Friday, May 29, 2009

Obushma's dream team our nightmare


The same techniques are being used in Lebanon's election by March14th US stooges, being nudged by CIA handlers.....

In “How Obama Is Using The Science of Change” at Time.com, Michael Grunwald exposes something which shouldn’t surprise, and yet it does. We know that Obama has appointed Cass Sunstein as “regulatory czar,” and I have long observed the interplay between Sunstein’s “libertarian paternalism” (Nudge) and the work of behavioral economist Dan Ariely (Predictably Irrational), but Grunwald today tells us something we didn’t know (as far as I’m aware, anyway):

Two weeks before Election Day, Barack Obama’s campaign was mobilizing millions of supporters; it was a bit late to start rewriting get-out-the-vote (GOTV) scripts. “BUT, BUT, BUT,” deputy field director Mike Moffo wrote to Obama’s GOTV operatives nationwide, “What if I told you a world-famous team of genius scientists, psychologists and economists wrote down the best techniques for GOTV scripting?!?! Would you be interested in at least taking a look? Of course you would!!”

Moffo then passed along guidelines and a sample script from the Consortium of Behavioral Scientists, a secret advisory group of 29 of the nation’s leading behaviorists. …

The existence of this behavioral dream team — which also included best-selling authors Dan Ariely of MIT (Predictably Irrational) and Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein of the University of Chicago (Nudge) as well as Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman of Princeton — has never been publicly disclosed, even though its members gave Obama white papers on messaging, fundraising and rumor control as well as voter mobilization. All their proposals — among them the famous online fundraising lotteries that gave small donors a chance to win face time with Obama — came with footnotes to peer-reviewed academic research. “It was amazing to have these bullet points telling us what to do and the science behind it,” Moffo tells TIME. “These guys really know what makes people tick.” [bold added]

I have previously addressed some of Cass Sunstein’s and Dan Ariely’s ideas, and upon reflection, it isn’t a shock to see that they worked together in the Obama campaign’s Consortium of Behavioral Scientists. In a perverse way, it’s reassuring to see such terrible ideas coalesce like this, because it reinforces that ideas have great importance, and that there is a definite right and wrong. It reasserts the primacy of existence and the law of identity. These fellows belong together.

The threat, however, is that the bad ideas are the ones whispered in the ear of power, and power is eager to listen.

To revisit briefly, Sunstein’s idea of nudging is to set up “choice architecture” to default to the way the government wants things to go, but to toss a bone to freedom by allowing people to opt-out. I suppose that doesn’t sound too terrible on the face of it, so let’s continue with Grunwald:

The first sign of the behavioralist takeover surfaced on April 1, when Americans began receiving $116 billion worth of payroll-tax cuts from the stimulus package. Obama isn’t sending us one-time rebate checks. Reason: his goal is to jump-start consumer spending, and research has shown we’re more likely to save money rather than spend it when we get it in a big chunk. Instead, Obama made sure the tax cuts will be paid out through decreased withholding, so our regular paychecks will grow a bit and we’ll be less likely to notice the windfall. The idea, an aide explains, is to manipulate us into spending the extra cash.

Obama’s efforts to change us carry a clear political risk. Republicans already portray him as a nanny-state scold, an élitist Big Brother lecturing us about inflating our tires and reading to our kids. We elected a President, not a life coach, and we might not like elected officials’ challenging our right to be couch potatoes. Obama’s aides seem to favor nudges that preserve free choice over heavy-handed regulation, an approach Thaler and Sunstein, the co-authors of Nudge, call “libertarian paternalism.” But it’s still paternalism, and Sunstein will have the power to put it into action. The idea of public officials, even well-meaning ones, trying to engineer our private behavior to produce change can seem a bit creepy.

But face it: Obama is right. Our emissions are boiling the planet, and most of our energy use is unnecessary. Our health expenditures are bankrupting the Treasury, and most of our visits to the doctor can be traced to unhealthy behavior. We do need to change, and we know it.

So why don’t we? And how can we? The behaviorists have ideas, and the Administration is listening. [bold added]

Grunwald’s ideas are clear: he agrees with Ariely that people are irrevocably irrational and need to be led to the “right” decisions by a supposedly benevolent government. And yet, he still gets something right… this is creepy. And not just creepy, but Orwellian and profoundly disturbing.

