CFR Member Zakaria Reveals He Advises President Obama On Foreign Policy

Matt Hadro
Newsbusters
Saturday, May 14, 2011



CNN’s Fareed Zakaria, host of the weekend show Fareed Zakaria GPS and editor-at-large for Time magazine, admitted on CNN Thursday that he has been advising President Obama on foreign policy matters.
Eliot Spitzer, host of CNN’s In the Arena, brought up the fact at the very end of a conversation with Zakaria about Pakistan and foreign policy. Zakaria affirmed it and clarified that “mostly it’s been face-to-face meetings…organized by Tom Donilon, the national security advisor.”

Spitzer brought up the subject by telling Zakaria that “I read something in the paper this week…It said the President of the United States calls you for wisdom and advice about issues around the world.”
After verifying that, Zakaria quickly changed the subject to praising Obama’s approach to foreign policy. “It’s been a very thoughtful conversation,” he mused. “You know, we’ll see where it goes."
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Will Austerity Come to the U.S.?

SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS!!!
Mark Matheny
May 14, 2011

Last October I wrote an article called "In Austerity We Trust", where I discussed the possibility of a downgrade of the U.S. credit rating, and the possibility of austerity measures that may follow. S&P has now put the U.S. on a "negative Watch" status saying that unless the U.S. takes measures to decrease spending, the U.S. AAA credit rating may be downgraded.

Back on July 17, 2010, I reported on the fact that China-based Dagong International credit Rating Agency had announced its downgrading of the U.S. AAA status to to AA with a negative outlook.

 Tony Sagami of UncommonwisdomDaily.com, stated at that time:
The UNTHINKABLE has happened. U.S. government debt has lost its sterling AAA credit rating! Like Greece, Iceland, and Dubai, the runaway spending from our Washington, D.C., politicians has caught up with us.

The good news is that the downgrade has come from upstart rating agency China-based Dagong International Credit Rating. The bad news is that Standard & Poor’s, Moody’s, and Fitch are almost certain to follow, and that will mean disaster for the dollar as well as dollar-denominated assets.
The head of China’s largest credit rating agency has slammed his western counterparts for causing the global financial crisis and said that as the world’s largest creditor nation China should have a bigger say in how governments and their debt are rated.

“The western rating agencies are politicised and highly ideological and they do not adhere to objective standards,” Guan Jianzhong, chairman of Dagong Global Credit Rating, told the Financial Times in an interview.


Only months before the announcement by the chinese agency, Timothy Geithner confidently stated that the U.S. Government "will never" lose its AAA credit rating, despite its increasing annual budgets, and a massive national debt of $14 trillion.The White House chose to ignore the announcement by Dagong International, while it sold the American Boob-tube watchers its "summer of recovery" propaganda.


Of course in April of this year, S&P came with the announcement that it was putting the U.S. AAA credit rating on "negative watch", giving the U.S. Government a warning to cut spending within the next two years, or face a possible downgrade in its credit rating.

To this announcement, geithner then came out once again to defend the monetary policy of the government and its partner in crime, the Federal Reserve.


When asked if the debt ceiling would be raised again, Geithner stated:
“That’s the judgment Congress has to make and it’s just about how often they want to vote for this. We are the only country in the world that does this; the debt limit that is authorized is just to give us the chance to borrow to finance commitments Congress has already made. There is no reason Congress won’t raise it, they always raise it. They have to decide how often they want to raise it. There is no reason why they have to put their members through the torture of having to do it frequently.”
We are the only country that does this because we are hold world reserve currency status. When geithner was asked how much the debt ceiling would be raised he stated:
“If it were up to me, knowing you want the world to know that our commitment will never be in question, you would do it for as long as possible. Even under Paul Ryan’s budget plan, you would have to raise the debt limit by 2 trillion dollars to get through this.”
My prediction on what the ceiling will be raised to was between $16 -20 trillion this time. I believe this will be done to put off the next raise until after the coming elections in 2012.


watch full video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ho4nf50Onwo

Well, with all of that said, will austerity measures come to America? You can almost assuredly count on it.
Once again Americans will be called upon by the criminal Banksters and co-conspirators in the White House to obediently surrender our paychecks, retirement savings, and our freedom and dignity in order to save the empire, (which really means becoming slaves to globalism and a global New World Order.)

