Colin Powell Warns Of Coming Crisis “We Don’t Even Know About Right Now”

[Raineyrocks]

What the heck?  Where is his "intel" coming from now? 


http://www.infowars.com/?p=5461

Colin Powell Warns Of Coming Crisis "We Don't Even Know About Right Now"

Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Tuesday, Oct 21, 2008

Colin Powell has made bizarre comments that echo the recent declaration by Democratic VP candidate Joe Biden that there will be an "international crisis" early into Barack Obama's presidency that will test the new president by forcing him to make unpopular decisions.

Speaking on meet the press two days ago, Powell officially endorsed Obama and also made the following statement:

    "The problems will always be there and there's going to be a crisis which will come along on the 21st, 22nd of January that we don't even know about right now.

    So I think what the President has to start to do is to start using the power of the oval office and the power of his personality to convince the American people and convince the world that America is solid, that America is going to move forward, we are going to fix our economic problems, we're going to meet out overseas obligations."
   
Is Colin Powell referring to a theoretical crisis that could occur at any time? If so why does he choose a specific date, within the first two days after the inauguration? Also why does he refer to general problems that the new president will have to deal with in a separate context? We are already in an economic crisis, everyone knows that, so what new crisis is Powell talking about?

Whatever you read into Powell's comments, they sound somewhat bizarre, particularly as they come on the back of Joe Biden's "guarantee" of a "generated crisis" to "test the mettle" of the new leader within six months of the new presidential term:

What does Biden mean by "generated crisis"? It is an undeniably strange term to use.

His reference to John F. Kennedy indicates that Biden may have been referring some kind of geopolitical crisis in the vain of the Cuban missile crisis of April 1961. The confrontation between the United States, the Soviet Union, and Cuba at the height of the Cold War came within the first four months of JFK's presidency.

Obama's running mate made the comments at a fundraising event in Seattle two days ago, on the same day Powell also spoke of a coming crisis.

We shouldn't be surprised at Powell's comments however, given that the former Secretary of State seemingly has a knack for predicting events before they take place.

Previous to the beginning of the Iraq war in February 2003, an audio tape containing a voice described as that of Osama Bin Laden was touted as proof positive of Al Qaeda links with Saddam Hussein.

Hours before the tape was discovered and aired by TV channel Al Jazeera, Powell announced in the US Senate that a "Bin Laden tape is coming proving Iraq's links with Al-Qaeda."

This led some to raise the question how does Colin Powell know what Al Jazeera are going to broadcast before they do?

In an amazing and timely coincidence, the tape came barely a week after Powell's attempts to link Al Qaeda and Saddam in his botched presentation of lies and exaggerations before the UN Security Council.

[Toadstool]

I just found that too!!!

If you dont know about something, you cant speak about it...

WTF!

its odd, and Biden says MARK MY WORDS! when obama is pres he will be faced with a crisis with in 6 months?

odd...
odd...
odd..

[Raineyrocks]

I just found that too!!!

If you dont know about something, you cant speak about it...

WTF!

its odd, and Biden says MARK MY WORDS! when obama is pres he will be faced with a crisis with in 6 months?

odd...
odd...
odd..

Maybe this is it?    I have to pop a couple v's and get a drink of tequila, I'll be right back! 


  RAND Lobbies Pentagon: Start War To Save U.S. Economy

EXCLUSIVE: Shocking proposal urges military leaders to attack major foreign power

Paul Joseph Watson & Yihan Dai
Prison Planet.com
Thursday, October 30, 2008

According to reports out of top Chinese mainstream news outlets, the RAND Corporation recently presented a shocking proposal to the Pentagon in which it lobbied for a war to be started with a major foreign power in an attempt to stimulate the American economy and prevent a recession.

A fierce debate has now ensued in China about who that foreign power may be, with China itself as well as Russia and even Japan suspected to be the targets of aggression.

The reports cite French media news sources as having uncovered the proposal, in which RAND suggested that the $700 billion dollars that has been earmarked to bailout Wall Street and failing banks instead be used to finance a new war which would in turn re-invigorate the flagging stock markets.

The RAND Corporation is a notoriously powerful NGO with deep ties to the U.S. military-industrial complex as well as interlocking connections with the Ford, Rockefeller, and Carnegie foundations.


Current directors of RAND include Frank Charles Carlucci III, former Defense Secretary and Deputy Director of the CIA, Ronald L. Olson, Council on Foreign Relations luminary and former Secretary of Labor, and Carl Bildt, top Bilderberg member and former Swedish Prime Minister.

