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Begin­ning with the top­ic of the Okla­homa City bomb­ing in 1995, the pro­gram notes that video tapes of the bomb­ing have been edit­ed. Attor­ney Jesse Trentadue obtained the tapes while inves­ti­gat­ing the Okla­homa City bomb­ing, in order to clar­i­fy the cir­cum­stances sur­round­ing his broth­er’s death. Ruled a sui­cide, Trentadue’s death may well have result­ed from his resem­blance to the mys­te­ri­ous John Doe #2, seen in the com­pa­ny of con­vict­ed Okla­homa City bomber Tim­o­thy McVeigh. Although Trentadue’s injuries sug­gest he was mur­dered, prison author­i­ties and oth­er foren­sic inves­ti­ga­tors have gone to great lengths to dis­sem­ble about the cause of death, a pre­tense made more effec­tive by the prison “sui­cides” of sev­er­al peo­ple con­nect­ed to the case.

Next the broad­cast turns to the sub­ject of Norm Olson. For­mer­ly of the Michi­gan Mili­tia and anoth­er of Okla­homa City bomber Tim­o­thy McVeigh’s men­tors, Norm Olson has relo­cat­ed to Alas­ka, home of Sarah Palin.

Next, the pro­gram high­lights Sarah Pal­in’s asso­ci­a­tion with long­time GOP oper­a­tive Fred Malek. Asso­ci­at­ed with the Car­lyle Group, Malek achieved noto­ri­ety in the 1970’s by purg­ing the Bureau of Labor Sta­tis­tics of Jews, because Richard Nixon felt that high unem­ploy­ment sta­tis­tics were due to a “Jew­ish con­spir­a­cy” against him.

Turn­ing to events abroad, the pres­i­dent of Chech­nya has [cor­rect­ly] iden­ti­fied ele­ments of the “West” as behind attempts to frag­ment Rus­sia. Even though ele­ments like the UNPO cham­pi­on the inde­pen­dence of groups seek­ing to frag­ment the Unit­ed States, ele­ments of the Amer­i­can polit­i­cal and cor­po­rate estab­lish­ment are work­ing to effect the inde­pen­dence of eth­nic groups in the fos­sil-fuel-rich Cau­ca­sus.

A very impor­tant arti­cle notes Ger­man dis­sat­is­fac­tion with U.S./Chinese rela­tions and attempts at de-sta­bi­liz­ing Chi­na. Fear­ing that the U.S./China rela­tion­ship will eclipse its rela­tion­ship with Amer­i­ca, Ger­many is sup­port­ing ele­ments seek­ing to frac­ture the Peo­ple’s Repub­lic, includ­ing the Tibetans and the Uighurs.

Chi­na was demo­nized in the West fol­low­ing the cli­mate change sum­mit in Copen­hagen. What did not receive much notice was the fact that the Euro­pean Par­lia­ment was rep­re­sent­ed at the talks by Nick Grif­fin, head of the BNP, the lead­ing British fas­cist par­ty!

The pro­gram con­cludes with an omi­nous assess­ment of the present eco­nom­ic destruc­tion afflict­ing the Unit­ed States and a hope­ful analy­sis of what might be done in the future.

Pro­gram High­lights Include: Review of Andreas Strass­meier’s men­tor­ing of Tim­o­thy McVeigh; review of Strass­meier’s con­nec­tions to Hel­mut Kohl’s admin­is­tra­tion in Ger­many; review of links between the Okla­homa City Bomb­ing; review of Sarah Pal­in’s links to the Alaskan Inde­pen­dence Par­ty; review of the AIP’s links to the Aryan Nations; review of Fred Malek’s links to the Nazi wing of the Repub­li­can Par­ty; review of the fas­cist, Nazi and intel­li­gence con­nec­tions of the Dalai Lama; review of the link between the Uighurs, ele­ments of West­ern intel­li­gence and the Under­ground Reich; review of the mon­strous soci­ety that pre­ced­ed the Chi­nese occu­pa­tion of Tibet; review of the Anti-Bol­se­vik Bloc of Nations and the desta­bi­liza­tion of the USSR.

1. Begin­ning with the top­ic of the Okla­homa City bomb­ing in 1995, the pro­gram notes that video tapes of the bomb­ing have been edit­ed. Attor­ney Jesse Trentadue obtained the tapes while inves­ti­gat­ing the Okla­homa City bomb­ing, in order to clar­i­fy the cir­cum­stances sur­round­ing his broth­er’s death.

Ruled a sui­cide, Trentadue’s death may well have result­ed from his resem­blance to the mys­te­ri­ous John Doe #2, seen in the com­pa­ny of con­vict­ed Okla­homa City bomber Tim­o­thy McVeigh. Although Trentadue’s injuries sug­gest he was mur­dered, prison author­i­ties and oth­er foren­sic inves­ti­ga­tors have gone to great lengths to dis­sem­ble about the cause of death, a pre­tense made more effec­tive by the prison “sui­cides” of sev­er­al peo­ple con­nect­ed to the case.

In past dis­cus­sion of the bomb­ing, we have seen the evi­dence point­ing in the direc­tion of Andreas Strass­meier as Tim­o­thy McVeigh’s men­tor in the bomb­ing. Accused in unim­peached tes­ti­mo­ny by ATF infor­mant Car­ol Howe of being the mas­ter­mind of the attack, Strass­meier is the son of Gun­ther Strass­meier, for­mer Ger­man chan­cel­lor Hel­mut Kohl’s chief of staff, the archi­tect of Ger­man reuni­fi­ca­tion, and him­self the son of one of the char­ter mem­bers of the Ger­man Nazi par­ty under Hitler.

As seen in the pic­ture at the upper right of this descrip­tion, there is a strong resem­blance between the com­pos­ite sketch of John Doe #2 (seen in the bot­tom and  mid­dle frames of the pic­ture) and Andreas Strass­meier, seen in the oth­er pho­tos.

Long-secret secu­ri­ty tapes show­ing the chaos imme­di­ate­ly after the 1995 bomb­ing of the Okla­homa City fed­er­al build­ing are blank in the min­utes before the blast and appear to have been edit­ed, an attor­ney who obtained the record­ings said Sun­day.

