A report prepared for Prime Minister Putin by the Federal Security Service
(FSB) says that former International Monetary
Fund (IMF) Chief Dominique
Strauss-Kahn [photo with Putin top left] was charged and jailed in the US
for sex
crimes on May 14th after his discovery that all of the gold held
in the United
States Bullion Depository located at Fort Knox [photo 2nd left]
was 'missing and/or unaccounted' for.
According to this FSB secret report, Strauss-Kahn had become "increasingly
concerned" earlier this month after the United States began "stalling" its pledged delivery to the IMF of 191.3 tons of gold agreed to under the Second Amendment of the Articles of Agreement signed by the
Executive Board in April 1978 that were to be sold to fund what are called
Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) as an
alternative to what are called reserve currencies.
This FSB report further states that upon Strauss-Kahn raising his concerns
with American government officials close to President Obama he was 'contacted' by 'rogue elements' within the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) who provided him 'firm evidence' that all of the gold reported to be held by the US 'was gone'.
Upon Strauss-Kahn receiving the CIA evidence, this report continues, he made
immediate arrangements to leave the US for Paris, but when contacted by agents
working for France's General Directorate for External Security (DGSE) that American authorities were
seeking his capture he fled to New York City's JFK airport following these
agents directive not to take his cell-phone because US police could track his
exact location.
Once Strauss-Kahn was safely boarded on an Air France flight to Paris,
however, this FSB report says he made a 'fatal mistake' by calling the
hotel from a phone on the plane and asking them to forwarded the cell-phone he
had been told to leave behind to his French residence, after which US agents
were able to track and apprehend him.  
Within the past fortnight, this report continues, Strauss-Kahn reached out
to his close friend and top Egyptian banker Mahmoud Abdel Salam Omar to
retrieve from the US the evidence given to him by the CIA. Omar, however, and
exactly like Strauss-Kahn before him, was charged yesterday by the US with a
sex crime against a luxury hotel maid, a charge the FSB labels as 'beyond
belief' due to Omar being 74-years-old and a devout Muslim.
In an astounding move puzzling many in Moscow, Putin after reading this
secret FSB report today ordered posted to the Kremlin's official website a
defense of Strauss-Khan becoming the first
world leader to state that the former IMF chief was a victim of a US conspiracy.
Putin further stated, "It's
hard for me to evaluate the hidden political motives but I cannot believe that
it looks the way it was initially introduced. It doesn't sit right in my head."
Interesting to note about all of these events is that one of the United
States top Congressman, and 2012 Presidential candidate, Ron Paul [photo bottom
left] has long stated his belief that the US government has lied about its gold
reserves held at Fort Knox.  So concerned had Congressman Paul become
about the US government and the Federal Reserve hiding the truth about American
gold reserves he put forward a bill in late 2010 to force
an audit of them, but which was subsequently defeated by Obama regime
forces.  
When directly asked by reporters if he believed there was no gold in Fort
Knox or the Federal Reserve, Congressman Paul gave the incredible reply, "I
think it is a possibility."
Also interesting to note is that barely 3 days after the arrest of
Strauss-Kahn, Congressman Paul made a new call for the US to sell its gold
reserves by stating, "Given
the high price it is now, and the tremendous debt problem we now have, by all
means, sell at the peak."
Bizarre reports emanating from the US for years, however, suggest there is
no gold to sell, and as we can read as posted in 2009 on the ViewZone.Com news
site:
"In October of 2009 the Chinese
received a shipment of gold bars. Gold is regularly exchanges between countries
to pay debts and to settle the so-called balance of trade. Most gold is
exchanged and stored in vaults under the supervision of a special organization
based in London, the London Bullion Market Association (or LBMA). When the
shipment was received, the Chinese government asked that special tests be
performed to guarantee the purity and weight of the gold bars. In this test,
four small holed are drilled into the gold bars and the metal is then analyzed.
Officials were shocked to
learn that the bars were fake. They contained cores of tungsten with only a
outer coating of real gold. What's more, these gold bars, containing serial
numbers for tracking, originated in the US and had been stored in Fort Knox for
years. There were reportedly between 5,600 to 5,700 bars, weighing 400 oz.
each, in the shipment!"
To the final fate of Strauss-Kahn it is not in our knowing, but new reports
coming from the United States show his determination not to go down without a
fight as he has hired what is described as a 'crack
team' of former CIA spies, private investigators and media advisers to
defend him.
To the practical effects on the global economy should it be proved that the
US, indeed, has been lying about its gold reserves, Russia's Central Bank
yesterday ordered
the interest rate raised from 0.25 to 3.5 percent and Putin ordered the
export ban on wheat and grain crops lifted
by July 1st in a move designed to fill the Motherlands coffers
with money that normally would have flowed to the US.
The American peoples ability to know the truth of these things, and as
always, has been shouted out by their propaganda media organs leaving them in
danger of not being prepared for the horrific
economic collapse of their nation now believed will much sooner than later.

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Pakistan Government, Local Media Owners, Courts Also Responsible For Troubles of Journalists

 

I got mixed response from my earlier mail titled "Foreign Media Also Responsible For Deaths of Pakistani Journalists."

Majority blamed me for an agent of ISI and establishment but some appreciated it. Many were supportive of truth, liberty, freedom of expression and other nice slogans without realising ground realities and consequences in a police state like Pakistan.

All of the non-journalists bashed me for writing this piece, as they have nothing on stake. They want others to fight for them, pay for it, while they keep themselves away and safe.

Other sections of society should also risk their lives for betterment of society.

