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Wa'du Kissinger

misbahonline — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:25:51 +0000

Sebuah buku berjudul Asli “Wa’du Kissinger” menginformasikan bahwa, Henry Kissinger, mantan menlu Amerika Serikat, menilai Tuhan telah salah. Salah, karena Tuhan meletakkan kekayaan yang melimpah ruah dikawasan Teluk. Karenanya, ia getol bersosialisasi sejak era 70-an untuk mengoreksi ”kesalahan” Tuhan. Caranya ? Ia bersumpah akan menjadikan semua Negara Arab penghasil minyak menjadi Negara-negara kecil. Tegasnya : ia berambisi menguasai teluk

Tentu sesumbar Henry tidak sebagai pribadi. Setidaknya, itulah ekspresi ambisi para petinggi Amerika Serikat sejak dulu. Sebut misalnya Richard Nixon, mantan presiden itu, dalam diarynya yang popular, ia berkata, “Sekarang ini, siapapun yang menguasai teluk Arab dan timur tengah, maka dia akan menguasai dunia ini.” Ia Juga berkata, “Sesungguhnya kawasan ini pada suatu hari akan merasakan kemakmuran yang luar biasa dan dia bisa mengendalikan nasib dunia ini dengan jari-jarinya.

Nafsu angkara para petinggi amerika tersebut bukan omong kosong belaka. Sejak bertahun-tahun, mereka berusaha untuk bisa meng-hegemoni kawasan teluk. 1001 skenario telah mereka persiapkan.

Bush Will Blow a Gasket!

kdjohnson — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:58:17 +0000

Well, the word leaked out, much to the chagrin of the White House. The leader of Iraq, the man who Bush thought he could browbeat and cajole into doing whatever he wanted, let the world know today that he supports Barak Obama's proposal to withdraw American (and, thereby, coalition) troops within 16 months. Hooray! Sanity may peek through after all in this dangerous world that Bush created.

And, in an attempt to find some humor even in the seriousness of trying to restore sanity to the world, we must laugh about the White House forwarding news of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's praise of the Obama plan to the news media. Don't you know that the lunatic in the White House just hates it when that happens (and it's happened numerous times)?!?!

Finally, someone (Obama) found the courage to stand up and shout, "Enough!" and move to withdraw the military from the Middle East before even more damage results.

This crazy idea of not leaving until we accomplish some undefined mission needed quashed ASAP. Just as business people learn that you don't throw good money after bad, finally Obama stands for not continually throwing good, young people into a poorly conceived, needless, and senseless war. Those of us who remember Vietnam recall our ignorant leaders lying to us to keep us in the fray and telling us that we couldn't leave until we accomplished some undefined result. Bush picked up on that lunacy and thought that Americans would buy into it again. Unfortunately, he proved correct for too long.

Now, if America will rally to elect Obama, we can look forward to ending this war, bringing our brave troops home, and rebuilding a flagging economy that threatens American way of life far more than anything that Bush says we're fighting either in Iraq or in Afghanistan.

Let's rally behind Obama, elect him as President, and demand that he move fast to stop this senseless war!

In the meantime, can you see the steam rising from the Whitehouse? That's evidence of the blown gasket!

[ New World Order! ]: Bilderberg Club: Verschwörung oder Kaffeeklatsch..?

Germanicus / Mission Control! — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:17:32 +0000

[ german | deutsch ]

Zum Vergleich bringen wir die Bilderberg-Beiträge von 2 Wikis..
Von Wikipedia.de und Verschwoerungen.info (unten!) Der grosse Geheimhaltungstrubel gibt sicherlich zu denken.. Dazu haben wir Euch noch einige sehr interessante Bücher zum Thema herausgesucht…!

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Die wahre Geschichte der Bilderberger
Autor: Daniel Estulin, Helmut Böttiger; Neu kaufen: EUR 19,90

Radikal
Autor: Jon Ronson, Martin Jaeggi; Neu kaufen: EUR 24,90

Steidl Taschenbücher, Nr.42, Hotel Bilderberg
Autor: Bernt Engelmann; Neu kaufen: EUR 8,50

Machteliten und Elitenzirkel
Autor: Marcus B. Klöckner; Neu kaufen: EUR 49,00

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Bilderberg-Konferenz

aus Wikipedia, der freien Enzyklopädie

Hotel de Bilderberg in Oosterbeek

Die Bilderberg-Konferenzen sind informelle private Treffen von einflussreichen Personen aus Politik, Wirtschaft, Militär, Gewerkschaften, Medien, Hochadel und Hochschulen. Die meisten Teilnehmer kommen aus NATO-Staaten, seit 1989 nehmen zunehmend Personen aus anderen Staaten an den Konferenzen teil.

Die Konferenz wurde zum ersten Mal im Mai 1954 im Hotel de Bilderberg in Oosterbeek (Niederlande) veranstaltet. Bei der Bilderberg-Gruppe (international auch als Bilderberg Club bekannt) handelt es sich um keine formelle Organisation, es existieren weder Mitgliedschaft noch Gründungsvertrag.

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The Rockefeller File

Scott Fox — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:07:53 +0000

Here is, I believe, the entire text of the Gary Allen's 1976 classic, The Rockefeller File. It is an exhilarating read, and puts the lie to many of the world's contrived conflicts: democrat/republican, capitalist/socialist, and democracy/communism, among others.

Being now over 30 years old, there are newer publications which shed more light on organizations such as the CFR and the Trilateral Commission but, to my knowledge, this is the most comprehensive study of the true machinations of the Rockefeller dynasty.

The book describes in detail the Rockefellers' intimate association with what I call the three Grand Myths propagated by the elite: Global Warming (the green agenda), Resource and Food Scarcity, and the War on Communism (the equivalent of today's fraudulent 'War on Terror'). These three myths are the primary psychological weapons of the New World Order for gaining total control over the world's populations. In other words - Problem Reaction Solution.

If you fancy yourself a student of the nefarious and inhuman New World Order, The Rockefeller File is a must-read.

