[Osx-nutters] heard about this ?

[Kevin Callahan]

On Oct 2, 2006, at 9:22 AM, Patrick Coskren wrote:

> On Oct 2, 2006, at 8:32 AM, Chuck Bennett wrote:
>
>> On Oct 1, 2006, at 5:48 PM, Kevin Callahan wrote:
>>
>>> BBC - American government told other governments about Afghan  
>>> invasion IN JULY 2001.
>>>
>>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/ 
>>> newsid_1550000/1550366.stm
>>>
>>> US 'planned attack on Taleban'
>>>
>>> The wider objective was to oust the Taleban
>>>
>>> By the BBC's George Arney
>>
>> So if that's true then the claim that the Bush admin wasn't doing  
>> anything about terrorism  before 9/11 is B.S.
>>
>> It really makes them look hard ass about it.
>>
>> You can't have it both ways.   SO I assume that the Lib's will be  
>> giving Bush credit for at least planning to take OBL and Taliban  
>> out before they attacked us..
>>
>> Right?
>
> Yes.  If it's corroborated.
>
> An alternative explanation is that this was a timed, planted leak  
> to rebut the charges, getting wide coverage last week, that Bush  
> ignored entreaties from his CIA director and anti-terrorism chief  
> to make anti-terrorism a priority.  The nice thing about having it  
> come out of a retired Pakistani official is that there's no need to  
> furnish proof; but the story's still out there.  This is the same  
> technique that they've used with Iraq; the President admits that  
> there was no link between Iraq and terrorism, but makes sure  
> surrogates are out there spreading the opposite method.
>
> I don't know which explanation is true.  If we hear reports from US  
> generals and such over the coming weeks corroborating this, then  
> I'll admit that, yup, it looks like Bush was tackling terrorism  
> head on.  Guess I misunderestimated him.
>
> But I have to wonder, if that's the case, why didn't Bush mention  
> this before now?  He's had every incentive to release such  
> information for years.  Why have Rice saying on talk shows and  
> before the 9/11 Commission "we took terrorism seriously blah  
> blah..." when she could have been saying, "look, assholes, here was  
> our war plan, here was how we were going to take him out, here's  
> the memos where we planned it out, he just got to us before  
> everything was in place"?  The fact that it comes out only now,  
> well, it doesn't prove anything, but it smells funny.
>
> -Patrick_______________________________________________
>

Zbigniew Brzezinski and the CFR Put War Plans In a 1997 Book -
It Is "A Blueprint for World Dictatorship," Says a Former German  
Defense and NATO Official Who Warned of Global Domination in 1984,
The Grand Chessboard

Brzezinski sets the tone for his strategy by describing Russia and  
China as the two most important countries - almost but not quite  
superpowers - whose interests that might threaten the U.S. in Central  
Asia. Of the two, Brzezinski considers Russia to be the more serious  
threat. Both nations border Central Asia. In a lesser context he  
describes the Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Iran and Kazakhstan as essential  
"lesser" nations that must be managed by the U.S. as buffers or  
counterweights to Russian and Chinese moves to control the oil, gas  
and minerals of the Central Asian Republics (Turkmenistan,  
Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan).

He also notes, quite clearly (p. 53) that any nation that might  
become predominant in Central Asia would directly threaten the  
current U.S. control of oil resources in the Persian Gulf. In reading  
the book it becomes clear why the U.S. had a direct motive for the  
looting of some $300 billion in Russian assets during the 1990s,  
destabilizing Russia's currency (1998) and ensuring that a weakened  
Russia would have to look westward to Europe for economic and  
political survival, rather than southward to Central Asia. A  
dependent Russia would lack the military, economic and political  
clout to exert influence in the region and this weakening of Russia  
would explain why Russian President Vladimir Putin has been such a  
willing ally of U.S. efforts to date. (See FTW Vol. IV, No. 1 - March  
31, 2001)

An examination of selected quotes from "The Grand Chessboard," in the  
context of current events reveals the darker agenda behind military  
operations that were planned long before September 11th, 2001.

"...The last decade of the twentieth century has witnessed a tectonic  
shift in world affairs. For the first time ever, a non-Eurasian power  
has emerged not only as a key arbiter of Eurasian power relations but  
also as the world's paramount power. The defeat and collapse of the  
Soviet Union was the final step in the rapid ascendance of a Western  
Hemisphere power, the United States, as the sole and, indeed, the  
first truly global power... (p. xiii)

"... But in the meantime, it is imperative that no Eurasian  
challenger emerges, capable of dominating Eurasia and thus of also  
challenging America. The formulation of a comprehensive and  
integrated Eurasian geostrategy is therefore the purpose of this  
book. (p. xiv)

"The attitude of the American public toward the external projection  
of American power has been much more ambivalent. The public supported  
America's engagement in World War II largely because of the shock  
effect of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. (pp 24-5)

