Synthesis: Volume 4

Re Copyright:

Synthesis is not a copyright book. You are welcome to copy it, print it off, and/or to send it to friends, organisations etc. But please be good enough to acknowledge me as the author. Thank you, for respecting my many years of hard work.

Dedications:

In writing Synthesis, I’ve been informed and inspired by (amongst others): John Pilger, Clive Stafford-Smith, Noam Chomsky, Ambalavaner Sivanandan and Michael Crichton, as well as George Orwell and Robert Tressell. I want to thank George Groom-White, for proof reading and guidance and Caroline Petherick for editing and enhancing the text. Though since then, I’ve added and altered many parts and take full responsibility for my errors.

About the Author:

I’m no spring chicken. Left school at fifteen and worked some 17 years before returning to education, as a mature student. Acquired a sociology degree, followed by social work and teaching qualifications. Worked as a social worker for eight years, before starting to write Synthesis on and off from 2004 – some 13 nears ago. Since then, I’ve worked variously as a builder, community worker, social worker and taxi-driver.

By the same author: [Shahbaz Fazal synthesisbook.com]

Israel-Palestine: who’s the victim?

This is a very brief, fact-based fictional book in six parts. It shows the essential issues at the heart of the Palestine–Israel conflict since 1948. The first two parts are an account of the 2008/09 Israeli Operation Cast Lead. Part Three looks at why the Palestinian people overwhelmingly voted for Hamas in January 2006.

Sections four and five provide updates and an assessment of the 2013, US-sponsored Israel-Palestine peace talks. The last part covers the 2014 Operation Protective Edge – Israel’s latest attempt to kill the Palestinian people’s irrepressible spirit.

This book exposes the big lie – the elephant hanging off a cliff with its tail tied to a daisy; of the claim, Israel, the victim. It is intended to put the other, seldom-heard point of view across to the reader – with a good dose of artistic licence.

Good News – this book can be read under 3 hours!

Synthesis Contents

Volume Four

Chapter 46  Taking Stock

Chapter 47  Banksters

Chapter 48  War on Terror Has Failed

Chapter 49  Counter-revolution

Chapter 50  Full Spectrum Dominance

Chapter 51  Baiting the Bear

Chapter 52  Orange Revolution

Chapter 53  Bombs and Bullets or Medical diplomacy?

Chapter 54  War on Dissent

Chapter 55  Rigged-democracy to Multi-Polar World

Volume Four

Please ignore the introduction to this Volume,

if you wish to maintain the integrity of the unfolding story.

Volume Four – Chapters 46 to 55: New millennium to multi-polar world.

Synthesis spans 13 years, while the polemical chapters run from 2008 to 2017. They were (mostly) written as events unfolded. The issues and evidence is contemporary, (though some evidence is later). Some events have panned out quite differently, but the big picture remains the same.

Volume four covers the period 2011 to 2015 and starts by taking stock of the situation at the start of the new millennium, before examining how the banking system actually works.

Then the 14-year war on terror is examined in terms of its results. Not only have the numbers of terrorists increased a hundred-fold, US-NATO policies have created new, far more blood-thirsty terrorists. This shows there never was a war on terror, but an excuse for US-NATO divide-and-rule regime change policies, and regional Israeli and Saudi domination strategies.

In the process, the 2011 Arab spring – the ordinary Muslim people’s uprising against decades of dictatorial rule has been subverted into cut-throat Sunni and Shia Muslim sectarianism. As that’s what suits the best interests of the Saudi royals and Western leaders.

Alongside this the Pentagon’s full spectrum dominance agenda has been encircling Russia with ever-encroaching US-NATO bases and regime changes, as in Ukraine; ensuring its greatest past enemy remain its greatest future reason for ever-expanding Pentagon and NATO budgets.

The Ebola fever epidemic in West Africa in 2014-15 starkly contrasted the opposing ideological perspectives of US leaders’ bombs and bullets and Cuban international medical diplomacy.

While UKs 2015 general election reconfirmed the first-past-the-post, as a rigged system designed to ensure only mainstream voices are heard, and all alternatives ruled off the agenda.

Chapter 46: Taking Stock

Once again, I, White-Dove will be relating this part of Synthesis, my terrestrial friends, so speech marks are unnecessary.

