Syria: Seeking a Convenient Casus Belli

Alleged death of two Western journalists in Syria used to dance around UNSC veto.
commentary by Tony Cartalucci

February 22, 2012 - You are an embattled nation with the entire world watching. Your allies Russia and China just made a major decision at the UN Security Council in your favor with much of their reputation and future at stake. Western propagandists have been relentlessly making up news stories regarding your nation no matter what you do, for nearly a year, starting with "Gay Girl in Damascus" who Syrian activists insisted was still real even after doubts began to surface, and leading up to daily reports from "activists say" coming out of London, England.

Your choices: continue a campaign to restore order in Homs which is admittedly overrun by cross-border militants and foreign terrorists operating with NATO support and arms, fighting under the banner of the "Free Syrian Army." Or, spend your time instead purposefully killing women and children in front of British and French journalists before plotting over easily-intercepted radios their spectacular deaths in front of a watching world?


Image: Syria's rebels are armed. Were they running loose in New York City, a military operation mobilized to neutralize them would not be described as a "massacre" by the corporate media.

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Quite clearly there is something wrong with this narrative being given to us by the West, who have established themselves by a comfortable margin as serial liars. Iraq lost a million sons and daughters to these lies. Libya likewise was portrayed as a nation "massacring civilians" when it is now clear these "civilians" were US State Department-listed terrorists of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group who are now conducting nationwide murder sprees.

Reading any report out of the corporate-media, we find Syria's campaign against admittedly armed rebels paradoxically referred to as a "massacre," and an almost palpable fervor to justify circumventing the latest UNSC resolution veto. As news comes out of the death of two foreign journalists in Homs, Remi Ochlik and Marie Colvin who sneaked into Syria and were operating there illegally to begin with, Western leaders are unanimously calling this the "breaking point." France's Nicolas Sarkozy even stated, "that's enough now, this regime must go and there is no reason that Syrians don't have the right to live their lives and choose their destiny freely."

One wonders where Sarkozy's moral fortitude was when in January, while covering a pro-Assad rally in Homs, French journalist Gilles Jacquier was killed in a rebel attack. Unbelievably, not only does this contradict the news we've been told all along of Assad persecuting a brutal campaign against peaceful protesters, but while the attack was condemned by France, it was the Syrian government who was blamed for not protecting their journalists from armed thugs. Where were the calls for the rebels to lay down their arms? Where was the cessation of political support for the "Free Syrian Army?" Where was the decision by NATO to discontinue their support for rebels who had now murdered a Western journalist?

Clearly, reason is not driving Western foreign policy, rather a search for a convenient "casus belli" to serve where their "responsibility to protect" doctrine has failed. We will not know what really happened in Syria this week regarding the two journalists allegedly killed there, so long as "activists say" is attached to each claim made about the events.

What we do know is that the West has long ago predetermined that regime change will occur in Syria, and that they will do anything necessary, at any cost to achieve it.

Over the Target

And catching flak.
by Tony Cartalucci

If you aren't catching flak, you aren't over the target. Wear
your enemy's attacks like a badge of honor.

Bangkok, Thailand April 20, 2011 - You know you're message is getting out there when National Endowment for Democracy funded "independent media" outlets are writing hit pieces on you. The article titled, "Just a Lousy Journalist?," featured on Thailand's NED funded Prachatai propaganda clearinghouse makes numerous claims about Land Destroyer's journalistic integrity and in particular, states that globalist connections within the current Thai government are never mentioned.

Screenshot from NED's official website listing Prachatai as a recipient
of 1.5 million baht, or 50,000 USD as of 2009. (Click to enlarge.)

Prachatai nominated in 2011 for a Bobs Award by Freedom House,
chaired by Kenneth Adelman, a former lobbyist for Thaksin Shinwatra.

Of course this, like the entire hit piece, and most of the articles featured on "Prachatai," strays woefully far from the truth. The proof is irrefutable. In an August 25, 2010 Land Destroyer article titled, "Asian Economic Community by 2015," nearly every "glaring omission" Gerrard Winstanley's article accuses Land Destroyer of skipping past can be found there within:

Land Destroyer covered Mechai Viravaidya...

