Ill Fares the Land

A gift to the next generation of engaged citizens, from one of our most celebrated intellectuals. 

As the economic collapse of 2008 made clear, the social contract that defined postwar life in Europe and America-the guarantee of security, stability, and fairness-is no longer guaranteed; in fact, it's no longer part of the common discourse. Tony Judt, one of our leading historians and thinkers, offers the language we need to address our common needs, rejecting the nihilistic individualism of the far Right and the debunked socialism of the past. In reintroducing alternatives to the status quo, Judt invigorates our political conversation, furnishing the tools necessary to imagine a new form of governance and a better way of life.
http://www.amazon.com/Ill-Fares-Land-Tony-Judt/dp/0143118765/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1347764897&sr=8-1&keywords=ill+fares+the+land

Tony Robert Judt, FBA (/dʒʌt/ jut; 2 January 1948 – 6 August 2010)^[1] was a British historian, essayist, and university professor who specialized in European history. Judt moved to New York and served as the Erich Maria Remarque Professor in European Studies at New York University, and Director of NYU's Erich Maria Remarque Institute. He was a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books. In 1996 Judt was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 2007 a corresponding Fellow of the British Academy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Judt

Gen. Wesley Clark - Exposes US Foreign Policy Coup

Nov. 3, 2007 - General Wesley Clark exposes how the US Foreign Policy was hijacked by Neo-Cons. Unfortunately, their plans have become reality today.He's speaking at the Commonwealth Club of California, San Francisco, CA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oJUnG3Z6WI&feature=related

Russia warns US about attacking Iran

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOzR3UAyXao&feature=g-vrec&context=G2a7ee03RVAAAAAAAAAg

Fmr. Russian Joint Chiefs of Staff: Russia Is Ready to Use Military Power to Defend Iran and Syria
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3bf1H9EZfU&feature=related

JKC de Courcy: The Drums of War

Jim welcomes to Financial Sense Newshour Joe de Courcy, Editor of Courcy’s Intelligence Brief and Chief
Executive of Intelligence Research Ltd in London. Joe is hearing the drumbeat of war getting louder in the Middle East, as talk of general war is coming from many sources.

Courcy’s Intelligence Service is headed by JKC de Courcy, son of the founder Kenneth and nephew of John. He has been involved in global political analysis since graduating from Oriel College, Oxford, in 1977. In the 1990s, he founded Terrorism & Security Monitor and Islamic Affairs Analyst, both now owned by the Jane’s Information Group. From 2004-2010, JKC de Courcy was commissioned by the UK’s Health Protection Agency to develop an early-warning service for emerging health threats, with a particular emphasis on chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear threats. He is now Chief Executive of Intelligence Research Ltd.

http://www.financialsense.com/financial-sense-newshour/guest-expert/2012/02/09/jkc-de-courcy/the-drums-of-war-talk-of-war-in-the-middle-east-is-omnipresent

'America will collapse'

America must work on starting a new economy and not restarting the old one or it will resemble the former Soviet Union, says author and blogger Dmitry Orlov.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=NmTBnhOXufg&feature=fvwp

"He Says One Thing and Does Another": Ralph Nader Responds to Obama’s State of the Union Address

About e.g:

- Obama blatant militarism.

- powerty, some 80 million people in the US are living in powerty.
- 2008 Obama promised to hike the Federal minimal income rate from $ 7.25 to $9.50 by 2011. Today some 1/3 of all US workers are earning Wall Mart wages some in fact today even lower than $7.25. Remember the $9.50 would still be less in nominal inflation adjusted terms than the Federal minimal wage in 1968, when worker productivity was half of what it is today.

