Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Sunday, 15 May 2016

The European Union Times


Posted: 15 May 2016 06:40 AM PDT
“Why, instead of baying for Arab blood, is no one asking where the pages are which outline the US government’s own 9/11 related failings and culpability?” political analyst Barry Grossman says.
The growing furor surrounding calls to declassify the “28 pages” in the September 11, 2001 attacks related congressional report written in 2002 appear to be a thinly veiled stunt to sell the official 9/11 narrative and further marginalize the 9/11 Truth movement by playing to the “bloodlust” Americans have for Arabs, according to an international lawyer and political analyst based in Bali, Indonesia.
“America’s great unwashed masses – that is, the mob – are a fickle lot. Only a few years ago, considerably less than half of Americans believed the official 9/11 narrative, with many holding the view that 9/11 was to one extent or another an ‘inside job.’ But now the mob is suddenly so caught up in baying for Arab blood that most people are entirely missing the point about the classified 28 pages which supposedly embody Congressional findings about Saudi involvement in 9/11,” Barry Grossman told Press TV on Saturday.
“The growing furor surrounding calls to declassify the ‘Saudi pages’ is a thinly veiled stunt to sell the official 9/11 narrative and further marginalize the 9/11 Truth movement by playing to the ‘bloodlust’ American’s have for Arabs,” he added.
US President Barack Obama has recently come under growing pressure by a bipartisan group of lawmakers to release 28 pages of the 9/11 Commission Report that indirectly implicates Saudi Arabia in the September, 2001 attacks.
The 9/11 Commission Report was prepared by the 9/11 Commission at the request of former President George W. Bush and Congress. The commission was set up “to prepare a full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the September 11 attacks.”
The commission concluded that 15 of the 19 hijackers who carried out the 9/11 attacks were from Saudi Arabia, and all were members of the al-Qaeda terrorist organization, but found no evidence the government of Saudi Arabia conspired in the attacks.
The commission’s report has long been rumored to contain information about a relationship between Saudi Arabia’s royal family and al-Qaeda.
US officials assert that the attacks, which killed almost 3,000 people and caused at least $10 billion in property and infrastructure damage, were carried out by al-Qaeda terrorists but many analysts say it was a false-flag operation and that Osama bin Laden was just a bogeyman for the US military-industrial complex.
They believe rogue elements within the US government orchestrated or at least encouraged the 9/11 attacks in order to boost the US economy and advance the Zionist agenda.
9/11 report a whitewash of the tragic events?
“As for the 9/11 Commission Report, there can be no doubt that it represents the culmination of a poorly resourced, politically motivated, and grudging process that was anything but a proper investigation and in reality was a whitewash of the tragic events it examined. There is little reason to imagine that the process which produced the 2002 Congressional Report was any different,” Grossman said.
“Bearing in mind the massive body of work now available which cast’s serious doubt on whether it was even physically possible for World Trade Center buildings 1, 2 and 7 to have collapsed like they did as a result planes impacting the two main towers and which makes an even stronger case for rejecting the official claim that the Pentagon was hit by a Boeing 757, the current furor over presumed Saudi involvement overlooks the fact that we do not yet even know what 9/11 was with any degree of reliability or certainty,” the analyst added.
“How can blame be assigned for an event, without first reliably working out what that event was? In the same way no one can be prosecuted for murder until it is properly established that there is a dead victim, it is lunacy to speak about responsibility for 9/11 until there is some coherent and reliable determination of what actually happened on that day,” he stated.
“We have already seen how America’s oh so exceptional system of justice has been used as a weapon of economic warfare to impose civil liability on Iran for the events of 9/11 and for other attacks in the Middle East, responsibility for which was previously officially attributed primarily to al-Qaeda,” the commentator said.
‘Outrageous injustice’
Grossman said: “This outrageous injustice was achieved entirely on the strength of:
1. Unprecedented US legislation which purports to unilaterally strip away Iran’s sovereign immunity and which even the Obama administration has recently conceded violates international law;
2. the State Department’s politically motivated designation of Iran as a state sponsor of terrorism; and
