The term “revolving door” describes a cunning device whereby government employees elected or appointed move from their jobs to private jobs for much higher salaries in industries or lobbying firms that are receiving favors from the very same Congressional representatives. It can be plainly a conflict of interest but is usually ignored. The cycling of jobs is a very important asset of the lobbying industry.
Before getting into the dizzying complexities of lobbying in Washington, let’s look as an example at the case of Dennis Hastert, the former Republican Speaker of the House. It is by now a well known fact revealed by the whistleblower, Sibel Edmonds, a former FBI Turkish-American translator, that Dennis Hastert while Speaker had received tens of thousands of dollars in bribes for favors to the lobbying firm representing Turkey. He received the money in payment for his support of a Turkish oil and gas pipeline that was to run from Baku to the Mediterranean. He did other favors for Turkey and eventually when he left Congress, he joined in June 2008 the lobbying firm of Dickstein and Shapiro that represented Turkey in Congress. Salaries usually jump from 150,000 annually to 100,000 monthly for those who go through the revolving door. Quite an incentive, eh? It’s somewhat mindful of Alice in Wonderland. Except unlike Matrix it is real.
A word about Turkey. Most of us know very little about the role of Turkey. There are many lobbying machines that are on the Turkish payroll and they manage to keep the Turkey influence invisible. However, Turkey plays a central role in areas of terrorism, money laundering, black marketing of arms sales, nuclear secrets and manufacturing and sale of narcotics. It operates inside criminal networks with ostensible legitimate fronts and has links to our military and political machines. Turkey is a major customer of the US for military hardware, technology and weapons. It is very active in criminal networks that transport narcotics from Afghanistan through Central Asia to Turkey. The poppies are processed in Turkey then transported through the Balkans to Europe and America. Money laundering is done through its own banks or banks in Cyprus. High ranking US government employees sell nuclear secrets to Turkey and Pakistan which are then passed on to A.Q. Khan, the Pakistani black marketeer of nuclear secrets. He in turn with the approval of Pakistan government officials helps Iran and North Korea to start their nuclear programs. Pakistan, of course, gets its cut.
There is a link between terrorism and organized crime. Narcotics trafficking and black marketing of arms sales supports terrorism financially. Funds are used to buy arms and train terrorists.
Public service and influence peddling have crossed to such a degree that the revolving door is wide open and proliferating. Political and federal employees leave office for the “insider game” of lobbying and advising private interests how to gain advantage from federal officers. Influence peddling has become a multi-billion dollar industry annually. Today 32 former US Senators and 250 ex-Congressmen now lobby Congress for private interests. Unelected individuals who work for powerful committees in Congress go through the revolving door multiple times to work for lobbying firms. It’s a dizzying merry-go-round in that many cycle back and forth. As a result, House and Senate appropriations committees dole out billions in pork (earmarks).
Let’s look at one other example. William Cohen, former Secty of Defense under Clinton, after leaving the US government, set up his own lobbying company, called the Cohen Group. It represents the largest defense companies in the business, e.g. Lockheed Martin and Boeing. Cohen’s company is an active member of the American Turkish Council (ATC). Lockheed Martin is on the board of ATC and its biggest paying client. The Cohen Group also is very active in India and has just opened in China.
Laws to control lobbyists are full of loopholes so that the Cohen Group is not registered and is able to say that Turkey is not a “direct client”. Cohen claims he is not getting paid directly by the government of Turkey, according to his spin machine. But somehow money does pass between them. Money laundering is very useful. And the corrupt Turks are experts.
Lewis Black, the standup comic, once said: I wake up everyday thinking that it can’t get any worse and it does.
References:
Edmonds, Sibel. justacitizen.com
Wikipedia
Zwicker,Barrie. Towers of Deception. 2006.
Thursday, September 25, 2008
False Flags
Historically “false flag operations” originated in the Navy. A ship flying a flag that is not its true nationality is a false flag. It was done to fool the enemy but the rules of warfare at sea required that a true national flag be displayed before the battle.