- Corporations like e.g. Apple, Cinco etc all are hording cash

http://www.democracynow.org/2012/1/25/he_says_one_thing_and_does

Zbigniew Brzezinski discusses "intelligent manipulation" in Iran

Seems to me the democracy movement in the Eastern Europe e.g. by Solidaricy in Poland was a by people like Brzezinski "a manipulated event" and thus what can then be said about the "democracy movement" now on going in the Middle East..?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41iVHWNuMPI&feature=related

Peter Dale Scott on Zbigniew Brzezinski bragging about creating Islamic fundamentalism

Peter Dale Scott, historian and classmate of Zbig, discussing university memories and Brzezinski's creation of fundamentalist Islam fake terror movement.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPkQP_C7Fdc&feature=related

Iran - News Analysis-01-15-2012

Trying to flex its muscles again, the United States want the world to go along with its demands. And this time it wants the world to boycott Iranian oil or be punished by Washington. According to Chinese authorities, Washington wants the world to listen to them based on their own domestic law, and that is simply not right.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=HeV2iVJhydo#!

Wesley Clark ( US 4 Star General ) US will attack 7 countries in 5 years.

So much for the "Twitter revolution" in the middle east..

Wesley Clark , Oct 3 2007 at the commonwealth club of California. (San Francisco California )He openly says that there was a policy coup . ( Donald Rumsfeld , Paul Wolfowitz , Dick Cheney ) - Project for a New American Century.

He stated that they are going to destroy the governments of 7 countries in 5 years .Countries listed below !Iraq, Syria , Lebanon , Libya, Samolia , Sudan and Iran ( 7 countries in 5 years) They must clean up all former soviet client regimes before the next super power comes on to challenge us.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ha1rEhovONU&feature=player_embedded#!

Election Fraud Galvanizes Russian Opposition, Communist Party 20 Years After Soviet Union’s Collapse

Allegations of widespread fraud in the recent elections that gave Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party a parliamentary majority have galvanized massive street protests in opposition to the Russian political establishment. This comes on the 20th anniversary of the breakup of the Soviet Union. "The reason that the people who control the financial oligarchy in Russia don’t want free elections is they know that if they had free elections to a parliament, the people would vote for candidates pledging to confiscate their property," which was privatized in the 1990s, says Stephen Cohen, professor of Russian studies at New York University. He notes, "though these elections were not free and fair, they were the freest and fairest in 15 years," and that members of the country’s middle class make up the bulk of the protesters. Cohen also argues the American media has failed to report on the resurgence of the Communist Party, supported mainly by working-class voters in Russia’s vast provinces, which could challenge Putin in the 2012 presidential race and force a runoff election.
http://www.democracynow.org/2011/12/30/election_fraud_galvanizes_russian_opposition_communist

WWIII Countdown: CFR declares "Time to Attack Iran"

The highly influential Council on Foreign Relations (aka CFR) declared this month in their online publication "Foreign Affairs" that it is now time to attack Iran.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrdVqgt0Dwk

Drums of War

We are hearing drums of war against Iran once again coming from the US, the UK and Israel.
This could be the start of something much more serious that goes beyond Iran.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raocozNlfTA

Paul Craig Roberts : Obama is more of a war monger than Bush and Cheney the united states is the new war creators they will be the reason the world becomes a warzone. and when it does no one will escape except for the white house staff and the corporate elite. its a damn shame that every president of the united states has a desire for more power. but hey we know what they want because every man with power wants nothing but more power. and thats what they plan to do over the years. Massive depopulation of the most populated places.Obama executes the plan according to the needs of his masters. Who these are? Those that control money, media, military industry.Obama is not in charge. Rothschild, Rockefeller, Kissinger, Bush senior is. That's why no matter who gets in the same criminal plot occurs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f2mem3J61M&feature=player_embedded

This article in London’s Daily Mail gives us an inkling of what might be cooking…
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2056873/Iran-attack-drawn-UK-US-Middle-East-tensions-rise.html#ixzz1ceDdeLex

And then as as side note - there is no better way to clear off bad debt and to get the economy going than to start a war. Needless to say and as it happens - all involved pushing for war are heavely in debt and have economies with, well to say it the least, not to bright of an outlook. Restart anyone..?