“The real sto­ry is what’s miss­ing,” said Jesse Trentadue, a Salt Lake City attor­ney who obtained the record­ings through the fed­er­al Free­dom of Infor­ma­tion Act as part of an unof­fi­cial inquiry he is con­duct­ing into the April 19, 1995, bomb­ing that killed 168 peo­ple and injured hun­dreds more.

Trentadue gave copies of the tapes to The Okla­homan news­pa­per, which post­ed them online and pro­vid­ed copies to The Asso­ci­at­ed Press.

The tapes turned over by the FBI came from secu­ri­ty cam­eras var­i­ous com­pa­nies had mount­ed out­side office build­ings near the Alfred P. Mur­rah Fed­er­al Build­ing. They are blank at points before 9:02 a.m., when a truck bomb car­ry­ing a 4,000 pound fer­til­iz­er-and-fuel-oil bomb det­o­nat­ed in front of the build­ing, Trentadue said.

“Four cam­eras in four dif­fer­ent loca­tions going blank at basi­cal­ly the same time on the morn­ing of April 19, 1995. There ain’t no such thing as a coin­ci­dence,” Trentadue said.

He said gov­ern­ment offi­cials claim the secu­ri­ty cam­eras did not record the min­utes before the bomb­ing because “they had run out of tape” or “the tape was being replaced.”

“The inter­est­ing thing is they spring back on after 9:02,” he said. “The absence of footage from these cru­cial time inter­vals is evi­dence that there is some­thing there that the FBI does­n’t want any­body to see.”

A spokesman for the FBI in Okla­homa City, Gary John­son, declined to com­ment and referred inquiries about the tapes to FBI offi­cials in Wash­ing­ton, who were not imme­di­ate­ly avail­able for com­ment Sun­day.

The sound­less record­ings show peo­ple rush­ing from near­by build­ings after the bomb went off. Some show peo­ple flee­ing through cor­ri­dors clut­tered with debris. None show the actu­al explo­sion that ripped through the fed­er­al build­ing.

FBI agents did not report find­ing any secu­ri­ty tapes from the fed­er­al build­ing itself.

The FBI in the past refused to release the secu­ri­ty cam­era record­ings, lead­ing Trentadue and oth­ers to con­tend the gov­ern­ment was hid­ing evi­dence that oth­ers were involved in the attack.

“It’s tak­en a law­suit and years to get the tapes,” Trentadue said.

He received the lat­est batch of tapes over the sum­mer in response to an April request for video from secu­ri­ty cam­eras in 11 dif­fer­ent loca­tions. Noth­ing on the tapes was unex­pect­ed.

“The more impor­tant thing they show is what they don’t show,” Trentadue said. “These cam­eras would have shown the var­i­ous roads and approach­es to the Mur­rah Build­ing.”

Trentadue began look­ing into the bomb­ing after his broth­er, Ken­neth Trentadue, died at the Okla­homa City Fed­er­al Trans­fer Cen­ter in August 1995. Ken­neth Trentadue was a con­vict­ed bank rob­ber who was held at the fed­er­al prison after being picked up as a parole vio­la­tor at his home in San Diego in June 1995.

He was nev­er a bomb­ing sus­pect, but Jesse Trentadue alleges guards mis­took his broth­er for one and beat him to death dur­ing an inter­ro­ga­tion. The offi­cial cause of Ken­neth Trentadue’s death is list­ed as sui­cide, but his body had 41 wounds and bruis­es that Jesse Trentadue believes could have come only from a beat­ing.

A judge in 2001 award­ed Ken­neth Trentadue’s fam­i­ly $1.1 mil­lion for extreme emo­tion­al dis­tress in the gov­ern­men­t’s han­dling of his death.

Jesse Trentadue said he has received about 30 secu­ri­ty tapes, includ­ing some images that were used as evi­dence at bomber Tim­o­thy McVeigh’s tri­al. McVeigh was con­vict­ed on fed­er­al mur­der and con­spir­a­cy charges and exe­cut­ed in 2001. Cocon­spir­a­tor Ter­ry Nichols is serv­ing life in prison on fed­er­al and state bomb­ing con­vic­tions.

Trentadue said he is seek­ing more tapes along with a vari­ety of bomb­ing-relat­ed doc­u­ments from the FBI and the CIA. An FOIA request by Trentadue for 26 CIA doc­u­ments was reject­ed in June. A let­ter from the Nation­al Geospa­tial-Intel­li­gence Agency, which reviewed the doc­u­ments, said their release “could cause grave dam­age to our nation­al secu­ri­ty.”

Trentadue said he gave the lat­est set of tapes to The Okla­homan because of their his­tor­i­cal val­ue. The news­pa­per has agreed to pro­vide copies to the Okla­homa City Nation­al Memo­r­i­al & Muse­um.

“Secu­ri­ty Tap­ing of Okla. Bomb­ing Appears Edit­ed” By Tim Tal­ley [AP]; The Prov­i­dence Jour­nal; 9/28/2009; P. B2.

2. For­mer­ly of the Michi­gan Mili­tia and anoth­er of Okla­homa City bomber Tim­o­thy McVeigh’s men­tors, Norm Olson has relo­cat­ed to Alas­ka. (Olson is pic­tured at right, wear­ing the three-cor­ner hat). Past pro­grams have not­ed Sarah Pal­in’s sig­nif­i­cant polit­i­cal rela­tion­ship with the Alaskan Inde­pen­dence Par­ty (AIP), an open­ly seces­sion­ist, racist cor­re­spon­dent par­ty of the Aryan Nations milieu. In turn, the par­ty belongs to the milieu of  the UNPO, the epi­cen­ter of a con­stel­la­tion of polit­i­cal enti­ties work­ing to desta­bi­lize and frag­ment larg­er states such as Rus­sia, Chi­na and the Unit­ed States.

Will Olson be work­ing with the AIP?

Michi­gan Mili­tia founder Nor­man Olson plans to sell his north­ern Michi­gan prop­er­ty and move his fam­i­ly and fol­low­ers to Alas­ka.

“The real­i­ty is, I can’t live here any longer,” the 55-year-old gun shop own­er and preach­er said Mon­day. “Alas­ka is a state that offers some hope.”

Olson intends to sell his 120-acre plot near Alan­son and is eye­ing 21- and 7‑acre parcels on Alaska’s Kenai Penin­su­la. Olson’s wood­ed Michi­gan prop­er­ty long served as a mili­tia train­ing base, where his fol­low­ers par­tic­i­pat­ed in para­mil­i­tary exer­cis­es.

