The Branch Dividian siege in Waco, TX ended in flames in 1993.

The Alfred P. Murrah Building was destroyed in 1995.

Cardinal Ratzinger became pope in 2005.

The Illuminati have a special fondness for 19th April as a date for human sacrifice. Both the Waco and Oklahoma massacres, orchestrated by the Illuminati, took place on 19th April. That date marks the start of the 13-day occult period leading up to the great black sabbath of 1st May, known as Bealtaine. The key event marking the inauguration of this major phase in the Illuminati plan was the Twin Towers attack of 2001. Thus, having opened the cycle in New York, the Illuminati will also close it in the same city with a nuclear explosion. The date they appear to have been selected for this purpose is 19th April 2009, which falls 66,666 hours after the 9/11 attacks.

We shall see.

When does all this abuse end? The abuse of you, and of me, and of practically everyone in the world at the hands of a self-proclaimed ‘elite?’ It ends when enough people disabuse themselves of the idea that we owe people in power the courtesy of the benefit of the doubt. They’ve been using that as a cudgel to beat us to death, in case you haven’t noticed. And they will never relinquish the cudgel voluntarily.

Let me make this easy. Here you can read a horrible story of an eleven year old Indian girl beaten into a coma by her teacher. She died.

The incident allegedly occurred when Shannoo failed to recite the English alphabet in class. Angered by this, the teacher allegedly hit Shannoo’s head against the table and made her stand in the sun for over two hours. Unable to stand the heat, Shannoo fainted and was found unconscious by her younger sister, who studies in the same school.

Cut and dried psychopathic behavior causing the death of an innocent child. Who will disagree?

OK then, what about the innocent children and others who have died in Gaza and Lebanon at the hands of the Israelis, in Iraq and Afghanistan at the hands of Americans and other coalition soldiers (to achieve Israel’s goals), in Pakistan, in Somalia, in the United States of America? What about the deaths of innocents caused by cold-blooded calculated greed? Isn’t it even worse than some sick frustrated elementary school teacher killing a child in India, horrible as that is, when the perpetrators sit in their glamorous air-conditioned offices and conference rooms and presidential quarters ordering the deaths of millions of innocents simply to make money and consolidate power? Let me tell you, it’s the same shit different day. Don’t let the nice suits fool you. Psychopaths are psychopaths. The more dangerous ones just kill a lot more people before they get caught.

Sociopathic Through Lines

What then separates the SAPs [Socially Adept Socio/Psychopaths] from the failed (and caught) sociopaths? I see the situation as being the balancing of two countervailing pressures. One pressure, drive actually, is to reach out, take and dominate. The other pressure is simply the need to get away with it, which has both internal and external aspects. Failed sociopaths lack the internal resources to restrain themselves [like the teacher in India - Ed.] (apparently, some people, including many professional researchers, consider only these individuals to be true sociopaths — they couldn’t be more wrong). Other sociopaths have the internal resources, but only if the external environment (i.e., the threat of some punishment) necessitates it. The continuum is really a scale of talent at being hypocritical. The advanced SAPs are simply magnificent hypocrites – able to bide their time, be patient, realistically assess their position in the food chain (the concept of the food chain is central to sociopath life stories), restrain their arrogance, desire for dominance and rudeness and wait for opportunities without consequence for indulging their sociopathic wants, etc. Hypocrisy is simply their main lifetool, as swimming is the main lifetool for a fish.

How much easier must it be to realistically assess one’s position in the food chain when one is literally at the TOP of the food chain? Oh, there’s some jostling around up there, no doubt. But how easy it must be to bide their time and be patient, with unimaginable resources — armies, the media, defenseless populations — at their fingertips. Think about it. Are these people who lead our nations and corporations really so very impressive? Is it so hard to be patient when you’re king of the world?

Get over them. Stop being impressed by mass murderers just because they got elected once or twice. Big fucking deal.

The (air quotes) solution to the (air quotes) problem of Somali pirates is to internationalize the waters off Somalia.