In an article titled  "IMF Austerity Is Headed to America – Watch Out!", it states that IMF style austerity measures will more than likely come to America. It states that America's future is "one of government-induced privation and societal misery". Financial Times stated that the move by S&P was purely a political move:
"S&P's aim plainly was political. US politicians must agree on a policy to reduce the deficit. This must involve cutting spending, reducing entitlements and raising taxes. Who exactly bears the brunt of these remedies is a political question, not an economic one. No politician wants to be responsible for such things, so it is no surprise that they avoid the problem."
Also noted in the article "IMF Austerity Is Headed to America – Watch Out!" is the fact that the western power elites are promoting a larger fear based form of hysteria among the American people in a 'problem- reaction - solution' scenerio saying:
One needs a problem in order to provide a solution. And the move is on, most obviously, to create ever-closer global governance and perhaps an alternative currency. Modern central banking has done its work, throwing Western economies into confusion and disarray. Europe is already suffering from IMF-style austerity tactics and Britain is implementing them now. The US is next on the list.
The article goes on to say:
IMF provisions featuring privatization, tax hikes and public sector "austerity" are designed in my view to provoke the very public anger that Western elites are counting on to fuel a conversation about yet MORE centralization and MORE governmental control – of a "transparent" and "disciplined" type. The conversation is constantly to be focused on "better" government, not less of it. We can see the problem coming into focus now for the US, and the solution shall not be far behind. Expect the same sort of civil unrest that is currently afflicting Europe to visit the US if this conversation continues to be pushed along its current track.
While our credit rating is being downgraded and our economy goes further into crisis mode, Obama and his administration have entertained the masses with a dubious copy of his recently found long form birth certificate, and the announcement of the death of Osama Bin Laden. Both announcements of course have many holes and conflicts within themselves, but nevertheless achieve what the White House intended them for - distractions from the real crisis coming at us in the form of economic meltdown.

Market correction, inflation, gold standard

SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS!!!
Mark Matheny
May 13, 2011

Peter schiff likens quantitative easing, not to a crutch as some would compare it, but to that more likely as a form of life support for the American phony Fiat economy. He states that if the Federal Reserve now decides end the quantitative easing, it's equivalent to pulling the plug on the life support of our economy .

Peter believes this is exactly why the Fed will continue to print more fiat currency.


Schiffreport

We Are Change Confront Bankster Ben Bernanke

Infowars.com
May 13, 2011

Federal Reserve boss Ben Bernanke was clearly miffed at Luke Rudkowski of We Are Change, who had the gall to grill the globalist minion on the elite’s plan to wreck the economy.

Debt Crisis Clash

Russia Today
May 10, 2011




SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS!!!
Mark Matheny

Peter Schiff argues that the Republican Party needs to stand strong and refuse to raise the Debt Ceiling, forcing congress to restructure its debt. He argues that not raising the debt doesn't mean we have to default, as long as we cut spending.  He doubts, however, that the Republicans will be reponsible enough to do so.

ANOTHER FALSE FLAG OPERATION?

By Lynn Stuter
May 11, 2011
NewsWithViews.com

On Sunday, May 1, 2011, in the late hours, news stations across America carried Barack Hussein Obama's address to the world, announcing that Osama bin Laden had been taken down.

Initial reports were sketchy, and in the following days it became apparent that early reports were riddled with inaccuracies and inconsistencies.

Americans, lied to too many times, began to doubt the very veracity of reports that bin Laden was killed at "his compound" in Pakistan, not far distant from a prestigious Pakistani military academy.

To which the talking heads trotted out government mouth pieces hailing, "believe me, he's dead … I've seen the pictures, he's dead." Always the witting and willing dupes, the mainstream media has played their part.
Inconsistencies began to emerge –

1. DNA tests, the results of which were known in a matter of hours, proved it was Osama. Unless the CIA and military have access to DNA tests that the rest of the populace does not, it takes more than a few hours for a DNA match to be made.

2. No one heard two Black Hawk and two Chinook helicopters fly in. Even with radar evading "stealth" technology, this claim is hard to believe.

3. No one heard a very loud explosion (the downed Black Hawk being blown up) or the large caliber gunfire emanating from the compound as SEAL Team 6 supposedly made its way to the room where Osama was cloistered with at least one of his wives.

