The sensationalist headline states that 34 Syrians were killed by government snipers at a protest and there is no evidence at all that it is true. There are no videos, no pictures, the entire thing is based on the say-so of one unnamed .activist. and obviously the .activist. has a vested interest in making the Syrian government look as bad as possible.
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One important repository for the wealth of the global oligarchy that owns these bank holding companies is US Trust Corporation – founded in 1853 and now owned by Bank of America. A recent US Trust Corporate Director and Honorary Trustee was Walter Rothschild. Other directors included Daniel Davison of JP Morgan Chase, Richard Tucker of Exxon Mobil, Daniel Roberts of Citigroup and Marshall Schwartz of Morgan Stanley.
This project should have seen the light of day on 26 May 2011 at the G8 summit in Deauville (France). The dollar would thus have met its demise as the reserve currency against the backdrop of an imminent cessation of payments on the part of the U.S. Federal Government. Unfortunately, in the final months of this process, military and political initiatives disrupted the plan. DSK’s arrest exposes Washington’s bad faith, and shows that its concessions were a only ploy to gain time.
The U.S. government suffered a major diplomatic setback in the Central Asian region when Zalmay Rasoul, the Afghan Foreign Minister, traveled to Beijing to discuss proposals for tightening Afghan relations with the Chinese government despite prior American warnings that it should not do so.
“Any Attack on Pakistan Would be Construed as an Attack on China” Responding to reports that China has asked the US to respect Pakistan’s sovereignty in the aftermath of the Bin Laden operation, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Jiang Yu used a May 19 press briefing to state Beijing’s categorical demand that the “sovereignty and territorial integrity of Pakistan must be respected.”
Together Israel and the Khaliji ruling families form a frontline for Washington and NATO against Iran and its regional allies. The alliance also acts on behalf of Washington to destabilize the region. The roots of chaos in Southwest Asia and North Africa are this Khaliji-Israeli alliance.
To lead the counter-revolution in this region, Washington and Tel Aviv have relied on their best support: the Sudairi clan, which embodies despotism at the service of imperialism unlike any other. Saudi Arabia is a legal entity created by the British during the First World War to weaken the Ottoman Empire. As the British inquiry on the Al-Yamamah Scandal brought to light, in the 21st century there are still no bank accounts or budget for the Kingdom. It is the accounts of the royal family that serve to administer the Kingdom, which is its private domain.
“The Americans are going to try and put in [White House adviser] David Lipton as number two. Lipton is Mr Bank Bailout. He worked for Citigroup. If they put in Lagarde and Lipton, what does that say? We are going with the total bank protection plan. That would be a disaster.” (“IMF under growing pressure to appoint non-European head”, The Guardian) http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/may/19/imf-pressure-appoint-non-european-head
In several countries including South Africa and Colombia, they started recruiting mercenaries to form an initial battalion of 800 men. They are trained in the UAE by U.S., British, French and German military professionals, with a background in special forces and the secret services. The trainers are paid 200-300 thousand dollars a year, while the recruits receive about $150 a day.
With the phenomenal rise of China which has had an average growth rate of nine per cent for the past 30 years, there is now a practical economic alternative to US subordination for countries of the global south. … The Chinese approach to democracy is well summarised by professor Wei-wei Zhang, who wrote in the People’s Daily : “As a ‘civilisation-type state’, China has completely different cultural traditions from Western countries.