False Prophets of War!

Were the Taliban an enemy of the US?

Was Bin Laden responsible for the 9/11 World Trade Center attack?

These are two questions that have daunted the American psyche since the US attacked Iraq under “knowingly” false pretenses. Allegations of weapons of mass destruction, the US government knew did not exists, were the cause that beat a war drum and marshaled the might of our military against a lesser army, in short we wanted Iraq’s Oil and we took it.

We also wanted the Unocal Pipeline across Afghanistan, and as discussions faltered we forced the Taliban out to put our own puppet in, now that Pipeline has been secured.

Our latest focus, the Caspian Sea‘s rich oil resources, so Iran is another enemy that must be dealt with, allegations of uranium enrichment has become the drum beat and propaganda of this seemingly inevitable confrontation.

With war after war as our centerpiece, we have become bullies of the world, sacking the resources of nations at our will. As the early Roman warrior, and before them Alexander we seek global dominance. America does not free mankind through democracy it enslaves it through that illusion.

We have become that which we abhor most, terrorists, war mongers, and politically totalitarian. We are the American generation of imperialists who chant the illusion of democracy, while we torture our victims in the name of salvation.

Yet, just as war with Iran is not necessary, neither were Afghanistan or Iraq.

After almost 9 years of continuous war, documents have been declassified and released that establish, the US made a false case to attack not only the Taliban, and initiated a war of choice, but were actually the terrorists we seek to destroy.

Evidence is now available from multiple sources, including recently declassified U.S. State Department documents, which shows that the Taliban regime led by Mullah Mohammad Omar imposed strict isolation on Osama bin Laden after 1998 to prevent him from carrying out any plots against the United States.

The evidence contradicts claims by top Barack Obama administration officials that Mullah Omar was complicit in Osama bin Laden's involvement in the al Qaeda plot to carry out the Sep. 11, 2001 terrorist attack. It also bolsters the credibility of Taliban statements in recent months asserting that it has no interest in al Qaeda's global jihadist aims.

Mullah Omar's willingness to allow bin Laden to remain in Afghanistan was conditioned from the beginning, according to documents, on two prohibitions on his activities: bin Laden was forbidden to talk to the media without the consent of the Taliban regime or to make plans to attack U.S. targets.

In retaliation for the bombings of two U.S. Embassies in East Africa on Aug. 7, 1998 The US Government believing Bin Laden guilty, in August 1998 engaged in cruise missile strikes against bin Laden run training camps in Afghanistan. This attack by the US appears to have had a dramatic impact on Mullah Omar and the Taliban regime's policy toward bin Laden.

Two days after the strike, Omar unexpectedly entered into a phone conversation with a US State Department official and one of his aides, he told the U.S. official he was unaware of any evidence that bin Laden "had engaged in or planned terrorist acts while on Afghan soil". The Taliban leader said he was "open to dialogue" with the United States and asked for evidence of bin Laden's involvement, according to the State Department cable reporting the conversation.

Only three weeks after Omar asked for evidence against bin Laden, the al Qaeda leader sought to allay Taliban suspicions by appearing to accept the prohibition by Omar against planning any actions against the United States.

In an interview with al Jazeera, (The mid east version of CNN), bin Laden stated "There is an opinion among the Taliban that we should not move from within Afghanistan against any other state, he added "This was the decision of the Commander of the Faithful, as is known." Mullah Omar had taken the title "Commander of the Faithful"

During September and October 1998, the Taliban apparently sought to position itself to turn bin Laden over to the Saudi government by obtaining a ruling from the Afghan Supreme Court that bin Laden was guilty of the Embassy bombings.

In a conversation with the U.S. chargé in Islamabad on Nov. 28, 1998, Wakil Ahmed Muttawakil, Omar's spokesman and chief adviser on foreign affairs, referred to a previous Taliban request to the United States for evidence of bin Laden's guilt to be examined by the Afghan Supreme Court, (according to the U.S. diplomat's report to the State Department).

Accordingly with Omar’s request, the US failed to provide the Afghan Supreme Court such evidence supporting their claim that bin Laden was involved. The court thus ruled that no evidence had been presented warranted the conviction of bin Laden.

Muttawakil said the court trial approach had "not worked" but suggested that the Taliban regime was now carrying out a strategy to "restrict [bin Laden's] activities in such a way that he would decide to leave of his own volition."

Meanwhile, the US Media and public officials were blaming the Taliban of protecting bin Laden.

In the face of a new Taliban hostility, bin Laden sought to convince Mullah Omar that he had given his personal allegiance to Omar as a Muslim. In April 2001 bin Laden referred publicly to having sworn allegiance to Mullah Omar as the "Commander of the Faithful".

