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http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90777/90853/6427850.html
08:49, June 11, 2008
U.S. Secretary of State of Condoleezza Rice has confirmed she will fly to Prague in early July to sign two U.S.- Czech treaties on the installation of a radar base on the Czech soil, the Czech daily Pravo said Tuesday.
"The date of the treaties' signature will be determined later this week," Pravo quoted Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg as saying.
According to the paper, Rice confirmed her plan to Schwarzenberg at the Bilderberg conference in Chantilly, Virginia, last week.
Bilderberg Club, also called the "Group of the Powerful," is an informal invitation-only organization of politicians, representatives of the military and industrial complex, bankers and businessmen. Schwarzenberg was the only Czech participant in this year's forum.
The United States has planned to build a radar base at the Brdy military district, some 90 kilometers southwest of the Czech capital Prague, along with an interceptor missile base in Poland.
Russia is strongly opposed to the deployment of the system, saying the plan poses a threat to its strategic interests. Some 70percent of Czech citizens also oppose the project.
Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek's center-right government has completed talks with the United States on the main radar treaty and is reportedly close to completing negotiations on the complementary SOFA treaty that deals with U.S. soldiers' status on the Czech territory.
After the treaties are signed, they will be submitted to parliament for ratification.
Source:Xinhua
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-06/11/content_8342746.htm
Media report: Rice to sign radar treaties in Prague in early July
www.chinaview.cn
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/caitlin_moran/article3338479.ece
From The Times
February 11, 2008
by Caitlin Moran
While all this parliamentary expenses hoo-ha rumbles on – on the one hand, what appears to be a scandalous abuse of taxpayers’ money; on the other, an enjoyable chance for taxpayers to laugh at flustered MPs – one thing seems to have remained, as yet, unspoken. Which is this: really, what kind of statistical freak would Derek Conway have been if he weren’t on the fiddle? Everyone in Britain’s on the fiddle, aren’t they? Being on the fiddle is part of our heritage.
Employers know this. Indeed, employers are complicit in this. Abusing your position and stealing stuff are the “plus bonuses” part of your employ. The perk is donated in exchange for you haemorrhaging most of your life away as a demotivated wage-slave in Sector B. I think the “math”, as the Americans have it, is that you miss every single one of your children’s Nativity plays – but in exchange, get up to five nights in various Novotels FREE, and never have to buy note-paper or pens again. It’s capitalism’s warped nod to socialism. Property and distribution of wealth might not be subject to “control by the community” – but the distribution of the giant toilet rolls in the stock room is, by God.
Trying to get the free stuff off “them” – your employers, the Government, the VAT man, the council, your mum and dad – is common to every single level of society. The only differences are ones of scale. Derek Conway claimed thousands of pounds a year for his sons to work as researchers, because that – and “fact-finding missions to Malta” – is the standard form of perk in his world. As a TV critic, my standard form of perk is a free Sky subscription and all the Max Beesley promotional tea mugs my kitchen can handle. Back in Wolverhampton, meanwhile, the pub talk of my childhood was all about “claiming benefits for being your ‘disabled’ mother’s carer” this, and “dodgy MoT from ‘Dodgy MoT Chris’ ” that. Wherever and whatever it is, every community has what my father refers to as “sweeteners for the pot”.
Apparently, however, “sweeteners” aren’t a wholly global phenomenon. My Danish friend, Niels, has a fairly tart overview of the situation. “Everyone in this country works such long hours, for so little quality of life,” he says – smug in being from a nation where you’re not allowed to work more that 37 hours a week. “This fiddling is everyone trying to get a little bit back.”
If, then, fiddling, siphoning and general low-level abuse of power is a key British characteristic, I may have to hand my passport in some time soon. I’m terrible at fiddling. I feel no small amount of shame about this. I want you to understand that I have great aspirations to being corrupt – I’d love to be able to say “upgrade me to first class!” or “I’ve got some spare black-market armaments in the garage – how many do you need?” Unfortunately, however, every single attempt I’ve made to abuse my influence within society – as an upbeat arts critic and “wry” columnist – has been remarkably unsuccessful.
Only twice in my life have I done the equivalent of saying “Do you know who I am?”, ie, informing someone that, if things got nasty, I could work a very pointed reference to them in the middle of a review for Derek Acorahs’s Ghost Towns. And each time, it has, singularly, failed. As if to make it even more shaming, both these attempts occurred when dealing with the enervating monolith that is British Gas customer services. You know what? After two epic, no-holds-barred rounds with British Gas, I can only conclude that there’s nothing you can say that would make British Gas nervous. Nothing. It’s extraordinary. After two weeks without hot water, I’ve wept on the phone to its staff. I’ve raged. I’ve followed this with firmness and then, finally, I’ve dropped the bomb: saying that I know Anatole Kaletsky. But not a flicker of a response. Nothing. Just: “I’m sorry, but that’s not British Gas’s policy.”
It’s as if at some point in their training, every employee is shown a secret “graph of power on Earth”, outlining how there is nothing – not times2, not the Bilderberg Group, not even Duran Duran’s sheer determination not to retire – greater than British Gas. It fears nothing.