"In 1999, Monsanto teamed up with Mechai Viravaidya's Population and Community Development Association (PDA), of Thailand to introduce biotechnology to Thailand's Northeastern farmers. Activities included handing out free buckets of Monsanto herbicides and pesticides and demonstrating land leveling technology. Local NGO's came out in protest as part of an ongoing effort to prevent Monsanto's goal of introducing and commercializing GMO crops in Thailand. The project was abandoned. One has to wonder why Monsanto, purveyor of controversial and potentially hazardous GMO crops would team up with the PDA, an organization that specializes in family planning and whose founder is not only credited with reducing the population growth of Thailand from 3.2% a year in the 1970s to 1.2% in the mid-'90s, to 0.7% now, but also received the 2007 Gates Award from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation."

and Surin Pitsuwan...

"The current ASEAN secretary general, Surin Pitsuwan of Thailand, leads the current efforts to implement the AEC 2015 blueprint. Pitsuwan sits as a Member of the Board of Trustees of the globalist Asian Foundation, funded by amongst many others, Boeing, Chevron, The Ford Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Halliburton, Raytheon Company, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. He joined the Rockefeller Foundation's Board of Trustees in 2010. He also sat on the Council on Foreign Relations' (CFR) International Advisory Board as of 2009, and even gave a talk before the CFR on May 14, 2008, regarding a "one unified Southeast Asia."

To say Surin Pitsuwan is a "classically trained" globalists is an understatement. However, despite his background and the stated intentions of the ASEAN AEC, progress has been admittedly slow, so slow that some in the Council on Foreign Relations are "skeptical that ASEAN will be quite so central to the future of East Asian regionalism.""

A NED funded "media organization" attack: a badge of honor, the
message is getting out there, forcing a reaction. (Click to enlarge.)

and the globalist implications amongst the ruling government.

And perhaps the coup de grace comes from a December 10, 2010 Land Destroyer article titled, "Thailand: Stage Set for Another Color Revolution," where the article concludes:

"And while dangers exist within the current Thai government of a slower integration into the globalist collective, the immediate most unhinging threat is a third attempt at reinstalling Thaksin Shinwatra into power on the back of a violent "people's army." What is most unsettling of all, is that the latter is providing a distracting cover for the former. "

The Prachatai hit piece continues with Wikileaks reports citing unverified third hand conversations along with similarly sophomoric arguments, including one where Mr. Winstanely claims journalist Micheal Yon's American citizenship and his one off-hand comment to a protester telling him to go home indicates America's foreign policy clearly being against the red shirts. If this is indicative of what Prachatai passes as 'fit to print' we can be sure they, and the "red shirts" they defend on a daily basis, are less than genuine in their cause and their methods.

Conclusion

We will not and should not wait for an apology from an "independent media" organization that uses US tax money to fund ad hominem attacks on the other side of the world. Instead, we should wear these feckless attacks as a badge of honor, because if you aren't catching flak, you aren't over the target.

Do not let these disingenuous liars intimidate you, certainly do not let their attacks unnerve or unhinge you, instead let their malevolence toward you encourage you to bring your work to the next level of professionalism, excellence, and truth. The more rabid their attacks become the deeper they undermine their own agenda and expose their true aims for all to see.

For all of Land Destroyer's reports on Thailand, please see the Thailand page.

Libyan Rebels Fighting the Globalists' War

How the Devil pays.
commentary by Tony Cartalucci

If these rebels really think the West is going to hand them
Libya and its riches, they have another thing coming. The
Neo-Con arm of the globalist agenda is already seeding the
ground to deal with "extremists" coming to power after the
"Arab Spring" runs its course. That means Libya's oil & future
will be left in the hands of NATO troops, not the Libyan people.

Bangkok, Thailand April 20, 2011 - As the global corporate-financier oligarchs prepare the way rhetorically and logistically to send in the ground troops we were told would never set foot on Libyan soil, in a war that was only to last days, then weeks, but now over a month, the discernment, ambition, and true intentions of the Libyan rebels must be called into question.

After rebel leader Abdel-Hakim al-Hasidi admitted to being trained in Afghanistan and subsequently fighting American troops there, and admitting many of the rebel fighters now joining him in Libya had similarly returned from Afghanistan as well as Iraq, it must strike them as tremendous irony that the same Americans they were filling pine boxes with overseas, are now protecting their lives and handing them an entire country to rule over.

