Illuminati 2019: The Satanic Pedophile Cult that Feeds the Beast
One thing that the Lord is revealing right now through this whole Q[Anon] movement thing is that you cannot, I repeat you cannot get that high up – whether you’re in Hollywood, whether you’re a rock star or a country star, and even yes folks, a pastor – You cannot get that high up unless you are doing something for the Dark Side, period.
~Prophet Mark Taylor
That top elite of 8,000 to 8,500 worship Lucifer as their god, regard people as sheep to be used, and manipulate the media so as to conceal how the world really operates.
~Interview of Ronald Bernard, Former Illuminati, and Dutch Banker
Teresa's escape from brutal 'satanic cult' and bizarre rituals (1989) | 60 Minutes Australia
RONALD BERNARD: THE BANKER WHO REVEALED THE ILLUMINATI – CHILD SACRIFICE CULT BEHIND WORLD FINANCE
Part One
Ronald Bernard - The use of child sacrifice - 🇬🇧 voice-over
Ronald Bernard - Pyramid of financial power - 🇬🇧 voice-over
Ronald Bernard - About child organ harvesting - 🇬🇧 voice-over
Ronald Bernard - Deeper insight of my past - 🇬🇧 voice-over
Ronald Bernard - The local powers that be - 🇬🇧 voice-over
Having watched these video interviews of Ronald Bertrand, I must say that I am not entirely convinced by them. The testimony of a single person to be credible has to be back with details, and when truthful it has to respond rationally to rational based doubts. The one being interviewed responds too frequently with emotional arguments, when presented with a doubt about his testimony. — Now admittedly, he has confessed to being an international banker involved in international crime and terrorist support. But if what he said was at least threatening to someone, you would expect that some journalist somewhere would rebut him. I have so far found nothing of the kind. I am also amazed that while on the video he claims 10+million who have watched him, his videos on youtube have less than 30K visualizations.
If he had said all of this in 2021, he might be simply repeating what is out there already and well known. But that he said this in 2017, makes me wonder if he is really telling the truth, or was floating a balloon for globalists who wanted to know what the masses would think if they knew the truth. I have no basis to say anything he has claimed is true or false, and without details in his story he has crafted his testimony especially to avoid such verification.
Thus for forensic purposes his claims have no value at all. But they still could be 100% true. In the last four years perhaps he has said more on this topic, and if any readers can find more information about him and his claims, in any language, please share them in the comments below.
So-called modern Communism is apparently the same hypocritical and deadly world conspiracy to destroy the civilization that was founded by the secret order of the Illuminati in Bavaria on May 1, 1776. And that raised its whorey head in our colonies here at the critical period before the adoption of our Federal Constitution.
~ Report of the California State Investigating Committee on Education (1953)
Illegal Immigration = Pedophilia = Human and Child Sex Trafficking = Trafficking in Aborted baby body parts = Adrenochrome = Satanic Ritual Child Sacrifices
PEDOPHILE ALERT! America, does it seem that an increasing number of news stories deal with human sex trafficking and child sex trafficking? NFL New England Patriot’s owner, Robert Kraft and Chicago singer/pedophile R. Kelly are just the latest two celebrities in a long list of people engaging directly or indirectly in adult and child sex trafficking. This has been going on for thousands of years – going back to ancient times in the Bible and God’s repeated warning to the Nation of Israel to stop sacrificing their children to a long list of pagan, occultic, Satanic gods—Nimrod, Semiramis, Baal (Zeus), Molech (Moloch), Ashtoreth, Asherah, Shiva, Kali, Chac, and hundreds of others. Why is the Left pushing this Satanic, Child-Democide agenda so strongly? The CIA-Operation Mockingbird [OMB] media has a vested interest in keeping these vile acts hidden.
Follow the money. Qui Bono? (whose benefit?). A required question I always teach my students to ask themselves whenever the media, politicians, or anyone for that matter is trying to convince them to do or not do something. The CIA-OMB fake journalists want to protect themselves for participating in or being allied with pedophiles (Democrats and Republicans). This is the mandated road to riches most famous people must take in our society—Broadway, Hollywood, Sports stars, entertainers, Rappers, Rockers, politicians, judges, doctors, lawyers, Wall Street bankers, Ivy League academics, and virtually all of the most elite members of society. It’s always been that way [“The System”], but QAnon (est. 10/28/17) and Trump Tweets have opened the Matrix for the U.S. to escape. I pray many, many more people will escape cyber slavery and move to FREEDOM and LIBERTY in the name of JESUS CHRIST!
Special thanks to Daniel Lee of Alaska for his excellent and timely reports exposing Satanic pedophiles and elite child sex traffickers in America and all over the world at the highest levels of society – even in his recent expose citing the Department of Health and Human Services [HHS] using Child Protection Services as a front to sexually exploit and traffic innocent little children by the hundreds of thousands. Daniel reads the opening paragraphs of this bombshell tragic story of child abuse and pedophilia on a local, national and international scale:
The majority of children recruited into the child sex-trafficking slave trade come through foster care, where state “Child Protection” child welfare agencies place children who have been removed from their homes.
“It is estimated that the revenue generated through illegal child sex trafficking far exceeds revenue from illegal drugs and guns.
The problems of foster care being used to traffick children into the sex trade have been well documented. A recent report out of WJAC in Pennsylvania, for example, reports that 60% of sex, human trafficking victims were once involved in the foster care system.
Attorney Michael Dolce, who speaks from experience from representing children abused in foster care, wrote an opinion piece published by Newsweek last year (2018) stating that the nation’s foster care system is set up to sexually traffic children.”
*N.B.: What hidden message is Hillary Clinton’s lover, senior aide, and Muslim terrorist spy for Saudi Arabia, Huma Abedin telling U.S. as she is posing provocatively for the camera? She knows about the history and symbolism of the Beast of Revelation 17:6—”And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.” (Cf. this picture of Huma with the picture above of singer, Katy Perry astride a replica of the Beast of Revelation 17 – Coincidence? QAnon frequently says, “There is no such thing as coincidence.” QAnon, on a recent posting a few days ago puts the number of unsealed indictments directed at elite pedophiles and traitors not only here in America, but worldwide at over 82,300… and counting!
Prophet Mark Taylor Exposes 501(C)(3) “Baal” Churches vs. the QAnon Liberty Phenomenon
MARK TAYLOR: [@8:56] “The Lord gave me a dream… It was two big-named pastors in the dream, and one was talking out of the back of his head. And there was a sign next to him… All I caught was some big, bold letters next to it –It was I-L-L-M-I-N-A-T-I. And one pastor was standing to the left; he was so angry with me, I mean anger like you wouldn’t believe because of what God is speaking through me by exposing this mess because these churches… We are learning now that this is one thing where people believe Q[Anon] or not believe Q[Anon],” says Mark Taylor. “One thing it has done because this is biblical – It is a matter of the glory of God to conceal a matter, the glory of kings to search it out. And people are digging; they are hungry for the truth right now.”
One thing that the Lord is revealing right now through this whole Q[Anon] movement thing is that you cannot, I repeat you cannot get that high up – whether you’re in Hollywood, whether you’re a rock star, or a country start and even yes folks, a pastor – you cannot get that high up unless you are doing something for the Dark Side period. And what people don’t understand is that it is a very real Illuminati connection with some of these churches – a lot of them. And it is demonic. And the people don’t understand how serious this 501(C)(3) is… because it’s under [God’s] judgment.
This is the demonic repercussions of being in the [Mystery Babylon] System of what it does. Some people can historically trace this [Mystery Babylon] System all the way back to Rome, you know the [Baal] Church System comes up underneath the Vatican. It’s under the control of the Vatican or the Pope… There is a hierarchy.”
Billy Graham, Barack Obama and the Cult of the Freemasons
APOSTASY ALERT! Latest video sermon by my English friend, Peniel Ngonde, titled—Has Billy Graham Lost His Soul? It is a very hard and sever sermon, yet it is based on God, Jesus, the Bible and History. Remember the words of the movie, “The Matrix” – the scene when Morpheus told Neo – “Everything they told you was a Lie.” This is the Reality of the world in 2019 – We’ve all be deceived in everything.
HISTORY OF ILLUMINATI - Full Documentary HD
The section about Billy Graham, America’s most popular preacher (beg. @14:10-18:30), was particularly sever and difficult for me to hear because like many Americans we grew up listening to and respecting Billy Graham as one of America’s greatest preachers of the twentieth century. Nevertheless, I’ve heard other Hell testimonies and several of them recalled seeing this false prophet who only preached Grace (not Confession and Repentance), suffering inside the abode of the damned. Billy Graham was also a Freemason and recruited President Obama into this demonic cult), and thus is presently suffering terribly inside the abyss. Please believe this sermon. Hell is real. Don’t go to this place. Put your Soul in the hands of Christ and your sins under the blood of Jesus and walk in the path of the Holy Spirit that you may be saved.
