Did J.P. Morgan Sink the Titanic?

 
As youngsters, we’re all told the infamous story of the Titanic, the supposedly indestructible ship that sunk on its maiden voyage.

We’re all familiar with the story: the ship left Southampton, England, headed for New York City on April 10, 1912. Four days into the voyage, at 11:40pm on April 14, 1912, the Titanic struck an iceberg and sank at 2:20am, “resulting in the deaths of 1,517 people in one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in history."
 
Bad luck, we’re all led to believe. No one saw the iceberg and so the infallible ship sank. Bummer…
 
But few of us ever think that through. Forget, for a moment, the story we’re all fed. Does it make sense? The point is that just because we’re told a story when we’re young, doesn’t mean we should simply accept it as absolute truth.
 
 
Let’s take a look at some of the facts surrounding the sinking of the Titanic:
 
1. The unsinkable Titanic sunk…on its maiden voyage. How could this unsinkable ship sink? On its first trip, no less! That alone is quite remarkable/intriguing.
 
2. “Captain E.J. Smith ignored multiple iceberg warnings from his crew and other ships.” Getting from England to New York as fast as possible was goal number one, at the behest of his boss, Joseph Bruce Ismay, Managing Director of the White Star Line. Ismay had pressure from his boss, J.P. Morgan, owner of White Star Line. By the way, Ismay survived the catastrophe.
 
3. Speaking of J.P. Morgan, he had his very own private suite and promenade deck on the Titanic. He was supposed to be on that fateful maiden voyage but canceled passage. Coincidence or part of Morgan’s plan?
 
4. Once the Titanic struck the iceberg, the captain and his crew used white flares to signal distress. Unfortunately, white flares are not the color used to signal distress; red flares are always used to show distress. So the closest ship, the Californian, ignored the flares, assuming it was a celebratory signal, rather than an emergency. Oops…
 
5. “All ships must carry sufficient lifeboats for the number of passengers on board. The Titanic did not.”
 
6. “About three million rivets were used to hold the sections of the Titanic together. Some rivets have been recovered from the wreck and analysed. The findings show that they were made of sub-standard iron. When the ship hit the iceberg, the force of the impact caused the heads of the rivets to break and the sections of the Titanic to come apart. If quality iron rivets had been used, the ship may not have sunk.”
 
7. “The belief that the ship was unsinkable was, in part, due to the fact that the Titanic had sixteen watertight compartments. However, the compartments did not reach as high as they should have. White Star Line did not want them to go all the way up because this would have reduced living space in first class.”
 
8. Killed on the sinking ship — along with 1,514 other people — were Benjamin Guggenheim, Isa Strauss and John Jacob Astor. Astor was, at the time, believed to be the wealthiest man on the planet. Guggenheim and Strauss weren’t far behind Astor. And these three powerful men opposed the Federal Reserve.
 
An angry JP Morgan yelling at photographers. He hated having his picture taken. As an aside to the above facts, let’s take a look at an additional dimension to the dynamic between J.P. Morgan and John Jacob Astor. Both Morgan and Astor invested large sums of money in the brilliance of Nikola Tesla, a genius inventor who gained notoriety during the late 19th/early 20th century. Morgan’s primary concern with Tesla was making money. Astor and Tesla, however, were good friends.
 
“Col. John Jacob Astor, owner of the Waldorf-Astoria, held his famous dining-room guest [Tesla] in the highest esteem as a personal friend, and kept in close touch with the progress of his investigations. When he heard that his researches were being halted through lack of funds, he made available to Tesla the $30,000 he needed in order to take advantage of Curtis’ offer and build a temporary plant at Colorado Springs.”
 

 

So what was the big deal about Tesla? Well, “Tesla had claimed to be able to send electrical energy without wires before the turn of the century, and he envisioned people all around the globe sticking rods into the earth to extract that energy — free …. After Tesla admitted to financier J.P. Morgan that an experimental tower on Long Island was meant to send power as well as message, his public career ended …. Corporate moguls who were interested in creating monopolies and metering electrical power blackballed him.”
 
 
Now let’s take a look at a few of the above facts that, when taken together, may paint quite a different picture of the tragedy of the Titanic:
 
1. J.P. Morgan owned White Star Line ships. J.P. Morgan was also the main conspirator behind the creation of the Federal reserve banking system. He was supposed to be on the ship but canceled at the last moment.
 
2. John Jacob Astor, along with Benjamin Guggenheim and Isa Strauss, were three very wealthy and powerful men, all of whom were vehemently against the creation of the Federal Reserve, and were quite outspoken on the matter. Morgan viewed Astor and Co. as a huge obstacle. These three men died when the Titanic — a ship built by J.P. Morgan’s White Star Line — hit that infamous iceberg and sank.
 
3. J.P. Morgan and John Jacob Astor both funded Nikola Tesla, who created a way to generate an infinite amount of electrical energy. Tesla planned to allow people to access that energy for free, but Morgan squashed Tesla because he wanted to profit from energy, not give it away. Astor, Tesla’s good friend, seemed to have deep pockets for Tesla. Not good for Morgan.
 
4. Once Astor, Guggenheim and Strauss were dead, there was no more public outcry against the Federal Reserve. It passed congress and was signed into law the following year on December 23, 1913. In addition, now Tesla’s funding was wiped away, his friend in Astor gone.
 
You must admit, all of this is extremely interesting. Could Morgan have created this plot to kill off his biggest opponents? Did Morgan “whack” Astor because he was getting in his way on too many wealth and power-generating projects?
 
