerbaijan</a>) through Georgia, Bulgaria, then through so-named ‘Macedonia’ and finally to Albania. Purpose – to usurp Russia’s energy hold on Europe. The <a href="http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:y0m5k4BQwLIJ:www.demirovski.com/doc/AMBO%2520Sum.doc+Albanian+Macedonian+Bulgarian+Oil+Corporation+Pipeline+Azerbaijan&#38;cd=10&#38;hl=en&#38;ct=clnk&#38;gl=us" target="_blank">US-funded </a>AMBO has been held up since 1994 as high financial losses and regional conflicts <a href="http://www.setimes.com/cocoon/setimes/xhtml/en_GB/features/setimes/features/2007/02/14/feature-03" target="_blank">undermine</a> the pipeline’s viability.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><a href="http://pakalert.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/btcdest3.jpg" target="_blank"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-9380" title="btcdest3" src="http://pakalert.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/btcdest3.jpg?w=500&#038;h=290#38;h=290" alt="btcdest3" width="500" height="290" /></a><br />
<strong><a href="http://www.brookings.edu/events/2003/0304russia.aspx" target="_blank">Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Pipeline – BTCP</a> </strong>would bring oil from the Caspian coast of Baku in Azerbaijan to the Mediterranean port of Ceyhan, through Georgia and then Turkey. Purpose – to usurp Russia’s energy hold on Europe. Sabotage by Turkish militants and the Georgian debacle undermine the pipeline’s viability.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>WHEN NATO RESUMED HIGH LEVEL CONTACTS</strong> with Russia in early March this year, US Secretary of State Clinton stated before NATO officials that the US intends “to cooperate with Russia” on Afghanistan. During the same ceremony, however, Dmitri Rogozin, Russia’s envoy to NATO, stated confidently how Russia after the crisis in Georgia “negotiates from a position of strength.”</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">While applauding the re-opening of the Kyrgyzstan Manas Airbase for US transits into Afghanistan, little did the Zionist West know that it was Putin who convinced the Kyrgyz Republic to expel the US from the base in February of 2009 and then bring them back again. At the same time, Putin offered transit rights to the US through Russian airspace. What’s the upshot? Putin makes the continuation of the Afghan mission dependent on his good will.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Beginning in 2007, and crystallizing after Obama took office, Putin has cancelled Afghanistan’s Soviet-era debt and has pursued diplomatic exchanges with Kabul. Recently, an Afghan delegation was invited to Russia to develop a “strategic dialogue between Moscow and Kabul.” In other words, Putin is posturing Russia to have a strong influence over Afghanistan’s domestic politics in the post-election scenario. <a href="http://www.realclearworld.com/articles/2009/06/dont_put_afghanistan_in_reset.html" target="_blank">View Entire Story Here</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Thus, the Zionist West will soon be moaning over the terms of Russia’s “cooperation” which suggest nothing less than that the US is being duped…</p>
<h2><a href="http://pakalert.wordpress.com/2008/12/22/neocon-plans-for-pakistan-exposed/" target="_blank">Zionist Neocon Plans for Pakistan and rest of the World</a></h2>
<h3><span style="color:#ff0000;">Codename: Operation Enduring Turmoil – Pakistan</span></h3>
<p><a href="http://pakalert.wordpress.com/2008/12/22/neocon-plans-for-pakistan-exposed/" target="_blank"><img title="project-for-the-new-american-century-pnac-and-pakistan" src="http://pakalert.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/project-for-the-new-american-century-pnac-and-pakistan.jpg?w=340&#038;h=254#38;h=225&#38;h=254" alt="project-for-the-new-american-century-pnac-and-pakistan" width="340" height="254" /></a></p>
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<h3><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>Overall PNAC plan – The New World Order<br />
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<p><a href="http://pakalert.wordpress.com/2008/12/22/neocon-plans-for-pakistan-exposed/" target="_blank"><img title="overall-pnac-plan" src="http://pakalert.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/overall-pnac-plan.jpg?w=337&#038;h=320#38;h=285&#38;h=320" alt="overall-pnac-plan" width="337" height="320" /></a></p>
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<p style="text-align:center;">TO CONTROL THE WORLD&#8217;S OIL SUPPLY</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Many stories have been written about the Oil War, and I have been reading Pablo Escobar&#8217;s stories for some time.  In March 2009, he published <a href="http://http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175050/pepe_escobar_welcome_to_pipelineistan">Liquid War for Tom Dispatch</a>, a must read .   A few paragraphs to wet your whistle:   </p>
<blockquote><p>Forget the mainstream media&#8217;s obsession with al-Qaeda, Osama &#8220;dead or alive&#8221; bin Laden, the Taliban &#8212; neo, light or classic &#8212; or that &#8220;war on terror,&#8221; whatever name it goes by. These are diversions compared to the high-stakes, hardcore geopolitical game that follows what flows along the pipelines of the planet&#8230;.Energy expert Michael Klare has been instrumental in identifying the key vectors in the wild, ongoing global scramble for power over Pipelineistan. These range from the increasing scarcity (and difficulty of reaching) primary energy supplies to &#8220;the painfully slow development of energy alternatives.&#8221; Though you may not have noticed, the first skirmishes in Pipelineistan&#8217;s Liquid War are already on, and even in the worst of economic times, the risk mounts constantly, given the relentless competition between the West and Asia, be it in the Middle East, in the Caspian theater, or in African oil-rich states like Angola, Nigeria and Sudan.</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align:center;">Map Created by Bremmer at <a href="http://www.viewzone.com/pipeline">www.viewzone.com/pipeline</a></p>
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