WW111 Clock Started Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock!

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From the Desk Lloyd T Vance Susan Bell News Today 4 U Darwin NT Australia

Greeting Fellow Australians And to our American friends and friends all about the World who are part of the human race. WW111 Clock has started well and truly, I say bring it on US President Barrack Obama and made man Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Here is a few stories which I hope you all may like and help you to make sense and get to the truth of why the whole World is looking down a barrel of a Nuclear War World 111 breaking out.

Bibis Crazy UN Speech Israeli threat to attack Iran over ALLEGED nuclear weapons Israels secret Doomsday Nuke base revealed by US

Wiping Countries Off the Map - Whos Failing the Failed States The Reason for War with Iran Follow the Funny Money

Israeli threat to attack Iran over ALLEGED nuclear weapons

Israel "will attack" Iran if it continues to develop nuclear power, one of prime minister Ehud Olmert's deputies warned yesterday. Shaul Mofaz, a former defence minister and a contender to replace the scandal-battered Olmert, said military action would be "unavoidable" if Tehran proved able to acquire the technology to manufacture nuclear power. This is NOT about nuclear weapons. -Israel wants HEGEMONY & OIL.

Israeli threat to attack Iran over nuclear weapons

Israel "will attack" Iran if it continues to develop nuclear weapons, one of prime minister Ehud Olmert's deputies warned yesterday. Shaul Mofaz, a former defence minister and a contender to replace the scandal-battered Olmert, said military action would be "unavoidable" if Tehran proved able to acquire the technology to manufacture atomic bombs.

Mofaz is Israel's transport minister, but he is also a former chief of staff, privy to secret defence planning as a member of the security cabinet, and leads regular strategic talks with the US. He implied that any attack on Iran would be coordinated with Washington. "If Iran continues with its programme for developing nuclear weapons, we will attack it," he told the Hebrew daily Yediot Aharonot. "The UN sanctions are ineffective." Mofaz was born in Iran, giving his remarks extra edge after repeated threats against Israel from President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has also denied the Nazi Holocaust. Ahmadinejad "would disappear before Israel does", Mofaz said. Mofaz's remarks came at the end of a week of intense US-Israeli talks on Iran. They were also the most explicit threat yet against the Islamic Republic from a member of the Israeli government, which, like the Bush administration, has preferred to hint at force as a last resort should UN sanctions be deemed to have failed. Barack Obama, the Democratic presidential candidate, told pro-Israeli lobbyists this week that the military option against Iran remained on the table, though he also offered "meaningful concessions" if it bowed to international demands.

Ehud Barak, the defence minister and Labour party leader, said Israel needed to do everything possible to ensure that the Iranians did not obtain nuclear power. Javier Solana, the EU foreign policy chief, is shortly to lead a team of high-ranking diplomats from Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany, who will present a package of incentives to persuade Tehran to suspend uranium enrichment. Iran has rejected it in advance. Experts doubt whether Israel could destroy Iran's extensive and heavily defended nuclear facilities without American help. In 1981 Israel bombed and destroyed Iraq's nuclear reactor. Last September its planes bombed a site in Syria that the US said was a nuclear reactor built with North Korean help. Syria denied having any such facility.

Israel is believed to have an arsenal of 150-400 nuclear warheads. Unlike Iran, it has never signed the nuclear non-proliferation treaty.

Iran denied seeking to develop nuclear weapons and insisted it would not abandon enrichment.

But the International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN's nuclear watchdog, has demanded "full disclosure" from Tehran over allegations that it covertly studied how to design a nuclear weapon.

Iran has dismissed intelligence on this as baseless, forged or irrelevant.

Bibis Crazy UN Speech

Its no wonder the Israeli Foreign Ministry initially held back from releasing a transcript of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus speech to the UN General Assembly Bibis wackiness doesnt bear close scrutiny. Perhaps wacky isnt quite the right word for his 40-minute peroration, during which he pulled out a bomb diagram and a red marker to illustrate where he would draw a red line defining the outer limits of Irans nuclear program. Cartoonish is more like it. The cartoonish quality of the bomb drawing underscored the content and tone of the speech, which was the jeremiad of a radical ideologue rather than anything one would expect from a statesman Today a great battle is being waged between the modern and the medieval.
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Israel stands proudly with the forces of modernity. We protect the right of all our citizens, men and women, Jews and Arabs, Muslims and Christians, all are equal before the law. Israel, which privileges its priestly caste, has a state religion, and bases its national mythology on a promise from G-d, is as medieval as any of its neighbors. Aside from being a lie, however, this statement is interesting because it evokes the very same supremacist spirit that animates the controversial pro-Israel public relations campaign launched by the Jewish states extremist American supporters. Posters in the public transport system, from New York to San Francisco, proclaim In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat jihad. No wonder the Israeli consulates in New York and San Francisco wont disavow those vile subway posters. Pamela Geller is the new public face of Israel. Yes, Israel protects the rights of all citizens unless theyre Palestinians who happen to own property coveted by the settlers, in which case it doesnt. And the key word here is citizens of course, the Palestinians in the occupied territories are not citizens, but helots, with no rights, and no protection from fanatical Jewish fundamentalists who have launched hundreds of attacks on their homes, and sought to displace them at every opportunity, with the active complicity of the Israeli government. This idea that Israel represents modernity is rich, considering that every day Israeli society is sinking lower into the morass of religious and cultural fundamentalism, a regression that has not gone unnoticed in the West.

