ERIC ZUESSE -- The Movement Toward Nuclear War (I)

ERIC ZUESSE | 15.06.2016 | WORLD

The Movement Toward Nuclear War (I)

Antagonizing Western Publics Against Russia

During a recent interview that former Soviet – then subsequently Russian – President Mikhail Gorbachev gave in Moscow at his namesake Foundation (to be published in Rupert Murdoch’s London Times), Gorbachev publicly approved of Crimea’s return to Russia. He said there, «I’m always with the free will of the people and most in Crimea wanted to be reunited with Russia». This statement, when it was published in the Times on 22 May 2016 (and then the next day posted to the Gorbachev Foundation site copying the Times’s version), was surrounded in the so-called ‘interview’ by propaganda from Murdoch’s ‘interviewer’ the ‘journalist’ Mark Franchetti, arguing there against Gorbachev’s statement concerning this important matter. Franchetti’s article (his ‘interview’ of Gorbachev) allowed very little of direct quotations from Gorbachev; so, it didn’t enable the presumed interview-subject to provide any evidence in support of the interviewee’s viewpoint – evidence such as, for example, even the Western-sponsored polls of Crimeans, which always have shown overwhelming support for Crimea’s transfer back to Russia. (Not even the mere fact that Crimea had been part of Russia until the Soviet dictator Nikita Khrushchev arbitrarily transferred it to Ukraine, in 1954, was mentioned in the Murdoch propagandist’s article, though this fact too is a crucial one in the entire matter.)

Nonetheless, this mere statement by Gorbachev was enough to cause Gorbachev to become banned in Ukraine – that is, in the new, rabidly anti-Russian, fascist and pro-fascist, regime in Ukraine, that had been installed there in February 2014 by US President Barack Obama’s agents under the cover of public anti-corruption demonstrations.

Just four days after the Times’s ‘interview’, on May 26^th, Ukrayinska Pravda («Ukrainian Truth») then bannered, «Gorbachev denied entry to Ukraine for 5 years», and reported that, «Security banned the ex-Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev from Ukraine for a period of 5 years. This was reported to ‘Ukrayinska Pravda’ by a source in the SBU [Security Bureau of Ukraine], who wished to remain anonymous». This article mentioned that Anton Gerashchenko in Ukraine’s parliament had in 2014 originally called for Gorbachev to be banned. And now it was finally being done.

This Pravda article didn’t mention that Gerashchenko was a close advisor to Arsen Avakov, who was head of the SBU in the new American-installed regime in Ukraine, and that Gerashchenko had, himself, in October 2015, been supporting ISIS to defeat Assad in Syria so as to weaken Russia. In other words, Obama could hardly have installed a more rabidly anti-Russian regime in Ukraine than he did. Merely the fact that ISIS were seeking to oust an ally of Russia was enough for the US-installed new Ukrainian regime (the one that ended democracy in Ukraine) to support ISIS.

And, so, Gorbachev, who had ended the Cold War against America, was now being rewarded with contempt not only from the Russian public (as Franchetti in his article noticed and accurately reported there) for his naiveté in having accepted as being honest America’s repeated assurances (lies) that NATO would not move «one inch to the east», but with his outright banishment from the newest member of the US empire, Ukraine. And, of course, when Gorbachev was allowed in the Western press to get a word in edgewise to argue for the Russian position, his statements were now being surrounded and drowned out there by the comments from an ‘interviewer’ (if that propagandist can even honestly be called such). So, Gorbachev is now, in effect, dumped upon, even within the American empire (no longer just by the Russian people), though nobody can deny that he is an honorable and profoundly decent human being, who did the best he was capable of, for his people, and for the world-at-large.

But this is only the propaganda in countries where the Soviet Union and communism had never presented really a danger of invading by traditional, non-nuclear, forces – tanks rolling across borders, etc. The Warsaw Pact countries – Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and of course the core Russia – were in constant fear that the core country, Russia, might invade (along with some of the others in their alliance) to quell popular movements to join the democratic (it was authentically so then) West. These are countries (Russia’s traditional «buffer states» against potential invasions coming from the west) where a real fear of Russian conquest is a living memory, from recent generations. In addition, there are Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, which were conquered by the USSR in 1940. Ukraine, Georgia, and some other states within the USSR, had been conquered by Russia shortly after the Russian Revolution and so there were emigre communities abroad that were supportive of either the Nazis or else the democratic nations during World War II. All of these countries therefore have a much more fearful relationship with today’s, the post-Soviet, Russia, than do the core countries of the West (such as the UK, and the now master of them all, the US), which used to be democratic.

The issue of Crimea is part of the issue of Ukraine, only because, in 1954, the Soviet dictator Khrushchev arbitrarily transferred Crimea from Russia, of which Crimea had been a part since 1783, to Ukraine – the Crimean population had nothing to do with it: they overwhelmingly considered themselves to be Russians, and still do. Consequently, the issue that the US aristocracy and its associated aristocracies are alleging to be the basis for their economic sanctions against Russia and for their surrounding Russia with surges of weapons and soldiers against Russia, happens to be, by long standing, a part of Russia, not only by centuries-long tradition, but also by constant showings as such in all opinion polls of the Crimean public – the people themselves (the publics whom the once-democratic Western nations used to respect as being the very foundation stone for democracy – but obviously no longer do, because the Western nations are no longer authentic democracies, not even as close to that as they once were).

But the evil here, on the part of The West, goes beyond even that. The US government is now feeding the fear that the publics in all of the former Soviet and Soviet-allied subjugated states very naturally but also entirely unjustifiably feel against the successor Russian state; and this understandable residual fear, in turn, is being responded to by Russia, by means of its pouring tens of thousands of troops and associated armaments toward their borders in order to protect against a potential US invasion from US-allied soil.

This mutual buildup along Russia’s European borders can easily get out of control, and so Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has many times quietly urged Washington for there to be private communications between himself and US President Barack Obama to reach a peaceable conclusion to this escalation, but Obama repeatedly refuses.