In modern times a false flag operation has nothing to do with a flying flag but rather is employed by governments to rally the population in support of a war or a coup that the duplicitous rulers want. The whole point is to deceive the public into supporting a military conflict for the profit of the corporatists. The operation is launched by the power brokers behind the scenes by people none of us even know. They are the “invisible government”, the true rulers of our country. And they don’t give a damn how many military personnel or civilians lose their lives as long as the operation from their point of view is successful.
So let’s now consider a few false flag operations that hoodwinked the American public into passionately supporting wars.
We are all familiar with the Tonkin Gulf incident. The main stream media played an important role in reporting an attack by North Viet Nam torpedo boats against an American destroyer, the Maddin. That was supposedly the first attack. A second attack was later reported. By this time the American public was fuming. Johnson on television asked the American public to support a war against North Vietnam. The infamous Tonkin Gulf resolution got Congressional approval and became the basis for a war that killed 58000 Americans and 3 million Vietnamese. However, years later it became known that Johnson was lying and knew he was lying because the attacks never took place. And for further corroboration the former Managing Editor of the Washington Post, Ben Bradlee, was reported in a public speech 20 years later as saying that the Tonkin Gulf fraud “was one of the big lies that changed history.” There were no facts to support the resolution. The basis for the resolution was simply lies.
The USS Liberty, a technical research ship, was on a mission for the National Security Agency (NSA). Her role was to collect foreign communications and electronic emissions in the interest of National Defense. She was sent to the Mediterranean in 1967 during the six day war between Israel and Egypt. Although she was a “spy” ship, she was not sent to the war zone for that purpose. On June 8 she was attacked by Israeli forces. 34 sailors were killed and 170 were injured. The ship was severely damaged with a huge hole amidships. She stayed afloat, however, and was taken to Malta for repairs.
The USS Liberty was in neutral waters and was attacked by Israeli jet fighters and torpedo boats. The Israeli government claimed that the attack was in error. They stated that the US had not informed them of any US ships in the area. They also said that they “misidentified” the ship and thought it was an Egyptian cargo ship. According to crew members the attack was intentional and no way could it be misidentified. It was flying an American flag. It did not look like any Egyptian ship and the jet fighters flew over the ship numerous times at low altitudes.
Despite the presence of a flag this was a “false flag operation” that went wrong. The ship was sent onto these waters for a devious purpose. It was President Johnson’s intention that the ship be sunk, all lives be lost and the attack be blamed on Egypt. Then the US would attack Egypt giving military support to Israel, our ally. At the time Johnson was reported to have said that he did not care if the ship was sunk and all hands lost. He was not going to embarrass his ally, Israel. The powerful Israeli Lobby represented money and votes for the Democratic party.
Since the ship didn’t sink and 170 sailors survived, the Israeli Defense Command had to claim it was all a mistake. The attack was so vicious it was quite apparent that the intention was to totally destroy the ship and everyone on it. At the time it was generally believed that Johnson had made a secret deal behind the scenes with the Israelis to back them militarily in their war with Egypt. We were allies in the cold war against the Soviet Union. The invisible government at work.
In 1990 Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait stating that the Kuwaitis were slant drilling into Iraq’s oil fields. Bush Sr. wanted to go to war immediately. But the American public was not so sure. They were split on the topic. So Washington introduced a false flag operation.
The “invisible government” some how found a 15 yr. old girl to testify before a Congressional Committee. She claimed that when she was present in a Kuwaiti hospital she saw armed Iraqi soldiers take babies out of incubators and leave them on the cold floor to die. As she said this she produced a few crocodilian tears.
Immediately the American public moved by this monstrous offense fanatically supported the war. Operation desert Storm was responsible for the deaths of 135,000 Iraqis and an additional 1 million died because of sanctions applied for ten years.