If I were prone to believing in conspiracies, I would think that Kant and Marx set the philosophical and economic ideas in motion, transmitted special coded tea leaf signals to Keynes to continue the work to attack the free market, and to Dewey to destroy classical education, and then watched the dominoes fall throughout the 20th century as American students were bathed in nihilism and pragmatism to a point where they really are predictably irrational, by design.

But I don’t believe in conspiracies like this. I do, however, respect the power of ideas, and know that while there were no grand plans in place, the transmission of the terrible ideas of the historical figures above led to the situation we’re in now—where a group of “behavioral economists” (I use quotes on purpose) are positioned to experiment on the citizens of America–while citizens like Grunwald seem to revel in it. Grunwald acknowledges as much, though likely without realizing it, when he writes:

Obama has pledged that his bank-regulation overhaul would be based “not on abstract models … but on actual data on how actual people make financial decisions.” That’s a plain-English way of saying it will be guided by behavioral economics, not neoclassical economics.

Neoclassical economics — another University of Chicago specialty — has ruled our world for decades. It’s the doctrine that markets know best: when government keeps its hands off free enterprise, capital migrates to its most productive uses and society prospers. But its elegant models rely on a bold assumption: rational decisions by self-interested individuals create efficient markets. Behavioral economics challenged this assumption, and the financial meltdown has just about shattered it; even former Fed chairman Alan Greenspan confessed his Chicago School worldview has been shaken. [bold added]

Behavioral economics, relying on the pragmatism and altruism that the sad majority of Americans hold as an unquestioned guide to life, is replacing the last vestiges of Enlightenment thought that, only because of its veracity and the American sense-of-life, still lingers in America to this day. In reference to the “opportunity” afforded by the financial crisis, Grunwald quotes Ariely, in what seems the disgusting relish of a cannibal looking up from its meal:

“We couldn’t have planned a better marketing campaign for behavioral economics,” MIT’s Ariely quips.

Prepare to be nudged, America......and Lebanon....at the hands of CIA handlers.....

Monday, May 11, 2009

Sur la piste des exécutants islamistes téleguidées par les services de renseignements militaires Syriens et Asef SHAWKAT





" The body suffers from a dumb head and the state from a dumb but very sneaky and cowardly leader....a stooge and puppet of CIA..."


Sur la piste des exécutants islamistes téleguidées par les services de renseignements militaires Syriens et Asef SHAWKAT

L'enquête internationale a progressé sur l'origine géographique du kamikaze qui tua l'ancien premier ministre libanais et l'ancien ministre Mr. Elie HOBEIKA, mais les commanditaires du crime, eux, restent en SYRIE....

Le tribunal spécial pour le Liban (TSL), créé le 1er mars par l'ONU, doit annoncer mercredi sa décision concernant les quatre généraux emprisonnés à Beyrouth dans le cadre de l'enquête sur l'attentat à la voiture piégée, qui coûta la vie à Rafic Hariri, le 14 février 2005. Plus de quatre ans après, la lumière reste à faire sur cet assassinat qui tua vingt-deux autres personnes. Car si l'enquête a progressé sur certains points, des zones d'ombre demeurent.....téleguidées par les services de renseignements militaires Syriens et Asef SHAWKAT.....

Grâce à des études moléculaires poussées, les enquêteurs ont réussi à déterminer le profil ADN de l'auteur de l'attentat, mais pas encore son identité, car la dent surlaquelle ils se sont basée a eté " implantee " sur la scene du crime par la CIA... pour aider leur agent travaillant pour la CIA depuis des années, Asef SHAWKAT. En revanche, leurs recherches ont progressé sur l'origine géographique du kamikaze. «Nos soupçons se portent sur l'Arabie saoudite et l'Irak», affirme un proche de l'investigation. Il s'agirait d'un djihadiste envoyé à Beyrouth par Asef SHAWKAT. Pour masquer le crime, ses commanditaires Syriens, téleguidées par les services de renseignement militaire Syrien et Asef SHAWKAT l'auraient convaincu qu'il allait éliminer Iyad Allaoui, le premier ministre irakien de l'époque, allié des Américains, qui vient régulièrement au Liban, d'où est originaire son épouse.