The real function of Western propaganda in Western Europe, such as Rupert Murdoch’s recent propaganda using Mikhail Gorbachev in this way, is not so much in order to stir his countrymen’s fears of an invasion against their country by Russia, but is instead to stir sufficient support by Brits for UK to join with the US invasion of Russia that increasingly likely will be precipitated under the Article V provision of the NATO Treaty as a ‘justification’ to escalate to all-out war if and when Russia provides a ‘provocation’. That may not happen this year (and the US military sends signals that they won’t be prepared for that until 2017), but the buildup is happening right now.

http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2016/06/15/the-movement-toward-nuclear-war-i.html 

John W. Whitehead -- Violence Begets Violence: The Orlando Shootings and the War on Terror

Violence Begets Violence: The Orlando Shootings and the War on Terror

By John W. Whitehead
June 14, 2016

…”Our military operates the biggest arms sales operation on earth; it rapes girls, women and schoolchildren in Okinawa; it cuts ski-lift cables in Italy, killing twenty vacationers, and dismisses what its insubordinate pilots have done as a “training accident”; it allows its nuclear attack submarines to be used for joy rides for wealthy civilian supporters and then covers up the negligence that caused the sinking of a Japanese high school training ship; it propagandizes the nation with Hollywood films glorifying military service (Pearl Harbor); and it manipulates the political process to get more carrier task forces, antimissile missiles, nuclear weapons, stealth bombers and other expensive gadgets for which we have no conceivable use.

…, one must conclude that the government outlined in the Constitution of 1787 no longer bears much relationship to the government that actually rules from Washington. Until that is corrected, we should probably stop talking about “democracy” and “human rights.”

Chalmers Johnson

“Americans have been told that their government is keeping them safe by preventing and prosecuting terrorism inside the US... But take a closer look and you realize that many of these people would never have committed a crime if not for law enforcement encouraging, pressuring, and sometimes paying them to commit terrorist acts.”—Human Rights Watch

We can rail against ISIS, hate crimes, terror threats, Islamic radicalization, gun control and national security. We can blame Muslims, lax gun laws, a homophobic culture and a toxic politic environmental. We can even use the Orlando shooting as fodder for this year’s presidential campaigns.

But until we start addressing the U.S. government’s part in creating, cultivating and abetting domestic and global terrorism—and hold agencies such as the FBI and Defense Department accountable for importing and exporting violence, breeding extremism and generating blowback, which then gets turned loose on an unsuspecting American populace—we’ll be no closer to putting an end to the violence that claimed 50 lives at an Orlando nightclub on June 12, 2016, than we were 15 years ago when nearly 3,000 individuals were killed on Sept. 11, 2001.

Sergey Lavrov’s remarks and answers to media questions , Moscow, June 15, 2016

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks and answers

to media questions during Government Hour at the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, Moscow, June 15, 2016

Mr Naryshkin,

Colleagues,

First of all, I would like to thank you for this opportunity to speak once again as part of Government Hour in the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation.

We at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs appreciate your attention to our work and our efforts to implement Russia’s foreign policy course that has been approved by President of Russia Vladimir Putin. I would like to emphasise that close interaction between the Foreign Ministry and parliament, the relevant committees of the State Duma and the Federation Council, offers an opportunity not just to coordinate our approaches to the key issues on the international agenda, but also to make the joint efforts of the executive and legislative branches of power maximally effective for strengthening Russia’s position in global affairs.

You are aware, of course, of our assessments of the international situation that have been recently voiced several times by President Putin, including during his recent visits to Belarus, Kazakhstan, Greece and also at the ASEAN-Russia summit in Sochi. President Putin spoke frankly, stressing the importance of curbing the growth of the global conflict potential and reaffirming Russia’s willingness to work together with all other countries on a modern non-bloc system of international security.

International relations have reached a turning point in their development, marked by the rise of a new polycentric architecture. It is an objective trend that reflects the cultural and civilisational diversity of the modern world, the rise and strengthening of new centres of power and influence and the natural desire of nations to freely determine their future. At the same time, global competition is growing stronger and its results will largely determine the contours of the future world order.

Against the backdrop of growing terrorist threats, regional conflicts and persisting economic instability, we see our Western partners, led by the United States, redoubling their efforts to achieve global domination.

The recent developments have shown the illusory nature of these plans. It is obvious that no state, not even the world’s most powerful state, and no group of countries, can hope to be able to deal with the numerous modern problems alone.

What we need in this situation is collective diplomatic efforts, based on true equality among the main international actors, in the interests of finding the best answers to common threats and challenges.

This foreign policy philosophy and practice is being implemented in Russia, which is protecting its national interests in a situation where the United States and its allies are trying to create a “deterrence front” against Russia based on Cold War precepts. But they can no longer refuse to admit the importance of working together with Russia and the relevance of Russia’s stance on current issues.

When speaking at the UN in September of last year, President Putin proposed creating a broad counterterrorism front under the UN auspices and based on the solid foundation of international law.

Putting this initiative into practice, our Aerospace Forces, which were deployed in Syria at the request of the Syrian Government, fought jointly with the Syrian army and militiamen to disrupt the extremists’ plans of creating a bridgehead in that strategic region of the Middle East.

It took our partners time to see the seriousness of the challenge from ISIS, Jabhat al-Nusra and other similar organizations, as well as the importance of coordinating efforts in the fight against them. Eventually, practical cooperation was established. The International Syria Support Group (ISSG) has been created with Russia and the United States as co-chairs, and the UN Security Council has adopted decisions approving a comprehensive plan that provides for a ceasefire, humanitarian access to civilians in the besieged regions and a political process without any preconditions or foreign interference.

Russia will continue to pursue an ambitious, independent and responsible policy based on the priority of international law, collective solutions to international problems with the central role of the UN, and recognition of nations’ right to self-determination.