In the video sermon by my English friend, Peniel Ngonde titled – Has Billy Graham Lost his Soul?, the following incredible narrative is given beg. @14:10—
Three False Prophets: 1. Billy Graham, 2. Singer, Beyoncé, 3. Nigerian Bishop T.B. Joshua.
[Narrator] “I was in Hell visiting when the Lord told me ‘I’ll show you something’ immediately I saw Billy Graham when he was still alive on the earth, during the years of his life before death. In fact, I saw a smooth board above his head upon which was written “Masonry”. I realized that he was no longer in the truth and he was no longer preaching the truth. Then I saw a Principality with two hands holding the left and right shoulder of Billy Graham. He was whispering on his ear so he would speak his words to deceive the people with heresies.”
“I asked the Lord about the Principality whispering to him. The Lord told me, ‘Wherever Billy Graham was going to preach, in every place he put his feet was an army of Principalities that came. Demons were attracted for they liked the type of Gospel he was preaching, which is not the true Gospel. You must tell men to get the truth and the true Gospel and repent from their evil ways otherwise they will never see my face because I am Holy. When the Lord saw him in Hell his anger ignited against what these Principalities had achieved through him – for they won thousands of souls through the wrong Gospel of Billy Graham.”
“In Hell I saw that Billy Graham had a throne like scales and it had the edges of the throne had been colored purple. He was mocked and treated as Emperor in Hell. He had a crown that was black and red, but the crown that he was wearing was filled with fire which was burning him. When this man of God saw me, he was crying a lot more. He said, ‘Tell Men to get the truth. I was in error in terms of Grace. I did not know that preaching only Grace will land me in this place. Billy Graham fell in this place because he failed to tell the church and humanity that sins were a nightmare for God. He failed to warn against the gravity of sin and the punishment of sin. Jesus said, ‘As he failed to confront sin, he became a friend of the world and could not see the glory of my Father’.”
“That moment I saw two demons, one similar to an ox with bull horns holding him. He took his hand from his body and he threw him in the fire that burneth. This man was treated cruelly in Hell far worse than a slave. The demons did lashes at him; they cared not for his flesh which they devoured like cannibals. And Jesus cried when seeing this when he saw him in Hell undergoing this treatment Jesus cried bitterly. I asked, ‘Lord, why are you in such pain?’ The Lord said, ‘He was very precious to me, but now there is no more chance. He is trapped by the shackles of Hell, I cannot rescue him for he is already sentenced – I have no legality.”
Billy Graham giving fellow Freemason, President Harry Truman the secret Masonic handshake.
Love vs. Judgment
“I asked the Lord, ‘What has he done that has separated him from you?’ Jesus told me, ‘In one of his meetings with U.S. Presidents he joined Freemasonry by breaking the alliance I had with him, moreover, he did not talk about me as I really am. He talked about me as Love only, yet he failed to talk about the fact that I am also Judgment, for I will strike the earth with fire of judgment. But every time I look at the earth – the wickedness and the sins, I remember the sacrifice I made for Humanity on the cross. I am in pain and in tears because I died for this man even though he is a sinner, but now there is no more chance.”
“At that moment the Lord said that this arm of Billy Graham that is being inflicted with pain is the very arm that Billy Graham signed the agreement with Barack Obama to join [Free]Mason Brotherhood. In this very arm he has been tortured with sulfur and fire though which he had signed to join the [Free]Mason Brotherhood. He was in the fire which left his nostrils and his ears. In fact, while he was in pain, I heard a noise of horses like the coming of a rider. It was actually a demonic Knight coming to torture him. I saw like a Demon-Knight that tore off the right arm of Billy Graham that had signed the Masonic covenant.”
“The Demon-Knights ripped off the arm and turned it into darkness and delivered it back to his body. The darkness of his arm had a smell of rotten flesh. The larvae came to burn Billy’s right arm and the Spirit told me this, ‘This is the same arm that Billy Graham made the agreement.’ Then I saw the name of Barack Obama in Hell. He was among the presidents who influenced Billy Graham to make a deal on earth and join the Brotherhood of Masonry in that meeting with American presidents. When Billy Graham signed that deal his soul fell in Hell, then I came out the vision…”
Conclusion: Illuminati Crimes and Symbolism is hidden in plain sight
I conclude this essay with another Facebook post from March 1st regarding the real reason why the Democrat Socialist Party is so hellbent on keeping the U.S./Mexico border wide open. Hint: It’s the food source demanded by their demonic god, Satan. What is the food source? Answer: little children and aborted babies, adrenal chrome from drinking baby’s blood, little children for Satanic ritual sacrifices, and sex trafficking. Here’s my March 1 post:
Satanism/Freemason Symbolism Alert in Popular Media, Culture & Society! *N.B.: Virtually EVERYONE in Hollywood, Sports, Entertainment, Politics, Theater, Big Corporation, Lawyers, Doctors, Wall Street, Q-Street, Government Intelligence Officials/Administrators, Politicians, Judges, Academics have all made a Faustian Pact with Satan. That’s why they are always flashing Illuminati and Freemason symbolism hidden in plain sight.
Qui Bono (whose benefit?) It’s the only way to go up the ladder in Satan’s System. So, they willingly, gleefully sell their eternal Souls for fame, fortune, and immortality (Rulership with Satan in the afterlife). It’s all based on LIES! Don’t fall for this trick of the Enemy = “the god of this world”. Trust in Jesus Christ only for your eternal Salvation of your Souls.
Remember the Historical and Philosophical objectives of the Illuminati according to the writer, Art Thompson, CEO of The John Birch Society and that the first two objectives summarize the mandates of the Illuminati:
- Destruction of Christianity (Anti-God)
- Destruction of nations in favor of Internationalism (Globalism = One World Government, New World Order)
- Discouragement of Patriotism and substitute the cry for Universal Brotherhood
- Abolition of family ties and marriage by means of a systematic corruption
- Suppression of the rights of inheritance and property
- State control of children
Adam Weishaupt (1748-1830), was a German philosopher, professor, and founder of the Order of the Illuminati, a secret society.
Suggested Readings
- Art Thompson, To the Victor Goes the Myths and the Monuments (John Birch Society, 2016).
- John Robinson, Proofs of A Conspiracy (John Birch Society, [1797], 1967 ed.).
- Augustin Barruel, Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobinism, [1797], 2002 ed.).
Lifting the Veil
An Investigative History of the United States Pathocracy
Researched and Written by Timothy M. Silver. Published in 2015.
“I know the capacity that is there to make tyranny total in America. We must see to it that this agency and all agencies that possess this technology operate within the law and under proper supervision, so that we never cross over that abyss. That is the abyss from which there is no return.”
~~ U.S. Senator Frank Church on the NSA, 19751
Note: All research validated by over 500 footnotes with links provided to reliable sources.
1 Quoted by Pentagon Papers whistleblower Dan Ellsberg from his article in the UK's Guardian, “Edward Snowden: saving us from the United Stasi of America,” June 10, 2013
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[Editor's Note] Lifting the Veil is the best summary revealing the deepest levels of deception in our world we've seen. It uses highly reliable sources with links to verify almost everything presented. If you don't have time to read the entire piece, skim the highlighted sections and don't miss chapter XIII which presents undeniable evidence of cults made up of psychopaths bent on controlling our world. You will learn how they are able to keep all of this out of the eye of the public. This is a must read for all who want to be educated and build a brighter future for ourselves and for future generations.
"The problem of the Pathocracy seems to be so vast and complex; it is certainly intimidating. Fortunately, the solutions are relatively simple. It begins with education and non-participation. Ignorance is the key that keeps the Pathocracy afloat. It's truly this easy. An awake populace can choose to stop holding the pyramid above their shoulders by refusing to oil the gears of the machine. We need to collectively move our money out of big banks, support local enterprise over the multinationals, and be courageously vocal about the truth."