Dur­ing the ear­ly 1990s, Olson emerged as the grow­ing mili­tia move­men­t’s nation­al spokesman, but lost the state com­man­der’s posi­tion after the 1995 Okla­homa City bomb­ing. Crit­i­cized as too rad­i­cal by some in the move­ment, Olson was defeat­ed in four sub­se­quent elec­tions for the Michi­gan Mili­tia Corps-Wolver­ine com­man­der post.

Olson said he’s leav­ing for “polit­i­cal, social, eco­nom­ic, reli­gious” rea­sons and believes com­pla­cen­cy has hurt the state’s mili­tia move­ment.

“I’m afraid that over the last four years, the fire’s gone out in the bel­lies of the patri­ots,” Olson said. “We no longer shake the guns in the faces of the (bureau­crats and politi­cians).” . . .

“Michi­gan Mili­tia Founder Mov­ing to Alas­ka” by Mike Tyree [AP]; avail­able at: www.rickross.com; 8/26/2002.

3. Next, the pro­gram high­lights Sarah Pal­in’s asso­ci­a­tion with long­time GOP oper­a­tive Fred Malek. Asso­ci­at­ed with the Car­lyle Group, Malek achieved noto­ri­ety in the 1970’s by purg­ing the Bureau of Labor Sta­tis­tics of Jews, because Richard Nixon felt that high unem­ploy­ment sta­tis­tics were due to a “Jew­ish con­spir­a­cy” against him.

More recent­ly, Malek was a mem­ber of the elder George Bush’s cam­paign, for which he enlist­ed the assis­tance of the GOP eth­nic out­reach group, a Nazi wing of the Repub­li­can Par­ty, root­ed in the Third Reich.

Malek also worked on John McCain’s cam­paign in 2008. Now, Malek is pimp­ing Palin off to the belt­way estab­lish­ment.

” . . . The per­son who has been intro­duc­ing Palin into the more exalt­ed social and polit­i­cal cir­cles of the cap­i­tal, and who has already arranged her appear­ance at the Alfal­fa Club, is Fred Malek. Two things about Malek are worth bear­ing in mind.

The first is that he was an impor­tant mem­ber of the Nixon admin­is­tra­tion, a senior fig­ure on the Repub­li­can Nation­al Com­mit­tee, and the cam­paign man­ag­er for the re-elec­tion of George H.W. Bush in 1992. With his Car­lyle Group and oth­er cor­po­rate con­nec­tions and his man­sion in sub­ur­ban McLean, Va.,  Malek is almost the pro­to­typ­i­cal “estab­lish­ment” Wash­ing­ton insid­er and con­siglieri Repub­li­can, against whom Pal­in’s ador­ing book-tour crowds, in their pathet­ic dreams, imag­ine her to be a cru­sad­er. But her pre­pos­ter­ous book Going Rogue is lard­ed with praise for the wise sup­port and advice of this leath­ery old Belt­way ban­dit. Pop­ulism? Hah! Unless, that is, you count Jew-bait­ing as a form of pop­ulism, which I sup­pose in a way it is. (Bryan, that oth­er foe of Dar­win, was also a fan of the Klan.)

Because the sec­ond thing to note about Malek is that he was the man who drew up a list of Jews to be fired from the civ­il ser­vice under the Nixon admin­is­tra­tion. I am sur­prised that so many peo­ple have allowed them­selves to for­get this—and that Palin has nev­er been asked a sin­gle ques­tion about it. In the ear­ly 1970s, Nixon, whose White House tapes show con­sis­tent evi­dence of anti-Semit­ic para­noia, gave orders that the Bureau of Labor Sta­tis­tics be purged of what he called a “Jew­ish cabal.” The job of draw­ing up the list was giv­en to Malek, whose infor­ma­tion led to what was called the “reas­sign­ment” of some offi­cials with­in the Labor Depart­ment. Malek lat­er tried to give a weasel­ly excuse for his con­duct, but was caught by my Slate col­league Tim­o­thy Noah.

It beats me why such a dis­gust­ing char­ac­ter is still received in polite cir­cles, except that now at least he’s back doing the sort of task to which he is best-suit­ed. He has found an unscrupu­lous and uncul­tured polit­i­cal neo­phyte who will hap­pi­ly act as a mega­phone for any kind of libel and insinuation—Obama’s “palling around with ter­ror­ists” was, I sup­pose, the mon­ey shot of the last campaign—and then lat­er revise and extend her remarks. Nasty work if you can get it. Malek, now so near old age, must be pinch­ing him­self at his good for­tune.

At least Richard Nixon had the ill for­tune to look like what he was: a haunt­ed scoundrel and repressed psy­chopath. Where­as the use­ful­ness of Sarah Palin to the right-wing par­ty man­agers is that she com­bines a cer­tain know­ing­ness with a feigned inno­cence and a still-pal­pa­ble blush of sex. But she should take care to read her Alexan­der Pope: That bloom will soon enough fade, and it will fade real­ly quick­ly if she uses it to pros­ti­tute her­self to the Nixonites on one day and then to cock-tease the rab­ble on the next.”

“Pal­in’s Pals” by Christo­pher Hitchens; slate.com; 12/7/2009.

4. The pres­i­dent of Chech­nya has [cor­rect­ly] iden­ti­fied ele­ments of the “West” as behind attempts to frag­ment Rus­sia. Even though ele­ments like the UNPO cham­pi­on the inde­pen­dence of groups seek­ing to frag­ment the Unit­ed States, ele­ments of the Amer­i­can polit­i­cal and cor­po­rate estab­lish­ment are work­ing to effect the inde­pen­dence of eth­nic groups in the fos­sil-fuel-rich Cau­ca­sus.

Note that Kady­rov iden­ti­fies (again, cor­rect­ly) the forces that broke up the Sovi­et Union and being the forces try­ing to break up Rus­sia. The Anti-Bol­she­vik Bloc of Nations, very close to the Gehlen spy orga­ni­za­tion and the Under­ground Reich was deeply involved in the desta­bi­liza­tion of the for­mer USSR.

Ramzan Kady­rov, a 33-year-old for­mer rebel turned Krem­lin loy­al­ist, said that last year’s attack by Geor­gia, which is a US ally, on the pro-Russ­ian rebel region of South Osse­tia was part of a West­ern plot to seize the whole Cau­ca­sus region.