"Ralph Nader, the man who once told an audience that what we need is "some kind of communism" is also bankrolled by the Rockefeller network in his attempt to destroy the free enterprise system. Among the groups financing the Caped Crusader are the ubiquitous Ford Foundation and the Field Foundation, both CFR interlocked. Nader is not really fighting the Establishment. He works for it. According to a Business Week article reprinted in the Congressional Record of March 10, 1971, John D. Rockefeller IV is even an advisor to Nader."

-The Rockefeller File, Chapter 11, The Great Energy Swindle

World Bank Secret Report Confirms Biofuel Cause of World Food Crisis

Barbara Peterson — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:57:11 +0000

By F. William Engdahl
Global Research, July 10, 2008

A secret study by the World Bank, which reportedly has not been made public on pressure from the Bush Administration, concludes that bio-fuel cultivation in especially the USA and EU are directly responsible for the current explosion in grain and food prices worldwide. The US Government at the recent Rome UN Food Summit claimed that “only 3% of food prices” were due to bio-fuels. The World Bank secret report says that at least 75% of the recent price rises are due to land being removed from agriculture—mainly maize in North America and rapeseed and corn in the EU—in order to grow crops to be burned for vehicle fuel. The World Bank study confirms what we wrote more than a year ago about the madness of bio-fuels. It fits the agenda described in the 1970’s by Henry Kissinger, namely, ‘If you control the food you control the people.’

According to the London Guardian newspaper which has been given a copy of the suppressed report, the World Bank study was completed in April, well before the June Rome Food Summit, but was deliberately suppressed as “embarrassing to the position of the Bush Administration.” The President of the World Bank, Robert Zoellick, is a former top Bush Administration official. Washington is trying to use a crisis which its bio-fuel subsidies created, since a new Farm bill passed in 2005, to advance the spread of Genetically Manipulated Organisms such as GMO maize, soybeans, rice and other crops patented by Monsanto and other “gene giants.”

Their strategy is to use the explosive rise in grain prices worldwide, a rise fuelled by hedge funds and troubled US and European banks and investment funds pouring billions of dollars into speculation that grain prices will continue to soar. In other words, the food “crisis” is a crisis of speculation in food futures. The planned EU and USA bio-fuel acreage quotas and the periodic droughts and floods in key growing regions such as the USA Midwest then provide backdrop for speculative price run-ups. But the main driver is that tens of millions of hectares of prime agriculture land in the world’s two largest food export regions—the USA and the EU– are being permanently removed from food production in order to grow raw material to be burned for vehicle fuel.

The suppressed study

The World Bank study, the most detailed analysis of the global food crisis so far, concludes that bio-fuels have forced “food prices up by 75%.” That is far more than previous estimates. That is a damning refutation of the politically-motivated US Department of Agriculture estimate that plant-derived fuels add only 3% to food prices. The report is expected to increase pressure on the European Union governments as well as Washington to change their present bio-fuel subsidy and support policies.

The report has been leaked just days before the important annual Group of 8 industrial nation leaders’ summit held in Hokkaido Japan. The food crisis will be a major topic there as pressure on governments grows to do something.

The World Bank report estimates that doubling and tripling of world food prices in the past three years have forced an added 100 million people below the poverty line. That has triggered food riots from Bangladesh to Egypt.

The report as well calculates that even the successive droughts in Australia and other major food regions have had only a “marginal” impact on food prices.

Within the EU, for example, as of April all vehicles in the UK must contain fuel with at least 2.5% bio-fuel. The EU has in place a target of mandatory 20% by 2020, a staggering amount.

George W. Bush has cynically claimed higher food prices are merely due to higher demand from India and China. The leaked World Bank study refutes that: “Rapid income growth in developing countries has not led to large increases in global grain consumption and was not a major factor responsible for the large price increases.”

“Without the increase in bio-fuels, global wheat and maize stocks would not have declined appreciably and price increases due to other factors would have been moderate,” the World Bank report states. The basket of food prices examined in the study rose by 140% between 2002 and February 2008. Higher energy and fertiliser prices accounted for an increase of only 15%. Bio-fuels have been responsible for a 75% jump over that period..

The study demonstrates that production of bio-fuels has distorted food markets in three main ways. First, it has diverted grain away from food for fuel, with over a third of US corn now used to produce ethanol and about half of vegetable oils in the EU going to production of bio-diesel. Second, farmers have been encouraged to set land aside for bio-fuel production. Third, it has sparked financial speculation in grains, driving prices up higher.

The real agenda behind the food crisis

The World Bank study is the first to include all three factors. What is missing from the World Bank study however is the longer-term geopolitical agenda behind the present global food and energy crises. As I document in great detail in my book, Seeds of Destruction: The Hidden Agenda of Genetic Manipulation, the long term agenda of powerful leading circles in the West, particularly represented in tax exempt private foundations such as the Rockefeller, Ford and Gates foundations and the private wealth behind them, is a long term agenda of population reduction, in the interests of the global economic and financial elites..

Food scarcity, higher prices for basic foods in developing countries as well as control of food seeds through patent and Terminator suicide seed sales by Monsanto, Syngenta, DuPont, Dow, BASF, Bayer and a few select agriculture chemical seed giants—the “horsemen of the GMO Apokalypse,” have been developed to advance the agenda of massive depopulation of the developing world.

The policy goes back, as the book documents in detail, to the early years of the 20th Century when Rockefeller, Carnegie, Harriman, Gamble, H.G. Wells, Margaret Meade, and other wealthy circles backed the development of eugenics research. The Rockefeller Foundation financed the eugenics and forced sterilization research at the Berlin Kaiser Wilhelm Institute (today’s Max Planck Institute) until it became too politically hot in 1939.

After the end of the war, Rockefeller and others in the eugenics movement decided for political reasons to change the name of eugenics. The new name they chose was “genetics.” GMO is a project, based on wrong science, financed with over $100 million of private money from the Rockefeller Foundation. The ultimate aim is for the first time in history to control life on the planet. As Henry Kissinger put in during the 1970’s food crisis, “control the food and you control the people.”

