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"U.S. A Threat to Peace": Review of Washington's Activities in Overthrowing Nations/Plundering Upon Innocents In The World
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P.S. Appears that the Corporations are persevering in demonizing Vladmir Putin of Russia and aching to make more monies off of Wars targeting Russia and others.
What is somewhat disturbing are the comments made by Vladmir Putin as highlighted in the above.
AND out of John Nelson's article at http://myweb.ecomplanet.com/GORA8037 also shows the following about Russia:
"It is quite apparent that the “Treasonous” and “Seditious” are brewing up a storm of untold magnitude. Bush’s public address of September 11, 1991 [See: Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents] should further qualify what is being said here. He admitted “Interdependence” [See also: Public Law 94-564, Legislative History, pg. 5950], “One World Order” [See: Extension Of Remarks, January 19, 1976, Marjorie S. Holt, 8 U.S.C.A. 1101(40)], affiliation and collusion with the Soviet Union Oligarchy[50 U.S.C.A. 781], direction by the U.N. [22 U.S.C.A. 611] etc. You might also find it interesting that Treasury Delegation Order No. 92 states that the I.R.S. is trained under the direction of the Division of “Human Resources” (U.N.) and the Commissioner (INTERNATIONAL), by the “Office of Personal Management.” In the 1979 Edition of 22 U.S.C.A. 287, The United Nations, at pg. 248, you will find Executive Order No. 10422. The Office of Personnel Management is under direction of the Secretary General of the United Nations. And as stated previously, the I.R.S. is also a member in a one hundred fifty (150) nation pact called the “International Criminal Police Organization” found at 22 U.S.C.A. 263a. The “Memorandum & Agreement” between the Secretary of Treasury/Corporate Governor of “The Fund” and “The Bank” and the Office of the U.S. Attorney General would indicate that the Attorney General and his associates are soliciting and collecting information for Foreign Principals [See: The United States Government Manual 1990/91, pg. 385; also see, The Ron Paul Money Book, supra, pgs, 250-251]."
Add the Fact that the 1822 Secret Treaty of Verona continues.............
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and then again since the ongoing criminal assumption or takeover of the United States of America citizens by a Corporation, and the party signing the Treaty according to Senator as "the people of the United States" shows an identity theft which has taken place since 1822 involving a fictitious entity which can be prosecuted due to illegal contracts operating which claims to represent the people of the United States of America.
The "United States" term came into play from the time of the purchase of the Federal Reserves during U.S. President Cleveland's time or during his second term 1893.
- Grover Cleveland24th U.S. President
- Stephen Grover Cleveland was the 22nd and 24th President of the United States; and, therefore was the only US president to serve two terms not in a row and to be counted twice in the numbering of the presidents.Wikipedia
- Born: March 18, 1837, Caldwell, NJ
- Died: June 24, 1908, Princeton, NJ
- Spouse: Frances Folsom Cleveland Preston (m. 1886–1908)
- Vice presidents: Thomas A. Hendricks (1893–1885), Adlai Stevenson I(1893–1889)
- Previous offices: President of the United States (1893–1897), More
- Children: Ruth Cleveland, Esther Cleveland
Therefore, the 1822 Treaty of Verona was first breached by the United States of America when the American Civil War occurred in 1861-1865, then when the Federal Reserves was purchased by citizens who purchased a Nation's bank and became the "behind the scenes" controllers of the banks, funds of an unknowing nation called the United States of America.
The United States of America continued in operating a number of treaties with other nations and had to make good the permanent friendship, amity treaties while pursuing other facets/entities calling itself the American Empire assuming non treaty foreign lands, calling itself the United States, the America's, U.S., and the Newstates of the United States.
I hope that all the Nations become aware that even Russia has gone through changes to include the U.S.S.R., as well as other treaty members of the 1822 Secret Treaty of Verona ----such as Austria, France, Prussia /Germany, etc., England, and even the Vatican.
It is important that all people and all true Nations operating take back their governments and hold those perpetuating the frauds be held accountable, because the Road to War is truly not O.K. in Civilized Societies. It can be said that Corporations, therefore, are Barbaric in nature and contrary to Civilized Societies.
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Thanks to the 1849 Hawaiian Treaty the 1849 U.S. Constitution LOCKS IN Freedoms for Americans
by Amelia Gora
(Honolulu, Hawaiian Kingdom)Hawaiian Kingdom and U.S./United States/
United States of America
1849 "Perpetual" Treaty, etc.