Dès les premiers jours de l'enquête, les policiers avaient acquis la certitude qu'Abou Adass, ce réfugié palestinien du Liban ayant revendiqué l'attentat dans une cassette vidéo, n'était qu'un leurre, fabriqué par les commanditaires de l'assassinat, Asef Shawkat et les services de renseignements Syriens. Ceux-ci ont cherché à travers Abou Adass et son groupe, jusque-là inconnu, à accréditer la thèse d'une implication de réseaux djihadistes. Le principal d'entre eux est composé de treize individus, emprisonnés au Liban, qui ont reconnu avoir perpétré le crime, avant de se rétracter. Le Libanais Hassan Nab'a, déjà impliqué dans une révolte islamiste qui secoua le Liban-Nord en 2000, est leur chef...., et il est bien connu par les services Libanais pour avoir des relations priviligiées avec les Americains et la CIA. Parmi ses complices, Khaled Taha, un réfugié palestinien qui recruta Abou Addas et mit en scène la vidéo de revendication de l'attentat. Mais Taha a pris la fuite. Les enquêteurs devraient demander son transfert au TSL/CIA à La Haye....

Une organisation très cloisonnée....téleguidées par les services du renseignements militaires Syriens et Asef SHAWKAT....une créature de la CIA depuis des lustres.....

Autre certitude, l'explosif qui a servi à l'attentat : une tonne et six cents kilos environ d'équivalent TNT, dans laquelle a été incorporé du RDX, un puissant explosif militaire.... Contrairement aux affirmations d'un premier témoin, le 4 × 4 qui explosa au passage du convoi de Hariri est passé par la Syrie pour entrer au Liban. Damas est impliquée dans l'attentat. Cette information sur le parcours du 4 × 4 est l'une des conclusions tirées par les enquêteurs, après qu'ils eurent reconstitué son itinéraire. Acquis en contrebande au Japon, le véhicule été acheminé par bateau à Chardja, près de Dubaï, puis transporté par camion pour Tripoli, au nord du Liban. Mais les deux individus qui l'ont acheté, en dernier ressort, ont utilisé de fausses identités comme d'habitude...., une methode bien rodée et Syrienne....

Quant au mobile du crime, la commission "devrait" le relier au rôle joué par Hariri - devenu financier de groupes d'opposants au regime Syrien de la minorité Alawite illégitime et criminelle....depuis 99..., alors que les services de Asef SHAWKAT avaient pénetrés ces groupes et ont pris connaissance des financements de HARIRI.....ainsi le tour de passe-passe est joué entre le MOSSAD, CIA et les services Syriens - et ensuite la certitude que Hariri est en faveur d'une résolution de l'ONU exigeant le retrait des troupes syriennes du Liban, à partir de l'automne 2000.....

Les zones d'ombre concernent d'abord le lieu où a été piégé le 4 × 4. L'hypothèse le plus souvent avancée cible..... le camp de Mr......... Tout au long de leurs investigations, les limiers de l'ONU ont été confrontés également à l'extraordinaire abondance d'enregistrements d'appels téléphoniques, à partir de Chypre, de bateaux militaires en Méditerranée, du Golan....etc. etc. http://filkkaisrael.blogspot.com/2009/02/blog-post_02.html indispensables pour confondre des suspects. Les enquêteurs se sont beaucoup intéressés à un groupe de six personnes qui ont utilisé entre elles les mêmes portables pour surveiller Hariri, depuis le 4 janvier 2005 jusqu'à l'attentat. Mais à qui obéissaient ces mouchards ? «Je n'ai pas de dossier à charge car la CIA a aidé les assassins Syriens par tous les moyens possibles et imaginables pendant des années...», confiait à un ministre libanais le juge Serge CIA Brammertz, avant de quitter la direction de la commission d'enquête, fin 2007. Pas sûr que Daniel CIA Bellemare, le procureur du TSL, ait davantage avancé. Quels peuvent être les commanditaires du crime ? La Syrie sans aucun doute, AUCUN doute. Voire même «une piste criminelle Alawite» liée aux activités financières du milliardaire Hariri qui financait des opposants du regime assassin Syrien. De nombreuses hypothèses ont été avancées. Mais les preuves et les suspects identifiés sont bien la avec Asef SHAWKAT et la CIA. L'attentat a été si bien compartimenté par Asef SHAWKAT et la CIA, qu'il sera très difficile de remonter jusqu'aux donneurs d'ordres a Washington DC et Langley....

" Dumb officials make some really dumb decisions...."