Index
Chapter I: The War on Terror is a Fraud
Chapter II: The One-Party State
Chapter III: Psychopathy, Power and Politics
Chapter IV: Operation Paperclip
Chapter V: MK-ULTRA
Chapter VI: Operation Gladio
Chapter VII: Operation Mockingbird
Chapter VIII: COINTELPRO
Chapter IX: The Phoenix Program
Chapter X: Iran/Contra
Chapter XI: Continuity of Government
Chapter XII: The Pedophocracy
Chapter XIII: Cults and Child Abuse
Chapter XIV: Trauma-Based Mind Control
Chapter XV: The Pathocracy
Chapter XVI: Solutions
Chapter XVII: The Awakening
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Preface
It has been a little over a year since I first read about the Central Intelligence Agency program known as MK-ULTRA, which was dedicated to exploring the vast possibilities of 'biological behavioral engineering', also known as mind control. I was stunned by the depth of the horror unleashed on the unwitting victims of this program, less than a decade removed from the post-WWII Nuremberg Trials which concluded that never again should scientists experiment on subjects without their willing consent.
I was impressed that the Agency (CIA) deftly avoided any significant reform, even after multiple congressional inquiries into their illegal, unconstitutional activities which the disclosure of MK-ULTRA prompted, and was disturbed by the glaring lack of information regarding the program in the general public. Most shocking, despite Agency insistence to the contrary, was the documented evidence that their mission of controlling the human mind bore significant fruit.
As an aspiring historian, I set off to work on turning over every stone related to covert intelligence activities and other suppressed history and began publishing my research on a blog titled 'The Peoples History'. Since then, I have read dozens of books and thousands of mainstream media articles, interviews, scientific studies and primary documents in my quest for knowledge.
Before long I came to the understanding that I was not just learning about a series of unrelated clandestine agency abuses and financial crimes, but rather was researching various disclosures of an organized subversive network working behind the scenes. A bold statement like this requires bold evidence. I invite you to investigate yourself the over 500 citations of publicly available, mainstream sources I've provided and come to your own conclusions.
Whether you are approaching this work from a vantage point of exploring new ideas, learning more about topics that already interest you, or even if you are antagonistic to the idea that something is 'not quite right' with the United States today, I urge you to have an open mind and to be prepared to synthesize new information into your worldview.
'Lifting the Veil' is structured in a way that first discusses two startling problems with the current political system in the United States today. It then jumps to 1946 and works forward in time to shed light on how these problems came about. Woven in is information on psychopathy and its relationship to politics and power, my own conclusions drawn from the information, and 'food for thought' questions. The final portion of the book ties together the pieces of the puzzle and presents potential, non-partisan solutions we can take to affect change.
I ask one thing from you, the reader, before embarking on this journey. Once you finish, if you believe that this work is important, please resolve yourself to share it with at least two people, whether they are someone you know personally, online acquaintances or anonymous recipients. I have released this book free for a reason. It is the only way this information will spread to a point where it will reach a 'critical mass'. Once it does, change will be inevitable. Lets endeavor to make this happen as soon as possible.
Thanks for reading,
Timothy M. Silver
timsilverpeopleshistory@gmail.com* * * *
Chapter I: The War on Terror is a Fraud
"In the mid-'80s, if you remember... Saudi Arabia and the United States were supporting the Mujahideen to liberate Afghanistan from the Soviets. He [Osama bin Laden] came to thank me for my efforts to bring the Americans, our friends, to help us against the atheists. Isn't it ironic?" – Prince Bandar bin Sultan of Saudi Arabia, on Larry King Live2
President Reagan meets with members of the Mujahideen in the Oval Office,
In 2009, a series of events occurred that ought to have raised questions in the press. First, the United States began a troop surge in Afghanistan designed to deliver the final blow to the Taliban insurgency.3 Then the United States provided a $7.5 billion aid package to Pakistan.4
Around the same time, the Carnegie Foundation published a study which revealed a majority of Pakistan aid goes to the intelligence agency ISI and the military.5 The problem with these three events is that earlier in the year, U.S. officials revealed to the New York Times that the ISI was funding the Taliban, and was responsible for providing direct assistance and helping with some of their strategic strikes.6
The press did cover these stories, but independent of one another. Not one media institution connected the dots that the United States was actively funding the harm that its armed forces were simultaneously fighting. Following the official narrative of the war, it certainly doesn't make any sense that the United States was indirectly prolonging the quagmire.
Perhaps such mistakes are the inevitability of a bloated war bureaucracy, or that U.S. officials simply didn't realize the connection. Unfortunately, a collection of evidence points to a more sinister explanation: the United States and its allies have been deliberately proliferating radical Islam for decades, only to later spend trillions fighting the enemy they created, thus generating huge war profits for Wall Street moguls.
Just days after the July 7, 2005 London terror attack, and less than a month before his untimely death, the Right Honorable Robin Cook, former UK Foreign Secretary, wrote a scathing and emotional review of the War on Terror in The Guardian.
“Bin Laden was, though, a product of a monumental miscalculation by western security agencies. Throughout the '80s he was armed by the CIA and funded by the Saudis to wage jihad against the Russian occupation of Afghanistan. Al-Qaida, literally "the base", was originally the computer data-base of the thousands of mujahideen who were recruited and trained with help from the CIA to defeat the Russians. Inexplicably, and with disastrous consequences, it never appears to have occurred to Washington that once Russia was out of the way, Bin Laden's organization would turn its attention to the west.”7
While Cook's remarks were downplayed and ridiculed by the mainstream media and the United Kingdom establishment at the time, available evidence shows his assertions to be largely correct.
2 CNN, “America's New War: Responding to Terrorism,” October 1, 2001
3 Wall Street Journal, “Obama Bets Big on Troop Surge”, December 2, 2009. In 2009, Barack Obama ordered a surge of 30,000 troops in Afghanistan to fight the War on Terror.
4 Newsweek, “A Timeline of U.S. Aid to Pakistan”, October 20, 2009. The $7.5 Billion in aid to Pakistan tripled previous agreements, and locked in the economic alliance for another 5 years.
5 Carnegie Foundation,“Who Benefits from aid to Pakistan?”
6 New York Times, “Afghan Strikes By Taliban Get Pakistan Help, U.S. Aides Say,” March 25, 2009
7 The Guardian, “The Struggle Against Terrorism Cannot Be Won By Military Means,” July 8, 2005. A great article written by Robert Cook, whose life was tragically cut short within a year of its publication from a heart attack. Worth reading in its entirety. Watch also U.S. Senate testimony about the development of a poison dart pistol which can cause a heart attack and leave no trace indicating assassination.
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Operation Cyclone
"They [the CIA] told me these people were fanatical, and the more fierce they were, the more fiercely they would fight the Soviets... I warned them that we were creating a monster." – Scholar Selig Harrison8
The story begins in 1978 shortly after the Saur Revolution, which resulted in the communist People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan gaining control of the Afghanistan government. The CIA immediately initiated a program known as Operation Cyclone and began funding militant Islamic groups favored by the Pakistani intelligence agency ISI, to the tune of $7.5 billion.9 The money went to producing, training, and arming militant Islamic radicals who were directed towards fighting the secular communist government.
At the time, the Mujahideen was composed of many different, loosely organized groups encompassing a broad spectrum of ideologies, with widely varying perspectives on religion, society and state. Seven major Afghan factions began receiving aid, three of them Islamic moderates and four of them Islamic fundamentalists, as defined by the military. In addition to native Afghans, they were composed of many foreigners who traveled to fight the invasion, such as Osama bin Laden himself.10
To understand the scope of the funding, the BBC stated that the CIA provided enough arms to equip a 240,000 man army, and Saudi Arabia matched them dollar for dollar.11 The weapons given to these fighters were not just AK-47s and other simple arms. Many were high tech, such as Stinger Anti-Aircraft missiles,12 provided with the intention of demoralizing Soviet commanders and soldiers.13
The majority of the funding was funneled through Pakistan's ISI, which acted as an arm of CIA interests and began setting up religious schools known as Madrassas in Pakistan cities and frontier areas, churning out tens of thousands of students who would join the Mujahideen.14 (Note: Madrassas are not inherently negative institutions, however the ones who received funding from the CIA were particularly radical).
All of this began a full six months before the Soviets invaded Afghanistan, according to Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Carter's National Security Advisor. Brzezinksi recalled his involvement to a French news magazine in 1998:
"We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would... That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Soviets into the Afghan trap. The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border I wrote to President Carter, 'We now have the opportunity of giving the Soviet Union its Vietnam War.'"15
8 Selig's full comments available here.
9 Figure taken from Pakistan Institute of Legislative Development and Transparency, in a briefing to the Pakistan parliament.
10 The major factions who received aid are detailed in an article published in the Journal of Slavic Military Studies, written by Retired Army Col. Lester W. Grau.
