SAY WHAT? THE RISE OF THE AUTHORITARIAN AXIS?

I've been blogging and talking a lot about the current age of transition, and the accompanying geopolitical realignment taking place, largely with the so-called BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China). Now, before we venture off into the latest BS from the Western media and "analysts," I want to make one thing clear: Is Putin an authoritarian? Answer: Yes. Is Hu Jintao? Answer: Yes. Is Putin some sort of evil neo-Stalinist that the Western media is attempting to portray him? Answer: No. Is Hu Jintao a throwback to the genocidal butchery of Chairman Mao? No.

Well, here's one that made me simultaneously both laugh, and cry, and gag:

The Diplomat Blogs Embassy Finder Education China, What's Next? Author Spotlight Event Calendar Photo Essays Grand Strategy of the Authoritarian Axis: How Will the West Respond?

Implicit in the title of this article is the premise that China and Russia constitute a new "axis" of evil dictatorships intent upon global domination, and, as evil axes of dictatorships are wont to do, they hold meetings, assemble behind closed doors, and plot how they are going to End the American Way of Life and Take Over the World...and, oh my, whatever are we going to do about it? We must respond to this aggression.

All of this of course, is a big fat whopping lie, and the lie is contained here, in these paragraphs at the opening of the article:

"When the Soviet Union collapsed, no major power emerged to challenge the United States and the West. Simply put, for two decades policymakers failed to define a grand strategy to govern its foreign policy. Washington, in effect, enjoyed a “free ride” in conducting its foreign policy.

"In moving from crisis to crisis without an overarching set of goals or principles to guide its policies, the U.S. and the West have lost strategic momentum. Simultaneously, a new bloc of states – an “authoritarian axis” – is gaining strategic momentum. Dangerously, this rival bloc is mounting serious geopolitical resistance to the West and altering the balance of power."

To anyone who has been following the geopolitics and diplomacy of the United States and its allies, these two paragraphs could only come from the propaganda fantasy-room of Dr. Goebbels. As I mentioned in last Thursday's News and Views, and in the previous two days' blogs, the USA gave solemn assurances to post-Soviet Russia that it would NOT seek to expand NATO into Eastern Europe or the former Soviet republics of the Ukraine and Byelorussia. It did.

It ignored Russian protests of expanding ballistic missile defense into Europe, giving the US and its Allies a first strike capability (and if you believe that the missile defense system is really about defending Europe from "rogue states" like Iran, you're sorely mistaken). The USA and its Allies then pursued the deliberate goal of projecting western military power into the Eurasian Heartland to control is energy resources and to prevent Russia, and more importantly, China from doing so.

In short, the West "seized the moment" and did so deliberately, and with reckless abandon, after the collapse of the Soviet Union. As for the Arab spring...forget it: there too the real real target is to prevent the Russians and more particularly the Chinese from having influence in the resource-rich region. The same behind all the hand-wringing in Darfur and other places in Africa. There is coordination, in other words, on both sides, and a plausible and in my opinion strong case could be argued that the rise of this new alignment on the part of Russia, China, (and Brazil and India) is precisely itself a response to the aggressiveness with which the West has pursued these geopolitical goals.

We will hear lots about human rights, how Russia and China are not genuinely open societies, how Russia suppresses religious freedom by attempting to curtail the efforts of the nuttery of American evangelicalism in that country, or how China suppresses the rights of TIbetans, and so on. We will hear about their support of repressive dictatorships and horrifying atrocities, we will not hear about how desperate Third World countries are turning away from the American-backed IMF and to China because the Chinese consistently offer better deals than the supposedly human-rights-concerned democratic West... Why is it we hear nothing, in this article, about the fact that India, the world's largest democracy, in spite of the decades of mistrust between it and China, is gravitating to the Asian orbit? Did Prime Minister Mr. Singh suddenly wake up one day and decide "I've become an authoritarian. I think I'll try to patch things up with Russia and China..." What about Brazil? Is it too to be demonized as "authoritarian" because it is seeking expanded relationships with these countries?

Human rights protests? Well... consider only that these are carefully crafted covert ops in their own right (think RAND corporation, George Soros, and all those "spontaneous" revolutions from Kosovo to the Ukraine that put into place "spontaneously pro-Western" governments". Democracy was imposed on Post-World War One Germany, and that didn't work out too well...

