BACK TO ARGENTINA… A TIDBIT OF INFORMATION FROM AN UNUSUAL SOURCE…AND A MURKY PICTURE

Posted on September 5, 2014 by Joseph P. Farrell • Filed Under: Bankers • http://gizadeathstar.com/2014/09/back-argentina-tidbit-information-unusual-source-murky-picture/

This article was shared with us by Ms. A., and it concerns the developing story we’ve been watching in Argentina and the administration of President Fernandez de Kirchner.
But first, a word for the international readership about the source of this article. This comes from Mr. Lyndon LaRouche’s “LaRouchepac” organization. For those who do not know, Mr. LaRouche was often a candidate for President running as a Democrat. Some readers here are old enough to remember his occasional appearances on television outlining his program. For his views, some allege that Mr. LaRouche was targeted for prison on tax charges, which he did serve time for. What many people outside of the USA are unaware of is that Mr. LaRouche, whatever one might think of some of his ideas or political views, ran and continues to run a well-informed private intelligence network, publishing its own newsletter under the name of Executive Intelligence Review. Whatever his political views or “larger scenarios”, oftentimes there are tidbits of information that his organization somehow manages to uncover. With these caveats in mind, I share the article, for it contains a bit of information which, if true, sheds yet more light on the developing story between Argentina and the various hedge funds:
Bank of New York Kicked Out of Argentina
Did you catch it?
Here it is again:

“The government bill proposing to open a new voluntary debt swap to restructured bondholders under Argentina law, to be debated in the Senate on Aug. 27, also authorizes the Finance Ministry to “take necessary steps” to remove BoNY as the country’s trustee bank for the 2005 and 2010 debt restructuring. BoNY violated the terms of the restructuring contract, by failing to pay bondholders on the June 30 deadline, despite the fact that Argentina deposited $539 million in BoNY’s account for that purpose on June 27.
“Capitanich also pointed out that a group of hedge funds, including George Soros’s Quantum Partners and Kyle Bass’s Hayman Capital, has filed a lawsuit against BoNY in London, demanding a 226-million-euro interest payment, blocked by New York Judge Thomas Griesa last month. The New York Times reported Tuesday that the plaintiffs argue that, since the interest payment they are owed is governed by British law, Griesa has overstepped his jurisdiction in blocking their payment.”

In other words, behind the troubles, there are lawsuits from Soros et al trying to recover monies owed to them under British law, that were blocked by an American judge. And behind Argentina’s move to ban BoNy from that country is the astonishing allegation that that nation did deposit $539 million as part of the payment on debt restructuring.
That raises some thorny questions: why didn’t the bank pay it out (if in fact the Argentine government deposited those funds), and if it received those monies, where are they now?
Given the mess that seems to be increasingly in evidence, including Argentine lawsuits of a Dutch bank over its involvement in the LIBOR rigging scandal, one gets the distinct impression that something very murky is afoot and lurking behind the scenes.
This is a story that’s not going to go away quietly into the night, for one notes that Mr. Soros and Mr. Bass are not filing suits against Argentina, but rather against BoNY.
This is one to pay very close attention to folks.

The Downing of Malaysia Flight 17: Sinister Pretext for War with Russia

By Mike Whitney

Global Research, September 05, 2014

CounterPunch 4 September 2014

Region: Russia and FSU

Theme: US NATO War Agenda

In-depth Report: UKRAINE REPORT

“There is no innocent explanation for the sudden disappearance of MH17 from the media and political spotlight. The plane’s black box has been held in Britain for examination for weeks, and US and Russian spy satellites and military radar were intensively scanning east Ukraine at the time of the crash. The claim that Washington does not have detailed knowledge of the circumstances of the crash and the various forces involved is not credible.”
– Niles Williamson, “Why have the media and Obama administration gone silent on MH17?”, World Socialist Web Site
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/08/18/ukmh-a18.html
See: 11 minute you tube “MH17 – We know with 99% certainty who shot down MH17“

The Obama administration has failed to produce any hard evidence that pro-Russia separatists were responsible for the downing of Malaysia Flight 17.  The administration’s theory– that the jetliner was downed by a surface-to-air missile launched from rebel territory in east Ukraine– is not supported by radar data, satellite imagery, eyewitness testimony or forensic evidence.  In fact, there is no factual basis for the hypothesis at all. It’s merely politically-motivated speculation that’s been repeated endlessly in the media to shape public opinion. The preponderance of evidence suggests a different scenario altogether, that is, that MH17 was shot down by Ukrainian fighters in an effort to frame the pro-Russia separatists and demonize Russia by implication.  This is precisely why the MH17 story has vanished from all the major media for the last three weeks. It’s because the bloody fingerprints point to Obama’s puppet-government in Kiev.
So what are the facts?
Fact Number 1: There were eyewitnesses.
According to the Oxford dictionary, an eyewitness is “A person who has personally seen something happen and can give a first-hand description of it.”  This is why eyewitness testimony is so important in criminal investigations, because what people actually see matters. In a capital case, eyewitness testimony can be just as damning as the bloody fingerprints on a murder weapon. In contrast, theories are of little or no importance at all. The administration’s missile theory is just obfuscating blabber intended to pacify the public with a soothing explanation that is entirely divorced from the facts. Eyewitness accounts help to cut through government bullsh** and uncover what really happened.
So, what did happen to MH17? Check out this blurb from a report by the BBC:

 ”The inhabitants of the nearby villages are certain they saw military aircraft in the sky shortly before the catastrophe. According to them, it was actually the jet fighters that brought down the Boeing.
Eyewitness number one: “There were two explosions in the air. And this is how it broke apart, (Waves her hands to show the plane exploding) And there was another aircraft, a military one, beside it. Everyone saw it….
Yes, yes, It was flying under it, because it could be seen.  It was flying underneath…below the civilian plane.”

Many people saw what happened. Many people saw the Ukrainian fighter rise in a shark-on-seal type motion. Many people saw the explosion. Are these credible witnesses? Are they lying? Do they have a political agenda?
We don’t know, but we do know what they said. They said they saw a fighter (probably a Ukrainian SU 25) stalking MH17 just before it blew up.  That’s significant and it should have a bearing on the investigation.
Fact Number 2: Russia picked up the Ukrainian fighters on their radar.
According to Russian military analysts:

“Russian monitoring systems registered Ukrainian airforce jet, probably an SU 25 fighter, climbing and approaching the Malaysia aircraft. The SU 25 was between 3 to 5 kilometers away from the Malaysian plane. The fighter is capable of reaching an altitude of 10,000 meters for short periods of time. It’s standard armaments include R-60 air-to-air missiles which are capable of locking and destroying targets within a range of 12 kilometers and which are guaranteed to hit their target from a distance of 5 kilometers.