That’s right. Internationalize those strategic waters, just as Israel wants.

CNN helpfully drives the bus directly to the preferred Hegelian solution.

Both the United States and France pulled off-high profile rescues in the waters off the Horn of Africa in the past week, killing a total of five pirates to free hostages who had been holed up for days.

While those operations gained international attention, there have been dozens of attacks so far this year. Experts say it will take an international effort to combat the rising number of attacks.

“In our view, what France and the U.S. has done is exactly the right thing for a flag state to do, and if all flag states were to take that kind of robust action against the pirates we would not have the problems of Somali piracy to the extent that we have today,” said Capt. Pottengal Mukundan, director of the piracy reporting center at the International Maritime Bureau.

Pirates also attacked a U.S. ship Tuesday night but didn’t make it aboard. The pirates had fled the scene by the time the Navy arrived. In a separate incident hours later, the French Navy captured 11 suspected pirates off the coast of Kenya.

[Now watch how the article lays out the vast scope of the problem, at the same time conveying that the international community is already involved, so we're already half-way there, see?]

But securing the region is no easy task. The area involved off the coasts of Somalia and Kenya, including the Gulf of Aden, is more than 1.1 million square miles — four times the size of the state of Texas.

At any given time, a number of nations could be in the region to protect the seas. While the countries try to coordinate efforts, there are limits to the extent of information they share.

In addition to the United States and the European Union nations, NATO, Russia, China and South Korea are among others patrolling the waters. Generally, more than a dozen ships in the region are working to counter piracy issues. Some countries also provide maritime air assets.

But even with that presence, the closest military ship could be days away from a merchant ship under attack, given the size of the region.

Following the Sunday rescue of Capt. Richard Phillips, who was freed after snipers killed three pirates, President Obama praised the efforts of the U.S. military and other departments involved, and vowed to halt the rise of piracy in the region.

“To achieve that goal, we’re going to have to continue to work with our partners to prevent future attacks,” Obama said.

Already this year, pirates have attacked at least 80 ships, according to the IMB. Of those, 19 were successful hijackings. In 2008, pirates attacked 111 boats and hijacked 42.

Two pirates in Somalia vowed revenge earlier this week, following the U.S. and French operations.

[TWO PIRATES vowed revenge. TWO. Danger Will Robinson.]

“We have decided to kill U.S. and French sailors if they happen to be among our future hostages,” said Abdullahi Ahmed, a member of a pirate group based at Harardhere, a coastal town in central Somalia.

The U.S. military acknowledged Sunday that its actions to rescue Phillips could increase the risk of violence. [wink wink] The Navy is trying to beef up patrols in the area, but it has limited ships. The focus now will be to try to get more countries to put more of their ships into the effort.

“What we have seen in the last few months is the attacks being displaced towards the east coast of Somalia with its vast expanse of the Arabian Sea behind it, so it is a bigger challenge to monitor this part of the seas properly,” Mukundan said.

Pentagon officials are looking at a variety of options for halting piracy, in conjunction with other departments like State and Justice that are looking at ways to help the Somali government and ways to try the pirates.

Shipping companies are unlikely to deter the pirates themselves, partly because of the financial burden. [cue the violins] Last year, about 30,000 ships passed through the Gulf of Aden — and there were 42 successful hijackings. In some situations, just paying ransom is still cheaper than outfitting ships with a private armed security team.

[Here the article goes into shifting blame and responsibility around for the situation. Notice who seems to be to blame...and who does not. Notice how the US is positioned as the reluctant hero.]

“There really is only one solution,” said Ken Menkhaus, a former special adviser to the United Nations operation in Somalia. “It’s going to take a government that sees piracy and ending piracy as a critical tool in improving their credibility in the eyes of the world.”

Gortney said Monday that the piracy around the world “stems from activity where there is lawlessness, lack of governance, economic instability; things of that nature. And wherever you have that, you’re going to have criminal activity at sea.”

