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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" media="screen" href="/~d/styles/atom10full.xsl"?><?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" media="screen" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~d/styles/itemcontent.css"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/" xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" xmlns:feedburner="http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0" gd:etag="W/&quot;D0AERXo9fCp7ImA9WhRUFkQ.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8288505742676241874</id><updated>2012-01-27T15:21:44.464-05:00</updated><category term="Geithner bank plan" /><category term="we are change" /><category term="http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif" /><category term="poetry; Rilke" /><category term="Krugman" /><category term="quote of the week" /><title>The Excavator</title><subtitle type="html">A Night Watchman On Guard Against The Vultures of State Terror And Psywar</subtitle><link rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://disquietreservations.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://disquietreservations.blogspot.com/" /><link rel="next" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8288505742676241874/posts/default?start-index=26&amp;max-results=25&amp;redirect=false&amp;v=2" /><author><name>Saman Mohammadi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00901309111851547218</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><generator version="7.00" uri="http://www.blogger.com">Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>2809</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/blogspot/PlqB" /><feedburner:info uri="blogspot/plqb" /><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/" /><feedburner:browserFriendly></feedburner:browserFriendly><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;D0AERXo8fCp7ImA9WhRUFkQ.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8288505742676241874.post-7603884603525117840</id><published>2012-01-27T15:12:00.005-05:00</published><updated>2012-01-27T15:21:44.474-05:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-01-27T15:21:44.474-05:00</app:edited><title>Newt Gingrich, The Revolutionary?</title><content type="html">New World Order sock puppet Newt Gingrich and the apologist of Zionist terrorists attacks the "old order," and says Goldman Sachs ripped off America. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Of course this guy is a little devil, but at least he is entertaining.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe width="425" height="344" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/VOcWXLamh8E" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8288505742676241874-7603884603525117840?l=disquietreservations.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8288505742676241874/posts/default/7603884603525117840?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8288505742676241874/posts/default/7603884603525117840?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://disquietreservations.blogspot.com/2012/01/newt-gingrich-revolutionary.html" title="Newt Gingrich, The Revolutionary?" /><author><name>Saman Mohammadi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00901309111851547218</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://img.youtube.com/vi/VOcWXLamh8E/default.jpg" height="72" width="72" /></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DEICRH09fyp7ImA9WhRUFk4.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8288505742676241874.post-1739018690449798039</id><published>2012-01-26T19:32:00.029-05:00</published><updated>2012-01-26T22:56:05.367-05:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-01-26T22:56:05.367-05:00</app:edited><title>State of Emergency Communique #2: The Armies of Night Descend On America</title><content type="html">&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/media/images/1104-oakland-police-occupy.jpg/10922644-1-eng-US/1104-Oakland-police-Occupy.jpg_full_600.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 368px; height: 245px;" src="http://www.csmonitor.com/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/media/images/1104-oakland-police-occupy.jpg/10922644-1-eng-US/1104-Oakland-police-Occupy.jpg_full_600.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Riot Police face off against Occupy Wall Street activists in Oakland, California. November 2011. &lt;a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2011/1104/Occupy-Wall-Street-clash-in-Oakland-How-should-police-handle-protests-video"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Source&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;a href="http://noahbergerphoto.com/"&gt;Noah Berger&lt;/a&gt;, Associated Press.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;State of Emergency Communique #1: &lt;a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://disquietreservations.blogspot.com/2012/01/opening-new-theater-of-war-in-north.html"&gt;"Opening A New Theater of War In The North American Homeland."&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;State of Emergency Communique #2: The Armies of Night Descend On America&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"The Los Angeles Police Department teamed with military  special operation forces Wednesday evening to conduct multi-agency  tactical exercises in the skies above downtown LA.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many  questioned what was going on Wednesday night as a Black Hawk helicopter  and four OH-6 choppers – or “Little Birds” – flew over the city, at one  point hovering just above the US Bank building downtown and later flying  low over the Staples Center as the Lakers played inside." - &lt;a href="http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2012/01/25/lapd-and-special-forces-conduct-military-maneuvers-in-the-skies-above-downtown-la/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;CBS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, January 25, 2012.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I don't need to be kind to the armies of night that would do such injustice to you&lt;br /&gt;Or bow down and be grateful and say "sure, take all that you see"&lt;br /&gt;To the men who move only in dimly-lit halls and determine my future for me." - &lt;a href="http://youtu.be/6mR8Z-gmK1g"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Fleet Foxes, Helplessness Blues&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/blockquote&gt;In the 1990s, the thought of Black Hawk helicopters flying over American  cities was treated as a joke and dismissed as a fringe conspiracy theory  that boiled the blood of paranoid militia members and anti-NWO nuts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But as we enter the second decade of the 21st century it turns out that  paranoid militia members in the American South and Midwest and anti-NWO  conspiracy theorists were right all along. In 2012, there are even &lt;a href="http://theintelhub.com/2011/01/08/military-drones-flying-over-american-cities/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;military drones circling&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; American skies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is obvious that the state terrorists in Washington are at war with the American people. The radical &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/12/the-militarization-of-american-police-and-shredding-of-our-constitutional-rights-started-30-years-ago.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;militarization of American police&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  has shaped how Washington is addressing the realities of economic  collapse, permanent unemployment, and public distrust of government.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Instead of letting the free market wipe out bad assets and allow small  businesses to create new jobs for millions of disenfranchised people,  officials in Washington have bailed out failed banks and companies with  trillions of taxpayers' dollars while turning to police chiefs and  military leaders to deal with rising discontent among the American  middle and lower classes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The ruling elite's solutions to the problems that they created in the  first place are steal more, bribe more, lie more, and kill more. The  money they steal from the American people allows them to bribe American  police officers and public officials, who in turn use their resources  and energy to cover up the lies of the corrupt occupying regime and  intimidate hard-working citizens who simply want to be treated with  dignity and respect.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Will police officers and military officials in America actually kill and  torture American citizens? Most likely. Such brutality has happened in other countries that  encountered economic, social and political turmoil, so why not in  America? What makes America so special? Brazil, Argentina, and Chile  have all experienced military dictatorships in recent decades. And those  societies were more equal and egalitarian than America is today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The idea that &lt;a href="http://youtu.be/CM5u56rWSWk"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;paramilitary death squads could be used&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; in America as an  option to suppress democratic dissent and eliminate enemies of the  emerging global authoritarian corporatist state sounds less crazy than it did just a  few years ago.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Francis Boyle, a professor of international law at the University of Illinois College of Law, said on the Alex Jones show on Thursday, January 26, that President Obama has the power under the NDAA to use death squads in America against his political opponents.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://youtu.be/CM5u56rWSWk"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Professor Boyle said&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: "Obama already has death squads abroad, CIA and JSOC, and with the NDAA he's now in a position to start unleashing his death squads, disappearance squads, here in America."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What Boyle says is scary, but true. Generations of government criminals in Washington have transformed the American Republic into a global empire of death that absorbs life and culture abroad and at home.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;People who are still in denial of the truth have trouble understanding that things have changed radically for the worse under their nose. History does not stay the same. The  new world order is  here, and millions of people in America and the West will lose  their savings, homes,  and lives because of it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Current political and economic developments in the United States point  to a complete reversal of democratic principles in dealing with  legitimate dissent in exchange for extreme state violence. Secret  intelligence agencies and military leaders in Washington are  coordinating with civilian law enforcement officers on an unprecedented  scale. Reports of military-police drills in various American cities have  been more frequent as of late.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These military-police activities suggest that episodes of civil unrest caused by  economic inequalities, high unemployment, and a collapsing dollar are  around the corner. They also reveal that the tyrants in Washington are well prepared to  crackdown on dissent when social emergencies eventually surface in American cities. One  thing all governments are good at is political repression.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The fear that civil unrest and similar social disturbances can  dramatically destabilize the hijacked government and pose an internal  security threat to the corrupt rulers of Washington has not been played  up in the mainstream media, for obvious reasons, but it is a real fear.  Leaders of totalitarian states fear their own people, and they tend to  be highly paranoid and mentally volatile, especially in their final  days, often to their own detriment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;America's totalitarian leaders are no different. They are so afraid of  the American people waking up to their crimes and record of treason that  they can't think straight and act rationally anymore.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The state  terrorists and traitors in Washington are depending on a declining  mainstream media to blackout every piece of news and political  development that threatens their grip on power, whether it be the  bipartisan discussion about the NDAA on the Internet or Ron Paul's  extraordinary successful presidential run.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Media warfare is an essential aspect of the American military state that  has risen in the night and hides its crimes under the invisible cloak  of "national security." The best way to deal with such a beast is  to stigmatize it and force it out of the darkness in which it lives at the  expense of its psychological host, the American people.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8288505742676241874-1739018690449798039?l=disquietreservations.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8288505742676241874/posts/default/1739018690449798039?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8288505742676241874/posts/default/1739018690449798039?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://disquietreservations.blogspot.com/2012/01/state-of-emergency-communique-2-armies.html" title="State of Emergency Communique #2: The Armies of Night Descend On America" /><author><name>Saman Mohammadi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00901309111851547218</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;Ck8NRX07cCp7ImA9WhRUFUo.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8288505742676241874.post-3539186049012363375</id><published>2012-01-25T23:42:00.119-05:00</published><updated>2012-01-26T04:41:34.308-05:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-01-26T04:41:34.308-05:00</app:edited><title>Speaking Perpetually To The Political Wind: Why Obama’s Words Lack Authority</title><content type="html">&lt;blockquote&gt;"Now everything’s a little upside down, as a matter of fact the wheels have stopped&lt;br /&gt;What’s good is bad, what’s bad is good, you’ll find out when you reach the top." – Bob Dylan, &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnUnoReKP0s"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Idiot Wind&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"No rays from the holy heaven come down&lt;br /&gt;On the long night-time of that town;&lt;br /&gt;But light from out the lurid sea&lt;br /&gt;Streams up the turrets silently-&lt;br /&gt;Gleams up the pinnacles far and free-&lt;br /&gt;Up domes- up spires- up kingly halls-&lt;br /&gt;Up fanes- up Babylon-like walls-&lt;br /&gt;Up shadowy long-forgotten bowers&lt;br /&gt;Of sculptured ivy and stone flowers-&lt;br /&gt;Up many and many a marvellous shrine&lt;br /&gt;Whose wreathed friezes intertwine&lt;br /&gt;The viol, the violet, and the vine.&lt;br /&gt;Resignedly beneath the sky&lt;br /&gt;The melancholy waters lie.&lt;br /&gt;So blend the turrets and shadows there&lt;br /&gt;That all seem pendulous in air,&lt;br /&gt;While from a proud tower in the town&lt;br /&gt;Death looks gigantically down." - Edgar Allan Poe, &lt;a href="http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_City_in_the_Sea"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;The City in the Sea (1831)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"John Murdoch: Excuse me. How do I get to the end of the line?&lt;br /&gt;Train Passenger: You want the Express.&lt;br /&gt;John Murdoch: [&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;after train blows by him&lt;/span&gt;] Hey, how come that train didn't stop?&lt;br /&gt;Station Master: That's the Express." - &lt;a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118929/quotes"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Dark City&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Directed by Alex Proyas (1998). &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"A man made of stone has nothing to say." - Kno, If You Cry f. Natti, from the album &lt;a href="http://cunninlynguists.bandcamp.com/album/death-is-silent"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Death Is Silent (2010)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;President Obama's 2012 State of the Union speech contained all the hit singles that made Obama's 2008 cross-country tour such a success. The world was also treated to new singles off Obama's new 2012 soundtrack, "I Killed Bin Laden," including the &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNYmK19-d0U"&gt;title song&lt;/a&gt; and the hit record of the 2011 political year that captured the world's imagination, "&lt;a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/25/us-usa-obama-speech-iran-idUSTRE80O0B120120125"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;No Options Off The Table&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The reviews for Obama's performance have been negative, with many saying that Obama's optimistic tone does not correlate with the reality of America's dismal economic crisis and Washington's political stalemate. The verdict is that Obama gave a campaign speech, not a State of the Union speech, which is a sad reflection of America's current political life in which even the President is stuck in perpetual campaign mode.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Republican National Committee (RNC), who are the biggest critics of Obama's live show in front of a sell-out crowd, released the most damning evidence of Obama's eroding public appeal in a short video called &lt;a href="http://youtu.be/UDDRiGIUYQo"&gt;"Familiar Rhetoric, Failed Record."&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The video shows a President who is on autopilot and reads off of the same cue cards that were prepared by his handlers for his State of the Union speeches in 2009, 2010, and 2011. Obama comes across as a frozen, robotic, and toothless president who effortlessly makes false promises and raises false hopes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;II. &lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame- color:rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"&gt;A Crumbling State of The Union: A Deep Crisis of Confidence Is Chipping Away At The President's Political Authority&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A real leader stands by his words, and fulfills his promises. Obama’s  words lack authority because they lack purity, sincerity, and substance. As a result, Obama does not have any personal authority. And it doesn't help that the authority of the Oval Office, which Bush had already damaged extensively, has totally faded away in Obama's first term. &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The office of the presidency is a shadow of what it once was. It attained its profoundest depths at the height of the Cold War in the Cuban Missile Crisis during John F. Kennedy's presidency. Since then, it's been a long slide down. After Kennedy's assassination by the CIA, the Agency has casted a dark cloud over the White House.&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;If Obama were  a real despot with legions of men under him who were directly loyal to him then he wouldn’t need a pure and true voice to sway the  people. If he were a real despot the force of arms would do all the talking for him and his  authority would be evident for all to see like Caesar’s in his day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But although Obama signs dictatorial legislation like the NDAA and grants himself the power to have anyone on the planet killed, he is no Caesar. Obama is not a dictator in the traditional sense. He does not possess the masculine strength or natural charisma  to be one. Obama has not built himself up to the highest public position  of power in the United States.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Instead, Obama was installed in power like a political software virus by the globalist authoritarian oligarchs to serve as a  will-less robot and advance their secret agenda of global tyranny and global mass death of human populations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In his speech, Obama did not mention fears of a global economic collapse or educate the American people about the origins and evolution of the U.S.-Iranian standoff. Also, he had no words of wisdom to offer America. It was one of the most dumbed down speeches by a president in modern memory.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There should be poetry, intellectual depth, political clarity, honesty, and truth in a State of the Union address. America is a poetic, mystical, and spiritually deep country, and it deserves a president who gives voice to the many currents of thought in the vast American mind.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But Obama is not an intellectual. He only pretends to be one in order to contrast himself from the previous retarded president.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Imagine what it would be like if a literary and poetic soul resided in the White House instead of a lying lawyer or a professional politician. Imagine if Jefferson or Lincoln had spoken on Tuesday night. Imagine realness and honesty coming out of a president's lips.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Read Ron Paul's &lt;a href="http://www.ronpaul.com/2009-02-13/ron-paul-asks-congress-what-if/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"What If. . . ?"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; speech that he delivered in early 2009, shortly after President Obama's inauguration.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Read Thomas Jefferson's short and sweet &lt;a href="http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=1207"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;State of the Union Address on November 8, 1804&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Read what Abraham Lincoln said in his &lt;a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.infoplease.com/t/hist/state-of-the-union/74.html"&gt;State of the Union Address on December 1, 1862&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"Fellow-citizens, we can not escape history. We of this Congress and this Administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance or insignificance can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation. We say we are for the Union. The world will not forget that we say this. We know how to save the Union. The world knows we do know how to save it. We, even we here, hold the power and bear the responsibility. In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free--honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of earth. Other means may succeed; this could not fail. The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just--a way which if followed the world will forever applaud and God must forever bless."&lt;/blockquote&gt;Lincoln said America "can not escape history," and that it is "the last best hope of earth." Those words were powerful because they were timely, backed up with action, and grounded in history. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Politicians who repeat Lincoln's phrases today in the hope that they can exploit his heroic legacy and eloquence for their own political goals are failures and self-serving traitors. Lincoln's phrases have lost their magic after years of misuse and overuse by fake politicians.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;America needs original thinkers and visionary men in Washington. But what it is getting in Obama and Republican politicians is superficiality and mechanical leadership. There weren't any memorable phrases or ideas in Obama's State of the Union speech. Obama's words are only memorable because he repeats them twenty different times in twenty different speeches. He is the king of doublespeak. And his diminishing presidential authority is creating a huge crisis of confidence in the country.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The world can only hope that "the last best hope of earth" finds its way out of the darkness of ignorance in 2012 and rejects the superficial leadership offered by President Obama along with his fellow Republican traitors who remain silent on &lt;a href="http://lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts328.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;the death of America&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8288505742676241874-3539186049012363375?l=disquietreservations.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8288505742676241874/posts/default/3539186049012363375?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8288505742676241874/posts/default/3539186049012363375?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://disquietreservations.blogspot.com/2012/01/speaking-perpetually-to-political-wind.html" title="Speaking Perpetually To The Political Wind: Why Obama’s Words Lack Authority" /><author><name>Saman Mohammadi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00901309111851547218</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DEcEQXk-fSp7ImA9WhRUFUk.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8288505742676241874.post-6158151455579590309</id><published>2012-01-25T21:45:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2012-01-25T21:46:40.755-05:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-01-25T21:46:40.755-05:00</app:edited><title>James Corbett - Resisting the Police State: Answers and Solutions</title><content type="html">&lt;iframe width="425" height="344" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/UGaSnb7PFbg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8288505742676241874-6158151455579590309?l=disquietreservations.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8288505742676241874/posts/default/6158151455579590309?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8288505742676241874/posts/default/6158151455579590309?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://disquietreservations.blogspot.com/2012/01/james-corbett-resisting-police-state.html" title="James Corbett - Resisting the Police State: Answers and Solutions" /><author><name>Saman Mohammadi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00901309111851547218</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://img.youtube.com/vi/UGaSnb7PFbg/default.jpg" height="72" width="72" /></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;C0IMRnc7cSp7ImA9WhRUFUg.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8288505742676241874.post-1319277449985919931</id><published>2012-01-25T21:27:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2012-01-25T23:19:47.909-05:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-01-25T23:19:47.909-05:00</app:edited><title>Alex Jones: Obama's State of Destruction Speech</title><content type="html">&lt;iframe width="425" height="344" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/u063GjNtuzM" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe width="425" height="344" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/F4aKppshGAM" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8288505742676241874-1319277449985919931?l=disquietreservations.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8288505742676241874/posts/default/1319277449985919931?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8288505742676241874/posts/default/1319277449985919931?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://disquietreservations.blogspot.com/2012/01/alex-jones-obamas-state-of-destruction.html" title="Alex Jones: Obama's State of Destruction Speech" /><author><name>Saman Mohammadi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00901309111851547218</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://img.youtube.com/vi/u063GjNtuzM/default.jpg" height="72" width="72" /></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CEAEQno9fyp7ImA9WhRUFEU.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8288505742676241874.post-3679690643326212846</id><published>2012-01-25T00:59:00.014-05:00</published><updated>2012-01-25T04:11:43.467-05:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-01-25T04:11:43.467-05:00</app:edited><title>NDAA: The Law That Sparked A Revolution In Public Perception of Washington</title><content type="html">&lt;blockquote&gt;"&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Alex Jones:&lt;/span&gt; I have  seen this NDAA and the SOPA bill and all of this  wake people up who  were asleep like nothing I've ever seen before. I  mean, I'll say the  response is ten, fifteen times what the Patriot Act  was. A) Are you  seeing it wake people up? And b) Why do you think it's  starting to wake  people up?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Chris Hedges:&lt;/span&gt;  Well,  I think, you know, there's all sorts of intrusions  into our  life that are no longer theoretical. The passage of the FISA  reform  bill in essence makes legal what under our Constitution has   traditionally been illegal and does so retroactively. The warrantless   wiretapping monitoring and eavesdropping of tens of millions of   Americans, the SOPA bill as you pointed out, I mean I think it's just   too hard to ignore. My understanding is that the polling on the NDAA is   that only between two and nine percent of the American public supports   it. This has no public support. The FISA Reform Act didn't have any   public support either. There are powerful corporate forces that want to   ram it through because it protects them and this narrow oligarchic   elite. But it's left a really bad taste in the mouths of the vast   majority of the American public. And this is not a left/right issue." -   An excerpt from radio host Alex Jones's &lt;a href="http://youtu.be/d8wOihr9WRw"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;interview&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;   of journalist, author, and former New York Times war correspondent   Chris Hedges on Tuesday, January 24, 2012. Hedges discussed his suit   against President Obama over his signing of the NDAA. Read his article: &lt;a href="http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/why_im_suing_barack_obama_20120116/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Why I'm Suing Barack Obama&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I've talked tonight about the deficit of trust between &lt;a href="http://content.usatoday.com/topics/topic/Main+Street" title="More news, photos about Main Street"&gt;Main Street&lt;/a&gt;   and Wall Street. But the divide between this city and the rest of the   country is at least as bad - and it seems to get worse every year." -  President Barack Obama, &lt;a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/story/2012-01-24/state-of-the-union-transcript/52780694/1"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;2012 State of the Union address&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, January 24, 2012.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;Washington's  back is against the wall. Its fiat petrodollar system is collapsing.  Its high-tech witchhunt against terrorists that began in the fall of  2001 is absurd and criminal. The  majority of the global public now  understands that the official 9/11 story  is fiction.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;President Obama  can assert all he wants that Al-Qaeda was responsible for 9/11 and that the death of Osama Bin Laden happened under  his watch, but the facts do not bear this out. The truth is Al-Qaeda did not do 9/11 and Bin Laden  died in late 2001, long before President Obama declared his death on television.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The truth matters. Obama and Washington are at odds with  basic reality. Their narratives are false, and their policies are  bankrupt. The moral, financial, and political foundations of the private  Federal Reserve central banking system and Washington's global empire  are sinking into the sands of the Middle East. And no amount of lies can  camouflage this downward process or bury the truths of history.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In America, economic collapse is a matter of when, not if. Washington has failed and most members of Congress should be charged with treason and jailed. These politicians and the bankers who pay them have sold out America and destroyed the Bill of Rights. They are placing their faith in Homeland  Security, Riot Police, and the U.S. military to protect them from rising  public anger and civil unrest. But praying to be saved by the idols  of the state is a mistake. Idols can be broken.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The  traitorous establishment in Washington can not suppress the might of  history with the might of weapons. Change is coming to America, no matter how much resistance there is in Washington from Obama and his political masters. Illusory hopes by Obama have caused  more pain than healing. Obama has done more damage than Bush by hiding  his crimes and extending the mythos of the war on terror into another  decade. Facts are the basis of a sound and sane political system, but in  Obama's crazy world lies win over facts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Instead of undoing  Bush's unconstitutional laws, Obama has added to them. And all of them  attack the basic rights and freedoms of the American people. The 2012  NDAA Act has no standing in America's legal, political, and military  traditions. It is an act of war on the American people and the American  constitution.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In fact, the war started on September 11, 2001. The  war on terror is a war on America. And President Obama has made this  war his war. He has not told the American people what a honest and  patriotic American president would tell them immediately upon taking  office, which is this: The war on terror is a fraud. Washington's  post-9/11 policies are politically illegitimate because they are based  on a big lie and the mass murder of American citizens by the secret  intelligence agencies in Washington and Tel Aviv.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obama, like  Bush, chose to take the path of treason and tyranny. Three years into  his presidency, nothing has changed for the better, as he falsely  promised on the campaign trail. His 2012 State of The Union speech was  an infomercial, not a real speech. In 2012, the real state of the union  is psychopathic. The crazies are in charge, not the responsible adults.  And Obama is on the team of the crazies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The passage of the  indefinite detention provision of the NDAA Act on the last day of 2011  by Washington's corrupt traitors shows that they believe the situation  is bleak and verging on the catastrophic. With this act they are sealing the gates and preparing for war with the American people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They know the game is up and that the political charade can't go on forever. Their crimes are transparent.  Their lies are obvious. And there is plenty of blame to go around. The end of both parties is on  the political horizon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is common knowledge in America  that  politicians, bankers, and corporations who are part of the evil political elite  have robbed the American people and the people of many other nations  of a safe, productive, and happy future. The media's complicity in this  betrayal is perhaps the biggest act of treason and terrorism against  the American people. Their information blockade of America is an act of  media warfare. There has been a total blackout about the NDAA and the  bipartisan resistance to it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But the power of the mainstream  media's information blockade is no match for the power of truth and  reason. The NDAA has caused a tremendous shift in the American public's  perception of the true intentions of their political leaders in Washington and  their federal government.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Even senile people see now that Washington has no legitimacy. The veneer  of democracy is gone. Public trust is in the gutter. Washington has turned into a hollow universe of  nothingness and death that is inhabited by rotten thieves and traitors.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since  9/11, Washington has acted like a foreign invader and occupier, not a  legitimate government that has a connection to the American people. The  NDAA is a type of law that is used by occupying regimes when they are  scared of the people they rule over.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In other words, the NDAA is an act of  desperation and defeat. Fraud and propaganda have failed. Only naked force can keep them in power and save them from falling into  the graveyard of tyrants.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8288505742676241874-3679690643326212846?l=disquietreservations.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8288505742676241874/posts/default/3679690643326212846?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8288505742676241874/posts/default/3679690643326212846?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://disquietreservations.blogspot.com/2012/01/ndaa-law-that-sparked-revolution-in_25.html" title="NDAA: The Law That Sparked A Revolution In Public Perception of Washington" /><author><name>Saman Mohammadi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00901309111851547218</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DUcCRn88eyp7ImA9WhRUFEo.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8288505742676241874.post-1102371532743152442</id><published>2012-01-24T18:58:00.009-05:00</published><updated>2012-01-25T02:37:47.173-05:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-01-25T02:37:47.173-05:00</app:edited><title>Did Western Central Bankers Steal Gaddafi's Gold To Pay Chavez? It Appears So.</title><content type="html">On August 21, 2011, Zero Hedge published an interesting article with the title: &lt;a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/things-make-you-go-hmmm-such-venezuelan-dictator-bringing-down-global-gold-cartel"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"Things That Make You Go Hmmm.... Such As A Venezuelan Dictator Bringing Down The Global Gold Cartel."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Zero Hedge:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;A few days ago we penned "&lt;a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/chavez-pulls-venezuelas-gold-jp-morgan-great-scramble-physical-starting"&gt;As Chavez Pulls Venezuela's Gold From JP Morgan, Is The Great Scramble For Physical Starting?"&lt;/a&gt;  in which, logically, we wondered if the unwind of the great gold  cartel, whose purported price manipulation has always resided in the  domain of paper, or &lt;em&gt;con&lt;/em&gt;fidence-based, precious metals, may have  started from the most unexpected source: Venezuelan dictator Hugo  Chavez who just announced that he will not only nationalize the  country's gold industry but reclaim his physical gold (however much of  it may exist) from custodians such as JP Morgan and Bank of Nova Scotia.  The practical implications of this move are substantial- since then  gold has seen record high after record high. Whether one attributes  these moves to Chavez, or to yet another global "risk-flaring" episode  is unclear. Luckily, Grant Williams, author of the always entertaining  "Things That Make you Go Hmmmm", provides some very fascinating  observations on this very interesting topic... &lt;p&gt;From the full note (presented below):&lt;/p&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="quote_start"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="quote_end"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt; &lt;p&gt;To sum up:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;It is common practice for most Central Banks to hold part of their  gold reserves overseas in ‘gold trading centres’ (read London and New  York)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;One of those Central Banks - that of Venezuela - wants its gold back&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;That means that a group of banks (mainly in the UK and the USA) who  are supposed to have that gold in their vaults need to GIVE it back...&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;...which in turn could potentially trigger a race to repatriate national gold holdings&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Neither Fort Knox nor the Federal Reserve (the world’s two biggest  gold depositories) have been independently audited in recent times&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;The status of the gold held in the Bundesbank (home to the world’s third-largest hoard) is somewhat unclear&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;The practice of leasing gold by Central Banks has been going on so  long that it even predates the time when Alan Greenspan advocated sound  money&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;The gold ‘physical market’ is approximately 100 times the size of  the amount of actual underlying metal by which it is purportedly backed&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;The top four bullion banks, or ‘commercials’ on the COMEX continue  to run what we shall politely call ‘significant’ short positions (chart  above)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt; &lt;p&gt;In the three trading sessions since Chavez made his announcement on  August 17th, gold has added almost $100, coming within a whisker of  $1,900 before settling back at another record weekly close.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Market weakness? Maybe. Fear of further problems in Europe? Quite  possibly. Continuing disgust with the world’s fiat currencies? Highly  likely.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The beginning of a race amongst the world’s Central Banks to grab physical gold? Now THAT would be something to see...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;p&gt;Full note:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a title="View Hmmm August 20 2011 on Scribd" href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/62765636/Hmmm-August-20-2011" style="margin: 12px auto 6px; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; display: block; text-decoration: underline;"&gt;Hmmm August 20 2011&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a title="View Hmmm August 20 2011 on Scribd" href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/62765636/Hmmm-August-20-2011" style="margin: 12px auto 6px auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none; display: block; text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;On November 25, 2011, BBC News reported &lt;a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-15900885"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"Chavez repatriates Venezuela's foreign gold reserves."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; The amount of gold Chavez requested was "around 160 tonnes of gold, worth more than $11bn."&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Three months earlier, on August 25, 2011, Reuters reported that &lt;a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/25/libya-gaddafi-gold-idUSLDE77O02A20110825"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span id="articleText"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/25/libya-gaddafi-gold-idUSLDE77O02A20110825"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;There are gold reserves worth $10 billion in Tripoli."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The big event that happened between August 25th and November 25th was the death of Gaddafi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It is very possible that the private central bankers in Europe and the United States confiscated Libya's gold and gave some of it to Venezuela. The amount of gold that Chavez received in November and the amount of gold that Reuters reported was in Tripoli in August is the same: 10 billion dollars.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span id="articleText"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/25/libya-gaddafi-gold-idUSLDE77O02A20110825"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span id="articleText"&gt;The claim that the U.S.-NATO wars in the Middle East and the war against Libya are about gold and oil has been backed up with evidence time after time. The proof is in the pudding, as they say. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id="articleText"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span id="articleText"&gt;Washington's Blog wrote a post on January 13, 2012 called &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/01/are-the-middle-east-wars-really-about-forcing-the-world-into-dollars-and-private-central-banking.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"Are The Middle East Wars Really About Forcing the World Into Dollars and Private Central Banking?"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id="articleText"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span id="articleText"&gt;On August 22, 2011, Washington's Blog said that a central motivation for NATO's invasion of Libya was the fear by the central bankers of Gaddafi's plan to nationalize oil reserves and use his gold reserves to develop Africa. He was &lt;a href="http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2011/08/libyan-war-gaddafi-falls-but-why-did-we.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2011/08/libyan-war-gaddafi-falls-but-why-did-we.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Challenging The Supremacy of the Dollar and Western Banks."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Washington's Blog wrote:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;"Ellen Brown &lt;a href="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/MD14Ak02.html"&gt;argues&lt;/a&gt; in the Asia Times that there were even deeper reasons for the war than gold, oil or middle eastern regime change.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Brown argues that Libya - like Iraq under Hussein - challenged the supremacy of the dollar and the Western banks"&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span id="articleText"&gt;In May 2011, the YouTube channel&lt;/span&gt; StormCloudsGathering posted an informative video called &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVmNnT0UstI"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"The real reason for the Libyan war - The Gold Dinar."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I wrote about the threat to the Federal Reserve's fiat petrodollar system that was posed by the Taliban and Saddam in 2000 in my article on January 15 called, &lt;a href="http://www.infowars.com/money-over-god-power-over-country-911-the-almighty-dollar-and-the-betrayal-of-american-values/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"Money Over God, Power Over Country: 9/11, The Almighty Dollar, And The Betrayal of American Values."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In this video on 108morris108's YouTube Channel called &lt;a href="http://youtu.be/TMSnuCa6svQ"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"Syrian - Regional War Looming,"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; the guy who goes by the name of Syrian said that he believes NATO and the U.S. invaded Libya to take its gold because they didn't have the gold that was requested by Chavez and the Venezuelan state. Although he added that this is only speculation on his part. He said:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"The U.S. is on its knees. The U.S. dollar is probably going to collapse very soon. And they're trying everything they can, they're pulling off every trick in the book to do it. In Libya one of their main aims was to steal vast array of gold reserves inside Libya. And Chavez requested his gold back. And it's only when they took Tripoli that they finally fulfilled Chavez's order. Before they were refusing. So my speculation is that they had to take Gaddafi's gold to give it to Chavez. Because their vaults are empty. . . The whole thing is a scam." (10:00 - 11:00).&lt;/blockquote&gt;What the Syrian suggests is probably what happened. The Federal Reserve has no gold reserves. It is not Federal and it doesn't have any reserves. The Fed is a monumental and epic fraud that can only be maintained by naked force.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mac Slavo of SHTFplan.com wrote an important article on June 6, 2011 called &lt;a href="http://www.shtfplan.com/precious-metals/federal-reserve-admits-we-have-no-gold_06062011"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"Federal Reserve Admits: We Have No Gold."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Slavo wrote:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"The following exchange between Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX) and the Fed’s  attorney Scott Alvarez proves, without a shadow of a doubt, that The  Federal Reserve has no gold backing the US dollar.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Our currency is not only not backed by gold, but in the event of a dollar meltdown the only assets backing the world’s reserve currency are worthless toxic mortgages purchased by The Fed in recent years from insolvent banking institutions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The only thing holding this thing together at this point is market confidence. When that goes, everything else goes with it."&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Read this CNN article from June 24, 2011 called, &lt;a href="http://money.cnn.com/2011/06/24/news/economy/ron_paul_gold_audit/index.htm"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"Ron Paul worries Fort Knox gold is gone,"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and watch this video - Federal Reserve Admits: We Have No Gold!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/0OkITedQrek" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8288505742676241874-1102371532743152442?l=disquietreservations.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8288505742676241874/posts/default/1102371532743152442?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8288505742676241874/posts/default/1102371532743152442?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://disquietreservations.blogspot.com/2012/01/did-western-central-bankers-steal.html" title="Did Western Central Bankers Steal Gaddafi's Gold To Pay Chavez? It Appears So." /><author><name>Saman Mohammadi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00901309111851547218</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://img.youtube.com/vi/0OkITedQrek/default.jpg" height="72" width="72" /></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CkIAR3c8fyp7ImA9WhRUFEk.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8288505742676241874.post-8909886804096816408</id><published>2012-01-24T16:28:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2012-01-24T16:29:06.977-05:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-01-24T16:29:06.977-05:00</app:edited><title>NDAA Is Scary: Fact Vs. Fiction</title><content type="html">&lt;iframe width="425" height="344" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Ldlvtptj7Fc" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8288505742676241874-8909886804096816408?l=disquietreservations.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8288505742676241874/posts/default/8909886804096816408?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8288505742676241874/posts/default/8909886804096816408?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://disquietreservations.blogspot.com/2012/01/ndaa-is-scary-fact-vs-fiction.html" title="NDAA Is Scary: Fact Vs. Fiction" /><author><name>Saman Mohammadi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00901309111851547218</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://img.youtube.com/vi/Ldlvtptj7Fc/default.jpg" height="72" width="72" /></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DUENRXs_fSp7ImA9WhRUE0Q.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8288505742676241874.post-2401844112560720320</id><published>2012-01-23T22:13:00.037-05:00</published><updated>2012-01-24T04:34:54.545-05:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-01-24T04:34:54.545-05:00</app:edited><title>Opening A New Theater of War In The North American Homeland</title><content type="html">&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Iwi7SYn7wks/Tt-HvxORfGI/AAAAAAAABAw/Q6Z9Vslltg8/s640/FEMA_map_camps.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 353px; height: 212px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Iwi7SYn7wks/Tt-HvxORfGI/AAAAAAAABAw/Q6Z9Vslltg8/s640/FEMA_map_camps.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;State of Emergency Communique #1:&lt;/span&gt; America, Canada, and Mexico are financially and mentally colonized nations. But financial fraud and media propaganda are no longer enough to keep the people down. Due to the political awakening across the continent the need for the boots has come.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"It is clear that there has been a sustained move in the  direction of martial law preparations, a trend that has been as  continuous as it has been unheralded." - Professor Peter Dale Scott, &lt;a href="http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&amp;amp;aid=23354"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"War, Martial Law, and the Economic Crisis,"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Global Research, February 23, 2011.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"They take our tax money and then militarize the police, and use the regular military against us." - Alex Jones, &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQFPDrgj2kU"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"Military Industrial Complex has declared war on the US,"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Russia Today, January 19, 2012.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"It’s  not just for the Afghanistan and Iraq wars anymore. The  Department of  Homeland Security is interested in a camera package that  can peek in on  almost four square miles of (Constitutionally-protected)  American  territory for long, long stretches of time. &lt;p&gt;Homeland Security doesn’t  have a particular system in mind. Right  now, it’s just soliciting  “industry feedback” on what a formal call for  such a “&lt;a href="https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&amp;amp;mode=form&amp;amp;id=fdb77d01ebbdeb5a5821d56bb535a27a&amp;amp;tab=core&amp;amp;tabmode=list&amp;amp;="&gt;Wide Area Surveillance System&lt;/a&gt;”   might look like. But it’s the latest indication of how powerful   military surveillance technology, developed to find foreign insurgents   and terrorists, is migrating to the home front." - Spencer Ackerman, &lt;a href="http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/01/homeland-security-surveillance/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"Homeland Security Wants To Spy On 4 Square Miles At Once,"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Wired, January 23, 2012.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;"There  is a genuine, dangerous disconnect between the Washington foreign  policy apparat and the broad American people as a whole. And I think you  saw evidence of this on February 15 (2003), when there were peace  demonstrations in as many as 300 American cities. And I think that there  is a real difference between what I call the American oligarchy, which  now pretty much controls not only the White House but the Congress and  the Supreme Court, and the American democracy." - Lewis Lapham, &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPxnVZoWl0g"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"Lewis Lapham's attack on American plutocracy,"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Allan Gregg's YouTube Channel, January 20, 2011, (Original broadcast: March 2003).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"How  low have we sunk, Mr. Obama? You portray yourself as a man of honor   and a defender of constitutionalism, but you have opened the gates to   lawlessness and authoritarian rule." - Philip Giraldi, &lt;a href="http://www.councilforthenationalinterest.org/news/opinion-a-analysis/item/1343-creating-american-terrorists"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"Creating American Terrorists,"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; The Council For The National Interest, January 19, 2012.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"A  North American Homeland Security perimeter goes well beyond keeping   people safe from any perceived threats. It is a means to secure trade,   resources, as well as corporate interests and is a pretext for control   over the continent." - Dana Gabriel, &lt;a href="http://beyourownleader.blogspot.com/2011/12/pretext-for-north-american-homeland_11.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"The Pretext for a North American Homeland Security Perimeter,"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Be Your Own Leader, December 11, 2011.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"All the power and policy of man cannot continue a system &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;long&lt;/span&gt; after its truth has ceased to be acknowledged, or an establishment &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;long&lt;/span&gt;   after it has ceased to contribute to utility. It is equally vain, as  to  expect to preserve a tree, whose roots are cut away. It may look as   green and flourishing as before for a short time, but its sentence is   passed, its principle of life is gone, and death is already within it." -   Anna Letitia Barbauld, &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Selected Poetry &amp;amp; Prose&lt;/span&gt;, pg. 275-276.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;The process of global state-building  has been going on for a long time. At the mid-way point of the existence of the American republic the U.S. Constitution came under attack and America's national sovereignty was destroyed by international banks and corporations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The  U.S. Constitution was ratified on June 21, 1788, but by 1900 it was  already coming undone by traitors from within Washington and ambitions  bankers from beyond her shores who invaded America with suitcases full  of money instead of armies and tanks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From 1900 to 1912 they engineered  various financial crises in order to consolidate financial and political  power. The bought off media misdirected public attention away from  their criminal actions and towards an anti-capitalism/anti-free market  narrative.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then in 1913 the Federal Reserve Act effectively ended  constitutional rule in the United States and recolonized the American people. Under the Act, the power to  create and lend money, which is the greatest power a government can  have, was repossessed by the private bankers connected to the British  aristocracy who were defeated by the American founding fathers and the  American people in America's First War of Independence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I say "First"  because it is clear that a Second War of Independence needs to be fought  in the 21st century against the private bankers and the fascist  multinational corporations connected to them that have robbed America  blind and destroyed its social fabric.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But this time the pawns  with the guns drawn are not foreign imperial troops, nor are they  gentlemanly soldiers in red coats. The pawns in the 21st century  American police state are ruthless and arrogant scum who have been  trained to smash in faces and pull out eyeballs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Police officers &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmJmmnMkuEM"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;pepper sprayed university students in the face&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  on a bright sunny day when everything seemed relatively peaceful and  orderly. Imagine what these lawless goons in uniform will do to ordinary  citizens and protesters when martial law is declared, order in the  streets is gone, and mobs roam through stores like wild dogs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When Martial Law is declared and social order breaks down, North America will become the battlefield that the military and civilian planners in Washington intended it to be all along. Indefinite detention centers will come into use. Also, the war on the Internet and free press will turn very real and very deadly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I expect that Middle Eastern war zones will look pretty tame by comparison to some of the war zones on the North American continent. After all, &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMrneLyUSdc"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;the land of the gun&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; can only be pacified by the gun.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All  the police state laws since the false flag 9/11 attacks have  contributed to the process of global state-building and the  establishment of a universal slave grid system. The unstated objective of this new  international system is permanent bondage of the people. The criminal and Satanic elite want to gain complete control of the planet and human destiny. According to &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyK3o-fl27k"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;historian Webster Tarpley&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, radio host Alex Jones, and others, large pockets of the middle class and the underclass will be exterminated under this system of mass death.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This  is where Homeland Security comes in. It has been set up as an  extrajudicial killing and spying machine. But its undercover  anti-democratic and eugenicist operations are being concealed behind  false narratives like the war on terror and false aims like domestic  security.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Homeland Security's tyrannical reach also extends into  Canada. The usurpation of Canada's national sovereignty by political and  corporate elites means Canada, like America, is a wilderness without laws and institutions.  We are witnessing the re-colonization of the North American continent.  This time around, however, the colonizers do not speak a foreign language.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dana  Gabriel highlighted the consolidation of political power and natural  resources by the plutocrats in North America on December 11, 2011, in an  article called, &lt;a href="http://beyourownleader.blogspot.com/2011/12/pretext-for-north-american-homeland_11.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"The Pretext for a North American Homeland Security Perimeter"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;On December 7, President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced the &lt;a href="http://www.borderactionplan-plandactionfrontalier.gc.ca/psec-scep/bap_report-paf_rapport-dec2011.aspx?view=d"&gt;Beyond the Border Perimeter Security and Economic Competitiveness Action Plan&lt;/a&gt;.   The new deal focuses on addressing security threats early,  facilitating  trade, economic growth and jobs, integrating cross-border  law  enforcement, as well as improving infrastructure and  cyber-security.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;While the perimeter agreement is being sold  as vital to the safety and  prosperity of  Canadians and Americans  alike, there is little doubt that  it will mean a tradeoff between  sovereignty and security. Any deal  which gives the Department of  Homeland Security more personal  information poses a serious risk to  privacy rights. As both countries  move forward, perimeter security will  be further defined and dominated  by American interests. This could  force Canada to comply with any new  U.S. security measures, regardless  of the dangers they may pose to civil  liberties. A North American  Homeland Security perimeter goes well  beyond keeping people safe from  any perceived threats. It is a means to  secure trade, resources, as  well as corporate interests and is a pretext  for control over the  continent.&lt;/blockquote&gt;Things will get messy once the people in America and Canada wake up and  discover that both countries have been colonized by international  banks and corporations behind their backs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In a state of martial law, dissidents, bloggers, fact-based journalists,  anti-war activists, gun owners, Occupy Wall Street activists, and Tea  Party activists will all be deemed "domestic terrorists" and taken away  into secret dungeons by the brainwashed pawns of the global corporatist  state.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tom Burghardt wrote on October 11, 2008, in his article, &lt;a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&amp;amp;aid=10534"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"Militarizing the "Homeland" in Response to the Economic and Political Crisis"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Wholesale  spying on activists by the Pentagon's now defunct Counterintelligence  Field Activity (CIFA), as well as revelations that State police agencies  in Maryland routinely spied on antiwar organizers, shared this  information with the National Security Agency and classified them as  "terrorists" in government-run databases, are viewed as exemplary means  to "keep the rabble in line"--and under wraps, if necessary.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A highly-disturbing report by Christopher Ketchum in the May/June 2008 issue of &lt;a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.radaronline.com/from-the-magazine/2008/05/government_surveillance_homeland_security_main_core_01-print.php"&gt;Radar Magazine&lt;/a&gt;,  outlined how the top secret Main Core database linked to Continuity of  Government contingency planning, "includes dissidents and activists of  various stripes, political and tax protesters, lawyers and professors,  publishers and journalists, gun owners, illegal aliens, foreign  nationals, and a great many other harmless, average people."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reporting in July for &lt;a href="http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/07/23/new_churchcomm/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Salon&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;,  investigative journalist Tim Shorrock was told by a source that Main  Core is "'an emergency internal security database system' designed for  use by the military in the event of a national catastrophe, a suspension  of the Constitution or the imposition of martial law. Its name ... is  derived from the fact that it contains 'copies of the 'main core' or  essence of each item of intelligence information on Americans produced  by the FBI and the other agencies of the U.S. intelligence community'."&lt;/blockquote&gt;Those  who still believe that the criminal hijackers of our governments,  "won't order the military and police to  shoot to kill dissidents and protesters," are stuck in la la land. They  can't see that North America is already being treated by the elites and  government authorities as a theater of war. They can't see that the  mouse traps have been laid and that the maze of slavery has been  designed to the last detail.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Staying blind doesn't make the political crisis go away or the reality of war and tyranny disappear into the background of life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A reckoning is  coming. There is no sense in remaining blind to it.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8288505742676241874-2401844112560720320?l=disquietreservations.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8288505742676241874/posts/default/2401844112560720320?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8288505742676241874/posts/default/2401844112560720320?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://disquietreservations.blogspot.com/2012/01/opening-new-theater-of-war-in-north.html" title="Opening A New Theater of War In The North American Homeland" /><author><name>Saman Mohammadi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00901309111851547218</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Iwi7SYn7wks/Tt-HvxORfGI/AAAAAAAABAw/Q6Z9Vslltg8/s72-c/FEMA_map_camps.jpg" height="72" width="72" /></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;D0QER3Y-eyp7ImA9WhRUE0s.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8288505742676241874.post-2450832624836000805</id><published>2012-01-23T19:26:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2012-01-23T19:35:06.853-05:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-01-23T19:35:06.853-05:00</app:edited><title>A Conversation with Lewis H. Lapham</title><content type="html">&lt;iframe width="425" height="344" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/BUFOpk_o6Zw" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe width="425" height="344" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/5WMvgghq6Sg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe width="425" height="344" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/mDzZlmVF2Ic" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8288505742676241874-2450832624836000805?l=disquietreservations.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8288505742676241874/posts/default/2450832624836000805?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8288505742676241874/posts/default/2450832624836000805?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://disquietreservations.blogspot.com/2012/01/conversation-with-lewis-h-lapham.html" title="A Conversation with Lewis H. Lapham" /><author><name>Saman Mohammadi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00901309111851547218</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://img.youtube.com/vi/BUFOpk_o6Zw/default.jpg" height="72" width="72" /></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;C0QGSX8_cCp7ImA9WhRUE0s.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8288505742676241874.post-7106502156062863173</id><published>2012-01-23T18:21:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2012-01-23T18:28:48.148-05:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-01-23T18:28:48.148-05:00</app:edited><title>Alex Jones: It's All Theater! It's All Fake! And It's All Coming Down!</title><content type="html">&lt;iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/OD38thj0UYE" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8288505742676241874-7106502156062863173?l=disquietreservations.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8288505742676241874/posts/default/7106502156062863173?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8288505742676241874/posts/default/7106502156062863173?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://disquietreservations.blogspot.com/2012/01/alex-jones-its-all-theater-its-matrix.html" title="Alex Jones: It's All Theater! It's All Fake! And It's All Coming Down!" /><author><name>Saman Mohammadi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00901309111851547218</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://img.youtube.com/vi/OD38thj0UYE/default.jpg" height="72" width="72" /></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DUEERXs7eCp7ImA9WhRUE0g.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8288505742676241874.post-5012085458706098689</id><published>2012-01-23T17:23:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2012-01-23T17:26:44.500-05:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-01-23T17:26:44.500-05:00</app:edited><title>Senator Rand Paul Vs. The Anti-American TSA</title><content type="html">&lt;iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/fG8dNxLVpFE" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.infowars.com/ron-paul-slams-out-of-control-police-state-after-rand-paul-detained-by-tsa/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Ron Paul Slams “Out Of Control Police State” After Rand Paul Detained By TSA&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Congressman renews his call to abolish agency that “gropes and grabs” Americans&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Steve Watson&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.infowars.com/ron-paul-slams-out-of-control-police-state-after-rand-paul-detained-by-tsa/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Infowars.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;January 23, 2012&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul issued the following statement on his campaign website this afternoon, following his son Rand’s treatment at the hands of the TSA in Nashville.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.infowars.com/ron-paul-slams-out-of-control-police-state-after-rand-paul-detained-by-tsa/"&gt;&lt;br style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Continued. . . &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.infowars.com/ron-paul-slams-out-of-control-police-state-after-rand-paul-detained-by-tsa/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8288505742676241874-5012085458706098689?l=disquietreservations.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8288505742676241874/posts/default/5012085458706098689?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8288505742676241874/posts/default/5012085458706098689?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://disquietreservations.blogspot.com/2012/01/senator-rand-paul-vs-anti-american-tsa.html" title="Senator Rand Paul Vs. The Anti-American TSA" /><author><name>Saman Mohammadi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00901309111851547218</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://img.youtube.com/vi/fG8dNxLVpFE/default.jpg" height="72" width="72" /></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DEcBRnk-cCp7ImA9WhRUE0g.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8288505742676241874.post-278469972179979038</id><published>2012-01-23T17:00:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2012-01-23T17:00:57.758-05:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-01-23T17:00:57.758-05:00</app:edited><title>Alex Jones: The Future of Humanity</title><content type="html">&lt;iframe width="425" height="344" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/z2t_k_Y9_Ro" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8288505742676241874-278469972179979038?l=disquietreservations.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8288505742676241874/posts/default/278469972179979038?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8288505742676241874/posts/default/278469972179979038?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://disquietreservations.blogspot.com/2012/01/alex-jones-future-of-humanity.html" title="Alex Jones: The Future of Humanity" /><author><name>Saman Mohammadi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00901309111851547218</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://img.youtube.com/vi/z2t_k_Y9_Ro/default.jpg" height="72" width="72" /></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;C08CRng-eip7ImA9WhRUE0w.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8288505742676241874.post-2317359633735352950</id><published>2012-01-22T23:09:00.075-05:00</published><updated>2012-01-23T04:44:27.652-05:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-01-23T04:44:27.652-05:00</app:edited><title>The End of The Mainstream Media And The Rebirth of Fact-Based Journalism</title><content type="html">&lt;blockquote&gt;"The West is headed to dictatorship. It's already happening. The merger  of state and corporate power is by definition called fascism. I just  mentioned the Defense Authorization Act. Before you had that you had the  abrogation of the Constitution under Bush, with the Patriot Act, which  Obama reinstated and made even tougher by signing this bill. When I say  the merger of state and corporate powers, look at the $16.1 trillion  that the Federal Reserve has funneled into businesses around the world.  Whatever happened to that thing called capitalism? This is not  capitalism; it's fascism! The more societies break down and the bigger  the screw-ups at the top, the harder they clamp down on the bottom. You  see it going on around the world; they call it austerity measures. How  about calling it enslavement?" - Gerald Celente, &lt;a href="http://www.thedailybell.com/3526/Staff-Report-Celente-Interview"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"Gerald Celente on Trend Forecasting and the Crisis of Western Civilization,"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; The Daily Bell, January 22, 2012.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"There  is no doubt, in my view, that the elites practiced directed history in  the 20th century, setting up wars and economic catastrophes designed to  consolidate world government. But in the 21st century, with so many  understanding and evaluating the mechanisms of the elites, this is a  considerably harder trick to pull off." - Anthony Wile, &lt;a href="http://www.thedailybell.com/3529/The-War-for-the-Internet-Has-Begun"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"Yes, The War for the Internet Has Begun,"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; The Daily Bell, January 21, 2012.&lt;/blockquote&gt;Al-Media, not Al-Qaeda, is the biggest threat to Western freedom and global security.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The goal of Al-Media is to destroy the United States of America, erase the traditions of law and liberty in the West, and sell to the West a technological slave system disguised as a "new world order."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The information terrorists in Al-Media, aka the pundits, news anchors, and journalists, concealed the real perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks from public view and directed the world on the false trail of Jihadi terrorists.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Instead of serving as a guide for accurate information in dangerous and apocalyptic times, the Western mainstream media has acted as an evil predator that lies about issues of war and peace, life and death.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Elitist   editors and reporters, many of whom are in the employment of government intelligence agencies, do not consider themselves to be part of the general public, but as   part of the wolf class that preys on the defenseless masses who are lost in the enclosed fields of   ignorance and blindness. They are like the predatory religious clerics of Iran who eat the brains of the people while pretending to be their guardians.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the West, there is no turban to distinguish the wolf class from the rest of society. The evil predators appear in journalist clothes and prepare the people for slaughter by   stuffing their brains with war fever, fanciful tales, dramatic narratives, and pseudo patriotism. Then they stand back and watch with pure joy in their cold hearts when their hard work to start a war pays off.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We saw this after 9/11 when a lot of journalists and reporters were smiling at the thought of a war in Afghanistan. The bombings and military movements was a huge rush for them. And we can see the same feelings of excitement and joy in journalists and cable pundits as the drum-beat for war against Iran gets louder.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anthony Wile, the founder of The Daily Bell website, says that Western elites employ "dominant social themes – fear-based promotions – that are designed to frighten middle classes into giving up wealth and power to specially prepared globalist institutions." Al-Media is central to this political, social, and cultural process.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Somebody like Fox News's Rupert Murdoch is the Ayman Al Zawahiri of Al-Media. The heads of CNN, MSNBC, The Washington Post, The New York Times, etc., are probably all highly involved in the strategic and political operations of Al-Media. 9/11 was their most successful act of information terrorism.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But the Western mainstream media is experiencing major blowback. There is a massive political awakening in America and throughout the West. The younger generation has switched to the Internet to get their news and analysis, which is more fact-based than the trash on television and the trash in the newspapers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh talked about the "collapse of the mainstream press" in a &lt;a href="http://youtu.be/qCruBYteyjw"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;conversation&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; with Larry Jacobs, a professor of political science at the University of  Minnesota, and former Vice President Walter Mondale in December 2009. Hersh said:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"We didn't do the job, and I say we collectively, because We The Press . . did not challenge the president. We joined the team. We became jingoistic. It was very hard not to be. It was very hard not to, after 9/11. We wanted payback, we wanted to bomb. Everybody wanted to bomb Afghanistan."&lt;/blockquote&gt;The collapse of the Western mainstream press couldn't have come at a better time. It is a sign of hope that democracy is alive and that the West is far from dead. The collapse is giving way to the rebirth of fact-based journalism on the web, which is laying the foundations for a new global political era based on truth-telling and the rule of law.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reviving free speech in the West will require a long, sustained, and determined effort. After all, our societies are under an information siege. But we must keep the faith that what we are doing in the alternative, fact-based media is making a dent in public opinion and the psychology of the people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Truth-telling is easy, and its value is unmistakable. The media manipulators of mass reality have the more difficult job, especially since they have lost their monopoly over the distribution of information. That's why their days are numbered.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The fall of Al-Media is a clear indicator that the forces of freedom and reason in the West are regaining lost ground in the battlefield that matters most - the mind.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8288505742676241874-2317359633735352950?l=disquietreservations.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8288505742676241874/posts/default/2317359633735352950?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8288505742676241874/posts/default/2317359633735352950?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://disquietreservations.blogspot.com/2012/01/end-of-mainstream-media-and-rebirth-of.html" title="The End of The Mainstream Media And The Rebirth of Fact-Based Journalism" /><author><name>Saman Mohammadi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00901309111851547218</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;A0ACQXg5cSp7ImA9WhRUEkU.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8288505742676241874.post-4854208843479455995</id><published>2012-01-22T21:25:00.005-05:00</published><updated>2012-01-22T22:36:00.629-05:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-01-22T22:36:00.629-05:00</app:edited><title>The Zionist Threat On President Obama's Life</title><content type="html">On Friday, January 20, 2012, Richard Silverstein reported at his blog Tikun Olam that &lt;a href="http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2012/01/20/atlanta-jewish-newspaper-advocates-mossad-assassinating-obama-if-iran-gets-nukes/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"Atlanta Jewish Newspaper Advocates Mossad Assassinating Obama If Iran Gets Nukes."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  Silverstein wrote:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Andrew Adler, now that’s a name that should live in Jewish infamy.  He’s the publisher of the Atlanta Jewish Times who &lt;em&gt;actually&lt;/em&gt;  published a column in his paper saying that one of three options Israel  should consider on the day the Prime Minister hears that Iran has a  nuclear weapon is for &lt;a href="http://gawker.com/barack-obama/" target="_blank"&gt;Mossad agents in the U.S. to assassinate Barack Obama&lt;/a&gt;.  Just in case you think I’m making this lunacy up &lt;a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/284979-ajt.html" target="_blank"&gt;here’s a screenshot&lt;/a&gt; of the column itself.  Here’s the money–or should I say, “kill shot.”&lt;/blockquote&gt;Let that sink in for a minute. Wrap your mind around this thought: Israel assassinates an American president. A crazy Jewish American actually wrote in his newspaper that assassinating an American president to protect Israel's interests is a reasonable idea. Crazy, huh?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In what world is this wacko living in? Is he on the fringe, or is this lunatic's beliefs part of mainstream American society?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unfortunately, it is closer to mainstream American and Western society than a lot of people like to admit. Since the false flag attacks on 9/11, committed by the CIA and the Mossad, the West has let the crazies roam free.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is evident that the biggest terrorists in the world are Jews, not Muslims. Of course, there are wacky and crazy Muslims out there, but they don't have the capabilities of the Mossad and the media pull of Jewish Americans.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Frankly, Muslim terrorists don't scare me because they only have suicide vests and poorly made bombs. It's the powerful and media savvy Jewish terrorists who scare the hell out of me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Silverstein writes:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Apparently, Israel has such a sterling reputation lately for political  assassinations that Adler and others have come to believe that the best  way of pursuing a political objective is to murder whoever stands in the  way.  That’s one of the legacies that Israel’s far right government has  bestowed to the world, both Jewish and non-Jewish.&lt;/blockquote&gt;But he added that extremists like Adler do not represent the Jewish tradition or the Jewish nation:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;We have much to ashamed of, just as we have much to be proud of: from  our prophetic ethical tradition and inheritors of its mantle like Martin  Buber, Judah Magnes and those who founded Brit Shalom; and their  latter-day followers in NGOs like Sheikh Jarrah Solidarity, the Popular  Committee Against Torture, Breaking the Silence, Peace Now and so many  others.&lt;/blockquote&gt;The crazy terrorists who have hijacked the Jewish tradition and the Jewish nation are a thorn in the world's side. Pulling out this thorn is the struggle of our time.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8288505742676241874-4854208843479455995?l=disquietreservations.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8288505742676241874/posts/default/4854208843479455995?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8288505742676241874/posts/default/4854208843479455995?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://disquietreservations.blogspot.com/2012/01/zionist-threat-on-president-obamas-life.html" title="The Zionist Threat On President Obama's Life" /><author><name>Saman Mohammadi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00901309111851547218</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;A0EASH45eCp7ImA9WhRUEkU.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8288505742676241874.post-1396643445897969673</id><published>2012-01-22T19:39:00.009-05:00</published><updated>2012-01-22T22:34:09.020-05:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-01-22T22:34:09.020-05:00</app:edited><title>Iran's Soft Power Strategy: Why Iran Does Not Want A Nuclear Weapon</title><content type="html">&lt;blockquote&gt;"If I was an Iranian national security planner I would want a  nuclear  weapon.  Look at the neighborhood I live in: everyone else who  matters  has nuclear weapons and those who don’t, don’t matter and get  invaded by  the United States." - &lt;a href="http://www.brookings.edu/experts/riedelb.aspx"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Bruce Riedel&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;,  a former CIA officer and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution,  as quoted in Richard Silverstein's article on January 19, 2012 called, &lt;a href="http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2012/01/19/bruce-riedel-netanyahus-goal-is-regime-change-in-washington/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;'Bruce Riedel: Netanyahu’s Goal is ‘Regime Change’…in Washington.'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;The  fear that Iran is in the process of developing a nuclear weapon is  grounded in the false belief that a nuclear weapon would strengthen Iran's  hand in the Middle East.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Trita Parsi, an Iranian expert at Johns  Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies and the  president of the National Iranian American Council, says that Iran's  strategic strength and regional position would drastically diminish if  it  acquired a nuclear weapon. Parsi made this point &lt;a href="http://muftah.org/?p=661"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;in an interview with Ali Ahmadi Motlagh in January 2011&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;AM:  One argument put forth in support of stopping Iran’s nuclear program   is that Iran’s acquisition of nuclear capabilities would trigger an   arms race across the Middle East. What are your thoughts on this?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TP:   Certainly it is difficult to envision the region becoming safer with   the introduction of more nuclear weapons. It should also be noted that   building a nuclear weapon may turn out to be a significant strategic   mistake for Iran if it leads to the nuclearization of the Middle East as   a whole, since that would eliminate Iran’s conventional military   superiority in the region.&lt;/blockquote&gt;The prestige of a nuclear weapon  is not all that it is cracked up to be. As Parsi observes, it is not in  Iran's interests to build a  nuclear weapon and thereby trigger a  nuclear arms race in the Middle  East because that would minimize its  strategic and military superiority vis-a-vis its weaker neighbours such  as Kuwait. Every nation would be on equal footing if nuclear weapons suddenly became common commodities.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;True, an Iranian nuclear weapon is a kryptonite to foreign aggression, but it is also an act of strategic suicide.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Building  nuclear weapons would also be an anti-Islamic act. The Islamic Republic  of Iran would lose its political and religious legitimacy if it  overturned Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's fatwa against the development and  deployment of nuclear weapons. In August 2005, Iran issued a &lt;a href="http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/iran/nuke/mehr080905.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;statement at an IAEA Emergency Meeting&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; which said:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"The  Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has   issued the fatwa that the production, stockpiling, and use of nuclear   weapons are forbidden under Islam and that the Islamic Republic of Iran   shall never acquire these weapons."&lt;/blockquote&gt;Iran does not need  nuclear weapons to defend itself if it comes under a full-scale attack  by the United States and Israel. As Parsi said in an interview with &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdpdq3520V4"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Foreign Policy Association in November 2011&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"Whatever  the capabilities are that the Iranians have, they have utilized only a  fraction of them, compared to what they can if there is a real  confrontation between the U.S. and Iran."&lt;/blockquote&gt;Flynt Leverett and  Hillary Mann Leverett, both of whom served on the National Security  Council in the Bush administration, emphasize Iran's soft power  strategy. In their article on October 13, 2010 called, &lt;a href="http://www.raceforiran.com/irans-%E2%80%9Csoft-power%E2%80%9D-increasingly-checks-u-s-power"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Iran's "Soft Power" Increasingly Checks U.S. Power&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, they wrote:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"If  Iran today has substantial soft power in the Middle East—as we  believe  it does—it has that power in no small part because it has picked   winners rather than losers as its allies in key regional theaters.    Whether we speak of Hizballah in Lebanon, HAMAS in Palestine, or Shi’a   Islamist parties in Iraq, Iran’s regional allies are genuine political   forces—that is, forces that win elections because they represent   important and unavoidable constituencies with legitimate grievances.    And, in many cases, those allies engage in what their constituents   believe is thoroughly laudable resistance against what those   constituents see as America’s (and Israel’s) hegemonic ambitions in the   Middle East." &lt;/blockquote&gt;Hillary Mann Leverett explained the success  of Iran's soft power strategy and how it is countering Washington's  current political objectives in the Middle East on a &lt;a href="http://www.raceforiran.com/hillary-mann-leverett-on-u-s-and-iranian-strategies-in-the-middle-east"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Swedish radio program on Saturday, January 21, 2012&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. She said:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"In  terms of projection of what we call, often in international relations,  hard power -  conventional military force - the United States has today  and will have for the vastly foreseeable future the absolute ability to  project overwhelming conventional military force, hard power, into the  Middle East basically whenever and wherever it wants. . . We've invaded  Iraq, we've had military operations in Libya, we can do that.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But  there are limits to how effective that is. And we've seen through our  indeterminate military campaigns in Iraq, in Afghanistan, even in Libya,  where we see this inter-militia conflict playing out now, is that yes  we can kill Saddam Hussein, yes we can kill Gaddafi, but what do you do  after that? The U.S. has nothing to offer. And so the United States is  really demonstrating the limits of its power to something that is just a  military hard power projection.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Iran, on the other hand, has had a  policy, and many people, particularly here in Washington, ignore Iran's  real strategy. They focus on what I call played-up, hyped threats about  Iran, which prevents them from seeing Iran's really effective strategy,  which is really a soft power strategy. Iran's effectiveness and success  has nothing do with it's ability to project conventional military force  anywhere in the Middle East. Iran doesn't have so much of an offensive,  conventional military capability, it does not invade its neighbours, it  does not use conventional military force against its neighbours. It  doesn't do that. We win on that battlefield hands down, the Iranians  don't even try to challenge us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What they do is they have a soft  power strategy, where they built up relations with political groups and  forces in their neighbouring countries, and they try to galvanize the  grievance that people have throughout the Middle East and they align  themselves with these groups and with this galvanized grievance in the  form of public opinion. And what that does is it positions Iran with  these relationships they have with various groups, whether it's Hamas,  whether it's Hezbollah, whether it's shi'ite groups in Iraq, whether  it's the various groups that form the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan,  whether its with shiites in Bahrain. Across the Middle East and Central  Asia, Iran has these alliances and it has public opinion often on its  side.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What this does is it constrains these states. Let's take  Bahrain for example. If Bahrain wanted to allow the U.S. Fifth Fleet to  attack Iran, the leadership in Bahrain would have to think long and hard  about that because they would have to face renewed resentment,  protests, problems from their largely shiite population that Iran is  aligned with. So that constrains the government of Bahrain or the  government of even Saudi Arabia from attacking Iran.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The other  thing it does is it positions Iran to have relations with these groups,  with these people, whether they're shiite, whether they're kurds,  whether it's the Sunni group Hamas, and others, that when there is a  change of government or when there can be a change of government, it's  Iran's allies that win the day. So when there is a change of government  in Iraq, the United States invades Iraq, we get rid of the sunni  political order, it's Iran's allies that are ready, poised, and thrust  into leadership. When we invade Afghanistan and wet get rid of the  irredentist sunni Taliban political order in Afghanistan, it's Iran's  allies in the Northern Alliance that take over and are in charge in  Afghanistan. . .If there is a change in leadership in Bahrain, if the  government of Bahrain were overthrown, it would be Iran's allies that  take over.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is an extremely powerful offensive strategy that  Iran has, but it's about soft power. It has nothing to do with hard  power. So the focus here, particularly in Washington, about various  concerns about Iran's military capabilities are entirely misplaced and  means that we are missing the soft power offensive that Iran poses to  us, the challenge they pose to us, the challenge they pose to our allies  like Saudi Arabia which is now surrounded by countries that are much  more friendly to Iran today than they were ten years ago.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, if  you look at the United States ten years ago, our allies like Saudi  Arabia ten years ago, we are in vastly weaker positions in the balance  of power in the Middle East than Iran is. Ten years ago, Iran had  basically Syria, and the very weak groups of Hamas and Hezbollah.  Remember ten years ago Hamas had not been legitimated in the elections  among the Palestinians that they were in 2006. Remember ten years ago  Hezbollah had not been legitimated through the elections that they've  had in Lebanon. They were relatively weak players.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today, Iran's  allies are the indispensable decisive players in country after country  after country across the Middle East that used to be pro-American  territory, that used to be pro-Saudi territory. Today, both the United  States and our allies, particularly Saudi Arabia, are on the defensive,  and you see that playing out in some very dangerous ways across the  region."&lt;/blockquote&gt;To get a more informed perspective about  U.S.-Iranian relations and the general picture in the Middle East, visit  Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett's website, &lt;a href="http://www.raceforiran.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;www.raceforiran.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, and the National Iranian American Council website, &lt;a href="http://www.niacouncil.org/site/PageServer?pagename=NIAC_index"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;www.niacouncil.org&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8288505742676241874-1396643445897969673?l=disquietreservations.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8288505742676241874/posts/default/1396643445897969673?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8288505742676241874/posts/default/1396643445897969673?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://disquietreservations.blogspot.com/2012/01/irans-soft-power-strategy-why-iran-does.html" title="Iran's Soft Power Strategy: Why Iran Does Not Want A Nuclear Weapon" /><author><name>Saman Mohammadi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00901309111851547218</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CEMNRX8ycCp7ImA9WhRUE0w.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8288505742676241874.post-4918132904800552584</id><published>2012-01-21T21:36:00.009-05:00</published><updated>2012-01-23T04:54:54.198-05:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-01-23T04:54:54.198-05:00</app:edited><title>5 Reasons Why Ron Paul Is The National Security Candidate</title><content type="html">&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.moviemobsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Gandalf-vs-El-Balrog-gandalf-7018563-1280-960.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 453px; height: 339px;" src="http://www.moviemobsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Gandalf-vs-El-Balrog-gandalf-7018563-1280-960.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Ron Paul vs. The Global Military-Industrial-Financial Complex&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ron  Paul is not simply the anti-war candidate. He is also the national  security candidate. This is an important truth that is overlooked.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The  wars in the Middle East have been sold to the American people as  "national security" wars, but this is a big lie. The wars have nothing  to do with America's national security interests. So, the anti-war  position is the same as the pro-national security position.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Washington's Blog shined a light on the real reasons for America's endless wars in the article, &lt;a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/01/are-the-middle-east-wars-really-about-forcing-the-world-into-dollars-and-private-central-banking.html"&gt;"Are The Middle East Wars Really About Forcing the World Into Dollars and Private Central Banking?" &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ron  Paul is the world's biggest opponent of private central banking, the  fiat dollar system, and the endless war on terror. His resistance has a  moral dimension for sure, but his main argument is that America has not  benefited from the wars either economically, militarily, or politically.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Throughout his presidential campaign Dr. Paul has repeated the point that   America's national security and economic health are being ruined by Washington's multiple unsustainable and costly wars.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But  Dr. Paul's rejection of the war on terror mythos is not the only reason  why he should be considered as the national security candidate. He puts  the national security of America ahead of politics and party every  single time, no matter the issue. Whether the issue is a war against  Iran or indefinite detention in America, Dr. Paul is consistently for  the defense of America's national security.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is clear that Dr.  Paul is the only serious national security candidate in the 2012  presidential race. Below I've listed five issues which showcase Dr.  Paul's national security credentials.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;1. &lt;/span&gt;Dr.  Paul agrees with senior members of the U.S. Military that a war against  Iran is a  bad idea, and with the U.S. intelligence community that Iran  does not have a nuclear bomb. His political foes in his party are  confusing America's national security interests with Israel's national  security interests. And in doing so, they are severely undermining the  economic health and security of the United States.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;2.&lt;/span&gt;  Dr. Paul's opposition to the indefinite detention provisions in the  2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) is grounded in the  belief that unconstitutional laws threaten America's national security.  Earlier this week, he &lt;a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/R?d112:FLD003:@1%28Rep+Paul+Ron%29:"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;introduced legislation to repeal the section of the NDAA&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  that allows the military to snatch up American citizens in the night  and keep them hostage in secret prisons without trial. This government  power will be abused and the social fabric of America will be destroyed.  As Washington's Blog stated in an article headline, &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/12/indefinite-detention-hurts-our-national-security-and-increases-the-risk-of-terrorism.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"Indefinite Detention Hurts Our National Security and Increases the Risk of Terrorism."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;3.&lt;/span&gt; In August 2010, Admiral Mike Mullen, the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, &lt;a href="http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=60621"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;said&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; U.S. national debt poses the biggest threat to America's national security.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dr. Paul has done the most among political leaders in raising public  awareness about the rapidly growing U.S. national debt and the risks of  U.S. bankruptcy. He is the only true anti-debt candidate, which proves  that he truly cares about the economic security and social well-being of  America, unlike every other Republican candidate and President Obama.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On January 18, 2012, Senator Jim DeMint endorsed Ron Paul's views on foreign policy and national debt, &lt;a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.ronpaul2012.com/2012/01/21/sen-jim-demint-on-ron-pauls-foreign-policy/"&gt;&lt;span&gt;saying&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"If  we spread ourselves too thin around the world were not gonna be able to  defend the homeland, particularly with the level of debt that we have  right now. It’s foolish for us to think that we can have military bases  all over the world, spend billions of dollars when we’re going broke  back home. It just isn’t gonna happen."&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;4.&lt;/span&gt; Ron Paul's defense of America's national security begins at the borders. He &lt;a href="http://www.ronpaul2012.com/the-issues/immigration/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;says&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  as President he will protect America's borders and restore the legal  paths to citizenship in the United States. His pro-legal  immigration/pro-border security platform is in line with the true values  and national security interests of America.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;5.&lt;/span&gt; The foundations of America's  national security are the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights,  especially the first amendment and the second amendment. They are  currently under attack by the hijacked government, which is an attack on  America's national security. Dr. Paul will &lt;a href="http://www.ronpaul2012.com/the-issues/second-amendment/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;restore the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, which would significantly improve the security of the United States.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;America would not be America without a free press and an armed  citizenry. If both were destroyed, which is a very real possibility  if internet censorship and police state legislation are not resisted, then the fire of  liberty that is America will be extinguished forever.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8288505742676241874-4918132904800552584?l=disquietreservations.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8288505742676241874/posts/default/4918132904800552584?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8288505742676241874/posts/default/4918132904800552584?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://disquietreservations.blogspot.com/2012/01/5-reasons-why-ron-paul-is-national.html" title="5 Reasons Why Ron Paul Is The National Security Candidate" /><author><name>Saman Mohammadi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00901309111851547218</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CEYAQns-fSp7ImA9WhRUEU4.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8288505742676241874.post-6210860365556662983</id><published>2012-01-20T23:09:00.043-05:00</published><updated>2012-01-21T02:49:03.555-05:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-01-21T02:49:03.555-05:00</app:edited><title>NDAA Is Washington's Totalitarian Response To Political Dissent And Economic Collapse</title><content type="html">&lt;blockquote&gt;"In 1789, France entered a period of revolutionary change which was to  see the complete restructuring of the state, the collapse of the  monarchy, and its replacement by a republic. By 1793, France was riven  by civil war and factional struggles and had also opened hostilities  upon several neighbouring states. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;At home, political dissent and  economic collapse were repressed by the use of political terror.&lt;/span&gt; For  many contemporaries, as for later historians, the connection between  these events and the Enlightenment was highly problematic. How could an  era which had seen so much struggle for the rational reform of society,  government and the individual have ended with such turmoil and  violence?" - Dorinda Outram. &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/Enlightenment-New-Approaches-European-History/dp/0521425344"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;The Enlightenment&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. 1995. Cambridge University Press. Pg. 126.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"All we have to do is remember who we are. We are not  Germans. We're  not peasants in China. We're not peasants in Russia. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;We  have a legacy  and a history of fighting for liberty. Americans have  always fought for  liberty. And we will fight again.&lt;/span&gt; So we will not be  the Fourth Reich.  We will not let that happen. Not without a fight." - &lt;a href="http://youtu.be/rdG-3QePcw8"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Stewart Rhodes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, founder of Oath Keepers, speaking on the Alex Jones show on January 12, 2012.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I spent many years in countries where the military had the power to  arrest and detain citizens without charge. I have been in some of these  jails. I have friends and colleagues who have “disappeared” into  military gulags. I know the consequences of granting sweeping and  unrestricted policing power to the armed forces of any nation. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;And while  my battle may be quixotic, it is one that has to be fought if we are to  have any hope of pulling this country back from corporate fascism.&lt;/span&gt;" - Chris Hedges,  &lt;a href="http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/why_im_suing_barack_obama_20120116/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"Why I’m Suing Barack Obama,"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Truthdig, January 16, 2012. &lt;/blockquote&gt;An analysis of the passage of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) must start from the premise that since September 11, 2001, the hijacked U.S. government has been at war with America.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As they say, it's nothing personal, it's just business.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The American people are a big liability for the political and corporate  elite who are openly hostile towards the U.S. constitution and Bill of  Rights. America is dead to them because the reality is that America and  all nation states no longer matter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Western elites favour technocratic regional  unions, a world fascist economy, and authoritarian policing. Towards the fulfillment of their "new world order," they have destroyed democracy, social welfare programs, free market competition, and  civil liberties.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The treasonous hijackers in Washington gained their war footing against the American people in the 1980s and 1990s, two decades which saw the privatization of the prison system, the militarization of the police, the betrayal of the American middle class, and the consolidation of the American media.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The ideological build-up of "domestic terrorism" and "international terrorism," was also necessary to the process of the centralization of power and destruction of the U.S. constitution by Washington's secret rulers. The false flag terror attacks in Oklahoma City and New York City were instrumental in pushing this process over legal obstacles as well as public, congressional, and bureaucratic resistance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It can be argued that Oklahoma and New York - two cities which are poles apart from each other - were chosen by the state terrorists to emphasize that Middle America and the heart of the empire both share a deep sense of vulnerability and insecurity. It was psychological warfare at its finest. The enemy of "terrorism," which is a total invention, was solidified as a real threat in the minds of the American people through recurrent acts of state terrorism.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The political and moral bankruptcy of Washington's counter-terrorism policies are further unmasked when it is revealed, as the NDAA plainly does, that American citizens are the targets of counter-terrorism laws and the counter-terrorism bureaucracy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Michel Chossudovsky, a professor of economics at the University of Ottawa, wrote about the anti-dissent nature of Washington's counter-terrorism agenda in his article on January 1, 2012 called, &lt;a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&amp;amp;aid=28441"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;THE INAUGURATION OF POLICE STATE USA 2012. Obama Signs the "National Defense Authorization Act"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"Obama  justifies the signing of the NDAA as a means to combating terrorism, as  part of a "counter-terrorism" agenda.  But in substance, any American  opposed to the policies of the US government can --under the provisions  of the NDAA-- be labelled a "suspected terrorist" and arrested under  military detention. Already in 2004, Homeland Security defined  several  categories of potential "conspirators" or "suspected terrorists"  including  &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;"foreign [Islamic] terrorists"&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;"domestic radical groups"&lt;/span&gt;, [antiwar and civil rights groups], &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; "disgruntled employees"&lt;/span&gt;  [labor and union activists] and "state sponsored adversaries" ["rogue  states", "unstable nations"]. The unspoken objective in an era of war  and social crisis is to repress all forms of domestic protest and  dissent.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;The “National Defense Authorization Act " (H.R.  1540) repeals the US Constitution. While the facade of democracy  prevails, supported by media propaganda, the American republic is  fractured. The tendency is towards the establishment of a totalitarian  State, a military government dressed in civilian clothes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The  passage of  NDAA is intimately related to Washington's global military  agenda. The military pursuit of Worldwide hegemony also requires the  "Militarization of the Homeland", namely the demise of the American  Republic."&lt;/blockquote&gt;The ramifications of the NDAA won't be known until the global economy collapses and political dissent in America reaches a crisis point. American citizens will indeed be put away in secret prisons by the thieves and traitors in Washington. So far, they have not been held accountable for their crimes against America, crimes against the Constitution, and crimes against humanity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Americans, Canadians, and everybody else should psychologically prepare for future false flag attacks which will be blamed on political opposition groups and pro-democracy activists in the West. Western elites are fearful that a global public consensus will emerge around basic issues of freedom and safety, and that the world's people will challenge the international counter-terrorism strategy, the destruction of the rule of law, and the emerging global fascist state.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As stated by the creators of the &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7A2hVDdB10"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Psywar documentary&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, the battlefield is your mind and soul. It is there that freedom, truth, peace, and justice will be won. It is there that mankind will take one final stand against political evil and economic fraud. It is there that fear and terror will be conquered.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8288505742676241874-6210860365556662983?l=disquietreservations.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8288505742676241874/posts/default/6210860365556662983?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8288505742676241874/posts/default/6210860365556662983?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://disquietreservations.blogspot.com/2012/01/ndaa-is-washingtons-totalitarian.html" title="NDAA Is Washington's Totalitarian Response To Political Dissent And Economic Collapse" /><author><name>Saman Mohammadi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00901309111851547218</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DEACSH89fyp7ImA9WhRUEUw.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8288505742676241874.post-6922985454258638616</id><published>2012-01-20T18:03:00.021-05:00</published><updated>2012-01-20T22:32:49.167-05:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-01-20T22:32:49.167-05:00</app:edited><title>America And Persia Have Two Clear Choices: Rapprochement or War</title><content type="html">&lt;blockquote&gt;"Many of the West's Iran analysts and experts, both Iranian  and American, assert that the regime needs a U.S. enemy for its  survival. If true, wouldn't sustained offers of friendship -- which  would put the Iranian regime's domestic agenda at the forefront --  provide the biggest threat to the regime?" - Reza Marashi, &lt;a href="http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/01/19/a_tale_of_two_diasporas?page=full#.TxmFqMf2o51.twitter"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;'A Tale of Two Diasporas,'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; ForeignPolicy.com, January 19, 2012.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"And between bombing Iran and an Iranian bomb, Israel prefers the former. But it is not confident Obama shares that preference.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When  the two states cannot agree on an objective, tensions over tactics and  strategies are to be expected. Nowhere has the disagreements been more  stark than on the idea of talking to Iran. Obama entered the White House  on a promise to pursue diplomacy with Washington’s foes. While this  shift away from Bush’s outlook was welcomed in some quarters, it was met  with great dismay in Israel – precisely due to the fear that in a  negotiation, Washington would betray Israel’s security interests." -  Trita Parsi, &lt;a href="http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2012/01/19/obama-vs-netanyahu-vs-ahmadinejad/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;'Obama vs. Netanyahu vs. Ahmadinejad,'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; CNN.com, January 19, 2012.&lt;/blockquote&gt;Trita  Parsi, the founder and president of the National Iranian American  Council and author of two books on the history of U.S.-Israeli-Iranian relations, &lt;a href="http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2012/01/19/obama-vs-netanyahu-vs-ahmadinejad/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;says&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; "U.S.-Israeli relations are in a crisis over Iran."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The  roots of the American-Israeli crisis are deep. Israel's &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DT8o0a87keo"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;false flag attack on the U.S.S. Liberty&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; on June 8, 1967, remains a hidden thorn in their relationship. Thus far, America has been patient and diplomatic. But America's patience is running thin. If Israel continues to act in a  hostile and belligerent manner towards America then the situation could  get very messy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The reality is that America is simply too big a power to  be connected at the hip to any single nation, and Israel can't come to  terms with this fact. Israel wants America all for herself  because it is jealous and insecure, but America has outgrown this silly  romantic affair. The days of Israel seducing America are over. Now,  Israel must be brought into line by America and the international  community. Israel's hardliners will argue that the world is "anti-Semitic," but the  world will laugh this off because this shameless propaganda trick  doesn't work anymore.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stronger and friendlier U.S.-Iranian  relations would produce positive effects for the region and the world. Israel will also benefit, but its current criminal leadership would be exposed and undermined which is why they are blocking the path to sanity and cooperation between America and Iran.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A rapprochement between the U.S. and Iran means Israel would have to improve its diplomatic game, and  learn to join the international community rather than continue to piss  on international law while hiding behind the might of U.S. marines.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rapprochement would only be the beginning. America's free pass for Israel at the United Nations would be revoked. These actions will signal to the world that America is a serious international peacemaker, and greatly enhance the reputation of U.S. leaders. There will be a rebirth of pro-Americanism around the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But a U.S. rapprochement with Iran is not about restoring America's image. It is about building peace and security in the Middle East. It is about humbling Israel. And Israel  needs to be humbled. Apparently, they learned nothing from their defeat  by Hezbollah. Instead of getting wise, Israel has become more  irrational and aggressive. It is now seriously threatening to attack  Iran and destroy the world economy in the process.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The world  needs to take a collective deep breath and reject Israel's paranoid view of Iran  and the region. Israel is in no position to dictate issues of war and  peace in the Middle East. Who is Israel to dominate U.S. foreign policy  and drag it into a war that would severely damage American interests and  American fighters? Israel is an ungrateful and spoiled nation that  can't even win a war against a militia. It needs to learn to play nice,  or be pulled by the ear out of the game.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;America must talk to  Iran, and bring Israel into line because America has regional and global  responsibilities. This is the rational, wise, pragmatic, and realistic  path to pursue. The current aggressive stance toward Iran by  America and Israel is inconsistent with American interests.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Zbigniew  Brzezinski, the former National Security Advisor to President Jimmy  Carter, wrote in his 1997 book,  The Grand Chessboard, that  "it is not  in America’s interest to perpetuate American-Iranian hostility." He  added that America and Iran share numerous strategic and economic  interests in the region:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"Any   eventual reconciliation  should be based on the recognition of a mutual   strategic interest in  stabilizing what currently is a very volatile   regional environment for  Iran [e.g., Iraq and Afghanistan]. Admittedly,   any such  reconciliation must be pursued by both sides and is not a  favor   granted by one to the other. A strong, even religiously motivated  but   not fanatically anti-Western Iran is in the U.S. interest, and    ultimately even the Iranian political elite may recognize that reality.    In the meantime, American long-range interests in Eurasia would be    better served by abandoning existing U.S. objections to closer    Turkish-Iranian economic cooperation, especially in the construction of    new pipelines, and also to the construction of other links between   Iran,  Azerbaijan, and Turkmenistan. Long-term American participation in   the  financing of such projects would in fact also be in the American    interest."&lt;/blockquote&gt;Over the last twenty years, Israel has twisted  the minds of Americans and Westerners by cultivating a paranoid-based  view of the Middle East in the global mainstream media.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Are the Mullahs a  bunch of power-hungry and shrewd tyrants? Yes, but they're not irrational and suicidal, as the Israeli government likes to portray them. Iran's political elite will not preemptively wipe Israel off the map, that is a lie that is spread by Israel. Reasonable men can be  reasoned with, but rather than considering this fact, Israel has decided  to wage war against Iran.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Below are four more facts that Israel is not considering and also does  not want the world to consider:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fact: The majority of the Iranian  people are peaceful and pro-American, and want better relations with  the United States, Israel, and the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fact: America and Iran  share strategic, economic, and security interests in Afghanistan, Iraq,  the Persian Gulf, and the entire region.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fact:   Iran is a  regional power with capabilities to inflict severe damage on   the  United States and Israel regardless of the status of its nuclear    program.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fact: America and Iran would both gain politically and economically by restoring diplomatic and trade ties with each other.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Who  do I want Iran to have better relations with - Russia and China, or  America? The answer is America, if it abandons the course of war and  regime change, and takes on a more constructive role in the region.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In their 2008 article, &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2008/0808.leverett.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"The Grand Bargain,"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;    Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett said that an American    President "should reorient American  policy   toward Iran as    fundamentally as President Nixon reoriented  American policy   toward    the People’s Republic of China in the early  1970s." They added:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"Nearly    three decades   of U.S. policy toward Iran emphasizing  diplomatic    isolation, escalating economic   pressure, and thinly veiled  support    for regime change have damaged the interests   of the United  States and    its allies in the Middle East. U.S.-Iranian tensions   have  been a    constant source of regional instability and are increasingly       dangerous for global energy security. Our dysfunctional Iran policy,     among other   foreign policy blunders, has placed the American position     in the region under   greater strain than at any point since the end   of   the Cold War. It is clearly   time for a fundamental change of   course  in  the U.S. approach to the Islamic   Republic.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By   fundamental change, we do not   mean incremental,   step-by-step   engagement with Tehran, or simply trying to   manage the   Iranian   challenge in the region more adroitly than the Bush     administration has   done. Rather, we mean the pursuit of thoroughgoing   strategic     rapprochement between the United States and Iran: the   negotiation of a     U.S.-Iranian "grand bargain." This would mean   putting all of the   principal   bilateral differences between the   United States and Iran on   the table at the   same time and agreeing to   resolve them as a  package.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;It is clearly in the national     security interest of  the United  States—and in the interest of   America’s regional    allies—for the next  U.S. administration to try to   get Iran to work with  us   whenever and  wherever possible, rather   than against us. This  cannot be achieved   by  trying to coerce Tehran   into near-term (and  imminently reversible)    concessions. Rather, the   only way to achieve  this is by entering into    comprehensive talks   with the Iranians  without preconditions, with the  goal of   resolving   bilateral  differences, normalizing bilateral  relations, and     legitimizing a  significant and positive Iranian role in  the region.   That is the    essence of the "grand bargain" approach."&lt;/blockquote&gt;Watch Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett's case for a U.S. initiated "grand bargain" with Iran &lt;a href="http://youtu.be/wSC3vWykK5I"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;in this video&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In December 2009, Hillary Mann Leverett restated the need for American-Iranian cooperation in an article called, &lt;a href="http://www.raceforiran.com/beyond-containment-the-regional-benefits-of-u-s-iranian-rapprochement"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"U.S.-Iranian Rapprochement Enhances Regional Security for All"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"If    we want Iran to work cooperatively with the United States and our    Middle Eastern allies in forging a more stable regional order, we need    to be prepared to offer Tehran an alternative strategic paradigm—a    paradigm in which Iranian decision-makers can see that they can meet the    Islamic Republic’s most fundamental strategic needs more effectively   by  cooperating with the United States and our allies than by working  at   cross-purposes against us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This alternative paradigm—which I   have  frequently described as a “grand bargain” or, as some have   suggested, a  “grand agenda”—would start from the premise that Iran is   not just a  problem to be managed.  In much the same way that President   Richard  Nixon understood that strategic rapprochement with the  People’s  Republic  of China was imperative for American interests in  the early  1970s,  strategic rapprochement with the Islamic Republic is  now truly   imperative for American interests in the Middle East.  At  this point,   the United States cannot achieve any of its high-priority  objectives in   the greater Middle East—in the Arab-Israeli arena,  Lebanon, Iraq,   Afghanistan, with regard to energy security,  etc.—without a more   productive relationship with the Islamic Republic."&lt;/blockquote&gt;Rapprochement  between America and Iran would be a great and historic achievement. The  Middle East would be transformed for the better. But can Obama deliver?  Or was Nixon a bigger visionary?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;True, Nixon didn't have to deal with a  pesky little spoiler when he extended America's hand to China, but if the world's only superpower can't bring all sides to the table and negotiate security agreements then what is the point in being the world's only superpower?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8288505742676241874-6922985454258638616?l=disquietreservations.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8288505742676241874/posts/default/6922985454258638616?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8288505742676241874/posts/default/6922985454258638616?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://disquietreservations.blogspot.com/2012/01/america-and-persia-have-two-clear.html" title="America And Persia Have Two Clear Choices: Rapprochement or War" /><author><name>Saman Mohammadi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00901309111851547218</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CEYCQXk4eCp7ImA9WhRUEEQ.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8288505742676241874.post-2564553184959275654</id><published>2012-01-20T15:41:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2012-01-20T15:42:40.730-05:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-01-20T15:42:40.730-05:00</app:edited><title>Extended Interview - Trita Parsi</title><content type="html">&lt;iframe width="425" height="344" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/fdpdq3520V4" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8288505742676241874-2564553184959275654?l=disquietreservations.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8288505742676241874/posts/default/2564553184959275654?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8288505742676241874/posts/default/2564553184959275654?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://disquietreservations.blogspot.com/2012/01/extended-interview-trita-parsi.html" title="Extended Interview - Trita Parsi" /><author><name>Saman Mohammadi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00901309111851547218</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://img.youtube.com/vi/fdpdq3520V4/default.jpg" height="72" width="72" /></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DUYEQ3s6cSp7ImA9WhRUEE8.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8288505742676241874.post-1361816296540396185</id><published>2012-01-19T18:39:00.007-05:00</published><updated>2012-01-19T21:38:22.519-05:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-01-19T21:38:22.519-05:00</app:edited><title>World War Three Is The Final War On The Nation State</title><content type="html">&lt;blockquote&gt;"Stability is an unworthy American mission and a misleading  concept to boot. We do not want stability in Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon,  and even Saudi Arabia; we want things to change. The real issue is not  whether, but how to destabilize." - Neoconservative crackpot and  international terrorist Michael Ledeen.&lt;/blockquote&gt;If the radical  neoconservatives and their allies in Israel and the West have their way,  the nation state will end with a bang, not a whimper.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are  very few sovereign nation states left in the world. America's national sovereignty was destroyed in 1913 when foreign private  creditors hijacked its national treasury and Congress, and since then it has been used to  destroy the national sovereignty of every other nation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;America  was deceived by its treasonous leadership into destroying Germany and  Japan in WWII, two countries that posed no threat to America's security  and sought stable relations. In the 21st century, America was deceived  once again, this time to destabilize and destroy nations in the Middle  East.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since the false flag 9/11 events, the nation state has been  crucified on the cross of "perpetual warfare and perpetual economic  destabilization." At its core, globalization is a process of  destabilization, destruction, and domination. Nations that resist the  powerful global agents who direct this process for their own private interests,  especially international private banks that covet a nation's gold and  practice the satanic art of usury, are falsely accused of sponsoring  terror and militarily destroyed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The PR push behind the rollout  of the war on terrorism got a big boost from the tragedy of 9/11, which  made most people emotionally attached to the false marketing by the Bush  administration and the Israeli government.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Leaving emotions  aside, the facts show that the official 9/11 story is false and the war  on terror is a long illegal war against the nation state,  democratic  institutions, and basic human rights. Neoconservatives, who are  international terrorists, were at the heart of the 9/11 plot and the  subsequent war on the nation state.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Abbas J. Ali, a professor of  management at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania, wrote in his 2003  paper entitled, "From Economy To Militarization: The End of The Nation  State," that "neoconservatives perceive the militarization of the globe  as an  effective means to achieve "historical upheaval" and the eventual  end of  the nation-state system," (1). He added words of caution,  saying:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"The militarization of the globe may appeal to  powerful segments and  elitist groups in some quarters of the world.  Many of the World's  population, however, view this trend with anxiety,  fear, and suspicion.  Indeed, the accompanying suffering and the ending  of the nation-state by  force, rather than by economic means, is seen as  a threat to world  peace and security. It represents the triumph of  anarchism over  civilization. Most importantly, the doctrine eclipses  reason and  morality; endangers diversity, individual and property  rights and  cooperation among communities across the globe; and  ultimately menaces  global economic integration and prosperity." (2).&lt;/blockquote&gt;Thanks  to the neoconservatives' jihad against the nation state and democracy,  the global military-industrial complex and international banksters have  had an orgy of looting and bloodletting. Iraq was destroyed: a million  people down the drain of history. Libya is gone. Syria is on the ropes,  waiting  for the impact of the knockout blow. Pakistan is leaking. And  Iran is being targeted for  annihilation by Israel and the United  States. Undoubtedly, the success of the covert 9/11 operation has meant  that the 21st century has been good to the bad guys, so far at least.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But  we have seen nothing yet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Plans are underway to completely destroy Iran  (and, as a consequence, Israel and America), as well as the global economy in its  current manifestation. Contrary to what a lot of people think, the  financial controllers of America, Israel, and the West want the global  economy to tank, which is why they are pushing America to attack Iran  and force it to close the Strait of Hormuz in response.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Journalist  Jim Tucker reported last summer that the Bilderberg scum want America  to attack Iran and launch the next stage of World War Three. Infowars.com writer Kurt Nimmo &lt;a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/jim-tucker-libya-war-and-wider-middle-east-conflict-on-bilderberg-agenda.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;reported&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;The  globalists want to create a “big bloody war” in the region, Tucker   explained. High oil prices and exorbitant prices reflected at the pump   will be used to gain the support of the commoners for continued military   action in the Middle East.&lt;/blockquote&gt;There is nothing that Iran can  do to stop the coming attack. Compromises by the Iranian government have  so far proven to be useless, because the other side does not want  concessions, it wants war. The Israelis, neoconservatives, and  Bilderberg terrorists want to take over the world, but Iran is in their  way.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Seyed Mohammad Marandi, an associate professor at the    University of Tehran, and a propagandist for the Islamic Republic, made a  truthful and honest point in a recent interview on Press TV when he  reminded viewers that the source of the U.S.-Iranian conflict is Iran's  independence, not the nature of its nuclear program. &lt;a href="http://youtu.be/U-DucLWTjsM"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Marandi said&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"Just   a few days ago I met a well-known American journalist, Mr. Seymour    Hersh, and he was saying that American senior officials know without a    doubt that Iran is not pursuing nuclear weapons, and the issue is    Iranian sovereignty. The issue is Iran's independence. So, it's quite    clear that the policies of the United States and its European partners    are not really directed at Iran's nuclear program. It's directed at    Iranian independence and sovereignty." &lt;/blockquote&gt;Unlike its nuclear program, the question of Iran's independence is up for debate. As the &lt;a href="http://disquietreservations.blogspot.com/2012/01/hostage-to-false-flag-terror-link.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;research by Fara Mansoor&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  shows, the Islamic Republic was established with the help of the George  H. W. Bush cabal in the CIA, and most likely the MI6, too. Thus, the  Islamic Republic has no claim on Iran. Its very foundations are  illegitimate because they are based on deception and trickery.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Who knows if the Islamic Republic is independent now, or if the rulers  of Iran are in on the take to this day. The Mullahs hate the nation  state and democracy just as much as the banksters and state terrorists  of the West. They all could be playing a big con game with the public,  hiding their deception right in front of the world's face, but instead  of asking questions people choose to keep their eyes shut and their  minds closed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Notes:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Ali, Abbas J. (2003). From Economy To Militarization: The End of The Nation State. &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Competitiveness Review&lt;/span&gt; 13(1), pg. 1 - 6.&lt;br /&gt;2. Ibid.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8288505742676241874-1361816296540396185?l=disquietreservations.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8288505742676241874/posts/default/1361816296540396185?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8288505742676241874/posts/default/1361816296540396185?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://disquietreservations.blogspot.com/2012/01/world-war-three-is-final-war-on-nation.html" title="World War Three Is The Final War On The Nation State" /><author><name>Saman Mohammadi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00901309111851547218</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;A0EBQnY_fyp7ImA9WhRVGUU.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8288505742676241874.post-3228718692282615939</id><published>2012-01-19T11:12:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2012-01-19T11:14:13.847-05:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-01-19T11:14:13.847-05:00</app:edited><title>America's Constitutional Crisis</title><content type="html">&lt;iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/qCruBYteyjw" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;YouTube - ResearchChannel (December 15, 2009):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Larry Jacobs, professor of political science at the University of Minnesota, leads a conversation with Walter Mondale, former Vice President of the United States, and Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Seymour Hersh. Learn about the most controversial topics in American history, from the destructive relationship between Nixon and Kissinger to first amendment rights and public disclosure in the context of national security issues. How much power does our constitution provide to protect our rights?&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8288505742676241874-3228718692282615939?l=disquietreservations.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8288505742676241874/posts/default/3228718692282615939?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8288505742676241874/posts/default/3228718692282615939?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://disquietreservations.blogspot.com/2012/01/americas-constitutional-crisis.html" title="America's Constitutional Crisis" /><author><name>Saman Mohammadi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00901309111851547218</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://img.youtube.com/vi/qCruBYteyjw/default.jpg" height="72" width="72" /></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DkcEQHk8cSp7ImA9WhRUFEs.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8288505742676241874.post-1994757369263513853</id><published>2012-01-18T23:09:00.030-05:00</published><updated>2012-01-24T23:00:01.779-05:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-01-24T23:00:01.779-05:00</app:edited><title>President Obama Presents America With A Constitutional Crisis In More Ways Than One</title><content type="html">&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;1.&lt;/span&gt; In August 2010, journalist &lt;a href="http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig11/madsen1.1.1.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Wayne Madsen uncovered&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Obama's deep roots in the CIA, writing:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"The  nexus of Obama's almae matres: Occidental, Columbia, and Harvard, as  well as that of his parents, the University of Hawaii, in the CIA's mind  control, behavioral modification, and mass hypnosis projects is deeply  troubling. The fact that Obama has failed to provide a full accounting  of his past academic and professional employment history, coupled with  the presence of a major CIA presence within his and his parents',  grandparents', and step-father's backgrounds opens up the real  possibility that Obama was, to use the CIA's own term, "nurtured," for a  higher calling."&lt;/blockquote&gt;  Despite billing himself as the  "transparency" candidate in the 2008 presidential election, President  Barack Obama has failed to inform the American people about his  background in the CIA  and the history of his family’s connections to   the CIA.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is a crime and act of treason that Obama is lying  about his past and that his CIA handlers have covered up his tracks to  the White House. The fact that the  Agency has an asset in the White  House makes the entire democratic  process in America a farce, and is a  direct attack on the Constitution.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;2.&lt;/span&gt; Barack Obama has not yet  provided proof to the American people that he is a natural-born citizen,  making him ineligible for the office of the President. In April 2011,  the Obama administration produced a birth certificate after many  requests, but it was a &lt;a href="http://www.infowars.com/new-obama-birth-certificate-is-a-forgery/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;forgery&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It  could be that his birth certificate was a deliberated forgery, perhaps  intended to  provoke doubt, discussion, and debate within the minds of  millions which would eventually lead to a constitutional crisis.   Otherwise, why would his CIA handlers have done such a sloppy job at  proving  his place of birth?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The masters of Obama are not incompetent fools, but  professional  manipulators  of reality who know exactly what they are  doing and why  they are doing it for. It is very likely that their goal is to engineer a  constitutional crisis in the United States. So they have purposely  allowed a constitution  crisis to unfold by selecting a CIA asset and  foreign  born citizen to serve in  the White House during a time of  political  evolution and global change.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why would they want to present to the public a fake birth certificate and engineer a constitutional crisis? Maybe they didn’t want to silence public doubts about Obama's background  and birth, but to raise them to a point that an unprecedented state of  crisis and chaos will be reached. At the end of the day, a state of  crisis and chaos is what they want. A constitutional and  political crisis in Washington would bring into public view the prepackaged solution&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="st"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;waiting in the wings: world government run by banksters.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;3.&lt;/span&gt; On September 9, 2009, NBC Chicago &lt;a href="http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/NATLObama-to-Chair-UN-Security-Council-58022432.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;reported&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  that "Barack Obama is set to become the first-ever U.S. president to  chair the United Nations' 15-member Security Council." President Obama  was declared the acting head of the United Nations  Security Council,  a symbolic act that went over well with anti-democratic internationalist technocrats  everywhere.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obama essentially revoked his status as an American  leader and showed off his other identity as a global leader in a global  political body. Whether this is good or bad is for you to judge, but it  does signify a constitutional crisis in the United States which must be  resolved sooner or later.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obama is not honest about how he views  prospects for an international state and the role of the United States  in the United Nations. He and his masters do not want a debate. They  just want to steamroll the process of global transformation, but  history does not work that way. People's democratic sentiments are in  the way of draconian change in the political systems of the West.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The war between authoritarianism and democracy is at the heart  of Western political changes in the 21st century, and it has to be fought  out in the open, with arguments and facts. People will not be coerced  into a global tyranny.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;4.&lt;/span&gt; Leading presidential candidate Ron Paul &lt;a href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/02/14/congressman-ron-paul-slams-obama-hes-a-warmonger/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;said&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  back in February 2011 that Obama is a "war monger." Indeed, Obama is  the war candidate in 2012. He is running on a record of terror and mass  murder.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;President Obama has taken America to war without  declaring it outright and stating the objectives as it is required by  the U.S. Constitution. He also has not enlightened the American people  about the truth about the false flag 9/11 attacks and the real reasons  for American aggression in foreign lands (Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan,  Libya, Uganda, Somalia, Syria, and Iran).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By embracing an endless  war on terror that is completely illegitimate, illegal, and false,  Obama has exasperated the constitutional crisis in the United States and  the political crisis in the world. His criminal actions have not  reflected his diplomatic words, and has made America an even bigger joke  than it was when Bush was holding the presidential megaphone.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;5.&lt;/span&gt;  On the last day of 2011, President Obama signed into law draconian  legislation that attacks the basic rights of American citizens, among  them the right to a trial. Obama and his Republican allies say that the  indefinite detention provisions in the 2012 NDAA Act are intended for  America’s enemies, but he has not directly stated who counts as  America’s enemies and who does not.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do Christian right-wingers  count as America’s enemies? Will secret prisons be used to illegally  detain Occupy Wall Street activists and Tea Party activists? These  questions have to be asked because both protest groups have been accused  by both Republicans and Democrats as being a direct threat to the public  order and national security. Activists have even been called domestic terrorists.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For the U.S.  government to say that it will indefinitely detain elusive "terrorists,"  a label that can apply to pretty much anyone, anywhere, proves that the  leaders of the U.S. government are medieval and barbaric. By signing  off on the indefinite detention of U.S. citizens, President Obama has  put himself in the company of Russian tsars and totalitarian dictators.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The  only response to Obama and his fellow Republican traitors is by telling  them to go to hell, and join Hitler and Stalin in eternal damnation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Legal  resistance, while it is still possible, must be pursued. America and  the world owes a great debt to journalist and author Chris Hedges for  taking this step. On Monday, January 16, 2012, &lt;a href="http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/why_im_suing_barack_obama_20120116/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Hedges stated in an article&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  that he is suing Barack Obama and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta "to  challenge the legality of the Authorization for Use of Military Force   as embedded in the latest version of the National Defense Authorization   Act, signed by the president Dec. 31."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On January 17, Hedges explained why he was suing President Obama over the passage of the 2012 NDAA Act to Amy Goodman on &lt;a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2012/1/17/journalist_chris_hedges_sues_obama_admin"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Democracy Now&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;AMY GOODMAN: Chris, why are you suing President Obama?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CHRIS  HEDGES: Because it’s clearly unconstitutional, for starters. But  secondly, it is a huge and egregious assault against our democracy. It  overturns over 200 years of law, which has kept the military out of  domestic policing. And even that passage that you read from the White  House, I think, is deeply disingenuous, because Dianne Feinstein had a  resolution by which, within that bill, Americans would be exempted from  this, and the Democratic Party and Barack Obama rejected it. &lt;/blockquote&gt; If  former Governor Jesse Ventura's suit against the TSA is any indication,  then Hedges's suit against Obama will be thrown out. But that  doesn't matter. What matters is the act of resistance. And Hedges  deserves gratitude and appreciation for taking a stand for the U.S.  Constitution and the American flag, both of which have been dragged  through the mud by Obama and his fellow Republican traitors.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;II. President Obama, America's Constitutional Crisis, And The Abyss of Change&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The resolution of America's constitutional crisis is the  endgame, which is why President Obama was selected to be President at  this time and not some other puppet. Obama is causing a constitutional  crisis just by being in the White House because of his background in the  CIA and his false birth certificate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is no denying that the survival of America is at stake. The  internationalists and imperialists who have hijacked the federal  government and are at war with America do not want America to survive as  a nation. They are destroying the U.S. Constitution and causing the collapse of America, both economically and  politically.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;America's collapse is necessary for the rise of the new world order.  U.S.-British oligarchs have raised Obama to the status of President in  order to act as a catalyst for change and  usher in the kind of world order that will maintain Anglo-American power  and  annihilate all other emerging powers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The consent of the American people  and the British people has not been requested. This is change by  stealth. America and the world have been kept in the dark because the  basic tenets of this "new order" are anti-democratic and  anti-humanitarian.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Deception  is the antithesis of democracy. The deceiver Obama is not a democratically elected  President, but a secret assassin who was put in place to put the finishing touches off on the destruction  of the U.S. constitution and U.S. economy. I see it this way: Bush killed America, and Obama is digging the national grave.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The  body of America is rotting in the open landfill of lies and stinking up the Earth, but to point this  out makes one a “crazy conspiracy theorist.” The rotten murderers of  America want the world's attention to focus on Iran and the Middle East. They want people to forget that America and the U.S. constitution ever existed, and move on to newer and better things.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But there is nothing  newer and better than the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights. As Dr. Paul says, liberty is a young idea. And America is a young nation. America's destiny is not to be  buried under the dust of lies by evil gravediggers like Obama, Bush, and Cheney, but to be resurrected  on the hill of truth.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8288505742676241874-1994757369263513853?l=disquietreservations.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8288505742676241874/posts/default/1994757369263513853?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8288505742676241874/posts/default/1994757369263513853?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://disquietreservations.blogspot.com/2012/01/president-obama-presents-america-with.html" title="President Obama Presents America With A Constitutional Crisis In More Ways Than One" /><author><name>Saman Mohammadi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00901309111851547218</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DUMARXw-fip7ImA9WhRVGU4.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8288505742676241874.post-6596414969136857018</id><published>2012-01-18T20:43:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2012-01-18T20:44:04.256-05:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-01-18T20:44:04.256-05:00</app:edited><title>Chris Hedges Sues Obama Admin Over Indefinite Detention of U.S. Citizens Approved in NDAA</title><content type="html">&lt;iframe width="425" height="344" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/WoqLT5yqE1k" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8288505742676241874-6596414969136857018?l=disquietreservations.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8288505742676241874/posts/default/6596414969136857018?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8288505742676241874/posts/default/6596414969136857018?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://disquietreservations.blogspot.com/2012/01/chris-hedges-sues-obama-admin-over.html" title="Chris Hedges Sues Obama Admin Over Indefinite Detention of U.S. Citizens Approved in NDAA" /><author><name>Saman Mohammadi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00901309111851547218</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://img.youtube.com/vi/WoqLT5yqE1k/default.jpg" height="72" width="72" /></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DEAFR34yeSp7ImA9WhRVGEo.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8288505742676241874.post-5458919400433216712</id><published>2012-01-17T21:28:00.014-05:00</published><updated>2012-01-18T03:51:56.091-05:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-01-18T03:51:56.091-05:00</app:edited><title>War on Terror: A War Without Definition, An Enemy Without A Face</title><content type="html">The war on terrorism is a war without a definition of victory, and terrorism is an enemy without a face.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Humanity  and democracy are trapped in this endless war. The absurd legal and  political context that emerged following the false flag 9/11 attacks has  crippled critical thinking about terrorism and the limits to government  power.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Under the political cover of the war on terror governments around the  world have went wild with government power. In the West, governments are  cracking down on free speech and destroying the basic rights and  institutions that are essential to free societies. Human rights  activists who express opinions that deviate from the official government  line are smeared as conspiracy theorists and driven into the social  wilderness.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;American, Israeli, and Western governments have destroyed the state of  civilization and reduced the world to a jungle state. In the name of  security and democracy, they have blanketed the globe with chaos and  terror. In this violent and barbaric state,  the rule of law is absent and there is no accountability for elites who  commit fraud and war crimes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What Western elites have created is a profound global  political crisis that will become very violent and very chaotic for  all societies. Essentially, the planet has turned over on its side after  hitting an iceberg, the ship is leaking, and the captain has abandoned  the passengers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Every man is for himself and every nation looks  out for its own interests at the risk of destroying the interests of the  planet. There is no global vision, no political leadership, and no hope.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;In the latest Republican debate, Mitt Romney called America "the hope of the earth." If only that was true. Sadly, the reality is that America represents the anti-hope nation in the 21st century. It is not a voice for human rights and the rule of law. Bush was the voice of terror and Obama is the voice of chaos.&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame- color:rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame- color:rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"&gt;Violence and despotism reigns around the world, not peace and  freedom. Since the bankster hijacked American empire is the 21st  century's lord of violence and despotism, it is the lord of the planet. It is Lord Satan. And it is turning the planet into hell.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The  United Nations has proven to be a dud. It is a useless organization  that is led by cowards and liars. In the 21st century, there are no  international institutions that safeguard the rule of law from state  terrorism, protect the weak from the strong, the super-poor from the  super- rich, and the just from the unjust.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is a not a world that  99.9% of the world wants to live and grow up in. What we face as a  global community is a global political crisis that will either consume  all nations and destroy the planet in the process, or awaken the better natures of humanity and force it to change course.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Governments and citizens must come to a global political consensus that the war on  terror is evil, insane, asinine, and unsustainable, and bring it to an end. Human rights activists should demand that all societies place the rule of law, human rights, and public interests before the  private interests of government bureaucracies, international financial institutions, and ruling elites.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The era of double standards and Western/Israeli hypocrisy must come to an end. The security of the planet and the survival of the human race depends on it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8288505742676241874-5458919400433216712?l=disquietreservations.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8288505742676241874/posts/default/5458919400433216712?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8288505742676241874/posts/default/5458919400433216712?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://disquietreservations.blogspot.com/2012/01/war-on-terror-war-without-definition.html" title="War on Terror: A War Without Definition, An Enemy Without A Face" /><author><name>Saman Mohammadi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00901309111851547218</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author></entry></feed>