I think that government is also responsible for troubles of journalist community. Keeping their stomachs empty is integral part of their information policy so that they can bar them from independent thinking and keep them busy in making both ends meet.

Pakistani Courts also put their weight behind the owners adding to miseries of journalist community, many judges would personally call owners as soon as they are approached by staff—what a shame.

Similarly, the media owners should also share the blame. They look everything purely from business point of view which is very selfish attitude. The ever-increasing influence of marketing staff in every news organisation is enough to prove it.

Many media owners would stress ethics and honesty among staff without considering it practical for themselves. They think that journalists and their families are super humans that survive without food.

Whatever majority of journalists in Pakistan get in the name of salaries is in fact a small, humiliating and irregular stipend which can be termed alms/donation at best.

This double standard works well for owners but it's hard for journalists to accept and their is no institution that can help them out.

The situation leaves majority of reporters/sub editors with little options but to explore other venues to provide for bread and butter to unfortunate families.

Such areas may include serving other private and government organisations/individuals, indulgence in PR activities, working for foreign media, begging and black mailing.

They are not paid properly yet they hide the fact that they are serving others due to negative mindset of journalist community towards PR professional. (God knows when PR professionals would be considered as humans and respectable segment of society).

Once I asked a friend that why is he hitting Pakistan and Islam in every news filed to foreign media. He said that foreign media has helped his family to migrate from inferior good to superior. Once his salary was OK to meet expenses, now it is not for personal entertainment.

"This is a whirlpool from which I cannot come out even if I try" was his last justification after which I preferred to close the topic.

It is an undeniable fact that almost everyone is aware of the situation which has resulted in many problems. Many would not accept any journalist as son in law, as they know that it amounts to playing with future of their daughters.

Will there be any end to suppression?


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Dear All:
 
I have seen lots of blames being blown towards ISI. We just forgot about another player of this game. If Saleem Shehzad was going to reveal more about Mehran attack, what about those who attacked? I mean Ilyas Kashmiri or Al Qaeda subsidiaries etc.? Why dont we think about other side of the picture? Afterall they are not innocent birds from heaven! They have done lots of damage and why they would care for Saleem if he was going to unveil the culprits
 
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Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 15:31:12 +0100
Subject: Re: Media Tribe> Foreign Media Responsible For Killing of Pakistani Journalists
From: akber@qern.org
To: media-tribe@googlegroups.com
CC: Pakistan-MEDIA@yahoogroups.com; tariqgulkhattak@gmail.com

Great comments all around.  Freedom of speech is not absolute, and extra-judicial murders are abhorrent to civilisation itself.

The fourth estate has a watchdog role -- what the public should be aware of in order to make rational decisions about their lives and their leaders.  When the powerful start to deceive, the truth should be known.  Even then, operational details and names are hidden, even by Wikileaks.  In fact, Wikileaks was a phenomenon due to Western media becoming too cosy to power, a fact that has since been acknowledged, even by the New York Times.  

The New York Times declares boldly 'All the news that's fit to print' with the clear realisation that there is news that is not fit to print.

Intelligence agencies carry out tit-for-tat operations to keep us OUT of war -- it shows the intelligence level and operational readiness of the other side without going into full-scale war.  KGB-CIA shenanigans kept the Cold War cold.  All intelligence agencies fund and keep militant organisations to do their dirty work.  ISI is very good at what it does, and is an intelligence agency worthy of a nuclear power, and necessary for such a power.  Again, some dirty games of intelligence agencies keep us out of full-blown war.  They keep the American and Indian agencies in their place.  They are not angels, and we would not want them to be either.

The ISI, as part of the government, should be held accountable by the media, but its operational details should not be relieved.  The most a journalist should do in such situations when he/she feels that a broader principle may be compromised is to go abstract and outline the principle at stake.  A golden rule -- how would a US reporter write about the CIA, or the Hindustan Times about RAW?

Operational details are just titillating details that have no purpose in educating the public.  While Saleem was a great reporter, and he laid bare an issue, which Ghaznvi has discussed here (http://www.qern.org/en/rapidly-changing-al-qaeda-endgame-pakistan-0), his crossing the line may have left not choice for the people who regularly put their lives on the line for us.  Still, if it was the ISI, it was wrong.

It is a delicate balancing act.

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2011/6/1 Tariq Khattak <tariqgulkhattak@gmail.com>

Foreign Media Responsible For Assassination of Pakistani Journalists

 

Foreign media and organisations will always say that freedom of expression and free journalism is something alien to Pakistani society.


They know that yet they push young reporters to file stories that land them/their families into problems. Many pay the ultimate price to boost the sale of foreign media.


Many reporters are aggressive by default; encouragement makes them more insistent. However, grey-haired /white-haired editors are not/should not.


Editors should not see damaging stories from purely business point of view; rather they should mull all the consequences.

Journalism should not be lost to commercialism.


The killing of Saleem will be forgotten after some time; the mystery (Whodunit) will never be resolved, Asia Times, like other media businesses, got publicity and will find people to become fuel of their lust to become popular.


But what about his family and kids, who will fill the gap in their lives. They have lost him forever. He will never come back for them.


I can bet that his anniversary will go unnoticed and many more would have paid by then.


Time will tell who was behind this crime, or any journalist can---


I feel obliged to request my colleagues to exercise calm and restraint.. every truth should not be unmasked. Some secrets are best when kept to chest.


May Allah bless Saleem and all other martyrs and give vision to the rest to discharge duties while remaining safe.

The statement of US Sec. of State Ms Clinton is encouraging but will it help the slain reporter, the unfortunate widow or orphans.


Money is very important thing but not most important thing. We should not do anything/everything for money and fame.

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