Is it just a coincidence that J.P. Morgan owned White Star Line, the company that produced the supposedly unsinkable Titanic, and that it went down with his enemy, John Jacob Astor, as well as Federal Reserve opposers Guggenheim and Strauss?
 
And is it merely coincidence that Morgan and Astor both funded Nikola Tesla, whose innovations could have been either the greatest gifts to mankind or the greatest wealth generators for the few, depending upon who controlled them?
 
Could the Titanic have been the most ingenious assassination in history?
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Price of ‘freedom’: Libya’s annus horribilis

Published: 16 February, 2012, 12:36
Edited: 16 February, 2012, 17:06

Libyans attend celebrations marking the first anniversary of the uprising in the eastern city of Benghazi on February 15, 2012. (AFP Photo / Abdullah Doma)

TRENDS: Libyan conflict

TAGS: Arms, Conflict, Crime, Military, NATO, Hate crimes, Protest, Politics, Opposition, Libya, War

NTC will distribute cash to all Libyan families in celebration of the one-year anniversary of Libyan revolution. This comes as standoff between those in power, lawless militias and former Gaddafi supporters continues.

National Transitional Council (NTC) will award each family with a sum of 1,600 US dollars and each single person will get 160 US dollars. However, this money will bring little solace to people of Libya as one year on NTC has made little progress in filling the void left by the collapse of Gaddafi's regime. 


Effective state institutions like courts and organized security forces are still far from a reality in the war-torn country. The new authorities only control, and are able to provide security in Tripoli.
The NTC has failed to gain control over the hundreds of militias that fought in the war. Many of them are still in possession of arms they are not willing to part with. Armed gangs have control over scores of detention centers for people accused of links to the Gaddafi regime. Human rights groups say these centers hold thousands of people, with at least 8,000 being tortured.

In September, the NTC released its first figures of casualties from the six-month conflict that began in mid-February. At least 30,000 people have been killed, 50,000 more wounded, and some 4,000 are still missing.

A third of Libyans against democracy

A new report from Oxford University claims 35 per cent of Libyans would rather return to autocratic rule, while two thirds of the population want to have a say in Libya’s future. Report also shows 16 per cent being ready to resort to violence for political reasons. This adds up to around 630,000 potential fighters, in addition to the 280,000 who took up arms last year. The research also says four out of five Libyans are happy with how the National Transitional Council is running the country. There are concerns that various factions that toppled Gaddafi’s regime could revert to violence in what is a traditionally tribal society.

According to the Libyan Health Office, scores were killed by Coalition air strikes. Only four months after military operations began NATO airstrikes killed 1,108 civilians and wounded 4,500 more.

Countless lives have been forfeited in what is one of the bloodiest conflicts in the chain of uprisings that rocked North Africa and Middle East in 2011. However, the death toll is only the beginning of a long list of things Libya has lost in its drive to bring down Gaddafi’s regime. 


NATO’s intervention plunged Libya back into the Stone Age and the civil war cost the country’s economy more than $40 billion, shrinking it by 60%, according to the IMF. Crude oil production that contributed half of the country’s GDP, almost vanished. Foreign trade also suffered, with imports being damaged by the blocked access to its foreign assets.

“No revolution can succeed if it comes on top of foreign tanks and Libyan revolution came with violence from outside unlike the Egyptian and Tunisian revolutions.
He was an unreliable dictator for the west, he approached the west in 2003 and repaired his relationship with it, but they wanted to replace him him, because Libya has oil and this is why they have pushed for a change of government in Libya and they put this transitional council, the council that is supposed to serve western interests not Libyan interests,” says Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh, a human rights activist from Bethlehem university. 

The hard-fought freedom Libyan rebels dreamed of came with a hefty price-tag. Cities abandoned and left in ruins, lawlessness, security issues, hate crimes, children pulled out of schools, people living in constant fear – this is the face of a new Libya.

“[Libyan people] had free education, free health, they could study abroad. When they got married they got a certain amount of money,” former MI5 agent Annie Machon told RT. 


Now they have $160 US dollars each and a hard task of building democracy they’ve never lived in.

­Elena Ostroumova, RT

從美國在聯合國決議的表現觀其“反人類”本性

從美國在聯合國決議的表現觀其“反人類”本性
作者：致遠
文章發於：環球視野
更新時間：2012-2-9

歷史上從來沒有一個像美國這樣的國家，置所謂“國家利益”於全人類共同利益之上，肆意踐踏人類文明數千年進步所建立起的道德標準，並標榜自己是“文明的方 向”、“自由民主”的聖殿。實際上，美國為推行霸權在世界各地犯下的罪行遠超過二戰的德意日。幾十年來，美國在各地輸出恐怖，到處販賣軍火，為一己私利挑 起戰爭發動戰爭，隨意發起經濟制裁，在全世界掀起顛覆不符合美國利益的“敵對政權”的顏色革命，世界有目共睹。例如2011年美國宣布從伊拉克撤軍，但是 請看看美國在伊拉克的“碩果”：截止2009年，美軍已造成235萬名伊拉克平民喪生，僅2009年數月就有34313名平民喪生，2010年初又有 4500名平民喪生。然而奧巴馬居然厚顏無恥地宣稱：“他們推翻了實行恐怖統治的政權；幫助伊拉克人抓住了創造更美好未來的機會”。

以美國為首的北約2011年以虛偽的“人道主義干涉”為由挑起了對利比亞的軍事干預戰爭，至今利比亞人民仍處於動盪與不安的境地。利比亞戰爭結束之後，美國立即把目光盯向伊朗和敘利亞，欲掃除橫亙在美國控制中東棋盤上的兩顆絆腳石。