Of course in life, nothing is quite that simple. The rebels seem to forget that just months ago Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi was also the recipient of similarly ironic support from the West. In the end, it appears it was merely a ploy to disarm and infiltrate Qaddafi's regime ahead of a US funded, armed, and supported militant uprising. The betrayal does not end there, with the militant rebels in tanks and fighter jets, brandishing newly procured weaponry flowing over the Egyptian border with Washington's full knowledge and in direct violation of UNSC r.1973, the corporate owned media has continuously branded these militants as Libyan "civilians" and Qaddafi's attempts to restore order in his country as an inhumane "massacre."

The intent is to fully justify any means necessary to remove Qaddafi from power, and so the rebels think, hand the country and its riches over to the green shoots of democracy led by the valiant Al Qaeda-linked militants that toppled a tyrant. What woeful ignorance.

While the dichotomy of Western politics is merely for public consumption, what each camp states publicly can be put together as a composite giving us a clearer picture of the overall globalist agenda. Neo-Conservative war monger Daniel Pipes, a PNAC signatory, CFR member, and co-conspirator in many of the darkest chapters of recent American history, was recently sharing his "doubts" over the final result of the "Arab Spring." He believes that ultimately extremists will prevail in many cases and only complicate US relations with certain countries.

Of course, Pipes most likely didn't miss the memo and is fully aware that the "Arab Spring" is a US funded gambit, one his fellow "Neo-Cons" lining the National Endowment for Democracy and the fraudulent Freedom House are admittedly involved in. At the very least, he must have picked up the New York Times and read as much. So what exactly is Pipes trying to tell us? He is saying that as soon as the Libyan rebels secure Libya, or the Muslim Brotherhood takes hold of Syria, or Yemen, or wins out in a co-opted counterrevolution against International Crisis Group stooge Mohamed ElBaradei in Egypt, the blinders Western propagandists seems to be wearing will suddenly drop and point out that indeed the globalists have installed extremists "by accident."

To rectify this, Libyan rebels will be betrayed just as quickly as Qaddafi was. They will be removed from power, and replaced by Western stooges protected by NATO ground troops, conveniently already being put on the ground in Libya, and will stay there permanently. The globalist "Neo-Con" think tank Foreign Policy Initiative has stated, "The best way to reduce the potential dangers posed by extremist infiltration is for the United States and its allies to remain engaged in Libya."

This engagement most likely will take the shape of the other unending "engagements" in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the years of cross-border raids into Pakistan. The oil money that once built water ways, public housing, and farms from Benghazi to Tripoli, will be funneled directly out of the country and into the corporate-financier's accounts. The corporate-financier oligarchs will have taken yet another nation-state down with the help of its own gullible population, and for their gullibility, they will pay for the rest of their lives, as will their children and their children's children.

To understand the full scope of the global corporate-financier oligarchy's designs toward any given nation, we must simply look back at the brazen admissions made over the intended future stemming from the outright military conquest of Iraq and Paul Bremer's (CFR) planned economic reformation of the broken nation. The Economist enumerates the "economic liberalization" of Iraq in a piece titled "Let's all go to the yard sale: If it all works out, Iraq will be a capitalist's dream:"

1. 100% ownership of Iraqi assets.
2. Full repatriation of profits.
3. Equal legal standing with local firms.
4. Foreign banks allowed to operate or buy into local banks.
5. Income and corporate taxes capped at 15%.
6. Universal tariffs slashed to 5%.

Anyone who would willfully make a deal with such people must have their discernment called into question. As Hugo Chavez of Venezuela said of Hosni Mubarak's decades of appeasing the globalists and his eventual ousting from power at the hands of US funded, trained, and supported protesters, "that's how the devil pays." Indeed it is, and it is an instructive lesson for others including the rebels of Benghazi to consider as they attempt to make their own deals with the globalists today.

Letter to the Ruling Class

Jesse Ventura
From April 1, 2011
Weaintgottimetobleed.com

You control our world. You’ve poisoned the air we breathe, contaminated the water we drink, and copyrighted the food we eat. We fight in your wars, die for your causes, and sacrifice our freedoms to protect you. You’ve liquidated our savings, destroyed our middle class, and used our tax dollars to bailout your unending greed. We are slaves to your corporations, zombies to your airwaves, servants to your decadence. You’ve stolen our elections, assassinated our leaders, and abolished our basic rights as human beings. You own our property, shipped away our jobs, and shredded our unions. You’ve profited off of disaster, destabilized our currencies, and raised our cost of living. You’ve monopolized our freedom, stripped away our education, and have almost extinguished our flame. We are hit… we are bleeding… but we ain’t got time to bleed. We will bring the giants to their knees and you will witness our revolution!