Even in summer 2001, as the Taliban regime became increasingly dependent on foreign jihadi troop contingents, including Arabs trained in bin Laden's camps, for its defense against the military advances of the Northern Alliance, Mullah Omar found yet another way to express his unhappiness with bin Laden's presence.

In Late January, Geoff Morrell, the spokesman for Defense Secretary Robert Gates, suggested that the United States could not negotiate with Mullah Omar, because he has "the blood of thousands of Americans on his hands," implying that he had knowingly allowed bin Laden's planning of the 9/11 attacks. Yet no such evidence exists to support the US storyline. In fact this story seems to be wholly inaccurate in face of what we now know.

It is more likely that the US wanted to attack and remove the Taliban, and after we succeeded, the Taliban now appear to be waging war in retribution.

Why did we really invade Afghanistan?

We knew that the Taliban were not protecting Bin Laden and we had no information that Bin Laden was behind the World Trade Center attack, but we do know this the hijackers were all Saudi Nationals, and we needed oil and lots of it

In 2001, the U.S imported 54% of the oil it required, importing 11-12 million barrels a day and producing about 8-9 million a day. The US was consuming about 20 million barrels of oil daily.

Of those imports, 48% came from the Western Hemisphere and 30% came from the Persian Gulf region, with the rest came from Africa and Europe.

The Persian Gulf Region contains 590 billion barrels of known reserves. Add Iran, Libya and Algeria and you have another 130 billion barrels. This enormous pool of oil that stretches from Algeria to Iran is estimated at 720 billion barrels. The reserves expected from the Caspian Sea in Central Asia will be added to this total shortly. Those reserves are estimated to be another 44 billion barrels of oil reserves and possibly more.

The Afghanistan war is about securing the territory through which the oil and gas pipelines will have to pass through in order to ensure Russia, China and Iran are out-maneuvered in the last great wars for the last of the global oil supplies on planet Earth. Iran and Russia within the past month have secured a cooperative agreement over the Caspian oil reserves and have possibly out maneuvered the US interests.

Unocal a company now owned by Chevron in 1995, entered the picture and began negotiations with the Taliban to construct an oil pipeline:

Unocal signed a tentative agreement with the Turkmenistan government to research the possibilities of constructing an oil pipeline to Pakistan by way of Afghanistan. As the project developed, Unocal began to seek an agreement with the Taliban, who had recently risen to power, to construct a pipeline across their country. On two separate occasions, in February and December 1997, Taliban officials were flown to the US to meet with, and be wined and dined by, Unocal executives. One of those executives was claimed to have been Hamid Karzai (Currently the US Installed President of Afghanistan) Although Karzai denies his involvement with Unocal, there is strong evidence to support his connections.

Background on Karzai, Bush and UNOCAL

This information is quoted from an article by the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG), globalresearch.ca, January 23, 2002 (Reprinted here with fair use permission)

According to Afghan, Iranian, and Turkish government sources, Hamid Karzai, the interim Prime Minister of Afghanistan, was a top adviser to the El Segundo, California-based UNOCAL Corporation which was negotiating with the Taliban to construct a Central Asia Gas (CentGas) pipeline from Turkmenistan through western Afghanistan to Pakistan.

Karzai, the leader of the southern Afghan Pashtun Durrani tribe, was a member of the mujaheddin that fought the Soviets during the 1980s. He was a top contactor for the CIA and maintained close relations with CIA Director William Casey, and then Vice President George HW Bush, and the Pakistani Inter Service Intelligence (ISI) Service. Later, Karzai and a number of his brothers moved to the United States under the auspices of the CIA.

According to Middle East and South Asian sources Karzai serve the agency's interests, as well as those of the Bush Family and their oil friends in negotiating the CentGas deal.

When one peers beyond all of the rhetoric of the White House and Pentagon concerning the Taliban, a clear pattern emerges showing that construction of the trans-Afghan pipeline was a top priority of the Bush administration from the outset, and why we invaded Afghanistan.

Although UNOCAL claims it abandoned the pipeline project in December 1998, the series of meetings held between U.S., Pakistani, and Taliban officials after 1998, indicates the project was never off the table.

Note: According to European intelligence sources; Meetings between the Taliban and the US Government over the pipe line are said to have continued even after the September 11, attack and the beginning of the war.

Governments lie, and we are the ultimate victims of their treachery.

Let’s Call It What It Is - It’s Reagan’s Fault!

The government, both state and federal, is on a feeding frenzy to save the banks, the real reason is that the banks are the feeding ground for our politicians, in fact any office seeker is beholden to the banks for their financial support. As such there will never be any meaningful control over these institutions.

There are now 140 fewer banks then there was last year, and the too big to fail have gotten even larger, and now have much less competition, as such those too big to fail institutions profits have soared.

Real reform in America will not occur, the system has already transitioned and the constitution has been rendered a nullity. What does this mean for the masses of the population?

