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Long read, but a good lesson in history:

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THE ROAD TO ARMAGEDDON by Alf Mendes
http://www.911forum.org.uk/board/viewtopic.php?t=17858

Author’s Foreword: The current global situation seethes with such
expectation of oncoming turmoil that it is essential to examine it
more closely, by focussing on America, whose governments have, for
decades now, made no bones about the fact that they have been - and
are still - calling-the-tune in order to gain political/financial
control on a global scale (One has only to read their Project for the
New American Century [PNAC] to confirm this). Hence the following
events in brief, precised, more-or-less chronological form, and the
fact that many of them are excerpts from previous articles written by
this author, and others, is irrelevant inasmuch as they are of
pertinence to the current global scenario - and need to be repeated.

1917: The Bolshevik revolution. NB: Germany, Britain, France, USA and
Japan entered Russian territory in order to help the ‘White Army’ in
its attempt to restore the Emperor. Forerunner of what would
subsequently become known as the Cold War.
A group of imfluential , atheistic Ashkenazim Jews had formed the
Zionist Organisation in 1896 with the intention of creating the State
of Israel in Palestine. They reached an agreement with Britain at the
Balfour Declaration in 1917.

Nov.1919: George Herbert Walker forms W.A.Harriman & Co. bank - with
Walker as president & chief executive, & Averell Harriman as chairman
(He was to become US Ambassador to the USSR [‘43 - ‘46]; US Secretary
of Commerce [‘46 - ‘48]; & Governor of NY State [‘55 - ‘59]).

1920: Harriman & Walker of W.A.Harriman & C0. gain control of the
German Hamburg-Amerika Line after negotiations with the latter’s chief
executive, William Cuno, & Max Warburg of the shipping line’s bankers,
M.M. Warburg. NB: Warburg’s two brothers went to New York, becoming
partners in the Kuhn Loeb & Co. The older brother, Paul, drew up a
plan to centralise the American banks, as a result of which, President
Wilson signed an Act establishing the Federal Reserve Bank in December
1913. It was now self-evident that there was a close relationship
between Corporate America and Jews! (see below)

.Prior to ‘24: W. Averell Harriman was in Europe sometime prior to
1924 & at that time became acquainted with Fritz Thyssen, the German
industrialist who was financing Hitler (and was later to become a
member of the Nazi Party)- and they agreed to set up a bank for
Thyssen in New York.

1924: W.A.Harriman & Co invested $400,000 in setting up Union Banking
Corp. (UBC) in New York to act in partnership with the Thyssen-owned
Bank voor Handel en Scheepvart (Bank for Trade and Shipping, BHS) in
Holland....

1926: Prescott S. Bush Snr.(son-in-law of George H Walker) appointed
Vice-President of W. A. Harriman & Co.

1930: The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) the world's oldest
international financial institution, is set up - ostensibly to cope
with the German financial post-WW1 recession, but, in fact, was formed
in order to counter communist Soviet Union, with not-a-little-help
from one of its co-founders, Montagu Norman (Governor of the Bank of
England) - and Corporate America. Suffice it to say that the first
President of the BIS was Gates W. McGarrah (ex-Chase National Bank &
Federal Reserve Bank).....The ‘Cold War' had begun, and its most
blatant expression was the birth of fascism in the aftermath of the
Bolshevik revolution - a birth both induced and nurtured by
corporations such as I.G.Farben, SKF, Ford, ITT, Du Pont, W.A.Harriman
& Co.- et al

Jan. 1933: Hitler assumes power in Germany - with not-a-little-help
from Corporate America and the BIS.

Mar. 7th 1933: Prescott S. Bush Snr. notified Max Warburg (above) that
he (Warburg) was to be the American Ship & Commerce Line official
representative on the board of the Hamburg- Amerika Line. Warburg had
been a long-time advisor to Hitler’s Economic Minister, Hjalmar
Schacht , co-founder of the BIS, & a close friend of Montagu Norman.

May. 20. ‘33: As reported in the New York Times: on Hitler achieving
power, an agreement to coordinate all trade between Germany & America
was reached in Berlin after negotiations between Hitler’s Economics
Minister, Hjalmar Schacht (above) & John Foster Dulles.The Dulles
brothers’ corporate law firm Sullivan & Cromwell, had acted for many
Nazi enterprises during & after this period, including I. G. Farben,
developer of the nerve gas, Tabun. (J. F. Dulles became Secretary of
State [‘53 - ‘59]; A. W. Dulles became CIA Deputy Director for Plans
[‘51]; Deputy Director of Central Intelligence [‘51 - ‘53]; & Director
of CIA [‘53 -’61]).
September 1938: Munich Agreement signed by Hitler, Chamberlain,
Daladier & Mussolini. By concluding a pact with Hitler, Britain and
France - in effect - gave him the green light to advance eastwards
towards the USSR (ref. "Mein Kampf") - for which they paid a heavy
price!

1939: WW 2 is declared by Britain and France against Nazi Germany. NB:
with FDR as President, American public opinion is against joining the
Allies (Britain & France).

August ‘41: UN is conceived at the mid-Atlantic meeting (the Atlantic
Charter) between FDR and Churchill.

Dec. 7 ‘41: Japanese bomb Pearl Harbour - thus ensuring that the US
would now be at war against the German alliance.

in May 1942: Contrary to FDR's assurance to the USSR in May 1942 that
a ‘second front’ would be opened later that year, this, in fact, did
not occur until June 1944 - when it became clear that the Soviets were
advancing inexorably westwards. Keeping in mind (as noted above) that
America was against joining the Allies at the start of WW 2, and
keeping in mind the foregoing events covered in this article - America
would now be in position to ensure that the advance of their real
enemy, the USSR, would soon be halted.

1944: Arabian American Oil Co. (ARAMCO [ex CASOC]) formed by Exxon,
Texaco, Socal & Mobil , was Saudi’s main source of wealth. As evidence
of America’s subornation of Saudi Arabia, the following joint secret
deals were made - subsequently - without the knowledge of the US
Congress at the time: (1) re-the IranGate scandal - the Saudis gave
the American-controlled Contras $8 million in exchange for 400
American Stinger missiles; (2) the Saudis financed the unsuccessful
CIA assasination of the Hizbollah leader, Sheikh Fadlallah - then gave
the money to the Sheikh! ; (3) The Saudis jointly assisted in
financing covert arms supplies to the Afghan Mujahadeen in the latters
struggle against the Soviet Union in ‘79/’80.