Ethiopia invaded Somalia in December 2006 to prop up a U.N.-backed transitional government in Mogadishu after a hard-line Islamist group overtook the capital and seized power. Earlier this year, Ethiopia withdrew all of its troops.

Efforts to replace the Ethiopians with an African Union-led peacekeeping mission faltered as the violence worsened. The lawlessness also spilled onto the seas off the Horn of Africa, where the international vessels are routinely hijacked by pirates, suspected to be Somali.

A U.N. resolution gives the United States the authority to conduct operations inside Somalia, but the memories of an unsuccessful effort in 1993 are reason enough for some to stay out of the region.

Seventeen years ago, Somali militiamen shot down a U.S. Black Hawk helicopter during a failed U.S. attempt to capture a warlord. The images of American troops being dragged through the streets led to the withdrawal of U.N. forces and years of anarchy in Somalia.

Recalling what came to be known as “Black Hawk Down,” CNN Senior Political Analyst Gloria Borger said a lot of people in the Obama administration are likely to be skeptical about becoming deeply involved in the region.

“Everybody knows the area,” she said. “They’re just very reluctant to start going down that path again, particularly given the fact that we’re already fighting two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.”

But, she said, something will have to be done, because “the status quo is completely unacceptable.”

“That may mean more Navy ships. It may mean different routes for Navy ships. We’re not sure. [wink wink] But, you know, they have got about a million square miles of water there that they have to police. And it’s just not an easy thing to do. And, as the president said, it can’t be unilateral. We have to do it with other countries,” she said.

[OK, time to kick ass and take names. Here's the can-do attitude.]

Kim Petersen, president of SeaSecure, agreed that a coalition approach is necessary, but disagreed with the comparison to 1993.

“I think this is very different from Mogadishu. It’s very different from Black Hawk Down. We’re talking about an area where … the pirates are working out of, these are fairly isolated. There are very few roads going in and out of these regions. It’s very easy for us to contain them,” he said.

“We have the resources available to us in the region already in order to escalate a new policy there where we actually take the fight to the pirates,” he said.

“What we really need to do now is address what the real threat is here,” he said, arguing that it’s not just a threat to people and the supply chain. “It’s also the likelihood, or at least the possibility, that organizations like Al-Shabaab, which is al Qaeda in Somalia, are going to subsume the piracy trade, because we’ve done such a good job of depriving them of their revenues through electronic banking controls … They’re looking for revenues, and this is a great business model for them.”

Uh huh. That’s why the article is titled “ROBUST action” could curtail piracy, expert says.

And Peterson’s company, SeaSecure, stands to do great business from this piracy problem. No conflict of interest here. Nope.

“It is a frightening prospect in this day and age of weapons of mass destruction and terrorists” that vessels are arriving from ports which have virtually no security, said Kim Petersen, chief executive of SeaSecure, a Fort Lauderdale-based maritime security consulting firm. He’s also executive director of the Maritime Security Council, whose members include major commercial and cruise lines as well as ports.

Sweet deal, huh? Psyops at work, making war, making money.

Um, ok. This is a trip. I just went through the whole thing, parts 1 & 2. A great deal I agree with, though I’m withholding judgment* and want you to read it all just to get to the ending, because I and others have arrived at these conclusions via different routes.

There is an expression: forewarned is forearmed. Here is the warning:

The possibilities being considered for us by the manipulators include a global flu pandemic to drastically reduce the world’s population (there are too many of us for them to control!); and World War Three - or at least the threat of it - as the excuse to install a One World Government for total global domination.

For the moment, they are biding their time and mainly concentrating on adding control measures to stave off the chaos expected when the veil hiding their plans is lifted*. At that point people will have to face up to the truth, and who knows what will happen then?

The situation will necessarily deteriorate before it improves. The awakening of the people will be marked by a period of chaos as the manipulators try desperately to keep their plan on track.

Believe all this if you will. Or choose not to believe it!