In this light it is worth noting that as a solution to a crisis which it deliberately created by its massive government subsidies to farmers to grow bio-fuels instead of food, the Bush Administration made and continues to make a major pressure at the Rome Food Summit in early June and after, to open the doors to GMO as the alleged “solution” to world hunger.

On June 13, just after the Rome UN Food Summit, John Negroponte, US Deputy Secretary of State, stated, “”We therefore are strongly encouraging countries to remove barriers to the use of innovative plant and animal production technologies, including biotechnology,” adding, “Biotechnology tools can help speed the development of crops with higher yields, higher nutrition value, better resistance to pests and diseases, and stronger food system resilience in the face of climate change.” Washington and the GMO companies now use the more deceptive term, “biotechnology” instead of the controversial GMO term, in a linguistic ploy to overcome opposition.

Independent scientific studies and countless farmer reports have shown that long-term planting of GMO or bio-tech crops as the gene giants prefer to call it, far from giving higher crop yields, lowers the yields and development of resistant “super-weeds” usually mean more, not less Roundup or other GMO-paired chemical herbicides and pesticides are needed.. In short the glorious claims for GMO are marketing fraud.

According to highly informed reports, Washington had been told that Pope Benedict XVI would endorse the spread of GMO, something the Vatican until now has been strongly opposed to on moral and other grounds, as a solution to world hunger. At the last minute that endorsement did not happen for reasons only the Pope perhaps knows. Groups like Greenpeace and the London Independent newspaper in the days before the Rome UN summit reported interviews with senior Church figures stating that the policy reverse was expected.

There is strong circumstantial evidence that the entire Rome UN Summit was orchestrated by Washington, London’s Gordon Brown and other Malthusian governments in part to try to convince the Pope to reverse its policy on GMO. The Roman Catholic Church today stands as one of the most important moral barriers to widespread acceptance of GMO in many developing countries such as the Philippines and Latin America.

The leak of the World Bank report adds a dramatic new element into what is becoming one of the major political issues along with oil price manipulation.

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F. William Engdahl is a leading analyst of the New World Order, author of Seeds of Destruction, Global Research,2007 [see below], and the best-selling book on oil and geopolitics, A Century of War: Anglo-American Politics and the New World Order,’ His writings have been translated into more than a dozen languages.

He may be contacted via his website at www.engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net.

The CRG grants permission to cross-post original Global Research articles on community internet sites as long as the text & title are not modified. The source and the author’s copyright must be displayed.

The url address of this article is: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=9547

World Bank Secret Report Confirms Biofuel Cause of World Food Crisis

Barbara Peterson — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:49:12 +0000

By F. William Engdahl
Global Research, July 10, 2008

A secret study by the World Bank, which reportedly has not been made public on pressure from the Bush Administration, concludes that bio-fuel cultivation in especially the USA and EU are directly responsible for the current explosion in grain and food prices worldwide. The US Government at the recent Rome UN Food Summit claimed that "only 3% of food prices" were due to bio-fuels. The World Bank secret report says that at least 75% of the recent price rises are due to land being removed from agriculture—mainly maize in North America and rapeseed and corn in the EU—in order to grow crops to be burned for vehicle fuel. The World Bank study confirms what we wrote more than a year ago about the madness of bio-fuels. It fits the agenda described in the 1970’s by Henry Kissinger, namely, ‘If you control the food you control the people.’

According to the London Guardian newspaper which has been given a copy of the suppressed report, the World Bank study was completed in April, well before the June Rome Food Summit, but was deliberately suppressed as "embarrassing to the position of the Bush Administration." The President of the World Bank, Robert Zoellick, is a former top Bush Administration official. Washington is trying to use a crisis which its bio-fuel subsidies created, since a new Farm bill passed in 2005, to advance the spread of Genetically Manipulated Organisms such as GMO maize, soybeans, rice and other crops patented by Monsanto and other "gene giants."

Their strategy is to use the explosive rise in grain prices worldwide, a rise fuelled by hedge funds and troubled US and European banks and investment funds pouring billions of dollars into speculation that grain prices will continue to soar. In other words, the food "crisis" is a crisis of speculation in food futures. The planned EU and USA bio-fuel acreage quotas and the periodic droughts and floods in key growing regions such as the USA Midwest then provide backdrop for speculative price run-ups. But the main driver is that tens of millions of hectares of prime agriculture land in the world’s two largest food export regions—the USA and the EU-- are being permanently removed from food production in order to grow raw material to be burned for vehicle fuel.

The suppressed study

The World Bank study, the most detailed analysis of the global food crisis so far, concludes that bio-fuels have forced "food prices up by 75%." That is far more than previous estimates. That is a damning refutation of the politically-motivated US Department of Agriculture estimate that plant-derived fuels add only 3% to food prices. The report is expected to increase pressure on the European Union governments as well as Washington to change their present bio-fuel subsidy and support policies.

The report as well calculates that even the successive droughts in Australia and other major food regions have had only a "marginal" impact on food prices.

Within the EU, for example, as of April all vehicles in the UK must contain fuel with at least 2.5% bio-fuel. The EU has in place a target of mandatory 20% by 2020, a staggering amount.

George W. Bush has cynically claimed higher food prices are merely due to higher demand from India and China. The leaked World Bank study refutes that: "Rapid income growth in developing countries has not led to large increases in global grain consumption and was not a major factor responsible for the large price increases."

"Without the increase in bio-fuels, global wheat and maize stocks would not have declined appreciably and price increases due to other factors would have been moderate," the World Bank report states. The basket of food prices examined in the study rose by 140% between 2002 and February 2008. Higher energy and fertiliser prices accounted for an increase of only 15%. Bio-fuels have been responsible for a 75% jump over that period..

The real agenda behind the food crisis

Food scarcity, higher prices for basic foods in developing countries as well as control of food seeds through patent and Terminator suicide seed sales by Monsanto, Syngenta, DuPont, Dow, BASF, Bayer and a few select agriculture chemical seed giants—the "horsemen of the GMO Apokalypse," have been developed to advance the agenda of massive depopulation of the developing world.