Summary
by Amelia Gora (2012)
The Hawaiian Kingdom and the U.S./United States/United States of America's Perpetual Friendship Treaty, etc. continues, remains in effect, signed, approved by the parties involved which made up of the President, Secretary of State, approved by the Senate, House of Representatives or Congress and the Sovereign/Kauikeouli - Kamehameha III, His heirs and successors (of the blood/koko) through his Representative because the Hawaiian Kingdom is made up of three branches: 1) Sovereign - heirs and successors (one of the two Permanent branches); 2) House of Nobles - heirs and successors (second of the two Permanent branches) -descendants/heirs who were connected through genealogies with the Sovereign; and the voted in part 3) House of Representatives - this was a temporary group which conspired, were treasonous and moved to begin the Provisional Government, turned Republic of Hawaii, then annexed by the U.S., turned Territory of Hawaii, and State of Hawaii with documented Oppositions from the Sovereign, Queen Liliuokalani and her subjects of the Hawaiian Kingdom who formed a new House of Representatives.
The Treaty of 1849 locks in the U.S. Constitution which involves only the 30 States who existed at that time.
Today, the U.S. Constitution along with the Treaty of 1849 remains a Perpetual setup securing the majority of the States, 30 States, called the United States/U.S./U.S.A./United States of America remains in effect.
The 30 States locked into the Treaty, and the U.S. Constitution:
STATE
NAME
STATEHOOD
DATE/ORDER
PRE-STATEHOOD
NOTES
Delaware Dec. 7, 1787
1 st The first of the original 13 colonies.
Pennsylvania Dec. 12, 1787
2 nd The second of the original 13 colonies.
New Jersey Dec. 18, 1787
3 rd The third of the original 13 colonies.
Georgia Jan. 2, 1788
4 th The fourth of the original 13 colonies
Connecticut Jan. 9, 1788
5 th The fifth of the original 13 colonies.
Massachusetts Feb. 6, 1788
6 th The sixth of the original 13 colonies
Maryland April 28, 1788
7 th The seventh of the original 13 colonies.
South Carolina May 23, 1788
8 th The eighth of the original 13 colonies.
New Hampshire June 21, 1788
9 th The ninth of the original 13 colonies
Virginia June 25, 1788
10 th The 10th of the original 13 colonies.
New York July 26, 1788
11 th The 11th of the original 13 colonies.
North Carolina Nov. 21, 1789
12 th The 12th of the original 13 colonies.
Rhode Island May 29, 1790
13 th The 13th of the original 13 colonies.
Vermont March 4, 1791
14 th Until statehood, had been a region claimed by both New York and New Hampshire
Kentucky June 1, 1792
15 th Never a territory, it was part of Virginia until statehood.
Tennessee June 1, 1796
16 th Was Southwest Territory before statehood.
Ohio March 1, 1803
17 th Was part of the Northwest Territory until statehood.
Louisiana April 30, 1812
18 th With certain boundary changes, had been the Territory of Orleans.
Indiana Dec. 11, 1816
19 th There was a residue of Indiana Territory that continued to exist under that name until Dec. 3, 1818, when it was attached to Michigan Territory.
Mississippi Dec. 10, 1817
20 th Territory by Act of April 7, 1798, effective May 7, 1798.
Illinois Dec. 3, 1818
21 st .
Alabama Dec. 14, 1819
22 nd Territory by Act of March 3, 1817, effective Aug. 15, 1817.
Maine March 15, 1820
23 rd What is now the state of Maine was, before statehood, called the District of Maine and belonged to Massachusetts.
Missouri Aug. 10, 1821
24 th The state was much smaller than the territory. The area to the west and northwest of the state, which had been in the territory, was commonly known as the "Missouri Country" until May 30, 1854, and certain of the post offices in this area show a Missouri abbreviation in the postmark.
Arkansas June 15, 1836
25 th The territory was larger than the state. After statehood the leftover area to the west had post offices that continued for some years to use an Arkansas abbreviation in the postmarks, although they were really in the "Indian Country."
Michigan Jan. 26., 1837
26 th .
Florida March 3, 1845
27 th .
Texas Dec. 29, 1845
28 th Was an independent republic before statehood.
Iowa Dec. 28, 1846
29 th .
Wisconsin May 29, 1848
30 th The state is smaller than the territory and the leftover area continued to be called the Territory of Wisconsin until March 3, 1849.
Reference: http://www.50states.com/statehood.htm?sort_by_date#.UEjvEMFlSXs
The other additional/added 20 new States (including the Republic of Hawaii) were not part of the Treaty. Depending on what was written in their Constitution when their State was formed, they may or may not be included in the perpetual agreement.