... we will not hear about the Western elite's own trampling of human rights, its shredding of the Bill of Rights, its institution of executive star chambers, its covert operations and atrocities, its own oligarchs' role in international drug trade, installation of cruel and repressive dictatorships (think Allende or a host of other dictators: Hussein, Marcos, Stroessner, Mubarek....on and on we could go) ... you'll have to tune in to RT to hear about those sorts of things. And ask yourself an important question, why is RT TV, Russian television, concerned about the erosion of America's freedom? Could it be because the Russian leadership knows good and well the depth of powerlust of the western oligarchs? the depth of their corruption? and the depth of the insane world view they hold? Don't get me wrong, I don't believe for a moment they are genuinely concerned about those things over at RT TV, except insofar as the erosion of traditional American values is being prompted by an insane and corrupt oligarchy, which knows its power is slipping, and which could, accordingly, act as irrationally and with as much bloodlust as leaders in their own recent history, whom, in both Russia's and CHina's case, they have managed to consign to the dustbin. They may not be the wonderful beacons of light and human rights and freedom that we think ourselves to be, but they're a long way from Stalin, Brezhnev, Mao, and Deng Xiaoping too.  They may indeed constitute an Axis, but that Axis increasingly looks to be inclusive of India and Brazil, and there's the rub... Why? Perhaps it is because there is another Axis too, one intent upon dictating to the rest of the world via a choke hold on energy and resources, and it's not centered in Moscow or Beijing.  The last time the US and its allies played this game of oi-and-resource brinksmanship with an Asian power, cutting off its energy supplies, the result was Pearl Harbor... This time around, the challenger is not Japan, but Russia and China...

See you on the flip side...

 

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Joseph P. Farrell

Joseph P. Farrell has a doctorate in patristics from the University of Oxford, and pursues research in physics, alternative history and science, and "strange stuff". His book The Giza DeathStar, for which the Giza Community is named, was published in the spring of 2002, and was his first venture into "alternative history and science".

27 Comments

  1. HAL838 on August 12, 2012 at 11:25 am

    AUTHOR-I-TARIAN
    [best example]
    MOTHER NATURE
    not elected
    or even chosen
    sub category
    mother [female]
    I am [and am told I am]
    a Mother !
    I was not elected or chosen
    EXCEPT
    BY
    Mother Nature [her-self]



  2. ILJA on August 9, 2012 at 8:26 am

    My yesterday’s comment wasn’t posted here. At least, I didn’t see, though when I cliked to post there caption appeared that my comment is awaiting moderation. Is it still possible for moderators to display it?



    • ILJA on August 9, 2012 at 8:28 am

      Hmm, now I see it as I’VE POSTED MINE NOW, but not in public access.



      • ILJA on August 9, 2012 at 10:48 am

        They may not be the wonderful beacons of light and human rights and freedom that we think ourselves to be, but they’re a long way from Stalin, Brezhnev, Mao, and Deng Xiaoping too”

        Maybe you could provide some more exact info on how long this way is? In meters, maybe? How do you know that they “came a long way” (and not a “short one”, not a “medium”), did you live in Russia, to say nothing of China? Do you concider you became aware of russian daily routine because of what RT TV is showing to you? Joseph, your thinking is showing you being a very well-educated, intelligent person, receiving a superb training in one of the best universities of this planet. However, in my mind that served the bad turn for you as it seems, that living in America,reading a lot of clever authors, you lost the feeling of reality as the majority of americans did, living in their specifics. I have a rational suggestion of mine: please, Joseph, travel to China and Russia, settle down there for 10,20,30 years, experience fully THAT environment. I guarantee you’ll change your mind, at least to some degree. Yes, it come a certain way off Stalin and Brezhnev, so what does that prove? What doest that help? I don’t pay my attention to what the western media claims about Russia, in fact Im’ reading a very few of it, because am not interested in. But I DO KNOW some things, because I DID HAVE the opportunity to observe them. RT TV is exerting every effort to draw the picture before western audiences of “the new democratic Russia”, that supposedly broke the communist past, but this is half-truth: you claime, that post-war Nazis incorporated themselves to variuos governmental, corporate structures. So did the soviet communists and KGB agents inside the country, they created their gigantic enterprises in a short time – privatizing to “the right hands” former state industrial objects. The difference between the Nazis and the Communists doesn’t speak in favor of the latter: in one way or other, the Nazis were art and part in technological progress that affected the whole society of the USA positively, from the standpoint of attaching them to daily life of americans and initiating a huge commercial growth, whilst the former communist satraps were just pirating the budget, resources. And they are still a part of the rulling elite, it were they who had promoted Putin, it are they who’re pumping oil, selling it to the West and putting all the received oil-profit money to American debt and the Western banks. The rest of the russian society, smaller buisness got nothing from that privatization, technologically it remains a backward society, not able to produce smth to compete with the western technologies, many qualified specialist work for world scientific labs, organizations and so on, and don’t think to return. The ordinary citizen is naked against corruption of administration, police and so on. I could bring you examples from my own personal experience if you wish, Joseph. And please don’t hold this to be my personal grievance and my subjective feelings that distort. No, they are my OBSERVATIONS. Surprisingly you’re near to call american society “fascist” and at the same time you’re saying that “they’re a long way from Stalin, Brezhnev, Mao, and Deng Xiaoping too”, when in fact that way is too short. At least significantly shorter that that of US (which anyway I didn’t have any sentiments to either). Think about it, Joseph.