The two different endings to the five escapees’ story reflect the big picture of today’s world order in transition. Moving from the one – US super-power, to a new Chinas, Indias and Brazils multi-polar world of different options. So come with me now on the next phase of our thirteen-year journey, which we’ll start by taking stock of the first decade of the new millennium.

A decade that first arrived in the US of A with the cataclysmic deliverance of 9/11 in 2001, shattering the peace and lives of some 3,000 defenceless people. Quickly followed by the US-led shock-and-awe being visited upon Afghanistan and Iraq’s civilian populations, exacting vengeance of a million-plus victims. (Though Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11).

The repercussions next travelled to the London Underground and streets and buses of England on 7/7/2005, claiming nearly 60 more involuntary civilian martyrs. Then the new world order itself came crashing down in the 2008 credit crunch shit-storm, shattering the mantra of the market knows best and shaking TINA – of there is no alternative, to her knees. 1

A decade in which the computer chip and mobile phone revolutions, the World Wide Web, Google, Facebook and Twitter, as well as their Microsoft, Apple and Amazon godfathers took hold and continued to grow more powerful day by day.

The decade’s penultimate event was the failure of the Copenhagen 2009 Global Warming circus – when the developing nations worm began to turn, as new Chinas, Indias and Brazils had finally arrived at the decision-making table.

WikiLeaks ended the decade; when the free expression idealists struck back at Amazon, Visa, Mastercard, Bank of America, Swiss Bank and PayPal – for censoring the one organisation dedicated to whistle-blowing the hidden news.

They were doubly incensed at WikiLeaks’ accounts being blocked by people wanting to curry favour with the US government, and to reject the free expression ideals of the World Wide Web.

Let me explain the main issues here, my friends. The US government has claimed WikiLeaks’ revelations have caused damage to various human rights activists, foreign government officials and business personnel – resulting in threats to their safety. This is simply not true.

Even the US Secretary of Defence, Robert Gates has admitted, ‘no sensitive intelligence sources have been compromised.’ Whereas NATO chiefs in Kabul have stated, they ‘could not find a single person who needed protecting.’2

On the other hand, Javier Moreno, the editor of Spain’s El Pais newspaper has suggested the real fuss over WikiLeaks is because: ‘they conclusively reveal the extent to which politicians in the West have been lying to their citizens.’3

Not just manipulating their people about the war on terror – against terrorists that they themselves created, but exactly who’s interest Western politicians have been working for.

***************

You’ve seen these lies take hold and know what it’s come to, my terra firma friends; forcing the workers to pay for the credit crunch shit-storms of the filthy richest. A story of two halves; where the haves and have-nots escalators have been going in opposite directions.

On the going-up escalator, the earnings of UK’s top executives have increased by forty-fold in 30 years – shooting up a whopping 49% during 2010 alone.4 Whereas on the down-track side, average wages have risen just three-fold – largely keeping pace with inflation.5

As for the majority of you Brits who’re paid well below average earnings, (hugely bloated top salaries means below average for the many), you’re stuck in a lift that’s snapped its cables and is free-falling to the basement.

Your wages are going down, retirement ages going up, utility bills Dick Turpin highwaymen becoming ever more daring and indirect taxes and commercial prices continually rising. Then to keep you paralysed and in a state of fear, you’re constantly told – you’re lucky to have a job.

Meanwhile your Cameron and Clegg double-act, are ConDem-ing you to the sickest of sick jokes: we’re all in it together. An epic monumental deception of George Orwell’s Ministry of Truth proportions. A ten-year-old child can see, they’re taking the piss.

This is class war; pure and simple. Even Warren Buffett, the second-richest man in the world, has said: ‘There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class – the rich class – that’s making war, and we’re winning.’6 Well, it’s time to change this sorry state of affairs, my British friends.

You can start by challenging the Con-Dem government’s central argument for austerity measures itself. At the start of this big lie in 2009, you were informed the total British revenue deficit was £175 billion.

What wasn’t made so clear was that £200 billion had been given to the banks in cash and another £289 billion spent in nationalising some of them. A further £400 billion had been allocated towards purchasing (worthless) bank assets, and providing them loans billed to the British taxpayers over ten years.7

So the deficit was not caused by overspending, but by what had been given to the banks. Incidentally, you can check this out quite easily, by looking at David McCandless’ billio-pound-o-gram, (The Guardian 27 Nov 2009), on the internet.