July ‘44: The Bretton Woods Conference, which led to the formation of
the World Bank and the IMF.
Here, it is of pertinence to note that, at Bretton Woods, Resolution
5, calling for the dissolution of that most prestigious, and notorious
banking organisation, the Bank fo International Security (BIS), was
subsequently ignored and proven ineffective.The US corporate
establishment had seen to that! NB: In its published “People of an
International Organisation”, the BIS states clearly that its
“predominant tasks are summed up most succintly in part of Article 3
of its original Statute. They are to promote the co-operation of
central banks and to provide additional facilities for international
financial operations” - and they meant it! Their subsequent
conferences/summits, G7, G10, G12...etc.would confirm this.

Feb. ‘45: At the Yalta Conference the US & Britain persuaded the USSR
to join them in the continuing war against Japan. Stalin promised to
do so 3 months after the end of the war in Europe. On August 6th,
America atom-bombed Japan (without informing its ‘allies’), and, as
promised, on August 8th the USSR invaded Korea, which for the past 40
years had been occupied by Japan - defeating the Japanese....

May ‘45: The end of WW 2, which had decimated the economies &
infrastructure of most of the worlds’ nations (particularly that of
the USSR) - but greatly enriched the economy of the USA. Result? The
USSR would now no longer be an ‘ally’ - and all American Lend-Lease
Aid would be terminated on May 8th ‘45 without prior consultation with
any of its (USA’s) allies.

June 1945: The US-financed San Francisco Conference of 50 nations
resulted in the signing of the UN Charter ‘to promote international
security & cooperation’, and incorporating both the World Bank and the
IMF. NB: The USA (1) donated the land site for the UN Secretariat in
New York City; (2) loaned the money to build the UN HQ buildings; (3)
guaranteed the independence of the UN’s American staff who,
understandably, accounted for two-thirds of the UN staff (a promise
that would soon be reneged upon); & (4) supplied 40% of the UN’s
running costs. Suffice it to add that future presidents of the World
Bank would be appointed by America! Henceforth, all steps taken by the
UN would be flaunting the banner of ‘The International Community’ -
somewhat duplicitously. NB: America had refused to join the precursor
to the UN - the League of Nations (formed, in Switzerland, in the
immediate aftermath of WW 1).

Sept 2nd ‘45: The communist leader of Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh, declared
independence from its French colonizers - which resulted in subsequent
warfare between the two, the French relying heavily on American
financial & military aid.

Sept. 6th ‘45: The liberated Koreans (see above), consisting mainly of
anti-Japanese resistance groups of a left-wing bent, held an assembly
and formed the ‘People’s Republic Government of Korea’..... Two days
later, US troops entered Korea, ignoring this newly-formed government
- and proposed the setting up of a ‘line of demarcation’ at the 38th
parallel. This led to the Korean War of ‘50 - to ‘53. Korea was now a
split-in-two nation, with America in control of South Korea. The UN
General Assembly set up the ‘UN Temporary Commission on Korea’ to
expedite its (Korea’s) unified independence. The USSR vetoed UN entry
into North Korea - so the UN decided to hold the election in South
Korea (only) thereby making a mockery of their declared aim towards
unification! On July 27th ‘53 the Korean Armistice was signed.

1947: With the threat of the powerful communist Soviet Union and the
Cold War looming, America recognized the need for a centralized
intelligence system to replace its two forerunners - the Office of
Strategic Services (OSS); and the Central Intelligence Group (CIG) -
and thus forms the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) via the National
Security Act. The CIA would subsequently play a very crucial role on
the global scene.
June 48: Tito is expelled from the Cominform. The West's reaction to
this was best spelt out by Pavlowitch in his book “Yugoslavia”: “The
American and West European governments were faced with a dilemma.
Should they help a now weak and isolated, but otherwise successful,
instance of communism, while ’containing’ communism generally?”. On
the one hand.. “if Yugoslavia were left to collapse, only the Soviet
Union would benefit. But if Tito's regime were helped to survive
economically, his rift with Moscow could be widened to the point where
no reconciliation were possible any longer, and his independent
position could then entice other East European regimes to follow his
example. Thus, at the same time as the states of Western Europe and
North America were grouping together to constitute the North Atlantic
Alliance, it was decided, as a calculated risk for a long -term
advantage, to assist Yugoslavia without asking its government to alter
its domestic policies in any way”.

1948: Jews defeat Arabs in British protectorate of Palestine,
resulting in the formation of the State of Israel by the secular group
of Jews known as Zionists (established by Herzl & Weizmann in Basel in
1887). From America’s viewpoint, a subservient Israel would now act as
a convenient foil vis-a-vis MidEast Arab countries with vast oil
reserves (many of which would soon be American-owned). NB: Thereby
satisfying American Jews who were a strong, influential lobbying force
in the US.
1948: The Marshall Plan was passed by the US Congress in order to
ensure that the US would benefit from the reconstruction of war-
damaged Europe - with not-a-little-help from the US Congressionally-
authorised European Cooperation Act (ECA) of 1948, implemented by its
subsidiary, the European Payments Union (EPU) of 1950 - both under the
aegis of the Marshall Plan. The BIS would handle much of the wheeling-
and-dealing involved in this.

1948: The Brussels Treaty was also the first step in the process
leading to the signature of the American-controlled North Atlantic
Treaty in 1949 (NATO). This ‘reconstruction’ understandably called for
an intigrated Europe, in which NATO would play a crucial role (as
confirmed in their ‘Handbook of 1999’: “The Brussels Treaty of
1948...was also the first step in the process leading to the signature
of the North Atlantic Treaty in 1949 & the creation of the North
Atlantic Alliance”). The Brussels Treaty would subsequently evolve
into the Common Market/EEC/EU. This close relationship between NATO
and the EU led to the fact that - in the future - any country wanting
to join the EU would be vetted by NATO.