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        • Joseph P. Farrell on August 9, 2012 at 4:01 pm

          All of which is true Ilja, except for one big thing: I’ll wager that under Brezhnev, Stalin, and Mao, you wouldn’t even have been able to write and post this on the internet…



  3. ILJA on August 8, 2012 at 7:56 am

    “They may not be the wonderful beacons of light and human rights and freedom that we think ourselves to be, but they’re a long way from Stalin, Brezhnev, Mao, and Deng Xiaoping too”

    Maybe you could provide some more exact info on how long this way is? In meters, maybe? How do you know that they “came a long way” (and not a “short one”, not a “medium”), did you live in Russia, to say nothing of China? Do you concider you became aware of russian daily routine because of what RT TV is showing to you? Joseph, your thinking is showing you being a very well-educated, intelligent person, receiving a superb training in one of the best universities of this planet. However, in my mind that served the bad turn for you as it seems, that living in America,reading a lot of clever authors, you lost the feeling of reality as the majority of americans did, living in their specifics. I have a rational suggestion of mine: please, Joseph, travel to China and Russia, settle down there for 10,20,30 years, experience fully THAT environment. I guarantee you’ll change your mind, at least to some degree. Yes, it come a certain way off Stalin and Brezhnev, so what does that prove? What doest that help? I don’t pay my attention to what the western media claims about Russia, in fact Im’ reading a very few of it, because am not interested in. But I DO KNOW some things, because I DID HAVE the opportunity to observe them. RT TV is exerting every effort to draw the picture before western audiences of “the new democratic Russia”, that supposedly broke the communist past, but this is half-truth: you claime, that post-war Nazis incorporated themselves to variuos governmental, corporate structures. So did the soviet communists and KGB agents inside the country, they created their gigantic enterprises in a short time – privatizing to “the right hands” former state industrial objects. The difference between the Nazis and the Communists doesn’t speak in favor of the latter: in one way or other, the Nazis were art and part in technological progress that affected the whole society of the USA positively, from the standpoint of attaching them to daily life of americans and initiating a huge commercial growth, whilst the former communist satraps were just pirating the budget, resources. And they are still a part of the rulling elite, it were they who had promoted Putin, it are they who’re pumping oil, selling it to the West and putting all the received oil-profit money to American debt and the Western banks. The rest of the russian society, smaller buisness got nothing from that privatization, technologically it remains a backward society, not able to produce smth to compete with the western technologies, many qualified specialist work for world scientific labs, organizations and so on, and don’t think to return. The ordinary citizen is naked against corruption of administration, police and so on. I could bring you examples from my own personal experience if you wish, Joseph. And please don’t hold this to be my personal grievance and my subjective feelings that distort. No, they are my OBSERVATIONS. Surprisingly you’re near to call american society “fascist” and at the same time you’re saying that “they’re a long way from Stalin, Brezhnev, Mao, and Deng Xiaoping too”, when in fact that way is too short. At least significantly shorter that that of US (which anyway I didn’t have any sentiments to either). Think about it, Joseph.



  4. Incognito on August 6, 2012 at 8:22 pm

    Yeah, that’s right. The Diplomat. Totally bankster point of views.

    Lots of rats fleeing the sinking ship (re Poland missile defense -offense really- link). The Chinese are building (and have built) a network of high speed rail that will be our modern day Silk Road. Berlin to Shanghai (Engdahl wrote about this recently). The vast majority of humanity is in Eurasia. If the banksters would just goddamn die we would see a marvelous economic and spiritual renaissance.



  5. Hal Hichler on August 6, 2012 at 5:46 pm

    the banksters loses one more to the German/Vatican/Russian (Salvation) alliance:

    http://rt.com/politics/warsaw-us-missile-defense-russia-972/

    They won’t get fooled again. This certainly debunks all those jokes we heard about the Poles being witless. This does not bode well for the Axis of Evil although it can be argued being wedged in between Russia and Germany yet being allied to their opposition would be an obvious death warrant and so Poland has no choice.

    also, notice their is no Mestizo Spring in Central and South America. I suspect the banksters know that they would be opening a can of worms that might result in the banksters losing there tenuous hold on this region to either a Brazil centered South/central American alliance or an even greater alliance with the Salvation Alliance.



  6. Bear claw Chris Lapp on August 6, 2012 at 5:06 pm

    This website that featured the article in discussion is called “The Diplomat.” They seem to rely on the “If we write it and hope it’s true then maybe it will become true” strategy for their articles.

    Here’s an article about China and Japan supposedly being driven apart by nationalism. It’s silly of course because as these two countries have become more nationalist they’ve moved closer together.

    http://thediplomat.com/2012/08/03/why-nationalism-is-driving-china-and-japan-apart/



  7. Incognito on August 6, 2012 at 1:37 pm

    I just thought this was too good not to share with you folks. This just out:

    STANDARD CHARTERED MAY FACE SUSPENSION OVER IRAN TRANSACTIONS
    BANK HAD $250 BLN IN TRANSACTIONS WITH IRAN, REGULATOR CLAIMS
    STANDARD ORDERED BY N.Y. FINANCIAL REGULATOR TO HIRE MONITOR
    STANDARD CHARTERED ORDERED TO APPEAR BEFORE N.Y. REGULATOR

    This happens right after HSBC was taken to task by the senate. Do you know who HSBC and Standard Chartered really are? Research it. Hint: opium, diamonds, gold, Oppenheimer, Rotscum.

