The Worldwide Network of US Military Bases

Globalizing Imperialism: The Global Deployment of US Military Personnel.

Global Research Editor’s Note:

This important analysis and review of US military might by award winning Canadian geographer Professor Jules Dufour, was first published by Global Research in 2007. Jules Dufour passed away after a long illness in August 2017. 

US military presence around the World has expanded dramatically in the course of the last five years.  This study is largely based on data for the period 2001-2005.

The Worldwide control of humanity’s economic, social and political activities is under the helm of US corporate and military power. Underlying this process are various schemes of direct and indirect military intervention. These US sponsored strategies ultimately consist in a process of global subordination.

Where is the Threat?

The 2000 Global Report published in 1980 had outlined “the State of the World” by focusing on so-called  “level of threats” which might negatively influence or undermine US interests.

Twenty years later, US strategists, in an attempt to justify their military interventions in different parts of the World, have conceptualized the greatest fraud in US history, namely “the Global War on Terrorism” (GWOT). The latter, using a fabricated pretext  constitutes a global war against all those who oppose US hegemony. A modern form of slavery, instrumented through militarization and the “free market” has unfolded.

Major elements of the conquest and world domination strategy by the US refer to:

1) the control of the world economy and its financial markets,

2) the taking over of all natural resources (primary resources and nonrenewable sources of energy). The latter constitute the cornerstone of US power through the activities of its multinational corporations.

Geopolitical Outreach: Network of Military Bases

The US has established its control over 191 governments which are members of the United Nations. The conquest, occupation and/or otherwise supervision of these various regions of the World is supported by an integrated network of military bases and installations which covers the entire Planet (Continents, Oceans and Outer Space). All this pertains to the workings of  an extensive Empire, the exact dimensions of which are not always easy to ascertain.

Known and documented from information in the public domaine including Annual Reports of the US Congress, we have a fairly good understanding of the strucuture of US military expenditure, the network of US military bases and  the shape of this US military-strategic configuration in different regions of the World.

The objective of this article is to build a summary profile of the World network of military bases, which are under the jurisdiction and/or control  of the US. The spatial distribution of these military bases will be examined together with an analysis of the multibillion dollar annual cost of their activities.

In a second section of this article, Worldwide popular resistance movements directed against US military bases and their various projects will be outlined. In a further article we plan to analyze the military networks of other major nuclear superpowers including  the United Kingdom, France and Russia.

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I. The Military Bases

Military bases are conceived for training purposes, preparation and stockage of military equipment, used by national armies throughout the World. They are not very well known in view of the fact that they are not open to the public at large. Even though they take on different shapes, according to the military function for which they were established; they can broadly be classified under four main categories :

a) Air Force Bases (see photos 1 and 2);

b) Army or Land Bases;

c) Navy Bases and

d) Communication and Spy Bases.

Photo 1. Air Base of Diego Garcia located in the Indian Ocean

Photo 2. Diego Garcia. An Aerial View of two B-52 and six Kc-a135

II. More than 1000 US Bases and/or Military Installations

The main sources of information on these military installations (e.g. C. Johnson, the NATO Watch Committee, the International Network for the Abolition of Foreign Military Bases) reveal that the US operates and/or controls between 700 and 800 military bases Worldwide.

In this regard, Hugh d’Andrade and Bob Wing’s 2002 Map 1 entitled “U.S. Military Troops and Bases around the World, The Cost of ‘Permanent War’”, confirms the presence of US military personnel in 156 countries.

The US Military has bases in 63 countries. Brand new military bases have been built since September 11, 2001 in seven countries.

In total, there are 255,065 US military personnel deployed Worldwide.

These facilities include a total of 845,441 different buildings and equipments. The underlying land surface is of the order of 30 million acres. According to Gelman, who examined 2005 official Pentagon data, the US is thought to own a total of 737 bases in foreign lands. Adding to the bases inside U.S. territory, the total land area occupied by US military bases domestically within the US and internationally is of the order of 2,202,735 hectares, which makes the Pentagon one of the largest landowners worldwide (Gelman, J., 2007).

Map 1. U.S. Military Troops and Bases around the World. The Cost of «Permanent War» and Some Comparative Data

Source: http://www.unitedforpeace.org/article.php?id=884

Map 2. The American Military Bases Around the World (2001-2003)

Source : http://www.globalpolicy.org/empire/intervention/index.htm

Source : http://www.nobases.org

Map 3 US Military Bases Click here to see Map 3

The Map of the World Network “No Bases” (Map 3) reveals the following:

Based on a selective examination of military bases in North America, Latin America, Western Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia, Indonesia, the Philippines and Japan, several of these military bases are being used for intelligence purposes. New selected sites are Spy Bases and Satellite-related Spy Bases.

The Surface of the Earth is Structured as a Wide Battlefield

These military bases and installations of various kinds are distributed according to a Command structure divided up into five spatial units and four unified Combatant Commands (Map 4). Each unit is under the Command of a General.

The Earth surface  is being conceived as a wide battlefield which can be patrolled or steadfastly supervised from the Bases.

Map 4. The World and Territories Under the Responsibility of a Combatant Command or Under a Command Structure

Source : http://www.defense.gov/home/features/2009/0109_unifiedcommand

Territories under a Command are: the Northern Command (NORTHCOM) (Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado), the Pacific Command (Honolulu, Hawaii), the Southern Command (Miami, Florida – Map 5), The Central Command (CENTCOM) (MacDill Air Force Base, Florida), the European Command (Stuttgart-Vaihingen, Germany), the Joint Forces Command (Norfolk, Virginia), the Special Operations Command (MacDill Air Force Base, Florida), the Transportation Command (Scott Air Force Base, Illinois) and the Strategic Command (STRATCOM) (Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska).

Map 5. The Southern Command

Source : http://www.visionesalternativas.com/militarizacion/mapas/mapabases.htm

NATO Military Bases

The Atlantic Alliance (NATO) has its own Network of military bases, thirty in total. The latter are primarily located in Western Europe:

Whiteman, U.S.A., Fairford,
Lakenheath and Mildenhall in United Kingdom,
Eindhoven in Netherlands,
Brüggen, Geilenkirchen, Landsberg, Ramstein, Spangdahlem, Rhein-Main in Germany,
Istres and Avord in France.
Morón de la Frontera and Rota in Spain,
Brescia, Vicenza, Piacenza, Aviano, Istrana, Trapani, Ancora, Pratica di Mare, Amendola, Sigonella, Gioia dell Colle, Grazzanise and Brindisi in Italy,
Tirana in Albania,
Incirlik in Turkey,
Eskan Village in Soudi Arabia and
Ali al Salem in Koweit (http://www.terra.es/actualidad/articulo/html/act52501.html)

III. The Global Deployment of US Military Personnel

There are 6000  military bases and/ or military warehouses located in the U.S. (See Wikipedia, February 2007).

Total Military Personnel is of the order of  1,4 million of which 1,168,195 are in the U.S and US overseas territories.

Taking figures from the same source, there are 325,000 US military personnel in foreign countries:

800 in Africa,
97,000 in Asia (excluding the Middle East and Central Asia),
40,258 in South Korea,
40,045 in Japan,
491 at the Diego Garcia Base in the Indian Ocean,
100 in the Philippines, 196 in Singapore,
113 in Thailand,
200 in Australia,
and 16,601 Afloat.

In Europe, there are 116,000 US military personnel including 75,603 who are stationed in Germany.

In Central Asia about 1,000 are stationed at the Ganci (Manas) Air Base in Kyrgyzstan and 38 are located at Kritsanisi, in Georgia, with a mission to train Georgian soldiers.

In the Middle East (excludng the Iraq war theater) there are 6,000 US military personnel, 3,432 of whom are in Qatar and 1,496 in Bahrain.

In the Western Hemisphere, excluding the U.S. and US territories, there are 700 military personnel in Guantanamo, 413 in Honduras and 147 in Canada.

Map 3 provides information regarding military personnel on duty, based on a regional categorization (broad regions of the world). The total number of military personnel at home in the U.S. and/or in US Territories is 1,139,034. There are 1,825 in Europe 114, 660, 682 in Subsaharian Africa, 4, 274 in the Middle East and Southern Asia, 143 in the Ex-USSR, and 89,846 in the Pacific.