Encouraged by Derek Conway’s brio, I tried it on with British Gas again last week, as I froze in my boiler-less home. I took down names, numbers, everything. To be honest, I’m surprised by my own foolishness. The last time I tried to use the might of Her Majesty’s press against British Gas, in 1997, I eventually bypassed British Gas altogether, and sent a letter of extreme Watchdog-ness to CORGI, the gas regulator. I still have a copy of that letter here. It’s certainly a heartfelt attempt to abuse my position within the media, and to the utmost of my ability. “Friends on the Evening Standard and Daily Mail,” I mention at one point – feeling it unnecessary to explain that one was a fashion correspondent and the other wrote mainly about drum’n’bass.
Having tried, then, to pull strings, you can imagine my mortification a few weeks later, on receiving the following letter: “Dear Ms Moran,” it began. “Thank you for your letter. It certainly makes interesting reading. However, the CORGI you have contacted are manufacturers and distributors of diecast collectible model cars and, therefore, we cannot assist you with your gas supply.”
You see? An amateur’s attempt. I doubt that I could blag one of my children on to the House of Commons payroll, let alone two, plus one of their friends. And working from home, I have no one to steal toilet roll from but myself. Sometimes, you know, I doubt that I’m British at all.
The furore over the furore over Lewis Hamilton in Spain gives pause for reflection. Despite – actually, because – he is a very handsome and talented man, spectators at his Formula One test session have been screaming racist abuse at him. One particularly artistic group expressed its dislike by blacking up and wearing T-shirts with “Hamilton’s Familly [sic]” written on them. In Britain, this has been treated with indignant, all-encompassing, self-righteous fury. Even the Sun’s online message board – after the paper’s censorious front-page story on the incident – finds this behaviour beyond the pale, to the extent that one contributor to the site, an archetypal White Van Man who refers to “coloured folks” throughout, is down on those racist Spaniards.
This is ironic, given that these same message posters would deem themselves to be on the front line in the daily battle against “political correctness”. The same political correctness that, 15 years ago, was educating them and their parents about how stuff like this wasn’t, actually, “a laugh”. Political correctness – the presence of which here, and absence of which in Spain, accounts for this occurring in the first place. The political correctness that, touchingly, the Sun posters are now proud to adhere to. I’ve never understood why people are down on “political correctness”. Nine times out of ten, you could simply call it “politeness”.
Now that we have someone who is openly a woman and someone who is openly African-American running for the White House, how long will it be before someone openly gay, or transgender, runs? Aside from the opportunities for jokes – the Pink House, Washington AC/DC, the First Lady-Boy – it would also be a cheering day when we all allowed ourselves to utilise the leadership powers of everyone with good ideas. (Blimey, both these columny bits sound like Jerry Springer’s “Final Thought”, don’t they? Take care of yourselves – and each other.)
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By Steven Pearlstein
Friday, June 13, 2008; D01
There, in the Ritz-Carlton ballroom Monday, stood Vernon Jordan -- the political insider, corporate networker and financial rainmaker, tall and impeccably turned out -- presiding over his last meeting as head of the Economic Club of Washington.
During his four-year tenure, Jordan had used his incomparable connections to bring the heads of J.P. Morgan Chase, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, American Express, Pfizer and General Electric, along with the secretary of the Treasury, the chairman of the Federal Reserve and the president of the United States, to speak to 400 of the city's top business executives.
Now, for his final act, Jordan had reached beyond the Old Economy establishment and snared the chief executive of Google, the hottest company on the planet. Jordan had met Eric Schmidt the year before at Bilderberg, the super-secret gathering that falls between Davos and Bohemian Grove on the calendars of the global elite. By the end of that three-day meeting in Istanbul, Jordan had snared his final speaker.
Depending on your point of view, Jordan represents everything that is right or wrong with Washington.
To the cynical and conspiratorial, Jordan epitomizes the clubby and back-scratching Washington power broker, an amoral fixer who uses his web of connections to enrich himself and his clients while corrupting the political process.
But to those who know him, Jordan is a good friend and generous colleague who does well only by doing good. He follows in a long line of super-lawyers -- Harry McPherson, Clark Clifford, Bob Strauss and Lloyd Cutler -- who moved as gracefully in the government as they did in the corporate boardroom, serving as counselors valued for their wisdom and discretion.
So, which is it: Are Washington power brokers good or bad for the system? Apparently, we can't decide.
We never could in the case of Jordan, whose friendship with Bill Clinton was the source of never-ending controversy, starting with his chairmanship of the Clinton transition effort in 1992 and ending with a special prosecutor's investigation into his job-placement activities on behalf of White House intern Monica Lewinsky. Nothing unethical was ever uncovered.
And now it's happening again in a presidential campaign in which both candidates are competing to distance themselves from the permanent Washington establishment.
Republican John McCain has already fired a number of his top campaign aides because at some point they made money as Washington lobbyists. So far, the hatchet hasn't fallen on volunteers and unpaid advisers, but given the overheated rhetoric and mindless media coverage, it's only a matter of time.
