Imperial arrogance spells fatal over-reach for the US and Western allies

By Finian Cunningham for PRESSTV - Monday Jul 02, 201205:19 PM GMT

The United States and its Western allies are behaving increasingly like the doomed emperors of the late Roman Empire: decadent, self-indulgent and supremely arrogant.

There seems to be a reckless presumption of boundless, unilateral power. While the US and its left lieutenants, Britain and France, can claim to command the world’s fiercest military machine in the form of NATO, there is nevertheless, paradoxically, a growing sense of fragile, impotence in the face of a fast-changing world.

This past week we have seen yet another manifestation of this Roman Empire syndrome with the astoundingly arrogant conduct of the US, Britain and France at the Geneva conference on Syria. Ostensibly, the summit was called to oversee a peaceful political transition in Syria, which has been ravaged by 16 months of violence.

But the absurdity and obscenity of the Geneva meeting is that the mayhem raging in Syria has largely been inflicted on that country by the same Western powers along with their Turk and Arab proxies. Yet, these Western powers pontificated as usual about international law and respect for human rights. (Of course, the dissembling Western media provide a crucial cloak for their masters to hide what is otherwise a sickening farce.)

Since mid-March 2011, these parties have been arming, funding and directing mercenary militia groups to rip Syria apart from within. No cost in human lives and suffering is too high for the imperial powers to effect their strategic goal of regime change. No-warning car bombs in urban centres, roadside explosives, massacres of families and whole villages are part of the Western instruction manual to terrorise and subvert a sovereign country.

Civilian sources in Syria say communities are living in a state of fear from these NATO-backed foreign mercenaries and opportunistic internal criminal gangs. Families are evicted from their homes, which are then turned into sniper nests or bomb factories; shopkeepers are warned to close down their premises or see them burned to the ground. “These gangs are not Syrian. We can tell from their accents and beards that they are foreigners from Libya, Iraq, Saudi,” said one young woman from Damascus, who added that she feared her country would be turned into the NATO-induced post-apocalyptic disaster that is currently Libya.

So for the Western triumvirate of Washington, London and Paris to assume the position of drawing up a “peace plan” for Syria is as preposterous as expecting a group of arsonists to come up with proposals to quench a blaze that they have instigated.

To add insult to injury, even when the Geneva meeting over the weekend concluded with a statement on a political transition that does not exclude the incumbent Syrian President Bashar Al Assad - at the insistence of Russia and China - the imperium’s foreign ministers Hillary Clinton, William Hague and Laurent Fabius insisted that “Assad must step down”. Clinton, with magisterial arrogance, said: “Assad will still have to go… he cannot be part of Syria’s future… Russia and China will have to show him the writing on the wall.”

Indeed, Clinton gave notice that, in the wake of the Geneva summit, the US will be returning to the UN Security Council to demand more sanctions against Syria and to seek a mandate for “no fly zones” and “humanitarian corridors” - which is euphemistic language for NATO military intervention.

What we can be sure of in the coming weeks is a vice-like move by the Western powers. On the one hand, there will be an even greater escalation of violence on the ground against Syrian society by the NATO, Turkish and Arab-backed death squads. Ever since the supposed Kofi Annan peace plan was implemented on 12 April, avowedly with the support of Western powers, the NATO-backed mercenaries of the self-styled Free Syrian Army have ratcheted up the violence, making it impossible for any ceasefire to take hold. In the past week, in the run-up to the Geneva conference, the conflict and casualties surged, with explosions in Aleppo, Damascus, Hama, Homs, Dayr al Zawr and Idlib.

As Syria becomes ever more unstable and blood-soaked from NATO mercenaries, and with the Western corporate controlled media dutifully pumping out their government propaganda narrative that it is the state forces of Assad that are “massacring civilians”, the scene will be set for the diplomatic hand to tighten the vice-like grip.

The pressure on Assad to step down may become unbearable given the mounting civilian casualties and commercial mayhem inflicted by Western-backed covert war. This abdication would be unwarranted of course given the popular mandate, but the president may feel that sacrificing his office may be the only way to alleviate the pain on his people.

Alternatively, the US-led NATO powers will push for “responsibility to protect” no fly zones or safe havens. In fact, the latter development is already under way with Turkey’s militarization of its southern border with Syria after the downing of the Turk warplane last week and Ankara’s warning to Damascus to keep its troops removed from the frontier. This “humanitarian intervention” by NATO will follow the Libyan precedent in which NATO becomes the air force for its proxy militias on the ground. “Responsibility to protect” will quickly transmogrify into “responsibility to bomb” the Syrian government of Assad into defeat.

All of these pernicious designs on Syria over the past 16 months and in the coming weeks are utterly criminal. The NATO interference in Syria is aimed at regime change and is an integral part of a wider military roadmap for Western hegemony in the oil-rich Middle East, Central Asia and North Africa. To be sure, rhetorical pronouncements by Washington, London and Paris on democratic principles, human rights and respect for international law are displays of the most abject cynicism and duplicity. These powers are the diametric opposite to what they proclaim to represent: they are pariah terror states that are out of control.