1949: As noted by Pavlowitch above: America relaxed export controls to
Yugoslavia, and instigated a series of loans and grants to same (this
totalled some $2- to $2.5 billion in the decade up to ‘59). Yugoslavia
was now embarked on a debt-ridden course which would eventually lead
to the dissolution of its Federation - helped in no small measure by
Tito's setting up in 1984 of a New Constitution which, in effect,
split the Republic of Serbia into three parts by giving its provinces
of Kosovo and Vojvodina a higher degree of autonomy than they had
previously held. American aid had ensured that Yugoslavia would become
a country heavily in debt, and with an economy in turmoil.

1952: Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh plans to nationalise
the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. so Britain asks the US to join them in a
plan to have him removed from his presidency. Result: Mossadegh is
overthrown by a joint CIA/SIS operation in ‘53.

April 1954: The French were defeated by Ho Chi Minh (see above) at
Dienbienphu - as a result of which a Geneva Convention was called, and
an armistice agreed upon on July 21st whereby Vietnam would be divided
between North & South at the 17th parallel - elections being held to
reunify the two after 2 years -And in June 16 ‘54: America, via its
Secretary of State, John Dulles (see above) installs Ngo Dinh Diem (a
Catholic, who had been in America from ‘50 to ‘53) as President of
South Vietnam - a country with a Buddhist majority!... The Geneva
Convention had now become a hindrance and would have to be bypassed.
This called for an up-dating of America’s political/military strategy,
which would now be known as ‘The Counter Insurgency Strategy’. Simply
put: this meant that America would now embark on the dangerous tactic
of interfering, militarily if necessary, in the affairs of a foreign
country. The ensuing Vietnam War between US-controlled Vietnam and
North Vietnam resulted in many deaths on both sides - helped in no
small degree by the CIA’s Phoenix Operation and much bombing by the
Americans using Napalm incendiary bombs. The Americans were finally
defeated by North Vietnam in 1975. Vietnam was now a united country
once again.

1958 to 1963: Iraq was under the populist, reformist government of
General Qasim, and its increasing involvement in oil development
there, and the fast-rising influence of the Communist Party, therefore
drew the attention of America. Result? In February 1963 Qasim was
overthrown - and assassinated - by a Ba’athist Party coup, with the
direct connivance of the CIA. The Ba’athist Saddam Hussein, who had
fled the country to Egypt after his earlier abortive attempt to
assassinate Qasim, returned and became Head of the Al-Jihaz al-Khas
(more popularly known as Jihaz Haneen), the clandestine Ba’athist
Intelligence organisation - and, as such, he was soon after involved
in the killing of some five thousand communists. Saddam’s rise to
power had, ironically, begun on the back of a CIA-engineered coup!

1961: Founded as the Association of Data Processing Services
Organisation (ADAPSO), it subsequently evolved into the Information
Technology Association of America (ITAA), a lobbying firm in
California which specializes in getting special treatment for
technology companies. It was to play a crucial role in the electronic
voting system subsequently. (see below).

September 4, 1961: The Foreign Assistance Act (FAA) was passed by
Congress, as a result of which: the US Agency for International
Development (USAID) was established in November 1961. This was
essentially a funding organisation whose main aim was on countering
the spread of communism - and it would thenceforth play a crucial
role. (see below)

August 1964: The assasination of Kennedy in 1963 resulted in the US
corporate establishment setting up the News Election Service (NES), a
consortium of the three major television networks: ABC, NBC and CBS,
plus the Associated Press wire service, CNN, the New York Times, the
Washington Post and other news-gathering organizations, their job
being to compile computer-voting results at election time and feed
them to the major media. Electronic voterigging - in the form of the
Electronic Voting System (EVS) - would now be the order-of-the-day,
superceding ‘the buying of votes’. (As later exposed publicly by the
two Collier brothers in their book “Votescam:The Stealing of America”.

June 9th 1969: The Pemtagon asked for a sum of $10 million from the
Congressional House Subcommittee on Appropriations to develop a new
contagious micro-organsm capable of destroying the human immune
system. It would therefore be necessary, first, to create such a
virus! Such a 'virus' was discovered some ten years later in America
which became known as 'acquired immune deficiency syndrome' (AIDS). In
April 1974, Kissinger drew up a secret plan for population control
called the ‘National Security Plan of Action 200’ (NSSM 200), which
claimed that population growth in the less-developed countries was
“..creating political or even national security problems for the US”.
On October 2nd 1979, Robert McNamara (President of the World Bank)
addressed a group of international bankers thus: “We can begin with
the most critical problem of all, population growth”..concluding that
“..either the current birth rates must come down more quickly, or the
death rates must go up...There are, of course, many ways in which the
death rates can go up. In a thermonuclear age, we can accomplish it
very quickly and decisively”(as indeed they had done in Hiroshima and
Nagasaki in1945).

Early 1970’s saw the collapse of the Bretton Woods system of exchange
convertibility, thus exposing the irrelevance of the IMF and World
Bank as agents for European reconstruction, the main reason being
that, under the Bretton Woods agreement they were therefore hindered
by being accountable statutorily-appointed agents of the UN, and were
therefore - ostensibly - accountable to a much wider constituency than
the BIS, and therefore politically less manageable by the corporate
establishment
From 1973 to ‘93: The BIS Secretariat of the Committee of Governors
also served the Board of Governors of the European Monetary Co-
operation Fund (EMCF), and acted as EMCF agent. As such, they
therefore provided the institutional framework for monetary co-
operation in the European Community until January ‘94, when they were
replaced by the European Monetary Institute (EMI) under the headship
of Baron Alexandre Lamfalussy - ex-General Manager of the BIS! The EMI
was to become

The European Central Bank.

1978: The World Computing Services Industry is founded.. It was later
to become the World Information Technology & Services Alliance (WITSA)
which would have a real impact on the global IT environment.
(see below)

July 1979: As revealed by Zbigniew Brzezinski, and unknown to the
American public and Congress, President Jimmy Carter secretly
authorized $500 million to create an international terrorist movement
that would spread Islamic fundamentalism in Central Asia and ‘de-
stabilise’ the Soviet Union... The CIA called this Operation Cyclone
and in the following years poured $4 billion into setting up Islamic
training schools in Pakistan. ..Young zealots were sent to the CIA's
spy training camp in Virginia, where future members of al-Qaeda were
taught ‘sabotage skills’ - terrorism.
December ‘79: well-aware of Ops. Cyclone, in December ‘79, the USSR
invaded Afghanistan, and after a long and devastating war with
guerrilla opposition forces (the mujahideen) the last of the Soviet
troops left Afghanistan in February1989, their economy and rubles in
tatters.