    These two actions follow from this:

    http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/epaper/2012-06/18/content_15509579.htm

    From Greenback to Redback.

    Ahhhh!!! I love understanding what these acumbags are up to!!!



  8. sjs on August 6, 2012 at 4:44 am

    You made this point beautifully on the recent Red Ice interview. This is one of the best Palmgren has done recently. Your chuckling is a great tension reliever, and helps me in listening to the content. I may finally break down and buy a book. I’ll have to insert my own laugh track. Much appreciated.



  9. Ulrich F. Sackstedt on August 6, 2012 at 3:31 am

    Dear Mr. Farrell,
    just read your book “The SS Brotherhood of the Bell”. Very interesting.
    Could you provide me with your e m a i l -Address?
    I’m german author about new energy technologies and in contact with Thomas Mehner, Igor Witkowski and Abel Basti.

    Ulrich



  10. kamutef on August 6, 2012 at 2:04 am

    Great piece, really hitting the nail on the head. I’m sure the BRICS see themselves as banding together for mutual support and protection and to provide some counterbalance to the Corporatist/Zionist hegemony.
    The BRICS may not approve of Assad, however they are aware that if they fail to take a stand on principle they could soon meet a similar fate.
    On a related topic I believe that Africa will prove to be the stone rejected by the builderbergers that will prove to be a cornerstone for China’s coming dominance:
    http://atlantablackstar.com/2012/07/24/china-training-african-workforce-to-partner-with-chinese-businesses/



  11. Johnycomelately on August 5, 2012 at 8:20 pm

    So the terrain for WWIII is being prepped?

    BRICs (minus India) plus the Shias against NATO, Israel and the Sunnis.

    I guess it looks winnable to Western analysts.



  12. Robert Barricklow on August 5, 2012 at 8:48 am

    There are circles within circles, an olympics of deceptions within deceptions. But in a broad brushstroke it is an internationalized private cartel based upon an enconomics rooted in world currencies being monopolized by a tight molecular bond of power. Within this tight circle is a very powerful store of knowledge. They have “us” under control.

    The nation-state is being wiped out in this “phase” of operations.
    (see below)



    • Robert Barricklow on August 5, 2012 at 8:54 am

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcMq4cPd6nw

      Max Keiser On The Edge
      Occupy Bilderberg & mainstream media



    • Jedi on August 5, 2012 at 9:13 am

      a nation run by pedophiles, whoremongerers, dogs, murderers, idolaters and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.

      that is one divided house.



      • Robert Barricklow on August 5, 2012 at 9:25 am

        The elite’s tastes are expennsive in terms of character, love, & life.
        Out of balance, to say the least.

        Inbred is the kindest comment I can think of, off the cuff.



        • Jedi on August 5, 2012 at 10:03 am

          I was thinking more of the system that is in place running the country into the ground. A government in the shawdows per se.

          The elite that I have met have been pretty respectful, intelligent people.

          You know it wasnt the Romans or the pharisees that put Caesaerian on the cross, it was the slaves that voted and sealed his fate.



          • Robert Barricklow on August 5, 2012 at 12:58 pm

            The shadow government, economies, ect.
            All intrical to the infrastructure.
            All engineered into it/endemic shadows.



          • Jedi on August 6, 2012 at 8:49 am

            The internet is a bright and morning star (illuminator), funny that John the divine would be told that Jesus would send his angels too testify….(messengers).
            His church was the entire earth.

            There is one right answer …its a narrow view but correct none the less..

            http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJCu3R1Mqk0&feature=plcp



    • Robert Barricklow on August 5, 2012 at 9:15 am

      Interesting Solutions.

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XlJprd2hw
      Max Keiser Report
      Capital Punishment for Cromes Against Capital
      (E322)



  13. Incognito on August 5, 2012 at 8:18 am

    To those who would be “horrified” by my comment about guillotines…how else do you deal with this:

    (Excerpted from Chapter 6: The Bank of Crooks & Criminals International: Big Oil & Their Bankers in the Persian Gulf…)

    The Black Network

    The Bank of Credit & Commerce International’s (BCCI) most notorious acts were hatched out of its Karachi branch, where the bank’s Black Network (BN) operated.  BN was a global intelligence and enforcement unit that specialized in transporting arms, drugs and gold.  BN operations overlapped with the operations of CIA, Israeli Mossad, the Pakistani ISI and Saudi intelligence, all of whom had accounts at BCCI.  BN served as middleman for Saudi aid to both the Nicaraguan contras and the Afghan mujahadeen, aid which was being solicited by Richard Secord. [1]

    BN worked extensively with the Israeli Mossad to coordinate Israeli arms deals, especially to Arab countries.  Saudi billionaire Adnan Khashoggi was often at the middle of these deals, along with Manucher Gorbanifar, the former SAVAK agent for the Shah of Iran, whose prowess in the fine arts of torture had landed him a job at Mossad.

