NYC 9/11 Vote * Pentagon * FLUscam
28 June 2009
"Let us never tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories
concerning the attacks of September the 11th;
malicious lies that attempt to shift the blame away
from the terrorists, themselves, away from the guilty."
-- George W. Bush
43rd US President,
United Nations, Nov. 11, 2001
1) NYC 9/11 Referendum Update – Pentagon 9/11 Eyewitnesses
- - New Report on Filing Referendum NYC 9/11 Vote Petition
- - Deconstructing the 9/11 Pentagon Attack
- - Eyewitnesses Contradict Pentagon 9/11 Story
2) Torture Lies and Obama Continues War for Terror
- - 'If I didn't confess to 7/7 bombings MI5 officers would rape my wife,'
- - Like killing flies
- - What Are We Doing In Afghanistan?
3) Statement for Oglala Commemoration By Leonard Peltier
4) FluScam.com Announcement from Dr. Len Horowitz
- - Comparison of OxySilver to Colloidal Silver
Editor’s Notes:
Item one continues with the campaign in New York City for a referendum vote to authorize a new investigation into the events of September 11, 2001. Fifty-two thousand petitions have been filed, and thousands more are being gathered. Your joining and supporting NYC CAN is key. The following article is on a related presentation. On July 11, 2009 the Wisdom Fund, Citizen Investigating Team, and Pilots for 9/11 Truth, will present hard evidence that contradicts the official account of what happened at the Pentagon on 9/11. Following that is an article published in the June '09 issue of the Rock Creek Free Press on 13 eyewitnesses contradicting the Pentagon official [make-believe] 9/11 story.
Item two goes over the ugly truth of corrupt UK and US intelligence operations, and a war more likely about the drug trade than protecting people from tyranny. Bruce Gagnon contributes an article equating Obama’s crushing a fly to the collateral damage from drone-kills. In item two Christopher Story writes in the appendix to answer in part what the UK is doing in Afghanistan. Though Chris Story’s brilliance is more the norm than the exception, sometimes his reporting gets off track. This appears to what has happened in a segment of his recent article, revealing what I consider to be bias toward homosexuality.
Item three takes us again into the wonderful communications of Leonard Peltier. His statement was for the commemoration of Oglala, and the people who stand for human rights and justice. You have only until July 14 to have your letter supporting his parole considered. If Leonard remains in prison through Obama’s first year in Office, after more than 33 years of unjust imprisonment, we will know that Obama’s smooth talk is nothing more than about a great deception, a tragedy for all.
Item four shows us how horrendous loss of the USA Republic can descend. There is much evidence of foul play by the pharmaceutical giants; I am convinced that they have become part of the (sic) military-industrial complex. The greatest horror movie I have ever seen is a film documentary called “In Lies We Trust”. Now Dr. Horowitz has launched a new web site: FLUscam.com. He is warning us that vaccinations produce pandemics, and he has some suggestions on how to stay healthy. After contracting Lyme disease, (another laboratory creation), I started taking natural antibiotics since the conventional one was not fully effective. After more than a year, and after diarrhea for much of the winter, I tried his product that uses silver hyrdosols with oxygen, called OxySilver. After one teaspoon my intestinal bug was gone. I recommend this for anyone as an alternative to vaccinations or over-used and harmful conventional antibiotics. Dr. Horowitz believes the latest Swine-Flu Pandemic was created in the laboratory. This hypothesis was backed up by a mainstream scientist, working at TamiFlu. I recommend your considering becoming an affiliate of Dr. Horowitz’s company. It works, and much safer than colloidal silver.
12 May 2009
Swine Flu May Be Human Error,
Scientist Says, WHO Investigates
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Special Report by Dr. Leonard Horowitz
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1) NYC 9/11 Referendum Update – Pentagon 9/11 Eyewitnesses
- - New Report on Filing Referendum NYC 9/11 Vote Petition
- - Deconstructing the 9/11 Pentagon Attack
- - Eyewitnesses Contradict Pentagon 9/11 Story
- - New Report on Filing Referendum NYC 9/11 Vote Petition
By Ted Walter
Director– NYC CAN
Dear Friends!
On Wednesday, June 24, 2009, we filed the petition with 52,000 signatures!
9/11 Family Members Maureen Hunt and Manny Badillo, and First Responders Charlie Giles of the Feal Good Foundation and Bill Gleason of the World Trade Center Rescuers Foundation, arrived at the City Clerk’s office to deliver the petition and speak in behalf of all the proud and concerned citizens who deserve an unbiased, nonpolitical investigation of the tragedy that has affected us so deeply.
Thank you for getting us this far! City Council now has until August 24 to approve the placement of the referendum on the November 3 ballot. As hundreds more family members, first responders and survivors join our campaign and lobby their council members to support the petition, our chances grow.
In the unlikely event City Council does not approve the placement of the referendum on the ballot, we will be prepared to deliver an additional 30,000 signatures on August 24 to guarantee it gets on the ballot. Already we have 8,000 of the additional 30,000!
Now more than ever is the moment to stand up for what we believe in and convert to reality what we have been working towards for so long. This is how you can help:
DONATE IF YOU CAN. We need money to pay our amazing petitioners who are now collecting 4,000 to 5,000 signatures per week. We need money to pay a legal team. We need money to launch a full-scale PR campaign once the referendum is on the ballot. Go to http://NYCCAN.org/donate.php right now!
TELL FAMILY MEMBERS, FIRST RESPONDERS and SURVIVORS. We have a Statement of Support at NYCCAN.ORG that every family member, first responder, and survivor is welcome to sign. We have already accumulated over 60 signatories in the last week - THANK YOU to those of you who joined us in calling for a new, impartial investigation. Now our goal is to reach 1,000 signatories by September 11, 2009. If you know someone who was directly affected and wants accountability, send them to NYCCAN.ORG. The more New York-based family members, first responders and survivors who sign on, the more City Council will hear from the constituents it simply can’t ignore.
TELL YOUR FRIENDS. Nothing works like word of mouth. Forward this email far and wide.
While there is little room for celebration, we deserve to be proud of how far we have gotten and where we are going. Over eighteen months of hard work and selfless dedication from hundreds of individuals, and the generosity and faith shown by thousands of you across the globe, have gotten us here. And now it comes down to the next four months. Thank you for standing with us.
Sincerely,
Ted Walter
Executive Director
NYCCAN.org
1173A Second Ave; Suite 155
New York, New York 10065
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- - Deconstructing the 9/11 Pentagon Attack
MEDIA ADVISORY, July 11 -- The following is released by The Wisdom Fund, TWF.org:
National Security Briefing Sensitive Information
Deconstructing the 9/11 Pentagon Attack
Contact: staff@twf.org
With the surge in Afghanistan, 9/11 is used to justify the U.S. presence in Afghanistan. This timely presentation, with rare photos and videos, challenges and undermines the official account of what happened on that tragic September 11, 2001. It will feature a detailed deconstruction of the Flight Data Recorder information allegedly from the black box of Flight 77 released by the National Transportation Safety Board in 2006. A simulation of the official flight path based on this data, with carefully constructed topography and obstacles, will be compared to physical aircraft limitations by a certified pilot. The data and the physical damage will also be compared with first-hand video-recorded, witness accounts from Pentagon police, Arlington Cemetery employees, and Arlington citizens.
WHAT:
The Wisdom Fund, together with Citizen Investigating Team and Pilots for 9//1 Truth, will present hard evidence that contradicts the official account of what happened at the Pentagon on September 11, 2001.
WHO:
Shelton F. Lankford: Lt. Col. USMC (ret.), fighter pilot with 300+ combat missions and 10,000+ hours flight time. Awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, and 32 Air Medals.
Aldo Marquis: Co-founder, Citizen Investigation Team, independent researcher, concerned citizen and father.
Enver Masud: Founder of The Wisdom Fund, Engineer, Director, Operations Review Division (State of Iowa), Acting Chief, Strategic and Emergency Planning (U.S. Dept. of Energy), consultant to USAID and World Bank.
Craig Ranke: Co-founder, Citizen Investigation Team, independent researcher, concerned citizen and activist.
WHEN: Saturday, July 11, 10:00 AM EDT
WHERE: NRECA Conference Center, 4301 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA
POSTER www.twf.org/News/Y2009/0711-Pentagon.jpg
FLYER www.twf.org/News/Y2009/0711-Pentagon.pdf
"9/11 UNVEILED" by Enver Masud www.twf.org/Library/911Unveiled.html
SUBSCRIBE to our mailing list at www.twf.org/twflist/subscribe.html
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For an article published 6/09 by the Rock Creek Free Press, see:
- - Eyewitnesses Contradict Pentagon 9/11 Story
For FN's resource page, see:
Bush and 9/11 Investigative Reports, looking into the unanswered questions.
2) Torture Lies and Obama Continues War for Terror
- - 'If I didn't confess to 7/7 bombings MI5 officers would rape my wife'
- - Like killing flies
- - What Are We Doing In Afghanistan?
- - 'If I didn't confess to 7/7 bombings MI5 officers would rape my wife',
claims torture victim
By Matthew Hickley
25th June 2009
A British man spoke publicly for the first time yesterday to accuse MI5 officers of forcing him to confess to masterminding the July 7 bombings.
Jamil Rahman claims UK security officers were behind his arrest in 2005 in Bangladesh.
He says he was beaten repeatedly by local officials who also threatened to rape him and his wife.
Mr Rahman, who is suing the Home Office, said a pair of MI5 officers who attended his torture and interrogation would leave the room while he was beaten.
He claims when he told the pair he had been tortured they merely answered: 'They haven't done a very good job on you.'
Mr Rahman told the BBC: 'They were questioning me on the July 7 bombings, showing me pictures of the bombers.
'They showed me maps, terrains ... they asked me to draw things out and write names next to pictures.
'They threatened my family. They go to me, "In the UK, gas leaks happen, if your family house had a gas leak and everyone got burnt, there's no problems, we can do that easily".'
He says he eventually made a false confession of involvement in the July 7 bomb plots.
The extraordinary allegations will add to pressure on UK ministers to come clean over the way Britain's intelligence agencies have been allowed to gather evidence around the world in the eight years since the September 11 attacks.
Jamil Rahman, a former civil servant from south Wales, is a British citizen who moved to Bangladesh in 2005 and married a woman he met there. He returned to the UK last year.
He said: 'It was all to do with the British. Even the Bengali intelligence officer told me that they didn't know anything about me, that they were only doing this for the British.'
Mr Rahman, 31, says he was released after three weeks but re-arrested and mistreated repeatedly over the next two years.
He described how two men he believes were British agents would leave the room for 'a break' while he was beaten.
They often asked: 'We're not torturing you, are we?' and recorded his confirmations that they were not, he alleges.
The first time they tried to be friendly, they came in trying to show they were my friends, calm and relaxed, nothing wrong.
'I tried to demonstrate my innocence. I thought this is wrong, because they were British I might get some justice.'
He added: 'They showed me hundreds of pictures. Black, white, Chinese, bearded non-bearded, woman, man, young and old. Every time, they came for a new session, same pictures with new ones.
'The main thing they wanted me to be is a witness against another British man in Bangladesh. They pressured me so much to be a witness against this guy in court.
Mr Rahman denies being a terrorist, although he admits attending meetings in Britain of the radical Islamist group al-Muhajiroun - claiming he later rejected their extremist ideology.
A Home Office spokesman said: 'We firmly reject any suggestion that we torture people or ask others to do so on our behalf.
'Mr Rahman has made a lot of unsubstantiated allegations. They have not been evidenced in any court of law.'
Jamil Rahman is one of a number of former detainees who accuse the British Government colluded in their torture abroad.
His account echoes that of former Guantanamo Bay detainee Binyam Mohamed, who said he was tortured in Pakistan and Morocco with MI5's knowledge.
The 30-year-old Ethiopian says he was beaten and deprived of sleep to try to make him confess to an Al Qaeda 'dirty bomb' plot, and his treatment is now the subject of an unprecedented police investigation into MI5's conduct.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1195484/If-I-didnt-confess-7-7-bombings-MI5-officers-rape-wife-claims-torture-victim.html
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- - Like killing flies
By Bruce K. Gagnon
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Times Record (Brunswick, Maine)
Dear Editor:
The national media made a big deal about President Obama killing a fly. His “I got the sucker” was even compared to a similar moment by honest Abe Lincoln.
But sadly little time in the national media is spent describing the tragic consequences to hundreds of innocent civilians in Afghanistan and Pakistan who have been killed by United States unmanned aerial vehicles, or “drones” as they are popularly called.
These drones are directed by military space satellites and flown by U.S. soldiers sitting at computer terminals inside Creech Air Force Base near Las Vegas, Nev. The Air Force named these drones the “Predator” and the “Reaper.” The pilots watch in “real time” as cameras on the drones send back images from the war zone and in split-second time a button is pressed and missiles are fired. Is it the Taliban? Is it a wedding?
Can there be the slightest doubt that this “hands off” way of killing today is absolutely repugnant? What does it say about us as a nation that we can cavalierly kill from a distance with little conscience or public outcry?
It’s as if we are just killing flies.
Bruce K. Gagnon
Coordinator
Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
www.space4peace.org
globalnet@mindspring.com
http://space4peace.blogspot.com (Blog)
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- - What Are We Doing In Afghanistan?
By Christopher Story
[Excerpted from Chris Story’s 21 June 2009 issue of World Report]
• APPENDIX:
[EXCERPT]
AN ANSWER (OF SORTS) TO OUR QUESTION: ‘WHAT ARE WE DOING IN AFGHANISTAN?
..The end-result of this catastrophically misguided intervention has been precisely to assist the US ‘Black’ Intelligence Power and its co-opted American Military Establishment to grab control over the heroin poppy crop, which was, as we and others have suspected, the entire purpose of the intervention all along.
In which case, our complaint that British soldiers are dying in Afghanistan to support a criminal enterprise and the nefarious intentions of two criminal governments is indeed well-founded: and the Editor is personally entitled to reiterate that his distinguished military father would be appalled at this gross perversion of British military power.
The other dimension that needs to be stressed here is that the Afghanistan venture is proxy for the uniformly catastrophic consequences that have arisen across the board due to the wholesale global ‘collectivisation of external action’ underlying the reprobate policy, espoused publicly by Mr Brown, of ‘pro-active’ intervention abroad, which is consistent with the assault on the nation state.
By definition, since every nation state nowadays is vulnerable to being attacked if powerful foreign powers take exception to any dimensions of its behaviour, the sovereign integrity of the nation state is greatly undermined: which is the whole point.
And of course, the intervention in Afghanistan has nothing whatsoever to do with British national interests, not least given that these have been collectivised within the context of the European Union Collective, which exists to usurp and replace its constituent nation states in conformity with the logic of the World Revolution generally.
The net result is that British troops have been redirected away from serving Queen and Country to assist the ‘Black’ American imperial Intelligence Power so as to consolidate its evil control over the heroin trade, an operation ‘necessary’ to provide an open-ended pipeline for the financing of its continued status as the controlling ‘State within the State’, and (according to the head of UNODC in his interview with the Austrian journal ‘Profil’ in January), to provide interbank market liquidity.
Source: APPENDIX OF 21 Jun 2009 issue of World Reports By Christopher Story
BRITAIN & AMERICA: DECADENT, DELUDED, DESTITUTE
Financial Analysis - World Reports - Global Intelligence
15 February 2009
Catastrophic Banker's Ramp to Continue Under Obama
ROOT CAUSE OF THE GLOBAL CRISIS:
THE CIA FUNDS ITSELF BY FRAUD
21 May 2009 - The Independent (UK)
Exclusive: How MI5 blackmails British Muslims
25 June 2009
'If I didn't confess to 7/7 bombings MI5 officers
would rape my wife,' claims torture victim
18 June 2008
General Accuses WH of War Crimes
3) Statement for Oglala Commemoration By Leonard Peltier
Greetings my friends and relatives,
I want to start off this statement or speech or whatever you want to call it by saying again as I’ve said before thank you thank you thank you from the bottom of my heart for supporting me and for standing up for right wherever you are. I can’t express to you in words how extremely grateful I am not just to the people of America but to the people all over the world who have supported the cause of Indian people and myself.
I know a lot of you have given up a lot to help so many in my predicament. Daily I am made aware of political prisoners around the world. Many who have been killed or tortured or who knows what for trying to right the wrongs in their area, country or nation. I have been asked to make statements in support of other movement people around the world from time to time, South America, Europe and other places. People who love freedom, people who love the earth, people who love their family, people who love the freedom to make their own choice with their own resources, and all indigenous people- we share a common bond. The bond of brother and sister hood, the bond of believing there is a greater power than ourselves. And I don’t mean some government power; I mean the greatest power in all the universe the Creator Himself.
We also as human beings upon this earth have to recognize that there have always been those who suffer from an illness called greed. They have an appetite for gaining material wealth that is never satisfied. They have an appetite for land that is never satisfied. And the most common symptom of their illness is indifference to the suffering they cause with their quest. These people are the ones that have identified themselves as our common enemy. It is so terrible that under the guise of religion and shouting freedom they pit one people against another. This isn’t something new. All down through history it has taken place. All down through history there have been men, spiritual men, holy men, great thinkers and philosophers who have tried to unite us against this common enemy.
Today my brothers and sisters I want you to know that if nothing else if we don’t unite against the destruction against the Mother Earth we will have a common future that is void of clean air, clean water, and basic freedoms. We must reach our hands out to embrace others to the cause of life. We must do our best from where ever we are with whatever tools available to enhance and further our quality of life. We must find a way to break down the barriers that divide one people from another. We must find the things we have in common and find ways to solve our differences as basic humanity. We must evolve to a higher level of thinking or to as you might say a traditional level of thinking which obviously is superior to what they call progress today. Our traditional values taught us to live in harmony with Earth the greatest manifestation of the Creator that we have to relate to. Our traditions taught us to respect our bodies the greatest gift we have or possess as an individual. Our traditions taught us to preserve the environment for our children and all our future generations. As a member of the American Indian Movement these values are what we were about. Poverty isn’t solved by money, poverty is solved by attitude. The problems we have today among all our people are caused by attitude. They are caused by an attitude that was given to us in boarding schools and on reservations that were nothing more than concentration camps in the past. They are attitudes by people who came to us talking to us about God and wanting us to embrace their version of religion and as one brother said once, “They told us to bow our heads, and when we looked up our land was gone, our culture was gone, our children was gone, our way of life was gone.” And now the air itself is dwindling.
I have been in this cage for some 34 years and though I have been caged I have sought the spirit in prayer of our brother the eagle, I have sought to have an overview of things for as anyone can see I don’t have the freedom to examine life from a close perspective. And from this distant view, abstract view, this detached view, at times I get to see the destruction and divisiveness that these political powers that have scattered us for so long have involved themselves in promoting among our people. I don’t know if it is because I am older now or because my future is so uncertain or if through some spiritual inspiration I deeply want to say so much. I deeply want to move you to do something to save our earth and our children and our children’s future. I didn’t get to raise my children; I haven’t got to really know them or my children’s children. I may never get to, but I love them all just the same. And I love life as much as anyone on the outside. And I don’t know how long I will walk this cage. Some days I feel quite healthy and energized and some days I feel like the 64 year old man that I am. I’m always hopeful that I will be free at some point, perhaps in the latter part of July after my parole hearing, and perhaps I wont. The people that hold me, the FBI and the conglomerate corporations that have for so long controlled the resources of this country and others and for so long have done their best to stifle, to denigrate, and to vilify the voice of the oppressed are some of the most formidable well funded political people on Earth. I was told that the FBI themselves are some 10,000 strong.
I am but a common man, I am not a speaker but I have spoken. I am not all that tall but I have stood up. I am not a philosopher or poet or a singer or any of those things that particularly inspire people but the one thing that I am is the evidence that this country lied when they said there was justice for all. I am the evidence that they lied when they extradited me from Canada. I am the evidence that they can lie at your trial, they can manufacture evidence at your trial, they can intimidate witnesses at your trial, they can have back room conversations and agreements with the judge at your trial. I am the evidence that the attitude, the powers that be still hold us in a grip. They hold us in an emotional grip. They hold us in a poverty grip. They hold us in a cultural deprivation grip. I could go on and on about the things that go on that weigh so heavily against our people but the bottom line is my case is well documented by court after court after court, by hearing after hearing after hearing, by statement after statement after statement. And we as a people are the evidence that this country fails to keep its treaties, this country fails to keep its word. This country has failed to follow its own Constitution - the treaty between the people and the government. We are that evidence. I am nothing more than evidence. That is why people all over the world and here at home have supported the cause of justice in my case. In my particular situation I can’t say that there will ever be any level of justice.
They cannot give back the 34 years of life that have been taken from me. They cannot give back the life of Joe Stuntz that they took June 26th 1975. They cannot give back the lives of the 60 something people that they directly or indirectly caused the death of. They cannot give back the thousand upon thousands of Indian people that were killed and abused since the inception of this government. But the one thing we can do, we must do, is find a way to change their attitude. My brother Leonard Crow Dog once said, “If you want to change the white man you have to change his religion.” And religion is a word that means how you do something on a regular basis; most generally it is associated with your spirituality. Perhaps with global warming as it is and the changes in the weather patterns and the questionable future that faces the earth, they will start to listen. Maybe they will reach back and embrace the words of our people foretold again and again. We must live the way that the Earth will renew itself every spring. We must help them reach back. We must speak to them at every opportunity. We must make an effort to reach back ourselves to our own cultural values. And in doing so we can start to solve the many destructive challenges we face. We must more than ever before find a way to heal the wounds of our children and prevent the social illnesses that are so prevalent across our reservations and communities. We have the tools, we have the teachings, we have the philosophies, we have the culture, we have the artists, we have the singers, we have the philosophers, I could go on and on but in essence what I am trying to say is it is imperative that we bring together all our resources to enhance the future for our children in a way that they themselves can further the healthy teachings of our culture and way of life; and in doing so I have no doubt that we can change the world.
If I am freed next month or if I die in prison remember my words and remember we are evidence that the Creator made a beautiful people a people that respected the Earth and nature and each other. We are evidence on every level of goodness that when the Creator made us. He meant for us to be free. All our traditions have taught us this way. And even this very form of government that exists today was copied from our people. Our people with our foods, our medicines, belief in freedom and right to choose have influenced the world. Its too bad they didn’t adopt a healthy attitude that we had toward the Earth or an attitude of respect for us the first keepers of this portion of the Earth. If there is something about me that this government can point at and say is wrong or any person say is wrong I will by my own choice, if it proves to be fact, seek to fix it myself. But I also want to remind them the policies that have been in place for so long have made us what we are today. The policies that have been in place for so long, have created another reservation called Iraq and another reservation called Afghanistan, and the list goes on and on, you see what’s happening over there is what happened here and all down through North and South America.
I am just a common man and I am evidence that the powers that put me here would like to sweep under the carpet. The same way they did all of our past leaders, warriors and people they massacred. Just as at Wounded Knee the Fifth Cavalry sought its revenge for Custer’s loss and massacred some 300 Indian men women and children then gave out 23 Medals of Honor and swept the evidence of their wrongdoing aside. Perhaps this statement is somewhat more lengthy than the others I’ve made; perhaps it is some things I should have said before and perhaps more, if so I hope you will forgive me. I recently was thought to be having a heart attack because of pain in my chest. After having been beaten and kicked and stomped in the last year, I am not quite sure what was causing the pain. I had never been beaten, kicked and stomped like that before. And also I have never been 64 years old before. The one thing all this did for me is it really brought home my sense of mortality. I don’t want to spend the rest of my life in this prison. And I don’t want you to spend the rest of your life in some prison of the mind, heart or attitude. I want you to enjoy your life.
If nothing else give somebody a hug for me and say, “This is from Leonard.”
In the Spirit of Crazy Horse
Leonard Peltier
If you haven't written your own letter to the parole board,
pease consider adding your support for Leonard Peltier.
All letters must be received by July 14 to be considered.
For sample letters, see: FN issue of June 1, 2009 –
Paranoid Reality * Liberty * Peltier Parole - Item 3
4) FluScam.com Announcement from Dr. Len Horowitz
- - Comparison of OxySilver to Colloidal Silver
FLUscam.com may be the most important website to alert many to be prepared
for the potentially advancing "Swine Flu Pandemic".
In addition to several valuable articles, Dr. Horowitz's FLUscam.com features:
"Swine Flu Media Central" where you can watch selected YouTube segments including
the doctor's latest reports on the Baxter Corporation and Novavax - the vaccine makers
heavily implicated in this advancing pandemic.
Direct links to Dr. Horowitz's two NEW YouTube segments are here:
"Swine Flu Pandemic, 2009: Anglo-American Genocide Part I"
and
"Swine Flu Pandemic, 2009, Part II, Baxter Corporation's "Accident"
Source - FLUscam.com
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- - Comparison of OxySilver to Colloidal Silver
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Petition Filing * Schumer * Coal * Rumi
16 June 2009
”The surging, worldwide 9/11 truth movement has rallied behind NYC CAN
as the most promising opportunity to establish a new investigation.
Donations are pouring in. In a real sense, NYC CAN represents
the 9/11 truth movement for accountability come home.
Having spread its critical spirit and zeal for an honest
rendering of this most heinous act, it has indeed
come marching home—home to NYC,
to the scene of the crime."
- Frank Morales
9/11 Truth Comes Home
1) Referendum Vote - Truth and Breakthroughs
- - NYC CAN filing Petition 9/11 Investigation Vote!
- - 9/11 Truth Comes Home
- - Schumer lends qualified support to new 9-11 inquiry
- - Is 9/11 Truth Growing?
- - Bilderberger treason goes unpunished!
- - Top Secret Bilderberg Meeting - 9-11 Media Breakthroughs
- - New DVD - Steven Jones announces NanoThermite
2) Fight Big Coal & Russian Warnings Missile Shield Offense/Defense
- - Community Aims to Beat Corporate 'Personhood,' Save Environment
- - Russia warns US on missile shield
- - ECO at the International Whaling Commission Meeting
- - Boom and bust of deforestation
3) Poetry of Rumi Spans Across Centuries, Cultures
Editor’s Notes:
This issue begins at a monumental moment. This week 50,000+ petitions will be filed for a referendum vote this November 3rd for a new 9/11 investigation. Senator Charles Schumer is almost on board, but it will be the voice of the people, not politicians, authorizing and conducting a real investigation into what happened that day. The official story-report is bogus. So far President Obama has been in lock-step with prior administrations. But the power is in the hands of NYC voters, like in the hands of the people of Iran, to demand honesty and integrity or exposure of elitist-controlled world government (corrupt) systems. A couple of Bilderberg articles should keep us shaking our heads, wondering where this recent pandemic came from.. Meanwhile heroes are coming out to bat for 9/11 truth. Steve Alten recently sent a note to various truth leaders and organizations:
“I am rewriting The SHELL GAME for the mass market paperback, to be released on September 11, 2009. I am rewriting the story a) to replace the GOP President (McKuin) from the hardback with a Democrat (Obama) and b) because I've learned a lot more about how the world works and treats 9/11 Truth...and I want to expose it all. I am dedicating the book to you. Please send me the names of individuals and/or organizations who deserve recognition. I will honor them as such. Or, if you would rather NOT be mentioned, tell me that as well. Oh yeah, there is also c) I want to exchange the Shell Game's hammer with a sledge hammer. And an $8 paperback can go places and reach far more people than a $28 hardback.”
Pretty cool, and this tidal wave for truth and freedom is arriving for a hopefully balanced 8th anniversary. This first item concludes with information from 911TV.org about a Steven Jones presentation DVD where he announced publication of his team’s discovery and proof of high-tech nanothermite.
Item 2 has more on the challenges before us in converting a personhood corporate doomsday lust scenario, into one with humane principle and perspective. Recently I posted an article called: Transforming Health-care and Criminal Justice on 911blogger. I believe we can help make such visionary projects happen, such as not-for-profit healthcare and prison systems, plus make it efficient with major employment opportunities for the good of society. But, first, we need to help NYC CAN investigate into what really happened on September 11, 2001. United even with only hundreds of contributors, we have already made a strategic strike against universal deception, crimes against humanity and nature. The third item is on Rumi, like taking a breathe of fresh air.
"I am so small.
How can this great love be inside me?
Look at your eyes. They're small.
But they see enormous things."
- Rumi
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1) Referendum Vote - Truth and Breakthroughs
- - NYC CAN filing Petition 9/11 Investigation Vote!
- - 9/11 Truth Comes Home
- - Schumer lends qualified support to new 9-11 inquiry
- - Is 9/11 Truth Growing?
- - Bilderberger treason goes unpunished!
- - Top Secret Bilderberg Meeting - 9-11 Media Breakthroughs
- - New DVD - Steven Jones announces NanoThermite
- - NYC CAN filing Petition 9/11 Investigation Vote!
By Ted Walter
Executive Director
New York City Coalition for Accountability Now
11 June 2009
Finally, after more than a year of collecting signatures, we are ready to file the petition with the City Clerk's Office of New York City! In the week of June 15 we will be well over 50,000 signatures. With that number, we should be comfortably above the 30,000 valid signatures needed for City Council to consider the referendum. As of now our planned date of submission is Wednesday, June 17!
Now, for some important details if you are wondering how the process will work from here:
-City Council could okay the placement of the referendum on the ballot without NYC CAN needing to submit additional signatures.
-In the event that City Council vetoes it, or they take no action within 60 days, NYC CAN will come in with an additional 15,000 signatures to override City Council and guarantee the referendum goes on the ballot. These signatures will be collected over the next two months.
You may notice we don't have as many signatures by this point as we were anticipating. The job of a petitioner is physically strenuous and requires superb communication skills, so it has proven difficult to keep enough people on to build a staff big enough to collect 1,000 signatures per day. However, we ARE collecting 3,000 signatures per week and we are on our way to the 4,000 per week we need to successfully override City Council by the end of the summer. It just takes time. We are building a highly skilled staff who bring in only quality signatures. I want you to know that no money has been wasted - our payroll simply hasn't been as big as it could be, so we still have lots of money in the bank.
But, we need more. We have enough to get us to 60,000 signatures, but we really need another $25,000 to get us to 75,000. I know many of you have given before, so I don't want to ask you to give again unless you are truly able. The more important way you can help our fundraising effort is by talking to everyone you know and asking them to contribute. After filing the petition with the City Clerk next week, we anticipate it will become even easier to raise funds, especially from those who are able to give larger amounts. Please spread the word, it will help! If anyone wants to donate, send them to NYCCAN.org.
Lastly, we are assembling a legal team to lead the way once we have filed the petition. In the event that the City tries to block our effort by legal means, we will need the best people on our side. If you have suggestions or would like to offer your services, please contact us.
And, if you haven't yet watched our 45-second ad, go to: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzC3QI8JenU&fmt=18
Thank you for your ongoing support.
Sincerely,
Ted Walter
Executive Director
Email contact: info@nyccan.org
NYC CAN Executive Council
Donna Marsh O'Connor
Bob McIlvaine
Jean Canavan
Edith Beaujon
Janette MacKinlay
William Rodriguez
Frank Morales - Treasurer
NYC CAN
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- - 9/11 Truth Comes Home
By Frank Morales, June 2009
It’s late spring 2009 in New York City and an unannounced unidentified U.S. government plane streaks across town. Recollecting the horrors of 9/11, the incident scares the he-be-gee-bees out of the citizenry. Some miles to the north, U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer (D/NY), while attending an April 18th “Tour of the Battenkill” annual bicycle race in Cambridge, New York, responds to a question regarding efforts here in New York City to establish a new investigation of 9/11. Lending his qualified support to such an inquiry, he said that he was positively disposed toward a new investigation into the events of 9/11, though his support for such a probe would depend on the form it would take. “I think it’s not a bad idea,” he said. “You know, you’ve got to do it in a good way, but yes, I’d be for it.”
An associate of Schumer, New York State Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, also recommended a fresh look at the events of September 11, 2001. Commenting this past May 27th to a young reporter who himself had suffered the loss of a loved one during 9/11, the senator responded to the question of a new investigation by suggesting that “another review, or a fuller hearing” is warranted given the number of unanswered questions put forward by victims families since 9/11. “I think those questions should be answered,” she stated, going on to affirm that, “it’s important that every family member have every question answered.”
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http://dailycensored.com/2009/06/11/911-truth-comes-home/
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- - Schumer lends qualified support to new 9-11 inquiry
www.petersnewyork.com/SCHUMER1.html
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- - Is 9/11 Truth Growing?
1000's Want 9/11 Questions Meetup Groups Near Them
http://911blogger.com/node/20384
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- - Bilderberger treason goes unpunished!
By Jerry Mazza
Online Journal Associate Editor
Jun 5, 2009, 00:26
http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_4772.shtml
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- - Top Secret Bilderberg Meeting - 9/11 Media Breakthroughs
www.WantToKnow.info/009/090608_bilderberg_meeting_9-11_media_foreclosure_protection
Tod Fletcher and Fred Burks for PEERS and the WantToKnow.info Team
See their archive of revealing news: www.WantToKnow.info/indexnewsarticles
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- - New DVD - Steven Jones announces NanoThermite
911TV.org announced the availability of a live mix DVD of Steve Jones announcing the publication of his team’s discovery and proof of high-tech nanothermite: “What in the World is High-tech Explosive Material Doing in the Dust Clouds Generated on 9/11/2001?” presented April 30th, 2009 in Sacramento, California.
Both the 1 hour edited version (ready for your public access station or show to your friends) and the complete talk with Q&A are included in this two DVD set which you can get at http://911TV.org. You can also get a hardcopy of this historic publication, in full color.
This is the “Loaded Gun of 9/11,” carefully researched and brilliantly presented. The implications of this new peer reviewed paper are profound.
Nanothermite, a highly engineered energetic nanocomposite, was conceived by 1990, and by 2000 had been weaponized, and manufactured in large quantities in top secret military laboratories. This nano form of thermite does not just burn extremely hot, it explodes!
Steven also updates us on various facets of the quest to repudiate the “official conspiracy theory” about 9/11, and describes current efforts to create a legitimate investigation with real subpoena power.
Your donation makes it possible for 911TV to continue bringing you professional quality video from the 9/11 Truth movement. You can get this two DVD set and the hardcopy at 911TV.org
2) Fight Big Coal & Russian Warnings Missile Shield Offense/Defense
- - Community Aims to Beat Corporate 'Personhood,' Save Environment
- - Russia warns US on missile shield
- - ECO at the International Whaling Commission Meeting
- - Boom and bust of deforestation
- - Community Aims to Beat Corporate 'Personhood,' Save Environment
Pennsylvania Town Fights Big Coal on Mining Rights
by Jon Hurdle
Published June 15, 2009 by Reuters
TAYLORSTOWN, Pennsylvania - A small Pennsylvania town is trying to ban coal mining in a battle being played out across the state as rural communities try to assert control over mining, gas drilling and other businesses.
Blaine Township, a community of 600 about 40 miles southwest of Pittsburgh, hopes to trigger a legal battle that could determine the rights of municipalities throughout the United States to control corporate activity.
Some legal experts say the township is highly unlikely to win that fight. For now the dispute is in federal district court, where major energy companies have sued the township over three ordinances that would ban coal mining and require companies in any business to disclose their activities to local officials.
Penn Ridge Coal LLC, a unit of Alliance Resource Partners, and Allegheny Pittsburgh Coal Co., a unit of Allegheny Energy, say Blaine's laws violate their corporate rights.
The companies say the ordinances would prevent them from mining 10.6 million tons of recoverable coal beneath the township -- enough to supply electricity for 2 million people for a year.
The township has gone further than any of the 120 U.S. municipalities -- most of them in Pennsylvania -- that have passed ordinances to curb corporate activity such as factory farming or spreading sewage sludge, said its lawyer, Tom Linzey of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund.
Of three townships sued by corporations over their ordinances, only Blaine has refused to back down, Linzey said.
Elsewhere in Pennsylvania, towns are resisting efforts by energy companies to extract natural gas from the massive Marcellus Shale formation amid fears that toxic chemicals used in drilling are contaminating ground water and endangering human health.
CREEKS DIVERTED
In Blaine, residents are seeking to prevent coal mining -- which they expect to begin there in 2011 -- because they fear it will ruin their houses and disrupt water supplies, as they say it has in surrounding areas.
