3/13/09

CIA Report: Likely Fall of Israel in 20 Years--One State Solution

It seems the CIA agrees with my previous assessment of the need for a One State Solution with all peoples living peacefully in historic Palestine.
Grant Lawrence

Source: Press TV

Study conducted by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has cast doubt over Israel's survival beyond the next 20 years.

International lawyer Franklin Lamb

The CIA report predicts "an inexorable movement away from a two-state to a one-state solution, as the most viable model based on democratic principles of full equality that sheds the looming specter of colonial Apartheid while allowing for the return of the 1947/1948 and 1967 refugees. The latter being the precondition for sustainable peace in the region."

The study, which has been made available only to a certain number of individuals, further forecasts the return of all Palestinian refugees to the occupied territories, and the exodus of two million Israeli - who would move to the US in the next fifteen years.

"There is over 500,000 Israelis with American passports and more than 300,000 living in the area of just California," International lawyer Franklin Lamb said in an interview with Press TV on Friday, adding that those who do not have American or western passport, have already applied for them.

"So I think the handwriting at least among the public in Israel is on the wall...[which] suggests history will reject the colonial enterprise sooner or later," Lamb stressed.

He said CIA, in its report, alludes to the unexpectedly quick fall of the apartheid government in South Africa and recalls the disintegration of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, suggesting the end to the dream of an 'Israeli land' would happen 'way sooner' than later.

The study further predicts the return of over one and a half million Israelis to Russia and other parts of Europe, and denotes a decline in Israeli births whereas a rise in the Palestinian population.

Lamb said given the Israeli conduct toward the Palestinians and the Gaza strip in particular, the American public -- which has been voicing its protest against Tel Aviv's measures in the last 25 years -- may 'not take it anymore'.

Some members of the US Senate Intelligence Committee have been informed of the report.

3/12/09

The Man Who Sold The World - Ronald Reagan



Oil Price Manipulation: A Weapon for the "Prevailing World Order"





















Pic Source: goatmilk


By Grant Lawrence

"However, it is not all bad news, because the major oil producing countries have been the enemies of the prevailing world order. Venezuela, Iran, Russia and it is not so easy to finance a Bolivarian Revolution with $40 oil. So I think Venezuela, Chavez, probably his days are numbered. In Iran probably he won't last a year."
Global Financier George Soros in Davos Switzerland at the World Economic Forum, on why lower prices for oil is not all bad news.

As Soros alludes to, oil is not only the reason wars are fought but it is also used as a weapon against those that are not in line with the "Prevailing World Order." Before the crash of oil prices, not only were average Americans suffering, but China and India were the big losers in the oil price war.

But then something curious happened. Georgia invaded S. Ossetia and Russia took action against that New World Order push by bombing a major pipeline in Georgia that supplied the west with oil. Russia gave a clear signal that it would not allow the globalists to do as it pleases in a former part of the Soviet Union. Coincidentally after Russia signaled its intentions with bombs, oil prices began to take a drastic decline.

But was this all a coincidence or a conspiracy to use the oil weapon against Russia?

Some still believe the price of oil is based on the demand for oil. But that is not true. Oil prices are controlled by oil speculation.

"Approximately 60 to 70 percent of the oil contracts in the futures markets are now held by speculative entities. Not by companies that need oil, not by the airlines, not by the oil companies. But by investors that are looking to make money from their speculative positions....All they do is buy the paper, and hope that they can sell it for more than they paid for it. Before they have to take delivery,"according to Dan Gilligan, President of the Oil Marketers Association.

Who is buying all this paper oil?

"I tease people sometimes that, you know, people say, 'Well, who's the largest oil company in America?' And they'll always say, 'Well, Exxon Mobil or Chevron, or BP.' But I'll say, 'No. Morgan Stanley,'" said Gilligan.

Hedge fund manager Michael Masters explains that that there are a lot of interests in paper oil. "The California pension fund. Harvard Endowment. Lots of large institutional investors. And, by the way, other investors, hedge funds, Wall Street trading desks were following right behind them, putting money - sovereign wealth funds were putting money in the futures markets as well. So you had all these investors putting money in the futures markets. And that was driving the price up," he said.