You will never hear the truth or indeed the gravity of the situation on the news stations. All the media is owned by the manipulators and they simply feed us a series of stories designed to make us think in a way which suits the continuation of the whole process.

* I object to the characterization of Jesu.

Naive Americans will be lapping this up.

FIRST THE DRAMA:

Reporting from Mombasa, Kenya — The first mate of the cargo ship Maersk Alabama, whose crew defeated an attempted hijacking, today urged President Obama to defeat the Somali pirates terrorizing one of the world’s busiest shipping channels.

Shane Murphy said the crew had vowed to use its experience last week to save other crews in future.

HEY I GOT AN IDEA…LET’S RALLY ROUND THE FLAG:

In the jubilance that followed Sunday’s dramatic sea rescue of the ship’s skipper, Murphy said the U.S. Navy’s efforts to save Capt. Richard Phillips offered inspiration to the nation at a difficult juncture.

“In America now, things are down. It’s not the best of times. Hopefully everybody in America can latch onto this maybe and use it as a sign of hope to show what being American is about,” he said in Mombasa, Kenya, where the ship is tied up.

AMERICANS TO THE RESCUE:

Murphy, 33, called for strong American action against Somali pirates, who typically base themselves in the ocean in “mother ships” and launch their attacks using powerful speedboats, boarding with grappling hooks or ladders.

“We would like to implore President Obama to use all his resources and increase his commitment to end this Somali pirate scourge,” he said, reading from a prepared statement. [PREPARED BY WHOM?]

THE URGENCY…MUST ACT NOW:

“It is a crisis. Wake up!” he said. “This crew was lucky to be out of this with every one of us alive. We won’t be that lucky again.”

“Right now there are still ships being taken, right now as we are standing here. America has got to be at the forefront of this. It’s time for us to step up and put an end to this crisis.

PRESIDENTIAL SUPPORT AND THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY:

In Washington, Obama pledged today to take action. He praised the U.S. Navy personnel who had freed Phillips and insisted that the United States was prepared to act against such piracy.

“I want to be very clear that we are resolved to halt the rise of [piracy] in that region,” Obama said. “And to achieve that goal we’re going to have to continue to work with our partners to prevent future attacks, we have to continue to be prepared to confront them when they arise, and we have to ensure that those who commit acts of piracy are held accountable for their crimes.”

A crew of 16 on an Italian ship was the most recent to be taken hostage. It was seized Saturday and arrived the following day in Somalia, where a ransom will likely be negotiated. Some estimates put the number of seafarers being held hostage in the region at about 270.

Somali piracy has increased dramatically since 2007, with 42 ship hijackings last year, as increasing numbers of Somalis try to get a cut of the lucrative ransoms shipping companies pay. But the first kidnapping of Americans galvanized U.S. attention last week.

WHAT IS WITH THE SECRECY? DON’T ASK. WE’RE PROTECTING OUR HEROES:

Murphy said the crewmembers of the U.S.-flagged but Danish-owned Maersk Alabama wouldn’t release the exact details of what happened during the initial attack on their cargo; instead, they planned to use the information to help other crews evade or repel pirates.

“This group here has a lot of valuable knowledge that’s going to save lives, and that’s what we’re doing here,” he said. “That’s why we haven’t been able to talk to you. We’re trying to gather this knowledge and put it in a package.”

Murphy spoke to Phillips on Sunday after U.S. military snipers killed the three pirates holding the skipper. The first mate said the crew was looking forward to being reunited with him.

“I just got off the phone with our captain, Richard Phillips, for the first time, and it was an extremely emotional experience for all of us to actually hear his voice and to hear the condition he was in.

“Ultimately everybody here today has the captain to thank for their lives and their freedom,” Murphy said. “But additionally it was an entire crew-wide effort. You will find there are going to be many stories of individual heroism coming out of this. But as a group, everybody played a part, everybody.”

Murphy hinted the crew stuck to a minutely detailed plan [?????] to overcome the pirates. He said the crew never fought the pirates, but neither did they ever surrender their ship.