They want to block longwall mining, a technique that rips tons of coal from underground without putting anything in its place, causing the land above to sag. The practice, which has been used in coal-rich southwest Pennsylvania since the 1970s, has cracked the walls, roofs and basements of homes and opened fissures in the land, diverting or draining creeks and ponds.
In neighboring Morris Township, Tammy Bowman pointed to a pile of broken wood and concrete -- all that's left of an outbuilding she said was destroyed by shifting ground from mining beneath her 19th century farmhouse.
"It just started to drop and drop," she said. "It got so bad, you couldn't even walk in the door."
One section of her house is held up with mechanical jacks.
Near the village of Graysville, the 62-acre (25-hectare) Duke Lake, once used for fishing and boating, now sits empty after the shifting ground opened a crack in its retaining wall, environmentalists say.
Blaine's three ordinances, passed in 2006, 2007 and 2008, also assert that communities have a right under the U.S. Constitution to control business within their boundaries and that corporations do not have constitutional rights as "persons" to sue municipalities for passing laws that would hurt corporate interests.
"This illegitimate bestowal of civil and political rights upon corporations prevents the administration of laws within Blaine Township and usurps basic human and constitutional rights guaranteed to the people of Blaine Township," says the township's Corporate Rights Ordinance of 2006.
To implement the ordinances, township supervisors are now campaigning for "home rule," a legal code that transfers some powers from state to local control and is commonly used to raise taxes or increase the number of supervisors on a board.
ESTABLISHING HOME RULE
Blaine supervisors want to use home rule to establish what they say is the township's constitutional right to control corporate activity. Voters on May 19 approved a plan to set up a commission to study the proposal and recommend whether to adopt it.
A third lawsuit has been brought by Range Resources, a natural gas company, asking the court to invalidate Blaine's demand that corporations disclose their activities.
Penn Ridge Coal and Allegheny Pittsburgh Coal are asking U.S. Judge Donetta Ambrose of the Western District of Pennsylvania to declare Blaine's ordinances invalid and unenforceable.
In April, Judge Ambrose denied the township's motion to dismiss the case. She is expected to rule late this year.
Linzey predicted the case will eventually go to the U.S. Supreme Court because it pits energy companies who want to exploit one of America's richest coal seams against residents who are determined to resist what they see as rapacious mining.
He conceded the court is unlikely to overturn more than 100 years of established law that gives corporations rights as "persons" under the constitution, but he said the expected outcome would become a springboard for a popular campaign for a constitutional amendment to strip corporations of those rights.
Blaine's supervisors said they want to establish a principle of local self-government that will inspire other communities.
"Who dictates how we are going to live here?" asked Board spokesman Michael Vacca. "Should it not be us?"
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Also posted at: www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/06/15-1
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- - Russia warns US on missile shield
June 12, 2009
MOSCOW: Russia said on Thursday that the United States must halt its plans to deploy a missile shield in eastern Europe before the two countries can start a full-fledged dialogue on missile defence.
A Russian foreign ministry spokesman, Andrei Nesterenko, also insisted that Moscow would not cooperate in the Pentagon’s plans to site an anti-missile radar in the Czech Republic and interceptor missiles in Poland.
“We cannot agree to cooperate on the creation of sites which in their essence are designed to oppose Russia’s strategic deterrent forces. No one will do something that harms himself,” Nesterenko said.
“Only a US withdrawal from plans to place the so-called third position area of strategic missile defence in Europe can allow full-fledged dialogue to start on issues of cooperation in the reaction to probable missile threats.”
The term ‘third position area’ refers to the US plans in eastern Europe. The previous two areas of the planned multibillion-dollar missile shield are in the US states of Alaska and California. However Nesterenko also voiced hope that a deal could eventually be reached: “We expect that on matters of missile defence, in the end it will be possible to find a common denominator and reach a mutually agreeable decision.”
Nesterenko’s comments on Thursday were in response to Russian media reports that the two countries had made progress on the issue and that the United States might even situate elements of its missile shield in Russia.
The reports, which appeared in multiple Russian newspapers, were based on testimony by US Defence Secretary Robert Gates this week before US senators. But a spokesperson for Gates told AFP that the Pentagon chief’s comments had been misconstrued and that the reported plans to put US missile-shield facilities in Russia were a misinterpretation.
Moscow has reacted angrily to the US missile defence plans, saying they are a threat to Russian security, although Washington says they are not directed against Russia and are meant to protect against ‘rogue states’ like Iran.
Former US president George W Bush strongly backed the missile shield, but the new administration of President Barack Obama has slowed down implementation of the project
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www.nytimes.com/2009/06/12/world/europe/12missile.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=all
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- - ECO at the International Whaling Commission Meeting
PRESS RELEASE ***PRESS RELEASE***
International Marine Mammal Project
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The David Brower Center
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - June 15, 2009
Contacts: David Phillips in U.S. (510) 859-9145
Mark J. Palmer at Hotel Quinta Do Sol 011 +351 291 724 219
ECO, The Whale Activists¹ Newsletter
Earth Island Institute¹s International Marine Mammal Project will be hosting
the daily activists¹ newsletter ECO, posted online from the International
Whaling Commission (IWC) meetings in Madeira, Portugal, June 22-26, 2009.
ECO can be accessed at (beginning June 22nd): www.earthisland.org/immp
(The official Website of Earth Island Institute¹s International Marine Mammal Project.)
Earth Island Institute and ECO:
The International Marine Mammal Project (IMMP) of Earth Island Institute has joined many other organizations as a proud sponsor of ECO since our inception. David Phillips, Director of IMMP, has been editor of ECO for most of the past 20 years of IWC meetings. We are pleased to offer ECO online at http://www.earthisland.org/immp for activists to follow the action at this year¹s IWC meeting.
Earth Island Institute is a nonprofit educational organization dedicated to protecting the diversity of life on Earth. The International Marine Mammal Project works to protect whales, dolphins and other marine mammals around the world.
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Director, Wildlife Alive
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www.SaveJapanDolphins.org
Read my Blog on the Sundance Film Festival and the world premiere of
"The Cove", a documentary about our work to save dolphins:
www.savejapandolphins.org/blog.html
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- - Boom and bust of deforestation
BBC NEWS
'Boom and bust' of deforestation
By Richard Black
Environment correspondent, BBC News
Cutting down Amazon forest for cattle and soy does not bring long-term economic progress, researchers say.
A study of 286 Amazon municipalities found that deforestation brought quick benefits that were soon reversed.
Writing in the journal Science, the researchers say the deforestation cycle helps neither people nor nature.
They suggest that mechanisms to reward people in poorer countries for conserving rainforest could change this "lose-lose-lose" situation.
Truncated, for the complete article, see:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8095833.stm
For FN’s resource page on this issue, see:
Mounting Evidence of Extreme Global Warming
3) Poetry of Rumi Spans Across Centuries, Cultures
PBS TV Newshour with Jim Lehrer
Originally aired on 04 June 2009
Afghan-born 13th century Sufi mystic poet Jalaluddin Rumi is the national poet of Afghanistan, as well
as a much-loved poet in America. Jeffrey Brown reports on what's behind the popularity of Rumi's poems.
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JIM LEHRER: And finally tonight, a poet who speaks across centuries. Jeffrey Brown narrates our report by independent producer David Grubin.
JEFFREY BROWN: With more and more American soldiers arriving in Afghanistan each day coming face to face with a culture and a people they know little about, it may come as a surprise that one of the best loved poets in America is the national poet of Afghanistan, a 13th century Sufi mystic named Jalaluddin Rumi.
COLEMAN BARKS, poet and translator: "All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing? I have no idea."
JIM LEHRER: The poet Coleman Barks has been translating Rumi for more than 36 years. In a 1994 PBS documentary, he read to music by the Paul Winter Consort.
COLEMAN BARKS: "The day is coming"...
JIM LEHRER: Rumi, born in northern Afghanistan, wrote thousands and thousands of ecstatic poems traditionally spoken with music. Although most Afghans are illiterate, they can recite Rumi by heart.
COLEMAN BARKS: There is a part of the Afghani culture, a huge part, that is way beyond the Taliban. Rumi's read on the radio daily. He's used in their conversation. He's like the Shakespeare of the Middle East, only he has mystical awareness. By that, I mean that his poetry is aware of the deep interconnectedness of all life and of all peoples and of all religions.
"I am so small. How can this great love be inside me? Look at your eyes. They're small. But they see enormous things."
He lived in the 13th century, and there was sectarian violence. The crusades were raking across Anatolia. But he said, "It doesn't matter what religion you are." He says, "I go into a synagogue, I go into the Christian church, and I go into the Muslim mosque, and I see one altar."
The kingdom of God is within you. That's what Jesus says in Luke 17:12. And that's what Rumi is saying, that the deep sense of the divine mystery is in each other.
"I, you, he, she, we, I, you, he, she, we. In the garden of mystic lovers, these are not true distinctions."
Rumi strikes a chord with Americans
JEFFREY BROWN: Something in Rumi has clearly struck a chord with many Americans. Coleman Barks' translations have sold well over a million copies. And the poems, written some eight centuries ago, are today regularly read at weddings and funerals.
COLEMAN BARKS: What the Afghans love about the poetry of Rumi, and that the American public, too, loves, is that all of those deep human emotions, all these religions, all this singing is one song.
Both cultures love the same poet. The Afghans love it that Rumi is so popular in the United States. They're proud of us for that, and we're proud to be connected with them in that way.
"Walk to the well. Turn as the Earth and the Moon turn, circling what they love. Whatever circles comes from the center."
This is a poem called "The Tent."
"Outside: the freezing desert night. This other night inside grows warm, kindling. Let the landscape be covered with thorny crust. We have a soft garden in here. The continents blasted, cities and little towns, everything become a scorched, blackened ball. The news we hear is full of grief for that future, but the real news inside here is, there's no news at all."
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Paranoid Reality * Liberty * Peltier Parole
01 June 2009
"You can never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes
the existing model obsolete."
-- Buckminster Fuller
1) Bush Hidden History Coming Out - Family Secrets
- - LA Times covers (Bush) Family of Secrets ‘paranoid style’
- - Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty - Russ Baker audio
- - Paranoid Shift Confronting Reality
- - Obama administration sides with Saudis in 9/11 suit
- - Vote for Answers - VIDEO - Heartfelt 50 seconds
- - The Hidden History of 9-11
- - Fake Terror - The Road to War and Dictatorship
2) Torturing Democracy - USS Liberty Silver Star - Missing H-Bomb
- - Bill Moyer Journal on special documentary - "Torturing Democracy"
- - USS Liberty Veteran Receives Silver Star
- - Defending Israeli War Crimes
- - The Case of the Missing H-Bomb
3) Parole Letter for Leonard Peltier; time for freedom
4) Critical Breaking News
Editor’s Notes:
This issue starts off with a review in the LA Times playing the “paranoid” (condescension) game, while responding to hard documents offered in Russ Baker’s book: FAMILY OF SECRETS: The Bush Dynasty, the Powerful Forces That Put It in the White House, and What Their Influence Means for America. Tim Rutten summarizes his outlook (and bias): “I think there are three things that every serious American needs to believe about our recent history: Kennedy was killed by a lone lunatic, Americans really did land on the moon and the Twin Towers were destroyed when they were struck by two fully fueled airliners that had been hijacked by Islamic extremists organized by Al Qaeda. People who do not believe in these things are, within reasonable limits, entitled to sympathy. They are not entitled to a seat at the table where serious discussions occur.”
In contrast the following article by Michael Hasty, called Paranoid Shift uses documented evidence to expose the cabal of deceit; and shows how ‘key’ words like "conspiracy" can discredit most any hard evidence, proving the full manipulation of the mainstream media and public. This is why 'real' patriots question the events of September 11. The 50-second video produced by NYC CAN features 9/11 Family Members Jean Canavan, Bob McIlvaine and Manny Badillo, asking a few poignant, heartfelt, unanswered questions, and calling upon all New Yorkers to Vote For Answers.
The second item begins with a transcript of the latest Bill Moyers Journal program, which featured the powerful new film documentary, Torturing Democracy. The element of NAZI Germany and the Bush group hits home again and again. But is there a light at the end of the tunnel? While the Obama administration is still covering up the truth of what happened on September 11, could there be a big turnaround for the US government in the works? This Memorial Day a hero from the USS Liberty was recognized with a Silver Star. Is this a sign that Obama is determined to recognize the threats to the US from within, and dedicated to making this change? I don’t really know, but with the case of the missing H-Bomb, there may be reasons to be cautious as we somehow find a way to rid our world of weapons (insanity) capable of the mass destruction to life.
The third item 3 is on Leonard Peltier. This July he will have a Parole Hearing. Please take the time to write a letter in support of this human rights defender and nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize for the last six years. This test for basic native decency and US justice is much more important than many realize. This case confronts the distortion of in-justice and arrogant unethical leaders. Please join me in supporting this fellow human - help Free Leonard Peltier!
Forgiveness
Let us forgive the worst among us
because the worst is in ourselves,
the worst lives in each of us,
along with the best.
Let us forgive the worst
in each of us
and all of us
so that the best
in each of us
and all of us
may be free.
- Leonard Peltier
PRISON WRITINGS: My Life Is My Sun Dance
Published by St. Martins Press, NYC; 1999
1) Bush Hidden History Coming Out – Family Secrets
- - LA Times covers (Bush) Family of Secrets ‘paranoid style’
- - Family of Secrets The Bush Dynasty – Russ Baker audio
- - Paranoid Shift Confronting Reality
- - The Hidden History of 9-11
- - Fake Terror - The Road to War and Dictatorship
- - LA Times covers (Bush) Family of Secrets ‘paranoid style’
The charges of corruption the author levels at the Bush family
are extraordinary and sensational--but are they believable?
By Tim Rutten
January 7, 2009
[Book review for "FAMILY OF SECRETS: The Bush Dynasty,
the Powerful Forces That Put It in the White House,
and What Their Influence Means for America."]
[EXCERPT]
The tendency Richard Hofstadter so aptly labeled "the paranoid style" in American politics operates independent of ideology.
"American politics has often been an arena for angry minds," the great historian wrote in a 1964 issue of Harper's magazine. He called the expression of that anger "the paranoid style simply because no other word adequately evokes the sense of heated exaggeration, suspiciousness, and conspiratorial fantasy that I have in mind."
"One of the impressive things about paranoid literature is the contrast between its fantasied conclusions and the almost touching concern with factuality it invariably shows" is a characterization of Hofstadter's that might have been tailored to fit Baker's book. "It produces heroic strivings for evidence to prove that the unbelievable is the only thing that can be believed. Of course, there are highbrow, lowbrow, and middlebrow paranoids, as there are likely to be in any political tendency . . . [that] all but obsessively accumulate 'evidence.' . . . The higher paranoid scholarship is nothing if not coherent -- in fact, the paranoid mind is far more coherent than the real world."
Baker's coherent explanation of the world purports to be "a secret history" of a vast conspiracy stretching back more than a century in which a cabal of rich, interconnected men -- mainly involved in oil and gold extraction -- have used, first, private intelligence agents and then, later, the government spy agencies they helped found to manipulate . . . well, just about everything. Along the way, readers with enough stamina to wade through the mind-numbing accretion of names, dates and places will discover heretofore "hidden" explanations for the American entry into World War I, the formation of the CIA, the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the Watergate scandal (which, by the way, turns out to have been a secret coup engineered by the petro-intelligence access).
Here it's necessary to declare a personal bias. I regard the belief that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone as an important indicium of mental health. In fact, I think there are three things that every serious American needs to believe about our recent history: Kennedy was killed by a lone lunatic, Americans really did land on the moon and the Twin Towers were destroyed when they were struck by two fully fueled airliners that had been hijacked by Islamic extremists organized by Al Qaeda. People who do not believe in these things are, within reasonable limits, entitled to sympathy. They are not entitled to a seat at the table where serious discussions occur.
For the complete review: www.latimes.com/features/books/la-et-rutten7-2009jan07,0,6116790.story
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- - Family of Secrets The Bush Dynasty - Russ Baker audio -
the Powerful Forces That Put It in the White House,
and What Their Influence Means for America
- Family of Secrets on KPFA
For more on book and Russ Baker: FamilyOfSecrets.com
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- - Paranoid Shift Confronting Reality
Paranoid shift
By Michael Hasty
Online Journal Contributing Writer
January 10, 2004
Just before his death, James Jesus Angleton, the legendary chief of counterintelligence at the Central Intelligence Agency, was a bitter man. He felt betrayed by the people he had worked for all his life. In the end, he had come to realize that they were never really interested in American ideals of “freedom” and “democracy.“ They really only wanted “absolute power.”
Angleton told author Joseph Trento that the reason he had gotten the counterintelligence job in the first place was by agreeing not to submit “sixty of Allen Dulles’ closest friends” to a polygraph test concerning their business deals with the Nazis. In his end-of-life despair, Angleton assumed that he would see all his old companions again “in hell.”
The transformation of James Jesus Angleton from an enthusiastic, Ivy League cold warrior, to a bitter old man, is an extreme example of a phenomenon I call a “paranoid shift.” I recognize the phenomenon, because something similar happened to me.
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In his book, “Rogue State: A Guide to the World’s Only Superpower,” William Blum warns of how the media will make anything that smacks of “conspiracy theory” an immediate “object of ridicule.” This prevents the media from ever having to investigate the many strange interconnections among the ruling class -- for example, the relationship between the boards of directors of media giants, and the energy, banking and defense industries. These unmentionable topics are usually treated with what Blum calls “the media’s most effective tool -- silence.” But in case somebody’s asking questions, all you have to do is say, “conspiracy theory,” and any allegation instantly becomes too frivolous to merit serious attention.
On the other hand, since my paranoid shift, whenever I hear the words “conspiracy theory” (which seems more often, lately) it usually means someone is getting too close to the truth.
Take September 11 -- which I identify as the date my paranoia actually shifted, though I didn’t know it at the time.
Unless I’m paranoid, it doesn’t make any sense at all that George W. Bush, commander-in-chief, sat in a second-grade classroom for 20 minutes after he was informed that a second plane had hit the World Trade Center, listening to children read a story about a goat. Nor does it make sense that the Number 2 man, Dick Cheney -- even knowing that “the commander” was on a mission in Florida -- nevertheless sat at his desk in the White House, watching TV, until the Secret Service dragged him out by the armpits.
Unless I’m paranoid, it makes no sense that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld sat at his desk until Flight 77 hit the Pentagon -- well over an hour after the military had learned about the multiple hijacking in progress. It also makes no sense that the brand-new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff sat in a Senate office for two hours while the 9/11 attacks took place, after leaving explicit instructions that he not be disturbed -- which he wasn‘t.
In other words, while the 9/11 attacks were occurring, the entire top of the chain of command of the most powerful military in the world sat at various desks, inert. Why weren’t they in the “Situation Room?” Don’t any of them ever watch “West Wing?”
In a sane world, this would be an object of major scandal. But here on this side of the paranoid shift, it’s business as usual.
Years, even decades before 9/11, plans had been drawn up for American forces to take control of the oil interests of the Middle East, for various imperialist reasons. And these plans were only contingent upon “a catastrophic and catalyzing event, like a new Pearl Harbor,” to gain the majority support of the American public to set the plans into motion. When the opportunity presented itself, the guards looked the other way . . . and presto, the path to global domination was open.
Prescott Bush, the late, aristocratic senator from Connecticut, and grandfather of George W Bush, was not only a good friend of Allen Dulles, CIA director, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, and international business lawyer. He was also a client of Dulles’ law firm. As such, he was the beneficiary of Dulles’ miraculous ability to scrub the story of Bush’s treasonous investments in the Third Reich out of the news media, where it might have interfered with Bush’s political career . . . not to mention the presidential careers of his son and grandson.
Recently declassified US government documents, unearthed last October by investigative journalist John Buchanan at the New Hampshire Gazette, reveal that Prescott Bush’s involvement in financing and arming the Nazis was more extensive than previously known. Not only was Bush managing director of the Union Banking Corporation, the American branch of Hitler’s chief financier’s banking network; but among the other companies where Bush was a director -- and which were seized by the American government in 1942, under the Trading With the Enemy Act -- were a shipping line which imported German spies; an energy company that supplied the Luftwaffe with high-ethyl fuel; and a steel company that employed Jewish slave labor from the Auschwitz concentration camp.
Like all the other Bush scandals that have been swept under the rug in the privatized censorship of the corporate media, these revelations have been largely ignored, with the exception of a single article in the Associated Press. And there are those, even on the left, who question the current relevance of this information.
But Prescott Bush’s dealings with the Nazis do more than illustrate a family pattern of genteel treason and war profiteering -- from George Senior’s sale of TOW missiles to Iran at the same time he was selling biological and chemical weapons to Saddam Hussein, to Junior’s zany misadventures in crony capitalism in present-day Iraq.
More disturbing by far are the many eerie parallels between Adolph Hitler and George W. Bush:
A conservative, authoritarian style, with public appearances in military uniform (which no previous American president has ever done while in office). Government by secrecy, propaganda and deception. Open assaults on labor unions and workers’ rights. Preemptive war and militant nationalism. Contempt for international law and treaties. Suspiciously convenient “terrorist” attacks, to justify a police state and the suspension of liberties. A carefully manufactured image of “The Leader,” who’s still just a “regular guy” and a “moderate.” “Freedom” as the rationale for every action. Fantasy economic growth, based on unprecedented budget deficits and massive military spending.
And a cold, pragmatic ideology of fascism -- including the violent suppression of dissent and other human rights; the use of torture, assassination and concentration camps; and most important, Benito Mussolini’s preferred definition of “fascism” as “corporatism, because it binds together the interests of corporations and the state.”
By their fruits, you shall know them.
What perplexes me most is probably the same question that plagues most paranoiacs: why don’t other people see these connections?
A second major reason people won’t make the paranoid shift is that they are too fundamentally decent. They can’t believe that the elected leaders of our country, the people they’ve been taught through 12 years of public school to admire and trust, are capable of sending young American soldiers to their deaths and slaughtering tens of thousands of innocent civilians, just to satisfy their greed -- especially when they’re so rich in the first place. Besides, America is good, and the media are liberal and overly critical.
Third, people don’t want to look like fools. Being a “conspiracy theorist” is like being a creationist. The educated opinion of eminent experts on every TV and radio network is that any discussion of “oil” being a motivation for the US invasion of Iraq is just out of bounds, and anyone who thinks otherwise is a “conspiracy theorist.” We can trust the integrity of our ‘no-bid” contracting in Iraq, and anyone who thinks otherwise is a “conspiracy theorist.” Of course, people sometimes make mistakes, but our military and intelligence community did the best they could on and before September 11, and anybody who thinks otherwise is a “conspiracy theorist.”
Lee Harvey Oswald was the sole assassin of JFK, and anyone who thinks otherwise is a “conspiracy theorist.”
Perhaps the biggest hidden reason people don’t make the paranoid shift is that knowledge brings responsibility. If we acknowledge that an inner circle of ruling elites controls the world’s most powerful military and intelligence system; controls the international banking system; controls the most effective and far-reaching propaganda network in history; controls all three branches of government in the world’s only superpower; and controls the technology that counts the people’s votes, we might be then forced to conclude that we don’t live in a particularly democratic system.
That, on the morning of September 11, 2001: standard procedures and policies at the nation’s air defense and aviation bureaucracies were ignored, and communications were delayed; the black boxes of the planes that hit the WTC were destroyed, but hijacker Mohammed Atta’s passport was found in pristine condition; high-ranking Pentagon officers had cancelled their commercial flight plans for that morning; George H.W. Bush was meeting in Washington with representatives of Osama bin Laden’s family, and other investors in the world’s largest private equity firm, the Carlyle Group; the CIA was conducting a previously-scheduled mock exercise of an airliner hitting the Pentagon; the chairs of both the House and Senate Intelligence Committees were having breakfast with the chief of Pakistan’s intelligence agency, who resigned a week later on suspicion of involvement in the 9/11 attacks; and the commander-in-chief of the armed forces of the United States sat in a second grade classroom for 20 minutes after hearing that a second plane had struck the towers, listening to children read a story about a goat, is not “theoretical.” These are facts.
That the Bush administration has desperately fought every attempt to independently investigate the events of 9/11, is not a “theory.”
Nor, finally, is it in any way a “theory” that the one, single name that can be directly linked to the Third Reich, the US military industrial complex, Skull and Bones, Eastern Establishment good ol’ boys, the Illuminati, Big Texas Oil, the Bay of Pigs, the Miami Cubans, the Mafia, the FBI, the JFK assassination, the New World Order, Watergate, the Republican National Committee, Eastern European fascists, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission, the United Nations, CIA headquarters, the October Surprise, the Iran/Contra scandal, Inslaw, the Christic Institute, Manuel Noriega, drug-running “freedom fighters” and death squads, Iraqgate, Saddam Hussein, weapons of mass destruction, the blood of innocents, the savings and loan crash, the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, the “Octopus,” the “Enterprise,” the Afghan mujaheddin, the War on Drugs, Mena (Arkansas), Whitewater, Sun Myung Moon, the Carlyle Group, Osama bin Laden and the Saudi royal family, David Rockefeller, Henry Kissinger, and the presidency and vice-presidency of the United States, is: George Herbert Walker Bush.
“Theory?” To the contrary.
It is a well-documented, tragic and -- especially if you’re paranoid -- terrifying fact.
Michael Hasty is a writer, activist, musician, carpenter and farmer. His award-winning column, “Thinking Locally,” appeared for seven years in the Hampshire Review, West Virginia’s oldest newspaper. His writing has also appeared in the Highlands Voice, the Washington Peace Letter, the Takoma Park Newsletter, the German magazine Generational Justice, and the Washington Post; and at the websites Common Dreams and Democrats.com. In January 1989, he was the media spokesperson for the counter-inaugural coalition at George Bush’s Counter-Inaugural Banquet, which fed hundreds of DC’s homeless in front of Union Station, where the official inaugural dinner was being held. Permission to reprint is granted, provided it includes this autobiographical note, and credit for first publication to Online Journal.
For the complete original posting of this article, see: Paranoid Shift
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- - Vote for Answers - VIDEO - Heartfelt 50 seconds
50-second video released by New York City Coalition for Accountability Now (NYC CAN).
The video features 9/11 Family Members Jean Canavan, Bob McIlvaine and Manny Badillo asking the unanswered questions and calling upon all New Yorkers to "Vote For Answers."
Video link - http://911blogger.com/node/20224
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- - Obama administration sides with Saudis in 9/11 suit
By Stephen C. Webster -- May 31, 2009
A lawsuit filed by relatives of 9/11 victims which seeks to pin the blame on the Saudi royal family for financing attacks against the United States just acquired a significant new opponent: the Obama administration.
For more go to: http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/05/31/obama-sides-with-saudis/
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- - The Hidden History of 9-11
Published by Seven Stories Press
Edited by Paul Zarembka
Paperback - $19.95 $14.96 Save $4.99 (25%)
Description
How much insider trading occurred in the days leading up to 9-11? How compromised is the evidence against alleged hijackers? Why were there no military interceptions? To what extent does the testimony of more than five hundred firefighters differ from official reports of what happened at the World Trade Center buildings that day? How inseparably connected are Western covert operations to al-Qaeda? How is Islamophobia used to sustain US imperialism? What was the 9-11 Commission?
With contributions from Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, Four Arrows, David Ray Griffin, Jay Kolar, David MacGregor, Diana Ralph, Kevin Ryan, and Bryan Sacks, this path-breaking work examines 9-11 and its background, showing how much remains unknown and where further investigation and debate is needed.
Watch an interview with Paul Zarembka on Snowshoe films.
Watch Paul confront Phillip Zelikow of the 9/11 Commission Report.
www.sevenstories.com/book/?GCOI=58322100606640
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- - Fake Terror - The Road to War and Dictatorship
By Michael Rivero
It's the oldest trick in the book, dating back to Roman times; creating the enemies you need.
For complete article: http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/ARTICLE5/index.html
Bush and 9/11 Investigative Reports,
looking into the unanswered questions.
2) Torturing Democracy – USS Liberty Silver Star – Missing H-Bomb
- - Bill Moyer Journal on special documentary – “Torturing Democracy”
- - USS Liberty Veteran Receives Silver Star
- - Defending Israeli War Crimes
- - The Case of the Missing H-Bomb
- - Bill Moyer Journal on special documentary – “Torturing Democracy”
May 29, 2009 — Full Transcript
Special documentary: "Torturing Democracy."
You can watch the entire film at TORTURING DEMOCRACY web site.
[EXCERPT]
BILL MOYERS: Welcome to the Journal. You may have noticed that in all the recent debate over torture, many pundits and politicians alike have twisted themselves into verbal contortions to avoid using the word at all. In his speech to the conservative American Enterprise Institute last week, former Vice President Dick Cheney used one particular euphemism twelve times.
DICK CHENEY: In top secret meetings about enhanced interrogations, I made my own beliefs [...] enhanced interrogation [...] enhanced interrogations [...] enhanced interrogation [...] enhanced interrogation [...] facts on enhanced interrogation [...] the urgency and the rightness of enhanced interrogations in the years after 9/11.
BILL MOYERS: Smothering the reality of torture in euphemism of course has a political value. The enablers can use it to diminish the horror and possible lawlessness. Partisans use it to divert our attention by turning the future of, say, the Guantánamo prison into a "wedge issue," as the New York Times reported in this front page article. No political party would be bold enough to make torture the cornerstone of its rejuvenation if people really understood what it is. And lest we forget, we're not just talking about waterboarding, itself a trivializing misnomer for drowning.
There is one way to know what torture is, and what it does to human beings, and that's to look at it squarely, without flinching. That's what we'll do on this edition of the Journal, with excerpts from a powerful and important film, "Torturing Democracy," by one of America's outstanding documentary reporters, Sherry Jones. A longtime colleague, she and the film were honored this week with the prestigious RFK Journalism Award from the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights. "Torturing Democracy" was cited for its "meticulous reporting," and described as "the definitive broadcast account of a deeply troubling chapter in recent American history."
Truncated, for the complete transcript, see:
www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/05292009/transcript1.html
[Note: You can link to watch and listen from top of page.]
Watch the entire film at the TORTURING DEMOCRACY Web site.
www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/torturingdemocracy/program/
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- - USS Liberty Veteran Receives Silver Star
May 28, 2009
The Navy vet was only 23-years old when his ship ... the USS Liberty was attacked by Israeli fighter jets. 34 crewmembers were killed, 170 others injured. During the two-hour attack Halbardier fixed an antenna that was shot down and sent out a signal for help.
The June 8th 1967 attack is widely controversial because Israel was the U.S.'s ally during the war. President Lyndon Johnson declared it an "accident" but those aboard are certain the attack was deliberate.
"There's a lot of theories but let's just say they didn't want us listening in to what they wanted to do," said Halbardier.
"The government has kept this quiet I think for too long and I felt as my constituent he needed to get recognized for the services he made to this country," said Nunes.
Source: http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/uss-liberty-veteran-receives-silver-star
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- - Defending Israeli War Crimes
by Stephen Zunes
Published May 29, 2009 by Foreign Policy In Focus
www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/6150
also posted at Common Dreams:
www.commondreams.org/view/2009/05/29-5
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- - The Case of the Missing H-Bomb
The Pentagon Has Lost the Mother of All Weapons
By Jeffrey St. Clair, CounterPunch. Posted May 16, 2009.
60 years have passed since a damaged jet dropped a hydrogen bomb
near Savanah, Ga. -- and the Pentagon still can't find it.
For article, see: www.alternet.org/environment/140060/the_case_of_the_missing_h-bomb%3A_the_pentagon_has_lost_the_mother_of_all_weapons/
3) Parole Letter for Leonard Peltier; time for freedom
LEONARD PELTIER PAROLE HEARING SET JULY 27, 2009
Leonard Peltier Defense Offense Committee (LPDOC)
This following is from a sample letter in support of Leonard Peltier.
For official sample letter from LPDOC, see: www.whoisleonardpeltier.info/parole_hearing_072709.htm
You can copy and paste, edit into a word processing program.
Then you can print, sign, and send:
United States Parole Commission
5550 Friendship Blvd., Ste. 420
Chevy Chase, MD 20815-7286
(Insert Date)
Re: LEONARD PELTIER #89637-132
Dear Commissioners,
I am writing in behalf of Leonard Pelter for his freedom from prison at his upcoming Parole Hearing. While I am aware of the seriousness of the conviction in his case, I am also aware of many other issues regarding unfairness in his original trial. Documents show that although the prosecution pointed the finger at Peltier for shooting FBI agents at close range in 1976, for three years the prosecution withheld critical ballistic tests proving that the fatal bullets could not have come from the gun tied to Leonard Peltier. However, Mr. Peliter has expressed sadness for the tragedy that occurred that day at Oglala, and pain for the families of the two agents and the Indian man that died. Please consider that while in prison, Leonard Peltier has been a positive influence in our society.
Leonard Peltier has recently been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for the 6th straight year. He consistently donates his artwork for charities such as battered women shelters, half way houses, alcohol and drug treatment programs, and Native American scholarship funds. Thirty-three years is a long time; not just for Leonard Peltier and family, but for many of his supporters, working and praying for peace, justice, and harmony for sovereign native nations and the USA.
Please grant parole.
Respectfully
[Your name]
For more information, visit FN's resource page: Free Leonard Peltier
CRITICAL BREAKING NEWS
Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust
from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe
April 2009
Press Release ~ Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice
18 May 2009
Vice President Biden confronted with conclusive
scientific proof of criminal demolitions on 9/11/01
Active and retired top military brass met
to discuss what really happened on 9/11
640 Architects and Engineers
Call for New 9/11 Investigation
AE911Truth “Companion” Edition
10-Minute WTC 7 Video Online
Richard Gage on KMPH Fox 26 in Fresno
US Television Premiere: 9/11 Press for Truth
Colorado Public Television KBDI-Channel 12
Review of new book by David Ray Griffin,
Osama Bin Laden: Dead or Alive
Financial Analysis - World Reports - Global Intelligence
26 May 2009
Bush Sr., Clintons - Extortion - criminal mess continues
15 February 2009
Catastrophic Banker's Ramp to Continue Under Obama
ROOT CAUSE OF THE GLOBAL CRISIS:
THE CIA FUNDS ITSELF BY FRAUD
22 May 2009 - The Public Record
The CIA's History of Bamboozling The Congress
Obama Signs Financial Bill, Creating Investigative Panel
But after signing, president reserves right to claim executive privilege.
22 May 2009
Obama's Detention Plans Face Scrutiny
21 May 2009
Indefinite Detention? Shame on you... President Obama
Don't miss this 7 minute video wirh Rachel Maddow!
21 May 2009 - The Independent (UK)
Exclusive: How MI5 blackmails British Muslims
18 May 2009 - pdf
41 U.S. Counter-Terrorism & Intelligence Agency
Veterans Challenge the Official Account of 9/11
11 May 2009
CIA and ISI together created Taliban
12 May 2009
Obama threatens to limit US intel
with UK over Guantanamo torture
18 June 2008
General Accuses WH of War Crimes
16 May 2009
Rumsfeld's renegade unit
blamed for Afghan deaths
Recommended resources for late breaking news:
Citizens for a Legitimate Government
and
911blogger.com
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Watch the Jonathan Mark interview:
Jarek Kupsc and Joseph Culp
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Jonathan Mark Interviewed by Daria Fisk
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Referendum 9/11 & other Breaking News
A communiqué to the 9/11 truth movement
from a coalition of leaders & organizations
Now is a critical moment for truth and peace activists to empower a real investigation into the events of September 11, 2001. Nearly eight years have passed. Over the course of that time, thousands have sacrificed mightily to help shed light on the truth of that tragic day. A shining movement of honest individuals and determined researchers has exposed a government cover-up and questions demanding to be answered, if we aspire to be an open and just society. Now we are approaching a watershed moment in our quest for an authoritative and true investigation into 9/11, which could help end deceitful wars for terror, and ongoing tragedies and betrayal.
In the very city within which this horrible tragedy took place, a campaign for a real investigation is gaining strength. The New York City Coalition for Accountability Now has thus far collected over 40,000 signatures for getting this issue on the ballot for a new investigation in New York City. In order to achieve this goal and to overcome potential obstructions by the NYC Council and others, NYC CAN has set a goal of 75,000 signatures before the first of July.