聯合國安理會2012年2月4日就敘利亞問題決議草案進行表決，俄羅斯和中國對決議草案投了反對票，否決了由摩洛哥提交的、西方國家及有關阿拉伯國家等共 同起草的涉敘決議草案。中國和俄羅斯雙雙行使否決權表示了國際上希望敘利亞和平穩定的主流聲音，以維護聯合國的公平公正。然而此舉卻引發了美國的強烈不 滿。美國常駐聯合國代表賴斯說，該決議草案被否決使得安理會不能就解決敘利亞問題達成一致。

由此筆者便從網絡上蒐集了美國在聯合國決議問題上的一些“清單”和典型案例，發現美國在聯合國多次行使否決權，從中可以非常清晰地看出美國到底在全世界推銷了什麼，造成了什麼：是和平還是戰爭，是民主還是動盪，是自由還是分裂。

先舉出一些經典案例，通過此可以發現美國不僅在聯合國頑固地以自身利 ​​益為基準，而且經常無視安理會的決議隨心所欲地在世界“行動”，鮮明地揭示了美國的“反人類”本性。 美國在伊拉克戰爭的“變色龍”滑稽表演 80年代，聯合國對薩達姆•侯賽因使用化學武器表示關注。1986年3月21日，安理會主席聲明稱：“專家們一致認為，伊拉克軍隊曾多次對伊朗軍隊使用化 學武器，安理會成員對此表示深切關注……安理會成員強烈譴責這種連續使用化學武器的行為，這種行為嚴重違反1925年日內瓦公約關於禁止在戰爭中使用化學 武器的規定。”（S/17911and Add. 1, 21 March 1986） 美國對發表該聲明投了反對票。 2003年，美國以伊拉克薩達姆政權擁有大規模殺傷性武器和支持“基地”組織為由入侵伊拉克，美軍所到之處，都把尋找大規模殺傷性武器的實驗室或工廠作為 重要目的之一。

但7年多以來，美國未能找到大規模殺傷性武器，也沒有找到薩達姆政權與“基地”組織及其首腦拉登的證據。這場戰爭沒有得到聯合國的批准，小布什政府繞開聯 合國，組成32國聯盟打擊伊拉克，造成伊拉克無數人無家可歸。 美國從不在乎對抗全球 經聯合國教科文組織(UNESCO)全體大會2011年10月31日在巴黎總部投票表決，巴勒斯坦31日被正式接納為該組織正式會員國。巴勒斯坦外長馬勒 基說：“這次投票將有助於彌補巴勒斯坦人民所受到的不公正待遇。”以色列、美國、加拿大、澳大利亞與德國投了反對票。美國以色列將拒絕繳納約8000萬美 元的會費作為威脅和抗議。

以強凌弱是美國的常用手段 2011年10月25日聯大當天就古巴提交的名為《必須終止美國對古巴的經濟、商業和金融封鎖》的決議草案進行投票表決，要求美國立即結束對古巴實行的長 達近半個世紀的經濟、貿易和金融封鎖。 聯大193個會員國中，共有191個國家參加投票，其中186個國家投票表示支持，投反對票的只有美國和以色列。這是聯大連續20年通過此類決議。 美國拒絕接受聯合國人權建議 2011年3月18日聯合國人權理事會通過對美國人權普遍定期審議最後文件，美國拒絕接受審議中的多數建議，受到各國批評。

聯合國人權理事會負責普遍定期審議工作組去年首次審議美國人權狀況，近60個國家代表發言，所提建議達到創紀錄的228項，美國最終只接受40多項。 操縱聯合國對利比亞實行所謂“人道主義干涉” 聯合國安理會1973號決議授權，該決議同意在利比亞設立“禁飛區”，准許成員國採取一切必要手段保護平民。聯合國安理會沒有直接選擇北約，它將選擇留給 任何“授權的成員國，以 ​​國家的形式、或者通過地區合作、或者其他別的形式（採取乾涉行動）”。這成為美國等解釋其“軍事干預”而無需顧及國際正義的幌子。以美國為首的北約所 謂的“保護責任”事實上是為了推翻卡扎菲政權，建立一個親西方的政權。 在北約使用其真正的“殺傷性武器”進行無度轟炸的6個月裡，利比亞平民傷亡巨大，原有的社會結構被摧毀，是人所共知的反人道主義行動。