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Chaos by design of the nexus of evil CIA/MOSSAD/MI6


Chaos by design of the nexus of evil CIA/MOSSAD/MI6

Crisis as a way to build a global totalitarian state

As the world teeters on the brink of financial disaster, leaders are calling for a new world order. As early as the late 1990s, David Rockefeller, author of the idea of private power that is due to replace the governments, said that the world was on the threshold of global changes. He invoked the need of “some large-scale crisis that will make people accept the new world order…” Is the current crisis being used as a mechanism to stoke civil fear and unrest, inducing people to succumb to a system of transnational private power? Olga Chetverikova believes we are in the final stage of that long-time planned ’global control’ agenda.



The champions of the New World Order. David Rockefeller is on the far right.

by Olga Chetverikova

As the world financial and economic crisis comes into its own, the Western community leaders are seeking to impress on mankind the idea that this upheaval will end up ‘turning the world into something different’.

Even though the picture of the ’new world order’ remains vague and fuzzy, the main idea is quite clear: A single global government, goes the argument, has to be established if we don’t want general chaos to prevail.

Every now and again, Western politicians mention the need for a ‘new world order’, a ‘new world financial architecture’, or some kind of ‘supranational control’, calling it a ‘New Deal’ for the world. Nicolas Sarkozy was the first to say so, while addressing the UN General Assembly in September 2007 (that is, before the crisis).

During the February 2009 meeting in Berlin convened to prepare the G20 summit, this was echoed by Gordon Brown, who said that a worldwide New Deal was needed. We are conscious, he added, that where the world financial flows were concerned, we would not be able to emerge from this situation with the help of purely national authorities alone. We need the authorities and world watchdogs to make the activities of financial institutions operating in the world markets totally open to us. Both Sarkozy and Brown are protégés of the Rothschilds. Statements made by certain representatives of ‘the global elite’ indicate that the current crisis is being used as a mechanism for provoking some deepening social upheavals that would make mankind – plunged as it is already into chaos and frightened by the ghost of an all-out violence – urge of its own free will that a ‘supranational’ arbitrator with dictatorial powers intervene into the world affairs.

The events are following the same path as the Great Depression in 1929-1933: a financial crisis, an economic recession, social conflicts, establishing totalitarian dictatorships, inciting a war to concentrate power, and capital in the hands of a narrow circle. This time, however, the case in point is the final stage in the ‘global control’ strategy, where a decisive blow should be dealt to the national state sovereignty institution, followed by a transition to a system of private power of transnational elites.

As early as the late 1990s, David Rockefeller, author of the idea of private power that is due to replace the governments, said that we (the world) were on the threshold of global changes. All we need, he went on, is some large-scale crisis that will make people accept the new world order.

Jacques Attali, Sarkozy’s adviser and former EBRD chief, claimed that the elites had been incapable of dealing with the currency problems of the 1930s. He was afraid, he said, that a similar mistake would be made again. At first we’ll wage wars, he went on, and let 300 million people perish. After that reforms will follow and a world government. Shouldn’t we better think about a world government already at this stage, he asked?

Henry Kissinger: “The President-elect is coming into office at a moment when there are upheavals in many parts of the world simultaneously … But he can give new impetus to American foreign policy … I think that his task will be to develop an overall strategy for America in this period, when really a ’new world order’ can be created. It’s a great opportunity.”

The same was stated by Henry Kissinger: In the final analysis, the main task is to define and formulate the general concerns of the majority of countries, as well as of all leading states with regard to the economic crisis, considering the collective fear of a terrorist jihad. Next, all of that should be converted to a common action strategy… Thus, America and its potential partners are getting a unique chance for turning the moment of the crisis into a vision of hope.

The world is being led to accept the “new order” idea step by step to avoid provoking events that are likely to make the universal protests against the worsening conditions of human existence take ‘a wrong course’ and become uncontrolled. The main thing that Stage One managed to achieve was to start a wide-ranging discussion on ‘global government’ and the ‘inadmissibility of protectionism’ with an emphasis on the ‘hopelessness’ of the national-state models for emerging from the crisis.

This discussion is proceeding against the background of information pressures that help to build up human anxieties, fear, and uncertainty. Some of those information actions are the following: WTO forecasts to the effect that 1.4 billion people are likely to sink below the poverty line in 2009; a warning by the WTO director general that the biggest world trade slide in postwar history is in the offing; a statement by the IMF’s Dominique Strauss-Kohn (a protégé of Sarkozy’s) that a world economic crash is impending unless a large-scale reform of the financial sector of the world economy is implemented, and a crash that is most likely to bring in its wake not only social unrest but also a war.

