"Might Makes Right" Says Conspirator of Syrian-Iranian Conquest

2005 interview profiles psychology of those behind the Houla Massacre.


Tony Cartalucci
Land Destroyer
May 31, 2012

"Both the Syrian and Lebanese regimes will be changed- whether they like it or not- whether it’s going to be a military coup or something else… and we are working on it. We know already exactly who’s going to be the replacements. We’re working on it with the Bush administration."

"These guys who came to power, who rule by power, can only be removed by power. This is Machiavelli’s power game. That’s how it is. This is how geopolitics — the war games, power games — work. I know inside out how it works, because I come from a family of politicians for the last 60 years. Look, I have access to the top classified information from the CIA from all over the world. They call me, I advise them. I know exactly what’s going on. And this will happen."

"This Bashar Al Assad-Emil Lahoud regime is going to go whether it’s true or not. When we went to Iraq whether there were weapons of mass destruction or not, the key is — we won. And Saddam is out! Whatever we want, will happen. Iran? We will not let Iran become a nuclear power. We’ll find a way, we’ll find an excuse- to get rid of Iran. And I don’t care what the excuse is. There is no room for rogue states in the world. Whether we lie about it, or invent something, or we don’t… I don’t care. The end justifies the means. What’s right? Might is right, might is right. That’s it. Might is right."

"So Saddam wanted to prove to the whole world he was strong? Well, we’re stronger- he’s out! He’s finished. And Iran’s going to be finished and every single Arab regime that’s like this will be finished. Because there is no room for us capitalists and multinationalists in the world to operate with regimes like this. Its all about money. And power. And wealth… and democracy has to be spread around the world. Those who want to espouse globalization are going to make a lot of money, be happy, their families will be happy. And those who aren’t going to play this game are going to be crushed, whether they like it or not!"

- Ziad Abdel Nour, 2005 excerpts from "Faking the Case Against Syria" by Trish Schuh

Whatever we want will happen. We'll find a way, we'll find an excuse - including lying, using pictures from Iraq for Syria media coverage, mass murdering 30 children by slitting their throats, executing them at close range, and blaming it on the Syrian government, then expelling Syria's diplomats even as the West's contrived narrative crumbles. Truly, with Trish Schuh's Abdel Nour interview, we have just profiled a criminal mind not only psychologically and operationally capable of engineering the Houla Syria massacre, but a mind who possessed the intent and motive to do so.

Ziad Abdel Nour, a corporate-financier and founder of "Blackhawk Parnters" as well as chairman of the Neo-Conservative run "United States Committee for a Free Lebanon" has consorted with fellow committee members including Morris Amitay of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, Michael Rubin of the American Enterprise Institute, and PNAC signatories Paula Dobriansky, James Woolsey, Frank Gaffney, and Daniel Pipes, for years to foment the very bloodshed, instability and atrocities now unfolding in Syria.

Video: General Wesley Clark tells of how Middle East destabilization was planned as far back as 1991, with the destruction of Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Sudan, Somalia, Libya, and Iran on the
drawing board following the invasion of Afghanistan.

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This "Neo-Conservative" bloc had in 2002 already listed Syria as a member of the growing "Axis of Evil," and it was later revealed by US General Wesley Clark that even as far back as America's first war with Iraq, "Desert Storm" in the early 1990's, Paul Wolfowitz had declared that all "old Soviet client regimes" would be overrun by Western hegemony. After the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, General Clark would state that Pentagon plans were drawn for the destruction of Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Sudan, Somalia, Libya, and Iran.

Abdel Nour's disturbing 2005 display of Hitlerian megalomania dovetails with the New Yorker's article, "The Redirection" by Seymour Hersh, which while attempts to mislead readers to believe overthrowing Syria and Iran were a direct consequence of America's faltering war in Iraq, confirms that in 2007, the US, Israel, and Saudi Arabia, along with Abdel Nour's Hariri faction in Lebanon, were preparing a regional army of sectarian extremists to sow the very bloodbath now taking place in Syria today, falsely predicated on the US-engineered "Arab Spring" and "democratic aspirations." 

Hersh's report included an interview with former-CIA agent Robert Baer in Lebanon who warned of the need to protect Christians from a predictable onslaught by US-Israeli-Saudi-backed sectarian extremists - an onslaught now playing out against Syria's 10% Christian population, according to the LA Times' "Church fears 'ethnic cleansing' of Christians in Homs, Syria," and more recently in USA Today's distorted, but still telling, "Christians in Syria live in uneasy alliance with Assad, Alawites." Not only did US, Israeli, and Saudi conspirators purposefully unleash sectarian extremists inside of Syria, but they did so with full knowledge that atrocities like the one in Houla, Syria would result.

And despite all of this self-admitted, documented machinating, the United Nations with the exception of Russia and China, have instead worked in tandem with this unfolding crime against world peace, forever undermining its legitimacy, forever scarring the concept of "international law." Observing the demonstrative mania in Abdel Nour's comments in 2005 in tandem with the US and Gulf States now openly arming militants in the middle of a UN ceasefire, militants documented by Human Rights Watch and the UN itself of carrying out systematic atrocities, of having ties to Al Qaeda, and admittedly carrying out a terrorist bombing campaign, we see that Syria and Iran are both fighting for the survival of their nation-states and their people's lives, not unlike Iran's desperate battle against US-backed Saddam in the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980's.

Abdel Nour correctly characterizes the nature of the despotic forces he represents as "multinationalists" or "globalists." He admits their goal is to crush anyone who opposes this aspiring world order. The forces of fascism have reached critical mass again, not entirely unlike they did in Europe on the eve of World War II, but now on a much larger scale. It must be the corporations and institutions of these "multinationalists" that we recognize as the true threat to both world peace and our collective prosperity - a threat we must expose, undermine, boycott and replace entirely. Because today Abdel Nour's "multinationalist" ideology sees the people of Syria and Iran as an obstacle between them, money and power. Tomorrow, as we see already beginning in Greece, Ireland, and Iceland, it will be everyone else.

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The Ziad Abdel Nour interview by Trish Schuh was rediscovered and sent in by Color Revolutions & Geopolitics.

Protester Calls Tony Blair a War Criminal, Exposes JP Morgan-Iraq Ties

Accusations that former-British PM was paid-off by JP Morgan for Iraq War should be investigated.
by Tony Cartalucci

May 29, 2012 - A protester who interrupted the Leveson inquiry in England, called former-British Prime Minister Tony Blair a war criminal before accusing Blair of receiving a large yearly payment from JP Morgan for his role in initiating the 2003 Iraq War - a war that gave control over the oil-rich Iraqi banking system to JP Morgan. Blair presided over the UK's participation in the US-led invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq, now exposed as being based on willful lies told using fabricated intelligence. The war has cost over a million Iraq lives, as well as those of thousands of Western troops.