以下是近三十年來美國在聯合國決議問題上投的否決票（僅至2002年）：
1972譴責以色列在空襲中殺死數百名敘利亞和黎巴嫩平民
1973重申巴勒斯坦人權利，呼籲以色列撤出被佔領土
1976譴責以色列襲擊黎巴嫩平民
1976譴責以色列在被佔領土修建定居點
1976呼籲巴勒斯坦自治
1976重申巴勒斯坦權利
1978強烈要求常任理事國保障聯合國關於維護國際和平與安全的決議
1978呼籲改善巴勒斯坦人生活狀況
1978譴責以色列在被佔領土的人權紀錄
1978呼籲發達國家增加對不發達國家援助的數量和質量
1979呼籲斷絕與實行種族隔離的南非進行軍事與核技術合作
1979加強對南非的武器禁運
1979向南非被壓迫人民及其解放運動提供援助
1979考慮進行裁軍與停止核軍備競賽的談判
1979呼籲使被以色列驅逐的居住者返回家園
1979要求以色列停止侵犯人權
1979要求一份關於生活在被佔阿拉伯國家的巴勒斯坦人生活狀況的報告
1979向巴勒斯坦人民提供援助
1979討論被佔阿拉伯領土的資源歸屬問題
1979呼籲保護髮展中國家的出口
1979呼籲在聯合國框架內採取措施，改善人權與基本自由
1979反對乾涉國家內部與外部事務
1979召開聯合國婦女大會
1979巴勒斯坦婦女參加聯合國婦女大會
1979在多邊貿易談判中保障發展中國家利益
1980要求以色列讓難民返回家園
1980譴責以色列有關巴勒斯坦人生活狀況的政策
1980譴責以色列在被佔領土違反人權（共3項決議）
1980重申巴勒斯坦自治權
1980向南非被壓迫人民及其解放運動提供援助
1980主張建立國際經濟新秩序，促進不發達國家的發展與國際經濟合作
1980簽署聯合國婦女十年行動綱要的後半部分
1980聲明不對無核國家使用核武器
1980強調國家與個人的發展是一種人權
1980呼籲停止一切核爆炸試驗
1980呼籲實現給予殖民地國家和人民以獨立的宣言
1981促進發展中國家的合作
1981重申每個國家有權根據人民的意願選擇自己的經濟和社會體制，不受外來干涉
1981譴責外國經濟勢力在殖民地區的活動
1981呼籲停止一切核武器爆炸試驗
1981呼籲進一步採取措施，防止核戰爭，控制軍備競賽，促進裁軍
1981強烈要求進行禁止生化武器的談判
1981聲明教育、工作、保健、營養、國家發展等都是人權
1981譴責南非攻擊鄰國，譴責種族隔離，主張加強制裁（共7項決議）
1981譴責南非企圖在塞舌爾發動政變
1981譴責以色列對於巴勒斯坦人的待遇、人權政策以及轟炸伊拉克（共18項決議）
1982譴責以色列入侵黎巴嫩（共6項決議）（1982至1983）
1982譴責一名以色列士兵在一所耶路撒冷清真寺槍殺11名穆斯林
1982呼籲以色列撤出1967年佔領的戈蘭高地
1982譴責種族隔離，呼籲停止對南非的經濟援助（共4項決議）
1982呼籲設立保護生態的世界憲章
1982設立關於國家財產、檔案、債務繼承沿革的聯合國會議
1982禁止核試驗，進行核談判，禁止在外太空使用核技術（共3項決議）
1982支持建立世界信息與通訊新秩序
1982禁止化學與細菌武器
1982發展國際法
1982對有害健康與環境的產品進行防護
1982聲明教育、工作、保健、營養、國家發展是人權
1982對有害健康與環境的產品進行防護
1982發展中國家的能源資源開發
1983關於種族隔離、核軍備、經濟和國際法的決議（共15項決議）
1984譴責對南非的納米比亞政策及其他政策提供支持
1984採取消除種族隔離的國際行動
1984譴責以色列佔領並攻擊黎巴嫩南部
1984關於種族隔離、核軍備、經濟和國際法的決議（共18項決議）
1985譴責以色列佔領並攻擊黎巴嫩南部
1985譴責以色列在被佔領土任意使用武力
1985關於合作、人權、貿易與發展的決議（共3項決議）
1985針對納粹、法西斯和新納粹活動的措施
1986呼籲所有政府（包括美國）遵守國際法
1986對南非實行經濟和軍事制裁
1986譴責以色列針對黎巴嫩平民的行動
1986呼籲以色列尊重穆斯林聖地
1986譴責以色列劫持一加利比亞客機
1986關於合作、安全、人權、貿易、媒體偏見、環境與發展的決議（共8項決議）
1987呼籲以色列遵守日內瓦公約對待巴勒斯坦人
1987呼籲以色列停止驅逐巴勒斯坦人
1987譴責以色列在黎巴嫩的行動（共2項決?br>椋?p >
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1995重申以色列控制的東耶路撒冷地區是被佔領土
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1999呼籲美國結束對古巴的貿易禁運（共8項決議）
2001向約旦河西岸和加沙地區派遣非武裝監督員
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2002繼續在波斯尼亞執行維和任務

Arab League Report Provides Evidence CIA, MI6, Mossad Behind Violence in Syria

Infowars.com
February 7, 2012

Excerpts from the Arab League observers’ report on Syria make it clear that the establishment media is only telling part of the story and exaggerating violence by the al-Assad government and its police and military.

The report mentions an “armed entity’ that is killing civilians and police and conducting terrorist attacks targeting innocent civilians. Casualties from these attacks are attributed to the al-Assad government and used to build a case against Syria in the United Nations.

Rebels in Idlib, Syria. Evidence reveals they are supported by the CIA, MI6, and Mossad.

According to the Arab League report, the “Free Syria Army” and “armed opposition groups” are responsible for many of the killings.

In January, it was reported that MI6, the CIA, and British SAS are in Syria working with the Free Syrian Army and the Syrian National Council to overthrow the al-Assad regime. The Free Syrian Army is widely recognized as a creation of NATO. It is comprised largely of militants from the Muslim Brotherhood – itself an asset of British intelligence – and is funded, supported, and armed by the United States, Israel, and Turkey.

The report lends credence to reports filed in November of last year by journalist Webster Tarpley, who visited the Middle Eastern nation.

“What average Syrians of all ethnic groups say about this is that they are being shot at by snipers. People complained that there are terrorist snipers who are shooting at civilians, blind terrorism simply for the purpose of destabilizing the country. I would not call this civil war – it is a very misleading term. What you are dealing with here are death squads, you are dealing with terror commandos; this is a typical CIA method. In this case it’s a joint production of CIA, MI6, Mossad, it’s got money coming from Saudi Arabia, The United Arab Emirates and Qatar,” Tarpley told RT.