The destruction of Syria by Western powers is apiece with the destruction by these same powers in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen. News reports are coming in of the US now using drone air strikes in the West Africa country of Mali. This insatiable march to endless wars is accompanied by Western so-called democracies allying with the most repressive dictatorships of Saudi Arabia and other Arab monarchies, as well as enlisting the manpower of Al Qaeda and other shadowy Islamic extremists. The gap between Western pretentious rhetoric and grim reality has now diverged to a chasm.

As American author and analyst Webster Tarpley pointed out recently, Washington and its allies have no longer a modicum of respect for sovereignty of countries. The Western powers are on a mission to plunder the planet in a vain bid to salvage their own debt-ridden, bankrupt societies.

The seeming indifference of Western governments to the chasm in their rhetoric and reality - glaringly obvious to the rest of the world - is the mark of supreme arrogance, the Roman Empire syndrome.

But history shows that every empire has its day of reckoning. As with the Imperium Romani, the height of expansion by the Imperium Americana may also signal a fatal strain of over-reach. While its nefarious foreign military adventurism in Syria and elsewhere seems unstoppable at the moment, the latent social implosion in the US and across Europe may well herald the eventual sacking of this empire - from within.

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To solve the problem of poverty

by Louis Even
There are a lot of good things in our country, but many individuals and families who need these goods lack the right to have them, the permission to get them. Is there anything lacking but money? What is lacking, apart from the purchasing power to make the products go from stores to homes?
Money begins somewhere

But then where does money begin, the money that we lack in order to buy the goods that are not lacking?

The first idea that we keep alive in our minds, without really realizing it, is that there is one fixed quantity of money, and that it cannot be changed; as if it was the sun, or the rain, or the weather. This idea is utterly wrong; if there is money, it is because it was made somewhere. If there is not more, it is because those who made it did not make more.

Another prevalent belief about the origin of money is that the Government makes it. This is also incorrect. The Government today does not create money, and complains continuously about not having any. If the Government were the source of money, it would not have sat around idly for ten years in front of the lack of money. (And there would not be a $500-billion national debt.) The Government takes and borrows, but it does not create money.
Our standard of living, in a country where money is lacking, is not regulated by the volume of goods produced, but by the amount of money at our disposal to buy these goods. So those who control the volume of money, control our standard of living. “Those who control money and credit have become the masters of our lives... No one dare breathe against their will.” (Pius XI, Encyclical Letter Quadragesimo Anno).
Two kinds of money
Money is whatever serves to pay, to buy; whatever is accepted in exchange for goods or services.
There are at present two kinds of money in Canada: one we call pocket money, made of metal or paper; and the other we shall call book money, made of figures in a ledger. Pocket money is the least important; book money is the most important.
Book money is the bank account. Business operates through bank accounts. Whether pocket money circulates or not depends on the state of business. But business does not depend upon pocket money; it is kept going by the bank accounts of businessmen.

With a bank account, one makes payments or purchases without using metal nor paper money. One buys with figures.

Let us suppose I have a bank account of $40,000. I buy a car worth $10,000. I make my payment by a cheque. The car dealer endorses the cheque, and deposits it at his bank.

The banker then makes changes in two accounts: first, that of the car dealer, which he increases by $10,000; then mine, which he decreases by $10,000. The car dealer had $500,000 — he now has $510,000 written in his bank account. I had $40,000 in mine — my bank account now shows $30,000.

Paper money did not move in the country because of this deal. I simply gave some figures to the car dealer. I paid with figures. More than nine-tenths of all business is done this way. It is book money, the money made of figures, which is modern money; it is the most abundant money; its volume is ten times that of paper or metal money. It is a superior type of money, since it gives wings to the other. It is the safest kind of money, the one that no one can steal.

Savings and borrowings

Book money, like the other type of money, has a beginning. Since book money is a bank account, it comes into existence when a bank account is opened without money decreasing anywhere, neither in another bank account nor in anyone's pocket.

The amount in a bank account can be increased in two ways: by saving and by borrowing. There are other ways, but they can be classified under borrowing.

The savings account is a transformation of money. I bring along some pocket money to the banker; he increases my account by this amount. I no longer have that pocket money; I have book money at my disposal. I can get back pocket money by decreasing the amount of book money in my account. It is a simple transformation of money.

But since we are trying to find out how money comes into existence, the savings account, being a simple transformation of money, is of no interest to us here.

The borrowing (or loan) account is the account lent by the banker to a borrower. Let us suppose I am a businessman. I want to set up a new factory. All I need is money. I go to a bank and borrow $100,000 under security. The banker makes me sign a promise to pay back the amount with interest. Then he lends me the $100,000.
Is he going to hand me the $100,000 in paper money? I do not want it. First, it is too risky. Furthermore, I am a businessman who buys things at different and widely separated places, through the medium of cheques. What I want is a bank account of $100,000 which will make it easier for me to carry on business.

The banker will therefore lend me an account of $100,000. He will credit my account with $100,000, just as if I had brought that amount to the bank. But I did not bring it; I came to get it.

Is it a savings account, set up by me? No, it is a borrowing account made by the banker himself, for me.
Money creators

This account of $100,000 was made, not by me, but by the banker. How did he make it? Did the amount of money in the bank decrease when the banker lent me $100,000? Well, let us ask the banker:
— Mr. Banker, have you any less money in your vault after having lent me $100,000?
— I haven't gone into my vault.

