Syria: US/UK/Saudi Arabia Want Assad Out

This from LaRouche PAC.

How Saudis Are Working Obama Over To Attack Syria

August 27th, 2013 • 8:47 AM

An AP article carried by the Wall Street Journal [1] on Aug. 26 shows the role of Saudi intelligence chief Bandar bin-Sultan in leading the Obama administration, with the help of some of U.S. legislators, to attack Syria and remove Bashar al-Assad. Bandar did all that because "he could deliver what the CIA couldn't: planeloads of money and arms, and, as one U.S. diplomat put it, wasta, Arabic for under-the-table clout."

It is evident that the plan was put into motion months ago when Bandar began "jetting from covert command centers near the Syrian front lines to the Élysée Palace in Paris and the Kremlin in Moscow, seeking to undermine the Assad regime," Arab, American, and European officials told the authors. The target of Bandar was the Damascus suburbs as part of the "southern strategy" of the Saudis for strengthening the rebels in that area where the chemical weapons have been allegedly used recently.

Bandar, who was involved in the 1980s Contra operation— drugs for arms—does not visit Washington, but brings in influential U.S. legislators to Turkey and Saudi Arabia to make his case. It is his wasta, again.

He is the closest Saudi confidant of the new CIA chief, John Brennan, who has been in periodic contact by phone with Prince Bandar, officials told the authors. Bandar found early support from Republican Sens. John McCain of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. He set up a rare one-on-one meeting for one of them, then-Sen. Ben Nelson (D., Neb.), with King Abdullah in Riyadh. Sen. Nelson said he told the king that if regional powers pulled together with a common strategy, it would be easier for the U.S. to become a partner.

"In September 2012, Sens. McCain and Graham, who were in Istanbul, went to a meeting at an opulent hotel suite on the banks of the Bosporus. Mr. McCain said he made the case to Prince Bandar that the rebels weren't getting the kinds of weapons they needed, and the prince, in turn, described the kingdom's plans. The senator said that in succeeding months he saw a 'dramatic increase in Saudi involvement, hands-on, by Bandar,'" the article said.

Also, when U.S. intelligence agencies saw worrisome signs that Iran, Hezbollah, and Russia, in response to the influx of Saudi arms, were ramping up support to Assad, Bandar used his wasta. With the Senate Foreign Relations Committee ready to back arming the rebels, Bandar turned his attention to skeptics on the House and Senate intelligence committees. Saudis arranged a trip for committee leaders, which included Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D- Calif.), to Riyadh, where Prince Bandar laid out the Saudi strategy. "It was a reunion of sorts," officials told the authors.

In Washington Bandar works through Saudi Ambassador to Washington Adel al-Jubeir, who, according to the article, has used his access to policy makers, including the President, to push the message that U.S. inaction would lead to greater Middle East instability down the road, American officials told the authors.

Links:
[1] http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323423804579024452583045962.html

"Drinking More Koolaid: Where Is the Proof in Syria?''

August 27th, 2013 • 9:13 AM

This morning, Col. Patrick Lang (USA, Ret) posted the following item on his website [1], delivering a strong condemnation of the drive for war against Syria. The following is the text:

"I wrote "Drinking the Koolaid." It was published in "Middle East Policy" in 2004. The article is analysis of the deliberate deception employed by the Bush Administration in lying the United States into war with Iraq.

"The same methods are being used now to drag the American people into another Middle Eastern war. The corporate, self-serving media are leading the effort to "brainwash" Americans into acceptance of war against Syria.

"The latest polling indicates that there is little support among Americans for ANY KIND of military intervention in Syria. Perhaps people are tired of being lied to.

"I seldom agree with Eliot Cohen but he has an opinion piece linked to below in today's Washington Post in which he sensibly makes the point that Air Power is a brittle instrument and that the use of any level of missile strike against Syria will inevitably lead to greater and greater measures in order to avoid the appearance of weakness that failure of effect will create. Richard Haas, president of the CFR, said today that polling indicating a 25% level of support in the USA for intervention is flawed because the polling might suggest a big war and Haas thinks it will be a small war.

"Where is the proof that the Syrian government killed all these people in the eastern suburbs of Damascus? Where is the proof? Show us the proof. The Obama Administration says it has no doubt. This is a matter of war and peace, of life or death. Show us the proof. Senator Corker stated this weekend that all the social media indicate that the Syrian government is guilty. Is that the proof? Social media?

"'Based on photographs, videos and witness accounts that emerged last week, U.S. officials said they have little doubt that Assad's forces carried out the attack.'

"Is that the "proof?"

