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Preface: the Cheney Plan, the CIA's War with the Neoconservatives, And The Secret History of the International Court of Justice The Cheney Plan, the CIA's war with the neoconservatives, and the “crimes against Russia” Lawrence C. Chin Oct. 2011 – Mar. 2013; corrections afterward The Secret History of the International Court of Justice Part IV The conspiracy in the International Criminal Court Preface THE “CHENEY PLAN”, THE CIA'S WAR WITH THE NEOCONSERVATIVES, AND THE “CRIMES AGAINST RUSSIA” THESIS (May/ December 2016) Why is today's world so besieged with the problem of Islamic terrorism? The answer: the conflict, since the Bush administration, between the CIA and their allies (the Moderates) on the one hand and the neoconservatives (the Radicals) on the other. In a word, the major question in the 1990s is: how to conquer Russia – Russia with its greatest treasure box of natural resources in the world? And, as Brzezinski has noted, the United States must control Central Asia in order to become the “Last Empire”. The United States must conquer Russia and hold down China. Seeing that it is all Muslims in this area bordering Russia and China, the Moderates wanted to make Muslims the allies of Western civilization and help them in their struggle against the Russians and the Chinese. The Radicals, however, wanted to make Muslims the enemies of Western civilization. Then the United States can have a pretext for sending troops to the Middle East and Central Asia. It's not only because the Radicals preferred the more aggressive approach of direct occupation of targeted regions and direct confrontation with Russia and China, but also because the Radicals hated Muslims because Muslims hated Jews. (The hidden agenda of neoconservatism has always been the saving of Jews.) The victory of the Radicals in the 2000 US presidential election means that it is the Radicals' more aggressive approach which shall be implemented. What I have not explored in the following is the Moderates' regional agendas in the Middle-East and Central Asia. The Muslims whom they wanted to make into allies of Western civilization are Sunni Muslims, not the Shiites. The Moderates favored the Sunnis because the Sunnis were not only enemies of Russia and China but also of Shiite Iran. All the “Mujahideen” (later, Muslim “terrorists”) whom the Moderates sponsored through their Turkish, Saudi, and Pakistani proxies are Sunnis. Associated with the US proxy war with Russia and China in Central Asia in the 1990s was also the US support of Sunnis and Saudi Arabia in their power struggle with Iran. The following story is about how Russia, a nation state which, through its spectacular victory in the International Court of Justice in February 2010, had retained control over the entire world, would somehow risk falling under foreign domination because of a single ordinary girl of Mexican descent, 1 The Secret History of the International Court of Justice The Cheney Plan, the CIA's war with the neoconservatives, and the “crimes against Russia” Lawrence C. Chin Oct. 2011 – Mar. 2013; corrections afterward our “Pyramid.” It is also a story of how my entire life would have to change for the worse just because I had had some superficial acquaintance with this girl for two months in early 2010. It will also describe how millions of life around the world, from 2011 to 2013, would have to be negatively affected because of this same girl – such as all the victims of the “Arab Spring”. Many of the turmoils which you have seen between 2011 and 2013, chiefly the Arab Spring, can all be traced back to the single event I'm about to narrate to you below: my encounter with the Pyramid. You have to however understand that, when Russia won, on February 12 2010, the lawsuit in the International Court against France and the Cheney-Chertoff gang whom the French were trying to defend, the Russian Prime Minister Putin decided to bring all the crimes the West has ever committed against Russia and China in past decades, and what the conspiracy theorists have called the “New World Order”, into a final reckoning, and lay the foundation of a “new New World Order”, where an universal alliance of all nations of the world would be formed to ward off the coming crisis of human civilization prefigured by Peak Oil. My encounter with this girl nicknamed “Pyramid” was part of the story of this final reckoning. And the disastrous encountering resulting almost in the fall of Russia circumscribes the sad story of the failure of this first attempt of “final reckoning” on Putin's part. Thus, in order for you to understand the historical significance of the following story, I'll have to bring you to an understanding of the “crimes against Russia (and China)”. The understanding of this “final reckoning” will also require you to understand the “Cheney Plan” and the story of CIA's 