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9.6.2016

RECOMMENDED !

For sober and thought-provoking comment on the subject of Britain’s EU Referendum, please see the following two essays by ANDY THOMAS:

EU or Not EU: Deciding With the Inner Voice and

EU or Not EU: Reasoning the Issues 

as well as responses to those essays and further thoughts on the EU vote by Andy at his website: 

http://truthagenda.org/2016/06/07/responses-to-articles-and-further-thoughts-on-the-eu-vote/


6.10.2014

My translation of LUDWIG POLZER-HODITZ – A European:

A Biography by T.H. Meyer

has been published today by Temple Lodge

This detailed study by Thomas H. Meyer of Basel of  one of Rudolf  Steiner’s closest esoteric pupils, Count Ludwig Polzer-Hoditz (1869-1945), a man who was especially involved with the political issues of Central Europe and with the origins of Social Threefolding as well as with karmic research, was originally published by Perseus Verlag (Basel) in German in 1994. This translation was made from the revised and expanded 2nd edition of 2008.

http://www.templelodge.com/pages/viewbook.php?isbn_in=9781906999643

http://covers.booktopia.com.au/150/9781906999643/ludwig-polzer-hoditz-a-european.jpg


21.8.2014

Interview with Sergei Glaziev

Extensive outlay of the thoughts of Putin’s close collaborator and advisor :

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

 
“Listening between the lines”, we can note that Glaziev, in his references to ”Lisbon to Vladivostok” and the context in which he speaks of this, is very aware of that which the geostrategists of the British Empire 100 years ago (e.g. Halford Mackinder) were most afraid of, and also their successors in the USA today (e.g. Zbigniew Brzezinski) : the possibility of real economic and political/diplomatic/military  cooperation between Russia and Europe (especially, but not only, Germany). Furthermore, there is the even greater challenge to USuk power from Europe-Russia-China (trans-Eurasian) links, a challenge which Glaziev is clearly also aware of and striving for. He knows that USuk are currently using Ukraine as a hammer to break the growing Europe-Russia economic links; he can be sure that after separating Russia from Europe, USuk will turn to try to break  – by one means or another – the Russia-China links.
Unfortunately, Glaziev nowhere  – in this interview at least – reveals his thinking to be anything other than thoroughly materialist.

19.3.2014

The Ukraine Crisis and the ‘Eastern Partnership’

In response to Russia’s absorption of Crimea, some voices in countries that were formerly part of the USSR and are now ‘independent’ are reacting irresponsibly by calling for action by NATO. They talk about Czechslovakia and 1938 and forget what happened 6-9 August 1945. This is not 1938; we now have nuclear weapons and Cuba in 1962 should have taught us the folly of playing nuclear poker with the very exisatence of mankind.

The Ukraine crisis began in late November 2013 when President Yanukovych of Ukraine rejected the Eastern Partnership Association Agreement with the EU and opted instead for an agreement with Russia. That prompted the Maidan demonstrations in Kiev that focused especially on issues of corruption. But soon the demonstrations were joined by Far Right elements and the violence increased, reaching appalling levels in February 2014. But what was the EU Eastern Partnership – a project supposedly devised by Poland and Sweden – actually for? In the autumn, before the protests got seriously underway in Kiev, the following two articles appeared from Lithuania:

http://www.tspmi.vu.lt/tinklarastis/2013/10/tomas-janeliunas-the-main-advocate-of-the-eu-eastern-partnership-programme/   Note the reference to Brzezinski’s Grand Chessboard here.
 
http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/50145/kirkilas-eastern-partnership-dilemma-the-eu-or-russia-democracy-or-autocracy-201350145/   From Sept 2013:

For Lithuania, given the country’s European integration experience, the Eastern Partnership has naturally become the No 1 priority of its EU Presidency. Lithuania strongly holds on the position that these countries should be helped to make the ‘right’ decision towards Europe and given a credit of trust in advance, especially now, when Armenia might be lost to Russia’s geopolitical project. Demand or “waiting and seeing” strategy is no longer feasible, if Europe does not want to lose the other three.