"We can't be shown the proof because of "sources and methods?" BS. The USG was eager to display satellite photography before it invaded Iraq. Let's see the incriminating pictures. Do they have SIGINT indicating a command to use to such weapons? Issues of war and peace require the disclosure of intelligence secrets. Do the rebels say that the government did it? That would be interesting.

"Is there a "Syria Group" to match the Bushies "Iraq Group?" pl."

Links:
[1] http://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/2013/08/drinking-more-koolaid.html

Lavrov at Emergency Press Conference on Syria: West Is on a "Dangerous and Slippery Path"

August 27th, 2013 • 9:06 AM

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov yesterday held a previously unscheduled press conference [1], to speak to "what is happening in and around Syria." Opening it, he stated the Russian government's position: "We are extremely concerned about the current situation. Hysteria is brimming over and a confrontation is being incited over allegations that the Syrian government used chemical weapons on August 21 in Huta. Under this pretext, there is a massive buildup of military assets in the region, as well as calls and even threats to use military force against the Bashar al-Assad regime. Washington, London, and Paris are officially stating that they have incontrovertible information and proof that the Syrian authorities are guilty. They cannot now produce such proof, yet they are saying more and more loudly that a 'red line' has been crossed and that there must be to further delay."

Lavrov said that these statements run counter to the G8's Loch Erne agreement [2] that any accusations about chemical weapons use should be meticulously investigated by the United Nations. Concerning the recent incident, Lavrov said that such investigation must include the numerous reports circulating in the Internet, such as charges that the chemical-attack photos appeared online before it was supposed to have happened. He questioned why the Western powers have suddenly become so concerned about the preservation of evidence, in contrast to the lack of such concern last March when insurgents fired a poison-loaded missile in Khan al-Asal.

Like many Russian officials and commentators, Lavrov asked what interest the Assad government would have had in using chemical weapons at the very moment it had welcomed the UN expert mission of Ake Sellstrom to Damascus. He said it was also suspicious at the coincidence of the chemical attack with Russian-American preparations for their latest consultations on convening a Geneva Conference. "On the whole, the course of events confirms that the minute the slightest chance appears of a political settlement process taking hold, attempts are made at regime change by force, in order to subvert these chances." Lavrov reviewed a chronology showing the willingness of the Syrian government to take part in talks for a peaceful resolution of the conflicts in the country.

The Russian foreign minister described his call to Secretary of State John Kerry, urging coordinated efforts to bring all parties in Syria into a peace process. This is far preferable, he added, to "what we have experienced in the cases of Iraq and Libya. In no instance has armed outside intervention led to the restoration of security or the improvement of life for a country, or to stabilization of the region as a whole. On the contrary, the region has now been destabilized to a practically unprecedented degree."

Asked whether Russia has a "Plan B", including military action, in the event the West intervenes unilaterally, Lavrov replied: "The use of force without UNSC authorization is a gross violation of international law. ... I underscore again that, even if we set aside the legal and moral side of the matter, the specific consequences of outside intervention, not sanctioned by the international community, can only lead to a sharp deterioration of the situation in a country that supposedly needs to be saved from dictatorship so that democracy may be established. I have heard with great alarm the statements coming from Paris and London, that NATO could intervene to destroy chemical weapons in Syria without UNSC authorization. This is a very dangerous and slippery path, and one onto which our Western partners have already stepped several times. I hope that common sense may still prevail."

Lavrov said that "the true motives of our Western partners are difficult to understand," given the outcomes of intervention in Iraq and Libya. He said he had asked Kerry directly, "What is your plan?" but that the latter's reply had been "narrow" — another demand for Russia and China to help stop the spread of chemical weapons.

A couple of years ago, Lavrov said, leaders in the West were constantly demanding that Russia and China get onto "the right side of history," referring to democratization. "Somehow, for the last six months or year, I don't remember anybody talking about 'the right side of history' any more." The outcome of the unrest in the Middle East is unpredictable, said Lavrov, but "if somebody conceived of this as a process of 'managed chaos,' only the second of those two words remains." He said that even if there is no "plot" behind all the West's activities in the region, the current apparently ad hoc policies, instead of "the comprehensive and logical policy that is needed," are leading to crazy decisions: "As I told my friend [French Foreign Minister] L. Fabius, the French in Mali helped fight against terrorist groups, which the French themselves had armed and supported in Libya."

Lavrov reported that Kerry had promised, after their "lengthy" conversation on Aug. 25, "to study our arguments carefully once again." The foreign minister's press conference included detailed discussion of many specific political elements of the Syrian political situation, as well as evidence and contradictions involved in the Aug. 21 chemical attack.