In order to insure the NYC CAN effort, it is incumbent upon us to help make this happen. The petitioners are out there on the streets of NYC every day and need funds in order to continue. They are well trained; they're professional, gathering between 500-1000 signatures a day, at a cost of about a dollar a signature! We urge you to join the New York City Coalition for Accountability Now, TODAY. RIGHT NOW! If only 2,000 of us each donate the membership amount of $25, NYC CAN will raise enough funds to see through the rest of its petitioning effort and guarantee that the referendum will be on the ballot, November 3, 2009.
And that will most certainly provide the kind of lawful venue and exposure we have been working for. With our help, digging deep and reaching out far and wide, we can make this happen. Freedom is calling for peace and truth to take action. Please join us. NYC CAN!
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"The individual is handicapped by coming face to face with
a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists."
- J Edgar Hoover
(Quoted in the Elks Magazine, August 1956;
article about the communist threat to America.)
CRITICAL BREAKING NEWS
21 May 2009
NYC CAN Update: Now 40,000 signatures
Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust
from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe
April 2009
Press Release ~ Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice
18 May 2009
Vice President Biden confronted with conclusive
scientific proof of criminal demolitions on 9/11/01
640 Architects and Engineers
Call for New 9/11 Investigation
AE911Truth “Companion” Edition
10-Minute WTC 7 Video Online
Financial Analysis - World Reports - Global Intelligence
18 May 2009
Regulatory Shake-up Proposals by Michael Cottrell
15 February 2009
Catastrophic Banker's Ramp to Continue Under Obama
ROOT CAUSE OF THE GLOBAL CRISIS:
THE CIA FUNDS ITSELF BY FRAUD
21 May 2009 - The Independent (UK)
Exclusive: How MI5 blackmails British Muslims
18 May 2009 - pdf
41 U.S. Counter-Terrorism & Intelligence Agency
Veterans Challenge the Official Account of 9/11
11 May 2009
CIA and ISI together created Taliban
12 May 2009
Obama threatens to limit US intel
with UK over Guantanamo torture
16 May 2009
Rumsfeld's renegade unit
blamed for Afghan deaths
CAMPAIGNS * ACTIONS * RESOURCES
For Independent Investigations
NYC CAN
NYC Coalition for Accountability Now
Petition for 2009 Referendum Vote
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the formation of a new investigation with subpoena power by
petitioning to place a referendum on the ballot in the November
2009 General Election. In September 2008, the petition reached a
milestone of 30,000 signatures, the minimum number required to
submit the petition to New York City Council for its approval.
By June 2009, NYCCAN will eclipse the 45,000 signatures
required to bypass City Council, ensuring its placement
on the ballot. With the passage of this referendum
New York City will take the first giant step
towards truth and justice - NYC CAN.
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Obama--torture - NYC CAN video
13 May 2009
“I am not asking for vengeance; only that the truth
should be made known so that nobody in the future
should have to endure what I have endured.”
-- Binyam Mohamed
23 February 2009
former Guantanamo detainee
Notes: The following includes updated links at Flyby News. - "At issue is whether the British courts will disclose a seven-paragraph summary of the treatment of Binyam Mohamed, a former detainee who was released from Guantanamo Bay prison in February."
Obama threatens to limit US intel
with UK over Guantanamo torture
The case of the admission from the Pakistan government of who created the Taliban is most revealing.
CIA and ISI together created Taliban
Also the revelations from: "Adrian Gibbs, 75, who collaborated on research that led to the development of Roche Holding AG’s Tamiflu drug, said in an interview that he intends to publish a report suggesting the new strain may have accidentally evolved in eggs scientists use to grow viruses and drugmakers use to make vaccines. Gibbs said he came to his conclusion as part of an effort to trace the virus’s origins by analyzing its genetic blueprint."
“One of the simplest explanations is that it’s a laboratory escape,”
Swine Flu May Be Human Error,
Scientist Says, WHO Investigates
It would be a welcome relief if life was a bit more boring.. and less cataclysmic. By the way, Lori Berenson gave birth to a baby boy; and still in prison. Please support this heroine for journalism and justice - www.freeLori.org -
But I assume everything has some purpose for our transformation. Perhaps from dust to dust - or mutated to genetic bits with nuclear radiation nightmares following us. Hopefully truth and human decency will triumph, or we will go bitterly to our graves, with a smooth-talking President deceiving us like no other.
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Being an individual is as independent as one gets. Awakened by world-domination-crazy-people running the show, independent or citizen journalism can take on a whole new spectrum during this Internet-connected age. We can witness at the same time: mainstream media-government-academic-medical spin, and independent voices, researchers, organizations, revealing treachery and theft on a global basis.
The following is an excerpt from the latest article by Christopher Story, publisher of International Currency Review since 1970. There is an extensive archive on his writings on the story behind the financial world crisis at World Reports.
[EXCERPT]
THE CRIMINAL BANKS HAVE NO EXCUSE THIS TIME
In the past, criminalist officials and bankers have enjoyed playing the disinformation game of 'it's not my fault': but this option is precluded now because the institutions concerned are all overtly engaged in maximising the accruals to be leveraged off the funds that are sitting on their books in the Trustees' accounts, which is illegal. The big US banks are in gross breach of standard banking conduct, which means that, as we have often argued in the past, they cannot be trusted to carry out instructions - which further means that anyone dealing with the identified giga-institutions may be risking the loss of control over any funds they handle.
Moreover by depriving the countries and Trustees of their rightful funds while these banks pursue their own selfish interests and obstruction of justice contrary to their fiduciary duty to their clients, the banks have reconfirmed that they are indeed criminal enterprises.
And by condoning this latest appalling breach of banking standards, the Rule of Law, and of trust, President Obama, George Bush 41 and Mrs Barbara Bush et al are active participants in blocking the releases and in obstructing justice - a state of affairs that reflects a reckless degree of risk-taking arrogance that the Rest of the World has come to associate with the pariah nation called the United States of America, and which is liable to lead to a progressive degradation of international relations in the context of open economic warfare built on a substructure of the red-hot internal and external intelligence war which is in turn reflected in the irresponsible lies and diversionary reports churned out by notorious US controlled disinformation outlets.
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18 August 2009 marks the 10th anniversary since the incredulous flyby that gave birth to Flyby News. We have gone through the Y2K scare, 2000-2004 election thefts, September 11 and cover-up, the axing of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty for STAR WARS, two wars brought on by deceit and betrayal to US Constitution and human rights. FN features news on many inter-related topics, but we also seek a perspective from what has come before - to learn - to make better choices. Fear is the mind killer and manipulator. To overcome this FN supports New York City Coalition for Accountability Now, which is sponsoring a petition drive to give NYC voters. November 3, 2009. the right to authorize a subpoena-driven fair 9/11 investigation. Please join us and this campaign! NYC CAN!
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Intellectual Dishonesty
In The Age Of Universal Deceit...
Daniel Sunjata statement on September 11
William Rodriguez vindicated
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Flu Conspiracy * NYC CAN * Rescue Me
05 May 2009
“No other group in the world takes H5N1 Asian flu infected chickens,
brings them to Europe, extracts their DNA, combines their proteins
with H1N1 viruses from the 1918 Spanish flu isolate, additionally
mixes in swine flu genes from pigs, then ‘reverse engineers’ them
to infect humans. The end product that Reuter’s describes could
only end up in Mexico via the United States from Britain in
care of the CDC. Ruben Donis at the CDC had to have sent
them to Novavax, where Rick Bright’s team is now
implicated in a conspiracy to commit genocide—
the mass killing of people for profit.”
-- Dr. Leonard Horowitz
1) Flu Outbreak Implicates Anglo-American “Vaccine Pipeline”
2) Universal Deceit – September 11 – NYC CAN
- - Intellectual Dishonesty In The Age Of Universal Deceit
- - NYC CAN Update: Now 35,000+ signatures
- - Statements from the NYC CAN Executive Council
3) Americans and World To Be Punished for the Corruption
Editor’s Notes:
This issue begins with evidence that the Flu Pandemic, circulating now from Mexico, was engineered by devious humans for political and profit purposes. I first learned of Dr. Horowitz from a film documentary called “In Lies We Trust: The CIA, Hollywood & Bioterrorism". Dr. Horowitz is a Harvard trained expert in emerging diseases, author, and distributor of health-giving products. From my personal experience, I highly recommend using OxySilver as an alternative to conventional antibiotics and dangerous vaccinations.
“Rescue Me” TV star, Daniel Sunjata, opens item 2 with his article, “Intellectual Dishonesty In The Age Of Universal Deceit: a message to the corporate media and our elected officials.” Overcoming the media-political blockade is in the interest of all standing up to the universal deceit behind the September 11 crimes and cover-up. This will not stand. The campaign that can most effectively expose what really happened is with a referendum vote in NYC, sponsored by The NYC Coalition of Accountability Now. Following Sunjata’s article are statements by the executive board members of NYC CAN. If you really want to know WHO is behind this organization, and WHY, please read this article and consider supporting this campaign, which may be the most important one in our lifetime.
Item 3 includes an article of 01 May 2009 by Christopher Story. He is writing on what is occurring behind the financial crises, and exposing the real crooks of universal deceit and betrayal, which has been continued by actions or inaction of the Obama administration. FN will post any updates from World Reports under Critical Breaking News.
1) Flu Outbreak Implicates Anglo-American “Vaccine Pipeline”
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H1N1-H5N1 Flu Outbreak Implicates Anglo-American
“Vaccine Pipeline” Says Expert Dr. Leonard Horowitz
Los Angeles, CA— Skyrocketing stock values of Novavax, Inc.,1 precipitated by dozens of flu deaths in Mexico, implicates a leading Anglo-American network of genetic engineers in a conspiracy to commit genocide, according to a Harvard trained expert in emerging diseases, Dr. Leonard Horowitz.
Dr. James S. Robertson, England’s leading bioengineer of flu viruses for the vaccine industry, and avid promoter of U.S. Government funding for lucrative “biodefense” contracts, along with collaborators at the US Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), helped Novavax, Inc., in Bethesda, Maryland, produce genetically-modified recombinants of the avian, swine, and Spanish flu viruses, H5N1 and H1N1, nearly identical to the unprecedented Mexican virus that has now spread to the United States. The outbreak was precisely timed to promote the company’s new research and huge vaccine stockpiling contracts, according to Dr. Horowitz.2
Scientists at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) are implicated through collaborations and publications involving private contracts with Novavax, a company that obtains its “biosimulars” through CDC Influenza Branch director, Ruben O. Donis, and Dr. Rick Bright, previously working with Donis at the CDC, now Novavax’s Vice President of Global Influenza Programs.
Evidence for the conspiracy to commit deadly duplicity in the vaccine industry includes the genetic markers on the novel flu virus now spreading from Mexico to America. The virus is "genetically different from the fully human H1N1 seasonal influenza virus that has been circulating globally for the past few years," according to Reuters and government officials. "The new flu virus contains DNA typical to avian, swine and human viruses, including elements from European and Asian swine viruses."3
"That is a description that is pathognomonic, or diagnostic, of a virus that came from Robertson’s circle of friends," Dr. Horowitz claims. “No other group in the world takes H5N1 Asian flu infected chickens, brings them to Europe, extracts their DNA, combines their proteins with H1N1 viruses from the 1918 Spanish flu isolate, additionally mixes in swine flu genes from pigs, then ‘reverse engineers’ them to infect humans. The end product that Reuter's describes could only end up in Mexico via the United States from Britain in care of the CDC. Ruben Donis at the CDC had to have sent them to Novavax, where Rick Bright’s team is now Implicated in a conspiracy to commit genocide—the mass killing of people for profit."
Truncated, for the complete article - PDF -
www.oxysilver.com/mexican_flu_2009-special_report_by_dr._leonard_horowitz.pdf
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Post@ FN -
“In Lies We Trust: The CIA, Hollywood & Bioterrorism" is a powerful film documentary by New York Times bestselling author, Dr. Leonard G. Horowitz, who was referenced by Rev. Jeremiah Wright about his book, "Emerging Viruses: AIDS & Ebola--Nature, Accident or Intentional?" Dr. Horowitz generously donated In Lies We Trust for widespread free public distribution without copyright restrictions. Viewers are encouraged to make at least two more copies to gift to others. DVD’s with the film will be available at cost. Also you can watch online or order your high resolution DVD by calling toll free: 1-888-508-4787. FN became affiliated with Dr. Horowitz and recommends this product that can be used as an alternative to over-used conventional antibiotics and vaccinations - OXYSILVER
2) Universal Deceit – September 11 – NYC CAN
- - Intellectual Dishonesty In The Age Of Universal Deceit
- - NYC CAN Update: Now 35,000+ signatures
- - Statements from the NYC CAN Executive Council
- - Intellectual Dishonesty In The Age Of Universal Deceit:
a message to the corporate media and our elected officials.
By Daniel Sunjata - May 4, 2009 – 911blogger
“The inert masses are mentally and spiritually ill equipped to deal with reality, so they block it out of their minds - aided of course, by the corporate media and the propaganda apparatus of the government itself. This is why fantasy is frequently substituted for reality, plutocracy is mistaken for democracy, and the majority of the people do not know the difference. Millions of good people thus refuse to allow into their psyche the suffering and misery that U.S. policies have produced and exported to the world, even as that reality is closing in upon them.” - Charles Sullivan
“They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality...and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening.” - George Orwell, 1984
“Article XXXIV OBSTRUCTION OF INVESTIGATION INTO THE ATTACKS OF SEPTEMBER 11, 2001” - From the 35 articles of impeachment introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives on 06/09/08 in H.Res. 1258 by Congressman Dennis Kucinich
The list is not a short one. It includes professors, architects, aerospace and aviation professionals, structural/mechanical/& aeronautical engineers, demolition experts, firefighters and other first responders, scientists, theologians, senior members of both the military and intelligence communities, Republican administration appointees, state department veterans, and other government officials from the United States and abroad; credible experts of impeccable pedigree with impressive track records from relevant fields of expertise, whose coolly rational intellects are not easily given to an unfounded belief in outlandish, unsubstantiated, or unverifiable claims. Individuals such as these are numbered among the ranks of skeptics and critics of the official theory of conspiracy regarding the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Some pose questions, others draw conclusions, still others (like Congressman Kucinich) go so far as to level accusations and to substantiate them with evidence.
Organizations like Medical Professionals for 9/11 Truth (MP911truth.org), Architects and Engineers for 911 Truth (AE911Truth.org), Lawyers for 911 Truth (L911T.com), The Journal of 9/11 Studies (journalof911studies.com), Pilots for 911 Truth (PilotsFor911Truth.org), Fire Fighters for 911 Truth (FireFightersFor911Truth.org), and Veterans for 911 Truth (V911T.org), have posted carefully crafted signing statements for all the world to see, and online petitions calling for a new and independent investigation with power of subpoena. Their unanswered questions, the consequent implications that arise, and the fundamental inadequacies they point out in the official reports issued by FEMA, NIST, and the now infamous 9/11 Commission are disturbing to say the very least. Even more disturbing, however, is the corporate media’s revolving door of silence and violence with which those who pose such questions have been greeted. In most cases they are completely ignored, and what might otherwise be front-page news goes virtually unreported.
Truncated, for the complete article, see: www.911blogger.com/node/20013
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- - NYC CAN Update: Now 35,000+ signatures
Promotional postcards are now available through NYCCAN.org
for help in promoting this effort. Image of the cards is
posted at the end, with a note from the NYC CAN director:
www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20090430172801688
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- - Statements from the NYC CAN Executive Council
Dear Friends Around the World,
We, the 9/11 Family Members, First Responders and Survivors who make up the Executive Council of the New York City Coalition for Accountability Now, would like to announce our profound dedication to establishing an independent, impartial, subpoena-powered investigation into the events of September 11, 2001. We stand together with you, our fellow citizens, to place this important referendum on the New York City ballot on November 3, 2009.
Each one of us has a different story and a different reason for becoming part of this journey, but we have united for this purpose and this purpose alone: to establish an independent, impartial, subpoena-powered investigation into the events of September 11, 2001.
As 9/11 Family Members, First Responders and Survivors of those tragic moments, our lives were irreversibly devastated. Below, we describe our pain and our quest for closure. We hope you will join us in this quest – it is of paramount importance for our personal and collective healing, and for the betterment of our world.
http://www.NYCCAN.ORG
Donna Marsh O’Connor, Mother of Vanessa Lang Langer:
As the world moves further and further away from the actual events of 9/11/2001 both in time and spirit, and as 9/11 effaces into yet another simple story cast in history, as the parent of Vanessa Lang Langer lost as the towers fell, I want to let it go. I want to stop talking about 9/11. I am tired of the questions unasked and unanswered. I am tired of the effort to burst yet another happiness bubble in our collective American psyche. And, too, I am tired of talking about Vanessa's death. Better for my family, in the immediacy of trying to live out our present days, to focus on Vanessa's life. To laugh at her memories and revel in pictures of her beautiful face. If it were only for the present and the joys I can still share with my children, my family and my fellow citizens, not just of this country but the world, I would let it go. I would so let it go.
But there is, after all literally, the future. And the future never relied so heavily on redress of questions unanswered in the present. To first ask and then answer what happened that day. Who committed this crime? Who should be held accountable? That is why I support the NYC CAN Ballot Initiative, and I ask for your support as well. It is beyond time for an investigation. It is beyond time.
Helen and Bob McIlvaine, Parents of Bobby McIlvaine:
Dear Citizens of New York City,
We lost our son Bobby on September 11, 2001. The death of a child is a pain like no other, compounded by the fact that this wonderful young man was murdered. When a crime as heinous as this takes place, it is assumed that justice will be served and the perpetrators will be discovered and punished. Much to our dismay, this has not taken place. We only want the truth.
Our only hope, at this juncture, is to support the NYC CAN Ballot Initiative, calling for an unbiased and non-political investigation of our son’s murder.
Jean Canavan, Sister-in-Law of Sean Canavan:
On September 11, 2001, my brother-in-law, Sean Canavan, was taken from our family in such a tragic way that there is no “getting over it.” That day was devastating for so many people but the pain is worsened when so many questions are left unanswered and no one is held accountable. How is it acceptable that the 9/11 Commission resulted in more questions than answers? How is it acceptable that Co-chairs of the Commission, Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton, are able to publish a book stating that the Commission was “Set up to fail” and that they were lied to by NORAD officials? Are we to just accept what the government has told us? The truth is that we don’t know what happened because the truth hasn’t been told. There will continue to be speculation until an impartial, independent investigation is done and the truth is told, whatever that may be. New York City CAN do it.
Reverend Edith Beaujon, First Responder:
I was a First Responder at Ground Zero with the Red Cross working for several days without a mask. I have had numerous health problems that are related to working at Ground Zero including pneumonia, and an autoimmune syndrome that has been identified as related to being at Ground Zero. Now I have excess toxins in my body including mercury, lead, tin and others that are causing health issues, for which I have had to spend thousands of dollars.
I do not believe there was a thorough investigation of the events of 9/11 and I would like to see an independent investigation conducted.
Janette MacKinlay, Survivor:
As I watched the events of 9/11 unfold before my eyes from my apartment window directly across the street from the World Trade Center towers, I never dreamed it would change my life and the lives of people around the world in such a profound and destructive way. I was covered with dust as debris poured into our burst window. Every breath brought dust into me. At that penetrating and traumatizing moment September 11th became a permanent part of me. My recovery from PTSD has been one of art to heal my soul and psyche, and activism to right the wrongs committed that day.
The well-documented omissions and distortions in the 9/11 Commission Report have left a black cloud of doubt over America. A new independent investigation is imperative to lift this cloud. The future safety and well being of our children and grandchildren depend on this, as does the future safety and well being of everyone around the world. It is for these reasons I pray we can have the unity of purpose to support NYC CAN. All of our support is critical. Every person counts. We need to seize this moment.
William Rodriguez, Survivor:
The events of 9/11/01 changed the lives of everybody in the new millennium. This event also changed my life forever. I came to work that day not expecting to be a witness of the horror, despair and desolation that was 9/11. On that horrible day I went floor by floor trying to help people as I was one of the few people in the complex with a master key. I helped evacuate many lives, and yet, though they say I am a hero, they, the government officials, the 9/11 Commission and the major media, have all ignored or edited my story: many explosions occurred that morning, explosions that were not related to the impact of the planes. As I learned later, my story did not fit the story the government told. My testimony was omitted from the final report. At long last though, the New York Coalition for Accountability Now, sponsors of this ballot initiative, are aiming to bring about a real investigation of what really happened that day. That is why I wholeheartedly endorse their efforts and have agreed and am honored to join their Executive Council. We need to bring closure for the victim’s families, friends and survivors, for us all, and the only way to do that is to bring about a full and thorough investigation of 9/11. NYC CAN can do it!*
Thank you for your continued support.
Sincerely,
Donna Marsh O’Connor
Helen and Bob McIlvaine
Jean Canavan
Edith Beaujon
Janette MacKinlay
William Rodriguez
New York City Coalition for Accountability Now
Post@ http://911blogger.com/node/20006
3) Americans and World To Be Punished for the Corruption
Failing Settlement 1st May, It's War, G-10 Warns
BY CHRISTOPHER STORY
01 May 2009; published By World Reports
[EXCERPT]
AMERICANS AND WORLD TO BE PUNISHED FOR THE CORRUPTION
…failing resolution today, 1st May 2009, the international financial and global trading systems will be liable to be severely degraded and war preparations will be accelerated, or worse.
Thus the American people, and the Rest of the World, will be punished for the corrupt behaviour of past and present holders of the highest political offices and their conspiratorial pocket attorneys, bankers, intelligence deviants and others who have been perpetrating economic and financial terrorism against the American people and the Rest of the World, and appear to have launched a bio-warfare attack against them as well, from part of their blackmail armoury.
Having deployed this weapon, the danger is that this criminal group will escalate their terrorist activities, as they struggle IN VAIN to hold on to the trillions they have stolen (which as noted in the preceding report, have been or are being retrieved).
BIO-WARFARE AGENTS MISSING FROM FORT DETRICK
Three weeks ago, bio-warfare agents reportedly went missing from the US Army Medical Command laboratories at Fort Detrick, Maryland. Coupled with the fact that a member of Mr Obama’s specialist Homeland Security team sent out in advance of the President’s visit to Mexico was reported by The Washington Post on 29th April to have contracted swine ‘flu, it is clear that the dissemination of the virus is a deliberate act of terrorism and biological warfare perpetrated by criminal elements within the US Government’s structures – a state of affairs so serious that President Obama will be unable to explain this one away, with or without his teleprompter.
This development may well have contributed to the hard line adopted by the G-10 financial powers, although the primary consideration here is revulsion at the United States’ endlessly criminal and fraudulent behaviour over payment of the Settlements, with this process being driven by the expiry of the 30-day period believed to be specified in the World Court’s Writ of Execution.
* A specialist source commenting on the ‘Pig ‘Flu’ operation, advises as follows:
THE VIRUS APPEARS TO BE MAN-MADE
This Swine Flu is not a naturally-occurring event, but instead is an Advanced Biological Warfare recombination-DNA-genetically-engineered virus. Young healthy adults seem to be the most at risk. This virus is genetically spliced off the 1918 Spanish Flu.
The New Mexican Swine ‘Flu has elements of DNA from the following: avian ‘flu, human ‘flu Type A, human flu Type B, Asian swine ‘flu, and European swine flu: a strange combination never seen before and having less than 1/10% chance of being a natural event.
Figure the odds on human and animal viruses from four or more continents suddenly recombining into a new ‘flu, during a non-’flu season, that spreads from human-to-human with a 10% estimated prospective fatality rating?
This new ‘flu is a lab-created Advanced Biological Warfare DNA genetically engineered virus, and it appears to have been deliberately released. This event is an Advanced Biological Warfare event. It is far more important than 9/11, and, by itself, could bring deaths in such magnitudes as to exceed the number of deaths from all causes in the Second World War.
That is the end of the advisory.
Editor’s comment: Since it is a certainty that this virus is indeed Advanced Biological Warfare, criminal cadres within the US official structures appear to be engaged in mass murder with a view to implementation of one of the most satanic objectives of these Illuminati criminals: population reduction.
ANOTHER ‘SUICIDE’ REPORTED: CLINTON-ERA AIDE & ATTORNEY
Mark Levy, a Clinton-era aide, was reported on Thursday 30th April to have ‘committed suicide’ at his Washington Law Office, a branch of Kilpatrick Stockton LLP, based in Atlanta. Helen Andrews, of the Washington, DC, Police Department, said that officers were called to the firm’s office building to investigate a shooting that occurred on Thursday morning. Investigators have been saying it was a suicide. But in reality, Levy was ‘suicided’.
Levy attended the Yale University law school with both Clintons and worked on fundraising for Mrs Clinton’s presidential campaign, according to Dennis Gingold, an attorney who was working with Mark Levy on a case at the law firm in Washington.
For the complete article, see: www.worldreports.org/news/213_failing_settlement_1st_may_its_war_g_10_warns
For updated archive section, see: www.worldreports.org/news
CRITICAL BREAKING NEWS
Financial Analyses - World Reports - Global Intelligence
01 May 2009
Failing Settlement 1st May, It's War, G-10 Warns
15 February 2009
Catastrophic Banker's Ramp to Continue Under Obama
ROOT CAUSE OF THE GLOBAL CRISIS:
THE CIA FUNDS ITSELF BY FRAUD
19 April 2009
CIA Used Waterboarding
266 Times on 2 Suspects
Self-Confessed 9/11 "Mastermind"
Confessed to Crimes He Didn't Commit
640 Architects and Engineers
Call for New 9/11 Investigation
Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust
from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe
April 2009
Press Release ~ Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice
Dr. Steven Jones ~ 911blogger:
What you need to know about "Peer-review"
Editor in chief of Open Chemical Physics Journal
resigns after controversial article regarding 9/11
New York City Coalition for Accountability Now
William Pepper Writes in Support of NYC CAN
Statements from the NYC CAN Executive Council
The dubious Zelikow shortcuts
"Philip Zelikow, author of the 9/11 Commission report,
short-cutted his research, using information garnered by
the CIA and Pentagon from purportedly "Al Qaeda"
detainees through the use of torture." -Jerry Mazza
28 April 2009
On Israeli Fascism:
A Little Red Light
By Uri Avnery
NOVAVAX/CDC Flu Pandemic:
Special Report by Dr. Leonard Horowitz
Recommended alternative to over-used
conventional antibiotics and vaccinations:
O X Y S I L V E R
Live Avian Flu & Human Flu Viruses
"Accidentally"
mixed, then sent to several European facilities
01 April 2009
Irradiated Foods Cause
Severe Neurological Damage
Truth & Deception:
An Interview with Kevin Ryan on 9/11
Intellectual Dishonesty
In The Age Of Universal Deceit...
Daniel Sunjata statement on September 11
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nycCAN.org * William Pepper * TARP
21 April 2009
New York City voters have the power to legally mandate
the formation of a new investigation with subpoena power by
petitioning to place a referendum on the ballot in the November
2009 General Election. In September 2008, the petition reached a
milestone of 30,000 signatures, the minimum number required to
submit the petition to New York City Council for its approval.
By June 2009, NYCCAN will eclipse the 45,000 signatures
required to bypass City Council, ensuring its placement
on the ballot. With the passage of this referendum
New York City will take the first giant step
towards truth and justice.
-- NYC CAN
1) NYC CAN – William Pepper – Truth and Justice
- - William Pepper Writes in Support of NYC CAN
- - NYC 9/11 Ballot Initiative NYC CAN
2) Banking Ponzi Schemes Revealed - Christopher Story - World Reports
- - Financial Stabilization Without Debt handled from London
- - TARP Investigation looking into 20 criminal probes
3) CIA Used Waterboarding 266 Times on 2 Suspects
- - History Of Staged Terrorism Exposed In German Mainstream Media
Editor's Notes:
This issue contains information on the most crucial campaign for truth, justice, and peace in 2009. William Pepper leads off with a written statement in support of NYC CAN. I encourage you, too, to take part in donating funds to NYC ASAP to make this really happen. It is our best opportunity for peace and justice in the last eight years. Please pass the word nycCAN.org is the web address. The second item covers the talented and courageous work of Christopher Story and World Reports. Item three shows just how far from truth and justice the CIA has been led astray, while hiding greater crimes than most could even imagine. Rather than fear what may be true, embrace it, for it could make all the difference in our freedom.
1) NYC CAN – William Pepper – Truth and Justice
- - William Pepper Writes in Support of NYC CAN
- - NYC 9/11 Ballot Initiative NYC CAN
- - William Pepper Writes in Support of NYC CAN
April 18, 2009
Many deeply concerned citizens of this Republic and the world have been engaged in tireless, multifaceted research and investigation about the events surrounding the 9/11 tragedy. These patriots have produced articles, essays, books and films that seek answers to the multitude of unanswered questions about this atrocity. Not having researched these questions myself and having no answers, when I have appeared before them I have encouraged the continuation of their valuable work as citizens of the Republic.
In their numbers are distinguished scientists, engineers, architects, professional people from all walks of life and families of victims who seek closure -- people for whose courage, determination, intelligence and steadfastness, I have boundless admiration. It was largely as a result of their efforts that a 9/11 Commission was established in the first place over the initial opposition of the Bush administration.
The failure of that Commission to seek, even address the critical questions is now a part of contemporary history. Former Georgia Senator, Max Cleland, resigned early on in disgust citing official obstruction. More recently, Co-Chairmen Kean and Hamilton, have themselves declared their awareness that their work was obstructed and denied valuable information, materials and evidence. Consequently, there is overwhelming agreement that the initial government sponsored investigation was a failure in respect of bringing truth about 9/11 to the light of day.
That is why a group of citizens in the City of New York, aided, supported and encouraged by citizens throughout the United States and the world (remember, 80 nations lost citizens in that attack) came together to mount an effort to put a Referendum question on the general election ballot for the consideration of the voters of New York City, seeking their approval for the establishment of a new, independent Commission to investigate all aspects of 9/11. The Commission will convene with a commitment to go where the facts lead, and they will have subpoena power to compel testimony under oath and full investigative and legal support staff.
I encourage all citizens, everywhere, to support the establishment of this Commission and its work.
The torch of leadership in this effort has recently been passed to the New York City Coalition for Accountability Now (NYC CAN). Ted Walter, a key leader of last year’s petitioning effort, has taken on the task of directing NYC CAN through this initiative’s final phases. Reverend Frank Morales, himself a 9/11 First Responder, has assumed the position of Treasurer. I have met with Ted and Frank on several occasions and have the utmost confidence not only in their abilities, but also the direction in which NYC CAN and its stellar, still growing Executive Council are taking this fight.
That being said, it has come to my attention that many are concerned about how events that have already transpired might impact this effort as it moves ahead. Main points of emphasis are the validity of the more than 30,000 signatures already gathered and the composition of the Commission itself.
Regarding the signatures, I have to date heard only legal opinion confirming their continuing validity. Additionally, the 45,000 new signatures NYC CAN plans to collect in the coming weeks will, by themselves, be enough to clear any potential legislative hurdle to placing the referendum on the November ballot, and at the same time render as moot any possible scenario by which opponents of this initiative might seek to use the courts as a means of delaying the inevitable by challenging the existing signatures -- thus, the importance of supporting NYC CAN in this final push.
As far as the named Commissioners are concerned, we all understand that nobody will ever enjoy universal public support. I think I can speak for all of us when I say that any commitment, particularly one made so early-on in the process, to a cause of this magnitude is made with not only with the understanding of, but with respect for, the importance of this undertaking and the resolve to ensure its successful completion. I cannot imagine any among us who if, for any reason, were to become an impediment to the successful completion of our mission, would not recuse themselves. Were that ever to happen, I also see none among us who would not seek to relieve such an individual of their responsibilities.
I call on all those within sight and sound of this message to rally behind this effort and, in your thousands, to support it with massive numbers of volunteer workers and monetary contributions. I encourage you to visit www.NYCCAN.org and contribute now. History waits for no man.
Let us join our brothers and sisters in New York City and from the very belly of the beast, seek truth and justice.
W.F. Pepper
http://911blogger.com/node/19880
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- - NYC 9/11 Ballot Initiative NYC CAN
New York City Coalition for Accountability Now
April 9, 2009
Dear Friends around the World,
The Time to Act is Now to place a public referendum for an impartial, independent and subpoena powered investigation of 9/11 on the New York City Ballot for the November [2009] General Election.
The 9/11 Commission was set up in 2002 to “provide the fullest possible account of the events surrounding 9/11”. What we got instead, in the words of Commission Chairs Governor Thomas Kean and Representative Lee Hamilton, was a Commission “Set up to fail”. A joint statement from both sides of the aisle is a rarity. This one speaks volumes.
AMERICA DESERVES BETTER
Today, over 66% of New York City residents support a new 9/11 investigation. Millions now know that critical questions were left unaddressed. Only an objective, independent, subpoena powered investigation can ask the right people the relevant questions the 9/11 Commission certainly did not. Only an impartial investigation, free from intervention and powered by subpoena, can deliver the answers that every American deserves.
Thanks to your hard work and dedication in keeping 9/11 front and center all along, the NYC 9/11 Ballot Initiative has succeeded in collecting over 30,000 signatures, leading us to the final phase of our mission; to place a referendum for an independent subpoena powered 9/11 investigation on the NYC Ballot for the November General Election.
Those 30,000 signatures are needed to present the petition to the New York City Council for its approval. Our goal, however, is 75,000 signatures by the end of June, making it a virtual certainty that the referendum will be on the ballot, placing the decision to approve the pursuit of evidence and fact wherever it may lead exactly where it belongs - in the hands of New York City voters.
The NYC 9/11 Ballot Initiative has evolved into the NYC Coalition for Accountability Now, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization comprised of 9/11 Family Members, First Responders and concerned citizens like you, determined to bring about an impartial, independent investigation into the events of September 11, 2001. Along with its new name, NYC CAN has brought new leadership and a renewed commitment to transparency and accountability.
Ted Walter, the key coordinator of the Initiative’s 2008 petitioning effort, has taken on the role of Executive Director, along with First Responder Reverend Frank Morales, who will serve as Treasurer. The organization’s Board of Directors will be comprised of 9/11 Family Members, First Responders and others committed to this effort. In the interim, the organization has created an Executive Council consisting of individuals most directly affected by September 11, including 9/11 family members Donna Marsh O’Connor, Bob McIlvaine, Jean Canavan and Bill Doyle, former downtown resident Janette MacKinlay and 9/11 Survivor William Rodriguez.
This initiative is the tangible result of all your efforts to keep 9/11 alive in the hearts and minds of the American public. At the height of our petitioning effort, we collected over 1,000 signatures per day. With 90 days and 45,000 signatures to go, our goal of 75,000 is well within reach.
THE TIME TO DONATE IS NOW
If every person who reads this letter acts now to become a Member of NYC CAN by donating just $25, we will move that much closer to our goal of 1 Million Members worldwide and quickly surpass the $100,000 required to fund the final phase of the petitioning effort. With minimal overhead, your contribution will provide well-trained, professional petitioners along with all the marketing, advertising and collateral materials necessary to help New Yorkers realize their wish for an independent and impartial investigation into the events of 9/11.
Please join our commitment to answers, accountability and action by standing together and donating what you can - $25, $50 or $500 - today. If we stand as Americans, united as one, we do not simply succeed - we make history.
Our success together depends on the efforts and participation of all, which includes an active and ongoing dialogue with you. We encourage you to email us at info@nyccan.org with any questions, comments or suggestions you may have. We’re listening. And we guarantee you’ll hear back from us. After all, we’re in this together.
And remember, while thinkers think and talkers talk, patriots act.
The time to act is now.
DONATE NOW - BECOME A MEMBER NOW - TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS NOW
nycCAN.org
Sincerely,
The New York City Coalition for Accountability Now
Donna Marsh O’Connor
Bob McIlvaine
Jean Canavan
Bill Doyle
Janette MacKinlay
William Rodriguez
Ted Walter
Frank Morales
2) Banking Ponzi Schemes Revealed - Christopher Story - World Reports
- - Financial Stabilization Without Debt handled from London
- - TARP Investigation looking into 20 criminal probes
- - Financial Stabilization Without Debt handled from London
By Christopher Story - 14 April 2009
[EXCERPT]
For longer than we can remember we have been pointing out that THERE IS A SIMPLE, STRAIGHTFORWARD, TRANSPARENT SOLUTION to the financial crisis.
