National Governments are Subtly Controlled and Run by International Banking Cartel
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Dylan Ratigan’s Epic on the International Banking Cartel and Political Corruption
Independent.ie Censures Comments That Dare To Query Bankster/Government Collusion
Yesterday, Independent.ie ran an ‘exclusive’ by Tom Lyons which revealed that Kevin Cardiff, former secretary general of the Department of Finance (the man who “lost” 3.6 billion euro and was rewarded with a promotion to Brussels), had a secret meeting with the former head of treasury of Anglo Irish Bank, Tiernan O’Mahony, who lobbied Cardiff for a State guarantee for Irish banks.
This peculiar meeting took place four days before Cowen and Lenihan officially met the frantic banksters on September 30th, 2008, and sanctioned the now infamous blanket guarantee.
Cardiff never revealed this meeting or any of its details to the chairman of the Public Accounts Committee who quizzed him about the guarantee in July, 2010.
Something smells in all of this. Writer Tom Lyons is suggesting a certain degree of complicity between a top civil servant and a former banker. And he appears to be correct.
But does the collusion go much higher? This writer thinks so and wrote a post to Independent.ie pointing to a potential and more serious conspiracy involving the Attorney General and a chief executive of an Irish bank.
At this time of writing (1.30pm Monday) Independent.ie has not posted my comment (sent Sunday afternoon). They also refused to answer a second post asking if the first post had been refused.
Of course, we all know it’s the job of the media in their role as the Fourth Estate to dig out evidence of illegality and chicanery and to inform the public of malfeasance in high places. But the mainstream media seems to have shifted its position and is now inclined to protect or hide wrongdoing by the rich and powerful.
My unpublished comment to Independent.ie is printed after this excerpt from the Indo online article.
FROM INDEPENDENT.IE
Ex-Anglo man ‘briefed Cardiff on banks crisis’
Secret meeting took place days before guarantee
By Tom Lyons EXCLUSIVE
Sunday January 29 2012
Kevin Cardiff, the civil servant in charge of banking in September 2008 had a late-night briefing on how to solve the financial crisis from Tiernan O’Mahony, the former head of treasury at Anglo Irish Bank — just days before the State introduced a blanket guarantee for Ireland’s banks.
The meeting, which has never been disclosed before, took place between Mr Cardiff and Mr O’Mahony inside the Department of Finance after 8.30pm on September 25, just four days before the decision was made to blanket guarantee €440bn in liabilities associated with Ireland’s reckless banks.
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My comment to Independent.ie…..
It is only now starting to register with the Irish people, and all peoples across the globe, that national governments are, and long have been, subtly controlled and run by the all powerful International Banking Cartel. Sometimes this control is not so disguised at all but is blatantly overt. Look at Greece and Italy. The prime ministers of both these countries, Lucas Papademos and Mario Monti, are not elected politicians but dyed-in-the-wool banksters appointed by their bosses in the EU/ECB/IMF.
We have been warned about a devious power and property grab by the banksters for over 200 hundred years, going back to Thomas Jefferson at the turn of the 19th century. Jefferson said, “I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.”
Other key politicians have repeated Jefferson’s warning: U.S. Presidents Madison, Jackson, Lincoln, Garfield, Wilson, Eisenhower, and Kennedy; British PMs Disraeli and Gladstone; and other notables such as Napolean and Bismark and many others.
In Ireland we have seen first-hand evidence of the all pervading power of the banksters with the notorious bank guarantees and bailouts originating in the wee hours of that September morning in 2008.
The above article points to possible collusion between Cardiff and O’Mahony four days before the infamous guarantee decision, a decision made all the more suspicious by Cardiff’s attempt to hide details of the meeting.
But was there a much higher and more sinister level of collusion that is equally unreported in the mainstream media?
One of the government representatives at the September 30th, 2008, meeting with the banksters was Paul Gallagher, the Attorney General. Among the bankster representatives was the chairman of Allied Irish Bank, Dermot Gleeson, himself a former Attorney General. But there was a more unholy bond between these men. Both were members of the scheming and extremely secretive Bilderberg Group.
