De triomf van President Bush.

[Gun]

WASHINGTON - In Irak zijn zowat 190.000 kalasjnikovgeweren en pistolen bestemd voor de Iraakse veiligheidstroepen, verdwenen, zo heeft de gezaghebbende krant Washington Post maandag op gezag van een rapport van het Amerikaanse 'Rekenhof' (het GAO) gemeld.

Het Pentagon weet niet waar de wapens zijn gebleven en vreest dat zij in handen zijn gekomen van de opstandelingen die de Amerikaans troepen bekampen. Volgens het rapport weet Washington niet waar zowat dertig procent van de wapens is gebleven, die de VS in 2004 en 2005 aan de Iraakse veiligheidstroepen hebben geleverd. De hoogste vroegere schatting was 14.000 stuks.

Sinds 2003 hebben de VS al 19,2 miljard dollar uitgetrokken voor die troepen. Minstens 2,8 miljard dollar was bestemd om uitrusting te kopen en te leveren. Maar de distributie van die wapens verliep volgens het rapport lukraak en haastig.

De gevestigde procedures werden niet gevolgd. Dit alles gebeurde toen de veiligheidsopleiding onder leiding stond van generaal David Petraeus, die nu opperbevelhebber is van de Amerikaanse strijdkrachten in Irak.

Het Pentagon 'heeft geen enkel idee waar ze (de wapens) zijn', zo haalde de krant deskundige Rachel Stohl van het Center for Defense Information aan. 'Het betekent wellicht dat de VS ongewild wapens aan slechte actoren verstrekken'.

Nog luidens de Post bestrijdt het Pentagon de bevindingen van het 'Rekenhof' niet. Het heeft een eigen onderzoek opgestart en liet weten, te werken aan verbeteringen in het nagaan van wat er met de wapens gebeurt.

Een functionaris van het Amerikaanse ministerie van defensie gaf tegen de krant toe dat sommige van de verdwenen wapens waarschijnlijk tegen Amerikaanse soldaten werden aangewend. Hij gaf als voorbeeld de Iraakse brigade die in Fallujah werd opgericht maar snel in september 2004 werd ontbonden en wier wapens tegen de Amerikanen werden gebruikt

HIER

[Babylonia]

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[Gun]

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[Antoon]

Dit zijn eerder sites voor de threads van Exodus over allerhande samenzweringen en mysterieuze groeperingen die de hele geschiedenis schrijven en regisseren.

[Pindar]

Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door Antoon

Dit zijn eerder sites voor de threads van Exodus over allerhande samenzweringen en mysterieuze groeperingen die de hele geschiedenis schrijven en regisseren.

dus?

Pin d'Ar

[Andro]

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Prachtig!

[Gun]

Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door Babylonia

meer achtergrondinformatie
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Heb hem intussen nog eens rustig bekeken en ik moet zeggen, één van de sterkste films in zijn soort ooit gezien, nogmaals merci!

[exodus]

Hieronder 10 punten die onder de Bush administratie gerealiseerd zijn, die van Amerika een politiestaat maken:

The top ten advances towards tyranny in the United States during the tenure of the Bush administration, from the Patriot Act to the latest expansion of the illegal eavesdropping surveillance program.


1) The USA Patriot Act
The party line often heard from Neo-Cons in their attempts to defend the Patriot Act either circulate around the contention that the use of the Patriot Act has never been abused or that it isn't being used against American citizens. Here is an archive of articles that disproves both of these fallacies.
The Patriot Act was the boiler plate from which all subsequent attacks on the Constitution were formed.


2) Total Information Awareness
"Every purchase you make with a credit card, every magazine subscription you buy and medical prescription you fill, every Web site you visit and e-mail you send or receive, every academic grade you receive, every bank deposit you make, every trip you book and every event you attend — all these transactions and communications will go into what the Defense Department describes as "a virtual, centralized grand database," infamously wrote New York Times writer William Safire, announcing the birth of Total Information Awareness, a kind of Echelon on steroids introduced a year after 9/11.
TIA was not canned, it was simply removed from the newspaper, renamed and continues to operate under a guise of different programs.