Sincerely, The Serfs.

Check out the website at Weaintgottimetobleed.com. Image is taken from the excellent header-art on the homepage.

Paid Degenerate Liar: Glenn Beck

Reestablishing the false paradigm, one lie at a time.
commentary by Tony Cartalucci

Those who watched the theatrics of the "Bush Administration" will remember few attack dogs fiercer than Glenn Beck of Fox News. Fox News of course, is of News Corporation, a globalist Council on Foreign Relations corporate member, with Rupert Murdoch an individual member of the CFR as well.

Beck helped sell the ongoing wars in both Afghanistan and Iraq, is a major proponent of war with Iran, Somalia, Libya, and a general clash of civilizations between the West and the over 1 billion Muslims that populate the world. He, along with the rest of the corporate media, has the blood of thousands of Americans on his hands as well as the blood of over a million Iraqis, Afghans, Pakistanis, Somalians, Yemenis, and now Libyans. For this alone, Beck is an irredeemable degenerate liar who belongs not in the center of public debate, but inside a concrete jail cell.

When you tell verifiable lies, repeatedly, at the cost of human life, you have shouted "fire" in the proverbial theater and must be held accountable for your actions. Of course this goes for everyone in the corporate owned media, from all ends of the political spectrum, from the paid liars on the left now supporting the illegal, immoral, unjust war in Libya, to the paid liars on the right who have in tandem embedded the West so deeply in the affairs of other sovereign nations to begin with.

The danger with Beck is that after infesting and destroying the "Tea Party" movement, he is now moving towards the alternative media. Leaving Fox News, Beck is poised to start a counter balancing act against George Soros' equally disingenuous "Media Matters." What seems to escape the attention of most, is that Media Matters and Fox News are aligned within the same globalist system, amongst the same Fortune 500 corporate interests and peddling the exact same agenda, merely from two differing points-of-view.

Selling death: Bush era, over the top propaganda.

Neither is truly anti-war, neither is truly anti-Federal Reserve, neither is proposing real solutions or even so much as quantifying freedom as being true, self-sufficient independence. Each only gives us yet another false paradigm to live within while allowing the corporate-financier oligarchy to creep forward. Like two opposing wings of a vulture, they flap in tandem to lift the beast of globalization aloft. Both are still streaked in decomposing carrion and reek of death, both still lead to the same disease carrying, death eating corporate monster.

Beck links everything to Soros, while failing to mention that Freedom
Watch is also stacked, wall-to-wall with "Neo-Cons." Becks' job is to
reestablish a false paradigm as the globalists' left/right agenda collapses
in disarray. A new false paradigm around Soros' left and the
hijacked Tea Party's right is emerging.

It is time people stop being fooled, stop getting their information from people literally funded by the tormentors of humanity, and begin taking on the responsibilities they have for so long pawned off to corporations in exchange for mere "convenience." This convenience has become more trouble than it is worth, at the terrible cost of human life and economic stability and endangers our very existence.

Beck champions for war with Libya. His claim of "genocide in Libya"
is now a verified lie peddled by both the fake right & left. And yes, they still make
Nescafe. The uprising in Libya is now exposed as a combine of Al Qaeda, CIA, and MI6.

Glenn Beck, like his counterparts on the "left," is a paid, degenerate liar. With the stakes as high as they are now, we cannot afford to pawn off the responsibility of analyzing and deciphering world events to men like Beck. We need to do the research and the analysis ourselves - for knowledge is power, and ignorance can literally mean death - ask the family of any dead soldier or victim of a globalist war, fought based on the lies peddled by men like Beck.

Western Response to Japan

The real crime against humanity.
commentary by Tony Cartalucci

Final-Four picks in the midst of the greatest disaster
in human history. Nero fiddled as Rome burned, Obama
picks NCAA teams as the Pacific and his own West Coast
faces decades of coming unprecedented catastrophe.

The Anglo-American multi-trillion dollar global military machine has been defended ad nauseum as essential to protecting free humanity and its progress into a promising future. In reality, it is a criminal facilitator obsessed with pilfering the world's resources, consolidating power in the hands of feckless feeble minded, short-sighted degenerate financiers, and fostering an unprecedented level of interdependence and vulnerability in every nation brought within their sphere of influence.