The major battle is now for Ukraine (democracy ranking 80th). Georgia and Moldova will likely follow the pattern afterwards. Therefore, Lithuania hopes that during the Vilnius Summit of Eastern Partnership the EU Association Agreement will be signed with Ukraine and the Free Trade Agreements will be initialled with Georgia and Moldova.

Zbigniew Brzezinski in his famous book on Eastern Europe ‘The Grand Chessboard’ states, that “with Ukraine Russia is an Empire, without Ukraine – it’s not. The politicians in Russia took it very literally and doing everything in their power to keep Ukraine in their sphere of influence”. With Ukraine Russia is an Empire, without Ukraine – it’s not.

 

And now from the horse’s mouth:

http://www.economist.com/news/europe/21590585-success-eastern-partnership-depends-ukraine-playing-east-against-west  23 Nov 2013 (note the date – just before the Maidan demos got going)

 From the “Charlemagne” section: “Playing East against West” “The success of the Eastern Partnership depends on Ukraine”

“Perhaps not since the end of the cold war has Europe hosted such a raw geopolitical contest.”
(Nb Malcolm Rifkind this morning on BBC radio said: “not since 1945….”)

 
IN JUNE 1709 Peter the Great fought a decisive battle against the Swedish king, Charles XII, at Poltava, in what is now Ukraine. Ukrainians fought on both sides. Ivan Mazepa, a Ukrainian Cossack Hetman, had sided with Sweden in a quest for Ukrainian independence. But the battle ended in Sweden’s defeat: Russia swept westward, dominated all of the Baltics and turned Poland into a satellite.

On November 28th the heads of European Union member states will gather in Vilnius, Lithuania’s capital, for a summit of the “Eastern Partnership”. This project was championed by Poland and Sweden in 2008 as a way of engaging with six former Soviet republics (Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus, Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia) after Russia blocked Georgia’s and Ukraine’s path to NATO. The success or failure of this venture depends on whether Ukraine, by far the largest and most important of the six, signs an association and free-trade agreement with the EU.

Radek Sikorski and Carl Bildt, the foreign ministers of Poland and Sweden, have put their reputations on the line. Ukraine is of particular importance to Poland, for historical reasons, but also as an emblem of Poland’s dominant role in eastern Europe. For Mr Bildt, signing the agreement with Ukraine is a test of Europe’s pulling power and its ability to enact its own foreign policy…Losing Ukraine to Europe has long been a Russian nightmare. Although Ukraine declared its independence 23 years ago, Russia has never fully internalised it.
 
As Zbigniew Brzezinski, national-security adviser to President Jimmy Carter, explained two decades ago: “Russia can be either an empire or a democracy, but it cannot be both …Without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be an empire, but with Ukraine suborned and then subordinated, Russia automatically becomes an empire.” The “loss” of Ukraine would push Russia’s western border back to where it was in the 17th century. It would also make a mockery of Mr Putin’s project for a Eurasian union and his mission as a gatherer of Russian lands….[final sentence:] Even if the Swedes and Poles triumph in Vilnius, they would be foolhardy to celebrate.

 
[As the writer well knows, it was not so much Sweden or Poland that were seeking to triumph in Vilnius, it was Zbigniew Brzezinski and his comrades. - Terry]
 
[I've just heard Poland has called for a meeting under NATO's self-defence clause; BBC is now discussing NATO 'hard power' options. NATO likely to send forces to eastern Poland: "the Russians only respect military demonstrations of red lines" - Terry]

It’s always worth revisiting Brzezinski’s The Grand Chessboard (1997)…. I did so again recently, and the sheer level of subtle and not so subtle vitriol and venom against Russia that breathes throughout the whole book struck me again. It’s worth watching the man in action here:

http://www.foreignaffairs.com/discussions/audio-video/foreign-affairs-live-featuring-zbigniew-brzezinski 

In the article in Foreign Affairs Sept 2009 which this video interview is referring to, Brzezinski in 2009 here talks about the need for a “cooling off period” after the 2008 war between Russia and Georgia before EU/NATO moves are made in the direction of Ukraine.  Was that cooling off period 2008-2013? Did  Brzezinski actually have input in the formation of the Eastern Partnership concept? He writes in the article: “for promoting and consolidating positive change in the East”  the Eastern Partnership …could very well be an effective instrument…”
 