— Have other people's accounts been reduced?
— They remain exactly as they were.
— Then what was decreased in the bank?

— Nothing was decreased.
— Yet my account has been increased. From where did the money you lent me come?

— It didn't come from anywhere.
— Where was it when I came into the bank?
— It didn't exist.

— And now that it is in my account, it exists. So we can say that it was created.

— Certainly.

— Who created it, and how?
— I did, with my pen and a drop of ink when I inscribed $100,000 to your credit, at your request.
— Then you create money?
— The banks create book money, the money of figures. That's the modern money that puts into circulation the other type of money by keeping business on the move.

The banker manufactures money, ledger money, when he lends accounts to borrowers, individuals, or governments. When I leave the bank, there will exist in this country a new source of cheques, one that did not exist before. The total amount of all accounts in the country was increased by $100,000. With this new money, I will pay the workers, buy materials and machinery — in short, build my new factory. Who, then, creates money? — The bankers!

Money destroyers

The bankers, and the bankers alone, make this kind of money: script or bank money, the money that keeps business moving. But they do not give away the money they create. They lend it. They lend it for a certain period of time, after which it must be returned to them. The bankers must be repaid.

The bankers claim interest on this money that they have created. In my case, the banker will probably demand $10,000 from me in interest, at once. He will withhold it from the loan, and I will leave the bank with $90,000 in my account, having signed a promise to repay $100,000 in one year's time.
In building my factory, I will pay my men, buy things, and thus spread my bank account of $90,000 throughout the country.

But within a year, I must, through the profits I make selling my goods for more than they cost me, build my account up to not less than $100,000.

At the end of the year, I will pay back the loan by making out a cheque for $100,000 on my account. The banker will then debit my account by $100,000, therefore taking from me this $100,000 I have drawn from the country by selling my goods. He will not put this money into the account of anyone. No one will be able to draw cheques on this $100,000. It is dead money.

Borrowing gives birth to money. Repayment brings about its extinction. The bankers bring money into existence when they make a loan. The bankers send money to the grave when they are repaid. The bankers are therefore also destroyers of money.

And the system so operates that the repayment must be greater than the original loan; the death figures must exceed the birth figures; the destruction must exceed the creation.

This seems impossible, and collectively, it is impossible. If I succeed, someone else must go bankrupt, because, all together, we are not able to repay more money than has been made. The bankers create nothing but the capital sum. No one creates what is necessary to make up the interest, because no one else creates money. And yet, the bankers demand both capital and interest. Such a system cannot hold out except for a continuous and ever-increasing flow of loans. Hence the system of debts, and the strengthening of the dominating power of the banks.

The national debt

The Government does not create money. When the Government can no longer tax nor borrow from individuals, due to the scarcity of money, it borrows from the banks. The operation takes place exactly like mine. As a guarantee, it pledges the whole country. The promise to pay back is the debenture. The loan of the money is an account made by a pen and some ink.
And the country's population finds itself collectively indebted for a production that, collectively, it made itself! It is the case for war production. It is the case also for peacetime production: roads, bridges, waterworks, schools, churches, etc.
The monetary defect

The situation comes down to this inconceivable thing: all the money in circulation comes only from the banks. Even metal and paper money comes into circulation only if it has been released by the banks.
Now the banks put money into circulation only by lending it out at interest. This means that all the money in circulation comes from the banks, and must someday be returned to the banks, increased with the interest.
The banks remain the owners of the money. We are only the borrowers. If some manage to hang on to their money for a long period of time, or even permanently, others are necessarily incapable of fulfilling their financial commitments.
A multiplicity of bankruptcies, both for individuals and companies, mortgage upon mortgage, and an ever-increasing public debt, are the natural fruits of such a system.

Decline and degradation

This way of making the country's money, by forcing governments and individuals into debt, establishes a real dictatorship over governments and individuals alike.
The sovereign Government has become a signatory of debts to a small group of profiteers. A minister, who represents millions of men, women and children, signs unpayable debts. The bankers, who represent a clique interested only in profit and power, manufacture the country's money.
This is one striking aspect of the degeneration of power of which Pope Pius XI spoke: governments have surrendered their noble functions, and have become the servants of private interests.

As for individuals, the scarcity of money develops a mentality of wolves. In front of plenty, only those who have money — the too scarce symbol of goods — have the right to draw on that plenty. Hence the competition, the tyranny of the “boss”, domestic strife, etc. A small number preys on all the others. The great mass of the people groans, many in the most degrading poverty.
The social control of money

It is Saint Louis, King of France, who said: “The first duty of a king is to coin money when it is necessary for the sound economic life of his subjects.”

Book money is a good modern invention that should be retained. But instead of it proceeding from a private pen, in the form of a debt, those figures, which serve as money, should come from the pen of a national organism, in the form of money destined to serve the people.

One must stop suffering from privations when there is everything needed in the country to bring comfort into every home. The amount of money should be measured according to the demand of the consumers for possible and useful goods.

It is therefore the producers and consumers as a whole, the whole of society, which, in producing goods in front of needs, should determine the amount of new money that an organism, acting in the name of society, should put into circulation from time to time, in accordance with the country's developments.
Thus the people would recover their right to live full lives, in accordance with the country's resources and the great possibilities of modern production.
Who owns the new money?