“The UN has stopped accepting casualty figures claimed by the opposition, and has frozen its “official” estimate of civilian deaths at 5,400, without acknowledging that this may already be highly exaggerated,” Davies explains. “This is not yet a bloodbath on the scale of Libya, where even the new government admits that at least 25,000 people died in the NATO-led war.  Syria could follow the Libya model though, if NATO and the GCC keep providing weapons and military training to the Free Syrian Army and are prepared to beef it up with special forces on the ground, and as long as the UN approves a no-fly zone to provide cover for another 9,700 air strikes.”

The establishment media put the number of dead between 1,000 and 5,000. The International Criminal Court, Hisham Abu Hajer (of the Libyan “rebels,” in other words al-Qaeda), Pravda and other sources put the number at between 50,000 and 100,000. Tarpley estimated the number at 150,000, a staggering number for a population of just under six and half million people.

Relevant excepts from Report of the Head of the League of Arab States Observer Mission to Syriafrom December 24, 2011 to January 18, 2012 follow:

“The Mission determined that there is an armed entity that is not mentioned in the protocol. This development on the ground can undoubtedly be attributed to the excessive use of force by Syrian Government forces in response to protests that occurred before the deployment of the Mission demanding the fall of the regime. In some zones, this armed entity reacted by attacking Syrian security forces and citizens, causing the Government to respond with further violence. In the end, innocent citizens pay the price for those actions with life and limb.

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In Homs, Idlib and Hama, the Observer Mission witnessed acts of violence being committed against Government forces and civilians that resulted in several deaths and injuries. Examples of those acts include the bombing of a civilian bus, killing eight persons and injuring others, including women and children, and the bombing of a train carrying diesel oil. In another incident in Homs, a police bus was blown up, killing two police officers. A fuel pipeline and some small bridges were also bombed.

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28. The Mission noted that many parties falsely reported that explosions or violence had occurred in several locations. When the observers went to those locations, they found that those reports were unfounded.

29. The Mission also noted that, according to its teams in the field, the media exaggerated the nature of the incidents and the number of persons killed in incidents and protests in certain towns.

According to their latest reports and their briefings to the Head of the Mission on 17 January 2012 in preparation for this report, group team leaders witnessed peaceful demonstrations by both Government supporters and the opposition in several places. None of those demonstrations were disrupted, except for some minor clashes with the Mission and between loyalists and opposition. These have not resulted in fatalities since the last presentation before the Arab Ministerial Committee on the Situation in Syria at its meeting of 8 January 2012.

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Some observers reneged on their duties and broke the oath they had taken. They made contact with officials from their countries and gave them exaggerated accounts of events. Those officials consequently developed a bleak and unfounded picture of the situation.

Arab and foreign audiences of certain media organizations have questioned the Mission’s credibility because those organizations use the media to distort the facts. It will be difficult to overcome this problem unless there is political and media support for the Mission and its mandate. It is only natural that some negative incidents should occur as it conducts its activities because such incidents occur as a matter of course in similar missions.

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75. Recently, there have been incidents that could widen the gap and increase bitterness between the parties. These incidents can have grave consequences and lead to the loss of life and property. Such incidents include the bombing of buildings, trains carrying fuel, vehicles carrying diesel oil and explosions targeting the police, members of the media and fuel pipelines. Some of those attacks have been carried out by the Free Syrian Army and some by other armed opposition groups.

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Since its establishment, attitudes towards the Mission have been characterized by insincerity or, more broadly speaking, a lack of seriousness. Before it began carrying out its mandate and even before its members had arrived, the Mission was the target of a vicious campaign directed against the League of Arab States and the Head of the Mission, a campaign that increased in intensity after the observers’ deployment. The Mission still lack the political and media support it needs in order to fulfil its mandate. Should its mandate be extended, the goals set out in the Protocol will not be achieved unless such support is provided and the Mission receives the backing it needs to ensure the success of the Arab solution.