Links:
[1] http://rt.com/news/lavrov-syria-press-conference-003/
[2] http://www.voltairenet.org/article179000.html

THE END OF THE LONDON/RIYADH TERROR AXIS

http://larouchepac.com/bae911

Overview

The U.S. remains under threat of future attacks not simply because of terrorist elements themselves, but due to the continuing complicity of President Barack Obama and his predecessor George W. Bush, in covering up for the British-Saudi elements that made 9-11 possible. If another major terrorist attack like what happened to the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, or the armed assault on the Benghazi, Libya U.S. Mission occurs, you can blame it on George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and the British and Saudi monarchies. The wellspring of all significant international terrorism today is the Anglo-Saudi imperial alliance, expressed most vividly in the 1985 Al-Yamamah arrangements between London and Riyadh that persist to this day.

The contents of this page are composed with material to provide the public with an in depth knowledge of the true perpetrators of both, and perhaps future, 9/11 attacks. NB: This page will be updated regularly.

Featured Content

2013 · FEATURE: EIR Special Report

This August 2013 report includes the following material, Bust the London-Riyadh Global Terror Axis, Bush and Obama Joined At the Hip in Shameless Coverup of Anglo-Saudi 9/11, Al-Yamamah: Funding Terrorism, Graham: Hijackers Needed The Saudi Support Network.

2013 · Fact Sheet: The Obama/al-Qaeda Alliance

While claiming credit for the killing of Osama bin Laden, President Obama was forging an alliance with al-Qaeda. First, to overthrow the government of Libya, and now, the government of Syria. a. This reckless and lawless policy of allying with the perpetrators of 9/11, 2001, and, now, 9/11, 2012, to conduct war without the consent of Congress, in violation of the U.S. Constitution, runs the immediate danger of leading to world war, which can only mean thermonuclear war.

2013 · H. Res. 36

Congressman Frank Wolf (R-VA) introduced a resolution calling for a select committee to investigate the September 11, 2012 Benghazi attacks. The resolution currently has 164 co-sponsors.

2012 · Sen. Bob Graham: Re-Open the 9/11 Investigation Now

Former U.S. Senator Bob Graham (FL), co-Chair of the Congressional Joint Inquiry into 9/11, published an op-ed on September 11, 2012, warning, "What the Joint Inquiry learned—and has emerged since—shows where the proverbial finger of suspicion points. It points to Saudi Arabia, and we need to know the full truth."

2012 · The Al Qaeda Executive

In this feature we document President's Obama's use of al-Qaeda networks to overthrow Qaddafi in Libya, the attempt to overthrow Bashar al-Assad in Syria, who were the same forces who attacked the U.S. consulate in Benghazi.

2011 · Feature Documentary: Ten Years Later

Eight months before the September 11, 2001 attacks, Lyndon LaRouche forecast that the United States was at high risk for a Reichstag Fire event, an event that would allow those in power to manage through dictatorial means an economic and social crisis that they were otherwise incompetent to handle. We are presently living in the unbroken wake of that history.

2011 · Obama Continues 9/11 Cover-Up

Interviewed on July 19, 2011, in the months leading up to the anniversary of the original attacks, Jeff Steinberg discusses the continued, treasonous cover-up of the original attacks by the Obama Administration.

2009 · 9/11 Cover is Blown

9/11 Cover Is Blown: Jeff Steinberg's July 10th article and interview detailing LaRouche's assessment of 9/11, drawing upon newly declassified documents, available through the National Archives, which reveal that two leading presumed U.S. allies—Saudi Arabia and Great Britain—leading supporters of the attacks on New York City and Washington.

2007 · Scandal of the Century Rocks British Crown and the City

This article, by Jeff Steinberg, provides further details of the Al-Yamamah deal, including charts of the annual and cumulative of Saudi oil payoff to BAE.

2007 · Will BAE Scandal of Century Bring Down Dick Cheney?

Here, EIR provides a map of the associations between Anglo-Saudi banks, holding companies and other entities complicit in the Al-Yamamah oil for weapons slush fund.

2007 · The World’s Biggest Loose End

The pamphlet released by LaRouchePAC, featuring the then-most-up-to-date perspective on the BAE Scandal and the Saudi/British role in 9/11. Available in PDF. To view the original webcast click here.

2007 · Today’s BAE Scandal, and the Force Behind 9/11

Today's BAE Scandal, and the Force Behind 9/11: Discussing the exploding British mega-scandal around the huge BAE Systems arms firm, at his June 21 Washington webcast, U.S. statesman and economist Lyndon LaRouche touched on the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

2001 · LaRouche Discusses the 9/11 Attack As it Unfolds

This interview was conducted on September 11, 2001, between Jack Stockwell, morning radio host on K-TALK radio in Salt Lake City, Utah, and 2004 Presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche. It was on the air from 7:15 to 9:00 A.M., Mountain Daylight Time.