“If they get con­trol of the Cau­ca­sus, you could say they’ll get con­trol of vir­tu­al­ly all of Rus­sia, because the Cau­ca­sus is our back­bone,” Kady­rov said.

The con­ver­sa­tion was con­duct­ed at his exot­ic pri­vate offices near the town of Gud­er­mes out­side the Chechen cap­i­tal, Grozny. The com­plex fea­tures a zoo, a race­course for his hors­es, two large gold­en lions guard­ing the entrance and an arti­fi­cial moun­tain lit up in dif­fer­ent colours at night.

“The Russ­ian gov­ern­ment needs to work out a strat­e­gy, it needs to attack,” the Chechen pres­i­dent said.

“...Geor­gia, South Osse­tia, Ukraine, all this will go on and on. It’s Rus­si­a’s pri­vate afflic­tion. Why should we always suf­fer if we can erad­i­cate this for good? We are a great pow­er, we have every­thing — an army, tech­nol­o­gy. We need to attack.”

Kady­rov’s father Ahmad was a rebel mufti who switched sides in 1999 with his son at the out­break of Moscow’s sec­ond war in Chech­nya. Ahmad became pres­i­dent in 2003 but was killed in a bomb attack the fol­low­ing year.

Ramzan suc­ceed­ed him in 2007, crush­ing a rebel insur­gency, rebuild­ing the shat­tered repub­lic and impos­ing Islam­ic rule.

Kady­rov took pains in the inter­view to counter accu­sa­tions by human rights groups that he had been involved in the mur­ders of activists, jour­nal­ists and oppo­nents in Rus­sia and over­seas.

Dressed in a dark blue Ralph Lau­ren vel­vet-fin­ish shirt, his hair and beard care­ful­ly groomed, Kady­rov smiled fre­quent­ly but became ani­mat­ed when asked why many of his oppo­nents at home and abroad had met vio­lent deaths.

Human rights groups have linked him to the mur­ders of cam­paign­ing jour­nal­ist Anna Politkovskaya, activist Natalya Estemiro­va, oppo­si­tion Chechen exiles in Aus­tria and Turkey and rival Chechen clan chiefs shot dead in Moscow and Dubai.

Kady­rov, who was guard­ed by armed, black-clad mili­ti­a­men wear­ing bal­a­clavas embossed with his ini­tials, said he had per­son­al­ly helped many of the mur­der vic­tims and their fam­i­lies and was not their ene­my.

“I don’t want to kill,” he said. “Who did I fight? I fought ter­ror­ists. Who did I pro­tect? I pro­tect­ed the whole of Rus­sia so that peo­ple in Moscow or St Peters­burg ... could live in peace. ... They accuse me of killing women and chil­dren. It’s not true.”

Kady­rov dis­missed a claim on an Islamist web­site that Doku Umarov, a fugi­tive Chechen rebel leader, was behind a bomb attack on Novem­ber 27 which derailed a Moscow-St Peters­burg train, killing 26 peo­ple. Umarov, he said, lived in a cave in the moun­tains and had no idea what was going on.

“Today there are very few (rebels) left,” he said. “This year we destroyed a great many ter­ror­ists in (the neigh­bour­ing Russ­ian republics of) Ingushetia, Dages­tan and Chech­nya.”

Asked how many remained, Kady­rov replied: “If I knew how many and where, I would have destroyed them a long time ago.”

Kady­rov said the remain­ing rebels were kept going by West­ern mon­ey and guns.

“The West is financ­ing them,” he said. “I offi­cial­ly declare this: those who destroyed the Sovi­et Union, those who want to destroy the Russ­ian Fed­er­a­tion, they stand behind them.”

US Pres­i­dent Barack Oba­ma has offered to “reset” rela­tions with Rus­sia after a tense peri­od dur­ing the pres­i­den­cy of George W. Bush, and Kady­rov said it would be good for Wash­ing­ton if the Unit­ed States fol­lowed more friend­ly poli­cies towards Rus­sia.

“And if not,” he added, “we have a very strong politi­cian of glob­al stature, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. There is no one like him on the world stage.”

Kady­rov made sev­er­al ref­er­ences to Putin, Rus­si­a’s prime min­is­ter and its most pow­er­ful politi­cian, dur­ing the one-hour inter­view con­duct­ed last week but did not men­tion the Russ­ian pres­i­dent, Dmitrii Medvedev.

At pains to appear mod­est and show his loy­al­ty to the Krem­lin, Kady­rov shrugged off sug­ges­tions he might extend his respon­si­bil­i­ties to cov­er the entire North Cau­ca­sus, as some Russ­ian media reports have sug­gest­ed, or run for a sec­ond term in Chech­nya when his pres­i­den­cy ends in 2011.

Kady­rov said being pres­i­dent was a dif­fi­cult job and he would pre­fer to ded­i­cate more time to his sev­en chil­dren and the study of Islam. His offi­cial res­i­dence fea­tures a huge pri­vate mosque vis­i­ble from the mar­ble stair­case of the main build­ing.

“To get to heav­en, you have to work very hard,” he said. “I want to go to heav­en so I will try to pray more.”

“Chechen Pres­i­dent Says the West Wants to Destroy Rus­sia” by Michael Stott and Olga Petro­va; Telegraph.co.uk; 12/21/2009.

5. A very impor­tant arti­cle notes Ger­man dis­sat­is­fac­tion with U.S./Chinese rela­tions and attempts at de-sta­bi­liz­ing Chi­na. Fear­ing that the U.S./China rela­tion­ship will eclipse its rela­tion­ship with Amer­i­ca, Ger­many is sup­port­ing ele­ments seek­ing to frac­ture the Peo­ple’s Repub­lic, includ­ing the Tibetans and the Uighurs.

As not­ed in a num­ber of pro­grams, these same forces are sup­port­ing frac­tious, seces­sion­ist ele­ments in the U.S., seek­ing to desta­bi­lize or, even­tu­al­ly (per­haps) frag­ment it. These Under­ground-Reich con­nect­ed ele­ments are well-placed with­in the Unit­ed States as well, and are using the Unit­ed States (or what is left of it) to effect a geo-polit­i­cal agen­da that suits Ger­man inter­ests.