What was a military aircraft doing on a route intended for civilian planes flying at the same time and same altitude of a passenger plane? We would like an answer to this question? …
To corroborate this evidence we have a picture taken at the regional air traffic control center at Rostov….Ukrainian military officials claimed there were no Ukrainian military aircraft in that area of the crash that day. As you can see, that is not true”   (“MH17 Fully Exposed”, The Corbett report; Check minute 34:17 on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWlAARb0fN4video

Repeat:   “Ukrainian military officials claimed there were no Ukrainian military aircraft in that area of the crash that day. As you can see, that is not true.”
Kiev lied. Not only was one of their fighters in the vicinity, but the warplane  also had the capacity to take down a jetliner.
Let’s be clear about how important this information is: We now have hard evidence (Russian radar data and eyewitness testimony) that a Ukrainian fighter was in the vicinity of Malaysia Flight 17 when it was shot down. Thus, the Ukrainian fighter very well may have played a role in the downing of  MH17.  This is a possibility that cannot be excluded if one is basing their judgments on the facts alone.
Then there the story of Carlos who worked at  Kiev’s Air Traffic Control at Borispol but who mysteriously vanished immediately after the crash. Carlos’s twitter feeds on the day of the incident have become something of a legend on the internet, so we would like to narrow our focus to just a few of his communiques.
Carlos tweets on day of MH17 crash:

“Kiev Authorities, trying to make looks like an attack by pro-Russian”…
“warning! It can be a downing, Malaysia Airlines B777 in ukraine, 280 passengers”…
(Military?) “has taken control of ATC in Kiev”….
“The Malaysia Airlines B777 plane disappeared from the radar, there was no communication of any anomaly, confirmed”….
“Plane shot down, shot down, shot down, no accident”….
“Before They remove my phone or they break my head, shot down by Kiev”…
“The B777 plane flew escorted by Ukraine jet fighter until 2 minutes before disappearing from the radar”…
“If Kiev authorities want to tell the truth, It´s gathered, 2 jet fighters flew very close minutes before, wasn’t downed by a fighter”….
“Malaysia Airlines B777 plane just disappeared and Kiev military authority informed us of the downing, How they knew?”…
“all this is gathered in radars, to the unbelieving, shot down by kiev, here we know it and military air traffic control also”…
“military control now officially [say] the plane was shot down by missile”….(“FINAL – Spanish Air Controller @ Kiev Borispol Airport: Ukraine Military Shot Down Boeing #MH17“,  Rebel’s Blog)

Shortly after posting the news on Twitter, the Military took over the tower, the SBU seized the Air traffic Control recordings, and Carlos disappeared never to be seen again.  At the very least, Carlos’s postings lend support to our thesis that one or two SU 25 fighters were in the vicinity of the Boeing 777 at the time of the incident, which is to say they were in a position to shoot it down.
So why have Obama, Kerry and the entire western media excluded the SU 25s from their analysis?  And why are they withholding the satellite and radar data (that everyone knows they have) of the area at the time of the crash?     According to the World Socialist Web Site: “The US Air Force’s Defense Support Program utilizes satellites with infrared sensors to detect missile launches anywhere on the planet, and US radar posts in Europe would have tracked the missile as it shot through the sky.”
Indeed, the US does have the capability to track  missiles launches anywhere on the planet, so where is the data to support their theory that a missile took down MH17?  Where is the satellite imagery? Where is the radar data?  What is it Obama doesn’t want the American people to know?
German pilot and airlines expert, Peter Haisenko,  thinks that Malaysia Flight 17 was not blown up by a  missile, but shot down by the type of double-barreled 30-mm guns used on Ukrainian SU-25 fighter planes.  Haisenko presented his theory in an article which appeared on the Global Research website titled “Revelations of German Pilot: Shocking Analysis of the “Shooting Down” of Malaysian MH17. “Aircraft Was Not Hit by a Missile”. Here’s an excerpt from the article:

“The facts speak clear and loud and are beyond the realm of speculation: The cockpit shows traces of shelling! You can see the entry and exit holes. The edge of a portion of the holes is bent inwards. These are the smaller holes, round and clean, showing the entry points most likely that of a 30 millimeter caliber projectile….”  (“Revelations of German Pilot: Shocking Analysis of the “Shooting Down” of Malaysian MH17. “Aircraft Was Not Hit by a Missile””, Global Research)

Haisenko notes that the munitions used on Ukrainian fighters–anti-tank incendiary and splinter-explosive shells–are capable of taking down a jetliner and that the dense pattern of metal penetrated by multiple projectiles is consistent with the firing pattern of a 30-mm gun.
Also, Michael Bociurkiw, who was one of the first international inspectors from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to reach the crash site and who spent more than a week examining the ruins– appears to be convinced that MH17 was downed by machinegun fire consistent with the myriad bullet-holes visible on the fuselage.  Here’s what he told on CBC World News:

“There have been two or three pieces of fuselage that have been really pock-marked. It almost looks like machine gun fire; very, very strong machine gun fire that has left these unique marks that we haven’t seen anywhere else.
We’ve also been asked if we’ve seen any signs of a missile?
Well, no we haven’t. That’s the answer.”
(“Malaysia Airlines MH17: Michael Bociurkiw talks about being first at the crash site,” CBC News. Note: The above quote is from the video)

Now, admittedly, the observations of Haisenko and Bociurkiw could mean nothing, after all, they are just opinions. But for the sake of argument, let’s compare what they have to say to the comments made by Obama and Kerry.
Here’s Obama on the day after the crash:

“Here is what we know so far. Evidence indicates that the plane was shot down by a surface-to-air missile that was launched from an area that is controlled by Russian-backed separatists inside of Ukraine.
We also know that this is not the first time a plane has been shot down in eastern Ukraine. Over the last several weeks Russian- backed separatists have shot down a Ukrainian transport plane and a Ukrainian helicopter, and they claimed responsibility for shooting down a Ukrainian fighter jet.
Moreover, we know that these separatists have received a steady flow of support from Russia.
This includes arms and training. It includes heavy weapons. And it includes anti-aircraft weapons.
Now, here’s what’s happened now. This was a global tragedy. An Asian airliner was destroyed in European skies, filled with citizens from many countries. So there has to be a credible international investigation into what happened. The U.N. Security Council has endorsed this investigation, and we will hold all its members, including Russia, to their word…
Now, the United States stands ready to provide any assistance that is necessary…..

Let’s summarize Obama’s allegations:
1–MH17 was shot down in east Ukraine.
2–The separatists have shot down planes in east Ukraine before.
3–Therefore the separatists shot down MH17
Do you find that argument persuasive, dear reader? Keep in mind, Obama has never veered from his original position on the issue nor has he ever addressed the eyewitness reports or the technical data provided by Moscow. When all the media repeat the government’s version of events word-for-word, the facts don’t matter. In other words, Obama hasn’t changed his story, because he doesn’t have to. He knows the dissembling media will assist him in the cover up. Which it has.
Now let’s take a look at what Kerry had to say two days after the crash when he visited all five Sunday talk shows to blast Putin and blame the rebels for downing MH17. According to the Guardian:

 ”Kerry said all the evidence surrounding the downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 points towards pro-Russia separatists in eastern Ukraine…..
“We have enormous input about this that points fingers,” Kerry told CNN’s State of the Union. “It is pretty clear that this was a system from Russia, transferred to separatists. We know with confidence that the Ukrainians did not have such a system anywhere near the vicinity at that point of time.”…
Kerry said social media reports and US surveillance put the missile system in question in the vicinity of the crash before the tragedy.
“We know because we observed it by imagery that at the moment of the shootdown we detected a launch from that area,” he said. “Our trajectory shows that it went to the aircraft.” (“MH17 crash: Kerry lays out evidence of pro-Russia separatists’ responsibility“, Guardian)