In 2011, applying the Nuremberg Principles established in the wake of WWII to prosecute Nazi war criminals, a tribunal held by legal and human rights professionals from around the world found Blair, as well as former-US President George W. Bush guilty of war crimes for waging a war of aggression against Iraq. 

While many may be quick to write this off as yet another public confrontation between a notoriously corrupt politician and the angry citizenry, the accusations made against Blair regarding being paid-off for the Iraq War by JP Morgan warrants investigation.

In 2008, while British troops were still occupying Iraq, Blair secured an "advisory" position at JP Morgan. According to the Daily Telegraph he would, "earn around £2 million a year in his part-time role as adviser to the Wall Street bank JP Morgan without ever having to go into the office." The inexplicable amount of money confounded members of the British Parliament, including MP Ian Gibson who stated, "What does he know about banking anyway? What use is he to JP Morgan other than a face and a mouth?" The Telegraph also notes that JP Morgan did indeed play a key role in the despoiling of conquered Iraq, "appointed to operate a US-created bank in Iraq to manage billions of dollars in imports and exports from the oil-rich nation."

With this in mind, we must consider again the accusations leveled against Blair this week, to which Blair responded, "can I just say, actually, on the record, what he said about Iraq and JP Morgan is completely and totally untrue. I've never had a discussion with them about that, or any relationship between them..."  

JP Morgan, as one of the largest banks on earth, has played a key role in every major US and British War since World War I, not only financing them, but arranging the procurement of supplies and armament contracts, and as stated by the Telegraph in regards to the Iraq War, managing the pillaging of national resources after a targeted nation's institutions have been destroyed. And since WWI the bankers at JP Morgan have had direct lines to senior government representatives on both sides of the Atlantic. 

Blair's denial of receiving funds from JP Morgan for the Iraq War is one matter, but for Blair to deny any consorting at all with JP Morgan as Prime Minister of England before launching a major war, a war JP Morgan played an active, participatory role in, contradicts 100 years of documented history, not to mention common sense.

While an inquiry official demanded an investigation into how a protester gained access to a secured courtroom, an investigation should instead be launched to determine to what degree Tony Blair has just lied in regards to his involvement with JP Morgan, the inexplicably large sums of cash he received for an "advisory" position, and how they may relate to the Iraq War.

US Brookings Wants to "Bleed" Syria to Death

"Middle East memo" calls for ending ceasefire and purposefully perpetuating violence. 
by Tony Cartalucci 

May 28, 2012 -The Brookings Institution is a Fortune 500-chaired and funded (p. 35 .pdf) US policy think tank and represents policy makers responsible for the vast majority of both America's domestic and foreign policy. While some may naively believe President Obama or America's elected representatives sit behind their desks late at night penning America's future, in reality, they merely use their desks to rubber-stamp what think-tanks like Brookings passes to them.

Which Path to Persia? .pdf
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And certainly, that policy reflects not the interests of the American people, but of the corporations that spend millions a year to keep these think-tanks flush in cash and ideas, as well as providing them the means to sell these ideas to an unwitting public. Those acquainted with these think-tanks are aware years in advance of wars, conflicts, and conspiracies that take the rest of the public by surprise as events seemingly, "spontaneously" unfold "live" on CNN. 

The Brookings Institution in particular had as early as 2009, articulated a full strategy with which the US would use to undermine, divide, and destroy Iran and its sphere of influence throughout the Middle East. The report titled, "Which Path to Persia?" mentions everything from arming US State Department-listed terrorist organizations, to withdrawing troops from Iraq to allow for an Israel airstrike, to intentionally provoking a war Iran neither sought nor desired. Each one of these options are still, as of today, either fully being executed or "on the table."




Image: Brookings Institution's Middle East Memo #21 "Assessing Options for Regime Change (.pdf)," makes no secret that the humanitarian "responsibility to protect" is but a pretext for long-planned regime change.

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More recently, Brookings has published "Middle East Memo #21: Saving Syria: Assessing Options for Regime Change (.pdf)," which at face value betrays the narrative the West has attempted to maintain - that humanitarian concerns, not regime change, drives Western intervention in Syria. Not only does the Brookings memo admit the US would like to avoid a settlement or ceasefire that leaves Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in power, but continues on by stating the UN mission can be used as cover to establish "safe havens" and "humanitarian corridors" from which further "coercive action" can be dealt:

"An alternative is for diplomatic efforts to focus first on how to end the violence and how to gain humanitarian access, as is being done under Annan’s leadership. This may lead to the creation of safe-havens and humanitarian corridors, which would have to be backed by limited military power. This would, of course, fall short of U.S. goals for Syria and could preserve Asad in power. From that starting point, however, it is possible that a broad coalition with the appropriate international mandate could add further coercive action to its efforts." -page 4, Assessing Options for Regime Change, Brookings Institution.

On pages 8 and 9, the memo states:

"The United States might still arm the opposition even knowing they will probably never  have  sufficient power, on their own, to dislodge the Asad network. Washington might choose to do so simply in the belief that at least providing an oppressed people with some ability to resist their oppressors is better than doing nothing at all, even if the support provided has little chance of turning defeat into victory. Alternatively, the United States might calculate that it is still worthwhile to pin down the Asad regime and bleed it, keeping a regional adversary weak, while avoiding the costs of direct intervention."  -pages 8-9, Assessing Options for Regime Change, Brookings Institution.

In other words, the US is seeking to perpetuate endless bloodshed simply to weaken Syria's geopolitical influence throughout the region - most obviously running contra to any concept of "humanitarianism" or "international law," and certainly, purposefully causing more death and carnage, not preventing it. Surely this signed confession seems worthy of airing before the UN Security Council, especially in light of recent revelations that the US and Gulf States are already arming Syria's opposition with this specific perpetuated bloodshed in mind.

The memo continues by articulating various combinations of military intervention and support to be provided to the so-called "Free Syrian Army (FSA)" - this with full knowledge that the FSA has been conducting documented widespread atrocities of their own, having direct ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, and conducting a terrorist bombing campaign targeting civilian populations carried out by militants who admit to having fought as Al Qaeda in Iraq against US troops. Again, it appears that Brookings has conspired to violate a myriad of both national and international laws, in particular, USC § 2339B: Providing material support or resources to designated foreign terrorist organizations. 