One must wonder what sort of world we might be living in today if the trillions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of lives squandered in the last 10 years of war profiteering in the Middle East, were instead used to push real education, technological research and development, and real tangible technological progress. Not only would we have sources of power that could replace dangerous and antiquated power plants like the 40 year old Fukushima reactors, but we as Americans might have a naval fleet actually capable of protecting the "free world" from real threats like the one unfolding off the east coast of Japan's Fukushima prefecture.

Instead, the US fleet is stretched globally involved in a myriad of meddling geopolitical gambits, many of which were intentionally engineered and initiated by corporate-serving policy wonks in Washington and London. Even as Japan drowns, burns, melts-down, evacuates, and workers engage in suicide missions to mitigate the unprecedented disaster unfolding, Washington and London leadership obsessively pursue their pet projects worldwide.

The globalist International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) has been obsessing over Libya, and how to allocate military and civilian resources to aid the perpetuation of the US-backed Middle East conflagration, wringing their hands over the fact that their assets are already so thinly stretched between Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, and Pakistan. Considering the US State Department's global network of recruiting, training, funding, equipping, and supporting contrived revolutions worldwide on behalf of globalist corporate interests, it shouldn't surprise us how incompetent and ill-prepared it is to deal with its real duties - maintaining formal relations with foreign nations.

IISS policy wonks exhibit the entirety of their feckless unwarranted
authority and gives a glimpse into an unprecedented misappropriation of
the "international system's" priorities. If you have resources, influence, and
authority, and aren't using them to solve real problems, you belong behind
bars for criminal negligence.

In this case, Japan, mired in a catastrophe that very well endangers the US itself is in dire need of any and all assistance, an effort the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton should direct her entire, undivided attention to. Instead, Secretary Hillary Clinton is wasting time in Paris consorting with foreign backed Libyan rebels trying to overthrow the government of a sovereign nation.

The amount of extra-legal, unwarranted, un-Constitutional aid the US is rendering to pro-globalist projects around the world is almost as astronomical as America's debt incurred through the criminal activity of the Federal Reserves' economic-alchemists. A nation with the potential, population, and resources of America, led by what amounts to murderous-bullies, degenerate gamblers, and myopically obsessed megalomaniacs is a crime in and of itself.

The globocrats' negligence over the decades, the squandering of the American people's resources, human and otherwise, and the incessant meddling geopolitical social engineering has intentionally produced a world dependent on their "international system" and has doomed us to needlessly suffer disasters like the one in Japan. These are disasters that responsible, honorable men and women leading our nations could have prevented and most certainly could have ensured entire navies and armies would be on hand to deal with if all else failed.

The "international system" is a cancer of incompetence, self-destructive greed, that is leaving all of humanity naked and vulnerable to the real challenges of the future. It is a cancer that desperately needs to be excised with the utmost expediency. The twisting feeling we have in our guts when we wake up each morning, realizing the horrors unfolding in Japan and spreading in the winds off their coast is what a real humanitarian disaster looks and feels like, these are the challenges we as humanity face - not contrived rebellions in Libya, not climatology statistics cooked up by Belfer Center's corporate sponsored shaman, and not fake wars funding 10 years of war profiteering.

These are real challenges that require real leadership, leadership we do not have, but desperately need. Each day these impostors remain in power the effects of their crimes become irreparably more profound. These are men that invent crimes and the criminals allegedly carrying them out to detract from the reality that they are the biggest criminals on earth - their crimes the most grievous against humanity. Their fumbling over Japan, while prioritizing their murderous pilfering and meddling across the Middle East, Central Asia and Northern Africa are unforgivable affirmations we must take to heart and act on now, today. The winds of change are literally coming and we are all about to pay the price for the globalists' "misleadership."

The answer is simple. Boycott and replace these corporations with local solutions, stop listening to their lies, stop voting for them entirely in their contrived version of "democracy" and write in names of men and women who truly deserve to be behind the levers of power no matter how unlikely their chance is to win. Become self-sufficient in food, water, power, security, media, and entertainment - pursue the education you were denied within the globalists' sabotaged school systems. Our lives literally depend on moving on, and doing so without these parasites feeding off of us, posing as the source of civilization when all they do is feed off of civilization.

For more information on alternative economics, getting self-sufficient and moving on without the parasitic, incompetent, globalist oligarchs:

The Lost Key to Real Revolution
Boycott the Globalists
Alternative Economics
Self-Sufficiency