On the Democratic side, Jim Johnson, the former Fannie Mae chairman and former chief of staff to Walter Mondale, was forced to resign this week as head of the vice presidential vetting committee for Democrat Barack Obama in response to a variety of allegations about corporate missteps. Meanwhile, Obama's new economic adviser, Jason Furman, came under fire from labor unions that complained he consorted with known free-traders such as former Treasury secretary Robert Rubin.
There is, of course, a certain appeal to candidates who vow to change the way business is done in Washington and hold out the promise of bringing new people with fresh ideas into the process. God knows, we could use a good dose of that.
But at the same time, there are both silly and dangerous qualities to the current purge.
Over the years, I've had plenty of critical things to say about the way Johnson ran Fannie Mae and his willingness to defend excessive pay packages. He certainly wouldn't be on my list for secretary of the Treasury or chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
But if Obama were looking for someone discreet and thorough, with deep experience in presidential campaigns and wide contacts in the Democratic Party who has experience vetting potential running mates, it's hard to think of a better candidate than Johnson.
The problem about this presidential campaign is that it has been too little about the candidates and their programs and too much about drawing deep meaning from whom they hire, who has given political contributions or even where the candidates go to church. It all smacks of a new kind of political correctness in which anyone with an unpopular view, a controversial past or a connection to the political or corporate establishment has to be officially renounced and banished from the political process.
In a way, we've seen this before. Jimmy Carter and Clinton both came to Washington vowing to change the way things were done. Initially, they had broad support from the public and the media. But after the inevitable stumbles, the sentiment turned, and suddenly it was conventional wisdom that they were naive and arrogant and that it was a mistake not to recruit people with more Washington experience.
The lesson from Carter and Clinton is that we need both: a mix of old hands and fresh blood, of time-tested experience and reformist zeal. It may be good politics, and good sport, to rail against the Vernon Jordans, the Jim Johnsons and others in the permanent establishment. But the dirty little secret is that it's folly to try to succeed in Washington without them.
Steven Pearlstein may be reached atpearlsteins@washpost.com.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/12/AR2008061204008.html
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Argentine Second Republic Movement
(Movimiento por la Segunda República Argentina - (MSRA)
Press Bulletin No. 44 - 1st June 2008 - An Argentine View into World Events
BUENOS AIRES - ARGENTINA - www.m2ra.com - www.asalbuchi.com.ar - msra@fibertel.com.ar
In recent weeks, very worrying indications have again arisen pointing to an imminent unilateral attack of the United States and Israel against Iran over its nuclear program. This will most likely take place in the next few months - possibly during the summer months of July and August - once the Democratic Party's presidential candidate is finally nominated: will it be Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama?
Hillary Clinton has repeatedly stated that she is fully aligned to the interests of the State of Israel. Barack Obama, however, clearly generates concern amongst the highest echelons of global Zionist leadership, as his "trustworthiness" is no where as clear-cut as Hillary's or Republican John McCain's. This is why we continue seeing such a tremendous battle inside the Democratic Party, where Obama, who was never expected to get this far, is being increasingly pressed - even threatened - to declare his uncompromising support of Israeli interests. This is a fundamental factor and prior condition to his ever being allowed to become President of the United States.
This report highlights some of the key indications that show how the world is being literally dragged to what will no doubt become an intensified war in the Middle East which will then quickly flare-up into a veritable generalized World War-
1) October 2007: Israel bombs Syrian installations - Israel's air attack in Syrian territory to allegedly destroy a nuclear reactor that was being built using North Korean technology was never properly clarified. Only patchy information came out in the world media, even though the US - as was to be expected - immediately supported the Israeli incursion; however, the world media quickly forgot the whole affair. Many analysts both in Israel and in Lebanon, however, believe that the true objective of that incursion over Syrian territory was to force Lebanon to turn on its brand- new Russian built and supplied electronic air defense system. In that way, Israel was probably able to discover the location, reach and electronic characteristics of the defense system, that would allow them to better plan the trajectory of their bombers when carrying out a military air attack on Iran, flying over Syrian air space.