For longer than we can recall, we have stressed that the decisions taken by the former Bush II Administration via the corrupted Treasury headed by that criminal financier Henry M. Paulson Jr., and the new even more convoluted decisions taken by the Geithner Treasury, are THE REVERSE OF THE SAID SIMPLE, STRAIGHTFORWARD SOLUTION to the financial crisis.
The Obama Administration and the Geithner Treasury have leveraged the Fraudulent Finance formulae developed under the corrupt Paulson Treasury, with the same objective:
* To reignite and reboot the moribund Fraudulent Finance derivatives ‘Structured Products’ Ponzi parallel financial system, also known as a colossal BANKER’S RAMP, that was closed down between 10th and 12th September 2008 as reported by this service, when the $14.0 trillion was placed out of these criminal operatives’ reach.
Given the above, it follows that this obtuse attempt to continue the Ponzi Fraudulent Finance represents a US NATIONAL SECURITY ISSUE and should be addressed as such.
Let’s not mince words here:
* Continuing with the Fraudulent Finance formulae concocted by the US Treasury and the Federal Reserve presents a grave threat to the stability, prosperity and the future of the Republic: and all concerned with this cynical rearguard operation to revive the collapsed derivatives sector should be handled with the severity reserved for them under the Patriot Acts, that lay down definitions of ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL TERRORISM, which is what these people are perpetrating.
(2) ERRONEOUS AND OBTUSE FORMULA THAT CREATES COLOSSAL UNNECESSARY DEBT:
It is possible, but unlikely, that the President of the United States has not understood this. So let us, once again, explain where his perverse advisers have led him astray.
* FACT: The TRUTH is always simple. LIES are always complex, and become ever more so because successive lies have to be perpetrated in order to buttress the earlier lies. A policy built on lies will COLLAPSE. Like plutonium, lies have a half-life: they decay.
* As will be seen below, derivatives are so complex that no-one can understand what is going on: which is the WHOLE POINT. They’re based on LIES. They are FRAUDS.
* SUCH A STRUCTURE IS LIKE AN INVERTED PYRAMID:
As the original lie at the base of the inverted pyramid decays, fresh lies have to be invoked, like scaffolding, to prop up the earlier lies. Eventually, as the lies proliferate, the scaffolding of lies which is underpinning the inverted pyramid on either side becomes unstable, too, and eventually the entire structure collapses.
* Obama therefore faces, sooner rather than later, the absolute collapse of the pyramid of lies and diversionary financing deceits that his wilfully misguided colleagues and advisers have fed him.
So let us reiterate the SIMPLE TRUTH that the President needs to UNDERSTAND:
(3) BY DEFINITION, THE PRIVATE SECTOR PRODUCES TAXABLE REVENUE:
Here are the basic economic FACTS of the matter:
* By definition, the private sector generates REVENUE which the Government TAXES.
* It follows, therefore, that the SIMPLE SOLUTION to the entire crisis is to ALLOW THE PRIVATE SECTOR to recoup the situation using the financial trading techniques that have hitherto been used clandestinely and corruptly and which the criminal financiers want to continue undertaking below the radar so that they don’t have to pay tax.
* These trading techniques are NOT ILLEGAL. However they become illegal when performed clandestinely, with the proceeds held UNTAXED, off-balance sheet, and placed in secret offshore accounts. In other words, when combined with TAX EVASION, they become illegal.
* So the simple, straightforward, transparent ANSWER to the crisis is crystal clear. PRIVATE SECTOR trading on-balance sheet yielding WINDFALL TAXABLE REVENUES should proceed immediately, and should have started up in June 2007 after the Group of Seven Financial Powers agreed in northern Germany that this was the way forward, reapproving this solution in 2008.
* FACT: By blocking this SIMPLE, STRAIGHTFORWARD SOLUTION – the Refinancing Programme – the Bush Administration compromised the national security of the United States, committed treason against the Republic and its people, and engaged in ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL TERRORISM.
The Obama Administration is continuing down the same futile path, and since it has the appalling example of its predecessor to contemplate, it should know better. So it is compounding the errors of its predecessor régime, and is likewise committing ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL TREASON by choosing the PERVERSE ROUTE, and failing to apply THE CORRECT SOLUTION.
(4) THE PUBLIC SECTOR CAN ONLY PRODUCE MORE AND MORE DEBT: IT CAN'T TAX ITSELF:
By definition, the public sector generates DEBT. The public sector PRODUCES NOTHING and so, by definition, cannot generate revenue. It CANNOT TAX ITSELF, except through its payroll taxes. Since it cannot generate REVENUE, it relies on the taxpayer, on the creation of debt and also on printing money to finance its endlessly permissive operations.
* Therefore, the convoluted inventions of the Geithner Treasury and of the Bernanke Federal Reserve to reboot the derivatives sector represent perverse ARTIFICIAL CONSTRUCTS which, by definition, generate DEBT, not REVENUE. THIS IS ENTIRELY UNNECESSARY: see above.
* To embark upon complex Fraudulent Financing operations under the cover of ‘stimulating the economy’ but in reality, in order to revive the derivatives sector which has collapsed – and which is now widely understood to represent a MONUMENTAL FRAUD given that the so-called ‘Structured Products’ generally have NO RECOURSE to the underlying original source of funds – is to engage wilfully in FINANCIAL TERRORISM against the American people and the Rest of the World.
* Now as we have all observed, the Obama Administration thinks it can continue down this path. We have news for this President’s headstrong ‘experts’. Your tired formula is rotten and it will collapse. There are liable to be few takers for your artificially revivable fraudulent ‘assets’ scheme; and although you have wrapped your criminal intentions in a dense fog of complexity consistent with the pack of barefaced lies that you are marketing, you are trying to build your house on sand.
As you have already doubtless observed, you can’t even build the house, because the foundations are sinking into the sand before you even start bricklaying.
* So, if President Obama prefers for his Administration to run into the sand, by all means carry on! Just keep going with this revamped Fraudulent Finance formula, and see where it leads you. You are collectively as arrogant and perverse as your predecessors: and you doubtless imagine that because you think 'they got away with it', you will too.
WRONG! You are careering towards DISASTER.
For the complete article, see: OBAMA PREFERS 'TRASHETS' OVER DEBT-FREE SOLUTION
See here for => World Reports - Archives
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- - TARP Investigation looking into 20 criminal probes
Bailout cop busy on the beat
Neil Barofsky, who is overseeing the $700 billion TARP,
says he has 20 criminal probes and calls for changes to prevent fraud.
By Jennifer Liberto, CNNMoney.com senior writer
Last Updated: April 21, 2009: 10:59 AM ET
WASHINGTON (CNNMoney.com) -- The top cop tracking the government's $700 billion bailout program said Tuesday that he has opened 20 criminal investigations and six audits into whether tax dollars are being pilfered or wasted.
Neil Barofsky, the special inspector general overseeing the Troubled Asset Relief Program, released a 250-page report detailing a long list of concerns about government efforts to prop up hundreds of banks, Wall Street firms and auto companies.
Barofsky, whose investigations could lead to criminal charges, told CNNMoney.com in an interview that he wants taxpayers to understand where their money is going. At the same time, he wants to alert officials to weaknesses in TARP that could invite corruption or fraud.
"Our recommendations are forward looking and there are no vulnerabilities that can't be addressed," Barofsky said. "The balance of what we're trying to do is to inform, bring transparency and make appropriate recommendations."
The report reveals that Barofsky is looking into whether bailout decisions were influenced by those who stood to benefit from them and whether companies receiving bailout dollars are adhering to caps on executive pay.
Barofsky's report also makes several recommendations to Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and other officials charged with implementing the bailout. Among them: Require all TARP recipients to detail how they use bailout dollars and safeguard a new mortgage rescue effort against scams.
The backdrop: Bailout rage
The report comes as public outcry over government bailouts is mounting. The Treasury Department is under increasing pressure to protect tax dollars even as it attempts to repair the financial markets - agendas that are often at odds with each other.
Geithner appeared Tuesday before a separate congressional watchdog group, the five-member Congressional Oversight Panel, which released its own oversight report two weeks ago.
The overall bailout scrutiny is wearing on the financial sector and, one expert said, has caused confusion over the government's unprecedented entanglement with the private sector.
"It's become chic to demand more oversight of how the government is spending money to stabilize the financial system, yet we already have so many oversight entities in place, that it's hard to say who's responsible for ensuring how the money is spent," said Jaret Seiberg, policy analyst at Concept Capital's Washington Research Group.
Barofsky, in the interview, insisted his goal is to inform the public that someone is minding the store and that bailout programs are not a "black hole."
"It's not trillions of dollars going out the door without anyone keeping tabs on it," said Barofsky, who will testify before Congress on Thursday about his findings.
As an inspector general, Barofsky has legal firepower. He can use subpoenas to compel disclosure and is tasked by federal law to track the details of how banks are spending taxpayer dollars.
Barofsky, appointed by then-President Bush last November, has so far hired 35 members of a staff he expects to grow to 150. Currently working out of the main Treasury compound next to the White House, Barofsky and his staff are securing their own offices in the same building in downtown Washington that houses the Treasury staffers that administer TARP.
Barofsky, 38, is a former federal prosecutor from New York who spent years chasing after white-collar criminals, organized crime figures and drug traffickers. In one recent high-profile case, he prosecuted a trading firm that filed for bankruptcy a few months after raising millions in its initial public offering. The chief financial officer of that company, Refco, pled guilty to fraud and money laundering last year.
Red flags and recommendations
Barofsky told CNNMoney.com that he believes one of his report's most urgent recommendations is that Treasury develop a system to better figure out the value of the different types of shares it now owns in financial institutions.
The Treasury has invested hundreds of billions in companies in exchange for shares of preferred stock.
He said the need to better understand the value of the government shares is even more important now that the administration is considering a plan to convert preferred shares into common shares, which is the kind of stock that consumers usually hold.
"There needs to be asset valuation strategy so the Treasury can make the most informed decisions," Barofsky said. "I don't think anything bad has happened, but it's time for them to do that."
The report also warns federal officials, in great detail, against expanding a Federal Reserve-run program to allow investors to use cheap government financing to purchase questionable mortgage-backed securities. The program poses "significant fraud risks," according to the report.
In addition, Barofsky also warns federal officials to create safeguards barring conflicts of interest among banks and investors participating in the new Public- Private Investment Program to prevent "collusion between participants, and vulnerabilities to money laundering."
Finally, he said he is concerned about the Obama administration's nascent mortgage rescue program, which aims to help millions of homeowners get affordable loans. He's worried that the program could spur a wave of real estate fraud and suggests officials take steps to confirm the identities of participants and make sure homeowners know that they aren't required to pay fees to take part.
Barofsky's report did not detail the 20 criminal investigations, which it said "vary widely" and include securities fraud, tax, insider trading and public corruption matters. He has previously reported working with New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo to investigate how bonuses were given to high-ranking employees of American International Group (AIG, Fortune 500).
The report also says that the $182 billion AIG bailout is the subject of two separate audits. One is looking at federal oversight of the bonuses. The other is probing bailout disbursements to AIG counterparties who had purchased insurance-like products from AIG.
First Published: April 21, 2009: 3:39 AM ET
http://money.cnn.com/2009/04/21/news/economy/tarp_cop_barofsky/?postversion=2009042103
3) CIA Used Waterboarding 266 Times on 2 Suspects
- - History Of Staged Terrorism Exposed In German Mainstream Media
- - Waterboarding Used 266 Times on 2 Suspects
By SCOTT SHANE
Published: April 19, 2009
C.I.A. interrogators used waterboarding, the near-drowning technique that top Obama administration officials have described as illegal torture, 266 times on two key prisoners from Al Qaeda, far more than had been previously reported.
The C.I.A. officers used waterboarding at least 83 times in August 2002 against Abu Zubaydah, according to a 2005 Justice Department legal memorandum. Abu Zubaydah has been described as a Qaeda operative.
A former C.I.A. officer, John Kiriakou, told ABC News and other news media organizations in 2007 that Abu Zubaydah had undergone waterboarding for only 35 seconds before agreeing to tell everything he knew.
The 2005 memo also says that the C.I.A. used waterboarding 183 times in March 2003 against Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the self-described planner of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
The New York Times reported in 2007 that Mr. Mohammed had been barraged more than 100 times with harsh interrogation methods, causing C.I.A. officers to worry that they might have crossed legal limits and to halt his questioning. But the precise number and the exact nature of the interrogation method was not previously known.
The release of the numbers is likely to become part of the debate about the morality and efficacy of interrogation methods that the Justice Department under the Bush administration declared legal even though the United States had historically treated them as torture.
President Obama plans to visit C.I.A. headquarters Monday and make public remarks to employees, as well as meet privately with officials, an agency spokesman said Sunday night. It will be his first visit to the agency, whose use of harsh interrogation methods he often condemned during the presidential campaign and whose secret prisons he ordered closed on the second full day of his presidency.
C.I.A. officials had opposed the release of the interrogation memo, dated May 30, 2005, which was one of four secret legal memos on interrogation that Mr. Obama ordered to be released last Thursday.
Mr. Obama said C.I.A. officers who had used waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods with the approval of the Justice Department would not be prosecuted. He has repeatedly suggested that he opposes Congressional proposals for a “truth commission” to examine Bush administration counterterrorism programs, including interrogation and warrantless eavesdropping.
The Senate Intelligence Committee has begun a yearlong, closed-door investigation of the C.I.A. interrogation program, in part to assess claims of Bush administration officials that brutal treatment, including slamming prisoners into walls, shackling them in standing positions for days and confining them in small boxes, was necessary to get information.
The fact that waterboarding was repeated so many times may raise questions about its effectiveness, as well as about assertions by Bush administration officials that their methods were used under strict guidelines.
A footnote to another 2005 Justice Department memo released Thursday said waterboarding was used both more frequently and with a greater volume of water than the C.I.A. rules permitted.
The new information on the number of waterboarding episodes came out over the weekend when a number of bloggers, including Marcy Wheeler of the blog emptywheel, discovered it in the May 30, 2005, memo.
The sentences in the memo containing that information appear to have been redacted from some copies but are visible in others. Initial news reports about the memos in The New York Times and other publications did not include the numbers.
Michael V. Hayden, director of the C.I.A. for the last two years of the Bush administration, would not comment when asked on the program “Fox News Sunday” if Mr. Mohammed had been waterboarded 183 times. He said he believed that that information was still classified.
A C.I.A. spokesman, reached Sunday night, also would not comment on the new information.
Mr. Hayden said he had opposed the release of the memos, even though President Obama has said the techniques will never be used again, because they would tell Al Qaeda “the outer limits that any American would ever go in terms of interrogating an Al Qaeda terrorist.”
He also disputed an article in The New York Times on Saturday that said Abu Zubaydah had revealed nothing new after being waterboarded, saying that he believed that after unspecified “techniques” were used, Abu Zubaydah revealed information that led to the capture of another terrorist suspect, Ramzi Binalshibh.
The Times article, based on information from former intelligence officers who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Abu Zubaydah had revealed a great deal of information before harsh methods were used and after his captors stripped him of clothes, kept him in a cold cell and kept him awake at night. The article said interrogators at the secret prison in Thailand believed he had given up all the information he had, but officials at headquarters ordered them to use waterboarding.
He revealed no new information after being waterboarded, the article said, a conclusion that appears to be supported by a footnote to a 2005 Justice Department memo saying the use of the harshest methods appeared to have been “unnecessary” in his case.
More Articles in World » A version of this article appeared in print on April 20, 2009, on page A1 of the New York edition.
www.nytimes.com/2009/04/20/world/20detain.html?_r=1
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- - History Of Staged Terrorism Exposed In German Mainstream Media
Post @ 911blogger.com 04/19/2009 - 7:12am submitted by Reprehensor
History Of Staged Terrorism Exposed In German Mainstream Media
http://911blogger.com/node/19871
The article goes in great detail into the history of Gladio, its connections with former german SS troops and plans to blow up bridges and other strategic infrastructures in case of an soviet invasion after WW2. The story the "Stay behind Army" was blown open in 1952 when members of the underground groups informed police and the scandal first made the news. This lead to a political uproar when it is revealed that a list of numerous well known german personalities exited who were planned to have been killed in case of an emergency situation. The list included communists as well as social democrats and the state interior minister of the German state of Hessen. Several people were arrested when the list was discovered. German chancellor Adenauer claimed to have not known anything about the activities at the time. The US High Commissioner Walter Donnelly claimed the group was about to be dissolved in the same month when the arrests occurred. The Süddeutsche Zeitung article then reports that after a ruling of the German constitutional court the arrested members were released in the same month.
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WTC dust-demo + financial fraud coverup
07 April 2009
”Propaganda is not meant to fool the intelligencia,
it is merely meant to provide them an excuse to
avoid seeing ugly realities, they’d sooner not believe.”
-- Joseph Goebbels
Nazi propagandist; Nuremburg Trial
1) Military-grade Thermite Found In WTC DUST – DRG - Rescue Me
- - Scientists find active 'super-thermite' in WTC dust
- - Smoking Gun Evidence of 9/11 Explosives in WTC Dust
- - Danish scientist: nano explosive material found in WTC dust
- - ‘Rescue Me’ heats up 9/11 conspiracy theories
- - David Ray Griffin - 9/11: Time for a Second Look
2) Fraud Economy Political-Military-Energy Drug Trafficking
- - The Best Way To Rob A Bank Is To Own One
- - Raw Story - Economist: US collapse driven by 'fraud'
- - Revealing News: Bonuses from Bailouts
- - A Trillion Dollars for the Banks: How About a Second Opinion?
- - Sharp Increase In Global Tension Since The G-20
- - Mexican president: US authorities 'complicit' in drug trafficking
3) Decommission VY & GMOs before too late
- - Yankee (Nuke Plant) springs another hot leak
- - Bill That Could Kill Agricultural Biodiversity
Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust
from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe
Editor’s Notes:
Another peer-reviewed scientific article was published recently with hard evidence that explosive devices were used for the implosions of the three World Trade Center buildings. The truth is getting pretty obvious, but too horrendous for many to consider. Meanwhile the owner of the building, Larry Silverstein, got paid billions and volunteers-responders-victims-families, suffer, immeasurably. Plus a fraudulent 9/11 investigation was used to justify two disastrous wars, and added to the current economic meltdown. Item two is a discussion with Bill Moyers and William K. Black, the former senior regulator 'who cracked down on banks during the savings and loan crisis of the 1980s.' Also in this item is an excerpt from a new article by Chrisotpher Story. He asks, based on his straightforward drug trafficking test, "Has President Obama ordered the CIA to get out of drug trafficking?" Item three contains an article about Vermont Yankee springing another radioactive leak, and next is on a GMO Bill that could kill agricultural biodiversity, and what you can do about it. But please also consider making a commitment to help NYC citizens expose the truth about what happened on 9/11. Through November 3rd, 2009 – lets help NYC help us all. NYC CAN
The Truth Shall Set You Free
1) Military-grade Thermite Found In WTC DUST – DRG - Rescue Me
- - Scientists find active 'super-thermite' in WTC dust
- - Smoking Gun Evidence of 9/11 Explosives in WTC Dust
- - Danish scientist: nano explosive material found in WTC dust
- - ‘Rescue Me’ heats up 9/11 conspiracy theories
- - David Ray Griffin - 9/11: Time for a Second Look
- - Scientists find active 'super-thermite' in WTC dust
Joe Byrne -- Saturday April 4, 2009 -- Published by Raw Story
A team of nine scientists, in a peer-reviewed study affiliated with the University of Copenhagen in Denmark, have revealed startling data from chemical analysis of dust gathered in the days and weeks after the World Trade Center towers collapsed on 9/11: scattered throughout the dust samples were red and gray chips of 'active thermitic material', or an un-reacted pyrotechnic explosive.
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- - Smoking Gun Evidence of 9/11 Explosives in WTC Dust
New Scientific Study: Smoking Gun Evidence of 9/11 Explosives in WTC Dust
by Josh Mitteldorf
A new article in the Open Chemical Physics Journal details chemical evidence from the 9/11 dust of thermite cutting charges.
One of the strongest pieces of evidence that the Government's account of 9/11 is flawed has always been the way in which the Twin Towers fell. They fell straight down, not to the side. There was the sound of explosions in the basement reported by firefighters. And most crucially: the speed of the fall was so rapid that there could not have been any resistance. In other words, the "legs" of the building must have been pulled out from underneath long before the weight of the falling top part came crashing down upon them. In fact, the buildings fell in "free-fall" time, the same time it would have taken a baseball dropped from the top of the buildings to hit the ground.
Physicists and engineers point out that a building cannot fall straight down 'by accident'. The way the buildings fell was characteristic of controlled demolition, in which carefully-timed cutter charges sever the supporting members at just the right times to make the building fall inward and not topple to the side. The science of controlled demolition involves some very critical timing, and even small mistakes can lead to the building falling over sideways instead of straight down.
Direct evidence in the past for controlled demolition has included photos of neatly-severed beams in the demolition clean-up. The beams did not appear to be twisted or melted, but rather cut in neat, diagonal straight lines.
Also compelling is the fact that a third WTC tower, known as Building 7, came down in the same fashion, falling straight down in free-fall time, landing in its own footprint. Building 7 came down late in the afternoon, hours after the Twin Towers, and Building 7 was never hit by an airplane. Building 7 was nowhere mentioned in the official report of the 9/11 Commission, and there are (besides controlled demolition) there are no 'official' theories how it fell so suddenly and symmetrically.
In this context, the new journal article provides corroboratory evidence that dust collected locally the afternoon of 9/11 and the following day contains microscopic traces of thermite. Thermite is a very hot-burning mixture of finely-powdered aluminum and finally powdered iron oxide. As hot as an oxy-acetylene torch, it is used to melt iron beams and cut through them. Fires burning paper, building materials, or even jet fuel do not burn nearly hot enough to melt steel. The authors note that the particles were milled to an extremely fine dust and intermingled so that they burn much hotter and more rapidly even than conventional thermite.
Josh Mitteldorf, a senior editor at OpEdNews, was educated to be an astrophysicist, and has branched out from there to mathematical modeling in a variety of areas. He has taught mathematics, statistics, and physics at several universities.
www.opednews.com/articles/New-Scientific-Study-Smok-by-Josh-Mitteldorf-090404-371.html
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- - Danish scientist: nano explosive material found in the dust from WTC
Danish scientist: nano explosive material found in the dust from the World Trade Center
911truth.org posted an April 3 article by Thomas Hoffman published in Danish at Videnskab.dk regarding the "Active Thermitic Material Discovered" paper published last week. One of the article's nine authors is Niels Harrit, Associate Professor of Chemistry Institute of the University of Copenhagen. After the initial article is an interview with Professor Harrit.
See: www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20090406135508204
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- - ‘Rescue Me’ heats up 9/11 conspiracy theories
DANIEL SUNJATA, once a football hero at Mount Carmel,
is sure to draw fire as he promotes 9/11 conspiracy theories
April 4, 2009
by Mary Houlihan
Chicago SunTimes
Daniel Sunjata stars in the acclaimed cable series "Rescue Me," where he plays Puerto Rican firefighter and ladies' man Franco Rivera. . . .
Sunjata has his own 9/11 suspicions
One of the more interesting, and controversial, storylines in the new season of "Rescue Me" revolves around firefighter Franco Rivera and his belief that 9/11 was an "inside job."
As it turns out, Daniel Sunjata, who plays Franco, subscribes to the same conspiracy theory.
“I was shocked that they added it to the show,” Sunjata admitted. “When I saw the script, I thought it was a practical joke.”
Executive producer Peter Tolan says Sunjata is “well read” and has “done a lot of research” on the topic.
Read more: www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20090406143053549
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- - David Ray Griffin - 9/11: Time for a Second Look
Dr. Griffin is Professor Emeritus, Philosophy of Religion & Theology, (Claremont Graduate University, CA) , author of 34 books, including ‘Christian Faith and the Truth Behind 9/11 - A Call to Reflection and Action.’ Four of these books have been given special recognition: ‘The New Pearl Harbor’ and ‘The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions received the 2006 Helios Foundation Award. ‘Debunking 9/11 Debunking’ earned the 2008 Bronze Medal, Independent Publisher Book Awards. His latest book, The New Pearl Harbor Revisited: 9/11, the Cover-Up, and the Exposé was named 'Pick of the Week' by Publishers Weekly in November 2008.
David Ray Griffin Tour: 'Time for a Second Look'
The New Pearl Harbor Revisited: 9/11, the Cover-Up, and the Exposé
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4/9 - Portsmouth, NH
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4/11 - Boston University School of Theology
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“Professor Griffin is the nemesis of the 9/11 cover-up.”
-- Paul Craig Roberts
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- - The Best Way To Rob A Bank Is To Own One
- - Raw Story - Economist: US collapse driven by 'fraud'
- - Revealing News: Bonuses from Bailouts
- - A Trillion Dollars for the Banks: How About a Second Opinion?
- - Sharp Increase In Global Tension Since The G-20
- - Mexican president: US authorities 'complicit' in drug trafficking
- - The Best Way To Rob A Bank Is To Own One
By Bill Moyers ~ watch - listen - or read
The financial industry brought the economy to its knees, but how did they get away with it? With the nation wondering how to hold the bankers accountable, Bill Moyers sits down with William K. Black, the former senior regulator who cracked down on banks during the savings and loan crisis of the 1980s. Black offers his analysis of what went wrong and his critique of the bailout
TRANSCRIPT - Broadcast PBS - April 3, 2009
[EXCERPT}
BILL MOYERS: For months now, revelations of the wholesale greed and blatant transgressions of Wall Street have reminded us that "The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One." In fact, the man you're about to meet wrote a book with just that title. It was based upon his experience as a tough regulator during one of the darkest chapters in our financial history: the savings and loan scandal in the late 1980s.
Bill Black was in New York this week for a conference at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice where scholars and journalists gathered to ask the question, "How do they get away with it?" Well, no one has asked that question more often than Bill Black.
BILL MOYERS: I was taken with your candor at the conference here in New York to hear you say that this crisis we're going through, this economic and financial meltdown is driven by fraud. What's your definition of fraud?
WILLIAM K. BLACK: Fraud is deceit. And the essence of fraud is, "I create trust in you, and then I betray that trust, and get you to give me something of value." And as a result, there's no more effective acid against trust than fraud, especially fraud by top elites, and that's what we have.
BILL MOYERS: So if your assumption is correct, your evidence is sound, the bank, the lending company, created a fraud. And the ratings agency that is supposed to test the value of these assets knowingly entered into the fraud. Both parties are committing fraud by intention.
WILLIAM K. BLACK: Right, and the investment banker that — we calll it pooling — puts together these bad mortgages, these liars' lloans, and creates the toxic waste of these derivatives. All of them do that. And then they sell it to the world and the world just thinks because it has a triple-A rating it must actually be safe. Well, instead, there are 60 and 80 percent losses on these things, because of course they, in reality, are toxic waste.
BILL MOYERS: You're describing what Bernie Madoff did to a limited number of people. But you're saying it's systemic, a systemic Ponzi scheme.
WILLIAM K. BLACK: Oh, Bernie was a piker. He doesn't even get into the front ranks of a Ponzi scheme...
BILL MOYERS: Why is it so hard to prosecute? Why hasn't anyone been brought to justice over this?
WILLIAM K. BLACK: Because they didn't even begin to investigate the major lenders until the market had actually collapsed, which is completely contrary to what we did successfully in the Savings and Loan crisis, right? Even while the institutions were reporting they were the most profitable savings and loan in America, we knew they were frauds.
BILL MOYERS: Why are they firing the president of G.M. and not firing the head of all these banks that are involved?
WILLIAM K. BLACK: There are two reasons. One, they're much closer to the bankers. These are people from the banking industry. And they have a lot more sympathy. In fact, they're outright hostile to autoworkers, as you can see. They want to bash all of their contracts. But when they get to banking, they say, 'contracts, sacred.' But the other element of your question is we don't want to change the bankers, because if we do, if we put honest people in, who didn't cause the problem, their first job would be to find the scope of the problem. And that would destroy the cover up.
BILL MOYERS: The cover up?
WILLIAM K. BLACK: Sure. The cover up.
BILL MOYERS: That's a serious charge.
WILLIAM K. BLACK: Of course.
BILL MOYERS: Who's covering up?
WILLIAM K. BLACK: Geithner is charging, is covering up. Just like Paulson did before him. Geithner is publicly saying that it's going to take $2 trillion — a trillion is a thousand billion — $2 trillillion taxpayer dollars to deal with this problem. But they're allowing all the banks to report that they're not only solvent, but fully capitalized. Both statements can't be true. It can't be that they need $2 trillion, because they have masses losses, and that they're fine.
BILL MOYERS: How is this happening? I mean why is it happening?
WILLIAM K. BLACK: Until you get the facts, it's harder to blow all this up. And, of course, the entire strategy is to keep people from getting the facts.
BILL MOYERS: What facts?
WILLIAM K. BLACK: The facts about how bad the condition of the banks is. So, as long as I keep the old CEO who caused the problems, is he going to go vigorously around finding the problems? Finding the frauds?
BILL MOYERS: To hear you say this is unusual because you supported Barack Obama, during the campaign. But you're seeming disillusioned now.
WILLIAM K. BLACK: Well, certainly in the financial sphere, I am. I think, first, the policies are substantively bad. Second, I think they completely lack integrity. Third, they violate the rule of law. This is being done just like Secretary Paulson did it. In violation of the law. We adopted a law after the Savings and Loan crisis, called the Prompt Corrective Action Law. And it requires them to close these institutions. And they're refusing to obey the law.
BILL MOYERS: In other words, they could have closed these banks without nationalizing them?
WILLIAM K. BLACK: Well, you do a receivership. No one -- Ronald Reagan did receiverships. Nobody called it nationalization.
BILL MOYERS: And that's a law?
WILLIAM K. BLACK: That's the law.
BILL MOYERS: What the reason they give for not doing it?
WILLIAM K. BLACK: They ignore it. And nobody calls them on it.
BILL MOYERS: Well, where's Congress? Where's the press? Where--
WILLIAM K. BLACK: Well, where's the Pecora investigation?
BILL MOYERS: The what?
WILLIAM K. BLACK: The Pecora investigation. The Great Depression, we said, "Hey, we have to learn the facts. What caused this disaster, so that we can take steps, like pass the Glass-Steagall law, that will prevent future disasters?" Where's our investigation?
What would happen if after a plane crashes, we said, "Oh, we don't want to look in the past. We want to be forward looking. Many people might have been, you know, we don't want to pass blame. No. We have a nonpartisan, skilled inquiry. We spend lots of money on, get really bright people. And we find out, to the best of our ability, what caused every single major plane crash in America. And because of that, aviation has an extraordinarily good safety record. We ought to follow the same policies in the financial sphere. We have to find out what caused the disasters, or we will keep reliving them.
BILL MOYERS: Yeah. Are you saying that Timothy Geithner, the Secretary of the Treasury, and others in the administration, with the banks, are engaged in a cover up to keep us from knowing what went wrong?
WILLIAM K. BLACK: Absolutely.
BILL MOYERS: You are.
WILLIAM K. BLACK: Absolutely, because they are scared to death. All right? They're scared to death of a collapse. They're afraid that if they admit the truth, that many of the large banks are insolvent. They think Americans are a bunch of cowards, and that we'll run screaming to the exits. And we won't rely on deposit insurance. And, by the way, you can rely on deposit insurance. And it's foolishness. All right? Now, it may be worse than that. You can impute more cynical motives. But I think they are sincerely just panicked about, "We just can't let the big banks fail." That's wrong.
BILL MOYERS: Yeah, and this week in New York, at this conference, you described this as more than a financial crisis. You called it a moral crisis.
WILLIAM K. BLACK: Because it is a fundamental lack of integrity. But also because, if you look back at crises, an economist who is also a presidential appointee, as a regulator in the Savings and Loan industry, right here in New York, Larry White, wrote a book about the Savings and Loan crisis. And he said, you know, one of the most interesting questions is why so few people engaged in fraud? Because objectively, you could have gotten away with it. But only about ten percent of the CEOs, engaged in fraud. So, 90 percent of them were restrained by ethics and integrity. So, far more than law or by F.B.I. agents, it's our integrity that often prevents the greatest abuses. And what we had in this crisis, instead of the Savings and Loan, is the most elite institutions in America engaging or facilitating fraud.
BILL MOYERS: This wound that you say has been inflicted on American life. The loss of worker's income. And security and pensions and future happened, because of the misconduct of a relatively few, very well-heeled people, in very well-decorated corporate suites, right?
WILLIAM K. BLACK: Right.
BILL MOYERS: It was relatively a handful of people.
WILLIAM K. BLACK: And their ideologies, which swept away regulation. So, in the example, regulation means that cheaters don't prosper. So, instead of being bad for capitalism, it's what saves capitalism. "Honest purveyors prosper" is what we want. And you need regulation and law enforcement to be able to do this. The tragedy of this crisis is it didn't need to happen at all.
For the complete interview - www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/04032009/transcript3.html
Also at above URL link you can read the second part of the program when Bill Moyers interviewed Amy Goodman and Glenn Greenwald, first recipients of the Park Center for Independent Media Izzy Award -- "Pillars of independent media, chosen for the award, because of their journalistic courage and persistence in confronting conventional wisdom and official deception.”
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- - Raw Story - Economist: US collapse driven by 'fraud,'
Geithner covering up bank insolvency
Stephen C. Webster -- Saturday April 4, 2009
In an explosive interview on PBS' Bill Moyers Journal, William K. Black, a professor of economics and law with the University of Missouri, alleged that American banks and credit agencies conspired to create a system in which so-called "liars loans" could receive AAA ratings and zero oversight, amounting to a massive "fraud" at the epicenter of US finance.
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Economist_US_collapse_driven_by_fraud_0404.html
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- - Revealing News: Bonuses from Bailouts,
Habeas Corpus for Bagram, Mark-to-Market
By Tod Fletcher and Fred Burks
www.WantToKnow.info/009/090406_bailout_bonuses_bagram_habeas_mark_market
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- - A Trillion Dollars for the Banks: How About a Second Opinion?
by Dean Baker
www.commondreams.org/view/2009/04/06-14
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- - Sharp Increase In Global Tension Since The G-20
By Christopher Story FRSA,
Editor and Publisher, International Currency Review
[EXCERPT}
THE Straightforward Drug-Trafficking Test
If we step back for a moment to reflect on the staged propaganda delivered to the world by Messrs Brown and Obama in recent days, we can short-circuit queries about the bona fides of these two characters quite simply. The elementary way to establish whether Obama and Brown are genuine or controlled (a simple test that applies to everyone else on the stage as well), is to ask (even though we all know the answer):
* Has President Obama ordered the CIA to get out of drug trafficking?
* Has Prime Minister Gordon Brown ordered Government Operations-2 (GO-2) within MI6 to get out of drug distribution via its control of the two drug cartels distributing drugs in the United Kingdom, and its financing of the main political parties using drug money proceeds?
Of course the answer to both questions is no. By extension, we can further ask the subsidiary question: are they serving the interests of the American/British peoples, or not? And again the answer has to be: they can’t be, otherwise this would be their top priority, wouldn’t it. In that case, if they aren’t serving the interests of their populations, they must be serving some other interest – namely, of course, the internationalist One World Agenda, operating CONTRARY to the interests of the nation state, which it seeks to obliterate. Since the nation state is the natural human condition and has been found to serve the preferences and interests of human beings best, it follows that the One World Agenda does not meet the requirements of human beings, and can never do so.
In 2005, a US operative said to the Editor of this service: ‘Don’t attack the drug operatives, or they will kill you’. Oh, so the problem is insoluble, is it? It can’t be resolved because anyone standing up to them will be murdered? President Obama cannot be expected to do the right thing because it’s too dangerous? Brown, ditto?
DRUG MONEY PROCEEDS AND THE INTERBANK MARKET
Now you will doubtless recall that, as previously reported by this service, the Executive Director of UNODC, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Sr. Antonio Maria Costa, was interviewed in the January 2009 issue of the Austrian journal Profil, and that in that interview he stated that in the second half of 2008 (a period which we think extended from mid-September onwards: see below), the ‘only new liquidity’ in the interbank market was drug money.
The other sources had been closed off – especially the illegal and corrupt misuse of the $14.0 trillion funds, including the Queen’s LOAN money within a total of $6.2 trillion that had been made available to finance the private sector on-the-books Refunding Programme which is the SOLUTION to the crisis, as agreed by the Group of Seven leading financial powers in June 2007, when The Queen appealed for this transparent trading to proceed ‘for the sake of the whole of humanity’. The G-7 re-approved the private sector, revenue-generating refunding of the US Dollar System in 2008.
