Based on early maneuvering it is evident that the masters of war have already drawn up sides. You may have missed it, but the US, Israel and the NATO Alliance have already put Iran, Lebanon, Syria, North Korea, Venezuela, Russia and China on notice. And the “withdrawals” from Iraq and the Af-Pak region are over-hyped. The occupation of these countries continues with no end in sight. In fact, they aren’t withdrawing as much as they are repositioning and shifting their forces, preparing for an escalation. In many ways the wars in Iraq and Af-Pak have only been the initial phase of a global attack, positioning forces and building massive military bases in pivotal geo-strategic locations. The operations in this region have essentially been a warm-up for much wider-ranging attacks against much stronger countries. While most of the US population is playing checkers, seeing the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as one-off battles, the global banking cartel is playing chess, using these wars as only initial geo-strategic moves in a grand strategy toward total world domination.
The intensity of military maneuvering presently occurring is alarming. Read through these recent news reports pulled from the AmpedStatus database, all from just the past few weeks, and let me know if you think I’m being extreme in foreseeing World War III:
US to Fund Israeli Purchase of 20 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters US Waging ‘Shadow War’ in Dozen Countries S.Korea, US to stage massive joint war games US Military Offensive Against the July 2011 Af-Pak Timetable China PLA warns U.S. over fresh military drill in region The dangers of mounting US-China rivalry America’s Biggest Jobs Program — the U.S. Military US Arms ‘Bonanza’ in the Middle East Chinese Military: The Chinese People Won’t Stand for US Provocation Israel bulldozes Muslim graves in Jerusalem U.S. Supersizes Afghan Mega-Base US concerned other countries won’t respect Iraq’s ‘sovereignty’ US cuts $100m aid to Lebanon military U.S. won’t leave Iraq’s energy reserves untended US plans to sell F-15 jets to Saudi Arabia: report Blackwater: $220 million in new contracts Congress Spends Another $600 Million for Border Militarization U.S. worried by Hamid Karzai’s attempt to assert control over corruption probes Palestinians Denied Access to Water Gates: Iraq occupation could go on Petraeus beats the drums for endless war in Afghanistan Israel-US Increase Military Cooperation, Hold Biggest Joint Infantry Exercise Ever US, South Korea to Stage Another Military Exercise The Philippines: America’s New Launchpad for the Militarization of Southeast Asia U.S. and UK help train Kazakh troops in Russia’s backyard India to order large number of Javelin anti-tank missiles from US More US-NATO Military Bases: US Armed Forces in Central Asia US, Vietnam step up defence co-operation amid China concerns Speculation, debate over possible strike against Iran Russian Foreign Minister defends Iran nuclear power plant Colombia Court Blocks U.S. Military Accord Behind Regional Fight, Restricts Access to 7 Military Bases Venezuela says it will still send gasoline to Iran Venezuela threatens oil cut to US Iran: Venezuela Risks US Action Chávez and China: Challenging U.S. Interests | AEI Canada-Russia airspace ’showdown’ over Arctic Canada intercepted two Russian bombers near Arctic Japan, US plan naval drill near disputed islets: report China Restricts Exports of Rare Earth Minerals by 70pc,Tension with US escalating on several fronts Moscow warns US on issue of Israeli aerial strikes against Iran U.S. Global Strategy Targets Any Potential Challenger In Eurasia Obama Signs $600M Bill to Increase Militarization of US-Mexico Border Castro Warns of Nuclear War; Admiral Mullen Threatens Iran; US-Israel Vs. Iran-Hezbollah Doesn’t Appear Washington Wants Diplomatic Relations With Venezuela US talks Israel out of attacking Iran (for now) US stresses military role in Iraq, combat brigades under different name US Withdrawal Plan Marks “Privatization of Military Occupation” U.S. Military Intervention in Africa: The New Blueprint for Global Domination Ahmadinejad vows global response if Iran attacked Iran Opens Its First Nuclear Power Plant With Russian Help In Mideast Talks, Scant Hopes From the Beginning Iran hopes Russia’s next step will be delivery of S-300 missiles system: MP Iran