So when the economy was in a recession all last year and the demand for world oil was actually low, it was paper oil that was driving the record highs in oil prices. Paper oil that was being speculated on by hedge funds and various institutional investors.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said last year that oil was abundant and that the high oil prices were "fake."

"At a time when the growth of consumption is lower than the growth of production and the market is full of oil, prices are rising, and this trend is completely fake and imposed," Ahmadinejad declared.

So oil prices are being manipulated outside of market forces for the demand for oil. But how do we know that it is being used as a weapon?

Some may recall that the Soviet economy was bolstered in the 70s because of high oil prices. But, later in the 80s, the price of oil was cheap. Those low oil prices helped bring about the fall of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Empire collapsed not because of Star Wars or the arms race but because of a hidden oil war in which the "Prevailing World Order" destroyed a supposedly evil empire by manipulating oil prices.

Thus we come to a major reason the "Prevailing World Order" has hesitated to move to a Green Economy and use available technology to leave the age of fossil fuels behind. The oil weapon is one of the most powerful weapons the globalists have at their disposal. It helped bring down a competing Soviet Empire, it is wielded against China and India at times, and it is being used presently to keep the Russian Bear in line, and to fight against "Bolivarian Revolutions" in South America.

An understanding of the oil weapon also brings to light one other dark and murky subject.

For years, it has been a mystery to many why hedge funds are allowed to operate with little financial oversight from regulators. Some in Congress have repeatedly called on the President and the Federal Reserve to encourage major legislation to regulate hedge funds and other financial instruments. But even after a world economic collapse, there has been little in the way of new regulation of these financial instruments.

Obviously, the "Prevailing World Order" may not like regulation because unregulated hedge funds allows certain elites to grow even larger fortunes. But regulation would likely shine a light into the workings of paper oil and the forces behind oil pricing. It would go against national security to expose a black operation like oil price fixing. After all, it is all for the good of humanity to combat forces that operate against the "Prevailing World Order."

But the interests of humanity may in fact not be the interests of the "Prevailing World Order." Right now we are seeing climate change being worsened by the use of oil and coal technology. Not only is fossil fuel pollution contributing to the destruction of the ecosystem of the planet but it is also killing and sickening millions of the world's people.

Oil may be a valuable weapon for the globalists but it contributing to a great deal of economic suffering of the world's population. Energy is the source for the world's economic engine and the price of oil means a great deal to the economic health of the world's population. When the globalists play oil wars to destroy or to keep a competing powers in check, it is the people of the world that must pay the price for that war.

Perhaps someday the governments of the world will align themselves with the interests of the people of the world. But until then look for more oil wars, environmental catastrophes, pollution, and economic collapses.

You may not know exactly what is going on but be assured that it is not happening by accident.

Video of the George Soros Interview Below

3/11/09

'Executive Assassination Ring' Reported Directly to Cheney Office



"After 9/11, I haven't written about this yet, but the Central Intelligence Agency was very deeply involved in domestic activities against people they thought to be enemies of the state. Without any legal authority for it. They haven’t been called on it yet. That does happen.

"Right now, today, there was a story in the New York Times that if you read it carefully mentioned something known as the Joint Special Operations Command -- JSOC it’s called. It is a special wing of our special operations community that is set up independently. They do not report to anybody, except in the Bush-Cheney days, they reported directly to the Cheney office. They did not report to the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff or to Mr. [Robert] Gates, the secretary of defense. They reported directly to him. ...

"Congress has no oversight of it. It’s an executive assassination ring essentially, and it’s been going on and on and on. Just today in the Times there was a story that its leaders, a three star admiral named [William H.] McRaven, ordered a stop to it because there were so many collateral deaths.

"Under President Bush’s authority, they’ve been going into countries, not talking to the ambassador or the CIA station chief, and finding people on a list and executing them and leaving. That’s been going on, in the name of all of us.


