Saturday, August 31, 2013

Putin to (Nobel Prize winner) Obama: 'Think about future Syria victims' ...

The Who, What, Why of the War in Syria?

Watch these videos and read the text below from Zerohedge.com. It is time you learn that the US government is lying through its teeth about Syria. Once you are done with this, look elsewhere on this site to learn more about previous lies, including 9/11, Boston Marathon Bombing, the War in Iraq and many many more. Then ask yourself, why?

Submitted by Michael Snyder of The Economic Collapse blog,

If Barack Obama is going to attack Syria, he is going to do it without the support of the American people, without the approval of Congress, without the approval of the United Nations, and without the help of the British. Now that the British Parliament has voted against a military strike, the Obama administration is saying that it may take "unilateral action" against Syria.

But what good would "a shot across Syria's bow" actually do? A "limited strike" is not going to bring down the Assad regime and it is certainly not going to end the bloody civil war that has been raging inside Syria. Even if the U.S. eventually removed Assad, the al-Qaeda affiliated rebels that would take power would almost certainly be even worse than Assad.

Even in the midst of this bloody civil war, the rebels have taken the time and the effort to massacre entire Christian villages. Why is Barack Obama so obsessed with helping such monsters? There is no good outcome in Syria. The Assad regime is absolutely horrible and the rebels are even worse. Why would we want the U.S. military to get involved in such a mess?

It isn't as if it is even possible for the U.S. military to resolve the conflict that is going on in that country. At the core, the Syrian civil war is about Sunni Islam vs. Shia Islam. It is a conflict that goes back well over a thousand years.

Assad is Shiite, but the majority of Syrians are Sunni Muslims. Saudi Arabia and Qatar have been pouring billions of dollars into the conflict, because they would love to see the Assad regime eliminated and a Sunni government come to power in Syria. On the other side, Iran is absolutely determined to not allow that to happen.

Saudi Arabia and Qatar have no problem with using Sunni terrorists (al-Qaeda) to achieve their political goals. And as a very important ally of the Saudis, the U.S. has been spending a lot of money to train and equip the "rebels" in Syria.

But there was a problem. The Syrian government has actually been defeating the rebels. So something had to be done.

If it could be made to look like the Assad regime was using chemical weapons, that would give the U.S. government the "moral justification" that it needed to intervene militarily on the side of the rebels. In essence, it would be a great excuse for the U.S. to be able to go in and do the dirty work of the Saudis for them.

So that is where we are today. The justification for attacking Syria that the Obama administration is giving us goes something like this...

-Chemical weapons were used in Syria.

-The rebels do not have the ability to use chemical weapons.

-Therefore it must have been the Assad regime that was responsible for using chemical weapons.

-The U.S. military must punish the use of chemical weapons to make sure that it never happens again.

Unfortunately for the Obama administration, the world is not buying it. In fact, people are seeing right through this charade.

The U.S. government spends $52,000,000,000 a year on "intelligence", but apparently our intelligence community absolutely refuses to see the obvious. WND has been able to uncover compelling evidence that the rebels in Syria have used chemical weapons repeatedly, and yet government officials continue to insist over and over that no such evidence exists and that we need to strike Syria immediately.

Shouldn't we at least take a little bit of time to figure out who is actually in the wrong before we start letting cruise missiles fly?

Because the potential downside of an attack against Syria is absolutely massive. As I wrote about the other day, if we attack Syria we have the potential of starting World War 3 in the Middle East.

We could find ourselves immersed in an endless war with Syria, Iran and Hezbollah which would be far more horrible than the Iraq war ever was. It would essentially be a war with Shia Islam itself, and that would be a total nightmare.

If you are going to pick a fight with those guys, you better pack a lunch. They fight dirty and they are absolutely relentless. They will never forget and they will never, ever forgive.

A full-blown war with Syria, Iran and Hezbollah would be a fight to the death, and they would not hesitate to strike soft targets all over the United States. I don't think that most Americans have any conception of what that could possibly mean.

If the American people are going to stop this war, they need to do it now. The following are 25 quotes about the coming war with Syria that every American should see...

1. Barack Obama, during an interview with Charlie Savage on December 20, 2007: "The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation."

2. Joe Biden, during a television interview in 2007: "The president has no constitutional authority ... to take this nation to war ... unless we're attacked or unless there is proof we are about to be attacked. And if he does, if he does, I would move to impeach him."

3. U.S. Representative Ted Poe: "Mr. President, you must call Congress back from recess immediately to take a vote on a military strike on Syria. Assad may have crossed a red line but that does not give you the authority to redline the Constitution."

4. U.S. Representative Kurt Schrader: "I see no convincing evidence that this is an imminent threat to the United States of America."

5. U.S. Representative Barbara Lee: "While we understand that as commander-in-chief you have a constitutional obligation to protect our national interests from direct attack, Congress has the constitutional obligation and power to approve military force, even if the United States or its direct interests (such as its embassies) have not been attacked or threatened with an attack."