Image: Some of the corporate sponsors behind the Brookings Institution. America is bled to death literally and financially to fight wars of profit and conquest for these corporate-financier oligarchs on Wall Street and in London. (click image to enlarge)

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The depths of depravity from which each of Brookings' "options" are drawn is horrifying on a Hitlerian scale and represents not only a moral crisis amongst American policy, but a Constitutional crisis - as the policy makers crafting and promoting these "options" (many of which have already been demonstrably carried out) are entirely unelected, are subject to no oversight, Congressional or otherwise, and worse yet, remain mostly out of the eye of an unsuspecting public. Furthermore, Brookings' "Middle East Memo #21" is a signed confession of a conspiracy against both the people of Syria and world peace - undermining the "moral imperative" and the "responsibility to protect" those behind Brookings' policy papers seek to justify their pursuit of global corporate-financier and military hegemony.

Former-US President George Bush Officially a War Criminal

Independent media, rights advocates, and activists hand Bush & associates a well-deserved conviction. Next, we must organize to hand them a well-deserved penalty - economic sanctions.
by Tony Cartalucci


May 16, 2012 - In a historic ruling handed down by the Kuala Lumpur (KL) War Crimes Tribunal in Malaysia this week, former-US President George W. Bush was found guilty of war crimes along with his associates, Richard Cheney, former U.S. Vice President, Donald Rumsfeld, former Defense Secretary, Alberto Gonzales, then Counsel to President Bush, David Addington, then General Counsel to the Vice-President, William Haynes II, then General Counsel to Secretary of Defense, Jay Bybee, then Assistant Attorney General, and John Choon Yoo, former Deputy Assistant Attorney-General.

Image: A scene from the Kuala Lampur War Crimes Tribunal, Malaysia. If the global elite can contrive the International Criminal Court to provide cover for real crimes against humanity, why can't the people of the world create courts to convict them? Unlike the ICC which depends on military power to enforce its rulings, courts of the people, when convicting the global elite, can simply boycott the corporations and institutions involved, starving them of both legitimacy and resources. While it falls short of deserved jail sentences, the reality of the current global balance of power makes "jail sentences" unrealistic until actions like sanctions and boycotts equalize that balance. 

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According to a report from Mathaba.net, Bush and his associates were found guilty as charged and convicted as war criminals for "Torture and Cruel, Inhumane and Degrading Treatment of the Complainant War Crime Victims." The article would go on to enumerate the charges, the definitions used to define the criminal acts the accused parties were tried for, and the legal precedence used, set by the Nuremberg trials after World War II.

While critics claim the KL War Crimes Tribunal holds no legitimacy, readers should be reminded that the International Criminal Court (ICC) itself is contrived by corporate-financier interests, for corporate-financier interests. And all courts worldwide, in a truly free and "democratic" society, should be of, for, and by the people. The tribunal held in Malaysia this month in fact represents a much wider spectrum of interests and individuals than even the ICC. And in a world where corporate-financier oligarchs enjoy exercising the "might makes right" doctrine, that the KL War Crimes Tribunal has been able to hold a professional hearing, well attended, covered globally by independent media outlets, and able to get its historic ruling read by millions, in and of itself makes it "legitimate" by the global elite's own standards.

While the KL War Crimes Tribunal lacks any practical means to bring to justice the convicted, in terms of a judicial sentence, the ICC itself has had only a handful of cases itself. But unlike the ICC, which is represented by a top-down hierarchy of corporations and financial institutions dependent entirely on the masses patronage to perpetuate themselves, their power, and the legitimacy of their institutions, the KL War Crimes Tribunal represents a bottom-up paradigm which can easily impose crippling sanctions on the corporations, institutions, and organizations that helped author the polices executed by Bush and his associates.

A partial list of these interests can be found here, and it is highly recommended that people incensed by the continued criminal behavior of Wall Street and London, and all of the corporate, financial, and governmental entities that gravitate around them, begin organizing themselves and their efforts to promote boycotts as well as find or create viable alternatives. Just as activists, genuine human rights advocates, and independent media organized themselves to deal Bush and his associates a well deserved conviction, we can similarly begin imposing well deserved penalties - the undermining, elimination, and replacement of the corporations, financial institutions, and organizations that facilitate their crimes.

This is a viable start that can begin with individuals worldwide simply spending their money elsewhere and disassociating themselves with those corporations and institutions connected to Bush and his associates. Conversely, the global elite in order to impose penalties, must resort to military force executed from centralized positions. It is exactly this disparity in numbers that allow the majority to penalize a criminal minority so much more effectively, and until now, it was a disparity in perceived legitimacy that has prevented us from doing so. 

Make the Bankers Pay

Iceland, Ireland pushing back against neo-feudalism.
by Tony Cartalucci 

Editor's Note: For more information, please read "Farmers group wants Ireland to follow Iceland and burn the bondholders.” 

May 12, 2012 - Across the dominion of the corporate-financiers on Wall Street and in the city of London, the reckless Ponzi schemes destroying the West's economy and plunging it into an economic depression have left politicians, the bought and paid for servants of corporate-financier hegemony, wringing the public dry to cover losses. In reality, when an enterprise fails because of criminality, incompetence or both, citizens are not demanded to pass the hat around to "bail them out." They are declared bankrupt, their assets (if they have any) are stripped, often if fraud is involved, executives and board members go to jail, and society attempts to fill the void with sounder enterprises run by more reputable people.

However, when the fraud and failure unfolds amongst the highest levels of corporate-financier power, amongst men who have organized wars that have sent millions to their deaths, overseen social "projects" that have left hundreds of thousands of women forcibly sterilized, and instead of going to jail, are showered with self-aggrandizing awards from institutions of their own creation. This faux-authority, faux-legitimacy has left the people subjected to their machinations with the illusion that they must pay for, heed, follow whatever solutions are then prescribed by the very elite who created the problem in the first place.

Indeed, if we want this current system to continue - it would be wise to follow their instructions to the letter. However, if we are unsatisfied with this system, it is important to not only protest these unjust measures, to refuse absolutely to abide by any of their edicts, but to create and promote our own programs to put society back on the rails of progress and moving forward.

Video: Max Keiser discusses a possible push-back by the Irish people against debt that isn't theirs.

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Iceland was one of the first nations during the latest round of global financier manipulation to say "no." The bankers created the problem, Icelanders said, so the bankers will pay for it, not the Icelandic people. Ireland has followed suit - in the face of a draconian, neo-feudal "house tax" leveled against the Irish - essentially forcing people to pay for the "privilege" of living on their own land, have overwhelming refused to pay it. While it may be "illegal" to say no to the neo-feudal house tax, paid to corporate-financiers who apparently see themselves as neo-lords, it is certainly not wrong. It is wrong, in fact, to heed to unjust laws created by self-serving minorities at the expense ($130 USD per home) of the majority.