"It’s complicated because the guys doing it are not murderers, and yet they are committing what we would normally call murder. It’s a very complicated issue. Because they are young men that went into the Special Forces. The Delta Forces you’ve heard about. Navy Seal teams. Highly specialized.

"In many cases, they were the best and the brightest. Really, no exaggerations. Really fine guys that went in to do the kind of necessary jobs that they think you need to do to protect America. And then they find themselves torturing people.

"I’ve had people say to me -- five years ago, I had one say: ‘What do you call it when you interrogate somebody and you leave them bleeding and they don’t get any medical committee and two days later he dies. Is that murder? What happens if I get before a committee.?’

"But they’re not gonna get before a committee.”

Source: Alternet

Americans are Mentally Goosestepping to another War



By Grant Lawrence

"You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it."

General William Tecumseh Sherman


"Just wage total war -- Children will sing great songs about us"
Oct. 29, 2001
Michael Leeden, American Enterprise Institute, research fellow

"Liberating Iraq would be a cakewalk"

Feb. 13, 02

"Nearly 70 percent of Iraqis who said they suffer from mental disorders have contemplated suicide but only a fraction have sought treatment, according to a nationwide study....

From a recent study conducted by the World Health Organization about Iraqi mental health.

Many Iraqis, like many of the soldiers America sent to liberate Iraqi Oil, now suffer from mental disorders.

It is not surprising.

Recently there was an Army report of an alarming rise in the number of suicides among American soldiers. The stress of "
repeated combat deployments" was seen as a major problem, according to the Army.

So it is with those that inflict suffering on others. Not only does the victim suffer but those that have inflicted the harm must also lose a bit of their humanity in the process. American soldiers, like all soldiers of war, have to cope with the brutality and dehumanization of war. American soldiers, like all soldiers, don't get to choose their wars or their battles. They only pay the price with their lives, health, and sanity.

For the most part, Americans waved their flags, supported their President, and went mentally goosestepping in an orgy of patriotism for a hopeful "Mission Accomplished" in the months before the Iraq war. By all accounts, it was to be a good war--"a cake walk".

As an American, I witnessed the ignorance and the cold blooded lack of caring among most of my countryman. This is a trauma that I share today with many Americans that had raised objections to the mental goosestepping and the blind patriotism that would eventually bring about so much suffering and destruction.

I remember watching films of Adolf Hitler when I was young and seeing the German army goosestepping and the overjoyed Germans worshiping their Fuhrer. I remember thinking "how could people be like that stupid?"

I now have that answer. I have witnessed America's own psychotic war fever.

We were a people caught up in the glory of ourselves. A people caught up in lies. A people caught up in the thirst for the blood of their enemies. A people living in an unreality of a "cake walk" war and "weapons of mass destruction."

So the Iraqi war has cost Americans nearly a trillion dollars. Of course, the war will cost a lot more money when it is all done. As an American, I know that it is the bottom line that we are mostly concerned with here in this country. "What is it going to cost me" is an expression commonly heard in America. But the Iraqi war has taken a toll that will cost more than just dollars for many decades to come.

I can never feel the same way that I once did about my country before the war. I had a picture of my country painted for me by years of propaganda and conditioning courtesy of my government, media, and other societal structures. I thought in a democracy, the truth would eventually save the day. Unfortunately I was wrong. The country is not a democracy and the truth is not presented in the managed media.

Now the war drums are beating again for another war in Iran. It is no longer "weapons of mass destruction" but Iranian nuclear weapons that we must fear. It is no longer a tyrant "Hitler" in Iraq but now it is a "Lunatic Madman" in Iran that is seeking to destroy my country.

So the media and the American Military industrial Complex is trying to get Americans to mentally goosestep into another war. We already have wars in Iraq and Afghanistan but that is not enough. There needs to be more wars to protect the future of America.

America is a psychotic place where bankers can economically destroy a country, get trillions, and demand more. A place where people are afraid of socialism but don't recognize the fascism that they must live with. A place that loves violence and sees it as a solution to all of the social ills of the world. A place where people can be made to hate easily.

