According to Newzweek: People in all corners of the stagnating Arab world dared to hope that the triumph of the Tunisian street might do for them what the election of Obama did for the people of the USA.
A lot of people in the Arab world have not forgotten the similar burst of enthusiasm that swept the region when Saddam flew off to Belarus and the US military brought peace and prosperity to Iraq.
The fall of Ben Ali has exposed the corrupt common denominator of every regime in the Arab world.
They are all, in effect, mafia states - entire nations run by families for their own benefit.
They do not have the good fortune to be run by such philanthropists as Bernie Madoff, Marc Rich, Ken Lay, the Bush family, Allen Stanford, Tom DeLay, Jack Abramoff, Oliver North, Barney Frank, Spiro Agnew, Sam Giancana, Henry Kissinger or the Rockefellers.
And the policies of the Pentagon helped the Khmer Rouge to come to power. (Henry Kissinger)
The Khmer Rouge policy of mass murder "was remarkably similar to the one being carried out by the US under Theodore Shackley's Operation Phoenix..."
"Kissinger and other officials began to see the potential of the Khmer Rouge for implementing the genocidal population reductions that had now been made the official doctrine of the US regime." (Chapter 14 – Bush in Beijing « TARPLEY.net)
All soldiers are pretty much the same. Mass murder of women and children, by the British military, in Dresden 1944.
The Vietnam-Cambodia story is about making money from armaments and from heroin.
"During US military involvement in ... Indo-China, Air America flew opium throughout the area.
"A laboratory built at CIA headquarters in northern Laos was used to refine heroin.
"After a decade of American military intervention, South-east Asia had become the source of 70% of the world's illicit opium and the major supplier of raw materials for America's booming heroin market." (Who controls Crime?)
The day General McArthur signed the peace treaty with Japan half the weapons stored on Okinawa were shipped to Ho Chi Minh and General Giap who met these shipments at the docks of Hai Phong harbor with Lucien Conein, the CIA case officer for Diem.
HashimThaci (left), 'involved in selling heroin, weapons and human organs.'
2. NATO soldiers deliberately stirred up problems in Yugoslavia and put the gangster Hashim Thaci into power in Kosovo.
In 1979, German military intelligence (the BND) sent a team of secret agents to Zagreb.
Their mission was to support Franjo Tudjman, a racist who actively promoted ethnic hatred and did all he could to cause the break-up of Yugoslavia. (What really happened to Yugoslavia.)
World War One was started and kept going by certain plotters.
During World War One, Sir William Wiseman, a Jew who was high up in British Intelligence, kept in friendly touch with Max Warburg, the Jew in charge of German Intelligence,
And, the British Naval Attaché in Scandinavia, Rear Admiral M.P. Consett, kept track of the movement of war supplies from the Jewish bankers to the Germans.
Consett, in his book Triumph of the Unarmed Forces (published 1923), writes that if the bankers had not continually supplied Germany with money and materials, then World War I would have ended in less than a year.
Soldiers keep the Feudal System in place. Famished Chinese child dying in a gutter, by George Silk 1946.
"American bankers supplied Adolf Hitler with millions of dollars to help build up his Nazi party...
"Hitler received $10 million from Kuhn Loeb and Cie. during 1929, further payments of $15 million in 1931, and $7 million when Hitler took power in 1933." (Cached)
Famous partners of this Jewish firm included Otto Kahn, Paul Warburg, Felix Warburg, Mortimer Schiff, Benjamin Buttenwieser, Lewis Strauss and Sigmund Warburg. (Kuhn, Loeb & Co. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
What about Soviet Russia?
Lenin and his friends were helped by certain big bad businessmen.
"There is the statement (substantiated by a cablegram) by William Boyce Thompson - a director of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, a large stockholder in the Rockefeller-controlled Chase Bank, and a financial associate of the Guggenheims and the Morgans - that he (Thompson) contributed $1 million to the Bolshevik Revolution." (Cached)
nobodyreminded us of the American Kay Griggs (website here) whose former husband, Colonel George Griggs, was reportedly head of NATO's Psychological Operations.
Kay Griggs reports her husband as saying that "we've never been an enemy to the Soviet Union."
Kay came to the conclusion that the US military was all about drug-running and weapons sales. - (Kay Griggs Talks - Home.)
And let's not forget that Saddam and the Ayatollahs were put into power by the Pentagon and CIA.
War is a racket, kept going by soldiers. This 12-yr-old girl with a cross around her neck and with multiple wounds uses a stick to hobble through debris in Dong Xoai. Her father, sister and a brother were killed and their home destroyed. Photo by Horst Faas 1965.
Goebbels awarding Willi Huebner the Iron Cross.
The big bad gangsters and the big bad businessmen work in alliance with the soldiers.
People who salute the military are at the same time helping to keep the bad guys in power.
Romania (Website for this image) Some of the money goes to the Mafia and big global companies, it seems.
The European Union has billions in funds which are intended to help poor regions and poor people.
The UK Financial Times, 30 November 2010 (Europe's grand vision loses focus), reports on where some of this European Union money, intended to help the poor, is going:
1. Millions of euros are siphoned off by organised crime syndicates.
2. Large sums are going to big global companies such as IBM, Fiat, fashion retailer H&M and British American Tobacco.
McDonald’s got nearly €60,000 to pay for ‘skills training’ in one particular rich Swedish town