working against Iraqi democracy: US general US combat brigades still in Iraq: report Karzai Stands Firm on Disbanding Private Security Iran’s new drone bomber is ‘messenger of death for the enemies of humanity’ Costa Rica: US Warships Cause Unease Israel Knesset Member Declares “We Are Preparing For War” Pakistanis Nabbed Taliban Boss to Stop Peace Talks Iran condemns possible US military action Iran Calls for Formation of Islamic Union to Start New World Order Four Israeli air strikes on Gaza Two Minutes to Midnight? The Bomb-Iran Debate From Hell The last chance to avoid a global trade war Al-Shabab vows ‘massive’ Somali war We Must Be Ready for War With China Mass Assassinations Lie at the Heart of America’s Military Strategy in the Muslim World US deplores ‘particularly outrageous’ Mogadishu carnage Philippines: Pawn In U.S. Encirclement of China Global Food Security and Sovereignty Threatened by “Land Grabs” in Poor Countries US to spend $1.3 billion on Afghanistan bases America’s top Marine challenges Obama’s Afghan pullout deadline CIA sees increased threat from al-Qaeda in Yemen U.S. Weighs Expanded Strikes in Yemen JSOC is Hiring Interrogators and Covert Operatives for ‘Special Access Programs’ Report: Kim Jong-Il Goes to China Canada Intercepts Russian Bombers — Again Kim Jong-il Visits China as Carter Waits in North Korea for Talks on Imprisoned American China Slams Pentagon Report Mexico Drug War Violence Rages, 28k Killed Tensions emerge between Rwanda and Western backers, China’s influence grows “Alarm bells” ring for Australian government over deepening China-East Timor ties US lawmaker urges France not to arm Lebanon army Chairman Of Joint Chiefs Of Staff Says National Debt Is Biggest Threat To National Security 18 nations wrap up mock terror exercise in Panama canal U.S. Bid To Control Whole Korean Peninsula Threat To China, Russia Canada Opens Arctic To NATO, Plans Massive Weapons Buildup China announces navy drill ahead of U.S. show of force Putin slams West for deceiving Russia Putin: U.S. Rearming Georgia Israel preparing to attack Syria: report China Deploys Troops In Pakistani Kashmir Israel Threatens War with Lebanon U.S. expands sanctions on North Korea Hamas targets Israeli-Palestinian talks by killing four Israelis US drones will patrol entire southern border Yellow Sea: U.S. Aegis Destroyers, S. Korean Subs In New Round of Drills Pentagon report underscores rising US-China tensions CIA Training Intelligence Agents For ‘State Sponsor Of Terrorism’ Sudan Tony Blair: military intervention in rogue regimes ‘more necessary than ever’ France steps up military intervention in Sahel, Western Africa German military report: Peak oil could lead to collapse of democracy U.S.-Venezuela Links Teeter on the Brink Pakistan’s Taliban threaten attacks in U.S., Europe EU austerity policies risk civil war in Greece, warns top German economist India to acquire advanced U.S.-made anti-ship missiles Middle East Loses Trillions As U.S. Strikes Record Arms Deals Is War About to Break Out on the Israeli-Lebanese Border? NATO asks for 2000 more troops for Afghanistan US ‘likely’ to keep troops in Iraq after 2011 U.S. Military Continues to Invest Hundreds of Millions in Iraq Bases UN nuke agency warns monitoring of Iran hampered Mideast talks a cover for US war preparations Land grabs, biofuel demand raise global food-security risk Anthrax War – the Malaysian Connection Defense Contractor Money Fueling Push to Militarize the US-Mexico Border US Government Report Argues for Police Force for American Interventions Overseas 730 F-35 planes to be sold to Britain, Italy, Netherlands, Turkey, Canada, Australia, Denmark, Norway U.S. to wrap up $2.5 billion Israel F-35 deal, Japan deal next Cheney’s Oily Dream – Redrawing the Map of the Middle East US and China at odds over North Korea Pentagon says USS George Washington to join military drills off Korean Peninsula Clinton: Mexico drug war bordering on ‘insurgency’ Land Grabs in Poor Countries Set to Increase India: troops on alert as border dispute with China heats up India: U.S. Completes Global Military Structure Report: US must deal with domestic radical problem Experts: Terrorism threat to U.S. now more homegrown New York Times Pushes Confrontation with Iran Largest US arms deal ever: Congress to be told of $60-billion US-Saudi arms deal, shoring up Arab allies against Iran