3. self-serving, hearsay testimony from professional Iran haters who claim that a few of the individuals who allegedly much later became 9/11 hijackers at some stage in the late 90’s (before anything like a formal al-Qaeda organization even existed), were permitted by Iranian authorities to travel through Iran to meet with bin Laden’s people in Afghanistan without having their passports stamped.”
“You don’t have to be a scientist or lawyer to work out that any nexus between the allegations made against Iran and the events of 9/11 is so remote that Iran’s alleged conduct in doing for a few individuals much the same thing that Israel routinely does for foreign visitors who do not want an Israel stamp in their passport out of concern that it might result in them being denied entry to other countries, even if proven, cannot coherently be said to have in any way caused or contributed to the events of 9/11,” the lawyer stated.
‘Usual suspects’ behind ‘28 pages’ charade
“The same highly organized forces who managed to manipulate politically motivated and ill-conceived legislation in order to get a relatively junior judge of the US Federal Court to deem Iran liable for 9/11, are now working closely with the ‘usual suspects’ and with elements in the US security apparatus to stage manage this latest charade about the classified 28 pages with the aims of vilifying and ultimately manipulating the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and dismissing the 9/11 Truth movement,” Grossman said.
“By refocusing the public consciousness on this contrived scandal about the classified Saudi pages, those elements in the US security apparatus charged with vilifying 9/11 skeptics and marginalizing their efforts to discredit the official narrative, are about to land their ‘knock out’ punch to the once vibrant but now moribund 9/11 Truth movement,” the researcher said.
“So what has become of the once not so silent American majority who refused to accept that 9/11 was carried out by something called al-Qaeda or that it was even possible for the thee WTC towers to collapse into their own footprints at near free fall speed as a result of planes crashing into two of them?” he asked.
“How is that the majority of Americans who not long ago saw the official narrative laid out in the 9/11 Commission report as a carefully orchestrated fabrication to cover up the reality of what happened on 9/11 are now suddenly willing to enthusiastically believe that the classified Saudi related pages represent the whole truth and nothing but the truth?” he furthered asked.
Where are the pages which outline Washington’s own culpability?
“Why, instead of baying for Arab blood, is no one asking where the pages are which outline the US government’s own 9/11 related failings and culpability? After all, according the US Federal Court, it does not require proof of very much at all for a government to be deemed liable for such attacks,” Grossman said.
“I am certainly no apologist for the Saudi regime which, as we have most recently seen in Syria and Egypt, has clearly demonstrated its willingness to support violent and extremist elements to advance its own secular geopolitical agenda. But to suggest that the Saudi government under King Fahd somehow officially planned the 9/11 attacks or otherwise supported the individuals who carried those attacks, is scarcely less absurd than deeming Iran responsible for the tragedy that unfolded on that day,” he said.
“Yes. It would be interesting to read the 28 pages, if only to get more evidence of just how incompetent and politically motivated both the 9/11 Commission and the 2002 House and Senate intelligence committees were. But the reality is that, in the extremely unlikely event that those pages actually refer to clear evidence of official Saudi culpability in the events of 9/11, they will certainly never be declassified as long as doubts about official Saudi involvement in 9/11 can be used as leverage by the USA and Israel to manipulate the KSA,” the analyst said.
“Meanwhile, apart from the Saudi regime’s absurd threat to divest from the US economy, perhaps the clearest indication that this may well be just another massive psyop being used to manipulate public opinion, lies in the fact that former 9/11 Commission member John Lehman, who was also the Navy Secretary under President Ronald Reagan, has now come out and, in sweeping terms, publicly referred to the substance of the classified ‘Saudi pages’ and the related process which played out in the Commission’s related proceedings, without being immediately arrested for breaching national security,” he noted.
“I leave open the question of what relationship Mr. Lehman has with the army of self-interested but politically motivated litigators who succeeded in getting a 10 billion dollar judgment against Iran but have so far be stymied in their efforts to get a similar judgment against the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia,” Grossman concluded.
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Posted: 15 May 2016 06:10 AM PDT