11 BBC, “Pakistan's Shadowy Secret Service,” October 9, 2006
12 Slate, “Stingers, Stingers, Who's Got The Stingers?” October 3, 2001
13 Washington Post, “Osama bin Laden Created By The US,” 1992
14 BBC, “Pakistan's Shadowy Secret Service,” October 9, 2006
15 Bilveer Singh, “The Talibanization of Southeast Asia,” Excerpt available here.
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Early Years of Osama Bin Laden
When Osama bin Laden arrived in Afghanistan from Saudi Arabia, he created a group called Maktab al-Khidamat, abbreviated as MAK, a precursor to Al-Qaeda. It is frequently claimed that the CIA directly funded this group, though top CIA officers say that this is not the case. It has been confirmed, at least, that the MAK did receive funding from the ISI,16 the CIA's primary conduit for conducting their covert war against Russia.
CIA Station Chief in Afghanistan Milt Bearden has stated that he was well aware of Bin Laden in the Mujahideen, and welcomed his efforts in funding, though he never met with him personally.17 Bin Laden also brought in construction equipment from his father's company Saudi Binladen Group, considered the largest construction firm in the world, to build training camps, in collaboration with the ISI and CIA.18
In 1986, Osama used his construction assets to build a CIA-financed tunnel complex to serve as a training facility. It was also a major arms and medical depot for the Mujahideen in the Peshawar mountains near Pakistan which was later used by Al-Qaeda.19
Fifteen years later, the Western Media would describe Al-Qaeda as hiding out in caves, but the truth is a little more complex: there were intricate tunnels connecting hundreds of different caves, a majority of them man-made, equipped with irrigation systems, accommodation for trucks and even tanks, hotels, mosques, arms depots, medical and radio centers, and kitchens.20 In short, it is more accurate to call them mountain fortresses.
Al-Qaeda was formed sometime between 1987-88, with the radical elements of MAK joining after their group split.
It is apparent that the CIA had no plan to deal with the tunnel complex after the conclusion of Operation Cyclone, though surely they must have been aware that the cadre of radicals they were instrumental in producing would not simply disappear or de-radicalize. Perhaps long term destabilization of the country was their plan all along.
16 Information taken from GlobalSecurity.org, a respected institution in the intelligence community.
17 David Helms and Norm Dixon, “Behind the US War in Afghanistan.”
18 New York Times, “The Most Wanted Face of Terrorism”, May 2, 2011.
19 The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, “How a Holy War Against the Soviets Turned Against the US,” September 23, 2001. Written by respected investigative journalist and Middle-East insider Ahmed Rashid
20 Mir Bahmanyar, “Afghanistan Cave Complexes 1979-2004: Mountain strongholds of the Mujahideen.”
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The Taliban
Evidence suggests that the Taliban is actively involved with Al-Qaeda. For example, one 1998 State Department cable claimed that: "Taliban Leader Mullah Omar lashed out at the U.S., asserting that the Taliban will continue providing a safe haven for Bin Laden."21
There is plenty of evidence that Pakistan's ISI actively funds the Taliban and other terrorist cells as well, while barring the U.S. military from operating in tribal areas. A 2010 BBC article stated that the ISI was giving “funding, training and sanctuary to the Afghan Taliban on a scale much larger than previously thought,” going as far as to say that support for the Taliban was “official ISI policy.” Since 9/11, the United States has given Pakistan over $15 billion, much of which goes to the ISI and military.22
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said himself in 2003 that the ISI was either turning a blind eye or cooperating with the Taliban. In addition, some members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee "contend that the intelligence service may have provided money, weapons and broadcast equipment to Taliban fighters now in Pakistan to transmit anti-Karzai, anti-American messages into Afghanistan."23 BBC has reported on a secret NATO document which notes: "Pakistan's manipulation of the Taliban senior leadership continues unabated."24
A report published by the London School of Economics gave nine in depth interviews with Taliban insurgent commanders. They suggest that the ISI has members on the Taliban leadership council, though they expressed fear of assassination if they went into to much depth on this topic.25
It's not hard to establish that the United States has allied itself with one of the biggest funders of terrorism in the Middle East, a fact which blatantly clashes with the official narrative of Western involvement in the region. It makes much more sense when understood in the context that the goal of the United States in the Middle East is not the prevention of terrorism, but rather for political, military and economic hegemony.
21 Diplomatic cable available here.
22 BBC, “Pakistani agents 'funding and training Afghan Taliban',” June 13, 2010
23 New York Times, “Threats and Responses: Afghanistan,” February 13, 2002
24 BBC, “Pakistan Helping Afghan Taliban – NATO,” February 1, 2012
25 London School of Economics report available here.
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Osama Runs Wild
“I do not profess a broad expertise in international affairs, but between January 1996 and June 1999 I was in charge of running operations against Al-Qaeda from Washington. When it comes to this small slice of the large U.S. national security pie, I speak with firsthand experience (and for several score of CIA officers) when I state categorically that during this time senior White House officials repeatedly refused to act on sound intelligence that provided multiple chances to eliminate Osama bin Laden – either by capture or by U.S. military attack. I witnessed and documented, along with dozens of other CIA officers, instances where life-risking intelligence-gathering work of the agency's men and women in the field was wasted.” – Michael Scheuer, 22 year veteran of the CIA26
A 2001 Washington Post article states that in 1996 the government of Sudan offered to keep tabs on Osama, or if that did not suffice, arrest him and hand him over to either the United States or Saudi custody.27
"The Sudanese security services, he said, would happily keep close watch on bin Laden for the United States. But if that would not suffice, the government was prepared to place him in custody and hand him over, though to whom was ambiguous. In one formulation, Erwa said Sudan would consider any legitimate proffer of criminal charges against the accused terrorist." Their negotiations concluded as such: "We said he will go to Afghanistan, and they [U.S. officials] said, 'Let him.'"
The Clinton administration claimed that they lacked criminal charges to pin on Bin Laden, though this explanation is a farce, as less than a year previous to that they had named him as a co-conspirator in the World Trade Center bombing, among other terrorist activities.28
Just a year later, the Clinton administration would commit the egregious war crime of the bombing of the Sudanese Al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory, which provided 50% of the medicine for Sudan.29 The destruction of the factory was estimated to be responsible for the deaths of “several tens of thousands” of people according to the German ambassador to Sudan, on a much flimsier pretext.30 Interestingly, the pretext of the Al-Shifa bombing is that the factory had ties to Bin Laden, in the very country that had proposed to extradite him, by the very people who declined to accept his arrest.
A 2002 article in The Guardian reveals that the first INTERPOL arrest warrant for Bin Laden came from Libya's Muammar Gaddafi in 1998.31 It also uncovered that the MI6 paid large sums of money to an Al-Qaeda cell in Libya in a failed attempt to assassinate Gaddafi. Perhaps this is why U.S. and U.K. intelligence agencies apparently buried the fact that Libya had issued the warrant for Bin Laden's arrest and downplayed the threat he posed. Five months after the arrest warrant was issued, Al-Qaeda killed over 200 people in bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.32
These actions are consistent with the trend of working with Al-Qaeda when they shared the same goals, and fighting them when war in the region was a strategic geopolitical move.
26 Los Angeles Times, “Why I Resigned From the CIA,” December 5, 2004
27 Washington Post, “U.S. Was Foiled Multiple Times in Efforts To Capture Bin Laden or Have Him Killed”, October 3, 2001
28 PBS Frontline, "Timeline: Al Qaeda's Global Context.”
29 The Nation, “Reply to Hitchens,” October 1, 2001
30 Wikipedia article on the Al-Shifa Pharmaceutical Company
31 The Guardian, “MI6 'Halted Bid to Arrest Bin Laden'”, November 10, 2001
32 Al-Jazeera, “US embassy attacks anniversary marked,” August 7, 2013
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US Trained Terrorists
It has been widely reported, thanks to revelations by ABC reporter John Cooley, that some Islamic fundamentalists were trained in the United States in the 1980's, by way of Camp Peary, the CIA spy base in Virginia, being flown in from places such as Jordan, Egypt and even Africa.33 It raises the question of how many such camps existed beyond the United States. Regardless, there have been some astonishing revelations of terrorists trained within the US borders.
One specifically alarming case is that of Egyptian Ali Muhammed. He was a part of the fundamentalist military unit that assassinated Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in 1981. In 1984, he was hired by the CIA, though they claim that the relationship was short-lived.34 He would soon join the military and become a member of the Green Berets, and serve as a drill sergeant at Fort Bragg while providing clandestine training to jihadists such as Mahmud Abaouhalima, convicted perpetrator of the 1993 World Trade Center bombings.35
He would take a short leave from his military duties and travel to Afghanistan in 1988 to assist the Mujahideen, returning just months later.36 Such an act is completely unheard of, entirely unprecedented and raises all sorts of red flags. Who was allowing Muhammed to circumvent the law and what type of special privileges and protections was he receiving?