Bibi opened his speech with biblical references, describing Jersusalem as the eternal capital of Israel and declaring that the Jewish state will live forever. Yet as we secularists know, nothing lives forever, and the idea of a city being the eternal capital of anything is a metaphor, at best, at worst a dangerous delusion. If this is the modern then one wonders how much it differs from the medieval. But lets not linger too long over the obvious. Bibi rants on Militant Islam has many branches, from the rulers of Iran with their revolutionary guards to al-Qaeda but theyre all rooted in the same soil. Its not whether this fanaticism will be defeated, but how many lives will be lost before its defeated. Nothing could emperil my country more than arming Iran with nuclear weapons. To imagine what the world would be like with a nuclear Iran, imagine what the world would be like with a nuclear al-Qaeda. Theres no difference. The Israeli Prime Minister may have been addressing the UN General Assembly, but he was really talking to the Americans, whose fear and loathing of the perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks can always be counted on to raise them to new levels of hysteria. Outside that context, however, equating the Iranians with Al Qaeda makes about as much sense as likening the late unlamented Saddam Hussein to Osama bin Laden and, hey wait, didnt we hear that equation made endlessly in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq?

Yet this was not a time for subtlety from the Israeli Prime Minister the cartoon bomb ended all hope of that but for the crudest sort of propaganda, which is, of course, war propaganda. Imagine if Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, who addressed the UN that day minutes before Netanyahu took the stage, had said Militant Judaism has many branches, from the Washington offices of AIPAC to the center of Jewish power in Tel Aviv but theyre all rooted in the same soil of intolerance? Picture him conjuring images of violent Jewish fanaticism not a hard task, given what is happening in Israel today. If he had done so, Abbas would have been denounced in every Western capital as the 21st century incarnation of Hitler. Netanyahu went on to cite the nonexistent record of Iranian aggression without nuclear weapons an odd claim, since Iran hasnt attacked a single one of its neighbors since the Battle of Thermopylae. The country did fight one war in modern times, when it was attacked by Iraq, which was being backed by the United States. However, its necessary to remember that war propaganda has no need of facts only emotionally-charged evocations of rage and fear Given this record of Iranian aggression without nuclear weapons, just imagine an Iran with nuclear weapons. Who among you would feel safe in the Middle East? Whod be safe in Europe? Whod be safe in America? Whod be safe anywhere?

That this alleged champion of modernity should base his case on fearmongering should come as no surprise hasnt fear been the leitmotif of all the modern ideologies of aggressive nationalism? Fear of the Other, of the barbarian at the gates the savage who, at the first opportunity, will tear your throat out with his bare teeth is what keeps ideologues like Netanyahu and his American co-thinkers in business. Those Eye-ranians, says Bibi, arent like the rest of us, which is why deterrence wont work. Irans apocalyptic leaders are awaiting the return of the Mahdi, a holy man, whose reappearance is supposed to occur after a devastating war: Militant jihadists are not secular Marxists. Militant jihadists behave very differently. There were no Soviet suicide bombers. Correct me if Im wrong, but arent the Israelis also awaiting the return of Someone Special, a Messiah who will lead them out of the wilderness and establish the Kingdom of Jerusalem as His earthly domain? Militant jihadists may not be secular Marxists but then again, militant Zionists arent, either. I would no more trust nuclear bombs in Bibis hands than I would in Ahmahdinejads the difference being that the former is actually in possession of such weapons. Which brings us to the absurdity of this lecture by the leader of the only nuclear-armed country in the region here is a nation which refuses to even admit it acquired nukes long ago, and which disdains the Non proliferation Treaty, making the case for war against a neighbor that has indeed signed the NPT and is abiding by its requirements.

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That treaty gives Tehran the right to develop nuclear power. Furthermore, there is zero evidence Iran is embarked on a nuclear weapons program our own intelligence community tells us they gave that up in 2003 and show no signs of resuming it. Their own religious and political leaders have denounced the possession of nuclear weapons as sinful the Israelis, on the other hand, havent bothered reassuring us they would never use the nuke they wont admit they have. In a rational world, Israel would be in the dock, answering for its unwillingness to come out of the nuclear closet and admit what the whole world knows by now. Indeed, Bibi could give us some insight into exactly how Israel acquired the materials to build its formidable nuclear arsenal since, according to recently declassified documents, he was directly involved. In the world in which we are living, however, in which the innocent are put on trial and the guilty sit in judgement, the situation is quite different. In that world, the leader of a tiny nation entirely dependent on US largesse takes to the UN podium to issue his marching orders to Washington. Here is my red line, says Bibi daring not only the Iranians but also the Americans to cross it. Think of Netanyahus UN oration as just another Romney campaign speech, in which the GOP presidential candidate says Tehran must not be allowed to get one turn of the screwdriver away from joining the nuclear club. According to Netanyahu, Iran is nearly at that point today, and will have a nuclear weapon in less than a year if the US fails to act.

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This is technical nonsense, but then again the truth has nothing to do with war propaganda to the average American, the mere possession of weapons-grade uranium means all the Iranians have to do is plug it in and hurl it, slingshot style, in the general direction of Israel. This is an impression Israeli propagandists would dearly love to inculcate in the American public, and they have the great advantage of relying on general ignorance of the technical details. Good luck explaining to Mr. Average American why it would take a good four years after theyve weaponized their nuclear material for the Iranians to create a useable nuke. The ticking-bomb theme, which has been used to justify everything from torture to the invasion of Iraq, permeates Israeli propaganda in the US and was a cental theme of Bibis speech. His message was clear the hour is getting late. We must act without giving too much thought to the possible consequences. Dont delay, dont think, act now before the fraud is exposed, and we discover that as in the case of the Iraqis those weapons of mass destruction were just a figment of our easily manipulated collective imagination.