6. The New York Times: "American officials said Wednesday there was no 'smoking gun' that directly links President Bashar al-Assad to the attack, and they tried to lower expectations about the public intelligence presentation."

7. U.S. Senator Rand Paul: "The war in Syria has no clear national security connection to the United States and victory by either side will not necessarily bring in to power people friendly to the United States."

8. U.S. Senator Tim Kaine: "I definitely believe there needs to be a vote."

9. Donald Rumsfeld: "There really hasn’t been any indication from the administration as to what our national interest is with respect to this particular situation."

10. Robert Fisk: "If Barack Obama decides to attack the Syrian regime, he has ensured – for the very first time in history – that the United States will be on the same side as al-Qa’ida."

11. Former congressman Dennis Kucinich: "So what, we’re about to become al-Qaeda’s air force now?"

12. Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem: "We have two options: either to surrender, or to defend ourselves with the means at our disposal. The second choice is the best: we will defend ourselves."

13. A Syrian Army officer: "We have more than 8,000 suicide martyrs within the Syrian army, ready to carry out martyrdom operations at any moment to stop the Americans and the British. I myself am ready to blow myself up against US aircraft carriers to stop them attacking Syria and its people."

14. Khalaf Muftah, a senior Ba'ath Party official: "We have strategic weapons and we’re capable of responding."

15. An anonymous senior Hezbollah source: "A large-scale Western strike on Syria will plunge Lebanon virtually and immediately into the inferno of a war with Israel."

16. Ali Larjiani, the speaker of the Iranian parliament: "...the country which has been destroyed by the terrorists during the past two years will not sustain so much damage as the warmongers will receive in this war."

17. Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei: "Starting this fire will be like a spark in a large store of gunpowder, with unclear and unspecified outcomes and consequences"

18. General Mohammad Ali Jafari, chief of Iran's Revolutionary Guards: (an attack on Syria) "means the immediate destruction of Israel."

19. Israeli President Shimon Peres: "Israel is not and has not been involved in the civil war in Syria, but if they try to hurt us, we will respond with full force."

20. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: "We are not part of the civil war in Syria, but if we identify any attempt whatsoever to harm us, we will respond and we will respond in strength."

21. The Jerusalem Post: "The lines between Hezbollah and the Syrian regime are so blurred that Israel will hold Damascus responsible if Hezbollah bombards Israel in the coming days, Israeli officials indicated on Wednesday."

22. Ron Paul: "The danger of escalation with Russia is very high"

23. Pat Buchanan: "The sole beneficiary of this apparent use of poison gas against civilians in rebel-held territory appears to be the rebels, who have long sought to have us come in and fight their war."

24. Retired U.S. General James Mattis: "We have no moral obligation to do the impossible and harm our children’s future because we think we just have to do something."

25. Syrian refugee Um Ahmad: "Isn't it enough, all the violence and fighting that we already have in the country, now America wants to bomb us, too?"

Tuesday, August 27, 2013

The End-Game Memo - Bankster Crimes in Desperate Times

Greg Palast is a legendary investigative journalist with a background in finance and insurance. He has worked for major outlets and continues to share his findings with the alternative media world.

Larry Summers (New Fed Chairman?) and the Secret “End-Game” Memo

August 22, 2013 by Jack Blood
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Treasury Department Whistleblower Warns of Western War Crimes in Syria and Beyond

Do you know who this person is? He is the former Assistant Secretary to the Treasury under Ronald Reagan. I think he has been referred to as the Father of Reaganomics. He has changed his tune over the past 30 years to become an ACTIVIST! He actually writes on his blog and speaks on alternative media outlets about his understanding of what's really going on behind the scenes in our government.

Do you think he understands the machinations of Washington DC, from Capitol Hill to the Pentagon? If so, then you'd better listen to him.

He is not a whistleblower per se, not by the strict definition. But he is an insider telling Americans on the Internet and on alternative media that the world is in a perilous place, due to a coup d'etat that has taken place in America. The only problem is, most Americans don't realize their government has been taken over by stateless elitists hiding behind organized crime cartels. These cartels are in such great control of world politics and economics that we actually THINK we are in control of the decision making process in what we call government. Or we are dumbed-down employees working for corporations that are profiting from war and conflict. That's why they are systemically too big to fail. Too many of us actually work for them. Imagine if we were able to actually hold special investigations and assign criminal punishment and fines to the guilty bastards at the top of the pyramid. Then, just like Al Qaida, a new head would pop up and take the reigns. Just like a terrorist organization. After all, they do have their own intelligence networks, banks, central banks, transport, food, and insurance companies. They have entire networks of approved operations that get plenty of media attention, while they surpress, subvert, and destroy the competition.

Read what Dr. Paul Craig Roberts has to say about Syria and then look at more of his articles on his website and videos on YouTube.