Needless to say, Kerry has never provided any proof of the satellite “imagery” he referred to on the day of the interview. The administration’s case still depends on the discredited information it picked up on social media and on its own politically-motivated theory. It’s worth noting, that the administration used its shaky claims to great effect by convincing leaders of the European Union to impose more economic sanctions on Russia before any of the facts were known and without any legal process in place for Russia to defend itself.  The sanctions, of course, are still in effect today even though the administrations hysterical accusations have come under increasing scrutiny.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has repeatedly called for a transparent and thorough international investigation, but Washington seems more eager to sweep the whole matter under the rug. Moscow is particularly interested in recovering the Air Traffic Control tapes which were seized by Kiev’s security services immediately following the crash. It’s imperative that these tapes be handed over to international inspectors to analyze communications between the cockpit and the tower. There’s no doubt that Kiev would hand over the recordings if Washington simply demanded that they do so. But Obama has issued no such order. Why is that?
Keep in mind, that the ATC recordings could be much more valuable than the black boxes because they record both sides of every communication on every frequency used by that facility (including frequencies used for communication with other ground facilities and/or agencies), and also on every land line in use at that facility.”
What does that mean? It means that ATC recorders also include communications between ATC operators and, lets say, government or military authorities. They would also have recorded the communications between ATC and any fighters that may have been in the vicinity of Flight 17. In other words, if MH17 was in fact shot down by a SU 25, there’s a good chance the communications would show up in the ATC tapes.
Is this why Obama hasn’t demanded that Kiev surrender the recordings, because he doesn’t really want the truth to come out? Now take a look at this out from the World Socialist Web Site:

“After a month during which Washington has failed to release evidence to support its charges against Putin, it is clear that the political offensive of the NATO governments and the media frenzy against Putin were based on lies.
If pro-Russian separatists had fired a ground-to-air missile, as the US government claims, the Air Force would have imagery in their possession confirming it beyond a shadow of a doubt…..
On August 9, the Malaysian New Straits Times published an article charging the Kiev regime with shooting down MH17. It stated that evidence from the crash site indicated that the plane was shot down by a Ukrainian fighter with a missile followed by heavy machine gun fire.
While it is too early to say conclusively how MH17 was shot down, the preponderance of the evidence points directly at the Ukrainian regime and, behind them, the American government and the European powers. They created the conditions for the destruction of MH17, backing the fascist-led coup in Kiev this February that brought the current pro-Western regime to power.”
(“Why have the media and Obama administration gone silent on MH17?“, Niles Williamson, World Socialist Web Site)

The media has played a pivotal role in this tragedy, deliberately misleading the American people on critical details related to the case in order to shape their coverage in a way that best serves the interests of the government.  The MSM doesn’t care about identifying the criminals who killed 298 passengers. Their job is to demonize Putin and create a pretext for waging war on Russia.   And that’s exactly what they’re doing.

Warning to the World: Washington and its NATO and EU Vassals are Insane   ~ fuck you could ADD just about fucking EVERY Level of gov. ass~facials huh

By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts

Global Research, September 05, 2014

paulcraigroberts.org

Region: Russia and FSU, USA

Herbert E. Meyer, a nutcase who was a special assistant to the CIA director for a period during the Reagan administration, has penned an article calling for Russian President Putin’s assassination.
If we have “ to get him out of the Kremlin feet-first with a bullet hole in the back of his head, that would be okay with us.”  http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/08/how_to_solve_the_putin_problem.html 
As the crazed Meyer illustrates, the insanity that Washington has released upon the world knows no restraint. Jose Manual Barroso, installed as Washington’s puppet as European Commission President, misrepresented his recent confidential telephone conversation with Russia’s President Putin by telling the media that Putin issued a threat: “If I want to, I can take Kiev in two weeks.”
Clearly, Putin did not issue a threat. A threat would be inconsistent with Putin’s entire unprovocative approach to the strategic threat that Washington and its NATO puppets have brought to Russia in Ukraine.  Russia’s permanent representative to the EU, Vladimir Chizhov, said that if Barroso’s lie stands, Russia will make public the full recording of the conversation.
Anyone familiar with the disparity between the Ukrainian and Russian militaries knows full well that it would take the Russian military 14 hours, not 14 days, to take all of Ukraine.  Just remember what happened to the American and Israeli trained and equipped Georgian Army when Washington set its stupid Georgian puppets on South Ossetia.  The American and Israeli trained and equipped Georgian army collapsed under Russian counterattack in 5 hours.
The lie that Washington’s puppet Barroso told was not worthy of a serious person.  But where in Europe is there a serious person in power?  Nowhere.  The few serious people are all out of power.  Consider the NATO Secretary General, Anders Rasmussen.  He was a prime minister of Denmark who saw he could rise beyond Denmark by serving as Washington’s puppet.  As prime minister he strongly supported Washington’s illegal invasion of Iraq, declaring that “we know that Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction.”  Of course, the fool didn’t know any such thing, and why would it matter if Iraq did have such weapons.  Many countries have weapons of mass destruction.
According to the rule that anyone who serves Washington is elevated, the cipher Rasmussen was elevated. The problem with elevating unprincipled fools is that they risk the world for their career. Rasmussen has now put the entirety of Eastern and Western Europe at risk of annihilation. Rasmussen has announced the creation of a blitzkrieg spearhead force capable of blitzkrieg attack on Russia.  What Washington’s puppet calls “the Readiness Action Plan” is justified as a response to “Russia’s aggressive behavior in Ukraine.” Rasmussen’s “lightening spearhead force” would be instantly wiped out along with every European capital.  What kind of idiot provokes a nuclear superpower in this way?
Rasmussen asserts “Russia’s aggressive behavior” but has no evidence of it. Russia has stood on the sidelines while Washington’s puppet government in Kiev has shelled and bombed civilian housing, hospitals, schools and issued a constant stream of lies against Russia.  Russia denied the requests of the now independent eastern and southern provinces of Ukraine, former Russian territories, to be reunited with Russia. As readers know, I regard Putin’s decision as a mistake, but events might prove me wrong and that is OK with me.  For now, the fact is that every act of aggressive behavior is the result of the US and EU support of the Kiev nazis. It is the Ukrainian nazi militias that are attacking civilians in the former Russian territories of eastern and southern Ukraine. A number of regular Ukrainian military units have defected to the independent republics.
Yes, Nazis.  Western Ukraine is the home of the Ukrainian SS divisions that fought for Hitler.  Today the militias organized by the Right Sector and other right-wing political organizations wear the Nazi insignia of the Ukrainian SS divisions.  These are the people that Washington and the EU support.  If the Ukrainian Nazis could win against Russia, which they cannot, they would turn on the stupid West, just as has the Washington-funded ISIS that the dumbshits in Washington unleashed on Libya and Syria.  Now ISIS is remaking the Middle East, and Washington appears helpless.
William Binney, a former high level official in the US National Security Agency, along with colleagues from the CIA and military intelligence services, have written to German chancellor Merkel advising her to beware of Obama’s lies at the upcoming NATO summit in Wales.  The US intelligence officials advise Merkel to remember Iraq’s “weapons of mass destruction” and don’t again be deceived, this time into conflict with Russia. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-09-01/ex-nsa-director-us-intelligence-veterans-write-open-letter-merkel-avoid-all-out-ukra
The question is: who does Merkel represent?  Washington or Germany? So far Merkel has represented Washington, not German business interests, not the German people, and not Germany’s interests as a country.  Here is a protest in Dresden where a crowd prevents Merkel’s speech with shouts of “kriegstreiber” (warmonger), “liar, liar,” and “no war with Russia.”  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wSMhGE_Mpk
My Ph.D. dissertation chairman, who became a high Pentagon official assigned to wind down the Vietnam war, in answer to my question about how Washington gets Europeans to always do what Washington wants replied:  “Money, we give them money.”  “Foreign aid?” I asked.  “No, we give the European political leaders bagfuls of money. They are for sale, We bought them.  They report to us.”  Perhaps this explains Tony Blair’s $50 million fortune one year out of office.
The Western media, the largest whorehouse on earth, is desperate for war. The editorial board of the Washington Post, now a trophy  newspaper in the hands of Amazon.com’s billionaire owner, ran an editorial on August 31 that projected all of Washington’s (and the Post’s) lies upon Putin. Amazon.com’s owner might know how to market products on the Internet, but he is hopeless when it comes to running a newspaper. His editors at the Washington Post have made his trophy a worldwide laughing stock. Here are the mindless accusations against Putin from the WP:

     Putin, bitterly resentful at the loss of power from the Soviet collapse, has “resurrected the tyranny of the Big Lie” in order to reconstitute the Russian Empire.  
     “Russian sponsored militias in Ukraine” are responsible for the “shoot-down of the Malaysian airliner in July.”  The “Russian state-controlled media” lied and misrepresented to the Russian people the party responsible for downing the airliner.
     “In the absence of independent and free reporting, few Russians realize that Russian soldiers and armaments are in action in eastern Ukraine, albeit (as in Crimea) in uniforms and vehicles stripped of their identifying insignia and license plates. With no free media, Russians are left to fend for themselves against a firestorm of falsehoods.”
     “Mr. Putin’s Big Lie shows why it is important to support a free press where it still exists and outlets like Radio Free Europe that bring the truth to people who need it.”

As a former Wall Street Journal editor, I can say with complete confidence that such extraordinary propaganda posing as an editorial would have resulted in the immediate firing of all concerned.  In my days on the Congressional staff, the Washington Post was regarded as a CIA asset.  Today the Post has sunk far below this status.
I have seen much media propaganda in my day, but this Washington Post editorial takes the cake. The editorial shows that either the editorial writers are completely ignorant or they are completely corrupt and also assume that their readers are completely ignorant.
If Russian military units were in action in eastern Ukraine, the situation would be precisely as Alexander Zakharchenko  and  Dmitry Orlov describe. http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014/09/01/can-tell-whether-russia-invaded-ukraine/   Ukraine would no longer exist. Ukraine would again be part of Russia where it was for centuries prior to Washington taking advantage of the Soviet collapse to tear Ukraine away from Russia.
The question before us is: how long will Russia’s patience last with the West’s enormous lies and provocations?  No matter how restrained Russia is, Russia is accused of the worst. Therefore, Russia might as well inflict the worst.
At what point will the Russian government decide that Washington’s mendacity, and that of its European puppets and corrupt Western media, render hopeless Russia’s efforts to resolve the situation with diplomacy and unprovocative behavior?  As Russia is constantly accused falsely of invading Ukraine, when will the Russian government decide that as Western propaganda has established that Russia has invaded Ukraine and has imposed sanctions and new military bases on Russia’s borders because of the alleged invasion, Russia might as well go ahead and rid themselves of the problem Washington has brought to Russia and invade Ukraine?
There is nothing that NATO could do about it if Russia decides that Ukraine in Washington’s hands is too much of a strategic threat to Russia and reincorporates Ukraine again into Russia where it has resided for centuries.  Any NATO force sent would be instantly wiped out.  The German population, remembering the consequences of war with Russia,  would overthrow Washington’s puppet government.  NATO and the EU would collapse as Germany departed the absurd construct that serves Washington’s interest at the expense of Europe.
Once this happens, the world will have peace.  But not until.
For those who care to understand how the land of lies works, Washington’s puppet government in Kiev attributes the defeat of its military forces by the Donetsk Republic to the presence in the Donetsk army of Russian military units.  This is the propaganda that has gone out to western Ukraine and to the presstitute western media, a collection of whores that echo the propaganda without any investigation whatsoever.  However, Kiev has a different story for the IMF.  Kiev cannot receive IMF money with which to pay off its Western creditors if Ukraine is at war. Therefore, Ukraine tells the IMF the opposite story: Russia has not attacked Ukraine. http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.com/2014/08/ukie-doubleplusgooddoublethink.html

The Western media remains uninterested in any facts.  Just the lies.  Only the lies.

The Washington Post, the New York Times, CNN, Fox “news,” Die Welt, the French press, the British press all plead:  “please Washington give us more sensational lies that we can trumpet.  Our circulation needs it. Who cares about war and the human race if only we can regain financial stability?”

Déjà Vu: The 2004 Video Execution of American Hostage Nick Berg. Was he Killed by US Intelligence?

By Global Research

Global Research, September 05, 2014

KafkhazCenter.com and Global Research 23 May 2004

Region: Middle East & North Africa, USA

First published ten years ago by KafkhazCenter.com and Global Research in May 2004