Putin and his advisers are under no illusions that ZB was behind the spirit of the Eastern Partnership if not the actual concept itself:

http://nationalinterest.org/commentary/the-mania-ukraine%E2%80%99s-euromaidan-9636
Putin adviser Sergei Glazyev writes:

Despite the fact that Ukraine’s participation in the Common Economic Space with Russia is natural and vital for the development of Ukraine’s economy, culture and education, it is being opposed by the anti-Russian policy of Washington and its NATO allies in Kiev. This policy is steered by Zbigniew Brzezinski who convinced the American geopolitical machine that Russia could never return to its Great Power status without Ukraine.

 
The main problem is the nature of the EU itself. It is not ‘European’ and it is not a bridge; it is a sub-western* construct  – a transatlantic superhighway – serving the transatlantic interests very capably presented through Zbigniew Brzezinski in 1997. Those who see through the EU project have to decide whether they feel it should be accepted as such and that the attempt could be made to metamorphose it into something ‘good’, or else, that it should be scrapped and Europeans begin again with an altogether different form of associative community. Personally, I’m not convinced that the former is the way to go. It seems to me like it would be an attempt to pour ‘new wine in old wineskins’. A real alternative has been available to Europe for almost 100 years since Rudolf Steiner first spoke about the threefolding of the social organism.
 
* ‘sub-western’, as in ‘subordinated’

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7 May 2013

REISSUE of my first book  MAPPING THE MILLENNIUM – Behind the Plans of the New World Order

My first book Mapping the Millennium – Behind the Plans of the New World Order (original cover shown on this page) , first published in 1998 by Temple Lodge Publishing of London, out of print for the last few years and hard to come by, was re-issued by the same publisher this month, May 2013. It is available via the usual outlets price £13.99.

Book Cover for MAPPING THE MILLENNIUM

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SANDY HOOK

You may have seen this already.
http://www.cryptogon.com/?p=32818
Very good thread. Watch especially The Sandy Hook Shooting Fully Exposed

Note also that this on the page
Via: NBC:

The weapons used in Friday’s shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., were legally purchased and registered to Nancy Lanza, the mother of the gunman, Adam Lanza, two law enforcement officials told NBC News.The gunman was clad in black and used two 9mm pistols to kill 20 small children and six adults at the school. It was unclear how many shots were fired there”

is DIRECTLY contradicted by the words of the Medical Examiner in the first video on the Cryptogon page  who said that a rifle was used in the killings.

By the way,  14 December was the day of the fatal attack on Kaspar Hauser who was born in 1812, 200 years before. You might think that is stretching things too far, but if you take seriously the possibility, probability, that that guy in the Cryptogon video  – Gene Rosen – was acting and lying through his teeth about such an event then you have to ask yourself what kind of ‘per-sona’ is he? What level of evil are we dealing with here? And in the year, the Kaspar Hauser anniversary year, in which the Jimmy Saville affair was also blown wide open in the English-speaking world, the worst levels of evil are surely those in which horrendous things are done to children.

If Kaspar Hauser is as important a spiritual being as he is considered to be, then he surely represents something like the true child within each of us and as such, it’s not perhaps too far-fetched to imagine that the day chosen by evil forces for such a deed against children might be associated with him, especially in ‘his’ anniversary year. 14 Dec is the 348th day of the year, leaving 17 days left to run before the end of the year. Kaspar Hauser died on the 17th December from the wounds he received on the 14th.

After the absurdity of the O’Bama kills Osama affair, it’s clear that the PTB in the US now feel they can pull off any stunt, do a little “media magic” hocus-pocus over it and Joe Public in the US will just shrug and let them carry on.

By the way, I very much recommend the following on 9/11 if you haven’t seen it; it’s made by architects, engineers, physicists, chemists and other knowledgeable people:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ddz2mw2vaEg The fact that the mainstream media ignores this kind of evidence is IMHO evidence of…. dare I say it…. a cover-up. Yet Afghanistan, Somalia, Yemen and now Mali go on, alljustifed by 9/11 and the so-called ‘al-Qaeda threat’.