“We never gave up,” he said.

MUST BE TIME TO INTERNATIONALIZE THESE WATERS, THE US LEADING THE WAY:

Murphy said the U.S. should lead the fight against piracy, no matter what nationality the hijacked crews were: “At sea, it’s a global community; it doesn’t come down to nations. There’s a whole world out there and we all look out for each other.”

Murphy spoke emotionally of the sacrifice merchant seamen make to support their families, spending most of their time at sea, and he described the mutual support between crewmembers.

“We don’t go home to our families. We work out here. These are our families. It’s not always easy. But in times of crisis, just like a family, we’re there for each other.”

And let us know forget that ISRAEL is the country who wants these waters internationalized. Why is that? Galal Nassar in Al-Ahram Weekly, December 2008:

SEAS OF STRATEGIC IMPORTANCE: Somalia perches on the most important maritime channels in the world. Through this passageway passes Arab oil on its way to European and American markets. It is also a relatively inexpensive route for the shipment of Western industrial products to Asia and Africa. Approximately 10 per cent of the world’s maritime cargo passes through these waters, according to recent statistics. The maritime channel has special strategic significance for Washington and Israel. For the former, it serves as the vital link between the US’s Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean and its Fifth Fleet stationed off the coast of Bahrain and its Seventh Fleet in the Indian Ocean. Tel Aviv, meanwhile, has not forgotten that Egypt together with Yemen closed the Bab Al-Mandeb upon the outbreak of the 1973 October War, which came as an additional blow to Israeli and international shipping with the closure of the Suez Canal following the Israeli occupation of Sinai in 1967. Israel has been pressing for the internationalisation of the Red Sea. With its ships no longer confined to a narrow lane as they pass to and from the port of Eilat, it would have much greater manoeuvrability in those waters as well as the opportunity to secure supply lines for its naval units. There is no overstating what a military advantage this would bring to the Hebrew state and what a threat this would pose to Arab national security.

The Somali pirate problem escalates rapidly. The corporate psyops news outlets breathlessly report on the developments:

1. It’s framed as an escalating dramatic standoff, involving an international gallery of hostages being used as human shields.

2. Top level people, the household names, are now directly involved. General David Petraeus make his appearance, probably as star of the show. (We’ve already seen Hillary Clinton.) AG Eric Holder — best supporting actor.

3. Hero narratives and vigils ensue for the brave captain and his crew, who somehow managed to get their 17,000 ton ship captured by a few guys on a small craft. Those pirates had guns you know. And anyway, why would a DOD contractor’s ship with top security clearance be expected to have a basic ability to defend itself in waters known to be infested with maurading pirates? Why didn’t they hire one of those Blackwater private security crews? I guess in a way this is all just lucky that they were only delivering food aid, so they didn’t have security, which tragically allowed all this unfortunate stuff to happen. Who could have predicted? No good deed goes unpunished [shaking head sadly].

4. Navy SEALs and FBI hostage negotiators are now involved. PHEW!

5. Various US warships have arrived or are on the way. Of course, we could blow those pirates out of the water, but the US military doesn’t just go off an kill people like that, much as they deserve it. Nope. It just doesn’t happen. Never. Especially when there’s an American hostage involved, and a hero at that. This kind of reminds me of Gilad Shalit.

6. The evil pirates have extorted TENS of MILLIONS of DOLLARS. How does this compare to the extortion of the banks? Oh nevermind. Millions, billions, trillions. Whatever. Just think like Dr. Evil in Austin Powers, and this will all make excellent sense.

7. Though Obama receives regular updates, there’s always a ‘potential for tragedy’ in situations like this, according to experts.

I’m afraid I am very rudely noticing things that I’m not supposed to notice.

The Somali pirate problem looks like a trigger for some much bigger operation that involves our good friend, Israel. The piracy problem has been simmering along for some time now, so people are aware of it as background noise. Chances are most people don’t pay any attention because it’s only Africa, right? Well, it’s setting up good like a Hegelian jello mold. You will see the area militarized with international forces soon, the US Navy leading the way. Cui bono? Israel.