IV. The Operational Cost of the Worldwide Military Network

US defense spending (excluding the costs of the Iraq war) have increased from 404 in 2001 to 626 billion dollars in 2007 according to data from the Washington based Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. US defense spending is expected to reach 640 billion dollars in 2008.

(Figure 1 and http://www.armscontrolcenter.org/archives/002244.php ).

These 2006 expenses correspond to 3.7% of the US GDP and $935.64 per capita   (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_of-the_United_States).

Figure 1. U.S. Military Expenditures since 1998

Source : http://www.globalissues.org/Geopolitics/ArmsTrade/Spending.asp

According to Fig 1, the 396 billion dollars military budget proposed in 2003 has in fact reached 417.4 billion dollars, a 73% increase compared to 2000 (289 billion dollars). This outlay for 2003 was more than half of the total of the US discretionary budget.

Since 2003, these military expenditures have to be added to those of the Iraq war and occupation The latter reached in March 2007, according to the National Priorities Project, a cumulative total of 413 billion dollars.

(http://www.janes.com/defence/news/jdi/jdi050504_1_n.shtml),

(http://nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182).

Estimates of the Defense Department budget needs, made public in 2006 in the DoD Green Book for FY 2007 are of the order of  440 billion dollars.
(http://www.dod.mil/comptroller/defbudget/fy2007/index.html)

Military and other staff required numbered 1,332,300. But those figures do not include the money required for the “Global World on Terrorism” (GWOT). In other words, these figures largely pertain to the regular Defense budget.

A Goldstein of the Washington Post, within the framework of an article on the aspects of the National 2007 budget titled «2007 Budget Favors Defense», wrote about this topic:

“Overall, the budget for the 2007 fiscal year would further reshape the government in the way the administration has been striving to during the past half-decade: building up military capacity and defenses against terrorist threats on U.S. soil, while restraining expenditures for many domestic areas, from education programs to train service”

(http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/04/AR2006020401179.html).

V. US Military Bases to Protect Strategic Energy Resources

In the wake of 9/11, Washington initiated its “Global War on Terrorism” (GWOT), first in Afghanistan and then in Iraq. Other countries, which were not faithfully obeying Washington’s directives including Iran, North Korea, Syria and Venezuela have been earmarked for possible US military intervention.

Washington keeps a close eye on countries opposed to US corporate control over their resources. Washington also targets countries where there are popular resistance movements directed against US interests, particularly in South America. In this context, President Bush made a quick tour to Brazil, Uruguay, Colombia, Guatemala and Mexico «to promote democracy and trade» but also with a view to ultimately curbing and restraining popular dissent to the US interests in the region. .

(http://www.voanews.com/spanish/2007-03-08-voa1.cfm)

The same broad approach is being applied in Central Asia. According to Iraklis Tsavdaridis, Secretary of the World Peace Council (WPC):

“The establishment of U.S. military bases should not of course be seen simply in terms of direct military ends. They are always used to promote the economic and political objectives of U.S. capitalism. For example, U.S. corporations and the U.S. government have been eager for some time to build a secure corridor for US.-controlled oil and natural gas pipelines from the Caspian Sea in Central Asia through Afghanistan and Pakistan to the Arabian Sea. This region -has more than 6 percent of the world’s proven oil reserves and almost 40 percent of its gas reserves. The war in Afghanistan and the creation of U.S. military Bases in Central Asia are viewed as a key opportunity to make such pipelines a reality.”

(http://stopusa.be/campaigns/texte.php?section=FABN&langue=3&id=24157 ).

The US. are at War in Afghanistan and Iraq. They pursue these military operations until they reach their objective which they call “VICTORY”. According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deployment_of-the_U.S.-Military), American troops fighting in these countries number 190,000.  The “Enduring Freedom” Operation in Iraq alone has almost 200,000 military personnel, including 26,000 from other countries participating to the US sponsored “Mission”. About 20,000 more could join other contingents in the next few months. In Afghanistan, a total of 25,000 soldiers participate to the operation (Map 6 and Map 7).

Map  6.  Petroleum and International Theatre of War in the Middle East and Central Asia

Source : Eric Waddell, The Battle for Oil, Global Research, 2003

Source : http://www.heartland.it/

Map 8. Oil Fields in Latin America

Source : http://www.visionesalternativas.com/militarizacion/mapas/mapahegem.htm

VI. Military Bases Used for the Control of Strategic Renewable Resources

US Military Bases in foreign countries, are mainly located in Western Europe: 26 of them are in Germany, 8, in Great Britain, and 8 in Italy. There are nine military installations in Japan (Wikepedia).

In the last few years, in the context of the GWOT, the US haa built 14 new bases in and around the Persian Gulf.

It is also involved in construction and/or or reinforcement of 20 bases (106 structured units as a whole) in Iraq, with costs  of the order of 1.1 billion dollars in that country alone (Varea, 2007) and the use of about ten bases in Central Asia.

The US has also undertaken continued negotiations with several countries to install, buy, enlarge or rent an addional number of military bases. The latter pertain inter alia to installations in Morocco, Algeria, Mali, Ghana, Brazil and Australia (See Nicholson, B., 2007), Poland, Czech Republic (Traynor, I., 2007), Ouzbekistan, Tadjikistan, Kirghizstan, Italy (Jucca, L., 2007) and France.

Washington has signed an agreement to build a military base in Djibouti (Manfredi, E., 2007). All these initiatives are a part of an overall plan to install a series of military bases geographically located in a West-East corridor extending from Colombia in South America, to North Africa, the Near East, Central Asia and as far as the Philippines (Johnson, C., 2004). The US bases in South American are related to the control and access to the extensive natural biological , mineral and water resources resources of the Amazon Basin. (Delgado Jara, D., 2006 and Maps 9 and 10).

Map 9. The Biological Wealth of Latin America

Source : http://www.visionesalternativas.com/militarizacion/mapas/mapahegem.htm

Map 10. Freshwater Resources in Latin America

Source : http://www.visionesalternativas.com/militarizacion/mapas/mapahegem.htm

VII. Resistance Movements

The network of US military bases is strategic, located in prcximity of traditional strategic resources including nonrenewable sources of energy. This military presence has brought about political opposition and resistance from progressive movements and antiwar activists.

Demonstrations directed against US military presence has developed in Spain, Ecuador, Italy, Paraguay, Uzbekistan, Bulgaria and in many other countries. Moreover, other long-termer resistance movements directed against US military presence have continued in South Korea, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Philippines, Cuba, Europe, Japan and other locations.

The Worldwide resistance to US foreign military bases has grown during the last few years. We are dealing with an International Network for the Abolition of US Military Bases.

Such networks’ objective is to broadly pursue disarmament, demilitarization processes Worldwide as well as dismantle US military bases in foreign countries.

The NO BASES Network organizes educational campaigns to sensitize public opinion.  It also works to rehabilitate abandoned military sites, as in the case of Western Europe.

These campaigns, until 2004, had a local and national impact.

The network is now in a position to reach people Worldwide. The network itself underscores that “much can be gained from greater and deeper linkages among local and national campaigns and movements across the globe. Local groups around the world can learn and benefit from sharing information, experiences, and strategies with each other”

(http://www.no-bases.org/index.php?mod=network&bloque=1&idioma=en )

“The realisation that one is not alone in the struggle against foreign bases is profoundly empowering and motivating. Globally coordinated actions and campaigns can highlight the reach and scale of the resistance to foreign military presence around the world. With the trend of rising miniaturization and resort to the use of force around the world, there is now an urgent and compelling need to establish and strengthen an international network of campaigners, organisations, and movements working with a special and strategic focus on foreign military presence and ultimately, working towards a lasting and just system of peace»

(http://www.no-bases.org/index.php?mod=network&bloque=1&idioma=en )

The Afghanistan and Iraq wars have, in this regard, created a favourable momentum, which has contributed to the reinforcement of the movement to close down US military bases in foreign countries:

“At the time of an International anti-war meeting held in Jakarta in May 2003, a few weeks after the start of the Iraq invasion, a global anti-military Bases campaign has been proposed as an action to priorize among global anti-war, justice and solidarity movements»  (http://www.no-bases.org/index.php?mod=network&bloque=1&idioma=en).