America is a place that suffers from a great affliction. In the same way Germans went goosestepping into World War 2 motivated by ignorance of the truth. Americans today easily go goosestepping in their minds, motivated by the ignorance that our empire has to fear enemies from the outside.

It is not enemies from the outside that will eventually destroy America but it is the enemy of ignorance that is destroying us NOW.

An ignorance that is feeding the goosestepping in our minds.

Hey, Jim Cramer


For anyone who hasn’t been following the diatribe of a madman, when the Dow went down after Obama’s first budget bill passed congress, Jim Cramer and most of CNBC went crazy(er) and started screaming that that was Wall Street reacting badly to the bill.


Jon Stewart gave him a lovely tribute by showing some of Cramer’s great advise, like to hold on to Bear-Sterns days before it tanked and to buy it seven weeks before it tanked.

Today Obama signed that budget bill and the Stock Market went up.


Is Jim Cramer going to use his previous logic and say that Wall Street now likes Obama’s budget?


Or is he going to admit that the Dow is just an arbitrary sampling of a few random companies and its day-to-day fluctuations don’t mean anything about the direction of the economy, it’s only a useful indicator over the long term?


I would like to see he spins this, but that would mean I’d have to watch his show.

3/10/09

To Serve Man, or Maggots. The Importance of the Federal Science Policy.


With the latest media fad controversy about Obama’s reversal of Bush’s ban on using federal money for Stem Cell Research I’ve noticed an interesting change in tone. The arguments are no longer about the whether it is more ethical to use these embryos (that are made up of roughly 150 cells) for research that could lead to the great advancements in the medical field and save many lives, or if they should be thrown out in the trash where the maggots can feast on them. The new argument is aimed at the entire role of science in government and society.

The big question is why should the Government pay for Scientific Research?

The simple answer is it pays. Every time the Government puts money into research that money comes back many times over.

During the Great Depression and World War II the federal government poured vast sums of money into Nuclear Physics, Aeronautics, Electronics, and Chemistry research. From this whole new industries spawned, Nuclear Medicine, the Airline Industry, Radar, Televisions, Computers, and Plastic. The change that this investment in science spawned gave Americans a lifestyle that was envied around the world.

The Soviet Union looked at how the US and the Nazis used government funded research and took that idea to go from a feudal state to a Superpower.

Where the United States got the surprise advantage over the Nazis and Soviets was using the idea of Big Science, not only for Military applications but for consumer goods as well.

Developing the science and engineering for the Jet Engine had huge military advantages of course, but giving that technology to commercial airlines opened up the entire country to air travel while the Soviets were still building their rail system.

The idea of building an indestructible communication system was a Big Science idea for the Cold War, then some guys thought up the idea piggybacking communication between computers on it and the DARPAnet became the Internet.

Faster computers were needed for the military and NASA so they invested in silicon chip research and Steve Wozniak figured out that the new chips were powerful and cheap enough to build a computer the average person could afford, and the personal computer industry was born.


In the 70s Japan took this idea of Big Science and skipped the military and put it straight into consumer goods. Knowing they couldn’t grow a company that could compete with Bell Labs and IBM they built a government run electronics research lab and turned the science over to the likes of Sony, Nintendo, and other Japanese companies as well as American companies that agreed to employ Japanese workers like Saga and Samsung (The agreement worked out so well those two companies moved to Japan).

The Japanese took their idea to all industries including the car industry. Toyota, Nissan and Mitsubishi couldn’t compete with America’s big three even with a trimmer management structure and (at the time) lower wages, so the Japanese Government invested in automotive science, engineering and manufacturing techniques so that Japanese car companies could have better engineered cars at a lower cost in factories that could retool in three years instead of five, making them more responsive to customer needs.


All of this brings me back to the original question of this article, if scientific research is so profitable, why should the Government pay for it?