2000 · Put Britain on the List of States Sponsoring Terrorism

The following memorandum, dated Jan. 11, 2000, was prepared for delivery to U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. It is a request to launch an investigation, pursuant to placing Great Britain on the list of states sponsoring terrorism.

Enemies of Humanity 8: GMO Food Companies

Enemies of Humanity 7: The Green Movement

This is taken from The Green Agenda...

We should all want to be wise and careful stewards of the beautiful planet we call home. But most of us realise that humans in general are not being good stewards. We are wasteful with our natural resources and have reduced biodiversity. Therefore, when we read about groups and organisations calling for a 'green revolution' and a new relationship between humanity and nature it is easy to agree with their ideas.

However, certain aspects of the modern green movement that is permeating every segment of our society are not about protecting the environment. You don’t have to dig very deep to discover the true beliefs of the influential leaders who are using genuine concerns about the environment to promote an agenda of fear and control. Please carefully consider the implications of the opinions that they so openly and freely express:

(references and sources for the quotes below can be found here)

"The common enemy of humanity is man.
In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up
with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming,
water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. All these
dangers are caused by human intervention, and it is only through
changed attitudes and behavior that they can be overcome.
The real enemy then, is humanity itself."
- Club of Rome,
premier environmental think-tank,
consultants to the United Nations

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"We need to get some broad based support,
to capture the public's imagination...
So we have to offer up scary scenarios,
make simplified, dramatic statements
and make little mention of any doubts...
Each of us has to decide what the right balance
is between being effective and being honest."
- Prof. Stephen Schneider,
Stanford Professor of Climatology,
lead author of many IPCC reports

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"We've got to ride this global warming issue.
Even if the theory of global warming is wrong,
we will be doing the right thing in terms of
economic and environmental policy."
- Timothy Wirth,
President of the UN Foundation
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"No matter if the science of global warming is all phony...
climate change provides the greatest opportunity to
bring about justice and equality in the world."
- Christine Stewart,
former Canadian Minister of the Environment
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“The data doesn't matter. We're not basing our recommendations
on the data. We're basing them on the climate models.”
- Prof. Chris Folland,
Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research
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“The models are convenient fictions
that provide something very useful.”
- Dr David Frame,
climate modeler, Oxford University

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~"I believe it is appropriate to have an 'over-representation' of the facts
on how dangerous it is, as a predicate for opening up the audience."
- Al Gore,
Climate Change activist

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"It doesn't matter what is true,
it only matters what people believe is true."
- Paul Watson,
co-founder of Greenpeace

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"The only way to get our society to truly change is to
frighten people with the possibility of a catastrophe."- emeritus professor Daniel Botkin

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"The climate crisis is not a political issue, it is a moral and
spiritual challenge to all of humanity. It is also our greatest
opportunity to lift Global Consciousness to a higher level."
- Al Gore,
Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech

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"We are on the verge of a global transformation.
All we need is the right major crisis..."
- David Rockefeller,
Club of Rome executive member

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"Humanity is sitting on a time bomb. If the vast majority of the
world's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a
major catastrophe that could send our entire planet's climate system
into a tail-spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods,
droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have
ever experienced - a catastrophe of our own making."
- Al Gore,
An Inconvenient Truth

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"We are getting close to catastrophic tipping points,
despite the fact that most people barely notice the warming yet."
- Dr James Hansen,
NASA researcher

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"By the end of this century climate change will reduce the human
population to a few breeding pairs surviving near the Arctic."
- Sir James Lovelock,
Revenge of Gaia

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"Climate Change will result in a catastrophic global sea level
rise of seven meters. That's bye-bye most of Bangladesh,
Netherlands, Florida and would make London the new Atlantis."
- Greenpeace International
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"This planet is on course for a catastrophe.
The existence of Life itself is at stake."
- Dr Tim Flannery,
Principal Research Scientist

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"Coal makes us sick. Oil makes us sick. It's global warming.
It's ruining our country. It's ruining our world."
- Harry Reid,
U.S. Senate majority leader
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"Climate Change is the greatest threat that
human civilization has ever faced."
- Angela Merkel,
German Chancellor

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"Climate change is real. Not only is it real, it's here,
and its effects are giving rise to a frighteningly new
global phenomenon: the man-made natural disaster."
- Barack Obama,
US President

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"We simply must do everything we can in our power to
slow down global warming before it is too late."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger,
Governor of California

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"Climate change should be seen as the
greatest challenge to ever face mankind."
- Prince Charles

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"Climate change makes us all global citizens,
we are truly all in this together."
- Gordon Brown,
British Prime Minister

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"We have reached the critical moment of decision on climate change.
Failure to act to now would be deeply and unforgivably irresponsible.
We urgently require a global environmental revolution."
- Tony Blair,
former British PM