3) USA Patriot Act II

The second Patriot Act was a mirror image of powers that Julius Caesar and Adolf Hitler gave themselves. Whereas the First Patriot Act only gutted the First, Third, Fourth and Fifth Amendments, and seriously damaged the Seventh and the Tenth, the Second Patriot Act reorganized the entire Federal government as well as many areas of state government under the dictatorial control of the Justice Department, the Office of Homeland Security and the FEMA NORTHCOM military command.
The Domestic Security Enhancement Act 2003, also known as the Second Patriot Act is by its very structure the definition of dictatorship.


Military Commissions Act
Slamming the final nail in the coffin of everything America used to stand for, the boot-licking U.S. Senate gave President Bush the legal authority to abduct and sexually mutilate American citizens and American children in the name of the war on terror in passing the Military Commissions Act and officially ending Habeas Corpus.

There is nothing in the "detainee" legislation that protects American citizens from being kidnapped by their own government and tortured.

The New York Times stated that the legislation introduced, "A dangerously broad definition of “illegal enemy combatant” in the bill could subject legal residents of the United States, as well as foreign citizens living in their own countries, to summary arrest and indefinite detention with no hope of appeal. The president could give the power to apply this label to anyone he wanted."
Yale Law Professor Bruce Ackerman states in the L.A. Times, "The compromise legislation....authorizes the president to seize American citizens as enemy combatants, even if they have never left the United States. And once thrown into military prison, they cannot expect a trial by their peers or any other of the normal protections of the Bill of Rights."

Similarly, law Professor Marty Lederman explains: "this [subsection (ii) of the definition of 'unlawful enemy combatant'] means that if the Pentagon says you're an unlawful enemy combatant -- using whatever criteria they wish -- then as far as Congress, and U.S. law, is concerned, you are one, whether or not you have had any connection to 'hostilities' at all."

John Warner Defense Authorization Act
The Bush Junta quietly "tooled up" to utilize the U.S. military in engaging American dissidents after the next big crisis, with a frightening and overlooked piece of legislation that was passed alongside the Military Commissions Act, the John Warner Defense Authorization Act, which greased the skids for armed confrontation and abolishes posse comitatus.


Illegal Domestic Wiretapping Program
"Months after the Sept. 11 attacks, President Bush secretly authorized the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on Americans and others inside the United States to search for evidence of terrorist activity without the court-approved warrants ordinarily required for domestic spying, according to government officials," reported the New York Times on December 16, 2005
The secret warrantless spying program was a complete violation of both the 4th Amendment and FISA.

Expansion of Illegal Domestic Wiretapping Program
Not content with now being lawfully allowed to force ISP's and cell phone companies to turn over data about customers without a warrant, the Bush administration is pushing for even more authority to spy on American citizens, and has already been handed a 6 month window within which to impose any surveillance policy it likes, and for that program to remain legal in perpetuity.
The administration has a 6 month window in which to impose any surveillance program it chooses and that program will go unchallenged and remain legally binding in perpetuity - it cannot be revoked. Under the definitions of the legislation, Bush has been granted absolute dictator status for a minimum of 6 months.
If he so chooses, and so long as it's implemented within the next half year, Bush could build a database of every website visited by every American - and the policy would be immune from Congressional challenge even after the "surveillance gap" legislation reaches its sunset


Martial Law Presidential Decision Directive 51
New legislation signed on May 9, 2007, declares that in the event of a "catastrophic event", the President can take total control over the government and the country, bypassing all other levels of government at the state, federal, local, territorial and tribal levels, and thus ensuring total unprecedented dictatorial power.
The National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive, which also places the Secretary of Homeland Security in charge of domestic "security", was signed earlier this month without the approval or oversight of Congress and seemingly supercedes the National Emergency Act which allows the president to declare a national emergency but also requires that Congress have the authority to "modify, rescind, or render dormant" such emergency authority if it believes the president has acted inappropriately.