Israels secret Doomsday Nuke base revealed by US

A location and details of a top secret Israeli base which could be used to launch nuclear attacks on China or North America was published last week.

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Immediate moves were made to spin the story away.

The base, intended to house Intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) built in cooperation with India is also to include, not just a doomsday Fuhrer-bunker for Netanyahu and the Zionist elites but storage for nuclear, biological and chemical warheads as well. According to intelligence sources in Pakistan, India is supplying Israel with missiles capable of carrying 10 MIRV (Multiple Independent-targetable Re-entry Vehicle) warheads each with a range of up to 11,000 miles. A single missile from this US financed complex could knock out all major population centers on Americas eastern seaboard. The thermonuclear warheads and guidance systems for these advanced weapons were made possible through espionage activities tied to AIPAC, the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee. Newspapers claim the underground base, one of a series being built across Israel, is part of an air defense system. This is, of course, utterly absurd.

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Air defense systems are designed for stealth and mobility and never require huge underground facilities. Air defenses are meant to protect, not to be the primary target. Scamming America to death An Israeli program to use American funds earmarked for missiles defense on a nuclear command bunker and ICBM silos was accidentally exposed by the Department of Defense last week. America needs more accidents of this kind. Detailed plans on the massive underground facility at Tel Shahar, intended to be Israels answer to NORADs Cheyenne Mountain fortress in Colorado, were made public when the US published over 1000 pages of documents, including key information on location, design and vulnerabilities to attack. In an attempt to put the genie back in the bottle, Israel and key media assets in the west published deceptive and inaccurate accounts.

From SheeraFrenkel at McClatchy News, The Obama administration had promised to build Israel a state-ofthe-art facility to house a new ballistic-missile defense system, the Arrow 3. As with all Defense Department projects, detailed specifications were made public so that contractors could bid on the $25 million project.

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The specifications included more than 1,000 pages of details on the facility, ranging from the heating and cooling systems to the thickness of the walls. Why Israel has gone M.A.D. (Mutually Assured Destruction) Until a week ago, Israel, in combination with Turkey and Arab friends was unassailable in the region due to its American equipped air force. Russian President Vladimir Putin changed all that when Syrias own S 300 air defense system came on line. Israels air forces are now useless against Syria, a nation scheduled to be erased from the sands of time by Israel, part of a multi-stage global strategy against Iran, a strategy to be coordinated with India against all of South Asia and the Caspian Basin. Putins red line left Israel only one card to play, a nuclear wild card devoid of credibility without deliverable long range nukes stored in hardened silos with command and control deep underground. America, either duped or fully complicit, has given Israel that capability, a Samson option first strike against any nation, even America.

One might want to ask why nuclear bunker facilities for up to 80,000 elites from among the chosen peopleare being financed by the United States, a project reminiscent of Dr. Strangelove.

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The Arrow 3 fraud The Arrow 3 missile system, designed to be a mobile launched high altitude missile interception much like the Russian designed S 300 system now active over Syria, was funded based on the unsubstantiated hypothesis that Irans nuclear program was, not only advanced, but that Iran would have small missile deliverable warheads soon. Israel demanded the system as protection from Iranian nuclear missiles, which, according to a new IAEA report, may well never exist. However, advance copies of the IAEA report due to be released on Monday, June 10, 2013, show that Americas intelligence assessments indicating Iran has no military nuclear program have been right all along. The report cites that every gram of nuclear material has been accounted for and none has been transferred to weapons related programs. Nuke pundit, David Albright is typically the source for all information used to substantiate claims of nuclear weapon development by Iran. To check on Albrights credentials, we went to Clinton Bastin, an editor at Veterans Today and former chief nuclear weapons designer for the US Department of Energy.

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In a 2011 interview with Jim W. Dean, Bastin said the following about his friend and longtime associate, David Albright, David Albright, a physicist, former colleague, president of the non-government Institute for Science and International Security in Washington and a former consultant for IAEA inspectors, is recognized by the US news media as an expert on nuclear weapons but is not. I called David several months ago to correct inaccurate information attributed to him by New York Times reporter William J. Broad. I also mentioned that Pakistan probably did not have many nuclear weapons because gun-type weapons require about 100 pounds of highly enriched uranium. David said that he had seen drawings of Pakistans weapons and they had solid cores but were implosion, not gun-type. With that statement, I realized that David did not understand basic concepts of nuclear weapons. Bastin went on further and pointed out that controls long in place in Iran made it impossible for any nuclear material to have been redirected and that Irans program to enrich uranium gas to 20% could never realistically result in weapons grade material. Both the US and Israel have known all of this all along, know this and have lied about it.