The Tibetan desk at the State Depart­ment is head­ed by Paula Dobri­an­sky, the daugh­ter of Lev Dobri­an­sky, a fas­cist Ukrain­ian emi­gre very close to the Gehlen spy orga­ni­za­tion and the Under­ground Reich.

EU polit­i­cal strate­gists are alarmed by US pro­pos­als for a clos­er coop­er­a­tion between the USA and the Peo­ple’s Repub­lic of Chi­na. Accord­ing to the EU think tank Euro­pean Coun­cil on For­eign Rela­tions (ECFR) “fears” are revived “with­in Europe that it could be side­lined in a new world order.” These fears are foment­ed by pro­pos­als by the for­mer US pres­i­den­tial advi­sor, Zbig­niew Brzezin­s­ki, for reg­u­lar infor­mal US-Chi­nese con­sul­ta­tions on impor­tant glob­al issues. Brzezin­s­ki would like to see this coop­er­a­tion between Wash­ing­ton and Bei­jing at the same lev­el as the meet­ings of the eight most sig­nif­i­cant indus­tri­al nations (“G8”) dub­bing it “G2” (“Group of Two”). The appar­ent glob­al bal­ance of pow­er shift from the Atlantic to the Pacif­ic is height­en­ing the tone in anti-Chi­nese agi­ta­tion that has always been quite harsh in Berlin. This agi­ta­tion found its lat­est expres­sion in the Xin­jiang cam­paign, the EU’s and Ger­many’s reac­tion to the Uyghur mas­sacre of near­ly 140 non-Uyghur Chi­nese. This cam­paign is direct­ed toward weak­en­ing the Chi­nese rival in its strate­gi­cal­ly impor­tant West­ern regions, there­by imped­ing Chi­na’s fur­ther rise.
Too Pow­er­ful Too Soon
The cur­rent debate is tak­ing place in the con­text of the Peo­ple’s Repub­lic of Chi­na’s steady advance. Chi­na is play­ing an impor­tant role in the strug­gle against the eco­nom­ic cri­sis, because it holds “the largest mon­e­tary reserves world­wide,” assess­es US bil­lion­aire George Soros. “Chi­na’s deci­sions will have an affect on the future of the world’s econ­o­my to the same extent as Pres­i­dent Oba­ma’s.” The Peo­ple’s Repub­lic of Chi­na has become “too pow­er­ful too soon.”[1] The Ger­man EU think tank, the Euro­pean Coun­cil on For­eign Rela­tions (ECFR), is also point­ing to Chi­na’s rapid­ly grow­ing impor­tance: Par­tic­u­lar­ly the USA is finan­cial­ly depen­dent on Chi­na and Chi­nese sup­port is also need­ed to influ­ence the Iran­ian nuclear pro­gram. Chi­na could not only use its veto pow­er in the UN Secu­ri­ty Coun­cil, but also its exclu­sive eco­nom­ic influ­ence to inter­vene on the ground. And last­ly, the Afghan-Pak­istani war zone bor­ders on Chi­na, there­fore neces­si­tat­ing joint action.[2]
G2
Because Chi­na’s ascen­sion no longer can be ignored, for­mer US Pres­i­dent Jim­my Carter’s nation­al secu­ri­ty advi­sor, Zbig­niew Brzezin­s­ki, had sub­mit­ted a pro­pos­al on the future rela­tion­ship with Chi­na, already last Jan­u­ary. In the 1970s, Brzezin­s­ki had played a lead­ing role in the rap­proche­ment between Chi­na and the USA, strik­ing a seri­ous blow against the Sovi­et Union.[3] Brzezin­s­ki now explains that the fact that the USA today is large­ly depend­ing on the Peo­ple’s Repub­lic makes a cor­re­spond­ing insti­tu­tion­al­iza­tion of the coop­er­a­tion between the two coun­tries nec­es­sary. It no longer suf­fices, to hold con­sul­ta­tions with­in the frame­work of larg­er multi­na­tion­al meet­ings (“G14”, “G16” or “G20”). The top lead­ers of both states should “there­fore meet infor­mal­ly on a reg­u­lar sched­ule for per­son­al in-depth dis­cus­sions” not only about bilat­er­al issues but about “the world in gen­er­al.” Bor­row­ing from the exam­ple of the con­fer­ences of the eight largest indus­tri­al coun­tries (“G8”), Brzezin­s­ki pro­motes a “G2” (“Group of Two”).[4]
Side­lined
Though very con­tro­ver­sial with many oppo­nents inside the USA, Brzezin­ski’s pro­pos­al pro­voked seri­ous con­cern in Europe. The for­mer US pres­i­den­tial advi­sor con­ceives of the “G2” as being on a par with US-Euro­pean and US-Japan­ese rela­tions. But one can imag­ine that with Chi­na’s rapid growth in influ­ence, the „G2” could, in the long run, play a deci­sive role. The prospect that the most focal glob­al issues could no longer be reg­u­lat­ed at a transat­lantic but a transpa­cif­ic lev­el is set­ting off alarms in Euro­pean cap­i­tals. The prospect of “G2”, ECFR writes, “revives fears with­in Europe that it could be side­lined in a new world order that exploits its weakness.”[5] ECFR does not expect an immi­nent imple­men­ta­tion of “G2”. “No one in the Oba­ma admin­is­tra­tion has yet used the term” and “it is sel­dom even men­tioned” in Chi­na. But the basic appre­hen­sion is obvi­ous­ly there.
No Longer a Medi­a­tor
Berlin would par­tic­u­lar­ly be hit by Chi­nese-US con­sul­ta­tions. Spe­cial meth­ods of Ger­man for­eign pol­i­cy always includ­ed posi­tion­ing itself between oppos­ing pow­ers as “medi­a­tor” and mak­ing deals with one or the oth­er side — a see­saw pol­i­cy prac­ticed exem­plar­i­ly in Ger­many’s rela­tions to Rus­sia and the Unit­ed States.[6] If the Unit­ed States and the Peo­ple’s Repub­lic of Chi­na would estab­lish a coop­er­a­tion frame­work, Ger­many could no longer play this role in rela­tion to the com­ing decades’ two cen­tral pow­ers. For years, Berlin has been con­tem­plat­ing this possibility.[7] The Ger­man gov­ern­ment is there­fore par­tic­u­lar­ly inter­est­ed to thwart reg­u­lar con­sul­ta­tions between Wash­ing­ton and Bei­jing.
The Xin­jiang Cam­paign
The appar­ent glob­al bal­ance of pow­er shift from the Atlantic to the Pacif­ic has already been height­en­ing the tone in tra­di­tion­al anti-Chi­nese agi­ta­tion. This agi­ta­tion finds its lat­est expres­sion in the Xin­jiang cam­paign, ini­ti­at­ed in the West in the after­math of the Uyghur mas­sacre of near­ly 140 non-Uyghur Chi­nese. This cam­paign, blam­ing the Chi­nese secu­ri­ty forces for the mas­sacre, rather than the Uyghur cul­prits, is pat­terned after last year’s Tibet cam­paign both in being aimed at Bei­jing and in the use of fal­si­fi­ca­tions and clas­si­cal pro­pa­gan­da techniques.[8] This cam­paign is aimed at weak­en­ing the Chi­nese rival in its strate­gi­cal­ly impor­tant West­ern regions. At the same time it is strength­en­ing anti-Chi­nese forces in the USA involved in the sub­ver­sive activ­i­ties in Xin­jiang as well as in Tibet, a coin­ci­den­tal and wel­comed con­tri­bu­tion toward thwart­ing spe­cial US-Chi­nese con­sul­ta­tions à la “G2”.
Please read also Meta­mor­phoses and The Future of “East-Turkestan”.
[1] Chi­na ist zu früh zu mächtig gewor­den; Welt Online 14.07.2009
[2] Euro­pean Coun­cil on For­eign Rela­tions: No Rush into Mar­riage. Chi­na’s Response to the G2; Chi­na Analy­sis 22, June 2009
[3], [4] The Group of Two that could change the world; Finan­cial Times 13.01.2009
[5] Euro­pean Coun­cil on For­eign Rela­tions: No Rush into Mar­riage. Chi­na’s Response to the G2; Chi­na Analy­sis 22, June 2009
[6] see also A Bro­ker with Inter­ests and Strate­gic Con­cepts (II)
[7] see also Bret­ton Woods II
[8] Selb­st die antichi­ne­sisch ori­en­tierte Presse ist gezwun­gen, die Fälschung ange­blich­er Beweise für Repres­sion­s­maß­nah­men Bei­jings einzugeste­hen. Belege bietet etwa: Die falschen Beweise der Rebiya Kadeer; Frank­furter All­ge­meine Zeitung 10.07.2009. Obwohl Chi­na-Kor­re­spon­den­ten über das Uig­uren-Mas­sak­er an fast 150 nicht-uig­urischen Chi­ne­sen informieren — so etwa im heute-jour­nal vom 8. Juli -, wird es in den Medi­en weit­ge­hend ver­schwiegen und unter nicht näher definierten “Todes­opfern” ver­steckt, die dann meist auch noch den chi­ne­sis­chen Sicher­heit­skräften ange­lastet wer­den. See also Augen­zeuge and Par­tic­u­lar­ly Manip­u­la­tive.