Back in December I came across this post, which links to this article in Al-Ahram Weekly. Something about this went sticky in my brain.

The piracy off the coast of Somalia is certain to be seized upon as legal and moral grounds for the internationalization of those waterways.

Somalia perches on the most important maritime channels in the world. Through this passageway passes Arab oil on its way to European and American markets.
The maritime channel has special strategic significance for Washington and Israel.

For the former, it serves as the vital link between the US’s Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean and its Fifth Fleet stationed off the coast of Bahrain and its Seventh Fleet in the Indian Ocean.

Tel Aviv, meanwhile, has not forgotten that Egypt together with Yemen closed the Bab Al-Mandeb upon the outbreak of the 1973 October War, which came as an additional blow to Israeli and international shipping with the closure of the Suez Canal following the Israeli occupation of Sinai in 1967. Israel has been pressing for the internationalisation of the Red Sea.

Right. And like Moses parted the Red Sea, so it happens. Look at this story from yesterday.

Somali Piracy Exposes Weakness in UN Law of the Sea

Ships from NATO, European Union member states, and others have been dispatched there in recent months to fight a sharp upsurge in the hijacking of vessels and crew for ransom. The United Nations says the 111 pirate attacks that took place last year in the sea corridor linking the Suez Canal and the Indian Ocean represent an increase of nearly 200 percent over 2007.

Operating from remote fishing communities in northeastern and central Somalia, pirates have earned tens - perhaps even hundreds - of millions of dollars in ransom. They have disrupted global trade and have caused untold damage to the world’s economy.

Horn of Africa analyst at Chatham House in London, Roger Middleton, says the international community must take some of the blame for the calamity.

“Part of the thing is that people looked at Somalia and said, ‘This country is so messed up, there is no point in worrying about it. They will just fight among themselves and there will be no consequences for the rest of the world.’ And actually there are consequences for the rest of the world, which we are beginning to see now,” Middleton said.

I will just skim over the top of this, but of course there’s much more. Location, location, location. And natural resources. And lots of brown people fighting and making a confusing mess so there’s nothing to see here, except look! They have captured an American Captain!!! Somebody Do Something!!!

The U.S. Navy and the FBI say they are working to free the American captain of a cargo ship being held hostage by pirates off the coast of Somalia.

The pirates briefly hijacked the container ship Maersk Alabama on Wednesday, and then took Captain Richard Phillips captive as they escaped aboard a lifeboat after the ship’s crew re-took control of the vessel.

A U.S. warship, the USS Bainbridge, arrived at the scene early Thursday. Officials will not say exactly how close it is to the lifeboat, but several sources say it is close enough to see the small craft drifting in the Indian Ocean.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told reporters the lifeboat appears to have run out of fuel and “the Navy is there.” An FBI spokesman said a hostage negotiation team is “fully engaged” with the military in trying to free Phillips.

Obviously this is Very Serious. It has bumped up to a Top Story on CNN, ABC, NBC, blah blah blah. But Galal Nassar at Al-Ahram foresaw it all back in December.

There is also something difficult to believe in the train of events. Suddenly, gangs of pirates have evolved into a standing army with tactics, strategies and plans of offence. From isolated reports of the capture of some small ships of varying ownership, we suddenly have the hijacking of a Ukrainian vessel bearing heavy arms and, more recently, the hijacking of a gargantuan oil tanker! What is happening? Are we to believe that those pirates have suddenly developed all that organisation and combat skill? Is it not more rational, in light of previous experience, to believe that certain powers have plans to establish control over the area and that magnifying the “piracy peril” is one of the means towards this end? Does it not also make sense that this falls in line with a tangential plan to end opposition to the presence of foreign military forces in the Gulf of Aden by twisting the economic screws? Is this not a likely interpretation of the sounding of the alarm that “piracy” will force commercial naval traffic to make the detour around the tip of Africa?