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Press complicity The Arrow III missile system was debuted on February 13, 2013 on the front page of the Jerusalem Post. This system, designed, at least as the American people are told, is depicted in a full color graphic showing the following components: - The Elta Electronic Industries subsidiary of IAI Electronic Group developed the Green Pine early warning and fire control radar for the Arrow 2 system. The radar carries the designation EL/M-2090 and includes the trailer mounted radar and antenna array. - Two other vehicles provide generator power and targeting control. - The third vehicle tows the launching system. Note that every component includes a vehicle. What, exactly, goes into the Fuhrer-bunker that we are told houses the Arrow III system? When the press films or photographs a launch of an Arrow missile, they carefully include only the top portion of the mobile launching tube. Do they wish us to believe that, somehow, these tubes are hundreds of feet below the earth? Can they keep cropping photos forever? Thus far, the controlled press seems to miss story after story.
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Recently, the same press when photographing Senator John McCain on his secret trip into Syria forgot to crop out the Al Qaeda commanders McCain met with. The underground Temple of Doom Back in 2001, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld appeared on television with media pundit Tim Russert. Rumsfeld told a worldwide audience of the secret bunker complexes that spread across Afghanistan, able to house thousands, interconnected with secret monorails, undetectable by air. Thirteen years later, the US forces have yet to find one of these bunkers. They never existed. The ones in Israel, however, do exist. Anyone capable of downloading an online bid specification can see the scope of these massive projects, conclusive proof that preparations for doomsday are underway in Israel. A careful read of the material handing specifications is rather curious. Israel denies having nuclear weapons. No American president has ever admitted knowing of such things, a question former White House correspondent Helen Thomas has asked of every American president prior to the untimely end of her outstanding career.

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Now even school children with their iPhones can read about Israels underground nuclear weapons storage, about equipment for storing, protecting and deploying nuclear weapons. What they may not know is that the money that might have helped finance their college education paid for this highly secret and equally highly illegal equipment.

Wiping Countries Off the Map - Whos Failing the Failed States
Across the world, a dangerous rumor has spread that could have catastrophic implications. According to legend, Irans President has threatened to destroy Israel, or, to quote the misquote, Israel must be wiped off the map. Contrary to popular belief, this statement was never made, (Arash Norouzi, Wiped off The Map: The Rumor of the Century January 2007) The United States has attacked, directly or indirectly, some 44 countries throughout the world since August 1945, a number of them many times. The avowed objective of these military interventions has been to effect regime change. The cloaks of human rights and of democracy were invariably evoked to justify what were unilateral and illegal acts. (Professor Eric Waddell, The United States Global Military Crusade (1945- ), Global Research, February 2007

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This is a [Pentagon] memo that describes how were going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran. I said, Is it classified? He said, Yes, sir. I said, Well, dont show it to me. (General Wesley Clark, Democracy Now, March 2, 2007) Washington is in the business of destroying a very long list of countries. Who is Wiping Countries off the Map? Iran or the United States? During a period which is euphemistically called the postwar era extending from 1945 to the present, the US has directly or indirectly attacked more than 40 countries. While the tenets of US foreign policy are predicated on the spread of democracy, US interventionism through military means and covert operations has resulted in the outright destabilization and partition of sovereign nations. Destroying countries is part of a US Imperial project, a process of global domination. Moreover, according to official sources, the US has a total of 737 military bases in foreign countries. (2005 data)

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The Notion of Failed States

The Washington based National Intelligence Council (NIC) in its Global Trends report (December 2012) predicts that 15 countries in Africa, Asia and the Middle East will become failed states by 2030, due to their potential for conflict and environmental ills. The list of countries in the 2012 NIC report includes Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Chad, Niger, Nigeria, Mali, Kenya, Burundi, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Somalia, DR Congo, Malawi, Haiti, Yemen. (see p 39) In its previous 2005 report, published at the outset of Bushs second term, the National Intelligence Council had predicted that Pakistan would become a failed state by 2015 as it will be affected by civil war, complete Talibanisation and struggle for control of its nuclear weapons. Pakistan was compared to Yugoslavia which was carved up into seven proxy states after a decade of US-NATO sponsored civil wars.

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The NIC forecast for Pakistan was a Yugoslav-like fate in a country riven by civil war, bloodshed and interprovincial rivalries (Energy Compass, 2 March 2005). While the failed states are said to serve as safehavens for political and religious extremists (p. 143), the report does not acknowledge the fact that the US and its allies have, since the 1970s, provided covert support to religious extremist organizations as a means to destabilize sovereign secular nation states. Both Pakistan and Afghanistan were secular states in the 1970s. A Yugoslav or Somalia-style failed state status is not the result of internal social divisions, it is a strategic objective implemented through covert operations and military action.

The Washington based Fund for Peace, whose mandate is to promote sustainable security through research, publishes (annually) a Failed States Index based on a risk assessment (see map below).

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Thirty three countries (included in the Alert and Warm categories) are identified as failed states. According to the Fund for Peace, the failed states are also targets for Al Qaeda linked terrorists The annual ranking of nations by the Fund for Peace/Foreign Policy for failing/fragile-state trouble-signs comes as international alarm grows about al-Qaeda-linked extremists setting up a state-based sanctuary in northern Mali for jihadi expansion. Needless to say, the history of Al Qaeda as a US intelligence asset, its role in creating factional divisions and instability in the Middle East, Central Asia and sub-Saharan Africa are not mentioned. The activities of the jihadist Al Qaeda units in most of these countries are part of a diabolical covert intelligence agenda.