Since then, the campaign has acquired greater recognition. E-mail lists have been compiled (nousbases@lists.riseup.net  and nousbases-info@lists.riseup.net ) that permit the diffusion of the movement members experiences and information and discussion exchanges. That list now groups 300 people and organizations from 48 countries. A Web site permits also to adequately inform all Network members. Many rubrics provide highly valuable information on ongoing activities around the World.

http://www.no-bases.org/index.php?mod=network&bloque=1&idioma=en

In addition, the Network is more and more active and participates in different activities. At the World Social Forums it organized various conferences and colloquia. It was present at the European Social Forum held in Paris in 2003 and in London in 2004 as well as at the the America’s Social Forum in Ecuador in 2004, and at the Mediterranean Social Forum in Spain in 2005.

One of the major gatherings, which was held in Mumbai, India, in 2004, was within the framework of the World Social Forum. More than 125 participants from 34 countries defined the foundations of a coordinated global campaign.

Action priorities were identified, such as the determination of a global day of action aiming at underscoring major issues stemming from the existence of US military bases. The Network also held four discussion sessions at the Porto Alegre Social Forum in 2005. One of those pertained to the financing of the Network’s activities.

It is important to recall that the Network belongs to the Global Peace Movement. Justice and Peace organizations have  become more sensitized on what was at stake regarding US military bases.

Map 11. Social and Resistence Movements in Latin America

Source : http://www.visionesalternativas.com/militarizacion/mapas/mapahegem.htm

The Quito and Manta International Conference, Ecuador, March 2007

A Network World Conference for the Abolition of Foreign Military Bases was held at Quito and at Manta, Ecuador, from March 5 to 9 2007

(http://72.14.205.104/search?q=cache:SmEvQwFUeiAJ:www.abolishbases.org/pdf/CalltoEcuadorFlyer-Francais.pdf+R%C3%A9seau+mondial+des+bases+militaires&hl=fr&gl=ca&ct=clnk&cd=3&lr=lang_fr ).

The objective of the Conference was to underscore the political, social, environmental and economic impacts of US military bases, to make known the principles of the various Anti-Bases movements and to formally build the Network, its strategies, structure and Action Plans. The main objectives of the Conference were the following:

–           Analyze the role of Foreign Military Bases and other features of military presence associated to the global dominance strategy and their impacts upon population and environment;

–           Share experiences and reinforce the built solidarity resulting from the resistance battles against Foreign military Bases around the World;

–           Reach a consensus on objectives mechanisms, on action plans, on coordination, on communication and on decision making of a Global Network for the abolition of all Foreign military Bases and of all other expressions of military presence; and

–            Establish global action plans to fight and reinforce the resistance of local people and ensure that these actions are being coordinated at the international level.

Conclusion

This article has focussed on the Worldwide development of US military power.

The US tends to view the Earth surface as a vast territory to conquer, occupy and exploit. The fact that the US Military splits the World up into geographic command units vividly illustrates this underlying geopolitical reality.

Humanity is being controlled  and enslaved by this Network of US military bases. .

The ongoing re-deployment of US troops and military bases has to be analyzed in a thorough manner if we wish to understand the nature of US interventionism  in different regions of the World.

This militarization process is characterized by armed aggression and warfare, as well as interventions called “cooperation agreements”. The latter reaffirmed America’s economic design design in the areas of trade and investment practices. Economic development is ensured through the miniaturization or the control of governments and organizations. Vast resources are thereby expended and wasted in order to allow such control to be effective, particularly  in regions which have a strategic potential in terms of wealth and resources and which are being used to consolidate the Empire’s structures and functions.

The setting up of the International Network for the Abolition of Foreign Military Bases turns out to be an extraordinary means to oppose the miniaturization process of the Planet. Such Network is indispensable and its growth depends on a commitment of all the People of the World. It will be extremely difficult to mobilize them, but the ties built up by the Network among its constituent resistance movements are a positive element, which is ultimately conducive to more cohesive and coordinated battle at the World level.

The Final Declaration of the Second International Conference against Foreign Military Bases which was held in Havana in November 2005 and was endorsed by delegates from 22 countries identifies most of the major issues, which confront mankind. This Declaration constitutes a major peace initiative. It establishes  international solidarity in the process of  disarmament.

Washington Is Intent on Destroying Iran

On February 18 the leader of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, declared that Iran “is trying to establish this continuous empire surrounding the Middle East from the south in Yemen but also trying to create a land bridge from Iran to Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Gaza. This is a very dangerous development for our region.” Netanyahu’s presentation was dismissed by the Iranian foreign minister as “a cartoonish circus,” but it was nonetheless a reflection of the policy of the United States, which is Israel’s mentor and unconditional ally.

Last November Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei suggested to President Vladimir Putin that Tehran and Moscow should cooperate more fully to try to dissuade the US from further disruptive dabbling throughout the Middle East. His opinion was that “Our cooperation can isolate America. The failure of US-backed terrorists in Syria cannot be denied but Americans continue their plots,” which is certainly the case, because although the so-called “moderate rebels” who were recruited to overthrow President Assad, with massive amounts of assistance from the Pentagon and the CIA, collapsed in ignominious failure, the US fandangos continue. Washington is not going to give up, and the Trump administration seems to relish being isolated by almost everyone.

During his time in the White House, President Obama tried to get US-Iran relations on an even keel, and managed to temporarily overcome the Washington warmongers to some extent and push forward the tension-reducing, trade-improving, Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) concerning Iran’s nuclear programme, which the BBC described as “the signature foreign policy achievement of Barack Obama’s presidency.” It was settled two years ago by China, France, Germany, Russia, the UK and the US in a most welcome example of international solidarity and downright common sense, and removed sanctions on Iran in exchange for Teheran’s agreement to limit its nuclear research and development.

Federica Mogherini, the European Union’s foreign affairs representative wrote last year that the arrangement was achieving its main purpose of “ensuring the purely peaceful, civilian nature of Iran’s nuclear programme. The International Atomic Energy Agency – the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog – has issued four reports on the matter and has regularly verified that Iran is complying with its nuclear-related obligations. This means that the Iranian nuclear programme has been significantly reformatted and downsized and is now subject to intense monitoring by the IAEA. The joint commission – which I coordinate – oversees constantly the implementation of the agreement, meeting regularly, which allows us to detect even minor possible deviations and to take necessary corrective measures if the need arises.

The deal is also working for Iran. Major companies are investing in the country: the oil sector, the automotive industry, commercial aircraft, just to give a few examples, are areas where significant contracts have been concluded.”

The JCPOA was indeed a marked diplomatic success on the part of Obama as well as being a victory for pragmatic common sense. So naturally the egregious Donald Trump has been trying to destroy it. On February 3 Trump enforced and it’s been downhill all the way since then. The sanctions that had been imposed and then withdrawn had been aimed at limiting Iran’s nuclear programme and the EU quite rightly wanted to confine them to nuclear-related agencies — the individuals and organisations directly associated with nuclear matters — but the United States, even in the Obama-guided era, wouldn’t confine itself to the main aspect of the agreement. It introduced sanctions of its own, intended to make it difficult for other nations to trade with Iran, which is consistent with its longtime spiteful attitude to Tehran’s government.

The United States is determined to destroy Iran. For almost forty years, since the overthrow of the corrupt CIA-backed monarch, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, Washington has been on the warpath against the mullahs in Tehran. There wasn’t much to choose, comfort-wise between the Shah and his successor, the intensely religious Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, but morally there was a chasm.

The Shah was deeply unpopular and in the late 1970s there were mass demonstrations against him and the country dissolved into chaos. He had to go, and the only possible replacement was the Ayatollah who was living in exile in France, having escaped from the persecution of the Shah’s dreaded secret police, the Savak, in the 1960s. Two weeks after the Shah fled from Iran, the Ayatollah returned to Iran on 1 February 1979 in triumph and to a level of acclaim not shared by all its citizens.

During the Shah’s dictatorship Iran was a good place to live for many people. There was no freedom of speech, but there was a lot of freedom to make money, especially in the US. There was sixty per cent illiteracy, but women were allowed to wear what clothes they wished and to move freely in society — except in the countryside, of course, where they were kept in their place as second-class citizens exactly as they are in present-day Muslim states such as US allies Saudi Arabia and Bahrain.

