Gordon Duff
Veterans Today

Five minutes ago, Julian Assange was charged with rape. Two minutes ago, the charges were dropped. Result? Assange is front page news again, a big win for his handlers in Israel that can keep him in the news day after day peddling his “chickenfeed” leaks. Yes, the US has killed civilians. Yes, some US contractors sent in reports that they suspect Pakistan of invading the moon. These are the same contractors that drink tequila shots from each others butt cracks.

If only Wikileaks were ‘for real.” This would be a journalist’s dream. No matter how much some of us may want something to be, wanting it cannot make it so.

Did anyone find any surprises in the 90,000 pages of leaks? Was there a single word that hasn’t been in the Jerusalem Post every day? Of course not. Journalists have been fighting among themselves about Wikileaks and the articles written by William Engdahl and me over the past few days. It has been very polite but I have become suspicious. Some who promote themselves as “progressive” are either totally clueless or something else entirely, some other kind of animal. It wouldn’t be the first time. The “press” is even a dirtier business than spying. At least spies “get the girl.” It is almost as though Wikileaks must be defended, though not by any force for justice and “openness” but by those in power somewhere. Wikileaks seems to have a patron.

Let’s talk about American intelligence sources quoted in WikiLeaks. Most sources are private contractors, the primary one being Blackwater/Xe. When the CIA under Bush hired Blackwater to manage the majority of America’s intelligence operations it was an act of either insanity or treason. Blackwater isn’t really Erik Prinz, a nice boy from West Michigan who spent a minute and a half in the navy. Erik was appointed to Annapolis by Congressman Mark Siljander, one of our writers and one of my best friends. There is a long story there which we can’t get into as Mark is awaiting sentencing on federal obstruction charges. Mark is the least criminal person on earth but it isn’t the right time for this story to come out. There are few braver and more patriotic Americans than Mark Siljander.

Blackwater is really owned by Amway Corporation and Christian Zionist extremist Dick DeVos. DeVos is a “dime store Darth Vader” type who pours money into right wing or Zionist causes. He is one of the major powers tying Christians in the “rapture/apocalypse” death cult to supporting Israel in bringing about a nuclear war in the Middle East. Billionaire DeVos has been a “spy junkie” all his life, keeping himself surrounded by former FBI, CIA and police. Blackwater, under Prinz/DeVos, has been a private military and intelligence service for pro-Israel elements and the wealthiest and most corrupt elements in America’s power structure.

All intelligence that Blackwater/Xe supplies the CIA through their billion dollar contracts is created in Tel Aviv. Every word serves an agenda, pushing for a full scale civil war in Afghanistan, destroying Pakistan, starting a war with Iran and bleeding the United States dry. How are they doing?

You can tell alot about intelligence by what it doesn’t say rather than what it does. A few weeks ago, CIA head Leon Panetta, announced that there had been no confirmations on Osama bin Laden since “late 2001.” We know what Panetta was trying to say. After the embarrassing threats against Pakistan made by Secretary of State Clinton, accusing Pakistan of shielding bin Laden, known by all world intelligence agencies to have died in December 2001, Panetta was sending a message. “Don’t make a fool of yourself, please!”

The bin Laden issue has been one of the biggest in the Afghanistan conflict. Is he alive, is he dead, and if so, where is he hiding, where is he buried or is he, as Arnaud de Borchgrave of UPI states, “dead as Elvis.” Not one word about Osama bin Laden was in the WikiLeaks although there may be a million pages of intelligence about bin Laden “out there.” You can’t move around the Pentagon without tripping over something about bin Laden, he is the franchise that built our bloated and inefficient intelligence services in the first place.

What did Wikileaks say? Osama bin what?

The biggest story in Afghanistan is Karzai. Corruption, stolen election, communists in his inner circle, brother an accused druglord, openly threatening to join the Taliban and nary a word about Karzai. The Pentagon’s “secret files” on Karzai would fill a dozen semi’s. Does the fact that Karzai’s inner circle is filled with Israeli’s and Indians give him some influence with Wikileaks?

Does anyone believe that Pakistan, not Israel and India, is laundering the $65 billion in drug money from Afghanistan? Go to Pakistan. Visit a bank. Try getting a Visa cash advance for $50. Bring a lunch.

90,000 pages of documents and nothing about drugs. With US commanders standing accused, in the “classified world” of aiding in local drug harvests, opium and heroin transportation and the CIA and Pentagon at war with each claiming the other is running drug operations in Afghanistan, not a word of this, any of it, hit Wikileaks. Does Wikileaks have a patron somewhere with a vested interest in the narcotics business?

