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Crying Wolf, Wolf, Wolf
After weeks under heavy pressure for limitless spying on people everywhere the U.S. intelligence services conviniently detect a "threat" of some undefined future attacks. The "detection", we are of course told, was only possible because of limitless spying on people everywhere:
The United States intercepted electronic communications this week among senior operatives of Al Qaeda, in which the terrorists discussed attacks against American interests in the Middle East and North Africa, American officials said Friday.
The intercepts and a subsequent analysis of them by American intelligence agencies prompted the United States to issue an unusual global travel alert to American citizens on Friday, warning of the potential for terrorist attacks by operatives of Al Qaeda and their associates beginning Sunday through the end of August.
Just a month ago we were told that the "terrorists" are changing their communication because of the NSA snooping leaks:
The Al-Qaeda and other terrorist are reportedly changing their communication methods in light of the revelations by whistleblower Edward Snowden about US led NSA 'surveillance programme'.
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US officials said that virtually every terrorist organization including Al-Qaeda is changing the way they communicate to hide from the US surveillance after the revelations about the leaks were reported in the media.
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Private analysis firm IntelCenter's Ben Venzke said that the leaks by Snowden serve as a wake-up call to extremists and other hostile actors to analyse how they are working and improve their security.
Is it not a bit weird that just a month after that "wake-up call" and the "changed communications" talks between "senior operatives of Al Qaeda" are now easily detectable by the same intelligence services that warned of those changes?
And what is it about these "terrorists" that the "threat" from them ends after August 31?
Even some "analysts and Congressional officials" the NYT mentions in one short paragraph find this somewhat suspicious:
Some analysts and Congressional officials suggested Friday that emphasizing a terrorist threat now was a good way to divert attention from the uproar over the N.S.A.’s data-collection programs, …
Ahh – you don't say …
But the sentence continues:
… and that if it showed the intercepts had uncovered a possible plot, even better.
So it would be even better if now, as a warning has been given, something would happen to some U.S. embassy in the Middle East. That then would justify the warning and of course also justify the intelligence services NSA's limitless spying on people everywhere that made the warning possible.
Hmm – how much does it cost, let's say in Yemen, to have some guys on a motorcycle fire a few shots at an embassy guard?
Rowan Berkeley | Aug 4, 2013 5:42:37 AM | 29, all ‘political appointees’ need ‘Titles’, or they throw a tantrum. Most appointees have no background or skill sets, just connections or position through being connected.
I have a theory that the US is closing down the Gulf States entirely, this includes regional players including N. Africa, it geopolitical economics and Oil (Energy). The recent Asian Pacific push is to create a new ‘Hub’(s), both Naval and Air (Airports). In this the US East and West coast have respective links; West Coast into Asia, and Asia links to everything, then East Coast (Atlantic) into Europe, in turn links to everything.
Right now Dubai is the ‘Hub’, and it has been growing from that and it’s ‘Luxury’ status along with Oil, but reserves are lowering. Saudi is worried about the US moving into the sand Oil sector (Loosing Biz) and without the US it has no protection. Without the black magic, the region is pretty much limited to tourist Biz and trade, but without decent trade partners, it will be DOA. Since the region has very limited manufacturing, or rather no product or ‘Brand’, but is a Mecca for ‘Brands’ it profits, but one day that will also slow. I feel the US has preempted this for a decade and now making its axis change and the entire region will be hung out to dry.
It is possible the ‘Arab spring’ is very much a part of that smoke screen as it must also withdraw (Military apparatus) in turn eaving a volatile region, this will afford the US to fill gaps, make allegiances, re-group/Org and without much attention as the region will be in conflict and focused on its own agenda’s.
Along these line, both China and Russia have also made their respective new channels, all ‘are’ mitigating the need for the SC (Egypt) and the Horn of Africa; between these Super Powers and their respective partners a massive global shift in trade/resources is on the rise and that shift will also disband the current ‘threats’ as it will not be held to ‘Bounty’ or economically tied to any deal. In Laymen’s terms, trade is opening new shops, the old one had bad prices and the policy’s were negative. This is where the customer becomes ‘King’, rather than the supply chains.
My theory is based on the Asian Pacific push and they MO of it’s status including a little ‘heat’ over some disputed Islands, but one can see that is all smoke and mirrors. In terms of staging, East Coast, via Hawaii, then Guam, the rest is obvious, even now commercial Airlines are starting to pick up this route, where once it was largely ignored. Moreover the region is ‘safe’, with Japan, China and other entities keeping it in check, the only ‘hot spot’ or possible danger is N.Korea. Where as N.Africa, and the Arab states, the entire logistics/Transport mechanisms are a strangle hold with many costly security needs that are failing.