性侵、杀人、吸毒···揭秘美军海外暴行

2012年02月03日 07:04:05 来源： 新华国际

据美联社近日报道，纪录片《看不见的战争》亮相著名的犹他州帕克城森丹斯电影节放映。影片揭开了美军性侵黑幕：性侵很寻常，但受审者却“寥寥无几”。 杀人越货、性侵女性、吸毒贩毒、枪支走私……驻守海外的美军暴行屡遭曝光。美国陆军部发布的报告称，海外美军这些“不正当行为”时间跨度较长，手段多种多样，侵害的对象不仅包括战俘和被关押者，还包括当地平民，甚至美军内部的外裔士兵、女性官兵等也未能幸免。 美军性侵事件遭电影曝光 1.4万女兵5000男兵受害     美国一家军事法庭裁定美军士兵卡尔文·吉布斯在驻阿富汗期间参与杀害3名平民，犯下谋杀、共谋等罪行。 美联社25日报道，森丹斯电影节放映纪录片《看不见的战争》，讲述美国武装部队中为数不少的性侵案。 援引国防部消息源，影片告诉观众一个数字：2010年，美国武装部队中至少有两成女兵和1%男兵在服役期间遭受“性创伤”，受害者总数超过1.9万人。其中，受害女兵大约1.4万人，男兵5000人。 导演柯比·迪克说，“正是如此惊人，起初我们不敢相信。”同样惊人的是，没有人拿这一题材作为影片素材。 导演迪克和制片人埃米·齐林采访了大约70名曾遭战友强奸的士兵后发现，受性侵士兵除遭“暴力和骚扰”伤害外，大多没有获得审理；有的士兵报告性侵案件后，甚至遭性侵者打击报复，加深他们痛苦。 影片讲述，士兵遭性侵后，寻求帮助的唯一途径是向上级指挥官报告，指挥官有权决定是否调查或起诉性侵者，有权决定是否递交军事法庭审理。但一些案件中，指挥官恰恰就是性侵者。 >>详细 性侵犯，美军打不赢的隐形战争 驻韩美军士兵涉性侵女生遭起诉 庭上否认强奸 驻韩美军士兵R某 　　据韩国门户网站“DAUM”1月4日报道，首尔中央地方法院当地时间4日开庭审理驻韩美军士兵R某涉嫌去年9月在首尔麻浦区强奸一名韩国女高中生一案。但R某在法庭上否认自己的强奸罪行，仅承认自己的偷窃行为。 　　报道称，R某在法庭上表示：“我偷走了那名女学生的笔记本电脑，这点不否认。我也情愿就这一犯罪事实领刑。”他还说：“我有夫人及1岁的女儿，还有个儿子即将出生。被害人只与我进行了口交，并没有和我发生性关系。” 　　R某还表示：“事发后，被害人向我索要2000万韩元(约合人民币11万元)，并向我的朋友索要1000万韩元，称如果不给钱的话，就向警方告发。”他还强调说：“我是个小偷，但不是强奸犯。” >>详细 美军“性侵案”一年两万起 受害者反遭排挤     历时9年的伊拉克战争终于画上了一个句号。美国人或许不知道，这场漫长的煎熬除了尽现血与火的暴力外，还发酵出了另一种更可耻的暴力。英国《卫报》引用的权威报告称，作为一名投身驻伊美军的女兵，其受到“战友”强暴的可能性已经高出她血染沙场、为国捐躯的几率。 “8年了，我一直不敢说出那些不堪回首的经历。那时我加入海军刚刚一个月。”玛丽塞拉·古兹曼告诉《卫报》记者，她被战友强奸时年仅18岁。她向上司报告，非但没有得到重视，反而仅因为不合乎有关“敲3下门并获得允许后方可报告”的军规，被上司反复罚做俯卧撑。 而名叫凯特·韦伯的受害女兵说，她至今仍无法自然入睡，需要借助药物。“我常常半夜惊醒，忍不住落泪，还总是心有余悸。”每当这种时候，韦伯总希望她所遭遇的那次强暴会是另一个结果，但不幸的是，“施暴人总是胜者”。 尽管难以启齿、顾虑重重，但还是有人勇敢地站 了出来。据报道，一些老兵已起诉美国国防部，要求进行军内改革。已退役的3名男兵和25名女兵称，他们在服役期间曾遭强暴，前国防部长拉姆斯菲尔德和盖茨 理应受到谴责，因为他们纵容了美军中不惩戒性侵犯者却反而惩罚那些报告强奸案的士兵的陋习。 自今年2月这起诉讼曝光以来，另外400多名 受害老兵也发出了深埋已久的呼喊。他们和案件的代理律师取得了联系，而法院是否会审理此案已成为公众关注的焦点。据悉，代表美国国防部的辩方为此提出一项 免责动议，依据是1950年的一项法院裁决——政府对现役人员的因公受伤不承担责任。事实上，迄今为止，美军士兵尚无告赢五角大楼的先例。 >>详细  割指拔牙当“战利品” 美军中士杀人取乐获重罪 吉布斯在阿富汗     美国一家军事法庭１０日裁定，美军士兵卡尔文·吉布斯在阿富汗战争期间参与杀害３名平民，犯下谋杀、共谋等罪行。     在美国华盛顿州刘易斯－麦科德联合基地军事法庭，由５名成员组成的陪审团１０日认定，吉布斯去年年初在阿富汗坎大哈省杀害３名平民。     吉布斯现年２６岁，中士军衔。