2) March 2008: Admiral William Fallon resigns as Commander of US Troops in the Middle East. His resignation created quite a storm amongst US military circles, as he was one of the strongest voices in the military against the Bush-Cheney Administration's goal of unilaterally attacking Iran. What triggered Fallon's resignation was an interview in Esquire magazine, in which he stated rather bluntly that he would not support any such a military adventure. There is a very grave on-going split within the US Armed Forces on account of the gross political mismanagement of the war in Iraq. So much so, that last 25h of May, the Head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Muller, had to order his troops not to have any political activism, and to respect the traditional neutrality of the US military in political matters. Today, the Navy is very important in US military power structure, because any war against Iran will have the Navy as main player, at a time when the Army and other land forces are seriously bogged down in land operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
3) March 2008: Dick Cheney tours the Middle East - Key Neo-conservative Bush Administration mentor, militant pro-Israeli Zionist and anti-Iran fanatic, vice-president Dick Cheney, toured the Middle East, allegedly to "try to reactivate the peace process between Israel and the Palestinians", however, his visit had other highly meaningful stops: (i) Oman - key military ally and logistic hub for the US Armed Forces in the Persian Gulf, as Oman has a very important geo-strategic location on the Strait of Hormuz, which marks the entrance to the Persian Gulf, which Iran could easily block in case of war, triggering grave disruption in oil supplies coming out of that Region's oil fields; (ii) Saudi Arabia, whose support is fundamental for the US in case of war with Iran, considering its huge capacity to increase oil production, to off-set Persian Gulf shortfalls and thus stabilize oil supply and prices (in spite of the recent unwillingness shown by the Saudis to do this just yet). The price for a barrel of oil has recently reached the unheard of level of u$s 135, and specialists at Goldman Sachs and other key global oil market consultants are speculating as to what oil barrel price level - u$s 150?, u$s 180?, u$s 200? - the world economy will grind to a halt. Major airlines are already feeling the full impact of the oil crunch. We should remember that in March 2002, Dick Cheney made a similar "tour of the Middle East", at that time in order to "try to find a way of resolving problems with Iraq through diplomatic means". We all know how that ended...
4) Beginning of mayo 2008: US destroyers take up positions off the coasts of Lebanon - Two ultra-high tech US destroyers have taken up positions off the coast of Lebanon, supposedly reflecting US concern over the volatile political situation and Syrian influence in Lebanon. In actual fact, it can be inferred that this is yet another move on the strategic chessboard to ensure US air and naval forces are properly positioned for action against Iran, which would have the objective of controlling Syria, an ally of Iran, and help give Israel air strike protection in the face of a certain Iranian counter-attack against Israel, once the Israelis unilaterally attack Iran. One of these vessels, - the USS Ross - is a destroyer armed with highly advanced Aegis guided missiles.
(i) Growing weakness of prime minister Ehud Olmert, after the disastrous unilateral military operation against Lebanon in 2006 - Now, Olmert faces corruption accusations from his shady dealings with US business man TALANT which has put his political enemies in Israel on the war path against him. Even his defense minister Ehud Barak and foreign minister Tzipi Livni are asking for his resignation. If Olmert goes and new elections are called, the favourite to become the new prime minister is none other than arch-hawk and anti-Iran warmonger Benjamin Netanyahu (leader of the ultra-right Likud Party), who has repeatedly stated in no uncertain terms that, if necessary, Israel should act unilaterally against Iran. If Netanyahu comes to power again, it will be on the back of his anti-Iran platform, and that will signal the start of the countdown towards war against Iran.
(ii) George W. Bush's visit to Israel on its 60th Anniversary - During his meetings with primer minister Olmert, they agreed to take "tangible action" to destroy Iran's nuclear program. Olmert spokesman Mark Regev said that his country and the United States "are on the same wavelength. We both see the threat. We both understand that tangible action is necessary in order to avoid that Iran develop a nuclear weapon". In meetings held with the defense minister Barak, they allegedly submitted to Bush "new evidence" of Iran's nuclear weapons program with which they try to neutralize the 2007 report issued by more than a dozen US intelligence agencies indicating that Iran's nuclear program has been frozen since 2003, which greatly angered Bush-Cheney and Zionist hawks in the US Administration. At the end of Bush's visit, Israeli spokesmen said that the Israelies "were totally satisfied with the results of president Bush's visit, including his policies towards Iran's nuclear program". Bush, lastly, declared that "the population of Israel may be of just a little more than 7.000.000 people, but when it comes to fighting terror, I can assured you that you are 307 million strong, because the United States stands by you".
6) Hezbollah - Israel's 2006 attack on Lebanon saw its goal of destroying Hezbollah totally backfire. However, that operation could be construed to be an intermediate step leading the Israelis to Iran. Hezbollah is a threat for Israel and, much worse, it is a beachhead for Iran posed on Israel itself, and will become highly dangerous when war finally breaks out between those two countries. That is why it was so important for Israel to disrupt Hizbollah and reduce its operational capabilities. Clearly, this turned out bad for Israel and, no doubt, delayed the its unilateral "preventive" strike against Iran planned for the end of 2006.
7) US Presidential Elections - Presently in its final stage, the Democratic Party must now decide whether their candidate will be Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton. If Clinton wins, this will signal a green light for Israel to attack Iran as the Clintons have always been staunch supporters of Israel, almost as much as the Bush-Cheney Neoconservative Regime. Recently, Hillary went so far as to promise that if elected, she would "obliterate Iran". Similar full pro-Israeli alignment can be observed with Republican John McCain, whose pro-Israel stance hardly differs from Bush and Cheney's. If, however, Obama wins the Democratic Primaries then things could become difficult for Zionists. The surprising strength and public profile acquired by Obama can be explained by the great support he received from a very powerful sector within the US power structure, that no longer agrees to automatically take an unconditional - even irrational - alignment behind the State of Israel and Zionist interests. They are much more attuned to the geopolitical policies espoused by Zbigniew Brzezinski (former National Security Advisor to president Jimmy Carter, ideologue and co-founder of David Rockefeller's powerful Trilateral Commission), who believe that today the United States has its foreign policy priorities all wrong. They believe that the US should go back to its traditional policy of prioritizing political, military and economic contention of China and Russia - the true medium-term enemies of the US - instead of dispersing great amount of energy and wasting huge forces in the irrational conflicts and wars of the Middle East, whose main beneficiary is always the State of Israel (within this context, one can better understand the forces behind the watershed report published by Harvard University in March 2006 by academics John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt: "The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy", as well as Jimmy Carter's own book, "Palestine: Peace or Apartheid?", that have so much angered fanatical Zionists, both Jewish and Gentile.