China-South Africa deals highlight great-power rivalry in Africa German armed forces “reform” reflects growth of militarism IMF fears ’social explosion’ from world jobs crisis US embassy in Jordan warns of ‘imminent threat’ around Aqaba Record level of US airstrikes hit Afghan militants Hamas: Israeli aircraft strike Gaza as leaders talk peace Obama’s Generals Push War for Yemen US drones prowl Mexico China’s currency manipulation: Flipping off America Asia: Pentagon Revives And Expands Cold War Military Blocs U.S. And NATO Strengthen Positions Along Russia’s Southern Flank Russia vs Canada: Race for Oil-Rich Arctic Seabed Economic crisis threatens to unleash global currency wars Saudi king meets top US, Canadian counter-terror officials China, Energy, and Global Power Somalia, The Next Afghanistan? UN’s top envoy warns on growing insurgency Pentagon to funnel US arms to Yemen China-Japan Tensions Escalate, As China Breaks Off High Level Contacts, Japanese Flag Burned In Protest Gulf States Order $123 Billion of U.S. Weaponry to Counter Iran Massive US Military Buildup Planned for Guam
So there we have it. The global Economic Elite have effectively looted and destroyed national economies worldwide, the propaganda system is quickly collapsing, and the masses are beginning to get restless. It’s time to move to the next phase of the attack. Preparations are already underway. We are on the road to World War III.
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to this picture rapidly declining natural resources and an increasingly
hostile and polluted environment with extreme weather events frequently
pounding the globe. In the past decade the global corporate elite have
already engaged in three major resource wars in Iraq, Af-Pak and
Northern Africa.
With a growing global population and an increasing demand for declining resources, we have already crossed a tipping point and are now in the ecological red. For the first time in human history, we are now consuming resources faster than nature can produce them. As developing countries like China and India attempt to live like western countries, there are simply not enough resources. The global economy is built on an unsustainable foundation. Instead of evolving and changing course, the entrenched banking power base is digging in further, and they run NATO, the private military complex and the US government. Based on the current policies that are in place, they have clearly already decided that they want to keep living business as usual and refuse to evolve and adapt to a rapidly changing environment. With this decision, they have effectively already decided to further escalate their oppression of the overwhelming majority of humanity, and this will lead to the death of literally hundreds of millions of people.
The global banking cartel view the world’s limited resources as their property, and they have consistently proven that they have absolutely no hesitation in killing millions upon millions of people for these resources – just look at what they have already done in the recent past throughout Northern Africa, the Middle East and Latin America.
In the years since Northern Africa was discovered to be “the richest patch of earth” due to large deposits of natural minerals that are needed to power computer technologies, over five million Africans, in just that region, have died as a result of war.
The global elite have consistently used a strategy of arming and funding both sides of armed conflicts. While opposing populations kill each other off, they make off with their natural resources. When they confront a government that cannot be bribed or provoked into civil or regional war, they fund brutal death squads, attempt military coups and intimidate them by giving weapons to undemocratic neighboring regimes. If all that doesn’t work, they are declared a threat to national security and the US military, private contractors and NATO forces invade and occupy the country.
These terrorist strategies are not limited to the Middle East and Africa, just ask our neighbors throughout Latin America about the School of the Americas. Contrary to popular belief, the horrendous torture techniques inflicted upon people in Abu Ghraib, Iraq were not an isolated incident. Many of those brutal torture techniques were developed over years by torturing innocent civilians throughout Latin America.