Weaker and Failed States A Threat to America

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In a twist logic, weaker failed states, according to the US Congress, are said to constitute a threat to the security of the US. The latter includes several threats emanating from states that are variously described as weak, fragile, vulnerable, failing, precarious, failed, in crisis, or collapsed. As the Cold War concluded in the early 1990s, analysts became aware of an emerging international security environment, in which weak and failing states became vehicles for transnational organized crime, nuclear proliferation pathways, and hot spots for civil conflict and humanitarian emergencies. The potential U.S. national security threats weak and failing states pose became further apparent with Al Qaedas September 11, 2001, attack on the United States, which Osama bin Laden masterminded from the safe haven that Afghanistan provided. The events of 9/11 prompted President George W. Bush to claim in the 2002 U.S. National Security Strategy that weak states, like Afghanistan, can pose as great a danger to our national interests as strong states. (Weak and Failing States: Evolving Security, Threats and U.S. Policy, CRS Report for the US Congress, Washington, 2008) What is not mentioned in this Congressional CRS report is that the hot spots of organized crime and civilian conflict are the result of US covert intelligence operations. Amply documented, the Afghan drug economy which generates over 90 percent of the Worlds supply of heroin is tied into a multibillion dollar money laundering operation involving major financial institutions.
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The drug trade out of Afghanistan is protected by the CIA and US-NATO occupation forces.

Syria: Categorized as a Failed State

The atrocities committed against the Syrian population by the US-NATO sponsored Free Syrian Army (FSA) create conditions which favor sectarian warfare. Sectarian extremism favors the breakup of Syria as a Nation State as well as the demise of the central government in Damascus. Washingtons foreign policy objective is to transform Syria into what the National Intelligence Council (NIC) calls a failed state. Regime change implies maintaining a central government. As the Syrian crisis unfolds, the endgame is no longer regime change but the partition and destruction of Syria as a Nation State. The US-NATO-Israel strategy is to divide the country up into three weak states. Recent media reports intimate that if Bashar Al Assad refuses to step down, the alternative is a failed state like Somalia.

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One possible break-up scenario reported by the Israeli press would be the formation of separate and independent Sunni, Alawite-Shiite, Kurdish and Druze states. According to Major-General Yair Golan of Israels IDF Syria is in civil war, which will lead to a failed state, and terrorism will blossom in it. The Israel Defence Forces are currently analyzing how Syria would break up, according to Major General Golan (Reuters, May31, 2012) In November, United Nations peace envoy Lakhdar Ibrahimi intimated that Syria could become A New Somalia , warning of a scenario in which warlords and militia fill a void left by a collapsed state. (Reuters, November 22, 2012) What I am afraid of is worse the collapse of the state and that Syria turns into a new Somalia. I believe that if this issue is not dealt with correctly, the danger is Somalisation and not partition: the collapse of the state and the emergence of warlords, militias and fighting groups. (Ibid)
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What the UN envoy failed to mention is that the breakup of Somalia, was deliberate. It was part of a covert US military and intelligence agenda, which is now being applied to several targeted countries in the Middle East, Africa and Asia, which are categorized as failed states. The central question is: who is failing the failed states? Who is Taking them Out? The planned break-up of Syria as a sovereign state is part of an integrated regional military and intelligence agenda which includes Lebanon, Iran and Pakistan. According to the predictions of the National Intelligence Council, the breakup of Pakistan is slated to occur in the course of the next three years. The US has embarked on a military adventure, a long war, which threatens the future of humanity. US-NATO weapons of mass destruction are portrayed as instruments of peace. Mini-nukes are said to be harmless to the surrounding civilian population. Pre-emptive nuclear war is portrayed as a humanitarian undertaking. While one can conceptualize the loss of life and destruction resulting from present-day wars including Iraq and Afghanistan, it is impossible to fully comprehend the devastation which might result from a Third World War, using new technologies and advanced weapons, until it occurs and becomes a reality.

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The international community has endorsed nuclear war in the name of world peace. Making the world safer is the justification for launching a military operation which could potentially result in a nuclear holocaust. Nuclear war has become a multibillion dollar undertaking, which fills the pockets of US defense contractors. What is at stake is the outright privatization of nuclear war. The Pentagons global military design is one of world conquest. The military deployment of US-NATO forces is occurring in several regions of the world simultaneously. Central to an understanding of war, is the media campaign which grants it legitimacy in the eyes of public opinion. A good versus evil dichotomy prevails. The perpetrators of war are presented as the victims. Public opinion is misled. Breaking the big lie, which upholds war as a humanitarian undertaking, means breaking a criminal project of global destruction, in which the quest for profit is the overriding force. This profit-driven military agenda destroys human values and transforms people into unconscious zombies.

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The object of this book is to forcefully reverse the tide of war, challenge the war criminals in high office and the powerful corporate lobby groups which support them.

The Reason for War with Iran Follow the Funny Money

The reason why we have an unstable world and a goverment out of control is because we have the International Bankers in control. If laws were not selectivity enforced, John D Rockefeller, Lord Rothschild and J.P. Morgan would be hanging from the gallows. These are the people who cause famines wars and misery. These are the people who impoverish nations and kill leaders who do not play ball with the moneychangers.

The war they are trying to start with Iran has nothing to do with Nuclear weapons.

Just have one nuclear tipped missile would not make a hill of beans if Israel has 300 of them and hundreds of anti missile batteries to knock them out of the sky before they reach Israel.

It has to do with distracting the population from the coming economic implosion and putting in a corporate dictatorship to rule over the people through FIAT money. This reason to go to war with Iran is insane to do in the first place.

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Iran has not attacked any country ever.

Israel and the United States needs a fabled enemy to justify its police state at home while attacking nations into submission to set up a private central bank under the control of the European bankers. We have become a rogue state antagonizing the world as the bullies for the bankers. I thank God Russia is flexing their muscles telling the aggressors. This war will not be a cakewalk toppling sovereign nations when Russian and China ready to defend Syria and Iran's sovereignty.

The saber rattling beating the war drum to bomb Iran is nothing more than the European bankers using the American Military as a hired gun to bomb nations into submission to accepting a private central bank to put the people into debt slavery and for the Military industrial complex so they can keep making bombs.