CELENTE: BANKSTER TYRANTS Setting Up THEIR NEXT WAR
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rGSovnRUio

Germany who is not supposed to send its troops anywhere in the world according to their post 1945 constitution is now having 5000 troops in Afghanistan and nobody ever noted anything says Gerald Celente this is the beginning of the Great war , the war that is going on now in Pakistan is the one we are concerned about the most says Gerald Celente , that anti Americanism that i spreading over there , Obama has sent triple of the amount of predator missiles into Pakistan than Bush has , so we are very concerned about that area and of course the elephant in the room is Iran...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Rqr2zdeMMM&feature=player_embedded#!

Gerald Celente: Bankers Addicted To Money Like Addicts hooked Heroin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fXbUZU-5mc

High-class terrorists running US, UK and France

Dear Friends,

Here is an interview I made today on RT – Russia Today – on the capture and murder of Libyan leader Cnl Muamar Ghaddafi by rebel terrorist groups with the full support of NATO, notably France, the UK and the US. Clearly a blatant example of top level terrorism in London, Paris and Washington.

Here’s the link: http://rt.com/news/europe-usa-libya-gaddafi-425/

Here’s an excerpt from RT’s website:

‘High-class terrorists running US, UK and France’ - published: 21 October, 2011, 18:16
As some European leaders demonstrate a celebratory mood over the violent death of Colonel Gaddafi, they are no less terrorists themselves, claims international consultant and author Adrian Salbuchi.

Salbuchi said Gaddafi’s death was undoubtedly a message for the whole world, as it is not just about Libya.

“We are seeing how Hillary Clinton, US Secretary of State expressed it very clearly: ‘We came, we saw, he died,’ and then started laughing. This is a message to the world of how this new world order model actually works,” he stated.“When they decide to change the regime, they do so with the utmost violence, and it is a whole model. First they target a country by calling it a rogue state; then they support local terrorists and call them freedom fighters; then they bring death and destruction upon civilians and they call it UN sanctions. Then they spread lies and call it the International Community’s opinion expressed by the Western media. Then they invade and control the country and call it liberation and finally they steal appetizing oil and call it foreign investment and reconstruction,” Salbuchi explained.

At the moment Western powers are hailing a democratic future for Libya. When Saddam Hussein was captured in 2003 the US also thought it was all over – but it had only just begun. And according to Salbuchi, it is going to be the same, or even worse, for Libya.

“I think one of the reasons why Gaddafi’s country has been invaded and he has been killed is because he had plans to introduce the gold dinar as a golden currency that could very easily have become a major currency at least in North Africa and in the oil market,” he said. “Don’t forget Libya has the ninth-largest oil reserve in the world and the main oil reserve in all of Africa, so I think this definitely smells of oil and greed on the part of Western companies. They are just using this to justify they have supported the worst terrorists probably because in the White House and Palais de l'Élysée in France, and at 10 Downing Street, we also have very high-class terrorists and mafias running those countries and the better part of the world,” he pointed out.

He added the US, France, Britain and NATO should be held accountable for the sectarian violence, should it take place in Libya.

“In any country, Libya included, there is always about a half of the population that is against the ongoing government. Should we also be invading Greece because of the way they are handling their own internal divisions?” he posited.

A rebel-assisted victory in Libya will not mark the end of NATO's interest in the country, Salbuchi emphasized.

“This is just the beginning and part of global regime change. This means orange alert for Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador and definitely red alert for Syria and Iran. This is the kind of democracy US, France and Britain want for the whole world,” he concluded.

NATO and the US in particular are interested in a long-term intervention in the North African country.

War within the Islamic World

There is a war on going within the islamic world.

Its a war between the Saudia Arabian Sunni falang vs the Iranian Shiites. Challenged as they are the Royal house of Saud thus is severely callenged not only externaly from Iran and the Shiites but as well internaly from the domestic Shiites (a mayority of all oil workers in saudi Arabia in fact are Shiites).