One of the things that operates like a clamp on some people’s minds is the thought that “our government would never do that!” which keeps them from seeing that a government could actually deliberately bring about the deaths of its own citizens by commission or omission. People on both right and left fall for this – the right because of the patriotic “my country right or wrong” attitude, and the left because of their tendency to believe in government and state action (as a symbol of community and protection of the weak) againsy selfish and greedy individuals. Especially when there’s a leftwing government in power, they find it hard to conceive that it could kill its own citizens for ulterior motives. But that’s what our government did in 2003 when we invaded Iraq and what the American government did then too and also in 1991 and also in 1967 when it allowed the Israelis to attack an American warship and kill many of the crew, the USS LIberty.

Here are two documentaries on the issue, one British, one American.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOBeqvgsQas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aVXj7hFZx4  BBC


 

 

Some good news from Japan -  perhaps…
but given the short life cycle of Japanese administrations (most recent Prime  Ministers have lasted for 18 months -2 years max) and the great pressure from Big Business, I don’t hold out much hope for success from the politicians, and there is no firm deadline given. It’ll have to be up to the people to hold the government to its word.
Much worse news from Japan is the following detailed article, based on declassified documents and other research, which makes clear that de facto, Japan already HAS nuclear weapons and the capacity to deliver them:
This is the best piece I’ve read on this in a long time. It makes clear that Japan  – thanks to the USA – already HAS nuclear weapons de facto AND the missiles to deliver them – both of them developed covertly to hide the fact from the Japanese people. Hence the secrecy over Fukushima and Japanese governments’ secrecy over the nuclear programme from the beginning in the 1960s.
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China – Japan: Just The Tip Of The Iceberg – Analysis

 

Though I do not sympathise with the line taken by this globalist-aligned writer, I think he makes one very cogent point: behind the Senkaku issue potentially is indeed the Ryukyu (Okinawa Islands) issue. The Senkakus never actually belonged to the formerly semi-autonomous kingdom of the Ryukyus, but the Japanese government since the 1890s has always acted as though they did. The Japanese feudal domain of Satsuma (based in Kyushu, southern Japan) conquered the Ryukyus in the early 17th century and brought them under their control. The central government in Edo (later Tokyo) ignored this until the end of the Shogunate in 1867. When the new imperial Meiji government took over in 1868, Japan moved to take over Okinawa for the Japanese State in 1879.
If the Japanese nationalists and/or government can succeed in somehow linking the Senkakus to the Ryukyus in the mind of China and the world, then they can start to accuse China of harbouring desires to seize the Ryukyus. Until the 1870s the Ryukyu Kingdom used to pay tribute to China, and today some Chinese nationalists are already calling for Japan to quit the Ryukyus, saying they rightfully belong to China. Certainly, the Chinese navy would be very happy to have bases in Okinawa, as this would enable it to ‘break out’ into the Pacific, something the USA is determined to prevent (see CFR magazine Foreign Affairs May/June 2010 article by Neo-Con hawk Robert Kaplan).

Japan: U.S. Pawn In Campaign To Encircle China

Time for Tough Measures

By Chu Zhaogen

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WWII Clouds Loom Over China-Japan Dispute on Senkaku Islands

 

The Sino-Japanese dispute has escalated into WWII memories, threats and boycotts as well as unleashing demonstrations.

In its relations with Japan, China frequently brings up the topic of Japanese aggression and atrocities in China from the late 19th century Sino-Japanese war continuing throughout World War II. The dispute with Japan is now part of the legacy of World War II and China claims that under the Potsdam Declaration of 1945, Japan was obligated to return all the territories seized illegally.

The above means that the dispute over the islands is now connected to one of the most highly charged issues in Sino-Japanese history, making it a matter of national honor for the Chinese that is not subject to negotiation.

In the interim, China has allowed anti-Japanese demonstrators a relative freehand (“Their feelings are perfectly understandable” explained the Chinese Foreign Ministry) and the Japanese Embassy in Beijing has issued warnings to Japanese citizens and businessmen to take precautionary measures.