This looks very much like the “new world order” Woodrow Wilson’s global zeitgeist during the period just after World War I, the formation of the League of Nations – “The war to end all wars”; then the Bretton Woods system. Henry Kissinger stated in 1994, “The New World Order cannot happen without U.S. participation, as we are the most significant single component – Who knows?
Posted by: kev | Aug 4 2013 10:49 utc | 30
A nice and well thought post from ‘ Going to Tehran ‘
http://goingtotehran.com/rohanis-inauguration-irans-political-system-and-americas-strategic-suicide-in-the-middle-east#comment-15023
A-B says:
August 4, 2013 at 7:26 pm
On a positive note; the misquotation of Rohani’s speech by Netanyahu was a good thing. It is further proof (of the obvious to many) that the campaign against Ahmadinejad (incl. of course the Green insult to Iranians) was a deliberate and malicious assault from the West on Iran (with Russian and Chinese tacit agreement). The reality of this insolence of the West cannot have escaped Rohani; that the hostility of the Arrogant was not because of Ahmadinejad, the legitimate president elect of Iran. They expected a war during Ahmadinejad’s tenure; they didn’t get one (see footnote); would you then believe their ‘let’s be friends’??
Actually, when the war drumming subsided, I expected that the Global Arrogance would give the credit to Israel; that it was because of Israel’s ‘magnanimity’ that the Iranians were spared from the ‘wrath of the gods’ … for the time being, that is. But then Netanyahu, this anti-social moron, went Loony Tunes on everybody with his bomb chart in the UN. I’m sure all the leaders in the West just shook their heads in disdain and said “here we try our best to promote our racist-fascist creation in the region and legitimize its savagery; now look at this clown!” I guess, that’s when they decided to instead make Obama champion of ‘peace’!! Now, the ‘shrewd’ (LOL!) nut-case is at it again! No doubt; the time for Israel is over, AND it is NOT thanks to ANY European/Westerner or Russian. Again, this is best time to cleanse the MENACA of Western imperialism; to squander this opportunity is unforgiveable.
*** Footnote ***
Three major signs, IMHO, that signaled that ‘The War’ was postponed:
1- The wave of phony terror attacks against the West didn’t stick to Iran and instead blew in the face of Israel/US/UK. This was while acts of true terrorism against Iranians, especially the assassination of Iranian scientists, could not be blamed on anyone else than those same three arch-Terrorists.
2- The total perplexity of the P5+1 in this charade that is called negotiation only indicated that they REALLY didn’t expect it to come this far.
3- The ‘miraculous’ saving of the collapsing global financial system: Gold prices plunged; stock markets recovered; all the hype of ‘Euro-crises’ (what will happen if Greece defaults, oh me oh my…), the fiscal cliffs, the financial abysses, fault-lines, canyons, tectonic plates, etc. Don’t get me wrong; the economical situation was and remains a mess, but the way the financial head of the Fascist Hydra (or Cerberus) saved the day when they realized there cannot be a war (at this juncture) was pretty impressive.
Undoubtedly, the fact that these very tangible events were used as pretext to start an unjust war is proof enough of the reality of a vicious conspiracy against Iran, even if the war never materialized (a syzygy did not occur, say, in December 2012!!!). In light of this, the Israeli crybaby’s temper tantrum was/is quite ‘rational’. However, it was and still is funny how the ‘alarmists’ , ‘truthers’, ‘conspiracy theorists’ in alternative media totally short-circuited: “Buy gold … sell gold … buy bitcoin … sell [naked] shorts … no, not your underwear … aw, sell that too … buy new one with bitcoin; it’s a safer investment”. Suddenly the ‘mighty’ Bilderbergers are just a little chummy advisory group of old megalomaniacal mass-murdering farts like Kissinger. So, who said their dictates would always materialize? Well, the WESTERN alternative media did!! (HOWEVER, apparently the Bilderbergers DID prefer to have Rohani as Iran’s president … but then again, I’m sure they much preferred to have a ‘Shah’ on the Iranian throne.)
So, is the conspiracy or risk of War over? NO! Am I saying that all ‘alarmists’ , ‘truthers’, ‘conspiracy theorists’ are wrong or tools of the Establishment? Not necessarily. This reminds me of Jewish prophets saying: it is not easy to prophesize in troubled times. Not for some, apparently!!
Posted by: Sufi | Aug 5 2013 7:40 utc | 47
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