In the early 1990's, he would return to Afghanistan and began training jihadists with the skills he had learned at Fort Bragg. According to former FBI special agent Jack Cloonan in an interview with PBS, Muhammed's first training session included Osama bin Laden, as well as Ayman al-Zawahiri, the current leader of Al-Qaeda.37
Former Directors of Counter-terrorism at the National Security Council have alleged that Muhammed took maps and training materials from Fort Bragg and used them to write the Al-Qaeda terrorist training manual.38
Muhammed's superior at Fort Bragg, Lt. Col. Robert Anderson, has stated: “I think you or I would have a better chance of winning the Powerball lottery, than an Egyptian major in the unit that assassinated Sadat would have getting a visa, getting to California, getting into the Army and getting assigned to a Special Forces unit. That just doesn’t happen.”39
Elsewhere he stated: "It was unthinkable that an ordinary American GI would go unpunished after fighting in a foreign war," and that he assumed that Muhammed was sponsored by the CIA.40
In the year 2000, Muhammed plead guilty to involvement in the 1998 embassy bombings that killed 224 people including 12 Americans.41 He admitted during the trial that he was a part of a broader plot to attack any Western target in the Middle East, as well as admitting that he helped transfer Osama bin Laden from Pakistan to Sudan.
33 The Guardian, “Blowback Chronicles”, September 15, 2001
34 New York Times, “The Plot Against America,” August 6, 2006
35 Wikipedia article on Mahmud Abouhalima
36 San Francisco Chronicle, “Al Qaeda terrorist worked with FBI / Ex-Silicon Valley resident plotted embassy attacks,” November 4, 2001
37 PBS Frontline Interview with Jack Cloonan, available here.
38 Daniel Benjamin and Steve Simon, “Age of Sacred Terror.”
39 Article written by five time Emmy Award recipient Peter Lance, hosted at BoilingFrogsPost.com, available here.
40 San Francisco Chronicle, “Al Qaeda terrorist worked with FBI / Ex-Silicon Valley resident plotted embassy attacks,” November 4, 2001
41 BBC, “Ex US Soldier Admits to Embassy Bombings,” October 20, 2000
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United States and Al-Qaeda Have The Same Agenda
In 2011, NATO, led by Barack Obama and the United States, initiated military action against Libya by enforcing a No Fly Zone. They carried out numerous air strikes, including one against Libyan state TV which killed 3 journalists.42 Downplayed in Western media was the fact that the 'rebels' consisted of various factions of radical Islamists, many who had been fighting Gaddafi for decades and had their roots in the Mujahideen in Afghanistan, such as the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, whose goal is to implement an Islamic state.43
CNN has reported on widespread abuses against civilians from these groups after Gaddafi was ousted from power, including the use of landmines and other deadly equipment.44 Many of the rebels have admitted links to Al-Qaeda45, whom had declared support for the rebels in Libya.46
The Washington Post has reported that a former Al-Qaeda member has estimated there to be 1,000 'freelance jihadists' that have traveled to Libya to support the rebels, many affiliated with Al-Qaeda, and also that Libya has one of the highest domestic Al-Qaeda populations in the Middle East, quoting a 2007 West Point study on the subject.47
In 1999, the United States decided to support the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), allies of Al-Qaeda. Bill Clinton framed the intervention in humanitarian terms despite the fact that staggering atrocities were being committed on both sides.48 French News Agency AFP reported that members of the KLA had been trained by Bin Laden,49 and the Washington Times reported that the KLA bankrolled their operations with funds from the heroin trade in Afghanistan and had accepted money from Bin Laden himself.50
The Mujahideen, many specifically members of Al-Qaeda, were also instrumental in Bosnia during the NATO intervention in 1993. Their presence is still a factor of instability today.51 It is of significance that all of these associations occurred after the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, when Al-Qaeda first became widespread in the American lexicon.
Barack Obama armed rebels in Syria, beginning secretly with CIA arms airlifts in 2012,52 citing many of the same reasons for intervention that Clinton did in 1999, despite domestic and foreign ally opposition.53 54 Once again, many of the rebels have been associated with Al-Qaeda and labeled terrorist organizations by the US.55
42 The Guardian, “NATO Bombs Libya TV Transmitters,” July 30, 2011.
43 International Business Times, “Does the Transitional Council Really Represent Libyan Democracy and Opposition to Gaddafi?”, July 20, 2001.
44 CNN, “Rights group: Libyan rebels looted and beat civilians,” July 15, 2011
45 The Telegraph, “Libyan rebel commander admits his fighters have al-Qaeda links,” March 25, 2011
46 The Telegraph, “Libya: The West and Al-Qaeda on the Same Side,” March 18, 2011
47 Washington Times, “'Freelance Jihadists' Join Libyan Rebels,” March 29, 2011
48 Wikipedia article on the various war crimes committed during the Kosovo War
49 AFP, “Members of Kosovo Liberation Trained by Bin Laden,” May 4, 1999.
50 Washington Times, “KLA Finances War with Heroin Sales,” May 3, 1999
51 Radio Free Europe, “Bosnia-Herzegovina: New Book Investigates Presence Of Al-Qaeda,” June 1, 2007
52 New York Times, “Arms Airlift to Syria Rebels Expands, With Aid From C.I.A.,” March 24, 2013
53 Fox News, “Lawmakers try to stall arming of Syrian opposition, as CIA presses ahead,” June 27, 2013
54 Fox News, “Merkel tells Parliament that risks of arming Syrian rebels 'incalculable',” June 27, 2013
55 USA Today, “Syrian rebels pledge loyalty to al-Qaeda”, June 14, 2013
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The Source of Radicalism
Earlier I mentioned CIA-funded madrassas being a source of Islamic radicalism in the 1980's. They have been an important factor in the radicalization of Islam ever since. As of 2008, there are some 750 madrassas in Pakistan that teach jihad and radicalism, about 10% of all madrassas in the country (and I want to emphasize that this section is referring to specific radical iterations of Madrassas, not simply applying a blanket generalization to the religious style of education).56 U.S. diplomatic cables released by Wikileaks revealed that the funding for these radical schools now comes from Saudi Arabia, the United States' biggest ally in the region.57
The radical madrassa network exploits impoverished areas by recruiting children for what essentially amounts to indoctrination camps. In exchange, families receive upwards of $6,500 per son for their 'sacrifice to Islam', and during schooling, contact with families is forbidden. After graduation, many are funneled into terrorist training camps in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, the cables stated.
PBS Frontline did a story on a 16 year old who was recruited to a Pakistan Wahabi Islam madrassa from an impoverished area in East Africa.58 A few years later, he was instrumental in a terror plot, blowing up the US Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya. The PBS website hosts a letter he wrote to his brother, in which he says he spent two years on a military base learning warfare, including the usage of Israeli arms.59
Is the CIA still involved? The House of Saud has given at least $1.474 billion dollars to the Bush family,60 and the United States sold Saudi Arabia $60 billion worth of arms in 2010, the biggest arms sale in American history.61 Before he was president, George H.W. Bush was the Director of the CIA. On June 25th, 2013, Secretary of State John Kerry announced that Saudi Arabia is 'one of our closest partners'.62 At the very least we can establish complicity.
Regardless, the United States' relationship with Saudi Arabia ought to raise a lot of important questions. On November 4, 2013, Secretary of State John Kerry hailed Saudi Arabia as a very important ally to the United States.63 How can we reconcile this stance with the 2010 cable leaks revealing that former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton said that donors in the kingdom “constitute the most significant source of funding to Sunni terrorist groups worldwide,” and that “it has been an ongoing challenge to persuade Saudi officials to treat terrorist financing emanating from Saudi Arabia as a strategic priority”?64
It is clear that the United States views their geopolitical relationship with Saudi Arabia to be much more important than combating terrorism, despite U.S. involvement in the Middle East being saturated with rhetoric about the War on Terror. The same statement can be applied to the relationship with Pakistan, which is instrumental in the operations of the Taliban.