Japanese participation in public and private events in China has been canceled as part of the anti-Japanese mood.

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http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/politics/AJ201209130062

New Japanese populist party headed by young charismatic leader from the working class, Toru Hashimoto, Mayor of Osaka, includes disputed islands in its logo.

Osaka [Hashimoto] rejects petition for referendum on nuclear power

 

http://122.248.242.148/article/behind_news/politics/AJ201203280037

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Chalabi II? ElBaradei II? Syria’s Bassma Kodmani and other “opposition activists”: CFR, BIlderberg assets

Posted by on Jul 18, 2012 in blog | 0 comments


After Hilary Clinton’s aggressive and vicious comments the other day, when she reviled Russia and China and said they would “pay a price” for supporting the Assad regime in Syria, we see that those remarks appear to have been swifly followed by a suppsoed ‘massacre of civilians’ (Tremseh) and now (18th July) a suicide attack in downtown Damascus which kills government ministers including Assad’s brother-in-law. The pressure is being steadily piled on, celebrated at each ratchet by the presstitutes of the western media.
A stable but fairly modern albeit unpleasant and non-democratic regime that consists of various ethnic groups is targeted for overthrow by heavily armed terrorists (funded by distant western powers) who infiltrate the territory of that regime and serve the interests of those western powers by committing massive acts of violence in that territory. The regime is, however, supported by a powerful ally. That was the scenario in June 1914 in the Balkans. It is the scenario today in the Middle East.
Countless western media reports about Syria over the past year have begun with the words “Opposition activists say….” without naming these ‘activists’. These western media organs usually accpt these ‘sayings’ and ‘claims’ uncritically even though they often add the rider: “these reports are unverified”. Such “unverified” reports from the “activists” have a habit of being turned into fact later on by the BBC and other mainstream western media.
One of these “activists” is likely to be Bassma Kodmani  – a key spokesperson for the Syrian National Council, ‘the official’ opposition group. Here in this clip she is seen in New York:
As a result, in the context of increasing defections in the military and the escalating violence in Syria, the Syrian National Council (SNC) and the Free Syrian Army (FSA) struck a deal in January 2012, recognizing the units of anti-regime rebels fighting in Syria. She stated as a spokesperson of the Syrian National Council (SNC) that it was the duty of the opposition “to assist the rebels.” While she asserted that the SNC would not provide arms directly to the Free Syrian Army (FSA), it will provide funds to “keep the FSA afloat.” For this reason, donations can be made on the SNC website. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bassma_Kodmani
And where might those funds be coming from?
In 2005, Bassma Kodmani established the Arab Reform Initiative (ARI), a consortium of independent Arab research and policy institutes, with partners from the United States and Europe. The Arab Reform Initiative had been established by the Council on Foreign Relations, a highly influential think tank and lobbying group in the United States, that promotes market liberalization and global governance.Through policy recommendations and research, the ARI has the stated aim of promoting reform and democratization in the Arab world. It hopes to initiate a dialogue between policy institutes in the Arab world in order to “advance the understanding of western different groups on issues of reform in the Arab world.” In addition, the Arab Reform Initiative “aims to raise awareness in the Arab world about successful transitions to democracy in other parts of the world, and of the mechanisms and compromises which made such successful transitions possible.”
From May 31 to June 3, 2012, Bassma Kodmani attended the Bilderberg Meeting in Chantilly, Virginia in the United States.She was also present at the 2008 meeting, which also took place in Chantilly. Given the stated positions on many of the other influential meeting attendees with regard to Syrian regime change, Dr. Kodmani’s attendance, as well as her relationships with key members of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Ford Foundation, caused some media commentators to question the activist’s independence from the political influence of NATO and the United States Department of State
 
For more detail on Kodmani et al…..
US “Intelligence Assets” leading the Syrian “Opposition”, the Role of the Bilderberg and the CFR by Chris Marsden
It has been reported as early as 2007 that efforts to destabilize Syria were aimed directly at undermining and inevitably attempting to overthrow the government of Iran. This was written about at length in Seymour Hersh’s 2007 New Yorker article, “The Redirection,” and is a reoccurring theme throughout US policy papers.  Any move against Syria inevitably involves Iran as part of the calculation for the West which has been plotting regime change in both nations since at least 1991.
From Landdestroyer Blog (http://landdestroyer.blogspot.co.uk/) :
UPDATE July 19, 2012 – After unconfirmed reports by nameless “US officials” that Syria was moving chemical weapons out of storage, and now in the midst of a massive media disinformation campaign, several leading “activist” Twitter accounts have been hysterically warning about an “imminent” chemical attack by a “desperate regime.” The US has repeatedly insinuated that any use of chemical weapons would require either it, or Israel to militarily intervene.