The Irish have followed this noble defiance with a campaign - predictably muted by a willfully ignorant international media - called "Farmers For No." Farmers for No is an organization that is precisely what is needed - not austerity measures - but grassroots organizing and cooperation at a local level, to solve local economic woes, with local solutions. Farmers for No is currently campaigning to follow Iceland's example and vote no against austerity, and instead default on loans the Irish people are already being demanded to pay for, but loans they are in no way responsible for.

While Farmers for No is fighting its battle "far off" on the Emerald Isle, their fight is our fight. Whether you live in Greece, Spain, France, or England, across the sea in the United States, or in Asia - which is currently pursing the same sort of financier consolidation, directed by Wall Street and London, and leading to the very sort of catastrophic meltdown the West has just experienced, Farmers for No's battle is yours.

Video: Dr. Webster Tarpley explains how banker debt bailouts are not the responsibility of sovereign states. For more analysis by Dr. Tarpley, visit Tarpley.net. 

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Next, Farmers for No, and grassroots organizations around the financially-wrecked Western world, must begin devising, promoting, and implementing pragmatic programs of their own - after making it clear they will not accept such programs to be decided for them by the very people, criminals even, who created the problem in the first place.While we may differ in opinions as to what we should do, any program truly devised by the people and for the people will be preferable to anything devised by Wall Street, London, and other Western financiers gravitating toward their orbit. Most likely a synergy between local free market and national investments in production, real education, and infrastructure would be best. Additionally, taxing (with a Tobin tax) the banks themselves to bailout nations from monolithic and ever-increasing debt, should be considered in lieu of wringing dry the populations of the West with austerity.

However, whatever your opinion may be, nothing will happen so long as you sit on the sidelines, or worst yet, continue patronizing the corporations and banks behind economic, foreign, or domestic policies you disagree with. We must begin to organize ourselves, begin promoting and implementing our own ideas on a local level, leveraging technology to do so, and stop waiting for a "buffet of palatable options" to be spread out before us by the very criminals that have historically exploited, misled, and plundered our society for generations.   

 

Meet Your Global Tax Collector

Global Corporate-Financier Mafia Grows New Tentacle: Global Tax Collectors.
by Tony Cartalucci 

May 10, 2012 - The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), a 50 year old network constituting what is often known as the "West," has been the premier promoter of expanding corporate-financier hegemony across the planet. Done under the guise of "progressive" initiatives, claiming to "promote policies that will improve the economic and social well-being of people around the world," it is demonstratively run by the most explicit examples of institutions and individuals impeding such lofty goals.

Not least amongst them is convicted criminal George Soros and his "Open Society Institute." While surely the organization's rank and file includes a majority of well-intentioned "liberal-progressives," pursuing and promoting agendas seemingly benign, the reality is that the organization, in tandem with the US State Department and the British Foreign Ministry, is laying the groundwork for a homogeneous global network of administrators for what is literally a neo-imperial empire.

With characters like George Soros and his self-serving institution behind the OECD, Soros having been convicted and fined for insider trading in 2002, a conviction that was more recently upheld by the European Court of Human Rights," it would be laughable for such an enterprise to pose as international arbiters fighting financial fraud. Yet that is exactly what the OECD portends to do - and most recently announced the creation of "Tax Inspectors Without Borders." Its name invoking the equally well-intentioned, but ultimately fraudulent "Reporters Without Borders," another Soros-US State Department building block for what is to be a "global empire," it aims to "to help developing countries bolster their domestic revenues by making their tax systems fairer and more effective."

In reality it aims at imposing an international standard upon tax collection, and as each nation is financially destroyed by international bankers, IMF loansharking, and foreign-funded destabilization, the austerity measures demanded to be paid in "bailouts" and for "reconstruction" will be managed and coached by the OECD's new tentacle to ensure every unit of currency ends up in globalist coffers.



Image: OCED nations - also looking suspiciously like Wall Street and London's sphere of influence and NATO's membership.

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Just as corporate-financier funded "human rights" organizations attempt to create a global homogeneous "civil society" to overwrite the indigenous social institutions of sovereign nation-states, the OECD's "Tax Inspectors Without Borders" will attempt to create a global homogeneous tax collection system to replace that of sovereign nation-states.

As covered in February 2012's "Soros Big-Busienss Accountability Project Funded by Big-Business," there is nothing "international" or "plural" about the coming global government. In reality it is driven by a handful of corporate-financier interests working to consolidate their power over not only finance and industry, but over governments and societies worldwide. This is the natural progression of what banking magnates like JP Morgan, the Rothschilds, Goldman, and the Rockefellers were in the midst of when US Marine Corps General Smedley Butler wrote "War is a Racket," and is a progression that will continue as long as average people continue feeding on a monthly basis the summation of their work, energy, attention, and income into the corporations and institutions of this growing monopoly.

Video: The corporate-financier elite envision a "global company town" where everything you earn, spend, and consume is controlled solely by them. Projects like "Tax Inspectors Without Borders" aims at making what was once the business of sovereign nation-states and its citizens, the business of the corporate-financier elite. What is a company town? Archivist Harrison Wick explains.

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When people commit themselves to systematically boycotting and replacing these corporations and institutions, replacing them with local alternatives by leveraging technology and education, we can return to the day when local issues were decided by local people, not corporate-financier funded NGOs from the other side of the planet masking duplicitous agendas with the best of intentions. Without our daily complicity, organizations like "Tax Inspectors Without Borders" could not exist - as the unwarranted influence necessary to breath both legitimacy and authority into them would be deprived.

The choice is ours, fight the battle of becoming truly independent; socially, economically, and politically now, or face a monolithic global "company town" with all the horrors of a traditional company town, only magnified on a global scale.

National Movement Launched to Impeach Obama

Video: Via Infowars.com's "National Movement Launched to Impeach Obama."

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Editor's Note: It is important to hold accountable even the puppets of the global corporate-financier agenda. Conversely, by no means would simply impeaching US President Barack Obama, and then allowing his GOP counterparts to simply take his place upon the puppeteer's stage, rectify anything. It has been made abundantly clear that there is a singular agenda being devised and disseminated across all parties in every government of the growing Wall Street-London unipolar world order, to then be rubber stamped into law and sold to the public.



Image: Some members of President Obama's cabinet - each associated with the corporations and contrived institutions pictured below them. As we can see, this is a fair representative of the corporate-financier elite, who control not only America's government, but the West's government, regardless of what superficial political clique claims to be in control.