When there is no wars, that is not good for business for the defense contractors. This impending war is about the bankers gaining control of the issuance of the currency.

The rest of the propaganda is just a cover story to sell the public to justify a war. I would suggest Russia, Iran and all the other nations not under the central banking system hold thier ground. They have the moral high ground. America lost its moral compass and no longer has anymore credibility.
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We have become a rogue nation wreaking havoc for the bankers.

It is my hope the people will force to act on something the goverment is not willing to do. That is shut down the central bankers and place them all under arrest to be tried in a court of law.

If we do not act to shut down the bankers politically or take matters into our own hands to bring the 1090 year reign of the Federal reserve system. They will destroy the world and us.

Follow the money and you will see that the bankers are pushing this war. Weapons of mass destruction or not. The enemies of humanity must be taken down or we all be working for funny money as debt slaves.

Benjamin Netanyahu Uncomfortable Truth Nazi Holocaust

Friday, 20 April 2012

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected criticism of his likening of a nuclear-armed Iran to the Nazi Holocaust as improper, saying in an address to the country on Wednesday that "Uncomfortable Truths" must be aired.
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Here is the Uncomfortable Truth.

Invades other countries NAZI ISRAEL USA IRAN
YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES

NO NO NO NO NO NO

Lied to justify invasion Concentration camps Targets a religious minority Violates Treaties

World leader in weapons technology

The Nazis attacked and invaded other nations. So does the United States. So does Israel. Iran has not initiated a war in over 200 years. The Nazis lied to start wars (Gliewitz). So does the United States (Saddam's nukes). So does Israel (Iran's nukes). Not having invaded anyone, Iran did not need to lie about it. The NAZIS had slave-labour camps.

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The United States has a huge and growing prison-labour industry. Israel has Ansar III. Iran has no equivalent. The Nazis targeted a religious minority, Jews. The United States currently targets Muslims. Israel is an apartheid state. All religions live under equal protection in Iran to the point where Jews living in Iran refused a financial offer by the Israelis to relocate to Israel. The Nazis broke many treaties including the treaty of Versailles and the Munich agreement. The United States has violated numerous treaties including the START treaty and the NNPT. Israel violated the 1979 treaty with Egypt, and avoided violating the NNPT by refusing to sign it, even though Israel is building nuclear weapons and was exposed for selling two, to South Africa. The Nazis were renowned for their cutting edge weapons technology including the V-1 and V-2. The US makes no bones about making the most lethal (and costly) weapons on Earth. Israel has a major defence industry that develops new weapons such as Iron Dome with US subsidies, and then markets them around the world.

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And there is your Uncomfortable Truth.

The Path To War

One year ago, Barack Obama convened his National Security Council in the Situation Room in the basement of the West Wing to talk about war with Iran. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was publicly threatening to attack Iranian nuclear sites. If Netanyahu went ahead, the U.S. could be dragged into a war on Israels terms, long before options to avoid conflict had been exhausted. Under fire from Republicans for being a fair-weather friend to Israel, Obama had scheduled a speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and an interview with an American reporter widely read in Israel. The question in the Situation Room that day.

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What would happen if Obama publicly committed to a war to keep Iran from getting a nuclear weapon?

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Obama had never made such a promise in public, and he thought it would help persuade Netanyahu to step back from the brink. But by speaking out, he would be putting the U.S.s credibility on the line in the global effort to prevent Tehran from getting a weapon. If he promised to go to war and didnt follow through, other nations in the region, distrusting American assurances of protection, would start their own nuclear programs. Obama said that he was aware of the risk but that he wanted to draw the line in public anyway. On March 4, 2012, Obama told the AIPAC crowd, I will not hesitate to use force when it is necessary to defend the United States and its interests. In his interview with Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic, he said, As President of the United States, I dont bluff. One year later, Iran has yet to call it. Even as Obama has committed to using military force to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, he has worked hard to avoid war. Attacking Irans nuclear sites could cost American military and civilian lives, set off a wave of terrorist attacks, spike oil prices and sour the U.S.s relations with Muslims worldwide.

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So Obama has tried to slow or derail the Iranian program through a combination of diplomacy, sanctions and covert action. He has succeeded in pushing the timeline for war back at least 12 months. But eventually time will run out. As talks among Iran, the U.S. and other international powers ended inconclusively on Feb. 27, even optimists said Obamas promise will be put to the test in his second term. The Pentagon has launched the largest buildup of forces in the Gulf since the run-up to the 2003 Iraq war, and Iran has boosted security around its nuclear sites and is reportedly handing out shoulder-launched missiles capable of downing civilian airliners to loosely allied terrorist groups in the region. Senior congressional Republicans say they are expecting to be briefed soon on the options and consequences of a U.S. strike. In the mythology of the American presidency, a Commander in Chief makes tough decisions once, unreservedly, and then acts. Just as often, though, a President acts to avoid tough decisions and then works behind the scenes to steer events, persuade friends and enemies and avoid no-win choices.

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As the dangerous, complicated drama involving the U.S., Iran and Israel enters its final chapters, Obama will soon face the hardest decision of his presidency. This is the story of how he got here.