THAT SEPTEMBER 2008 MONEY ‘LOCKDOWN’
Following advice given and the steps taken at the beginning of September 2008, these funds (the entire $14.0 trillion) were placed into ‘lockdown’ between 10th and 12th September 2008, so that they could no longer be illegally exploited to finance the carousel, as previously explained. It was then only a matter of time before the Bush Crime Family-linked Madoff Ponzi scamming machine ran into severe trouble, in the context of the reported $7.0 billion of redemptions.
(Obviously it didn’t help that, according to The Jerusalem Post, Madoff had transferred $35 billion to the Israel Discount Bank via 181,000 separate wire transfers in the names of individual investors between March 2004 and the same month a year later) (4).
When ‘Sir’ R. Allen Stanford realised what was happening, he started to arrange for monies to be diverted from his various bank accounts – a state of affairs known to his one-man Antigua-based accountant, whose contract with Stanford expired on 31st December 2008. The accountant died suddenly on 1st January 2009.
From the information about drug money flows implied and given above, it can be assumed that one reason why the Great Powers do nothing whatsoever to terminate their structures’ drug-trafficking operations (except via token programmes designed to deflect criticism for public consumption) is that the resulting money flows lubricate the interbank market.
Which of course ties the banks, which are criminal enterprises, into the drug-trafficking business – explaining the corruption of the banks, which is justified on the basis of the argument that banks are neutral institutions which simply handle money flows.
Therefore, attempting to impose discipline and ‘standards’ on banks while Governments continue to sponsor and indulge in drug-trafficking, represents yet another display of the familiar duplicitous double-mindedness with which we have become familiar as we steadily strip the putrid layers of criminality off the legs of the criminal Octopus.
For complete article: http://worldreports.org/news/207_sharp_increase_in_global_tension_since_the_g_20
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- - Mexican president: US authorities 'complicit' in drug trafficking
Stephen Webster -- April 4 2009
"It is impossible to pass tons of drugs and cocaine to U.S. without some great complicity of some American authorities," said Mexican President Felipe Calderone.
The President of Mexico has an unfortunate message for Americans still ignorant of the Drug War's cold realities: Some of your politicians are involved.
Yes folks, it is long-past time to start thinking about alternative strategies for combating both the harmful effects of drug addiction and the deadly effects of forcing an economy outside of the law.
"It is impossible to pass tons of drugs and cocaine to U.S. without some great complicity of some American authorities," said Mexican President Felipe Calderone.
"There is traffic in Mexico because there is corruption in Mexico. And that is true. But with the same argument, if there is traffic in United States, it is because there is some corruption in United States."
Calderone's comments come at 3:01 in the following video.
VIDEO - http://rawstory.com/blog/2009/04/mexican-president-us-authorities-complicit-in-drug-trafficking/
3) Decommission VY & GMOs before too late
- - Yankee (Nuke Plant) springs another hot leak
- - Bill That Could Kill Agricultural Biodiversity
- - Yankee (Nuke Plant) springs another hot leak
Yankee springs another hot leak
From the Rutland Herald & the Times Argus
Published: April 2, 2009
BRATTLEBORO Entergy Nuclear announced late Wednesday afternoon that it had another radioactive leak, this time in a filter that removes radioactivity from other water leaks.
The company, in its weekly newsletter to the media, said the leak was not affecting the operation of the plant. The leak was found in a filter in a portion of the plant that was plagued by another leak that was fixed last week after three months of leaking thousands of gallons of radioactive water.
Robert Williams, spokesman for Entergy Nuclear, said the two leaks were not related. None of the radioactive water was released into the environment; it was filtered and returned to service, Williams said.
The filter/demineralizer removes impurities from the water in the cleanup system in the reactor, and also removes radioactivity.
He said while the leaking demineralizer filter was taken off line today, there is still another filter on the system.
The reactor can operate for an "extended period of days" with only the one filter/demineralizer.
He said Entergy Nuclear technicians were already working on developing a repair plan.
The older leak was finally fixed last week after several tries. That leak was in the reactor water cleanup check valve and was finally sealed by expert technicians brought in by Entergy.
Today's announcement is the third radioactive leak at the plant in the past three months.
www.timesargus.com/article/RH/20090402/NEWS02/904020369/1003/NEWS02
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Citizens Awareness Network - Calendar for April 5
Helen Caldicott Tour, April 7-10, 2009
April 7; 12:00pm - Bicentennial Hall, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT
Book signing 7:00 pm - Barnes and Noble Bookstore, Dorset St, South Burlington, VT
April 8 Book signing 4:00pm University of Vermont, Davis Center Bookstore, Burlington, VT
7:00 pm Grand Maple Ballroom, Davis Center, UVM, Burlington, VT
April 9 5:30pm The Chapel, Vermont College of Fine Arts, 36 College St, Montpelier, VT
April 10 7:00pm Latchis 4, Latchis Theatre, 50 Main St., Brattleboro, VT
Dr. Caldicott co-founded Physicians for Social Responsibility, an organization of 32,400 medical professionals committed to educating their colleagues to the dangers of nuclear power and nuclear weapons. The international umbrella organization, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985.
For additional information regarding this tour contact Marketing Partners at 802-864-6710.
For more on not extending VY’s license in 2012, visit NukeBusters.org
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- - Bill That Could Kill Agricultural Biodiversity
From peaceteam.net- HR 875 Is Not About Food safety,
It's About Genocide of Agricultural Biodiversity
One of the most potentially dangerous bills we've ever heard of is trying to sneak its way through Congress right now, in the sheep's clothing of so-called "modernization" of food safety. HR 875 is a bill put up by Monsanto and other monolithic corporations trying to seize totalitarian control over all agriculture. It was introduced by Rosa DeLauro, whose husband WORKS for Monsanto, and is ultimately about one thing, defining ONLY their own GMO products as "safe".
What makes the bill so dangerous is that it is heavy on penalties including prison time, while at the same time being incredibly vague about what would actually trigger those sanctions. HR 875 is nothing but a Trojan horse, with an invading army to be designated later, in the form of an bureaucratic administrator (most likely a corporate lobbyist shill) with draconian LAW MAKING POWER to make up their own definitions so that all competitors are either driven into bankruptcy or locked up. There are problems with food safety we can talk about, but HR 875 is not going to make us safer, any more than invading Iraq made us safer. It MUST be stopped.
Stop HR 875 Action Page: http://www.peaceteam.net/action/pnum959.php
Please take action NOW, so we can win all victories that are supposed to be ours, and forward this alert as widely as possible.
If you would like to get alerts like these, you can do so at PeaceTeam.net
CRITICAL BREAKING NEWS
Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust
from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe
04 April 2009
Financial Analyses - World Reports - Global Intelligence
07 April 2009
Sharp Increase In Global Tension Since The G-20
30 March 2009
Duplicity Catches Up With Criminal Institutions
It's Not 'The Economy, Stupid': Its ‘The Derivatives, Stupid’
15 February 2009
Catastrophic Banker's Ramp to Continue Under Obama
ROOT CAUSE OF THE GLOBAL CRISIS:
THE CIA FUNDS ITSELF BY FRAUD
29 March 2009
Spanish judge to hear torture
case against six Bush officials
‘I was victim of medieval torture,’
says freed Guantanamo detainee
02 April 2009
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the incredible prospect of a six-month
jail sentence in America after writing a
letter to President Obama detailing their
client's allegations of torture by US agents.
22 March 2009 - Serbia
Death squad leader ‘was top CIA agent’
Live Avian Flu & Human Flu Viruses
"Accidentally"
mixed, then sent to several European facilities
01 April 2009
Irradiated Foods Cause
Severe Neurological Damage
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Take Action -- Help Free Lori Berenson
30 March 2009 health update and call to action
By Mark and Rhoda Berenson
To Friends and Supporters of Lori Berenson
Update on Lori’s HealthLori is in her 8th month of pregnancy and very excited and busy preparing for the birth. Unfortunately the pregnancy has exacerbated her back pain and she expects to have back surgery as soon as appropriate after the baby is born.
REQUEST FOR IMMEDIATE HELPCall President Obama and Write to Secretary of State Clinton. Now that President Obama has settled into office, it is time for us to put a concerted effort into enlisting his help in securing Lori’s release.
Lori has now served 13 years and 5 months of her 20-year sentence. She has been a model prisoner and she is eligible for conditional liberty in November 2010. However, given the precarious nature of her health and the forthcoming birth of her baby, we will be urging President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton to secure Lori’s immediate release.
ACTION DESIRED1-Please call the White House “hotline operator” (202-456-1111). Tell the “hotline” operator that you would like President Obama to secure the release of Lori Berenson who has been wrongfully imprisoned in Peru for more than 13 years and whose health is precarious.
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Assassination Ring * Griffin * Killer Electrons
15 March 2009
"The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance,
and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence,
if they lack understanding. On the whole, men are more good
than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more
or less ignorant, and it is that we call vice or virtue; the most
incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance which fancies it knows
everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill."
-- Albert Camus
The Plague, Modern Library Edition, p. 120
1) Deadly Deceitful US Government – Bush-Cheney-9-11
- - Bush 'executive assassination ring' reported directly to Cheney office
- - David Ray Griffin - 9/11: Time for a Second Look
- - September 11, 2009 - The Real Transparency Conference
2) Global Warming & Nuke Van Allen worse than imagined
- - Lord Stern on global warming: It's even worse than I thought
- - Scientists Warn of Catastrophic Rises in Sea Level
- - Carbon Sinks – Lungs of Gaia Earth – Being Destroyed
- - Attorney General says plant's claim false
- - A Simple Statement On Nuclear Power and Climate Change
- - Nuclear Waste Has No Place to Go
- - A look back - 1964 U.S atomic bomb blast in the Van Allen belts
- - Van Allen Belts’ 'Killer Electrons' & Moon Landing
3) The American Criminal Injustice System
- - UN: Global War on Drugs a Dismal 'Failure'
- - Biden announces Seattle police chief as drug czar
4) The Revolution Will Not Be Televised – but caught on film
- - A visit to Venezuela contradicts the picture our leaders are painting
Editor's Notes:
Beware the Ides of March is an appropriate way to begin this issue. The deception is so grand that we cannot begin to comprehend it all, only parts. The assassination ring linked to Cheney-Bush is no surprise, though, figuring all the perversions to the Constitution by this twisted administration. The financial issues, too, have everyone's heads spinning. Christopher Story is still reporting with detail on behind-the-scenes of an international financial criminal mess, with shadow agencies finding their hands caught in the cookie jar, mixed with poppy seeds and drugs galore. This is a big part of the problem since the good and bad banks need transparency to work. If Obama wanted to win the war of terror, he would support a real investigation into the events of September 11, 2001. If he wanted to stop the Mexican and US drug-crime wars, he would decriminalize all drugs. If he wanted better employment opportunities, he would replace prisons for nonviolent offenders with civil service opportunities. He would take on the middlemen for health concerns, not for profit.
The invisible (to the mainstream media) heroes, like David Ray Griffin, William Rodriguez, and other high-level professionals are beginning to overcome the acceptance that peace, justice, and truth, must go hand in hand. Note the April 2009 tour with David Ray Griffin. 911tv.org will be making a DVD of this lecture available.
This issue covers a lot of ground and again the 1964 US government explosion of a nuclear bomb 'two and a half times the strength of the Nakasaki bomb' into the Van Allen belts. Crazy stuff! This makes the likelihood of a moon landing hoax even more feasible, and explains why the space program has remained in low orbit since the Apollo missions. If Obama wanted world-peace and green-producing energy, he would work to join an alliance with all nations to abolish all weapons and technologies capable of mass destruction. Also, note my Financial Crisis solution policy 08 October 2008 letter to Obama
Hubris has gotten to the best of us; only truth will set us free. This April 11-13 is the 7th anniversary of the failed coup d’etat of Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez. Valley 9/11 Truth will be screening The Revolution Will Not Be Televised. You can join in by busting the boycott for this award winning film. Finally, an uplifting film replaces the specter of capitalist-fascist-dictatorships with a socially oriented peaceful revolution. The CIA knocked off a democratic leader of Iran in the 1970’s, destroyed a democracy in Chile and many other countries with the idea of wanting to control their own resources. Never mind the Native American, while Leonard Peltier languishes in prison. As Christopher Story reported, a root cause of the global crisis is that the CIA funds itself by fraud. Good night and good luck, ides of March, may tomorrow be brighter.
"It is well that people do not understand our banking
and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there
would be a revolution before tomorrow morning."
-- Henry Ford
(1863-1947)
1) Deadly Deceitful US Government – Bush-Cheney-9-11
- - Bush 'executive assassination ring' reported directly to Cheney office
- - David Ray Griffin - 9/11: Time for a Second Look
- - September 11, 2009 - The Real Transparency Conference
- - Bush 'executive assassination ring' reported directly to Cheney office
By Seymour Hersh
At a "Great Conversations" event (MP3) at the University of Minnesota last night, legendary investigative reporter Seymour Hersh may have made a little more news than he intended by talking about new alleged instances of domestic spying by the CIA, and about an ongoing covert military operation that he called an “executive assassination ring.”
Hersh spoke with great confidence about these findings from his current reporting, which he hasn’t written about yet.
In an email exchange afterward, Hersh said that his statements were “an honest response to a question” from the event’s moderator, U of M Political Scientist Larry Jacobs and “not something I wanted to dwell about in public.”
Hersh didn’t take back the statements, which he said arise from reporting he is doing for a book, but that it might be a year or two before he has what he needs on the topic to be “effective...that is, empirical, for even the most skeptical.”
The evening of great conversation, featuring Walter Mondale and Hersh, moderated by Jacobs and titled “America’s Constitutional Crisis,” looked to be a mostly historical review of events that have tested our Constitution, by a journalist and a high government official who had experience with many of the crises.
And it was mostly historical, and a great conversation, in which Hersh and Mondale talked about the patterns by which presidents seem to get intoxicated by executive power, frustrated by the limitations on that power from Congress and the public, drawn into improper covert actions that exceed their constitutional powers, in the belief that they can get results and will never be found out. Despite a few references to the Founding Fathers, the history was mostly recent, starting with the Vietnam War with much of it arising from the George W. Bush administration, which both men roundly denounced.
At the end of one answer by Hersh about how these things tend to happen, Jacobs asked: “And do they continue to happen to this day?”
Replied Hersh:
“Yuh. After 9/11, I haven’t written about this yet, but the Central Intelligence Agency was very deeply involved in domestic activities against people they thought to be enemies of the state. Without any legal authority for it. They haven’t been called on it yet. That does happen.
"Right now, today, there was a story in the New York Times that if you read it carefully mentioned something known as the Joint Special Operations Command -- JSOC it’s called. It is a special wing of our special operations community that is set up independently. They do not report to anybody, except in the Bush-Cheney days, they reported directly to the Cheney office. They did not report to the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff or to Mr. [Robert] Gates, the secretary of defense. They reported directly to him. ...
"Congress has no oversight of it. It’s an executive assassination ring essentially, and it’s been going on and on and on. Just today in the Times there was a story that its leaders, a three star admiral named [William H.] McRaven, ordered a stop to it because there were so many collateral deaths.
"Under President Bush’s authority, they’ve been going into countries, not talking to the ambassador or the CIA station chief, and finding people on a list and executing them and leaving. That’s been going on, in the name of all of us.
"It’s complicated because the guys doing it are not murderers, and yet they are committing what we would normally call murder. It’s a very complicated issue. Because they are young men that went into the Special Forces. The Delta Forces you’ve heard about. Navy Seal teams. Highly specialized.
"In many cases, they were the best and the brightest. Really, no exaggerations. Really fine guys that went in to do the kind of necessary jobs that they think you need to do to protect America. And then they find themselves torturing people.
"I’ve had people say to me -- five years ago, I had one say: ‘What do you call it when you interrogate somebody and you leave them bleeding and they don’t get any medical committee and two days later he dies. Is that murder? What happens if I get before a committee?’
"But they’re not gonna get before a committee.”
Hersh, the best-known investigative reporter of his generation, writes about these kinds of issues for The New Yorker. He has written often about JSOC, including, last July that:
“Under the Bush Administration’s interpretation of the law, clandestine military activities, unlike covert C.I.A. operations, do not need to be depicted in a Finding, because the President has a constitutional right to command combat forces in the field without congressional interference.”
(“Finding” refers to a special document that a president must issue, although not make public, to authorize covert CIA actions.)
Here is a tape of the full Mondale-Hersh-Jacobs colloquy, a little over an hour, without the audience Q and A. If you want to look for the Hersh statement quoted above, it’s about at the 7:30 mark.
The rest of the evening was, as expected, full of worry and wisdom and quite a bit of Bush-bashing.
Jacobs walked the two elder statesmen through their experiences of:
* The My Lai massacre, which Hersh first revealed publicly and which he last night called “the end of innocence about us and war.”
* The Pentagon Papers case, which Mondale called the best example of the “government’s potential for vast public deception.”
* Henry Kissinger’s secret dealings, mostly relating to the Vietnam War. (Hersh, who has written volumes about Kissinger, said that he will always believe that whereas ordinary people count sheep to fall asleep, Kissinger “has to count burned and maimed Cambodian babies.”)
* The Church Committee investigation of CIA and FBI abuses, in which Mondale played a major role. (He talked about the fact that FBI director J. Edgar Hoover not only spied on Martin Luther King but literally tried to drive him to suicide.)
* The Iran Contra scandal. (Hersh said the Reagan administration came to office with a clear goal of finding a way to finance covert actions, such as the funding of the Nicaraguan Contras, without appropriations so that Congress wouldn't know about them. Mondale noted that Reagan had signed a law barring further aid to the Contras, then participated in a scheme to keep the aid flowing. Hersh said that two key veterans of Iran-Contra, Dick Cheney and national security official Elliot Abrams, were reunited in the George W. Bush White House and decided that the key lesson from Iran-Contra was that too many people in the administration knew about it.)
* And the Bush-Cheney years. (Said Hersh: “The contempt for Congress in the Bush-Cheney White House was extaordinary.” Said Mondale of his successor, Cheney, and his inner circle: “they ran a government within the government.” Hersh added: “Eight or nine neoconservatives took over our country.” Mondale said that the precedents of abuse of vice presidential power by Cheney would remain "like a loaded pistol that you leave on the dining room table.")
Jacobs pressed both men on the question of whether the frequent abuses of power show that the Constitution fails, because these things keep happening, or whether it works, because these things keep coming to light.
Mondale stuck with the happy answer. “The system has come through again and again,” he said. Presidents always think they will get away with it, but eventually reporters like Hersh bring things to light, the public “starts smelling this stuff,” the courts and the Congress get involved. Presidents “always, in the long run, find out that the system is stronger than they are.”
Hersh seemed more troubled by the repetitions of the pattern. The “beautiful thing about our system” is that eventually we get new leaders, he said. “The evil twosome, Cheney and Bush, left,” Hersh said. But he also said “it’s really amazing to me that we manage to get such bad leadership, so consistently.”
And he added that both the press and the public let down their guard in the aftermath of 9/11.
“The major newspapers joined the [Bush] team,” Hersh said. Top editors passed the message to investigative reporters not to “pick holes” in what Bush was doing. Violations of the Bill of Rights happened in the plain sight of the public. It was not only tolerated, but Bush was re-elected.
And even Mondale admitted that one of his greatest successes, laws reforming the FBI and CIA in the aftermath of the Church Committee, were supposed to fix the problem so that “we would never have these problems again in the lifetime of anyone alive at the time, but of course we did.”
UPDATE: The CIA responds to Seymour Hersh (via MinnPost)
Source: www.minnpost.com/ericblackblog/2009/03/11/7310/investigative_reporter_seymour_hersh_describes_executive_assassination_ring
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Hear Seymour Hersh's entire speech regarding US Death Squads...+ Catherine Austin Fitts' claim of poisoning
Hear legendary investigative reporter Seymour Hersh's entire speech at the University of Minnesota this week in which he talked about a US "executive assassination ring". Hear how 911Truther and former Bush administration official Catherine Austin Fitts was poisoned after daring to speak the truth.
Archived here => NoLiesRadio.org
Also post-link-comment 911blogger.com/node/19596
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- - David Ray Griffin - 9/11: Time for a Second Look
David Ray Griffin:
My April lecture our will be "9/11: Time for a Second Look."
“I will be pointing out that many people---including politicians and journalists---formed their ideas about 9/11 and the 9/11 truth movement early on, when there seemed little reason to doubt the Bush administration's honesty and when the 9/11 truth movement could be caricatured, without too much exaggeration, as a bunch of kids on the Internet.
But now we have abundant evidence of the Bush-Cheney's administration's willingness to break the law and to tell lies that would lead to millions of deaths.
And the 9/11 truth movement is now led intellectually by scientists and other professionals, as shown by the emergence of various organizations, including Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, Firefighters for 9/11 Truth, Lawyers for 9/11 Truth, Medical Professionals for 9/11 Truth, Pilots for 9/11 Truth, Political Leaders for 9/11 Truth, Religious Leaders for 9/11 Truth, Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice (which includes a lot of scientists), Veterans for 9/11 Truth, and the Scientific Panel to Investigate 9/11. The movement also includes several former intelligence officers.
Thanks to these professionals, the evidence that the official story is false is now overwhelming. The only problem is to get people to look at the evidence. Once they are willing to do this, they quickly see that the official story simply cannot be true.
Finally, the replacement of the Bush administration with the Obama administration is important in three respects. First, potential whistleblowers may become less afraid to come forward. Second, the media may become more willing to expose the dozens of contradictions and other problems in the official myth. And third, there is at least the chance for a real investigation. The petition for both Religious Leaders for 9/11 Truth and Political Leaders for 9/11 Truth, for example, ends by asking President Obama to authorize a new, truly independent, investigation.”
David Ray Griffin
Dates --- Location:
April 7 - Wayne, PA
April 8 - Vassar, PA
April 9 - Portsmouth NH
April 10 - Keene NH
April 11---Boston
April 15 - Brussels
For contact information and other details, see articles and comments at 911blogger:
David Ray Griffin to Speak at Boston University, April 11, 2009
http://911blogger.com/node/19584
Brussels 15th April 2009 : David Ray Griffin : '9/11: Time for A Second Look'
http://911blogger.com/node/19570
9/11: Time For A Second Look
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- - September 11, 2009 - The Real Transparency Conference
THE REAL TRANSPARENCY CONFERENCE
NYC September 11 – 13, 2009
By Sander Hicks
Obama has promised transparency. But to the people who have been laboring for eight years under the brutal conditions of Bush/Cheney, that means summoning a greater courage to tackle taboo topics:
9/11 Truth
Economic democracy
The real identity of the USA
Read more - THE_REAL_TRANSPARENCY_CONFERENCE
For FN’s resources, see:
9/11 Investigative Reports,
looking into the unanswered questions.
2) Global Warming & Nuke Van Allen worse than imagined
- - Lord Stern on global warming: It's even worse than I thought
- - Scientists Warn of Catastrophic Rises in Sea Level
- - Carbon Sinks – Lungs of Gaia Earth – Being Destroyed
- - Attorney General says plant's claim false
- - A Simple Statement On Nuclear Power and Climate Change
- - Nuclear Waste Has No Place to Go
- - A look back - 1964 U.S atomic bomb blast in the Van Allen belts
- - Van Allen Belts’ 'Killer Electrons' & Moon Landing
- - Lord Stern on global warming: It's even worse than I thought
Author of definitive report on climate change sounds ominous new warning
By Michael McCarthy, Environment Editor
Friday, 13 March 2009
Lord Stern, the economist who produced the single most influential political document on climate change, says he underestimated the risks of global warming and the damage that could result from it.
The situation was worse than he had thought when he completed his review two-and-a-half years ago, he told a conference yesterday, but politicians do not yet grasp the scale of the dangers now becoming apparent.
"Do politicians understand just how difficult it could be, just how devastating rises of 4C, 5C or 6C could be? I think, not yet," Lord Stern posed to the meeting of scientists in Copenhagen.
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"A rise of 5C would be a temperature the world has not seen for 30 to 50 million years. We've been around only 100,000 years as human beings. We don't know what that's like.
"We haven't seen 3C for a few million years, and we don't know what that looks like either."
Lord Stern said new research done in the past two or three years had made it clear there were "severe risks" if global temperature rose by the predicted 4C to 7C by 2100. Agriculture would be destroyed and life would be impossible over much of the planet, the former World Bank chief economist said.
Now a professor at the London School of Economics, Lord Stern referred to the higher temperature rises several times at the conference. The scientists are meeting in the Danish capital as a precursor to the major UN meeting in December which aims to find a successor to the Kyoto Protocol climate treaty.
Commissioned by Gordon Brown when Chancellor, and issued in October 2006, the 700-page Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change is the single most influential political document on global warming yet published. It has been closely studied by the governments of every major country.
The report said the costs of acting to counter climate change, by stabilising emissions of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, might be about 1 per cent of annual global GDP by 2050. But the cost of doing nothing was found to be far greater – risking up to 20 per cent of the world's wealth.
Yesterday, Lord Stern revised this prediction, saying the cost of inaction would be "50 per cent or more higher" than his previous highest estimate – meaning it could cost a third of the world's wealth.
The conference has been hearing detail on research done following the Stern review, including claims sea levels are likely to rise twice as fast as predicted in the last UN climate change report in 2007.
Lord Stern said the world's population needed to be aware of the implications of climate change, with many areas devastated by hurricanes and others drying out.
"Much of southern Europe would look like the Sahara. Many of the major rivers of the world, serving billions of people, would dry up in the dry seasons or re-route."
Billions of people would have to relocate as a result, he said.
"What would be the implication of that? Extended conflict, social disruption, war essentially, over much of the world, for many decades.
"This is the kind of implication that follows from temperature increases of that magnitude. I think it's vital that people understand the magnitude of the risks, but also that they understand that [by cutting emissions] we can reduce the probability of going there very dramatically," Lord Stern said.
Then and now: How Stern's view changed
Temperatures
A central assumption of the 2006 Stern Report was global temperatures would rise by between 2C and 3C over the current century if nothing was done to counter global warming.
Stern also mentioned the possibility of a 4C rise.
Yesterday, Stern said 4C, 5C, 6C and even 7C degree rises were a real possibility by the end of the 21st century, taking the world into new territory - agriculture would be destroyed and life impossible in many areas.
Costs
Stern created a sliding scale in the 2006 report which measured the costs of doing nothing on climate change. At the upper limit was the chance the damage would amount to 20 per cent of global Gross Domestic Product – a fifth of the world's wealth.
Yesterday, Stern revised his estimate saying the cost would be 50 per cent higher "or more" than the previous highest guess – risking a third of the world's wealth or a 30 per cent plus reduction in consumption per head.
www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/lord-stern-on-global-warming-its-even-worse-than-i-thought-1643957.html
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- - Attorney General says plant's claim false
WCAX News
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - State Attorney General William Sorrell says Vermont Yankee's zero carbon emissions claim is inaccurate.
The nuclear plant in Vernon claimed to have zero emissions in advertisements last year, but the ads prompted a complaint by the Vermont Public Interest Research Group. On Wednesday, Sorrell said he looked into the claim and found that while emissions generated by electricity production at nuclear plants are negligible, they occur when uranium is mined, processed and transported for use as fuel.
Vermont Yankee spokesman Rob Williams says the wording of the ads was "unfortunate."
The plant's owners say they won't use the claims again without explaining what it means.
Copyright 2009 The Associated Press
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"We do not support construction of new nuclear reactors as a means of addressing the climate crisis. Available renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies are faster, cheaper, safer and cleaner strategies for reducing greenhouse emissions than nuclear power."
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- - A look back - 1964 U.S atomic bomb blast in the Van Allen belts
1964 U.S atomic bomb blast in the Van Allen
Friday, 8 December 2000, 9:37 PM EST
U.S physics blunder almost ended space programs
By Richard Sale, Terrorism Correspondent
[EXCERPT]
WASHINGTON (UPI) -- In 1964, a U.S atomic bomb blast in the Van Allen belts surrounding the earth almost permanently ended the U.S. space program, according to retired Gen. Ken Hannegan of the Defense Nuclear Agency. Hannegan spoke recently with United Press International.
Hannegan acknowledged that during a 1964 test for a new U.S. anti-satellite weapon system, the United States fired an atomic bomb of about 50 KT (or two and a half times the strength of the Nakasaki bomb) in the Van Allen belts -- areas of radiation and charged particles which surround the earth's upper atmosphere and which are held in place by the earth's magnetic field.
According to former Lockheed scientist Maxwell Hunter, who worked on the program, "It was a military idea -- that you might be able to create a weapon by artificially pumping up radiation in the belts by detonating explosions in them and trapping the radiation."
In the 1960s, prodded by concerns over a Soviet orbital bombing threat, the U.S. Air Force had begun work on a nuclear-armed direct ascent anti-satellite system targeted at Soviet low-altitude satellites. The project was based on Kwajalein Island in the Pacific. Another companion effort was based on Johnston Island, which is due east, and a little north of the Marshall Islands. The Johnston Island testing used nuclear-armed Thor intermediate range ballistic missiles, according to Hunter and other former Lockheed officials who asked not to be named.
Richard Freeman, a former vice president of Rockwell International and E-Systems, who was involved in many military "black curtain" or secret U.S. space programs, said that Johnston was picked because its location was excellent for interception Soviet satellites on their first orbital passes.
In a test that was part of a program called Project Century, the atomic bomb was exploded at an altitude of between 300 to 400 miles, "not a high shot," said Hunter. "We wanted to fill up the belts at the point where they were closest to earth."
But the effect was totally unplanned for.
"It unexpectedly disabled U.S. and Soviet satellites," Hunter said, adding, "You have to remember that we had very primitive satellites in those days that lacked any protective shields."
But another effect became extremely disconcerting. Hunter said that the bomb blast loaded the belts longitudinally in a pie shape from pole to pole. But where the Air Force had expected the radiation from the blast to remain in the belts for only two days, "There was a trapped radiation phenomena" -- in other words, the extraordinarily high radiation levels refused to disperse. In fact, Hunter said, the energy from the A-bomb blast stayed in the belts "for over a year, maybe more." Hannegan said that the trapped radiation knocked out all American and Soviet equipment that passed through it. "The area was militarily neutral," said Hannegan.
Hunter said a dispute then broke out within the military and scientific community. "There were discussions about us having poisoned space for good, about having destroyed all satellites. An equal number of scientists disagreed, but everyone agreed that such a weapon would only end up blinding ourselves," he said..
Freeman added: "If we didn't damage Soviet equipment, it wasn't because we weren't trying." The U.S. has since moved to jam Russian satellite radio communications to ground stations, he said.
So why did the earlier Starfish blunder occur? "We didn't know enough yet about plasma physics," said Hannegan. "We just didn't understand it yet."
But former military space expert, Clarence Robinson said that the reason the United States probably stopped such testing was because it discovered "that there isn't anything you do to the enemy that you don't end up doing to yourself."
Copyright 2000 by United Press International.
For the complete article, see this issue of Flyby News:
December 21, 2000 - 1964 U.S atomic bomb blast in the Van Allen belts
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By Jonathan Mark
So, this in part may explain why that after the claimed multiple successful lunar landing and take-offs from 1969-’72, humans have remained in low orbit. When the space shuttle astronauts did get to an altitude of 400 miles from Earth, the radiation of the Van Allen belts forced them to a lower altitude in the late 1998. CNN reported: "The radiation belts surrounding Earth may be more dangerous for astronauts than previously believed. The phenomenon known as the 'Van Allen Belts' can spawn (newly discovered) 'Killer Electrons' that can dramatically affect the astronauts' health."
I recommend this film, though be aware that people may ridicule you out of ignorance:
"A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Moon"
3) The American Criminal Injustice System
- - UN: Global War on Drugs a Dismal 'Failure'
- - Biden announces Seattle police chief as drug czar
- - The American Criminal Injustice System
By Paul Craig Roberts
March 11, 2009 "Information Clearing House" -- -Ronald Cotton spent 11 years in prison because Jennifer Thompson provided eye witness testimony that he was the person who raped her. On March 9, National Public Radio revisited the story.
It turned out that Thompson was completely wrong, DNA evidence indicated that it was not Cotton but another man who had bragged about the rape.
Thompson asked Cotton for forgiveness, and he gave it. The two became friends and have collaborated on a book. On NPR Thompson said that eye witness testimony is incorrect 70 percent of the time.
I am familiar with psychological studies that conclude that eye witness accounts are wrong half of the time. That is enough to discredit eye witness testimony as evidence; yet, police and juries always bank on it.
Rape victims tend to be angry, and they want someone to pay. When shown mug shots or a lineup, they tend to pick someone, naively believing that if it is the wrong person the police investigation will clear the person.
Witnesses to crimes who are not themselves victims want to be helpful to the police. Consequently, they also tend to deliver up the innocent to justice.
And then there is the purchased “witness” testimony that prosecutors pay for with money and dropped charges in order to close a case. A favorite trick is to put a “snitch” in the cell with a defendant. The snitch then comes forward and reports that the defendant confessed.
Law and order conservatives think that the only miscarriages of justice are effected by liberal judges and liberal parole boards who can’t wait to release dangerous criminals to prey on the public.
The absurd idea that the justice system doesn’t make mistakes about those it convicts, except when they are let off by liberals, has made it impossible for innocent people wrongfully convicted to be paroled.
To be paroled, a person must admit to his crime and go through rehabilitation. Of course, only the guilty admit their crimes, and so only the guilty qualify for parole. Innocent people tend to maintain their innocence.
A case in point is that of William R. Strong, who has been locked away for a dozen years or more for “wife rape.”
According to people familiar with the case, Strong’s wife had a boyfriend and wanted rid of her husband. She accused him of rape. This was prior to DNA testing, but the perp kit still exists.
Strong comes from a patriotic military family. His father was a colonel and Strong served as a lieutenant and has two college degrees. The family trusted America and the police and the justice (sic) system. When advised that Strong would be out in a year if he agreed to a plea bargain, the family, beset with troubles, pressured Strong to accept the deal.
Only it was a double cross. The judge, seeking women's support, gave Strong 60 years.
That should be enough to wreck marriage in America, or for that matter, heterosexual sex unless there is a signed contract prior to each act.
It seems obvious that Strong was set up, double crossed, and is a threat to no one. Many have recommended his parole. But on February 20 of this year the Virginia Parole Board turned Strong down for the 11th time.
The American criminal justice (sic) system is incapable of admitting that it makes mistakes. The criminology bureaucrats claim that those inmates who proclaim their innocence are in denial and, thus, cannot be rehabilitated and, therefore, remain dangerous. In truth, it is the bureaucrats who are in denial and constitute a danger to justice.
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- - UN: Global War on Drugs a Dismal 'Failure'
Published on Wednesday, March 11, 2009 by The Guardian/UK
Ten Wasted Years: UN Drug Strategy a Failure, Reveals Damning Report
by Duncan Campbell
The UN strategy on drugs over the past decade has been a failure, a European commission report claimed yesterday on the eve of the international conference in Vienna that will set future policy for the next 10 years.
The report came amid growing dissent among delegates arriving at the meeting to finalise a UN declaration of intent.
Referring to the UN's existing strategy, the authors declared that they had found "no evidence that the global drug problem was reduced". They wrote: "Broadly speaking, the situation has improved a little in some of the richer countries while for others it worsened, and for some it worsened sharply and substantially, among them a few large developing or transitional countries."
The policy had merely shifted the problem geographically, they said. "Production and trafficking controls only redistributed activities. Enforcement against local markets failed in most countries."
Representatives from governments are split in their efforts to formulate an international drugs policy for the next decade. The UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs is due to formulate a strategy over the next two days, but there is widespread disagreement among delegates and a general feeling that an opportunity for a united approach has been lost.
In an article for the Guardian, Mike Trace, chairman of the International Drug Policy Consortium, says: "We're about to see the international community walk up the political and diplomatic path of least resistance. It will do nothing to help the millions of people around the world whose lives are destroyed by drug markets and drug use. And the depressing thing about it is that we can all book our seats for 2019, to go through this charade again."
Antonio Maria Costa, executive director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, has defended the approach. He is due to talk today on organised crime, which he has described as "one of the unintended consequences of drug control". He will warn that "a criminal market, of staggering proportion, risks undermining drug control" and outline a three-pronged approach to tackling drug-related crime.