by Sirajin Sattayev

The video of execution of American hostage Nick Berg in Iraq is threatening to develop into a major scandal. During a press conference the father of the beheaded American accused Bush and Rumsfeld of killing his son. There are more and more suspicions that Nick Berg was really executed not by Arab militants, but by the US intelligence services in order to divert the attention from the scandal about the tortures in Baghdad prison.
First there was a report that a video showing an execution of an American expert captured in Iraq was shown on a so-called ‘Islamic extremist’ website. It was reported that the execution was carried out by a group of guerillas tied to Al-Qaeda in order to take revenge for the tortures that the American soldiers did to Iraqi inmates.
The video shows five men, whose faces are hidden behind black masks and traditional Arab scarves. They all are standing around a tied-up man with an orange suit on, the kind of suit inmates wear. The victim says to the camera: «My name is Nick Berg, my father’s name is Michael, my mother’s name is Susan. I have a brother and a sister, David and Sarah. I live in Philadelphia ».
After these words they got him down on the floor, put a big knife to his throat and cut his head off, while screaming ‘Allah Akbar’ (‘God is Great’). The video footage was called «Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi shows killing of an American». A day before the video was shown, Mr. Berg’s parents were told that their son’s body was found near a highway in Baghdad. The scene of the execution and the comments on it were the number one news in the world’s mass media for some time.
Then the CIA experts released a statement saying that Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi was the man in mask who beheaded the US citizen Nick Berg in front of a camera. Then Western commentators and moralists took over and launched a campaign to vindicate the Americans exposed for torturing Iraqi inmates.
Compared to the brutal murder of an American with cutting his head off, the tortures of Iraqis in prisons started looking like minor pranks of undisciplined soldiers. Another factor was that the beheaded victim was a Jew, which was picked up by the Zionists immediately to justify their actions and to show what kind of enemy they have to be dealing with.
However, so many questions arose about the videotape that all accusers of so-called ‘Islamists’ got quiet right away and the subject disappeared from the agenda in the world’s media.
Many questions came up, and they are all pointing out that the accusations by Mr. Berg’s father against the US authorities on killing his son have very serious grounds.
The first suspicion was caused by a video where Berg was wearing an orange American jail suit. Berg was arrested by the Americans and had time to tell his friend that he was in an American prison. Intelligence services were denying this and were saying that Berg was arrested by the Iraqi police for Israeli stamps in his passport. But later on it turned out that he was questioned by Americans, and FBI agents came to his parents’ house to find out whether he was involved in any terrorist activities.
Berg’s e-mail showed that he was held in custody by the Americans. Turned out that an American was held in an American prison and beheaded right after he was presumably released.
In this connection there is a question whether the American was released from prison at all. If he was, and if he was late for his flight because of the arrest, as his parents first claimed, then why he ended up being captured by ‘terrorists’ and dressed in an American jail suit? How would militants even get a suit like this in the first place, and why would they make their hostage put it on?
The experts who saw the video say that the man posing as Jordanian native Zarqawi does not speak the Jordanian dialect. Zarqawi has an artificial leg, but none of these murderers did. The man presented as Zarqawi had a yellow ring, presumably a golden one, which Muslim men are banned from wearing, especially so-called fundamentalists.
The experts mentioned that the man calls Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) ‘Gracious Prophet’, while it is only Allah, Whom Muslims call ‘Gracious’.
More and more questions are coming up about Mr. Berg’s murder and some of them have already been presented to the country’s leadership by the American public.
But major American mass media, which support the war in Iraq, are ignoring this information.
Infowars.com published the material titled «This is a 98 % secret US operation». The chair that Nick Berg was sitting on before the execution was the same as the chairs in Abu-Ghraib prison, where tortures were being committed. These chairs were brought by the US army. It was also reported that even though Nick Berg was a civilian, for some reason his body was delivered to a US Air Force base in Dover, where the dead servicemen are brought.
Meanwhile more and more new circumstances are being revealed when the video is being studied. The doctors are saying that there is almost no blood shown during the beheading, while normally a lot of blood would have been gushing if the person were alive. No blood was seen around it or on the hands of the one who cut the head off. Then it must have been a dead person who was beheaded.
All militants filmed on the video footage are too fat for the Iraqi standards, especially for militants, and they all had white palms of their hands. When the video was studied it turned out that the scream shown in this footage was recorded earlier and it was probably a woman’s scream.
The weapons that the murderers were holding in their hands resemble AKs, but the experts claim that this is a modified AK-47, Israeli-made Halil.
All Islamic organizations, including the ones accused of terrorism, have condemned this act. Nothing has been heard about Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi for the past few months, and there has been a rumor going on that he died in a bombing.
If he did take part in beheading the American and wanted to make it known this way (even the video was called «Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi shows killing of an American»), then why did he need to put a mask on or close his face with a scarf?
But if he has nothing to do with it, and somebody decided to use his name, then it would be quite natural to expect Zarqawi to deny the allegations about his involvement in Mr. Berg’s execution. But no denials have been heard. Especially when such a denial would have been appropriate after all Islamic organizations and the Iraqis condemned this murder.
This fact means that Zarqawi may not be alive. Those who put on that show knew that Zarqawi could no longer deny whatever they accuse him of.
Will the US government be able to deny what Mr. Berg’s parents and the public are accusing it of? Probably, the experts, who manage to find Arab passports and the Holy Koran under a tumbled-down and melted skyscraper, will make something up this time as well?
If they don’t, they you should expect some new movies and new terrorist acts to be made by the joint effort of Hollywood and the CIA.

For the 8th Year in a Row Police Train to Take on Citizens in Massive Military-Style Drill  ~ these fucks think "they" & "their" families LIVE safely behind the LINES ...you nazi fucks !  u think your gonna go to work & just fucking go "HOME" lol  ..how many of "you's"   & how many American Cit's ??? ... another crowd tried fucking with  WE THE PEOPLE  & WE THE PEOPLE ....kicked fucking ass lol   just how fucking long do u think WE THE PEOPLE'S   ...Good Will  is gonna last huh !  how long

Posted on September 5, 2014 by John Vibes

This week, in the midst of nationwide protests against police violence and corruption, the annual “Urban Shield” martial law training drill is set to kick off in Oakland.  The operation will extend from September 4th through September 8th and will be accompanied by a trade show that will exhibit a wide variety of high-tech law enforcement toys.
This is the 8th year that Urban Shield has taken place, and the event has now become a showcase for law enforcement agencies from around the world.
According to the Urban Shield Website:
“Since its inception in 2007, Urban Shield has continued to grow as a comprehensive full-scale regional preparedness exercise. Beginning September 4, 2014, an even larger Urban Shield exercise will once again test the overall Bay Area UASI Region‘s response capabilities related to multi-discipline planning, policies, procedures, organization, equipment and training. Urban Shield will test regional integrated systems for prevention, protection, response and recovery in our high-threat, high-density urban area. The 48-hour exercise will evaluate our existing level of preparedness and capabilities, identifying not only what we do well, but areas that may be in need of improvement. An After-Action Report will be generated to assist in prioritizing upcoming expenditures in order for the region to become more prepared for any type of critical event.”
The website shows a number of SWAT team police officers aiming high powered weapons and wearing gas masks.
Urban Shield programs officer James Baker says that techniques which are trained and developed at Urban Shield are later used at events like the Boston and Ferguson lockdowns.
“We had been running the Urban Shield program for two years prior to the Boston bombing.  So when the bombing did occur, Boston was applauded with how efficiently and quickly they were able to get all of the victims to local hospitals, and that — other than the few killed upon impact — nobody else died as a result of the bombing,” he said.
This year, a number of activist groups are planning to protest Urban Shield in Oakland. “Oakland is a city with a very long history of resisting police violence.  People are offended when the city would bring these kinds of maneuvers and trade show to this city in particular,” Rachel Herzing, executive director of Critical Resistance, one of the organizers of the protest told Aljazeera.
In May, a similar Urban Shield drill took place in Boston, Massachusetts and officers were recorded on the street with military gear and high powered weapons.  Two residents were walking on a public sidewalk and were actually threatened with arrest during the Boston drill.  Footage of their encounter can be seen below:

Threatened with arrest for standing on a public sidewalk at Urban Shield in Boston

John Vibes is an author, researcher and investigative journalist who takes a special interest in the counter culture and the drug war. In addition to his writing and activist work he is also the owner of a successful music promotion company. In 2013, he became one of the organizers of the Free Your Mind Conference, which features top caliber speakers and whistle-blowers from all over the world. You can contact him and stay connected to his work at his Facebook page. You can find his 65 chapter Book entitled “Alchemy of the Timeless Renaissance” at bookpatch.com.
Courtesy of The Free Thought Project.

Book Buzz: Study finds people absorb less on e-readers  ~  looky,looky Oops :O  That pretty much says it all: they want control over information, and digital texts and records, are the way they’re going to attempt it.

Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY  August 19, 2014

(Photo: David McNew, Getty Images)

http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2014/08/19/book-buzz-study-finds-people-absorb-less-on-e-readers/14291189/

Here's more fodder for the great paper vs. e-book debate.
A new study has found that readers using an e-reader were "significantly" worse than print book readers at remembering when events occurred in a story, The Guardian reports.
The study, which was presented at a conference in Italy in July, gave 50 readers the same Elizabeth George short story to read. Half read on a Kindle and half read a paperback. Afterward the readers were tested on plot, character, objects and settings.
"The Kindle readers performed significantly worse on the plot reconstruction measure, i.e., when they were asked to place 14 events in the correct order," Ann Mangen, a researcher on the study told The Guardian.
The research suggests that the physical experience of holding a Kindle does not provide the same support for remembering the order of events in a story as a print book does.
"When you read on paper you can sense with your fingers a pile of pages on the left growing, and shrinking on the right," Mangen said. "You have the tactile sense of progress, in addition to the visual."
Mangen chairs a European research network which looks at the effects of digital text on reading. "We need to provide research and evidence-based knowledge to publishers on what kind of devices (iPad, Kindle, print) should be used for what kind of content," she said.