1980: With Saddam Hussein now in power, Iraq invades Iran - and (a)
the US supplies Iraq with strategic information gleaned from its
satellites during the Iran\Iraq War of 1980 to 1988. (b) Less well
publicized was the substantial American aid brokered by such as: the US
\Iraq Business Forum, set up in May 1985 with many top US corporations
as members; the Kissinger Associates consulting firm, boasting such
alumni as Brent Scowcroft, Lawrence Eagleburger and Lord Carrington;
and the Bechtel Group, boasting such alumni as George Shultz and
Caspar Weinberger. (Bechtel, it should be noted, won the contract to
build the Iraqi PC-2 Complex near Al-Musaiyib for the production of
gas precursors and ethyline oxide)
The UN’s response was to have Resolution 479 passed - which neither
condemned Iraq nor demanded their withdrawal from Iran! Understandable
when it is recalled that the UN had been suborned by the US since its
formation. The build-up of the Iraqi military machine would not, of
course, have been possible without considerable assistance from more
technically advanced countries such as Germany, France, Britain, the
USSR, America

June 1982: The secret arming of Iraq had been ordered by President
Reagan in June 1982 as part of a National Security Decision Directive.
Under it, CIA Director William Casey and his then-deputy, Robert
Gates, "authorized, approved and assisted" delivery of cluster bombs
to Iraq through Cardoen.

1983: The US Congress-funded National Endowment for Democracy (NED)
had been set up by Congress“to try to do openly what the CIA used to
do secretly”. It, in turn, controls the Center for International
Private Enterprise (CIPE) which, in turn, funds the group of
economists known as the G17, three of whose leading members are also
staff members of both the IMF and World Bank. NED has been active in
Yugoslavia since 1988.

1987: The notorious Guantanamo Bay detention camp/prison, operated by
a Joint Task Force of the US, was set up.

1987: The Military Professional Resources Inc. (MPRI) was set up in
Alexandria, Virginia with the specific aim of promoting America's anti-
left strategy on the international military scene. (see below)

1988: As evidence of vote-rigging: as is well-known, the New Hampshire
primary is a crucial forerunner for any presidential candidate, and in
the election of ‘88, GHW Bush won unexpectedly aginst his fellow-
Republican Robert Dole. It transpired that the Governor of New
Hampshire, John Sununu, was a computer engineer, and the computer
voting machine being used was a ‘Shouptronic’ Direct Recording
Electronic (DRE) voting machine, supplied by Ransom Shoup, who “had
been twice convicted of vote fraud in Philadelphia”! On becoming
president, Bush appointed Sununu Chief of Staff in his administration.

1989: The economist-cum-G17 coordinator, Vaselin Vukotic was appointed
Minister of Privatisation under the federal Yugoslav premier, Ante
Markovic (a Croat). Vukotic implemented the World Bank-sponsored
‘bankruptcy program’ in Yugoslavia between ‘89 and ‘90, which led to
the devastation of the Yugoslav economy, and set the stage for the
breakup of the republic. Result?: 50% of Yugoslav industry was broken
up, and over 1100 industrial firms wiped out between January 1989 and
September 1990!

late 1989: the Director of the Kuwaiti State Security Department,
Brigadier al-Fahd, had had a secret week-long meeting in Langley,
Virginia, with the US Director of the CIA, William Webster. In his own
words: “We agreed with the American side that it was important to take
advantage of the deteriorating situation in Iraq in order to put
pressure on that country’s government to delineate our common border.
The CIA gave us its view of appropriate means of pressure, saying that
broad co-operation should be initiated between us, on condition that
such activities are co-ordinated at a high level”.

August 2nd 1990: Iraq invades Kuwait and takes control of the country,
installing a puppet government.

...On November 29, with US & coalition forces massing in Saudi Arabia
and Iraq showing no signs of retreat, the UN Security Council passed a
resolution to allow member states to "use all necessary means" to
force Iraq from Kuwait if Iraq remained in the country after January
15, 1991. On January 17, 1991, coalition forces began a massive air
attack on Iraqi targets. After five and a half weeks of intense
bombing, Iraq’s forces were severely damaged. On February 24 the
coalition launched its long-anticipated land offensive, attacking
southwestern Iraq, then turned east toward the Iraqi port of Al
Basrah, thereby surroundeing Kuwait, encircling the Iraqi forces there
and in southern Iraq, and allowed coalition forces (mainly Arab) to
move up the coast and take Kuwait city. On February 28, with the
collapse of Iraqi resistance and the recapture of Kuwait—thereby
fulfilling the coalition’s stated goals—the coalition declared a cease-
fire. UN sanctions against Iraq were now enforced. The UN continued to
maintain most of the economic embargo on Iraq after the war, and
several coalition countries enforced other sanctions, such as the no-
fly zones. The following September, Clinton authorises bombing of
Iraq.

May 1991: George H.W. Bush nominated Robert Gates to be Director of
Central Intelligence (DCI). Gates had played his part in effectively
manipulating the circumstances surrounding the Iraq\Kuwait
confrontation - thus ensuring the inevitability of the invasion that
followed in August 1990. (Gates had served as a director of the well-
known vote-rigging company, Votehere!)