What really vexes the extremists in Washington is the memory of humiliation when the US embassy in Tehran was attacked by mobs of students in November 1979, only ten months after Khomeini took over. There is little doubt that the attackers were students, but there is equally little doubt that they had the Ayatollah’s blessing (as it were) to storm the embassy and take the staff hostage. They demanded the return of the Shah to stand trial in Tehran — a ridiculous condition for cessation of their demented antics — but 52 US citizens were held hostage in Iran from November 1979 to January 1981, which was not just an awkwardness for Washington: it was an ineradicable embarrassment, an international degradation of colossal proportions that could never be forgiven.

It was convenient to forget the hideous savagery of the Shah’s regime when, for example,

“American-trained counterinsurgency troops of the Iranian Army and Savak [the Iranian CIA] killed more than 6,000 people on June 5, 1963.”

The Ayatollah had taken over and was forever to be condemned for his audacity. His successors in the political sphere could never right the wrongs that had been done to the global image of the United States. As put by Martin Ennals, secretary general of Amnesty International,

“The Shah of Iran retains his benevolent image despite the highest rate of death penalties in the world, no valid system of civilian courts and a history of torture which is beyond belief.”

In 2002 the appalling President George W Bush, the man who took his country into its disastrous wars against Iraq and Afghanistan, conjured up the phrase the axis of evil, and put the world on notice that America would overcome any country that opposed it. His speech was dramatic and he declared that “North Korea is a regime arming with missiles and weapons of mass destruction, while starving its citizens” which was true. And still is true, after 15 years in which the US has managed to do exactly nothing to discourage North Korea from arming itself against invasion. Then he said that “Iraq continues to flaunt its hostility toward America and to support terror. The Iraqi regime has plotted to develop anthrax and nerve gas and nuclear weapons for over a decade” and a few months later he invaded Iraq to destroy its weapons of mass destruction, which of course didn’t exist.

Then Bush announced that “Iran aggressively pursues these weapons and exports terror, while an unelected few repress the Iranian people’s hope for freedom” which was formal warning to Iran that it was definitely on the target list, because “States like these, and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world.”

Since the era of the Bush wars, the world has certainly known no peace. Washington’s Military Industrial Complex has flourished while its soldiers died for nothing but profit.

The present US campaign against Iran is aimed at destroying the country economically and thus encouraging a violent revolution. And many western observers consider there’s a lot to be said for rising up against the ayatollahs, because they’re a bumptious arrogant unforgiving bunch of bigots who repress women and democracy. So why doesn’t the US have the same thoughts about Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States, whose unelected princely rulers repress women and do not tolerate democracy? What a horde of humbugs.

Iran is fighting for its life and the Trump administration is following George W Bush in his determination to destroy it. In January Trump tweeted that “The people of Iran are finally acting against the brutal and corrupt Iranian regime. All of the money that President Obama so foolishly gave them went into terrorism and into their “pockets.” The people have little food, big inflation and no human rights. The U.S. is watching!”

Washington is intent on destroying Iran, and the contents of that tweet could hardly be better reason for supporting Tehran in its struggle against the growing menace from the Trump-supported military-industrial complex. The world is watching.

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Brian Cloughley is a British and Australian armies’ veteran, former deputy head of the UN military mission in Kashmir and Australian defense attaché in Pakistan.

Mandalay CEO Sells Up Before Attack

From thetruthseeker.

MGM Grand owns Mandalay Bay Casino Hotel in Las Vegas, from where a shooter attacked a nearby Country Music Festival, killing 59 and injuring 527.  The Chief Executive Officer of MGM Grand, James Murren, suddenly began selling-off his MGM Grand Stocks in the weeks before the attack took place.

This leaves the question, why?

Did James Murren have prior knowledge that this attack was going to take place?  Did he know that the value of MGM Grand stocks would plummet after the attack, and so he cashed-out before the attack happened?

MGM Resorts International (NYSE: MGM) CEO James Murren sold 294,150 shares of the stock in a transaction on Friday, September 8th. The shares were sold at an average price of $34.08, for a total transaction of $10,024,632.00. This was a significant transfer of wealth.

Following the transaction, the chief executive officer now directly owns 71,442 shares in the company, valued at $2,434,743.36, having owned 365,592 shares before the transaction.

The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission (image provided), and can also be taken directly from the US Securities Exchange Commission website which can be accessed through this link.

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On Thursday, September 7th, James Murren sold 259,760 shares of MGM Resorts International stock. The stock was sold at an average price of $34.19, for a total transaction of $8,881,194.40.

On Wednesday, August 9th, James Murren sold 57,269 shares of MGM Resorts International stock. The shares were sold at an average price of $31.54, for a total transaction of $1,806,264.26.

On Monday, July 31st, James Murren sold 57,269 shares of MGM Resorts International stock. The shares were sold at an average price of $33.05, for a total transaction of $1,892,740.45.

Why did James Murren start dumping large amounts of his own company’s stock weeks before the attack?  Some are wondering if it may be because he had prior knowledge the attack was to take place.

 In the meantime, folks who hold stock in MGM Grand may wish to ask themselves if continuing to hold this stock is a smart move? Now that this information is out, it is likely that many, many people may choose to distance themselves from this corporation . . .  and we all know what happens when folks start “distancing themselves” from a particular stock — the value tends to PLUMMET.

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New Evidence on Las Vegas Attack Proves 2 Shooters

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A scientific study carried out by Natural News’ Mike Adams gives evidence for two shooters.

The ‘bombshell’ study takes into account gunshot audio taken from clips recorded at the scene.

Mr Adams claims that the ‘time lag’ between the last bullet hitting the pavement and the last audible report of the rifle muzzle can be used to accurately calculate the range of the shooter (relative to the position of the person recording the video).

The study reveals two shooters operating at the same time. Shooter #1 is operating at 425 – 475 yards, the distance of the Mandalay Bay hotel. Shooter #2 is operating at approximately 250 – 270 yards away.

Adams suggests the rooftop of the AMPM convenience store is a likely position for a second shooter. The northwest building of Oasis apartments and an elevated dirt mound also made the shortlist.

He made calls for authorities to search for the brass expended by firearms if they had not already done so, and to look for any evidence of gunfire in the 250-yard hot spot.

“The FBI could easily triangulate and pinpoint the second shooter” he stated,

“They have the resources to do it, so why are they not doing it?”

Washington May Plan to Nuke Russia and China

The possibility of a preemptive nuclear strike on Russia and China is an approach shortlisted by Washington Deep Statesmen amidst Globalist fears of slipping control.

Despite the best laid plans of Globalist mass psy-ops, funded terrorist organisations, ‘collateral damages’, and so on, the Global Elites realise they must up-the-ante to reach their goals to cripple the last superpower international opposition. With Russia and China out of the equation, there are no barriers to world government.

This increasingly aggressive stance has further escalated following the moment the Russian central bank opened its first overseas office in Beijing on March 14th this year, marking a step forward in forging a Beijing-Moscow alliance to bypass the US dollar in the global monetary system, and to phase-in a gold-backed standard of trade.

Nuclear War being prepared for:

Paul Craig Roberts explained in-detail the Globalist’s preparation for a possible surprise last-resort take-down on his website.

Lt. Gen. Viktor Poznikhir, Deputy Head of Operations of the Russian General Staff has concluded that Washington in pursuit of global hegemony is implementing an anti-ballistic missile system that Washington believes can prevent a Russian nuclear response to a US pre-emptive attack. http://www.fort-russ.com/2017/04/us-forces-preparing-sudden-nuclear.html

Careful studies have convinced the Russians that Washington is investing in and arranging components that have no other function than to devastate Russia and cripple the country’s retaliatory capability. In short, Washington is preparing to launch a nuclear war. https://www.rt.com/news/386276-us-missile-shield-russia-strike/

The amassing US militants in the South China Sea/Korean peninsula/Japan suggests that the US may be poised for a direct invasion of East Asia through North Korea as a hotbed trigger point, the invasion follow-through would lead into China and its other respective satellites in the case of the big showdown; if it gets the final go-ahead by the deep state neo-con shadow government.

