Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
January 3, 2009

It is a glaring example that there is precious little difference between so-called liberals and conservatives on the subject of the government’s response to manufactured terrorism — the “progressive” Chris Matthews claims to be worried about terrorists boarding planes who know Kung Fu.

Matthews spewed this blather on MSNBC the other day. He was serious.

Matthews, of course, is merely parroting the government line that we have to “go after the terrorists.” It’s his job to keep the phony GWOT front and center. There is virtually no difference between MSNBC and Fox News on this. Both read from the same Pentagon script.

Getting serious about false flag terrorism means you’ll have to parade naked before TSA goons the next time you fly to see granny in Philly or take that business trip to save your company from extinction thanks to the bankster engineered depression now unfolding. The absurd and transparent underwear bomber fiasco has provided the government with an excuse to push their dangerous body scanners on the public. Gordon Brown is now demanding these machines be placed in all of Britain’s airports.

Meanwhile, Obama dispatched John Brennan to the Sunday talking head shows to peddle the al-Qaeda is going to get us message. “We’re determined to destroy al Qaeda,” Brennan told ABC News This Week. “And we’re working very closely not just with the Yemenis, but with our international partners, with the British, with the Saudis, and others, to make sure that we provide the Yemeni government the wherewithal to carry out this fight against al Qaeda.”

Brennan’s message lines up nicely with the one delivered by Gordon Brown last week. Brown wants to convene a summit with world leaders at the end of the month so they can best plan how to bomb Yemen and kill more villagers, who are of course with al-Qaeda. Yemen will be bombed back to the Stone Age (a not too difficult task, since the impoverished “failed state” is not too far removed from the Stone Age now, partly due to the IMF and its “structural adjustment” loan sharking operation).

Never mind Brennan’s glaring conflict of interest. He was CEO of the private company the government used to help manage a key terrorism database before he joined the administration. White House ethics counsel Norm Eisen has issued a waiver for Brennan. Former CIA bureaucrats like Brennan are above the law. After all, we are engaged in a war that will last decades, if not centuries, as the former administration told us. No time to waste on legalities.

Finally, in order to hype the message that al-Qaeda is out there and gunning for us, the U.S. has shuttered its embassy in Yemen this weekend. “I think it underscores the threat that al Qaeda in the Arab Peninsula poses to U.S. interests,” Brennan told the talking heads at Mockingbird Central, ABC News division. “We looked at the intelligence that is available as far as the plans for al Qaeda to carry out attacks in Sanaa possibly against our embassy, possibly against U.S. personnel, and decided it was the prudent thing to do to shut the embassy,” Brennan said.

John Brennan on Fox News Sunday talks about the embassy closure.

It won’t be long now. Bombs will probably rain on Yemen before Easter.

In the days and weeks ahead, we can expect the same message from the so-called liberals and conservatives: al-Qaeda is in Yemen, they know Kung Fu, and we have to send in the Marines and create another front in the global war on manufactured terrorism.

Research related links

1. US Embassy in Yemen closes in response to ongoing al-Qaida threats
2. Obama Blames al-Qaeda for Christmas False Flag, Sets Stage for Yemen Attack
3. Obama Ordered U.S. Military Strike on Yemen Terrorists
4. Obama administration prepares public opinion for attack on Yemen
5. Yemen Exploits al-Qaeda to Get More Money from U.S.
6. Lieberman: Yemen is ‘tomorrow’s war’ if pre-emptive action not taken
7. ‘Hundreds of al-Qaeda militants planning attacks from Yemen’
8. U.S. Reviews Targets for Yemen Strike
9. Al-Qaeda claims rocket attack on US oilmen in Yemen
10. White House grants ethics waiver to counterterrorism adviser John Brennan who headed terror database company
11. Yemen: New frontier in US ‘war on terror’
12. False Flag Event in Detroit a Pretext to Invade Yemen

False Flag Event in Detroit a Pretext to Invade Yemen

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
January 1, 2009

The UK PM Gordon Brown called for an “emergency summit of world leaders last night to stop Yemen becoming a new terror center,” reports The Sun. Brown declares the poverty-stricken country — increasingly described as a “failed state” by government officials and the corporate media (the same way Afghanistan and Iraq were deemed failed states before they were invaded) — represents an “evolving threat” threat and an “incubator” for terrorism.