9/11 False Flag Operation: HUGE Tipping Point As State-Sponsored Terrorism Is Exposed  // http://themillenniumreport.com/2014/08/911-false-flag-operation-state-sponsored-terrorism-with-huge-blowback/

State Actors That Staged 9/11 Terrorist Attacks Disclosed, Plot Revealed, Justice Inevitable
State of the Nation
“The synthetic terror fabricated on September 11, 2001 is like a boomerang fashioned as a double-edged samurai sword.  Just as the manufactured War On Terror has since produced ‘death by a thousand cuts’ in those countries targeted by the real Axis of Evil, the karmic boomerang will now return to those state actors who launched the 9/11 false flag operation .”  – State of the Nation 
After thirteen long years of one revelation after another, it has now been established that the 9/11 terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington DC were perpetrated by the very same governments that had the most to gain from them. The US Federal Government, along with the UK and Israel, have each been implicated in the most purposeful and calculated, complex and premeditated false flag operation of this millennium.
9/11: Russia Presents Evidence Against US, UK And Israel Co-Conspirators?

After all the evidence has been catalogued and surveyed only one question remains unanswered:

Did they really think they could get away with it?

With the internet functioning in full tilt in every corner of the globe, how much sheer audacity did it take for the rogue CIA-MI6-MOSSAD co-conspirators to pull down Building #7 in broad daylight?
How corrupt were the FBI, MI5, Shabak accomplices who collaborated in locking down every type of official law enforcement inquiry into this crime against humanity?
How complicit was, and is, every major organ of the mainstream media (MSM) that knowingly and willingly participated in the subsequent, extremely well coordinated coverup which continues to this very day?   When an inside job is so ridiculously obvious, how long do they really think they can maintain the collapsing coverup?

Seriously, a child could see through this black op by merely watching a video or two on the internet.  The entire made-for-TV, Hollywood production known as 9/11 was so transparent that many of us are quite shocked the real perpetrators are still running the US Government 13 years later?!
For anyone who doubts this “historical revision”, please take just a few minutes and watch the following video.  Even those fully initiated in 9/11 truth will appreciate this dramatic YouTube rendition of the 9-11 backstory.

RING OF POWER: Empire of the City [FULL MOVIE IN LINKS!!!]

The True Perpetrators Of 9/11 Acted Out Of Extreme Desperation
Quite unfortunately for the real 9/11 co-conspirators, we now live in a time of very quick blowback.  The karmic slack of yesteryear has been tightened considerably, and only continues to be shortened with each passing day.  As a matter of fact, their many desperate attempts to trigger a full blown World War III in the Ukraine provide further testimony that they know their time is up.  The ongoing dissolution of the Global Economic & Financial Control Matrix is another example of just how extreme their actions have become.
Whenever the going gets really rough for those who do rule the realm, war has always been their way out.  Looking at the state of affairs across the planet, it’s quite easy to see how many plots are afoot to trigger a global conflict of apocalyptic proportions.  Yes, these guys (and gals) are truly desperate as the 9/11 terrorist attacks so dramatically portrayed … and that was 13 years ago!
The good news, for those who are concerned for the welfare and continuity of the Republic, is that 9/11 will also prove to be their (TPTB) undoing, once and for all.  Those who concocted the plan did so with such little attention to some of the most important details that they unwittingly sealed their own fate.  In other words the whole misbegotten 9/11 scheme was implemented unknown that it contained the seeds of destruction for everyone involved.   The previously quoted “boomerang effect” is just beginning to play out — in living color — all over Planet Earth.
9/11 Contains Several Messages On Many levels For Different Groups Of People
Since there are countless lessons — some highly prophetic — which can be gleaned from the 9/11 tragedy, it is well beyond the scope of this article to delve into them.  Nevertheless, it does provide great comfort in knowing that the events of that fateful day will prove to be the catalyst for an unparalleled transformation of the planetary power structure.  Believe it or not, many of the ongoing global rearrangements and historic geopolitical paroxysms taking place today reflect this emerging reality.
Every continent is now undergoing profound and fundamental political, economic and social changes because of the various “messages” delivered to the community of nations by 9/11.  North America and Europe, South America and Central America, Asia and Australia, and especially Africa and the entire Middle East are experiencing unprecedented earth-shattering events on a regular basis.  It’s important to understand that the hidden knowledge of what actually occurred on September 11, 2001 has empowered many of those governments to throw off the yoke of Anglo-American tyranny, once and for all.

Should the reader want to participate in this instant “global messaging campaign”, we recommend the following.  Do as the CIA does.  Set up your own highly compartmentalized, asymmetric, internet-based operation on a strictly need-to-know basis in your own home.  There, you can conduct your own Facebook and/or Twitter revolution against those responsible for planning, coordinating, executing and covering up the 9/11 terror events with the push of a few keys.  You’ll be joined by millions of other keyboard revolutionaries from around the globe who have been doing the same for many years.
You can start by disseminating the some of the myriad compelling articles and essays, indisputable videos and audios which lay bare the realities surrounding the 9/11 state-sponsored terrorism inflicted upon the US citizenry BY ITS OWN GOVERNMENT.  Many a weekend warrior has now taken up this cause as we all wait for a critical mass of true patriots required to ensure that justice is served.  Everyone agrees that the treasonous elements which have taken over government at all levels must be exposed and dealt with accordingly.  Here’s a Citizens’ Indictment which illustrates the true depth and breadth of the actual 9/11 criminal conspiracy.

Bill of Indictment:
1) Based on too numerous to list eyewitness accounts, audiotape accounts, video accounts, as well as expert testimony concerning the events that occurred in both New York City and Washington, DC on September 11, 2001, it has become painfully obvious that numerous elements within several organs of the US Government (to include the executive, legislative and judicial branches), and coming from, at the very least, the intelligence agencies/secret service, federal, state &  local law enforcement agencies and military services, are directly responsible for planning, coordinating, executing and covering up the attacks on and selective destruction of the WTC complex, the Pentagon and Flight #93 in collaboration with foreign governments and other entities.
2) Given the staggering proportions of this conspiracy, and especially the vast amount of evidence that was available to the naked eye and attentive ear throughout the execution of these innumerable flagrant criminal acts, it has become quite apparent that many international and national news media organizations colluded with the highest levels of this treacherous cabal.  Likewise, the extensive commentary dispensed by the many think tanks, PACs, political parties, academic institutions, research organizations, various foundations, etc. in the aftermath of the 9/11 orchestrated events has clearly revealed their varying degrees of culpability which can only be accurately assessed as the guilty step forward or whistleblowers file their reports.  Furthermore, it has become transparent from the extraordinary sophistication, technical requirements and timing intricacies of these crimes, that there are those titans among Corporate America who were, by necessity, involved directly, as well as those involved on a peripheral basis.
3) The explicit intentions and deliberate actions referred to herein constitute the basis for the most serious crimes of high treason, premeditated murder and calculated acts of terrorism committed against US and foreign citizens working on US soil on September 11, 2001.  It has been recognized that these heinous crimes were surreptitiously carried out in a highly compartmentalized operation, as well as on a strictly need-to-know basis, in which many of the perpetrators were completely unaware of their handlers, accomplices, financiers, logistical supporters, top decision-makers, etc.  In light of such a complex and convoluted scheme, conceived to give justification to an eventually declared “War On Terror”, it will be necessary to rely heavily on the volumes of circumstantial evidence which will certainly convict all involved, from the US President and Vice President down to those anonymous murderers who placed the many explosives in the WTC 1, 2 & 7 for their controlled demolition.[1]