It comes down to this, Washington is sufficiently criminally insane to risk the destruction of life on earth based on the supposition that Washington’s offence will work perfectly and Russia and China’s capabilities will be so degraded that no retaliatory response will occur.

Where then is the hope? Russia and China cannot simply sit there and await America’s preemptive nuclear strike, bit by bit their position is weakened to the point the weighing scales of power are irreversibly against them, luckily they are taking action to secure themselves at all levels.

• China is currently escalating its military presence in the South China Sea. China aims to extend its military reach into the South China Sea and Western Pacific in such a way that it can effectively control who can — and cannot — enter those regions.
• China launches new aircraft carrier, April 2017. It is not expected to be operational until 2020 and will carry China’s Shenyang J-15 fighter jets.
• Vladimir Putin, in late 2016, posted nuclear weapons in far-east Siberia, well within range of Western-coast US states & their major cities.
• 2016, Russia deploys Baltic missile system in response to US missile system in Eastern Europe.
• Vladimir Putin, in 2016, has stationed nuclear weapons in Kaliningrad, Russia’s Baltic exclave in Europe, well within range of all major European cities.
• ~330,000 Russian soldiers are currently stationed on Moscow’s western border as the Russian satellites lean towards Western control.
• Iran and Russia are moving closer together in their military alliance, working to boost ties and coordination in Syria and elsewhere in the region following the U.S. decision to launch a military strike in Syria, according to regional reports and experts.
• The Middle East and Syria – where Russia has staged its first large-scale military action outside the borders of the former Soviet Union since communism.
• Russia seizes Crimea in 2014 in a bid to secure adjacent waters in the Black Sea following US-led & funded manipulation of Ukrainian politics. The Russian taking of Crimea prevents the US from building extensive naval presence in the region, and defends an important Russian pipeline into the EU.
• Russia is making provisions for economic immunity from Western sanctions, especially following the US orchestrated oil crisis that battered the Russian economy. The Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) marks a big step towards gold-backed currencies in the far-East, this is undoubtedly a move towards financial independence, free of the shackles of the USD. Putin seeks to include China, India, Iran (among others) in this arrangement.

On the US continuing to expand their missile infrastructure, despite the signing of the nuclear deal with Iran. “The threat is gone, but the creation of the missile defense system is continuing.” — Vladimir Putin

China creates island territory in the South China Sea region.

Possibly Washington does not intend to conduct a preemptive nuclear strike, but only to convince Russia and China that Washington’s preparations give Washington so much predominance in a conflict that Russia and China will submit to Washington’s hegemony. But this interpretation of Washington’s intention implies no less risk. Why would Russia and China wait for Washington to complete its preparations for war, preparations that permit Washington to turn Russia and China into puppet states? The above listed actions from Russia and China details their counter-measures to retain global balance.

Trump, under threat of impeachment must do the bidding of the Elite or face prosecution and personal reputation-obliterating scandal.

During a Syrian air force attack on an ISIS position, a chemical weapon exploded, or so it is alleged. Instantly Washington said that Assad had used “Sarin gas against his own people.” Trump was shown photos of dead babies and stupidly ordered a US military strike against Syria.

This action against Syria can be classified as a war-crime, as arbitrarily bombing a sovereign nation without any legal oversight is categorically in contravention to Geneva convention statutes.

As a result, the Deep state can and probably have already swarmed forth, and eagerly used this set-up as blackmail ammunition to force Trump into becoming yet another puppet, else risk his personal reputation in a scandal that would see his impeachment. The Presidency is once again under Globalist control, hence why Trump is now distancing himself from his campaign promises.

“I am a nationalist and a Globalist.” — Donald J. Trump, April 2017

Trump under extreme neo-con pressure to take action in middle-east as Globalist-funded terrorist group, ISIS, loses big-time in war to oust Assad.

According to White House sources who spoke to Infowars, Trump is reticent to see U.S. troops embroiled in yet another Middle East quagmire, but is under pressure from top neo-cons in his administration to prevent Russia from dominating the region as the fall of ISIS nears. Trump has been isolated and surrounded by a Globalist dominated cabinet.

End-game plan to strike down the last opposing superpowers in one fell swoop.

One might hope that the American and Western populations would be outraged that Washington is so power-crazed that Washington is subjecting all life to such risks. But there is no sign of an anti-war movement. The Western left-wing has degenerated into obsession with pointless information such as ‘Identity Politics’ in which the only threat comes from white heterosexual males who are portrayed as misogynists, racists, and homophobes.

The Western left-wing is no longer war-conscious. Indeed, the left-wing has become diverted into such silly irrelevancies as transgender rights to toilets of their choice. The impotence of the Western left is so overwhelming that the left might as well not exist.

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The decades-long tug-of-war to break the last independent sources of oil & other important natural resources, namely the states of Iran and Syria, both who have chosen to not trade in the medium of the US dollar as world reserve currency, is a struggle between the single-currency one-world globalist vision of the US Empire, and the last truly nationally leaning powers; Russia and China.

If Russia – the world’s fourth largest gold producer after China, Japan and the US – is set to become a major supplier of gold to China, the probability of a scenario hinted by many over the years, namely that Beijing is preparing to eventually unroll a gold-backed currency, increases by orders of magnitude.

The formation of the Eurasian Economic Union is the East’s answer to increasing Western economic sanctions and pressures, when backed into a corner, the Eastern superpowers must work together, or face economic bullying that will eventually bring them down.

“It is a bloc meant to rival the European Union and the United States in its influence in Russia’s near abroad.” — Stratfor

The dollar is not gold backed, and is printed out of thin air by the Federal Reserve, as long as the petrodollar system exists, the US has infinite funds at its disposal.

In an attempt to turn the tables, China and Russia are shifting away from dollar-based trade, to commerce which will eventually be backstopped by gold, or what is gradually emerging as an Eastern gold standard, one shared between Russia and China, and which may one day backstop their respective currencies.

The imperialistic petrodollar system relies on international cooperation through military coercion and bullying, first a financial offer will be made, if that is rejected military intervention takes place, i.e. Libya, Iraq etc. 

Cultural Marxism Explained

The concept of ‘cultural Marxism‘ is a persistent and important term in the world of political activism. It is a term of the utmost pertinence in understanding the globalist spurred motives for the engineered happenings of the past, present, and future. It represents an ideology that seeks to impose a uniformity of thought and behaviour, and is therefore totalitarian in nature.

“A worldwide overturning of values cannot take place without the annihilation of the old values and the creation of new ones by the revolutionaries (the elite).” — Georg Lukacs, Marxist philosopher

If we break it down, the term denotes the gradual denigration and neutralisation of Western ideals through the application of ‘critical theory’ this is essentially destructive criticism of the main elements of Western culture, including Christianity, capitalism, authority, the family, patriarchy, hierarchy, morality, tradition, sexual restraint, loyalty, patriotism, nationalism, heredity, ethnocentrism, convention and conservatism.

At its core, this is a satanic agenda in disguise. It only takes a quick look into Biblical history to see that Cain, the smith, embodies the socialist-communist icon. Karl Marx was inspired by darkness, as detailed in ‘Marx and Satan’ by Richard Wurmbrand.

“Bilderberg pulls the strings of every government and intelligence agency in the Western world.” ― James Morcan, The Ninth Orphan

The reality will be enslavement, a state of absolute control over the domain of the human body; which is the ‘last frontier’ of autocratic self-determination. It will be a world without the liberties we enjoy today. A climate without the freedoms and natural rights we are presently accustomed to — and take for granted.

“Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.” – Samuel Adams, Essay in the Public Advertiser, 1749

Our Gods will be our overlords (government, from govern: control, and ment: mind), our indoctrinated customs and values will rally under their dominion, our very existence spent in a state of perpetual serfdom and servitude, we will give up our liberty for security and find ourselves chained in a cell.

“The very definition of tyranny is when all powers are gathered under one place.” – James Madison, The Federalist No. 47

It only takes a glance at the godless, communist stronghold, North Korea, to see this system in action. It will be a state of suppressed consciousness, no volume of media shall dissent their supreme narrative, no inkling of doubt shall sway their absolutism. We will be programmed to adore it, and the great teachings of old will be ashes lost in the wind, their peculiar brand of ‘progress’ is the free man’s nightmare.

Dictator Kim Jong Un addresses his footmen.