In London, however, Lady Meacher, speaking on behalf of more than 30 members of the Lords, warned that the existing hardline prohibitionist strategy, which has been led by the US, had been deeply damaging. It was now being challenged by politicians, scientists and lawyers around the world, she said.
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www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar/11/un-drug-strategy
also posted
www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/03/11-0
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www.blnz.com/news/2009/03/11/Official_Seattle_police_chief_drug_6318.html
For more on this topic, see:
A Nation Behind Bars:
The buried talents of a population.
4) The Revolution Will Not Be Televised – but caught on film
- - A visit to Venezuela contradicts the picture our leaders are painting
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised - the film
Directed and Photographed by Kim Bartley and Donnacha O'Briain
Running time: 74 minutes, English narration, some Spanish.
THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED
This film concerns events around the short-lived coup d'etat
of President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela on April 12th 2002.
"What had in fact taken place was the first Latin American
coup of the 21st century, and the world's first media coup."
"Sometimes, a good documentary is all about being in the right place at the right time. It does not get much better for Kim Bartley and Donnacha O'Briain, who, in late 2001 began filming a documentary about Hugo Chavez, the controversial President of Venezuela. As they worked on their documentary, events in Venezuela reached a fever pitch and the duo was able to capture on film a coup from the perspective of the Chavez government. The footage is remarkable, especially given that actual events were so clouded by propaganda on both sides. What is clear is that this was a coup orchestrated with the crucial help of the media. Without their support, it would not have been successful."
* For quote source and a review of the film, see: www.haro-online.com/movies/revolution_will_not_be_televised.html.
“The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” details the story of the Coup in 2002 against President Hugo Chavez from INSIDE the palace. This is the single biggest tool to disprove the lies of the opposition and demonstrates peoples resistance to fascism. The film shows events before and leading up to the coup, the coup itself and the rise of peoples resistance to regain their democratically elected President. You can watch the full version at 74 minutes long on DVD.
History of distributing DVD - The Venezuela solidarity Campaign has been growing dramatically ever since our creation following the Coup in Venezuela 2002. One of the significant weapons in the struggle to build solidarity is The Revolution Will Not Be Televised DVD. This is an award winning documentary, which is a must see for anybody interested in the current developments in Venezuela, is effectively suffering from a distribution boycott. Two years ago, after a long struggle to obtain a copy, we investigated the current position on its distribution. After finding out that it was not being distributed we started selling copies.
However in Sept 2004, we were informed by Power Pictures that they owned the distribution rights and we should stop selling. We gladly agreed, asking when it would be distributed by them. We even offered to distribute some on there behalf for free. They declined this offer and informed us that negotiations were nearing a conclusion regarding the distribution. We were informed that this would be around 4-6 weeks. As a result we withdrew the copies we were distributing at their request. However in January 2005 we were informed by a supporter in Canada that Power Pictures (the distributors) informed him that the film will not be distributed "in the foreseeable future." As a result of this we decided to distribute copies.
Join with us to Bust the Boycott - You can purchase the DVD here!
Democracy Now! featured a report on the film on November 6th, 2003:
Why is Amnesty Not Screening a New Documentary About the Failed 2002 Coup in Venezuela?
Statement in Support of the Documentary Film by Venezuelananlysis.com and others..
Read and Sign the Petition in Support of the Film, “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised”
Watch this film online!
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- - A visit to Venezuela contradicts the picture our leaders are painting
by Molly Sweetser
Published by Asheville Citizen Times on March 19, 2006
On Feb. 2, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld compared Hugo Chavez, the democratically-elected leader of Venezuela, to Adolf Hitler. Sitting in the morning sun, the sounds of life on the streets below me and thinking back on my two weeks here in Venezuela, nothing would lead me to compare this bright diverse country to Nazi Germany. I spent the last two weeks traveling in and learning about Venezuela with the San Francisco-based Global Exchange. Our delegation of almost 200 met with students of all ages, officials from PDVSA (the Venezuelan oil company), community leaders, doctors, farmers and many other Venezuelans.
The experience that best illustrates the feeling I find here in Venezuela was an evening spent with students in Mission Ribas, one of the social missions set up by the Chavez government. This center allows people who never had the opportunity to attend or finish high school to study and get a high school degree. One teacher wiped tears from her eyes as she told us how moving it was to empower her students to reach goals that had previously been impossible for them. The teacher had studied at a university before Chavez was elected and had not thought much of the educational missions until her mother began studying at the Mission Ribas school. The pride and knowledge that her mother received from the school then motivated the young teacher to get involved and to work at the Mission Ribas school.
Other students from their 20s to their 70s stood and told us how good it felt to finally be able to help their children with their homework or to have a whole new world of opportunities because they learned to read.
I have encountered the same pride and sense of empowerment throughout the communities I have visited. These are people who feel that Chavez has opened doors for them and is helping them to lift themselves up out of dependence and destitution.
These are not people who feel that they live in an oppressive dictatorship. Chavez, like any human being, is not perfect and there is a significant opposition and important questions left to be answered. However, much of the opposition is fueled by the United States.
Before the April 2002 coup that replaced the Chavez administration for two days, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and U.S.-AID gave large grants to the nongovernmental organization Sumate to develop its anti-Chavez platform. Resolution 328, currently in the House of Representatives, would continue this disrespectful and dangerous policy of funding anti-Chavez organizations. Many of the accusations in this bill are very misleading. In fact, the processes here have been very democratic. For example, the new constitution was drafted in 1999 by an elected constitutional assembly and then ratified with 72 percent support in a national referendum. Today, Chavez continues to have a high approval rating, much higher than our own president, and he was democratically elected not once but twice after the April referendum.
Coming from the United States, where our government regularly insults and threatens Venezuela's democracy, I have been met with open arms and an overwhelming obligation to report back to the people of my country. The truth is that there is no dictatorship here.
As one student, a young man who had graduated from Mission Ribas and spoke impeccable English, said, "We want to be big people too. Why not?" That is my question — why not? The United States of America was founded on the principles of democracy and freedom. Would it be so wrong to stop meddling in Venezuela so that it too can enjoy its free and democratic government?
Molly Sweetser graduated from the North Carolina School of Science and Math and has deferred admission to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She lives in Asheville.
Source: www.globalexchange.org/tours/news/3822.html
This page last updated September 28, 2008
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Real Transparency * Obama Ponzi
25 February 2009
“I am not asking for vengeance; only that the truth
should be made known so that nobody in the future
should have to endure what I have endured.”
-- Binyam Mohamed
23 February 2009
former Guantanamo detainee
1) September 11 Hero Vindicated - Seismic - Transparency - MD
- - William Rodriguez Vindicated
- - Seismic Recordings Confirm Rodriquez Testimony
- - September 11, 2009 - The Real Transparency Conference
- - Medical Professionals for 9/11 Truth
- - Hugo Chavez of Venezuela Blames Bush for 911
- - ‘I was victim of medieval torture,’ says freed Guantanamo detainee
- - 9/11: Truth or Consequences
2) Obama Banker's Ramp – Parker Palmer – Critical News
- - Catastrophic Banker's Ramp to Continue Under Obama
- - Parker Palmer Interview On Bill Moyers Journal
- - Critical Breaking Flyby News
"If you stand for peace, progress, and positive
change, pursuing the truth of 9/11 is essential."
-- Les Jamieson
NYC 9/11 Ballot Initiative
Editor’s Notes:
Newly released 9/11 Commission Notes confirm what we have known all along. William Rodriguez, (hero on 9/11/01) had his testimony excluded from the 9/11 Commission Report. Even though Rodriguez gave crucial testimony showing evidence that explosives were used in the World Trade Center before any plane struck. The timing of this was confirmed, too, by seismographic readings. If most people had a choice, they would want to empower an independent investigation with subpoena power to learn the truth about what happened. Everything is looking good for a November 3, 2009 YES referendum vote in NYC. The people, not the politicians, will empower and authorize such an investigation. This September 11, which falls on a Friday, will begin a REAL TRANSPARENCY CONFERENCE, facilitated by Sander Hicks. Top on the agenda is 9/11 truth; the forum will also cover Economic Democracy – Rule of Law. Sander is putting together a steering committee uniting peace and justice, truth that sets us free.
Financial Analyses - World Reports - Global Intelligence
15 February 2009
Catastrophic Banker's Ramp to Continue Under Obama
ROOT CAUSE OF THE GLOBAL CRISIS:
THE CIA FUNDS ITSELF BY FRAUD
CAMPAIGNS * ACTIONS * RESOURCES
For Independent Investigations
NYC 9/11 Ballot
I N I T I A T I V E
Petition for 2009 Referendum Vote
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CONSEQUENCES OF 9/11
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THE REAL TRANSPARENCY CONFERENCE
9/11/09 - 9/13/09 NYC - Sander Hicks blog
9/11 Truther and Sustainable Earth Retreat @
SolarFest
July 10 - July 12, 2009 - Tinmouth, VT
Valley 9/11 Truth
is presenting a film screening:
9/11: Blueprint for Truth
The Architecture of Destruction
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009; 7:00 PM
Media Education Foundation; Northampton, MA
Architectural Integrity vs. Official Lies
1) September 11 Hero Vindicated - Seismic - Transparency - MD
- - William Rodriguez Vindicated
- - Seismic Recordings Confirm Rodriquez Testimony
- - September 11, 2009 - The Real Transparency Conference
- - Medical Professionals for 9/11 Truth
- - ‘I was victim of medieval torture,’ says freed Guantanamo detainee
- - Hugo Chavez of Venezuela Blames Bush for 911
- - 9/11: Truth or Consequences
- - William Rodriguez Vindicated
by Newly Released 9/11 Commission Notes
For several years now, self-styled "debunkers" have been claiming that William Rodriguez has been lying about the testimony he gave to the 9/11 Commission in 2004.
[EXCERPT]
Not only have Mr. Rodriguez's basic claims remained unchanged, the cover-up continues; his actual testimony remains "restricted". One can only imagine why that would be. The wiser JREFers who have been holding their collective breath may now exhale, as Mr. Rodriguez has supplied us with copies of the 9/11 Commission Investigator notes in PDF form, which read in part;
"Rodriguez said on September 11, 2001 he reported late to work which was unusual for him. He said he was in the B1 sublevel ABM office speaking to Anthony Saltamachia when the plane struck the North Tower (WTC 1). He immediately thought the explosion was caused by a generator. Shortly after the first explosion a second explosion rocked the building and caused the office's false ceiling to collapse. Following these explosions Felipe David, who was severely burned, ran into the office. Rodriguez said there was a third explosion and he believed then the explosions were caused by an earthquake."
Clearly, Rodriguez was indeed talking about "explosions" from the very start.
Download investigator notes here:
(2/23/2009 - Clarification: these are two separate sets of notes by two separate investigators.)
PDF 1. and PDF 2.
For complete article – video – photos – comments, see: http://911blogger.com/node/19439
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- - Seismic Recordings Confirm Rodriquez Testimony
By Jonathan Mark
The newly released 9/11 Commission Notes also confirm the information used by Don Meserlian and citizens campaign for 9-11 Truth. View this Proclamation with “..seismographic evidence, 21 miles north of ground zero, and the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) stated time when the planes struck the twin towers (see table), prove that basement explosions occurred before the planes struck the towers," which concur with the testimony of 9/11 keymaster William Rodriguez. Besides, WTC Building 7 was not even struck by an airplane and came down at near free-fall speeds. Richard Gage, AIA, checked the stats used by Don Meserlian, who is a highly successful forensic engineer and independent research activist. Richard Gage and many other leaders in the Truth Movement have signed the Proclamation. For more on the Citizens Campaign, see: www.voicesofsafety.com/pogonews/911/yearoftruth/
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- - September 11, 2009 - The Real Transparency Conference
THE REAL TRANSPARENCY CONFERENCE
NYC September 11 – 13, 2009
By Sander Hicks
Obama has promised transparency. But to the people who have been laboring for eight years under the brutal conditions of Bush/Cheney, that means summoning a greater courage to tackle taboo topics:
9/11 Truth
Economic democracy
The real identity of the USA
Right now, I am putting together a steering committee, and am open to suggestions about membership on it.
Read more - THE REAL TRANSPARENCY CONFERENCE
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- - Medical Professionals for 9/11 Truth
Respected Medical Professionals Launch Petition
Demanding New Investigation into the Events of 9/11
February 24, 2009 - An alliance of doctors, dentists, nurses, therapists, researchers, and other medical professionals today announced the formation of Medical Professionals for 9/11 Truth and its petition calling for a new investigation into the events of 9/11.
Here's the press release: www.mp911truth.org/Announcement_2_24_2009.pdf
As medical professionals, we are dedicated to the service of humanity; to alleviating suffering, to improving health, and to preserving life. We are horrified by the terrorist acts of 9/11 and the senseless suffering and loss of life resulting from them.
The terrorist acts of 9/11 resulted in the immediate deaths of 3,000 emergency service workers and innocent citizens. The inhalation of toxic dust in the weeks following 9/11 will result in the premature deaths of additional thousands of rescue and construction workers and New York residents. The acts of 9/11 have been further used to justify the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, which have resulted in the deaths of thousands of military personnel and hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians.
As medical professionals, we are trained in science and logical reasoning. We are appalled by the lack of scientific rigor and the substantial omissions and blatant distortions in the official account of 9/11 as embodied in the 9/11 Commission Report and related government documents.
For more information, visit: MP911Truth.org
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- - ‘I was victim of medieval torture,’ says freed Guantanamo detainee
Return of British resident after seven years fuels
demands for Government to clarify role of MI5 agents
By Robert Verkaik, Law Editor
Published by the Independent UK, Tuesday, 24 February 2009
The seven-year ordeal of a British resident who claims he was brutally tortured before being sent to Guantanamo Bay was brought to an end last night during an emotional reunion with his family.
Binyam Mohamed’s sister, Zuhra Mohamed, said she was “overcome with joy” as she watched her brother shuffle down the steps of the RAF transport plane which had carried him from the notorious US detention camp in Cuba to Northolt airfield, west London.
She said: “When I saw him he looked like he is OK, but he will plainly not be the man I remember all those years ago.” Almost as soon as Mr Mohamed had taken his first steps on British soil, the former computer and engineering student made it clear that he had unfinished business with both the US and UK governments. In a carefully worded statement he said he intended to hold to account those he blamed for his alleged rendition, torture and unlawful imprisonment: “I am not asking for vengeance; only that the truth should be made known so that nobody in the future should have to endure what I have endured.”
Truncated, for the complete article and comments, see:
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/8216i-was-victim-of-medieval-torture8217-says-freed-guantanamo-detainee-1630317.html
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- - Hugo Chavez of Venezuela Blames Bush for 911
VIDEO – CNN report - www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13401534/
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- - 9/11: Truth or Consequences
By Les Jamieson
We've now had 10 weeks of “9/11: Truth or Consequences" on www.TheRealPublicRadio.net
Each show has been filled with information that warrants a new, authentic investigation of 9/11. We've also discussed many consequences, which have shaped our political, social, and economic reality. We have reviewed the volume of warnings and foreknowledge that far exceeds any excuse of "incompetence". We have studied the effort that went in to creating an investigation and the Bush administration's attempts at obstruction. We have studied denials by Osama Bin Laden of his involvement and FBI statements of lack of evidence, which have been obscured in the media. We have revealed how several foreign officials have voiced their doubts about the official account, invoking statements by the Project For A New American Century's agenda to establish global military dominance, which required a "catastrophic, catalyzing event like a New Pearl Harbor".
Highlighting the existence of hundreds of questions about the official explanation of 9/11 brings into focus a fundamental truth. The sheer number of detailed questions is a form of evidence that the government's account is simply not credible. Therefore, a real, independent investigation is a necessity. In upcoming shows we will go through at least 100 questions which present justifiable cause for suspicion and reason to distrust what we've been told.
Then we will move into a key area of study, the wide range of individual and group psychology which shapes our reaction to the attacks of 9/11 as well as the quest for truth, or in many cases, the desire to forget. We will look at why its so important to develop the necessary psychology that will lead us to truth and accountability. Our ability to reclaim control of our destiny depends on it.
Please tune in.
Time: Tuesday, 7pm EST
Site: www.therealpublicradio.net
See “Click to Listen” link on right
To communicate with the show, please send email to paradigmshift7@earthlink.net
Les Jamieson
www.nyc911initiative.org
2) Obama Banker's Ramp – Parker Palmer – Critical News
- - Catastrophic Banker's Ramp to Continue Under Obama
- - Parker Palmer Interview On Bill Moyers Journal
- - Critical Breaking Flyby News
- - Catastrophic Banker's Ramp to Continue Under Obama
SMALL PROBLEM: The MARKET and the WORLD Aren’t BUYING IT
Sunday 15 February 2009 04:00 – WORLD REPORTS ARCHIVE
See new update for 23rd February: 'EU ELITE FEASTS WHILE THE WORLD CRUMBLES' below...
See new update for 20th February: 'STANFORD TOOK OVER FROM NORIEGA', below this update...
What they thought they could get away with is a giga-TARP operation, involving circular financing which only delivers vast mountains of new garbage Treasury debt in the background: and we are talking about TRILLIONS here. We therefore CONFIRM that the disastrous course adopted by the financial sorcerers surrounding President Obama WILL lead this Adminstration, the US dollar and the US and world financial economies into a BRICK WALL, and that the deterioration of which the above-mentioned price is a potent symptom will be RAPID, taking the whole world by surprise.
When this materialises, kindly remember the following, would you? The catastrophe is specifically and EXCLUSIVELY a consequence of the determination of these Fraudulent Finance specialists to CONTINUE with their exotic, illicit financial Ponzi operations, LONG AFTER THE REST OF THE WORLD HAS SEEN RIGHT THROUGH THEIR DUPLICITY. So, fasten your seatbelts: these US idiots made their choice, hoping to cover up their complicity in the Banker's Ramp. Now they will finally discover that by wilfully refusing to 'go straight' with on-the-books financing as agreed ages ago by the Group of Seven, they will reap the whirlwind. And so, unfortunately, will the Rest of Us.
For complete article and updates, see:
http://worldreports.org/news/195_catastrophic_bankers_ramp_to_continue_under_obama
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- - Parker Palmer Interview On Bill Moyers Journal
February 20, 2009 –
The collapse of the U.S. housing market at the heart of the recent financial crisis is also, according to Parker Palmer, the collapse of a series of long-held illusions in American society: that housing prices will always rise, that Americans can live beyond their means forever, and that the growing gap between rich and poor doesn't matter.
Everyone realized the system was unsustainable, Palmer, a writer, traveling teacher and activist, told Bill Moyers on the JOURNAL, but, "We don't want to know what we really know, because if we did, we'd have to change our lives."
Palmer draws on his own experience with clinical depression for his analyis. Parker believes depression, for a society and for an individual, presents an opportunity to find a workable reality:
I got tremendous help from a therapist at one point in one of my depressions who said to me, "Parker, you seem to keep treating this experience as if depression were the hand of an enemy trying to crush you. Would it be possible to re-image depression as the hand of a friend trying to press you down to ground on which it's safe to stand?" Well, those words didn't mean much to me immediately because when you're there, you can't hear that kind of counsel. But they grew on me, those words did.
Palmer believes that for the United States, as himself, illusions lead to dark moments, and Americans must take this moment to ground themselves: "Reality won't let you down. It is what it is. And we have to learn to deal with it. So I think there are dramatic parallels. And I would say to us collectively to the extent that I have any right to do that what my therapist said to me."
Parker Palmer
Parker J. Palmer is founder and senior partner of the national Center for Courage & Renewal , which oversees "Courage to Teach" and "Courage to Lead" programs for people in the serving professions, including education, medicine, ministry, law and philanthropy. For fifteen years, he served as Senior Associate of the American Association of Higher Education. He now serves as Senior Advisor to the Fetzer Institute.
More - www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/02202009/profile2.html
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CRITICAL BREAKING NEWS
Financial Analyses - World Reports - Global Intelligence
15 February 2009
Catastrophic Banker's Ramp to Continue Under Obama
ROOT CAUSE OF THE GLOBAL CRISIS:
THE CIA FUNDS ITSELF BY FRAUD
Senior US soldiers investigated over
missing Iraq reconstruction billions
William Rodriguez vindicated
by Newly Released 9/11 Commission Notes
Beverly Eckert among Flight 3407 victims
9/11
"MY SILENCE CANNOT BE BOUGHT"
18 February 2009
"Advocate for Peace and 9/11 Victims"
AP Story - Study: 9/11 lung
problems persist years later
Study shows Ground Zero link to lung ailments
Truth & Deception:
An Interview with Kevin Ryan on 9/11
Boat carrying Cynthia McKinney to Gaza attacked!
CNN: Israeli Navy Attacking Civilian Mercy Ship!
Cynthia McKinney talks about voyage to Palestine,
Israeli aggression in Gaza, and boat getting rammed!
Secret Government 9/11 Valley Advocate
‘I was victim of medieval torture,’
says freed Guantanamo detainee
Suspend Military Aid to Israel, Amnesty Urges Obama
Senator Leahy discusses Bush Truth Commission
Sign Petition urging Congress to investigate
the Bush-Cheney Administration's abuses.
Bill Moyers Journal:
Is Military Strategy Best Option in Afghanistan?
Nafeez Ahmed - Obama: Regime Rotation
The Old American Dream-hope Obama
New York Times: The Political Suspicions of 9/11
Research - Non-Pilot Control Capabilities of 9/11 Planes
Career Army Specialist sues Rumsfeld, Cheney,
saying no evacuation order given on 9/11
Russia will abandon missile plans if US cancels shield
FN recommends these links for late breaking news:
Citizens for a Legitimate Government
and
911blogger.com
Bush and 9/11 Investigative Reports,
looking into the unanswered questions.
Mounting Evidence of Extreme Global Warming
Stirling Solution ~ Waste to Power Production
Campaigns for reclaiming lost USA Republic
Middle East Peace ~ initiatives & information
Credible Witness UFO/ET Testimony
Exclusive Reports on Bart Jordan,
advanced ancient civilizations.
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Terror War Hoax * Grand Pre * Freedom
06 February 2009
”When faced with a choice between confronting an unpleasant reality
and defending a set of comforting and socially accepted beliefs,
most people choose the later course.”
-- W. Lance Bennett
1) War for Terror – September 11 Legacy – Donn De Grand Pre
- - The War on Terror is a Hoax
- - The True September 11 Legacy of George W. Bush
- - DONN DE GRAND PRE, REQUIESCAT IN PACE!
2) My Life Is My Sun Dance ~ more than just a play
- - The Play's the Thing to FREE PELTIER!
- - Jehan Abdur-Raheem on the Assault of Leonard Peltier
3) Sign-on letter to stop $50B in nuclear pork
4) Critical Breaking News – Campaigns Actions Resources
Editor’s Notes:
Flyby News is being updated almost daily under “critical breaking news” (below “Recent Issues). I recommend at some time reading everything on our main page. There are some issues that take longer to come about, but worthy of your time to consider. Item 3 have everything to do with ending the nuclear nightmare, and reversing deterrent-proliferation policies to another direction for abolishing all WMD. Stopping the breeder for toxic waste and yesterday’s weapons is imperative for a less messy future, and brighter energy-future today! Item 2 goes to the heart of a Sun Dance and the fateful story of Leonard Peltier and US injustice. Jehan Abdur-Raheem weighs in, too, with an inside view of what happens in prisons. Yet, now, with a new administration in D.C., there’s an opportunity. There are plenty of great campaigns to support. Please consider helping any way you can. The idea of making a play from Leonard Peltier’s words, “My Life Is My Sun Dance” sounds special. Leonard was arrested February 6, 1976. President Obama, please stand up for this Native American human rights defender.
The first item ends with an obituary, Donn Rodney GrandPre', known to many as Colonel Donn de Grand Pre, USA (retired). This patriot passed away at his residence in Reva, Virginia, on Saturday, 24 January 2009. He served his country in the U. S. Army and, after retiring from the Defense Department, was active in real estate and authored seven books. “The first important steps in the quest for 9/11 truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, were taken by Donn de Grand Pre within days of the 9/11 attacks, when he convened a joint meeting of military, commercial and private aviators and other aviation professionals to analyze the alleged flights of 9/11. Their conclusions were unanimous: these flight paths, particularly those of the jets that hit WTC2 and the Pentagon, could not have been made by flight students on their maiden voyages in big jets, or even by seasoned pilots, but rather, only by remote control of the aerial vehicles.” And still going backwards, the first two articles include Ron Schalow’s real Bush 9/11 legacy, based on facts, not fiction. And after the last eight years, the top article should not be too great of a stretch, “the war on terror is a hoax.”
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1) War for Terror – September 11 Legacy – Donn De Grand Pre
- - The War on Terror is a Hoax
- - The True September 11 Legacy of George W. Bush
- - DONN DE GRAND PRE, REQUIESCAT IN PACE!
- - The War on Terror is a Hoax
By Paul Craig Roberts
February 04, 2009 Information Clearinghouse" -- - According to US government propaganda, terrorist cells are spread throughout America, making it necessary for the government to spy on all Americans and violate most other constitutional protections. Among President Bush’s last words as he left office was the warning that America would soon be struck again by Muslim terrorists.
If America were infected with terrorists, we would not need the government to tell us. We would know it from events. As there are no events, the US government substitutes warnings in order to keep alive the fear that causes the public to accept pointless wars, the infringement of civil liberty, national ID cards, and inconveniences and harassments when they fly.
The most obvious indication that there are no terrorist cells is that not a single neocon has been assassinated.
I do not approve of assassinations, and am ashamed of my country’s government for engaging in political assassination. The US and Israel have set a very bad example for al Qaeda to follow.
The US deals with al Qaeda and Taliban by assassinating their leaders, and Israel deals with Hamas by assassinating its leaders. It is reasonable to assume that al Qaeda would deal with the instigators and leaders of America’s wars in the Middle East in the same way.
Today every al Qaeda member is aware of the complicity of neoconservatives in the death and devastation inflicted on Muslims in Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon and Gaza. Moreover, neocons are highly visible and are soft targets compared to Hamas and Hezbollah leaders. Neocons have been identified in the media for years, and as everyone knows, multiple listings of their names are available online.
Neocons do not have Secret Service protection. Dreadful to contemplate, but it would be child’s play for al Qaeda to assassinate any and every neocon. Yet, neocons move around freely, a good indication that the US does not have a terrorist problem.
If, as neocons constantly allege, terrorists can smuggle nuclear weapons or dirty bombs into the US with which to wreak havoc upon our cities, terrorists can acquire weapons with which to assassinate any neocon or former government official.
Yet, the neocons, who are the Americans most hated by Muslims, remain unscathed.
The “war on terror” is a hoax that fronts for American control of oil pipelines, the profits of the military-security complex, the assault on civil liberty by fomenters of a police state, and Israel’s territorial expansion.
There were no al Qaeda in Iraq until the Americans brought them there by invading and overthrowing Saddam Hussein, who kept al Qaeda out of Iraq.
Truncated, for the complete article, see:
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21906.htm
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- - The True September 11 Legacy of George W. Bush
By Ron Schalow
[EXCERPT]
What Did the President Do on 9/11? Why Wonder?
Even though his term has mercifully ended, George W. Bush and his gang continue to spread the bull as part of his "Legacy Project." They are determined to rewrite history, but the facts don't make for much of a legacy, so all they can do is spin events, lie, and hope that people will forget the details over time. Learn the truth, and spread the truth, and don't allow the history of the Bush presidency to become one of false fables.
Others have chronicled the dozens or hundreds of other Bush failures, but this book tells the story of Bush on 9/11. If you still think the 7 minutes of wasted time in the classroom about covers it; you're way off.
After extensive research, Bullshit Artist was published in 2006. It is not a conspiracy theory book. It is the history of George Bush on 9/11, as told by Bush, his staff, and literary toadies. Read the story and draw your own conclusions.
All Chapters are Available in the Left Menu FREE of CHARGE
Quote Citations & Sources are Numbered in the Print Version
"Bullshit Artist" is the True Story of Spleen Clutching Incompetence, Forehead Slapping Stupidity and Ear Sweating Cowardice. Tough on terrorism? Strong on defense? Leadership? Not quite. Compared to George W. Bush's gutless and incompetent performance on 9/11, Brownie looks like General Patton. The President pulled a FEMA for 102 minutes while al Qaeda struck with impunity.
In the interest of Truthful and Accurate History; the 2006 book that accounts for all of George W. Bush’s mindless exploits on September 11, is now posted online for free reading.
www.bushseptember11legacy.com/
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- - DONN DE GRAND PRE, REQUIESCAT IN PACE!
By Stephen M. St. John
Donn Rodney GrandPre', known to many APFN readers as Colonel Donn de Grand Pre, USA (retired), passed away at his residence in Reva, Virginia, on Saturday, 24 January 2009. Mr. De Grand Pre was born in Overly, North Dakota to Leo GrandPre' and Mae Arnesson GrandPre' on 20 February 1926. He served his country in the U. S. Army and, after retiring from the Defense Department, was active in real estate and authored seven books.
The first important steps in the quest for 9/11 truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, were taken by Donn de Grand Pre within days of the 9/11 attacks, when he convened a joint meeting of military, commercial and private aviators and other aviation professionals to analyze the alleged flights of 9/11. Their conclusions were unanimous: these flight paths, particularly those of the jets that hit WTC2 and the Pentagon, could not have been made by flight students on their maiden voyages in big jets, or even by seasoned pilots, but rather, only by remote control of the aerial vehicles.
Somehow, Philip Zelikow and the rest of the 9/11 Commission members and staff steered around this professional assessment offered by de Grand Pre. The Joint Chiefs of Staff were all apprised, but said nothing. Hopefully future investigations will sort this out.
Donn de Grand Pre knew many of the Happy Hooligans of the North Dakota Air National Guard that flew out of Langley Air Force Base in Virginia on 9/11. He knowingly pointed to an awards ceremony held for members of this 9/11 NORAD component by the Governor of North Dakota a year after 9/11. Citizens are not subject to the military. Somehow Judith Miller of the New York Times missed this story. No doubt she was chasing Curveball at the time!
An interesting interview that Donn de Grand Pre did with Alex Jones can be heard and read by clicking this link: www.show-the-house.com/id70.html.
Surviving this warrior with a heart and watchful citizen with a conscience is his wife, Ursella GrandPre' and his children Bruce de GrandPre' and his wife Karen of Oakton, VA, Kevin GrandPre' and his wife Katherine of Reva, VA, Doneva Wolf of Reva, VA, Colin GrandPre' of Vienna, VA, Annette Renee GrandPre' of Long Beach, CA, James Paul GrandPre' of Reva, VA and eight grandchildren and seven great grandchildren; also his siblings, Jeanne Weaver of Fargo, ND and James GrandPre' and his wife Marilyn of Denton, TX.
Funeral services were held in Our Lady of the Blue Ridge Catholic Church, Thursday, 29 January 2009 and interment was in the Culpeper National Cemetery, Chandler Street, Culpeper, VA. The American Legion Post 330 and V.F.W. Post 2524 Honor Guards provided military honors.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Madison County Rescue Squad, P. O. Box 868, Madison, VA 22727 or to the 82nd Airborne Division Association Education Fund, P. O. Box 9308, Fayetteville, NC 28311.
Stephen M. St. John
For FN’s resources, see:
The Bush Conspiracy and 9/11 Investigative Reports,
looking into the unanswered questions.
2) My Life Is My Sun Dance ~ more than just a play
- - The Play's the Thing to FREE PELTIER!
- - Jehan Abdur-Raheem on the Assault of Leonard Peltier
- - The Play's the Thing to FREE PELTIER!
Friends--Leonard Peltier's stage play MY LIFE IS MY SUN DANCE is a soul-transforming theatrical experience --a mesmerizing living expression of his own words, his own pain, his own dreams--as well as the suffering and dreams of his People.
As co-playwright with Leonard, I have given outright my entire co-playwright's share, plus quite a few personal thousands, to In Peace Productions, created by Keith Rabin specifically to make a reality of Leonard's play.
Please reach into your heart and your soul and your pocketbook to help us stage this play and bring Leonard's continuing CRUCIFIXION--33 years on the Cross of American Injustice--to center-stage of AMERICA'S CONSCIENCE. It's time we took Leonard down from his Cross.
We seek patrons, donors, sponsors, theater folk & plain old long-suffering Peltier supporters bless'm)--to assist Keith Rabin and me in bringing this amazing production on tour to cities and rez communities around the nation
and abroad this spring '09 & onwards.
Leonard is now 64. He's been in prison since he was 31.
I ask EACH of you personally to step forward NOW-- and assist us with ideas, theater info, purchases of CDs, books or Peltier support Items all available at mylifeismysundance.com
And--yes, please--reach into your heart and make a modest donation to In Peace Productions right on the website. Keith Rabin has already gone deeply into debt to create a professional production company touring the U.S., Canada and overseas in 2009-2010.
ALSO AVAILABLE for PRE-ORDER at $25 a pair--
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For more information, visit: www.mylifeismysundance.com/
Or contact Keith{at)mylifeismysundance[dot}com
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UPDATED: Leonard Peltier brutalized
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- - Jehan Abdur-Raheem on the Assault of Leonard Peltier
[EXCERPT] – January 31, 2009 letter to Jonathan Mark
..What surprises me about the attack on Leonard Peltier is that it didn’t happen sooner. In spite of all the TRUTHS that are openly discussed and displayed about the prison system, the American public still seemingly cannot conceive of such plots orchestrated by prison staff, law enforcement officials, and even politicians. They will embrace the reality of gang-bangers executing contracts on one another for drug deals gone bad or the sexual favors of some young boy, but when the shadow element of our government initiates the same violence, our citizens go into a state of denial.
I’ve seen guards pit one prisoner against another, arm them, and then bet on the outcome. I’ve seen prisoners set-up with drugs and weapons; seen them beaten and then criminally charged with assaulting the guards who beat them. False reports can result in long years in solitary, and the most common tool for abuse now is paying another convict with favors to file a Confidential Report against a convict that prison officials fear or dislike.
Just recently several Riker Island guards were arrested for setting gangs of youthful prisoners on weaker arrestees. In this case a 17 year old male was beaten to death in an attack initiated and sanctioned by the guards. This is quite common, so why is it so hard to accept that the same thing happened to Leonard Peltier?
We Americans talk often about human rights violations in other countries, but we seldom use the words, “Cruel and Unusual Punishment” when we look in our own backyard. We knew about Abu Ghraib in Iraq and how most of the American Military assigned there worked as prison guards in America. We look at the torture in Guantanamo Bay and justify it in our minds by calling those who are abused, TERRORISTS, although most have not been convicted and many never even formally charged. We want to be the world’s moral vanguard, but how can that happen when we allow good men like Leonard Peltier be victimized by our own government?
Obama is a different man – Anyone who sees him and listens to him cannot help but to be impressed by the level of sincerity he projects. Now is a perfect time to re-start the effort to have Leonard Peltier pardoned or his sentence commuted.. After 33 years in prison I know the type of nefarious activities that truly govern these places. . . The thing is that when our own legal institutions, law enforcement, agents, courts, and politicians become the crooks and abusers themselves, what have we become as a society? Freidrich Nietzsche once wrote that “in fighting monsters we must be careful not to become monsters ourselves..” I fear the worst has happened already.
Jehan Abdur-Rahem - 77A1180
Eastern, Correctional Facility;
P.O. Box 338; Napanoch, NY 12458-0338
For more on this topic, visit:
A Nation Behind Bars:
the buried talents of a population
3) Sign-on letter to stop $50B in nuclear pork
LET'S STOP THE NUCLEAR PORK IN THE STIMULUS PACKAGE!
From: Nuclear Information and Resource Service
January 30, 2009
Dear Friend,
As you probably know by now, the economic stimulus package approved by the Senate Appropriations Committee includes up to $50 Billion in new taxpayer loan guarantees that can be used for construction of new nuclear reactors and "clean coal" plants (an oxymoron if there ever was one...). We need to tell the Senate that we're not willing to risk our money on nuclear power, that we don't want more radioactive waste in our communities, and that we do want Congress to support safer, cleaner and cheaper energy resources like solar, wind and energy efficiency.
WITH YOUR HELP, WE CAN WIN THIS BATTLE!