8) The Growing Oil Crisis - As an indication that a full-scale war is looming in the Middle East, those in the know - e.g., oil market players, traders and warring nations -, have reacted by hoarding large oil stocks, which drove the price of a barrel of oil from around u$s 30 more than two years ago, to its present u$s 135. Serious disruption in the world's oil trading as Middle East supplies are blocked is an imminent reality. The economies of Europe, the United States and Japan are already reflecting the tremendous impact of this crisis, and industries like the airline sector are dangerously nearing a veritable systemic collapse if the price of oil keeps rising.
9) The Global Financial Crisis and the Controlled Destabilizing of the US Dollar - Today's Dollar Crisis is not part of any economic cycle, or passing crisis - sub-prime mortgages or otherwise - or some such predictable phenomenon. Rather, today's Dollar Crisis involves the potential - impending? - hyperinflationary collapse of the US currency as a consequence of more than a decade of uncontrolled monetary emission, necessary to finance US Super Power status, finance its unprecedented Fiscal Debt generated by the lack of public responsibility of its leaders and, in recent times, the gigantic cost of the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and - through Israeli proxy - against Palestine and Lebanon. We have described how this phonomenon may unfold in an essay called "Death and Resurrection of the US Dollar" (available on www.globalresearch.ca or on request by sending an E-mail to salbuchi@fibertel.com.ar.).
* The Strategy = Israeli First Strike + US Second Strike - Any incursion against Iran will necessarily require that Israel become the central player triggering initial war operations against Iran. Today, the Bush-Cheney Regime lacks all credibility to carry out a unilateral first strike against Iran, as they did against Iraq in 2003. This is due, precisely, to the great social divide in US public opinion as a consequence of the growing fiasco in Iraq. In any operation against Iran, the US can only act if it is perceived that is does so "in defense of little Israel", once a highly dramatic and traumatic Iranian counter-strike has been launched against Israel. Thus, this time around, it is Israel that will have to take the extremely tough decision of deciding when, how and with what pretext to launch a unilateral air strike against Iranian nuclear installations. This will immediately bring upon Israel a devastating Iranian (and allies?) counterattrack, that will have a very heavy cost for Israel in terms of human lives and material damage, but which will render Israel huge benefits in the form of intense, extensive and highly dramatic media coverage, both in the US and around the world, generating sympathy among US public opinion and that of its key allies, who will stand behind "poor little Israel". Only a few days of this veritable Fox News, CNN, New York Times, LA Times, etc psychological warfare campaign will suffice to allow Bush's and Cheney's Zionists to rally necessary public support for a US military strike against Iran and in Israel's favour. War will come fast, it will be extremely violent and generalized. In short: ISRAEL attacks first; IRAN retaliates; and, through intense psychological warfare, the necessary mass public support will be generated so that the UNITED STATES can come out and support Israel. Given the strategic agreements and alliances that Iran holds with Russia, China and key Muslim countries, what happens after that is anybody's guess...
* If Hillary Clinton wins the Democratic Party nomination, then the Bush-Cheney Regime will be able to agree with both candidates - Hillary and McCain - so that irrespective of who wins the November presidential elections - Democrats or Republicans - the future US Administration will give its full support to a unilateral Israeli attack against Iran, even if the use nuclear weapons. This may explain why former president Jimmy Carter just reminded public opinion that Israel counts with at least 150 nuclear bombs, which makes it the sole power with weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East. This attack scenario against Iran can then take place most likely during the lull of the summer holiday months of July and August, with the goal of concluding main military operations at least 30 days before the November elections, so that they can take place in relative calm and "normalcy". The result of those elections - whether McCain or Hillary - will be of little importance to Israeli interests, as both are fully committed to supporting Israel as a top national priority, even above the National Interest of the US itself (one of the key points raised in the March 2006 Mearsheimer/Walt Report).
* If Barack Obama wins the Democratic Party nomination, then things will be different because Obama is nowhere near as "trustworthy" towards Israel as Zionists need him to be (...or become...). In that case, one can envision a scenario whereby Israel will delay its unilateral air strike against Iran until September or October, so that - following the same sequence of events described above - the Israel-US war against Iran will reach its hottest point during the months of October or November. With such a "National Crisis" in the US, resulting from its intensified "War on Terrorism" - particularly if a new 9/11-like mega-attack were to take place either inside the US or against US or Israeli interests abroad (which will probably have many "false flag operation" characteristics that will enable Zionist leaders in the US Administration and elsewhere to blame Iran and "Islamic Fundamentalists" as part of their Psyops Warfare), one can even wonder whether this would not open the road to an unexpected "emergency option", especially if Obama were to prove resilient in resisting Zionist pressure: the outright suspension of Presidential Elections in the United States next November.