In reality, it is NATO’s militant front that has the means (chemical weapons brought in from Libya), the motivation (subsequently receiving military intervention on their behalf), and a demonstrated willingness to carry out indiscriminate, mass-casualty terrorist attacks as demonstrated by their months’ long bombing campaign (and here).

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It has been reported as early as 2007 that efforts to destabilize Syria were aimed directly at undermining and inevitably attempting to overthrow the government of Iran. This was written about at length in Seymour Hersh’s 2007 New Yorker article, “The Redirection,” and is a reoccurring theme throughout US policy papers.  Any move against Syria inevitably involves Iran as part of the calculation for the West which has been plotting regime change in both nations since at least 1991.
UPDATE July 18, 2012 – Remember when NATO began “Operation Mermaid Dawn” in August of 2011 against Tripoli, Libya, the Western press initially reported Qaddafi’s command structure either killed or captured. The initial effects of this propaganda devastated Libyans psychologically and the city of Tripoli fell almost overnight.

The next day it turned out that Qaddafi and his command structure was very much intact and still fighting. The battle for Libya would stretch on for many months more – with NATO forced to destroy entire cities with daily aerial bombardments to finally claim “victory.”

In Syria, NATO air support does not exist – and unless they can psychologically defeat Syrians, and panic the world into believing immediate foreign intervention is necessary, their latest “Mermaid Dawn” moment in Syria will fail. In addition to false reports of “massive defections” and “coups,” readers must be aware of false flag chemical attacks (or mere reports of them) that will serve as impetus for NATO to militarily intervene.

Editor’s Note:NATO has failed categorically to sell UNSC mandated military intervention to an increasingly unreceptive global public. With fighting reported in Damascus and the Western media and the so-called “Free Syrian Army” hailing it as the “final battle” despite zero tactical victories in nearly a year and a half of fighting, the stage is being set instead for a massive psychological operation.Such an operation was warned against in mid-June by Thierry Meyssan – and provides a somber warning more pertinent now than ever. Please re-read, re-post, and re-tweet this following article – ensure that NATO’s “Mermaid Dawn” moment in Syria turns into a “Bay of Pigs” defeat instead.

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Thierry Meyssan
Voltaire Network
July 18, 2012

(Originally posted June 11, 2012) – In a few days, perhaps as early as Friday, June 15, at noon, the Syrians wanting to watch their national TV stations will see them replaced on their screens by TV programs created by the CIA. Studio-shot images will show massacres that are blamed on the Syrian Government, people demonstrating, ministers and generals resigning from their posts, President Al-Assad fleeing, the rebels gathering in the big city centers, and a new government installing itself in the presidential palace.
This operation of disinformation, directly managed from Washington by Ben Rhodes, the US deputy national security adviser for strategic communication, aims at demoralizing the Syrians in order to pave the way for a coup d’etat. NATO, discontent about the double veto of Russia and China, will thus succeed in conquering Syria without attacking the country illegally. Whichever judgment you might have formed on the actual events in Syria, a coup d’etat will end all hopes of democratization.The Arab League has officially asked the satellite operators Arabsat and Nilesat to stop broadcasting Syrian media, either public or private (Syria TV, Al-Ekbariya, Ad-Dounia, Cham TV, etc.) A precedent already exists because the Arab League had managed to censure Libyan TV in order to keep the leaders of the Jamahiriya from communicating with their people. There is no Hertz network in Syria, where TV works exclusively with satellites. The cut, however, will not leave the screens black.Actually, this public decision is only the tip of the iceberg. According to our information several international meetings were organized during the past week to coordinate the disinformation campaign. The first two were technical meetings, held in Doha (Qatar); the third was a political meeting and took place in Riyad (Saudi Arabia).