    BN had close ties to Lieutenant Colonel Amatzia Shuali, an Israeli who split time training Nicaraguan contras and Guatemalan death squads.  BCCI was banker to Columbian drug kingpin Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha and had numerous branches in that country.  In 1984, at the height of the contra war, BCCI founder Abedi bought Banco Mercantil in Columbia.  In 1989 when Columbian officials raided Gacha’s farm they found Galil assault rifles in crates marked “Israeli Military Industries”.  The guns had been used in Mossad’s training of Gacha’s paramilitary army, which was instructed to assassinate Columbian union leaders.  Another Israeli with close ties to BN was Ari Ben-Menashe, who helped the Reagan Administration arm Iran.

    BN helped Iraqi President Saddam Hussein stash $30 million in skimmed oil revenues from his country’s Treasury, while simultaneously brokering Iraqi Scud missile purchases.  The bank brokered nuclear weapons deals for Iraq, Libya, Argentina and Pakistan.  It financed Italian tank sales to Abu Dhabi, North Korean artillery sales to Dubai, Chinese Silkworm missile sales to Saudi Arabia, Brazilian rocket launcher sales to Iran and Iraq, Argentine tank sales to Iraq and French Mirage fighter plane sales to Pakistan, India, Peru, Libya and the GCC Gulf States.  They even supplied the tanks to the Kuwaitis for the victory march following Operation Desert Storm, along with Eastern European personnel to drive the tanks while the inept Kuwaitis rode on top waving flags.

    In 1985 following the bombing of the US Marine Corps barracks in Beirut, Lebanon which killed nearly 300 Marines, CIA Director Bill Casey ordered retaliation.  BCCI financed the CIA assassination units who hunted Hezbollah operatives.  One of those units killed 80 civilians and injured 200 more in a botched attempt to kill Hezbollah leader Sheik Fadlallah. [2]

    BN intelligence operations were set up with help from Refaat Assad, brother of Syria’s President Hafez Assad.  Both were friends of Manzer al-Kassar, whose heroin ring was sending arms from Secord to Noriega for the contras and whose operations were protected in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.  It is possible that Refaat Assad was himself part of the super secret CIA COREA unit to which al-Kassar belonged.

    BN bought F-15 escorts for Pakistani drug smugglers connected to the Afghan mujahadeen, and wrote paychecks to contra pilots like Eugene Hasenfus.  BCCI was the oil for guns for drugs quid pro quo.  It had its GCC-funded predecessors, including the World Finance Corporation (WFC).

    Abdullah Darwaish headed the UAE branch of the WFC.  Darwaish received $100 million from Abu Dhabi’s al-Nahiyan monarchy to purchase Financial General Bancshares, a major drug money laundry.  WFC was run by Bay of Pigs veteran Guillermo Hernandez Cartaya, who scammed $30 million through a Saudi “loan” at Ajman Arab Bank in 1978.  It’s main line of business was financing and arranging CIA arms for drugs swaps.  One prominent agent was Ed Wilson, the jailed TF-157 veteran who ran EATSCO.

    WFC’s founding directors included Walter Sterling Surrey, an OSS veteran, and Juan Romanach, a close associate of Miami mob boss Santos Trafficante.  A WFC affiliate called Dominican Mortgage helped Trafficante supply drugs to the Las Vegas market and once tried to buy Caesar’s Palace.  WFC had ties to the wealthy Venezuelan Cisneros family through Oswaldo Cisneros Fajardo.  A WFC subsidiary in Panama known as Unibank controlled outlets in London, the UAE, the Netherland Antilles and the Cayman Islands.  BCCI later bought the distressed bank. [3] Hernandez-Cartaya and Saudi billionaire Lockheed arms peddler Adnan Khoshoggi, are old friends.

    Hernandez-Cartaya also worked with former Nugan Hand sanitation expert Donald Beazley who ran the Great American Bank in Miami.  Columbian CIA associate Fernando Birbragher was busted in 1982 for laundering Medellin Cartel drug money through Beazley’s bank, which was actually owned by Marvin Warner, who served as US Ambassador to Switzerland under President Carter.  Warner’s good friend Hugh Culverhouse Sr. sat on the board of Cincinnati financial mogul Carl Lindner’s American Financial Corporation, whose United Brands subsidiary is a major conduit for US-bound Columbian cocaine. [4]  Donald Beazley also ran Miami’s City National Bank for Alberto Duque, son of a wealthy Columbian coffee magnate whose start-up funds for the bank had come from a Bahraini oil sheik.

