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9/11 Truth Search: Planes Didn’t Take Twin Towers Down !

February 25, 2010 Posted by | GeoPolitics, History | , , | 15 Comments

Targeting Toyota: US Economic War Directed Against Japan !

Source: http://www.ndl.go.jp/en/publication/ndl_newsletter/113/131b.html

  • Anyone who think that the big Hoo-Ha over Toyota is about car safety is naive. The Hatoyama administration wants to kick American military bases out of Japan and specifically Okinawa. Hatoyama has said he wants to end all the secret agreements between Japan and US of the past LDP government. This includes: allowing American military to deploy nuclear weapons on Japanese soil. Keep in mind that Okinawa is off the coast of China. A perfect place for the deployment of forces and the encirclement of China from the east.
     
    Okinawa Prefecture (沖縄県, Okinawa-ken?, Okinawan: Uchinaa) is one of Japan‘s southern prefectures, and consists of hundreds of the Ryukyu Islands in a chain over 1,000 km long, which extends southwest from Kyūshū (the southwesternmost of Japan’s main four islands) to Taiwan.
      
    US Okinawa Military Bases
    Reasons why there are U.S. Military Bases in Okinawa
    1. Okinawa was the best place to attack eastern Asia (Japan, Taiwan, etc.). Okinawa was a convenient place for U.S. Soldiers to go ahead with there attacking plans. Now it is important for defense and peace in the area.
     
    From Okinawa to Tokyo – 1500km
    From Okinawa to Seoul – 1400km
    From Okinawa to Philippines – 1450km
    From Okinawa to Saigon – 2600km

     
  • In the coming war with China, Okinawa is clearly strategic! The shadow rulers do not want Japan to break away from their grasp and form a new partnership with China. This will be a major threat to their New World Order. A potentially deadly threat to their financial, economic and monetary hegemony! The combined US$14T economy (and quite obviously the rest of Asia will join this new realignment) means that the west’s hegemony will be over!
     
  • Mike Whitney reports:
      
    Does anyone really believe that Toyota is being pilloried in the media for a few highway fatalities? Nonsense. If Congress is so worried about innocent people getting killed, then why haven’t they indicted US commander Stanley McChrystal for blowing up another 27 Afghan civilians on Sunday? 
     
    But this isn’t about bloodshed and it’s certainly not “safety regulations”. It’s about politics–bare-knuckle Machiavellian politics. An attack on Toyota is an attack on Japan’s leading export. It is an act of war. Here’s a excerpt from the New York Times which explains what is really going on:
     
    “The Japanese economy has emerged from its worst recession since World War II, but is still reeling. Japan must do more to lift its economy out of deflation and boost long-term growth”, S.&P. said.
    “The outlook change reflects our view that the Japanese government’s diminishing economic policy flexibility may lead to a downgrade unless measures can be taken to stem fiscal and deflationary pressures,” S.&P. said. “The policies of the new Democratic Party of Japan government point to a slower pace of fiscal consolidation than we had previously expected.”
     
    President Barack Obama is expected to address similar worries in the Untied States on Wednesday, with a call for a freeze in spending on many domestic programs, a move he hopes will quell perceptions that government spending is out of control. Fiscal problems in Greece and Ireland have also helped put the spotlight on the issue of national debt.” (“Japan’s High Debt Prompts Credit Rating Warning”, HIROKO TABUCHI AND BETTINA WASSENER, NY Times)
     
    Japan’s new liberal government is fighting deflation using the traditional methodology, by lowering interest rates and increasing fiscal stimulus. But that’s not what Washington wants. Neoliberal policymakers and their buddies in the right-wing think tanks want “fiscal consolidation” which means harsh austerity measures that will deepen the recession, increase unemployment, and trigger a wave of defaults and bankruptcies. This is how western corporatists and bank tycoons keep their thumb on the developing world and thrust their economies into perennial crisis. It’s the “shock doctrine” and it’s been the IMF’s modus operandi for over 20 years. Japan is being stuffed into a fiscal straight-jacket by supporters of the Washington consensus whose goal is to weaken government and accelerate the privatization of public assets and services. 
     