Staged 9/11 terrorist attacks will ultimately bring down state sponsors; justice will not be denied those who perished. 
Were this Crime Of the Millennium to be recognized as the war crime that it truly is, an international war crimes tribunal would be convened at The Hague.  In this way the guilty parties could be held to account and hung high as an example of how state-sponsored terrorism will no longer be tolerated.  When perpetrated against its own citizenry in order to conduct a fake worldwide War on Terror makes this overwhelmingly heinous, multi-year crime spree that much more far-reaching and deplorable, incorrigible and shocking.  And, therefore, in dire need of being terminated post haste.
Therefore, everyone ought to do their part acquiring and distributing the reams of documentation and numerous videos which furnish the unassailable “circumstantial evidence” against the primary governments directly involved in the 9/11 terror events — US, UK and Israel.  When the 9/11 samurai boomerang returns to those who launched it into flight, New York City and Washington DC, London and Tel Aviv must be very wary, for divine retribution never misses its mark.

Samurai Boomerang

Conclusion:
As much as 9/11 has been used to initiate and maintain a literal TRIBULATION throughout the entire world, it can also be utilized to bring an end to the current tyranny.  It is in fact a double-edged boomerang which is now heading toward those who first launched it into flight on that tragic September 11th in 2001.  As more information is uploaded on the internet which reveals both players and plot, the actual 9/11 conspiracy will soon become common knowledge.  After a certain point of internet saturation with factual 9/11 information, the critical details will inevitably bleed through to the MSM.  At that point “the veil of illusion will tear” and the rest will soon be history.

It is well known in real patriot circles that 9/11 represents the defining moment when the US Federal Government became so broken that it cannot be fixed.  The outright treason in the form of state-directed terrorism and cold-blooded murder of US citizens, which was then used to further oppress the citizenry, is such a grave transgression that it must be dealt with sooner or later.  In the words of one writer, 9/11 is unrivaled for being:

When in the course of national events, the “failures, violations of and breaches by government” becomes so egregious and destructive to both people and property, it becomes necessary to respond in a decisive and appropriate way.  That time has now arrived.  The American people have seen enough to know that if these psychopaths are not stopped soon, there’s no telling how much more death and destruction they will wreak across the planet.  Those who sit at the peak of global governance must be brought to justice if there is to be any peace and reconciliation, understanding and closure concerning 9/11 and its much more terrible aftermath.
Now is the time for the people of the world, nations and citizens alike, to hold accountable those who inaugurated the War on Terror based on the false pretext of the staged 9/11 attacks.  Those who died in the conflagrations in both NYC and Washington DC must not die in vain.  The very best way to honor their sacrifices is to vigorously pursue 9/11 truth and identify the co-conspirators at every level of execution and/or involvement.  Anything short of this noble and necessary endeavor will be viewed by future generations as negligence of the highest order.
After all, 9/11 has presented an unparalleled opportunity for America to clean house in a way that’s never been done before.  For those who are unaware, the 2nd American Revolution has begun!  And, it was the 9/11 false flag attacks which started it.

Michael Thomas
September 1, 2014
StateoftheNation2012.com

References:
[1] 9/11 OMEN Foretells the Global Economic and Financial Future 
[2] Nuclear 9/11 Revealed: Theories and Disinformation, the Misguided and the Inhuman
[3] Top Ten 9/11 Cons: “Fraud Vitiates Everything” (FVE)
Content For 9/11 TRUTH Media Kits:

9/11 Commission Report: The Most Ridiculous Conspiracy Theory Of All Time

9/11: The Ultimate Inside Job And False Flag Operation

9/11: Russia Presents Evidence Against US, UK And Israel Co-Conspirators?

Comprehensive 9/11 Photo-Doc On Pentagon Fraud And 737 Airliner Which Was Actually A Missile

Leaked 9/11 Video Footage Showing Cruise Missile Hitting The Pentagon

9/11 VIDEO Evidence Proves Airplane Was Remotely Controlled Into Twin Tower

9/11: What Actually Happened

‘Loose Change’ Video Proves 9/11 Was A Controlled Demolition And Inside Job

Irrefutable ‘Molten Steel’ Evidence Indicates Inside Job, Proves 9/11 Commission Report Fraudulent

How was Building 7 implosion a perfectly controlled demolition on 9/11?

9/11 Phone Calls From Airliners Were Faked

9/11Was A False Flag Attack — Russia Today

The 11 Most Compelling 9/11 Conspiracy Theories

9/11: The Most Consequential False Flag Operation Of The New Millennium

The Biggest 9/11 Conspiracy Of All Time

CIA Leak Gives ‘Incontrovertible Evidence’ That 9/11 WAS STATE SPONSORED

Why is Obama Still Hiding the 28-Page Report on Saudi Royal Family Involvement in the 9/11 Attacks?

THE WALLS ARE CRUMBLING DOWN AROUND 9/11 – WHY?

No Explanation For Building #6 Implosion On 9/11

GlobalResearch.ca 9/11 Library

9/11: An OMEN for the New Millennium
 
9/11 OMEN Foretells the Global Economic and Financial Future

Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth Speak Out

      

9/11 Attacks: Criminal Foreknowledge and Insider Trading lead directly to the CIA’s Highest Ranks

The Millennium Report
August 31, 2014

9/11 Attacks: Criminal Foreknowledge and Insider Trading lead directly to the CIA’s Highest Ranks

CIA Executive Director “Buzzy” Krongard managed Firm that handled “Put” Options on UAL
By Michael C. Ruppert
FTW Publications

Suppressed Details of 9/11 Criminal Insider Trading lead directly into the CIA`s Highest Ranks

Although uniformly ignored by the mainstream U.S. media, there is abundant and clear evidence that a number of transactions in financial markets indicated specific (criminal) foreknowledge of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. That evidence also demonstrates that, in the case of at least one of these trades — which has left a $2.5 million prize unclaimed — the firm used to place the “put options” on United Airlines stock was, until 1998, managed by the man who is now in the number three Executive Director position at the Central Intelligence Agency. Until 1997 A.B. “Buzzy” Krongard had been Chairman of the investment bank A.B. Brown. A.B. Brown was acquired by Banker’s Trust in 1997. Krongard then became, as part of the merger, Vice Chairman of Banker’s Trust-AB Brown, one of 20 major U.S. banks named by Senator Carl Levin this year as being connected to money laundering. Krongard’s last position at Banker’s Trust (BT) was to oversee “private client relations.” In this capacity he had direct hands-on relations with some of the wealthiest people in the world in a kind of specialized banking operation that has been identified by the U.S. Senate and other investigators as being closely connected to the laundering of drug money.

Krongard (re?) joined the CIA in 1998 as counsel to CIA Director George Tenet. He was promoted to CIA Executive Director by President Bush in March of this year. BT was acquired by Deutsche Bank in 1999. The combined firm is the single largest bank in Europe. And, as we shall see, Deutsche Bank played several key roles in events connected to the September 11 attacks.