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In Obama's case, his cabinet is packed with representatives of the exact same interests lining his predecessor's cabinet as well as the omnipresent think-tanks that churn out US foreign and domestic policy to be rubber stamped regardless of who is in office in either the Congress or the White House. Obama has demonstratively continued and in many cases expanded upon the agenda of his predecessors.

This is an agenda that does not benefit "Republicans" or "Democrats," nor "Liberals," or "Conservatives," but rather the bankers, big-oil corporations, and defense contractors that infest each and every executive cabinet and legislature in recent US and European history. Obama's cabinet has included the follow:

Timothy Geithner (Secretary of the Treasury): Group of 30, Council on Foreign Relations, private Federal Reserve
Eric Holder (Attorney General): Covington & Burling lobbying for Merck and representing Chiquita International Brands in lawsuits brought by relatives of people killed by Colombian terrorists.
Eric Shinseki (Secretary of Veteran Affairs): US Army, Council on Foreign Relations, Honeywell director (military contractor), Ducommun director (military contractor).
Rahm Emanuel (former Chief of Staff): Freddie Mac
William Daley (Chief of Staff): JP Morgan executive committee member
Susan Rice (UN Ambassador): McKinsey and Company, Brookings Institute, Council on Foreign Relations
Peter Orszag, (former Budget Director): Citi Group, Council on Foreign Relations
Paul Volcker: Council on Foreign Relations, private Federal Reserve, Group of 30
Ronald Kirk (US Trade Representative): lobbyist, part of Goldman Sachs, Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts, and Texas Pacific Group partnership to buyout Energy Future Holdings.
Lawrence Summers (National Economic Council Director): World Bank, Council on Foreign Relations

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However, by impeaching Obama, and by holding each and every elected representative directly responsible for their dismissal of their constituents in order to pursue an agenda handed to them by the global corporate-financier oligarchs, the system used to legitimize the globalist agenda will grind to a halt. And whether one is naive enough to believe Obama is toiling behind his desk in the oval office producing the treasonous policy wrecking the Republic, or one fully understands that corporate-funded think tanks direct governments on both sides of the Atlantic, these individuals still must be held accountable for their role in this continuously unfolding crime.

And while this movement unfolds to impeach Obama, let us also recognize and commit to not only tearing down the stage and exposing the puppets, but in revealing and punishing the puppeteers looming above. Identify the corporate-financier interests driving the agenda shamelessly and obediently carried out by proxy-puppets like Bush, Obama, Sarkozy, and Cameron, and entirely boycott them while replacing them with viable local alternatives. By undermining the very source of the system's power, shifting political and economic power back into local hands, we increase our leverage in pursuit of reforming/reclaiming/restoring our national institutions.

Help isn't coming except the help we lend ourselves and each other.

Genetics & Humanity's Future

Our ability to create an educated, informed, responsible citizenry will determine whether our collective future is bright or a nightmarish dystopia.
by Tony Cartalucci

April 2, 2012 - Imagine a human cell is like a car - a piece of machinery serving a particular task. Imagine the cell's genetic instructions like a driver. The machine's potential is determine as much by its engineering and design as it is by its operator. The same could be said about a human cell and the instructions carried within its DNA.

Our genetic code is what makes us who we are - it determines predispositions that may help or hinder us throughout our lives. And while our ability to reason and invent can help us overcome many of our genetic predispositions, there are many that cannot currently be overcome - or require costly, inadequate solutions to do so.

One such genetic predisposition is hemophilia - a genetic condition that prevents the blood from properly clotting. Such a condition can allow an otherwise minor injury to become potentially life threatening - as no matter how long one waits with hemophilia, they continue to bleed. A series of pharmaceutical treatments have been developed to manage the symptoms of hemophilia and preserve the lives of those with the condition, but until now, little progress has been made in addressing the cause - a fault found within one's genetic code.

Just as changing or training a deficient driver can exponentially improve the performance of a car, tweaking the genetic code can likewise improve the performance of one's cells and in turn one's collective physiology. An example of this being done today comes to us from University College London and St Jude Children's Research Hospital who have been doing revolutionary work toward curing hemophilia.

The method of "training the driver" in this case comes in the form of identifying the part of genetic code responsible for causing hemophilia and replacing it. A virus is used - replacing its genetic material with a corrected form of human code - to deliver the correction to targeted cells from the patient. When a cell reproduces, human DNA replicates in a process comparable to copying a document - whatever exists in the corrected DNA code is perpetuated with each and every new copy made during cell division.

Image: One method of gene therapy - taking human cells, "editing" them genetically, and reinserting them into the human body where they will replicate and carry out their newly designed functions. (Microsoft Encarta Online Concise Encyclopedia)

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In this way a patient with hemophilia can have their symptoms reduced without drugs by addressing the cause of the condition itself, and doing so permanently. A whole host of conditions can be treated using this method - called "gene therapy."

Video: Another example of gene therapy explained - this time involving damaged liver cells. As our understanding of the human genome advances, digital copies of an individual's entire genetic code could be stored and used to periodically replace our naturally deteriorating DNA code (aging) curing the most notorious disease of all - aging. Already, scientists led by pioneering biologist Craig Venter have sequenced the human genome and devised basic protocols for designing and synthesizing DNA - described in the next video.

Video: "Craig Venter unveils "synthetic life." Venter's team first sequenced the human genome and has now designed and synthesized an artificial lifeform using techniques similar to those described above for gene therapy. The implications of Venter's work, past, present, and proposed will turn medicine upside down. Now more than ever, scientists like Venter need an informed, intelligent, and responsible citizenry to support him and ensure his work is not perverted for the agenda of a few.

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From "gene therapy," and through projects studying the human genome and how best to apply that knowledge to correcting conditions resulting from both our genetic predispositions as well as conditions resulting from cell division, including cancer and aging, we can revolutionize the field of medicine in ways once resigned only to the plots of science fiction.

But as any science fiction fan might point out, there are both stories of glistening towers amongst idealistic utpoias, and of tangled horrors within a technologically enhanced futuristic dystopia. As with all technology, we are inclined to see and believe only what is beneficial, and to ignore, deny, or wish away its potential abuses. Gene therapy could just as easily be used to reverse the health, vigor, intelligence, will, and vitality of individuals or segments of the population. And just as viruses are used to deliver life-enhancing hemophilia treatments, they can similarly be used to deliver engineered perversions of the human genetic code.