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In the case of the Hawaiian Kingdom and the Republic of Hawaii, both have different authorities, and one is a Nation vs. the other a set up, premeditated State supported by the U.S., England, Morgan bankers (includes Bank of England) based on the 1822 Secret Treaty of Verona pact, 1918 Congressional discussion with the States - 30 with the Perpetual Treaty and the newly added 18 States which remained a minority of States.
The Republic of Hawaii turned Territory of Hawaii then State of Hawaii with Oppositions every step of the way became the 50 th State by Presidential Executive Order behind of the 49th State of Alaska, both bodies of land being disconnected/disjointed/non-contiguous from the U.S. Nation and cannot normally be called United States/U.S./United States of America based on the failure to be identified as a contiguous land mass associated with States being United, a Nation recognized under the Law of Nations.
The added 18 States from 1850 through 1912 became the "Newstates" added to the U.S. Constitution. The 18 States were:
California Sept. 9, 1850
31 st Ceded by Mexico by the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, concluded Feb. 2, 1848, and proclaimed July 4, 1848. From then until statehood, California had a military government until Dec. 20, 1849, and then a local civil government. It never had a territorial form of government.
Minnesota May 11, 1858
32 nd .
Oregon Feb. 14, 1859
33 rd .
Kansas Jan. 29, 1861
34 th .
West Virginia June 20, 1863
35 th Was part of Virginia until statehood.
Nevada Oct. 31, 1864
36 th .
Nebraska March 1, 1867
37 th .
Colorado Aug. 1, 1876
38 th .
North Dakota Nov. 2, 1889
39 th or 40 th Was part of Dakota Territory before statehood. Admitted on same day as South Dakota
South Dakota Nov. 2, 1889
39 th or 40 th Was part of Dakota Territory before statehood. Admitted on same day as North Dakota
Montana Nov. 8, 1889
41 st .
Washington Nov. 11, 1889
42 nd .
Idaho July 3, 1890
43 rd .
Wyoming July 10, 1890
44 th .
Utah Jan. 4, 1896
45 th .
Oklahoma Nov. 16, 1907
46 th The state was formed from Oklahoma Territory and Indian Territory.
New Mexico Jan. 6, 1912
47th .
Arizona Feb. 14, 1912
48 th This region was sometimes called Arizona before 1863, although it was still in the Territory of New Mexico.
Reference: http://www.50states.com/statehood.htm?sort_by_date#.UEjvEMFlSXs
In 1916, Congressional Notes records that the issues of the 1822 Secret Treaty of Verona was discussed.
The momentum or the Plan since 1822 was a "One World Order", "New World Order".
see and view the youtube.com video:
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Two More States Added:
Alaska Jan. 3, 1959
49 th A district from Oct. 18, 1867, until it became an organized territory Aug. 24, 1912.
Hawaii Aug. 21, 1959
50 th The territorial date Aug. 12, 1898 is that of the formal transfer to the United States, with Sanford B. Dole as first Governor.
Source: Scott Stamp Monthly (April 1998)
Reference: http://www.50states.com/statehood.htm?sort_by_date#.UEjvEMFlSXs
States Under Duress, Stress, Coercion, Usurpation
Due to the Financial duress that all 50 States bear for Wars, Plundering Upon Innocents, with the goals of One World Order through the 1822 Secret Treaty of Verona, an additional Constitution approved in 1980 by all 50 States Senators and House of Representatives, this Second Constitution is called the “Constitution For the Newstates Of The United States.”
see: http://myweb.ecomplanet.com/GORA8037 and see Legal Research by John Nelson
Nevertheless, Kenyan born Obama puts out the "tradition based" Executive Orders from Washington, D.C., an area that is not even part of the United States and upholds the Financial "Constitution For the Newstates Of The United States" while the 1849 Perpetual Treaty with the Hawaiian Kingdom and the U.S. Constitution exists with the majority of the States remains in place to this day.
The Hawaiian Kingdom exists today because the Sovereigns heirs, descendants of Successors, House of Nobles descendants, heirs of the Permanent branches exists today, which also means that the Crown Lands are owned by the Sovereign, House of Nobles, Heirs/descendants/ Successors whose ancestor Kamehameha did form the Hawaiian Kingdom, and these lands are not the "ceded lands", etc.
Additionally, the alodio/ano alodio system remains, which means all kanaka maoli have the true titles to the lands, etc.
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Noam Chomsky | The Leading Terrorist State
Monday, 03 November 2014 10:25
By Noam Chomsky, Truthout | Op-Ed
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"It's official: The U.S. is the world's leading terrorist state, and proud of it."That should have been the headline for the lead story in The New York Times on Oct. 15, which was more politely titled "CIA Study of Covert Aid Fueled Skepticism About Helping Syrian Rebels."