1991: The collapse of the USSR was probably the most significant post-
WW 2 event. America’s role in destabilising the USSR (as noted above)
therefore calls for closer scrutiny, and from the vantage point of
hindsight, the fact that in the aftermath of the collapse of the USSR
the American oil companies (with others) quickly bought their way into
the vast reserves of Russian oil and gas is surely proof enough that
this was one of the crucial aims of America’s strategy. This
‘destabilisation’ was implemented, primarily, by money-laundering. Two
Americans, Leo Wanta and the notorious Marc (Reich) Rich, were the
main players in this, and, - in Wanta’s own words: while working under
Bill Casey’s Special Operations Branch, Black Ops. “he had dealt with
both the fusion bomb and the destabilisation of the ruble” - in
conjunction with Kok Howie Kwong of the Chinese Secret Service! Casey
was then Reagan’s Director of Central Intelligence (DCI). As for Rich
- he had fled to Switzerland in ‘83 to evade prosecution in a US
Federal Court, and had been operating on Soviet territory since 1983.
By 1993, his yearly turnover on ex-Soviet territory was $3 billion.
Here it should be noted that George Kennan, who had been Head of
Planning when NATO had been formed, revealed, at a BBC Reith Lecture,
that NATO had not been set up solely to resist Soviet expansion - its
true role had been to act as a counter-revolutionary, counter-
reformist arm of the Corporate West. In plain English: NATO had been
formed to deal with the internal political problems of Western
society. Furthermore, as noted by Eric Hobsbawn, the reforms known as
Glasnost, introduced by Gorbachev in the late ‘80’s, led to the
economic collapse within the Soviet Union.

Dec. 1 1991 : The people of the Ukraine, the so-called breadbasket of
the Soviet Union, voted overwhelmingly in favour of independence from
the USSR - sunsequently endorsed by the Ukraine parliament on Dec.
5th. (here it is of pertinence to note that Hitler’s invasion of the
USSR in June 1941 was aided in no small measure by fascist Ukrainian
paramilitaries - this author can vouch for that).

December 1991: Germany recognises Croatian & Slovenian independence -
which ensured that the conflict would spread to neighbouring Bosnia-
Herzogovnia with its potentially explosive mixture of three ethno-
religious groups. NB: 2 Germans held important posts in NATO at that
time! That well-known ‘Balkan Problem’ would now, once again, rear its
ugly head.

1992: As Stephen Dorril reported “The CIA launched Operation Maseraagh
(‘laundry’) which flooded Iraq with forged dinars to undermine the
economy” - adding that “At the beginning of 1992, CIA Director Robert
Gates travelled round the Middle East states to drum up support for
renewed covert action”.

From June 1992: NATO's involvement in the Balkan crisis was a gradual
process - from its avowed readiness to support peace-keeping under the
authority of the Conference on Security & Cooperation in Europe
(subsequently re-named the Organisation for Security & Cooperation in
Europe [OCSE]). In October ‘92, it had inaugurated a plan to create an
Allied Command Europe Rapid Reaction Corps (ARRC) of some 250,000
troops to be deployed whenever NATO deemed it necessary to intervene
in order to ‘keep the peace’ - but, as originally foreseen, the ARRC
would not be ready until 1995.

1992 to 1993: Belgrade-born cyclist, Milan Panic, who had defected to
America in 1955 (where he had subsequently adopted American
citizenship and founded a large, successful chemical corporation),
returned to the country of his birth and served as its Prime Minister
from 1992 to 1993...Panic“took his new job very seriously and employed
a weighty team of Serb and American advisers”.

1993: The HagueTribunal (International Criminal Tribunal for the
Former Yugoslavia [ICTY]) - call-it-what-you-will was not legitimately
set up by the UN Security Council via its Resolutions 808 and 827 -
with not-a-little arm-twisting by then US Secretary of State Madeleine
Albright, who, when asked whether the deaths of half a million Iraqi
children (during the sanctions against Iraq ,1992-1998) was 'a price
worth paying for removing Saddam', curtly replied 'we think it was
worth it' !! The political character of the Tribunal was stressed by
Antonio Cassese when he told Boutros-boutros Ghali (UN General-
Secretary) that "Our tribunal will not be simply ‘window dressing" but
a decisive step in the construction of a new world order." In
violation of Article 32 of its Charter, in 1994/95, the United States
provided $700,000 in cash and $2,300,000 worth of equipment; George
Soros’ Open Society Foundation contributed $150,000; the Rockefeller
Foundation, contributed $50,000; - et al.... (NB: Soros also funds the
main KLA newspaper in Pristina, the Tribunal.) In its own words: "The
tribunal does not need to shackle itself with restrictive rules which
have developed out of the ancient trial-by-jury system." In plain
english - this is a kangaroo court! (best described by Christopher
Black, who helped to create the International Committee to Defend
Slobodan Milosˇevic´ (ICDSM), and is a vice-chair of that committee).
(see below)

1994: Leonid Kuchma replaced Kravchuk as Ukrainian president in the
1994 election, and during his candidature, Kuchma had visited Soros in
the US. In 1994, the American-Ukrainian Advisory Committee (AUAC), was
formed, under Zbigniew Brzezinski with such prestigiously notorious
members as Henry Kissinger, General Gavin (ex-head of NATO), Frank
Carlucci, George Soros et al... Kuchma would later send 1650 Ukrainian
troops as allies to the Americans after the latter’s invasion of Iraq
in 2003.
Moreover, the Soros foundation would supply $363,100 to support the
independent television stations’ coverage of this election - all of it
used within 3 months!.

1994: In 1994, a contract - titled Democracy Transition Assistance
Program (DTAP) - was agreed between the Croat defence minister and the
US Deputy Secretary of Defense, John Deutch (who subsequently became
Director of CIA from '95 until he was forced to resign the following
year because he had improperly stored classified information on his
personal computer disc!). As a result, the MPRI had signed a contract
with the Croatian Ministry of Defence under which the former would act
as military advisors to the Croat army at the Petar Zrinski military
school in Zagreb - the MPRI officer in charge being retired General
Richard Griffiths who had once been assistant to the US Commander in
Europe for Intelligence, in Frankfurt. MPRI’s Chief of Operations was
Lieut. General Harry Soyster, ex-Head of the US Defense Intelligence
Agency. While head of the DIA, Soyster had dealt out a number of
contracts to the notorious German arms dealer, Ernst Werner Glatt, for
the procurement of Soviet weapons which were then shipped to the USA
from whence they would be sent to America's proxy troops in Latin
America, Asia and Africa. In Soyster’s own words: "Glatt was the
favorite arms merchant of the CIA, which chose him to move arms to the
contras in Nicaragua and the mujahedeen in Afghanistan".He had also
supplied weapons to Croatia, and had bought a country estate in
Virginia, which he named the 'Black Eagle', a symbol of Nazi Germany!