美联社报道，吉布斯在庭审中承认，他从受害人尸体上割下手指，还拔下一名受害人的牙齿作为“战利品”。     本案被告共５人，其中吉布斯军衔最高。按照军方检察官说法，吉布斯等人知道受害人不构成威胁，但他们把武器放在被害人尸体旁边，造成对方是武装人员的假象。     吉布斯等人当时在驻阿富汗第五“斯特赖克”旅服役。按军方检察官罗伯特·斯特尔少校的说法，此旅存在广泛行为不当行为，其中一个排“失去控制”。 >>详细 美媒曝光：驻阿美军"杀人娱乐" 举报者遭殴打威胁 一些驻阿富汗美军士兵执行任务时，出于娱乐目的，蓄意射杀无辜平民，事后制造假象掩盖。     《华盛顿邮报》１８日报道，这是阿富汗战争２００１年开始以来，驻阿美军犯下的最丑陋罪行之一。     《华盛顿邮报》援引美国军方指控文件报道，这些美军隶属驻阿富汗第２步兵师原第５斯特瑞克作战旅３排，第５斯特瑞克旅７月返回美国后改名为第２斯特瑞克旅。     共５名士兵被控蓄意射杀平民，另有７名士兵因为吸食大麻、报复举报者等罪名受到指控。     去年１２月，一些士兵组建一个“杀人小组”，组织者名为卡尔文·吉布斯，后者２００４年在伊拉克服役。吉布斯告诉其他士兵，他本人在伊拉克干过“杀人娱乐”的事情，轻而易举地掩盖了事实。     今年１月１５日，“杀人小组”找到了机会。当时一些美国军官前往坎大哈省一处村庄，与村内一些部族领袖会谈，吉布斯等人负责警戒。 >>详细 驻韩美军强奸抢劫吸毒贩毒诸多罪孽惹恼韩国 资料图：驻韩美军装甲部队。     据韩国媒体报道，近段时间以来，驻韩美军士兵在韩国犯下多起罪行，他们不但性侵当地女性、抢劫市民，甚至还吸毒贩毒。这引起了韩国政府及国民的强烈不满，要求修改《韩美驻军地位协定（SOFA）》的呼声日渐强烈。     据韩国《朝鲜日报》10月11日报道，首尔龙山警署9日表示，驻韩美军子女A某等4人涉嫌殴打过路的市民，并抢走100万韩元（约合人民币5440元）物品。韩国警方虽然对他们进行立案调查，但根据SOFA的规定，不得不将他们移交给了美军方面。     上月24日凌晨4时许，驻韩美军第2师二等兵K某喝得酩酊大醉，闯入东豆川市内一家单间公寓用凶器威胁18岁的A某，强行与其发生性关系，并抢走5000韩元。本月6日，K某被警方逮捕。     而在此之前的上月17日凌晨5时45分许，驻韩美军二等兵R某闯入首尔麻浦区一家考试院内强奸了18岁的金某，并抢走价值100万韩元的笔记本电脑，之后R某被警方逮捕。同样，警方根据SOFA的规定，将R某移交给了美军。 >>详细 美媒体披露驻阿美军吸毒、以谋杀平民为乐 　　美国陆军女发言人凯瑟琳·特纳15日说，一名涉嫌在阿富汗服役期间杀害阿富汗平民的美军士兵将接受军事法庭审判。美国《纽约时报》当天披露涉案 士兵供词，称他们吸毒、杀人、恐吓战友、缺乏监管。《华盛顿邮报》称，这是阿富汗战争2001年开始以来，驻阿美军犯下的最丑陋罪行之一。 　　驻阿富汗美军涉嫌滥杀平民一事上月曝光，12名美军士兵遭逮捕。检方指控22岁的下士杰里米·莫洛克等5人故意杀害3名阿富汗平民，指控另外7人合谋掩盖罪行。 　　美国陆军女发言人特纳说，故意杀人罪名成立可致法庭判处死刑。但陆军方面不会要求法庭作出死刑判决，所以，如果莫洛克罪名成立，他至多将面临终身监禁。 　　美国有线电视新闻网援引诉讼文件内容报道，除故意杀人外，莫洛克还受到袭击他人、妨碍司法公正和使用毒品等指控。 >>详细 传美国黑社会利用驻韩美军进行贩毒与武器走私     据韩国《中央日报》报道，美国的黑社会组织成员正在驻韩美军等美国海外驻军部队内部渗透，利用美军进行武器与毒品走私活动。 　　美国FBI(联邦调查局)国家黑社会组织信息中心(NGIC)在最近出版的《2011黑社会组织威胁评价以及新趋势分析》的报告书中称，进入美军的黑社会组织已经达到53个。 　　在53个黑社会组织中，还包括有韩国籍的街道黑社会组织“韩国大龙家族”。 　　FBI调查表明，在美军驻阿富汗、德国、伊拉克、意大利、日本以及韩国的部队中都有黑社会组织成员曾结束服役或正在服役。同时，黑社会组织成员正在渗透至美国陆军、海军及海军陆战队、预备军和州防御军等军队组织的各个方面。 　　报告书还说明称“虽然很多人是为脱离帮派生活而入伍的，但也有许多人是为了更加方便进行武器和毒品走私而有意向美军渗透”，“渗入到军队领域的黑社会组织成员利用军队对军人的分配派遣和变更服役地点等，不仅在美国国内各地，还将势力范围逐渐扩大至其它国家新的区域”。 >>详细