The article reports on a CIA review of recent U.S. covert operations to determine their effectiveness. The White House concluded that unfortunately successes were so rare that some rethinking of the policy was in order.
The article quoted President Barack Obama as saying that he had asked the CIA to conduct the review to find cases of "financing and supplying arms to an insurgency in a country that actually worked out well. And they couldn't come up with much." So Obama has some reluctance about continuing such efforts.
The first paragraph of the Times article cites three major examples of "covert aid": Angola, Nicaragua and Cuba. In fact, each case was a major terrorist operation conducted by the U.S.
Angola was invaded by South Africa, which, according to Washington, was defending itself from one of the world's "more notorious terrorist groups" - Nelson Mandela's African National Congress. That was 1988.
By then the Reagan administration was virtually alone in its support for the apartheid regime, even violating congressional sanctions to increase trade with its South African ally.
Meanwhile Washington joined South Africa in providing crucial support for Jonas Savimbi's terrorist Unita army in Angola. Washington continued to do so even after Savimbi had been roundly defeated in a carefully monitored free election, and South Africa had withdrawn its support. Savimbi was a "monster whose lust for power had brought appalling misery to his people," in the words of Marrack Goulding, British ambassador to Angola.
The consequences were horrendous. A 1989 U.N. inquiry estimated that South African depredations led to 1.5 million deaths in neighboring countries, let alone what was happening within South Africa itself. Cuban forces finally beat back the South African aggressors and compelled them to withdraw from illegally occupied Namibia. The U.S. alone continued to support the monster Savimbi.
In Cuba, after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961, President John F. Kennedy launched a murderous and destructive campaign to bring "the terrors of the earth" to Cuba - the words of Kennedy's close associate, the historian Arthur Schlesinger, in his semiofficial biography of Robert Kennedy, who was assigned responsibility for the terrorist war.
The atrocities against Cuba were severe. The plans were for the terrorism to culminate in an uprising in October 1962, which would lead to a U.S. invasion. By now, scholarship recognizes that this was one reason why Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev placed missiles in Cuba, initiating a crisis that came perilously close to nuclear war. U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara later conceded that if he had been a Cuban leader, he "might have expected a U.S. invasion."
American terrorist attacks against Cuba continued for more than 30 years. The cost to Cubans was of course harsh. The accounts of the victims, hardly ever heard in the U.S., were reported in detail for the first time in a study by Canadian scholar Keith Bolender, "Voices From the Other Side: an Oral History of Terrorism Against Cuba," in 2010.
The toll of the long terrorist war was amplified by a crushing embargo, which continues even today in defiance of the world. On Oct. 28, the U.N., for the 23rd time, endorsed "the necessity of ending the economic, commercial, financial blockade imposed by the United States against Cuba." The vote was 188 to 2 (U.S., Israel), with three U.S. Pacific Island dependencies abstaining.
There is by now some opposition to the embargo in high places in the U.S., reports ABC News, because "it is no longer useful" (citing Hillary Clinton's new book "Hard Choices"). French scholar Salim Lamrani reviews the bitter costs to Cubans in his 2013 book "The Economic War Against Cuba."
Nicaragua need hardly be mentioned. President Ronald Reagan's terrorist war was condemned by the World Court, which ordered the U.S. to terminate its "unlawful use of force" and to pay substantial reparations.
Washington responded by escalating the war and vetoing a 1986 U.N. Security Council resolution calling on all states - meaning the U.S. - to observe international law.
Another example of terrorism will be commemorated on Nov. 16, the 25th anniversary of the assassination of six Jesuit priests in San Salvador by a terrorist unit of the Salvadoran army, armed and trained by the U.S. On the orders of the military high command, the soldiers broke into the Jesuit university to murder the priests and any witnesses - including their housekeeper and her daughter.
This event culminated the U.S. terrorist wars in Central America in the 1980s, though the effects are still on the front pages today in the reports of "illegal immigrants," fleeing in no small measure from the consequences of that carnage, and being deported from the U.S. to survive, if they can, in the ruins of their home countries.
Washington has also emerged as the world champion in generating terror. Former CIA analyst Paul Pillar warns of the "resentment-generating impact of the U.S. strikes" in Syria, which may further induce the jihadi organizations Jabhat al-Nusra and the Islamic State toward "repairing their breach from last year and campaigning in tandem against the U.S. intervention by portraying it as a war against Islam."
That is by now a familiar consequence of U.S. operations that have helped to spread jihadism from a corner of Afghanistan to a large part of the world.
Jihadism's most fearsome current manifestation is the Islamic State, or ISIS, which has established its murderous caliphate in large areas of Iraq and Syria.