For some of it the projects are simply too large for individual companies to do it alone, like the beginnings of the Internet. It was started in 1957 and wasn’t commercialized until the late 1980s that’s a thirty-year lead time, most managers are reluctant to take on a project early in their career that won’t pay of until after they retire.
NASA has an even larger lead time, manned space exploration started in the early sixties and private space trips are just now starting, a large profitable manned space industry is still decades away.

Some projects the scientific process works against individual profit margins. The pharmaceutical industry for example: Research into groups of drugs (like heart medicine) needs vigorous scientific debate so it is done openly by the National Institute of Health. Those findings (after 20 to 40 years of research and debate) are turned over to the Pharmaceutical Companies who spend 8 to 10 years researching the individual drugs. There is no profit for an individual company to do the groundwork, but the whole industry rises from the government research.

Finally some scientific projects benefit thousands or even millions of people but there is no way to make a profit from them.

In Bobby Jindal’s response to President Obama he railed against federal money being spent on Volcano Monitoring. The federal government monitors active Volcanoes in order predict when they will erupt. Before they erupt warnings are given out so that people can evacuate the area.

This has saved thousands of people and countless billions of dollars but there is no way that any individual could make a profit from it.


Federal money spent on scientific research is a good investment. So when Bobby Jindal makes fun of Volcano Monitoring, the people whose lives are saved aren’t laughing. When John McCain jokes about Grisly Bear DNA testing, research to determine the exact numbers of endangered Grisly Bear vs Common Bears, the ranchers who will have their land opened up because of this research aren’t laughing.

And finally when Eric Cantor says, "Why are we going and distracting ourselves from the economy? This is job No. 1. Let's focus on what needs to be done." The thousands of people with spinal injuries who will able to be productive members of society again, as well as all the specialists who will make a boatload of money from the research won’t see it as a distraction.


Many Thanks to ChristinaTM for asking that question; She is obviously not alone in not understanding why the anti-science policies of the last 30 years have destroyed the engine of our economy.

3/8/09

Reverend Dollars Explains Why Christians Condemn Socialism
























Visit The Church of Stop Shopping for More of the Light

By Grant Lawrence

Lately, I have heard a lot of radio and TV preachers warn their flock that Americans are turning to Socialism. I have thought about it a bit and I just don't know why Christians should be against helping their fellow man and supporting a just society.

So I admit, often I miss the big picture. That is why I turn to experts for answers on subjects that are confusing to me.

In this case, I headed down to my local big box church to see if I could find a pastor to help clear up the issue on the dangers of a just society and social programs.

I entered the church but I must admit, it looked more like a retail store with nice carpet and some fine furnishings. I walked over to the office and I asked to see the head pastor of the church. I was told by the church secretaries that the Pastor is a mighty busy man with his TV, radio shows, and doing the Lord's work.

But surprisingly I was able to get a few moments of the Reverend's time. The Reverend came out with a big smile on his face and greeted me.

"Reverend Dollars," I said, "I am confused about a few things and I need some answers."

"Sure," he responded, "How can I be of service to you?"

"Well Reverend, I don't understand why it is bad for the government to help people?" I asked.

"Are you talking about Socialism?" he replied.

"I don't know Reverend. I don't know if it is Socialism, or if it is just helping people, or what. I am really confused about it all." I said.

"You are confused because I can tell you don't have a relationship with Jesus. You get right with Jesus and you will get the answers that you need. Jesus will get you straight. Then you won't need to know anything but the Lord and you will be happy," Reverend Dollars smiled.

"But Reverend, why do people go to church to listen to you when they have the Lord?" I asked.

"All right, I am going to try to help clear things up for you. Christians are against Socialism because they are for a free market. God in his infinite wisdom created a free market so that people could get rich and be free to fail. Now that means there is going to be a lot of poor people but that is fine with God because he wants all of us free. It is up to people to give to help the poor and no one should be forced into doing what is right," he said.

"But why does God punish people if they do bad, isn't that forcing them to do good?" I asked.

"Brother, God is the one in charge of doing good. It is not up to you and me to force people to do good?" he said.