Please e-mail your Senators by clicking here!. Ask your friends and colleagues to send a letter as well. And please follow up your e-mails with phone calls to your Senators at 202-224-3121.
Everyone: Please forward this e-mail widely--send to all your lists and contacts. We've already generated more than 2200 letters to the Senate in the past 24 hours! Let's keep it up!
We will keep you informed about what happens with this issue and any further actions you can take.
Thanks for all you do,
Michael Mariotte
Executive Director
Nuclear Information and Resource Service Email – nirsnet(at}nirs{dot]org
CRITICAL BREAKING NEWS
AP Story - Study: 9/11 lung
problems persist years later
The US has threatened to withhold intelligence
from Britain if evidence of the alleged torture
of a British resident held at Guantanamo Bay
is made public.
Let banks fail, says Nobel economist Joseph Stiglitz
Financial Analyses - World Reports - Global Intelligence
25 January 2009
OBAMA Being Used As A False Front By The Crooks
Bill Moyers Journal:
Is a Military Strategy the Best Option in Afghanistan?
New York Times: The Political Suspicions of 9/11
Rescue Me Works 9/11 Conspiracy Theories Into Its Plot
Video: Jimmy Carter Supports New 9/11 Investigation
Leonard Peltier's safety is in jeopardy!
House Judiciary chairman subpoenas Karl Rove
The Old American Dream-hope Obama
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UPDATED - Leonard Peltier brutalized
21 January 2009 & Updated 26, 28, and 31, January 2009.
Notes: Following is an extremely urgent letter from Leonard Peltier's sister.
This campaign goes to the heart of justice or betrayal.
Please take action and tell Obama this is his chance
to right a tragic wrong for over the last three decades.
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Update 30 January 2009 - Due to worldwide support, Leonard
has been transferred back to Lewisburg. But this does not
release him from harm or injustice. TAKE ACTION!
URGENT ALERT! Leonard Peltiers safety is in jeopardy!
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:20:21 -0800 (PST)
From: contact@whoisleonardpeltier.info
Dear LP Supporters
I am so OUTRAGED! My brother Leonard was severely beaten upon his arrival at the Canaan Federal Penitentiary. When he went into population after his transfer, some inmates assaulted him. The severity of his injuries is that he suffered numerous blows to his head and body, receiving a large bump on his head, possibly a concussion, and numerous bruises. Also, one of his fingers is swollen and discolored and he has pain in his chest and ribcage. There was blood everywhere from his injuries.
We feel that prison authorities at the prompting of the FBI orchestrated this attack and thus, we are greatly concerned about his safety. It may be that the attackers, whom Leonard did not even know, were offered reduced sentences for carrying out this heinous assault. Since Leonard is up for parole soon, this could be a conspiracy to discredit a model prisoner.
He was placed in solitary confinement and only given one meal, this is generally done when you won't name your attackers; incidentally being only given one meal seriously jeopardizes his health because of his diabetes. Prison officials refuse to release any info to the family, but they need to hear from his supporters to protect his safety, as does President Obama. His attorneys are trying to get calls into him now.
This attack on LP comes on the heels of the FBI's recent letter, prompting this attack by FBI supporters as an attempt to discredit LP as a model prisoner. Anyone who has been in the prison system knows well that if you refuse to name your attackers or file charges against them, then you lose your status as a victim and/or given points against your possible parole and labeled as a perpetrator.
It is not uncommon, in fact is quite common for the government to use Indian against Indian and they still operate under the old adage "it takes an Indian to catch an Indian". In 1978, they made an attempt to assassinate him through another Indian man who was also at Marion prison with LP. But Standing Deer chose to reveal the plot to him instead of taking his life in exchange FOR A CHANCE AT FREEDOM. When Standing Deer was released in 2001, he joined the former Leonard Peltier Defense Committee as a board member. He also began to speak on Leonard's behalf until his murder six years ago today. Prior to his murder, Standing Deer confided with close friends and associates that the same man who visited him in Marion to assassinate Peltier, had came to Houston, TX and told him that he had better stay away from Peltier and anything to do with him.
We are aware that currently, the FBI is actively seeking support for his continued imprisonment of Leonard Peltier and also also seeking support from Native People. So please be aware, and keep Leonard in your prayers. The FBI is apparently afraid of the impact we are having. If they will set him up to blemish his record just before a parole hearing, what will they do when it looks like his freedom will become a reality? We need to make sure that nothing happens to him again!
Please write the President, send it priority or registered mail. Call your congressional representatives and write letters. Do what you can to get the word out to insure that LP is receiving adequate medical attention for his injuries.
I am asking you, supporters of Leonard and advocates of justice at this time to help. I don't know what else to do. Please Help!
Thank you
Betty Peltier-Solano
Executive Coordinator
Leonard Peltier Defense Offense Committee
Leonard Peltier
#89637-132
USP-Lewisburg
US Penitentiary
PO Box 1000
Lewisburg, PA 17837
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UPDATE -Family members received a phone call from Leonard on January 22. He was jumped by young gang members. He's been put in solitary, he says, and won't be released again into the general population. He was told by the FBI that he was the victim in the attack, the proof of this being a videotape. Assured that he'd enjoy all his privileges upon his transfer to USP-Canaan, he's now been told he'll be allowed only one phone call a month. Two attorneys attempted to get inside the prison to meet with Leonard, but their requests for legal visits were denied. Peltier is clearly being isolated from friends and family and even his attorneys.
Sheila Dugan, Esq., an attorney residing in Pennsylvania and working with Peltier attorney Michael Kuzma was able to visit Leonard on January 24 for four hours. She saw his bruises. Leonard's chest still hurts. Leonard was not taken to a hospital to be examined. He was beaten up by two other inmates.
Leonard is in solitary confinement and is allowed only one call a month! As crazy as it sounds, he doesn't have a comb so he can't comb his hair. Also, this was a non-contact visit. There was a glass barrier separating Leonard and Ms. Dugan. She had to talk to him via phone for the entire four hours. The below letter to the Bureau of Prisons was written on January 24 by Michael Kuzma. Please consider writing letters of concern to the BOP as well!
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Federal Express #8628 9879 0796
January 24, 2009
Mr. Harley G. Lappin, Director
Bureau of Prisons
320 First Street, N. W.
Washington, D. C. 20534
Re: Leonard Peltier, #89637-132
Dear Director Lappin:
I represent Mr. Leonard Peltier, #89637-132, who is currently incarcerated at USP Canaan.
Mr. Peltier was recently transferred to USP Canaan from USP Lewisburg. It is my understanding that Mr. Peltier was brutally attacked on or about January 13, 2009. Mr. Peltier suffered a possible concussion, the middle finger on his left hand may be broken or is badly injured, he has a large bump near his right wrist, the right side of his rib cage and chest are in a pain, the right side of his chest is bruised as is his left knee, and he is now having headaches, which Mr. Peltier believes are a direct result of the January 13, 2009 beating.
It is clear that Mr. Peltier is in grave danger at USP Canaan. By letters dated November 29, 2008 and December 15, 2008, I requested that Mr. Peltier be transferred to the Turtle Mountain reservation or, in the alternative, he be sent to Sandstone FCI or Oxford FCI. As I noted in my letter of December 15, 2008, on August 20, 2008 Mr. Peltier sought to be transferred to Sandstone FCI or Oxford FCI. A copy of the "Inmate Request to Staff" form dated August 20, 2008 that Mr. Peltier submitted to Case Manager Rothermel is once again enclosed for your information.
Please advise me of what steps, if any, you have taken to ensure Mr. Peltier's safety. More specifically, I would like to know what you have done to make sure that he is not attacked again in the future. Also, has Mr. Peltier received appropriate medical treatment for his injuries? If not, it is imperative that he sees health care professionals without any further delay so that his injuries may be properly treated.
I look forward to hearing from you shortly.
Thank you.
Yours truly,
Michael Kuzma, Esq.
Enclosures
cc: Mr. Henry J. Sadowski, Regional Counsel
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UPDATE
Peltier attorney Micheal Kuzma described Leonard's injuries during an interview on American Indian Airwaves. According to a letter received from Peltier (thus far, neither the attorneys or Leonard's family members have been able to speak directly with Leonard), the attack occurred on January 13. Leonard believes he may have a concussion and he's suffering from headaches that are a direct result of the beating. His middle finger on his left hand may be broken. He has a large bump near his right wrist. He is experiencing pain in the area of his right rib cage and chest (which is bruised). Listen to the interview (last 20 minutes of the program):
http://64.27.15.184/parchive/mp3/kpfk_090121_150223americanindian.mp3
Please continue your contacts to demand that the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) ensure the safety of Leonard Peltier. In all your contacts with entities within the BOP, please make certain to reference Leonard's ID number: Leonard Peltier #89637-132. Let the BOP know we will hold them accountable for Leonard's wellbeing.
Sworn to uphold the U.S. Constitution, Obama has a responsibility to investigate the treatment of Leonard Peltier #89637-132 and to provide relief. Contact President Obama:
The Honorable Barack H. Obama
President, United States of America
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
Comments: 202-456-1111
Fax: 202-456-2461
E-mail: www.whitehouse.gov/contact/
Also write to your senators and your representative in Congress. See www.congress.org to identify and locate your Members of Congress. You can also write to the print and electronic media. Find you local media outlets at www.newslink.org. Letters to editors also can be made easy through free online services such as PublishaLetter.com. In a few clicks your letter will be on its way to the editor of your choice: www.publishaletter.com Also, write to the following organizations. Ask for their continuing advocacy on Leonard's behalf:
The Honorable Larry Cox
Executive Director, Amnesty International-USA
5 Penn Plaza - 14th Floor; New York, NY 10001
The Honorable Kenneth Roth
Executive Director, Human Rights Watch
350 Fifth Avenue 34th Floor; New York, NY 10118
Leonard Peltier Defense Offense Committee
Contact: Kari Ann Cowan
PO Box 7488; Fargo, ND 58106
Phone: 701-235-2206
www.whoisleonardpeltier.info
PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 27th, 2009, Fargo ND
Native Americans and supporters
outraged at FBI and George W. Bush
The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) recently influenced the federal prison system to transfer elder Native American, Leonard Peltier, to a facility for young gang members whereupon his arrival he was immediately attacked and severely beaten. He was thrown into solitary confinement and denied proper medical care and food. The FBI has put out a letter encouraging others to indulge in whatever activities they can to block a possible pardon by President Obama for Leonard Peltier.
The latest ploy of that faction of government has been to enlist the help of George W. Bush by getting him to sign a clemency denial that could possibly stave off Peltier's release. This action is an extreme outrage to all the people who believe in freedom and justice for ALL. It is an outrage to all the people who are aware of the true facts of Leonard Peltier's innocence. The George W. Bush Administration and its followers obviously are trying to set a stage for anything that could possibly expand into some kind of incident that would mar President Obama, President Obama's Administration and the Democratic Party.
This incident, attacking a 64 year old Native American is unjustified and immoral. People consider Leonard Peltier an extension of themselves and his plight if allowed to continue jeopardizes the freedom of all men. If his case is allowed to stand as it has for 33 years, then no one is guaranteed a fair trial. Some might have a dream we have a reality. We sincerely ask President Obama to intercede in hopes that this nightmare for American Indian people will end.
For more information contact David Hill, National Coordinator
of the Leonard Peltier Defense Offense Committee, (218) 790-6035.
"Never cease in the fight for peace, justice, and equality
for all people. Be persistent in all that you do and
don't allow anyone to sway you from your conscience."
- Leonard Peltier
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Israel Illuminati GAZA Death-Suffering Toll
01 January 2009
“Shema Yisrael, Adonai Elohenu, Adonai Echad!”
1) Disproportionate Slaughter In Gaza Meant for Bigger War
- - We have no words left
- - "I Heard the Missile Coming"
- - Mass Grave
- - Bolton: Gaza raids precursor to Iran war
- - Boat carrying Cynthia McKinney to Gaza attacked!
- - Starhawk personal commentary on Gaza
- - Demonstrations to stop the massacre of Palestinians
2) Nanothermites 101 Kevin Ryan – PSYOPS – Did Bush Kill Kennedy?
- - Nanothermites and WTC dust – By Kevin Ryan
- - PSYOPS - Psychological Operations Described in Washington Post
- - Did Bush Sr. Kill Kennedy and Frame Nixon?
Time endorphins twist magic into a sickening fate.
The eye is blind, the tooth full of blood
where it should not be -
I am fixed into an empty seclusion,
where I don’t know how this ends.
But much of the process sucks;
Goddess earth is being destroyed,
children, women, men, blown into bits,
ignorance festers hatred,
and fear seems to be in/out of control,
but only until it is too late,
which may have already happened.
Editor’s Notes:
The top quote is from a Hebrew prayer, “Hear O Israel: the Lord is our God, the Lord is One!" And with only one Creator, who else could be the father of all creation, while the dark forces spin indefensible slaughter of innocence, molding the oppressed into an oppressor. Palestinians are at a loss to describe this latest catastrophe. Thus, this new year and FN issue begins. It appears that the same group that produced a pre-emptive war on a tortured-sanctioned Iraq, following September 11, is up to no good again. The Neocon-illuminati, John Bolton, is advising that this should lead into an attack on Iran. Bolton was chosen by George Bush, Jr. to represent the United States at the UN. If the tragedy didn’t hurt so much, it could be funny.
And while PSYPOS confuse and disturb, and empower those who want to push the envelope for greater violence, Kevin Ryan, a patriotic engineer analyzes WTC dust and nanothermite. Meanwhile, of all people, David Swanson, who typically shrinks from the subject of 9/11, writes a powerful review-article on Russ Baker's new book, The Bush Family of Secrets. Swanson praises its remarkably new and extensive documentation. “According to this account, George H. W. Bush, the father of the current president, devoted his career to secret intelligence work with the CIA many years before he became the CIA director, and the network of spies and petroleum plutocrats he began working with early on has played a powerful but hidden role in determining the direction of the U.S. government up to the current day.” So, while we were expecting a big event, while holding our breath until January 20th, this Gaza carnage makes it clear that the evil-doers are still busy at work.
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"We must all learn to live together
as brothers or we will all perish together as fools.
We are tied together in the single garment of destiny,
caught in an inescapable network of mutuality. And
whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. "
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Speech in Memphis, April 3, 1968,
on the day before he was assassinated.
1) Disproportionate Slaughter In Gaza Meant for Bigger War
- - We have no words left
- - "I Heard the Missile Coming"
- - Mass Grave
- - Bolton: Gaza raids precursor to Iran war
- - Boat carrying Cynthia McKinney to Gaza attacked!
- - Starhawk personal commentary on Gaza
- - Demonstrations taking place to stop the massacre of Palestinians
- - We have no words left
Ali Abunimah
The Guardian, UK
Monday 29 December 2008
"I will play music and celebrate what the Israeli air force is doing."
Those chilling words were spoken on al-Jazeera on Saturday by Ofer Shmerling, an Israeli civil defence official in the Sderot area adjacent to the Gaza Strip. For days Israeli planes have bombed Gaza.
Almost 300 Palestinians have been killed and a thousand injured, the majority civilians, including women and children. Israel claims most of the dead were Hamas "terrorists". In fact, the targets were police stations in dense residential areas, and the dead included many police officers and other civilians. Under international law, police officers are civilians, and targeting them is no less a war crime than aiming at other civilians.
Palestinians are at a loss to describe this new catastrophe. Is it our 9/11, or is it a taste of the "bigger shoah" Matan Vilnai, the deputy defence minister, threatened in February, after the last round of mass killings?
Israel says it is acting in "retaliation" for rockets fired with increasing intensity ever since a six-month truce expired on 19 December. But the bombs dropped on Gaza are only a variation in Israel's method of killing Palestinians. In recent months they died mostly silent deaths, the elderly and sick especially, deprived of food, cancer treatments and other medicines by an Israeli blockade that targeted 1.5 million people - mostly refugees and children - caged into the Gaza Strip. The orders of Ehud Barak, the Israeli defence minister, to hold back medicine were just as lethal and illegal as those to send in the warplanes.
Ehud Olmert, Israel's prime minister, pleaded that Israel wanted "quiet" - a continuation of the truce - while Hamas chose "terror", forcing him to act. But what is Israel's idea of a truce? It is very simple: Palestinians have the right to remain silent while Israel starves them, kills them and continues to violently colonise their land.
As John Ging, the head of operations for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, said in November: "The people of Gaza did not benefit; they did not have any restoration of a dignified existence ... at the UN, our supplies were also restricted during the period of the ceasefire, to the point where we were left in a very vulnerable and precarious position and with a few days of closure we ran out of food."
That is an Israeli truce. Any act of resistance including the peaceful protests against the apartheid wall in the West Bank is always met by Israeli bullets and bombs. There are no rockets launched at Israel from the West Bank, and yet Israel's extrajudicial killings, land theft, settler pogroms and kidnappings never stopped for a day during the truce. The western-backed Palestinian Authority of Mahmoud Abbas has acceded to all Israel's demands. Under the proud eye of United States military advisors, Abbas has assembled "security forces" to fight the resistance on Israel's behalf. None of that has spared a single Palestinian in the West Bank from Israel's relentless colonisation.
The Israeli media report that the attack on Gaza was long planned. If so, the timing in the final days of the Bush administration may indicate an Israeli effort to take advantage of a moment when there might be even less criticism than usual.
Israel is no doubt emboldened by the complicity of the European Union, which this month voted again to upgrade its ties with Israel despite condemnation from its own officials and those of the UN for the "collective punishment" being visited on Gaza. Tacit Arab regime support, and the fact that predicted uprisings in the Arab street never materialised, were also factors.
But there is a qualitative shift with the latest horror: as much as Arab anger has been directed at Israel, it has also focused intensely on Arab regimes - especially Egypt's - seen as colluding with the Israeli attack. Contempt for these regimes and their leaders is being expressed more openly than ever. Yet these are the illegitimate regimes western politicians continue to insist are their "moderate" allies.
Truncated, for the complete article, see: www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/dec/29/israel-gaza-attack-palestinian-reaction
• Ali Abunimah is co-founder of The Electronic Intifada and author of
One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse
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- - "I Heard the Missile Coming"
Sameh A. Habeeb, B.A., Gaza
Monday, December 29, 2008
[EXCERPT]
"All my family members were hit."
At least 345 people were killed and more than 1,650 wounded since Israel blitzed the Gaza Strip with massive air strikes on Saturday, December 27.
The aggression against the impoverished seaside territory, the world's most densely populated area, continued on Sunday, killing scores of Palestinians and wounding hundreds.
From his bed, Abu-Fatahi can hear his traumatized brother, Mahmoud, screaming.
He is still suffering from the shock of seeing his neighbors torn into pieces by the killer bombing.
"My sister who is only 2 is in another room."
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- - Mass Grave
Reuters – Across Gaza, many are still frantically looking for bodies of their beloved ones under the rubbles.
[EXCERPT]
The battered Gaza Strip has turned into a mass grave.
The scene of people screaming in grief while taking their family members to burial is repeated over and over.
Civil defense forces are desperately trying to help people moving the corpses found buried under the rubbles of flattened buildings.
"We have dug out many bodies with no legs or heads," a civil defense officer told IOL.
In mass funeral processions, formed outside almost every Gaza house, the sound of Qur'an recitation is mixed with the distant sound of explosions.
The wailing of the grief-stricken and prayers for the departed are mixed with calls for reprisal.
Other Gazans, however, are still frantically looking for their beloved ones among the dead bodies.
www.gazatoday.blogspot.com
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- - Bolton: Gaza raids precursor to Iran war
Israel continues to mass its forces along the Gaza border in preparation for a ground offensive.
More than 370 Palestinians have so far been killed in the assaults among which at least 62 were women and children.
Bolton: Gaza raids precursor to Iran war
Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:28:56 GMT
Former top US diplomat John Bolton says Israeli strikes on Gaza have ignited a multi-front war which could lead to a US attack on Iran.
Bolton, a former US ambassador to the UN, accused Iran of supplying arms and equipment to Hamas and making efforts to develop a nuclear bomb.
"I don't think there's anything at this point standing between Iran and nuclear weapons other than the possibility of the use of military force possibly by the United States, possibly by Israel," Bolton told FoxNews.
"So while our focus obviously is on Gaza right now, this could turn out to be a much larger conflict," said the hawkish US official, adding, "We're looking at potentially a multi-front war."
Bolton made the allegations about Iran's nuclear program after the 2007 National Intelligence Estimate (NIE), which represented the consensus of the 16 US intelligence agencies, concluded "with high confidence" that Iran halted its "nuclear weapons program" in 2003 and that the program remains frozen.
The controversial intelligence contradicted longstanding claims that Tehran was "working relentlessly toward building a nuclear bomb" and came as a blow to advocates of a military strike against Iran like Bolton.
When asked if Israel would be capable of taking out Iran's nuclear facilities, Bolton said he believed "Israel could destroy enough of Iran's program to give us three, four years, which puts time back on our side to look for a longer term solution."
Bolton's remarks came as speculation has been rife that an Israeli go-it-alone strike on Iran is in the offing. However, many analysts believe an Israeli attack on Iran would not be possible without a US green light.
Despite Israeli pressure for a military option against Iran, many US foreign policy experts have advised the President-elect Barack Obama to engage Iran with diplomacy -- a move which would not be well-received among powerful pro-Israeli lobbies in Washington.
Israel after five straight days of air attacks, on Wednesday rejected a proposal for a temporary ceasefire in its military onslaught in the Gaza Strip.
Israeli military is also gathering its gunboats near the Gaza port and its ground forces along the border in preparation for a possible ground offensive.
Earlier on Monday, a senior Iranian commander floated the idea that the time has come for Muslims to militarily stop Israeli crimes in Gaza.
"Only the military aid can save Gaza," said Brigadier General Mir-Faisal Baqerzadeh, Head of the Foundation for the Remembrance of the Holy Defense.
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- - Boat carrying Cynthia McKinney to Gaza attacked!
Israeli Navy Attacking Civilian Mercy Ship!
VIDEO: http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2008/12/29/penhaul.gaza.bpr.boat.cnn
- - Cynthia McKinney on CNN via YouTube - Speaks about USS Liberty
http://911blogger.com/node/18949
- - McKinney to Obama: "Say Something" About Gaza Humanitarian Crisis
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21593.htm
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- - Starhawk personal commentary on Gaza
All day I’ve been thinking about Gaza, listening to reports on NPR, following the news on the internet when I can spare a moment. I’ve been thinking about the friends I made there four years ago, and wondering how they are faring, and imagining their terror as the bombs fall on that giant, open-air prison.
The Israeli ambassador speaks movingly of the terror felt by Israeli children as Hamas rockets explode in the night. I agree with himthat no child should have her sleep menaced by rocket fire, or wake in the night fearing death.
But I can’t help but remember one night on the Rafah border, sleeping in a house close to the line, watching the children dive for cover as bullets thudded into the walls. There was a shell-hole in the back room they liked to jump through into the garden, which at that time still held fruit trees and chickens. Their mother fed me eggs, and their grandmother stuffed oranges into my pockets with the shy pride every gardener shares.
That house is gone, now, along with all of its neighbors. Those children wake in the night, every night of their lives, in terror. I don’t know if they have survived the hunger, the lack of medical supplies, the bombs. I only know that they are children, too.
I’ve ridden on busses in Israel. I understand that gnawing fear, the squirrely feeling in the pit or your stomach, how you eye your fellow passengers wondering if any of them are too thick around the middle. Could that portly fellow be wearing a suicide belt, or just too many late night snacks of hummus? That’s no way to live.
But I’ve also walked the pock-marked streets of Rafah, where every house bears the scars of Israeli snipers, where tanks prowled the border every night, where children played in the rubble, sometimes under fire, and this was all four years ago, when things were much, much better there.
And I just don’t get it. I mean, I get why suicide bombs and homemade rockets that kill innocent civilians are wrong. I just don’t get why bombs from F16s that kill far more innocent civilians are right. Why a kid from the ghetto who shoots a cop is a criminal, but a pilot who bombs a police station from the air is a hero.
Is it a distance thing? Does the air or the altitude confer a purifying effect? Or is it a matter of scale? Individual murder is vile, but mass murder, carried out by a state as an aspect of national policy, that’s a fine and noble thing?
I don’t get how my own people can be doing this. Or rather, I do get it. I am a Jew, by birth and upbringing, born six years after the Holocaust ended, raised on the myth and hope of Israel. The myth goes like this:
“For two thousand years we wandered in exile, homeless and persecuted, nearly destroyed utterly by the Nazis. But out of that suffering was born one good thingthe homeland that we have come back to, our own land at last, where we can be safe, and proud, and strong.”
That’s a powerful story, a moving story. There’s only one problem with itit leaves the Palestinians out. It has to leave them out, for if we were to admit that the homeland belonged to another people, well, that spoils the story.
The result is a kind of psychic blind spot where the Palestinians are concerned. If you are truly invested in Israel as the Jewish homeland, the Jewish state, then you can’t let the Palestinians be real to you. It’s like you can’t really focus on them. Golda Meir said, “The Palestinians, who are they? They don’t exist.” We hear, “There is no partner for peace,” “There is no one to talk to.”
And so Israel, a modern state with high standards of hygiene, a state rooted in a religion that requires washing your hands before you eat and regular, ritual baths, builds settlements that don’t bother to construct sewage treatment plants. They just dump raw sewage onto the Palestinian fields across the fence, somewhat like a spaceship ejecting its wastes into the void. I am truly not making this upI’ve seen it, smelled it, and it’s a known though shameful fact. But if the Palestinians aren’t really realwho are they? They don’t exist!then the land they inhabit becomes a kind of void in the psyche, and it isn’t really real, either. At times, in those border villages, walking the fencelines of settlements, you feel like you have slipped into a science fiction movie, where parallel universes exist in the same space, but in different strands of reality, that never touch.
When I was on the West Bank, during Israeli incursions the Israeli military would often take over a Palestinian house to billet their soldiers. Many times, they would simply lock the family who owned it into one room, and keep them there, sometimes for hours, sometimes for daysparents, grandparents, kids and all. I’ve sat with a family, singing to the children while soldiers trashed their house, and I’ve been detained by a group of soldiers playing cards in the kitchen with a family locked in the other room. (I got out of that onebut that’s another story.)
It’s a kind of uneasy feeling, having something locked away in a room in your house that you can’t look at. Ever caught a mouse in a glue trap? And you can’t bear to watch it suffer, so you leave the room and close the door and don’t come back until it’s really, really dead.
Like a horrific fractal, the locked room repeats on different scales. The Israelis have built a wall to lock away the West Bank. And Gaza itself is one huge, locked room. Close the borders, keep food and medical supplies and necessities from getting through, and perhaps they will just quietly fade out of existence and stop spoiling our story.
“All we want is a return to calm,” the Israeli ambassador says. “All we want is peace.”
One way to get peace is to exterminate what threatens you. In fact, that may be the prime directive of the last few thousand years.
But attempts to exterminate pests breed resistance, whether you’re dealing with insects or bacteria or people. The more insecticides you pour on a field, the more pests you have to deal withbecause insecticides are always more potent at killing the beneficial bugs than the pesky ones.
The harshness, the crackdowns, the border closings, the checkpoints, the assassinations, the incursions, the building of settlements deep into Palestinian territory, all the daily frustrations and humiliations of occupation, have been breeding the conditions for Hamas, or something like it, to thrive. If Israel truly wants peace, there’s a more subtle, a more intelligent and more effective strategy to pursue than simply trying to kill the enemy and anyone else who happens to be in the vicinity.
It’s thisinstead of killing what threatens you, feed what you want to grow. Consider in what conditions peace can thrive, and create them, just as you would prepare the bed for the crops you want to plant. Find those among your opponents who also want peace, and support them. Make alliances. Offer your enemies incentives to change, and reward your friends.
Of course, to follow such a strategy, you must actually see and know your enemy. If they are nothing to you but cartoon characters of terrorists, you will not be able to tell one from another, to discern the religious fanatic from the guy muttering under his breath, “F-ing Hammas, they closed the cinema again!”
And you must be willing to give something up. No one gets peace if your basic bargaining position is, “I get everything I want, and you eat my shit.” You might get a temporary victory, but it will never be a peaceful one.
To know and see the enemy, you must let them into the story. They must become real to you, nuanced, distinctive as individuals.
But when we let the Palestinians into the story, it changes. Oh, how painfully it changes! For there is no way to tell a new story, one that includes both peoples of the land, without starting like this:
“In our yearning for a homeland, in our attempts as a threatened and traumatized people to find safety and power, we have done a great wrong to another people, and now we must atone.”
Just try saying it. If you, like me, were raised on that other story, just try this one out. Say it three times. It hurts, yes, but it might also bring a great, liberating sense of relief with it.
And if you’re not Jewish, if you’re American, if you’re white, if you’re German, if you’re a thousand other things, really, if you’re a human being, there’s probably some version of that story that is true for you.
Out of our own great need and fear and pain, we have often done great harm, and we are called to atone. To atone is to be at oneto stop drawing a circle that includes our tribe and excludes the other, and start drawing a larger circle that takes everyone in.
How do we atone? Open your eyes. Look into the face of the enemy, and see a human being, flawed, distinct, unique and precious. Stop killing. Start talking. Compost the shit and the rot and feed the olive trees.
Act. Cross the line. There are Israelis who do it all the time, joining with Palestinians on the West Bank to protest the wall, watching at checkpoints, refusing to serve in the occupying army, standing for peace. Thousands have demonstrated this week in Tel Aviv.
There are Palestinians who advocate nonviolent resistance, who have organized their villages to protest the wall, who face tear gas, beatings, arrests, rubber bullets and real bullets to make their stand.
There are internationals who have put themselves on the linelike the boatload of human rights activists, journalists and doctors on board the Dignity, the ship from the Free Gaza movement that was rammed and fired on by the Israeli navy yesterday as it attempted to reach Gaza with humanitarian aid.
Maybe we can’t all do that. But we can all write a letter, make a phone call, send an email. We can make the Palestinian people visible to us, and to the world. When we do so, we make a world that is safer for every child.
Below is a good summary of some of the actions we can take.
Please feel free to repost this. In fact, send it to someone you think will disagree with it.
Starhawk
Truncated, for the complete article, see: www.starhawk.org/activism/activism-writings/israel_palestine/on_gaza12-08.html
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- - Demonstrations taking place to stop the massacre of Palestinians
http://answer.pephost.org/site/News2?abbr=ANS_&page=NewsArticle&id=8871&news_iv_ctrl=1621
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initiatives and information
2) Nanothermites 101 Kevin Ryan – PSYOPS – Did Bush Kill Kennedy?
- - Nanothermites and WTC dust – By Kevin Ryan
- - PSYOPS - Psychological Operations Described in Washington Post
- - Did Bush Sr. Kill Kennedy and Frame Nixon?
- - Nanothermites and WTC dust – By Kevin Ryan
Posted by Kevin Ryan - http://911blogger.com/node/18935
Nanothermites and WTC dust
By Kevin Ryan
This past year I've done some photomicroscopy of samples of WTC dust. A number of examples of the photos can be found in the latest AE911truth.org video. The related scientific analyses of the particles found in the WTC dust, in particular the red-gray chips first discovered by Professor Steven Jones, are ongoing.
But I've also spent some time making nanothermites, and igniting them. Here is a slideshow of 26 photomicrographs, half of which are nanothermite residues and half of which are ferromagnetic particles extracted from WTC dust samples. These photos share many things in common, including the presence of metallic microspheres, vesicular formations and red-orange chips. Sometimes it's hard to remember which photo belongs to which category. If the nanothermite residues were mixed with concrete dust and glass fragments, it would likely be much more difficult to notice any differences.
You can see the slideshow here as well. www.flickr.com/photos/32512879@N05/sets/72157611572140729/show/
Interesting stuff, to be sure. And many thanks to Professor Jones, Janette MacKinlay, Shane Geiger, Mike Berger and others for the samples and inspiration. Scientific papers are on the way, of course, but sharing some of the photos now is worthwhile I think. Here's to a truthful New Year!
Complete article: http://911blogger.com/node/18935
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[on this thread submitted by Kevin Ryan on Sun, 12/28/2008 - 6:00pm
Thanks for the comments.
More information about nanothermites can be found in my paper here.
www.journalof911studies.com/volume/2008/Ryan_NIST_and_Nano-1.pdf
A rough description of each photo can be found at the Flickr slideshow, by clicking on "Show info" in the upper right corner. The nanothermites here are sol-gel formulations.
And yes, such sol-gel materials can be explosive. See this reference from the folks at LLNL (p 8-11), on how they were using them to create "high explosives" in the late '90s.
https://e-reports-ext.llnl.gov/pdf/238334.pdf
Finally, the phrase "Oh Lucy! - You Gotta Lotta 'Splainin To Do" is the title of one of the most famous of all 9/11 research articles. www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/02_11_02_lucy.html
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[And at end of thread (when i check 12/31/08), submitted by tanabear Mon, 12/29/2008 - 8:11pm
I agree
The evidence that WTC1,2 and 7 were engineered for destruction is overwhelming(i.e. beyond a reasonable doubt) at this point. All the evidence, observational, experimental, forensic, points to an engineered demolition. I even hesitate to call the official explanation a "theory". I prefer to call it what it is, "Nonsense". There is the nonsensical explanation and the one scientific one.
However, it is not the science, discovered by the 9/11 Truth Movement, that people can't accept. It is the implications of what that evidence would imply.
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http://911blogger.com/node/18946
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrjsxPLzt20
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- - PSYOPS - Psychological Operations Described in Washington Post
"PSYOPS seek to exploit human vulnerabilities in enemy governments, militaries and populations to pursue national and battlefield objectives.... The feasibility had been established of projecting large, three-dimensional objects that appeared to float in the air. Washingtonpost.com has learned that a super secret program was established in 1994 to pursue [this] very technology for PSYOPS application. The 'Holographic Projector' is described in a classified Air Force document as a system to 'project information power from space ... for special operations deception missions.'"
-- Washington Post, 2/1/1999
PSYOPS
Psychological Operations Described in Washington Post
This message is available online at www.WantToKnow.info/060123psyops
Dear friends,
PYSOPS may be an unfamiliar term to you, yet it is of crucial importance. PSYOPS, or psychological operations, is a term used in military and government intelligence networks to "exploit human vulnerabilities in enemy governments, militaries and populations to pursue national and battlefield objectives," as quoted from the Washington Post article below. Stated more simply, PSYOPS is a means of intentionally deceiving targeted individuals and populations through a variety of sophisticated methods for specified objectives.
Consider that all major countries have developed sophisticated PSYOPS programs such as those described below. Consider also that governments sometimes use PSYOPS technology to deceive their own people in order to achieve certain military or strategic objectives. Learn about Operation Northwoods as one powerful example. If you want to avoid being deceived and to be informed of how public opinion is sometimes manipulated by government, read the below article and explore our Mind Control Information Center. By informing ourselves and spreading the word, we can and will build a brighter future for us all.
With best wishes,
Fred Burks for the WantToKnow.info Team
Former language interpreter for Presidents Bush and Clinton
When Seeing and Hearing Isn't Believing
By William M. Arkin
"Gentlemen! We have called you together to inform you that we are going to overthrow the United States government." So begins a statement being delivered by Gen. Carl W. Steiner, former Commander-in-chief, U.S. Special Operations Command.
At least the voice sounds amazingly like him.
But it is not Steiner. It is the result of voice "morphing" technology developed at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.
By taking just a 10-minute digital recording of Steiner's voice, scientist George Papcun is able, in near real time, to clone speech patterns and develop an accurate facsimile. Steiner was so impressed, he asked for a copy of the tape.
Steiner was hardly the first or last victim to be spoofed by Papcun's team members. To refine their method, they took various high quality recordings of generals and experimented with creating fake statements. One of the most memorable is Colin Powell stating "I am being treated well by my captors."
"They chose to have him say something he would never otherwise have said," chuckled one of Papcun's colleagues.
A Box of Chocolates is Like War
Most Americans were introduced to the tricks of the digital age in the movie Forrest Gump, when the character played by Tom Hanks appeared to shake hands with President Kennedy.
For Hollywood, it is special effects. For covert operators in the U.S. military and intelligence agencies, it is a weapon of the future.
"Once you can take any kind of information and reduce it into ones and zeros, you can do some pretty interesting things," says Daniel T. Kuehl, chairman of the Information Operations department of the National Defense University in Washington, the military's school for information warfare.