This is a war now affecting Baharain, Syria, Yemen, Kuwait, Iraq and the rest of the middle east . If Iran ever will be able to produce a nuce its not Israeln that will be threatened in the first place but it is in fact Saudi Arabia.

By the way ALL international terrorism eg associated with 9/11 in fact are Sunni muslims originating from Saudi Arabia as well as geting all of their funding from there.

So If you really want to deal with internmational islamic terrorism you only need to identify and destroy all Sunni sponsored and managed islamic cells in the west as well as in the middle east e.g. like in whats currently going on in Iraq.

By the way in Iraq the Americans overthrew the Sunni minority rule that had been in place for decades and thus the Iranias have been able to increase their influence in that part of the world to an extend never seen before..., at least not since the great Persian Kingdom.

As sunni ruled Saudi Arabia in fact is the US only real allied in the Middle East that then might give some food for thought..of what migh be in the cards going forward?

For the Saudis, the revolt in Syria is a chance to strike at one of the pillars of Iran's influence.

Assad's ruling clique is dominated by his Alawite sect, a Shiite offshoot that comprises about 11 percent of the country and maintains close ties with Shiite power Iran. It's unclear how much further the Iranian influence reaches in Syria, but the country's Sunni majority looks more toward Western-allied neighbors in Lebanon and Turkey.

"Saudi sees this as a golden opportunity to further chip away at Iran's influence in the Arab Middle East and also ... to change the strategic map," said Theodore Karasik, a regional affairs expert at the Dubai-based Institute for Near East and Gulf Military Analysis. "This is going to make your foreign policy more robust and aggressive."

From The Detroit News:
http://detnews.com/article/20110813/NATION/108130349/Saudi-Arabia-uses-unrest-to-pursue-goals#ixzz1XdSb4Ei9

“Unless problems facing Saudi Arabia are solved, what happened and is still happening in some Arab countries, including Bahrain, could spread to Saudi Arabia, even worse,”Prince Talal told the London-based TV broadcaster in an interview aired late Feb. 17.

There are concerns that Shiite-led Iran, Saudi Arabia’s main regional rival, is backing the protests in Bahrain, Sratfor, an Austin, Texas-based intelligence-consulting group, said in an e-mailed statement on Feb. 17.

Iran has increased its regional influence since a Shiite-led government took power by winning elections in Iraq after the U.S.-led overthrow of Saddam Hussein. Kuwait, which has a 30 percent Shiite minority, last year broke up what it said was an Iranian spy cell, prompting Saudi authorities to call for U.S. allies in the Persian Gulf to step up security cooperation.

Saudi religious leaders have in the past accused Iran of encouraging violence by Shiite minority groups in the region. In November 2009, Saudi Arabia’s grand mufti, Sheikh Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh, said the Iranians were “cooperating in sin and aggression” by backing Shiite insurgents in
Yemen in a conflict that drew in the Saudi army.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-17/saudi-arabia-risks-contagion-from-shiite-protests-roiling-neighbor-bahrain.html

Fearful of Iran's rising influence, will the Saudis start backing Sunni insurgents in Iraq -- even if the insurgents are rabidly anti-American?
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/feature/2007/02/08/saudis

The Last Secret of 9/11 Truth: The 46 Drills, War Games, and Operations that Made It All Happen

http://tarpley.net/2011/08/24/the-last-secret-of-911-truth/

FIFTH EDITION HEREWebster Tarpley answers the "unanswered questions of 9/11" and the non-sequiturs of the wild-eyed official conspiracy theory, by showing how this kind of inside job actually works. Tarpley also puts 9/11 in its real context of great power conflict and the ruling oligarchy. Brilliant writing on 512 packed pages, paperback. See Amazon Reviews. See also 5th edition - now with The 46 Drills of 9/11!