Money should therefore be put into circulation according to the rate of production and as the needs of distribution dictate.

But to whom does this new money belong when it comes into circulation in the country? — This money belongs to the citizens themselves. It does not belong to the Government, which is not the owner of the country, but only the protector of the common good; nor does it belong to the accountants of the national monetary organ- ism: like judges, they carry out a social function and are paid, according to law, by society for their services.
To which citizens? — To all. This money is not a salary. It is new money injected into the public, so that the people, as consumers, may obtain goods already made or easily realizable, which are awaiting only sufficient purchasing power for them to be produced.
There is no other way, in all fairness, of putting this new money into circulation than by distributing it equally among all citizens without exception. Such a sharing also makes it possible to derive the maximum benefit from the money, since it reaches into every corner of the land.

Whenever it might become necessary to increase the amount of money in a country, each man, woman and child, regardless of age, would thus get his or her share of the new stage of progress that makes the new money necessary.

This is not payment for a job done, but a dividend to each one for his share in a common capital. If there is private property, there is also community property that all possess in the same way.
Result: order restored

What, according to us, would be the effect of this financial reform? First of all, in a general way, order would be restored in the money sector, consequently in economics, with echoes in the political and social spheres.
Goods would be made to serve needs. The accumulation of money would stop being the commanding aim of industry. (And one would therefore not need to create artificial needs to sell useless products, thus reducing waste and pollution.)
The way to obtain the implementation of an honest money system is to form a public opinion sufficiently enlightened and motivated to make a successful demand for it. So there is no question of an election campaign, but rather of an education campaign.

This propagation of study among the masses requires the devoted efforts of numerous apostles who are not afraid of self-abnegation and sacrifice. And it is still in order. The present disorder is the result of all kinds of selfishness. All this must be expiated and corrected. As Pope John Paul II put it in his encyclical letter Sollicitudo Rei Socialis: “These attitudes and `structures of sin' (love of money and power) are only conquered – presupposing the help of divine grace – by a diametrically opposed attitude: a commitment to the good of one's neighbour.” (n. 38)
So, the surest and only way of advancing the cause of honest money is that method which develops study and devotion. This is the method advocated by the Pilgrims of St. Michael, with the “Michael” Journal. Come to our meetings, order leaflets like this one to distribute around you, solicit subscriptions to the “Michael” Journal!
Louis Even

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The USA: Military Arm Of The New World Order

Posted on May 31, 2012 by cosmicconvergence2012

 

Is there any doubt that the United States of America is the military arm of the New World Order (NWO), as it has been since World War I?
Just as the City of London has functioned as the world headquarters for the financial arm of the NWO, and Vatican City has functioned as the religious headquarters for the NWO, Washington, DC has functioned as the military headquarters for the NWO.
Surely you have read or heard by now that each of these city states was set up as an autonomous political entity so that no one could control them except their masters within the Global Control Matrix (GCM). When you understand this reality, you can clearly understand all that has taken place with the US of A for the past hundred years. Viet Nam (What on earth were we ever doing there?), Korea (Why was MacArthur willing to drop an atom bomb there?), Argentina and Chile (The CIA plot to assassinate Allende was also about what?), Iraq (Twice!!), Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran (Economic warfare and stealth bombings), Cambodia and Laos, Cuba and Grenada, Nicaragua and El Salvador, Honduras and Panama, East Timor and Suharto’s Indonesian, Serbia and Bosnia, Somalia and Yemen, Libya and Syria, etc. etc., etc. Will the bellicose behavior ever end?!

If Americans only felt the pain and suffering caused by the US Government's war machine....

Here’s a pretty comprehensive listing of most of the overt military aggressions, conflicts, interventions engaged by the USA since 1775. This listing of “Extraterritorial and major domestic deployments”, as Wikipedia calls it, is as lengthy as it is overwhelming.
Timeline of United States military operations  
There is no country on earth, not even the once all powerful British Empire, that has been engaged in so much military aggression over the past 100 years. Clearly, America’s destiny was to act as the enforcement strong-arm for the World Shadow Government (WSG). And so it does. Right up to this very day in both Syria and Libya, Iraq and Afghanistan. Even when American troops leave those theaters of war altogether, the USA will still enforce the dictates of the WSG, carry out the orders of the GCM and follow the agenda of the NWO by proxy.

What follows is a short photo-documentary of the symbolism of the NWO, especially as it appears in the capitals of aforementioned city states. Each of these obelisks is purposely located, specifically positioned and deliberately placed in relation to other power structures, all of which are designed to draw energy from each other.