The End of Containment

Secretary of defense Robert Gates had spent the last two years of George W. Bushs presidency cleaning up the mess of a poorly planned war in Iraq; he wasnt going to watch the U.S. stumble into a war in Iran unprepared. So in January 2010, he sent a secret three-page memo to the National Security Adviser, General Jim Jones, that would transform the Obama teams thinking and planning on Iran. For the previous year, Obama had been delivering on his dovish campaign pledge to reach out to the regime in Tehran. He beamed in a conciliatory greeting to the entire country on the Persian New Year and had offered unconditional talks. In Cairo that June, he offered to let Iran keep a peaceful nuclear program. But Irans leaders rebuffed Obamas efforts, and in the fall of 2009 the Obama Administration revealed that Iran was building a secret uranium-enrichment plant deep in a hillside outside the holy city of Qum.

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Shortly thereafter, Israels Defense Minister, Ehud Barak, threatened to attack Iran. In private to the Pentagon and the White House, Barak argued even more aggressively that Israel had to strike, says a former senior Administration official. Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had threatened Israel; allowing him to get the means to destroy it was unacceptable, Barak and other Israeli leaders argued. Late in the year, the Obama Administration began increasing threats of military force and economic sanctions. At the same time, mysterious cyberattacks began damaging the Iranian nuclear facilities. But Gates, who had worked for every President since Jimmy Carter, was nearly as alarmed by Washingtons lack of readiness as by the bluster coming from Jerusalem and Tehran. He thought the Obama Administration had not sufficiently planned for a war against Iran and worried that Israel was drawing the U.S. into one unprepared. In his secret memo to Jones, the detailed contents of which have not previously been reported, Gates asked hard questions: Was the U.S. goal to keep Iran from getting a weapon or to prevent it from having the capability to get a weapon? What would an Israeli strike mean for the U.S., and how could the Administration keep Israel from acting?

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Was the U.S. ready not just to attack but also to defend itself and its allies in case of a war? Most controversial, Gates asked whether the U.S. might be willing to deter and contain Iran if it got a nuke, rather than launch a war to damage its program. No one at the White House had ready answers to Gates questions. But the memo quickly became the table of contents for the Administrations Iran strategy. Deputy National Security Adviser Tom Donilon set up working groups to plan for diplomacy, covert action, sanctions and military preparedness. Immediately, Obamas team split over whether a nuclear Iran could be contained or should be attacked. There was a debate within the Administration over prevention vs. containment, says Dennis Ross, Obamas top Middle East adviser at the time. Those in favor of planning for containment, led by Gates, argued that another conflict in the region would hurt the U.S., according to senior officials who participated in the discussions. The U.S. had lived with nuclear adversaries before, this side argued, and its vastly superior nuclear force could deter Iran from using its nuclear weapons.

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Most of all, an attack would set Iran back only a few years, strengthen support for the mullahs regime at home and fracture international opposition to it abroad. On the other side, several top Obama aides, including Ross, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and CIA chief Leon Panetta, argued that containment wouldnt work. Irans regional enemies, particularly Saudi Arabia and Egypt, would not accept American assurances of protection against a nuclear-armed Iran and would pursue their own nukes; Saudi Arabia could get them directly from Pakistan, a close ally. The dynamics of Cold War containment, wherein a balance of terror kept the peace between the U.S. and Russia, wouldnt apply in the Middle East, the interventionists argued. Youre in a region where conflict is the norm, not the exception, where everybodys going to feel they have to have a finger on the trigger and where no one feels they can afford to strike second, says Ross. The most compelling argument for Obama, the former law professor, was that a nuclear Iran would spell the end of the international regime limiting the spread of nuclear weapons. Obama had written about the regime in college and had made denuclearization his primary focus in the Senate.

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He made bolstering the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty a top priority in his first two years as President, and in his second term, Obama is planning to dispatch top aides to negotiate a large nuclear-warhead reduction with Russia. The debates continued in the Oval Office, with only the President, Donilon, Gates and Clinton present. Clinton argued against containment; Gates advised the President to keep containment as an option, a senior official familiar with the discussions says. Gates did not want Iran to have the Bomb and was in favor of exerting far greater pressure on the Iranians, Ross says. But he was against the use of force if all other means failed. Clinton and Gates declined to be interviewed for this story. A former Gates adviser who remains close to him says, In the 4* years he was Secretary of Defense, Gates never advocated containment, nor did he ever advocate taking the military option off the table. Indeed, at his urging and with the Presidents approval, the Pentagon took a number of steps to be better prepared to implement the military option if required. Aides now say Obama was always against containment. But Ross says it took much longer for him to decide.

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The President took his time making a decision on this, as he should, Ross recalls. Even as Gates continued to press his case, the Administration quietly accelerated its planning for war.

The Covert Campaign

Then Obama caught some breaks. in June 2010, Iran admitted that a cleverly designed computer virus, which came to be known as Stuxnet, had infected the computers controlling its uranium-refining centrifuges. During his presidency, George W. Bush had authorized Operation Olympic Games, a cyberattack designed to cripple Irans nuclear program. The Stuxnet virus was not only destructive but ingenious. As it commanded the Iranian centrifuges to spin themselves into pieces at high speed, it sent messages to the systems and engineers controlling the machines indicating that they were working properly. The U.S. has not claimed credit, but independent analysts who obtained copies of the virus after it accidentally spread from the Iranian computers to the outside world in 2010 say the virus appears to be the work of an American-Israeli collaboration. Many of the details of Operation Olympic Games were first reported by New York Times reporter David Sanger.