One horrifying scenario was recently discussed in Paul Joseph Watson's "Real Or Fake? Pentagon Proposal to Lobotomize ‘Terrorists’ Using Virus." It describes "curing" "religious fundamentalism" by re-engineering the genetic code affecting our neurology in such a way as to make it impossible to harbor intense emotional beliefs. Whether the video included in the article is real or not was discussed, and it was correctly concluded that regardless of its authenticity, it represents an important debate regarding recombinant DNA technology and gene therapy that must be addressed.

There are brilliant scientists working in the revolutionary field of genetics - however even if they were determined to do good it is virtually impossible for them in a system where sociopathic megalomaniacs loom over the levers of power while the general populations exists in a state of apathy, ignorance, and profound immaturity. Where would such a scientist then turn for support if approached to to use his work for the benefit of the global corporate-financier oligarchs instead of for the greater good of humanity? How would he appeal for help amongst a population so profoundly ignorant of basic biology let alone the cutting edge of genetic research?

Indeed, the global oligarchs - their corporations, institutions, and government proxies - demonstratively spend billions annually to manipulate public opinion, manufacture consensus and eliminate opposition to their goals and agendas. It would be supreme naivety to assume they would not attempt to leverage biotechnology the first opportunity they got to enhance their ability to domineer over the will of their fellow man. The more clever amongst us may then be struck by the answer to a confounding riddle that has been highlighted over the last 10 years: Why is a system of global banker-corporate-financier oligarchs so interested in pushing vaccines onto the population for our supposed "health," when they are just as happy to send millions, even tens of millions to their deaths all over the world in their wars of profit, opportunity, and global domination?

The answer is simple, while the population may or may not have even heard about the word "gene therapy" before quickly diverting their attention back to American Idol or expanding their holdings in "Farmville," the global elite have known about it for years and have set out to obtain the best method of exploiting it for their agenda. And just as agricultural giants like Monsanto, Cargill, and Bayer are rewriting the genetic code of our crops, livestock, and wildlife, vaccine makers are preparing to likewise rewrite the genetic code of humanity. And just like genetically modified organisms (GMO) are turning up as inefficient perversions of nature, consuming our planet's ecological heritage, our humanity will likewise be perverted, not enhanced by this depraved agenda.

Video: Controlling our food: The world according to Monsanto - a wake up call to the world exposing how GMO biotechnology is being perverted and literally "overwriting" our global ecological genetic heritage with poisonous abominations. Such reckless, unchecked abuse of human ingenuity threatens not only humanity's survival, but that of every other living creature on Earth as well - it in reality is the man-made threat "global warming" is portrayed to be.

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This is why it is important to research and understand these topics while raising awareness of their implications, both for good and bad, so that we can offer the brilliant minds amongst us pushing this boundary forward our support to ply their expert trade for the benefit of mankind. Transforming the general population from a contemptible mass of ignoramuses into informed and responsible citizens deprives the global elite their primary justification used when poisoning the minds of our scientists, researchers, and engineers against us - that we deserve what they've got planned for us.

Technology is what it is - innovation and progress cannot and will not be stopped. If something can be imagined it stands the potential of one day being done. If something can be done, it will be done. It is important then for us to ensure that this research and technology remains in the hands of responsible individuals overseen not by international institutions run by and for a global oligarchy seeking personal superiority, but by an educated, informed, and responsible citizenry seeking collective solidarity.

Soros Criminal Conviction Exposes "Human Rights" Scam

Soros leverages "human rights" for personal gain - as does his global NGO empire.
by Tony Cartalucci

March 28, 2012 - Bloomberg's report, "Soros Loses Case Against French Insider-Trading Conviction," indicates that an appeal based on a "human rights" violation against Wall Street speculator George Soros has been rejected by the "European Court of Human Rights." Soros, who was convicted and fined for insider trading in 2002 regarding French bank Société Générale shares he bought in 1988, has built an empire out of obfuscating global criminal activity with the cause of "human rights."

Image: Soros runs a global empire of NGOs leveraging "human rights" to cover up institutional criminality just as he himself just attempted to use "human rights" to excuse criminal insider-trading. Soros' disingenuous use of "human rights" is not a strategy he holds an exclusive monopoly over, but rather one he executes in concert with very unlikely allies - Neo-Conservatives of the US State Department-funded National Endowment for Democracy and its various subsidiaries.

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The court's decision in rejecting the appeal was based on Soros being “a famous institutional investor, well-known to the business community and a participant in major financial projects,” and thus should have been “particularly prudent” regarding insider-trading laws. The contents of Soros' appeal, based on "human rights" was not heard, and the details of the appeal not yet made public, however, it is an illustrative example of how Soros and global elitists like him leverage the legitimate cause of human rights and freedom as a means to execute and defend both individual and institutional criminal behavior.

Soros has built a global empire of networked nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) allegedly promoting "human rights," "freedom," "democracy," and "transparency." His Open Society Institute funds amongst many others, Amnesty International (page 10), Global Voices, and Human Rights Watch. In reality these NGOs constitute a modern day network of imperial administrators, undermining national governments around the world and replacing them with a homogeneous "civil society" that interlocks with "international institutions" run from and on behalf of Wall Street and London. And contrary to popular belief, Soros has built this empire, not against "conservative" ambitions, but with their full cooperation.

It is difficult to find a cause Soros' Open Society Institute supports that is not also funded, directed, and backed by the US State Department-funded, Neo-Conservative lined National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and its various subsidiaries including Freedom House, the International Republican Institute (IRI) and the National Democratic Institute (NDI).

The Arab Spring

It would be almost four months after the beginning of the so-called "Arab Spring" before the corporate-media would admit that the US had been behind the uprisings and that they were anything but "spontaneous," or "indigenous." In an April 2011 article published by the New York Times titled, "U.S. Groups Helped Nurture Arab Uprisings," it was stated:

"A number of the groups and individuals directly involved in the revolts and reforms sweeping the region, including the April 6 Youth Movement in Egypt, the Bahrain Center for Human Rights and grass-roots activists like Entsar Qadhi, a youth leader in Yemen, received training and financing from groups like the International Republican Institute, the National Democratic Institute and Freedom House, a nonprofit human rights organization based in Washington."

The article would also add, regarding the US National Endowment for Democracy (NED):

"The Republican and Democratic institutes are loosely affiliated with the Republican and Democratic Parties. They were created by Congress and are financed through the National Endowment for Democracy, which was set up in 1983 to channel grants for promoting democracy in developing nations. The National Endowment receives about $100 million annually from Congress. Freedom House also gets the bulk of its money from the American government, mainly from the State Department. "

George Soros and his Open Society Institute also played a leading role in the unfolding unrest. Soros, in addition to fully supporting many of the NGOs in tandem with NED and the US State Department, also funded opposition groups working well in advance to produce new "constitutions" for collapsed nations.