Ronald Reagan only released one year of tax returns saying it was an invasion of privacy.
The conservative leader only released the one return after the 1979 Republican National Convention.
Liberal pundits and Mitt Romney want billionaire Donald Trump to release his returns so they can scour the pages for hit pieces on the GOP frontrunner.
Donald Trump signing his tax returns in 2015.

The liberal media wants desperately to get their hands on this pile of paper.
Donald Trump told Hillary lackey George Stephanopoulos today his tax returns were “none of his business.”
Bottomline, do Republicans and especially Trump supporters even care to see his tax return files? Of course they don’t. You can watch the overwhelming thumbs down to all these Youtube videos from media presstitutes such as FOX, MSNBC, CNN, NBC for all their videos on Trump’s tax return files. Furthermore you can go through the comments and be stunned to find out that the vast majority of people DO NOT WANT to see Trump’s tax returns, furthermore they don’t even care. All they want from Trump is to build the wall, ban the Muslims and get their jobs back from China.
Trump said numerous times that he cannot release any tax return files while he is under audit, yet the media is still obsessed to get their filthy greasy hands on his files. FOX News host Greta Van Susteren who is a lawyer by profession agreed with Trump while interviewing him, saying that she too wouldn’t allow Trump to release his tax returns while under audit if she were his lawyer.
So why is the media obsessed with Trump’s taxes? Because the media is openly THE ENEMY of Trump and of the people of course, with a few exceptions here and there of course. They wanna get their hands on those taxes so they can do a search for the needle in haystack until they find something to use against Trump.
The mainstream media is so disgusting, it deserves to be totally banned from professing.
        
Posted: 15 May 2016 05:55 AM PDT

Newly released flight logs show former US president Bill Clinton flew on convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s infamous “Lolita Express” jet at least 26 times.
Initial reports in January suggested Clinton was on board the billionaire’s Boeing 727 on “only” 11 occasions, but documents obtained by Fox News show he flew with Epstein more than two dozen times.
Between 2001 and 2003, while Hillary was serving as a US Senator, Bill took a number of “extended junkets” around the world with the hedge fund manager.
There were also a number of other passengers identified on the manifests, usually with their initials or first name, including one named “Tatiana.”
Clinton reportedly ditched his Secret Service detail for at least five flights, even though there does not appear to be any of the required paperwork for signing the detail off.
Epstein served 13 months for soliciting “prostitutes” as young as 14 and is now a registered sex offender.
The flight logs showing those traveling with Clinton on board the plane, which reportedly had a bed where passengers had group sex with young girls as young as 12, included socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, who prosecutors believe procured underage girls for Epstein.
The FBI began investigating Epstein in 2006 when evidence emerged showing dozens of young girls may have been used as sex slaves by him and his famous friends.
A total of 40 women were identified by the FBI as having been illegally procured by Epstein, but a “sweetheart deal” in 2008 led to his single solicitation charge and short sentence.
The arrangement saw authorities agree not to press any criminal charges against “any potential co-conspirators of Epstein.”
The billionaire was also registered as a “Tier 1” sex offender.
More questions arose over the relationship between Epstein and the Clintons, leading him to plead the fifth when asked if he knew the former president personally during a separate case in 2010 and 2011 when he was sued by some of his alleged victims.
Last year, it emerged that Epstein allegedly transferred $3.5 million from his secret Swiss bank account to the Clinton Foundation around the same time as the FBI began investigating him.
One of the prosecutors involved in Epstein’s “sweetheart deal,” Matt Menchel, contributed $1,000 to Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential bid and $2,500 to Democratic Florida Senator Bill Nelson, who in April was tipped to be Hillary’s running mate.
He also sent $25,000 to a separate Clinton charity in July 2006, reported Radar.
Beyond the powerful couple, Epstein is linked to other well-known public figures such as former Clinton Press Secretary George Stephanopoulos, Britain’s Prince Andrew, TV personality Katie Couric, actor Kevin Spacey, and filmmaker Woody Allen.
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Posted: 15 May 2016 05:43 AM PDT