"Now I am really confused Reverend," I confessed. "If we shouldn't force people to do good then why do Christians want jails and police? Why do Christians think people should be arrested for drugs and prostitution. Why do Christians want just wars? Why can't we bring about a society in which there is health care for everyone and more help for people in need?"

"Brother, you are asking too many questions and if you had faith it would be clear to you. Christians know that it is all part of God's plan and that people shouldn't go changing things that God has ordained. That is why there is always going to be sick people, poverty, wars, and criminals. You or I or anyone is not going to change that," the reverend said. He definitely seemed pleased with his answer.

"But Reverend, if we can't change things or society then why why do Christians go see doctors, go to hospitals, support schools, use technology, and support a lot of things that help people? If we can't change things then why do you preach on your TV show about the the evils of homosexuality, atheism, and big government?" I asked.

"It is clear you are a sinner and that is all I can say. But I am telling you that God doesn't want us to share our wealth unless we want to. God wants a free market because he wants everyone to benefit," he angrily said. "Read the bible!" The reverend was now shouting.

"Reverend, didn't the early Christians live in communes?" I inquired.

"That's it. I knew it. You are a communist. The Devil is bending your mind, brother. The early Christians were communists because God hadn't yet revealed free markets to them. So they had to share. But God has created America and freedom so that is why Christians are no longer practicing communists," he said.

"So the early Christians were practicing communists?" I was surprised to know that .

Then a disturbing thought came to me. Perhaps Jesus was promoting a type of communism when he talked about people selling everything and giving it to the poor. Serving God may have been the same as serving people to Jesus. Serving people and helping people is pretty much what Socialists talk about, I thought.

I couldn't say anything more to Reverend Dollars.

I now felt very guilty. I didn't want the Reverend to know this deep dark thought about Jesus being a practicing communist so I didn't say anything. If I said anything about Jesus promoting a type of social welfare then I am sure he would tell me that I was damned for all of eternity.

I excused myself and told the Reverend goodbye. I think the Reverend was happy to see me go but happy to show me the light.

But since my talk with the Reverend, I have been riddled with guilt. I have resolved not ever to think such thoughts again about Jesus advocating sharing, helping, and giving to the poor.

Since my talk, I block all thoughts about a just society from my mind. But once in awhile these crazy, sinful thoughts come to me about socialism and even communism. But I wipe it all from my mind by clicking on the remote and watching the Reverend Dollars condemn people and ask for money on his TV show.

The Reverend may not have answered my questions but he did show me that my questions were dirty and wrong.

A Must See Video: Iraqi Police Get Motivational Speech

3/7/09

Who Killed More?

Who Killed More? Bosnia's Karadzic or Myanmar's Than Shwe

Source: Ashin Mettacara

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Karadzic was one of the world's most wanted war crimes fugitives. He is a former Bosnian Serb president and a masterminded man of the ethnic cleansing .

More than 8000 Muslims were killed during the 1992-95 Bosnian war. But the latest research says about 100,000 people were killed in this war. Karadzic was arrested on early Tuesday morning in a sweep by Serbian security forces. After Karadzic, Myanmar military leader Than Shwe should be considered and included in the list of world’s most wanted because he masterminded to kill the Buddhist monks and people during September uprising , 2007. He can also be accused of masterminding "ethnic cleansing" killings of Sham , Kayin and its own citizens. The Army and Senior General Than Shwe had committed similar crimes of killing NLD members and students on many occasions. The major massacre is in Depe Yin town , 30th May 2003, hundreds of NLD members led by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, were killed. The intention of Depe Yin massacre was to assassinate Daw Aung San Kyi, but she fortunately released with the help of people and pro-democracy members. Recently Nargis cyclone hit many parts of Myanmar , more than 138000 people were killed and more than 2 million people are helpless, homeless and hopeless. Nargis killed less, but Myanmar military government killed more with the failures to rescue, food supplies and medical supplies. All the cruelties of life in Myanmar are masterminded by Senior General Than Shwe.