56 Naval Postgraduate Thesis, by Paul Bell, titled “Pakistan's Madrassas: Weapons of Mass Instruction?” Available here. (PDF Warning)
57 Full Wikileaks Cables available here.
58 PBS Frontline recap available here.
59 PBS, letter available here.
60 Salon, “Did the Saudi's Buy a President?” March 12, 2004
61 Wikipedia article on Saudi-US Relations
62 John Kerry transcripts from the US Department of State website, available here.
63 The Guardian, “Kerry hails disgruntled Saudi Arabia as 'the senior player' in Middle East,” November 4, 2013
64 The Independent, “Saudi Arabia is 'Biggest Funder' of Terrorists,” December 6, 2010
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Double Agents
The assassination of high-profile Pakistan tribal leader Qari Zainuddin was widely reported in the Western media.65 Only days before his assassination he had renounced his support of the Taliban, claiming that their actions were un-Islamic. What the Western media neglected to report, but was widely reported in Pakistan and other countries, was that Zainuddin had previously claimed that Baitullah Mehsud, the man who ended up ordering his assassination, was an American agent.66
The claim that American agents operate in the Taliban sounds far-fetched but there have been some eye-opening reports that confirm the possibility. For example, a 2004 article in the UK publication Times Online reported that a high ranking Al-Qaeda member had been revealed to be a double agent working for MI5.
“Abu Qatada boasted to MI5 that he could prevent terrorist attacks and offered to expose dangerous extremists, while all along he was setting up a haven for his terror organisation in Britain."67
Abu Qatada has been imprisoned multiple times in Britain but has not been charged with any crimes. During his career he has issued fatwahs justifying the killing of converts from Islam, advocated the killing of Jews, praised attacks on America, and was convicted on charges of terrorism in Jordan, all while working in association with MI5.68
A 2002 article published by French news organization AFP states that Palestine security forces had arrested a group of Palestinians who had confessed to collaborating with Israel and posing as operatives of Al-Qaeda.69
“He [Palestinian Authority Official] said the alleged collaborators sought to "discredit the Palestinian people, justify every Israeli crime and provide reasons to carry out a new (military) aggression in the Gaza Strip."
The arrest came just two days after Ariel Sharon claimed that Al-Qaeda militants were operating in Gaza and Lebanon, likely in an attempt to justify future military action. BBC has also reported on this story.70
65 BBC, “Tribal Leader Killed in Afghanistan,” June 23, 2009
66 PakTribune, “Why Does Zainuddin Want To Kill Baitullah?”
67 Times of London, “Al Qaeda Cleric Exposed as an MI5 Double Agent,” March 25, 2004. Article is behind a pay wall, link is to a re-hosting at Whale.to.
68 BBC, “Abu Qattadah Timeline,” May 10, 2013
69 AFP, “Palestinians Arrest al-Qaeda 'poseurs',” December 8, 2002
70 BBC, “Israel 'Faked' Al Qaeda Presence,” December 8, 2002
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“The Official Story”
The official story is that Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda found new enemies in the U.S. after the Cold War when the United States began occupying military bases in Saudi Arabia. It sounds plausible, but does not stand up to deeper scrutiny.
In 1993, Scott Armstrong, at the time the top investigative reporter for the Washington Post, gave some tremendously revealing interviews with PBS Frontline. In an episode titled "The Arming of Saudi Arabia", he stated that the United States and Saudi Arabia had jointly conspired to covertly build $200 billion worth of military installations between the years 1979 and 1992.71 Steve Coll, eminent Bin Laden biographer, states that the Binladen group received a multitude of these contracts, with the knowing intent to support and house US military personnel during wars that may threaten Saudi territory.72
This occurred during the same time that Osama bin Laden was actively using Binladen Group assets to build extensive infrastructure in Afghanistan. Surely he was aware of the construction of the military bases and who intended to occupy them, yet he did not have a problem with the prospect then.
71 PBS Frontline transcript of the episode available here.
72 Steven Coll', “The Bin Ladens.”
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Money
During the peak of World War II, military and defense spending reached a rate of over 40% of the United States Gross Domestic Product.73 Even after a massive demobilization, the military-industrial complex had grown to a behemoth, averaging over 7% of GDP throughout the Cold War. According to the Cato Institute, the United States spent a total of $6 trillion on military and intelligence in just four decades during the Cold War, a staggering sum.
After the Soviet Union was defeated, the Military Industrial Complex experienced a steady decline, accounting for just 3.7% of GDP in the year 2000. This changed on 9/11, when the MIC [Military-Industrial Complex] found that they could turn their old friends into new enemies to fight, and their percentage of GDP has more than doubled in the last decade.74
Congress has officially authorized more than $1.3 trillion to fight the war on terror, and a Brown University study says this is just the tip of the iceberg: Even if the War on Terror were to begin de-escalating now, it would end up costing a total of $3.9 trillion between domestic spending, veterans costs, and interest.75 The money comes from the taxpayers of the United States, whether directly or indirectly, and goes into the deep pockets of defense contractors and banks.
73 Math and Charts available here at USGovernmentSpending.com.
74 More Charts.
75 Brown.edu “Cost of War Project”, available here.
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Al-Qaeda Today
In 2003, Donald Rumsfeld wrote a memo to the Joint Chiefs of Staff where he stated that “We need to stop populating Guantanamo Bay with low-level enemy combatants.”76 The memo was uncovered in 2011. Over 750 prisoners have gone through Guantanamo, most being released without charges.77 Of the roughly 160 prisoners in Guantanamo Bay today, half have been cleared for release but are still being detained.78 Former CIA Director Leon Panetta said in 2010 that there were less than 100 Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan.79
JFK to 911 - Everything Is A Rich Man's Trick (Full Documentary) 76 Washington Post, “Rumsfeld complained of 'low level' GTMO prisoners, memo reveals,” March 3, 2011
77 Wikipedia article “List of Guantanamo Detainees.”
78 RussiaToday, “‘Political football’: Gitmo detainees ‘abandoned’ by US government,” May 16, 2013
79 ABC (Australia) “Fewer than 100 Al Qaeda in Afghanistan: CIA chief,” June 28, 2010
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Conclusion
After trillions of dollars spent, hundreds of thousands of deaths, repeated domestic rights infringements, we are left with only a handful of proven Al-Qaeda members, with a majority of prisoners simply being held without charges.
Al-Qaeda, the organization purported to be a sprawling monster after the September 11th attacks, has been revealed to be a shell of an operation, financed by wealthy US allies. The result is endless war: Politicians, military and media shine the light just right to make the shadow of the mouse look huge and monstrous to justify endless profits. The media is not even connecting the most basic of dots to reveal the tremendous deception.
The evidence is a repeated policy of the destabilization of Central Asia and the development of Islamic radicals that spans decades. The result is a new global enemy without borders or diplomatic representation that can be fought indefinitely. Unless significant changes are made, we are looking at a future with an endless war on 'terrorism' where more terrorists are created daily by the very policies that are meant to be fighting them, and a foreign policy dictated by the whims of war profiteering.
And what kind of influence are we having in the Middle East? The rhetoric of 'bringing democracy to the peoples of Iraq and Afghanistan' would be laughable were it not such a grandiose and destructive lie. The impact of American intervention in these two countries has been disastrous.
“The biggest source of corruption in Afghanistan,” one American official said, “was the United States.” – New York Times80
This New York Times article describes how the CIA routinely funneled millions of dollars without oversight in unmarked bags to the offices of President Hamid Karzai, while simultaneously denouncing the Iranian policy of doing the exact same thing. U.S. officials are quoted as saying that instead of buying the loyalty of the Afghan President, the payments instead proliferated into a vast web of corruption while Karzai became increasingly defiant of U.S. interests.
In Iraq, the country has devolved into near anarchy with monthly death tolls from terrorism sometimes reaching the thousands. In 2004, the New York Times reported that there was a massive assassination campaign targeting intellectuals and professionals, with between 500 and 1,000 urban professionals killed in just a nine-month span.81 From drive by shootings to stealth murders in the victims home, officials in Iraq agree that there is a massive campaign to silence the capable and educated.
“'They are going after our brains,' said Lt. Col. Jabbar Abu Natiha, head of the organized crime unit of the Baghdad police. 'It is a big operation. Maybe even a movement.' These white-collar killings, American and Iraqi officials say, are separate from – and in some ways more insidious than – the settling of scores with former Baath Party officials, or the singling-out of police officers and others thought to be collaborating with the occupation. Hundreds of them have been attacked as well in an effort to sow insecurity and chaos. But by silencing urban professionals, said Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt, a spokesman for the occupation forces, the guerrillas are waging war on Iraq's fledgling institutions and progress itself. The dead include doctors, lawyers and judges.”
In other words, Iraq is being left without the very people who could have been future leaders of democracy, and whom could have established a functioning society. And note that shortly after the George W. Bush invaded Iraq, a corporate friendly government was established.
Furthermore, it is not empty rhetoric to say that the Iraq invasion was based on lies. In 2012, the Iraqi defector responsible for the 'evidence' of chemical weapon production in Iraq which was presented to the United Nations by Colin Powell, who portrayed his evidence as “facts and conclusions based on solid intelligence”, confessed to BBC that his claims were entirely fabricated.82 Clearly there is an agenda that does not mesh with the rhetoric!