In future reports, we will continue assessing this unfolding situation of worldwide consequences. Today we can say without doubt that the whole world should be very much on the alert to what is happening, and prepare for the worst. Argentina should also be most careful as to where we will stand in this impending war, considering that the Nestor and Cristina Kirchner Regime in our country, has arbitrarily and perversely aligned Argentina behind the war-mongering of the Bush-Cheney Administration and the main global Zionist lobbies. This happened in September 2006 when they accepted to launch false accusations against former Iranian president Ali Rafsanjani and his key ministers of being responsible for blowing up the AMIA Jewish Mutual building in Buenos Aires in July 1994. Those grossly false accusations made by Argentina's government against Iran were solely based on "intelligence" supplied to Argentine "investigators" by the CIA and Mossad spy agencies...
Movimiento por la Segunda República Argentina - (MSRA)
Adrian Salbuchi
(Founder)
by Henk Ruyssenaars - Foreign correspondent
Amsterdam - Sat. May 17 - 2008 - According to a small item today on page 120 of The Netherlands state Text-TV, the pro-US management Dutch prime minister Jan Peter Balkenende, and the likewise compliant and collaborating 'minister of foreign affairs' Maxime Verhagen, will visit US' president George Bush in Washington next June 5th, and thereafter attend the annual Bilderberg conference.
In the Dutch Text-TV story, under the headline 'Interior short news' (Kort nieuws binnenland) it's confirmed that both will visit president Bush and: "They will in the White House among others discuss Afghanistan and the trade relation."
"Thereafter," according to Dutch NOS Text-TV, "Balkenende will take part in the Bilderberg conference in the United States." Some further research shows that it's highly probable that Holland¹s PM Balkenende and 'minister' Verhagen will attend this annual Bilderberg conference in Chantilly, VA, close to Dulles International Airport. It was held there six years ago as well, from 30 May to June 2nd, in the conference center of the Westfields Marriott Hotel.
In the beginning of this week a Greek newspaper reported that Bilderberg people - like the globally despised war criminal and NWO 'consigliere' Kissinger being among them - had been gathering in Greece last weekend, but that report apparently was wrong.
Interesting in the whole 'Bilderberg scene' and the global misery called 'New World Order', is an insider book called Superclass, by David Rothkopf, a scholar at Rockefeller's 'Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Rothkopf argues that these elites - like the 'Bilderbergers' - constitute nothing less than a new global "superclass". They have all the clubby characteristics of the old national ruling classes, but with the vital difference that they operate on the global stage, far from mere national electorates."
In a review - published last April 24th by The Economist and concerning 'The global ruling class' and 'Billion-dollar babies' - the question is asked again: ''Who rules the world?" And in book as well as review given the usual bunch of flowery lies as an answer.
'The Economist' - which is one of the Bilderberg's and global multinationals most important propaganda papers 'selling' the predators tactics and outright lies - phrases it like this: "The most familiar answers to this question are so poisoned by paranoia that it is tempting to dismiss the question itself. If the Jews are so powerful, then why have they had such a dreadful time of things? If the men and women of Davos are so mighty, then why do they keep messing everything up?"
The Economist defends the inhuman activities of the predators of 'The City' - the old 'State within a State' in London, where no global law is valid. It's one of the most evil empires one can revisit. Millions of human beings die for the profit of those multinationals, the Bilderbergers and assorted other criminals: the prices of fuel and food (transport) are for instance decided here too. This is the Evil Empire where many of the Bilderberger's multinationals make their billions upon billons, at the expenses of millions upon millions of dead people. Since 'they' own most of the international major propaganda media, people hardly ever hear about it. They are sold bread and circusses. - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/hvtxo
As The Economist wrote: "The rise of nation states produced national ruling classes. It would be odd if the current integration of the world economy did not produce new global elites - business people and financiers who run global companies and global politicians who steer supra-national organisations such as the European Union (EU) and the International Monetary Fund." The IMF, which is a totally criminal organisation too, is in many other countries referred to as the 'International Murderers Fund' ... Because globally they've been killing people and countries for profit for a long time now.
They attend the same universities (Mr Rothkopf calculates that Harvard, Stanford and the University of Chicago are now the world's top three superclass producers). They are groomed in a handful of world-spanning institutions such as Goldman Sachs. They belong to the same clubs - the Council on Foreign Relations in New York is a particular favourite - and sit on each other's boards of directors.
Many of them shuttle between the public and private sectors. They meet at global events such as the World Economic Forum at Davos and the Trilateral Commission or - for the crème de la crème - the Bilderberg meetings or the Bohemian Grove seminars that take place every July in California. Mr Rothkopf makes a fascinating tour of the world of the superclass and also offers a tour of the weird proceedings of the Bohemian Grove meetings, which Richard Nixon described as "the most faggy goddamned thing you could ever imagine."