“Fear of Demo­tion’; german-foreign-policy.com; 7/16/2009.

6. Chi­na was demo­nized in the West fol­low­ing the cli­mate change sum­mit in Copen­hagen. What did not receive much notice was the fact that the Euro­pean Par­lia­ment was rep­re­sent­ed at the talks by Nick Grif­fin, head of the BNP, the lead­ing British fas­cist par­ty!

This is an act tan­ta­mount to the U.S. nam­ing David Duke to rep­re­sent it at the talks! The extent to which the selec­tion of Grif­fin may have influ­enced the out­come of the talks is a sub­ject for spec­u­la­tion.

Nick Grif­fin, the leader of the British Nation­al Par­ty, is to rep­re­sent the Euro­pean par­lia­ment at the UN cli­mate change con­fer­ence in Copen­hagen, which opens next week.

Last night politi­cians and sci­en­tists react­ed furi­ous­ly to news that the far-right politi­cian and cli­mate change denier should be attend­ing the sum­mit on behalf of the EU. . . .

“Cli­mate Change Denier Nick Grif­fin to Rep­re­sent EU at Copen­hagen” by Toby Helm; guardian.co.uk; 11/29/2009.

7. A thought­ful assess­ment of the cur­rent state of affairs in this coun­try was pre­sent­ed by a for­mer Aus­tralian finan­cial coun­selor. It remains to be seen how things ulti­mate­ly play out, but this ana­lyst’s rec­om­men­da­tions are good ones.

And the eco­nom­ic real­i­ty and prob­a­ble future are tru­ly fright­en­ing.

I dare say that every­one between the ages of 25 and death is liv­ing with regrets about the past, anx­i­eties about the future or both. The cur­rent finan­cial cri­sis is much like a health cri­sis in that it has trig­gered a com­plex array of respons­es of mind, body and soul, where­by no one is immune, whether wealthy or poor, sin­gle or mar­ried, employed or unem­ployed.

The gath­er­ing storm clouds
Some years ago, when I was still prac­tic­ing as an accoun­tant, I noticed that peo­ple retir­ing with a lump of mon­ey in the bank would grad­u­al­ly go from rel­a­tive com­fort to mea­sured exis­tence. Their adult chil­dren in the mean­time had become enthralled with the use of debt as a means of lever­ag­ing finan­cial out­comes whilst bankrolling their lifestyles large­ly on cap­i­tal gains. As for the grand­chil­dren, they were raised with tutors and coach­es to enter busi­ness schools and law schools, or golf­ing and ten­nis acad­e­mies, whilst being fed and enter­tained, but not much else. As we all know, the gates to this par­adise are now clos­ing.
On the oth­er side, where the grass was not so green and decid­ed­ly patchy, it became increas­ing­ly appar­ent that the wel­fare state was to be every individual’s guardian angel from the womb to the tomb. It would attempt to cure all ills through hand­outs and pro­grams designed to min­imise mis­ery but not to max­imise and real­ize poten­tial. This group is now grow­ing large­ly as a result of job loss­es.

The above descrip­tions do not of course ful­ly encom­pass the whole array of famil­ial expe­ri­ences but are nev­er­the­less indica­tive of a great many fam­i­lies to one extent or anoth­er across the west­ern world.