Truth of the matter is, the austerity agenda is not about balancing the budget but a pretext for restructuring the British economy; decimating public services and expanding the private sector into every facet of human activity – to serve the best interests of the rich and powerful.

So you must be asking yourselves, why doesn’t the Opposition bring these facts to light? The problem with that is that it would raise the issue of their complicity with the 2008 banking crash – when Blair and Brown couldn’t praise the bankers highly enough.

Need I mention the annual £2 million, the grinning Cheshire-cat receives from J.P. Morgan Chase investment bank and another £500,000 from Zurich Financial Services?8 The fact that his nest egg had reached £45 million by 2011 – speaks volumes for his Christian morals.9 In my opinion, my friends, a greater recruiting sergeant for atheism has yet to visit Planet Earth.

In light of the class warfare being waged by the richest on the rest of you Brits, is it any wonder that prison numbers keep breaking all-time records, reaching 85,374 in June 2011 and 87,749 by November that same year.10

Pulled in by the 3,000 extra criminal offences created by the Cheshire-cat’s government in ten years – all part and parcel of the class-war over the last three decades. An era in which not only have the richest grabbed most of the wealth, UK prison numbers have more than doubled.

Prime Minister David Cameron’s solution to prison overcrowding however, is to build shedloads more private prisons.

To keep the police and the legal profession, private and public prison officers, probation officers, social workers and other functionaries – quiet in well-paid jobs; oiled and greased by the mis-educationalist profession, churning out millions of student-loan-millstone-indebted graduate consumers; all satisfying the dictates of the new world order.

***************

People today can see through the – we’re all in it together – biggest of big lies, and they’re not prepared to be fooled again. They remember Prime Minister Maggie Thatcher and President Ronald Reagan supporting the Afghan freedom fighters – who turned out to be terrorists, after the CIA poured $4 billion into some of the world’s most brutal fanatics.11

Because most people can put two and two together, they’ve realised all this started a good ten years before 9/11 – and have drawn their own conclusions.

Though 15 out of the 19, 9/11 hijackers were Saudi citizens, the Blair and Bush war criminals used the excuse of Iraq’s non-existent WMDs to get their hands on the Iraqi people’s oil and gas resources – and to destroy the nation of Iraq.

While the Iraqi civilian men, women and children dodged the falling masonry, danced with fire, mutilated themselves with uranium-tipped laser-guided radioactive ammunition and lined up as live targets for the US soldiers’ turkey-shoots to the tune of well over a million lives.

When the final footnotes came to be written in the US-led alliance’s 2011 war diaries though, these Iraqi civilians came to be miraculously brought back to life again.

Back in 2006, let me remind you, the overall civilian Iraqi death toll – of all unnatural deaths since the 2003 invasion was estimated by the British Medical Association’s journal, The Lancet to be 655,000. While Robert Fisk, an un-embedded expert on the Middle East reported in March 2008, that estimates of 350,000 to over 1,000,000 deaths was the generally accepted range.12

The policy of not counting civilian deaths was started by US General Norman Schwarzkopf in the US-alliance’s 1991 war on the Iraqi people, that exacted collateral damage of a quarter of a million uncounted Iraqi men, women and children.

Followed by UN-sanctions that killed a million more people, including over 5,000 children a month for the next twelve years – rendering them unpeople, as John Pilger has put it.13

Schwarzkopf also introduced the concept of embedded journalists. This policy ensured the world’s media only saw and heard what their military and government leaders’ wanted them to.

Pretty soon, many of these military press-relations’ spoon-fed journalists came to abandon all professional objectives and by institutional default and personal career choices – found themselves cheerleading imperialist war criminals.

So much so, by the time of the final withdrawal of US troops in mid-December 2011, the facts came to be turned on their head. This is when the UK Government’s in-bed-with BBC journalists resurrected most of the occupation’s Iraqi victims, leaving only 150,000 dead altogether.

Then in a matter of hours, senior BBC news editors rejuvenated another 50,000 decaying Iraqi corpses and continued their retrospective life-saving operations long into the night, leaving only tens of thousands permanently dead – by the next reporting day.14

This left some British viewers wondering