The policy goes back, as the book documents in detail, to the early years of the 20th Century when Rockefeller, Carnegie, Harriman, Gamble, H.G. Wells, Margaret Meade, and other wealthy circles backed the development of eugenics research. The Rockefeller Foundation financed the eugenics and forced sterilization research at the Berlin Kaiser Wilhelm Institute (today's Max Planck Institute) until it became too politically hot in 1939.

After the end of the war, Rockefeller and others in the eugenics movement decided for political reasons to change the name of eugenics. The new name they chose was "genetics." GMO is a project, based on wrong science, financed with over $100 million of private money from the Rockefeller Foundation. The ultimate aim is for the first time in history to control life on the planet. As Henry Kissinger put in during the 1970’s food crisis, "control the food and you control the people."

On June 13, just after the Rome UN Food Summit, John Negroponte, US Deputy Secretary of State, stated, ""We therefore are strongly encouraging countries to remove barriers to the use of innovative plant and animal production technologies, including biotechnology," adding, "Biotechnology tools can help speed the development of crops with higher yields, higher nutrition value, better resistance to pests and diseases, and stronger food system resilience in the face of climate change." Washington and the GMO companies now use the more deceptive term, "biotechnology" instead of the controversial GMO term, in a linguistic ploy to overcome opposition.

Independent scientific studies and countless farmer reports have shown that long-term planting of GMO or bio-tech crops as the gene giants prefer to call it, far from giving higher crop yields, lowers the yields and development of resistant "super-weeds" usually mean more, not less Roundup or other GMO-paired chemical herbicides and pesticides are needed.. In short the glorious claims for GMO are marketing fraud.

The leak of the World Bank report adds a dramatic new element into what is becoming one of the major political issues along with oil price manipulation.

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He may be contacted via his website at www.engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net.

The CRG grants permission to cross-post original Global Research articles on community internet sites as long as the text & title are not modified. The source and the author's copyright must be displayed.

The url address of this article is: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=9547

World Bank Secret Report Confirms Biofuel Cause of World Food Crisis

Barbara Peterson — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:20:03 +0000

By F. William Engdahl

Global Research, July 10, 2008

A secret study by the World Bank, which reportedly has not been made public on pressure from the Bush Administration, concludes that bio-fuel cultivation in especially the USA and EU are directly responsible for the current explosion in grain and food prices worldwide. The US Government at the recent Rome UN Food Summit claimed that "only 3% of food prices" were due to bio-fuels. The World Bank secret report says that at least 75% of the recent price rises are due to land being removed from agriculture—mainly maize in North America and rapeseed and corn in the EU—in order to grow crops to be burned for vehicle fuel. The World Bank study confirms what we wrote more than a year ago about the madness of bio-fuels. It fits the agenda described in the 1970’s by Henry Kissinger, namely, ‘If you control the food you control the people.’

According to the London Guardian newspaper which has been given a copy of the suppressed report, the World Bank study was completed in April, well before the June Rome Food Summit, but was deliberately suppressed as "embarrassing to the position of the Bush Administration." The President of the World Bank, Robert Zoellick, is a former top Bush Administration official. Washington is trying to use a crisis which its bio-fuel subsidies created, since a new Farm bill passed in 2005, to advance the spread of Genetically Manipulated Organisms such as GMO maize, soybeans, rice and other crops patented by Monsanto and other "gene giants."

Their strategy is to use the explosive rise in grain prices worldwide, a rise fuelled by hedge funds and troubled US and European banks and investment funds pouring billions of dollars into speculation that grain prices will continue to soar. In other words, the food "crisis" is a crisis of speculation in food futures. The planned EU and USA bio-fuel acreage quotas and the periodic droughts and floods in key growing regions such as the USA Midwest then provide backdrop for speculative price run-ups. But the main driver is that tens of millions of hectares of prime agriculture land in the world’s two largest food export regions—the USA and the EU-- are being permanently removed from food production in order to grow raw material to be burned for vehicle fuel.

The suppressed study

The report as well calculates that even the successive droughts in Australia and other major food regions have had only a "marginal" impact on food prices.

Within the EU, for example, as of April all vehicles in the UK must contain fuel with at least 2.5% bio-fuel. The EU has in place a target of mandatory 20% by 2020, a staggering amount.

The real agenda behind the food crisis

Food scarcity, higher prices for basic foods in developing countries as well as control of food seeds through patent and Terminator suicide seed sales by Monsanto, Syngenta, DuPont, Dow, BASF, Bayer and a few select agriculture chemical seed giants—the "horsemen of the GMO Apokalypse," have been developed to advance the agenda of massive depopulation of the developing world.

The policy goes back, as the book documents in detail, to the early years of the 20th Century when Rockefeller, Carnegie, Harriman, Gamble, H.G. Wells, Margaret Meade, and other wealthy circles backed the development of eugenics research. The Rockefeller Foundation financed the eugenics and forced sterilization research at the Berlin Kaiser Wilhelm Institute (today's Max Planck Institute) until it became too politically hot in 1939.

Independent scientific studies and countless farmer reports have shown that long-term planting of GMO or bio-tech crops as the gene giants prefer to call it, far from giving higher crop yields, lowers the yields and development of resistant "super-weeds" usually mean more, not less Roundup or other GMO-paired chemical herbicides and pesticides are needed.. In short the glorious claims for GMO are marketing fraud.

The leak of the World Bank report adds a dramatic new element into what is becoming one of the major political issues along with oil price manipulation.

----------------------

He may be contacted via his website at www.engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net.

The url address of this article is: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=9547

Kissinger on Russia

Mr. Roach — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:30:21 +0000

Kissinger reminds us that Russia is moving in its own way towards the rule of law and that we should not needlessly provoke her:

Speeches denouncing Russian shortcomings and gestures drawn from the Cold War have occurred frequently. Proponents of such policies assert that the transformation of Russian society is the precondition of a more harmonious international order. They argue that if pressure is maintained on the current Russia, it, too, will eventually implode. Yet assertive intrusion into what Russians consider their own sense of self runs the risk of thwarting both geopolitical and moral goals.