So what was the truth? Not one baby died. Incubator baby deaths were a bald faced lie. The girl who testified was the Kuwaiti Ambassador’s daughter. She was tutored by a huge public relations firm to speak the lines written for her and to produce the tears. Good acting job. So again the American public was deceived into supporting another war planned by the ruling elite. Bush Sr. and others repeated the lie over and over again. Fraud and false documents were presented by the main stream media to the American people in support of this monstrous lie.
There are 500 members of the Scholars for 9/11/Truth and Justice. The members are architects, physicists, chemists and engineers. Many take issue with the 9/11 Commission Report. 9/11 family members, a number of whom pressured Congress for several years to initiate an independent investigation, were very disappointed with the Commission’s conclusions. They felt that a number of questions that they presented to Congress and the Commission were not answered. Also, according to the family members, the National Institute of Safety and Technology (NIST) Report that preceded the 9/11 Commission Report was biased toward a foregone conclusion, ignored well known facts and became essentially a whitewash. The Scholars for Truth and Justice and family members take issue with the label of “conspiracy theorists” used against them “to discredit the skeptics”. They believe that the attack was a possible “false flag operation” perpetrated by the “invisible government” and the collapse of the buildings shown on film resembled footage of controlled or explosive demolition. But it is very difficult to prove and therefore it is extremely controversial. However, according to the whistleblower, Kevin Ryan, a knowledgeable chemist who worked on the steel that went into the supports, insists that the fire was not hot enough to melt the supports and certainly not in a maximum of 45 minutes. There are examples of fires in building towers all over the world that burned for a maximum of 18 hours and the buildings did not collapse. Building 7 which was not hit by the planes was left standing. It was decided by the Fire Chief and the leasing agent to demolish the building. The same afternoon the building collapsed. There was no appreciable damage to the building and no fire. What made Building 7 collapse? Some people believe it was explosives that had to be applied to the building several weeks beforehand.
Did the Washington power elite need a “New Pearl Harbor” to take us to war?
References:
Bamford, James. Body of Secrets. 2002.
Zwicker, Barrie. Towers of Deception.2006.
Wikipedia.
In modern times a false flag operation has nothing to do with a flying flag but rather is employed by governments to rally the population in support of a war or a coup that the duplicitous rulers want. The whole point is to deceive the public into supporting a military conflict for the profit of the corporatists. The operation is launched by the power brokers behind the scenes by people none of us even know. They are the “invisible government”, the true rulers of our country. And they don’t give a damn how many military personnel or civilians lose their lives as long as the operation from their point of view is successful.
So let’s now consider a few false flag operations that hoodwinked the American public into passionately supporting wars.
We are all familiar with the Tonkin Gulf incident. The main stream media played an important role in reporting an attack by North Viet Nam torpedo boats against an American destroyer, the Maddin. That was supposedly the first attack. A second attack was later reported. By this time the American public was fuming. Johnson on television asked the American public to support a war against North Vietnam. The infamous Tonkin Gulf resolution got Congressional approval and became the basis for a war that killed 58000 Americans and 3 million Vietnamese. However, years later it became known that Johnson was lying and knew he was lying because the attacks never took place. And for further corroboration the former Managing Editor of the Washington Post, Ben Bradlee, was reported in a public speech 20 years later as saying that the Tonkin Gulf fraud “was one of the big lies that changed history.” There were no facts to support the resolution. The basis for the resolution was simply lies.
The USS Liberty, a technical research ship, was on a mission for the National Security Agency (NSA). Her role was to collect foreign communications and electronic emissions in the interest of National Defense. She was sent to the Mediterranean in 1967 during the six day war between Israel and Egypt. Although she was a “spy” ship, she was not sent to the war zone for that purpose. On June 8 she was attacked by Israeli forces. 34 sailors were killed and 170 were injured. The ship was severely damaged with a huge hole amidships. She stayed afloat, however, and was taken to Malta for repairs.