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"We are close to a time when all of humankind
will envision a global agenda that encompasses
a kind of Global Marshall Plan to address the
causes of poverty and suffering and
environmental destruction all over the earth."
- Al Gore,
Earth in the Balance

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"In Nature organic growth proceeds according
to a Master Plan, a Blueprint. Such a ‘master plan’ is
missing from the process of growth and development of
the world system. Now is the time to draw up a master plan for
sustainable growth and world development based on global
allocation of all resources and a new global economic system.
Ten or twenty years form today it will probably be too late."
- Club of Rome,
Mankind at the Turning Point

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"We need a new paradigm of development in
which the environment will be a priority.
World civilization as we know it will soon end.
We have very little time and we must act.
If we can address the environmental problem,
it will have to be done within a new system, a
new paradigm. We have to change our mindset,
the way humankind views the world."
- Mikhail Gorbachev,
founder of Green Cross International

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"The concept of national sovereignty has been immutable,
indeed a sacred principle of international relations.
It is a principle which will yield only slowly and reluctantly to
the new imperatives of global environmental cooperation."
- UN Commission on Global Governance report

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"Democracy is not a panacea. It cannot organize everything and
it is unaware of its own limits. These facts must be faced squarely.
Sacrilegious though this may sound, democracy is no longer well
suited for the tasks ahead. The complexity and the technical nature
of many of today’s problems do not always allow elected
representatives to make competent decisions at the right time."
- Club of Rome,
The First Global Revolution

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"The emerging 'environmentalization' of our civilization
and the need for vigorous action in the interest of the entire global
community will inevitably have multiple political consequences.
Perhaps the most important of them will be a gradual change
in the status of the United Nations. Inevitably, it must
assume some aspects of a world government."
- Mikhail Gorbachev,
State of the World Forum
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"I envisage the prinicles of the Earth Charter to
be a new form of the ten commandments.
They lay the foundation for a sustainable
global earth community."
- Mikhail Gorbachev,
co-author of The Earth Charter

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"In my view, after fifty years of service in the United Nations system,
I perceive the utmost urgency and absolute necessity for proper
Earth government. There is no shadow of a doubt that the present
political and economic systems are no longer appropriate
and will lead to the end of life evolution on this planet.
We must therefore absolutely and urgently look for new ways."
- Dr Robert Muller,
UN Assistant Secretary General,

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"Nations are in effect ceding portions of their sovereignty
to the international community and beginning to create a
new system of international environmental governance
as a means of solving otherwise unmanageable crises."
- Lester Brown,
WorldWatch Institute

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"Regionalism must precede globalism.
We foresee a seamless system of governance from
local communities, individual states, regional unions
and up through to the United Nations itself."
- UN Commission on Global Governance

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"A keen and anxious awareness is evolving to suggest that
fundamental changes will have to take place in the world order
and its power structures, in the distribution of wealth and income.
Perhaps only a new and enlightened humanism
can permit mankind to negotiate this transition."
- Club of Rome,
Mankind at the Turning Point
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"The alternative to the existing world order can only
emerge as a result of a new human dimension of progress.
We envision a revolution of the mind, a new way of thinking."
- Mikhail Gorbachev,
State of the World Forum

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"We require a central organizing principle - one agreed to voluntarily.
Minor shifts in policy, moderate improvement in laws and regulations,
rhetoric offered in lieu of genuine change - these are all forms of
appeasement, designed to satisfy the public’s desire to believe that
sacrifice, struggle and a wrenching transformation
of society will not be necessary."
- Al Gore,
Earth in the Balance

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"Adopting a central organizing principle...
means embarking on an all-out effort to use every
policy and program, every law and institution...
to halt the destruction of the environment."
- Al Gore,
Earth in the Balance

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"Effective execution of Agenda 21 will require a profound
reorientation of all human society, unlike anything the world
has ever experienced a major shift in the priorities of both
governments and individuals and an unprecedented
redeployment of human and financial resources. This shift
will demand that a concern for the environmental consequences
of every human action be integrated into individual and
collective decision-making at every level."
- UN Agenda 21
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"The current course of development is thus clearly unsustainable.
Current problems cannot be solved by piecemeal measures.
More of the same is not enough. Radical change from the
current trajectory is not an option, but an absolute necessity.
Fundamental economic, social and cultural changes that
address the root causes of poverty and environmental
degradation are required and they are required now."
– from the Earth Charter website

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"The goal now is a socialist, redistributionist society,
which is nature's proper steward and society's only hope."
- David Brower,
founder of Friends of the Earth
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"If we don't overthrow capitalism, we don't have a chance of
saving the world ecologically. I think it is possible to have
an ecologically sound society under socialism.
I don't think it is possible under capitalism"
- Judi Bari,
principal organiser of Earth First!