The picture in Latin America today is one of inspiration. People throughout the region are rising up against the global corporate elite and claiming their rights and natural resources as their own, from Bolivia to Ecuador to Venezuela. This is another factor driving the “endangered oligarchy” into resorting to military desperation. The military coup in Honduras, the attempted coup in Venezuela, and the failed attempt to provoke Columbia and Venezuela into an armed conflict all clearly indicate where this situation is headed if the imperialist bankers get their way.
The average American is dreadfully unaware of just how depraved these people are. The little regard they have for human life is beyond common comprehension.
VIII: Private Military Complex
The global elite have already used the “War on Terror” as a pretext to drastically increase military spending and build a massive private military and intelligence complex on the backs of the American taxpayer. According to an extensive report from the Washington Post, a stunning 1.2 million private contractors work in this complex. Most Americans are not aware that 69 percent of the soldiers deployed in our name are private contractors, and 80 percent of them are foreign nationals, meaning they are not even from the United States. Half of the people we have deployed in our name, who are funded by our tax dollars, are not even fighting for our country, they are fighting for a paycheck.
Wars are a highly profitable racket, which gives an enormous incentive to keep them going. This is one of the reasons why the war in Afghanistan is now the longest war in US history. This system has led to a perpetual state of war. Military spending, although widely reported as being around $680 billion per year, is more accurately totaling over $1 Trillion per year. Of this staggering amount of annual spending, 25 percent of it goes unaccounted for, not counting the billions of our tax dollars lost to over-charging and all-out fraud.
This private military complex has become so out of control that politicians are now forced to admit that they have no idea what is happening within it. As the Washington Post report revealed:
“The top-secret world the government created in response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, has become so large, so unwieldy and so secretive that no one knows how much money it costs, how many people it employs, how many programs exist within it or exactly how many agencies do the same work.
These are some of the findings of a two-year investigation by The Washington Post that discovered what amounts to an alternative geography of the United States, a Top Secret America hidden from public view and lacking in thorough oversight. After nine years of unprecedented spending and growth, the result is that the system put in place to keep the United States safe is so massive that its effectiveness is impossible to determine.
The investigation’s other findings include:
* Some 1,271 government organizations and 1,931 private companies work on programs related to counterterrorism, homeland security and intelligence in about 10,000 locations across the United States.
* An estimated 854,000 people, nearly 1.5 times as many people as live in Washington, D.C., hold top-secret security clearances.”
There are so many unaccountable cells and competing factions within this complex, any one of them could go rogue and launch an attack on the US soil and make it look like another “terrorist” organization or nation executed it. This may sound too conspiratorial to the casual observer, but it would be stunningly naïve to think that in a massive complex like this, with so little oversight and accountability, given the huge sums of money at stake, that something tragic wouldn’t eventually occur. The implications are ominous, to say the least.
We already had a proven act of internal domestic terror occur with the Anthrax attacks in 2001. It is not a stretch to think that any moves away from a state of permanent war, and any cut to military spending that would threaten the existence of many of the world’s largest and most powerful and profitable corporations, would result in an attack in hopes of inciting a military conflict. Former President Dwight Eisenhower’s warning against the “unwarranted influence” of the military industrial complex, and “the potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power” pales in comparison to the modern private military complex. While many of these companies currently rely on US tax dollars, they are not part of the government, they are global private entities with their own interests at heart, similar to the Federal Reserve banking system. In fact, when you peel back the layers, many of these private military companies are funded by the global banking cartel.
When you understand the forces behind war, you must acknowledge the words of famed two-time Congressional Medal of Honor recipient US Brigadier General Smedley D. Butler. He accurately summed up the situation when he said:
“I spent 33 years in the Marines, most of my time being a high-class muscle man for big business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for Capitalism…. The general public shoulders the bill. This bill renders a horrible accounting. Newly placed gravestones, Mangled bodies. Shattered minds. Broken hearts and homes. Economic instability. Back-breaking taxation for generations and generations.”