We have been working at the UN, BRICS, the SCO, the G20 and other multilateral platforms to advocate a unifying agenda and balanced global politics. We are always open for equal and mutually beneficial cooperation with all countries and integration associations that desire this too.

But make no mistake: We will defend the security of our country and people in any conditions.

Benjamin Fulford: 12:06:2016 + Special Update on June 14

SPECIAL UPDATE ON JUNE 14, 2016:  

The Rothschilds finally got in touch.This is what the Rothschilds had to say about the situation to a WDS member in Asia:

“It is 0440 hrs here. I finally got in touch with them. Strange time for sure. I spoke with Nat’s personal secretary. I am sure the call was rerouted. This is what she told me, ‘We are aware of what you and your contact in Tokyo desire. We do agree and are working with other members of the family to make this happen. We are also aware of what is currently taking place. The Golden Lily’s are ready to be harvested. The first of 3 is being prepared now. The group that thinks they will get it, will not. It will be integrated in the change-over to the new plan. Each new district will have their own reserves, for their new currency. Each district will be part of a basket of Asian currencies that are backed with various commodities. We will send our representative over to meet with you, as we know how to reach you. After that, you and your contact in Tokyo will be able to meet with Nat directly, should you desire. Please be on standby.’

I have her name as well. At least the one she gave me… She sounds like she is British, as I can hear from the way she talks.

I do not know what you should do with this information. Maybe release part of it, and hold the part about actually naming xxx back for now.

It seems that your numbers were checked out and they are obviously aware of what you have been saying in your weekly updates…as well as our conversations?”

So in other words, the Rothschilds have finally agreed to support a massive campaign to end poverty, stop environmental destruction and trigger an exponential expansion of humanity into the universe. This is good newS indeed for the planet. We will keep readers posted on any further developments.

US and UN power hand-over or hostile take-over up for grabs

June 12, 2016

Author: Benjamin Fulford

Negotiations for a new financial system are on hold as the controllers of the old system seem to have gone into or are preparing to go into hiding. This means that at the time of this writing it is unclear if there will be peaceful transition to a new financial system or a hostile take-over of the old system.

The backdrop to these now on hold negotiations is an increasingly chaotic situation in the United States, the Middle East and Europe as the bankruptcy of the Western financial system begins to affect social and economic stability.

The situation in the United States is especially critical with an intense power struggle that has become visible even in the corporate media. This can be seen as some Khazarian controlled media like the New York Times and the Washington Post reporting a very different reality than media like the Wall Street Journal and ABC TV or the nation-wide McClatchy newspaper chain. The former, for example, report that Hillary Clinton is now the official Democratic Party presidential candidate while the latter are concentrating more on the criminal investigations into the Clinton foundation etc. The clearest sign of a split in the power structure, though, comes from the White House itself. There “acting-President” Barack Obama publicly endorsed Hillary Clinton for President only to have the White House Press spokesman come out an hour later to say that Clinton was under criminal investigation.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/06/06/make-no-mistake-hillary-clinton-will-clinch-the-democratic-nomination-on-tuesday/
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/06/10/white-house-confirms-criminal-probe-over-clinton-emails-shreds-campaign-claim.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVmuGQE5vyo

The bankruptcy on May 2nd of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Corporation is being felt in increasingly obvious ways. For example, many of the close to 50 million Americans who rely on food aid to feed their families were experiencing glitches with their cards this month, in what is either a cyber-attack or an attempt to steal their money. Another example is that police have gone from stopping cars and stealing the passenger’s cash to using high-tech devices to empty their credit cards. There are also reports of glitches in mobile phone networks and GPS systems around the US in what is a clear sign of intense cyber-warfare.

The false flag attack in Orlando, Florida, where 50 people were allegedly killed, “will not stop leaks or distract” from the ongoing campaign to end Khazarian mafia control of the United States, Pentagon officials say. The Orlando incident also illustrated the split in the US with many corporate media outlets describing it as an attack by a single ISIS “radical Muslim” killer while internet news sites, agency officials and other aware people instantly recognized it as yet another Khazarian mafia psychological warfare operation false flag incident.

The Pentagon and the agencies already know the Khazarian mafia the real culprits behind this attack and know the trail leads to Israel and world Khazarian mafia headquarters in Switzerland.

This false flag took place immediately after top bosses of the Khazarian mafia ended their meeting at the Bilderberg gathering in Dresden, Germany. Although not on the official list of attendees, Rothschild family sources confirm

Nathaniel Rothschild presided over that meeting on behalf of top his uncle and top Khazarian mafia boss Baron Jacob Nathaniel Rothschild. The official press release about the meeting can be seen here:
http://www.bilderbergmeetings.org/press-release.html

The only thing we can add to this from our own sources is that at the meeting they discussed a global tax that would be sold as necessary to finance an end to environmental destruction and poverty. They also discussed the Chinese offer of 20,000 tons of gold at a 13% discount on the condition that of that discount the 10% would be used to set up a future planning agency and the other 3% would go to commissions as mentioned previously in this newsletter, Rothschild family sources confirm.

The Rothschild family is in any case now clearly circling their wagons. CIA officials say that nobody is answering the phone at all the official, public Rothschild family companies. The only number to contact them at is the one at their family complex in Zug, Switzerland and at the time of this writing, nobody was answering the phone there either. Below is a picture of the Rothschild family complex in Zug.


There are also signs something unusual is about to happen in England, possibly related to the Rothschilds. According to Russia Today (most likely not a Russian site)
https://www.rt.com/uk/345988-g4s-royal-mint-security/

the British military has been removed from the job of protecting the Royal Mint (where England’s gold is stored) and replaced with the private security company G4S. This is the scandal plagued company that botched the security for the London Olympics. It is also where the so-called shooter in Orlando used to work.