"I think the United States is one of the key creators of this organization," reports former CIA analyst Graham Fuller, a prominent commentator on the region. "The United States did not plan the formation of ISIS," he adds, "but its destructive interventions in the Middle East and the War in Iraq were the basic causes of the birth of ISIS."
To this we may add the world's greatest terrorist campaign: Obama's global project of assassination of "terrorists." The "resentment-generating impact" of those drone and special-forces strikes should be too well known to require further comment.
This is a record to be contemplated with some awe.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5GqdM35z1Y Noam Chompsky
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The #1 Threat to Peace in the World -- Guess Who? It's U.S.
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The U.S. Congress certainly agrees with Netanyahu. But much of the rest of the world thinks Iran has a right to enrich uranium, which is at the heart of the dispute between the U.S. and Israel and Iran. More importantly, the rest of the globe thinks the United States is the biggest threat to peace. In early 2014,Gallup International/WIN released its annual global survey based on research conducted the previous year. The most striking statistic was that 24 percent of people around the world believe that the U.S. poses the greatest threat to peace. The runners-up were far behind: eight percent of respondents thought Pakistan was the greatest threat, while six percent thought it was China. And only five percent of those surveyed thought Iran was a threat to world peace. The numbers are based on interviews with 1,000 people in 65 different nations. (The survey published this year did not contain the same question.)
Those numbers are an important window into how the rest of the world views U.S. foreign policy—a view in stark contrast to how Americans think of themselves. The end of WWII marked the beginning of the U.S.’ superpower status. Since 1945, the U.S. government has meddled, intervened, overthrown and/or invaded the governments of dozens of foreign countries. U.S. actions have created an arc of violence and chaos stretching from Latin America to the Middle East and beyond.
In the Cold War era, this intervention was justified by the threat of communism. In 1954, the CIA colluded with right-wing Guatemalans to overthrow the democratically elected president of Guatemala, Jacobo Arbenz. In subsequent decades, the right-wing leaders of Guatemala waged a vicious campaign against leftist opponents, resulting in what many consider to be a genocide in which hundreds of thousands of people died. (In 2013, a Guatemalan court ruled that U.S.-backed General Rios Montt, the former leader of the country, was guilty of genocide for his role in the killings of 1,700 indigenous people. The ruling was overturned 10 days after the conviction on procedural grounds.)
In 1961, the CIA tried, and failed, to overthrow the Cuban government, which underwent a communist revolution in the 1950s. And in 1973, the U.S. backed the overthrow of Chilean President Salvador Allende, which ushered in a brutal dictatorship run by General Augusto Pinochet. By the time Pinochet’s reign was over, he had killed at least 4,000 people and tortured tens of thousands.
The contemporary era has been marked by the U.S. “war on terror.” After the September 11 attacks, the Bush administration embarked on a violent war that destroyed Afghanistan and Iraq. Thousands of civilians were killed by the U.S. military, and thousands more as a result of the power vacuum and chaos that arose in those states after the U.S. deposed Saddam Hussein and the Taliban. Concurrently, the Bush administration implemented a global torture regime with the help of dozens of other countries. The CIA and U.S. military systematically tortured hundreds of people, many of them innocent of any serious crime. The Obama administration’s drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen have further destabilized those nations and killed hundreds of civilians while enraging the local population.
Another striking statistic from the Gallup International/WIN poll is the country that most fears the U.S.: Russia. Fifty-four percent of Russians told the pollsters that the U.S. is the biggest threat to global peace. This feeling is rooted in a real fear of NATO expansionism, a fear that has only increased since the start of the Western-Russian conflict over Ukraine. As John Mearsheimer wrote in Foreign Affairs last year, since the collapse of the Soviet Union, NATO—composed of the U.S. and European allies—has steadily crept eastward in Europe toward Russia. NATO came to encompass states like Poland, the Czech Republic and Latvia. NATO had designs on states even closer to Russia, Georgia and Ukraine, though those two countries never formally joined NATO.
This naturally raised tensions with Russia. And so when the pro-Russian leader of Ukraine was deposed, a move backed by the West, Russian leader Vladimir Putin exploited the opportunity to invade Crimea, setting up an explosive new conflict with the U.S. and Europe. Now there is real fear of an escalation of the war in Ukraine.
No wonder Russians view the U.S. unfavorably. Nor is it surprising that the rest of the world, which witnessed the U.S. invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, continues to see the U.S. as a threat to peace.
So when Netanyahu and his congressional allies crow that Iran is the biggest threat to the world’s peace and security, the rest of the world snickers. The world will continue to see the U.S. as a threat as long as it continues its aggressive interventionism around the globe.
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