August 1995: the training of the Croat army came to fruition and their
attack on the Serbs of Western Krajina was so well and effectively
planned that, within a matter of days, 150,000 Serbs had fled the
region where, four centuries before, they had been settled to act as a
buffer between Catholic and Muslim. The CIA had sent pilotless
reconnaissance flights over Krajina from a base on the island of Brac
(in the Adriatic) to assist in the attack. The Americans had now
adopted a blatantly anti-Serb stance which embraced both Cetnik
Serbian leadership in Bosnia (Karadic was a self-avowed royalist
Cetnik) and the rump Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia under
Milosevic - conveniently disregarding the schism between these two
groups, a schism born in WW 2 and now re-activated in this crisis. It
was now self-evident that, in the eyes of the Americans, the Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) - still tainted with ‘communism’ - was
now the ultimate target.

September 1995: with the ARRC now ready, NATO announced its readiness
to deploy a large force to implement a Bosnian peace settlement.

December 1995: as a result of a conference convened in London to
discuss the implementation of the coming Dayton accord, a Peace
Implementation Council - with no UN representatives onboard - was set
up in Brussels. The resulting Implementation Force (IFOR), a force of
60,000 American, British and French troops - under the command of the
ARRC - was then deployed throughout Bosnia into three zones of
operation.

14th of December 1995: The Dayton peace talks took place in the
intimidating atmosphere of the Wright-Patterson Air Force base near
Dayton, Ohio. The embargo against Yugoslavia was lifted in November -
and the peace accord signed in Paris.

1996: The Trade & Development Agency (TDA - now known as the USTDA)
was given the task of overseeing the South Balkan Development
Initiative (SBDI) of 1996 - as a result of which, TDA gave the
Albanian Macedonian Bulgarian Oil Corporation (AMBO) the exclusive
right to run the Corridor 8 pipeline, a 900 kilometre trans-Balkan
pipeline from Burgas - via Skopje in Macedonia - to the Albanian port
of Vlore on the Adriatic Sea. In the words of the Director of TDA, J.
Joseph Grandmaison, this project was “..a significant step forward for
this policy and for US business interests in the Caspian region”. The
feasibility study for this pipeline project was contracted out - by
the TDA - to the prestigious oil/construction company Brown & Root
(the CEO of whose parent company, Halliburton, had been Dick Cheney -
now Vice-President under Bush jnr.) Now - in 2009 -the project is
still not completed!
December 1996: IFOR was augmented by the Stabilisation Force (SFOR) of
30.000 troops. The cease-fire could now be ensured by this display of
military might.

1997: saw the formation of the Central Asia Gas Pipeline consortium
(Centgas) with the intention of running a 790-mile-long pipeline from
the gas fields of Turkmenistan through neighbouring Afghanistan to
Multan, in Pakistan (at a cost of $1.9 billion) - with a possible
future extension to New Delhi, in India (cost: $600 million). all
under the control of the California oil company, UNOCAL, but, due to
the ever-worsening instability in Afghanistan, UNOCAL aborted the
project in December 1998. it is reasonable to assume that these
considerations would have been in the forefront of the minds of the US
government officials, and would thus have played a crucial role in
determining America’s response to Afghanistan in the aftermath of the
WTC bombing

1997: The Project for the New American Century (PNAC) was a very
influential lobby group set up to promote American global leadership.
January 26th 1998: eighteen members of the PNAC, including such as:
John Bolton, Zalmay Khalilzad, , Richard Perle, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul
Wolfowitz, James Woolsey, and Robert Zoellich (to name the more
recognisable ones) sent a letter to the then President, Clinton,
advising him that he “should aim, above all, at the removal of Saddam
Hussein’s regime from power”, adding that “American policy cannot
continue to be crippled by a misguided insistence on unanimity in the
UN Security Council”. (shades of what was to come later!). On cue, in
December of that same year, Clinton launched Operation Desert Fox,
whereby the American air force heavily bombed Iraq - but did not
occupy it, much to the chagrin of the PNAC. NB: In its 90-page long
article published in 2000, the PNAC repeatedly stressed the need for
“American global leadership..by maintaining the pre-eminence of US
military forces”, and proudly stating that “The United States is the
world’s only superpower”, et al.... ( as proof of their influential
status politically : August 1st 2005, Bush appoints Bolton as US
Ambassador to the UN - replacing him by the Afghan/American Ambassador
to Iraq, Khalilzad, in February 2007; and in 2007, Bush appoints
Robert Zoellich to replace Paul Wolfowitz as Governor of the World
Bank - two cases of one PNAC member replacing another!)

1998: ITAA does not confine its activities to America only - it is
active on the international scene. As evidence of this was an ITAA-
sponsored conference held in Fairfax, Virginia in 1998, at which there
were 1686 attendees (of whom, 429 were not American) - including such
'noted speakers' as Margaret Thatcher and Mikhail Gorbachev.

End of 1998: After months of internal strife in Kosovo, NATO prevailed
upon the Yugoslavs to allow its (NATO’s) affiliate, the Organisation
for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to monitor the situation
in situ. Result: the Kosovo Verification Mission (KVM) entered Kosovo
under the leadership of a US diplomat, William Walker, who, as US
Ambassador to El Salvador, had administered support for that State's
reign of terror - with its politically motivated killings!