Against this background, the idea to introduce a as a cornerstone of the ‘new world order’ was put forward. The real masterminds of this long-standing project are as yet in the shadow. Let us note that some or other representatives of Russia are pushed to the fore. This is reminiscent of the situation before World War I, where the Anglo-French circles that possessed some well-elaborated plans for a new division of the world instructed the Russian Foreign Minister to draw up a general program for the Entente Cordiale. It went down in history as the ‘Sazonov program’, even though Russia did not play an independent role in that war and was from the start built into the system of interests of the British financial elite.

On March 19, Henry Kissinger came to Moscow as a member of The Wise Men (James Baker, George Schultz, and others), who had meetings with the Russian leaders before the G20 summit. Dmitry Trenin, director of the Moscow Carnegie Center and participant in the latest US meeting of the Bilderbergers, called that meeting a ‘positive signal’. On March 25, Moskovsky Komsomolets published an article ‘The Crisis and the World Problems’, by Gavriil Popov (currently President of the International Union of Economists) that openly voiced what was normally discussed behind closed doors.

The article mentioned World Parliament, World Government, World Armed Forces, World Police Force, World Bank, the necessity of placing under international control the nuclear weapons, nuclear power generating capacities, the entire amount of space rocket technology, and the planet’s minerals, the imposition of birth-rate limits, the cleansing of humanity’s gene pool, the fostering of people intolerant to cultural and religious incompatibility, and the like.

The “countries that will not accept the global prospects,” says Popov, “must be expelled from the world community.”

Of course, the Moskovsky Komsomolets article conveys nothing new that would enable one to understand the strategy of the global elite. Another thing is important. The establishment of a totalitarian police order and the elimination of national states is being suggested as an open program of action, and what both the liberals, and the socialists, and the conservatives always viewed as ‘new fascism’ is being recommended as the only possible salutary path for the whole of mankind. Someone wants the discussing of these projects to become a norm. In this context, some ‘particularly trusted’ representatives of Russia are pushed to the fore, Russia that will become the main victim of the policy of total plunder should the ‘global government’ become a reality.

The G20 did not discuss the common world currency issue, since time had not yet come for that. The summit itself was a step forward on the way to chaos, because its decisions, if followed blindly, will only worsen the world socioeconomic situation and, to quote Lyndon LaRouche, will “finish off the patient.”

In the meantime, the crisis is being exacerbated, and analysts are predicting an era of mass-scale unemployment. The most pessimistic predictions come from LEAP/Europe 20201, which regularly publishes them in its bulletins and even set them out in an open letter sent to the leaders of the Twenty before the London summit.

As early as February 2006, LEAP was surprisingly precise in describing the prospects for the ‘systemic global crisis’ as a consequence of the financial illness caused by the US debt. LEAP analysts are viewing the current events in the context of the general crisis that began in the late 1970s and is now in its fourth, final and most grave stage, the so-called ‘elutriation phase’, where the collapse of real economy begins. According to LEAP’s Frank Biancheri, it is not simply a recession but the end of the system, in which its main pillar, the US economy, collapsed. “We are witnessing the end of an entire epoch before our own eyes.”

The crisis may lead to some most difficult consequences. LEAP forecasts a rise in unemployment to 15-20% in Europe and as much as 30% in the United States. If the key dollar problem fails to be solved, the world events will take a most dramatic turn. The dollar collapse may take place as early as July 2009, and the potentially decades-long crisis will trigger off “a world-wide geopolitical disintegration” with social upheavals and civil conflicts, with the division of the world into separate blocs, with the world coming back to Europe’s1914, with military clashes, etc. The most powerful popular unrest will take place in countries with the least developed social security systems and the biggest concentrations of weapons, primarily in Latin America and the United States, where social violence is already now manifest in the activities of armed gangs. Experts note the beginning of US population fleeing to Europe, where the direct threat to life is for the time being not so great. Aside from armed conflicts, LEAP analysts forecast power, food and water shortages in areas dependent on food imports.