    Florida Governor Jeb Bush flew on Duque’s private jet when he attended a Presidential inauguration in Costa Rica.  Jeb also built a 30-story Miami office building for Duque’s General Coffee Corporation.  Duque was later convicted on fraud charges.  Marvin Warner is tight with Denver oil man Marvin Davis, who owned Silverado S&L in partnership with Neil Bush.  In 1981 Davis bought 20th Century Fox with help from the Apex Law Firm.  Apex represents the Chicago Gouletas mob family, shady San Francisco 49ers ex-owner and shopping mall king Edward DeBartolo, and S&L looter extraordinaire Charles Keating.  When the Davis/Bush-owned Silverado folded most of the money mysteriously ended up in the hands of the Canadian Bronfman family. [5]

    One of the most incredible examples of BCCI’s global reach was the case of BCCI China.  Henry Kissinger had gotten BCCI into China.  Pakistani Sultan Mohammed Khan had been that country’s ambassador to China before becoming Pakistani Ambassador to the US.  There he met Kissinger, then Nixon Secretary of State.  Kissinger used Khan to gain access to China, where in 1971 he began meeting with Premier Zhou En-lai in a series of visits that would culminate in detente between China and the US.  Soon after Kissinger’s first trip, BCCI was granted a banking license in China, the first such license ever granted to a foreign bank.  Khan went to China to run the bank’s operations.  Later he oversaw BCCI operations in the US.

    BCCI had close relations with Chinese Premier Deng Xiaoping’s family. Reagan CIA Director Bill Casey used BCCI China to spy on its host government.  Shortly after Casey’s appointment as DCI, he set up an off-the-shelf spy network of personal friends known as the Hardy Boys.  One Hardy Boys, John Shaheen, set up two Hong Kong banks, Tetra Finance and Hong Kong Deposit & Guaranty.  A director at both was Ghanim al-Mazrui, top lieutenant to Sheik Zayed, the Abu Dhabi emir and largest stockholder in BCCI.  Another director was Hassan Yassin, a former Saudi official who Saudi intelligence chief Sheik Kamal Adham claimed brought him into the First American Bank buyout.  Both banks eventually went under BCCI-style, bilking scores of middle-class Hong Kong depositors.  Shortly after the two banks failed, Hardy Boy John Shaheen received a top intelligence medal. [6]

     

    Leaving the Arabs Holding the Bag

    When Sheik Kamal Adham was indicted for his role in the BCCI spook house, he referred to the bank’s closure as a conspiracy by Western bankers bent on keeping the Arab world out of the game of international finance.  Speaking to a pan-Arab conference in Cairo, Egypt in 1992, Adham stated angrily, “This bank (BCCI) is not any bank.  It is a bank that owns 66 banks around the world…  This is not much appreciated by the big powers, who were somehow like the guardians to the younger students in school.  They…used to monitor what the Third World used to do…  Suddenly a new vehicle appeared on the scene which belonged to the Third World, instead of using the vehicle they usually assigned to us, (the Third World) have their own vehicle now so the money that came from the oil business went to this vehicle instead of to the banks of the Western world…  If you look around in the banking world, you will see that most of the Arab banking organizations with international branches are being hit one after the other, and it cannot appear coincidental.  I believe some of it is intentionally done because the New World Order does not allow anyone to have his own vehicles.”

    When the Bank of England moved in to shut down BCCI in 1991 Adham wasn’t the only Arab leader crying foul.  One Pakistani official from Sind Province stated, “The West and Israel were responsible for the closing of the bank.  BCCI was a Third World bank, and it took the challenge of breaking the hegemonic control of the Jewish Lobby and the world’s financial institutions.”  The way BCCI was shut down merely bolsters these claims.

    In July 1991 Bank of England Governor Robin Leigh-Pemberton successfully solicited an $8 million cash infusion into BCCI from Sheik Zayed- BCCI’s biggest shareholder.  The very next day, the Bank of England ordered regulators around the world to shut BCCI down.  N. M. Rothschild & Sons, which owns a big chunk of the Bank of England and another big chunk of Bank of America, is also cozy with al-Nahayan’s Abu Dhabi Investment Fund.  The London bank had been at the heart of the BCCI scandal.  Before British investigators could move in, a warehouse full of BCCI documents in London mysteriously burned to the ground.

    In the months before the closure, Sheik Zayed had begun pumping millions into BCCI.  He had done so on the advice of his US real estate investment lawyer Sandy Martin.  Martin was a former National Security Adviser to the Joint Chiefs of Staff.  Within months of the BCCI shutdown, Martin hung his client out to dry.  He walked into the office of the Federal Reserve Board’s general counsel with a list of Zayed’s alleged improprieties.  Sheik Zayed’s personal income was around $30 billion/year and a good bit of that was going into shady US real estate being handled by Martin.

    Zayed had risen to power in Abu Dhabi in 1966 when the British helped him overthrow his brother Sheik Shakbut, who had refused British demands that he spend his oil revenues on development schemes.  Zayed, under British tutelage, immediately launched the Abu Dhabi Investment Fund to serve as a vessel through which oil revenues could be recycled into ventures more favorable to the British Crown.  It now appeared as though the puppeteer was squeezing a little extra from his faithful old friend.  US Ambassador to the UAE Ned Walker refused to discuss the situation.