How about secret prisons and rendition? No lists of prisoners were leaked, no interrogation notes, no prison locations, no rendition lists nor any of the real juicy stuff, how much bribe money is paid to thugs in Pakistan and Afghanistan to kidnap supposed “enemy combatants,” many women and children. 75% of the intelligence from Afghanistan comes from interrogations of prisoners yet Wikileaks would have us believe that Americans have human intelligence networks operating in the region.

All of the information gotten through the “torture factories” set up by McChrystal and Cheney is, of course, useless, too little, years late and invariably invented. Thus, it must be defended at all costs, even by Wikileaks. What does this tell us?

In truth, America has nothing and is totally dependent on Pakistan’s ISI for human intelligence. Shut down the ISI and America is totally blind in the region. Is this what Wikileaks is supposed to do, what their “patron” tells them?

Whatever is really in the documents that no reporter writing about them has read, myself included, half of what has been discussed involves former Pakistani intelligence chief, General Hamid Gul. Though only a few pages of the “leaked” documents discuss Pakistan’s intelligence services, according to BG Asif Haroon Raja, working with a team dissecting the Wikileaks output, news organizations swear the documents prove that General Gul is running the Taliban.

We have some sources of information on this issue. Brigadier Raja is one of our writers and a personal friend. General Hamid Gul is an editor at Veterans Today and a friend also. Moreover, the study group acting as conduit between tribal leaders said to be tied to the insurgency in Afghanistan, notice how carefully I use language here, communicate with us through associates of another Veterans Today editor, Khalil Nouri, who advises the US Congress and Pentagon on Afghani affairs.

General Gul, a 74 year old retiree and grandfather, living in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, is very outspoken. I also know how much American military and intelligence officials follow what Gul says, believe in it and wish he wouldn’t be so open with the press. General Gul was deeply involved in the war to expel the Soviets from Afghanistan, and America’s primary ally and advisor during that war. Gul knows very well how close Osama bin Laden was to his American handlers, something continually censored from American news. When did America stop working with bin Laden, 1993, 1999 or maybe December 2001? Will Wikileaks tell us someday?

Gul, though one of the primary US friends working with the Mujaheddin, the precursor to today’s Taliban, may have superb sources of information but certainly no followers in Afghanistan.

Nouri makes it clear as a bell. The Taliban does not communicate with General Gul. He is not trusted by them or other tribal groups in Afghanistan. The distrust and ill feelings between Pakistan and Afghanistan are a real threat to US security and the welfare of both Afghanistan and Pakistan. The Wiki “leak” has been very successful in making this situation worse, and weakening the United States in the process.

India and Israel are jumping with joy over this. Are they the Wikileaks patrons or is it just Israel?

Source: Veteranstoday.com

Neo Xirtam

Volgens dit artikel in WTK is er helemaal geen sprake geweest, van het bouwen van een moskee op Ground Zero.

Wat is er dan wel?

WTK:
Er staat een vervallen gebouw op het adres  45 Park Place, dat slechts ‘in de buurt ligt van het oude World Trade Centre.. En het is ook helemaal geen moskee.. Het is ook geen massieve structuur die Ground Zero zal gaan beheersen.. Het is dus een bestaand, KLEIN gebouw, dat al die jaren, vanaf 11 September 2001, leeg staat. En het bestemmingsplan van de gemeente New York voor dit gebouw, is om er een gemeenschapshuis van te maken..

En verder schrijft WTK:
Maar de haat-kwekende nieuwsmedia in de VS hebben deze FEITELIJKE basisinformatie weggelaten, en zo ook de nieuwsmedia hier in Nederland. Want was jij van dit verhaal op de hoogte? Haat kweken tegen groeperingen, het angst-aanjagen van bevolkingsgroepen tegen andere bevolkingsgroepen, is het visitekaartje van de rechtse haviken, die niets anders voor ogen staat, dan oorlog voeren. En in de chaos daarvan, je zakken vullen en je macht versterken..

Voor wat betreft de Amerikaanse media ben ik het geheel eens met WTK.

Maar nu de Nederlandse media.

In de Nederlandse Media

NOS
De Amerikaanse president Obama heeft zijn standpunt over de moskee in New York genuanceerd. Obama kreeg de nodige kritiek op zijn steunbetuiging voor de moskee die vlak bij Ground Zero moet komen te staan.

Trouw
Het islamitische centrum vlakbij Ground Zero was eigenlijk bedoeld als een klap in het gezicht van moslimterroristen, maar wordt juist ervaren als een provocatie richting slachtoffers van 9/11.

Nederlands Dagblad
Boosheid groeit over moskee bij Ground Zero.

RTL
De bouw van een moskee bij Ground Zero in New York kan gewoon doorgaan.