Some groups and individuals in Russia undoubtedly look to America to accelerate a democratic evolution. But almost all observers agree that the majority of Russians perceive America as presumptuous and determined to stunt Russia's recovery. Such an environment is more likely to generate a nationalist and confrontational response than a democratic evolution.

In many ways, we are witnessing one of the most promising periods in Russian history. Exposure to modern open societies and engagement with them is more prolonged and intense than ever before -- even in the face of unfortunate repressive measures. The longer this continues, the more it will impact Russia's political evolution.

The pace of such an evolution will inevitably be Russian. We can affect it more by patience and historical understanding than by offended disengagement and public exhortations.

I was encouraged that such a wise man of foreign policy echoed some themes I had written about earlier in my own non-expert musings on Putin and Medvedev here and here.

Would We Know Minimal Deterrence if We Saw It?

B Gourley — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:42:38 +0000

The United States faces a dilemma with respect to its nuclear arsenal. On one hand, it, like the other Nuclear Weapon State (NWS) parties to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), made a commitment toward a "good-faith" effort to disarm at the earliest possible date. Because of this, there is pressure to reduce arsenals and discontinue warhead development. Non-Nuclear Weapon States (NNWS) are becoming increasingly unhappy with the lack of progress on this front (as witnessed by the 2005 NPT Review Conference debate), and the cracks in the foundation of the regime have become apparent.

On the other hand, there is a prevailing notion that the strategic stability of deterrence is lost at low numbers of warheads. Deterrence is premised upon the notion that a nuclear attack will invite a retaliatory strike of massive consequence. At small numbers of weapons, one side may begin to believe that they can destroy their enemy's capacity to retaliate through a coordinated first strike, a limited missile defense, or a combination of both. This condition is destabilizing because, if one side is motivated to attack (either because they want war or because they think the other side wants war) they will be much more likely to act if they believe the opposition arsenal can be negated.

There are ways to make even a small arsenal highly survivable, but these often have their own destabilizing effects. Putting the warheads on submarines makes them both mobile and hidden in a vast space. Of course, it also makes the opposition anxious that the enemy might pop up off their coastline and fire missiles in a manner that would give them very little response time. Limited time to respond is the enemy of sound judgement.

Given this opposing conditions, the US would like to reduce its arsenal, but only to a point at which there remains a stable deterrence. However, there are a number of issues straight from the headlines that complicate the situation yet further. Many people in the Departments of Energy and Defense would like to produce a new type of warhead dubbed the Reliable Replacement Warhead. A central argument for such a project is that increasing the reliability of the component warheads would allow the US to go to smaller numbers because it would not require as great a buffer for margin of error. However, a great deal of controversy arises because building a new warhead represents a step back from the good-faith effort to disarm, and, if it requires testing to validate, it will further create tension among the nuclear have-not states that are already seeing progressively less reason to participate in the NPT. Of course, some say that the RRW is not really a new warhead because it does not offer new capabilities, and that it might be able to enter the arsenal without the conduct of a physical test. The Congress as of late has not been willing to continue funding on this project; thus intimating where it falls in the debate.

Missile defense creates a barrier to arsenal reduction. Presuming a missile shield is developed which is believed to be functionally effective, missile defenses reduce the ability to conduct a retaliatory strike, and states need to maintain larger arsenals to ensure that they can overwhelm these defenses. If the US has a missile shield, other countries become less likely to be willing to reduce their arsenals or may even see fit to increase the size of their arsenal. This, of course, makes it politically difficult for the US to unilaterally draw down its forces. The Bush Administration has been having this argument with Russia, which is concerned about the missile shield under negotiation in Europe that would involve sites in Poland and the Czech Republic. Putin has announced a plan to target Central Europe and has discussed other ramifications of such a site. The US has stated that the system would only involve 10 interceptors, and is, therefore, designed only to deal with a rogue proliferator such as Iran (against which it is directed) and has no capacity to negate the Russian arsenal.

Ultimately, the question of concern is how low can a nation go while still maintaining a functional deterrent capability? This depends upon a number of the factors addressed above including: how reliable the arsenals are, whether there are defensive systems in place, and whether the arsenals are hidden and/or mobile. However, the question also requires assumptions be made about the stability of the current state of affairs. For example, if one anticipates that the relevance of nuclear arsenals will be maintained at the current level, one will likely draw different conclusions about minimal deterrence then if one believes actions will be taken to reduce the relevance of nuclear weapons as suggested by the two Op-Eds by Kissinger, Perry, Shultz, and Nunn. Actions to reduce the relevance of arsenals may allow states to squeeze down to lower numbers sooner.

There are also the assumptions about what national decision makers feel is acceptable loss. I suspect that these losses would be much lower than Cold War planners estimated. Consider the economic and political ramifications of an event such as 9-11, which might be considered minor compared to the loss to be incurred as a result of even a crude nuclear device detonated at ground level in a densely populated area. Of course, because we don't at the moment have a good way to model "acceptable loss", we would expect over-the-top estimations to be presented in order to be on the safe side. In other words, we would expect to have to be able to unleash a great deal more retaliation to deter an opponent than it would probably actually take to do so.

Charlie Rose - An hour with Henry Kissinger

madcap — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:25:54 +0000

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Neue Weltordnung

regulaerni — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:57:19 +0000

Klaus-Dieter Frankenberger und Günther Nonnenmacher sprachen am Rande des "Frankfurter Allgemeine Forums" mit Bundesaußenminister Steinmeier und dem legendären amerikanischen Außenminister Henry Kissinger.

Hidden History

anthony — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 14:44:07 +0000

Hidden History aims to publish articles on topics of historical interest which will not be found in the mainstream media or in the works of "court historians", including Hitler's possibly Jewish origins and motivation, Churchill and his links with financiers, Stalin, what Roosevelt knew before Pearl Harbor, the decision to drop the bomb and the real reasons why this was done, the setting up of the Federal Reserve, which is neither Federal nor a Reserve, the Rothschild banking family and their influence on world events, the Wall Street Crash, the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy, the Bush family, and 9/11.