Destruction of the Dollar

Former World Bank Vice President, Chief Economist and Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz has predicted a global economic crash within 24 months - unless the current downturn is successfully managed. Asked if the situation was being properly handled Stiglitz emphatically responded "no,".
Stiglitz caused controversy in October 2001 when he exposed rampant corruption within the IMF and blew the whistle on their nefarious methods of inducing countries to fall under their debt before stripping them of sovereignty and hollowing out their economies. Stiglitz agreed that the process of hijacking and looting key infrastructure on the part of the IMF and World Bank, as an offshoot of predatory globalization, had now moved from the third world to Europe, the United States and Canada.

Amnesty & The North American Union
The open plan to merge the US with Mexico and Canada and create a Pan American Union has long been a Globalist brainchild but its very real and prescient implementation on behalf of the Council on Foreign Relations has finally been reported on by mainstream news outlets.

The framework on which the American Union is being pegged is the NAFTA Super Highway, a four football-fields-wide leviathan that stretches from southern Mexico through the US up to Montreal Canada .Coupled with Bush's blanket amnesty program, the Pan American Union is the final jigsaw piece for the total dismantling of America as we know it.

[parcifal]

Ondertussen lijkt het er steeds meer op dat China de VS economisch kan gijzelen door te dreigen met een devaluatie van de dollar.

Natuurlijk snijdt het mes langs 2 kanten maar dit was de reactie van China op amerikaanse voorstellen om handelsbeperkingen en tarifferingen op te leggen aan china :

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/mai...nchina107a.xml

China threatens 'nuclear option' of dollar sales
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

Last Updated: 1:48am BST 08/08/2007

The Chinese government has begun a concerted campaign of economic threats against the United States, hinting that it may liquidate its vast holding of US treasuries if Washington imposes trade sanctions to force a yuan revaluation.
Two officials at leading Communist Party bodies have given interviews in recent days warning - for the first time - that Beijing may use its $1.33 trillion (£658bn) of foreign reserves as a political weapon to counter pressure from the US Congress. Shifts in Chinese policy are often announced through key think tanks and academies.
Described as China's "nuclear option" in the state media, such action could trigger a dollar crash at a time when the US currency is already breaking down through historic support levels.


It would also cause a spike in US bond yields, hammering the US housing market and perhaps tipping the economy into recession. It is estimated that China holds over $900bn in a mix of US bonds.
Xia Bin, finance chief at the Development Research Centre (which has cabinet rank), kicked off what now appears to be government policy with a comment last week that Beijing's foreign reserves should be used as a "bargaining chip" in talks with the US.
"Of course, China doesn't want any undesirable phenomenon in the global financial order," he added.
He Fan, an official at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, went even further today, letting it be known that Beijing had the power to set off a dollar collapse if it choose to do so.
"China has accumulated a large sum of US dollars. Such a big sum, of which a considerable portion is in US treasury bonds, contributes a great deal to maintaining the position of the dollar as a reserve currency. Russia, Switzerland, and several other countries have reduced the their dollar holdings.
"China is unlikely to follow suit as long as the yuan's exchange rate is stable against the dollar. The Chinese central bank will be forced to sell dollars once the yuan appreciated dramatically, which might lead to a mass depreciation of the dollar," he told China Daily.
The threats play into the presidential electoral campaign of Hillary Clinton, who has called for restrictive legislation to prevent America being "held hostage to economic decicions being made in Beijing, Shanghai, or Tokyo".
She said foreign control over 44pc of the US national debt had left America acutely vulnerable.
Simon Derrick, a currency strategist at the Bank of New York Mellon, said the comments were a message to the US Senate as Capitol Hill prepares legislation for the Autumn session.
"The words are alarming and unambiguous. This carries a clear political threat and could have very serious consequences at a time when the credit markets are already afraid of contagion from the subprime troubles," he said.

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Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door parcifal

Ondertussen lijkt het er steeds meer op dat China de VS economisch kan gijzelen door te dreigen met een devaluatie van de dollar.

Natuurlijk snijdt het mes langs 2 kanten maar dit was de reactie van China op amerikaanse voorstellen om handelsbeperkingen en tarifferingen op te leggen aan china :

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/mai...nchina107a.xml

Very interesting

[Andro]

VS zijn 190.000 wapens kwijt in Irak

De triomfen stapelen zich op.

[filosoof]

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Hieronder 10 punten die onder de Bush administratie gerealiseerd zijn, die van Amerika een politiestaat maken:

We wisten het, we zagen het aankomen, maar't blijft angstaanjagend!

[Akufen]

Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door Antoon

Dit zijn eerder sites voor de threads van Exodus over allerhande samenzweringen en mysterieuze groeperingen die de hele geschiedenis schrijven en regisseren.

En't gekke is, die groeperingen zijn voor stuk voor stuk beter gedocumenteerd en beschreven dan eender welke Bush triomf.

Wie is hier nu de fantast?

[Basy Lys]

In hoeverre bedreigt de Chinese politiek de Europese economie?

[democratsteve]

Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door filosoof

We wisten het, we zagen het aankomen, maar't blijft angstaanjagend!

Ik dacht eerder aan: we wisten het, we zagen het aankomen, ...en we deden niets om hem te stoppen.
De meeste Duitsers die WO2 hebben meegemaakt, kwamen achteraf met het excuus: "we wisten het niet". En misschien was dat ook wel zo.
Ben wel eens benieuwd wat het excuus binnen enkele jaren gaat zijn wanneer de wereld verworden is tot één grote fascistische staat.
Want dat we het niet geweten hebben of niet zien aankomen hebben, kan je dan toch moeilijk staande houden, hé?

[Wiley E Coyote]

Tsja, t'is een feit dat 9/11 ervoor gezorgd heeft dat Bush dit allemaal kon doorvoeren. 9/10 was Bush iemand die politiek zwaar onder vuur lag, 9/11 heeft zijn presidentschap gered doordat de Democraten en de Amerikanen uit vrees hem vrij spel gegeven hebben...

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Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door Wiley E Coyote

Tsja, t'is een feit dat 9/11 ervoor gezorgd heeft dat Bush dit allemaal kon doorvoeren. 9/10 was Bush iemand die politiek zwaar onder vuur lag, 9/11 heeft zijn presidentschap gered doordat de Democraten en de Amerikanen uit vrees hem vrij spel gegeven hebben...

De ogen beginnen meer en meer open te gaan

[Wiley E Coyote]

Bij mij zijn die al lang open... de meeste Amerikanen hun ogen zijn nu pas aan het opengaan. Dat bewijzen toch zijn approval ratings.

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Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door Wiley E Coyote

Bij mij zijn die al lang open... de meeste Amerikanen hun ogen zijn nu pas aan het opengaan. Dat bewijzen toch zijn approval ratings.

Juist, ik doelde eigenlijk niet alleen op jouw persoonlijk.

Ik apprecieer het gewoon dat ook hier op P.be meer en meer bezoekers inzien hoe het imperialistische VS te werk gaat en ik apprecieer nog meer dat bezoekers er ook voor uit komen, ook al lieten ze pakweg 2 �* 3 jaar geleden een ander verhaal horen.

[Wiley E Coyote]

Nou ja, de bezoekers van deze site zijn belange niet representatief voor de Vlaamse bevolking. De Vlaamse bevolking is van in 2003 reeds meer en meer kritischer geworden vis-�*-vis de USA. Allen dankzij Irak.