18th of March 1999: the representatives of the FRY, Serbia , and seven
of the Kosovan ethnic minorities submitted - for discussion - an
Agreement for Self-Government in Kosovo & Metohija (a document
conforming to democratic principles), - only to have it rejected out-
of-hand by the (American) Contact Group and the KLA. On the 23rd March
‘99, peace talks convened by the Americans at Rambouillet, just west
of Paris, - without Yugoslavia - reached an ‘agreement’ - Appendix B
of which stated “Status of Multi-National Military Implementation
Force (Cool NATO personnel shall enjoy, together with their vehicles,
vessels, aircraft, and equipment free and unrestricted passage and
unimpeded access throughout the FRY including associated airspace and
territorial waters”. (Agreement - or Ultimatum?!). NATO launched its
bombing campaign the following day, at the end of which, the UN
Security Council approved Resolution 1244, which gave the UN Mission
the responsibility to administer Kosovo. .In the aftermath of NATO's
bombing of Kosovo in 1999, the KLA (once rightly considered by the
Western Powers as 'terrorist') was transformed into the Kosovo
Protection Corps (KPC) and the MPRI was awarded the contract to 'train
& equip' same. Intriguingly, the commander of this newly-formed KPC
was one Brigadier General Agim Ceku, an Albanian Kosovan who had been
serving in the Croatian army when he had masterminded the successful
HV (Croatian army) offensive at Medak in September '93; and had also
played an important role in the Croat's routing of the Serbs in
Western Krajina (covered above).

2000: John Bolton (see above) had served as assistant attorney general
under Reagan , and assistant secretary of state under George H.W.
Bush. During Bush Jnr’s Presidential election quagmire in Florida, his
campaign strategist James Baker dispatched Bolton to Palm Beach to
halt the recount, which he did, thus ensuring Bush’s electoral
victory. In 2001, Bolton was appointed Undersecretary of State under
Colin Powell. As stated by Jesse Helms:"John Bolton is the kind of man
with whom I would want to stand at Armageddon”

April 1st 2001: Milosevic is arrested (with not-a-little-help from
Ahthony Monckton, chief MI6 officer in Serbia) - and is sent to face
trial by the Hague Tribunal - and dies of heartfailure there in March
‘06, the case against him not proven.

September 11 2001: 4 US planes are highjacked, 2 0f which crash into
the NY World Trade Center twin towers, thereby destroying them,
another crashing into the Pentagon, and a fourth re-captured by
passengers and crew, thus aborting its attack (presumably on
Washington). The Bush administration blame al Queda, and the following
month bomb Afghanistan and NATO invades the country. At this point, it
is of pertinence to add the following: In his ‘Talk’ in September
2006, the Canadian Dr. Peter Dale Scott exposed - comprehensively -
that the FBI, CIA & US Special Forces had foreknowledge of the 9/11
attacks! Of particular interest was the fact that Abu Mohamed al
Amriki (better known as Ali Mohammed), had had strong connections to
al Queda, and from 1994 until his arrest in 1998, had lived as an
American citizen in California - and had been used by the three US
agencies noted above. Dr. Scott goes on to give detailed accounts of
Mohammed’s key role in training al Queda trainees in sabotage skills
in America itself - as well as abroad - ending his ‘talk’ by saying:
“It’s time to confront the reality that these agencies themselves, and
their own sponsorship and protection of terrorist activities, have
aggravated the greatest threats to our national security.” (It must
not be forgotten that in the Afghan/USSR war, America had played a
role in creating al Queda, as noted above).

13 - 19th September: Menbers of the Bin Laden family - with important
Saudis - are flown out of the US, under supervision of the FBI.

22 December 2001: Bush Jnr. appointed Hamid Karzi - who had previously
been a paid consultant for the oil company UNOCAL (and Deputy Foreign
Minister of the Taliban) - Prime Minister of Aghanistan.

31 Dec. ‘01: Bush appointed Zalmay Khalilzad (PNAC) as Special
Residental Envoy to Afghanistan - under Karzi.

1st January 2002: Khalilzad (also a former employee of UNOCAL - & a
member of the PNAC) - is appointed special emvoy to Afghanistan.

14 February 2002: Quote from Israeli Newspaper, Ma’ariv: “If one looks
at the map of the big American bases created in the Afghan war, one is
struck by the fac that they are completely identical to the route of
the projected oil pipeline to the Indian Ocean”.(see Central Asia Gas
Pipeline [CENTGAS] above).

March 2002: To quote Robert Parsons: “The US loudly & proudly boasted
this month of its new bomb currently being used against al-Qaida hold-
outs in Afghanistan; it sucks the air from underground installations,
suffocating those within. The US has also admitted that it had used
depleted uranium weaponry over the last decade against bunkers inIraq,
Kosovo, and now Afghanistan.”

August 2002: the Dutch-sponsored Netherlands Institute for War
Documentation (NIOD) report revealed that the supply of arms/weapons
(most of which came from Iran and Turkey) to the infighting factions
in the war in Yugoslavia were all done with the connivance of NATO.
More shockingly, it revealed that Turkish, Malaysian, Bangladeshi and
Maltese troops serving in UNPROFOR (UN protective force) had been
selling ammunition on a large scale to the Bosnian army (ABiH)!

October 2002: Bush Jnr’s administration passed the Help America Vote
Act (HAVA) which authorised the funding of $4 billion for states to
use the Direct Recording Election system (DRE) equipment which would
have to meet certain standards (set by the Act ) by the year 2006, at
which point, they (the states) will be under obligation to have
purchased said new equipment. As of December 2003, 36 states agreed to
these obligations. [1] Note that in DRE, votes are stored
electronically, and, as such, therefore under proprietary ownership of
the equipment companies: the voter is therefore denied access! (NB:
Bush Jnr. had set up NorthCom in 2002 to counter any ‘terrorist’
attacks on American homeland territory - thus ircumventing the Posse
Comitatus Act (PCA) which had been passed in 1878 in order to prohibit
any “future President or Congress from directing by military order of
federal legislation the re-imposition of the US Army”

October 2002: Unknown to Congress, a very secretive group , The Office
of Special Plans (OSP), under the leadership of its architect, Paul
Wolfowitz (PNAC), was created by Secretary of Defense Donald H.
Rumsfeld to help create a case to invade Iraq.

February 2003: The Pentagon established the Iraqi Reconstruction and
Development Council (IRDC), made up of Iraqis who would be part of a
temporary government after the ousting of the Ba'ath regime..its
leading members were transported to Baghdad in late April 2003 - their
official task being to rebuild the structures of a government that
would then be handed over to the new Iraqi authority. The team is
headed by Imad Dhia, the top Iraqi adviser to ex-general Jay Garner

13 July 2003: the Governing Council of Iraq was inaugurated, its
members having been appointed by the Coalition Provisional Authority.
Under its civilian administrator, Paul Bremer (who had been Ronald
Reagan’s adviser on counter- terrorism) would oversee the Pentagon's
man in Baghdad, the retired general Jay Garne, who is.a personal
friend of the defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld.