In "George Soros & Egypt's New Constitution," it was reported:

"It turns out that the new Egyptian Constitution has already been drafted, not by the Egyptian people, but by the very US-backed protesters who brought about regime change in the first place. A Reuters report quoted an opposition judge, who had been hiding-out in Kuwait until Mubarak's ousting, as having said civil society groups had already produced several drafts and a new constitution could be ready in a month.

These "civil society" groups include the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information openly funded by George Soros' Open Society Institute and the Neo-Con lined NED funded Egyptian Organization for Human Rights. It appears that while the International Crisis Group may be turning out the strategy, and their trustee ElBaradei leading the mobs into the streets, it is the vast array of NGOs their membership, including Soros, fund that are working out and implementing the details on the ground."

Myanmar (Burma) & Aung San Suu Kyi

The entire opposition in the Southeast Asia nation of Myanmar, still known by its colonial nomenclature in the West as "Burma," is a creation of Wall Street and London. This includes the growing personality cult of "democracy icon" Aung San Suu Kyi. And again, just as we saw during the Western-engineered "Arab Spring," it is a tandem effort made by "right-wing" Neo-Cons within the confines of NED, and Soros' Open Society Institute.



Image: The 2006 Burma Campaign UK report, "Failing the People of Burma?" (.pdf) reveals the entire "pro-democracy" movement, including Aung San Suu Kyi herself, is a product of US and British funding and the building of neo-imperial networks designed to overthrow and replace the government of Myanmar.

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In "Burmese "Pro-Democracy" Movement a Creation of Wall Street & London," it was reported:

The most telling information begins on page 14 of 36 of the report's .pdf. Titled, "Failing the People of Burma?" the report enumerates the vast resources the West has invested in building a "pro-democracy" movement, in tandem with similar disingenuous movements throughout the region, and indeed throughout the world, and insists that even more support be given to initiate a "transition" in Burma. It states:

"The restoration of democracy in Burma is a priority U.S. policy objective in Southeast Asia. To achieve this objective, the United States has consistently supported democracy activists and their efforts both inside and outside Burma…Addressing these needs requires flexibility and creativity. Despite the challenges that have arisen, United States Embassies Rangoon and Bangkok as well as Consulate General Chiang Mai are fully engaged in pro-democracy efforts. The United States also supports organizations, such as the National Endowment for Democracy, the Open Society Institute (nb no support given since 2004) and Internews, working inside and outside the region on a broad range of democracy promotion activities. U.S.-based broadcasters supply news and information to the Burmese people, who lack a free press. U.S. programs also fund scholarships for Burmese who represent the future of Burma.

The United States is committed to working for a democratic Burma and will continue to employ a variety of tools to assist democracy activists."

The report continues with a vast array of evidence exposing the tandem roles of both "liberals" and "conservatives" in executing a singular goal of undermining a foreign government and replacing it with neo-imperial administrators that interlock directly with "international institutions" that answer directly to Wall Street and London.

Wall Street's Thai Proxy, Thaksin Shinawatra

Like in neighboring Myanmar, efforts have been long underway to undermine the nationalist elements within Thailand and install a proxy government as well as a proxy system of governance to implement the global agenda of Wall Street and London. The proxy of choice is billionaire and long-time associate of the Bush family, Thaksin Shinawatra.

As we've seen in the previous two examples, Shinawatra's association with America's Neo-Conservative establishment in no way inhibits the "liberal" George Soros from supporting movements that facilitate not only his re-installation into power, but the expansion of his globalist "neoliberal" brand of politics - which of course benefit once again Wall Street and London in general, not any particular political persuasion.

In the example of Thai propaganda front "Prachatai," Soros' Open Society Institute and the Neo-Cons' National Endowment for Democracy have heaped annual funding as well as ongoing political support to the outfit's mission of leveraging "human rights" and disingenuous aspirations for "democracy" to mask Shinawatra and his movement's criminal activities. NED subsidiary, Freedom House, is in fact chaired by Neo-Con Kenneth Adelman who served as Shinawatra's lobbyist and also serves as a trustee on the Soros-funded and chaired International Crisis Group. Prachatai's spinning of their collective agenda as "progressive" rather than one wrought of foreign corporate-fascist funding is a perfect example of Soros' modus operandi.

Attempted Overthrow of Russia's Government

In a fourth and final example, Soros and his Neo-Conservative counterparts can be found behind Russia's motley opposition and their "Arab Spring-like" attempt to overthrow the government of Vladimir Putin.

The entire grounds justifying Wall Street and London's street mobs were calls of a "rigged" Russian election. Those making such accusations included National Endowment for Democracy-funded GOLOS and the Soros Open Society-funded Organization for Security and Cooperation (OSCE) (.pdf page 125).



Image: A screenshot from US National Endowment for Democracy's (NED) website indicating its funding for "independent" poll monitor Golos. USAID also funds Golos.

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And while the lion's share of support for Russia's multiple opposition groups comes from the National Endowment for Democracy and its subsidiaries including Freedom House and the International Republican Institute chaired by John McCain, jailed Russian oligarch and opposition leader Mikhail Khodorkovsky fashioned his entire "Open Russian Foundation" after Soros' Open Society Institute. It should be noted that Khodorkovsky had both Jacob Rothschild and Henry Kissinger chairing his contrived "foundation."

Conclusion

Clearly there is more behind Soros' funding of NGOs globally than mere "liberal philanthropy." That he carries out this funding in concert with notorious warmongers, corporate fascists, and confessed Neo-Conservatives indicates a very malicious and disingenuous agenda driving not only his "charity" but also the maintaining of his deceptive "liberal" persona.

Soros' most recent attempt to leverage "human rights," not for a global campaign of achieving economic and geopolitical hegemony, but rather on behalf of defending his own criminal behavior, lends further evidence to the fact that the West, through its vast networks of NGOs and "international institutions," is merely hiding immensely depraved, craven criminal activity behind the facade of "humanitarian concerns" and "progress." With Soros' latest appeal being rejected and his criminal conviction upheld, let us resist the temptation of resorting to "left-right" bickering and recognize the grander plot that has been exposed.

UN's Kofi Annan: An Agent of Wall Street

"Peace envoy" sits on board with traitors, meddlers, and warmongers.
by Tony Cartalucci

Editor's Note: Brookings has since taken down Middle East Memo #21 - it has been reposted by Land Destroyer here in its entirety.  