Shocking Collapse Of World Economy Warned Is Underway

February 1, 2012


By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers
A grim report just issued by the Finance Ministry that is circulating in the Kremlin today says the United States Clearing House Interbank Payments System (CHIPS) has ground to a virtual halt signaling that a major global economic collapse is currently underway and could very well likely enter into the dreaded “freefall zone.”   
Virtually unknown to all but the global financial elite, CHIPS is the main privately held clearing house for large-value transactions in the United States, settling well over $1 trillion a day in around 250,000 interbank payments that together with the Fedwire Funds Service, which is operated by the Federal Reserve Banks, forms the primary US network for large-value domestic and international US dollar payments where it has a market share of around 96%.
The cause underlying the collapse of CHIPS, this report says, is due to the “unprecedented” demand for immediate liquidity relief being sought by the largest banks in the US and EU that are being crushed under of the combined debt of both the United States and Europe said to total near $39 trillion.
Important to note is that what is currently happening is a virtual repeat of the 2008 Financial Crisis that the United States Senate’s Levin–Coburn Report found “was not a natural disaster, but the result of high risk, complex financial products; undisclosed conflicts of interest; and the failure of regulators, the credit rating agencies, and the market itself to rein in the excesses of Wall Street.”
Grimly echoing this Ministry report is the latest data [see chart 2^nd photo left, or click on link] from The Baltic Dry Index (BDI) that is a number issued daily by the London-based Baltic Exchange and shows it in freefall dropping 65% in the past 30 days alone, a terrifying amount of loss not seen since the dark days of late 2008.
Not restricted to Baltic Sea countries, the BDI tracks worldwide international shipping prices of various dry bulk cargoes that has collapsed so severely global shipping has all but ceased thus leaving our world’s largest transport ships anchored and empty off the coast of Singapore [photo 3^rd left] in what is described as “the biggest and most secretive gathering of ships in maritime history whose numbers are equivalent to the entire British and American navies combined.”
During the 2008 Financial Crisis an outright global economic catastrophe was only averted after the US Federal Reserve secretly gave out to US banks and corporations, and foreign banks everywhere from France to Scotland, over $16 trillion that was only discovered due to an amendment to the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act passed by the American Congress that called for their being audited for the first time in their 99-year history.
Note: To place that $16 trillion into perspective, remember that the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the United States is only $14.12 trillion, and the entire national debt of the United States government spanning its 200+ year history is “only” $14.5 trillion.
Curiously, the aforementioned amendment to the Dodd-Frank law only called only for a one-time audit of any emergency lending facility established by the Federal Reserve since 1 December 2007 and ending with the date of enactment of the law when it was signed by President Obama on 21 July 2010 thus keeping hidden from the American people who is getting their money.
To if anyone in the world, even the powerful US Federal Reserve, has the power to avert this coming catastrophe, this Ministry report warns, it is unlikely due to the cascading collapse of the global derivative market due to the mounting gridlock in liquidity that US billionaire and Obama confidant Warren Buffet warned back in 2003 were “financial weapons of mass destruction.”
Though the word “derivatives” sounds complicated and technical, understanding them is really not that hard.  A derivative is essentially a fancy way of saying that a bet has been made.  Originally, these bets were designed to hedge risk, but today the derivatives market has mushroomed into a mountain of speculation unlike anything the world has ever seen before.  Estimates of the notional value of the worldwide derivatives market go from $600 trillion all the way up to $1.4 quadrillion.
$1.4 Quadrillion is roughly: -40 TIMES THE WORLD’S STOCK MARKET. -10 TIMES the value of EVERY STOCK & EVERY BOND ON THE PLANET. -23 TIMES WORLD GDP.
Failing to be noticed by the Western peoples about this global economic collapse is that it has been, in all probability, a “planned event” due to occur so as to initiate a New World Order that has long been sought after by the elites, but was condemned by the ancients who warned that the uniting of our world as an economic dictatorship would lead to every human being having to obtain the Mark of The Beast thus bringing this present age to its end.  
In a Western world devoid of morality, and lacking the knowledge of the ancients, it is beyond doubt that this coming economic collapse will take them by complete surprise (as the last one did) as they have been trained like dutiful slaves to only adhere to those voices leading them to their doom.
But for those who know the truth, the time is nearing an end for preparing…it will come much sooner than anyone will believe.  
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Breaking: Fluoride Linked to #1 Cause of Death in New Research

NaturalSociety
January 17, 2012
Groundbreaking new research has linked sodium fluoride to cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death worldwide. Researchers found that fluoride consumption directly stimulates the hardening of your arteries, a condition known as atherosclerosis that is highly correlated with the #1 killer. Sodium fluoride is currently added to the water supply of many cities worldwide, despite extreme opposition from health professionals and previous studies linking it to decreased IQ and infertility.
In their research, scientists examined the relationship between fluoride intake and the hardening (calcification) of the arteries. Studying more than 60 patients, the researchers found a significant correlation between fluoride consumption and the calcification of your arteries. Published in the January edition of the journal Nuclear Medicine Communications, the research highlights the fact that mass fluoride exposure may be to blame for the cardiovascular disease epidemic that takes more lives each year than cancer. In 2008, cardiovascular killed 17 million people.

According to the authors of the study:

“The coronary fluoride uptake value in patients with cardiovascular events was significantly higher than in patients without cardiovascular events.”

Amazingly, this is not the first report to come out on the dangers of water fluoridation, however the United States government along with other nations have allowed for the continued fluoridation of the public water supply despite these key findings. In fact, the U.S. government has even gone on record stating that a reduction in water fluoridation needs to occur following the results of a massive study that found water fluoridation affected cognitive function to the point of lowering the IQ of children. It turns out that the announcement was little more than a public relations stunt to curtail the massive wave of activism that followed the findings.

Government Admits Dangers Yet Continues to Pump Fluoride Into Your Water Supply

Over 24 other studies have unanimously concluded that fluoride negatively impacts cognitive function. In addition to these 24 studies focusing on cognition, over 100 animal studies have linked fluoride to an increase in male infertility, diabetes, and a whole host of other health problems. In the latest study on cognition, it was found that that 28% of the children who lived in an area where fluoride levels were low achieved the highest test scores. This means that the children exposed to less fluoride scored normal or advanced, while only 8% of fluoridated children did the same.
In fact, the safety precautions regarding sodium fluoride are quite telling themselves:


But what about cavity prevention?
Since 1962 the government has recommended fluoride levels between 0.7 and 1.2 milligrams per liter in the nations drinking water. Toted as an excellent cavity blocker, fluoride has been praised for its alleged power to prevent tooth decay and boost oral health. Research has now revealed that fluoride, the very substance that is supposed to prevent tooth decay, actually does nothing to prevent against cavities. In fact, vitamin D has been found to be significantly more effective in cavity prevention without the extreme side effects. Instead of damaging your body, vitamin D slashes your risk of just about everything fluoride consumption causes.
According to the latest numbers, over 72 percent of Americans drink water treated with fluoride. Is it any wonder that cardiovascular disease rates are off the charts? Perhaps most concerning is the fact that fluoride does not even prevent cavities, which is the very reason legislators have pushed to keep it in the public water supply despite the links to deadly disease. Even if fluoride was found to prevent cavities, would it be worth the adverse effects?
Fluoride should be completely removed from the international water supply as it is a threat to public health. Until the proper legislation is passed, acquiring a high-quality water filter that removes fluoride is vital for the health perseverance of you and your family.