Considering the closure of the Rothschild offices in England, Japan and elsewhere, it is a good guess they have absconded to Switzerland with England’s gold reserves. If that is the case it means that, for the first time since the Rothschilds made a fortune from insider trading after the Battle of Waterloo, the Rothschilds no longer control the Bank of England.

This could also be related to a double digit lead in the polls in England favouring an exit from the European Union in the referendum due on June 23rd. If England leaves the EU it will become a truly independent country again for the first time since 1066. Events will tell.

We are also hearing from German Second Reich sources that Germans who left Germany to form colonies elsewhere after and just before the end of World War 2 will be going back to Germany shortly to restore independence their fatherland. They also say a lot of hitherto hidden German technology is also about to be revealed. Pentagon sources say US forces have been evacuated from Germany’s Ramstein air base in order to shut down Bush cabal drug trafficking there and thus cut off their funds.

In any case, as things stand the entire European financial system is wobbling and about to collapse. The latest report from the BIS says international banks have reduced lending to Europe by $276 billion during the most recent quarter.
https://www.bis.org/publ/qtrpdf/r_qt1606.pdf

The already bankrupt system is not likely to be able to survive such a huge reduction of money. Perhaps that is why that ultimate Khazarian insider, George Soros, has announced he is going into gold and gold mining stocks as a hedge against financial turmoil in the US and Europe.

There is also severe turbulence in Turkey. Sources in Turkey say there are riots throughout that country and even battles taking place between armed police and military units. Pentagon sources say the evacuation of US forces the Incirlik air base in Turkey has also helped cut off the supply of drug money to the Bush Nazi faction of the Khazarian mafia. Turkish news reports partially support this source by reporting the Turkish government is denying German requests to allow the German airforce to start using that base. Why would Germany suddenly want to send planes to a base in Turkey?
http://www.dailysabah.com/politics/2016/06/13/ankara-dismisses-claims-germany-will-use-incirlik-air-base

Satan worshipping Khazarian and Israeli PM Benyamin Netanyahu went to Russia last week to seek protection and permission to resume air raids against Syria and Libya, Pentagon sources say. Instead Netanyahu was told Israel would have to return the Golan heights and hand control of its gas fields over to Russia’s Gazprom if it wanted protection. Russia also told them it would keep arming Hezbollah, Syria and Iran.

The Saudi Arabian government is also under severe attack as it was revealed it used financial blackmail against the UN in order to get itself removed from sanctions over its murder of children in Yemen. Saudi Arabia, in any case, has no money and is now trying to seize funds from the 9 million foreigners working there.

In Asia, meanwhile, a serious power struggle is continuing in China with Xi Jinping duking it out against the Shanghai faction and the Communist Youth League faction. This infighting is expected to come to some sort of climax at the summer meeting in Beidaihe in July.

In Japan and Korea, meanwhile, top underworld figures have contacted the White Dragon Society to ask what is going to happen to them now that the Rothschilds have lost power. A representative of the Korean Unification Church, the longtime allies of the Bush Nazi Khazarian faction and supporters of the current Abe regime suggested the underworld could finance itself with control of the soon to be legalized marijuana industry in Japan and South Korea. Marijuana has never been illegal in North Korea, where it is still sold openly in the shops alongside with amphetamines. This representative also said they have stopped supplying amphetamines to the Bush faction of the Khazarian mafia. He also asked what role North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un would have under the new regime.

A top official from a senior Kanto based Yakuza business syndicate said his group expected to receive equal or greater financing under the new regime as it got from the Rothschilds. He expected this to take place in the form of “movie financing” and real estate loans.

Both were told that as much of Yakuza business that could be made legal would be make legal and that they would earn more under the new regime as legitimate businesses than they did working underground.

Source: Antimatrix.org

Note from the poster:

Herewith is the information about the Golden Lily Operation

by courtesy of Isabelle:

THE TREASURE OF JAPANESE CRIMINALS 

Golden Lily Operation

by Denis Boneau

After the 1930’s, while the Japanese imperial army looted Southeast Asia, Emperor Hirohito launchd “the Golden Lily Operation”, aimed at recovering and hiding his war booty. At the end of World War Two, US general McArthur’s troops took hold of the treasure and raised funds to finance the struggle against communism. “Yamashita’s Gold”, considered a simple legend for many years, allows you to understand how the Japanese Democratic Liberal Party, despite the great corruption of its elite, kept an exclusive control of the Japanese “democracy” for half a century. This is part three of a series of articles on Japanese war criminals, their links with the Mafia, their political power and the American support they received to commit their misdeeds, under the pretext of fighting against communism. The history of “democracy” advocates.

VOLTAIRE NETWORK | 8 NOVEMBER 2004  

FRANÇAIS  ESPAÑOL 

US general Douglas Macarthur and Emperor Hirohito. September 1945

In 1895, Queen Min was burned alive by a group of murderers of the Black Ocean Society, an ultranationalist group led by legendary Mitsuru Toyama. The operation, aimed at destabilizing the Korean government, constituted one of the elements of the conquering strategy used by the Japanese secret service designed in conjunction with the yakusas of Toyama.

The assassination of the Queen gave rise to the “incident” that justified the progressive invasion against Korea. In 1905, the country became a protectorate of Japan. The ultranationalist societies began the looting operations while the underworld chiefs took on key positions. With the support of the imperial government, Ryohei Uchida, chief of the Black Dragon Society, and Toyama’s right hand, put together the militias in charge of extorting money from Korean rich families.

In 1910, Korea was fully annexed. The military chief, general Yamagata, commissioned Terauchi to undertake the secret police activities, which had initially been established by Black Dragon. The kempeitai carefully arranged the plundering of the territory, with the support of the Toyama and Uchida’s militias. Officially, Japan attempted to Project Southeast Asia from the Western settlers, by founding a “sphere of joint prosperity”. The Japanese imperial dynasty really oversaw the ongoing plundering of the country, stealing gold and masterpieces (the valued celadon porcelain), destroying the cultural heritage (Buddhism temples) with the clear intention of doing away with the Korean identity.

Ryoichi Sasakawa
see also 
Sasakawa, a Respected War Criminal

A similar system was established in Manchuria, under the command of Nobusuke Kishi and the yakusa societies. The annexed territory enabled Japan to control the access by sea to the commercial ports in the North of China. The puppet government was then under the domain of the tairiki ronin -officers, chief warriors, drug traffickers... Entrepreneurial Yakusas made up true private armies to plunder territories on behalf of the Emperor, or they formed an alliance with the Chinese patrons of the Green Band to control the distribution networks of opium and its by-products. Ryoichi Sasakawa [1] and Yoshio Kodama [2] therefore amassed great fortunes, which at the end of the war, would allow them to finance the creation of the almighty Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).

The chiefs of these groups of criminals with expeditious methods were Nobusuke Kishi and his clan, which included general Hideki Tojo (chief of the secret policy and future Prime Minister of the Government during the war years), Hoshino Naoki (chief of the opium monopoly), Matsuoka Yosuke (chairman of Mantsetsu corporation) and Aikawa Gisuke (Nissan leader). They planned the looting operations with the complicity of the Emperor.

Yoshio Kodama
see also

Yoshio Kodama, le yakusa de la CIA

They founded the Manchues Heavy Industry Company, an organization that coordinated the development of the industry and concentrated the booty that the army and the yakusas had looted from the local population, through the use of different methods such as demanding ransoms, extorting money, robbing banks ...

Plundering was controlled by the Japanese Empire princes: “Golden Lily Operation”

The conquering obsession upset Western leaders, who feared that Japan might interfere in their own colonies and concessions. In 1936, in the midst of the full plundering of Korea, the Japanese strategists hesitated between two choices. One of the tactics was to take control of Siberia, a territory with abundant natural resources, to set up a security area in front of the Soviet Union, main rival in the region.

This “anticommunist” strategy had the merit of pleasing one part of the West elite. For this purpose, the Ambassador to London, Yoshida, attempted to set up an alliance with the British, resorting to the support of the Cliveden group. Several ultraconservatives in the United States, like former President, Herbert Hoover, or the Nazi pilot, Charles Lindberg, and officers close to general MacArthur, favored an understanding with the imperial dynasty.

Prince Chichibu, Hirohito’s brother, traveled to London in 1936 to arrange a potential Anglo-Japanese alliance. It wa likely that the possibility to create an anticommunist front seduced the British diplomats; however the advance of the Japanese troops in Asia threatened the European powers’ colonies. Very soon, Chichibu was deprived of every means of negotiation.

The army was totally out of control in China. In 1937, several officers were plotting the Marco Polo incident in China, which resulted in the invasion of the country by the Japanese troops with the unofficial support of the Emperor. Prince Chichibu declined the already obsolete idea of setting up and Anglo-Japanese alliance and flew to Nuremberg where chancellor Adolph Hitler was participating in a meeting [3].

When President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared that he wanted to put an end to the conquering «obsession» of Japan, the invading army was getting ready to commit an unprecedented massacre ordered by an imperial prince. As a matter of fact, prince Konoe, a “moderate” Prime Minister, commissioned prince Asaka to head the Nankin army.

The latter ordered his troops not to leave any prisoner in the city. For days, the soldiers followed his orders very strictly. Tens of thousands of Chinese were murdered under horrifying circumstances in the face of many West witnesses. The soldiers «used» men as mannequin to learn how to use the bayonet and officers as a way to practice the beheading rituals.

Women and girls were victims of collective rapes in front of their families. In the mean time, princes Chichibu and Takeda made sure that the booty of the plundering ended up in the hands of the imperial dynasty. The experts audited every banking document while the secret police tortured every suspect of having information on Nankin’s gold and fortune [4].

Japanese prince and general Chichibu, Hirohito’s brother, visited a colony of boy-scouts.

To make sure that the army did not unnecessarily squander the plundered products, Hirohito set up the Golden Lily, an organization that gathered experts in money extortion (accountants, finance professionals ...), yakusa chiefs and powerful industrialists under the command of imperial princes, the only people the Emperor fully trusts in. Prince Chichibu was in charge of supervising the entire group [5].

In 1941, the regime of Philippe Petain authorized Japan to occupy the North of Indochina. Prince Konoe favored a “negotiated peace” but he was unable to convince Hirohito and he resigned. The Emperor, determined to declare war, appointed general Tojo in his place, who was one of the men of the Kishi clan that masterminded the systematic plundering of Manchuria.

The “surprise attack” [6] against Pearl Harbor was a sign that unleashed a Japanese offensive in Southeast Asia. Japan invaded Thailand, Sumatra, Burma, occupied Guam and Hong Kong. Japan also expelled general Macarthur from his feud in the Philippines. The new annexed territories were systematically plundered by the kempetai. Prince Chichibu established the general headquarters of Golden Lily in Singapore where the entire booty was sent to be inventoried by specialists.

In the Philippines, the western banks were the main target of the Golden Lily experts who took possession of the Philippines treasure to benefit Yokohama Specie Bank, whose main shareholder was Hirohito himself, and the Bank of Taiwan, another state bank. Part of the gold was used to finance the war. Swiss, Portuguese, Argentinean and Chilean banks were in charge of the laundering. The fortune stolen by the kempetai and the Golden Lily agents was taken to Singapore, and then to Manila to be eventually sent to Japan.

From Golden Lily to the end of Black Eagle

After the battle of Midway, the balance of military forces in Southeast Asia moved towards the United States. Japan lost control of sea routes. Hirohito and the imperial princes began to think of a potential defeat of the Empire. From then on, Golden Lily operation, headed by Chichibu, who officially underwent a tuberculosis treatment in the base of mount Fuji, consisted of saving the war booty stuck in Manila. Firstly, Chichibu had used the hospital-ships to transport the gold that was later on put in underground deposits built in the Japanese mountains.

In 1943, that solution was not applicable any more since the United States was in a position to impose an effective maritime blockade. The fortune began to pile up in the Manila harbor. Prince Chichibu then put together a group of engineers specialized in the construction of underground nets, and began to conceal the booty in underground hiding places. In Manila, he used the underground systems of Intramurom, an old Spanish city that provided great storage capacity.

A gallery that allowed a discreet transfer of goods connected the harbor directly with Intramuro. Chichibu selected historical places, like churches, universities, and a whole series of places where the bombing risk was minimal.

Prince Takeda used caves and supervised the construction of tunnel nets in the North of Manila. Specialists set up big quantities of ingenious and terribly effective traps: bombs, cyanide capsules, water and sand traps... Another prince, Takahito Asaka, son of the perpetrator of the Nankin slaughter, and general Yamashita, hero of the Singapore actions were sent to the Philippines to face the imminent US attack and participate in burial operations. Engineers and slaves were constantly buried alive.

When MacArthur began the reconquering of the Philippines, the princes try to quickly hide what they had not been able to bury yet. Ships loaded with gold were sunken with their crews on board. After Japan’s defeat that finished its occupation with the slaughter of civilians in Manila, the princes escaped in submarines.

The American secret services knew about the Golden Lily operation since 1945. John Ballinger, an agent, disguised as a fisherman could observe the unloading of boxes full of gold that had been carried in a hospital-ship. MacArthur arrested its rival Yamashita and entrusted one of his own agents the mission to interrogate major Kojima -the Japanese general’s driver.

Severino García Santa Romana obtained numerous pieces of information on Yamashita’s itineraries and, in this way, he was able to locate several hiding places. “Santy” became then the guardian of “Yamashita’s treasure”. He remained at the beginning under the command of MacArthur until the enigmatic Edward Landsale [7], former-agent of the OSS, who had recently joined the G-2 services of general Willoughby [8], took command of the operations.

After submitting the issue to president Truman, they decided that the recovered booty would be used to raise money to create a fund against communism, known as Black Eagle. The project, conceived by an advisor to Roosevelt, consisted of using the gold stolen by Germany, Italy and Japan to finance pro-American governments and, consequently, to manipulate, with the use of money, elections in the core of several “democracies” threatened by the “red danger”.

With the help of Robert Anderson, a money laundering specialist, the gold that Santy had recovered was dispersed in 170 bank accounts, opened in 42 countries. The banking network of the CIA allowed therefore to hide again the fortune stolen from Southeast Asia and to keep the gold prices at a convenient level for the economic interests of the United States [9].

The treasure returns to Japan

The booty seized by the American authorities was deposited in three different secret funds at the beginning. The Yotsuya fund financed the most unthinkable activities of MacArthur’s right hand, the boss of G-2, Charles Willoughby, admirer of general Franco and of the fascist police methods. The second fund, baptized with the name of Joseph Keenan, prosecutor at the Tokyo trial, Japanese equivalent to the Nuremberg trial, had a very precise function: to bribe witnesses to exonerate the members of the imperial dynasty, who had become MacArthur’s allies in the struggle against communism.

The Tokyo trial was a true farce that ended up in the hanging of a handful of scapegoats. Prince Asaka, perpetrator of the Nankin massacres, was not even summoned while general Matsui, accused of a crime in which he didn’t participate, was sentenced to hang. Yamashita, general MacArthur’s great rival, had the same fate; he was condemned for slaughtering civilians in Manila. General Tojo was found as main guilty and forced to take on responsibility for the war, instead of Emperor Hirohito.

The most strategic fund was certainly the M-Fund dedicated to the financing of the fight to prevent communists or social democrats from taking over power in Japan. After the war, an ephemeral socialist government was quickly discredited -thanks to the financing of the M-Fund- by the United States’ favorite, Shigeru Yoshida. This fund was also used to finance an official history about the Japanese defeat.

That was the way in which Yoshio Kodama published his memoirs “I was defeated”. The book, financed by the CIA with the M-Fund, was good to exonerate the future Japanese strong men, ultranationalist supported by general MacArthur, such as Ryoichi Sasakawa and Nobusuke Kishi. The peace treaty is signed in 1951. Article 14 provided that Japan didn’t have the necessary resources to indemnify its victims. The existence of the Golden Lily, which turned into the Black Eagle, had to remain a secret.

After 1952, a board, headed by CIA members and the Japanese secret services, became responsible for the M-Fund. Thanks to the fund, Nobusuke Kishi, head of the Manchuria plundering and former Minister of Tojo’s war government, won the election. Eisenhower’s administration liked the extremely anticommunist war criminal.

The M-Fund financed the election of several prime ministers, such as Kakuei Tanaka, Noboru Takeshita, Yasuhiro Nakasone and Miyazawa Kichii. Tanaka, to whom Nixon had promised the exclusive administration of the M-Fund, resorted very often to finance elections and dirty maneuvers.

Part of the Golden Lily money was invested in Japan and was squandered by those who decided who was to be the future prime minister selected from the Liberal Democratic Party membership, which monopolized the power during 50 years.

The Marcos clan, new guardian of the Golden Lily

Many hiding places could not be controlled by Santy and MacArthur’s services in the Philippines. Marcos, Washington’s turbulent protégés, won the 1965elections thanks to the “Yamashita’s gold”. Since the 1960’s, Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos tried to contact Santy, the legendary guardian of the Golden Lily. Knowing that Santy had numerous bank accounts, they thought that some of them might have been forgotten by the CIA and they wanted to control them. When Santy died, in 1974, Marcos became the new unofficial guardian of the Golden Lily and cooperated this way with American and Japanese teams.

To locate the hiding places, the dictator used Ben Valmores, a Philippine peasant that had been prince Takeda’s servant. Marcos was able to accumulate important quantities of gold but the search operations were very complicated. The easiest thing was to ally with Japanese people that knew the location of the hiding places. Marcos resorted to Ryoichi Sasakawa, a war criminal and Mussolini’s admirer who then became part -after the Japanese defeat- of the restricted circle of new masters on Japan. Sasakawa was the ideal partner.

He discreetly withdrew the gold deposited in the Lubang island and probably carried out the money laundering through his Philippine-Japanese Mutual Aid Association. At the beginning, Washington that supported Marcos and Sasakawa’s anticommunist activities, turned a blind eye [10].

However, Marcos sought to work on his own and recruited two partners, a clairvoyant who claimed to have located, thanks to his gifts, the remains of the Nachi ship, and a specialist in metallurgy. Robert Curtis would be in charge of “sanctifying the gold”, in other words, he would have to find the means to adapt the booty so that it could be used in the world market without attracting people’s attention. To finance his facilities, Curtis resorted to John Birch Society, an extreme right group specialized in anticommunist operations, which had colonel Lawrence Bunker among its members. Bunker, in his capacity as former-collaborator of MacArthur, was aware of the existence of the Golden Lily.

When president Reagan planned to return to the gold standard, he asked Marcos to share part of his reserves. The dictator’s greed would be his misfortune. Paul Wolfowitz (in his capacity as Undersecretary of State) ordered the American secret services to kidnap Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos and they were sent to exile in Hawaii [11]. Marcos’s reserves would have been sent to United States.

Paul Wolfowitz

Many people still continue to covet the booty of the Golden Lily, the result of more than 50 years of systematic plundering of Southeast Asia by Japan. According to Sterling and Peggy Seagrave, since March 2001 the Bush administration (with Paul Wolfowitz as Secretary of Defense) has sent commands to the Philippines to recover part of Marcos’ reserves and to supervise new excavations. The control of what remains of “Yamashita’s gold” is still an extremely important objective for those interested in accepting the full disclosure of the existence of the Golden Lily.

The access to the files on the Black Eagle fund was under the strictest control by the CIA. The victims of the murders of the imperial army and their heirs that, in an entirely legitimate way, dare to request compensations are, still today, the butt of everyone’s jokes. Officially, “Yamashita’s gold” is a legend.

Denis Boneau

               

[1] «Sasakawa, a respected war criminal», by Denis Boneau, Voltaire, January 21, 2005

[2] Kodama was commissioned to take control of drug trafficking operations in China. In this respect, he established an alliance with the Green Band and gradually became its main opium supplier. He established the Kodama kikan in Shanghai, a real machine to turn illegal drugs into gold and ships goods of the Golden Lily. «Yoshio Kodama, the yakusa of the CIA», by Denis Boneau, Voltaire, January 22, 2005

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THE SAKER -- Como é que a Rússia se está a preparar para a Terceira Guerra Mundial

Como é que a Rússia  se está a preparar para a Terceira Guerra Mundial

26 de Maio de 2016 

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Recentemente publiquei um artigo no qual tentei desacreditar alguns mitos populares sobre a guerra moderna. A julgar pelos múltiplos comentários que recebi em resposta a esta postagem, tenho de dizer que os mitos em questão ainda estão vivos e de saúde e que falhei completamente o meu intuito de convencer muitos leitores. O que me proponho fazer hoje, é observar o que, de facto, a Rússia está a fazer em resposta à ameaça crescente do Ocidente. Mas, em primeiro lugar, tenho de determinar ou mais precisamente, tenho de restabelecer o contexto no qual a Rússia está a agir. Vamos começar por considerar a política Anglo Sinonista em relação à Rússia.

As acções do Ocidente:

Em primeiro lugar, nesta lista, está obviamente a conquista de toda a Europa Oriental pela NATO. Menciono a conquista porque é exactamente o que é, mas uma conquista alcançada de acordo com as regras da guerra do séc. XXI, que defino como sendo uma guerra “80% informática, 15% económica e 5% militar”. Sim, compreendo que as pessoas bem intencionadas da Europa Oriental, sonhavam precisamente ser subjugadas pelos Estados Unidos da América, pela NATO, pela União Europeia, etc. – mas, e daí? Alguém que tenha lido Sun Tzu reconhecerá que este desejo profundo de ser ‘incorporado’ no “Borg”, não é nada mais do que o resultado de uma identidade auto esmagada, um complexo de inferioridade profundamente arreigado e, assim sendo, é uma renúncia que nem sequer teve de ser induzida através de meios militares. Ao fim do dia, não importa o que é que os residentes locais pensam que alcançaram – nesse momento, são súbditos do Império e os países deles são colónias mais ou menos insignificantes, localizadas na orla do Império Anglo Sionista. Como sempre, a elite dos *compradores locais  está agora inchada de orgulho ou, pelo menos, eles pensam dessa maneira, por serem aceites como iguais pelos seus novos donos (pensem em Poroshenko, Tusk ou Grybauskaite), o que lhes dá coragem para ladrar a Moscovo, por trás da barreira da NATO. Parabéns! (no sentido de: Que se lixem!)  *comprador = o indivíduo dentro de um país, que age como agente de organizações estrangeiras ligadas ao investimento, ao comércio, à economia ou à exploração política.

Em segundo lugar, está, neste momento, a colonização total da Europa Ocidental levada a cabo pelo Império. Enquanto a NATO se dirigia para Leste, os Estados Unidos também conseguiram um controlo muito mais profundo da Europa Ocidental que, presentemente, é administrada pelo Império, pelos indivíduos que o anterior Presidente da Câmara de Londres designou outrora, como sendo notáveis “invertebrados protoplasmáticos, amorfos e indolentes” – burocratas sem rosto, como François Hollande e Angela Merkel.