For those who are unfamiliar with the Bilderbergs, they are a brotherhood of unelected international banksters, corporatists, politicians, and others, which was founded in 1954 by Prince Bernhard of Holland, a member of Hitler’s SS. The Bilderbergers meet secretly every year to formulate and manipulate world policy in finance, economics, trade, and any other area that they can control for their own selfish, globalist interests.
Did Gallagher and Gleeson cook up a secret brotherly agreement that would vastly favour the banksters to the utter detriment of Irish people?
Hint… look at the financial standing of the banksters and their government pals compared to that of the great majority of the Irish people.
….end of comment.
For more details on the Attorney General and the Bilderbergers see https://foolscrow.wordpress.com/2011/01/04/irish-leaders-castigated-as-greatest-traitors-of-all-time/ and https://foolscrow.wordpress.com/2010/06/22/bilderberg-inciting-treason-in-irelands-attorney-general/
Bob Newman @ February 5, 2012
Afghanistan Now Produces 93% Of World’s Opium After US Invasion
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Afghanistan has a long and troubled history with the opium poppy, beginning in 1979 during the Soviet invasion. This cash crop is used in manufacturing heroin, as well as narcotic pain relievers such as, morphine, oxycodone, and hydrocodone. What began as a means of financing a resistance to the Soviets, grew into a widespread practice of making easy money. This continued until July of 2000, when Taliban leader Mohammed Omar declared the cultivation of opium un-Islamic, and banned production. After the ban, Afghanistan’s total production dropped 91% from 82,172 hectares in 2000, to only 7,606 hectares in 2001.
According to the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime, after the US invasion in 2001, Afghanistan now accounts for 93% of world’s total opium production. Production spiked from 7,606 hectares in 2001, to 193,000 hectares in 2007. Helmand province in the south of Afghanistan, an area roughly about the size of West Virginia, now produces 50% of the world’s opium alone. The Taliban’s ban on farming the opium poppy before the US invasion was so effective, that Helmand province recorded no opium cultivation in the 2001. The previous year it had been the highest producing province, and currently is again.
When these statistics are combined with news of the Afghan government’s involvement and US aid to opium growers, the implications are shocking. In an article for The New York Times, Former U.S. State Department Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs Thomas Schweich reported that Hamid Karzai’s government was complicit in protecting opium cultivation in Afghanistan.
Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of Afghanistan’s president, has been accused by many of being deeply involved in the opium trade. James Risen of The New York Times wrote an article entitled “Reports Link Karzai’s Brother To Afghanistan Heroin Trade”, which sheds light on this relationship between Ahmed Karzai and the manufacture of opium and its derivatives. Another report by Dexter Flikins, Mark Mazzetti, and James Risen reveals even more. This article titled “Brother of Afghan Leader Said to Be Paid by C.I.A.” reveals ties between Ahmed Karzai and the CIA. There is now information that the CIA has a suspected drug lord on their payroll.
These last two developments coupled with the following piece of information, makes this situation all the more troubling. In an interview with Fox News personality Geraldo Rivera about opium growers, Lieutenant Colonel Bryan Christmas of the 3/6 Marines, told Mr. Rivera that “we provide them security, we’re providing them resources, and we’re providing them with alternatives”. He does say they are giving them alternatives, but later goes on to admit that there is no incentive for the growers to change crops because the profits from the opium are so high.
Afghanistan, with it’s violent history will probably remain in turmoil for quite a few more years, and opium doesn’t appear to be going anywhere either. It just seems a bit odd that after US forces entered Afghanistan, the opium trade has spiked out of control.
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Author’s opinion:
The point is that the US invasion has created an enormous spike in the cultivation and manufacture of drugs we deem illegal, and we hand out excessive prison terms to our own citizens for.
Not only that, but now the US military admittedly provides security and material resources for the opium growers and heroin manufacturers, all because they “care so much”.