    The ratings agencies are being used in the same way as the media; to wage an economic/guerrilla war on Japan and force the administration to rethink their economic policies. (Note: There is no chance that Japan will default on its debt because it pays its debts in its own currency and has large foreign exchange reserves of over $1 trillion) The attacks on Toyota are a way of showing Tokyo what happens to countries that fail to obey Washington’s orders. Here’s a clip from the New York Times which sums up the problem in a nutshell:
     
    The government of Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama has “bolstered spending on social programs aimed at helping households……The powerful lower house of parliament approved a supplementary budget for the fiscal year that ends in March worth ¥7.2 trillion, or $80.3 billion, to help shore up the economy…And next year, government spending will grow further with a record trillion-dollar budget including ambitious welfare outlays. (New York Times)
     
    Western elites will not tolerate economic policies which raise the standard of living for the average working slob. “Social programs” or “welfare outlays” are anathema to their trickle down, Voodoo capitalist orthodoxy. What they want is upward redistribution and class warfare. Regrettably, Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama has put himself at odds with US powerbrokers and is feeling the full measure of their wrath. His public approval ratings have plummeted to 37 percent and are headed downward still. The message is simple: Cross Washington and you’re a goner.

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February 25, 2010 Posted by | Economics, GeoPolitics | , , , , , , | 3 Comments

Concerns Grow Over China’s Sale of US Bonds!

  • It looks like the Chinese government can no longer hide their surreptitious sales of US treasuries. It had to come to this. No 2 ways about it. With a massive hoard of US$755B of treasuries, you cannot hide big sales for long. The fear is that it will trigger an avalanche of treasury sales and lead to an overnight collapse of the bond market. Interest rates will sky-rocket from the ridiculously low levels of 4.5% (30 year bond) to above 10%. The FedRes is no doubt keeping a watchful eye and at the same time quietly buying up treasuries. Remember the rise of ‘direct bidders’ in treasury auctions for the past few weeks? My bet is: it is the FedRes! The Telegraph UK reports:
     
    Evidence is mounting that Chinese sales of US Treasury bonds over recent months are intended as a warning shot to Washington over escalating political disputes rather than being part of a routine portfolio shift as thought at first.
      
    A front-page story in the state’s China Information News said the record $34bn sale of US bonds in December was a “commendable” move. The article was republished by the National Bureau of Statistics, giving it a stronger imprimatur.
     
    It follows a piece last week in China Daily, the Politburo’s voice, citing an official from the Chinese Academy of Sciences praising the move to “slash” holdings of US debt. This was published on the same day that US President Barack Obama received the Dalai Lama at the White House, defying protests from Beijing.
      
    “There are ongoing spats between the US and China on so many fronts so you have to assume that this is some sort of implicit threat,” said Neil Mellor, a currency expert at the Bank of New York Mellon, who cautioned that it can be hard to read the complex signals from China.
     
    “We still think China will have to continue buying US Treasuries by the bucket load. Where else can they invest in a liquid market. The euro has become a tarnished currency,” he said. China’s power is growing so fast that it now feels confident enough to raise the stakes on a string of festering conflicts with the US. It has threatened to impose sanctions on any US firm that takes part in a $6.4bn arms deal for Taiwan agreed by the White House. This is a tougher response that on any previous occasion and raises the spectre of a trade war over Boeing, the key supplier.
     
    “Chinese leaders are deploying their reserves to try and pressure the US to stop haranguing China about its currency and trade policies, and to back off from interference in its domestic issues,” said professor Eswar Prasad, ex-head of the IMF’s China division. Stephen Jen from BlueGold Capital said Chine is probably moving out of bonds from many countries as it prepares for a likely 5pc revaluation of its currency in coming weeks. Other assets might prove better protection against an immediate loss on holdings.
     
    Use of China’s $2.4 trillion reserves to challenge US foreign policy is fraught with problems, not least because any damage to America will recoils immediately against China – which depends on the US market for its mercantilist growth strategy. Beijing cannot stop accumulating dollars unless it is willing to let the yuan ride, eroding the margins of its export industry. Some reserves can be parked in gold or even copper, but liquid commodity markets are not big enough to absorb the scale of Chinese surpluses.
     
    China and America are locked together by fate. Any petulant action by either side involves a degree of `mutual assured destruction’. But sometimes in politics – as in life – emotion flies out of control.

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February 25, 2010 Posted by | Economics | , , , , , , , , , , | 9 Comments

Budget Increases for Nuclear Weapons Production at the Expense of Social Programs!

  • Most Americans are still in denial as to what their country has become. They are sold a bunch of propaganda via their MSM, the paid off whores selling lies to the public. America is now a militaristic state. It endorses torture, murder and terrorism. Of course, these are labelled as Acts of Righteousness, fight for freedom and liberty. Just tell that to the more than 1 million dead Iraqi civilians, 250,000 dead Afghans and the countless who are imprisoned without trial or charges filed against them in the many secret prisons throughout the world. Why even John Yoo , Bush advisor, endorses the use of nuclear bombs against civilians!
     