10-year war with the neoconservatives (2001-2010). I thus want to reserve this long preface for an exposition of the “crimes against Russia”, the “Cheney Plan”, and “CIA's war with the neoconservatives”, even though I have mentioned elements of these three topics intermittently in the previous volumes. This is appropriate, because this International Court trial I have been telling you about, the biggest and most influential lawsuit in the history of humankind, is really just part of the story of West's 30-year crime against Russia and CIA's discontent in the last 10 years of it. The crimes against Russia (and China) and the Cheney Plan constitute the larger material or background for the International Court trial, and CIA's discontent with the neocons lies at the origin of this International Court trial and forms, additionally, the basis on which the new world alliance (the “new New World Order”) will be formed. It's time for you to get the whole story. If you have stumbled upon this episode without having read the previous four volumes, you will not understand what the following story is about at all. At the end of this Preface a summary of the preceding story is appended, and elsewhere there is another summary account which I have written, “The story behind my experience with implantable microchips”. But these two, unfortunately, are earlier works which do not accurately portray the events in this Secret History. True and false about “conspiracy theories”: The “New World Order”, “Illuminati”, and “Freemasons” Alles ist Mist was der Staat macht1 1 Attributed to Spiegel in an anonymous CIA officer's review of The Service: The Memoirs of General Reinhard Gehlen: https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/kent-csi/vol16no3/html/v16i3a06p_0001.htm. 2 The Secret History of the International Court of Justice The Cheney Plan, the CIA's war with the neoconservatives, and the “crimes against Russia” Lawrence C. Chin Oct. 2011 – Mar. 2013; corrections afterward The “conspiracy theorists” constitute an uneven terrain. A few of them are of academic stature, such as Daniel Estulin, Michael Ruppert, Thierry Meyssan, and Michel Chussodovsky, whose works I trust more or less. Those in the “alternative news” (like the “Corbett Report”) are also okay. The rest are not well educated and have a world view that is less realistic and more mythical. Those with the greatest popularity tend to fall into this category, like Alex Jones, David Icke, or the Zeitgeist and Thrive movements. (Alex Jones' Prison Planet and Info War are not always too inferior a quality because he sometimes has competent writers on his staff.) Then there are many on the bottom that say laughable things and others that are too weird to be trustworthy (like John Coleman). Knowing this terrain is important, for two reasons. Firstly, while the United States government in particular, and Western governments in general, have become the most secretive in world history – far more secretive than the North Korean or Chinese government – by always covering up their operations and agendas with diversionary “cover stories” (“official stories”), academics and journalists do not question these “cover stories” and are thus blind to the real operations and true agendas. Secondly, while secret gatherings like the Bilderberg Group have dominated the contemporary decision-making process in the West, academics do not discuss this phenomenon. It has thus been left to independent investigators and wild fancies alike on the fringes of normative culture – to the unregulated and disorganized discursive world of the counter-cultures – to distrust the “cover stories” and seek behind the veil the true operations of the government and the real decision-making process.2 There is thus the difficult task, in the search for truth, of distinguishing the competent investigators from wild fantasists. There are simple rules of thumb in this regard, like: those conspiracy theorists that are invited onto Russia Today are worth listening to. Then, given all the secrecy surrounding government operations in the West, the most trustworthy sources of information have to be the so-called “whistleblowers” – insiders who confess to you what has happened inside. In the following, for example, I cite Sibel Edmonds and Susan Lindauer as the two most important recent sources of information on the operations of the US government. Here, too, there is a problem. Not all whistleblowers are genuine – that is the most problematic feature of this category. The very popular Annie Machon for example has been co-opted.3 Her book Spies, Lies, and Whistleblowers is an “active measure”4 and she is probably 2 “Counter culture” is here defined as a sub-culture whose essence consists in the denial of the dominant culture as oppressive, untrue, or alienating from true human nature.
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