These farmers make there money by extracting morphine from the opium poppies and converting it into heroin (diacetylmorphine), then selling it to traffickers who bring it to the US, UK, Europe, and the rest of the world.
We are told that “the Taliban makes them do it” and we are also told that this drug money funds the Taliban.
Yet we protect its manufacture and give them resources to manufacture illegal drugs, that supposedly fund the same people were fighting.
Does anyone else see the obvious contradictions here?
Another point is that NATO controls all air traffic in Afghanistan, the Taliban has no airlift capability.
So, how are the Taliban moving all these drugs out of Afghanistan if the Taliban has no means to move it.
I guarantee you that 93% of the world’s opium does not make it out of Afghanistan by horseback over mountain ranges, especially when the countries borders are closely monitored for insurgent traffic by US drone aircraft.
You want answers? Look towards the CIA. Anybody remember the CIA’s proprietary airline Air America and its drug smuggling being exposed in congressional session, the Iran-Contra guns for drugs scandal and it being exposed to the public in congress?
Continue reading at NowPublic.com: After US Invasion Afghanistan Now Produces 93% Of World’s Opium | NowPublic News Coverage http://www.nowpublic.com/world/after-us-invasion-afghanistan-now-produces-93-worlds-opium#ixzz1lNVgwBW1
Bob Newman @ February 4, 2012
10 Ways Monsanto and Big Ag Are Trying to Kill You – And the Planet
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Posted By: ORGANIC CONSUMERS ASSOCIATION
Ten Ways Monsanto and Big Ag Are Trying to Kill You – And the Planet
Energy-intensive industrial farming practices that rely on toxic chemicals and genetically engineered crops are not just undermining public health, they’re destroying the planet.
Here’s how:
#1 Generating Massive Greenhouse Gas Pollution (CO2, Methane, Nitrous Oxide) and Global Warming, While Promoting False Solutions Such as Industrial Biofuels, So-Called Drought-Resistant Crops, and Genetically Engineered Trees
#2 Polluting the Environment and the Soil-Food Web with Pesticides, Chemical Fertilizers, and Persistent Toxins, Including Dioxin
#3 Draining and Polluting Wetlands and Aquifers, Turning Farmland into Desert
#4 Poisoning Wells and Municipal Drinking Water, Lakes, and Rivers
#5 Chopping Down the Rainforests for Monoculture GMO Crops, Biofuels and Cattle Grazing
#6 Increasing the Cost of Food, While Reducing Nutrition and Biodiversity
#7 Spawning Pesticide-Resistant Superbugs and Weeds, and Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria
#8 Generating New and More Virulent Plant, Animal and Human Diseases
#9 Utilizing Wasteful Fossil Fuel-Intensive Practices and Encouraging the Expansion of Natural Gas Fracking and Tar Sands Extraction (Which Destroy Forests, Aquifers, and Farmland)
#10 Stealing Money From the 99% to Give Huge Subsidies to the 1% Wealthiest, Most Chemical and Energy-Intensive Farms and Food Producers
It’s not enough to stop eating genetically engineered food. If we want a liveable planet we’ve got to boycott all factory farmed food and make the Great Transition from energy and chemical-intensive agriculture to a relocalized and organic system of food and farming. The World According to Monsanto is a recipe for disaster. Monsanto and Big Ag contaminate every link in the food chain, threatening the very foundation of life: living nutrient-rich soil, clean water, resilient crops, healthy animals, stable climates, and diverse food sources. The good news is that agro-ecological and organic methods can reverse this threat and sustain food production for future generations, but we don’t have much time to turn things around.
Learn more:
“What About the State of Our Planet, Mr. President?” By Will Allen and Ronnie Cummins
The Farm Bill: Subsidizing Pollution, Junk Food, and the Richest 1%
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Bob Newman @ February 3, 2012
The Video the Media and US Military Don’t Want You to See!
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The real face of war is unknown to people, because the media is not showing the real facts. The war is nothing but a business, where young men are sent to die, for some to get richer and richer. These are the horrors of the war.
Please share!
Bob Newman @ February 3, 2012