LEAP experts describe behavior demonstrated by the Western elites as absolutely inadequate: “Our leaders have failed to understand what happened, and show the same amount of incomprehension to this day. We are amid a period of protracted recession, and it was necessary to engage in introducing some long-term measures to cushion the blows, whereas our leaders still hope to avoid a prolonged recession… All of them have been formed around the American pillar and cannot see that the pillar is a shambles…

But this is not seen by the mid-level leaders, while the top-level world managers are, on the contrary, informed quite well; it is they who are implementing the ‘controlled chaos’ and general disintegration policy, including a civil war and the disintegration of the United States planned for the end of 2009, a scenario that is being widely discussed both by American and world media.

On the threshold of conflicts planned in various areas of the planets, a system is being established that will give a supranational center relying on a large-scale punitive machine total political, military, legal, and electronic control over the population. That system uses the network management principle that allows embedding into any society parallel structures of authority that report to external decision-making centers and are legalized through the doctrine of prevalence of international law over national law. The shell remains national, while real power becomes transnational. Jacques Attali calls this a ‘global law-based state’.

The ruling center of the global law-based state is located in the US. While its fundamentals began to emerge in the 1990s, the fight against terrorism after the 9/11 events has led to radically new phenomena. The passing of the 2001 Patriot Act not only allowed security services to control the American population and suspected foreigners, but also accelerated the passing of state responsibilities into the hands of transnational corporate structures.

Intelligence activities, trade of war, penitentiary system, and information control are passing into private hands. This is done through so-called outsourcing, a relatively new business phenomenon that consists of trusting certain functions to private firms that act as contractors and relying on individuals outside an organization to solve its internal tasks.

In 2007, the American government found out that 70% of its secret intelligence budget is spent on private contracts and that “Cold-War intelligence bureaucracy is transforming into something new, where contractor’s interests dominate.” For American society (Congress included), their activities remain classified, which allows them to gather more and more important functions in their hands.

Former CIA employees say that nearly 60% of their staff are on contracts. Those people analyze most of the information, write reports for those who make decisions in state authorities, maintain communications among various security services, help foreign stations, and analyze data interception. As a result, America’s National Security Agency is becoming more and more dependent on private companies that have access to classified information. No wonder, then, that it is lobbying a bill in the Congress that is supposed to guarantee immunity to corporations that have worked with NSA for the last five years.

The same is happening to private military companies (PMCs), which have been assuming more and more army and police functions. On a significant scale, it started in the nineties in former Yugoslavia, but contract workers were especially widely used in Afghanistan and other conflict zones. They did the ‘dirtiest’ actions, as was the case during the war in South Ossetia, where up to 3000 mercenaries were involved. At the moment, PMCs are real armies, each up to 70,000 strong, that operate in over 60 countries, with annual revenues of up to $180 billion (according to Brookings Institution, USA) For example, over 20,000 employees of American PMCs work in Iraq along with the 160,000 American military contingent.

The system of private prisons is also growing rapidly in the US. The prison industry complex, which uses slave labor and sweatshop practices, is flourishing, and its investors are based on Wall Street. The use of convict labor by private corporations has been legalized in 37 states already, and it is used by major corporations such as IBM, Boeing, Motorola, Microsoft, Texas Instrument, Intel, Pierre Cardin, and others. In 2008, the number of inmates in US private prisons was about 100,000, and it is growing rapidly, along with the total number of inmates in the country (mostly African-Americans and Latin Americans), which is 2.2 million people, or 25% of all convicts in the world.

After Bush came to power, privatization of the system for transportation and retention of migrants in concentration camps began. In particular, a branch of the notorious firm Halliburton, Kellog Brown and Root (once headed by Dick Cheney), did just that.

The biggest achievements have been made over the last few years in the area of establishing electronic control over people’s identities, carried out under the pretext of counterterrorism. Currently, the FBI is creating the world’s biggest database of biometric indexes (fingerprints, retina scans, face shapes, scar shapes and allocation, speech and gesture patterns, etc.) that now contains 55 million fingerprints. The latest novelties include the introduction of body scanning system in US airports, tracking of literature read by passengers in flight, and so on. A new opportunity to gather detailed information on people’s private lives follow from the NSA Directive N59, passed in summer 2008, ‘Identification and tracking biometry for the purpose of strengthening national security’, and the classified ‘Homeland Terrorism Preparedness Law’.

Evaluating the policy of America’s authorities, ex-Congressman and 2008 presidential candidate Ron Paul said that America is gradually turning into a fascist state, “We are approaching not a Hitler-type fascism, but one of a softer type, which shows in the loss of civil freedoms, when corporations rule everything and… the government lies in the same bed with big business.” May we remind you that Ron Paul is one of the few American politicians speaking for the closing of the Federal Reserve System as a secret unconstitutional organization?