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"Isn't the only hope for the planet that the
industrialized civilizations collapse?
Isn't it our responsiblity to bring that about?"
- Maurice Strong,
founder of the UN Environment Programme
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"A massive campaign must be launched to de-develop the
United States. De-development means bringing our
economic system into line with the realities of
ecology and the world resource situation."
- Paul Ehrlich,
Professor of Population Studies

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"The only hope for the world is to make sure there is not another
United States. We can't let other countries have the same
number of cars, the amount of industrialization, we have in the US.
We have to stop these Third World countries right where they are."
- Michael Oppenheimer,
Environmental Defense Fund

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"Global Sustainability requires the deliberate quest of poverty,
reduced resource consumption and set levels of mortality control."
- Professor Maurice King

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"We must make this an insecure and inhospitable place
for capitalists and their projects. We must reclaim the roads and
plowed land, halt dam construction, tear down existing dams,
free shackled rivers and return to wilderness
millions of acres of presently settled land."
- David Foreman,
co-founder of Earth First!

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"Complex technology of any sort is an assault on
human dignity. It would be little short of disastrous for us to
discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy,
because of what we might do with it."
- Amory Lovins, Rocky Mountain Institute

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"The prospect of cheap fusion energy is the
worst thing that could happen to the planet."
- Jeremy Rifkin,
Greenhouse Crisis Foundation

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"Giving society cheap, abundant energy would be the
equivalent of giving an idiot child a machine gun."
- Prof Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University

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"Our insatiable drive to rummage deep beneath
the surface of the earth is a willful expansion
of our dysfunctional civilization into Nature."
- Al Gore,
Earth in the Balance
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"The big threat to the planet is people: there are too many,
doing too well economically and burning too much oil."
– Sir James Lovelock,
BBC Interview

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"My three main goals would be to reduce human population to
about 100 million worldwide, destroy the industrial infrastructure
and see wilderness, with it’s full complement of species,
returning throughout the world."
-Dave Foreman,
co-founder of Earth First!
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"Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the
affluent middle class - involving high meat intake,
use of fossil fuels, appliances, air-conditioning,
and suburban housing - are not sustainable."
- Maurice Strong,
Rio Earth Summit

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"Mankind is the most dangerous, destructive,
selfish and unethical animal on the earth."
- Michael Fox,
vice-president of The Humane Society

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"Human beings, as a species,
have no more value than slugs."
- John Davis, editor of Earth First! Journal

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"Humans on the Earth behave in some ways like a
pathogenic micro-organism, or like the cells of a tumor."
- Sir James Lovelock,
Healing Gaia
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"The Earth has cancer
and the cancer is Man."
- Club of Rome,
Mankind at the Turning Point

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"A cancer is an uncontrolled multiplication of cells;
the population explosion is an uncontrolled multiplication of people.
We must shift our efforts from the treatment of the symptoms to
the cutting out of the cancer. The operation will demand many
apparently brutal and heartless decisions.''
- Prof Paul Ehrlich,
The Population Bomb

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"I don't claim to have any special interest in natural history,
but as a boy I was made aware of the annual fluctuations in
the number of game animals and the need to adjust
the cull to the size of the surplus population."
- Prince Philip,
preface of Down to Earth
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"A reasonable estimate for an industrialized world society
at the present North American material standard of living
would be 1 billion. At the more frugal European standard
of living, 2 to 3 billion would be possible."
- United Nations,
Global Biodiversity Assessment

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"A total population of 250-300 million people,
a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal."
- Ted Turner,
founder of CNN and major UN donor

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"... the resultant ideal sustainable population is hence
more than 500 million but less than one billion."
- Club of Rome,
Goals for Mankind

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"One America burdens the earth much more than
twenty Bangladeshes. This is a terrible thing to say.
In order to stabilize world population,we must eliminate
350,000 people per day. It is a horrible thing to say,
but it's just as bad not to say it."
- Jacques Cousteau,
UNESCO Courier

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"If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to earth
as a killer virus to lower human population levels."
- Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh,
patron of the World Wildlife Fund

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"I suspect that eradicating small pox was wrong.
It played an important part in balancing ecosystems."
- John Davis, editor of Earth First! Journal

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"The extinction of the human species may not
only be inevitable but a good thing."
- Christopher Manes, Earth First!