Will the War on Terror ever end? Who truly has the incentive to scale back the operation? Not clandestine agencies or the military, who are seeing their budgets increase year by year. Certainly not any of the major influences in politics, banks and corporations, who are seeing massive profits from government contracts and resource exploitation. And most certainly not the politicians in Washington, who virtually rely on the lobbying of these organizations to keep their jobs.
Journalist Glenn Greenwald put it succinctly:
“But what one can say for certain is that there is zero reason for US officials to want an end to the war on terror, and numerous and significant reasons why they would want it to continue. It's always been the case that the power of political officials is at its greatest, its most unrestrained, in a state of war. Cicero, two thousand years ago, warned that "In times of war, the law falls silent". John Jay, in Federalist No. 4, warned that as a result of that truth, "nations in general will make war whenever they have a prospect of getting anything by it ... for the purposes and objects merely personal, such as thirst for military glory, revenge for personal affronts, ambition, or private compacts to aggrandize or support their particular families or partisans." If you were a US leader, or an official of the National Security State, or a beneficiary of the private military and surveillance industries, why would you possibly want the war on terror to end? That would be the worst thing that could happen. It's that war that generates limitless power, impenetrable secrecy, an unquestioning citizenry, and massive profit.” – Glenn Greenwald, writing for The Guardian83
Greenwald also notes the hopelessness of combating terrorism with further violence.
“Indeed, virtually every person accused of plotting to target the US with terrorist attacks in last several years has expressly cited increasing US violence, aggression and militarism in the Muslim world as the cause. There's no question that this 'war' will continue indefinitely. There is no question that US actions are the cause of that, the gasoline that fuels the fire."
But the notion that the US government is even entertaining putting an end to any of this is a pipe dream, and the belief that they even want to is fantasy. They're preparing for more endless war; their actions are fueling that war; and they continue to reap untold benefits from its continuation. Only outside compulsion, from citizens, can make an end to all of this possible.”
80 New York Times, “With Bags of Cash, C.I.A. Seeks Influence in Afghanistan,” April 28, 2013. One particularly salient quote from the article is worth sharing: “No one mentions the agency’s money at cabinet meetings. It is handled by a small clique at the National Security Council, including its administrative chief, Mohammed Zia Salehi, Afghan officials said. Mr. Salehi, though, is better known for being arrested in 2010 in connection with a sprawling, American-led investigation that tied together Afghan cash smuggling, Taliban finances and the opium trade. Mr. Karzai had him released within hours, and the C.I.A. then helped persuade the Obama administration to back off its anticorruption push, American officials said.”
81 New York Times, “THE STRUGGLE FOR IRAQ: KILLINGS; Assassinations Tear Into Iraq's Educated Class,” February 7, 2004.
82 The Independent, “Man whose WMD lies led to 100,000 deaths confesses all,” April 1, 2012
83 The Guardian, “The 'war on terror' – by design – can never end,” January 4, 2013
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Food for Thought:
1. How close of a relationship did the CIA maintain with Osama bin Laden after Operation Cyclone?
2. Why does the United States consider Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, the two largest funders of terrorism, our biggest allies in the region?
3. How closely does the CIA work with the intelligence agencies of these countries?
4. How many agents does the United States have operating in Al-Qaeda and the Taliban, and how many atrocities are they responsible for?
5. Why have Al-Qaeda and the United States fought on the same side of multiple wars?
6. Why have so few Al-Qaeda been apprehended after over a decade of fighting the War on Terror and millions of dollars spent?
7. Who has a monetary stake in the proliferation of terrorism, and how much influence do they hold in official U.S. Policy?
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Chapter II: The One-Party State
Perhaps the most widely proliferated truism of American patriotism is that the the two-party system is a beacon of democracy. Surely, our system is better than that of Iran, where presidential candidates must be approved by a religious council, or perhaps that of Venezuela, where the majority of the media is state-owned and disseminates propaganda in each election.
Democrats and Republicans are widely different, it seems. At least that is what their hyper-partisan bickering would imply. Bill Clinton and Barack Obama must be unabashed liberals, otherwise why would the Republicans despise them so much? The divide between party faithfuls of different colors runs deep, with each side blaming the entirety of the country's problems on the other, often resulting in a state of pure hatred and disgust among citizens. One only needs to turn on cable news to see this as a fact.
However, the reality is that Republican and Democrat presidents have closely followed a similar agenda for half a century. The idea that American governance alternates as a sort of give-and-take between liberalism and conservatism is little more than a fantasy. I do not discount that there may be serious and significant differences between Democrat and Republican individuals, many of them members of Congress, and certainly in state legislatures. Yet at the top of the pyramid, where the power to set agendas resides, there is only the Agenda, and the primary difference between the two parties is the speed at which 'the Agenda' is advanced.
It is fascinating how Bill Clinton began his presidential campaign with playing a Saxophone on live television, talking about his foray into marijuana, reminiscing about his protest of the Vietnam war, and ended up with perhaps the most conservative administration of any president in modern history. Later, Obama entered the stage as a candidate of change, only to accelerate and consolidate the hegemony of the political elite faster than any predecessor. But lets go beyond rhetoric and examine the records of the last five Presidents, and see exactly how similar their platforms were.
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Crime
“The United States has less than 5 percent of the world's population. But it has almost a quarter of the world's prisoners. Indeed, the United States leads the world in producing prisoners, a reflection of a relatively recent and now entirely distinctive American approach to crime and punishment. Americans are locked up for crimes — from writing bad checks to using drugs — that would rarely produce prison sentences in other countries. And in particular they are kept incarcerated far longer than prisoners in other nations.” – New York Times84
At the end of Reagan's administration, the incarceration rate was 247 per 100,000 citizens. The demand for prison space had been steadily increasing since the War on Drugs began. Under George H.W. Bush the incarceration rate had increased to 332 per 100,000. It is a common misconception that it is Republicans have the more punitive crime policies.
Under Clinton, the incarceration rate skyrocketed to 476 per 100,000.85 The Clinton administration gave 30 billion dollars to states to fund and expand their prisons,86 and championed the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act that added 100,000 new police officers.87 The bill was written by current Vice President Joe Biden. The act also expanded the death penalty to be applicable to 60 more offenses, including drug trafficking, and eliminated funding for inmate education.
Private prisons flourished under Bill Clinton. The ACLU in 2011 published a fascinating review of the private prison system and found that since 1990, the private prison population has increased by 1600%.88 The number of private prison systems actually peaked in the year 2000 with 153 facilities.89
The policy that began under Reagan and has been flourishing through both Bushes, Clinton, Obama, and Trump, can only be referred to as 'mass incarceration'. As of 2013, the United States holds more prisoners than any other country in the world, including China, as well as a larger percentage of prisoners per population than any other country. For an even more sobering comparison, consider that the United States has more people imprisoned today, as a whole and per capita, than Stalin had under his archipelago of gulags.90
Louisiana is perhaps the best example of how corrupted the prison system can become when privatization runs amok. Louisiana has a largely private prison system, and currently has 1 in 86 adults incarcerated, twice the national average and three times that of Iran. Nearly two-thirds of these prisoners are serving time for non-violent offenses.91
Lobbying, along with an incentive of job creation, has resulted in some of the toughest penalties in the country, such as a potential 10 years in prison for writing a bad check. Over half of the prison population returns to the system in five years, without having received any rehabilitation, and being returned to communities devastated largely in part by the continued extraction of the population into prison for non-violent offenses.