When Dutch collaborators Balkenende and Verhagen in the first week of June visit the globally infamous and criminal representative of their managers, Mr. George Bush in the White 'Haus' they might as well ask him: he's a member too... It's a pity those Dutch slaves dare not ask the naked emperor if millions upon millions of dead human beings isn't enough by now for him and his managers? Because they - as all other supporters and enthousiastic collaborators - are guilty of war crimes as well.
Concerning the trillions of profits made and supported by the Bilderbergers too: where does much of the loot of the criminal financiers go, many people are wondering? Well, for instance via the privately owned Bank of England, and all other so called 'central banks' of this financial cartel, it is 'recycled' through the rather secret 'head office' of this London group in Basle, Switzerland. The likewise privately owned 'Bank of International Settlements', the BIS, which is functioning as one of the main 'central banks' to central banks.
And it is difficult to believe, but 'Bilderbergers' like Bernanke, Kissinger, Wolfowitz and the financial cartel's 'BIS bank' think and behave as if they have greater immunity than a sovereign nation, are accountable to no one, run global monetary affairs and also this bank is privately owned by the financiers. - BIS - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/y6xmed
And - to give just one example - the BIS bandits and their collaborating ilk don't care that every time somebody fills up a SUV car with the by them recommended biofuel, the amount of calories is equal to what one human being needs in a year. Every time time the SUV tank is filled...
Quote of the day: "240: kilos of maize needed to fill one tank of a US Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV) with biofuel - enough to feed a person for a year." - Url.: http://www.robedwards.com/2008/03/the-shocking-ne.html
And - talking about murderous machinations - to make 1 liter of 'biofuel' - thus using food as fuel - takes around four thousand liters of water. Water which is scarce, and which 'they' more and more try to get in their paws too. The multinational managers who have stolen the food and water from the people - via financial machinations in The City and illegal invasions too - can't have a conscience nor any decency. They don't deserve to be treated like human beings...
According to the law, all people involved in the wars and those attending the Bilderberg conferences mostly assist to make those profitable wars, and it's logical that all those are guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity. It's known where they are: the problem now is how to get them in court. Like Rumsfeld who - as Kissinger earlier - was nearly arrested for torture in France.
For the war criminals the world is getting smaller, that's why the Bilderberg conference in the US?
Anyhow: the question is always the same for those 'secret' Bilderberg gatherings: if there's nothing to hide, why than the secrecy?
Thieves in the night shun the light. So do the 'Bilderbergers'.
HENK RUYSSENAARS
Foreign Press Foundation - Related links:
* WHAT ALSO THE BILDERBERGERS ARE DOING: THEY'RE BUILDING A BOX - AND YOU'RE IN IT! - Url.: http://www.rudemacedon.ca/dlp/box/box08-care.html
* DONALD RUMSFELD CHARGED WITH TORTURE DURING TRIP TO FRANCE - The Center for Constitutional Rights - Url.: http://ccrjustice.org/search/node/Rumsfeld+%2BFrance
* ROTHKOPF & BILDERBERG - THE ECONOMIST REVIEW - Url.: www.economist.com/books/ displaystory.cfm?story_id=11081878
* WESTFIELDS MARRIOTT HOTEL, CHANTILLY, VA. - U.S.A. - Url.: http://www.bilderberg.org/2002.htm
* BILDERBERG C.S.: AMERICA (PLUS THE EUROPEAN UNION, AFRICA, LATIN AMERICA, JAPAN ETC. ETC.) PLUNDERED BY THE GLOBAL ELITE - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/2gfynw
* THE USE OF THE PHRASE 'ANTI SEMITISM' IS PURE NONSENSE - Many only claim to be 'Jewish' so they can hide behind the false phrase when their global criminal and inhuman activities rightfully are attacked. - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/y8fwhf
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May 16, 2008
Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende together with Minister of Foreign Affairs Maxime Verhagen will visit Washington, D.C. Thursday, June 5 to Sunday, June 8. On Thursday, June 5, they will be received by President Bush at the White House. Topics to be discussed include the international political situation including developments in Afghanistan and the economic cooperation between the United States and the Netherlands. Subsequently, the Prime Minister will participate in the annual Bilderberg conference, which this year will be held in Chantilly, VA.
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Further details on the visit of Prime Minister Balkenende and Minister Verhagen will be announced soon.
http://www.netherlands-embassy.org/article.asp?articleref=AR00002536EN
Eearly May appearance on the Alex Jones show where I believed, wrongly as it turned out, that we had misssed the meeting and that it was in Greece.
http://www.bilderberg.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=2678
Bilderberg 2008 met. Vouliagmeni, Greece, 8-11 May 2008
Bilderberg have met this past weekend!
