Vatic Note: Part I of this presentation is about the WHO and WHY of the Gulf false flag done by Rothschilds Goldman sachs owners of BP and Nalco toxic disbursement chemicals used in the Gulf. This is the most detailed analysis of the Rothschild cabal I have seen so far. Please watch it and understand about all that has happened to us. Its a progression over centuries of how we got to this point in time as planned by this family back in last 1700's and Its time to understand who is controlling all that is happening to both us and the rest of the world in our modern day trauma. Part II of this will be William Coopers excellent writing back in the 90's where this all is going and how predictive and right he was about where we are today including the depopulation efforts of these people. Its why he was killed. Be sure and watch for this one because what he wrote will blow your socks off. It will be part IIa which is about his biography and murder, and Part IIb will be his predictions and results of his research over many years and you will see how prophetic (vatic) this man was.
Rothschilds Ring of Power - Part I (Bill Coopers Majestic 12 (The Gulf?) Part II.)
Now lets look at the history and modern look at Rothschild and what that family has done over these past centuries that ended up in the destruction of this great gulf of Mexico and why. The first part is about the family so it gives a context to the second part of the presentation.
Watch this first video to understand just how evil these people are. Listen to Rothschild and how he supports Browns actions (remember Brown had to resign when his pedophilia at high levels of gov came out and was exposed). Notice how he passes on blame to the lowest levels of the system and yet they were the puppet masters in the bringing down of the American financial system. Notice how he "feels sorry for the pensioners" after his Goldman sachs extracted trillions from the retirement funds. How psychopathic can you get???
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Fw1RMKWypo&feature=related
Now see the background and history of this man's family and how he is continuing their plans laid out centuries ago. Its why family generational training works over time.
Part 1a - Talks about Rothschilds connection to America's robber barons. Remember when you see how Ansel gathered 13 men to discuss the take over of the world, those were and are the illuminati families that you hear about, but notice who controlls at the very top of all of them? Rothschilds. So the target is clear.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8F4IGwuKdUQ&feature=related
Part 1b - covers how clever he was in manipulating early british stock and bond market in the Napolean war on the continent. It made his massive wealth.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2Yjoi2_5pw&feature=related
Part 1c - Talks about the Jeckell island meeting into creating a private national bank. The Federal Reserve. It discusses the manipulation of the name to conceal their subversive nature. Discusses Evelyn Rothschild married an elitest Zionist heiress.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47WM2BhklmM&feature=related
NOW, you may understand just how powerful this family is compared to any other family in the world. It should also show just how psychopathic they also are.
Watch for Part II, which will be an article written by the assassinated Wm Cooper who laid all this out well in advance of it occuring and died by an assassins hand for the exposure to their plans that he had done. Be sure to read "Behold a Pale Horse" when you are finished with all of this on here. This was an eye opening research project for us. We hope you will get the most out of it with respect to THE BIG PICTURE. It clearly shows that the Bush's and Obama's are nothing more than powerless, toothless, puppets in a much bigger game. Bill Coopers article Majestic 12 in Part II of this series does wonders for showing us were this is going to end up. We have not reached the end of this yet. He was right up to this point, which can pretty much assure us he will be right about how they plan on final achievement of their fascist global NWO.
Remember something when reading all of this. Knowledge is power. Also passion and anger is action. Also remember that low tech resistance has always taken down high tech arrogance. So, this game is not over. Should we prevail lets remember what we have learned, what we had lost and refound as Americans, and as caring human beings and never lose it again. WE have a renewed connection to our planet and all the life we took for granted that they showed us can be lost in a moments notice when we become apathetic and take all we have for granted. Now we must always be grateful for the gifts this planet has given us and never let it be attacked again.
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2010-06-21
Israels Weapons of Mass Destruction - Part I - Biological Weapons
Vatic Note: Give the undue influence and power now held by Israeli in our government, if not fully replacing it with their own people, we felt it prudent to discern just how big a threat to us is Israel and with what capacity in the way of WMD. Because I just found out that it was Israel that gave nuclear weapon technology to the North Koreans, it became important to see just how deep this rabbit hole goes, this is the first of three parts. The other two will be coming shortly afterwards. Also remember our friendly mossad biologist, Moshe who outted the Baxter, Ukrainian plant having a manufacturing facility in the Ukraine and using it to weaponize vaccines for other countries. That made us realize just how tenuous our survival and health is with their minions running our country...... the oil blow out with deadly dispursement chemicals used ring a bell???
Israels Weapons of Mass Destruction - Part I - Biological WeaponsUpdated September 2009
NTI Overview - Israel
Biological Overview
Introduction
Little is known about Israel's biological warfare (BW) program. Israel has not signed the 1972 Biological and Toxin Weapons Conventions (BTWC), nor explained the reasons behind its refusal to sign. Moreover, Israel has revealed virtually nothing about its activities and capabilities in the BW field; it has never issued a public policy statement on the question of BW. For all practical purposes, Israel acts as if it maintains a policy of biological ambiguity
It is commonly assumed that Israel maintains an advanced BW program, but the exact nature of the program - and whether any of it could be defined as offensively oriented - is unclear. An effort to reconstruct Israel's BW history, status, and capabilities is inescapably both conjectural and interpretative.
History
In April 1948, only weeks before the State of Israel was declared, David Ben-Gurion, the nation's founding father and first prime minister, wrote a letter to Ehud Avriel, one of the Jewish Agency's operatives in Europe, asking him to seek out and recruit East European Jewish scientists who could "either increase the capacity to kill masses or to cure masses; both things are important." Put in plain language, Ben-Gurion's request implied a search for experts in BW.[1]
Ben-Gurion's interest in BW should be placed in context. It so happened that all three scientists, who were close to Ben-Gurion at that time, Professor Ernst David Bergmann and the Katachalsky [Katzir] brothers, came from the fields of chemistry and microbiology. Professor Bergmann was already a well-established organic chemist, serving as Ben-Gurion's unofficial adviser on science and technology. The Katachalsky brothers, Aharon and Ephraim, were among the first to study chemistry at the Hebrew University in the 1930s, where they conducted molecular research that linked organic chemistry with microbiology. They both received their Ph.D. in macromolecular chemistry in 1941. The outlook of these three scientists reinforced Ben-Gurion's view that Israel's leading edge in its struggle with its enemies depended on investing in science and technology. These scientists were founders of the Science Corps within the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), a military branch known by the Hebrew acronym HEMED.[2]
In early 1948, Alexander Keynan, a graduate student in microbiology and the leader of a small Haganah (the pre-state Jewish militia) group of students from the medical school of the Hebrew University, lobbied General Yigal Yadin, the Haganah operations chief, to establish a new unit within HEMED to be devoted to BW. Yadin and Bergmann gave their blessing, and Ben-Gurion needed little persuasion to approve it. On February 18, 1948, by order from Yadin, Keynan left Jerusalem for Jaffa, where he set up his new unit. Soon the new unit was named HEMED BEIT.[3]
The creation of HEMED BEIT was controversial from the outset. Tight secrecy characterized everything related to the activities of HEMED BEIT during the 1948 war. The biological unit was insulated and isolated, physically and organizationally, from all other HEMED units. To this day, all archival material relating to HEMED BEIT is classified, hence, unavailable to scholars. But rumors about secret BW operations in Palestinian villages and towns have persisted for years.[4]
It is believed that one of the largest BW operations was in the Arab coastal town of Acre, north of Haifa, shortly before it was conquered by the IDF on May 17, 1948. According to Dr. Uri Milstein, an Israeli military historian, the typhoid epidemic that spread in Acre in the days before the town fell to the Israeli forces was not due to wartime chaos but rather the result of a deliberate covert action by the IDF—the contamination of Acre's water supply.[5]
Then, on May 23, 1948, Egyptian soldiers in the Gaza area caught four Israeli soldiers disguised as Arabs near water wells. A statement issued by the Egyptian Ministry of Defense on May 29, 1948, stated that four "Zionists" had been caught trying to infect artesian wells in Gaza with "a liquid, which was discovered to contain the germs of dysentery and typhoid." The four Israelis were put on trial, convicted, and executed by hanging three months later.[6]
At the time, Israel denied the Egyptian allegations about "bacteriological warfare," calling it a "wicked libel." It admitted only that the Israeli soldiers were involved in an intelligence operation aimed at monitoring military movements and assessing the morale of the Arab population.[7]
Still, there are many unresolved questions regarding the entire HEMED BEIT activities in the 1948 war: Was the failed Gaza operation an isolated or nearly isolated Israeli experiment with BW that ended with that failure, or part of a larger campaign? If the latter is true, how widespread was the campaign and against whom was it directed? What was the strategic rationale?
No Palestinian references exist alleging that the epidemics in Acre had resulted from Israeli sabotage. The absence of Arab reports on this incident may suggest either that the "bacteriological warfare" campaign, if it occurred, yielded limited results, or that in the chaos of the war the Palestinian refugees were unaware of the campaign. Also, if the BW operations were aimed primarily at preventing the return of the Palestinian population to their deserted villages, as Milstein claims, this could explain the relative lack of evidence of such operations.
Ultimately, however, the creation of HEMED BEIT must be understood, and judged, in the context of its time. It took place only three years after the end of World War II, at a time when the Zionist movement had just started to grapple with the devastating blow the Jewish people had suffered in the Nazi Holocaust. As a matter of historical context, every major World War II combatant had a BW program.[8]
In 1949, a period of reorganization began both at the IDF and the civilian Ministry of Defense (MOD). By the end of the war, the BW unit, HEMED BEIT, was effectively no longer under HEMED's control. As the military budget shrank in 1950-51, the IDF was determined to rid itself of the burden of supporting HEMED.
As part of the organizational restructuring, HEMED was converted into a group of MOD-sponsored civilian research centers called "Machons." The Israel Institute for Biological Research (IIBR) was founded in 1952, as a result of this restructuring, from the merger of two Machons, one of which was a continuation of HEMED BEIT. The building in the fenced grove outside Ness Ziona, which had served as the base of HEMED BEIT, became the home of IIBR. Alexander Keynan, who had led HEMED BEIT, was IIBR's first director.[9]
Furthermore, while the official mandate and rationale for IIBR's research was national security, it appears that Bergmann and Keynan were trying to extend and broaden the research mandate for the new scientific institute. They apparently hoped to build IIBR as the flagship for "national science": a research center that would conduct defense research but would also serve as the nation's main laboratory for chemistry and biology. It would mirror the functions of the U.S. Center for Disease Control (CDC) and even the National Institute of Health (NIH). These different philosophies about the role of IIBR—a limited scientific infrastructure for chemical and biological weapons (CBW) research versus Bergmann's and Keynan's vision of a "national science" center—resulted in a long dispute within the MOD about the mission and role of IIBR.
As to the role of CBW in Israel's concept of national security, all indications are that from early on Ben-Gurion and his associates viewed the atomic bomb as Israel's ultimate deterrence weapon, not CBW. Nevertheless, in the 1950s and 1960s, when Israeli nuclear capability was still far off in the future, Israeli leaders probably viewed CBW as the nation's doomsday weapons, Israel's weapons of last resort.
Even in those early days, however, it appears that Israeli strategists distinguished clearly between chemical weapons and biological weapons. Chemical weapons were viewed as "nasty" but still usable weapons that Arab armies might use in the battlefield in a meaningful military fashion. The perception of biological weapons was different. Israeli military leaders did not view biological weapons as feasible military weapons for the battlefield, primarily because wars in the Middle East are short. But they recognized that biological weapons could be used in conflict as the ultimate weapons of terror.[10]
From its early days the primary mandate of the IIBR was to serve as the institutional base of Israel's commitment to maintain adequate physical infrastructure and human R&D expertise in the CBW areas. While it was recognized that Israel as a state must have a national infrastructure and expertise in these areas, the BW threat was not perceived as real and/or imminent. This assessment fits well with the relatively small size and budget of IIBR, which remained largely steady for decades.[11]
During the 1970s and 1980s, IIBR, suffered chronic budgetary and organizational difficulties; apparently on at least two occasions, IIBR even faced the possibility of being shut down as an independent research institution. A great deal of IIBR's budget came from specific scientific projects, many of them were non-classified (often from foreign sources) with no direct bearing on defense. One critical response to these financial difficulties was IIBR's effort to promote the commercialization of its products and services. Since the 1970s, IIBR has become increasingly involved in all kinds of "for profit" unclassified R&D contracts, some of them with non-Israeli entities (such as the U.S. Army).
In 1979, in response to financial difficulties, Dr. Israel Hartmann, a former director of IIBR, set up a commercial subsidiary, Life Science Israel Research (LSIR), at the IIBR campus. Its purpose is to promote chemical and biomedical projects and to market products and services developed by IIBR. LSIR also represents IIBR in all kinds of collaborations, joint ventures, and partnerships with private and public companies, all done on a commercial basis and with non-classified research.
Saddam Hussein is probably the single man most responsible for the dramatic growth of Israel's defensive BW infrastructure. Over the last decade, under the energetic leadership of IIBR director Dr. Avigdor Shafferman, IIBR as the institutional base of Israel's CBW infrastructure has witnessed an unprecedented period of expansion. When the Gulf War started in January 1991, it became evident that Israel was totally unprepared for the possibility of being attacked by Iraqi Scud missiles with chemical or biological weapon warheads. Thus Israel's policy-makers decided that those major national deficiencies must be repaired.
Throughout the mid-1990s revelations about Iraq's BW program (especially the fact that Saddam considered Israel as the target for his BW program), prompted further secret expansion of Israel's BW infrastructure. In the late 1990s, major new funds were allocated to develop an adequate defensive response, at the national level, to the Iraqi CBW threat as well as to other new bioterrorism threats. The IIBR became the primary body responsible for formulating and executing a national concept of defense against various scenarios of BW threats (primarily Anthrax bacterium [Bacillus anthracis]). The IIBR campus was expanded with new buildings, laboratories, and scientific equipment, and its staff has grown with the hiring of many new scientists.
Status
Israel has not signed the 1972 BTWC, nor has it ever explained the reasons behind its refusal. In fact, Israel has never issued a public policy statement on BW, and it acts as if it maintains a policy of biological ambiguity.
The official unclassified versions of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA's) reports on WMD do not name Israel as having a BW program, but this may reflect the focus of these reports on U.S. opponents. However, unofficially, and based on most previous intelligence reviews, U.S. government officials acknowledge that Israel is believed to possess biological weapons.[12] While it is assumed that Israel is advanced in R&D biodefense and possibly even maintains some sort of BW agent production capability, it is very doubtful that Israel actually produces or stockpiles BW agents (beyond defensive needs). In 2007, it was revealed that in response to a perceived Iraqi threat Israel had independently developed an anthrax vaccine during the latter half of the 1990s.[13]
Capabilities
Israel's national scientific-technical R&D capabilities in the BW field are believed to be advanced but the specifics are unknown.
In the absence of any public data, it is difficult to assess the precise nature of Israel's capabilities in the BW field. About a decade ago, a Dutch reporter named Karel Knip conducted the most extensive investigation into the history and research activities of IIBR, where Israel's BW research is undertaken. By searching Internet-based databases of scientific and medical literature, Knip turned up hundreds of scientific publications written by some 140 scientists affiliated with IIBR over nearly 50 years. Aided by eminent world authorities on CBW, Knip reconstructed a rough history of the kind of research that was conducted at IIBR in Ness Ziona.[14]
On the biological side, Knip's survey identified several types of disease agents (pathogens), toxins, and incapacitants studied at IIBR. Since the early to mid-1950s, much of the research activity focused on the causative agents of plague bacterium (Yersinia pestis), Typhus bacterium (Rickettsia prowazekii), and rabies, followed later on by studies on breeding insects that transmit those diseases, such as mosquitoes, fleas, and ticks. Interestingly, Knip noted that he found almost no IIBR publications about the standard biological weapons that Iraq produced, such as Anthrax bacterium and the Botulinum toxin, even though it is "inconceivable" (in his words) that IIBR has not conducted research into these areas. However, a more current literature search adds Anthrax bacterium to the list. It is evident that a large group of IIBR scientists has been working on Anthrax bacterium for some time.[15]
Another central area of study at IIBR since the 1950s has been research on various kinds of toxins: non-living poisons derived from plants, animals, and bacteria. According to Knip's bibliographical review, IIBR has done research on at least 15 different toxins, some of which may have been intended for use in special covert operations. One toxin on the list is Staphylococcus enterotoxin B (SEB), a potent incapacitating toxin produced by the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus. SEB was one of the toxin agents weaponized by the U.S. offensive BW program.
Knip's overall conclusion is that IIBR, since its establishment in the early 1950s, has been involved in a diverse array of research activities that, when put together, imply the possibility of offensive BW research.[16]
Although a survey of published scientific literature is a good tool to reconstruct some of the institutional research interests at IIBR, it is important to recognize its limitations. Open bibliographical analysis can suggest institutional trends, but it cannot indicate whether Israel has an offensively oriented BW program. Medical and agricultural research institutions worldwide conduct extensive basic research on disease-causing microorganisms. For this reason, Israel's motivations in the BW field, defensive or offensive, cannot be inferred merely from the existence of research activities involving potential BW agents.
Knip's bibliographical survey confirms what has been presumed all along and what IIBR seems to imply through its own website: that Israel has substantial research capabilities relevant to both defensive and offensive BW. Still, to make judgments about Israeli intentions, motivations, and strategy in the BW area—especially regarding production and weaponization—one needs to know much more.
Lacking hard information, foreign-based publications have made all kinds of claims, from the mundane to the fantastic, about Israel's BW capabilities.[17] As a matter of policy, the Israeli government has refused to comment on these reports. For this reason, any assessment of Israel's BW program and capabilities is inevitably tentative and speculative. Although most analysts believe that Israel has maintained some limited offensive BW capabilities, it is difficult to characterize exactly what those capabilities are and their current status.[18]
The U.S. government has never included Israel in its public list of states with an offensive BW capability, although it has been argued that Israel is one of two unnamed states on the list of 12 nations assessed to have an offensive program. A 1993 report on weapons proliferation by the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service included an ambiguous characterization of Israel's BW capability:
There is no direct evidence of the presence of biological weapons in Israel. At the same time, according to various indications, a ramified program of biological research of a general nature, in which elements of a military-applied purpose are present, is being implemented in Israel. Specifically, Israeli research centers are cooperating closely with the American military laboratories within the framework of a US Defense Department program for protection against biological weapons. As a whole, Israel possesses a strong civilian biotechnology base, which, if necessary, could be redirected fairly easily to the production of biological weapons.[19]
Organizations/Facilities
The overall executive and coordinating agency in charge of all Israel's activities in the non-conventional field—national policy, doctrine, R&D, production capabilities, preparedness, production, etc. —is the highly classified administration of Special Means (in Hebrew Emtzaim Myuchadim) at the MOD. The head of that bureau also has the title of Assistant to the Minister of Defense for Special Means.
This Special Means Bureau at the MOD was established in 1992, by then-Minister of Defense Moshe Arens, as a direct lesson of the first Gulf War. During that war, as Israel was attacked by some 40 Iraqi Scud missiles, it became evident that too many governmental agencies and organizations had some responsibility for CBW threats, but no one was really in charge of the overall national coordination at the MOD. During the war, it became evident that Israel was not well prepared for an Iraqi CBW attack, there was no adequate chain of responsibility and command at the MOD, and there was no single authority responsible for overall coordination and preparations. The establishment of the new bureau at MOD was a direct response to this lack.
The Special Means Bureau at the Israeli MOD coordinates the missions and activities of a number of organizations. The primary R&D organization in the area of BW is IIBR.
Israel Institute of Biological Research (IIBR) (In Hebrew: Ha-Machon Habiologi)
The principal organization for scientific R&D (and, to some extent, also over matters of policy as well) in the BW area is the IIBR, which is located in the town of Ness Ziona. The IIBR's primary mandate is to serve as the locus of Israel's commitment to maintain and preserve physical infrastructure and human expertise in the area of CBW. Israel's commitment to a "knowledge base" implies advanced applied research in areas relevant to BW and bio-terrorism.
As noted earlier, the IIBR was founded in 1952 by Professor Ernest Bergmann—Ben-Gurion's science adviser and the head of R&D at MOD—and Dr. Alexander Keynan. From its inception the IIBR was structured according to a "dual identity" system. For security and some other administrative/bureaucratic purposes, it was regarded as a highly classified defense research center ("Machon 2") operated and funded by the MOD's Division of Research (EMET). But for representative and civic-scientific functions, however, it was named the Israel Institute for Biological Research (IIBR), under the jurisdiction of the prime minister's office. Bergmann recognized the intrinsic civil-military ambiguity of CBW research and thought that giving the laboratory a broad research mandate would provide a legitimate cover for its scientists. By maintaining a legitimate structure and rationale for IIBR, Bergmann sought to attract first-rate scientists by offering them the kinds of intellectual and material benefits available at academic institutions: publishing research in scientific journals, attending conferences, taking sabbatical leaves, and so forth.[20]
Today, more than five decades later, much of Bergmann's founding concept has survived the passage of time, and the changes in both science and politics. On the organizational level, the IIBR, like the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission, is still formally under the jurisdiction of the prime minister's office, and all its employees are considered employees of the prime minister's office. But IIBR is coordinated and budgeted by the Special Means Bureau at the MOD. On the doctrinal-policy level, the IIBR is the agency with the primary national responsibility to identify, analyze, articulate options, and ultimately implement Israel's response to all CBW threats.
The mission statement of IIBR—as it appears in its website—reflects its broad scientific mandate, built upon the ambiguity of dual use. In accordance with this philosophy IIBR's expertise are presented in the following vague way: "Backed by five decades of experience, IIBR combines highly trained personnel with cutting-edge technologies and infra-structure to conduct applied research and development in the fields of biology, medicinal chemistry and environmental sciences, in addition to basic research studies emanating from and closely related to IIBR's applied projects."[21]
According to its website, IIBR is organized into three scientific divisions—Biology, Medicinal Chemistry, and Environmental Sciences—which "cooperate in a synergistic relationship, enabling the formation of optimum interdisciplinary teams tailored to the needs of each individual project."[22] "The Institute's staff comprises approximately 350 employees, 150 of whom are scientists holding doctorates in biology, biochemistry, biotechnology, analytic, organic and physical chemistry, pharmacology, mathematics, physics and environmental sciences. IIBR's technical staff consists of 160 certified technicians, representing a broad spectrum of capabilities."[23]
IIBR's capabilities and expertise are consistent with a full array of activities associated with a sophisticated BW program, both on the defensive and offensive sides. Yet the website carefully avoids the issues of policy motivations and intent for IIBR's research.
As long as Israel as a nation has no policy statement on the matter of BW, the objectives behind IIBR's capabilities remain obscure—even suspicious—as well.
Sources:
[1] Ben-Gurion's letter to Avriel, dated March 4, 1948, is cited in Michael Keren, Ben-Gurion and the Intellectuals (Sdeh Boker: The Ben-Gurion Research Center Press, 1988 [in Hebrew]), p. 32.
[2] Avner Cohen, "Israel and Chemical/Biological Weapons: History, Deterrence, and Arms Control," The Nonproliferation Review 8 (Fall-Winter 2001), pp. 29-30.
[3] Ibid, p. 31.
[4] Sara Leibovitz-Dar, "Haydakim Besherut Hamedinah" [Microbes in State Service], Hadashot, August 13, 1993, pp. 6-10.
[5] Cohen, "Israel and Chemical/Biological Weapons," p. 31-33.
[6] Thomas J. Hamilton, "Arab Assails the Idea of Minority Shifts," New York Times, July 24, 1948; see also Leibovitz-Dar, "Haydakim Besherut Hamedinah."
[7] In 1993, however, when Israeli journalist Sarah Leibovitz-Dar asked the commander of Gaza operation whether the soldiers had been sent to gather intelligence or on a poisoning mission, he refused to respond. "You will not get answers on these questions," he said angrily. "Not from me, and not from anyone..." Leibovitz-Dar concluded that many people knew something about these operations; it was one of those open secrets that over time becomes a national taboo. Yet both participants and later historians chose to avoid the issue. See, Leibovitz-Dar, "Haydakim Besherut Hamedinah."
[8] Also, one should look at the military situation as was perceived by the Haganah leaders in early 1948, the time when HEMED BEIT was created. In response to the imminent possibility of invasion of the Arab states, the Haganah prepared a broad strategic plan, known as Plan D, to face such a contingency. While it was not a grand plan of massive expulsion, it allowed the expulsion of hostile or potentially hostile Palestinian villagers. Until mid-1948 fears of Zionist defeat, possible even annihilation, were still held in the psyche of the Yishuv's leadership. The creation of a Jewish state was not a sure proposition. The founders of HEMED BEIT shared this mind-set. They were committed to do whatever was necessary to establish a Jewish state in the land of Israel. They firmly believed that, after the Holocaust, that sacred mission could not be derailed by the luxury of moral revulsion against "dirty weapons." If microbiology could help in providing the means to establish the Jewish state, so be it.
[9] Cohen, "Israel and Chemical/Biological Weapons," pp. 32-33.
[10] It is not known if, and to what extent, Bergmann and his IIBR colleagues made a distinction between defensive and offensive R&D. Given the climate of the times, and given the intrinsic dual nature of such research, it is highly doubtful. One might assume that they, like their CBW contemporaries in the West, thought about CBW primarily in terms of "offensive" use, and most likely in the context of retaliation. One should keep in mind that in those days, national CBW programs were not illegal, nor even at odds with international norms. In fact, by the 1950s all three major Western (and NATO) powers—the United States, the United Kingdom, and France—had significant offensive CBW capabilities.
[11] Zafrir Rinat, "The Activity of IIBR focuses on Study of Disease Prevention," Haaretz, December 12, 1997.
[12] Douglas Jehl, "U.S. Intelligence Review Is Softening Some Judgments About Illicit Arms Abroad", New York Times, November 18, 2003.
[13] "Controversy Over Secret Anti-Anthrax Trials, Gas Mask Distribution Plague Israeli Passive Defense Efforts," WMD Insights, Issue 18, September 2007, p. 6-11, www.wmdinsights.com/ I18/ I18_ ME1_ Controversy Over Secret.htm; "Israel developed own anthrax vaccine," Agence France Presse, 15 May 2007; Dan Williams, "Israel developed version of anthrax vaccine," The China Post,16 May 07, www.chinapost.com.tw.
[14] Karel Knip's detailed expose, "Biologie in Ness Ziona," was published on February 27, 1999 in the Dutch (Rotterdam) daily newspaper, NRC Handelsband. The articles in Dutch can be found on the NRC website, www.nrc.nl/ w2/ Lab/ Ziona/. Karel Knip generously provided the author a nine-page English translation of his article under the title "Biology in Ness Ziona." All of the quotes that appear here are from the English document that Knip provided the author.
[15] Ibid.
[16] In Knip's words, "The many hundreds of articles prove beyond doubt that the IIBR is Israel's main center for research into both chemical and biological weapons. The research conducted at the Institute consists of a bizarre combination of activities which acquire significance within one specific context, that of chemical and biological warfare." [cite for this quote?]
[17] Many of these sensationalist stories appeared in the London Sunday Times. One cites a biologist, who once held a senior post in the Israeli intelligence, stating that "there is hardly a single known or unknown form of chemical or biological weapon that is not manufactured at the Institute." Uzi Mahnaimi, "Israeli Jets Equipped for Chemical Warfare," London Sunday Times, October 4, 1998, www.sunday-times.co.uk. See also, "Israel's Secret Institute," Foreign Report, August 20, 1998; "Israel's Ness Ziona Mystery," Foreign Report, February 5, 1998.
[18] U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction: Assessing the Risk, Report No. OTA-ISC-559 (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1993), pp. 65, 80. The OTA report cites 11 public sources (government and NGO arms control experts as well as media). As to the BW issue, the report cites six public sources of which four (67 percent) refer to Israel as "having undeclared offensive biological warfare programs" (Table 2-B-1, p. 82).
[19] Russian Federation's Foreign Intelligence Service, "A New Challenge After the Cold War: Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction," January 28, 1993; translated into English by the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FIBS), March 5, 1993, and published in U.S. Senate, Committee on Government Affairs, "Proliferation Threats of the 1990s".
[20] In those days, national CBW programs were not illegal or even at odds with international norms. The 1925 Geneva Protocol, which prohibits the use in war of CBW, is silent about developing, producing, and stockpiling such weapons. Moreover, many countries that ratified the Geneva Protocol did so while reserving the right to employ CBW for retaliation in kind. (In any case, Israel signed the 1925 Geneva protocol only in February 1969). By the 1950s, all three major Western (and NATO) powers--the United States, the United Kingdom, and France--had offensive CBW capabilities. Bergmann was well aware of those activities.
[21] Website of The Israel Institute for Biological Research, www.iibr.gov.il
[22] Ibid.
[23] Ibid. This level of staffing constitutes an increase over that of 2004. The number of technical staff has increased from 100 to 160.
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Israels Weapons of Mass Destruction - Part I - Biological WeaponsUpdated September 2009
NTI Overview - Israel
Biological Overview
Introduction
Little is known about Israel's biological warfare (BW) program. Israel has not signed the 1972 Biological and Toxin Weapons Conventions (BTWC), nor explained the reasons behind its refusal to sign. Moreover, Israel has revealed virtually nothing about its activities and capabilities in the BW field; it has never issued a public policy statement on the question of BW. For all practical purposes, Israel acts as if it maintains a policy of biological ambiguity
It is commonly assumed that Israel maintains an advanced BW program, but the exact nature of the program - and whether any of it could be defined as offensively oriented - is unclear. An effort to reconstruct Israel's BW history, status, and capabilities is inescapably both conjectural and interpretative.
History
In April 1948, only weeks before the State of Israel was declared, David Ben-Gurion, the nation's founding father and first prime minister, wrote a letter to Ehud Avriel, one of the Jewish Agency's operatives in Europe, asking him to seek out and recruit East European Jewish scientists who could "either increase the capacity to kill masses or to cure masses; both things are important." Put in plain language, Ben-Gurion's request implied a search for experts in BW.[1]
Ben-Gurion's interest in BW should be placed in context. It so happened that all three scientists, who were close to Ben-Gurion at that time, Professor Ernst David Bergmann and the Katachalsky [Katzir] brothers, came from the fields of chemistry and microbiology. Professor Bergmann was already a well-established organic chemist, serving as Ben-Gurion's unofficial adviser on science and technology. The Katachalsky brothers, Aharon and Ephraim, were among the first to study chemistry at the Hebrew University in the 1930s, where they conducted molecular research that linked organic chemistry with microbiology. They both received their Ph.D. in macromolecular chemistry in 1941. The outlook of these three scientists reinforced Ben-Gurion's view that Israel's leading edge in its struggle with its enemies depended on investing in science and technology. These scientists were founders of the Science Corps within the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), a military branch known by the Hebrew acronym HEMED.[2]
In early 1948, Alexander Keynan, a graduate student in microbiology and the leader of a small Haganah (the pre-state Jewish militia) group of students from the medical school of the Hebrew University, lobbied General Yigal Yadin, the Haganah operations chief, to establish a new unit within HEMED to be devoted to BW. Yadin and Bergmann gave their blessing, and Ben-Gurion needed little persuasion to approve it. On February 18, 1948, by order from Yadin, Keynan left Jerusalem for Jaffa, where he set up his new unit. Soon the new unit was named HEMED BEIT.[3]
The creation of HEMED BEIT was controversial from the outset. Tight secrecy characterized everything related to the activities of HEMED BEIT during the 1948 war. The biological unit was insulated and isolated, physically and organizationally, from all other HEMED units. To this day, all archival material relating to HEMED BEIT is classified, hence, unavailable to scholars. But rumors about secret BW operations in Palestinian villages and towns have persisted for years.[4]
It is believed that one of the largest BW operations was in the Arab coastal town of Acre, north of Haifa, shortly before it was conquered by the IDF on May 17, 1948. According to Dr. Uri Milstein, an Israeli military historian, the typhoid epidemic that spread in Acre in the days before the town fell to the Israeli forces was not due to wartime chaos but rather the result of a deliberate covert action by the IDF—the contamination of Acre's water supply.[5]
Then, on May 23, 1948, Egyptian soldiers in the Gaza area caught four Israeli soldiers disguised as Arabs near water wells. A statement issued by the Egyptian Ministry of Defense on May 29, 1948, stated that four "Zionists" had been caught trying to infect artesian wells in Gaza with "a liquid, which was discovered to contain the germs of dysentery and typhoid." The four Israelis were put on trial, convicted, and executed by hanging three months later.[6]
At the time, Israel denied the Egyptian allegations about "bacteriological warfare," calling it a "wicked libel." It admitted only that the Israeli soldiers were involved in an intelligence operation aimed at monitoring military movements and assessing the morale of the Arab population.[7]
Still, there are many unresolved questions regarding the entire HEMED BEIT activities in the 1948 war: Was the failed Gaza operation an isolated or nearly isolated Israeli experiment with BW that ended with that failure, or part of a larger campaign? If the latter is true, how widespread was the campaign and against whom was it directed? What was the strategic rationale?
No Palestinian references exist alleging that the epidemics in Acre had resulted from Israeli sabotage. The absence of Arab reports on this incident may suggest either that the "bacteriological warfare" campaign, if it occurred, yielded limited results, or that in the chaos of the war the Palestinian refugees were unaware of the campaign. Also, if the BW operations were aimed primarily at preventing the return of the Palestinian population to their deserted villages, as Milstein claims, this could explain the relative lack of evidence of such operations.
Ultimately, however, the creation of HEMED BEIT must be understood, and judged, in the context of its time. It took place only three years after the end of World War II, at a time when the Zionist movement had just started to grapple with the devastating blow the Jewish people had suffered in the Nazi Holocaust. As a matter of historical context, every major World War II combatant had a BW program.[8]
In 1949, a period of reorganization began both at the IDF and the civilian Ministry of Defense (MOD). By the end of the war, the BW unit, HEMED BEIT, was effectively no longer under HEMED's control. As the military budget shrank in 1950-51, the IDF was determined to rid itself of the burden of supporting HEMED.
As part of the organizational restructuring, HEMED was converted into a group of MOD-sponsored civilian research centers called "Machons." The Israel Institute for Biological Research (IIBR) was founded in 1952, as a result of this restructuring, from the merger of two Machons, one of which was a continuation of HEMED BEIT. The building in the fenced grove outside Ness Ziona, which had served as the base of HEMED BEIT, became the home of IIBR. Alexander Keynan, who had led HEMED BEIT, was IIBR's first director.[9]
Furthermore, while the official mandate and rationale for IIBR's research was national security, it appears that Bergmann and Keynan were trying to extend and broaden the research mandate for the new scientific institute. They apparently hoped to build IIBR as the flagship for "national science": a research center that would conduct defense research but would also serve as the nation's main laboratory for chemistry and biology. It would mirror the functions of the U.S. Center for Disease Control (CDC) and even the National Institute of Health (NIH). These different philosophies about the role of IIBR—a limited scientific infrastructure for chemical and biological weapons (CBW) research versus Bergmann's and Keynan's vision of a "national science" center—resulted in a long dispute within the MOD about the mission and role of IIBR.
As to the role of CBW in Israel's concept of national security, all indications are that from early on Ben-Gurion and his associates viewed the atomic bomb as Israel's ultimate deterrence weapon, not CBW. Nevertheless, in the 1950s and 1960s, when Israeli nuclear capability was still far off in the future, Israeli leaders probably viewed CBW as the nation's doomsday weapons, Israel's weapons of last resort.
Even in those early days, however, it appears that Israeli strategists distinguished clearly between chemical weapons and biological weapons. Chemical weapons were viewed as "nasty" but still usable weapons that Arab armies might use in the battlefield in a meaningful military fashion. The perception of biological weapons was different. Israeli military leaders did not view biological weapons as feasible military weapons for the battlefield, primarily because wars in the Middle East are short. But they recognized that biological weapons could be used in conflict as the ultimate weapons of terror.[10]
From its early days the primary mandate of the IIBR was to serve as the institutional base of Israel's commitment to maintain adequate physical infrastructure and human R&D expertise in the CBW areas. While it was recognized that Israel as a state must have a national infrastructure and expertise in these areas, the BW threat was not perceived as real and/or imminent. This assessment fits well with the relatively small size and budget of IIBR, which remained largely steady for decades.[11]
During the 1970s and 1980s, IIBR, suffered chronic budgetary and organizational difficulties; apparently on at least two occasions, IIBR even faced the possibility of being shut down as an independent research institution. A great deal of IIBR's budget came from specific scientific projects, many of them were non-classified (often from foreign sources) with no direct bearing on defense. One critical response to these financial difficulties was IIBR's effort to promote the commercialization of its products and services. Since the 1970s, IIBR has become increasingly involved in all kinds of "for profit" unclassified R&D contracts, some of them with non-Israeli entities (such as the U.S. Army).
In 1979, in response to financial difficulties, Dr. Israel Hartmann, a former director of IIBR, set up a commercial subsidiary, Life Science Israel Research (LSIR), at the IIBR campus. Its purpose is to promote chemical and biomedical projects and to market products and services developed by IIBR. LSIR also represents IIBR in all kinds of collaborations, joint ventures, and partnerships with private and public companies, all done on a commercial basis and with non-classified research.
Saddam Hussein is probably the single man most responsible for the dramatic growth of Israel's defensive BW infrastructure. Over the last decade, under the energetic leadership of IIBR director Dr. Avigdor Shafferman, IIBR as the institutional base of Israel's CBW infrastructure has witnessed an unprecedented period of expansion. When the Gulf War started in January 1991, it became evident that Israel was totally unprepared for the possibility of being attacked by Iraqi Scud missiles with chemical or biological weapon warheads. Thus Israel's policy-makers decided that those major national deficiencies must be repaired.
Throughout the mid-1990s revelations about Iraq's BW program (especially the fact that Saddam considered Israel as the target for his BW program), prompted further secret expansion of Israel's BW infrastructure. In the late 1990s, major new funds were allocated to develop an adequate defensive response, at the national level, to the Iraqi CBW threat as well as to other new bioterrorism threats. The IIBR became the primary body responsible for formulating and executing a national concept of defense against various scenarios of BW threats (primarily Anthrax bacterium [Bacillus anthracis]). The IIBR campus was expanded with new buildings, laboratories, and scientific equipment, and its staff has grown with the hiring of many new scientists.
Status
Israel has not signed the 1972 BTWC, nor has it ever explained the reasons behind its refusal. In fact, Israel has never issued a public policy statement on BW, and it acts as if it maintains a policy of biological ambiguity.
The official unclassified versions of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA's) reports on WMD do not name Israel as having a BW program, but this may reflect the focus of these reports on U.S. opponents. However, unofficially, and based on most previous intelligence reviews, U.S. government officials acknowledge that Israel is believed to possess biological weapons.[12] While it is assumed that Israel is advanced in R&D biodefense and possibly even maintains some sort of BW agent production capability, it is very doubtful that Israel actually produces or stockpiles BW agents (beyond defensive needs). In 2007, it was revealed that in response to a perceived Iraqi threat Israel had independently developed an anthrax vaccine during the latter half of the 1990s.[13]
Capabilities
Israel's national scientific-technical R&D capabilities in the BW field are believed to be advanced but the specifics are unknown.
In the absence of any public data, it is difficult to assess the precise nature of Israel's capabilities in the BW field. About a decade ago, a Dutch reporter named Karel Knip conducted the most extensive investigation into the history and research activities of IIBR, where Israel's BW research is undertaken. By searching Internet-based databases of scientific and medical literature, Knip turned up hundreds of scientific publications written by some 140 scientists affiliated with IIBR over nearly 50 years. Aided by eminent world authorities on CBW, Knip reconstructed a rough history of the kind of research that was conducted at IIBR in Ness Ziona.[14]
On the biological side, Knip's survey identified several types of disease agents (pathogens), toxins, and incapacitants studied at IIBR. Since the early to mid-1950s, much of the research activity focused on the causative agents of plague bacterium (Yersinia pestis), Typhus bacterium (Rickettsia prowazekii), and rabies, followed later on by studies on breeding insects that transmit those diseases, such as mosquitoes, fleas, and ticks. Interestingly, Knip noted that he found almost no IIBR publications about the standard biological weapons that Iraq produced, such as Anthrax bacterium and the Botulinum toxin, even though it is "inconceivable" (in his words) that IIBR has not conducted research into these areas. However, a more current literature search adds Anthrax bacterium to the list. It is evident that a large group of IIBR scientists has been working on Anthrax bacterium for some time.[15]
Another central area of study at IIBR since the 1950s has been research on various kinds of toxins: non-living poisons derived from plants, animals, and bacteria. According to Knip's bibliographical review, IIBR has done research on at least 15 different toxins, some of which may have been intended for use in special covert operations. One toxin on the list is Staphylococcus enterotoxin B (SEB), a potent incapacitating toxin produced by the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus. SEB was one of the toxin agents weaponized by the U.S. offensive BW program.
Knip's overall conclusion is that IIBR, since its establishment in the early 1950s, has been involved in a diverse array of research activities that, when put together, imply the possibility of offensive BW research.[16]
Although a survey of published scientific literature is a good tool to reconstruct some of the institutional research interests at IIBR, it is important to recognize its limitations. Open bibliographical analysis can suggest institutional trends, but it cannot indicate whether Israel has an offensively oriented BW program. Medical and agricultural research institutions worldwide conduct extensive basic research on disease-causing microorganisms. For this reason, Israel's motivations in the BW field, defensive or offensive, cannot be inferred merely from the existence of research activities involving potential BW agents.
Knip's bibliographical survey confirms what has been presumed all along and what IIBR seems to imply through its own website: that Israel has substantial research capabilities relevant to both defensive and offensive BW. Still, to make judgments about Israeli intentions, motivations, and strategy in the BW area—especially regarding production and weaponization—one needs to know much more.
Lacking hard information, foreign-based publications have made all kinds of claims, from the mundane to the fantastic, about Israel's BW capabilities.[17] As a matter of policy, the Israeli government has refused to comment on these reports. For this reason, any assessment of Israel's BW program and capabilities is inevitably tentative and speculative. Although most analysts believe that Israel has maintained some limited offensive BW capabilities, it is difficult to characterize exactly what those capabilities are and their current status.[18]
The U.S. government has never included Israel in its public list of states with an offensive BW capability, although it has been argued that Israel is one of two unnamed states on the list of 12 nations assessed to have an offensive program. A 1993 report on weapons proliferation by the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service included an ambiguous characterization of Israel's BW capability:
There is no direct evidence of the presence of biological weapons in Israel. At the same time, according to various indications, a ramified program of biological research of a general nature, in which elements of a military-applied purpose are present, is being implemented in Israel. Specifically, Israeli research centers are cooperating closely with the American military laboratories within the framework of a US Defense Department program for protection against biological weapons. As a whole, Israel possesses a strong civilian biotechnology base, which, if necessary, could be redirected fairly easily to the production of biological weapons.[19]
Organizations/Facilities
The overall executive and coordinating agency in charge of all Israel's activities in the non-conventional field—national policy, doctrine, R&D, production capabilities, preparedness, production, etc. —is the highly classified administration of Special Means (in Hebrew Emtzaim Myuchadim) at the MOD. The head of that bureau also has the title of Assistant to the Minister of Defense for Special Means.
This Special Means Bureau at the MOD was established in 1992, by then-Minister of Defense Moshe Arens, as a direct lesson of the first Gulf War. During that war, as Israel was attacked by some 40 Iraqi Scud missiles, it became evident that too many governmental agencies and organizations had some responsibility for CBW threats, but no one was really in charge of the overall national coordination at the MOD. During the war, it became evident that Israel was not well prepared for an Iraqi CBW attack, there was no adequate chain of responsibility and command at the MOD, and there was no single authority responsible for overall coordination and preparations. The establishment of the new bureau at MOD was a direct response to this lack.
The Special Means Bureau at the Israeli MOD coordinates the missions and activities of a number of organizations. The primary R&D organization in the area of BW is IIBR.
Israel Institute of Biological Research (IIBR) (In Hebrew: Ha-Machon Habiologi)
The principal organization for scientific R&D (and, to some extent, also over matters of policy as well) in the BW area is the IIBR, which is located in the town of Ness Ziona. The IIBR's primary mandate is to serve as the locus of Israel's commitment to maintain and preserve physical infrastructure and human expertise in the area of CBW. Israel's commitment to a "knowledge base" implies advanced applied research in areas relevant to BW and bio-terrorism.
As noted earlier, the IIBR was founded in 1952 by Professor Ernest Bergmann—Ben-Gurion's science adviser and the head of R&D at MOD—and Dr. Alexander Keynan. From its inception the IIBR was structured according to a "dual identity" system. For security and some other administrative/bureaucratic purposes, it was regarded as a highly classified defense research center ("Machon 2") operated and funded by the MOD's Division of Research (EMET). But for representative and civic-scientific functions, however, it was named the Israel Institute for Biological Research (IIBR), under the jurisdiction of the prime minister's office. Bergmann recognized the intrinsic civil-military ambiguity of CBW research and thought that giving the laboratory a broad research mandate would provide a legitimate cover for its scientists. By maintaining a legitimate structure and rationale for IIBR, Bergmann sought to attract first-rate scientists by offering them the kinds of intellectual and material benefits available at academic institutions: publishing research in scientific journals, attending conferences, taking sabbatical leaves, and so forth.[20]
Today, more than five decades later, much of Bergmann's founding concept has survived the passage of time, and the changes in both science and politics. On the organizational level, the IIBR, like the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission, is still formally under the jurisdiction of the prime minister's office, and all its employees are considered employees of the prime minister's office. But IIBR is coordinated and budgeted by the Special Means Bureau at the MOD. On the doctrinal-policy level, the IIBR is the agency with the primary national responsibility to identify, analyze, articulate options, and ultimately implement Israel's response to all CBW threats.
The mission statement of IIBR—as it appears in its website—reflects its broad scientific mandate, built upon the ambiguity of dual use. In accordance with this philosophy IIBR's expertise are presented in the following vague way: "Backed by five decades of experience, IIBR combines highly trained personnel with cutting-edge technologies and infra-structure to conduct applied research and development in the fields of biology, medicinal chemistry and environmental sciences, in addition to basic research studies emanating from and closely related to IIBR's applied projects."[21]
According to its website, IIBR is organized into three scientific divisions—Biology, Medicinal Chemistry, and Environmental Sciences—which "cooperate in a synergistic relationship, enabling the formation of optimum interdisciplinary teams tailored to the needs of each individual project."[22] "The Institute's staff comprises approximately 350 employees, 150 of whom are scientists holding doctorates in biology, biochemistry, biotechnology, analytic, organic and physical chemistry, pharmacology, mathematics, physics and environmental sciences. IIBR's technical staff consists of 160 certified technicians, representing a broad spectrum of capabilities."[23]
IIBR's capabilities and expertise are consistent with a full array of activities associated with a sophisticated BW program, both on the defensive and offensive sides. Yet the website carefully avoids the issues of policy motivations and intent for IIBR's research.
As long as Israel as a nation has no policy statement on the matter of BW, the objectives behind IIBR's capabilities remain obscure—even suspicious—as well.
Sources:
[1] Ben-Gurion's letter to Avriel, dated March 4, 1948, is cited in Michael Keren, Ben-Gurion and the Intellectuals (Sdeh Boker: The Ben-Gurion Research Center Press, 1988 [in Hebrew]), p. 32.
[2] Avner Cohen, "Israel and Chemical/Biological Weapons: History, Deterrence, and Arms Control," The Nonproliferation Review 8 (Fall-Winter 2001), pp. 29-30.
[3] Ibid, p. 31.
[4] Sara Leibovitz-Dar, "Haydakim Besherut Hamedinah" [Microbes in State Service], Hadashot, August 13, 1993, pp. 6-10.
[5] Cohen, "Israel and Chemical/Biological Weapons," p. 31-33.
[6] Thomas J. Hamilton, "Arab Assails the Idea of Minority Shifts," New York Times, July 24, 1948; see also Leibovitz-Dar, "Haydakim Besherut Hamedinah."
[7] In 1993, however, when Israeli journalist Sarah Leibovitz-Dar asked the commander of Gaza operation whether the soldiers had been sent to gather intelligence or on a poisoning mission, he refused to respond. "You will not get answers on these questions," he said angrily. "Not from me, and not from anyone..." Leibovitz-Dar concluded that many people knew something about these operations; it was one of those open secrets that over time becomes a national taboo. Yet both participants and later historians chose to avoid the issue. See, Leibovitz-Dar, "Haydakim Besherut Hamedinah."
[8] Also, one should look at the military situation as was perceived by the Haganah leaders in early 1948, the time when HEMED BEIT was created. In response to the imminent possibility of invasion of the Arab states, the Haganah prepared a broad strategic plan, known as Plan D, to face such a contingency. While it was not a grand plan of massive expulsion, it allowed the expulsion of hostile or potentially hostile Palestinian villagers. Until mid-1948 fears of Zionist defeat, possible even annihilation, were still held in the psyche of the Yishuv's leadership. The creation of a Jewish state was not a sure proposition. The founders of HEMED BEIT shared this mind-set. They were committed to do whatever was necessary to establish a Jewish state in the land of Israel. They firmly believed that, after the Holocaust, that sacred mission could not be derailed by the luxury of moral revulsion against "dirty weapons." If microbiology could help in providing the means to establish the Jewish state, so be it.
[9] Cohen, "Israel and Chemical/Biological Weapons," pp. 32-33.
[10] It is not known if, and to what extent, Bergmann and his IIBR colleagues made a distinction between defensive and offensive R&D. Given the climate of the times, and given the intrinsic dual nature of such research, it is highly doubtful. One might assume that they, like their CBW contemporaries in the West, thought about CBW primarily in terms of "offensive" use, and most likely in the context of retaliation. One should keep in mind that in those days, national CBW programs were not illegal, nor even at odds with international norms. In fact, by the 1950s all three major Western (and NATO) powers—the United States, the United Kingdom, and France—had significant offensive CBW capabilities.
[11] Zafrir Rinat, "The Activity of IIBR focuses on Study of Disease Prevention," Haaretz, December 12, 1997.
[12] Douglas Jehl, "U.S. Intelligence Review Is Softening Some Judgments About Illicit Arms Abroad", New York Times, November 18, 2003.
[13] "Controversy Over Secret Anti-Anthrax Trials, Gas Mask Distribution Plague Israeli Passive Defense Efforts," WMD Insights, Issue 18, September 2007, p. 6-11, www.wmdinsights.com/ I18/ I18_ ME1_ Controversy Over Secret.htm; "Israel developed own anthrax vaccine," Agence France Presse, 15 May 2007; Dan Williams, "Israel developed version of anthrax vaccine," The China Post,16 May 07, www.chinapost.com.tw.
[14] Karel Knip's detailed expose, "Biologie in Ness Ziona," was published on February 27, 1999 in the Dutch (Rotterdam) daily newspaper, NRC Handelsband. The articles in Dutch can be found on the NRC website, www.nrc.nl/ w2/ Lab/ Ziona/. Karel Knip generously provided the author a nine-page English translation of his article under the title "Biology in Ness Ziona." All of the quotes that appear here are from the English document that Knip provided the author.
[15] Ibid.
[16] In Knip's words, "The many hundreds of articles prove beyond doubt that the IIBR is Israel's main center for research into both chemical and biological weapons. The research conducted at the Institute consists of a bizarre combination of activities which acquire significance within one specific context, that of chemical and biological warfare." [cite for this quote?]
[17] Many of these sensationalist stories appeared in the London Sunday Times. One cites a biologist, who once held a senior post in the Israeli intelligence, stating that "there is hardly a single known or unknown form of chemical or biological weapon that is not manufactured at the Institute." Uzi Mahnaimi, "Israeli Jets Equipped for Chemical Warfare," London Sunday Times, October 4, 1998, www.sunday-times.co.uk. See also, "Israel's Secret Institute," Foreign Report, August 20, 1998; "Israel's Ness Ziona Mystery," Foreign Report, February 5, 1998.
[18] U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction: Assessing the Risk, Report No. OTA-ISC-559 (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1993), pp. 65, 80. The OTA report cites 11 public sources (government and NGO arms control experts as well as media). As to the BW issue, the report cites six public sources of which four (67 percent) refer to Israel as "having undeclared offensive biological warfare programs" (Table 2-B-1, p. 82).
[19] Russian Federation's Foreign Intelligence Service, "A New Challenge After the Cold War: Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction," January 28, 1993; translated into English by the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FIBS), March 5, 1993, and published in U.S. Senate, Committee on Government Affairs, "Proliferation Threats of the 1990s".
[20] In those days, national CBW programs were not illegal or even at odds with international norms. The 1925 Geneva Protocol, which prohibits the use in war of CBW, is silent about developing, producing, and stockpiling such weapons. Moreover, many countries that ratified the Geneva Protocol did so while reserving the right to employ CBW for retaliation in kind. (In any case, Israel signed the 1925 Geneva protocol only in February 1969). By the 1950s, all three major Western (and NATO) powers--the United States, the United Kingdom, and France--had offensive CBW capabilities. Bergmann was well aware of those activities.
[21] Website of The Israel Institute for Biological Research, www.iibr.gov.il
[22] Ibid.
[23] Ibid. This level of staffing constitutes an increase over that of 2004. The number of technical staff has increased from 100 to 160.
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Ten Stories In The News That The BP Oil Spill Is Overshadowing
Vatic Notes: I have to admit, I am an old broad and I can tell you that never in my entire lifetime have I seen the press so tightly tied up as I do right now. That is why I believe ONLY WHAT I SEE NOW, AND NOT WHAT THEY TELL ME anymore. I know the value TO THEM of using FEAR and PANIC as studies have shown it to be the most effective tool for manipulating mass populations to achieve an agenda, whatever it might be. Thus we must stay out of fear at all costs. Look at these stories that are buried and they are serious. For instance,
1. Notice Israel has three nuke subs off the coast of Iran. What is telling about that story, IS THAT THE SUBS ARE GERMAN, AND GUESS WHAT? IT WAS A GERMAN TORPEDO/BOMB THAT BROUGHT DOWN THE SOUTH KOREAN SHIP. Why is that important??? Because a little tinpot dictatorship is trying to drive the entire globe into a nuke war so their status can change from a tin pot dictatorship into a full fledged powerful Global Fascist dictatorship. No one will question that because we are too busy thinking we are on a course of extinction in 5 years. But not to worry, the "GLOBAL COMMUNITY" will rescue us proving we need them and we need to be part of it, thus NEW WORLD ORDER IS BORN. Clever, really. Very. The rest of those articles show just how badly we are losing our liberties and given Ron Paul is not their favorite politician, I can understand why they want to silence him and his group. Freedom of speech ONLY FOR CORPORATIONS OR LARGE LOBBYING GROUPS. Yup election financing reform fit only for a Fascist Global Governance secret satanic society. That about sums it up.
2. Remember the arms and uniforms of both the mexican drug cartel AND US ARMY that were on the Vatic project this past week with massive numbers of armament found near the border??
Black ops. I said then it was going to be part of the plan to create violence between us and Mexico in order to regionalize us and now here today is news that indeed riots in LA mexican and Americans against each other, BLACK OPS. This is a specialty of mercenaries who are doing the same thing in Afghanistan and in Pakistan. DIVIDE and conquor. Lots of news. Check it out. Black ops mossad and CIA are bringing their provocateuring program here to this country and that is unacceptable. Put the damn ONE WORLD ORDER UP FOR A DAMN VOTE AND QUIT THIS JERKING US AROUND. I for one am sick and tired of it and its obvious what is happening, so quit it.
Ten Stories In The News That The BP Oil Spill Is Overshadowing
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Corporate media does it’s best to keep you uninformed
Steve Watson, Prisonplanet.com [1] Provided to Vatic Project by Gypsy, Australia
Friday, Jun 18th, 2010
The mainstream media is running a 24 hour news cycle focusing purely on the BP oil spill, a disaster, as we have shown [2], that is being intentionally hyped in order to sell cap and trade legislation and moves to nationalize big business.
In the wake of this, big important news stories are being overlooked. Here are just some of the stories, in no particular order, that you should be hearing on the nightly news, but of course, are not.
1. Israeli nuclear submarines positioned close to Iran [3]:
Three German-built Israeli submarines equipped with nuclear cruise missiles are to be deployed in the Gulf near the Iranian coastline.
The first has been sent in response to Israeli fears that ballistic missiles developed by Iran, Syria and Hezbollah, a political and military organisation in Lebanon, could hit sites in Israel, including air bases and missile launchers.
The submarines of Flotilla 7 — Dolphin, Tekuma and Leviathan — have visited the Gulf before. But the decision has now been taken to ensure a permanent presence of at least one of the vessels.
2. Iran war propaganda [4]:
US intelligence has shown Iran could launch an attack against Europe with “scores or hundreds” of missiles, prompting major changes to US missile defenses, Pentagon chief Robert Gates said on Thursday.
The anti-Iran rhetoric has amplified following the revelation that many Bilderberg members, including Zbigniew Brzezinski, are now in favor of U.S. air strikes on Iran and are “leaning towards war,”.
“Some of them in Europe are saying no we shouldn’t do it but most of them are in favor of American air strikes on Iran,” Bilderberg sluth Jim Tucker relayed from the recent meeting in Spain. “They’re tilting heavily towards green lighting a U.S. attack on Iran.” (VN: thats to take our eyes off the various liberty gutting and repressive acts they are in the process of committing. Whose going to fight their wars??? Zbig and his sons? I don't think so, and it sure as hell won't be the American people if they are gutting our Bill of Rights, what a joke, what if they had a war and no one showed up? except maybe at Goldman sachs offices. lol)
3. The continuing economic slide:
The greatest bankster heist in history and the looming greatest depression rumbles on.
Gold has hit record highs [5] as the dollar slumps and the Euro continues to face complete collapse. Unemployment figures [6] in the U.S. are through the roof and U.S. consumer prices [7] posted their largest fall in nearly 1-1/2 years in May.
Rumours in Europe persist regarding an impending bailout for spain, while Russia says it is ready to found a “new economic world order [8]“.
4. FCC ready to restrict the Internet [9]:
The federal government would have “absolute power” to shut down the Internet under the terms of a new US Senate bill being pushed by Joe Lieberman, legislation which would hand President Obama a figurative “kill switch” to seize control of the world wide web in response to a Homeland Security directive.
Lieberman has been pushing for government regulation of the Internet for years under the guise of cybersecurity, but this new bill goes even further in handing emergency powers over to the feds which could be used to silence free speech under the pretext of a national emergency. (VN: You know what that means, time for the underground and resistance, its one way to get us away from our computers and get out there and do what we should have done a long time ago. Damn computer kept us off the streets or should I say out of the "underground").
5. Obama/Blagojevich story
As the Blagojevich trial continues and important details emerge [10], linking Obama to possible political corruption, Federal prosecutors are seeking a gag order to keep the ex-Governor and his lawyers from making public comments. (VN: Oh, heaven forbid we should ever have someone in the elite who has committed crimes ever be accountable for them.... what a notion. lol where do they think we live? In a land of laws?? What a joke. Just another reason we need to get away from the computer and deal with justice as we should have a long time ago. We can start with Goldman sachs. BP is next)
6. UN small arms treaty [11]
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently announced that the Obama Administration would be working hand in glove with the U.N. to pass a new “Small Arms Treaty.” (VN: Hillary just committed political suicide. Interesting.)
Congressman Paul Broun warns [12] that, “With willing one-world accomplices in Washington, D.C., gun-grabbers around the globe believe they have it made.” Broun characterizes the U.N.’s Small Arms Treaty as “nothing more than a massive, GLOBAL gun control scheme.”
The treaty would force national governments to acquiesce to a global gun registry, while strengthening licensing procedures so as to make it almost impossible for a citizen to legally purchase a gun. It would also ban the private sale of semi-automatic weapons and ultimately lead to the confiscation and destruction of all “unauthorized” firearms owned by citizens.
By encapsulating the gun grab within a treaty, the Obama administration could claim that no Senate approval is needed to authorize any such move against the right to bear arms – although whether a treaty trumps the Constitution is a very murky area of debate [13]. (VN: that is exactly why the founding fathers put the 2nd amendment in the BOR, so that could not happen)
7. Mexicans riot in LA/Land given over to Mexico
Violent scenes following the LA Lakers’ championship-clinching win over the Boston Celtics in the NBA finals saw angry mobs smashing their way through the streets [14] waving Mexican flags as they went. (VN: just a reminder of the American arms and uniforms along with the drug cartel uniforms that were found along the border. Who has access to that large number of American military uniforms? No wonder they don't want border patrols, these were American war weapons including launchers, so this was a set up and this rioting is a BLACK OPS, just like they do in Afghanistan. DIVIDE THE NATION anyway they can, using mercenaries, to usher in martial law. DON'T FALL FOR IT. Also remember who controls the drug trade and gangs? Mossad and CIA. )
Meanwhile, a massive stretch of Arizona has become effectively off limits to Americans [15], Prompting questions over whether the Obama administration is giving a major strip of the south-west back to Mexico. (VN: its defacto regionalizing, by ceding land without legal authority or process, its clear as the nose on our faces they are frustrated at the lack of progress in Fascist globalizing. It is not ceding the land to Mexico, its desovereignizing it for America, thus regional. We can go on that land since it belongs to us, and the sheriff can see to it that happens if he wishes to do so).
8. Obama Plans To Sneak Through Carbon Tax By Stealth [16]
President Obama is planning to sneak through his job-killing, economy wrecking carbon tax by stealth according to the Washington Post, by passing a weakened bill and then adding in cap and trade provisions after the heat is off following the November elections. (VN: Its not stealth, its "CONDUCTING WAR BY DECEPTION, a saying hanging on the wall of Mossad, not unexpected, remember, Mossad is the enforcement arm of the international bankers. The Cap and Trade was killed in Denmark because the faud was exposed big time by a hacker. Now they had to create another reason to impliment it. Such a tax added to the forced insurance huge premium will ensure slavery, your children turned over to the schools to be raised by them, since you will have to work two jobs each parent to meet all these new taxes. Its just another population control, social engineering scheme)
Described as the “lame duck climate strategy,” Obama is planning to secure enough votes in the Senate to pass a weakened energy bill and then drag out the conference long enough to ensure the stronger provisions contained in the original House version are added “after lawmakers have faced voters in November, thereby cushioning the vote’s political impact.” (VN: make sure the same legislators do not return and that can work in our favor)
9. Afghanistan Mineral Riches Story Is War Propaganda [17]
News that the U.S. has suddenly discovered $1 trillion-worth of mineral deposits in Afghanistan, and descriptions of the bounty as a “game changer” by the corporate media, represent nothing more than crude war propaganda designed to reinvigorate public support for a failing and ever more pointless occupation.
The “newly discovered” riches have been known about since the 1970s and further revelations indicate [18] that the Pentagon report cited by the New York Times as their source for the story did not even mention the untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan. (VN: Isn't that why we invaded on our 9-11 false flag excuse?)
10. Free Speech Gag Bill Moving in House [19]
H.R. 5175, The so-called DISCLOSE Act would severely limit the ability of political groups to communicate to their members and the general public.
Politico reports [20] that , the NRA bargained for an exemption for itself and other large, established groups while trampling the rights of private citizens, new political groups, like Ron Paul’s Campaign for Liberty [21], and other small organizations.
As John Bresnahan reports, “The proposal would exempt organizations that have more than 1 million members, have been in existence for more than 10 years, have members in all 50 states and raise 15 percent or less of their funds from corporations… The NRA, with 4 million members, will not actively oppose the DISCLOSE Act, according to Democratic sources.” (VN: of course they won't they are run by neocons just like the democratic and republican parties, my goodness who is surprised by that?)
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[2] as we have shown: http://infowars.net/articles/june2010/140610Green.htm
[3] Israeli nuclear submarines positioned close to Iran: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article7140282.ece
[4] Iran war propaganda: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jT7OgfuDjLU2jRXVXeBcQZmQQdqg
[5] Gold has hit record highs: http://infowars.net/articles/june2010/170610Gold.htm
[6] Unemployment figures: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gNiyJ905Ho0Ur96V2TQhsBX19lGwD9GDAVMO0
[7] consumer prices: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704289504575312950299049246.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsSecond
[8] new economic world order: http://www.prisonplanet.com/russia-will-lead-effort-to-found-new-world-economic-order-medvedev-says.html
[9] FCC ready to restrict the Internet: http://www.prisonplanet.com/new-bill-gives-obama-kill-switch-to-shut-down-the-internet.html
[10] important details emerge: http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/blagojevich/2401120,obama-linked-to-rezko-at-blago-trial-061610.article
[11] UN small arms treaty: http://scpatriotsclub.com/blog/?p=82
[12] Congressman Paul Broun warns: http://www.nagr.org/UN_lp_survey2.aspx?pid=key05&gclid=CLK1t6nQiqICFQO_sgodpDGmWQ
[13] murky area of debate: http://www.oklahomaconstitution.com/ns.php?nid=158
[14] angry mobs smashing their way through the streets: http://www.prisonplanet.com/mexican-flag-waving-lakers-fans-riot-in-l-a.html
[15] off limits to Americans: http://www.prisonplanet.com/mexicans-take-over-parts-of-arizona.html
[16] Obama Plans To Sneak Through Carbon Tax By Stealth : http://www.prisonplanet.com/obama-plans-to-sneak-through-carbon-tax-by-stealth.html
[17] Afghanistan Mineral Riches Story Is War Propaganda: http://infowars.net/articles/june2010/150610Afghanistan.htm
[18] further revelations indicate: http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0616/pentagon-report-april-1-trillion-afghan-wealth/
[19] Free Speech Gag Bill Moving in House : http://www.infowars.com/free-speech-gag-bill-moving-in-house/
[20] Politico reports: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0610/38500.html
[21] Ron Paul’s Campaign for Liberty: http://www.campaignforliberty.com/blog.php?view=36255
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1. Notice Israel has three nuke subs off the coast of Iran. What is telling about that story, IS THAT THE SUBS ARE GERMAN, AND GUESS WHAT? IT WAS A GERMAN TORPEDO/BOMB THAT BROUGHT DOWN THE SOUTH KOREAN SHIP. Why is that important??? Because a little tinpot dictatorship is trying to drive the entire globe into a nuke war so their status can change from a tin pot dictatorship into a full fledged powerful Global Fascist dictatorship. No one will question that because we are too busy thinking we are on a course of extinction in 5 years. But not to worry, the "GLOBAL COMMUNITY" will rescue us proving we need them and we need to be part of it, thus NEW WORLD ORDER IS BORN. Clever, really. Very. The rest of those articles show just how badly we are losing our liberties and given Ron Paul is not their favorite politician, I can understand why they want to silence him and his group. Freedom of speech ONLY FOR CORPORATIONS OR LARGE LOBBYING GROUPS. Yup election financing reform fit only for a Fascist Global Governance secret satanic society. That about sums it up.
2. Remember the arms and uniforms of both the mexican drug cartel AND US ARMY that were on the Vatic project this past week with massive numbers of armament found near the border??
Black ops. I said then it was going to be part of the plan to create violence between us and Mexico in order to regionalize us and now here today is news that indeed riots in LA mexican and Americans against each other, BLACK OPS. This is a specialty of mercenaries who are doing the same thing in Afghanistan and in Pakistan. DIVIDE and conquor. Lots of news. Check it out. Black ops mossad and CIA are bringing their provocateuring program here to this country and that is unacceptable. Put the damn ONE WORLD ORDER UP FOR A DAMN VOTE AND QUIT THIS JERKING US AROUND. I for one am sick and tired of it and its obvious what is happening, so quit it.
Ten Stories In The News That The BP Oil Spill Is Overshadowing
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Posted By admin On June 18, 2010 @ 10:00 am
Corporate media does it’s best to keep you uninformed
Steve Watson, Prisonplanet.com [1] Provided to Vatic Project by Gypsy, Australia
Friday, Jun 18th, 2010
The mainstream media is running a 24 hour news cycle focusing purely on the BP oil spill, a disaster, as we have shown [2], that is being intentionally hyped in order to sell cap and trade legislation and moves to nationalize big business.
In the wake of this, big important news stories are being overlooked. Here are just some of the stories, in no particular order, that you should be hearing on the nightly news, but of course, are not.
1. Israeli nuclear submarines positioned close to Iran [3]:
Three German-built Israeli submarines equipped with nuclear cruise missiles are to be deployed in the Gulf near the Iranian coastline.
The first has been sent in response to Israeli fears that ballistic missiles developed by Iran, Syria and Hezbollah, a political and military organisation in Lebanon, could hit sites in Israel, including air bases and missile launchers.
The submarines of Flotilla 7 — Dolphin, Tekuma and Leviathan — have visited the Gulf before. But the decision has now been taken to ensure a permanent presence of at least one of the vessels.
2. Iran war propaganda [4]:
US intelligence has shown Iran could launch an attack against Europe with “scores or hundreds” of missiles, prompting major changes to US missile defenses, Pentagon chief Robert Gates said on Thursday.
The anti-Iran rhetoric has amplified following the revelation that many Bilderberg members, including Zbigniew Brzezinski, are now in favor of U.S. air strikes on Iran and are “leaning towards war,”.
“Some of them in Europe are saying no we shouldn’t do it but most of them are in favor of American air strikes on Iran,” Bilderberg sluth Jim Tucker relayed from the recent meeting in Spain. “They’re tilting heavily towards green lighting a U.S. attack on Iran.” (VN: thats to take our eyes off the various liberty gutting and repressive acts they are in the process of committing. Whose going to fight their wars??? Zbig and his sons? I don't think so, and it sure as hell won't be the American people if they are gutting our Bill of Rights, what a joke, what if they had a war and no one showed up? except maybe at Goldman sachs offices. lol)
3. The continuing economic slide:
The greatest bankster heist in history and the looming greatest depression rumbles on.
Gold has hit record highs [5] as the dollar slumps and the Euro continues to face complete collapse. Unemployment figures [6] in the U.S. are through the roof and U.S. consumer prices [7] posted their largest fall in nearly 1-1/2 years in May.
Rumours in Europe persist regarding an impending bailout for spain, while Russia says it is ready to found a “new economic world order [8]“.
4. FCC ready to restrict the Internet [9]:
The federal government would have “absolute power” to shut down the Internet under the terms of a new US Senate bill being pushed by Joe Lieberman, legislation which would hand President Obama a figurative “kill switch” to seize control of the world wide web in response to a Homeland Security directive.
Lieberman has been pushing for government regulation of the Internet for years under the guise of cybersecurity, but this new bill goes even further in handing emergency powers over to the feds which could be used to silence free speech under the pretext of a national emergency. (VN: You know what that means, time for the underground and resistance, its one way to get us away from our computers and get out there and do what we should have done a long time ago. Damn computer kept us off the streets or should I say out of the "underground").
5. Obama/Blagojevich story
As the Blagojevich trial continues and important details emerge [10], linking Obama to possible political corruption, Federal prosecutors are seeking a gag order to keep the ex-Governor and his lawyers from making public comments. (VN: Oh, heaven forbid we should ever have someone in the elite who has committed crimes ever be accountable for them.... what a notion. lol where do they think we live? In a land of laws?? What a joke. Just another reason we need to get away from the computer and deal with justice as we should have a long time ago. We can start with Goldman sachs. BP is next)
6. UN small arms treaty [11]
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently announced that the Obama Administration would be working hand in glove with the U.N. to pass a new “Small Arms Treaty.” (VN: Hillary just committed political suicide. Interesting.)
Congressman Paul Broun warns [12] that, “With willing one-world accomplices in Washington, D.C., gun-grabbers around the globe believe they have it made.” Broun characterizes the U.N.’s Small Arms Treaty as “nothing more than a massive, GLOBAL gun control scheme.”
The treaty would force national governments to acquiesce to a global gun registry, while strengthening licensing procedures so as to make it almost impossible for a citizen to legally purchase a gun. It would also ban the private sale of semi-automatic weapons and ultimately lead to the confiscation and destruction of all “unauthorized” firearms owned by citizens.
By encapsulating the gun grab within a treaty, the Obama administration could claim that no Senate approval is needed to authorize any such move against the right to bear arms – although whether a treaty trumps the Constitution is a very murky area of debate [13]. (VN: that is exactly why the founding fathers put the 2nd amendment in the BOR, so that could not happen)
7. Mexicans riot in LA/Land given over to Mexico
Violent scenes following the LA Lakers’ championship-clinching win over the Boston Celtics in the NBA finals saw angry mobs smashing their way through the streets [14] waving Mexican flags as they went. (VN: just a reminder of the American arms and uniforms along with the drug cartel uniforms that were found along the border. Who has access to that large number of American military uniforms? No wonder they don't want border patrols, these were American war weapons including launchers, so this was a set up and this rioting is a BLACK OPS, just like they do in Afghanistan. DIVIDE THE NATION anyway they can, using mercenaries, to usher in martial law. DON'T FALL FOR IT. Also remember who controls the drug trade and gangs? Mossad and CIA. )
Meanwhile, a massive stretch of Arizona has become effectively off limits to Americans [15], Prompting questions over whether the Obama administration is giving a major strip of the south-west back to Mexico. (VN: its defacto regionalizing, by ceding land without legal authority or process, its clear as the nose on our faces they are frustrated at the lack of progress in Fascist globalizing. It is not ceding the land to Mexico, its desovereignizing it for America, thus regional. We can go on that land since it belongs to us, and the sheriff can see to it that happens if he wishes to do so).
8. Obama Plans To Sneak Through Carbon Tax By Stealth [16]
President Obama is planning to sneak through his job-killing, economy wrecking carbon tax by stealth according to the Washington Post, by passing a weakened bill and then adding in cap and trade provisions after the heat is off following the November elections. (VN: Its not stealth, its "CONDUCTING WAR BY DECEPTION, a saying hanging on the wall of Mossad, not unexpected, remember, Mossad is the enforcement arm of the international bankers. The Cap and Trade was killed in Denmark because the faud was exposed big time by a hacker. Now they had to create another reason to impliment it. Such a tax added to the forced insurance huge premium will ensure slavery, your children turned over to the schools to be raised by them, since you will have to work two jobs each parent to meet all these new taxes. Its just another population control, social engineering scheme)
Described as the “lame duck climate strategy,” Obama is planning to secure enough votes in the Senate to pass a weakened energy bill and then drag out the conference long enough to ensure the stronger provisions contained in the original House version are added “after lawmakers have faced voters in November, thereby cushioning the vote’s political impact.” (VN: make sure the same legislators do not return and that can work in our favor)
9. Afghanistan Mineral Riches Story Is War Propaganda [17]
News that the U.S. has suddenly discovered $1 trillion-worth of mineral deposits in Afghanistan, and descriptions of the bounty as a “game changer” by the corporate media, represent nothing more than crude war propaganda designed to reinvigorate public support for a failing and ever more pointless occupation.
The “newly discovered” riches have been known about since the 1970s and further revelations indicate [18] that the Pentagon report cited by the New York Times as their source for the story did not even mention the untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan. (VN: Isn't that why we invaded on our 9-11 false flag excuse?)
10. Free Speech Gag Bill Moving in House [19]
H.R. 5175, The so-called DISCLOSE Act would severely limit the ability of political groups to communicate to their members and the general public.
Politico reports [20] that , the NRA bargained for an exemption for itself and other large, established groups while trampling the rights of private citizens, new political groups, like Ron Paul’s Campaign for Liberty [21], and other small organizations.
As John Bresnahan reports, “The proposal would exempt organizations that have more than 1 million members, have been in existence for more than 10 years, have members in all 50 states and raise 15 percent or less of their funds from corporations… The NRA, with 4 million members, will not actively oppose the DISCLOSE Act, according to Democratic sources.” (VN: of course they won't they are run by neocons just like the democratic and republican parties, my goodness who is surprised by that?)
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[1] Prisonplanet.com: http://prisonplanet.com
[2] as we have shown: http://infowars.net/articles/june2010/140610Green.htm
[3] Israeli nuclear submarines positioned close to Iran: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article7140282.ece
[4] Iran war propaganda: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jT7OgfuDjLU2jRXVXeBcQZmQQdqg
[5] Gold has hit record highs: http://infowars.net/articles/june2010/170610Gold.htm
[6] Unemployment figures: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gNiyJ905Ho0Ur96V2TQhsBX19lGwD9GDAVMO0
[7] consumer prices: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704289504575312950299049246.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsSecond
[8] new economic world order: http://www.prisonplanet.com/russia-will-lead-effort-to-found-new-world-economic-order-medvedev-says.html
[9] FCC ready to restrict the Internet: http://www.prisonplanet.com/new-bill-gives-obama-kill-switch-to-shut-down-the-internet.html
[10] important details emerge: http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/blagojevich/2401120,obama-linked-to-rezko-at-blago-trial-061610.article
[11] UN small arms treaty: http://scpatriotsclub.com/blog/?p=82
[12] Congressman Paul Broun warns: http://www.nagr.org/UN_lp_survey2.aspx?pid=key05&gclid=CLK1t6nQiqICFQO_sgodpDGmWQ
[13] murky area of debate: http://www.oklahomaconstitution.com/ns.php?nid=158
[14] angry mobs smashing their way through the streets: http://www.prisonplanet.com/mexican-flag-waving-lakers-fans-riot-in-l-a.html
[15] off limits to Americans: http://www.prisonplanet.com/mexicans-take-over-parts-of-arizona.html
[16] Obama Plans To Sneak Through Carbon Tax By Stealth : http://www.prisonplanet.com/obama-plans-to-sneak-through-carbon-tax-by-stealth.html
[17] Afghanistan Mineral Riches Story Is War Propaganda: http://infowars.net/articles/june2010/150610Afghanistan.htm
[18] further revelations indicate: http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0616/pentagon-report-april-1-trillion-afghan-wealth/
[19] Free Speech Gag Bill Moving in House : http://www.infowars.com/free-speech-gag-bill-moving-in-house/
[20] Politico reports: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0610/38500.html
[21] Ron Paul’s Campaign for Liberty: http://www.campaignforliberty.com/blog.php?view=36255
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2010-06-20
Vatic Alert: We need help getting this out - It could literally save the Gulf
Vatic Note: Watch the video. please! Now THIS IS SOMETHING WE ALL CAN DO TO MAKE IT MISERABLE FOR THE POWER BROKERS TO IGNORE THIS.
Ok, another thing we all need is to finally know what the heck is going on and this is the way to do it. Watch this video and the unique creative system this company has for cleaning up the oil and recovering it for BP and recovering those marshlands that are being severely damaged and he says they can even collect the plumes.
This is incredible, but he says no one from either BP or EPA or the White House will call him back to discuss it. So WE NEED TO START PUSHING, ALL OF US, TOGETHER ALL OVER THE NET.
GET THIS OUT AND MAKE IT GO "VIRAL" BIG TME AND ASK EVERYONE WHO GETS THIS TO BOTH CALL BP IN VENICE HEADQUARTERS AND THE WHITE HOUSE AND THEIR CONGRESSMAN AND SENATORS (they are up for reelection and having a tough time of it so its perfect timing).
PLEASE GET THIS OUT TO YOUR EMAIL LISTS AND ASK THEM TO DO THE SAME AND LETS MAKE THIS GO VIRAL. Thank you. If we are all being stonewalled, THEN YOU KNOW THIS IS CRIMINAL INTENT. Its going to be that simple. INSIST ON THEM CALLING THIS MAN. I believe the information is on here, but if not I will post it after researching it.
Smart Pipe Company Inc-Proposed Solutions for Gulf Oil Spill
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzSPeuKw36w&feature=email
SmartPipe — June 18, 2010 — Smart Pipe is the the only company in the world that can manufacture, buoyancy controlled high strength, light weight pipe in diameters from 6" to 48" and in lengths from 100 feet to miles. This can be done "on site" --- close to where the pipe is needed for emergency response situations, as in the case of our country's greatest environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.
View our website at http://www.smart-pipe.com/ for more information.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzSPeuKw36w&feature=email
Smart Pipe Company, Inc.
http://www.smart-pipe.com/
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Ok, another thing we all need is to finally know what the heck is going on and this is the way to do it. Watch this video and the unique creative system this company has for cleaning up the oil and recovering it for BP and recovering those marshlands that are being severely damaged and he says they can even collect the plumes.
This is incredible, but he says no one from either BP or EPA or the White House will call him back to discuss it. So WE NEED TO START PUSHING, ALL OF US, TOGETHER ALL OVER THE NET.
GET THIS OUT AND MAKE IT GO "VIRAL" BIG TME AND ASK EVERYONE WHO GETS THIS TO BOTH CALL BP IN VENICE HEADQUARTERS AND THE WHITE HOUSE AND THEIR CONGRESSMAN AND SENATORS (they are up for reelection and having a tough time of it so its perfect timing).
PLEASE GET THIS OUT TO YOUR EMAIL LISTS AND ASK THEM TO DO THE SAME AND LETS MAKE THIS GO VIRAL. Thank you. If we are all being stonewalled, THEN YOU KNOW THIS IS CRIMINAL INTENT. Its going to be that simple. INSIST ON THEM CALLING THIS MAN. I believe the information is on here, but if not I will post it after researching it.
Smart Pipe Company Inc-Proposed Solutions for Gulf Oil Spill
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzSPeuKw36w&feature=email
SmartPipe — June 18, 2010 — Smart Pipe is the the only company in the world that can manufacture, buoyancy controlled high strength, light weight pipe in diameters from 6" to 48" and in lengths from 100 feet to miles. This can be done "on site" --- close to where the pipe is needed for emergency response situations, as in the case of our country's greatest environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.
View our website at http://www.smart-pipe.com/ for more information.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzSPeuKw36w&feature=email
Smart Pipe Company, Inc.
http://www.smart-pipe.com/
Building 8
1426 Vander Wilt Lane, Katy, TX 77449
(281) 945-5700
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The U.S. wins the right to abduct innocent people with impunity
The U.S. wins the right to abduct innocent people with impunity
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/06/14/arar/index.html
VN: It wins the right to abduct, but not those who are committing big global crimes, they go scott free.
By Glenn Greenwald
Monday, Jun 14, 2010 13:15 ET
The Supreme Court today denied a petition of review from Maher Arar, the Canadian and Syrian citizen who was abducted by the U.S. Government at a stopover at JFK Airport when returning to Canada in 2002, held incommunicado for two weeks, and then rendered to Syria, where he spent the next 10 months being tortured, even though -- as everyone acknowledges -- he was guilty of absolutely nothing. Arar sued the U.S. Government for what was done to him, and last November, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal of his lawsuit on the ground that courts have no right to interfere in these decisions of the Executive Branch. That was the decision which the U.S. Supreme Court let stand today, ending Arar's attempt to be compensated for what was done to him.
I've written in detail several times about Arar's case, including in November when the appellate court upheld dismissal of his lawsuit; see here for how extreme his treatment has been http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2009/11/03/arar at the hands of the U.S. Government, which was most responsible for his harrowing nightmare and then spent years fighting to deny him any remedy for what was done. I won't reiterate those points here, as everything I have to say about the Supreme Court's actions today was said in that November post http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2009/11/03/arar (read the last part of that post, where I excerpted the court's description of what was done to Arar). But I do want to highlight one aspect of this episode:
Just compare how the American and Canadian Governments responded to what everyone agrees was this horrific injustice. The Canadians, who cooperated with the U.S. in Arar's abduction, conducted a sweeping investigation of what happened, and then http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0DE2DA1031F93AA2575AC0A9609C8B63 publicly "issued a scathing report that faulted Canada and the United States for his deportation four years ago to Syria, where he was imprisoned and tortured," and made clear he had done absolutely nothing wrong. Then, Canada's Prime Minister personally and publicly apologized to Arar, and announced http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN2642839220070126 that Canada would compensate him with a payment of $ 8.5 million.
By stark contrast, the U.S. Government, which played a far more active role in his abduction and rendition to Syria, has never apologized to Arar (though individual members of Congress have). It has never clearly acknowledged wrongdoing (the only time it even hinted at this was when Condoleezza Rice called U.S. conduct in this case "imperfect" -- you think? -- and generously added: "We do not think this case was handled as it should have been"). In fact, it continuously did the opposite of providing accountability: in response to Arar's efforts to seek damages from the U.S. Government, the U.S. raised -- under two successive administrations -- a slew of technical arguments to persuade American courts not to hear his case at all, including the argument that what was done to Arar involved "state secrets" that prevented a judicial adjudication of his claims. The U.S. even continued to ban Arar from entering the U.S. http://unambig.com/moderate-condoleeza-rice-admits-errors-with-maher-arar/ long after it was acknowledged that he had done nothing wrong, thus preventing him for years from appearing before Congress or in the U.S. to talk about what was done to him. Indeed, after the Bush administration spent years arguing that courts were barred from hearing Arar's case on the ground of "state secrets," the Obama administration embraced those same arguments and then urged the Supreme Court not to hear his appeal. http://www.ww4report.com/node/8615
As the Center for Constitutional Rights pointed out today:
The Obama administration could have settled the case, recognizing the wrongs done to Mr. Arar as Canada has done. . . . Yet the Obama administration chose to come to the defense of Bush administration officials, arguing that even if they conspired to send Maher Arar to torture, they should not be held accountable by the judiciary.
So congratulations to the U.S. for winning the right to wrongfully abduct people and send them to their torture with total impunity. What a ringing statement about our country's willingness to right the wrongs it commits and to provide access to our courts to those whose lives we devastate with our behavior. Andrew Sullivan today referred http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/06/republicans-and-apologies.html to "the cult of the inerrant leader": the inability and refusal of our political class to acknowledge wrongdoing, apologize for it, and be held accountable. The Maher Arar case is a pathological illustration of that syndrome
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http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/06/14/arar/index.html
VN: It wins the right to abduct, but not those who are committing big global crimes, they go scott free.
By Glenn Greenwald
Monday, Jun 14, 2010 13:15 ET
The Supreme Court today denied a petition of review from Maher Arar, the Canadian and Syrian citizen who was abducted by the U.S. Government at a stopover at JFK Airport when returning to Canada in 2002, held incommunicado for two weeks, and then rendered to Syria, where he spent the next 10 months being tortured, even though -- as everyone acknowledges -- he was guilty of absolutely nothing. Arar sued the U.S. Government for what was done to him, and last November, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal of his lawsuit on the ground that courts have no right to interfere in these decisions of the Executive Branch. That was the decision which the U.S. Supreme Court let stand today, ending Arar's attempt to be compensated for what was done to him.
I've written in detail several times about Arar's case, including in November when the appellate court upheld dismissal of his lawsuit; see here for how extreme his treatment has been http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2009/11/03/arar at the hands of the U.S. Government, which was most responsible for his harrowing nightmare and then spent years fighting to deny him any remedy for what was done. I won't reiterate those points here, as everything I have to say about the Supreme Court's actions today was said in that November post http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2009/11/03/arar (read the last part of that post, where I excerpted the court's description of what was done to Arar). But I do want to highlight one aspect of this episode:
Just compare how the American and Canadian Governments responded to what everyone agrees was this horrific injustice. The Canadians, who cooperated with the U.S. in Arar's abduction, conducted a sweeping investigation of what happened, and then http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0DE2DA1031F93AA2575AC0A9609C8B63 publicly "issued a scathing report that faulted Canada and the United States for his deportation four years ago to Syria, where he was imprisoned and tortured," and made clear he had done absolutely nothing wrong. Then, Canada's Prime Minister personally and publicly apologized to Arar, and announced http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN2642839220070126 that Canada would compensate him with a payment of $ 8.5 million.
By stark contrast, the U.S. Government, which played a far more active role in his abduction and rendition to Syria, has never apologized to Arar (though individual members of Congress have). It has never clearly acknowledged wrongdoing (the only time it even hinted at this was when Condoleezza Rice called U.S. conduct in this case "imperfect" -- you think? -- and generously added: "We do not think this case was handled as it should have been"). In fact, it continuously did the opposite of providing accountability: in response to Arar's efforts to seek damages from the U.S. Government, the U.S. raised -- under two successive administrations -- a slew of technical arguments to persuade American courts not to hear his case at all, including the argument that what was done to Arar involved "state secrets" that prevented a judicial adjudication of his claims. The U.S. even continued to ban Arar from entering the U.S. http://unambig.com/moderate-condoleeza-rice-admits-errors-with-maher-arar/ long after it was acknowledged that he had done nothing wrong, thus preventing him for years from appearing before Congress or in the U.S. to talk about what was done to him. Indeed, after the Bush administration spent years arguing that courts were barred from hearing Arar's case on the ground of "state secrets," the Obama administration embraced those same arguments and then urged the Supreme Court not to hear his appeal. http://www.ww4report.com/node/8615
As the Center for Constitutional Rights pointed out today:
The Obama administration could have settled the case, recognizing the wrongs done to Mr. Arar as Canada has done. . . . Yet the Obama administration chose to come to the defense of Bush administration officials, arguing that even if they conspired to send Maher Arar to torture, they should not be held accountable by the judiciary.
So congratulations to the U.S. for winning the right to wrongfully abduct people and send them to their torture with total impunity. What a ringing statement about our country's willingness to right the wrongs it commits and to provide access to our courts to those whose lives we devastate with our behavior. Andrew Sullivan today referred http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/06/republicans-and-apologies.html to "the cult of the inerrant leader": the inability and refusal of our political class to acknowledge wrongdoing, apologize for it, and be held accountable. The Maher Arar case is a pathological illustration of that syndrome
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17 big questions about the handling of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill
Vatic Note: These are excellent questions that result in the highlighting of the "FASCIST NATURE" of the resulting handling of the crisis and how truly impotent and useless our government has become, or worse, COMPLICIT in the crimes against humanity that have been perpetrated by the ROTHSCHILD cabal through their Goldman sachs crime organization. We have provided numerous articles and links to place Goldman Sach's BP and their Poison chemical treatment at the heart of the crimes blatantly obvious here. Our Gov has allowed BP to control a crime scene that, like 9-11, will make it that much more difficult to prosecute should our government find the courage and integrity to prosecute. There is already sufficient circumstantial evidence to do so and then slapping these CEO's and BOARD CHAIRMEN right into jail for life or better yet, FOR AS LONG AS IT TAKES FOR THE GULF TO RECOVER. What about an injunction in Federal district court to remove BP from the crime scene and get real investigators in to determine what happened and why and to look at who "benefited" and that means Goldman sachs and BP.
17 big questions about the handling of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor,
Provided to Vatic Project by Gypsy, Australia
Originally published June 19 2010
(NaturalNews) What's clear about the BP oil catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico is that the independent journalists are doing a better job of asking the really tough questions than the mainstream media. Sure, CNN, Fox and others are bringing some attention to the matter, and they've done some solid reporting on it, but they haven't yet found a way to ask the deeper questions like why the U.S. government seems to be colluding with BP to cover up the truth about the spill.
Just the other day, I found an article entitled, "16 Burning Questions About The Gulf Of Mexico Oil Spill" on the TheEconomicCollapseBlog.com site (http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/... ). It was a really insightful collection of important questions, so I've repeated them below. The author of these questions wasn't mentioned on the page, so I regret I cannot properly attribute the list, but I do think they're worth reviewing, so I've included my own commentary and an extra question below.
Here are the 16 questions:
#1) Barack Obama has authorized the deployment of more than 17,000 National Guard members along the Gulf coast to be used "as needed" by state governors. So what are all of these National Guard troops going to be doing exactly? Are the troops going to be used to stop the oil or to control the public?
Mike's comment: Good question. Much of the response activity to the spill seems to be about controlling the public's perception and limiting media access to the spill site rather than actually cleaning up the mess.
#2) Barack Obama has also announced the creation of a "Gulf recovery czar" who will be in charge of overseeing the restoration of the Gulf of Mexico region following the oil spill. So is appointing a "czar" Obama's idea of taking charge of a situation?
#3) Because it is so incredibly toxic, the UK's Marine Management Organization has completely banned Corexit 9500, so if there was a major oil spill in the UK's North Sea, BP would not be able to use it. So why is BP being allowed to use Corexit 9500 in the Gulf of Mexico?
Mike's answer: Because Corexit kills sea animals and makes them sink and disappear rather than allowing them to wash up on shore where the emotional outcry would be even worse than it is already.
#4) It is being reported that 2.61 parts per million of Corexit 9500 (mixed with oil at a ratio of 1:1o) is lethal to 50% of fish exposed to it within 96 hours. That means that 1 gallon of Corexit 9500/oil mixture is capable of rendering 383,141 gallons of water highly toxic to fish. So why was BP allowed to dump 1,021,000 gallons of Corexit 9500 and Corexit 9527 into the Gulf of Mexico, and why aren't they being stopped from dumping another 805,000 gallons of these dispersants that they have on order into the Gulf?
Mike's answer: Sadly, BP is running the show in the Gulf, not the government! The U.S. government has sold out to private corporations who now think they own the gulf and can run operations there however they see fit.
#5) If these dispersants are so incredibly toxic to fish, what are they going to do to crops? What are they going to do to people?
Mike's answer: They're obviously going to poison the entire Gulf Coast region if hurricanes whip up these chemicals and deposit them on land. We could be looking at a complete wipeout of the Florida citrus industry, for example, if all the worst conditions converge.
#6) If the smell of the oil on some Gulf beaches is already so strong that it burns your nostrils, then what in the world is this oil doing to wildlife that encounter it?
#7) Is it a bad sign that birds from the Gulf region are flocking north by the thousands?
Mike answer: Remember the Tsunami in the Indian ocean a few years back? The animals fled first, while the clueless people stayed behind and got clobbered by the deadly wave. I think a similar thing could be happening in the Gulf. All it takes is one hurricane to turn the entire region into a toxic stew of chemical poison.
#8) Why is BP being allowed to use private security contractors to keep the American people away from the oil cleanup sites?
Mike's answer: Yes, this is the real question. BP is running security in the Gulf the same way Halliburton runs security in the Middle East. The corporate contractors are now the police force in the area, and they're running the Gulf as if they owned it! This is a clear indication that the corporations have taken over our government.
#9) Why is BP openly attempting to manipulate the search results on sites like Google and Yahoo?
#10) Why has the FAA shut down the airspace above the Gulf of Mexico oil spill? What don't they want the American people to see?
Mike's answer: There are lots of answer to this one: The feds probably don't want people in small airplanes taking aerial photos and posting them online (because the Obama administration is working overtime to cover up the truth here, much like the Bush administration did with the flag-draped coffins coming home from war in the Middle East). It could also be that they are planning something really crazy like a deep ocean nuke to collapse the well, and they don't want civilians falling out of the sky when the mushroom cloud appears.
#11) Senator Bill Nelson of Florida says there are reports that there are additional ruptures in the sea floor from which oil is leaking. If there are quite a few of these additional ruptures, then how in the world does BP expect to completely stop this oil leak?
Mike's answer: BP actually doesn't expect to stop this leak anytime soon. They are clearly in full-on spin mode, just trying to deny the truth and spin the words to buy themselves more time to offload stock shares before the whole thing comes tumbling down.
#12) Why are scientists finding concentrations of methane at up to 10,000 times normal background levels in Gulf waters?
Mike's answer: Because BP broke the ocean floor, and now huge volumes of gas hydrates (which contain methane) are bubbling up from places that were previously trapped safely underground.
#13) At some testing stations in the Gulf of Mexico, levels of benzene have been detected at over 3000 parts per billion, and levels of hydrogen sulfide have been detected as high as 1192 parts per billion. Considering that these levels would be highly toxic to humans, why hasn't the general public been warned?
#14) Why are so many Gulf oil spill disaster workers showing up at local hospitals complaining of a "mysterious illness"?
Mike's answer: This is going to be the Gulf War Syndrome of the Gulf Coast. Or the 9/11 asbestos question affecting firefighters. There will be a wave of toxic side effects from the use of chemicals in the Gulf, and both BP and the federal government will predictably deny any link between the chemicals and the health effects for years to come.
#15) If "70% or 80%" of the protective booms are doing absolutely nothing at all to stop the oil, then what is going to stop the millions of gallons of oil in the Gulf from eventually reaching shore?
Mike's answer: Nothing, of course. The oil is going to reach the shore, and there's nothing BP or the feds can do to stop in. In fact, it seems as if they are trying to interfere with the cleanup by halting the barges that were supposed to be vacuuming oil just off the beaches.
#16) It is being reported that the deep sea oil plumes are creating huge "dead zones" where all creatures are dying as they are deprived of oxygen. If this oil spill continues to grow could the vast majority of the Gulf of Mexico become one gigantic "dead zone"?
Mike's answer: Indeed, that is precisely what looks likely to happen. The Gulf of Mexico could become a massive dead zone, adding to the long list of humanity's crimes against the planet. See my related CounterThink cartoon at: http://www.naturalnews.com/029015_a...
I've also added one more question of my own:
#17) Why is our government colluding with BP to cover up the truth about the spill?
Remember the BP press conferences on cable news? A U.S. Coast Guard representative was standing right there beside the BP spokesperson, almost as if she were a subordinate of BP. This is insane! If anything, the US Coast Guard should be telling BP what to do, not the other way around.
And why is the US Coast Guard restricting reporters' access to the spill areas, threatening them with arrest if they "trespass." Trespass into PUBLIC waters? Doesn't anybody realize that BP does not own the Gulf of Mexico and if we want to take our boats out into the Gulf to get some video of what's really happening there, that's our right! But the U.S. government is now working for BP, it seems, and they're trying to protect BP's image by restricting the freedoms of ordinary Americans.
Sound familiar? That's why I think this Gulf of Mexico disaster is another 9/11 reactionary freedom squasher in the works. Just wait... you'll see what kind of freedom-destroying ideas are put forth by our lawmakers in response to this catastrophe. When it's all said and done, it won't only be British Petroleum that loses; it will be all of us.
The Corporatocracy and government collusion
What we're really witnessing here with the BP disaster is our own government colluding with the powerful corporatocracy to cover up the truth all while making it worse by interfering with legitimate cleanup efforts.
It's almost as if the federal government were actively working to worsen the problem and expand the impact of the disaster. But that brings up the question: Why?
Why would our own government worsen a catastrophe? The answer, of course, is right in front of you. Just visit ground zero in New York City and remind yourself of all the various ways the U.S. government expanded its power following the collapse of the twin towers. "Never waste a good crisis" is the mantra of Big Government today, and the easiest way to steal even more power away from the people is to turn a small disaster into a big disaster, then leap in with a "government solution" that enacts some large, oppressive new act that never would have been possible before the disaster.
So what kind of oppressive new laws does the Obama administration want to put in place in response to this disaster? Perhaps government control over all oceans, or government control over all seafood. Maybe they want to outlaw oil over the next 25 years and force everybody to transition to some other form of energy (which may not actually be a bad idea from an ecological perspective, but at what price to freedom?).
There are a thousand other conspiracy theories that try to guess at what the government's true agenda might be in this moment. While it's hard to say which of them (if any) might be true, one thing is crystal clear: The government does not seem interested in solving the problem in the Gulf of Mexico. It is covering up the truth, threatening mainstream journalists who try to photograph the region, restricting air travel over the well site, restricting boat travel anywhere near the spill, and basically lying to the public on a daily basis about what's really happening there.
That alone should make any thinking person suspicious. If the situation were really under control, why would they have to lie about it?
US government poisons its own citizens
There is precedent for believing that the U.S. government might try to poison its own citizens in order to achieve a political goal. During Prohibition, the U.S. government actually released poisoned alcohol in order to harm (or kill) those who were defying the law and drinking liquor.
That story is published today here on NaturalNews.com. Read it to learn more about what our own government may be capable of doing when it wishes to exercise power of the People.{SubscribeHealthRangerBlock}
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17 big questions about the handling of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor,
Provided to Vatic Project by Gypsy, Australia
Originally published June 19 2010
(NaturalNews) What's clear about the BP oil catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico is that the independent journalists are doing a better job of asking the really tough questions than the mainstream media. Sure, CNN, Fox and others are bringing some attention to the matter, and they've done some solid reporting on it, but they haven't yet found a way to ask the deeper questions like why the U.S. government seems to be colluding with BP to cover up the truth about the spill.
Just the other day, I found an article entitled, "16 Burning Questions About The Gulf Of Mexico Oil Spill" on the TheEconomicCollapseBlog.com site (http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/... ). It was a really insightful collection of important questions, so I've repeated them below. The author of these questions wasn't mentioned on the page, so I regret I cannot properly attribute the list, but I do think they're worth reviewing, so I've included my own commentary and an extra question below.
Here are the 16 questions:
#1) Barack Obama has authorized the deployment of more than 17,000 National Guard members along the Gulf coast to be used "as needed" by state governors. So what are all of these National Guard troops going to be doing exactly? Are the troops going to be used to stop the oil or to control the public?
Mike's comment: Good question. Much of the response activity to the spill seems to be about controlling the public's perception and limiting media access to the spill site rather than actually cleaning up the mess.
#2) Barack Obama has also announced the creation of a "Gulf recovery czar" who will be in charge of overseeing the restoration of the Gulf of Mexico region following the oil spill. So is appointing a "czar" Obama's idea of taking charge of a situation?
#3) Because it is so incredibly toxic, the UK's Marine Management Organization has completely banned Corexit 9500, so if there was a major oil spill in the UK's North Sea, BP would not be able to use it. So why is BP being allowed to use Corexit 9500 in the Gulf of Mexico?
Mike's answer: Because Corexit kills sea animals and makes them sink and disappear rather than allowing them to wash up on shore where the emotional outcry would be even worse than it is already.
#4) It is being reported that 2.61 parts per million of Corexit 9500 (mixed with oil at a ratio of 1:1o) is lethal to 50% of fish exposed to it within 96 hours. That means that 1 gallon of Corexit 9500/oil mixture is capable of rendering 383,141 gallons of water highly toxic to fish. So why was BP allowed to dump 1,021,000 gallons of Corexit 9500 and Corexit 9527 into the Gulf of Mexico, and why aren't they being stopped from dumping another 805,000 gallons of these dispersants that they have on order into the Gulf?
Mike's answer: Sadly, BP is running the show in the Gulf, not the government! The U.S. government has sold out to private corporations who now think they own the gulf and can run operations there however they see fit.
#5) If these dispersants are so incredibly toxic to fish, what are they going to do to crops? What are they going to do to people?
Mike's answer: They're obviously going to poison the entire Gulf Coast region if hurricanes whip up these chemicals and deposit them on land. We could be looking at a complete wipeout of the Florida citrus industry, for example, if all the worst conditions converge.
#6) If the smell of the oil on some Gulf beaches is already so strong that it burns your nostrils, then what in the world is this oil doing to wildlife that encounter it?
#7) Is it a bad sign that birds from the Gulf region are flocking north by the thousands?
Mike answer: Remember the Tsunami in the Indian ocean a few years back? The animals fled first, while the clueless people stayed behind and got clobbered by the deadly wave. I think a similar thing could be happening in the Gulf. All it takes is one hurricane to turn the entire region into a toxic stew of chemical poison.
#8) Why is BP being allowed to use private security contractors to keep the American people away from the oil cleanup sites?
Mike's answer: Yes, this is the real question. BP is running security in the Gulf the same way Halliburton runs security in the Middle East. The corporate contractors are now the police force in the area, and they're running the Gulf as if they owned it! This is a clear indication that the corporations have taken over our government.
#9) Why is BP openly attempting to manipulate the search results on sites like Google and Yahoo?
#10) Why has the FAA shut down the airspace above the Gulf of Mexico oil spill? What don't they want the American people to see?
Mike's answer: There are lots of answer to this one: The feds probably don't want people in small airplanes taking aerial photos and posting them online (because the Obama administration is working overtime to cover up the truth here, much like the Bush administration did with the flag-draped coffins coming home from war in the Middle East). It could also be that they are planning something really crazy like a deep ocean nuke to collapse the well, and they don't want civilians falling out of the sky when the mushroom cloud appears.
#11) Senator Bill Nelson of Florida says there are reports that there are additional ruptures in the sea floor from which oil is leaking. If there are quite a few of these additional ruptures, then how in the world does BP expect to completely stop this oil leak?
Mike's answer: BP actually doesn't expect to stop this leak anytime soon. They are clearly in full-on spin mode, just trying to deny the truth and spin the words to buy themselves more time to offload stock shares before the whole thing comes tumbling down.
#12) Why are scientists finding concentrations of methane at up to 10,000 times normal background levels in Gulf waters?
Mike's answer: Because BP broke the ocean floor, and now huge volumes of gas hydrates (which contain methane) are bubbling up from places that were previously trapped safely underground.
#13) At some testing stations in the Gulf of Mexico, levels of benzene have been detected at over 3000 parts per billion, and levels of hydrogen sulfide have been detected as high as 1192 parts per billion. Considering that these levels would be highly toxic to humans, why hasn't the general public been warned?
#14) Why are so many Gulf oil spill disaster workers showing up at local hospitals complaining of a "mysterious illness"?
Mike's answer: This is going to be the Gulf War Syndrome of the Gulf Coast. Or the 9/11 asbestos question affecting firefighters. There will be a wave of toxic side effects from the use of chemicals in the Gulf, and both BP and the federal government will predictably deny any link between the chemicals and the health effects for years to come.
#15) If "70% or 80%" of the protective booms are doing absolutely nothing at all to stop the oil, then what is going to stop the millions of gallons of oil in the Gulf from eventually reaching shore?
Mike's answer: Nothing, of course. The oil is going to reach the shore, and there's nothing BP or the feds can do to stop in. In fact, it seems as if they are trying to interfere with the cleanup by halting the barges that were supposed to be vacuuming oil just off the beaches.
#16) It is being reported that the deep sea oil plumes are creating huge "dead zones" where all creatures are dying as they are deprived of oxygen. If this oil spill continues to grow could the vast majority of the Gulf of Mexico become one gigantic "dead zone"?
Mike's answer: Indeed, that is precisely what looks likely to happen. The Gulf of Mexico could become a massive dead zone, adding to the long list of humanity's crimes against the planet. See my related CounterThink cartoon at: http://www.naturalnews.com/029015_a...
I've also added one more question of my own:
#17) Why is our government colluding with BP to cover up the truth about the spill?
Remember the BP press conferences on cable news? A U.S. Coast Guard representative was standing right there beside the BP spokesperson, almost as if she were a subordinate of BP. This is insane! If anything, the US Coast Guard should be telling BP what to do, not the other way around.
And why is the US Coast Guard restricting reporters' access to the spill areas, threatening them with arrest if they "trespass." Trespass into PUBLIC waters? Doesn't anybody realize that BP does not own the Gulf of Mexico and if we want to take our boats out into the Gulf to get some video of what's really happening there, that's our right! But the U.S. government is now working for BP, it seems, and they're trying to protect BP's image by restricting the freedoms of ordinary Americans.
Sound familiar? That's why I think this Gulf of Mexico disaster is another 9/11 reactionary freedom squasher in the works. Just wait... you'll see what kind of freedom-destroying ideas are put forth by our lawmakers in response to this catastrophe. When it's all said and done, it won't only be British Petroleum that loses; it will be all of us.
The Corporatocracy and government collusion
What we're really witnessing here with the BP disaster is our own government colluding with the powerful corporatocracy to cover up the truth all while making it worse by interfering with legitimate cleanup efforts.
It's almost as if the federal government were actively working to worsen the problem and expand the impact of the disaster. But that brings up the question: Why?
Why would our own government worsen a catastrophe? The answer, of course, is right in front of you. Just visit ground zero in New York City and remind yourself of all the various ways the U.S. government expanded its power following the collapse of the twin towers. "Never waste a good crisis" is the mantra of Big Government today, and the easiest way to steal even more power away from the people is to turn a small disaster into a big disaster, then leap in with a "government solution" that enacts some large, oppressive new act that never would have been possible before the disaster.
So what kind of oppressive new laws does the Obama administration want to put in place in response to this disaster? Perhaps government control over all oceans, or government control over all seafood. Maybe they want to outlaw oil over the next 25 years and force everybody to transition to some other form of energy (which may not actually be a bad idea from an ecological perspective, but at what price to freedom?).
There are a thousand other conspiracy theories that try to guess at what the government's true agenda might be in this moment. While it's hard to say which of them (if any) might be true, one thing is crystal clear: The government does not seem interested in solving the problem in the Gulf of Mexico. It is covering up the truth, threatening mainstream journalists who try to photograph the region, restricting air travel over the well site, restricting boat travel anywhere near the spill, and basically lying to the public on a daily basis about what's really happening there.
That alone should make any thinking person suspicious. If the situation were really under control, why would they have to lie about it?
US government poisons its own citizens
There is precedent for believing that the U.S. government might try to poison its own citizens in order to achieve a political goal. During Prohibition, the U.S. government actually released poisoned alcohol in order to harm (or kill) those who were defying the law and drinking liquor.
That story is published today here on NaturalNews.com. Read it to learn more about what our own government may be capable of doing when it wishes to exercise power of the People.{SubscribeHealthRangerBlock}
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Coastal Crisis: Beach Flags Send Mixed Signals
Vatic Note: When you don't go by what they "SAY" and you go by what you "see" and is reported by someone outside the BP/Gov criminal cabal, its a whole different story. As you can see this was reported on 6/19, which is yesterday, so what the heck is really going on? Was Vatic right in suggesting the entire big FEAR AGENDA/PROMOTION, is not real, but instead being used to manipulate the population into doing as they want with respect to mass movement out of the area??? What is the objective here for pumping massive global extinction fear into the people living along the coast? That is what it shows in Alabama which was suppose to be one of the hardest hit areas after Louisiana. Hmmmmmm. Well, maybe that is why the video doesn't work.... another lock down???
The tar balls they are referencing would match what we suggested a week or more ago.... that the various BP oil tankers on the gulf are dumping bilge waste of residue oil out into the gulf, there was no blow out (massive destruction of the rig, but I bet Halliburton shut off the valve below before they did the laser beam destructio of the rig, its the only thing that would "LOOK" as if this was a massive accident and explain the propoganda they are pumping and there is no major disaster (I hope I am right on this one because the alternative is unacceptable) , AND IT IS THE ONLY ANSWER THAT EXPLAINS THE COMPLETE LOCKDOWN ON ALL PUBLIC INFORMATION, reporting, blocking sea, land and air access to the gulf, militarizing it instead of calling on experts to come and aid in fixing the problem, one million gallons of toxic chemicals (chemical warfare) dumped and killing all seafood in the gulf. And finally, how unconcerned everyone in power and control involved in this venture seems to be about this massive extinction event they are promoting with their BANKER CONTROLLED PRESS. It also eliminated the need for Obama to sign the EO that was drafted BANNING ALL COMMERCIAL AND SPORT FISHING IN THE GULF PRIOR TO THE SO CALLED ACCIDENT. Please, every indicator suggests there is no crisis, rather a manufactured crisis for some agenda we don't know about. That is the only place where we have to guess. Just look at the beaches (Pristine and white, no oil and the flags, yellow with a few red). Those red ones would be out for just the bilge spills since they would have iron (rust) in the oil from the bottom of the ship making it look red. That is what first started me off on the alternative scenario.
Coastal Crisis: Beach Flags Send Mixed Signals
http://www.wkrg.com/gulf_oil_spill/article/beach-flags-send-mixed-signals/897817/Jun-19-2010_10-33-pm/
by Chad Petri
Published: Sat, June 19, 2010 - 10:30 pm CST Last Updated: Sat, June 19, 2010 - 10:33 pm CST
Short URL: http://wkrg.com/897817
GULF SHORES, Alabama - The oil spill is causing some confusion over whether it's ok to swim on Alabama beaches. On Orange Beach's Cotton Bayou, public beach double red flags were flying Saturday, warning people to stay out of the water. That's because there's a fine tarball mess washing ashore. In Gulf Shores, yellow warning flags are up--meaning you should swim with caution. State officials have issued a swim advisory cautioning people about the presence of oil in the water. The Alabama Health department has lifted its swimming advisory for Dauphin Island, due to improving conditions there.
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The tar balls they are referencing would match what we suggested a week or more ago.... that the various BP oil tankers on the gulf are dumping bilge waste of residue oil out into the gulf, there was no blow out (massive destruction of the rig, but I bet Halliburton shut off the valve below before they did the laser beam destructio of the rig, its the only thing that would "LOOK" as if this was a massive accident and explain the propoganda they are pumping and there is no major disaster (I hope I am right on this one because the alternative is unacceptable) , AND IT IS THE ONLY ANSWER THAT EXPLAINS THE COMPLETE LOCKDOWN ON ALL PUBLIC INFORMATION, reporting, blocking sea, land and air access to the gulf, militarizing it instead of calling on experts to come and aid in fixing the problem, one million gallons of toxic chemicals (chemical warfare) dumped and killing all seafood in the gulf. And finally, how unconcerned everyone in power and control involved in this venture seems to be about this massive extinction event they are promoting with their BANKER CONTROLLED PRESS. It also eliminated the need for Obama to sign the EO that was drafted BANNING ALL COMMERCIAL AND SPORT FISHING IN THE GULF PRIOR TO THE SO CALLED ACCIDENT. Please, every indicator suggests there is no crisis, rather a manufactured crisis for some agenda we don't know about. That is the only place where we have to guess. Just look at the beaches (Pristine and white, no oil and the flags, yellow with a few red). Those red ones would be out for just the bilge spills since they would have iron (rust) in the oil from the bottom of the ship making it look red. That is what first started me off on the alternative scenario.
Coastal Crisis: Beach Flags Send Mixed Signals
http://www.wkrg.com/gulf_oil_spill/article/beach-flags-send-mixed-signals/897817/Jun-19-2010_10-33-pm/
by Chad Petri
Published: Sat, June 19, 2010 - 10:30 pm CST Last Updated: Sat, June 19, 2010 - 10:33 pm CST
Short URL: http://wkrg.com/897817
GULF SHORES, Alabama - The oil spill is causing some confusion over whether it's ok to swim on Alabama beaches. On Orange Beach's Cotton Bayou, public beach double red flags were flying Saturday, warning people to stay out of the water. That's because there's a fine tarball mess washing ashore. In Gulf Shores, yellow warning flags are up--meaning you should swim with caution. State officials have issued a swim advisory cautioning people about the presence of oil in the water. The Alabama Health department has lifted its swimming advisory for Dauphin Island, due to improving conditions there.
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Medvedev sees chance for new world order
Vatic Note: Please note in Medvedev's comments he says "..... the renewed interest in Russia this year was a sign of a changing world in which the institutions of the western-dominated world order had had their day amid thousands of corporate defaults and the threat of sovereign defaults." and where have we heard something similar to that before??? Yes, the CFR and the western banking globalists, specifically ZBIG BRESZINZKI in his 1997 book, "The Grand Chessboard". Check out one of his quotes similar to what Medvedev has said:
http://www.wanttoknow.info/brzezinskigrandchessboard
"A mere glance at the map also suggests that control over Eurasia would almost automatically entail Africa's subordination, rendering the Western Hemisphere and Oceania geopolitically peripheral to the world's central continent. About 75 per cent of the world's people live in Eurasia, and most of the world's physical wealth is there as well, both in its enterprises and underneath its soil. Eurasia accounts for about three-fourths of the world's known energy resources." (p.31)"
What that means is that now the international banking mafia cartel has raped and pillaged both the third world and the first world of all its wealth, its now time to exploit the remaining nations of china, Russia and India. But more importantly, remember we did a big series on satanism, Molech, the fire God in the Bible, and how prevasive the occult and satanism is at the highest levels of gov and it explains how every country's leaders can be so inhumane, Well is Medvedev an owl worshipper? Is he tied into the Bohemian grove with the bush's etc???? Check out this picture of him with Putin and you tell me. Then check out the one of Bush Jr and see what the means to you. Notice his fingers on his right hand by his jacket. Then take a look at bush......the owl figure or satan figure, depends on your background. In any case this is their plan for a new world order and unfetter evil they can engage in with impunity. Its all the countries leaders, but the people are going to be the sacrificial lambs in obtaining that NWO. Are the Russian leaders also satanist or owl worshippers like our Bush and Blair in England, and like the bankers who attend the Bohemian grove owl worshipping ceremony each year? Look at this pic and you tell me?
Medvedev with the hand signal while talking with Putin for a photo op
By itself, its meaningless, but when you begin to see this with the top leaders of the world that affect our lives literally and our deaths, then it does become important and it explains the bankers/corp's inhumanity as well. Satanism as we learned in our series represents evil, and humanity represents "good", but they are void of good and thus humanity. ITS ALL PART OF THE NWO FASCIST TAKE-OVER OF THE GLOBE. Their signaling is an indication all is going well.
Now look at Bush? See their "right" hand and the exact same signal. And we already know for a fact that Bush is a NWO Satanist.
and now for a few other leaders like Tony Blair
I guess what I am trying to say is now its certain that Russia has joined the satanist cabal in beginning a bogus world war for profit at the cost of our childrens lives and nations wealth, while also NWO ing us into a permanent state of slavery and he is selling out his own people as well, just like Bush did and Obama is doing to us, and now we see that Campbell in Britian is doing the same thing. We already know about Israel as well with all their pedophilia and organ harvesting. Is this our future? Its all just another giant scam on we the people. Are you sick of it yet?
Medvedev sees chance for new world order
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/81a03be0-7ac0-11df-8549-00144feabdc0,dwp_uuid=7c485a38-2f7a-11da-
By Catherine Belton, Charles Clover and Courtney Weaver in St Petersburg
Financial Times FT.com
Published: June 18 2010 12:11
Last updated: June 18 2010 12:11
Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian president, said Moscow was bidding to help lead efforts to build a new world economic order after the old system collapsed in the global financial crisis.
Opening Russia’s annual economic forum in St Petersburg where hundreds of global chief executives have flocked, Mr Medvedev said the renewed interest in Russia this year was a sign of a changing world in which the institutions of the western-dominated world order had had their day amid thousands of corporate defaults and the threat of sovereign defaults.
“What had seemed untouchable has collapsed. The bubbles that created the illusion of flourishing economies have burst,” Mr Medvedev said. “For Russia this situation is a challenge and an opportunity. We are living in a unique time. And we should use it to build a modern, flourishing and strong Russia ... which will be a co-founder of the new world economic order and a full participant in the collective political leadership of the post-crisis world.”
Mr Medvedev insisted “Russia has changed” in the past year as it sought to pursue a course of “smart politics” that would leverage its competitive advantages in the raw materials sector, while shifting emphasis towards modernising the economy and focusing on boosting innovation over resources.
Acknowledging that the country still had a great deal to do to meet these aims, Mr Medvedev laid out a series of new initiatives that aim to boost its attractiveness as an investment destination. “Russia needs a real investment boom”, in order to achieve its modernisation goals, he said. To stimulate that, Mr Medvedev announced Moscow would introduce zero taxation on capital gains for companies working on long-term investments starting from January next year and said Russia was improving the legal system to provide better protection for businesses against the long arm of bureaucracy.
He added Russia had already simplified migration procedures to help attract “highly-qualified specialists” working in investment and high-tech sectors into the country.
Responding to criticism that Russia’s approach to building an innovation economy was driven from the top down and state interference could hinder development, Mr Medvedev said the state would concentrate its efforts on fostering a good business climate. “No matter how many state-owned companies we have, modernization will happen, above all, through private business. And only if there is competition,” he said. “The state should not tear down the apples from the tree of economics. What the government should do is help grow our apple orchard, develop our economic environment.”
Mr Medvedev said he was cutting the list of strategic enterprises five fold in order to reduce the role of the state in the economy and foster more private initiatives.
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http://www.wanttoknow.info/brzezinskigrandchessboard
"A mere glance at the map also suggests that control over Eurasia would almost automatically entail Africa's subordination, rendering the Western Hemisphere and Oceania geopolitically peripheral to the world's central continent. About 75 per cent of the world's people live in Eurasia, and most of the world's physical wealth is there as well, both in its enterprises and underneath its soil. Eurasia accounts for about three-fourths of the world's known energy resources." (p.31)"
What that means is that now the international banking mafia cartel has raped and pillaged both the third world and the first world of all its wealth, its now time to exploit the remaining nations of china, Russia and India. But more importantly, remember we did a big series on satanism, Molech, the fire God in the Bible, and how prevasive the occult and satanism is at the highest levels of gov and it explains how every country's leaders can be so inhumane, Well is Medvedev an owl worshipper? Is he tied into the Bohemian grove with the bush's etc???? Check out this picture of him with Putin and you tell me. Then check out the one of Bush Jr and see what the means to you. Notice his fingers on his right hand by his jacket. Then take a look at bush......the owl figure or satan figure, depends on your background. In any case this is their plan for a new world order and unfetter evil they can engage in with impunity. Its all the countries leaders, but the people are going to be the sacrificial lambs in obtaining that NWO. Are the Russian leaders also satanist or owl worshippers like our Bush and Blair in England, and like the bankers who attend the Bohemian grove owl worshipping ceremony each year? Look at this pic and you tell me?
By itself, its meaningless, but when you begin to see this with the top leaders of the world that affect our lives literally and our deaths, then it does become important and it explains the bankers/corp's inhumanity as well. Satanism as we learned in our series represents evil, and humanity represents "good", but they are void of good and thus humanity. ITS ALL PART OF THE NWO FASCIST TAKE-OVER OF THE GLOBE. Their signaling is an indication all is going well.
I guess what I am trying to say is now its certain that Russia has joined the satanist cabal in beginning a bogus world war for profit at the cost of our childrens lives and nations wealth, while also NWO ing us into a permanent state of slavery and he is selling out his own people as well, just like Bush did and Obama is doing to us, and now we see that Campbell in Britian is doing the same thing. We already know about Israel as well with all their pedophilia and organ harvesting. Is this our future? Its all just another giant scam on we the people. Are you sick of it yet?
Medvedev sees chance for new world order
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/81a03be0-7ac0-11df-8549-00144feabdc0,dwp_uuid=7c485a38-2f7a-11da-
By Catherine Belton, Charles Clover and Courtney Weaver in St Petersburg
Financial Times FT.com
Published: June 18 2010 12:11
Last updated: June 18 2010 12:11
Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian president, said Moscow was bidding to help lead efforts to build a new world economic order after the old system collapsed in the global financial crisis.
Opening Russia’s annual economic forum in St Petersburg where hundreds of global chief executives have flocked, Mr Medvedev said the renewed interest in Russia this year was a sign of a changing world in which the institutions of the western-dominated world order had had their day amid thousands of corporate defaults and the threat of sovereign defaults.
“What had seemed untouchable has collapsed. The bubbles that created the illusion of flourishing economies have burst,” Mr Medvedev said. “For Russia this situation is a challenge and an opportunity. We are living in a unique time. And we should use it to build a modern, flourishing and strong Russia ... which will be a co-founder of the new world economic order and a full participant in the collective political leadership of the post-crisis world.”
Mr Medvedev insisted “Russia has changed” in the past year as it sought to pursue a course of “smart politics” that would leverage its competitive advantages in the raw materials sector, while shifting emphasis towards modernising the economy and focusing on boosting innovation over resources.
Acknowledging that the country still had a great deal to do to meet these aims, Mr Medvedev laid out a series of new initiatives that aim to boost its attractiveness as an investment destination. “Russia needs a real investment boom”, in order to achieve its modernisation goals, he said. To stimulate that, Mr Medvedev announced Moscow would introduce zero taxation on capital gains for companies working on long-term investments starting from January next year and said Russia was improving the legal system to provide better protection for businesses against the long arm of bureaucracy.
He added Russia had already simplified migration procedures to help attract “highly-qualified specialists” working in investment and high-tech sectors into the country.
Responding to criticism that Russia’s approach to building an innovation economy was driven from the top down and state interference could hinder development, Mr Medvedev said the state would concentrate its efforts on fostering a good business climate. “No matter how many state-owned companies we have, modernization will happen, above all, through private business. And only if there is competition,” he said. “The state should not tear down the apples from the tree of economics. What the government should do is help grow our apple orchard, develop our economic environment.”
Mr Medvedev said he was cutting the list of strategic enterprises five fold in order to reduce the role of the state in the economy and foster more private initiatives.
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