84 New York Times, “U.S. prison population dwarfs that of other nations,” April 23, 2008
85 USA Today, “Study: Prisons Filled At Record Pace in Clinton Years,” February 18, 2001
86 Ibid.
87 Wikipedia article on the Violent Crime and Law Enforcement Act
88 (PDF Warning) ACLU.org report titled “Banking on Bondage”
89 Wikipedia article on the Private Prison System
90 New Yorker, “The Caging of America,” January 30, 2012
91 New York Times, “Plantations, Prisons and Profits,” March 25, 2012
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Arms Sales
On the campaign trail, Bill Clinton made this promise: “I expect to review our arms sales policy and to take it up with the other major arms sellers of the world as a part of a long-term effort to reduce the proliferation of weapons.”92 And then, in some astounding turn of events (or predictable, for those who have been watching closely), United States arms sales doubled in Clinton's first year in office alone.93
In 2006, the United Nations convened in order to create a "comprehensive, legally binding instrument establishing common international standards for the import, export and transfer of conventional arms." The United States was the only country to vote against the measure.94 In 2008, Obama signaled that he would change the course from the Bush administration and take steps to limit arms sales internationally. And similar to nearly 2 decades earlier, United States arms sales tripled in 2011.95 By 2012, Obama had ended negotiations on the U.N. treaty.96 Is it any surprise, considering Obama received more campaign donations from the Defense Industry than McCain?97
One particularly shocking revelation was a program known as 'Fast and Furious', where Barack Obama oversaw the initiation and operation of a gun running scheme where arms were sent over the Mexican border and directly into the hands of criminals.98
“Fast and Furious was an operation so cloak-and-dagger Mexican authorities weren’t even notified that thousands of semi-automatic firearms were being sold to people in Arizona thought to have links to Mexican drug cartels. According to ATF whistleblowers, in 2009 the U.S. government began instructing gun store owners to break the law by selling firearms to suspected criminals. ATF agents then, again according to testimony by ATF agents turned whistleblowers, were ordered not to intercept the smugglers but rather to let the guns “walk” across the U.S.-Mexican border and into the hands of Mexican drug-trafficking organizations.” – Forbes
Senior ATF Agent John Dodson, who broke the Fast and Furious story, was alarmed when he noted that the crime rates and violence in Mexico and at the border increased significantly after he began allowing, under order, massive amounts of guns to cross the border into the hands of criminals and cartels.
“Dodson said they never did take down a drug cartel. However, he said thousands of Fast and Furious weapons are still out there and will be claiming victims on both sides of the border for years to come.” – CBS99
On December 14, 2010, Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was killed on duty, with a gun given to criminals by the ATF.100
92 Mother Jones, “Arms Around the World,” August 1999
93 Alternet.org “Hightower: Clinton's Foreign Jobs Program,” April 25, 2000
94 Wikipedia article on the Arms Trade Treaty
95 Mother Jones, “CHARTS: US Overseas Arms Sales More Than Tripled in 2011,” August 29, 2012
96 Mother Jones, “Obama Administration Ducks for Cover on UN Arms Trade Treaty,” July 31, 2012
97 Time, “Obama Beats McCain in Defense Contributions,” October 31, 2008
98 Forbes, “'Fast And Furious' Just Might Be President Obama's Watergate,” September 28, 2011
99 CBS, “Agent: I was ordered to let U.S. guns into Mexico,” March 3, 2011
100 Los Angeles Times, “ATF sought to downplay guns scandal, emails show,” July 21, 2011
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Domestic Spying
A 1999 BBC article titled “Echelon Spy Network Revealed” began with the paragraph: “Imagine a global spying network that can eavesdrop on every single phone call, fax or e-mail, anywhere on the planet. It sounds like science fiction, but it's true.” The network, known as Echelon, traces its roots all the way back to the John F. Kennedy presidency, and had been expanding ever since.101 In 1992, the Director of the NSA described the goal of the program in simple terms: 'Global Access'.102 The agenda for mass surveillance was institutionalized long before most Americans recognize.
Then there was George Bush's illegal warrantless wiretapping. Began in 2001, the program allowed the NSA to monitor communications between United States citizens and those abroad without appropriate checks and balances.103 Interestingly, the groundwork for warrantless wiretapping had actually been laid out by Bill Clinton.104 During his presidency, he slowly expanded the reach of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) and the capability of the NSA to classify and withhold information about their activities. When the revelations about the program were made in 2006, they were controversial, but Congress repeatedly renewed the NSA's license without much of an uproar from the public.
By the 2008 election, citizens were growing weary of the spying program and Barack Obama capitalized on this sentiment. He vowed to end warrantless wiretapping and during his primary campaign he went as far as to say he would filibuster the extension of the FISA legislation, responsible for allowing the expanded spying capabilities.105
“When I'm president, one of the first things I'm going to do is call in my attorney general and say to him or her, I want you to review every executive order that was issued by George Bush, whether it relates to warrantless wiretaps or detaining people or reading e- mails, or whatever it is. I want you to go through every single one of them and if they are unconstitutional, if they're encroaching on civil liberties unnecessarily, we are going to overturn them. We're going to change them.” – Barack Obama, 2007106
He first broke this promise after winning the primary campaign, in July 2008, when he was one of 68 Senators who voted to renew the NSA capabilities.107 Less than a year later, Barack Obama would vastly broaden the legal argument the Executive branch used to justify the spying, and exempted the Government from the possibility of being sued thanks to a liberal interpretation of a clause in the Patriot Act.108
"In other words, beyond even the outrageously broad 'state secrets' privilege invented by the Bush administration and now embraced fully by the Obama administration, the Obama DOJ has now invented a brand new claim of government immunity, one which literally asserts that the U.S. Government is free to intercept all of your communications (calls, emails and the like) and – even if what they're doing is blatantly illegal and they know it's illegal – you are barred from suing them unless they 'willfully disclose' to the public what they have learned," – Glenn Greenwald
On June 6th 2013, it was revealed that Barack Obama oversaw the largest infringement of the Fourth Amendment in the history of the United States with the construction of a veritable surveillance state, capable of tracking the movements and communications of every American citizen. We now know that the NSA and United Kingdom counterpart GHCQ:
• Collect the domestic meta-data of both parties in a phone-call.109
• Set up fake internet cafes to steal data.110
• Have intercepted the phone calls of at least 35 world leaders, including allies such as German Chancellor Angela Merkel.111
• Can tap into the underwater fiber-optic cables that carry a majority of the world's internet traffic.112
• Track communications within media institutions such as Al Jazeera.113
• Have 'bugged' the United Nations headquarters.114
• Have set up a financial database to track international banking and credit card transactions.115
• Collect and store over 200 million domestic and foreign text messages each day.116
• Collect and have real-time access to browsing history, email, and social media activity. To gain access, an analyst simply needs to fill out an on-screen form with a broad justification for the search that is not reviewed by any court or NSA personnel.117
"I, sitting at my desk, could wiretap anyone, from you or your accountant, to a federal judge or even the president, if I had a personal email". – Edward Snowden
• Create maps of the social networks of United States citizens.118
• Have access to smartphone app data.119
• Use spies in embassies to collect data, often by setting up 'listening stations' on the roofs of buildings.120
• Use fake LinkedIn profiles and other doctored web pages to secretly install surveillance software in unwitting companies and individuals.121
• Track reservations at upscale hotels.122
• Have intercepted the talking-points of world leaders before meetings with Barack Obama.123
• Can crack encryption codes on cellphones.124
• Have implanted software on over 100,000 computers worldwide allowing them to hack data without internet connection, using radio waves.125
• Have access to computers through fake wireless connections.126
• Monitor communications in online games such as World of Warcraft.127
• Intercept shipping deliveries and install back-door devices allowing access.128
• Have direct access to the data centers of Google, Yahoo and other major companies.129
• Covertly and overtly infiltrate United States and foreign IT industries to weaken or gain access to encryption, often by collaborating with software companies and internet service providers themselves. They are also, according to an internal document, "responsible for identifying, recruiting and running covert agents in the global telecommunications industry."130
• Use “honey traps”, luring targets into compromising positions using sex.131
• Share raw intelligence data with Israel. Only official U.S. communications are affected, and there are no legal limits on the use of the data from Israel.132
• Spy on porn habits of activists to discredit them.133
Possibly the most shocking revelation was made on February 24, 2014. Internal documents show that the NSA is attempting to manipulate and control online discourse with “extreme tactics of deception and reputation-destruction.”134 The documents revealed a top-secret unit known as the Joint Threat Research Intelligence Unit, or JTRIG.
Two of the core self-identified purposes of JTRIG are to inject all sorts of false material onto the internet in an effort to discredit a target, and to use social sciences such as psychology to manipulate online discourse and activism in order to generate a desirable outcome. The unit posts false information on the internet and falsely attributes it to someone else, pretend to be a 'victim' of a target they want to discredit, and posts negative information on various forums. In some instances, to discredit a target, JTRIG sends out 'false flag' emails to family and friends.
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- Charles Wharry Darkbird18;
These two articles are the containing research on secret societies and how they control our world with esoteric and occult knowledge from our ancient past. Pedophile and mind control is dark knowledge use by ancient cultures to gain powers from the lower dimensions to control others; this knowledge is from the Lower beings who are inorganic and can use the subconscious mind to control the human race, they're called Archon's, beings who have been here on earth for millions of years; they live off the life force of organic beings, they're "FALSE GODS"!~ They have infiltrated are major social organizes and the main mind control weapons they use are Greed, Jealousy, and fear, which is the same dark powers they use to bring down Ancient Atlantis. The ancient text tells us that is their job to test and help use defeat the "Beast" from within to become a human being.
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