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The cyberwar continued. In May 2012, Iran acknowledged that a virus called Flame had infected its computers, turning them into surveillance devices that control microphones and cameras and relay data to the attacker. Another program, called Wiper, erased hard drives at Irans Oil Ministry last spring. Computer analysts and media reports suggest that the U.S. and Israel are behind the cyberwar. Iran suffered other setbacks. At least four Iranian nuclear scientists have been killed in a string of targeted bombings and shootings since 2010. The U.S. has denied involvement. Israel has not commented. The other big blow to Iran came from an old-fashioned source: diplomacy. After his failed outreach to Tehran in 2009, Obama managed to rally China and Russia behind tough sanctions at the U.N. in June 2010. Past efforts to apply economic pressure had failed in Iraq, North Korea and elsewhere. This time they really took a bite.

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From 2010 to 2011, Congress approved measures cutting off much of Irans banking network from the rest of the world. The bills threatened a boycott of any company or bank that did business with the Islamic Republics nuclear program or those responsible for it. Most countries, faced with the stark choice of cooperating with either Iran or the U.S., chose the U.S. The business of Irans blacklisted banks almost completely dried up, says Treasury Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence David Cohen. Last year sanctions passed by Congress and the European Union helped cut Irans oil-export market from 20 countries to six and its sales by volume in half. The value of the Iranian currency dropped in half relative to the dollar in 2012. Inflation is at 27.4%.

The Road to War

For all the setbacks, though, Iran has continued to expand its nuclear program. In February it announced it was installing new, highefficiency centrifuges at one nuclear facility. Ahead of recent talks in Kazakhstan, Irans Supreme Leader, Ayatullah Ali Khamenei, gave a rallying speech to the Iranian Air Force, which would be hard hit in any U.S. attack.

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Negotiations with America will not solve any problems, Khamenei declared. At this point, few in the West would disagree with that. Former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage once defined diplomacy as saying Nice doggy, nice doggy until you can find a stick. Through luck and hard work, Obama has bought time for a massive buildup of forces in the Persian Gulf. General James Mattis, chief of U.S. Central Command, began accelerating the U.S. military increase in the Gulf a year ago. In April, the Air Force deployed a squadron of F-22 stealth fighters to a base in the United Arab Emirates. The U.S. Navy has doubled the number of its minesweeping ships from four to eight and of its patrol boats from five to 10 in the past two years. It has deployed combat search-and-rescue helicopters, unmanned minesweeping submarines and high-tech surveillance systems. Most threatening, it dispatched to the Persian Gulf a second aircraft-carrier battle group that had been destined for the Pacific. The U.S. is also building up other forces in the region.

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In early 2012, it expanded a military base in Kuwait, stationing two Army infantry brigades, or 15,000 troops, there. That is still a token force, but the U.S. is pre-positioning covert and special-operations capabilities and beefing up facility defenses. It has been operating a drone base out of Saudi Arabia. In July 2012, it deployed the U.S.S. Ponce, a converted transport ship that can serve as a floating specialoperations base, complete with helicopter pads and several hundred bunk beds. It has delivered long-range X-band missile-defense radars to Israel and Turkey and has reached an agreement with Qatar to deploy a system there too. The U.S. has reportedly asked the U.K. for access to bases on Cyprus, Diego Garcia and Ascension Island for use in an attack on Iran. Iran, too, has taken preparatory actions, erecting new perimeter fences around its underground enrichment plant at Qum. It recently launched its own cyberattack against the Saudi national oil company, Aramco, and has collaborated with Hizballah in Syria during its unrest.

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Yemeni officials recently claimed that Iran has been providing nonstate actors in Yemen with shoulderlaunched missiles capable of taking down commercial airliners. In total, the Gulf has seen in two years the largest military buildup since March 2003. Netanyahu, who faces new political challenges at home, has rolled Israels deadline back to late spring or early summer, and recent reports say Israeli intelligence thinks Tehran may be on an even longer fuse. The well-regarded U.S. think tank the Institute for Science and International Security says the earliest Iran could get the Bomb is mid-2014. Experts credit the cyberattacks with significantly setting back Irans nuclear program. And Iran itself has slowed down its efforts, converting some enriched uranium to a form that can be used only in research, not in weapons, thereby keeping its total enriched uranium under the amount needed to make a nuclear weapon. To make up for the drop in Iranian oil exports and a possible rise in crude prices, Saudi Arabia has stepped up production. If both sides seem to be wishing for peace even as they threaten war, its because the costs of conflict would be so high.

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An overt U.S. attack to set back Irans nuclear program would likely mean the deaths of American service membersand civilians too, if Iranian-backed terrorist groups downed commercial airliners or launched other attacks against soft targets. The Federation of American Scientists estimates that the cost of open war to the world economy could be $1 trillion to $1.7 trillion, when spiking energy prices and trade disruptions are factored in. And war could wipe out the years of post-Iraq diplomatic repair work to the U.S.s reputation. For Iran, a full-fledged American attack could mean the devastation of its nuclear program and much of its armed forces, plus unimaginable costs to its economy. And still it might not give up its nuclear ambition. Little in the latest round of talks changed that assessment. Secretary of State John Kerry, on his first trip abroad, warned that the failure of diplomacy could have terrible consequences. He, like every current and former official interviewed for this story, believes Obama will resort to war if necessary to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. But only Obama knows for sure. In his AIPAC speech last year, after ruling out containment, Obama said, I have sent men and women into harms way.

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Ive seen the consequences of those decisions in the eyes of those I meet whove come back gravely wounded, and the absence of those who dont make it home. Long after I leave this office, I will remember those moments as the most searing of my presidency. One way or the other, as a former senior official says of the coming year, we are entering the final stages of this drama.

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