This is the Hegelian Dialectic in action. Problem: Somali pirates. Reaction: economic consequences for the rest of the world. Solution: the US military.

And once that’s set up, I would expect Israel to do whatever it is that they have planned.

UPDATE: The hijacked ship is owned by a major Pentagon contractor. Mm hmm. *Fortunately* (wink wink) the ship was only carrying food aid at the time. Whew. Lucky, huh? And those wily pirates tricked!! the American crew to hand over their captain. Tricksy pirates. So we better do something about this problem. It’s getting Very, Very Serious, don’t you agree?

The Somali pirates who took control of the 17,000-ton “Maersk Alabama” cargo-ship in the early hours of Wednesday morning probably were unaware [wink wink] that the ship they were boarding belonged to a US Department of Defense contractor with “top security clearance,” which does a half-billion dollars in annual business with the Pentagon, primarily the Navy. What’s more, the ship was being operated by an “all-American” crew—there were 20 US nationals on the ship. “Every indication is that this is the first time a U.S.-flagged ship has been successfully seized by pirates,” said Lt. Nathan Christensen, a spokesperson for for the U.S. Navy’s Bahrain-based 5th Fleet. The last documented pirate attack of a US vessel by African pirates was reported in 1804, off Libya, according to The Los Angeles Times.

The lede paragraph:

At least one nuclear-powered US warship is reportedly on its way to the scene of the hijacking off the coast of Somalia of a vessel owned by a major Pentagon contractor. A US official told the Associated Press the destroyer USS Bainbridge is en route while another official said six or seven ships are responding to the takeover of the “Maersk Alabama,” which is part of a fleet of ships owned by Maersk Ltd., a US subsidiary of a Denmark firm, which does about a half-billion dollars in business with the US government a year.

And look, an opportunity for some enterprising private security companies! Notice the linkage between media coverage of the “problem” increasing and profits for Blackwater.

As the media coverage of the pirates has increased, private security companies like Xe/Blackwater have stepped in, seeing profits. A few months ago, Blackwater executives flew to London to meet with shipping company executives about protecting their ships from pirate attacks. In October, the company deployed the MacArthur, its “private sector warship equipped with helicopters” to the Gulf of Aden. “We have been contacted by shipowners who say they need our help in making sure goods get to their destination,” said the company’s executive vice-president, Bill Matthews. “The McArthur can help us accomplish that.”

According to an engineer aboard the MacArthur, the ship, whose crew includes former Navy SEALS, was at one point stationed in an area several hundred miles off the coast of Yemen. “Security teams will escort ships around both horns of Africa, Somalia and Yemen as they head to the Suez Canal… The McArthur will serve as a staging point for the SEALs and their smaller boats.”

All of this is important to keep in context any time you see a short blurb pop up about pirates attacking ships. “Did we expect starving Somalians to stand passively on their beaches, paddling in our toxic waste, and watch us snatch their fish to eat in restaurants in London and Paris and Rome?” Hari asked. “We won’t act on those crimes – the only sane solution to this problem – but when some of the fishermen responded by disrupting the transit-corridor for 20 percent of the world’s oil supply, we swiftly send in the gunboats.”

Honestly, I don’t know how this ever got into print. Rarely do we see something so truthy. The mask has certainly dropped when NWO sentiments and Israeli control over US policy are so blithely delineated for everyone to read. I scarcely feel the need to interpret. He has laid it out in technicolor. Is it psyops, directed at the Israeli population? Either that, or we are so close to the fulfillment of their plans that the perceived need for cover has essentially dissolved.

By Amir Oren, the defense correspondent for Haaretz, reprinted in full because it could go down the memory hole at any time. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1077227.html

Barack Hussein Obama is the one who highlighted his middle name. In a speech in Strasbourg, he did not wait for the Passover holiday to hold a “seder.” Not just one seder (which means “order” in Hebrew) but a series of seders. There is the order of the day and a world order.