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“The extinction of Homo Sapiens would mean survival
for millions, if not billions, of Earth-dwelling species.
Phasing out the human race will solve every
problem on Earth - social and environmental.”
- Ingrid Newkirk,
former President of PETA

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"Childbearing should be a punishable crime against
society, unless the parents hold a government license.
All potential parents should be required to use
contraceptive chemicals, the government issuing
antidotes to citizens chosen for childbearing."
- David Brower,
first Executive Director of the Sierra Club
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"The fate of mankind, as well as of religion, depends upon
the emergence of a new faith in the future.
Armed with such a faith, we might find
it possible to resanctify the earth."
- Al Gore,
Earth in the Balance

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"The greatest hope for the Earth lies in religionists and
scientists uniting to awaken the world to its near fatal predicament
and then leading mankind out of the bewildering maze of
international crises into the future Utopia of humanist hope."
- Club of Rome,
Goals for Mankind

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"What an incredible planet in the universe this will be
when we will be one human family living in justice,
peace, love and harmony with our divine Earth,
with each other and with the heavens."- Robert Muller,
UN Assistant Secretary General

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"The earth is literally our mother, not only because we depend on
her for nurture and shelter but even more because the human
species has been shaped by her in the womb of evolution....
Our salvation depends upon our ability
to create a religion of nature."
- Rene Dubos,
board member, Planetary Citizens

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"Each element, plant, insect, fish and animal
represents a certain aspect of Gaia's - and our - being.
In a way, we are Gaia's intelligence and awareness
- currently lost in self-destructive madness.
We must acknowledge, respect and love her for being
the Mother she is to us or we deny our very selves.
Nurture the Mother as she nurtures us."
- Prof. Michael J. Cohen,
Ecopsychologist

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"It is the responsibility of each human being today to
choose between the force of darkness and the force of light.
We must therefore transform our attitudes, and adopt a renewed
respect for the superior laws of Divine Nature."
- Maurice Strong,
first Secretary General of UNEP~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

"The spirit of our planet is stirring!
The Consciousness of Goddess Earth
is now rising against all odds,
in spite of millennia of suppression,
repression and oppression inflicted on Her
by a hubristic and misguided humanity.

The Earth is a living entity, a biological organism
with psychic and spiritual dimensions.
With the expansion of the patriarchal religions
that focused on a male God majestically
stationed in Heaven ruling over the Earth and the
Universe, the memory of our planet's innate Divinity
was repressed and banished into the
collective unconscious of humanity."- Envision Earth

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"Still more important is the implication that the evolution of
homo sapiens, with his technological inventiveness and his
increasingly subtle communications network, has vastly increased
Gaia's range of perception. She is now through us awake and aware
of herself. She has seen the reflection of her fair face through the
eyes of astronauts and the television cameras of orbiting spacecraft.

Our sensations of wonder and pleasure, our capacity
for conscious thought and speculation, our restless curiosity and
drive are hers to share. This new interrelationship of Gaia with man
is by no means fully established; we are not yet a truly collective
species, corralled and tamed as an integral part of the biosphere,
as we are as individual creatures. It may be that the destiny of
mankind is to become tamed, so that the fierce, destructive, and
greedy forces of tribalism and nationalism are fused into a
compulsive urge to belong to the commonwealth of all
creatures which constitutes Gaia."
– Sir James Lovelock,
Gaia: A New Look At Life

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"Little by little a planetary prayer book is
thus being composed by an increasingly united
humanity seeking its oneness. Once again,
but this time on a universal scale, humankind is
seeking no less than its reunion with 'divine,'
its transcendence into higher forms of life. Hindus
call our earth Brahma, or God, for they rightly
see no difference between our earth and the divine.
This ancient simple truth is slowly dawning again upon
humanity, as we are about to enter our cosmic age
and become what we were always meant to be:
the planet of god."
- Robert Muller,
UN Assistant Secretary General

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"What if Mary is another name for Gaia? Then her capacity for
virgin birth is no miracle . . . it is a role of Gaia since life began . . .
She is of this Universe and, conceivably, a part of God. On Earth,
she is the source of life everlasting and is alive now;
she gave birth to humankind and we are part of her."
- Sir James Lovelock,
Ages of Gaia

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"Nature is my god. To me, nature is sacred;
trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals."
- Mikhail Gorbachev,
Green Cross International

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"The spiritual sense of our place in nature...
can be traced to the origins of human civilization....
The last vestige of organized goddess worship
was eliminated by Christianity."
- Al Gore,Earth in the Balance

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"Christianity is our foe. If animal rights is to succeed,
we must destroy the Judeo-Christian Religious tradition."
- Peter Singer, founder of Animal Rights

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"I pledge allegiance to the Earth and all its sacred parts.
Its water, land and living things and all its human hearts."
- Global Education Associates,
The Earth Pledge

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"By fostering a deep sense of connection to others and to the earth
in all its dimensions, holistic education encourages a sense of
responsibility to self to others and to the planet."
- Global Alliance for Transforming Education

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"The earth is not dead matter. She is alive.
Now begin to speak to the earth as you walk.
You can speak out loud, or just talk to her in your mind.
Send your love into her with your exhalation. Feel your
heart touching upon the heart of the planet. Say to her
whatever words come to you: Mother Earth, I love you.
Mother Earth, I bless you. May you be healed. May all
your creatures be happy. Peace to you, Mother Earth.
On behalf of the human race, I ask forgiveness
for having injured you. Forgive us, Mother Earth"
- US Student Textbook,
"Prayer to the Earth"

Argentina V The Bankers: Europe, Take Note.