2004: The election of Victor Yuschenko as President of Ukraine was
helped in no small measure by the AUAC (see above) - and Soros. This
was an election, known as the Orange Revolution, entitled PORA (its
Time!), organised by the same Serbian-trained group (overseen by
America) which had set up the previous similarly-manipulated elections
in Serbia (OTPOR), in October 2000 - and Georgia (K-MART), in 2004.
The fact that all three elections were immediately denounced as
‘rigged’; but most importantly that they had all three been
manipulated by America - with not a little help from the Soros
foundation - gave substance to the allegation that the Orange
Revolution was imported from the United States via Serbia and Georgia.

2005: Bolton was named as America's Ambassador to the United
Nations.NB: in a 1994 speech he had said, "There's no such thing as
the United Nations....There is only the international community, which
can only be led by the only remaining superpower, which is the United
States" On December 4, 2006, Bolton resigned as U.S. Ambassador to the
UN. Hardly surprising!

2007: ITAA currently acts as the Secretariat for the World Information
Technology & Services Alliance (WITSA), which was then a consortium of
69 IT associations around the world (from Algeria to Zimbabwe - or 90%
of the world's IT market!).The clonal relationship between these two
organisations is confirmed by the fact that (a) Harris N. Miller is
President of both; and (b) ITAA Director, Robert B. Laurence, is
Chairman Emeritus of WITSA. Little wonder that the vote-rigging EVS’s
are today used worldwide!

2007: The great financial crisis began when a loss of confidence by
investors in the value of securitized mortgages in the United States
resulted in a liquidity crisis that prompted a substantial injection
of capital into financial markets by the United States Federal
Reserve, Bank of England and the European Central Bank - and deepened
increasingly throughout 2008 and 2009, leading to the G 20. (see
below)

Feb. 2008: US officially recognised Kosovo as an independent state.
September ‘08: after 3 years service in Iraq, the army’s1st Brigade
Combat Team (BCT) was sent back to America to serve under Northern
Command (NorthCom), where, for the next year, it would train/act “as
an on-call federal response force for natural or manmade emergencies
and disasters, including terrorist attacks”(As noted above, this would
bypass the PCA). Intriguingly, “Army Times” reported that “another, as
yet unnnamed, active-duty brigade will take over and that mission will
be a permanent one”, and Col. Louis Vogler, chief of NorthCom’s future
operations, notes “Right now, the response force requirement will be
an enduring mission.” - adding that “Now, the plan is to assign a
force every year”.
This will not worry Obama unduly, inasmuch as he is keen on following
Bush Jnr’s mid-east strategy, resulting in the construction of the
Central Asia Gas pipeline through Afghanistan. That is the goal (see
above).

5th November ‘08; Obama wins election as president, and his subsequent
administration includes the following two of pertinence to this
article: Hillary Clinton (US Secretary of State); Robert Gates (US
Secretary of Defense). Remember, Hillary had been a partner of the
Rose Law Firm in1979 which was to play a role in helping G.W. Bush out
of the financial hole he had dug for himself as Director/Consultant of
the small oil drilling company, Harken Energy - to say nothing of the
fact that her husband had played a key role in the break-up of
Yugoslavia. And as for Gates - just refer to the foregoing in this
atricle.

14/15 November 2008: The current global financial depression has now
entered a crucially important phase, resulting in America - that
quintessential capitalist State - holding a G-20 summit in Washington
to discuss this matter. The first draft of thisWashington Action Plan
had been drawn up previously by the ECB, IMF, and the Bank for
International Settlements (BIS) - NB: under the supervision of the
BIS,
The participants were (a) leaders of the G-20 nations; (b) Chairman of
the World Bank, Robert Zoellick (see above); (c) President Dominique
Strauss-Kahn of the International Monetary Fund; (d) Secretary of the
UN; and (e) Chairman of the Financial Stability Forum, Mario Graghi.
The Americans strongly recommended that it be adopted at two
subsequent summits that would be held in Britain

4 Mar 2009: US president has written to Moscow to stress that the
contentious US missile defence system in Europe is focused on Iran.
(believe that - you believe anything!)

14/15 March ‘09: The first G-20 is held in Horsham, Sussex - and, as
with all cases of documents written in legalese, the Action Plan is a
document written in convenient double-speak, as exemplified by the
fact that Germany and France, in particular, were in favour of
reforming the international financial system - whereas Robert Zoellick
of the World Bank (see above), and Timothy Geithner, the US Treasury
Secretary (who, in 2007, had served as Director on the board of the
BIS!), were strongly in favour of stimulating the global economy by
the injection of more money.

April 2nd. ‘09: The final G-2 summit is held in London, and Germany &
France, having been ‘persuaded’ to follow the American way, an
‘agreement’ is reached.(t is worthy of note that the foregoing ignores
the fact that it is Capitalism which is responsible for this current
financial debacle. What are capitalists if they are not profiteers
swamped in greed?)

18 May 2009: Binyamin Netanyahu, met President Obama today for talks
expected to shape the direction of one of the toughest political
challenges either leader will face in the coming years - with the
Israeli prime minister trying to shift the primary focus away from the
Palestinians toward confronting Iran over its nuclear programme while
mapping out a long term strategy to build Palestinian self government.
But Obama's principal challenge is to get Netanyahu to put “an end to
Israel's well practised tactics of prevarication and obstruction over
the creation of an independent Palestine while continuing to gobble up
land that would be part of that state.” (to quote the Guardian of 18th
May ‘09). Obama has a problem indeed.

20 May 2009: Iran test fires surface-to-surface missile capable of
reaching Israel or US bases in the Middle East

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Two important conclusions from the foregoing:

(a) Over the past century, there is little, if any difference between
the Republican and Democratic parties (not unlike the situation in
Britain, where, since Thatcher, there has been little difference
between Conservative and New Labour).

(b) The reason for this being that US administrations have (and are
still) under the control of its Corporate Establishment with its
fascist strategy of achieving global control.

PS: And if you readers disagree
My only answer would be
- Just wait and see
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