Washington Monument in Washington, DC

Cleopatra's Needle in the City of London

Vaticano Obelisk in Vatican City

Architecture is both telling and significant in the unfoldment of the global agenda over centuries of the New World Order. In truth, what we see all about us is not the New World Order, but rather the Old World Order with a new and improved name — NWO. Looked at another way, the New World Order of which we all speak has been firmly in place for many decades in the US, and for many centuries throughout much of the world. With each advancement of the society and development of the civilization the NWO has simply morphed into a new manifestation.
However, the true hidden agenda remains throughout its entire existence, as do the basic strategies and tactics for keeping it in a position of ascendancy. Has anything really changed since the days of Rome – the First Reich? Or since Spain ruled a big parcel of the planet? Or since the days when the sun never set on the British Empire? Now that the Fourth Reich has come into its own in the form of Pax Americana, we can say that the 3rd Reich never even existed in Germany, except to set the stage for the American Empire.
So, there you have it — the 4th Reich is actually the nation which was supposed to have defeated the illusory 3rd Reich. What an awesome display of smoke and mirrors! Boy, did our history books ever miss this rather consequential and critical takeover of the 20th Century?!
United States Militarism, Global Instability and Environmental Destruction
What’s it like to live in the Belly of the Beast?
For all of us alive during the Viet Nam War, we can only answer that question by saying that it is at once wild and crazy, unpredictable and tumultuous, quite schizophrenic and frustrating. How so? When you pay unlawful taxes to a rogue government which uses the revenue to fund a military machine that wages war against the weakest nations among us, you … … …
When the electoral system is so fixed that both political parties are obviously two sides of the very same coin. And both candidates are beholden to the very same master. And when both platforms guarantee a war posture throughout the world that will always come at the expense of economic justice, social equity and environmental concerns … … …

"Juggernaut: a massive, inexorable force that crushes everything in its path." — Oxford Dictionary

As US citizens who have grown up within the confines of American society, we have been so conditioned to believe that America can do no wrong … when in fact the US Federal Government has evolved into a global bully which can do very little right outside of its own borders. What can be said about a juggernaut that just rolls its well oiled military machine across the planet, anytime it wants to?!
The reason that the USA has institutionalized might makes right is because it possesses just enough might to hold sway. Where “You’re either with us or against us” worked during the Bush dictatorships, it won’t work in the years to come. Even with the fraudulent smiles of Obama putting a friendly face on war, American hegemony is on its last gasps. The financial and economic state of the union is making the projection of American power virtually impossible to sustain into this new millennium. The carrot and stick approach taken toward our international neighbors is simply untenable going forward. How do you spell E C O N O M I C —> D E P R E S S I O N ?
Neither the carrot nor the stick can be paid for any longer, especially with a federal debt ballooning out of control for decades. Which brings us back to the plight of the nation due to its role as the “Military Arm Of The New World Order”. The unfortunate predicament of the baby boomers and beatniks is quickly manifesting, as many have been forced to postpone their retirements. Many have even been financially compelled to come out of retirement. Not a nice situation! Especially when you have been sickened by the excesses of American corpocracy.
Corporate fascism will all but guarantee that every entitlement program will eventually come under intense scrutiny. Therefore, the entire security net placed around the society is vulnerable to being torn in various and sundry ways. Just like Rome, the price of empire must always be paid sooner or later. With the real estate and stock market crashes of 2007 and 2008 respectively, the repercussions are slowly being felt given the massive degree of asset deflation which has been taking place in slow motion.
How long before the USA decides to shrink its appropriations for defense (war-making and conflict management yankee-style)? How much longer can the Defense Budget be greater than all the other defense budgets of all the other nations in the world put together?! When total military outlays exceeds 50% of all expenditures made in the conduct of the nation’s business, we have a very serious problem. Either the USA has a lot of enemies, or the US Government plans on making a lot of enemies.
Did you know that “the United States accounts for 47 percent of the world’s total military spending, however the U.S.’s share of the world’s GDP is about 21 percent.”[1] There’s quite a bit of other very interesting information at the same site, incidentally at WarResisters.org. Like the answers to the question that is asked about how safe we are with so much military spending[2].

Modern-day coliseums, video games and bovine growth hormone
American society has been ordered in such a way so as to justify these wildly exorbitant expenditures on constant military buildup and war machine maintenance. This has been accomplished in a number of ways, most of which occur below the radar. The drumbeat heard in every sports stadium in the country is one example. Each athletic season has its own sport which so mesmerizes the nation that the Super Bowl commercials are the most expensive in TV history. The relentless and fierce competition keep a populace conditioned in the constant state of “taking sides”. Winning at all cost becomes the mantra, for young kids and elderly octogenarians alike.
The subliminal psychological conditioning which takes place throughout the sports culture is so effective it often forms the moral touchstone for youth even as they mature. The locker rooms they grew up in function as the gladiator pits of old. The constant din of drum and horn provide the foretaste of what is to occur before the athletic combat, just as occurred on the battlefields of yore. The cheering and hand-clapping provide encouragement to win … no matter what the sacrifice. To win at all costs.
The jam-packed stadiums provide a moral backdrop for all that transpires in these present-day coliseums offering both prestige and glorification for all the actions conducted in the interest of winning. The ubiquitous office betting pools even allow those who can’t attend the weekend ‘big event’ to participate vicariously through their bets, small though they may be. Of course, the hats and caps, shirts and jerseys, keep alive the mantras of athletic battles, mimicking the helmets and shoulder pads worn on the field.
Welcome to the dominant American past-time, *football* seven days a week during season and especially on every major holiday.