The first meeting assembled PSYOP officers, embedded in the satellite TV channels of Al-Arabiya, Al-Jazeera, BBC, CNN, Fox, France 24, Future TV and MTV. It is known that since 1998, the officers of the US Army Psychological Operations Unit (PSYOP) have been incorporated in CNN. Since then this practice has been extended by NATO to other strategic media as well.

They fabricated false information in advance, on the basis of a “story-telling” script devised by Ben Rhodes’s team at the White House. A procedure of reciprocal validation was installed, with each media quoting the lies of the other media to render them plausible for TV spectators. The participants also decided not only to requisition the TV channels of the CIA for Syria and Lebanon (Barada, Future TV, MTV, Orient News, Syria Chaab, Syria Alghad) but also about 40 religious Wahhabi TV channels to call for confessional massacres to the cry of “Christians to Beyrouth, Alawites into the grave!.”

The second meeting was held for engineers and technicians to fabricate fictitious images, mixing one part in an outdoor studio, the other part with computer generated images. During the past weeks, studios in Saudi Arabia have been set up to build replicas of the two presidential palaces in Syria and the main squares of Damascus, Aleppo and Homs. Studios of this type already exist in Doha (Qatar), but they are not sufficient.

The third meeting was held by General James B. Smith, the US ambassador, a representative of the UK, prince Bandar Bin Sultan (whom former U.S. president George Bush named his adopted son so that the U.S. press called him “Bandar Bush”). In this meeting the media actions were coordinated with those of the Free “Syrian” Army, in which prince Bandar’s mercenaries play a decisive role.

The operation had been in the making for several months, but the U.S. National Security Council decided to accelerate the action after the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, notified the White House that he would oppose by all means, even by force, any illegal NATO military intervention in Syria.

The operation has a double intent: the first is to spread false information, the second aims at censuring all possible responses.

The hampering of TV satellites for military purposes is not new. Under pressure from Israel, the USA and the EU blocked Lebanese, Palestinian, Iraqi, Libyan and Iranian TV channels, one after the other. However, no satellite channels from other parts of the world were censured.

The broadcast of false news is also not new, but four significant steps have been taken in the art of propaganda during the last decade.

• In 1994, a pop music station named “Free Radio of the Thousand Hills” (RTML) gave the signal for genocide in Rwanda with the cry, “Kill the cockroaches!

• In 2001, NATO used the media to impose an interpretation of the 9/11 attacks and to justify its own aggression against Afghanistan and Iraq. At that time already, it was Ben Rhodes who had been commissioned by the Bush administration to concoct the Kean/Hamilton Commission report on the attacks.

• In 2002, the CIA used five TV channels (Televen, Globovision, ValeTV and CMT) to make the public in Venezuela believe that phantom demonstrators had captured the elected president, Hugo Chávez, forcing him to resign. In reality he was the victim of a military coup d’etat.

• In 2011, France 24 served as information ministry for the Libyan CNT, according to a signed contract. During the battle of Tripoli, NATO produced fake studio films, then transmitted them via Al-Jazeera and Al-Arabiya, showing phantom images of Libyan rebels on the central square of the capital city, while in reality they were still far away. As a consequence, the inhabitants of Tripoli were persuaded that the war was lost and gave up all resistance.

Nowadays the media do not only support a war, they produce it themselves.

This procedure violates the principles of International Law, first of all Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights relating to the fact of receiving and imparting information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.” Above all, the procedure violates the United Nations General Assembly resolution, adopted after the end of World War II, to prevent further wars. Resolutions 110, 381 and 819 forbid “to set obstacles to free exchange of information and ideas” (like cutting off Syrian TV channels) and “all propaganda provoking or encouraging threats to peace, breaking peace, and all acts of aggression”. By law, war propaganda is a crime against peace, the worst of crimes, because it facilitates war crimes and genocide.

 

See also good article by Charlie Skelton in The Guardian exposing the Syrian opposition  media spokespersons  who serve western interests: