Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Blood Pressure Drug Facts

Blood Pressure Drug Facts

There is no greater profit center for drug companies than high blood
pressure, aka hypertension

According to the CDC, it's currently THE most commonly diagnosed condition at a doctor's visit in the US.
The mere thought of it creates intense fear of heart attacks and strokes among most people.
And the pharmaceutical industry plays upon those fears to create patients for life by recommending daily drugging for people who are even coming CLOSE to having high blood pressure...magically termed "pre-hypertension."
But not only are "thy daily meds" NOT necessary in a large number of cases, but they can be downright HARMFUL!
Read on--you won't want to miss a word of this.
 

Hypertension is not even an illness!
First and foremost, it's important that you know hypertension is NOT even an illness!
It's simply a risk factor, meaning that it (along with SEVERAL other factors) MAY suggest you are at an increased risk for a heart attack or stroke.
Here's why it's a risk factor for SOME people:
A repeated strong force of blood pushing against your artery walls can cause little tears or weakening, which can lead to inflammation.
Your body uses cholesterol to repair these little injuries, which is the natural healing process.

But if the arterial inflammation becomes long-term and chronic, that's when you may get build-up of cholesterol, then eventually atherosclerosis and become a heart disease risk.
So it's CHRONIC INFLAMMATION that is the real culprit behind the danger--not merely a blood pressure reading!
See the difference?
 

Many different causes
The underlying causes of high blood pressure run the gamut and can include:
* Genetics--A tendency to have higher blood pressure may run in families.
* Biochemical individuality--Higher blood pressure is perfectly normal for some people.
* Too much sodium and/or too little potassium in your diet can elevate blood pressure.
* Medications--Steroids, pain relievers, diet pills, antidepressants and oral contraceptives can ALL raise blood pressure.
* Stress--Your stress hormones cause your heart to beat faster and your blood vessels to narrow, which can raise blood pressure.
* Age--Higher blood pressure is a common occurrence with aging and does not necessarily indicate a problem.
* Smoking--Nicotine decreases oxygen to your heart, constricts your blood vessels and increases your heart rate and blood pressure.
* Acid waste buildup--Acid wastes in your bloodstream (from poor digestion) can rob your blood of oxygen and make your heart have to work harder.
 

Now I have a question for you:
With SO many different possibilities for the underlying cause of elevated blood pressure, doesn't it make sense to address what may be the true cause of yours and get rid of it for good?
 

I'm not listening, I'm not listening
Just like a defiant toddler who can't have a cookie before dinner, the drug companies do not care that, say, quitting smoking or eating more foods with potassium will solve your blood pressure problem for good.
They want what they want...YOU as a lifetime patient -- and that's THAT.
And they will exert a "temper tantrum" of pressure to make sure you get your script and get in line at the pharmacy.
Thanks to their pressures on the medical community to:
1- lower the blood pressure classifications and
2- their suggestion to prescribe drugs for people who are even in the pre-hypertension range...

...as well as their creative marketing to the public to "Ask your doctor if XYZ drug is right for you," elevated blood pressure is now universally seen as a dangerous condition that MUST be treated with drugs no matter WHO you are or what your circumstances may be.
That means that anyone whose blood pressure equals or exceeds the "normal" threshold of under 120/80 gets labeled as follows:
120/80 to 139/89: Prehypertension
140/90 to 159/99: Stage 1 hypertension
160/100 and higher: Stage 2 hypertension
The drug companies LOVE this, because it means gazillions of dollars each and every year in drugs that many people likely don't need -- at ALL.
 

The truth is starting to trickle in
There's one problem with this perfect process to produce profits of portly proportions...
...The truth is starting to trickle in, my friend.
Independent experts and increasing numbers of recent studies now report that blood pressure drugs used to treat mild cases of hypertension not only do NOT reduce heart attacks, strokes or overall deaths, but they come with a mile long list of nasty "side effects!"
For example, in reviewing thousands of mild hypertension cases, the Cochrane Collaboration found that NO benefit was noted in the use of drugs to treat mild hypertension, coupled with the possibility that the drugs cause net harm.
In addition, there was also a non-significant trend toward MORE heart attacks among medicated patients!
The net harm caused by blood pressure drugs can include loss of libido, sudden pain, urinary infections, asthma symptoms, insomnia, depression, coughing, rashes, dizziness, drowsiness, constipation and diarrhea.
And get this--one of the "side effects" of these unnecessary medications is DEATH.
Yeah, I'd call that a side effect -- a permanent one.
 

Disease creep
There is an actual expression called "disease creep" which affects untold numbers of people.
Disease creep occurs when people with risk factors for a condition or even just a mild case of an illness are drugged with the same medications as patients with severe cases.
In these cases, it is easy for the dangerous, harmful drug effects to completely overwhelm any possible benefit.
And what to do about the harmful effects?
Prescribe MORE drugs, of course!
Jay Siwek, editor of the journal American Family Physician, notes that disease creep can be seen as clear as day in the recently created concept of "predisease" - including "prehypertension" and "prediabetes."
 

Stop the craziness -- and save a ton of money
Regardless of what your blood pressure is and whether or not you're already on medication, you can take a great many measures to help address the underlying cause(s).
If you do, you'll likely see your numbers come down and possibly not even need medication at all!
Here are some of the very best ways you can make a HUGE difference in those numbers of yours:
1) Quit the butts
High blood pressure is yet ANOTHER great reason to put the deadly smoking habit behind you for good.
There are a LOT of suggestions and information out there on where to start and what you can do. Here's a good site that may help:
- http://www.helpguide.org/mental/quit_smoking_cessation.htm
 

2) Move it, move it
Not only does exercise help relieve stress, but it strengthens all of your muscles including your heart, and helps eliminate acid wastes and toxins -- all of which can bring your blood pressure down.
 

3) Explore alternatives
If you're on a medication that causes high blood pressure, it's time to talk to your doctor about alternatives...or see if it's possible to lower your dose or get off them altogether.
 

4) Eat your way to better numbers
Having a diet of real (not fast or processed) foods and eating meals that digest efficiently can help reduce acid wastes in your system and help ensure you get the nutrients (including the crucial potassium) your body needs.
Plus less reliance on fast or processed foods means you naturally get LESS sodium.
ALL of which can bring your blood pressure down (as well as your weight)!
In the Great Taste No Pain health system, I'll teach you everything you need to know to accomplish this.
In Great Taste No Pain, there are simple step-by-step guides that tell you exactly what to eat (and what not to eat) and how to structure your meals to minimize health-wrecking acid wastes.
With fewer acid wastes clogging up your bloodstream, your heart can have a much easier time pumping blood through your system.
And you'll get the benefit of better nutrient absorption, which can help make sure your body has what it needs to function optimally from head to toe, as well as help excess pounds slide off.
Talk about a win-win-win!
 

5) Reduce inflammation with Omega-3 EFAs
Omega-3 essential fatty acids have shown to be an effective tool to help fight high blood pressure in these 2 ways:
A- Omega-3 fatty acids have anti-inflammatory properties, which can help counteract any inflammation you might currently have festering up in your arteries.
and
2- They help keep blood clots from forming by reducing the stickiness in your platelets and curbing the production of protein strands that can get tangled up with platelets and result in a clot.
As a matter of fact, they've been medically PROVEN to help lower blood pressure!
Studies show that daily Omega-3 supplementation alone can lower your systolic (the top number) pressure by five points or more and your diastolic (the bottom number) pressure by three points or more!
Unfortunately, because our typical diets are heavy on processed foods, vegetable oils and meats from grain-fed animals (all foods that are completely lacking Omega-3 EFAs), most people in developed countries are seriously deficient in this crucial nutrient.
In addition, these foods that are staples in our modern diets are also LOADED with Omega-6 EFAs -- which stir up inflammation!
Talk about a double-edged sword!
So in addition to eating more fatty fish (like salmon), one of the best ways to engage the natural anti-inflammatory action of Omega-3 EFAs to help fight high blood pressure is to take a very high-quality fish oil supplement.
And for outstanding quality, look no further than VitalMega-3.
VitalMega-3 gives you 1,200 mg. of these essential nutrients (including the all-important EPA and DHA).
 

Stop the danger
Congratulations--you've now become an expert in the Sherry Brescia School of Blood Pressure Facts.
And instead of thinking that potentially deadly drugs are your destiny, you now know there are other better, safer options.
Put them to work for you, and I bet you and your doctor will get a very pleasant surprise next time you get your blood pressure taken!
To your health,
Sherry Brescia
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PPS: Ralph's off the preventive drugs and feeling great!
Dear Sherry,
12 years ago I had by-pass surgery and was immediate put on Lipitor, Diovan, a high blood pressure pill, and a baby aspirin every other day.
Last April I got a bad case of influenza and ended up sitting in the lazy boy chair for 11 weeks, feeling like a zombie. I just wasn't getting any better, only to get worse by getting bladder and kidney infections.
When that happened, my family doctor told me to stop taking the
Crestor (I was switched to Crestor 2 years ago) and the Diovan.

That's when I started to recover!
Here is the thing--I was never told by any doctor that I had a high cholesterol or high blood pressure problem to begin with! My doctor said that taking these drugs was for "preventative" reasons.
After having been off these pills, my cholesterol levels and blood pressure are normal, actually my blood pressure is slightly lower!
One of the side effects of statins is that they lower your immune system. Hmm... I got influenza, bladder and kidney infections! No surprise there!
While I was laid up, I was reading a health article written by a medical doctor and he said this about statins: "Statins will go down in medical history as one of the biggest errors."
People get off statins, they will poison you. Just eat better!
Sherry, I have taken your advice about eating. I used to take Tums to kill off the heartburn, not anymore. Just eat real foods.
Thanks for the email and God bless,
Ralph
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2012 Scenario Update



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ANNIVERSARY OF THE NUREMBERG WAR TRIALS OF NAZI WAR CRIMINALS STARTING ON NOVEMBER 20, 2012 FROM ERASMUS OF AMERICA


     "THOSE THAT FAIL TO STUDY HISTORY ARE DOOMED TO REPEAT IT!" - FAMOUS SAYING

     As head of the Confederate movement in America with authority for the Confederate Government from three branches of the Jefferson Davis family, let me issue this warning to present leaders of Wash., D.C. It is time to lie low and let international law on genocide and land put the Confederate Government into national power over America as if international law recognizes as it is anticipated it will that the Confederate Government has lawfully acquired legal title to all 50 states of America, with title to all the land now acquired the Confederate Government is the new national government of America. Without land left for the federal government to claim as legally its own, the federal government will have lost national power and no longer be a functioning government as a government without land has no power base to it to survive on. Many in Wash., D.C. deserve to be hung for high treason against the American people and America as a nation. Having a heavy background in military intelligence, it is easy for me to hunt down these federal traitors when the Confederate Government has the legal option now to take over as the national govenment of America and then punish those who were its enemies when law legally justifies it. I am not a bloodthirsty man and prefer the ways of peace rather than harsh law and harsh punishment for those deserving it in Wash., D.C. No incidents and play ball with me now and I prefer to let you go to your homes peacefully and let you later face the Judgment of God rather than forcing my hand so Confederate Judgment will handle you first and then turn you over to God for a second round of judgment for your evil and wickedness when in power. As a Christian leader in policy when my enemies will allow me to be merciful with them, if you don't force my hand, I will try and be merciful and let you retire with your head intact and allowed to lead your life peacefully but in enforced retirement. If I am forced, then I will act with the authority of Caesar (symbolic of government authority) instead of the mercy of Christ (symbolic of a more merciful approach to your enemies if they will allow you to spare them the punishments they justly deserve in this life).
     Do not miscalculate my character nor that of the Confederate Government now getting ready to rise into national power. Any indication of later conspiracy and evil on your part if we let you just leave Wash., D.C. and retire in peace, then instead we will put you through the American equivalent of the Nuremberg War Trials of Nazi Criminals and likely hang most or all of you if the court so rules. If you don't care for peace and want to press your luck to see if you can survive the pending legal takeover of America by the revived Confederate Government, then we will likely at least practice the old Roman system of legal decimation where one of every ten of you will be executed by the law if found guilty as legal warning to the rest that if they don't behave themselves, then their heads will roll along with yours.
     If we are soon totally backed by international law and there is to be a peaceful transfer of government to the Confederate Government, then this is my policy until and unless our Confederate Government should change this policy. The military stays intact and operates as usual. The Confederate Battle Flag will now fly along with the American Flag. This will be symbolic to show that the Confederate Government is now the new national government of America but America remains as one nation under the God-loyal Confederate Government of the Confederate States of America (now increased up to 50 states belonging to the Confederacy of America). We will have remaining states ratifying formally where the people and state governments want to join the Confederacy. But with ownership of their state land, we will return title to their state land as soon as ratification unifies them with the Confederacy. And nice reward as we treat all with justice, we turn over $1 trillion to each state as it joins the Confederacy. This money is to be equally divided between all citizens 18 years of age and age who were lawful American citizens and now swear allegiance to the Confederacy as their new national government. How we acquire this money to do this is a sort of Confederate secret until we hold power. If we can obtain enough extra beyond the $100 trillion goal, we may throw in the free bonus of paying off all state debts of all 50 state governments in America. We agree to pay off all federal debts owed to foreign sources but with one condition attached. You vote for us in the UN. You vote against us and since we are not the federal government, but Confederate Government, we will invite you then to collect from the old federal government if any of it still legally exists after losing the land claims to America.We pay off the federal foreign debts as a courtesy but not a legal obligation of the Confederacy as we did not make these debts with you but another government which we will have replaced in America.
     We will want federal laws enforced through Nov. 20, 2012 and remain operational until we confirm their continuance, modify them or else cancell them. This among other things means that social security runs as usual and pays as usual. When we are ready, we will turn the social security system from an effective Ponzi Scheme into a very sound monetary system for the retired in America and would not be surprised if later the retired receive even two to three more times more money under Confederate management than prior federal management. The Bush tax cuts remain in force until we make whatever changes required. This means no new tax increases starting in 2013. Also, the Obamacare national health plan will be on hold as it was designed to bankrupt the American economy by undermining the financial soundness of American business. When we come up with a much better national health for the people, we will set this Confederate retirement plan up and people and businesses will be far more happy with it than the Communist designed Obama sounding good until carefully analyzed and then super deadly to the American economy. Also, we are not going to have people take the microchip under their skins which C.I.A. in secret session long ago wanted as the trick way to put the Ameican people under a total federal electronic police state where the government would automatically spy on all the people 24 hours a day 7 days a week. We don't believe in national police states, so this policy is dead as law before it even gets started.
      As we systemically change from the unsound federal monetary policies to sound monetary policies, we will honor federal money until we retire it with a far better monetary system. If any nations try tricks of financial war on America while this monetary change takes place, we will consider this an act of war against the Confederate States of America and will set up monetary policies against that nation whereas they will maybe find out that their economy may go bankrupt instead of ours. Don't try to take advantage of the situation while we change government, etc. as we will at no point be weak while changing government in America.
     The Confederate States of America never joined the United Nations, so we are not bound by authority of the United Nations nor treaties of Wash., D.C. until we decide that we will legally approve them or else reject them as treaties we will not agree to be bound by. And in our Confederate Constitution to be written by delegates from the original Confederate States, I will insist that we never make treaty agreements as higher in authority or as high in authority as our Confederate Constitution. We do not give away the legal righs of our citizens to foreign sources through treaties contrary to Wash., D.C. today. We will agree to a Permanent Observer Mission with the United Nations where our views may be showed to the UN, but we do not vote in the UN until we are satisfied with the terms we will have offered to the Confederate States of America.
     It is to the interests of the UN to back the Confederacyand fully. If we are not backed, we will sponsor a separate international body to later replace the UN as an international legal source for all nations to appeal to in international legal issues.If we are not backed, then my father's Vatican endorsed food process is not available to the human race and university tests of long ago said the entire human race will shortly die like the dinosaurs on earth if this unique food is not soon offered to all nations on earth. Regardless of which national government will shortly represent America and the people of America, our national market is still huge and to have chaos in our economy would probably trigger off the collapse of all economies in the world and bankruptcy for most to all national governments on earth. And nations hostile to us in the UN and not on our side, I hold the Vatican endorsed trade secret food process and other technology which will skyrocket the world economy. I bless with the food and other technology those who are the friends of the Confederacy. Those who are our enemies, you will not share in the great prosperity we can bring to nations who are our friends and trading partners in the world.
     Some nations should be automatic to back us in the UN from the very start. If we have a way we are going to deliver to Russia from $10 trillion to $20 trillion at current purchasing power of American money as of Nov. 20, 2012, of course Russia is going to be on our side in the UN. If we are going to boom the economies of France, Great Britain, Italy, and Ireland with $1 trillion each plus other West European nations acting in time to our incredibly cheap $1 million offer listed in a previous report for UN reading and filing, why not nations going to get $1 trillion in return not going to back us in the UN? And if acting quickly, I will let Poland join this $1 million offer for later $1 trillion in return from the Confederacy, but if you do not ask fast and the committed fund is used up, then sorry Poland no $1 trillion for you. The $1 million amounts are to help pay our expenses to set up our Permanent Mission Headquarters in New York for working with the UN. Also, cover some other expenses not mentioned here but advance the interests of the Confederate Government and Confederate States of America.
     From this hour forth, if Wash., D.C. makes any moves to try and interfere with our mail, internet communications, money we receive, etc., this will be considered as legally an act of war against the Confederate States of America. We will then want arrested Obama of Kenya and Eric Holder of the U.S. Justice Dept. arrested by the U.S. military and when the Confederate Government is in power, we will put these two federal leades on trial as American equivalent of Nazi War Criminals held on trial at the Nuremberg War Trials starting on Nov. 20,  1945. We reserve the right to add more names of federal leaders if more want to engage in acts of war against the lawful Confederate Government of the Confederate States of America.
     Americans, copy and send this report out nationally and worldwide to break the censorship of the corrupt news media of America. Their censorship can't stop us, but create such ill will with us if they think censorship of the news will stop us, then we will pass laws of taxation, etc. that will teach corrupt news media to play it honest the next time and not corrupt in America. I descend from a strong newspaper family including one of my forefathers founding the first newspaper in Texas which was the Bonham News if I remember the name right, my father was an executive with Randolph Hearst of the American newspaper empire, and others of my forefathers and I have all believed in journalistic integrity in the reporting of news to the American people, not censorship of pertinent major news in order to try and politically control the American people by hiding the truth from them. I have worked for several newspapers in my life including The Wall Street Journal and I have no use for prostitute journalists trying to trick the American people out of control of their government and nation by censorship, distortion of news, propaganda slants to reporting of news, etc. The newspapers will need to have goodwill with me as they don't need to make me their hardened critic in American society and heard and believed by all the American people in the future. Play it honest and you are smart!
     Position of law of the Confederate Government. We need to have it as international law that hacking of financial accounts or any form of personal accounts on the internet is a modernized version of Piracy On The High Seas and can be punished by even hanging as was common law in older times. In South Carolina in America, nearly 4 citizens of South Carolina had their private personal information stolen by an international hacker apparently from Russia.This means up to 4 million citizens can have their bank accounts stolen from and other mischief done to their lives including they pay credit card and debit card charges for the hacker or those he sold their private information to so sources all over the world could steal from them even potentially for the rest of their lives. I want no legal protection given hackers in any nation of the world. We can have soldiers or authorized legal agents assigned to arrest them able to go to any nation to arrest them and bring them back to the nation where their victims live, put them on trial, and then carry out the legal ruling of the court involved. I also suggest that in security systems for private information or private accounts of people in any nations of the world, there be added an additional software system so all people entering these security threatened accounts have to be verified as to where they are and from what internet service they are using to approach these accounts. We have to see back a signal from the source approaching any security account to verify where the electronic signals came from so we can arrest the would-be hacker if would-be hacker is involved. Also, that all bank accounts in the world also have a paper system whereas if the bank account holder insists then their account can only honor paper checks, not electronic instructions, for payments to be withdrawn from their accounts. And where the bank account holder insists, then they must be called or effectively contacted first before they authorize large bank checks to be honored to be withdrawn in amount from their private or business accounts. It is time for a bit of common sense in international banking and national banking all over the world!
     For UN members or private citizens wishing to read over 80 of my national reports posted nationally and internationally over the last 7 plus months now with Nesara News which covers a large national and international audience monthly, put in their search box at the top left of their website my pen name of Erasmus of America and you can read the reports listed there. For those wanting to back my drive to finish our legal work of filling, etc. with the UN and other activities which will soon bring the Confederate Government into national power, send to NIFI at NIFI, P.O. Box 1465, Seneca, SC 296789 any financial support for the Omni Law which will be national law for America soon regardless if under the federal government or else Confederate Government of America. If Wash., D.C. had met me halfway and passed the Omni Law while they could, I would have been forced by moral force to accept compromise and let the federal government survive. Now it is too late for that! The Confederacy arises now because Wash., D.C. was so dedicated to tyranny, they could not stand to give back the God-given rights of the American people to the 50 states of America.
     I may receive communications at fastboomamericaneconomy@gmail.com . Public, say "Add to List" for coming reports.
     Yours for God and the Confederate States of America, Martin Hunter, Erasmus of America (pen name), President of the Confederate States of America

AMERICAN GENERALS PRIVILEDGES EXPOSED 'PETRAEUS LIVED AS HE WERE BILL GATES AND ROCK STAR AT THE SAME TIME


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AMERICAN GENERALS PRIVILEDGES EXPOSED 'PETRAEUS LIVED AS HE WERE BILL GATES AND ROCK STAR AT THE SAME TIME
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Date: Tuesday, 20-Nov-2012 08:02:38


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Scandal in which American general, retired, now ex CIA head, David H. Petraeus , found himself revealed to public, among else, what priviledges enjojed or are still enjojing high US military servents. No wonder, comentators say, that experienced, and long time soldier Petraeus left out discipline in his life.
As during the interview for Washington Post described US minister of defense Robert M. Gates, when his neighbour become current chief of Joint staff of US military Mike Mullen, Gates ended collecting the leafs in his jard.
- Although I was his Commanding Officires, Mullen had, diferently of myself, his own kitchen shef and few soldiers that took care of his house. He frequently tried to be funny saying that I solve the leafes problem by throving them on his loan - said Gates who confessed that he has frequently envied, because Gates had always 4 soldiers at his disposal.
- I had to warm food in microwawe, and alone care for my loan - added Gates.
Main military generals enjoj a long list of priviledges, that includes luxurious airplanes, good gouses, drivers, personal protection teams, and helpers that will carry their bags, care for ther uniforms, and focus to not forget anything. THeir food is prepared by the top grade chefs. If they want the music of the evening, they can order string quarted or chorus.
One detail that brought media to attention in scandal around general Petraeus was that he once Jill Kelley, woman because of which he indirectly los the CIA job after a year, he wisited escorted with 28 policeman on bikes. Altough such parade is rare, general life is rather well-to-do.
THEY FORGOT TO BE HUMBLE
Exsactly that, writes WP, could explain Petraeus's “moral downfall”. Some asked if he ever was exsempar soldier. But, Gates has another theory.
- There is something in power that moots the judgment - thinks Gates. David Barno, retired three star general agreates with him, ex military comander in Afganistan.
- The way of life that have potential which makes possible that generals, after some time, waste their way of life. That is no good for this country, nor for the military - Barno said. He thinks that this creates the oportunity that person distances himself from the common man and humble life of the rest of the military.
Although american generals enjojed high standard long ago - even during the WWII, and Vietnam war - priviledges that generals have today are much greater. Except the president, not a single state employer has not right to such luxury.
SAVOIRS
Petraeus did, with this, enjojed the status of natioanl hero. He himself took care of such image, inviting the book authors on jurnies, frequently giving interviews and being near to the political leaders. He understood that for a high profile was not enough to show himself on the battlefield, but that he has to be a star in society arena. When ex US president George W. Bush looked for the nation savoir during the Iraq war, he fount him in Petraeus. He made him the head of attack on Bhagdad and did not miss. During the first 6 months of 2007 Bush mentioned Petraeus in his peaches 150 times.
After Petraeus become commander in Irak, violence lessened. He returned home as a star. Then choosen dinners in Washington started. As for WP Thomas E. Ricks said, to be four star general menas to be as combination between Bila Gates and music star. But, some generals, obviously, did not find good balance and fell in the catch of such life. That Petraeus's life shows, whose extramarial affair with the author of his biography Paulom Broadwell costed the job of CIA head. If he still wos in military, affair would be considered a crime. Affair was revealed recently because Broadwell was sending a thretenong mails to Jill Kelley who because of that seeked help form FBI and thus started the whole investigation.
Some defend multitude of general priviledges saying that they work 18 hours per day, six or seven day per week. Their pay is, considering their status, modest. Base general pay with 4 stars and 38 of service for 2013 is $235.000 per year. But apart form public servents, they have a right to freee homes and bounus for food and uniforms.
AIRPLANE FOR DEGUSTATIONS
Need for savings and Petraeus scandal could lead to teh reduction of general's priviledges. Petraeus was not the first. For some of his colegues it was discovered that they are huge, and not rightful, spenders of state money.
Ex american Africa Corps chief, general William Kip Ward, spent thousands of dollars on private jurneys, ans his woman used military wehicles for shoping or for visiting a beauty centers. Current US military head in Europe, admiral James Stavridis, is under investigation because he flew with military airplane to France to taste the wine. But, after investigation it was concluded that the reason for his voyage was primarily to be friendly witgh foreign military heads.
Ward was not liberated, last week, Defense Minister Leon Panetta announced that he will be degraded and go to forced retirement as a three star general. All that could lead to consideration of priviledges because threre is a stron opinion that generals have lost the touch with simple citizens.
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US generals are under control of bushes and their break-away civilisation that created 3rd reich. They are just a simple minded persons that sold their souls for few FED worthless banknotes.
Paneta is chatching the last train.
I think that he has lost it.
IZAKOVIC
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Stealing JFK's body


Subject: Stealing JFK's body
Ronald

One of the important pieces
of evidence in any murder
investigation is the body of
the victim.

If so, what is the significance
of the FACT that JFK's body
was removed from Dallas
illegally and the forensic
examination was given
to two total amateurs?

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Monday, November 19, 2012

BARACK OBAMA SAECULUM DOMINI XXI (PART 2)


Dear Br. John,

I don't trust the fallen ones/Ascended masters and ET's, nor do I trust Obama, but this is a good willed message from Giorgio Bongiovanni.:




gerusalemmeINGFROM HEAVEN TO EARTH
BARACK OBAMA SAECULUM DOMINI XXI (PART 2)
THE MEASURES THAT THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES SHOULD QUICKLY PUT INTO PRACTICE:
1) RETIREMENT OF ALL THE AMERICAN SOLDIERS FROM ALL THE NATIONS AND THE TERRITORIES AT WAR.
2) DRASTIC REDUCTION OF ALL THE MILITARY EXPENSES OF THE UNITED STATES.
3) SERIOUS INCREASE OF TAXES TO THE VERY RICH PEOPLE AND THEIR REDUCTION TO THE POORER CLASSES.  FREE HEALTH CARE FOR ALL THE WEAKER CLASSES. HEALTH CARE WITH A COMPULSORY FEE FOR ALL THE RICH CLASSES.
4) ADVANCE WITH FORCE TO THE NUCLEAR SUPERPOWERS, FIRST OF ALL RUSSIA, A NEW TREATY FOR THE DRASTIC REDUCTION OF ATOMIC WEAPONS UP TO THEIR TOTAL DECOMMISSIONING. ITS NAME COULD BE: SARAS 1.
5) ENDORSEMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF A NEW AND STRICTER TREATY TO REDUCE THE PLANET’S GLOBAL POLLUTION LEVEL.
6) COMPULSORY REDUCTION OF THE AMERICAN PUBLIC EXPENDITURE (AUSTERITY) AND THEREFORE REDUCTION OF THE DEBT AND REDUCTION OF CONSUMPTION, BECAUSE THE WHOLE PLANET IS FACING THE GREATEST FINANCIAL, ENERGETIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS OF HUMAN HISTORY.
7) ENFORCE A LAW AT WALL STREET, NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE AND THUS TO ALL INVESTORS AND SPECULATORS, TO PROHIBIT TO TRADE SHAM ASSETS AND SHARES (WORTH THOUSANDS OF BILLION DOLLARS), THE SO-CALLED FUTURES OR DERIVATIVES, BUT ALLOWING ONLY THE SALE OF REAL ASSETS AND SHARES WITH A GENUINE PRODUCTION VALUE. FORBID THE SALE OF ARMS THROUGH STOCK EXCHANGE OR BANK TRANSACTIONS. THE SALE OF ARMS, EVEN IF SLOWLY, MUST DISAPPEAR FROM THE FACE OF THE UNITED STATES, THE SALE OF ARMS CAN BE SUBSTITUTED WITH THE OPENING OF A NEW GREAT MARKET, TRANSPARENT AND PROFITABLE FOR EVERYONE: THE PROJECT AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THERMODYNAMIC SOLAR ENERGY ALREADY TESTED AND INSTALLED IN VARIOUS EUROPEAN COUNTRIES, BY THE PHYSICIST CARLO RUBBIA. AMERICA AND THE WORLD IN A VERY SHORT TIME WOULD GET RID OF THE TERRIBLE OIL MARKET AND WOULD HAVE A VERY CHEAP INFINITE AND CLEAN ENERGY, BUT AT THE SAME TIME THE UNITED STATES, EXCLUSIVE PROMOTERS OF THE PROJECT WORLDWIDE, WOULD EARN WELL DESERVED BILLIONAIRE ROYALTIES THAT WOULD ALLOW THEM TO PAY THE PUBLIC DEBT, (16.000 BILLION DOLLARS) AND WOULD THEREFORE OBTAIN A NEW GREAT WEALTH.
8) INTERVENE WITH SEVERITY, DETERMINATION AND DEFINITIVELY IN THE ETERNAL MIDDLE EASTERN PROBLEM, IN PARTICULAR ON THE NEFARIOUS AND WARMONGERING POSITIONS OF THE POWERFUL LOBBIES THAT GOVERN ISRAEL AND AMERICA. IMPOSE THEM A POLICY OF PEACE AMONG THE OPPOSITE FACTIONS. RECOGNIZE THE STATE OF PALESTINE AND SPLIT IN TWO EQUAL HALVES THE CAPITAL JERUSALEM. DEMAND ISRAEL, IRAN AND ALL ARAB COUNTRIES FOR THE SURRENDER AND THE DESTRUCTION OF ALL WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION, NUCLEAR, CHEMICAL AND BACTERIOLOGICAL, THROUGH SEVERE SANCTIONS. REMIND TO THE ARABS AND TO THE ISRAELI THAT THEY ARE BOTH CHILDREN OF THE SAME SACRED HISTORY, THAT ADONAY AND ALLAH ARE THE SAME GOD AND THAT THEIR FATHER IS ABRAHAM, AND THUS ISHMAEL (ARABS) AND ISAAC (ISRAELI) ARE BROTHERS.
9) PROPOSE EUROPE, CHINA AND RUSSIA TO PROPOSE A SINGLE INTERNATIONAL CURRENCY THAT WOULD AVOID THE WICKED OSCILLATIONS THAT PRODUCE ONLY WEALTH TO CRIMINALS AND UNSCRUPULOUS SPECULATORS. PROPOSE THE ABOLITION OF THE OFFSHORE COUNTRIES. PROPOSE AN INTERNATIONAL ANTI-MAFIA JUDICIARY ORGANIZATION WITH THE AIM TO DEFINITIVELY ANNIHILATE ALL THE MAFIAS OF THE PLANET.
FIGHT AND WIN OVER FAMINE AND DISEASES OF THE WORLD THROUGH THE CREATION OF A WORLD ECONOMIC COMMUNITY AT THE SERVICE OF THE WEAK ONES, PROMOTED BY THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. THUS RE-ESTABLISH NEW BROTHERHOOD RAPPORTS WITH THE PEOPLE OF LATIN AMERICA, ADMITTING THE GREAT MISTAKES OF THE PAST, WHEN THE USA SUPPORTED AND FINANCED THE BLOODY DICTATORSHIPS OF SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA.
10) THE LAST AND PROBABLY MOST IMPORTANT MEASURE THAT THE RE-ELECTED PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA SHOULD PUT INTO PRACTICE IS TO REVEAL TO THE WHOLE WORLD, THAT THE UNITED STATES POSSESS THE SCIENTIFIC PROOF, DOCUMENTS AND INDISPUTABLE TESTIMONIES OF THE EXISTENCE OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL CIVILIZATIONS, THAT DO NOT REPRESENT A THREAT NEITHER FOR THE UNITED STATES, NOR FOR HUMANITY. ACTUALLY, IT IS SUFFICIENTLY PROVEN THAT THE ALIENS ARE ABLE TO HELP HUMANKIND AT SCIENTIFIC, POLITICAL, ECONOMICAL, SOCIOLOGICAL AND RELIGIOUS LEVEL, THUS WOULD ALLOW HUMANITY TO DO A GREAT EVOLUTIONARY LEAP OF HUNDREDS OF YEARS.
THE TEN POINTS ABOVE ARE AN OVERVIEW OF WHAT PRESIDENT OBAMA COULD DO TO DEMONSTRATE TO THE ETERNAL FATHER, TO THE COSMOS AND TO THE EARTH, TO BE A MESSENGER OF PEACE, JUSTICE AND LOVE.
WE ARE WAITING AND WILL SEE.
PEACE!
FROM HEAVEN TO EARTH
Sant'Elpidio a Mare (Italy)
November 8th, 2012. 7:20 p.m.
G.B.

An Hour With An Angel: Archangel Michael, Roundtable Talk

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It will feature Steve Beckow interviewing Archangel Michael
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whether there are different Ascension timelines, and what the
different timelines are to be understood.

We'll also ask him to confirm that Ascension is available for
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ascend later than Dec. 21.

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Treasury Dollars Ready


Subject: Dinar RV Value – Treasury Dollars Ready [AND] U.S. Treasury Exempts Foreign Exchange Swaps From Dodd-Frank
To: StepsFor Success <StepsForSuccess@gmail.com>


Just passing along info I have come across regarding the new U.S.T.
bills, TAG accounts, Dodd-Frank, etc.  Don't ask me what it all means...LOL...just want you to be aware of this info, so you are prepared when you do your EXCHANGE...and who knows if it will even apply, IF our EXCHANGE isn't allowed until 2013.

Blessings,
S~  aka FB   :-)
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Thursday, November 15th, 2012 | Posted by RJ

Dinar RV Value – Treasury Dollars Ready

Tom Gambill
Sun, Nov 11, 2012
Subject: Dinar Holder Notice!!!

There's more to the TAG accounts than meets the eye. TAG: Transaction Account Guarantee

Superficial chatter says that you should just ask for your Dinar deposits to be placed in a no-interest bearing account. Then your funds will be insured with no upper limit. The FDIC will not be the insurer but because of the Dodd-Frank bill you will be insured fully through the end of this year, or maybe for the 12 months following the Re-valuation date???

But, Heads up:
Unless the bank has actually set up and is compliant with the TAG account instructions, you may be harmed in several ways.

None of my local banks had heard of the rules for becoming compliant with the Dodd-Frank instructions. I printed out copies of the instructions (13 pages) and handed it to the bank VPs which they cheerfully received, promising that their lawyers would read it and get ready to support TAG accounts.

There is a basis for this strange TAG requirement (or suggestion). It may help if you understand the basis for the Dodd-Frank Bill and the TAG account option.

Your Dinar payouts were and are supposed to be in gold or metals-backed currency. That's especially true for Dinar holders because the Dinar you hold is backed by gold, oil, and minerals.

It's fool-hardy to convert the world's most valuable and stable currency into US dollars that sink in value almost every day. Dollars are announced to be DEVALUED another 40% within 30 to 60 days after the RV.

I mentioned Dinar as being stable. Yes. Monthly violence in all of Iraq is far less that that of single US cities like Washington DC or Los Angeles. TV news channels amplify and selectively choose what we are allowed to see or believe.

So where is the US currency that is metals based? New US Treasury bills are expected to be released to the public perhaps 30 or 60 days after the RV. At that time we will have options for converting our old greenback bills into the new Treasury bills. The new bills will be issued from the US Treasury (we expect). The 99 year agreement between the US Treasury and the Federal Reserve ran out sometime in January
2012 (it is claimed).

IF YOU DEPOSIT YOUR CONVERTED FUNDS INTO A VALID TAG ACCOUNT:
- Your funds will be assumed to be of US Treasury Bill value later, when and if the new Treasury bills are issued. (metals backed just like the Dinar – good)
- You will have full and immediate access to your funds to buy big items or properties, no rationing, no delays on withdrawals. (good)

- You must not gain any interest on the account (Mandatory
Requirement) because banks can only pay interest using current debt-based fiat unstable old US currency.
- You cannot take funds from any other source and deposit them into your TAG account. (Maybe DONG payouts are ok, not sure.)

So if you thought you could just deposit Dinar payouts into any old checking account that bears no interest, then you haven't looked through the compliance standards that the bank has to fulfill in getting ready to give you a TAG account. See the link further below.

The legal rules a bank must follow are quite dense and heavy. Details galore. The bank must even have a small sign of a certain size on the wall in the lobby stating with certain words that they provide TAG account services.

Most of you probably envision cashing in at a bank, then wiring some funds from there to other local banks or credit unions. These secondary receiving banks will have to have legitimate TAG accounts if you want the TAG benefits. Upon receiving the incoming bank wire, the bank will have to ask about your source of funds. Your receipt from your original dinar conversion event will be needed in this situation.

So what happens if you just ignore the TAG option. Maybe you were only going to cash in one 25,000 Dinar note. At the rumored rate of $12.36 that single note will produce a deposit of $309,000, which is just a little over the $250,000 normal FDIC insurance.

Is that anything to worry about? (What? Me worry?)

WORRY DEFINED:
Later when we all line up at banks to trade in our crumpled greenbacks to get our fresh Metals-based US Treasury notes, we have hints, rumors, and whispers that there will be a 40% to 60% loss of greenback value for everyone around the world that holds greenbacks. US dollars will be devalued, announced and not a theory.

When the new Treasury bills are issued,
You will possibly trade in $100 old bills and receive back $60 in new Treasury bills. (40% devaluation of US dollars) Or, You will possibly trade in $100 old bills and receive back $40 in new Treasury bills. (60% devaluation of US dollars).

IF your Dinar deposits are NOT PLACED IN A TAG ACCOUNT, your old $1 million greenback dollars will be converted (in the bank) to $600,000 Treasury Bills (for example) at the 40% devaluation rate, when the new bills are released.

IS THIS SCARY EXAMPLE CLEAR? You cashed in top-value DINAR which was already gold-based, and through negligence (in this example) you lost 40% of your value because you didn't mandate that your bank set up a TAG account to receive it.

We have been kept in the dark about many things, but Congress saw this situation about to arise. For once, in your favor, the Dodd-Frank bill designed a method by which your Dinar (and possibly Dong) deposits would be treated AS ACTUAL METALS-BASED CURRENCY even though the new Treasury bills won't be issued until a few months after the RV event.
These TAG accounts (if you see the sense of using them) give the US Treasury up to a year to get their Treasury bills distributed.

The trauma of the US and world-wide populations having their old green dollars DEVALUED can be dealt with best AFTER the frantic Dinar conversions.

To appreciate the complexity of the RV happening in 195 nations, consider that the dollar devaluation will affect all those nations WHOSE CURRENCIES ARE ALSO BEING reassigned based on the productivity of each nation.

Summary: To avoid unnecessary diminishment of 40% or more of your funds when the world soon converts to the new US Treasury bills, consider printing out a few copies of the Dodd-Frank instructions and hand carrying a copy to your local bankers who may be unaware.

I found it useful to talk with bank administrators, stating that you are a Dinar holder, and that even though the local bank is not expected to convert your dinar, you intend to wire sizeable funds into your local account AND THAT IT NEEDS TO COME IN TO A Transaction Account Guarantee (TAG) ACCOUNT which must conform with the printed instructions at this government link.

Here's the official government link for the Dodd-Frank PDF document that defines the bank policies required:
Consider printing a copy of the Dodd-Frank FAQ for the banker(s).



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Bloomberg News

U.S. Treasury Exempts Foreign Exchange Swaps From Dodd-Frank

By Silla Brush on November 16, 2012

The U.S. Treasury Department exempted foreign-exchange swaps and forwards from Dodd-Frank Act regulations intended to reduce risk and increase transparency in the derivatives market.

Foreign-exchange swaps and forwards are short-term transactions that already have high-levels of transparency and risk management, the department said in a statement yesterday announcing the exemption.
Deutsche Bank AG, Bank of New York Mellon Corp. (BK), UBS AG (UBSN) and other banks urged Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner to exempt the market. The exemption had been resisted by some regulators, Democratic lawmakers and advocates of tighter rules.

“Unlike other derivatives, FX swaps and forwards already trade in a highly-transparent, liquid and efficient market,” the Treasury Department said. “This final determination is narrowly tailored.”

Foreign exchange contracts were the second-largest source of derivatives trading revenue for U.S. bank holding companies in the second quarter, according to the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. The companies recorded $3.1 billion in revenue on trading of foreign exchange derivatives.

Foreign-exchange swaps and forwards are part of a $4 trillion global daily market for foreign exchange, according to the Basel-based Bank for International Settlements.

Dodd-Frank would move most swaps to clearinghouses that collect collateral from buyers and sellers to reduce the risk that one party’s default would disrupt the broader market. The measure was enacted in response to the 2008 credit crisis that regulators and lawmakers said was fueled in part by largely unregulated swaps.

‘Additional Costs’

“Moving FX swaps and forwards to centralized clearing would not only have created additional costs for businesses and investors, but also increased systemic risk,” James Kemp, managing director of the Global Financial Markets Association’s foreign-exchange division, said in an e-mail statement. “This final decision from the U.S. Treasury provides the clarity the industry needs to now further develop the infrastructure of the future.”

In comment letters to Treasury in 2010, Democratic Senators Carl Levin of Michigan and Maria Cantwell of Washington discouraged the department from granting the exemption.

The Commodity Markets Council, a lobbying group for energy and agriculture companies and derivatives exchanges, said in a June 2011 letter that the exemption could undermine the regulatory overhaul. The council “believes exempting foreign exchange forwards and swaps at this time from the clearing and trading requirements of Dodd-Frank could increase systemic risk at a time when regulators around the globe are trying to reduce it,” according to the letter, which was submitted in response to Treasury’s proposed exemption.

‘Unjustified’ Loophole

The council includes the CME Group Inc. (CME), the Chicago-based owner of the world’s largest futures exchange; Intercontinental Exchange Inc. (ICE), the Atlanta-based futures market operator; and Decatur, Illinois-based Archer-Daniels-Midland Corp. (ADM), the largest U.S.
grain processor.

“Wall Street fought hard to convince Treasury to grant this loophole, which is unjustified by independent research,” Dennis Kelleher, president and chief executive officer of Better Markets, an organization advocating stricter financial regulation, said in an e-mail statement. “That may be why, after two years of consideration, the United States Treasury announced such an important financial regulation decision on a Friday night at 5 p.m. when Congress is on recess and on the eve of the Thanksgiving holiday.”

Exemption Exceptions

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Securities and Exchange Commission are required to write rules to reduce risk and increase transparency for interest-rate, credit and other swaps in the
$648 trillion global over-the- counter derivatives market.

The Treasury exempted foreign-exchange swaps and forwards from those rules. The exemptions don’t apply to Dodd-Frank’s reporting requirements and business conduct standards. The exemption also doesn’t apply to foreign-exchange options, currency swaps and non-deliverable forwards.

The foreign-exchange swaps and forwards market and its participants “have been subject to strong, comprehensive, and internationally coordinated oversight by central banks for more than three decades,”
Treasury said in the announcement. The exemption takes effect when it is published in the Federal Register.

‘Unforeseen Risks’

“Treasury believes that requiring foreign exchange swaps and forwards to be cleared and settled through the use of new systems and technologies could introduce new, unforeseen risks in this market,”
the department said in the final exemption order.

Darrell Duffie, a professor at Stanford University’s business school, said the foreign-exchange swaps and forwards market has taken voluntary steps to curb risks. “But the remaining amount of counter-party risk in the FX derivatives market is enormous,” Duffie said in an e-mail yesterday after the Treasury announcement. “Does the logic of this exemption imply that credit default swaps or interest rate swaps should also be exempted from regulation once practices improve in those markets? Surely that should not be the case.”

During the congressional debate over Dodd-Frank, the Treasury Department fought unsuccessfully to exclude foreign exchange from regulation over the objections of CFTC Chairman Gary Gensler.

An exclusion threatened to “swallow up the regulation” of derivatives if interest-rate or credit swaps are structured as foreign exchange swaps to benefit from the exemption, Gensler wrote in an August 2009 letter.

Steve Adamske, the CFTC’s spokesman, declined to comment on the final Treasury exemption.

To contact the reporter on this story: Silla Brush in Washington at sbrush@bloomberg.net

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Maura Reynolds at mreynolds34@bloomberg.net

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-11-16/u-dot-s-dot-treasury-exempts-foreign-exchange-swaps-from-dodd-frank

Coup and counter-coup in Washington


Coup and counter-coup in Washington
General David Petraeus, former CIA director
General David Petraeus, former CIA director
Mon Nov 19, 2012 9:12AM
By Webster G. Tarpley
The pro-Obama group wants to avoid large conventional commitments. They want to rely on cyber-warfare, drones, assassinations, bombing, raids by special forces, and economic warfare in the form of trade sanctions and technology embargoes.”
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Sometimes, generals purge politicians. In 1648, during the English Civil War, Colonel Pride and his troops removed those members of the Long Parliament who opposed military domination; the puppets who remained were called the Rump Parliament.


This year, a cabal of generals evidently believed it could secure the White House for Mitt Romney by staging the Benghazi incident and using it as the signal for a cold coup under cover of elections -- probably including computer-generated election fraud -- to bring down Obama. They guessed wrong.

Politicians sometimes purge generals. When the French Secret Army Organization (OAS) staged a putsch in Algiers in April 1961 to prevent the independence of Algeria, President de Gaulle had to round up and jail a number of generals and other officers. The Obama administration and its establishment controllers appear to be ousting a number of intelligence and military officials who took part in illegal operations to replace Obama with Romney. These sackings are being presented to the public under the guise of soap opera sexual infractions or expense account padding, in the hope of hiding some real mechanisms of power from the popular gaze. The outgoing US military cabal favors the extension of colonial wars, like those in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as an attack on Iran. Good riddance.

General Petraeus: Neocon Who Sought War with Iran

The most spectacular example is the fall of General David Petraeus, the CIA director, and one of the leading US advocates of an early war with Iran. The heads of several other rogue figures are rolling. The result is one of those rare moments when parts of the rogue network or invisible government can be observed by those who have enough knowledge to understand what they are seeing. But the firings have only scratched the surface.

The Romney backers were made up of neocons, Bush holdovers, and members of the Mormon Mafia in the intelligence community -- a relatively narrow base. The Obama supporters were the Brzezinski-Nye soft power group and military opposed to the Iran war. The neocons and reactionary Mormons wanted to restore aggressive war and wholesale bombing as the preferred option for US foreign policy. Although they love drones and assassinations, they want to keep significant US conventional forces in the Middle East.

The pro-Obama group wants to avoid large conventional commitments. They want to rely on cyber-warfare, drones, assassinations, bombing, raids by special forces, and economic warfare in the form of trade sanctions and technology embargoes. When they want to destroy a country like Syria, they do not favor direct US invasion or bombing, but rather seek to use proxies like Turkey and the al-Qaeda patsy network to get the double benefit of weakening both ally and enemy. Above all, they love color revolutions and soft-power subversion.

Benghazi, September 11: CIA assets kill US envoy while CIA team is ordered to stand down and other CIA assets fail to intervene

The Benghazi consulate was prevalently a CIA post, with significant military capabilities. Ambassador Stevens had strong CIA connections and served as a liaison with the al-Qaeda-linked terrorists of the Benghazi-Derna-Tobruk corridor, whom the CIA is using for the attack on Syria. His last conversation with a Turkish diplomat was evidently a discussion on this topic.

Stevens and others thought they had nothing to fear because their relations with the Islamist fighters were so cordial. The attack that killed Stevens was carried out by forces under the control of Sufiyan Qumu (also Kumu or Gumu), who had been held in Guantanamo for several years and released as a CIA asset for the overthrow of Gaddafi. A significant group of CIA paramilitaries stationed nearby was ordered to stand down by the CIA command structure.

Another CIA asset, the February 17 Martyrs Brigade, which had in the summer of 2011 assassinated General Younes in order to help the CIA operative General Hifter to take control of the rebel army, had contracted to provide additional security, but also did not intervene. General Petraeus went to the movies that night. On September 14, Petraeus told the House Intelligence committee that the Benghazi incident had been spontaneous, a demonstration gone violent.

This is the line which Susan Rice mouthed on television in mid-September. (She should be fired for other reasons.) The Obama administration was in any case eager to hide the fact that it had turned Libya over to al-Qaeda. The goal of Benghazi was an early October surprise to Carterize Obama, and the CIA was commanded by Petraeus.

Petraeus arrived at the CIA on September 6, 2011. Within a month, a new provocation was launched against Iran in the form of absurd accusations that members of the Quds Force were plotting to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to Washington, DC. Intelligence community conduit David Ignatius wrote at the time that a big reason the implausible plot story gained credibility was the “fact the CIA [meaning Petraeus] and other intelligence agencies gathered information corroborating the informants’ juicy allegations” implicating the Quds Force and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps.

In reality, the patsies involved came from the Drug Enforcement Administration and/or the Mujaheddin e-Khalq (MEK), an anti-Iranian terrorist force maintained by the US in Iraq. The MEK has now been rewarded by being removed from the State Department’s list of terrorist organizations. (David Ignatius, “Those Keystone Iranians: Why Such a Crude at Assassination Plot?, Washington Post, October 12, 2011) The goal of the operation was to abort possible diplomatic solutions to tensions between NATO and Iran.

In Washington, the neocon Petraeus was always considered as General Betray-US, Bush’s warlord and the key front man for the Iraq surge. He was the darling of the civilian chickenhawk neocons, who saw in him a presidential vehicle to return to power after the debacles in Afghanistan and Iraq. Petraeus’ neocon sherpas were Frederick Kagan and Max Boot, who also helped him to refurbish his image concerning Israel. Obama was always afraid that Petraeus would run for president, and when Romney took the nomination, feared that Petraeus might be a candidate for vice president.

Like General George Marshall on the evening of December 6, 1941 -- who stayed conveniently out of the loop under various pretexts because he wanted the Pearl Harbor attack to occur as a means of damaging President Roosevelt -- Petraeus was at the movies during the Benghazi attack, attending a private screening at the Canadian Embassy of the movie Argo with Ben Afflek, which deals with a 1979 covert CIA operation in Tehran.

The Night of the Long Knives

The hatred of key members of the US officer corps for Obama was illustrated through the comments of Petraeus’ friend, the warmonger General Stanley McChrystal, who was ousted in June 2010. In addition to Petraeus, the following officers are also either sacked or the object of scandals or investigations:

Marine General John R. Allen is in trouble. Currently the commander of US forces in Afghanistan, Allen had been slated to take over from Admiral Stavridis as NATO Supreme Commander, but Obama has now put this nomination on hold. Allen is accused of having an improper relationship with the Tampa, Florida hostess and socialite Jill Kelley, originally of the Lebanese Khawam family. Mrs. Kelley had insinuated herself into the social circle of generals at McDill Air Force Base, the location of the US Central command. Allen and Petraeus both wrote letters to a judge supporting Kelley’s twin sister in a child custody fight. According to some accounts, Allen sent either 30,000 pages or 30,000 e-mails to Kelly over a few years. Allen denies wrongdoing, but the handwriting is on the wall.

General Carter Ham, commander of US Africom, whose area of responsibility includes Libya, manifestly failed to send forces to stop the attack on the Benghazi consulate and CIA post. Panetta announced on October 18 that Ham was being replaced. The official line is that Ham decided to retire of his own volition. There were many days of confusion in Washington about his leaving.

Admiral James G. Stavridis, the outgoing NATO Supreme Commander, has been officially reprimanded by Navy Secretary Ray Mabus for lavish spending on his personal lifestyle, including a junket to a wine dinner in France. He will soon leave his post.

General William E. “Kip” Ward, who commanded US Africom from October 2007 to March 2011, presided over the preparation and launching of the attack on Libya. On the surface, Ward is accused of spending several hundred thousand dollars of government money and resources on family members, luxury junkets, and flights. He had been under investigation for a year and a half, but it was announced on November 13 that he would be fined $82,000 and demoted from full general to lieutenant general, reducing his pension.

Lieutenant General Patrick J. O’Reilly, the Director of the Pentagon’s Missile Defense Agency, has also been reprimanded by the Defense Department’s Inspector General for intimidating and humiliating subordinates, thus creating a work environment characterized by one subordinate as “management by blowtorch and pliers.” (Washington Post, November 15, 2012) O’Reilly is being ousted from his post before the conclusion of the usual four year tenure, and demoted to major general. His departure was deplored on the floor of Congress by Representative Mo Brooks of Alabama, a reactionary and racist Republican.

Rear Admiral Chuck Gaouette was the commander of the USS Stennis carrier battle group, currently stationed in the Arabian Sea, near Iran and other possible targets for aggression and/or Gulf of Tonkin provocations. Gaouette is currently being investigated for “inappropriate leadership judgment” while on station in the Middle East.

Brigadier General Jeffrey Sinclair, second in command of the 82nd Airborne Division stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and a key man for Afghanistan logistics, is accused of raping and having an adulterous affair with a female captain he had gotten transferred to his command. The prosecution has already sabotaged its own case, raising the chances that the case will be thrown out of court, while charges of pornography and alcoholism on duty may have been invented, pointing once again to a political motive. Press accounts feature Sinclair’s assertion, “I’m a general. I’ll do whatever the [expletive] I want.”

Commander Joseph E. Darlak, commanding officer of the frigate USS Vandegrifft and two other senior officers having been removed after a drunken orgy during a visit to the port of Vladivostok, Russia. Details are sketchy, but the goal of the escapade might well have been a provocation against the Putin government. According to one account, over 20 top naval officers have been fired during 2012.

Christopher E. Kubasik was fired as president and Chief Operating Officer of Lockheed Martin Corp., the top US defense contractor in 2008 and 2009. Lockheed Chairman Rob Stevens had allegedly requested an ethics investigation, which revealed a sexual affair with a subordinate. Lockheed’s electronic warfare and cyber warfare capabilities are formidable.

Naturally, it is impossible to know at this time how many of these cases are actually based on the reasons stated, and how many actually involve complicity with operations targeting the White House.

On the Thursday after the presidential vote, Defense Secretary Panetta ordered Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Martin Dempsey, an ally of Obama, to conduct a wide-ranging review of misconduct by senior military officers. The general public is supposed to think that this review will be mainly concerned with wrongdoing such as adultery, sexual harassment, embezzlement, and the like. But the reality is most likely a purge of officers associated with the pro-Romney coup machinations of September-October 2012.

With all these figures removed, it is likely to be more difficult for Israel’s Netanyahu to launch his war against Iran in the way that had been planned. He has therefore fallen back on the option of starting a smaller war in Gaza as a means of stabilizing the US-UK-Israel war party while other options are sought. The rogue network, now a wounded beast, must be counted doubly dangerous.

The Mata Haris

Mata Hari’s method was to seduce French generals and send their secrets to Berlin. The cover story for Petraeus’ ouster involves his affair with Paula Broadwell, who fraternized extensively with the general in Afghanistan while she was preparing a fawning campaign biography of the general entitledAll In: The Education of General David Petraeus -- not to be confused with Flaubert’s L’Education sentimentale. Broadwell is a lieutenant colonel of military intelligence with a background at the Joint Special Operations Command and, according to some accounts, a knowledge of Arabic.

She says she has a top secret security clearance “and then some.” She has hobnobbed at the Obama White House and with Karl Rove. By all indications, and whether she knew it or not, she was deployed to embroil Petraeus with a view to bringing him down, and she succeeded. When the dalliance became known to the FBI and thence leaked to GOP Congressmen Reichert and Cantor, Petraeus was told he had to resign by intelligence czar James Clapper, a creature of Obama.

Jill Kelley and her twin sister Natalie Khawam are also redolent of the intelligence community. Their focus was evidently to lead both Petraeus and Allen onto the flypaper.

The Rogue Network Down but Not Out

The US rogue network has been exceptionally active since the attacks of September 11, 2001 in which the rogues were heavily implicated. In the spring of 2007, Vice President Dick Cheney argued unsuccessfully for an attack on Syria on behalf of the rogue network whose spokesman he was. In August-September 2007, a B-52 bomber loaded with six nuclear cruise missiles was in effect hijacked by the rogue network -- taken out of legal US command -- and flown from North Dakota to Louisiana, presumably on its way to a bombing mission in the Middle East. The B-52 was stopped at Barksdale AFB in Louisiana. Months later, Defense Secretary Robert Gates fired Secretary of the Air Force Michael W. Wynne and Air Force Chief of Staff T. Michael Moseley for poor management of nuclear weapons. A special board under James R. Schlesinger studied nuclear safety, and doubtless also whom to fire. For knowledgeable observers, a window into the rogue network had been opened.

On Christmas Day, 2009, the Nigerian underwear bomber Mutallab attempted to blow up a passenger airliner in the skies over Detroit. During the first week of January, Richard Wolffe of MSNBC reported that the Obama White House had concluded that certain federal officials had acted to prevent Mutallab’s operation from being shut down because they wanted to damage the Obama administration. Still later, Undersecretary of State Patrick Kennedy told a House committee that the State Department had wanted to revoke Mutallab’s visa, but had been prevented from doing so by another (unnamed) federal agency, under the pretext that the Nigerian suicide bomber was being tailed. The Obama administration cravenly backed off further public investigation of this incident, allowing the rogue network to strike again in Benghazi. (All these events are described on Tarpley.net.)

ORCA: Why the Pro-Romney Vote Fraud Did Not Materialize

The purge of so many Romney supporters from the intelligence community and from the military may explain why the expected computer-generated Republican election fraud failed to materialize in the expected dimensions in so many states. Tagg Romney and his associates, many of them investors in Bain Capital, had notoriously bought control of voting machines in almost a score of states, including Ohio. What frustrated the design to steal the election? Perhaps this operation was disrupted and aborted by investigations conveniently timed and targeting some of the main pro-Romney intelligence and military figures in the rogue network.

The answer may also be related to the apparent failure of ORCA, Romney’s data-mining and data management operation, which was supposed to help GOP volunteers get out the vote, but which may have possessed additional and more sinister dimensions. But, as David Gewirtz of ZDNet wrote on November 13, ORCA “got harpooned. ORCA beached. It flopped. It died in the sun. It failed oh-so-bad.” And with it failed the hope of Romney’s backers that they could seize the White House.

The current scandals are extraordinary because they cast light on the rogue network or invisible government of the United States, a topic which is usually strictly taboo for the mass media. For this reason, David Ignatius of the Washington Post, considered close to the intelligence community, is already a warning that it is time to call a halt. Sunlight, Ignatius warns, can be “toxic under the wrong circumstances.”

“For a reminder of why it’s dangerous, take a look at The Crucible and the Lessons of History,” Ignatius concludes. (David Ignatius, “A Modern Witch Hunt,” Washington Post, November 18, 2012) In other words, time to stop the purges before they threaten to engulf the entire rogue network and thus the entire establishment. Patriotic citizens and those who want peace, by contrast, must hope that the revelations go on and on.

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Born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, 1946, Dr. Webster Griffin Tarpley is a philosopher of history who seeks to provide the programs and strategies needed to overcome the current world crisis. As an activist historian he first became widely known for his book George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography (1992), a masterpiece of research which is still a must read. AB Princeton 1966, summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa; Fulbright Scholar at University of Turin, Italy; MA in humanities from Skidmore College; and Ph.D. in early modern history from the Catholic University of America with emphasis on the role of Venice in the origins of the Thirty Years’ War (1618-1648). During 2008, he warned of the dangers of an Obama presidency controlled by Wall Street with Obama: The Postmodern Coup, The Making of a Manchurian Candidate and Barack H. Obama: The Unauthorized Biography. His interest in economics is reflected in Surviving the Cataclysm: Your Guide Through the Worst Financial Crisis in Human History Against Oligarchy. His books have appeared in Japanese, German, Italian, French, and Spanish. More articles by Dr. Webster Griffin Tarpley