Next we come to violent video games. What better way to capture a young and impressionable mind than to steer it in the direction of gratuitous and mindless violence. After years of exposure to this highly effective mind control program, some kids will quite willingly pick up a gun and shoot their own friends, much less ‘the enemy’ in a foreign land. Not too difficult to perceive the agenda behind the extraordinary proliferation of shockingly violent kid vids.
Then there are all the food additives, vitamin enrichments, protein powders, super hormones, muscles mass builders and other newfangled chemical magic that is supposed to make the kid … adolescent … young adult bigger and stronger, faster and taller. Bovine growth hormone is just one of many measures taken to ensure that the kids who grow up in the land of American Empire will assume a profile on the battlefield that is substantially larger and more intimidating than any foreigner he comes face to face with in any combat zone around the globe. Also known as BGH or BST (short for Bovine somatotropin), this synthetic hormone is of course a product of Monsanto and guaranteed to grow you big.

“Since 1994 it has been possible to synthesize the BST hormone using recombinant DNA technology to create recombinant bovine somatotropin (rBST), recombinant bovine growth hormone (rBGH), or artificial growth hormone. Monsanto was the first to develop the technology and marketed it as “Posilac”—a brand now owned by Elanco Animal Health, a division of Eli Lilly and Company.
Posilac was banned from use in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Israel and all European Union countries (currently numbering 27), by 2000 or earlier.”[2]

What does an Iraqi or Afghani think and feel when confronted with such an alien soldier decked out with battle accoutrements that only billions of $$$s can buy?

Sure isn’t a nice way to meet your neighbors, is it?! Especially when that huge, muscular, BGH-fed body is attired in full body combat gear. Would you want to mess with a piece of work that looks like this ? ? ?
When you’re buying guns, you’re not buying butter.
The USA has been known for years not to take care of their poor, their homeless, their war veterans, their single moms, their mentally handicapped, their physically disabled, their medically uninsured, their unborn. Basically the most vulnerable and powerless in American society have always received short shrift. Except now that predicament is about to be extended to an entire demographic(s). From baby boomers who cannot be supported by a shrinking tax base to recent college grads who can’t even get a job, and who are living with their baby boomer parents. All because the USA is used as the military arm of the World Shadow Government.
Wow, where do we go from here?
What else is sacrificed in the interest of controlling the natural resources of the planet? Well, just about everything eventually. The whole way of life has been mortgaged for so long, and for so many years into the future. When the federal debt ceiling is forever increased to accommodate war expenditures which have no basis in reality, what can possibly be expected.
At this late date, we truly wonder what could save the USA from the crazy and convoluted karma it has created for well over a century. Should the Highest Power grant a reprieve surely such mercy would come with the price tag of good ole fashioned repentence, yes? Perhaps the following omen ought to be considered much more closely.
9/11: An OMEN for the New Millennium
In the meantime we all suffer with the following facts of life in a country that is consigned to starting and ending all wars throughout the earthly realm:
(i) a flouridated water supply to compromise the pineal gland and remove critical thinking from the populace
(ii) chemtrail-laden air to weaken and undermine the immune system forcing the unaware into the clutches of the pharmaceutical-medical complex.
(iii) food that is devoid of minerals and other essential nutritive constituents because of chemical farming, which also poisons the land and leaves toxins in the produce.
(iv) vaccination programs which inject mercury, sqaulene and other dangerous substances into the delicate and sensitive bodies of our children.
(v) a pharmaceutical regime that is enforced and promoted with zeal in every medical establishment across the land
(vi) an all-powerful medical complex that encourages chemo, radiation and surgery, as it discourages the alternative healing modalities, holistic wellness approaches and natural methods of curing
(vii) an obnoxious TV or two or three in every household beaming negative energy and propaganda messages which disseminate violence, profanity, sex and crudity 24/7
(viii) an educational system which indoctrinates with propaganda and brainwashes with false facts and figures that are as meaningless as they are dangerous to the impressionable mind
(ix) a political order that does’t even maintain the appearance of propriety or act in the interest of the people
(x) an economic marketplace and financial system devoid of integrity, whose institutions have been in a free-fall collapse since the crash of 2008
(xi) social disintegration lead by the destruction of the nuclear family, proliferation of sexual deviance, promotion of the celebrity society, glorification of mercenary sports, spreading of fanatical religiosity, and worship of the Almighty Dollar

Chemtrails are a form of Atmospheric Engineering which contain barium salts and aluminum oxide.

Let’s stop here before anyone gets too depressed and falls into despair. There is after all a very bright side to this whole undeniable scenario. It is this:
Each of us was put here to live our lives the best way we know how. During the Viet Nam War (VNW), the hippies and beatniks and peace activists were successful in shutting down a major corporate-driven war. Perhaps the first time in recorded history that a popular movement was responsible for accomplishing such a feat. An extraordinary feat of courage and bravery, of principle and idealism, of perseverance and endurance, of faith and love. Truly, the termination of the Viet Nam War was one of the greatest acts by the greatest popular movement of the modern era.
What does the VNW have to do with us and where the world is today? The very same spirit that shut down that war can bring the current USA war machine to a halt. Just as Ron Paul won most of the straw polls within the Republican primary season because of his platform to close up the US military bases worldwide and bring home the troops, a political sea change is ripe for the happening because there is a very strong and pervasive sentiment to change the course of American foreign policy …  forever.
Only the people can alter such a deeply rooted military culture. Only the electorate can vote out* of office the war parties and war candidates who are personally enriched by such a self-destructive agenda. Only a steeled will and courageous heart can break the military arm of the NWO.
*If no one ever voted for the lesser of the two evils (both parties obviously represent two sides of the same counterfeit coin), then the system could be sufficiently collapsed to begin anew. Not voting is also voting, as well as a potent way of registering your complete rejection of the current electoral process.