"For America, the chief geopolitical prize is Eurasia... Now a non- 
Eurasian power is preeminent in Eurasia - and America's global  
primacy is directly dependent on how long and how effectively its  
preponderance on the Eurasian continent is sustained. (p.30)

"America's withdrawal from the world or because of the sudden  
emergence of a successful rival - would produce massive international  
instability. It would prompt global anarchy." (p. 30)

"In that context, how America 'manages' Eurasia is critical. Eurasia  
is the globe's largest continent and is geopolitically axial. A power  
that dominates Eurasia would control two of the world's three most  
advanced and economically productive regions. A mere glance at the  
map also suggests that control over Eurasia would almost  
automatically entail Africa's subordination, rendering the Western  
Hemisphere and Oceania geopolitically peripheral to the world's  
central continent. About 75 per cent of the world's people live in  
Eurasia, and most of the world's physical wealth is there as well,  
both in its enterprises and underneath its soil. Eurasia accounts for  
60 per cent of the world's GNP and about three-fourths of the world's  
known energy resources." (p.31)

It is also a fact that America is too democratic at home to be  
autocratic abroad. This limits the use of America's power, especially  
its capacity for military intimidation. Never before has a populist  
democracy attained international supremacy. But the pursuit of power  
is not a goal that commands popular passion, except in conditions of  
a sudden threat or challenge to the public's sense of domestic well- 
being. The economic self-denial (that is, defense spending) and the  
human sacrifice (casualties, even among professional soldiers)  
required in the effort are uncongenial to democratic instincts.  
Democracy is inimical to imperial mobilization." (p.35)

"Two basic steps are thus required: first, to identify the  
geostrategically dynamic Eurasian states that have the power to cause  
a potentially important shift in the international distribution of  
power and to decipher the central external goals of their respective  
political elites and the likely consequences of their seeking to  
attain them;... second, to formulate specific U.S. policies to  
offset, co-opt, and/or control the above..." (p. 40)

"...To put it in a terminology that harkens back to the more brutal  
age of ancient empires, the three grand imperatives of imperial  
geostrategy are to prevent collusion and maintain security dependence  
among the vassals, to keep tributaries pliant and protected, and to  
keep the barbarians from coming together." (p.40)

"Henceforth, the United States may have to determine how to cope with  
regional coalitions that seek to push America out of Eurasia, thereby  
threatening America's status as a global power." (p.55)

"Uzbekistan, nationally the most vital and the most populous of the  
central Asian states, represents the major obstacle to any renewed  
Russian control over the region. Its independence is critical to the  
survival of the other Central Asian states, and it is the least  
vulnerable to Russian pressures." (p. 121)

Referring to an area he calls the "Eurasian Balkans" and a 1997 map  
in which he has circled the exact location of the current conflict -  
describing it as the central region of pending conflict for world  
dominance - Brzezinski writes: "Moreover, they [the Central Asian  
Republics] are of importance from the standpoint of security and  
historical ambitions to at least three of their most immediate and  
more powerful neighbors, namely Russia, Turkey and Iran, with China  
also signaling an increasing political interest in the region. But  
the Eurasian Balkans are infinitely more important as a potential  
economic prize: an enormous concentration of natural gas and oil  
reserves is located in the region, in addition to important minerals,  
including gold." (p.124) [Emphasis added]

"The world's energy consumption is bound to vastly increase over the  
next two or three decades. Estimates by the U.S. Department of energy  
anticipate that world demand will rise by more than 50 percent  
between 1993 and 2015, with the most significant increase in  
consumption occurring in the Far East. The momentum of Asia's  
economic development is already generating massive pressures for the  
exploration and exploitation of new sources of energy and the Central  
Asian region and the Caspian Sea basin are known to contain reserves  
of natural gas and oil that dwarf those of Kuwait, the Gulf of  
Mexico, or the North Sea." (p.125)

"Uzbekistan is, in fact, the prime candidate for regional leadership  
in Central Asia." (p.130)

"Once pipelines to the area have been developed, Turkmenistan's truly  
vast natural gas reserves augur a prosperous future for the country's  
people. (p.132)

"In fact, an Islamic revival - already abetted from the outside not  
only by Iran but also by Saudi Arabia - is likely to become the  
mobilizing impulse for the increasingly pervasive new nationalisms,  
determined to oppose any reintegration under Russian - and hence  
infidel - control." (p. 133).