To give just two brief examples of how the banking cartel operates behind the scenes during wars, consider the following. The genocidal carnage in Northern Africa that killed over 5.4 million people was enthusiastically supported by the IMF and World Bank. In a news report entitled, “The Business of War in the Democratic Republic of Congo,” Dena Montague and Frida Berrigan explained:
“The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank have knowingly contributed to the war effort. The international lending institutions praised both Rwanda and Uganda for increasing their gross domestic product (GDP), which resulted from the illegal mining of DRC resources. Although the IMF and World Bank were aware that the rise in GDP coincided with the DRC war… they nonetheless touted both nations as economic success stories….”
In another example of grotesque profiting off massive levels of death, banking cartel members made a fortune on the production of cluster bombs. The Guardian revealed the details:
“The deadly trade in cluster bombs is funded by the world’s biggest banks who have loaned or arranged finance worth $20bn to firms producing the controversial weapons, despite growing international efforts to ban them.
HSBC… has profited more than any other institution from companies that manufacture cluster bombs. The British bank… has earned a total of £657.3m in fees arranging bonds and share offerings for Textron, which makes cluster munitions…. Campaigners maintain the deadly weapons can explode years after combat, killing or maiming innocent people….
Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, JP Morgan and UK-based Barclays Bank are also named among the worst banks [funding the production of cluster bombs]….
Goldman Sachs, the US bank which made £3.19bn proft in just three months, earned $588.82m for bank services and lent $250m to [cluster bomb manufactures] Alliant Techsystems and Textron.”
To sum all of this up, the global banking cartel and private military complex are a runaway virus that demands a permanent state of warfare. They are intrinsically parasitic in nature, they have devolved into a fascist enterprise that survives and profits off of destruction. If they don’t get a war, they will create one in the interest of their own self preservation. As former CIA Station Chief John Stockwell once explained: “Enemies are necessary for the wheels of the US military machine to turn.” This insight can now be extended to the global banking cartel. Enemies are now necessary for the wheels of the global banking cartel to turn.
Under the cover of the “War on Terror” they have launched a massive campaign of violence abroad and have been systematically looting our economy and stripping of us civil liberties at home.
So as the US and global population becomes more radical, and as the environment becomes more hostile, with increasingly limited natural resources, in a desperate attempt to maintain power the global banking cartel will escalate from economic attacks to worldwide military-based assaults. This is the clear path we are on – the road to World War III.
“History Repeats Itself, Coiling Down Into the Future.”
– Natural Born Killers
This may very well be a case of history repeating itself. Not to oversimplify an extremely complex situation, but this is all too similar to the origins of World War II. The looting of the masses by an unaccountable Wall Street elite led to the Great Depression and set the conditions for WWII. Desperate and impoverished populations increasingly supported more and more extreme leaders. The conditions are now so ripe for world war that Noam Chomsky has convincingly compared modern-day America to Weimar Germany prior to the outbreak of WWII. Research the history of pre-war societies and you will see for yourself how our current political environment fits historical precedent like a glove.
As mentioned before, the roots of our current crisis can be directly traced back to the aftermath of World War II. In the ruins of WWII grew global institutions like the IMF and World Bank. It also gave us the National Security Act and the CIA. All were central and pivotal in creating the crisis which we are now confronted with.
After analyzing our current crisis and studying well-established historical precedents, one must conclude that creating a world war is the last card the global bankers have left to play, other than conceding power, and history has taught us that the ruling class never concedes power. Of course the one-tenth of one percent of the global population hoarding our wealth could give back a significant amount of the $39 Trillion they looted from us (not counting what they have hidden in offshore accounts). That would certainly go a long way to fixing the crisis they have caused, but again, the ruling class has never conceded power, no matter how excessive and ill-gotten their gains.
So brace yourself… unless we significantly change our present course, we are on the road to World War III.
David DeGraw, a regular contributor to The Public Record, is an investigative journalist whose work has been featured in numerous publications and websites. He is the founder and editor of AmpedStatus.com, editorial director of MediaChannel.org and author of The Economic Elite Vs. The People of the United States.