Henry Kissinger and the 911 Commission

travellerev — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 23:50:17 +0000

When the USA administration was finally forced to put together a commission to invesitgate the events of 911 more than one year and two months after the horrific events of that day they had an interesting choice in who would be heading the commission.

They picked Henry Kissinger. Now Henry K. is a man with a checkered past to say the least.

Allegedly involved in war crimes during the Vietnam era and a controversial political power broker and secretive hustler and today a successful business man and even now a regular advisor to George W. Bush jr.

So it was not unsurprising that the jersey girls who were instrumental in forcing the Administration into forming a 911 Commission were somewhat suspicious to say the least. They asked for a meeting with Henry K. and this is what happened:

Did you get the feeling when watching this that the Administration was intend upon really finding out the truth and about the independency of the commission?

If you want to know more about Henry K. The war criminal start with this video and connect to you tube for the remaining 7 parts: The trial of Henry Kissinger.

politica pasilor marunti,

Romeo — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:31:48 +0000

primul e gata, priumul pas important spre diploma de licenta e gata, azi am avut examenul scris de la 9:00.

de mult timp nu am stat as de mult in casa langa cafeaua de dimineata , mancare carte, mancare carte, somn mai la urma pentru a invata la licenta, si ... momentu al venit , la examen am scris bine sper...

iar subiectele au fost doua mari si late adica:

1. Politica externa a Romaniei din 1919 pana la 1939 ( perioada interbelica)

2. Politica externa a marilor puteri dupa secolul XXI din perspectiva realismului

subiecte pe care l-am stiut iar miercuri e prezentarea licentei.

sa fiti iubiti de cine trebuie™ .

apropo have a look at this daca va plac relatiile internationale

Kissinger in Rusia: ( in 2008 )

Those Thursday Night Happy Hours

Lyssa — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:10:40 +0000

TRIBEZA is at it again (as they are every month), with a Happy Hour this Thursday at Adelante.

The Uptown District has some of the best shopping, dining, and art in the city. Join us this Thursday as we head to the 26 Doors Shopping Center for our Happy Hour at Adelante boutique. Complimentary food and drinks will be served while DJ Troy Raw spins on the turntables. Also, Rae Cosmetics will introduce their summer products that guests will have a chance to try out.

Date: Thursday, June 19th
Time: 6:00PM – 8:00PM
Location: Adelante Boutique , 1206 W. 38th Street, in the 26 Doors Shopping Center

Also happening tonight is Shady Grove Unplugged, the restaurant's Thursday night free music series. This is its fifteenth season! Tonight is BOB SCHNEIDER, a local fave. Kissinger opens.

Show starts at 8pm. Drink specials are $2 Zeigenbocks and $3 pints of Bud Light. Pro tip: put a KGSR sticker on your car for KGSR CD Singles.

Luckily for music-loving shoppers, you can hit Adelante for some clothes and apps, then head to Shady Grove for music and dinner! It's a lovely Austin evening.

Stephen, it's time to rock.

posting — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 20:58:50 +0000

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2008/06/09/zakaria.kissinger.intv.part1.cnn

Saudades do Surrealismo

Manoel Galdino — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:26:29 +0000

Houve um tempo em que existia um movimento surrealista. Hoje em dia, o mundo é muito mais surrealista do que podia pensar o Dali ou outro expoente do surrealismo. Eis abaixo uma prova viva, que vi no blog do Marcelo Coelho. É um diálogo entre Kissinger e Mao, lá nos anos 70. Alguém tem alguma explicação para isso?:

MAO: O comércio entre nossos dois países no momento é lamentável. O senhor sabe que a China é um país muito pobre. Não temos muita coisa. O que temos de sobra são mulheres. (risos)

KISSINGER: Não há cotas nem tarifas para elas.

MAO: Então, se vocês as quiserem, podemos dar algumas para vocês, umas dezenas de milhares. (risos)

ZHOU ENLAI: Naturalmente, numa base voluntária.

MAO: Deixemos elas irem para o seu país. Vão criar grandes desastres. Dessa maneira vocês diminuirão nossos sacrifícios. (risos)

KISSINGER: Nosso interesse em ter ligações com a China não é comercial. É estabelecer um relacionamento necessário para as relações políticas que ambos temos.

MAO: Nós não entendemos os seus procedimentos. Seus assuntos domésticos, nós não entendemos. Há muitas coisas em suas relações exteriores que não entendemos também.

KISSINGER: Vocês têm um modo de agir mais direto, talvez mais heróico, do que nós. Às vezes temos de usar métodos mais complicados devido a nossa situação doméstica. Mas nos nossos objetivos fundamentais iremos agir muito decididamente e sem consideração pela opinião pública. Assim, se um perigo real se apresenta ou se intenções hegemônicas se tornam ativas, iremos certamente resistir a elas onde for que apareçam. E como o nosso presidente disse ao senhor, em nosso próprio interesse, não como gentileza a quem quer que seja.

MAO: Vocês querem mulheres chinesas? Podemos dar dez milhões a vocês. (risos, especialmente entre as mulheres presentes)

KISSINGER: O presidente Mao está melhorando a sua oferta.

MAO: Podemos deixá-las inundar o seu país com desastres e assim prejudicar os seus interesses. Em nosso país temos mulheres demais, e elas têm um jeito de fazer isso. Elas dão à luz crianças, e temos crianças em demasia. (risos)

KISSINGER: É uma proposta tão nova, que teremos de analisá-la.

MAO: Vocês podem organizar uma comissão para analisar o assunto. É o modo pelo qual a visita de vocês à China estará solucionando a questão populacional. (risos)

KISSINGER: Iremos estudar a utilização e a logística.

MAO: Se você pedir a elas para irem, creio que desejarão ir.

KISSINGER: Certamente desejamos recebê-las.