Cosmic Convergence Research Group
Submitted: June 1, 2012
cosmicconvergence2012@gmail.com

Endnotes:
[1] The Federal Pie Chart: “Where Your Income Tax Money Really Goes” — WarResisters.org
[2] List of United States military bases reflected 761 US military bases scattered around the globe in 2008 according to: The US Has 761 Military Bases Across the Planet, and We Simply Never Talk About It
[3] “Bovine somatotropin” – Wikipedia @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bovine_Growth_Hormone
**Pat Tillman, an American football star who volunteered to serve his country as an Army ranger, found out the hard way about the real US foreign policy that is administered at the end of the barrel of gun. After the US Army used his image to draft lots of 18 year olds, Pat was killed by friendly fire after revealing his anti-war views and intentions to tell the truth about the illegal invasion of Iraq. He came to regard the US military involvement in Afghanistan as a war crime, which he then made the mistake of sharing during his tour of duty there. In Pat Tillman’s case, we have a true hero not because he served bravely in the Armed Forces, but because he was willing to sacrifice his reputation and life to tell the truth about the barbarism of American war policy.
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Israel's Nuclear, Biological And Chemical Weapons

By Stephen Lendman

Israel's long known open secret is its formidable nuclear arsenal. Less is known about its chemical and biological weapons (CBW) capability. More on that below.

In 1986, Dimona nuclear technician Mordechai Vanunu revealed documents showing what many long suspected. Israel had been secretly developing, producing and stockpiling nuclear weapons for years.

Experts called his information genuine. They revealed sophisticated technology able to amass a formidable nuclear arsenal. Today it's more potent than ever.

In his 1991 book titled "The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and America Foreign Policy," Seymour Hersh discussed its strategy to launch massive nuclear counterattacks in response to serious enough threats.

In his 1997 book titled "Open Secrets: Israeli Nuclear and Foreign Policies," Israel Shahak said Israel won't hesitate using nuclear or other weapons to advance its "hegemony over the entire Middle East."

In 2006, former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told Germany's Sat. 1 channel:

"Iran, openly, explicitly and publicly, threatens to wipe Israel off the map. Can you say that this is the same level, when they are aspiring to have nuclear weapons, as America, France, Israel and Russia?"

Later he denied what viewers clearly heard him say. Calls for him to step down followed. So did accusations of ineptitude for acknowledging Israeli nuclear weapons publicly.

Israel always stuck to its nuclear ambiguity position. Olmert later backtracked. Damage control didn't assuage criticism. Opposition party members called him irresponsible.

Meretz party member Yossi Beilin said:

"The prime minister's amazing statement regarding nuclear capability indicates a lack of caution bordering on irresponsibility."

Olmert's approval rating plunged. Aides tried frantically to limit damage. His spokesman, Miri Eisin, said his comments didn't mean Israel had or wants nuclear weapons.

Of course, the cat was out of the bag after Mordechai Vanunu revealed it 20 years earlier.  Damage control made things worse. Vanunu welcomed Olmert's admission, accidental or otherwise. He hoped he said it intentionally, saying:

"For 20 years, they tried to deny me and my story, but the policy of cheating and lying didn't succeed."

Changes are taking place, he added. He hoped his situation would improve. It didn't. He still chafes under repressive Israeli policies. Practically under house arrest, he's harassed. His fundamental rights are denied. He wants his citizenship revoked and permission to leave, but Israel won't grant either right.

He's a legend in his own time. He only wants to live free. After what Israel put him through for decades, he deserves that much and more.

Israel refuses to discuss its nuclear capability.  Others are less reticent. On May 4, Haaretz headlined "Israel's atomic arsenal could fall victim to a new US nuclear policy," saying:

Visiting Hiroshima last February, escorts "drew (Israeli Defense Secretary Ehud Barak's) attention to a map of the world listing the number of nuclear warheads in the possession of the atomic powers. There is a number next to Israel's name, too: '80.' Barak did not respond."

Most experts believe Israel has hundreds of warheads and sophisticated long-range delivery systems.

"According to a (late 1990s) secret document of the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency....leaked during the period of the George W. Bush administration, Israel had '60 to 80' nuclear warheads in 1999."

The Pentagon updates its data regularly. It keeps close watch on all nuclear powers and suspected ones like North Korea.

Israel never signed the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT). In 1969, Nixon and Prime Minister Golda Meir mutually agreed that Israel's nuclear capability wouldn't harm relations. In 1998, so did Clinton and Netanyahu. In 2009, Obama continued past policy.

Expect change eventually. Israel's belligerency over Iran's peaceful nuclear program may "boomerang" on its military one.

Israel's Chemical and Biological Weapons (CBW)

Israel signed the 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), but didn't ratify it. It never signed the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention (BWC). Its policy is CBW ambiguity.