Cultural Marxism is fundamentally a socialist idea, it shifts what empowers the people to the state level and calls it equality, but in practise it has only ever failed miserably. The natural state of the world is inequality. It is a vain effort to concentrate the burden of inequality in the hands of a few, as this does not escape the self-evident corruptibility of our human condition, we will always be liable to corruption, so why try to fix our imperfections with more imperfection?

The Marxist idea is flawed because of this, it seeks to replace individual morality by addressing morality and justice through state intervention, the truth is these things will never be fixed; it must be left between the deep consultation of the individual and a Bible.

Free will cannot be tamed.

Our free-will means both good and bad, Marxism cannot seem to accept this, so it attempts to tear down what makes us human in order to ‘fix’ us. The truth is, we fix ourselves under the scriptures, self-discipline and following the long-held values we see in Western society; which is largely based on biblical scriptures. Even then, there will still be those who choose to sin.

Socialism is destructive, Capitalism is progressive.

“Socialism is not in the least what is pretends to be. It is not the pioneer of a better and finer world, but the spoiler of what thousands of years of civilisation have created. It does not build, it destroys. For destruction is the essence of it. It produces nothing, it only consumes what the social order based on private ownership in the means of production has created . . . Each step leading towards Socialism must exhaust itself in the destruction of what already exists.” — Ludvig Von Mises, Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis

More commonly it is known as “multiculturalism”, ‘globalisation’ or, less formally, ‘political correctness’. From its beginning, the promoters of cultural Marxism have known they could be more effective if they concealed the Marxist nature of their work, hence the use of terms such as “multiculturalism.” These deceptive monikers mask the ideological root, and have served to dissuade criticism, and show the face of ‘multiculturalism’ as a progressive, virtuous effort. It is quite the contrary.

Churchill addressed the socialist issue astutely, the equal sharing of miseries;

“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.” — Winston Churchill

Cultural Marxism/Socialism has an end goal, destroying Western culture and Biblical faith, the value system that upholds individual liberty, and prevents tyranny from taking hold.

“If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking… is freedom.”— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Ancient roots of socialism.

This pursuit for global governance has been evident since the first stirrings of human civilisation, as noted by scriptures in the Babylonian efforts to build a great tower to the heavens, the iconic tower of Babel.

By placing the Tower of Babel incident just prior to the stories of Abram and his descendants, the biblical writer is suggesting, in the first place, that post-flood humanity is as wicked as pre-flood humanity. Rather than sending something as devastating as a flood to annihilate mankind, however, God now places His hope in a covenant with Abraham as a powerful solution to humanity’s sinfulness. This tells us that force from a higher power (Communism-Socialism) will never save mankind, but mankind must save itself on an individual basis, through the Holy covenant.

This leads right into the Tower of Babel account in 11:1-9. In 11:1, Moses writes, “Now the whole earth used the same language and the same words.” After the flood, the whole earth spoke the same language. But man’s habitual sin brought about the language barrier.

In 11:2, we read these fateful words: “It came about as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.” The word “east” is intentionally alluded to in the Scriptures, to let us know that a person or group is moving contrary to God’s will. In the Genesis narratives, when man goes “east,” he leaves the land of blessing (Eden and the Promised Land) and goes to a land where the greatest of his hopes will turn to ruin (Babylon and Sodom).¹⁹

• A classical Freemason term of acknowledgement is “I’m travelling in the East“. The East symbolises where the sun rises, and is the icon of rebellion against God.

Please also notice that they “settled” in Shinar. In 9:1, God clearly commanded Noah and his sons to “be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth” (cf. 8:17). There is no reason to suspect that Noah’s descendants did not understand what God wanted. God wanted them to move throughout all the earth but they banded together in order to defy God’s command. They selected the best land that they could find; they staked their claim in the land of Shinar, a place that becomes associated with evil.

They said, ‘Come, let us build for ourselves a city, and a tower whose top will reach into heaven, and let us make for ourselves a name, otherwise we will be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.’” The motivation for building a city was to make the builders a name (cf. Ps 14:1). The object of this endeavor was to establish a center by which they might maintain their unity.²¹ Now God desired unity for humankind, but one that He created, not one founded on a social state. They wanted to “empower” themselves. Both motive and object were ungodly. God had instructed man to fill the earth (1:28), to spread over the whole planet. The builders of the “tower” seem to have intended that it serve as a memorial or landmark among other things.

Socialism attempts to fix humankind with more humankind.

What we have learned here is that looking to society (people)/socialism for the big answers, and not God, is undoubtedly a big mistake. Looking towards self-determination without the values posed by God will bring only chaos, ruin, and anguish. Capitalism leaves us to choose our path relative to the natural laws posed by the Bible, our government fully representative of us, and we representative of our government — socialist governments seldom represent the average man.

“Socialists cry “Power to the people”, and raise the clenched fist as they say it. We all know what they really mean – power over people, power to the State.” — Margaret Thatcher, speech to Conservative Central Council, March 15, 1986

Socialism/communism (Without religion) puts the authority in the hands of the few people that rule. When will we accept that the human condition is terribly flawed? Human masters are still human, imperfect, and liable to exude these imperfections as we all do, hence the classical term; ‘human error’. We can’t escape that, not even in Marx’s Utopian vision.

The truth is that all of the divisions of the whole world are a result of sin and the righteous judgement of God. Socialism aims to fix this by introducing an eternally ongoing political campaign to pretend that we, as humans, can ever hope to fix sin as a community; it’s simply empty platitude, and a poor disguise to try and make the Bible seem redundant.

Mikhail Bakunin, the infamous Russian anarchist and for a while co-warrior of Marx: “The Evil One is the satanic revolt against divine authority, revolt in which we see the fecund germ of all human emancipations, the revolution. Socialists recognise each other by the words, ‘In the name of the one to whom a great wrong has been done.’” (He is speaking of Satan)

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Are the Jews to blame?

Is the Globalist push for a NWO/Marxist-Socialist word order a Jewish plan? No.

Judaism is the true faith, by assuming the identity of Judaism the culprits are able to be hidden in plain sight.

By getting theorists and activists to turn against, and lambaste Judaism, they win in suppressing the Biblical values and practices that are their undoing.

As for Christianity, it is partially true, but overall it is false. ‘Churchianity’ as coined by Michael Rood, is at its roots, a misleading, pagan-influenced cult order that links to sun worship; one of the many names for Satanism. It outright ignores vast amounts of scripture, and does not teach the true practices of the Torah, it is more a weak gesture than a true practice of faith.

In the case of Catholicism, the Papal system is heavily imbued in Satanic practices, Christianity is an imitation of Judaism founded during the Council of Nicaea to conflate pagan deities with Jewish scriptures for the sake of collectivist religion, this made ruling easier for the Roman empire.

All in all, for the hope that we seek, the unity which man cannot find on his own, will only be revealed when we get to God’s covenant promises made to Abram.

I will end on this powerful quote by a former Marxist advocate;

“I remained a socialist for several years, even after my rejection of Marxism; and if there could be such a thing as socialism combined with individual liberty, I would be a socialist still. For nothing could be better than living a modest, simple, and free life in an egalitarian society. It took some time before I recognized this as no more than a beautiful dream; that freedom is more important than equality; that the attempt to realize equality endangers freedom; and that, if freedom is lost, there will not even be equality among the unfree.” — Karl R. Popper, Unended Quest

 

Trump vs Globalists

Hillary’s apparently magnanimous concession speech lacked sincerity according to Rush Limbaugh via his radio show, Limbaugh alleges that the establishment are “seething” and within “two weeks” will respond with a gradual and vicious smear campaign that will spell Trump’s inauguration and presidency as one marred by a sorely divided public opinion.

The face of disappointment; barely contained by ‘false’ magnanimity. Bill Clinton is seen wiping a tear from his eye.

Dishonest media reporting did not hold back during the polling phase; portraying Trump as liable to “lose in a landslide” in a last ditch attempt to bend the already distorted, malleable public opinion towards a disenfranchised ‘would-be-trump’ vote for Hillary by means of doubt. The truth is, Trump was never going to lose in a landslide; establishment ‘experts’ and pollsters were lying more than ever in the moment it mattered most. Unsurprisingly, the negative publicity continues even now.