	British PM Brown has called for a confab of world leaders to plot out action to be taken against al-Qaeda in Yemen.

“Yemen, as a potential safe haven for terrorism, presents a regional and global threat,” said Brown and added that Britain and the United States are “building our support for Yemen’s efforts to tackle” the supposed terrorist threat.

In other words, the governments of Britain and the United States are preparing to invade Yemen. Gordon Brown’s planned “emergency summit of world leaders” later this month should be considered a red flag indicating the elite plan to expand the GWOT into Yemen and Africa.

“The United States will more than double its security assistance to Yemen, officials said Friday, and Britain will host an international meeting this month to seek ways to prevent the poorest Arab nation from becoming an al-Qaeda stronghold,” reports The Washington Post. “The announcements highlight mounting Western concern over Yemen after a failed attempt to bomb a U.S. airliner on Christmas; the suspect is a Nigerian man who reportedly told authorities that he received training and equipment in the country, which borders Saudi Arabia.”

On Friday, Saudi warplanes carried out several airstrikes on northern Yemen villages and the oil kingdom sent troops into the country, according to Houthi fighters who oppose the government of the Arab country. Houthis accuse the Yemeni government of violating their civil rights and attempting to politically, economically, and religiously marginalize them.

The Yemeni government claims to have destroyed what it calls a “terrorist den” in the northern Sa’ada region on Thursday, according to a report filed by Reuters. Since the so-called underwear bomber’s failed attack, the United States has called for the government of Yemen to attack what it describes as an expansion of an al-Qaeda presence in the country.

Also on Friday, senior leaders of the Shabab rebels in Somalia promised to send their fighters beyond Somalia to Yemen and wherever jihad beckons, according to The New York Times. Sheik Muktar Robow, a senior rebel official, said that the fighters had been trained to fight the African Union peacekeeping force and the transitional federal government in Somalia but that Yemen was just across the Gulf of Aden and that “our brothers must be ready for our welcome.”

“The Shabab have increased their ties with Al Qaeda, which has recently been fighting the American-backed military in Yemen,” claims The New York Times.

“A group calling itself al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula has claimed responsibility for the failed bombing of an Amsterdam-to-Detroit aircraft on Christmas Day. Nigerian suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab told investigators he had trained with al-Qaida operatives in Yemen. An increasing number of terrorism experts suggest that the turmoil in Yemen provides an ideal training ground for terrorists,” reports The Voice of America.

“Obama has formulated his new version of the Axis of Evil, composed of Afghanistan-Pakistan, Somalia, and Yemen,” writes historian and author Webster Griffin Tarpley.

In Yemen, a civil war pits the Saudi-backed central government against the Iranian-backed Shiite Houthi rebels, whom the US has bombed at least twice this month. The goal here is to play Iran against Saudi Arabia so as to weaken both the pro-Moscow Achmadinejad government in Iran, and also those Saudi forces that are fed up with their status as a US protectorate. The US is openly now sponsoring a regroupment of “al Qaeda” (the CIA Moslem legion) in Yemen , including by sending fighters direct from Guantanamo . The new CIA-promoted entity synthetic entity is “Al Qaeda on the Arabian Peninsula or AQAP, a gaggle of US patsies, dupes, and fanatics which is claiming credit for the Umar Farouk incident. The US hopes to further dominate the exit from the Red Sea and the Suez Canal, while also easing pressure on the battered US dollar by jacking up the price of oil in an atmosphere of tension on the Arabian peninsula.

December 31, 2009: Webster Tarpley talks with Alex Jones about the Detroit false flag event and the coming attack on Yemen. Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6.

It should be obvious now that the Umar Farouk incident was a false flag event designed precisely to cobble together a pretext for an invasion of the “failed state” Yemen where al-Qaeda has magically and conveniently taken up residence. Gordon Brown’s summit later this month will serve as a planning session on formulating the invasion.