"For Pakistan, the primary interest is to gain Geostrategic depth  
through political influence in Afghanistan - and to deny to Iran the  
exercise of such influence in Afghanistan and Tajikistan - and to  
benefit eventually from any pipeline construction linking Central  
Asia with the Arabian Sea." (p.139)

"Turkmenistan... has been actively exploring the construction of a  
new pipeline through Afghanistan and Pakistan to the Arabian  
Sea..." (p.145)

"It follows that America's primary interest is to help ensure that no  
single power comes to control this geopolitical space and that the  
global community has unhindered financial and economic access to  
it." (p148)

"China's growing economic presence in the region and its political  
stake in the area's independence are also congruent with America's  
interests." (p.149)

"America is now the only global superpower, and Eurasia is the  
globe's central arena. Hence, what happens to the distribution of  
power on the Eurasian continent will be of decisive importance to  
America's global primacy and to America's historical legacy." (p.194)

"Without sustained and directed American involvement, before long the  
forces of global disorder could come to dominate the world scene. And  
the possibility of such a fragmentation is inherent in the  
geopolitical tensions not only of today's Eurasia but of the world  
more generally." (p.194)

"With warning signs on the horizon across Europe and Asia, any  
successful American policy must focus on Eurasia as a whole and be  
guided by a Geostrategic design." (p.197)

"That puts a premium on maneuver and manipulation in order to prevent  
the emergence of a hostile coalition that could eventually seek to  
challenge America's primacy..." (p. 198)

"The most immediate task is to make certain that no state or  
combination of states gains the capacity to expel the United States  
from Eurasia or even to diminish significantly its decisive  
arbitration role." (p. 198)

"In the long run, global politics are bound to become increasingly  
uncongenial to the concentration of hegemonic power in the hands of a  
single state. Hence, America is not only the first, as well as the  
only, truly global superpower, but it is also likely to be the very  
last." (p.209)

"Moreover, as America becomes an increasingly multi-cultural society,  
it may find it more difficult to fashion a consensus on foreign  
policy issues, except in the circumstance of a truly massive and  
widely perceived direct external threat." (p. 211)

The Horror - And Comments From Someone Who Worked With Brzezinski

Brzezinski's book is sublimely arrogant. While singing the praises of  
the IMF and the World Bank, which have economically terrorized  
nations on every continent, and while totally ignoring the worldwide  
terrorist actions of the U.S. government that have led to genocide;  
cluster bombings of civilian populations from Kosovo, to Laos, to  
Iraq, to Afghanistan; the development and battlefield use of both  
biological and chemical agents such as Sarin gas; and the financial  
rape of entire cultures, it would leave the reader believing that  
such actions are for the good of mankind.

While seconded from the German defense ministry to NATO in the late  
1970s, Dr. Johannes Koeppl traveled to Washington on more than one  
occasion. He also met with Brzezinski in the White House on more than  
one occasion. His other Washington contacts included Steve Larabee  
from the CFR, John J. McCloy, former CIA Director, economist Milton  
Friedman, and officials from Carter's Office of Management and  
Budget. He is the first person I have ever interviewed who has made a  
direct presentation at a Bilderberger conference and he has also made  
numerous presentations to sub-groups of the Trilateral Commission.  
That was before he spoke out against them.

His fall was rapid after he realized that Brzezinski was part of a  
group intending to impose a world dictatorship. "In 1983/4 I warned  
of a take-over of world governments being orchestrated by these  
people. There was an obvious plan to subvert true democracies and  
selected leaders were not being chosen based upon character but upon  
their loyalty to an economic system run by the elites and dedicated  
to preserving their power.

"All we have now are pseudo-democracies."

Koeppl recalls meeting U.S. Congressman Larry McDonald in Nuremburg  
in the early 80s. McDonald, who was then contemplating a run for the  
Presidency, was a severe critic of these elites. He was killed in the  
Russian shootdown of Korean Air flight 007 in 1985. Koeppl believes  
that it might have been an assassination. Over the years many writers  
have made these allegations about 007 and the fact that someone with  
Koeppl's credentials believes that an entire plane full of passengers  
would be destroyed to eliminate one man offers a chilling opinion of  
the value placed on human life by the powers that be.

In 1983, Koeppl warned, through Op-Ed pieces published in NEWSWEEK  
and elsewhere, that Brzezinski and the CFR were part of an effort to  
impose a global dictatorship. His fall from grace was swift. "It was  
a criminal society that I was dealing with. It was not possible to  
publish anymore in the so-called respected publications. My 30 year  
career in politics ended.

"The people of the western world have been trained to be good  
consumers; to focus on money, sports cars, beauty, consumer goods.  
They have not been trained to look for character in people. Therefore  
what we need is education for politicians, a form of training that  
instills in them a higher sense of ethics than service to money.  
There is no training now for world leaders. This is a shame because  
of the responsibility that leaders hold to benefit all mankind rather  
than to blindly pursue destructive paths.

"We also need education for citizens to be more efficient in their  
democracies, in addition to education for politicians that will  
create a new network of elites based upon character and social  
intelligence."

Koeppl, who wrote his 1989 doctoral thesis on NATO management, also  
authored a 1989 book - largely ignored because of its controversial  
revelations - entitled "The Most Important Secrets in the World." He  
maintains a German language web site at www.antaris.com and he can be  
reached by email at jbk at antaris.com.

As to the present conflict Koeppl expressed the gravest concerns,  
"This is more than a war against terrorism. This is a war against the  
citizens of all countries. The current elites are creating so much  
fear that people don't know how to respond. But they must remember.  
This is a move to implement a world dictatorship within the next five  
years. There may not be another chance."

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