  • Of course, we now know the Feds are openly targeting Americans. As long as Uncle Sam consider you a terrorist and threat to them, they can assassinate you without trial. Heck, all Americans are terrorists should the government say so. What happened to habeas corpus?
     
  • More money for bombs but no money for food, education..blah, blah, blah… Do you really believe the snakes in DC are serving you? The military budget of US$1 trillion is equivalent to the GDP of Australia! It is more than the rest of the world combined in defence spending.
     
  • The sheeple don’t get it. The Illuminati ruling elite, shadow government, is turning beautiful America, land of the free, into the new ‘Nazi’ world power. Wars without end are planned. At the end of it, America will be totally destroyed, totally ‘raped’. The Illuminati elite will then form their One World Government, Global Fascist Police State. This is the rise of the ‘Mystery Babylon’ whore :
      
    Revelation 17:3-6 (New King James Version)
    3 So he carried me away in the Spirit into the wilderness. And I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast which was full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. 4 The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the filthiness of her fornication.[a] 5 And on her forehead a name was written: 
      
    MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
     
     6 I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her, I marveled with great amazement.
     
  • 2 great world powers are graphically depicted here: the beast with 10 horns which is the revived Roman empire (EU) and the mystery Babylon whore. This whore is the coming United Nations 2.0 centred around what remains after the coming World War 3. Initially, the dominant partner in this relationship is the Babylon whore, as she is depicted sitting on this scarlet 10 horned beast. However, this revived Roman empire (EU) will eventually goto war with this whore and destroy her!
     
    Revelation 17:16-18 (New King James Version)
    16 And the ten horns which you saw on[d] the beast, these will hate the harlot, make her desolate and naked, eat her flesh and burn her with fire. 17 For God has put it into their hearts to fulfill His purpose, to be of one mind, and to give their kingdom to the beast, until the words of God are fulfilled. 18 And the woman whom you saw is that great city which reigns over the kings of the earth.”
     
  • Where will the capital of this New World Order, Mystery Babylon whore be? How about New York City, the home of United Nations. As a port city it satisfies the requirement of Revelation 18:17-18, besides being the centre of world trade as stated in Revelation 18.
      
  • Jay Coghlan reports:
     
    In the new budget request for 2011 the Obama Administration proposes to freeze discretionary domestic spending for programs such as education, nutrition, air traffic control and national parks for three years while dramatically increasing funding for new US nuclear weapons production facilities. Meanwhile the proposed budget for dismantling warheads retired from the stockpile is down by 40%. Funding for a new nuclear facility at Los Alamos National Laboratory to be used in direct support of plutonium pit production, the CMRR-NF, is increased to $225 million requested from $97M in FY10 (+132%). After FY11, funding is proposed to triple the FY10 amount to $300 million for each of the following four consecutive years.
     
    Funding for a new “Uranium Processing Facility” (UPF) at the Y12 production plant near Oak Park Ridge, TN, is proposed to increase to $115M from $94M in FY10 (+22%). However, its big money is in the following four consecutive years, climbing to $320 million by 2015 (in all a 240% increase from FY10 funding). Totals costs for both the CMRR and UPF are still “TBD” [To Be Determined], meaning they don’t know, but each will probably cost $3 billion or more.
     
    Outside of the federal budget, groundbreaking is expected this Spring on a new privately-financed ~$700 million Kansas City Plant for non nuclear components production for US nuclear weapons, subsidized by Kansas City municipal bonds. This pretty well spans the spectrum of future US nuclear weapons production, with big increases for new facilities for plutonium, uranium and non nuclear components. At the same time, the Obama budget proposes to cut dismantlement from $96.1 million in FY 2010 to $58 million.
     
    Obama is preemptively surrendering to the nuclear weapons labs, the for-profit private corporations running those labs, and the 2/3rd’s Senate majority including Republicans needed for treaty ratifications. All of these special interests explicitly seek to extract more taxpayer funding for nuclear weapons programs in exchange for ratification of a renewed bilateral arms control treaty with Russia and a long-sought-for Test Ban Treaty.
     
    We went through this a decade ago, when the nuclear weapons complex got billions of dollars and but ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty failed. History is getting ready to repeat itself, this time with the nuclear weapons labs seeking the capability to produce future new-design weapons. Obama’s new budget begins to give them just that, welfare for warheads that can’t be used while American public needs are not adequately met.

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February 25, 2010 Posted by | EndTimes, GeoPolitics | , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Lindsey Williams: The Elite Speak (Disk 1 of 3), The Coming 12 Months.

Part  5  ,  Part  6  Part  7  Part  8  ,  Part  9

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February 25, 2010 Posted by | Economics, EndTimes, GeoPolitics, Social Trends | , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 15 Comments

   

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