As noted on the Haskell Family Blog today, the FBI has stumbled through no less than four versions of what happened in Amsterdam and Detroit. Confronted with the eye witness account of the event as told by Michigan lawyer Kurt Haksell, who related his story on the Alex Jones Show earlier in the week, the government is attempting to sow confusion and disinformation by spinning various distorted accounts and manufacturing outright lies about what happened. In many ways this a repeat of what the government — with the eager participation of the corporate media — did in the days and weeks following the attacks of September 11, 2001.

December 29, 2009: Alex Jones talks with underwear bomber eye witness Kurt Haskell. Part 2, Part 3.

Finally, it should be noted that al-Qaeda presence in Yemen is not a new development. As CIA contractor Billy Waug wrote in his autobiography, he was part of a concerted effort to train al-Qaeda operatives in the country beginning in 1994.

Research related links

1. ‘Hundreds of al-Qaeda militants planning attacks from Yemen’
2. Yemen Exploits al-Qaeda to Get More Money from U.S.
3. Obama Ordered U.S. Military Strike on Yemen Terrorists
4. Yemen: New frontier in US ‘war on terror’
5. Obama administration prepares public opinion for attack on Yemen
6. U.S. Reviews Targets for Yemen Strike
7. Lieberman: Yemen is ‘tomorrow’s war’ if pre-emptive action not taken
8. Madsen: Taliban Imported to Conduct False Flag Terrorism in Iraq
9. Foiled Terrorist Bombing in Detroit: An Excuse to Expand the Bogus War On Terror
10. Another false flag terror attack as justification for war and trampling on our freedoms
11. Pakistani Security Consultant Calls Mumbai Attacks A “Botched” False Flag
12. False Flag Cyanide Attack Planned for the DNC?

Drug money saved banks in global crisis, claims UN advisor

Drugs and crime chief says $352bn in criminal proceeds was effectively laundered by financial institutions

The Observer, Sunday 13 December 2009

Drugs money worth billions of dollars kept the financial system afloat at the height of the global crisis, the United Nations' drugs and crime tsar has told the Observer.

Antonio Maria Costa, head of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, said he has seen evidence that the proceeds of organised crime were "the only liquid investment capital" available to some banks on the brink of collapse last year. He said that a majority of the $352bn (£216bn) of drugs profits was absorbed into the economic system as a result.

This will raise questions about crime's influence on the economic system at times of crisis. It will also prompt further examination of the banking sector as world leaders, including Barack Obama and Gordon Brown, call for new International Monetary Fund regulations. Speaking from his office in Vienna, Costa said evidence that illegal money was being absorbed into the financial system was first drawn to his attention by intelligence agencies and prosecutors around 18 months ago. "In many instances, the money from drugs was the only liquid investment capital. In the second half of 2008, liquidity was the banking system's main problem and hence liquid capital became an important factor," he said.

Some of the evidence put before his office indicated that gang money was used to save some banks from collapse when lending seized up, he said.

"Inter-bank loans were funded by money that originated from the drugs trade and other illegal activities... There were signs that some banks were rescued that way." Costa declined to identify countries or banks that may have received any drugs money, saying that would be inappropriate because his office is supposed to address the problem, not apportion blame. But he said the money is now a part of the official system and had been effectively laundered.

"That was the moment [last year] when the system was basically paralysed because of the unwillingness of banks to lend money to one another. The progressive liquidisation to the system and the progressive improvement by some banks of their share values [has meant that] the problem [of illegal money] has become much less serious than it was," he said.

The IMF estimated that large US and European banks lost more than $1tn on toxic assets and from bad loans from January 2007 to September 2009 and more than 200 mortgage lenders went bankrupt. Many major institutions either failed, were acquired under duress, or were subject to government takeover.

Gangs are now believed to make most of their profits from the drugs trade and are estimated to be worth £352bn, the UN says. They have traditionally kept proceeds in cash or moved it offshore to hide it from the authorities. It is understood that evidence that drug money has flowed into banks came from officials in Britain, Switzerland, Italy and the US.

British bankers would want to see any evidence that Costa has to back his claims. A British Bankers' Association spokesman said: "We have not been party to any regulatory dialogue that would support a theory of this kind. There was clearly a lack of liquidity in the system and to a large degree this was filled by the intervention of central banks."