The Scope of Known Insider Trading

Before looking further into these relationships it is necessary to look at the insider trading information that is being ignored by Reuters, The New York Times and other mass media. It is well documented that the CIA has long monitored such trades – in real time – as potential warnings of terrorist attacks and other economic moves contrary to U.S. interests. Previous stories in FTW have specifically highlighted the use of Promis software to monitor such trades.

It is necessary to understand only two key financial terms to understand the significance of these trades. “Selling Short” is the borrowing of stock, selling it at current market prices, but not being required to actually produce the stock for some time. If the stock falls precipitously after the short contract is entered, the seller can then fulfill the contract by buying the stock after the price has fallen and complete the contract at the pre-crash price. These contracts often have a window of as long as four months. “Put Options,” purchased at nominal prices of, for example, $1.00 per share, are sold in blocks of 100 shares. If exercised, they give the holder the option of selling selected stocks at a future date at a price set when the contract is issued. Thus, for an investment of $10,000 it might be possible to tie up 10,000 shares of United or American Airlines at $100 per share, and the seller of the option is then obligated to buy them if the option is executed. If the stock has fallen to $50 when the contract matures, the holder of the option can purchase the shares for $50 and immediately sell them for $100 – regardless of where the market then stands.

A “call option” is the reverse of a put option, which is, in effect, a derivatives bet that the stock price will go up.

A September 21 story by the Israeli Herzliyya International Policy Institute for Counterterrorism, entitled “Black Tuesday: The World’s Largest Insider Trading Scam?” documented the following trades connected to the September 11 attacks:

• Between September 6 and 7, the Chicago Board Options Exchange saw purchases of 4,744 put options on United Airlines, but only 396 call options… Assuming that 4,000 of the options were bought by people with advance knowledge of the imminent attacks, these “insiders” would have profited by almost $5 million.
• On September 10, 4,516 put options on American Airlines were bought on the Chicago exchange, compared to only 748 calls. Again, there was no news at that point to justify this imbalance;… Again, assuming that 4,000 of these options trades represent “insiders,” they would represent a gain of about $4 million.
• [The levels of put options purchased above were more than six times higher than normal.]
• No similar trading in other airlines occurred on the Chicago exchange in the days immediately preceding Black Tuesday.
• Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co., which occupied 22 floors of the World Trade Center, saw 2,157 of its October $45 put options bought in the three trading days before Black Tuesday; this compares to an average of 27 contracts per day before September 6. Morgan Stanley’s share price fell from $48.90 to $42.50 in the aftermath of the attacks. Assuming that 2,000 of these options contracts were bought based upon knowledge of the approaching attacks, their purchasers could have profited by at least $1.2 million.
• Merrill Lynch & Co., which occupied 22 floors of the World Trade Center, saw 12,215 October $45 put options bought in the four trading days before the attacks; the previous average volume in those shares had been 252 contracts per day [a 1200% increase!]. When trading resumed, Merrill’s shares fell from $46.88 to $41.50; assuming that 11,000 option contracts were bought by “insiders,” their profit would have been about $5.5 million.
• European regulators are examining trades in Germany’s Munich Re, Switzerland’s Swiss Re, and AXA of France, all major reinsurers with exposure to the Black Tuesday disaster. [FTW Note: AXA also owns more than 25% of American Airlines stock making the attacks a "double whammy" for them.]

On September 29, 2001 – in a vital story that has gone unnoticed by the major media – the San Francisco Chronicle reported, “Investors have yet to collect more than $2.5 million in profits they made trading options in the stock of United Airlines before the Sept. 11, terrorist attacks, according to a source familiar with the trades and market data.

“The uncollected money raises suspicions that the investors – whose identities and nationalities have not been made public – had advance knowledge of the strikes.” They don’t dare show up now. The suspension of trading for four days after the attacks made it impossible to cash-out quickly and claim the prize before investigators started looking.

“… October series options for UAL Corp. were purchased in highly unusual volumes three trading days before the terrorist attacks for a total outlay of $2,070; investors bought the option contracts, each representing 100 shares, for 90 cents each. [This represents 230,000 shares]. Those options are now selling at more than $12 each. There are still 2,313 so-called “put” options outstanding [valued at $2.77 million and representing 231,300 shares] according to the Options Clearinghouse Corp.”

“…The source familiar with the United trades identified Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown, the American investment banking arm of German giant Deutsche Bank, as the investment bank used to purchase at least some of these options…”

As reported in other news stories, Deutsche Bank was also the hub of insider trading activity connected to Munich Re. just before the attacks.

CIA, the Banks and the Brokers

Understanding the interrelationships between CIA and the banking and brokerage world is critical to grasping the already frightening implications of the above revelations. Let’s look at the history of CIA, Wall Street and the big banks by looking at some of the key players in CIA’s history. Clark Clifford – The National Security Act of 1947 was written by Clark Clifford, a Democratic Party powerhouse, former Secretary of Defense, and one-time advisor to President Harry Truman. In the 1980s, as Chairman of First American Bancshares, Clifford was instrumental in getting the corrupt CIA drug bank BCCI a license to operate on American shores. His profession: Wall Street lawyer and banker.

John Foster and Allen Dulles – These two brothers “designed” the CIA for Clifford. Both were active in intelligence operations during WW II. Allen Dulles was the U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland where he met frequently with Nazi leaders and looked after U.S. investments in Germany. John Foster went on to become Secretary of State under Dwight Eisenhower and Allen went on to serve as CIA Director under Eisenhower and was later fired by JFK. Their professions: partners in the most powerful – to this day – Wall Street law firm of Sullivan, Cromwell.

Bill Casey – Ronald Reagan’s CIA Director and OSS veteran who served as chief wrangler during the Iran-Contra years was, under President Richard Nixon, Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. His profession: Wall Street lawyer and stockbroker.

David Doherty – The current Vice President of the New York Stock Exchange for enforcement is the retired General Counsel of the Central Intelligence Agency.

George Herbert Walker Bush – President from 1989 to January 1993, also served as CIA Director for 13 months from 1976-7. He is now a paid consultant to the Carlyle Group, the 11th largest defense contractor in the nation, and which shares joint investments with the bin Laden family.

A.B. “Buzzy” Krongard – The current Executive Director of the Central Intelligence Agency is the former Chairman of the investment bank A.B. Brown and former Vice Chairman of Banker’s Trust.

John Deutch – This retired CIA Director from the Clinton Administration currently sits on the board at Citigroup, the nation’s second largest bank, which has been repeatedly and overtly involved in the documented laundering drug money. This includes Citigroup’s 2001 purchase of a Mexican bank known to launder drug money, Banamex.

Nora Slatkin – This retired CIA Executive Director also sits on Citibank’s board.

Maurice “Hank” Greenburg – The CEO of AIG insurance, manager of the third largest capital investment pool in the world, was floated as a possible CIA Director in 1995. FTW exposed Greenberg’s and AIG’s long connection to CIA drug trafficking and covert operations in a two-part series that was interrupted just prior to the attacks of September 11. AIG’s stock has bounced back remarkably well since the attacks. To read that story, please go to http://www.copvcia.com/stories/part_2.html.

One wonders how much damning evidence is necessary to respond to what is now irrefutable proof that CIA knew about the attacks and did not stop them. Whatever our government is doing, whatever the CIA is doing, it is clearly NOT in the interests of the American people, especially those who died on September 11.