MAO: Hoje andei dizendo alguns absurdos pelos quais terei de pedir perdão às mulheres chinesas.

KISSINGER: Soaram muito atraentes para os americanos presentes. (Mao e as mulheres riem)

WANG HAI-JUNG: Se as atas desta conversa fossem tornadas públicas, acarretariam raiva em metade da população.

MAO: Quer dizer, metade da população da China.

ZHOU ENLAI: Antes de tudo, as atas não irão transpor os gabinetes do Ministério das Relações Exteriores.

MAO: Podemos chamar isto de uma reunião secreta. Deveria ser tornada pública, ou mantida em segredo?

KISSINGER: O senhor decide. Estou disposto a torná-la pública se o senhor quiser.

MAO: Então as palavras que dissemos sobre as mulheres deverão ser tornadas inexistentes. (risos)

KISSINGER: Serão eliminadas das transcrições (risos). Começaremos a analisar a proposta quando eu voltar.

MAO: Sabe, os chineses têm um plano para prejudicar os Estados Unidos, que é mandar dez milhões de mulheres para os Estados Unidos e prejudicar os seus interesses aumentando a sua população.

KISSINGER: O presidente Mao fixou a idéia tão fortemente em meu cérebro que irei certamente utilizá-la em meu próximo encontro com a imprensa. (risos)

MAO: Para mim não há problema. Não tenho medo de nada.

Noua Ordine a lui McCain ! Când greşeşti, înapoi la teoria maselor!

moravudevest — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 06:13:01 +0000

Teoria conform căreia afirmam, tare şi răspicat la sfârşit de aprilie, convingerea că Hillary Clinton „va fi noul Preşedinte ales al Statelor Unite, după 4 noiembrie" s-a dovedit a fi complet eronată! Falsă. Proastă! Oglinda a greşit! Este umană.

Copilăreşte, am acordat atenţie prioritară oamenilor din umbra candidaţilor, fără a ţine cont de mentalitatea unui popor. De psihologia Lui! La fel ca şi în cazul Franţei prezidenţiale din 2007 când „le chef de la police", Nicolas Sarkozy, a învins-o pe Madamă, americanii au ales între imaginea de „mamă a poporului" şi „un braţ de fier", fie el şi de culoare. Francezii aveau nevoie de un bărbat. Eminamente superficial, am lăsat deoparte faptul că exprimarea maselor e condiţionată şi de aspectul ancestral înrădăcinat în conştiinţa lor. Aspectul de neam.

În continuare, lipsit de o raţiune comună şi supus orbeşte conceptului conform căruia soarta Lumii Noi încă se mai hotărăşte în consiliile principilor şi nu din raţiunea maselor, susţin ideea electorală a lui McCain. Poate şi pentru că de data aceasta, mai atent la fenomenul care m-a făcut să mă înşel, masele sunt cele care hotărăsc. Şi masele sunt uşor de manipulat atunci când cercul restrâns al elitelor e format din războinicii influenţei. Le Bon a spus-o!

McCain, veteran al războiului din Vietnam, îi are consilieri pe Phil Gramm, Gerry Parsky. Şi pentru ca argumentul meu să capete greutate, reamintesc faptul că în domeniul politicii externe, McCain îi are în umbră pe Kissinger şi Randy Scheunemann.

Dacă la final (la început de noiembrie!) nu va fi aşa cum am spus şi teoria mea se va prăbuşi cu viteza cu care se năruie un castel de nisip, optimist şi încrezător, voi căuta o scuză şi pentru greşeala asta. Într-adevăr, Lumea se schimbă. Dacă Obama va fi ales, cu adevărat ordinea mondială va căpăta un alt sens. Chiar pentru cei care nu cred în minuni.

Free Week at Emo's (Day 6-9)

Matt — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 05:24:02 +0000

Ringo Deathstarr

1-10-08: Tonight was one of the best nights of the week for us electro junkies. Crash Gallery rocked it outside, but The Laughing and L.A.X turned up the blips and breaks; however, each of their shows were quite different. The Laughing was dressed to impress with their hoodies and indie jackets. The blasted it out with a combination of guitar-synth-sax(?) action. L.A.X, on the other hand, had some of the sickest beats of all time, though one thing kept bothering me. The female singer was a bit flat all night, and I was just thinking the male vocalist hand a voice modulator pumping out robot sounds, why not one for her too? That would have been on the money. In the lounge I saw Horse + Donkey, who were indietastic, and Ringo Deathstarr, which is a local favorite (and one of the greatest band names ever). Both pretty much rocked it. Inside were Rubble and Bridges and Blinking Lights. Though I wasn’t to big on Rubble, Bridges and Blinking Lights were quite good (but it took forever to confirm their pages, photos people…). A good night all around, and a good ending to a good week.

Bridges and Blinking Lights

Rubble

Free Week at Emo's (Day 8)

Gorch Fock / When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth

1-9-08: The week is technicly over, this being the eighth day, but the free entry at Emo’s continues. When I showed up Lick Lick was onstage outside and Good Times Crisis Band, who’s singer wins my prize for indie rock outfit of the day, was kicking it inside. I enjoyed the latter probably more than any other show all night; however, they appeared to not even know all their songs, which was pretty hillarious. Tia Carrera then went on outside, though they were not quite as exciting as the other Tia Carrere. P.D. Wilder was on in the lounge pumping out serious ambience, a nice alternative. Then things got weird… I noticed two drum kits on the stage at the same time. It was Snake Trap and Megazilla playing together. Then I went outside to what appeared to be a band battle of some sort between Gorch Fock and When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth. Finally I saw Manikin inside and Peel in the lounge before calling it a night… It was late, and I’ve been here all week, only one more night though, so make sure to show up.