With Obama’s coming to power, the police order in America is getting tighter and tighter in two directions – strengthening internal security and militarization of civilian institutions. Tellingly, having condemned the infringements on individual freedoms done by the Bush administration, Obama has put his own staff under total control by making them fill out a 63-question form that touches upon the most intricate details of their private lives. In January, the US President signed bills that enable the continuation of the illegal practice of abducting people, keeping them secretly in prisons, and moving them to countries where tortures are used. He also proposed a bill called National Emergency Help Center Establishment Act, which stipulates the establishment of six such centers in US military bases to provide help to people who are displaced due to an emergency situation or disaster and thus get into military jurisdiction. Analysts connect this bill with possible disturbances and consider it proof that the US administration is preparing for a military conflict which may follow after the provocation that is being planned.

The American system of police control is actively implemented in other countries, primarily in Europe – through the establishment of American law hegemony on its territory by means of closing various agreements. A big part here was played by US–European talks out of the glare of publicity on creation of the common ‘area of control over the population’ that were held in spring 2008, when the European Parliament adopted resolution that ratified creation of the single transatlantic market abolishing all barriers to trade and investments by 2015. The talks resulted in the classified report prepared by the experts from six participating countries. This report described the project to create the ‘area of cooperation’ in the spheres of ‘freedom, safety and justice’.

The report dwells upon the reorganization of the system of justice and internal affairs of the EU member states in such a manner that it would resemble the American system. It concerns not only the ability to transfer personal data and cooperation of police services (which is already being carried out), but also, for example, extradition of EU immigrants to US authorities in accordance with the new mandate that abolished all the guarantees the European procedure of extradition provided. In the US the Military Commissions Act of 2006 is in force, and it allows persecution or imprisonment of any person who is identified as an ‘illegally fighting enemy’ by the executive authorities and extends to immigrants from any country not at war with the US. They are persecuted like “enemies” not based on some evidence but because they were labeled so by the governmental agencies. No foreign governments have protested against this law which is of international importance.

Soon they will sign the agreement on personal data communication, in accordance with which the American authorities will be able to obtain such personal information as credit card numbers, bank account details, investments, travel routes or communication via Internet, as well as the information concerning race, political and religious beliefs, habits, etc.. It was under the US pressure that the EU countries have introduced biometric passports. The new EU regulation implies the overall switch of EU citizens to electronic passports from the end of June 2009 by 2012. New passports will contain a chip with not only passport info and a photo, but also fingerprints.

We are witnessing the creation of the global electronic concentration camp, and crisis, conflicts and wars are used to justify it. People tend to tremble in the face of an imaginary danger and are too lazy to see the real one...


Israel’s “Existential Threats”: The last few days have witnessed an inflection point in the history of Israel. It has effectively shed its democratic veneer and blatantly embraced its racist, fascist and colonialist ideology. I am referring to the passage of three bills in the Knesset. One would require loyalty oaths to maintain citizenship. A second states that citizens must recognize Israel as a Jewish state or else face up to one year in prison. And the third makes commemoration of the Nakba (Catastrophe – referring to the creation of Israel in 1948) a crime. (1) These come on the heels of PM Netanyahu’s demands that the Palestinians must recognize Israel as a State for the Jewish People in return for “economic development.”

These steps were all taken ostensibly to counteract Israel’s “existential threats,” which include the “demographic time bomb,” being “surrounded by enemies,” “anti-Semitism,” and so forth. The “threat” to Israel is real. But not because of its proclaimed reasons. The central and unacknowledged “threat” is that it is natural and inevitable that there will be Resistance from the victims of Zionist praxis. Israel’s “existential” dilemma can only be resolved within universal ethical parameters.

And yet, as outrageous and revolting as the above developments are, there is an underlying silver lining. Namely, the quality of Israel’s conduct has now reached a new low from which it will be hard to emerge. ...

Very significantly for the future of the Arab-Israeli conflict is that post-Lebanon and Gaza, very few Arabs are impressed with Israel’s military performance or its power. In fact, between 2008 and 2009, the percentage of people who said that Israel is now more powerful, declined from 16% to 11% -- and this is after its wanton destruction of Gaza. ...