The Rothschild-owned magazine, The Economist, describes Michel Temer as Brazil’s “unplanned” president.
The 75-year-old law professor, who played a key role in the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff, became the South American country’s acting president on Thursday after Rousseff was suspended by the Senate on corruption charges.
Temer’s rise to power, however, is not merely a happenstance event—it was arranged by the US State Department in much the same way the puppet government was put into place in Ukraine.
On Friday, the whistleblower website WikiLeaks released an unclassified yet “sensitive” cable revealing Temer acted as an embassy informant for US intelligence and the military.
One of the two WikiLeak documents was sent to the US Southern Command in Miami. In the document, Temer talks about the political situation in Brazil during the presidency of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. He predicts his party, the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party, would rise to power.
“Michel Temer, a Federal deputy from Sao Paulo who served as president of the Chamber of Deputies from 1997 through 2000, met January 9 with CG and poloffs to discuss the current political situation,” the document, dated January 11, 2006, states.
“Temer criticized Lula’s narrow vision and his excessive focus on social safety net programs that don’t promote growth or economic development.”
In other words, Lula rejected the neoliberal agenda favored by Washington.
The New York Times reported on Thursday Temer’s interim presidency “could cause a significant shift to the political right in Latin America’s largest country.”
Brazil, while not as overtly socialist as Cuba and Venezuela, has been ruled by the Workers’ Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores) since 2002.
Dilma Rousseff, described as Brazil’s socialist “Iron Lady,” bucked the neoliberal trend. “Rousseff’s victory has significant implications for the world’s financial markets,” The New Yorker reported on October 28, 2014.
“Rather than embracing austerity policies during the Presidential race, Rousseff promised to maintain the welfare benefits and social services that the Workers’ Party has introduced since 2003, when her predecessor and mentor, Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva, came to power. Now that Rousseff is back in power, some analysts believe that the country is facing the possibility of a financial crisis, as much of the foreign money that was invested there during the boom years seeks an exit.”
It was feared Brazil would default on its debts and become another Argentina, which would have a significant impact on foreign banks and overseas markets, including in the United States. Between 1998 and 2002, Argentina suffered a depression and, to the horror of the financial elite, resorted to alternative currencies and dropped the peso’s fixed exchange rate to the US dollar.
According to Silas Malafaia, a television evangelist and author, Temer will “sweep away the ideology of pathological leftists” and bring the country back into the orbit of Wall Street.
Restoring the balance favored by the financial elite is not, as The Economist would have it, an unplanned event.
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Posted: 15 May 2016 05:36 AM PDT

The Nebraska Republican State Convention is underway today in Omaha, Nebraska.
Republican Sam Fischer introduced a resolution to reprimand Senator Ben Sasse for his outspoken attacks on Republican nominee Donald Trump and for leading the anti-Trump movement.
Sasse, a Republican, is the top Republican office holder pushing for a third party run this fall against Donald Trump.
In effect, Ben Sasse is supporting Hillary Clinton.
Today a motion was introduced to reprimand Senator Sasse.
Here is the latest.
Sasse spoke earlier today at the convention. The Delegates are VERY UPSET with Sasse.
The Vote was around 400 to 8!
Supporters (rightfully) say Sasse’ anti-Trump rhetoric will only help Hillary Clinton!
It was a bitter/sweet day for Sasse. He was greetly warmly by some delegates today, who then slapped him down for anti-Trump stance.
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Posted by Roberto Abraham Scaruffi at 18:36