Good Times Crisis Band

Snake Trap / Megazilla

Free Week at Emo's (Day 7)

At All Cost

1-8-08: Burn out is definitely setting in, if you are like me and not a massive metal head. If you are a massive metal head, tonight was your night. With At All Cost headlining you get a powerful, yet distinctive sound and a crowd that was totally flipping out. Rory and the Artificial Heart had a large band and commanded attention. Finally, Radioland Murders looked familier; it seemed like two of the three guys on stage had been on the night before as Consider the Source (I preferred the latter).
Inside, you guessed it, more metal. Pack of Wolves was pounding and screaming their way through another insane crowd looking to mosh into excess. The Roller was pretty much a similar scene. However, in the lounge there was a different scene. Kissinger headlined with a rocking feel, but I wasn’t really into it if you ask me (sorry guys). The Midgetmen had a really good sound, and I wanted to like them, but while they had some killer guitar riffs, they just weren’t selling me with their stage presence. The standout of the evening, to me, was Nathan Singleton and his Sideshow Tragedy. Though I didn’t love them, they provided a steel and lap guitar on a night that was more about screaming (sorry people, it’s just not my genre).

Rory and the Artificial Heart

Nathan Singleton and his Sideshow Tragedy

Free Week at Emo's (Day 6)

Scorpion Child

1-7-08: Last night was 70’s night inside at Emo’s. Scorpion Child rocked out tunes that could have come straight out of dazed and confused. Then only thing that made me uncomfortable were outfits the massive mustaches (we still all know these are only ironically cool, right?). Big Black Smoke was in the same vain but to a lesser degree. However, if it is 70’s night they we need someone punk to counter the southern rock; this came from Consider the Source. Their intensity surpassed all the other bands, and at the end of their set they smashed their shit.
Over in the Lounges I got a peek at Hollywood Gossip, The Easies, and Many Birthdays. I have to say Many Birthdays was the only standout that I saw (even though The Easies is one of the coolest band names around), but I’m partial to that electro sound. Still I would check out their music if you don’t get to see them ever, cause they got lots of tracks worth a spin.

Big Black Smoke

Helmut Schmidt, Held von 68

chrisberlin — Sat, 31 May 2008 06:56:05 +0000

Heute schreibt Joscha Schmierer, Fischer-Kumpel und Langzeit-68er im Tagesspiegel über Mao und bemüht sich um eine ausgewogene Würdigung. Seine wichtigste Referenzen: Alt-Kanzler und Hardcore-Realist Helmut Schmidt und sein politischer Freund Henry Kissinger, Außenpolitiker der Ära Nixon.

Mao hätte sicherlich die Ironie erkannt, dass die beiden heute Weltbild und Meinungen der durch den Langen Marsch in den öffentlichen Dienst erschöpften Generation von 68 prägen.

Globalization and its Discontents: Henry Kissinger

donald — Fri, 30 May 2008 17:29:19 +0000

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/05/globalization_and_its_disconte.html

Distorted History

Mike — Wed, 28 May 2008 01:50:49 +0000

Did you know:

Towards the end of his rule, Winston Churchill would often punish unruly subordinates by making them wax his balding head. That's why his scalp was so irresistibly shiny.

Ronald Reagan had a dark hobby: scaring small children. Reagan took great pleasure in visiting elementary schools; he was known to hide in playgrounds, popping out to frighten children with scary faces. His Secret Service agents would often join in on the fun as well. Reagan used similar tactics to bring the Iranian hostage crisis to a quick end.

Al Gore also liked to scare children; unlike Reagan, however, he got his kicks from terrifying starving kids in the Third World. Shame on you Gore.... shame on you.

Abraham Lincoln was a chronic binge drinker. After getting drunk, Lincoln had a horrible habit of going to the local barber shop and insisting on the most ridiculous haircuts offered during the mid 1800s. This habit was believed to be a major source of his wife's insanity.

Teddy Roosevelt was proud of his Big Stick. It was one of the reasons he made such a good Rough Rider.

Secretary of State Henry Kissinger would nourish himself with his own boogers during grueling conferences with foreign leaders. This habit allowed him to secure favorable agreements from his underfed colleagues from different countries in bouts of "diplomatic attrition".

Larry King has several illegitimate children. We won't tell you who the mother is, but we will say that the kids aren't entirely white.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. admitted to close friends that he did not really remember his dreams at night.

MOTHER TERESA'S DEVIL'S ADVOCATE. REALLY.

washpost — Tue, 20 May 2008 12:55:04 +0000

sure, almost every agrees that christopher hitchens always has been has become an unpredictable alcoholic curmudgeon, but his kissinger book was excellent, and this is pretty cool:

Christopher Hitchens, an author and journalist, was the only witness called by the Vatican, to give evidence against Mother Teresa's beatification and canonization process.

wikipedia link about his book and a couple of interviews with him here and here.

The Food Crisis and Latin America

travellerev — Fri, 16 May 2008 01:59:17 +0000

'Control the oil and you'll control the nations; control the food and you'll control the people.' -- Henry Kissinger (1970)

I've known that phrase from Kissinger for a good many years. I confess that until now I had not given it much importance. It is an absolute truth, almost an axiom, that could become a terrible reality.

The alimentary crisis is real. The price of foodstuffs climbs and climbs. The reserves drop. The same happens with oil, which places many nations and peoples who do not produce food or oil in a desperate situation. Is this the result of a set of random events that coincide in time, or is it the effect of a plan for world domination?

If we guide ourselves by Kissinger's words, it seems to be the latter rather than the former. And that leads us to ask ourselves other questions. Was the idea of increasing the production of ethanol (launched by George W. Bush in March 2007) by utilizing the basic grains for the feeding of humans and animals also a coincidence?

It is well known that in order to produce one liter of alcohol for use in car engines, 1.2 liters of fuel oil must be sacrificed. In other words, more fuel than the fuel produced. In addition to the fact that ethanol has become good business for the Bush family, Bush's acolytes, and the oligarchies of several countries, isn't this a way to provoke a greater shortage of food?

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Free Week at Emo’s (Day 9)

Helmut Schmidt, Held von 68

Globalization and its Discontents: Henry Kissinger

Distorted History

MOTHER TERESA'S DEVIL'S ADVOCATE. REALLY.

The Food Crisis and Latin America