Within 10 days he revealed his plan for Afghanistan and its problematic neighbor, Pakistan; stopped by London to deal with the economic crisis that has rocked global financial institutions; trekked out to the French-German border to give a shot of adrenaline to the NATO alliance; laid out his vision for a nuclear weapon-free globe in Prague; spoke of relations between Islam and the West in Turkey; and, for dessert, reminded Benjamin Netanyahu who is king of the (white) house. Not bad for a week and a half.

The end result is that Israel’s chances of gaining American understanding for an operation against Iran increased, while Netanyahu’s chances of gaining American understanding for his sleights of hand and the suspension of the diplomatic process with the Palestinians have whittled down to zero. Obama will not reconcile with nuclear weapons in Iran, nor will he come to terms with Israeli obstinacy.

Obama is working within three circles - domestic, Western and global. He is first trying to muster support at home, then among NATO, which is another way of saying “the West,” and finally around the world, including from powers (Russia, China) who have no interest in aiding American global leadership.

He prefers to act from a general consensus. He will make do with Western support, and he would be pained to follow a policy of American unilateralism, even if every other country protests.

As if to remove any doubt, Obama responded to a British journalist’s provocative line of questioning in Strasbourg with polished pride in his belief of the uniqueness of America. Whoever hoped or feared that the new president would reveal himself to be a completely different kind of American leader, soft and apologetic, came away disappointed.

It does not matter what qualities his devotees imagined he possessed. The job, in this case as well, is larger than the man, and Obama’s presidency is just one link in the long chain of an effort to cope with a grim reality, one which has no smooth passageways from black to white, or vice versa. It is now clear that Obama is not George Bush’s opposite.

From the Israeli standpoint, the most essential strategic development is the shift of American interest eastward from Iraq, which took center stage during the Bush years. The focus is moving to Iran, Afghanistan and North Korea. The significance is that the attention devoted to existential threats of terrorism and nuclear weapons intensifies exactly as it did during the Bush presidency, yet it is disconnected from the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Concessions on the Israeli front will not aid in the fight against Al Qaida and the Taliban, nor will they dissuade Kim Jong-il from launching missiles that can carry nuclear warheads.

Like Bush following the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, Obama finds himself compelled to declare that Islam is not the enemy of America. Here, his “Hussein” and his father’s ethnicity help him, but the simplistic truth transmitted to his audience is that Islam is indeed the enemy.

Not all Muslims are bad, but all the bad guys are Muslims, with the exception of North Korea. A world order that is founded upon nations and multinational cooperation frameworks cannot become enslaved by religious fanaticism that will foment perpetual war, leading to the deaths of millions of civilians via the spread of nuclear weapons to unfettered regimes and organizations that have vowed to liberate holy land by killing infidels.

It is convenient for Israel that Obama’s immediate nuclear challenge comes from North Korea, because the rules of conduct that Obama will lay down for states that eschew their obligations in this context will also apply to Iran. Conversations with U.S. civilian and military officials suggest that in recent weeks there has been greater recognition among members of the Obama administration that the danger of a nuclear Iran to the entire Middle East and, together with North Korea, to the spread of nuclear weapons around the world, is greater than the anticipated cost of an Israeli operation against Iran.

The Pentagon and Obama’s National Security Council have become increasingly convinced of this following talks with Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi in Washington and Strasbourg. In a time of change in the political leadership and stability in the senior military command, the American defense establishment views Ashkenazi as highly credible, and as someone who takes a professional approach. His assessments on the gravity of the threat as well as the capability to confront it have already been echoed by the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Michael Mullen, in his briefings with the press.

But only an Israeli government that seeks peace can convince the public that its order to the IDF to act was given free from ulterior motives. If Netanyahu’s natural partner is Avigdor Lieberman, Obama is indicating that his natural partner is Tzipi Livni.

Very soon, in Netanyahu’s visit to Washington and Obama’s visit to Jerusalem, either a change will be imposed on Israeli policy, or a change will be imposed on the Israeli government.