The USS Liberty was in neutral waters and was attacked by Israeli jet fighters and torpedo boats. The Israeli government claimed that the attack was in error. They stated that the US had not informed them of any US ships in the area. They also said that they “misidentified” the ship and thought it was an Egyptian cargo ship. According to crew members the attack was intentional and no way could it be misidentified. It was flying an American flag. It did not look like any Egyptian ship and the jet fighters flew over the ship numerous times at low altitudes.
Despite the presence of a flag this was a “false flag operation” that went wrong. The ship was sent onto these waters for a devious purpose. It was President Johnson’s intention that the ship be sunk, all lives be lost and the attack be blamed on Egypt. Then the US would attack Egypt giving military support to Israel, our ally. At the time Johnson was reported to have said that he did not care if the ship was sunk and all hands lost. He was not going to embarrass his ally, Israel. The powerful Israeli Lobby represented money and votes for the Democratic party.
Since the ship didn’t sink and 170 sailors survived, the Israeli Defense Command had to claim it was all a mistake. The attack was so vicious it was quite apparent that the intention was to totally destroy the ship and everyone on it. At the time it was generally believed that Johnson had made a secret deal behind the scenes with the Israelis to back them militarily in their war with Egypt. We were allies in the cold war against the Soviet Union. The invisible government at work.
In 1990 Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait stating that the Kuwaitis were slant drilling into Iraq’s oil fields. Bush Sr. wanted to go to war immediately. But the American public was not so sure. They were split on the topic. So Washington introduced a false flag operation.
The “invisible government” some how found a 15 yr. old girl to testify before a Congressional Committee. She claimed that when she was present in a Kuwaiti hospital she saw armed Iraqi soldiers take babies out of incubators and leave them on the cold floor to die. As she said this she produced a few crocodilian tears.
Immediately the American public moved by this monstrous offense fanatically supported the war. Operation desert Storm was responsible for the deaths of 135,000 Iraqis and an additional 1 million died because of sanctions applied for ten years.
So what was the truth? Not one baby died. Incubator baby deaths were a bald faced lie. The girl who testified was the Kuwaiti Ambassador’s daughter. She was tutored by a huge public relations firm to speak the lines written for her and to produce the tears. Good acting job. So again the American public was deceived into supporting another war planned by the ruling elite. Bush Sr. and others repeated the lie over and over again. Fraud and false documents were presented by the main stream media to the American people in support of this monstrous lie.
There are 500 members of the Scholars for 9/11/Truth and Justice. The members are architects, physicists, chemists and engineers. Many take issue with the 9/11 Commission Report. 9/11 family members, a number of whom pressured Congress for several years to initiate an independent investigation, were very disappointed with the Commission’s conclusions. They felt that a number of questions that they presented to Congress and the Commission were not answered. Also, according to the family members, the National Institute of Safety and Technology (NIST) Report that preceded the 9/11 Commission Report was biased toward a foregone conclusion, ignored well known facts and became essentially a whitewash. The Scholars for Truth and Justice and family members take issue with the label of “conspiracy theorists” used against them “to discredit the skeptics”. They believe that the attack was a possible “false flag operation” perpetrated by the “invisible government” and the collapse of the buildings shown on film resembled footage of controlled or explosive demolition. But it is very difficult to prove and therefore it is extremely controversial. However, according to the whistleblower, Kevin Ryan, a knowledgeable chemist who worked on the steel that went into the supports, insists that the fire was not hot enough to melt the supports and certainly not in a maximum of 45 minutes. There are examples of fires in building towers all over the world that burned for a maximum of 18 hours and the buildings did not collapse. Building 7 which was not hit by the planes was left standing. It was decided by the Fire Chief and the leasing agent to demolish the building. The same afternoon the building collapsed. There was no appreciable damage to the building and no fire. What made Building 7 collapse? Some people believe it was explosives that had to be applied to the building several weeks beforehand.
Did the Washington power elite need a “New Pearl Harbor” to take us to war?
References:
Bamford, James. Body of Secrets. 2002.
Zwicker, Barrie. Towers of Deception.2006.
Wikipedia.
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