The establishment will be respectful today: but will bite hard tomorrow.

The establishment’s goal is to undermine and de-legitimise Trump’s capacity to enact legislation that threatens their ‘untouchable’ status quo. ‘Against the odds’ they have taken a heavy blow; and now it is an exhaustive game of mitigation against what Trump can do in government; if possible even forcing Trump’s resignation, how they will do this is anyone’s guess at present.

The establishment control the largest dormant financial crash in history; and might use it to smear and void Trump’s presidency.

The Federal Reserve is still in the Elite’s control, and may, ironically, prove to be their last ‘Trump’ card against President Trump. Dropping the financial bomb during Trump’s term and blaming it on him is a resort that cannot be ruled out.

The financial disarray would incite mass civil unrest atop an already deeply caustic distaste for Trump, perhaps prompting a revolutionary ousting.

Other sources allege Trump is a masterfully disguised establishment candidate.

Trump, who has been on record seen to mingle within Clinton circles is regarded by some sources as proof of Mr. Trump’s political infidelity.

• Trump is allegedly set to appoint a CFR member and former Goldman Sachs partner in his government.
• Trump has been seen making the ‘666’ hand gesture habitually, this may be coincidental, but could indicate occult affiliations.
• Trump is supportive of Israel, a nation that has done much to exacerbate the middle eastern crisis. While Trump’s attitude towards Israel could potentially be innocuous and discouraging of further oppressive foreign policy in bipartisan cooperation and funding of Israel, the possibility remains that Trump will not cease the imperialistic desires for a Greater Israel to be established, a big goal for the Elites.
• Trump is set to appoint Illuminati affiliated Newt Gingrich to exercise his foreign policy.

Whatever the truth is, all will come to fruition when Trump is inaugurated and he finally begins to enact the past few years’ rhetoric, how much will actually be implemented, how much was pandering?

 

Why the Elite hate Russia

Originally appeared on Zero Hedge

In our previous article The Secret Truth about Russia Exposed, we elaborated on how Russia is a convenient enemy for politicians and specifically the Democratic party, to create an enemy that really, well – doesn’t exist to distract and confuse voters.  But like with any ‘enemy’ if you bomb a village, you may have some pissed off villagers.  As we explain in our best selling book Splitting Pennies – the world doesn’t work the way you see on TV – in fact, it works more closely as seen on Zero Hedge.  Although Russia simply is just a country in the wrong place at the wrong time (which, throughout Russian history, seems to be a theme for them) – there really is a reason the Elite hate Russia.  It’s not because they’re Xenophobic, although there’s that too – it’s because of several key factors that make Russia a unique power in the world, compared to similar countries.

1. Russia is an independent country.  It’s not possible to manipulate Russia via external remote control, like it is most countries.  The Elite don’t like that!  Russia kicked out Soros “Open Society”:

Russia has banned a pro-democracy charity founded by hedge fund billionaire George Soros, saying the organization posed a threat to both state security and the Russian constitution. In a statement released Monday morning, Russia’s General Prosecutor’s Office said two branches of Soros’ charity network — the Open Society Foundations (OSF) and the Open Society Institute (OSI) — would be placed on a “stop list” of foreign non-governmental organizations whose activities have been deemed “undesirable” by the Russian state. 

2. Russia is not easy to cripple via clandestine means, whether it be CIA, MI6, or outright military conflict.  Some other BRICs however, that’s not the case.  Say what you will about Russia’s military – it’s on par and in many cases, advanced, compared to the US military.  And that’s not AN opinion, that’s in the opinion of top US military commanders:

Late in September, we brought you “US Readies Battle Plans For Baltic War With Russia” in which we described a series of thought experiments undertaken by The Pentagon in an effort to determine what the likely outcome would be should something go horribly “wrong” on the way to landing the US in a shooting war with Russia in the Balkans. 

The results of those thought experiments were not encouraging. As a reminder, here’s how Foreign Policy summed up the exercises:

3. Russian culture, and language, is too complex for the average “Elite” who pretends to be internationally well versed because they had a few semesters of French.  For example, when the diplomat Clinton was Secretary of State, she presented a reset button translating the opposite meaning… ooops.

“I would like to present you with a little gift that represents what President Obama and Vice President Biden and I have been saying and that is: ‘We want to reset our relationship, and so we will do it together.’ …

“We worked hard to get the right Russian word. Do you think we got it?” she asked Lavrov, laughing. “You got it wrong,” said Lavrov, as both diplomats laughed.

“It should be “perezagruzka” [the Russian word for reset],” said Lavrov.”This says ‘peregruzka,’ which means ‘overcharged.’”

Yes, it’s almost a certainty that if Clinton by some horrible fate is President there will be Nuclear war.  Wars have been started over much more subtle mistakes.  One would think, that Clinton would have had an advisor CHECK THIS before presenting it in a public ceremony, in front of reporters?  How much more blatantly unprofessional can one be?  If politicians worked in the private sector, they wouldn’t last a day!  How do these people advance so far in politics?

“I would like to present you with a little gift that represents what President Obama and Vice President Biden and I have been saying and that is: ‘We want to reset our relationship, and so we will do it together.’ …

“We worked hard to get the right Russian word. Do you think we got it?” she asked Lavrov, laughing. “You got it wrong,” said Lavrov, as both diplomats laughed.

“It should be “perezagruzka” [the Russian word for reset],” said Lavrov.”This says ‘peregruzka,’ which means ‘overcharged’

4. Plain and simple, the Elite do not control Russia.  While there are backchannels of Russian oligarchs that work directly with Western Rothschild interests, for example, they simply don’t have the same level of control as they do European countries, like Germany for instance.  Or another good example is China, there’s this fanatical talk that China can dump US Treasuries blah blah blah the fact is that China is completely dependent on USA and US Dollars, and will be for the rest of our lives.  Maybe in 1000 years in the Dong Dynasty still to come they will rule the world but it’s not going to happen anytime soon.

Russia is one of the most highly misunderstood cultures in the West.  Which is strange, because Russia is more like America than any European country:

• Both Russia and America share huge landmasses with large undeveloped territory
• Both Russia and America are predominantly white christian majorities (although in last decades, America tries to be more of a melting pot whereas Russia favors ethnic cleansing)
• Both Russia and America fought against Hitler and the Nazis during World War 2, the defining event of the last 60 years

There have been numerous interesting situations where Russia helped America and America helped Russia on a number of levels, to learn more about it checkout the following books:

Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution.  Armand Hammer: The Untold Story

Most interestingly, during the Nixon administration Kissinger was prodding Nixon to partner with Russia that would, in Kissinger’s view would create an unstoppable alliance, that no one could compete with such a superpower axis.  But, it didn’t happen, as there were ‘neo-cons’ who were against it, mostly Polish Catholics who have some deep genetic fear of any culture using the Cyrillic alphabet.  Nixon instead chose China (what a mistake!) and created Forex.  But the point being that, through a small slip of fate, “China” may have been in this alternative Kissinger reality the ‘Great Evil Enemy’ hacking our elections, as we drive across the Alaskan-Siberian highway without any speed limit, oil would be ten cents a gallon, and we wouldn’t need to war with the Middle East.

To summarise, Russia is the thorn in the Globalist side; a stubbornly entrenched nationalistic landmass that is well and truly prepared to roll with the punches. It will take a great measure to shift this last grande obstacle before a world government can be ushered in.

To learn more about how the world really works, checkout Splitting Pennies the book, or checkout Fortress Capital Trading Academy.

Will a Nuclear War Happen?

On the day when the fictitious universe known as fallout suffered its nuclear Armageddon in 2077 AD, it cannot be more relevant in discussing the looming nuclear war that may be about to erupt in the real world. Will it happen?

The short answer is on a basis of happenstance, no; but from a perspective of Globalist engineered incitement; almost certainly in one form or another, I believe. What is unfolding in present times is insinuative of what might stumble from classic cold war era rhetoric into a hot conflict of global proportions.

Prior major conflicts were just setting the scene: economically whittling down global powers (Britain, France, Russia etc) while ensuring the USA came out as king; steps to a new world order.

By reference to history, any decent predictor should consult the chronologies of our times; we are overdue for a war as subsequent to a major financial collapse, the most recent being the notable crisis in 2009.