In 1993, the US Congress Office of Technology Assessment WMD proliferation assessment included Israel as a nation having undeclared offensive chemical warfare capabilities. In 1998, former Deputy Assistant Defense Secretary Bill Richardson said:

"I have no doubt that Israel has worked on both chemical and biological offensive things for a long time. There's no doubt they've had stuff for years."

Israel tests new weapons in combat. Against Lebanon in 2006 and Gaza during Cast Lead, it used direct energy weapons, chemical and/or biological agents, and others producing injuries and symptoms medical professionals never previously saw.

For example, bodies with dead tissue had no apparent wounds. Corpses were found shrunken. Civilians had heavy lower limb damage requiring amputations. Nonetheless, unstoppable necrosis followed (death of cells and living tissue) followed by death.

Internal wounds had no trace of shrapnel. Corpses were blackened but not burned. Some badly wounded victims didn’t bleed. The Palestinian health ministry said Israel used a new type explosive in Gaza. It contained toxins and radioactive materials. They burned and tore victims’ bodies from the inside. They also left long term deformations.

A Palestinian doctor accused Israel of using chemical ammunition that burns and injures soft tissue, but can’t be traced by X-rays. Severe internal wounds were reported. Unknown gases believed to be nerve agents were used. Those affected lost consciousness for about 24 hours. They experienced high fevers and muscle rigidity. Some needed urgent blood transfusions.

In Gaza, white phosphorous was used. It burns flesh to the bone. Depleted uranium spread radioactive contamination. Close-range explosives caused severe injuries, requiring amputations. Children had legs cut off, abdomens sliced open, or died because nothing could save them.

In June 2011, CounterPunch contributor Saleh El-Naami headlined "Exposing Israel's Most Dangerous Secret," saying:

Only authorized personnel have access to the Israeli Institute for Biological Research (IIBR). Israel calls it "a governmental, applied research institute specializing in the fields of biology, medicinal chemistry and environmental sciences."

Others reveal IIBR is "where Israel develops its biological and chemical weapons and prepares for any eventuality of biological or chemical warfare." Its facility  is Israel's "most top-secret military installation...."

Official censorship prohibits anything discussed about it. One exception only occurred after long-term employee Avisha Klein sued "for harassment and emotional abuse."

She was part of a team developing mustard gas protective ointment. During proceedings, more information came out.

IIBR has hundreds of scientists and technicians. Its many departments specialize in chemical and biological weapons research, development and production. One is a poison used for assassinations.

In 1977, Prime Minister Menachem Begin ordered Mossad to eliminate Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine leader Wadie Haddad. He was fond of Belgian chocolates. Mossad coated some with "a slow-acting poison, and had them delivered to Haddad...."

The substance had "undetectable properties." Haddad's health deteriorated. Flown to East Germany for treatment, he was diagnosed with leukemia and died on March 29, 1978. Thirty-two years later, the truth came out. IIBR's poison killed him.

Other assassinations were conducted the same way. IIBR specializes in toxic substances and protective vaccines. Anthrax research got attention. Israel feared enemies might use it.

IIBR works closely with Israeli military and intelligence operations. They list priorities. IIBR works on them.

"For example, information that has come to light during the coverage of Klein’s suit reveals that many years ago the Israeli military establishment was concerned that Arab states might use such chemical agents as mustard gas in an potential assault against Israel and, therefore, instructed the institute to develop a chemical substance to minimise the effects of the gas."

Israeli soldiers were used to test vaccines. Some experienced "permanent physical damage." Lawsuits for damages were filed. Victims want recognition as disabled veterans and appropriate compensation. Pressure got IDF officials to announce experiments on Israeli personnel would end.

The Nuremberg Code prohibits medical experiments without human subjects voluntarily consenting. Recruitment must exclude "coercion, fraud, deceit, and (provide) full disclosure of known risks."

Experiments are prohibited "where there is an a priori reason to believe that death or disabling injury will occur." Those permitted must be expected "to yield fruitful results for the good of society, unprocurable by other methods or means of study...."

In 1948, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion ordered European Jewish scientists recruited who could "either increase the capacity to kill masses or to cure masses; both are important."

Avraham Marcus Klingberg became a chemical and biological weapons (CBW) expert and IIBR deputy director.

Avraham Marcus Klingberg was also recruited. He became the father of Israel's nuclear weapons program in charge of the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission (IAEC). Ben-Gurion was determined to have a nuclear option and other non-conventional weapons to counter numerical Arab advantage.

In his farewell address to the Israeli Armaments Development Authority (RAFAEL), he defended the strategy saying:

"I am confident, based not only on what I heard today, that our science can provide us with the weapons that are needed to deter our enemies from waging war against us."

He and Shimon Peres became leading forces behind Israel's nuclear, biological, and chemicals development program. Strict secrecy was maintained. Staff were forbidden to discuss anything related to their work. Prohibitions remain strict.

Truths eventually leak out. One day much more will be known. Vanunu was harshly punished to deter other whistleblowers. Bradley Manning faces similar treatment. In his case, life in prison may result.

Nonetheless, some who know tell others. Suppressing vital truths everyone needs to know remains hard to do forever. Much is known about Israel's nuclear program. Perhaps CBW disclosures will expose secrets too important to hide.

Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.

His new book is titled "How Wall Street Fleeces America: Privatized Banking, Government Collusion and Class War"

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