A rough translation of this Greek page follows
Bilderberg Club meets at the place of the powerful
in Athens
http://www.patris.gr/articles/132651
In Greece (in a Vouliagmeni hotel), is currently happening, according to information, the world Congress of secret Club "Bilderberg", which is brought proapofasj'zej for the chances of world, but also this is where Prime Ministers are nominated. It should be stressed, that according to the infamy that circulates round the club Bilderberg, they play for some reason, the role of an 'informal world government'.
Some say indeed, that anything important that has happened in the planet the last 51 years, has first been discussed and organised in her meetings.
The Club, meets for four days each year in different cities, countries and 120 politicians, businessmen, journalists only from the 30 until 35 selected NATO countries participate.
Participants are prohibited to speak to the press or to anyone else and anything they learn there they are not allowed to mention where they heard it. Further, they even go as far as to deny that they were there.
It is prohibited for them to tell their home Parliaments of their countries, if they are politicians, too.
Big Greek interests are there in the list of persons that participates in the meetings of the club in question. According to information, in the meetings of club "Bilderberg" from 1988 up to 2007 have participated Kostas Karamanli's, Giorgos Alogoskoy'fis, the Nto'ra Mpakogja'nni, the Ste'fanos Ma'nos, Giorgos Papandre'oy, Theodoros Pa'gkalos and Anna Djamantopoy'loy.
The only Greek journalist that has taken part in the meetings of club, is Alexis Papahela's. In the meetings at the same time, they appear to participate the General Director of Coca - Cola, Giorgos Dayj'd and the professor of university Athens Loukas Tsoykala's and two shipowners.
Babel Fish Translation
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At 1.30 am on Wednesday 9th April 2008 a caller pretending to be Ex Home Secretary and MP for Airdrie and Shotts, John Reid phoned my mobile apparently from New York. In character with Reid's thuggish Rory Bremner persona he was making a thinly veiled threat against me and my Bilderberg website which ironically this year may have failed for the first time to discover the Bilderberg meeting venue.
Apr 24th 2008 - From The Economist
John Paulson, power personified
WHO rules the world? The most familiar answers to this question are so poisoned by paranoia that it is tempting to dismiss the question itself. If the Jews are so powerful, then why have they had such a dreadful time of things? If the men and women of Davos are so mighty, then why do they keep messing everything up?
Yet the fact that so many people give foolish answers to a question does not discredit the question. The rise of nation states produced national ruling classes. It would be odd if the current integration of the world economy did not produce new global elites—business people and financiers who run global companies and global politicians who steer supra-national organisations such as the European Union (EU) and the International Monetary Fund.
David Rothkopf, a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, argues that these elites constitute nothing less than a new global “superclass”. They have all the clubby characteristics of the old national ruling classes, but with the vital difference that they operate on the global stage, far from mere national electorates.
They attend the same universities (Mr Rothkopf calculates that Harvard, Stanford and the University of Chicago are now the world's top three superclass producers). They are groomed in a handful of world-spanning institutions such as Goldman Sachs. They belong to the same clubs—the Council on Foreign Relations in New York is a particular favourite—and sit on each other's boards of directors. Many of them shuttle between the public and private sectors. They meet at global events such as the World Economic Forum at Davos and the Trilateral Commission or—for the crème de la crème—the Bilderberg meetings or the Bohemian Grove seminars that take place every July in California.
Mr Rothkopf makes a fascinating tour of the world of the superclass. He opens the door to the office of the head of Goldman Sachs, Lloyd Blankfein, on the top floor of Goldman's tower on New York's Broad Street. He visits the factory that customises Gulfstream jets (every year nearly 10% of Gulfstream's clients attend Davos). He calls on the Carlyle Group where financiers and former presidents get together to make each other richer. And he offers a tour of the weird proceedings of the Bohemian Grove meetings, which Richard Nixon described as “the most faggy goddamned thing you could ever imagine.”
“Superclass” is such a wide-ranging book that it inevitably also raises quibbles. Mr Rothkopf never quite defines the boundaries of his subject. Is he talking about the super-rich? Or about the super-influential? Do the people he talks about really constitute a “class”? Or are they an agglomeration of competing elites with different agendas? Mr Rothkopf adds to the confusion by chasing all manner of hares, including the rise of internet-enabled jihadists.
Mr Rothkopf, whose CV includes a spell working for Kissinger Associates and a period as the deputy under-secretary of commerce for international trade, is much better informed about America than he is about the rest of the world. He is fascinating on the revolving door between the Pentagon and the arms industry, for example, but he says next to nothing about the rise of the EU, one of the great building blocks of the trans-national world. His exposition of the wonders of Davos is more breathless than illuminating.
Still, none of this should put off potential readers: “Superclass” is a pioneering study of a subject that has often been the preserve of conspiracy theorists. Mr Rothkopf is anything but a crank, and he is right when he says that, these days, the most influential people around the world are also the most global people.
He is also admirably ambivalent about his subject. He worries about surging inequality—the richest 1% of humans own 40% of the planet's wealth—and about the rumbling backlash against so much unaccountable power. But he points out that, in a world where most global institutions are lumbering and antiquated, members of the superclass have repeatedly stepped in to put the global system to rights. Let us hope that they have not lost their touch.