Webster Tarpley answers the "unanswered questions of 9/11" and the non-sequiturs of the wild-eyed official conspiracy theory, by showing how this kind of inside job actually works - by flipping the “terror drills” live. Tarpley also puts 9/11 in its real context of great power conflict and the ruling oligarchy. Brilliant writing on 560 packed pages, paperback. Print-on-demand rush edition: out on or before 9/11/11, list price $29.95, sale price: $19.95. regular edition, October 2011. List price $19.95, sale price: $14.95.

http://progressivepress.com/book-listing/911-synthetic-terror-made-usa-4th-ed

Rogue network -Syria Next

This week marks the fourth anniversary of the Kennebunkport Warning, whose text the reader will find elsewhere on this web site, together with related documentation. The Kennebunkport Warning of late August 2007 sought to prevent a false flag terror operation designed by the US-UK rogue network to facilitate an attack on Iran and/or Syria.

Today, four years later, world events have come full circle, and we must once again be on guard for a new and wider war in the same region. This might take the form of an attack by Turkey on Syria, organized in advance with the NATO command and occurring under the cover story of events inside Syria, where an uprising of armed commandos of the Moslem Brotherhood now appears to have been largely quelled by the Syrian Army.

In order to attack Syria without being portrayed as an aggressor, Turkey will need a better pretext. Given the traditions of NATO, it is likely that an attempt will be made to furnish such a pretext in the form of a false flag terror event inside Turkey to be blamed on Syria or Hezbollah, or in the form of an staged Gulf of Tonkin incident to permit the charge that Syria attacked Turkey first. Or, a large massacre of Moslem Brotherhood supporters inside Syria could be carried out in reality or merely simulated on a Hollywood set in Doha, Qatar, to motivate an invasion based on humanitarian grounds.
http://tarpley.net/2011/08/31/four-years-later-the-kennebunkport-warning-of-august-2007-confirmed-by-dick-cheney-on-his-new-autobiography/

Bye-bye Gaddafi, welcome Al-Qaeda?

While Tripoli is celebrating the end of a dictatorship, analysts are skeptical democracy is next in line for Libya. Journalist Pepe Escobar told RT, Al-Qaeda is already effectively in power in the capital.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1D7yVkSyIPs&feature=player_embedded#!

Kun timer før Anders Behring Breivik begynte å skyte ungdommer på Utøya, avsluttet politiets beredskapstropp en øvelse hvor de øvde på en nesten ident

Kun timer før Anders Behring Breivik begynte å skyte ungdommer på Utøya, avsluttet politiets beredskapstropp en øvelse hvor de øvde på en nesten identisk situasjon.

De fire dagene i forveien, og også den samme fredagen som angrepet ble utført, trente politiets beredskapstropp på en pågående terroraksjon som var tilnærmet lik den situasjonen som timer senere møtte de 22 polititjenestemennene i beredskapstroppen på Utøya.

Aftenposten får bekreftet fra sentrale kilder i ledelsen i Oslo-politiet at øvelsen ble avsluttet klokken 15 den samme fredagen.

Alle tjenestemennene fra beredskapstroppen som deltok i Regjeringskvartalet etter bilbomben og senere kom i land på Utøya og pågrep Anders Behring Breivik, hadde tidligere samme dag og i dagene i forveien deltatt i trening på et helt likt scenario.

Dermed rakk politiet så vidt å avslutte treningen før det de hadde trent på ble virkelighet.
http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/article4208952.ece


Breivik: A Patsy on Steroids — Not Authentic, but Synthetic
http://tarpley.net/2011/07/25/breivik-a-patsy-on-steroids/

'Gaddafi idiotically embraced neo-liberalism'

A spokesman for Colonel Gaddafi's regime has promised Libya will become a "volcano of fire". Loyalist forces have continually vowed to keep fighting, pointing to a prolonged civil war. RT gets more analysis from author and journalist Afshin Rattansi.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=tWb9x2FqwJk