We have Geitner’s Bankers view: “Geithner’s “Claim” -the Economy is Rebounding!” "Right now we're focused on getting growth back on track," says Geithner. "And we're not at the point yet where we have to decide exactly what it's going to take."

Ok, so, the economy is rebounding, says Geitner, the government is focused on getting growth back on track, but hasn’t the slightest idea how to do just that!

Leaving the rhetorical question, with most American jobs outsourced, will the economy ever rebound?

It’s time we got real!

People are still losing jobs and at an alarming rate, while those in government are focused on helping the banks, that same irresponsible element that is still doing the same thing that got them in trouble in the first instance. The Banks are still bundling loans and creating derivatives (CDS’S). Although it is at a much lower pace as they are making fewer loans.

Perhaps the process of thinking for the executives of these major banks may be demented, as it appears that they simply don’t care. So far when they fail the government has forced us to come to their rescue, and as the government believes these banks are too big to fail the bankers “know” they won’t be allowed to fail!

So it’s business as usual on Wall Street.

This unemployment cycle had to occur and it was expected by Greenspan, Geitner and Bernanke. The housing bubble was an artificial bubble created by the Bush administration to help take us out of the recession we had entered in 2000. We were already into a recession when the incident of 9/11 occurred, we never came out of that recession until the banks loosened credit and had us take the equity out of our homes. It wasn’t jobs or income that marshaled the economy; it was the easy access to our home equity.

The Banks didn’t care that the housing market was a bubble and the numbers weren’t realistic, or that the consumers would be able long term to cover their mortgages, as they made a lot of money creating these loans and inflating the economy, which caused the housing bubble in the first place. They also created these insurance derivatives to protect themselves when the bubble collapsed, as they knew it would.

The US economy has been in a sad state since the Reagan Bush administration, Reagan was a puppet of the banks, and as the banks controlled Reagan they also controlled each of the fortune 500 companies, they sought more profits. Reagan gave them what they wanted by promoting American businesses to relocate off shore and with them American jobs, and an abundance of cheap labor. It was Reagan that transitioned this economy to a service economy! Reagan the idol of the Republican Party elite was himself a puppet of the Banking interests. Reagan is the culprit that has caused the waste of American jobs.

Now we are simply reaping what Reagan and Bush had sown, followed by Clinton and Nafta and Gatt. Each taking American jobs further disrupting our economy.

The unemployed, those who have filed claims for assistance during 2009 number in excess of 24,003,936. More than 24 million American workers displaced in 2009 Alone. The government acknowledges that 35.6% or 8,545,40 people are hard core unemployed, this does not take into account however (i) those whose benefits have expired and they are simply out of luck, or (ii) those that have accepted part time work as better than nothing, or (iii) those who have taken a cut in pay to work in a less desirable industry.

The jobless rate has now been acknowledged at 10.2 percent of the workforce however this number is very misleading, when we take into account those on aid, on Social Security, those no longer collecting unemployment benefits, and the unemployed we have a tremendous difference, there appears to be more people collecting benefits than there are actually working.

The unemployment rate doesn't include people without jobs who have stopped looking, or those who have settled for part-time jobs. Counting those people, the unemployment rate would be 17.5 percent or higher, the highest since at least 1994, and the worst record for Americans since Ronald Reagan was in office. An alternative gauge of unemployment, which includes discouraged workers and those forced to work part-time, actually rose to 17.5%, the highest on record dating to 1994.

The underemployed - Total hours worked in the economy fell 0.2%. The average workweek was steady at a record-low 33 hours meaning that of those who were employed were working fewer hours and making less money!

Very simply and plainly, high unemployment is going to be around for some time to come ... there is little reason for businesses to hire and we can expect this holiday season to be the worst on record!

There is no need to highlight the terrible predicament the American economy has been placed in by the banks, big business and inadequate administrations. The bank control of Ronald Reagan and the following administrations bear evidence to the tragic state our economy now finds itself.

The Banks because of their greed, and big business seeking to make larger profits for their investors, have disrupted the American economy. Only the reversal of this plan to equalize the citizens of the world and to bring back American jobs will make any meaningful difference. But this will never happen our system of governance has fully transitioned to a corporate form of governance.

Consumer products manufactured overseas means jobs are overseas. We still have access to any product we want because they’re imported, whether or not we’ll be able to afford them is another question and one that will depend on whether we have an income or job. It may also depend on our relationship with those in power!

Eventually there isn't going to be enough income spread among enough of the population to continue the economy even at this reduced standard. The cycle of more productivity from fewer workers will ultimately hit a floor and then unemployment would crash even further.

We need to end the crony capitalism that still thrives under Obama, no more bailouts, no more bonuses, no more mega-players like Goldman Sachs, no more off-shoring American jobs and manufacturing. We need jobs now! And we need a plan that does not contain the banking interest above our own!