4. Osama's remains were wrapped in a blanket, put on a Chinook, flown to a ship (supposedly the USS Carl Vinson) and buried "in Islamic tradition" at sea. Burial within 24 hours of death is an Islamic tradition but that doesn't extend to burial at sea. Obama claimed this was done because no country wanted bin Laden buried there. From Pakistani outrage, at having their country invaded by Americans, that does not seem to be the case. All across the Middle East, demonstrations have condemned the act while glorifying bin Laden.

5. No pictures of the dead Osama will be released. Imagine that? Concrete evidence that he's dead, was killed on May 1, 2011, and Obama is going to withhold those pictures. Instead, Obama has seen fit to release five videos, supposedly taken from the bin Laden compound by SEAL Team six, one showing what is supposedly bin Laden watching videos of himself. A BBC report, from Abbottabad, says the man seen watching the videos is not Osama.

6. Obama claims that SEAL Team 6 garnered important information in items seized from the compound in a 40-minute raid (in which 25 minutes was mysteriously blacked out, including the actually killing of the 'target') that required the team to blast their way to the inner sanctum of Osama's hide out (can you say 'time consuming'?). Yet Americas will not see any of that information in the interests of "national security."

In other words, anything that would prove to the American people that Osama was actually in the compound, was actually the individual killed, is being withheld. In the absence of that proof, the news media, hanging on every word Obama utters as though he were some god, has been deluging the public with a huge volume of noise that never asks the obvious questions. The gullible are eating it up and celebrating in the streets. Those not so gullible are looking at the obvious inconsistencies and asking a lot of questions. At the top of that list of questions are – where are the pictures? and how many times has Obama lied to us with the complicit mainstream media heralding his cause?

The "spontaneous" groups shown celebrating bin Laden's supposed death in Times Square, about the time that Obama made his speech, rather made the statement that there was nothing spontaneous about any of this. What, these folks already had their neatly printed signs made all these years, ready to head for Times Square at the drop of a hat? Seems logical, no?

And, of course, all this came smack on the heels of the release of the second forged Obama birth certificate as Obama jumped through hoops trying to silence Donald Trump's questions about his eligibility to the office of president and the mainstream media's inability to shut Trump up. I used to have respect for Bob Schieffer of Face the Nation. But his comment to Katie Couric, on the CBS Evening News, on April 28, 2011, that Trump's questions about Obama's sealed education records bordered on racism sent that respect right down the drain. Just exactly how did Obama, with his less than stellar grades, get into two Ivy league schools?

While the news media has tried, desperately, to tie Obama's birth certificate to his eligibility to the office of president, the American people are slowly coming to the realization that the problem isn't Obama's birth certificate, at all; the problem is the fact that his father, at the time of his birth, was a British subject. That, as such, Obama never was eligible to the office of president under Article II, Section 1, Clause 5, United States Constitution requiring he be "natural born" defined as American parents and born on American soil. The Founding Fathers realized the futility of even a dual citizen being eligible who might have allegiances to other countries.

US lawyer sues Vatican over child sex abuse cover-up

Press TV
May 12, 2011

A lawsuit has been filed against the Vatican on behalf of the mother of a victim of sexual abuse by an imprisoned Chicago priest.

Attorney Jeff Anderson stated that the lawsuit, filed on behalf of a woman whose son was molested by Father Daniel McCormack, is an attempt to "hold those most responsible for the global problem and the problem in this community to account in a way they have never been." Suntimes.com



Announcing the suit at a news conference in Chicago, Anderson said he had sufficient evidence to hold Pope Benedict XVI and his predecessor, Pope John Paul II, accountable for enabling McCormack's long pattern of child sex abuse. macon.com

The lawsuit alleges the Vatican engaged in a criminal conspiracy to cover up the abuse McCormack perpetrated on the innocent boy. News.gather.com

The suit additionally alleges that the Vatican is preventing the release of documents by the Archdiocese of Chicago. News.gather.com

McCormack pleaded guilty in 2007 to sexually abusing five children and was sentenced to five years in prison. He's been accused of abusing more than 20 children. Suntimes.com

In 2008, the Archdiocese of Chicago agreed to pay $12.6 million to 16 victims of sexual abuse by priests, including McCormack. Missoulian.com

To win his case, Anderson must prove an exception to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, which limits the circumstances under which sovereign nations may be sued in U.S. courts, federal or state. macon.com

Jeffrey Lena, counsel to the Holy See in the U.S., has argued that U.S. courts can claim jurisdiction only if the foreign government - in this case, the Vatican - is directly responsible for inflicting harm. macon.com

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