Em terceiro lugar, o Império deu o seu apoio total a criaturas semi-demoníacas que vão desde al-Khattab  até Nadezhda Savchenko. A política do Ocidente é extremamente cristalina e simples: se é uma política anti russa, apoiamo-la. Esta política está muito bem exemplificada pela campanha de demonização de Putin e da Rússia que, em minha opinião, é muito pior e muito mais histérica do que qualquer outra que ocorreu durante a Guerra Fria.

Em quarto lugar, o Ocidente realizou uma série de movimentações militares altamente perturbadoras, incluindo a implantação dos primeiros elementos de um sistema anti míssil na Europa de Leste, o envio de várias formas de Forças Armadas de reacção rápida, o estabelecimento de algumas unidades blindadas, etc. Actualmente a NATO introduziu  postos de comando que podem ser usados para apoiar o combate de uma força de reacção rápida.

O que é que tudo isto significa?

Realmente, neste momento não representa muito. Sim, a movimentação da NATO até às fronteiras russas é altamente agressiva, sobretudo em termos políticos. Em termos puramente militares, não só foi uma péssima idéia (veja o cliché # 6 aqui), mas, de facto, o tamanho das forças armadas reais instaladas é minúsculo: o sistema ABM (Míssil Anti Balístico)  introduzido recentemente pode, na melhor das hipóteses, ter a esperança de interceptar alguns mísseis (10 a 20, dependendo das vossas premissas) porque as forças convencionais são do tamanho de um batalhão (mais ou menos 600 soldados, além do apoio requerido). Então vejamos que precisamente neste momento, não há categoricamente qualquer verdadeira ameaça militar contra a Rússia.

Então, por que é que os russos estão tão preocupados?

Porque as movimentações actuais dos Estados Unidos e da NATO poderiam muito bem ser apenas os primeiros passos de um esforço muito maior que, com o passar do tempo, pode começar a ser um perigo muito real para a Rússia.

Mais ainda, presentemente o tipo de retórica que chega do Ocidente não é apenas militarista e russofóbico (aversão à Rússia e a tudo o que é russo), muitas vezes é manifestado de imediato com grande fervor . Na última vez em 1000 anos, que o Ocidente teve um surto repentino de "síndroma messiânico", a Rússia perdeu cerca de 20 a 30 milhões de pessoas. Portanto, os russos podem, de facto,  ser perdoados se derem muita atenção ao que a propaganda Anglo Sionista diz sobre eles.

Os russos estão muito consternados com a recolonização da Europa Ocidental. Longe vão os dias em que indivíduos como Charles de Gaulle, Helmut Schmidt ou François Mitterrand, estavam encarregados do futuro da Europa. Para além de todas as suas falhas muito palpáveis, pelo menos, estes homens eram verdadeiros patriotas e não somente administradores coloniais a mando dos Estados Unidos.  Para os russos é muito mais preocupante a "perda" da Europa Ocidental  do que as antigas colónias soviéticas na Europa Oriental estarem agora sob a administração colonial dos Estados Unidos. Por quê?

Considerem este assunto sob o ponto de vista russo.

Todos os russos vêem que o poder norte-americano está em declínio e que, mais cedo ou mais tarde, o dólar vai, lenta ou subitamente, perder o seu papel de reserva principal e de moeda de troca no planeta (este processo já começou). Dito de maneira simples – o Império Anglo Sionista entrará em colapso, a não ser que os EUA encontrem uma maneira de alterar drasticamente a actual dinâmica internacional. Os russos acreditam que o que os americanos estão a fazer, na melhor das hipóteses, é usar as tensões com a Rússia para ressuscitar uma Guerra Fria adormecida versão 2 e, na pior das hipóteses, para  começar, de facto, uma verdadeira guerra na Europa, com recurso às armas.

Assim, temos um Império decadente com uma necessidade vital de criar uma grande crise, a Europa Ocidental covarde e incapaz de erguer-se no seu próprio interesse, uma Europa Oriental subserviente e a implorar para se transformar num campo de batalha enorme entre o Oriente e o Ocidente e uma retórica messiânica, russofóbica, levada irracionalmente até ao extremo,  como pano de fundo para que haja um aumento de destacamentos militares na fronteira russa. De facto, alguém se surpreende que os russos estejam a levar tudo isto muito a sério, mesmo que, de momento, a ameaça militar americana seja praticamente nula?

A reacção russa

Assim sendo, vamos examinar a reacção russa à posição do Império.

Em primeiro lugar, os russos querem ter a certeza de que os americanos não cedem à ilusão de que uma guerra em larga escala na Europa seria como a Segunda Guerra Mundial, que viu o território dos EUA sofrer apenas alguns ataques do inimigo, minúsculos e quase simbólicos.  Posto que uma guerra em larga escala na Europa, iria ameaçar a própria existência da nação e do Estado russo, os russos estão a tomar medidas para ter a certeza de que, se tal acontecesse, os EUA iriam pagar um preço enorme por esse ataque.

Em segundo lugar, é evidente que os russos estão a encarar a hipótese de uma ameaça convencional do Ocidente poder materializar-se num futuro previsível. Portanto, estão a tomar as medidas necessárias para combater essa ameaça convencional.

Em terceiro lugar, uma vez que os EUA parecem estar determinados a implantar um sistema de mísseis anti balísticos não só na Europa, mas também no Extremo Oriente, os russos estão a tomar medidas, tanto para derrotar como para  ultrapassar esse sistema.

O esforço russo é  vasto e complexo, e abrange quase todos os aspectos do planeamento da força russa, mas penso que há quatro exemplos que ilustram bem a determinação da Rússia para não permitir que volte a acontecer o mesmo que ocorreu no dia 22 de Junho de 1941:

- A reprodução  do 1ºExército de Blindados da Guarda (em progresso)

- A implantação do míssil balístico operacional-táctico, de curto alcance, Iskander-M (concluída) 

- A introdução do míssil balístico termo-nuclear, intercontinental,  Sarmat ICBM (em progresso)

- A colocação do torpedo nuclear estratégico Status-6  (em progresso)