Argentina, under the stewardship of Nestor and Cristina Kirchner, has followed opposite economic policies to European nations.

Argentina negotiated a restructuring of their debt obligations rather than impose austerity measures on the population.

Argentina's debt to GDP ratio has fallen from over 150% in 2003 to around 45% in 2013 (Spain's has risen from 30% to 120% in the same period).

Youth unemployment in Argentina has fallen from around 36% in 2003 to 19% in 2013 (Cyprus youth unemployment has gone from 9% to 35% in the same period).

Argentina's economic philosophy:

• People come before banks.
• Economic production should replace monetary speculation.
• National sovereignty should prevail over globalisation.

Nester Kirchner, April 2005:

"There is life after the (International Monetary) Fund and it is a good life."

Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, March 2013:

" How can it be that they want to sacrifice entire nations to small groups that — like these vulture funds — want to impose conditions on the whole world?  I don’t understand it.”

 (The issue is whether the world’s leaders and governments) “will permit a handful of (predators), who can fit in the palm of my hand, to ruin the whole world —
societies with millions of unemployed, homeless, people committing suicide, who lose their jobs, can’t go to school, have no homes — or whether they’re going to put their societies, their people, their countries, their history, and their patrimony, first. This is what’s at stake today in the world. You have to understand this!”

November 2011:

 “Are we going to keep financing the brokers who only produce financial derivatives, or
are we going to finance those who produce food, goods, and services? This is key.”

 “We don’t need austerity policies, but growth policies.  You have to tackle the financial sector so it supports the productive sector, so we can create jobs, so there will be more consumption in the whole world, so we can once again reestablish balance and sanity . . . which many important leaders with great institutional responsibilities appear to have lost.”

Since 2003, the Kirchner administrations have increased investment in science and technology by 937% and repatriated almost 1,000 scientists.

Since 2005, Argentina’s economy has grown at a rate of 8% annually, making it the country with the
second highest growth in the world after China. It has created over 4 million productive jobs; renationalised
the AFJP pension funds privatised by former President Carlos Menem, the IMF’s darling; renationalised the
formerly state-owned YPF oil company; and inspired youth to take responsibility for their nation’s future.

Source: Executive Intelligence Review, July 30 2013.  Please subscribe.

    

The Bankers: Destroyers and Murderers...

The Oligarchy control the world via their corrupt financial system.  Their tools are the banks, marshaled by organisations such as the IMF (International Monetary Fund), the World Bank and the BIS (Bank of International Settlements).

Since 2008, when the entire system came close to collapse, what has been the result of their answer to the problems created, namely "austerity"?

Germany: Those classified a "poor" live 11 years less than those classified as "rich".

UK: People living in Calton, a poor area of Glasgow, have a life expectancy of 54 years.  Those living in Lenzie, a prosperous area of the city, live to 82.

Greece: Unemployment 27%; youth unemployment 64.2%; homelessness up by 25%; still births up by 22%; suicide rate up 27%; prostitution up by 150%; total population down by 10%; birth rate down by 10%.

Cyprus: Savers robbed of 70% of their deposits; economy shrinking by 60%; unemployment expected to reach 40% by 2015; electricity consumption lowest figure for 10 years.

Italy: birth rate down 2011-12; death rate up 2011-12; population down 79,000 in one year (population of a small city); youth unemployment up by 45%; unemployment up to 12.2%; health expenditures down 1.9%; available hospital beds down 15%; manufacturing down 26-48% depending on the type of good; relative and absolute poverty rates substantially up.

Spain: Unemployment up 10%+ from 2008-2011; percentage of government spending devoted to servicing debt up 13% from 2009-13; total government spending down 16% in the same period.

Does it sound like these measures are making things better or worse?

Does it look to you like these measures are leading to recovery?

Or does it appear these measures are actually designed to reduce population and economic activity?


Meanwhile, the US military are becoming concerned about China's growing role in the world and are contemplating a strategy which they admit has the possibility of leading to a nuclear exchange.

Please support Lyndon LaRouche and his call to adopt Glass-Steagall legislation in the US and other countries.  It may be the only thing that can save us.

         

Source: Executive Intelligence Review - July 30th, 2013.