Syria: Another Western War Crime In The Making — Paul Craig Roberts

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Syria: Another Western War Crime In The Making

Paul Craig Roberts

Update:

The war criminals in Washington and other Western capitals are determined to maintain their lie that the Syrian government used chemical weapons. Having failed in efforts to intimidate the UN chemical inspectors in Syria, Washington has demanded that UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon withdraw the chemical weapons inspectors before they can assess the evidence and make their report. The UN Secretary General stood up to the Washington war criminals and rejected their demand. However, as with Iraq, Washington’s decision to commit aggression against Syria is not based on any facts.http://rt.com/op-edge/syria-un-war-investigation-006/

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Sunday, August 25, 2013

Who is Provoking World War 3?

Watch these videos in any order you choose but at least take the time to learn what is going on. The harder part is figuring out WHO is pulling the strings. It is NOT just the puppet politicians. There are hundreds, if not thousands of people behind the scenes, not mentioned in the official government propaganda machine known as mass media (ABC, CBS, NBC, NPR, FOX, MSNBC, etc.)

If you dont have time to read, at least watch RT and start to get a sense of what is going on.

Monday, August 19, 2013

LaRouche PAC vs. Ron Paulians vs. Bill Still on Monetary Reform

I am no expert but I can see a distinction between the Bill Still camp, the Ron Paul camp, and the Lyndon LaRouche camp on monetary reform and central banking. This difference seems to be the crux of the "national bank" debate we see citing the Federal Reserve as the root of all monetary evil in the United States - an opinion which I also hold. Keep in mind that all three of these camps are IGNORED by mainstream media because they are controlled by the big banks.

First, the Bill Still camp supports the end of fractional reserve banking altogether. A good idea so long as there is a transition from our current 10% reserve requirement to 100% that doesn't completely dry up the money supply. Bill Still also supports Ellen Brown and the Public Banking Institute and the notion of State owned banks like that of the Bank of North Dakota. If enough of these banks are put in motion, we could counter the need for the Federal Reserve. I am all for it. He is also for competing currencies and ending the ability for governments to borrow. Both are damn good ideas.

Second, Lyndon LaRouche and his LPAC group support the return of Glass-Steagall, the 1933 act that split the commercial and investment banking arms - a damn good idea since the investment banks are constantly inventing new ponzi schemes for making money, like the current several hundred trillion dollar derivatives market, at least $225 trillion is now held by the big five banks and supposedly covered by the FDIC. If there was another Lehman moment, the derivatives would bankrupt the FDIC.

Third, LaRouche supports the return of a new Bank of the United States, one which is possibly more transparent than the Federal Reserve but still a Federally controlled central bank with fractional reserve banking, not backed by any hard and scarce commodity such as gold or silver. This bank would be owned in part by the US government and the remainder by treasury holders, such as China, Japan, OPEN nations, all the major banks, etc. LaRouche has a completely polar opposite opinion of history as it relates to Andrew Jackson, and Alexander Hamilton. I believe you could refer to him as a Federalist.

Fourth, Ron Paul, primarily from the Austrian school of economics, believes in competing currencies, including the legalization of silver, as it was prior to the crime of 1873, and / or gold as it was before 1933 when we were on a full gold standard. He believes in small government and that the Federal Reserve is suppressing interest rates and creating mal investment, such as the housing bubble, the bond bubble.

There are so many more points that should be debated, live on the Ron Paul Channel or elsewhere in mainstream media. Lauren Lyster, Bob English, Max Keiser, Peter Schiff, Scott Horton, Ben Swann, and others could mediate and broadcast.

This is a big deal. Each of these perspectives believes that the privately held Federal Reserve and its charter members (a subset of its owners) are destroying the global economy. Make no mistake. There is something wicked and nefarious about the Federal Reserve, its just that the opposition is not united, nor do they control the media so they are not heard. 90% of Americans could read this blog post and not have the slightest clue about what I am saying, but all those that are familiar with the "#EndTheFed", "#GlassSteagall", and "#PublicBank" memes are certainly familiar with part of it.

In a separate article here, I argue that Occupy and the TeaParty should unite to fight the big banks and government corruption. This is THE ISSUE we should unite on!

I may be slightly wrong about each of these positions. No doubt I am. However, I am an average American with a Keynsian Economics degree that has spent at least 3 years of intense research on the question of the money supply, macroeconomics, banking, and insurance, and the crimes bankers commit and if I don't get it, it seems unlikely that the general public gets it. Therefore, the public debate is necessary. It would take months if not years to get the distinctions out. Meanwhile, maybe we could awaken, stir up, and unite enough people to make real progress on the problem.

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Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Who controls the supply of money? The Wizard of Oz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qIhDdST27g&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Mexican Oil Plundered Once Again By Foreign Agents

This article appeared in the New York Times this morning. Recognize that the supposed liberal media suggests that Mexico should open up its oil markets to foreign investors, just like it was nearly 100 years ago when Rockefeller's Standard Oil dominated the industry. NAFTA basically opened the door to this move. Just as the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) will open the doors to foreign multinationals to plunder the United States even further than it has.

For a glimpse into the future of the United States, we should visit Mexico. 7 years of drug wars waged by the American and Israeli intelligence networks, all working for Big Oil and their Bankers, have destroyed mi querido Mexico.

In Move for Economy, Mexican President Seeks Foreign Investment in Energy
By ELISABETH MALKIN
August 12, 2013
MEXICO CITY — President Enrique Peña Nieto of Mexico on Monday, pushing one of the most sweeping economic overhauls here in the past two decades, proposed opening his country’s historically closed energy industry to foreign investment.
The president’s plan, which would rewrite two constitutional amendments, challenges a bedrock assumption of Mexico’s national identity — its total sovereignty over its energy resources — by inviting private companies to explore and pump for oil and natural gas.
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Already, Mexico must import almost half its gasoline, mostly from the United States. Mexican companies pay 25 percent more for electricity than competitors in other countries, the government says. Although Mexico has some of the world’s largest reserves of shale gas, it imports one-third of its natural gas.
In advancing the plan, Mr. Peña Nieto is making a gamble that the support he has built with opposition parties to make deep changes in education and telecommunications policy will carry over into the debate over energy and a related tax proposal he will send to Congress next month.
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In energy, the divisions are much deeper. In particular, Mexico’s left-wing parties have been adamant that the Constitution’s 75-year-old prohibition on private investment should remain ironclad. From the right, the National Action Party, or PAN, proposed energy reform last month that would go even further than Mr. Peña Nieto to invite in private investment.
Public opinion is also suspicious about opening up the industry. A survey last year by CIDE, a Mexico City university, found that 65 percent of the public opposed private investment in Pemex, the state-owned oil monopoly.
“The entire energy reform is a potential source of conflict,” said Luis Miguel Labardini, a consultant with Marcos y Asociados, a Mexican energy consulting firm. “Sometimes in Mexico we are conflict-averse.”
The proposal would allow private companies to negotiate profit-sharing contracts with the government to drill for oil and gas. Under such a scheme, the reserves would continue to belong to the Mexican state, but investors would get a share of the profits. Private investment would be allowed in refining, oil pipelines, and petrochemical production.
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The left-wing leader, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who won more than 30 percent of the vote in last year’s general election, is planning street marches to protest the change. If he succeeds in filling the streets of the capital it may be harder for party leaders to stand behind the plan.
Since the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement exempted energy from Mexico’s broad economic opening, presidents have attempted to loosen the prohibitions that give Pemex sole control over all oil and gas exploration and production. No joint ventures are allowed. Those past proposals have often withered in Congress.
But this time, the precipitous decline of Mexico’s energy industry may work in Mr. Peña Nieto’s favor.
Pemex, which was long an important source of crude imports into the United States, is spending more to pump less. As Mexico’s giant Cantarell oil field in the shallow waters of the Gulf of Mexico has declined, production has dropped 25 percent from the peak in 2004, to just over 2.5 million barrels of oil a day.
At the same time, the amount the government budgets for Pemex to invest has steadily climbed to $26 billion this year. To increase production and reserves, Pemex needs to drill in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico and in onshore deposits of shale oil and gas. But the company has neither the capital nor the expertise to increase production significantly, analysts say.

Monday, August 12, 2013

Former CIA officer Philip Giraldi discusses the US embassy closures in the Middle East

Former CIA officer Philip Giraldi discusses the US embassy closures in the Middle East due to some vague Al Qaeda terrorism threat; allegations that the White House is threatening the families of CIA officers to shut up about the Benghazi incident; and John McCain’s new lows on kowtowing to the Israel lobby in the US Senate.

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Marine Takes On Dishonorable NYPD - Needs to Go On TV and Tell His Story

I'd like to interview this Marine. Find out what he thinks of the NSA's spying.

#EndtheFed - The Book from Ron Paul That Rocked America

In his latest book End the Fed, Ron Paul draws on American history, economics, and fascinating stories from his own long political life to argue that the Fed is both corrupt and unconstitutional. It is inflating currency today at nearly a Weimar or Zimbabwe level, a practice that threatens to put us into an inflationary depression where $100 bills are worthless. What most people don’t realize is that the Fed — created by the Morgans and Rockefellers at a private club off the coast of Georgia — is actually working against their own personal interests. Congressman Paul’s urgent appeal to all citizens and officials tells us where we went wrong and what we need to do fix America’s economic policy for future generations. Read the comments here.

Big Oil & Their Bankers in the Persian Gulf by Dean Henderson

http://deanhenderson.wordpress.com/bookstore-2/

Big Oil & Their Bankers in the Persian Gulf

Four Horsemen, Eight Families andTheir Global Intelligence, Narcotics and Terror Network

By Dean Henderson

“…hair-raising and a masterpiece which deserves not less than the Pulitzer Prize in Journalism…What I like most of it is that Henderson gets to the point from the first page, without unnecessary prologues or digressions. This book should be a requisite for every American to study.” -Dr. Carlos J. Canggiano, M.D., Juana Diaz, Puerto Rico.

“…an extraordinary expose of the powers and events that are exacting a heavy toll on us, the people”. – Nexus New Times Magazine, New South Wales, Australia

“…your book ties more things together than any other I’ve come across… I’ve got a collection of about 300 conspiracy related books… You’ve gotten to the heart of the matter.” – Steve Dudley, American Airlines pilot

“Written with an activist’s urgency, Big Oil pulls together a story that is as complex as it is crucial for contemporary world citizens to understand. At the very least, the story Henderson tells should give pause to anyone who believes the mainstream’s simplistic story of how terror came to characterize our time. Big Oil is designed to motivate understanding and action.” –Dr. Bill Chaloupka, Chair, Political Science Department, Colorado State University

“I really have to recommend this important work”. – Len Osanic, Blackop Radio, Vancouver, BC, Canada

“This is an important work. The world needs to know what is behind the Bush Regime. Dean has done an amazingly thorough job. He pulls together an impressive array of material from primary and secondary sources to tell a disturbing story that all Americans should read, learn from, and act upon.” – Jennifer Van Bergen, author of In the Absence of Democracy: The Bush Plan for America

Big Oil… shines a giant spotlight on a centuries-old cabal of global oligarchs, whose hegemony over the global economy is based on control of the planet’s three most valuable commodities: oil, guns and drugs – combined with ownership of the world’s central banks.

This Money Power that secretively rules the world has orchestrated a string of conspiracies from Pearl Harbor to the Kennedy Assassination to 911 to further their agenda. Follow the trail of dirty money up the food chain and discover the interbred Eight Families who – from their City of London base – control the Four Horsemen of both Banking & Oil, the global drug trade and the permanent war economy.

The Federal Reserve Cartel: Part III: The Roundtable & The Illuminati

August 10, 2013 — Dean Henderson

(Part three of a five-part series excerpted from Chapter 19: The Eight Families:Big Oil & Their Bankers…)

According to former British intelligence agent John Coleman’s book, The Committee of 300, the Rothschilds exert political control through the secretive Business Roundtable, which they created in 1909 with the help of Lord Alfred Milner and South African industrialist Cecil Rhodes. The Rhodes Scholarship is granted by Oxford University, while oil industry propagandist Cambridge Energy Research Associates operates out of the Rhodes-supported Cambridge University.Read the rest of this entry »

Saturday, August 10, 2013

9-11, Insider Trading, and Alvin "Buzzy" Krongard - Israel's Agent at the CIA

Taken from Christopher Bollyn's website here.

March 27, 2012

To the embarrassment of investigators, it has also emerged that the firm used to buy many of the "put" options [related to 9-11] - where a trader, in effect, bets on a share price fall - on United Airlines stock was headed until 1998 by "Buzzy" Krongard, now executive director of the CIA. Until 1997, Mr Krongard was chairman of Alex Brown Inc, America's oldest investment banking firm. Alex Brown was acquired by Bankers Trust, which in turn was bought by Deutsche Bank. His last post before resigning to take his senior role in the CIA was to head Bankers Trust - Alex Brown's private client business, dealing with the accounts and investments of wealthy customers around the world.
- Chris Blackhurst, “Mystery of Terror 'Insider Dealers'”, The Independent (UK), October 14, 2001

A single U.S.-based institutional investor with no conceivable ties to al Qaeda purchased 95 percent of the UAL puts on September 6 [2001] as part of a strategy that also included buying 115,000 shares of American on September 10. Similarly, much of the seemingly suspicious trading on September 10 was traced to a specific U.S.-based options trading newsletter…which recommended these trades.
- 9/11 Commission Report, W.W. Norton, 2004, footnote on p. 499

Alvin Bernard "Buzzy" Krongard was Executive Director of the C.I.A. from March 2001 until November 2004. Previously he had served as a consultant to C.I.A. Directors George J. Tenet (1997-2004) and Robert James Woolsey, Jr. (1993-1995).

The informed insider trading of stock options carried out by people with prior knowledge of the terror attacks of 9-11 is once again in the news. Max Keiser of the Keiser Report recently interviewed Lars Schall, a German journalist who has written extensively on the "terror traders" of 9-11. In the center of the discussion of the informed trading done by people who evidently knew the attacks were coming stands one very conspicuous individual, A.B. "Buzzy" Krongard, then Executive Director of the C.I.A.. Krongard would be considered a "person of interest" in any proper criminal investigation of 9-11 or the insider trading that preceded it.

Krongard has been suspected of being connected to the suspicious trading since October 2001. In one of my first articles about 9-11, "The Profiteers of 9-11", I wrote the following:

Investigations into the unusually high number of "put" options, betting that the price of United Airlines (UAL) and American Airlines shares would fall, have revealed that Alex Brown Inc., an investment banking firm, purchased many of these option contracts. Alex Brown Inc. was, until 1998, managed by the man who is now the executive director of the Central Intelligence Agency, A.B. "Buzzy" Krongard. Krongard, 64, former head of Baltimore-based Alex Brown, America's oldest investment bank, joined the CIA three years ago as a counselor to Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet. Krongard switched careers shortly after helping engineer the $2.5 billion merger of Alex Brown and Bankers Trust New York Corp., gaining $71 million in Bankers Trust stock in the process.

President Bush appointed Krongard executive director of the Central Intelligence Agency on March 26. From February 1998 until March 2001, Krongard served as counselor to the director of central intelligence. Until 1997 Krongard was chairman of the investment bank A.B. Brown, having previously worked in various capacities at Alex Brown. Krongard was quoted on the relationship between Wall Street and the CIA in a Washington Post article. If you go back to the CIA's origins during World War II in the Office of Strategic Services, Krongard told the Post, "the whole OSS was really nothing but Wall Street bankers and lawyers."

WHO IS BUZZY KRONGARD?

The hypothesis of my book Solving 9-11: The Deception that Changed the World is that the terror attacks were a false-flag operation planned and carried out by Israeli military intelligence with the assistance and support of Zionist agents in high positions in the U.S. government. These Zionist agents would include people like Dov Zakheim at the Pentagon and Michael Chertoff, then Assistant Attorney General, who was responsible for the federal investigation and prosecution of the crimes of 9-11. In this position Chertoff managed the federal "non-investigation" of 9-11 in which the crucial evidence was confiscated and destroyed without being properly examined.

My hypothesis is not that 9-11 was an "inside" job, but that it was an Israeli-planned false-flag operation. The Israeli operation was facilitated by highly-placed Zionist agents within the U.S. government, military, and intelligence spheres. If Buzzy Krongard is a suspect in the crimes of 9-11, the question that needs to be answered is: Was Krongard acting as an agent for Israeli military intelligence at Alex Brown and the C.I.A.? The evidence indicates that he served as an agent for Israel in both positions.

Alvin Bernard Krongard, born 1936, is the son of Raphael Harris Krongard and Rita Keyser Krongard. Both his mother and father were born in Baltimore to Jewish immigrant families from Poland/Russia. His first wife, Patricia Lion, was also Jewish. While Krongard's Jewish roots are never mentioned in the various articles about him, his Jewish ethnicity clearly plays the key role in his efforts to support Israeli enterprises in the United States. When a high-level person like Krongard conceals his Jewish roots while actively serving the state of Israel it indicates that he is seeking to hide his true identity and loyalty to a foreign state. For such a person to be the administrative chief of the Central Intelligence Agency says a great deal about the degree of Israeli penetration of the U.S. intelligence community.

Alvin Bernard Krongard at Princeton, 1957

Krongard's paternal grandparents immigrated from Lowicz, Poland, to the United States in 1904. The family name and first names were changed. Krongaard is a Scandinavian name that his grandfather took after they arrived in the United States. Krongaard means land or property of the "crown". The immigration records indicate that his grandfather Morris Krongard did not enter the U.S. under that name.

Krongard's mother, Rita (Rebecca) Keyser, was born in Baltimore to Abraham and Ethel Keyser, Russian Jewish immigrants who had also arrived in the U.S. in 1904. She was raised in Washington, where she attended high school and graduated from Strayer Business College. She worked as a legal secretary for a Washington maritime lawyer before her marriage to Raphael Harris Krongard in 1931. The Krongard's lived in Ashburton, Maryland, and had three children: Alvin, Howard Joel, and a daughter, Marilyn, who died in 1946.

Alvin Krongard graduated from Princeton and went on to serve on "active duty" in the U.S. Marine Corps in the Mediterranean from 1958-1961. Although the details are not given it seems likely that he served in Lebanon where the U.S. Marines were sent in 1958. He returned to the United States and married Patricia Lion. He worked at her family business, Lion Brothers, from 1961-1969. After a two year stint at Bache/Stern Brothers Boyce he joined the Baltimore investment bank of Alex Brown in 1971. After twenty years, Buzzy Krongard became C.E.O. of Alex Brown in July 1991.

ALEX BROWN AND ISRAEL

As C.E.O. of America's oldest investment bank, Krongard was well placed to assist companies spawned by Israeli military intelligence. Under Krongard, Alex Brown became a leading U.S. partner for these Israeli companies. In May 1996 Krongard and Mayo A. Shattuck went to Israel on a three-day trip during which they met with then prime minister Shimon Peres. As theBaltimore Sun reported shortly before their trip to Israel:

A. B. Krongard, Alex. Brown's chairman and chief executive, and Mayo A. Shattuck III, president and chief operating officer, are to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres and Dov Lautman, the prime minister's special emissary for economic development...
"Obviously, this is a trip of some significance," Mr. Shattuck said. "We want to be perceived as the premiere underwriter and adviser for high-tech and health care companies in Israel. The time has come to build stronger affiliations at the senior management level."

The meeting with Mr. Peres was arranged through Giza Group, one of Israel's leading private investment banking firms, Mr. Shattuck said.

When Alex. Brown officials meet with Mr. Peres, they expect to talk about how the company can link Israeli firms to U.S. capital markets, Mr. Shattuck said.

Alex. Brown, which had $809 million in revenues in 1995, is known worldwide for its expertise in taking high-tech and health care companies public. Last year, it managed 64 initial public offerings, tops in the United States.

R. William Burgess Jr., head of Alex. Brown's technology investment banking group, compared Israel to Silicon Valley in California and Route 128 in Boston, which have spawned some of the world's largest high-tech companies.

"My hope would be to do several initial public offerings a year for Israeli companies and several mergers and acquisitions," said Mr. Burgess, who will also make the trip.

Alex. Brown has been doing business with companies in Israel for at least five years.

In 1996, Alex Brown was serving as the financial advisor for Scitex, an Israeli company connected to military intelligence. Yair Shamir, the son of Yitzhak Shamir, the Zionist terrorist who killed Folke Bernadotte before becoming prime minister, was general manager of Scitex. Krongard's three-day visit to Israel and meeting with the prime minister was arranged by the Giza Group, a Tel Aviv-based investment banking firm.

At the time of Krongard's visit, Aviv Boim was a vice president of Giza Ltd. Boim remained at Giza for two more months, until August 1996, and then joined Krongard's company as an associate of Alex Brown from August 1996 to February 1998. Aviv Boim worked with Alex Brown's technology group in London, where he managed initial public offerings, mergers, and acquisitions concerning Israeli companies.

On October 2, 1996, the Baltimore Sun reported that Krongard was "still bullish on Israel." Krongard had addressed the Maryland/Israel Development Center the previous day. "There is great market demand for Israel's products," Krongard said. "Israel has the brain power. Its human capital is exceptional."

The Maryland/Israel Development Center was started in 1992 as a nonprofit group to form business partnerships between Maryland and Israeli companies. The article noted that just the week prior to his speech at the Maryland/Israel Development Center, Krongard and Alex Brown had taken the Israeli company Orckit Communications Ltd. public. "Tel Aviv-based Orckit makes systems that enable telephone companies to provide high-speed voice and digital transmission," the Sun reported. Yair Shamir was a director of Orckit.

ORCKIT AND UNIT 8200 OF ISRAELI MILITARY INTELLIGENCE

Orckit is a company that was created by the former commander of Unit 8200, the signal intelligence branch of the Israeli military, as Efi Landau reported in Globes (Israel).

Even Orckit’s win in the large tender of the US telephone company GTE, one of the eight largest telephone companies in the world, did not persuade company president Yitzhak Tamir to grant an open, on the record, press interview. However, cracks can be seen in the shrouds hiding the company from the media, contributing perhaps to the recognition that the company’s most precious asset is its workers, and it cannot hurt if more is known about them.

Orckit was established in 1990 by Military Intelligence electronic unit 8200 graduates Eric Paneth and Yitzhak Tamir. The unit has provided Israeli high-tech a significant proportion of its engineers and managers. Paneth was commander of the unit, replacing Zohar Zisappel, chairman of the RAD-Bynet group.

Orckit (and Tikcro) are not your usual companies. These are typical Israeli military "dual-use" companies. They have hidden military and intelligence functions but are presented as normal commercial enterprises. With companies like Orckit, Buzzy Krongard and his team at Alex Beam certainly must have been aware that they were investing in companies closely tied to the Israeli military.

In February 1998 Buzzy Krongard joined the C.I.A. as a consultant to director George Tenet. In a bizarre move, Krongard left his $4 million a year job as head of Bankers Trust (BT). He had just completed the BT merger with Alex Brown in the fall of 1997 and suddenly he was leaving. Aviv Boim also left BT Alex Brown in February and joined Orckit as Chief Financial Officer. The merger between Bankers Trust and Alex Brown, the first between a bank and a securities brokerage since the Depression, however, went sour shortly after Krongard left the company. The newly merged company reported a record loss in 1998 and was soon taken over by Deutsche Bank. Mayo Shattuck stayed on at Alex Brown but resigned suddenly the day after 9-11.

While it is clear that Krongard jumped ship because he knew that the BT Alex Brown merger would soon fail, why did he go to work for the C.I.A.? What we do know is that Krongard had worked closely with computer companies spawned by Israeli military intelligence. After he joined the C.I.A. as counselor to the director, Krongard soon became engaged in setting up the C.I.A. venture capital firm called In-Q-It (In-Q-Tel) that was supposed to keep the agency abreast of computer technology. How much Israeli software do you think found its way onto the C.I.A. computer network under Buzzy Krongard's reign?

In October 1999, the Washington Post reported on the genesis of In-Q-Tel:

A lot of people wondered what CIA Director George J. Tenet had in mind a year and a half ago when he brought in Wall Street heavyweight A.B. "Buzzy" Krongard to serve as his "counselor." Now they know-- part of the story.

The man who helped underwrite Microsoft and AOL as head of Alex Brown & Co. has done it again, helping Tenet & Co. start up a CIA venture capital firm called In-Q-It that's supposed to keep the agency abreast of computer technology.

But Krongard's influence at Langley extends well beyond this foray into Silicon Valley. "George will say, 'Make this happen,' " said Krongard, 61, explaining in a telephone interview exactly what it is he does for the director of central intelligence.

"The idea is for In-Q-It to fund promising technologies..."

"The idea for the venture-capital fund was hatched in conversations between the new CIA director, George Tenet, and a former investment banker named A. B. "Buzzy" Krongard, who joined the agency in February 1998 as counselor to the director.

The director of the C.I.A. is often little more than a mannequin who gives a name and a face to the agency while the day-to-day operations are managed by the executive director like Krongard. George Tenet is similar to Leon Panetta. Both are sons of immigrants who owned diners, one in Little Neck, New York, the other in Monterey, California. What is it about Tenet and Panetta that made them suitable to be directors of the C.I.A.? They are clearly not leaders of men or strong thinkers. Could it be that they were men who were known to be weak and amenable, and who could easily be controlled by people like Krongard?

Krongard became the Executive Director of the C.I.A. in March 2001 and remained at that position for more than three years, until November 2004. He was responsible for getting C.I.A. security contracts for Blackwater in Afghanistan and Iraq. Later, his brother Howard (a.k.a. "Cookie"), as Inspector General of the State Department, denied knowing that Buzzy sat on the board of Blackwater during Congressional hearings into his obstruction of the investigation of contract fraud and crimes carried out by Blackwater. The Congressional investigation did not result in any criminal charges being laid against either of the Krongard brothers.

"Krongard exhibited the requisite secretiveness when asked to explain his interest in intelligence and how he came to land a job in [George J. Tenet]'s inner circle," the Washington Post reported on March 17, 2001, the day after he was named Executive Director of the C.I.A. "If you go back to the CIA's origins during World War II in the Office of Strategic Services, he explained, "the whole OSS was really nothing but Wall Street bankers and lawyers."
Krongard was the chief operating officer, the day-to-day administrative leader of the C.I.A. from March 2001 until November 2004. In this position he was certainly aware of the plane-into-building drill planned for September 11, 2001 at the National Reconnaissance Office, a sub-agency of the C.I.A. Although Krongard is probably not an architectural level planner of the terrorism of 9-11, the evidence indicates that he served as a highly-placed manager who served as an important conduit linking Israeli military intelligence with the C.I.A.

Alvin Krongard, his second wife Cheryl, and Jim Kimsey. Cheryl Gruetzmacher was raised in Iowa and married Edward S. Gordon in May 1992.

The Krongard house sits on a 80 acre wooded estate off 1400 W Seminary Avenue in Lutherville, just north of Baltimore, Maryland.

Howard Joel Krongard, Alvin's brother, as Inspector General at the State Department, blocked investigations of massive fraud by military contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan. At Congressional hearings, Howard feigned ignorance that his brother was a director of Blackwater, one of the key contracts being examined. Buzzy had awarded the C.I.A. contract to Blackwater.

Selected Sources:

Atkinson, Bill, “Alex. Brown chief bullish on Israel despite violence,” Baltimore Sun, October 02, 1996http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1996-10-02/business/1996276060_1_israel-krongard-peres

Berger, Joseph, “A Diner That Was the Special of Every Day,” New York Times, December 3, 2010
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/04/nyregion/04metjournal.html?_r=1&scp=26&sq=%22John%20Tenet%22&st=cse#Blackhurst Chris, “Mystery of terror insider dealers,” The Independent (UK), October 14, 2001http://www.oilempire.us/put-options.html

Chief Steps Down At Alex. Brown, New York Times, September 15, 2001http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/15/business/chief-steps-down-at-alex-brown.html

Directors and Senior Management at Orckit, SEC Filing for 2002http://mayafiles.tase.co.il/RPdf/74001-75000/P74584-00.pdf

Flocco, Tom, “Profits of Death – Insider Trading and 9-11,” FromtheWilderness.com, December 6, 2001http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/12_06_01_death_profits_pt1.html

Gaffney, Mark H., “Black 9/11: A Walk on the Dark Side,” Foreign Policy Journal, February 11, 2011http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2011/02/11/black-911-a-walk-on-the-dark-side/

Landau, Efi, “Orckit Expands Sideways,” Globes (Israel), May 3, 1998http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=367254

Ruppert, Michael C., CIA Executive Director “Buzzy” Krongard Managed Firm that Handle “Put” Option on UAL, FromtheWilderness.com, October 9, 2001http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/10_09_01_krongard.html

Schall, Lars, “Insider trading 9/11 ... the facts laid bare,” Asia Times, March 21, 2012http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/NC21Dj05.html

Schall, Lars, “9-11 Insider Trading and Germany’s Elusive Gold Reserves,” LarsSchall.com, March 24, 2012http://www.larsschall.com/2012/03/24/9-11-insider-trading-and-germanys-elusive-gold-reserves/