The storm
This cor­ro­sive finan­cial cri­sis has exposed both the haves and have-nots to the real­i­ties of a bad­ly wound­ed and bad­ly run finan­cial sys­tem which can no longer con­tin­ue to deliv­er either cap­i­tal gains or hand­outs at a pace com­men­su­rate with the populace’s expec­ta­tions and needs. The dry­ing up of cred­it com­pletes the shrink­age of con­sump­tion.

For those in their twi­light years, the dec­i­ma­tion of their retire­ment nest egg through a col­lapsed stock mar­ket and miser­ly rates of inter­est on their cer­tifi­cates of deposit is espe­cial­ly of con­cern as there is nei­ther suf­fi­cient time for, nor promis­ing enough signs of, a mean­ing­ful turn­around.
Those in the mid­dle years have regret­ted much of their past lifestyles and invest­ment choic­es and are now large­ly ham­strung as to how to pro­ceed as job loss and cap­i­tal destruc­tion have left them dazed and often with­out a home.

The gov­ern­men­t’s response
“What is gov­ern­ment doing?” you may ask. First of all one must ask “where has the gov­ern­ment been?” The answer is, “where it has always been … in the hands of pow­er­ful busi­ness inter­ests that this time went too far.” This con­trol of course is noth­ing new or nec­es­sar­i­ly bad in the his­to­ry of mankind. “Pow­er­ful,” how­ev­er, should not pre­clude “enlight­ened” and this is what has been miss­ing in the lead up to the down­turn and since the down­turn.

The fed­er­al gov­ern­ment reminds me of a fire chief who recruits fire­men from among a group of arson­ists to fight the blaze of the cen­tu­ry. The “arson­ist” banks have glad­ly sec­ond­ed their cho­sen sons Hen­ry Paul­son, Tim­o­thy Gei­th­n­er and Lar­ry Sum­mers (among oth­ers) to act as fire­men in the ser­vice of their nation. It was these banks with their cam­paign con­tri­bu­tions, jobs for the boys and coterie of lob­by­ists and rat­ings agen­cies that enabled either the repeal of safe­guards such as the Glass-Stea­gall Act, or the fla­grant abuse of lend­ing poli­cies in the belief that a ris­ing mar­ket would con­ceal and over­come the unsus­tain­able bank­ing and busi­ness prac­tices they pur­sued. To make mat­ters worse, the Mad­off Affair also revealed the depth of bureau­crat­ic incom­pe­tence even when deal­ing with a one-man Ponzi Scheme despite numer­ous warn­ings from cred­i­ble and qual­i­fied observers.

We are now “enter­tained” by bankers who either exhib­it the worst of cap­i­tal­ism when goug­ing bonus­es out of their com­pa­nies or the best of social­ism when they clam­or for assis­tance to save the world from implo­sion when the bank­ing sys­tem is threat­ened. Alas, no heads have rolled even to appease the plebs for a moment.

In spite of  such tal­ent, the best that Wash­ing­ton has been able to do is attempt to coun­ter­feit its way out of trou­ble by mak­ing dirt cheap cred­it avail­able to the banks so as to avoid a sys­temic col­lapse. This was fine as a stop-gap mea­sure but unfor­tu­nate­ly the trick­le-down effect has yet to be seen. I am remind­ed of an old deceased friend who would say, “char­i­ty begins at home and ends at home.” Busi­ness­es either do not qual­i­fy for bor­row­ings or, if pos­si­ble, are actu­al­ly pay­ing down debt. The only suck­ers to whom lend­ing is con­tin­ued are mar­gin­al home pur­chasers who are guar­an­teed by the FHA and sub­si­dized by Wash­ing­ton.

These ini­tia­tives by way of cash-for-clunk­ers and tax cred­its for home buy­ers are noth­ing more than a jar of antacid thrown down the mouth of a rum­bling vol­cano.

Where Wash­ing­ton has suc­ceed­ed, though, is in keep­ing the mood of the pop­u­lace under some sem­blance of nor­mal­i­ty. By extend­ing unem­ploy­ment ben­e­fits, giv­ing food vouch­ers, mas­sag­ing sta­tis­tics and allow­ing peo­ple to remain in their fore­closed homes, it has man­aged to avoid the images of the Great Depression’s soup kitchens. The reluc­tance of banks to fore­close on homes in a time­ly fash­ion is sim­ply a self serv­ing attempt not to blow the whole show apart giv­en that the FDIC’s abil­i­ty to insure deposits is pre­dom­i­nant­ly a state­ment of prin­ci­pal rather than a state­ment of fact. Why else would the FDIC make a deci­sion to col­lect three years’ of pre­mi­ums in one go upfront? The fig­ure of 18.5 mil­lion vacant homes is not a sta­tis­tic. It is the reflec­tion of dev­as­ta­tion on an indi­vid­ual, famil­ial and soci­etal lev­el. A large­ly com­pli­ant press in the mean­time mes­mer­izes the most­ly cata­ton­ic pop­u­lace.

For this rea­son, the cur­rent incon­gru­ous phe­nom­e­non of both a ris­ing stock mar­ket and ris­ing gold price is tes­ta­ment to manip­u­la­tion of the for­mer and spec­u­la­tion born out of fear for the lat­ter. Both, how­ev­er, are mak­ing per­ti­nent com­ments about the sys­tem as a whole.

The dan­gers
In view of all this, the almost improb­a­ble sce­nar­ios paint­ed by Russ­ian aca­d­e­m­ic Igor Panarin of a U.S. col­lapse and dis­in­te­gra­tion will become increas­ing­ly ten­able if unem­ploy­ment, home fore­clo­sures and bank fail­ures con­tin­ue. The U.S. pop­u­la­tion is armed and the increase in the num­ber of vig­i­lante groups has the poten­tial to at least make head­lines. The cat­a­lyst for a domi­no effect of events is nev­er seri­ous­ly expect­ed and the pos­si­bil­i­ty of mar­tial law in the land of the free requires only a solemn-look­ing pres­i­dent to announce it. Beware, how­ev­er, as the seem­ing­ly cata­ton­ic pop­u­lace starts to rebel. Add to this the recent phe­nom­e­non of reverse remit­tances from south of the U.S. bor­der and you real­ize that severe dis­lo­ca­tions are in the mak­ing.

Despite all this, the Unit­ed States has enough nat­ur­al endow­ment and his­tor­i­cal lega­cy from which to draw strength in an effort to reshape and reen­er­gize its exist­ing polit­i­cal and eco­nom­ic infra­struc­ture. Its stand­ing in the world may be under chal­lenge but is still a con­sid­er­able dis­tance from being top­pled.