    The Federal Reserve claims it tried to get audits on BCCI for some time, but that neither the Bank of England nor BCCI auditor Price Waterhouse would turn over the papers.  New York District Attorney Robert Morgenthau ran into similar roadblocks in his investigation of BCCI.  Finally, the Federal Reserve sent a SWAT team into Price Waterhouse.  They found that Price, one of the Big Five US accounting firms, had given BCCI an unqualified audit for years 1985-89, despite the fact that Price knew BCCI had no capital.  Later it was revealed that Price Waterhouse had received $600,000 in loans from BCCI’s Barbados office and had never repaid them. [7]  The Bank of England and Price Waterhouse were clearly engaged in a cover-up.

    Officials at the CIA, NSC, FBI and the Justice Department would soon join in the BCCI whitewashing effort.  Morgenthau said Justice was telling potential witnesses not to cooperate with him, while withholding documents which his office requested.  Reagan Treasury Secretaries James Baker and Donald Regan had been tipped off about BCCI in 1985 and did nothing.  This was around the same time Baker was selling his Texas Commerce Bank Tower to BCCI shareholder Sheik Khalid bin Mahfouz at a hugely inflated price.  A Senate committee charged with investigating BCCI was chaired by Sen. John Kerry (D-MA). Kerry helped put a lid on the CIA role in contra drug trafficking.  Kerry is part of the Eastern Establishment whose forefathers became rich smuggling Chinese opium.  Kerry is a member of the Yale Skull & Bones secret society, where he and George Bush learned to recite cryptic incantations and to keep a good secret.

    In 1988 Bush and Obama Defense Secretary Robert Gates – then Deputy Director of CIA – wrote a six-page report titled, BCCI: Bank of Crooks & Criminals.  Director Casey shrugged off the report.  The NSC received reports of BCCI brokering nuclear technology to Iran, Iraq and Libya, yet did nothing.  In 1987 the FBI requested records pertaining to BCCI’s role in the Iran/Contra affair, then did nothing.  Even after Sheik Zayed and other BCCI officials pleaded guilty to money laundering in Florida, the Justice Department pressured Florida Comptroller Gerald Lewis to keep BCCI open.

    When the Bank of England closed BCCI a little-known list of US Congressmen who had taken bribes from the bank was made public for only 30 days.  According to Chicago BCCI researcher Sherman Skolnick, on the list were the names of 108 members of the US House and 28 members of the US Senate.  The most important Congressman to BCCI had been House Ways & Means Chairman Dan Rostenkowski (D-IL), who was later forced to resign and served jail time on corruption charges.

    Rostenkowski was a large shareholder in Garfield Ridge Trust & Savings Bank, a Chicago-based S&L, which disguised Mena, AR drug money laundering as soybean and currency trades on Chicago’s Commodity Futures Trading Exchange (CFTE), where Capcom and Enron hid their tracks.  Wendy Gramm, wife of Senate Banking Committee Chairman Phil Gramm (R-TX), was a key regulator at the CFTE during this time and helped cover up Rostenkowski’s improprieties. [8]  Wendy later served on the board of Enron, chairing that company’s Audit Committee when it went belly up in December 2001, leaving small shareholders and employees holding the bag.

    Skolnick says BCCI has been resurrected as Pinnacle Banc Group, whose flagship is the First National Bank of Cicero.  Cicero is a suburb of Chicago and has earned the nickname Al Capone Land, owing to its long history of hosting organized crime families.  Bishop Paul Marcinkus, the former Vatican Bank executive who had ties to Robert Calvi’s Banco Ambrosiano takeover of Continental Illinois Bank, controls the First National Bank of Cicero.  Marcinkus is a long-time CIA liaison. [9]

    BCCI was a principal bank for the GCC oil elite. No bank in the world ever grew faster.  When the Bank of England shut BCCI down $20 billion in assets were gone forever, most of it belonging to Third World governments and citizens.  A huge petrodollar slush fund had disappeared in a haze of covert operations, drug smuggling and IMF embezzlement of Third World governments.  Now the anger of the Arab street was shared by many GCC sheiks, who knew that after faithfully serving as CIA paymasters, they had been shaken down by the Bank of England Rothschild crowd.

    It was not exactly what Egyptian nationalist Gamal Abdel Nasser had envisioned when he called for a Bank of the South to be financed by OPEC oil revenues, with the money going to finance real development for the Third World poor.  Instead, the poor had been fleeced one more time and their anger was increasingly being aimed at the United States.

     

    Flying Dolphins

    In the late 1990’s UAE Sheik Zayed was back to his old tricks, founding an air freight company known as Flying Dolphin.  Sheik Zayed was UAE Ambassador to the US from 1989-1992, just after the BCCI failure.  A decade later the UAE was becoming an al Qaeda haven.  In the emirate of Sharjah, al Qaeda operatives linked up with Russian arms dealer Victor Bout, a former Soviet fighter pilot.  Bout owned a Sharjah company appropriately named Air Cess.  Both Air Cess and Flying Dolphin were cited in a UN report on gun-running in Africa as consistent violators of UN arms embargoes in places like Sierre Leone, Angola and Liberia.  Bout and Zayed were described as “business partners”.  Both companies began ferrying Eastern European weapons to the Taliban regime in Afghanistan following a 1996 meeting with Taliban officials at a Sharjah hotel.  The UAE was one of only three countries to recognize the Taliban government, along with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.