Carlucci was chairman of the Carlyle Group from 1989-2005 and oversaw gargantuan profits the defense contractor made in the aftermath of 9/11 following the invasion of Afghanistan. The Carlyle Group has also received investment money from the Bin Laden family.

Reportedly, the RAND proposal brazenly urged that a new war could be launched to benefit the economy, but stressed that the target country would have to be a major influential power, and not a smaller country on the scale of Afghanistan or Iraq.

The reports have prompted a surge of public debate and tension in China about the possibility that a new global conflict is on the horizon.

China's biggest media outlet, Sohu.com, speculated that the target of the new war would probably be China or Russia, but that it could also be Iran or another middle eastern country. Japan was also mentioned as a potential target for the reason that Japan holds the most U.S. debt.

North Korea was considered as a target but ruled out because the scale of such a war would not be large enough for RAND's requirements.

The reported RAND proposal dovetails with recent comments made by Joe Biden, Colin Powell, Madeleine Albright and others, concerning the "guarantee" that Barack Obama will face a major "international crisis" soon after taking office.

It also arrives following a warning from Michael Bayer, chairman of a key Pentagon advisory panel, who echoed the statement that the next administration will face an international crisis within months of taking office.

One would hope that good people, or at least sane people who don't wish to start a global nuclear war, will oppose the RAND proposal, such as top the military generals who threatened to quit if Bush ordered an attack on Iran. Admiral William Fallon, the head of US Central Command, quit in March last year as a result of his opposition to Bush administration policy on Iran.

Translations from Chinese provided by Yihan Dai.

SOURCES

Sohu.com - http://news.sohu.com/20081030/n260330741.shtml

Ifeng.com - http://news.ifeng.com/mil/4/200810/1029_342_851523.shtml

[Raineyrocks]

Oh yeah, here's the link for the above article:  http://www.prisonplanet.com/rand-lobbies-pentagon-start-war-to-save-us-economy.html


Here's one about the Rand Corp.

http://www.hereinreality.com/news/rand.html

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I'm not finding the report the article alleges to exist. RAND researches a lot of things and publishes reports on a wide variety of different topics. For instance, you can go download the two reports they wrote about whether Congress should create a domestic intelligence agency.

[Raineyrocks]

I'm not finding the report the article alleges to exist. RAND researches a lot of things and publishes reports on a wide variety of different topics. For instance, you can go download the two reports they wrote about whether Congress should create a domestic intelligence agency.

What report?  Wasn't the article on prisonplanet?   I'm sorry Error, I'm confused.

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Yeah, "What report?" is indeed the question.

[Raineyrocks]

Yeah, "What report?" is indeed the question.

Oh I think I know what you mean.   You mean "report" not "article", right?

[Raineyrocks]

Yeah, "What report?" is indeed the question.

Okay Error, I think I can explain this after giving it some thought.  That guy Paul Watson wrote the article himself, he did not have a "back up" or link for it.  His girlfriend lives in China and heard this over the Chinese news and then told Paul Watson.   Is there any way to translate the Chinese links, (2 of them), at the bottom of Paul Watson's article into English?

[error]

Yeah, "What report?" is indeed the question.

Okay Error, I think I can explain this after giving it some thought.  That guy Paul Watson wrote the article himself, he did not have a "back up" or link for it.  His girlfriend lives in China and heard this over the Chinese news and then told Paul Watson.   Is there any way to translate the Chinese links, (2 of them), at the bottom of Paul Watson's article into English?

Sure, just use Google.

Interestingly, these "French media" sources are never named, in any of these so-called news stories. And Google News doesn't find any French news stories referencing the RAND corporation for the last several days. So who knows. This could have come out of thin air.

[DigitalWarrior]

error, that was the same thing I did.

Hmmmm, what are the chances of the Chinese Government getting a false report published to create a fear of the US among its population.

Besides, prisonplanet = lulz

Digital "Yes I am a Freemason" Warrior

[error]

Indeed.

Rainey, compare it to THIS story about a RAND Corporation report regarding creating a domestic intelligence agency. You can go to the RAND web site and download the report and read it for yourself.

[Raineyrocks]

Indeed.

Rainey, compare it to THIS story about a RAND Corporation report regarding creating a domestic intelligence agency. You can go to the RAND web site and download the report and read it for yourself.

Thanks Error!    Here is an additional link, I can't get it to copy & paste, my computer being a rebo tonight.  I'm going to read your link now.
http://boards.msn.com/MSNBCboards/thread.aspx?threadid=831905  (I thinks it's just the message board though and this could all be "stemming" from the Paul Watson article.)   

I'm going to continue to look for something more credible but it does seem to be losing "it's" validity.   I hope it's nothing that's for sure!