AD
De Amerikaanse president Barack Obama steunt het uiterst omstreden plan voor een moskee in de buurt van Ground Zero

Elsevier
De ruzie over de bouw van een moskee bij Ground Zero in New York…..

NU.nl
Barack Obama steunt moskee bij Ground Zero

Zelfs de telegraaf zegt het goed:

Telegraaf
Barack Obama steunt moskee bij Ground Zero

We mogen concluderen dat de Nederlandse media toch zorgvuldig te werk gaat en “BIJ” gebruikt in plaats van “OP” echter we zijn er nog niet, wat zeggen Nederlandse politici volgens de media:

CDA-senator Hans Hillen bij RTL
Het is riskant voor Nederland als Geert Wilders op 11 september meedoet aan een demonstratie tegen de bouw van een moskee op Ground Zero in New York. Dat zegt CDA-senator Hans Hillen.

hmmm CDA Senator heeft het dus over OP ground zero, of heeft RTL het verkeerd opgeschreven???

Trouw artikel “Bezoek Wilders aan New York slecht voor Nederland”

“Ook Frans Leijnse, lid van de Eerste Kamer namens de PvdA, vindt de speech van Wilders tijdens een demonstratie tegen de bouw van een moskee nabij Ground Zero onverstandig.”

In hetzelfde artikel zegt Wilders, of laat Trouw Wilders zeggen:

“Ik mag en ga zeggen wat ik wil over de idiote bouw van een moskee op Ground Zero en CDA en VVD mogen op hun beurt daarover zeggen wat ze vinden, ook als ze kritiek hebben.”

Dagblad de Limburger

De toespraak die PVV-leider Geert Wilders in New York wil houden tegen de bouw van een moskee op Ground Zero, lijkt een eerste testcase te worden voor het nog te vormen kabinet Rutte. CDA-senator Hans Hillen noemt het plan ‘riskant voor Nederland’.

Conclusie Nederlandse media.
Als het een artikel over de Moskee betreft is de berichtgeving correct namelijk: “bouw BIJ Ground Zero”, echter zodra het een uitspraak van het CDA, of Geert Wilders betreft, is er ineens sprake van een “Moskee OP Ground Zero”. Dus ja, ook in Nederland is de rechtse lobby weer goed bezig. Telegraaf en Wilders één pot nat en een groot gedeelte van de Nederlandse slapende bevolking trapt er met zijn grote voeten in.

Kijk ook eens naar het onderstaande filmpje.

by Greg Palast
Wednesday, August 18th, 2010

Since everyone seems to have an opinion about the mosque near Ground Zero (and President Obama has two), I’d like to ask you all a couple of questions:

• Given that white Christian supremacist Tim McVeigh bombed the Oklahoma City Federal Building, shouldn’t we ban white churches from Oklahoma?
• As New York City’s indigenous Lanape Natives died at Ground Zero by the thousands when overrun by Christian colonists, shouldn’t we ban Christian churches from their sacred ground?
• If a mosque near Ground Zero is bad, then why not ban all Muslims from downtown New York? For this to work, should we require all Muslims in the city to wear yellow crescents?
• My office was in the WTC towers, which will now be rebuilt with all the upscale shops I remember. So, Mrs. Palin, are you saying it’s OK for Muslims to shop at Ground Zero as long as they don’t pray there?
• The new tower will have the old one’s Off-Track Betting windows and bars with after-work “happy hours.” So here’s a solution to make everyone happy: Why not camouflage the mosque as a place to gamble and get into your secretary’s panties?
• How about disguising it as a discount fashion shop: Kate Mosque? Or as a Disney retail outlet: Mickey Mosque?
• Jamie Kilstein has suggested to me that we ban Burger Kings from Ground Zero in honor of the victims of heart disease. But Jamie, the BKs are memorials to remind us that in the eyes of God, all of us – no matter what religion – are just hamburger meat.
• “O. Bin Laden” signed Glenn Beck’s petition to ban mosques from Ground Zero. Al Qaeda sure as hell doesn’t want Muslims and Christians worshipping in amicable proximity.
• Several new Christian churches have been welcomed near Ground Zero … in Hiroshima.

Am I being too kum-ba-yah by suggesting some of the money raised for the mosque go to building a synagogue in Saudi Arabia, rebuilding the Latin Church in Gaza burnt by Hamas kooks, rebuilding the Babri Masjid mosque burnt down by Hindi fascists, rebuild the Hindi temples destroyed by Sinhalese Buddhists, and for Christ’s sake, build a bridge, not a wall, to share, not divide, Al-Aksa and the Dome of the Rock?

My own view? I don’t want a mosque near Ground Zero; I want it right on top of Ground Zero, in the new tower, so when we go down again, we all go together.

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