UPDATE August 3, 2012 - Kofi Annan is also revealed to be a member of JP Morgan's International Council as of 2011. He finds himself amongst duplicitous, scheming, self-serving Western-aligned personalities of all stripes including Khalid Al-Falih of Saudi Aramco, fading Russian oligarch Anatoly Chubais, US war criminal Henry Kissinger, serial financial criminal Jamie Dimon, and convicted war criminal Tony Blair. It should also be noted that the corporate-financier funded International Crisis Group has attempted to purge Annan's name from their website, however it is forever memorialized in their 2012 Annual Report available here (.pdf), and by Land Destroyer upon request. 

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March 20, 2012 - "U.N.-Arab League envoy" Kofi Annan has claimed over the last several weeks to be backing "peace efforts" in Syria to end the conflict which has lasted over a year now. In reality, it has been revealed that his function is to simply buy time for a collapsing militant front and the creation of NATO-occupied "safe havens" from which further destabilization and "coercive action" can be conducted against the Syrian government.

This has been confirmed by Fortune 500-funded, US foreign-policy think-tank, Brookings Institution which has blueprinted designs for regime change in Libya as well as both Syria and Iran. In their latest report, "Assessing Options for Regime Change" it is stated:

"An alternative is for diplomatic efforts to focus first on how to end the violence and how to gain humanitarian access, as is being done under Annan’s leadership. This may lead to the creation of safe-havens and humanitarian corridors, which would have to be backed by limited military power. This would, of course, fall short of U.S. goals for Syria and could preserve Asad in power. From that starting point, however, it is possible that a broad coalition with the appropriate international mandate could add further coercive action to its efforts." -page 4, Assessing Options for Regime Change, Brookings Institution.

Image: Also out of the Brookings Institution, Middle East Memo #21 "Assessing Options for Regime Change (.pdf)," makes no secret that "responsibility to protect" is but a pretext for long-planned regime change.

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While some may be surprised that "peace envoy" Kofi Annan is essentially lying to both Syria's government and to the world, with a complicit UN and "Arab League" willfully "in" on the fraud, Annan's ties with notorious traitors, meddlers, and warmongers indicate that this latest deception is par for the course.

Annan is a trustee of Wall Street speculator George Soros and geopolitical manipulator Zbigniew Brzezinski's International Crisis Group, along side Neo-Conservative corporate lobbyist and warmonger Kenneth Adelman, US State Department-listed Iranian terror organization MEK lobbyist - General Wesley Clark, Wall Street-backed color revolution leader - Mohammed ElBaradei of Egypt, and Brookings Institution's Samuel Berger.


Image: Some of the corporate sponsors behind the Brookings Institution, from whose playbook Kofi Annan is being directed in his disingenuous "peace mission" to Syria. (click image to enlarge)

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Image: Just some of the corporate and "institutional" sponsors of the International Crisis Group, upon which Kofi Annan sits as a "trustee" with other dubious personalities including George Soros, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Israeli President Shimon Peres, Egypt's Mohammed ElBaradei, and Neo-Cons Richard Armitage and Kenneth Adelman. (click image to enlarge)

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Serving as "advisers" to the International Crisis Group include, Neo-Conservative warmonger Richard Armitage, former Foreign Minister of Israel Shlomo Ben-Ami, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Bank of Israel Governor Stanely Fischer, and President of Israel Shimon Peres.

It must surely warm the cockles of the Syrian people's hearts to realize Annan, with direct ties to the Neo-Conservative establishment who has long sought Syria's destabilization and the Israel government as well as its financial institutions, is so "concerned" about establishing peace in a conflict where Syrian rebels and foreign militants are turning up with US and Israeli weapons in their hands. It must also warm their hearts to see direct admissions from the Brookings Insitution that Annan's mission is simply to buy time for a faltering foreign-funded rebellion so that it may be preserved and rehabilitated back to full strength under the guise of a "peace deal."

The fact that Egypt's ElBaradei, another foreign-backed subversive traitor, as well as Kenneth Adelman, lobbyist for Wall Street proxy Thaksin Shinwatra of Thailand and member of Eldeman public relations, a sponsor of the US State Department's "Alliance for Youth Movements" who trained equipped and backed the uprising that destabilized Syria to begin with, are involved in ICG's work indicates that the "International Crisis Group" may indeed be attempting to fulfill its mission statement of "preventing and resolving deadly conflict." However, that is with the hidden caveat being the conflicts it seeks to resolve have been created by them and their agents in the first place to justify a series of predetermined "solutions." A case of manufactured problem, corporate-media perception managed reaction, predetermined, self-serving solution.

It then appears, despite the United Nations being stamped upon Annan's efforts, that he is in fact a direct representative of Western geopolitical ambitions, more specifically those of Wall Street and London. It should be mentioned at this time that the International Crisis Group of which Annan serves as a trustee for, is funded by the following corporate-financier interests:

Carnegie Corporation of New York
Humanity United
Hunt Alternatives Fund
Jewish World Watch
Open Society Institute
Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Sigrid Rausing Trust
British Petroleum (BP)
Chevron
Shell
Statoil
Kimberly- Clark Corporation
Morgan Stanley
NPI Capital
Deutsche Bank Group

When considering the Brookings Institution's admissions that Annan is simply playing a part in the overall strategy to execute long-planned Western-backed regime change in Syria, and the equally impressive array of corporations, banks, and corporate-funded foundations backing Brookings, it is clear that it is corporate-financier interests, not an "international consensus" that is behind the United Nation's efforts versus Syria. The UN is merely a convenient front lending legitimacy to what is otherwise the naked aggression of foreign military conquest. In fact, the Brrokings Institution admits as much in their report, "Assessing Options for Regime Change," where they declare:

"Taking actions without a UN mandate would also likely only add to the unraveling of the “responsibility to protect” doctrine, in as much as it emphasizes the need for UN-legitimated authority." -page 3, Assessing Options for Regime Change, Brookings Institution.

This of course in the context of outlining the various unilateral actions the US can take to circumvent Russia and China's objections to meddling in Syria's sovereign affairs and in essence render moot its own contrived international legal process, as well as an acknowledgement to the flagrant abuse of the "responsibility to protect" doctrine in regards to Libya. The UN is mentioned throughout the report merely as a mechanism for obtaining US interests in the Middle East, a mere pawn rather than a driving factor behind US involvement or any sort of international "responsibility" the US is "altruistically" fulfilling.

The same can then be said of Annan's function, a mask of legitimacy behind which neo-imperial aggression is being carried out. Already, Annan's efforts are being matched by NATO-member Turkey's preparations to establish the sort of militarily occupied "safe haven" in Syrian territory, prescribed in the Brookings report. It is a plot Annan knowingly works in tandem with US-led NATO - a plot whose final objective is the further violent destabilization and overthrow of the sovereign government of Syria - not peace.