• Panic of 1901, a U.S. economic recession that started a fight for financial control of the Northern Pacific Railway
• Panic of 1907, a U.S. economic recession with bank failures – both arguably led to WW1.
• The Great Depression  (1929-39) which shortly preceded WW2

and now in recent times…

• 2009 global financial crash
• 2014 Russian financial crisis
• 2015 Chinese stock market crash

The world is being cultivated by the Globalist bankers for a major conflict. Massive currency and resource wars i.e. Saudi Oil embargo against Russia; provocations left, right and centre; and a huge proxy-war in the middle east against key Russian allies, Syria and Iran.

Encroaching threat: the US has bribed and cajoled European satellite states into its dominion by conquest or by its huge financial leverage (i.e. Ukraine). The missile shield ‘defence’ system is poised towards Russia, the field is set for a strike.

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One theory states that the Globalist West will use WW3 to cover up the financial collapse implicated by the fiat currency system currently used by the Federal Reserve.

This absolutely makes sense, as the USD leads (or has led) as the world reserve currency. However, the USD’s upcoming demise and the rise of the East as an economic powerhouse is quite inevitable – The Globalist elites enthroned in the USA will not go down quietly, and will not cede the shining opportunity to establish a uni-polar world order of their rule, the world population is only getting bigger, and their Globalist politics is waning at the seams, as the UK leaves the EU and Russia and China push further for a Eurasian Union replete with its own currency set to pressure US dominance, and to rival the protectionism of the EU.

People that opposed the federal reserve fraudsters 

“When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes… Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain.” – Napoleon Bonaparte

This financial instability comes after the financial elites/shadow government printed the USA’s way to massive, (but illusory) fortune for an extended time via the federal reserve (federal reserve explained) ever since the turn of the 20th century, this has been falsely propping up a husk of a rotting economy that should have crashed big time by now. All of this is to come down with one big crash that will allow the Globalists to maintain control – it is the only logical way forward, this means war – world war, as this upcoming financial crash is billed to be the biggest ever by many big names in economics – unless something happens to coincide with it.

A major US economic crash can hopefully be drowned out by the sound of a world war’s bang. This keeps the controllers in power, who save face by blaming the crash on war costs for a ‘good cause’ in fighting war.

9/11 followed a similar narrative, when the pentagon admitted some $6.5 trillion dollars was missing the day before the infamous attacks took place, which conveniently destroyed key evidence that would have surely led to prosecutions & convictions regarding this massive financial fraud. If a massive event such as 9/11 can be used to cover up financial fraud at one level, then why can’t a huge war be used to cover up fraud at an even greater level? When the very throne of the shadow government is at stake, a third world war to maintain that throne is very plausible.

‘Too Big to Fail’

The US Dollar relies on its global influence, or more accurately, bullying, to stay intact as exempt of the predominantly acknowledged financial rules i.e. gold backing (that Nixon cast out during his term); this is the ‘golden’ rule that other world currencies must adhere to, or face financial ruin.

The ‘Federal’ Reserve: Neither federal nor a legitimate reserve for a legitimate currency.

This is why the elites are panicking, as the world begins to turn away from US Dollar as the reserve currency, the US as a result will crumble in the consequences of decades of faking it, a long-term indebtedness to China and other nations will come to the fore very quickly as the facade of the huge federal reserve inflation bubble wears off.

The facade can only be maintained for so long, all must come to the light.

The Federal Reserve bankers can only keep the lie going for so long, the geopolitical pressures combined with the weakening of the USD as reserve currency means falsehood based, fiat economics’ days are numbered, and with it the seat of Globalism as a unilateral powerhouse.

Currently, the US is the worlds’ police state, keeping its subsidiaries, much like a global corporate entity; subservient to the largest stakeholder that makes the rules, and enforces these rules by mode of force. Without the brooding military assertiveness of the states, it would cease to hold all the cards in the global economy, the thorn in its side resides in the few states that dissent from the dominance of the unbacked USD, Syria, Iran, China and Russia.

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WW3 by False Flag Attack

Hillary has proposed an active military response against Russia if a cyber attack were to take place that could prospectively kill innumerable, the scary thing is that this is now legislated as an acceptable response; neocon shadow government has held this as a viable reaction to something that can easily be orchestrated, it just takes a slight prompt and all could go to oblivion.

Cyber Attack False Flag

An EMP (Electromagnetic Pulse) that could be falsely linked back to Moscow as a cyber attack might be in the works among the Globalist inner-circles, the next major ‘Gulf of Tonkin’ or ‘9/11’ false flag attack; but this one must kill many thousands, to permit WW3 against the Russians, and possibly the Chinese and draw from a world inflamed amidst chaos – a New World Order; one that proposes peaceable utopia, but propagates the contrary.

“What would a successful EMP attack look like? The EMP Commission, in 2008, estimated that within 12 months of a nationwide blackout, up to 90% of the U.S. population could possibly perish from starvation, disease and societal breakdown.”

While that figure (90%) may seem extraordinary, the implications of high population areas lacking adequate electricity means the fluency of the logistical facets at all levels of human society will be slowed exceptionally; many will inevitably die. This will incur panic, and an emotionally charged reaction, to deal with the cause of the issue.

The Globalists, snug in their padded bunkers will call the shots from behind the lines, having garnered a rally of public support in vanquishing the claimed ‘source’ of hardship and suffering; it will undoubtedly be Putin’s Russia as the strawman, the consequences of such popular permission for war will probably trigger full-blown nuclear conflict, a conflict that will end the world as we know it, unopposed in the state of its initiation due to an array of factitious maneuvers rendering popular opposition null and void.

The Dead of the Night

A blackout in the USA gives the opportunity for the Globalist corrupt to shut down major public domain communications, including the internet – and therefore act without accountability to the chance of widespread popular public resistance. In the dead of the night it has even been suggested FEMA camps will be put to use to imprison dissenter targets (patriots, anti-government individuals etc) already logged and predetermined as ‘terrorist’ targets, long before the ‘blackout’ event. The brainwashed servicemen and women will simply ‘follow orders’ and imprison these people.

Major Orchestrated Chaos Will Be Afoot

In the heat of this hectic chaos, and without the network of public communications to hamper big government overstepping the mark; a war with Russia can be and will be pursued without the threat of a large ‘rebellion’ rallying to diffuse such a conflict. Radios and rudimentary forms of communication will be the resort; mostly dominated by Globalist held stations that will blare propaganda to the unsuspecting public, blaming the Russians/East as responsible for the blackout.

The Globalists, in the shadows, will stir a public malaise; inculcated in a manufactured cocoon of deceit and propaganda from a blackout, to be exploited, to divide and rule the oblivious Western people in what remaining basic communication can be used. All awhile, the Globalists shall carry out the ‘necessary’ atrocities to eliminate their few remaining rivals in the world and usher in a world government.

The false-flag FEMA camp entrapment will ensure potential resistance is silenced, (in a time of national crisis). How this will be carried out is up to speculation, but I assume it will either be forcible or initially innocuous with ‘come, it is not safe as you lack electricity…’ etc and thus the potent dissenters will leave their homes in the name of security, and shall be subdued or held in these camps until after the conflict with Russia and the East has concluded, and the New World Order has been established.

Alleged locations of FEMA camps, lying dormant for a national crisis.

Nuclear Weapons Incidentally also Create an EMP Blast.

Characteristically, EMP waves are not too far removed from nuclear explosions themselves, being a common secondary impact. This may point to the shadow government intending to stage a nuclear attack, maybe even detonating something. Of course this is the lesser likelihood of possible staged events, but one still very realistic nonetheless – it would completely smear Russian credibility and give the wholehearted impression that Russia is the enemy ‘of the world’ – something lucrative to Globalist warmongers; the diminutive cost of human life is negligible if it means world government can be ushered into materialization, no measure of human loss is too steep for a circle of people that attend an event dubbed the ‘cremation of care’ on an annual basis.

Time is Running Out

I don’t warm to fear-mongering, such journalism is bloated and misleading. But the Globalist heads have little time to realize their desire, the event horizon is coming as the global population begins to realize the plan afoot, as the finger slips from the shadows to the commonly known – The ‘event’ that will see a push for world government and mass depopulation may just be around the corner.