    Air Cess and Flying Dolphin also supplied al Qaeda operatives with cyanide and other dangerous chemicals from Germany, the Czech Republic and Ukraine. [10]  The US State Department says Bout has a fleet of 60 cargo planes based at Sharjah’s duty-free airport.  The UN demanded an end to Flying Dolphin’s Afghan shuttles on January 21, 2001, stating that the flights were carrying contraband.  When a UN team tried to inspect Air Cess planes on the runway at Sharjah, they were told by UAE officials to leave the country.  Those who persisted had their movements severely restricted by the UAE government, according to Belgian team member Johan Peleman.  In 2004 NPR reported that Victor Bout was supplying US contractors in Iraq.  His clients included Halliburton’s Kellogg Brown & Root subsidiary. [11]

    The US finally applied pressure to the UAE after the 1998 African embassy bombings carried out by al Qaeda.  Both President Clinton and Defense Secretary William Cohen wrote their UAE counterparts urging them to clamp down on al Qaeda funding networks.  A senior UAE sheik responded that it was difficult to separate criminal money from that which was going to fight US proxy wars in Bosnia and Chechnya.

    While Sharjah’s free-trade airport handled contraband, the neighboring UAE emirate of Dubai handled the money laundering.  Dubai is a duty-free port and gold bullion landing strip where US Naval vessels often berth.  Suitcases full of cash often show up at branches of British and US mega-banks that preside over this unregulated offshore banking haven.  The Financial Action Task Force, a conglomeration of Treasury officials from 29 nations which was formed after the 911 tragedy, concluded that money laundering was rife in Dubai.

    The Taliban had accounts at the Dubai Islamic Bank, whose chairman is Mohammed Khalfan bin Karbash. bin Karbash is Minister for Financial & Industrial Affairs in the UAE government. Al Qaeda operatives often used the howala banking house known as al Barakaat, whose global headquarters is in the UAE.  Al Barakaat was founded by Somali warlord Ahmed Nur Ali Jim’ale and serves as a quasi-central bank in Somalia.  In November 2001 the US cut off al Barakaat’s channels to international money center banks, effectively wiping out the savings of middle class Somalis who kept their money at al Barakaat. [12]

    Just before the September 11, 2001 terror attacks on America, a wave of gold couriers began showing up in Dubai with massive amounts of bullion taken from Afghanistan.  The gold belonged to al Qaeda and the Taliban and was most likely derived from opium smuggling.  In Dubai the couriers exchanged their gold for the US dollars they needed to pull off the coming attacks on the US.

    Alleged hijacker ringleader Mohammed Atta received $120,000 to plan and carry out the terror attacks from accounts in Dubai controlled by operation paymaster Mustafa Ahmed al-Hawsawi on orders from Pakistan’s ISI Chief Mahmud Ahmad.  Another alleged hijacker and al-Hawsawi himself used accounts at the Dubai branch of the British Cecil Rhodes-founded Standard Chartered Bank to finance the 911 operation.

    According to the June 19, 2007 Financial Times, the government of Dubai now owns a 2.7% stake in Standard Chartered via its Istithmar Corporation, which recently paid $100 million to Cunards for the QE2 luxury liner.



  14. Jedi on August 5, 2012 at 7:09 am

    America has a worm in its root, and that will effect the oligarchs made in the shade status.
    As told to Jonah, why not destroy ninevah they know niether the left hand or the right hand: and also much cattle mutilations.

    a storm brewing



  15. Incognito on August 5, 2012 at 6:59 am

    Well said. I just wish things would come to a boil. Their strategy seems to be extend and pretend (fake economic stats) so they can hang on to the status quo while applying “soft” war tactics. I read an interesting take on what a pacific ocean war against a nuclear armed china might look like the other day. Seems the strategy is one of choking China’s maritime trade in order to bring it to heel. String of pearls and Malacca choke points. Pretty shrewd. Not sure what China could do in that situation. If I was China I would move first: dump US treasuries, back the yuan with gold, parner with Iran in blockading the West’s oil supplies. From Putin’s recent name-calling against the “parasitic” economy and the Bank of Russia’s gold stacking hand over fist, I would say Putin might go along with it. Saudi’s try to defend the petrodollar? Bomb the heck out of those refineries and port facilities. Venezuela would definitely go along with it. Nigeria refuses? Sabotage their ass. This strategy has a certain Sun Tzu èlan to it.

    Yes, major upheaval would be the result but the cancer, the corruption would be excised. The US would be a better country for it, believe it or not. Leviathan (fed gov) would shrink to death without the bankster fiat lifeblood. No funny money, no tyranny. Lots of fascist sacred cows could then be literally slaughtered. Ahhh..Robespierre! My hero!



  16. Ancient Wanderer on August 5, 2012 at 5:48 am

    Hi Joseph, an interesting point of view on the Geopolitical situation out there.

    I don’t doubt for second that there is a power struggle taking place between these Axis’.

    We must hope common sense and respect prevail.



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