The cloud with the sil­ver lin­ing
In a pre­vi­ous essay on this Web site, “Cas­cad­ing theft … Com­pound­ing mis­ery” (Octo­ber 21, 2009), I put for­ward a num­ber of pol­i­cy ini­tia­tives that might assist in turn­ing the cur­rent sit­u­a­tion around. In this essay, how­ev­er, I wish to briefly touch upon a fur­ther (though not nov­el) approach with a longer time­line which will give recog­ni­tion of where the true source of strength for the future lies.

In my view, a type of “rig­or mor­tis” has set in for a con­sid­er­able part of the pop­u­lace and for large swathes of gov­ern­ment pol­i­cy. Change is almost too dif­fi­cult, too expen­sive or too late. For this rea­son, the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment must spear­head a new effort to effect gen­er­a­tional rein­ven­tion through the young. This is America’s (and every nation’s) true asset, true hope and final stand if it is to reverse its ugly decline.

For this rea­son, every young person’s progress from child­hood to young adult should not only be mea­sured and tracked, but should also, more impor­tant­ly, be sup­port­ed to ensure that chil­dren are immu­nized and giv­en prop­er health care, coun­selling and even nutri­tion at school in tan­dem with prop­er exer­cise. Edu­ca­tion must be free and of the high­est qual­i­ty with uni­ver­si­ty entrance not being the province sole­ly of the rich. For those less aca­d­e­m­i­cal­ly inclined, the lat­ter years of school­ing must pro­vide voca­tion­al train­ing and oppor­tu­ni­ties before the cur­rent old­er gen­er­a­tions who pos­sess skills are total­ly buried by the Asian man­u­fac­tur­ing tsuna­mi. Any wel­fare pay­ments to par­ents must be sub­ject to at least sat­is­fac­to­ry atten­dance at school by their chil­dren.

If the young are nur­tured and simul­ta­ne­ous­ly divert­ed from drugs and vio­lence, the out­comes in terms of stress­es on the jus­tice and med­ical sys­tems and by exten­sion on the U.S. bud­get will be phe­nom­e­nal. The time has come to real­ize that the sys­tem­at­ic brain­wash­ing dressed as enter­tain­ment on tele­vi­sion and oth­er media has hijacked chil­dren and tak­en charge over their diets and val­ues. As one anony­mous author once exclaimed, “tele­vi­sion has changed a child from an irre­sistible force to an immov­able object.” Every force that views chil­dren as poten­tial con­sumers or dis­ci­ples has a 24–7 mar­ket­ing cam­paign that par­ents and schools find dif­fi­cult to match. Our chil­dren, there­fore, often find them­selves fast-track­ing expe­ri­ences that are per­haps bet­ter left for the future (e.g. sex­u­al activ­i­ty) and pos­si­bly nev­er indulged in at all (e.g. drugs).

Paths to progress must be clear, attain­able and broad­ly avail­able to all con­cerned. Gov­ern­ments must ensure a lev­el of remu­ner­a­tion that enables the young work­er to live with dig­ni­ty and to even­tu­al­ly form a fam­i­ly unit and own a home with­out a mort­gage that resem­bles Atlas’ globe. When these goals are out of the reach of the young, their resort to drugs, vio­lence and unsta­ble rela­tion­ships is but a knee-jerk reac­tion borne out of frus­tra­tion.

Above all, gov­ern­ments at all lev­els must col­lab­o­rate to ensure that EVERY sin­gle young per­son fin­ish­ing school is giv­en a job or job expe­ri­ence as a basic right. It has been clear­ly estab­lished par­tic­u­lar­ly in males that their brains do not ful­ly devel­op until they are about 23. Need I spell out why it is impor­tant that reg­u­lar gain­ful activ­i­ty is a neces­si­ty in those years? Bear in mind that the pro­por­tion of employed youth (aged 16–24) in July was at its low­est point since 1948, when record-keep­ing was com­menced. The fig­ure? Just 51.4%. If sub­prime mort­gages are dev­as­tat­ing to the econ­o­my, how much more so idle, angry and frus­trat­ed youth?

Both the Unit­ed States and oth­er nations must heed the predica­ment of the young at this point. Their par­ents and grand­par­ents are car­ry­ing great chal­lenges which they may or may not ful­ly over­come. The younger gen­er­a­tion can­not be expect­ed to ful­ly expe­ri­ence these scars with­out some path and hope being made avail­able to them as a coun­ter­bal­ance. How after all can we expect them to grow through cir­cum­stances not of their mak­ing and then also have them car­ry the mon­e­tary respon­si­bil­i­ty of car­ing for their aged par­ents down the track through tax­a­tion? This effort to guide youth requires a con­scious part­ner­ship between par­ents, schools and gov­ern­ment.

A final word
Final­ly, the young must be raised in the spir­it of com­mu­ni­ty ser­vice in all its var­i­ous man­i­fes­ta­tions. We must rec­og­nize (whether we are Chris­t­ian or not) that ethics and moral­i­ty are instilled at an ear­ly age through exam­ple rather than at uni­ver­si­ty as an after­thought or in jail as penance.

In this con­text I am also remind­ed of the words of Christa McAu­li­ffe who said, “I touch the future, I teach.” The real­i­ty is that whether we are par­ents, grand­par­ents or teach­ers we can all touch the future and in the process we will be healed and touched as well, not only as indi­vid­u­als but also as nations.

In clos­ing, I wish to pay trib­ute to all par­ents (includ­ing my own) and all teach­ers who have labored or con­tin­ue to labor for the young in recog­ni­tion of the fact that the future belongs to them. They already track and keep on track their young charges. Amer­i­ca this is your des­tiny.

Peter Soule­les, an eco­nom­ics and law grad­u­ate, ran a pri­vate account­ing prac­tice in Syd­ney, Aus­tralia, until retir­ing in 2000.

Views are as of Novem­ber 24, 2009, and are sub­ject to change based on mar­ket con­di­tions and oth­er fac­tors. These views should not be con­strued as a rec­om­men­da­tion for any spe­cif­ic secu­ri­ty.

“One Gen­er­a­tion to Regen­er­a­tion” by Peter Soules; PrudentBear.com; 11/24/2009.

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