Truncated, for complete article and resources, see: www.WantToKnow.info/060123psyops
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- - Did Bush Sr. Kill Kennedy and Frame Nixon?
By David Swanson
Russ Baker's new book The Bush Family of Secrets -- The Bush Dynasty, the Powerful Forces That Put It in the White House, and What Their Influence Means for America presents an account of the U.S. government that is both remarkably new and extensively documented. According to this account, George H. W. Bush, the father of the current president, devoted his career to secret intelligence work with the CIA many years before he became the CIA director, and the network of spies and petroleum plutocrats he began working with early on has played a powerful but hidden role in determining the direction of the U.S. government up to the current day.
New research and newly highlighted information assembled by Baker presents at least the strong possibility that Bush was involved in assassinating President Kennedy, and that Bush was involved in staging the Watergate break-in (and the break-in at Dan Ellsberg's psychiatrist's) with the purpose of having these break-ins exposed and the blame placed on President Nixon. In this account, those in on the get-Nixon plot included John Dean and Bob Woodward. While this retelling of history would make a certain Robert Redford movie look really, really silly, it would -- on the other hand -- make Woodward's performance during Watergate fit more coherently with everything he's known to have done before and since. It would also give new meaning to Dean's recent book title "Conservatives Without a Conscience." I would love to see either of these men's response to Baker's book.
Many readers of this review may now be rushing off to declare Baker either profoundly insane or (probably in fewer cases) indisputably correct in his views regarding the removal of Kennedy and Nixon from the White House, but I would strongly urge reading the book before doing so. It's called "Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, the Powerful Forces That Put It In The White House, And What Their Influence Means for America."
Those of us who have pushed for years now to have Bush Jr. impeached or prosecuted have heard all imaginable excuses and then some. One has been this: "Punishing the figurehead puppet president would amount to excusing the real powers behind the throne." And, of course, some of us have never doubted that such powers existed, but considered letting Bush and Cheney walk free as a surer way to protect other guilty parties than punishing them would be. There are guilty parties in Congress too, of course, but how the pervasiveness of guilt justifies letting everyone off the hook has always escaped me. The arrests have to begin somewhere. In any case, I bring up the image of presidents as puppets because Baker provides a new variation on that theme. In his account, Bush Jr. is indeed not the driving force, but a clique centered around his father is.
Baker does not focus on Bush Jr.'s grandfather, Prescott Bush, and does not even mention his role in the plot to overthrow President Roosevelt in 1933 (http://davidswanson.org/node/1337). Baker's focus is on Poppy, although Prescott and his anger toward Kennedy are in the background. It is not a completely new idea to suppose that Kennedy was killed because he angered the CIA and powerful Americans with business interests in Cuba. It is, as far as I know, new to show, as Baker extensively documents and then summarizes, that:
"Poppy Bush was closely tied to key members of the intelligence community including the deposed CIA head with a known grudge against JFK; he was also tied to Texas oligarchs who hated Kennedy's politics and whose wealth was directly threatened by Kennedy; this network was part of the military/intelligence elite with a history of using assassination as an instrument of policy.
"Poppy Bush was in Dallas on November 21 and most likely the morning of November 22. He hid that fact, he lied about knowing where he was, then he created an alibi based on a lead he knew was false. And he never acknowledged the closeness of his relationship with Oswald's handler George de Mohrenschildt.
"Poppy's business partner Thomas Devine met with de Mohrenschildt during that period, on behalf of the CIA.
"Poppy's eventual Texas running mate in the 1964 election, Jack Crichton, was connected to the military intelligence figures who led Kennedy's motorcade.
"Crichton and D. Harold Byrd, owner of the Texas School Book Depository building, were both connected to de Mohrenschildt -- and directly to each other through oil-business dealings.
"Byrd brought in the tenant that hired Oswald shortly before the assassination.
"Oswald got his job in the building through a friend of de Mohrenschildt's with her own intelligence connections -- including family ties to Allen Dulles."
You start to get a taste of the sort of case Baker builds. It's persuasive, but not conclusive. If you buy into the basic outlines of it, you come up against a history of American politics in which our top "elected" officials are not just chosen through a process openly corrupted by money and media and parties, but are also chosen through a process of covert ops. Kennedy was replaced by Johnson because he was more obedient to Texas oilmen. Nixon was replaced by Ford for similar reasons. Bush Sr. made a deal with Iran not to release American hostages until Reagan defeated Carter. (Baker recounts but adds nothing new to this story, already reported elsewhere.) Bush Sr. and Jr. ran election campaigns that employed CIA-like techniques. It's a compelling narrative with probably a great deal of truth to it, and the viciousness of Republican attacks on President Clinton fits into it. So does the reluctance of Carter, Clinton, Obama, and others to stray too far from positions acceptable to those (like Robert Gates) with places in the more permanent power structure. So does the possibility that Michael Connell was murdered last week.
The interesting thing about Baker's claims regarding Kennedy and Nixon is that they would suggest that the CIA actually succeeded at something, that -- in fact -- the CIA or members thereof managed to keep major secrets for decades. Of course, they were morally reprehensible secrets and provide further rationale for eliminating the CIA and all secret government agencies, not any sort of justification for keeping them going.
While Nixon and Kennedy appear in this account almost exclusively in the role of victims, we should remember that their failures to please a certain powerful group do not absolve them of their own sins, even if that group may have done them in. While Kennedy may have courted the wrath of certain powers by refusing to do to Cuba what Dubya later did to Iraq, Nixon's failing was not any deficiency in the area of war criminality. While part of what Nixon was covering up may have been staged to frame him, his most serious offenses -- those involving the mass slaughter of human beings -- have been marginalized in all accounts, old and new, of our attempts to hold him accountable. And Nixon himself secretly derailed a possible peace agreement in order to get himself into the same White House that he was later chased out of in disgrace.
Truncated, for complete article , see: http://afterdowningstreet.org/node/38498
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Bush Insider Killed * Upside Down
24 December 2008
"Fear and religion. Religion and fear.
The two are historically entwined. The catalysts
for most of the atrocities committed by man.
Fear of evil fuels religion, religion fuels
hatred, hatred fuels evil, and evil
fuels fear among the masses. It is
a diabolical cycle, and we have
played into the Devil's hand."
- Julius Gabriel
(From Steve Alten's international best-seller, DOMAIN)
1) Dark Transition Phases – Will Justice See the Light?
- - Bush Insider Who Planned To Tell All Killed In Plane Crash
- - Career Army Specialist sues Rumsfeld, Cheney
- - Entrapment? Five convicted in Ft. Dix plot
- - CBS News: Did Contractor Expose Troops To Toxin?
- - Brainwashing and UNESCO Global Education System
- - Semantic Trickery Will Continue Occupation of Iraq
- - Scott McClellan: "Pres. Bush Outed CIA Agent Valerie Plame"
- - The Bush Family of Secrets -- The Bush Dynasty
- - Charlie Rose interview with Sean Penn
- - Design of WTC-7 - engineer malfunction?
2) Inaugurate Yourself tour with Sander Hicks
3) Leonard Peltier – firethunder - Mumia – Lori – freedom calling
- - Open Letter to President-elect Barack Obama on Leonard Peltier
- - Oglala Sioux reservation at Pine Ridge winter emergency support
- - Upside Down World - Lori Berenson speaks out of prison
- - White Christmas poem by Jonathan Mark
“Brainwashing is a system of befogging the brain
so a person can be seduced into acceptance of what
otherwise would be abhorrent to him. He loses touch
with reality. Facts and fancy whirl round and change places…
However, in order to prevent people from recognizing the
inherent evils in brainwashing, the Reds pretend that it is
only another name for something already very familiar
and of unquestioned respect, such as education or reform.”
-- Edward Hunter,
Brainwashing (New York, Pyramid Books, 1956, pages 185-186).
Editor’s Notes:
Fear, religion, education-brainwashing, allow the best of people to slip away from reality; but it is catching up to us, no matter how fast we run from the truth. Like Paul Wellstone, Bush insider IT expert, Michael Connell, fell from the sky. Following the original newswire article are links to other resources on this case. This first item is a walk on the dark side; like the last days of (P)resident George Bush’s administration. And on their heels is a lawsuit that was filed by a Career Army Specialist, April Gallop, on Rumsfeld, Cheney, regarding their giving no evacuation order on 9/11 at the Pentagon. Both the plaintiff and her attorney, William Veale, were in the documentary by Michael Berger: Improbable Collapse: The Demolition of Our Republic. Most news is recycled, but it is not just going on in circles, but spiraling out of control.
NY Times best-selling author Steve Alten is working on a major rewrite of The SHELL GAME for the mass market paperback, which would place Obama in the White House when the next 911 hits in 2012. This riveting cautionary tale could be released in September 2009 to coincide with the 8th anniversary, and in support for NYC campaigns for a new investigation. Alten plans to add special pages in the book for 9/11 truth resources that support the paperback. On the last Wednesday of each month I facilitate an hour teleconference for leaders in the 9/11 truth community. In January we plan to hear updates and Q&A with Richard Gage, Les Jamieson, Sander Hicks, Steve Alten, and others. We will learn about their projects, but also discuss how we can unite them to be more effective. Other truth leaders and representatives of truther groups are welcome to contact me to participate. Uniting the truth movement for mainstream awakening is key for the truth to set us free.
Item 2 is on an initiative by Sander Hicks called “Inaugurate Yourself.” Sander is traveling across the USA from January 10 to Washington DC for the inauguration on January 20th. Please check his schedule and let him know if you can help. Sander is also checking college venues in NYC for a major 9/11 event on the weekend of September 11, 2009. Please pass the word on this forum that would also be out in the streets in support of a YES referendum vote November 2009 for a real 9/11 investigation. The power of the people cannot be denied forever. Communication systems and outright lies have produced a tsunami of information that can counter the affects of brainwashing by our political leaders, education-pharmacy reforms, and the mainstream media. It will not be easy, but with people like Richard Gage, architects and engineers questioning the official report, we have a chance. Please contact all the architects and engineers you can, and send them to ae911truth.org.
The articles in item 3 are important to touch upon where holidays are most painful. My friend, Jehan Abdur-Raheem began his letter with this quote: “If you make friends with pain, you have a friend for life.” He was denied parole for the fifth time. If anyone wants to consider supporting him, I would welcome sending you a hard copy of his letter that includes where you can write in support of his appeal. Item 3 begins with an open letter by Harvey Arden to President-elect Obama to free Leonard Peltier and Mumia Abu-Jamal. Also, note the following forward by Harvey Arden on an emergency situation on the Pine Ridge Reservation. Following that is an article from Peru, an interview with political prisoner, Lori Berenson, who answers questions about life in prison, Peruvian and international politics, and activism. Please help make miracles happen in 2009, turn the world into a better place for all our relations. Mitakuye Oyasin.
"The most beautiful experience we can have
is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion
that stands at the cradle of true art and true science."
-- Albert Einstein
1) Dark Transition Phases – Will Justice See The Light?
- - Bush Insider Who Planned To Tell All Killed In Plane Crash
- - Career Army Specialist sues Rumsfeld, Cheney
- - Entrapment? Five convicted in Ft. Dix plot
- - CBS News: Did Contractor Expose Troops To Toxin?
- - Brainwashing and UNESCO Global Education System
- - Semantic Trickery Will Continue Occupation of Iraq
- - Scott McClellan: "Pres. Bush Outed CIA Agent Valerie Plame"
- - The Bush Family of Secrets -- The Bush Dynasty
- - Charlie Rose interview with Sean Penn
- - Design of WTC-7 - engineer malfunction?
- - Bush Insider Who Planned To Tell All Killed In Plane Crash
Non-Profit Demands Full Federal Investigation
PRNewswire Sunday, Dec 21, 2008
Flashback: Rove Threatened GOP IT Guru If He Does Not ‘Take the Fall’
for Election Fraud in Ohio, Says Attorney (www.bradblog.com/?p=6214)
Michael Connell, the Bush IT expert who has been directly implicated in the rigging of George Bush’s 2000 and 2004 elections, was killed last night when his single engine plane crashed three miles short of the Akron airport. Velvet Revolution (”VR”), a non-profit that has been investigating Mr. Connell’s activities for the past two years, can now reveal that a person close to Mr. Connell has recently been discussing with a VR investigator how he can tell all about his work for George Bush. Mr. Connell told a close associate that he was afraid that George Bush and Dick Cheney would “throw [him] under the bus.”
For complete article, see: http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnw/20081220/pl_usnw/bush_insider_who_planned_to_tell_all_killed_in_plane_crash__non_profit_demands_full_federal_investigation
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For a related article via Democracy Now with guest Mark Crispin Miller, see:
www.democracynow.org/2008/12/22/republican_it_specialist_dies_in_plane
Note: Mark Crispin Miller is a professor of media culture and communication at New York University.
His most recent book: “Loser Take All: Election Fraud and the Subversion of Democracy, 2000-2008.”
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Also, via Citizens for a Legitimate Government:
Connell Crash 'Oddities'
By Lori Price
Published by legitgov.org December 22, 2008
Recently subpoenaed Bush/Rove IT expert is Wellstoned.
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AND more to watch and read:
http://vodpod.com/watch/1243407-connell-cancelled-2-flights-on-suspicion-his-plane-
On-scene Video: Crash of Mike Connell's aircraft
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- - Career Army Specialist sues Rumsfeld, Cheney,
saying no evacuation order given on 9/11
By Stephen C. Webster
Published by Raw Story on December 17, 2008
A career Army specialist who survived the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, claims that no evacuation was ordered inside the Pentagon, despite flight controllers calling in warnings of approaching hijacked aircraft nearly 20 minutes before the building was struck.
According to a time-line of the attacks, the Federal Aviation Administration notified NORAD that American Airlines Flight 77 had been hijacked at 9:24 a.m. The Pentagon was not struck until 9:43 a.m.
On behalf of Spc. April Gallop, who served in the Network Infrastructure Services Agency as an administrative specialist, California attorney William Veale has filed a civil suit against former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Vice President Dick Cheney and former US Air Force General Richard Myers, who was acting chairman of the joint chiefs on 9/11. It alleges they engaged in conspiracy to facilitate the terrorist attacks and purposefully failed to warn those inside the Pentagon, contributing to injuries she and her two-month-old son incurred.
"The ex-G.I. plaintiff alleges she has been denied government support since then, because she raised 'painful questions' about the inexplicable failure of military defenses at the Pentagon that day, and especially the failure of officials to warn and evacuate the occupants of the building when they knew the attack was imminent" said Veale in a media advisory.
Spc. Gallop also says she heard two loud explosions, and does not believe that a Boeing 757 hit the building. Her son sustained a serious brain injury, and Gallop herself was knocked unconscious after the roof collapsed onto her office.
The suit also named additional, unknown persons who had foreknowledge of the attacks.
"What they don't want is for this to go into discovery," said Gallop's attorney, Mr. Veale, speaking to RAW STORY. "If we can make it past their initial motion to dismiss these claims, and we get the power of subpoena, then we've got a real shot at getting to the bottom of this. We've got the law on our side."
For the lawsuit's full text, and article, see: http://rawstory.com/news/2008/911_survivor_blasts_Rumsfeld_Cheney_No_1217.html
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- - Entrapment? Five convicted in Ft. Dix plot
Nick Juliano
Published on December 22, 2008 by Raw Story
Five men whom attorneys said paid FBI informants prodded into exploring their deepest fantasies about waging jihad on America were convicted in federal court Monday of conspiring to kill US soldiers but acquitted on attempted murder charges.
The men allegedly planned to attack Fort Dix in New Jersey, although defense lawyers argued that they never intended to carry out the plot and were drawn into making incriminating statements by the informants, one of whom was an illegal immigrant on probation for bank fraud and another who was paid $150,000 to secretly record the men.
The verdict was met with intense skepticism in the Muslim community.
"Many people in the Muslim community will see this as a case of entrapment," Jim Sues, executive director of the New Jersey chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, told the Associated Press.
Sues attended five days of testimony during the trial.
"From what I saw, there was a significant role played by the government informant."
Truncated, for the complete article, see:
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Five_convicted_in_Ft._Dix_plot_1222.html
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- - CBS News: Did Contractor Expose Troops To Toxin?
CBS Evening News Exclusive:
American Soldiers Are Dying Of Lung Cancer -
And May Have Been Knowingly Exposed
by Armen Keteyian
For source article, see: www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/12/22/cbsnews_investigates/main4683471.shtml
For a related topic, see FN’s resources for Uranium Munitions: harm for generations
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- - Brainwashing and UNESCO Global Education System
Mon Dec 22, 2008 17:55
72.201.43.207
Brainwashing and UNESCO Global Education System
Edward Hunter | Crossroad 194 views
December 11, 2008
“Brainwashing is a system of befogging the brain so a person can be seduced into acceptance of what otherwise would be abhorrent to him. He loses touch with reality. Facts and fancy whirl round and change places… However, in order to prevent people from recognizing the inherent evils in brainwashing, the Reds pretend that it is only another name for something already very familiar and of unquestioned respect, such as education or reform.” — Edward Hunter, Brainwashing (New York, Pyramid Books, 1956, pages 185-186).
Truncated, for complete article and resources, see:
http://disc.yourwebapps.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=122203
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- - Semantic Trickery Will Continue Occupation of Iraq
Trying to Redefine Role of US Military in Iraq
Published by the NY Times on December 22, 2008
by Elisabeth Bumiller
WASHINGTON - It is one of the most troublesome questions right now at the Pentagon, and it has started a semantic dance: What is the definition of a combat soldier? More important, when will all American combat troops withdraw from the major cities of Iraq?
Truncated, for the complete article, see:
www.nytimes.com/2008/12/22/washington/22combat.html?_r=1&ref=world
also posted: www.commondreams.org/headline/2008/12/22-2
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- - Scott McClellan: "Pres. Bush Outed CIA Agent Valerie Plame"
YOUTUBE: www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3kSMvVRnk0
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- - The Bush Family of Secrets -- The Bush Dynasty,
the Powerful Forces That Put It in the White House,
and What Their Influence Means for America
By Russ Baker
Just Released: (Hardcover) More: www.buzzflash.com/store/items/1421
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- - Charlie Rose interview with Sean Penn
A conversation about the film "Milk"
Broadcast by PBS November 28, 2008
Watch the Video - Duration: 53 min
www.charlierose.com/view/interview/9670
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- - Design of WTC-7 - engineer malfunction?
Richard Gage, Alex Jones, and engineer-questions on radio
[Posted on 911bloger on Dec. 21, 2008 - 4:51 pm]
Design of Bldg 7 -- Texas Engineer, Richard Gage, and Alex Jones on the radio.
Texas Engineer calls into the Alex Jones show and discusses with Richard Gage elements of the steel construction of Building 7. Some excellent photos of steel construction are in this short video.
http://911blogger.com/node/18888
Derek, a mechanical engineer familiar with aspects surrounding steel welds, states: "Engineers have an ethical responsibility to protect public health and safety. If we designed building 7 wrong, shouldn't we get many opinions on where we went wrong...so we don't have more buildings falling at freefall speed from office fire?"
For an updated FN resource, see:
The Bush Conspiracy and 9/11 Investigative Reports,
looking into the unanswered questions.
2) Inaugurate Yourself tour with Sander Hicks
Demand More.
Think Harder.
Dream Big.
“Inaugurate Yourself” JAN 10 – JAN 20
Networking with Sander Hicks for events at following locations would be appreciated.
Jan 10 Los Angeles, CA [house party gig in San Diego w. Michael Copass semi-confirmed.]
Jan 11 Santa Barbara, CA [need to try to get a response from Alex at Pescadrome, two emails not yet returned.]
Jan 12 Phoenix, AZ [gig confirmed at 620 E. Roosevelt #137 Phoenix, 85004 www.perihelionarts.com
Jan 13 Santa Fe, NM [possible gig at Cloud Cliff bakery?]
Jan 14 Waco, TX [Not sure about Waco, OK City is closer.
Jan 15 Shreveport, LA [pretty sure Richard Wilkes at the Shreveport Community Church is on it.]
Jan 16 New Orleans, LA [ needs assistance]
Jan 17 Jackson, MI {confirmed, with Donna Ladd, Jackson Free Press]
Jan 18 Louisville, KY [ needs assistance, my idea is to reach out to Ron Whitehead, the local literary figure/organizer...but I have not had a chance to search and find his email....]
Jan 19 Harrisonburg, VA [my old stomping grounds...Jennifer Keach is on JMU faculty, she has ideas about the new political venues there.]
Jan 20 Washington, DC [need assistance, trying to find out what other alternative happenings are happening....]
Sander Hicks
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Find out more - Inaugurate Yourself - www.gnn.tv/B30284
3) Leonard Peltier – firethunder - Mumia – Lori – freedom calling
- - Open Letter to President-elect Barack Obama on Leonard Peltier
- - Oglala Sioux reservation at Pine Ridge winter emergency support
- - Upside Down World - Lori Berenson speaks out of prison
- - White Christmas poem by Jonathan Mark
- - Open Letter to President-elect Barack Obama on Leonard Peltier
From the desk of Harvey Arden
Harvey Arden is Founder: ~The Wisdomkeepers Collective ~
"Bringing the Elders to the World & the World to the Elders"
Dear President-elect Obama:
Great Act of Mercy by you can help heal the still raw wounds of Indian people and their continuing confrontation with the ‘Dominant Society’ of the United States. I don’t know if you know the Leonard Peltier case personally; nor will I argue it here. Please talk to Secretary Bill Richardson and Sen. Inouye about this great injustice now in its 33rd year; they both know it well. Leonard was 31 when he was framed; he's now 64. A poll a couple of years ago asked thousands of people, “Who Is the Greatest American Indian in History?” The winner, yes, was Leonard Peltier. Crazy Horse, as I recall, was 2nd; Sitting Bull, 3rd. All Lakota ('Sioux') incidentally.
Mr. President-elect, I ask from my deepest heart that you grant a brief audience to me and Chief Arvol Looking Horse, 19th-Generation Keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Pipe of the Great Lakota Nation, so that we may deliver a message to you on behalf of millions of good souls around the earth who plead for Leonard’s freedom, who see Leonard’s freedom as The Sign that Democracy and Love and Prayer and Justice still have a meaning in America.
I ask to read to you from Leonard’s book PRISON WRITINGS: MY LIFE IS MY SUN DANCE, of which I am privileged to be the editor. A wondrous stage play MY LIFE IS MY SUN DANCE has been produced from Leonard's words to rave audiences, and we will be delighted to bring the soon-to-tour words-and-music production to the venue of your choice, for you to experience the power and poetry and compassion of it. It wrings the soul.
I would welcome the presence of VP-elect Biden, Sec.-designate Hillary Clinton (and Bill, of course), Gov. Bill Richardson, Sen. Inouye, your new FBI director and any other persons you'd like to be on hand. I also ask to have Leonard Peltier himself standing beside me in the Oval Office as I read his words—words Leonard would read to you himself if his locked jaw would allow him to. Leonard also asks me to invite Mumia Abu Jamal--another political prisoner, to whom we also ask you to grant executive clemency. Freeing these two men would be an act of intrinsic greatness, I daresay a Holy Act.
Mr. President-elect, we await your strong hand in bringing these enormous and glaring injustices to an end.
Respectfully,
(signed) Harvey Arden
Washington, DC
12/23/2008
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If you agree with the above, reply with AGREE! on subject line. Thanks!~
harvey@haveyouthought.com
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- - Oglala Sioux reservation at Pine Ridge winter emergency support
Received via a Fwd from Harvey Arden
From: jamie moran [mailto:poorwolf@tiscali.co.uk]
Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2008 6:05 AM
To: barvi@indiancenter.org
Subject: freezing red indian woman
Dear Friends in USA--
There is an old Lakota woman [she does beautiful star quilts, in the traditional manner] on the Oglala Sioux reservation at Pine Ridge who is in danger of freezing this cold winter. She has lost her husband and is all alone, living in a small place near Manderson [where the holy man Black Elk is buried].
I have sent her what I can. It occurred to me, if I asked friends in America to send her some spare dollars, it might mount up, and get her through the cold spell. Many elders at Pine Ridge literally struggle to not freeze to dearth in the savage winter cold, but this is a particularly stark case. This old lady has no relatives on the rez. Can you help her?
If you can, then please send dollars in cash, or a dollar money order, [or even an international dollar money order - if sending something from abroad] to the following person and address=
Anna Firethunder,
P.O. Box 87
Manderson, South Dakota, 57756 USA.
Many thanks.
Have a good Christmas, and a better 09.
Cante wasteya,
Jamie.
21dec08
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- - Upside Down World - Lori Berenson speaks out of prison
Lori Berenson is a US citizen currently being held as a political prisoner in Cajamarca, Perú. After serving nearly five years in harsh Peruvian jails high in the Andes, her conviction for treason against Perú and her life sentence were overturned. In June 2001 she was cleared of terrorism-related charges but convicted of collaboration, and sentenced to twenty years in prison in a trial that the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights claims completely violated her rights. [Source: freelori.org]
Peru: Interview with Political Prisoner Lori Berenson
Lori answers questions about life in prison, Peruvian and international politics, and activism.
Upside Down World -- 25 September 2008
by Emma Shaw Crane
[EXCERPT]
American activist Lori Berenson was pulled off a bus in Peru in November of 1995, detained by anti-terrorist police, and tried for treason against the Peruvian state by a hooded military tribunal. A gun was held to her head as she received her sentence: life in prison. Accused of being a leader of the MRTA (Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement), Lori was one of thousands of people kidnapped, tortured, disappeared, and/or imprisoned during then-president Alberto Fujimori's campaign to defeat rebel groups.
At the time of Lori's first "trial," Peru was emerging from over a decade of bloody civil war, fought between leftist guerillas and the Peruvian military. Two major armed movements fought the Peruvian government, the MRTA and Sendero Luminoso, the Maoist Shining Path. Peru's Truth and Reconciliation Commission has estimated that approximately 70,000 people were killed between 1980 and 2000. Seventy-five percent of the victims were indigenous people, mostly Quechua, a number vastly out of proportion to their 16% share of the national population. The Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission holds the government (through its military, police and intelligence apparatus along with paramilitary units) responsible for at least 45% of those deaths-compared to the MRTA who caused less than 2% of mortalities during the civil war. The Shining Path was deemed responsible for the majority - 53%.
This interview with Lori Berenson took place shortly before the first of a series of trials of Alberto Fujimori began in Lima. Last December, the former president was sentenced to six years in prison for abuse of authority, the first of three charges. His second trial, for human rights abuses including homicide and kidnapping, resumed July 14th, 2008. Ironically, if he is found guilty on all counts, Fujimori could serve up to 30 years in prison-just ten years more than Lori Berenson is currently serving. However, since Fujimori turns seventy this year, he is eligible under Peruvian law for a reduced sentence served under house arrest.
In this interview, Lori discusses how she maintains her hope while in prison, what she believes it takes to effect real and lasting social change, the emerging 'New Left' in Latin America, and why women political prisoners are perceived as a threat to social stability.
What's the hardest thing for you about being in prison?
Frustration! You don't have control of your own life. People don't treat you like an adult. People are afraid to tell you that someone's sick. You are unable to deal with your own problems, either economic or otherwise. You feel sort of - in Spanish it would be impotencia - you can't do anything. The prison authorities beat someone up, you can't do anything. Someone's sick, you can't do anything. You need to write a letter to someone and you can't mail it. Frustration.
How do you maintain your hope and political conviction in a place as oppressive and confining and limiting as prison? What can you say about the prison system?
Each of the prisons I've lived in has provided a direct experience of why I think this prison system needs to change. Certainly, the first years I was in jail were very repressive years. Even in the last few years, you can still see the mistreatment of poor people. You can see it when they are presented before the judges, and you can see it in daily treatment. It's money: those who don't have money are not equal citizens. It's a very defined class differentiation.
Do you expect to be paroled in 2010, and what is your hope for your future?
I should be paroled but I'm not sure. I think many things can happen. The only thing that's been constant over the last sixteen to twenty years is that the terrorists are the bad people. During the ten-year regime of Fujimori, Alan García was in exile for corruption - and now he is president again. Who knows how Fujimori's trial will be, and how he will be regarded in about five years. But what has been a constant is that terrorists are terrorists, at least in the media. If it is really perceived as a danger, then political prisoners who are higher profile won't be released, and I won't be released on parole when I become eligible.
What tactics do you use to stay sane?
I was once asked a similar question: "How do people cope with prisons?" There are a variety of tactics. One is escaping from it in your mind - people get high, people do a whole bunch of things. In the case of myself, and most political prisoners I have known, the thing would be the confidence that whatever you believed in was right. So I think that has not changed. And you might have a good day or a bad day, I mean, when it rains everyone gets sort of gloomy, but even so, you don't forget that you have that.
What messages do you have for Mumia?
My greatest respect to him and to all the political prisoners I've read so much about over these last several years. Keep struggling, because you're right! This isn't just a message for him, but to those who need to move on such issues so that his situation, and the situation of others like him, can change. There needs to be knowledge and consciousness of the need for these things to change. These are people who are victims of a state's oppressive ways.
Do you think labeling people 'terrorists' will get old, like labeling people as 'Communists' did?
I still have the pieces that we wrote on this three or four years ago, saying 'No, we're subversives, we're political prisoners, we are not terrorists. Terrorism means actions that cause terror, that try to create terror.' I think I spent so much time trying to explain it to people, where it got to the point, after years of that, that I realized people still use the word terrorist and it doesn't really change anything. Those who will feel deterred by the word might feel deterred by it anyway, and those who can see through the paint will do so as well. So this is a point on which I've definitely changed over the last three or four years, in the sense that it really doesn't matter. You want to call me a terrorist? Call me a terrorist! It really doesn't change anything. I know I am not a terrorist.
The other thing is, in terms of political prisoners, I definitely think that female political prisoners are seen as a greater threat.
Why do you think that is?
One of the things they always say, and you can read this in cases, particularly in the case of the Shining Path, they always say, "Oh, the ones from the assassination squadrons are cold blooded, and they are always women." I remember hearing something similar when I lived in El Salvador. I think it's this fear that a woman, when she is politically clear on things, is supposedly firmer in her beliefs. The torture of women has been horrendous- how many women have had kids in jail because of rape? It has to do with revenge. They committed the crime of leaving the roles that were given to them, and then on top of that being subversives, and on top of that, being firm in their beliefs.
I remember a woman who was recently sentenced to thirty years for something she didn't do. I think it was largely because of the fact that when she was detained by the police she refused to speak, she refused to self-incriminate, and they said, "She's too strong, she's got to be a leader." She withstood the torture, withstood everything. And that was probably the reason she got a thirty-year sentence.
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1) CIA 9/11 Mossad Taliban Opium Mumbai – a western trade-off
- - New York Times misleads on Taliban role in opium trade
- - CIA, MOSSAD Hand Behind Sangh Parivar’s Extremists!
- - New Pearl Harbor Revisited: 9/11, the Cover-Up, and the Exposé
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Item 1 begins with 'New York Times misleads on Taliban role in opium trade.’ This article inspired my using the famous Inouye quote from the Iran-Contra-gate era. Just follow the money -- there is unsettling proof that crooked nations are running the show; so, questions of false flag operations must be considered from any act of terrorism. The CIA MOSSAD are famous for leaving tell-tale signs, and clever or brutal enough to make most anyone shake their head or not want to deal with the consequences. This is why a thorough investigation of 9/11/01 is critical for peace and justice, to stop such actions in their tracks once and for all!
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1) CIA 9/11 Mossad Taliban Opium Mumbai – a western trade-off
- - New York Times misleads on Taliban role in opium trade
- - CIA, MOSSAD Hand Behind Sangh Parivar’s Extremists!
- - New Pearl Harbor Revisited: 9/11, the Cover-Up, and the Exposé
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- - New York Times misleads on Taliban role in opium trade
By Jeremy R. Hammond
Online Journal Contributing Writer
Dec 1, 2008, 00:24
[EXCERPT]
The New York Times reported last week that the Taliban have cut back on poppy cultivation and is stockpiling opium, grossly overstating the group’s role in the Afghanistan drug trade.
“Afghanistan has produced so much opium in recent years,” the Times reported Thursday, “that the Taliban are cutting poppy cultivation and stockpiling raw opium in an effort to support prices and preserve a major source of financing for the insurgency, Antonio Maria Costa, the executive director of the United Nations drug office, says.”
Mr. Costa’s remarks came last week as the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) prepared to release its Afghan Opium Survey 2008 report, the executive summary of which has already been available for some time. The now released report shows that poppy cultivation was reduced in much of Afghanistan and is even more highly concentrated in the south, with Helmand province being by far the biggest producer.
The Times states that the Taliban “have for several years ‘systematically encouraged’ opium cultivation as a way to finance their insurgency, the study said.” It notes that the UNODC has estimated that “the insurgents made as much as $300 million from the opium trade” last year.
“But after three years of bumper crops, including this one,” the Times continues, “the Taliban have succeeded almost too well, producing opium in amounts far in excess of world demand.”
Despite production far exceeding global demand, prices for the drug have not fallen as much as might be expected based solely on the supply and demand principle of the market. One explanation that has been put forward is that opium is being stockpiled.
According to the Times’ summary of Mr. Costa’s remarks, “The fact that prices had not collapsed already, he said, was evidence that the Taliban, drug lords and even some farmers have stockpiled the opium, more and more of which is also being processed in Afghanistan. ‘Insurgents have been holding significant amounts of opium,’ Mr. Costa said.”
In addition, “This year, the Taliban are taking a ‘passive stance’ toward cultivation, apparently putting less pressure on Afghan farmers to plant opium poppy. ‘They have called a moratorium of sorts as a way of keeping the stocks stable and supporting the price,’ Mr. Costa said.”
The Times thus acknowledges the role of non-Taliban actors, the “drug lords and even some farmers,” but nevertheless downplays their role and characterizes the cultivation of poppies and production of opium as being predominantly controlled by the Taliban. But this is not an accurate representation of the facts on the ground, as the findings of the UNODC report itself makes clear.
While the Times suggests the amount of opium produced is under the direct influence of the Taliban, in fact the decision to cultivate or not is made by individual farmers.
While the Times suggests the Taliban have “systematically encouraged,” citing the UNODC study, those words in fact do not appear in the report. Nor does it make any similar claim.
As part of the survey, the UNODC asked farmers their reasons for growing or not growing the crop. Most farmers who have never chosen to cultivate poppies cited as their reasons that it was against Islam and otherwise illegal. Of those who did cultivate poppies this year, 92 percent cited poverty alleviation as the driving motivation. Importantly, of those who had grown in the past, but stopped, the government ban was cited as the predominate reason for doing so. The second most common answer was that the choice was based on decisions of the shura and elders.
The two main reasons given in the report for the reduction in the amount of land used for opium cultivation are “successful counter-narcotics efforts in the northern and eastern provinces of Afghanistan” and “unfavourable weather conditions that caused extreme drought and crop failures in some provinces,” mostly in northern Afghanistan, where the Taliban have little or no presence.
Still other factors were the reduction in farm-gate prices for opium, which, coupled with the drought in the north, led farmers to switch to alternative crops. One such alternative crop has increasingly become cannabis. “Farmers growing cannabis,” the UNODC report notes, “may earn the same net income per hectare as farmers who grow opium, or even more, because cultivating cannabis is less labour intensive than opium.”
Furthermore, poppies grown in the south have a higher opium yield than in the north, so another factor in the trend seen this year is simply the result of market conditions. With supply far exceeding demand, driving down farm-gate prices, coupled with drought and lucrative, lower-labor alternatives, it is only natural, whatever other factors are at work, that the cultivation has lessened in the north and east and increased in the south, where the crop produces a higher yield.
Instructively, while the amount of land used to cultivate opium decreased in 2008 by 19 percent, the estimated opium production was still only down 6 percent from last year due to the higher overall yield.
Contrary to what the New York Times suggests, the UNODC report gives no indication that the reason cultivation was cut back had anything whatsoever to do with any kind of direction or control over the crop by the Taliban.
The implications that the Taliban group itself grows the crop and is involved in trafficking are also misleading. According to the UNODC, the Taliban’s profits from the trade come principally from ushr, a 10 percent tax on all agricultural crops, and from offering protection for traffickers involved in moving the opium.
David Mansfield is an independent consultant who has advised governments and organizations such as the World Bank on policy and issues relating to the Afghan opium trade. Mr. Mansfield told Foreign Policy Journal, “Ushr is charged on all agricultural produce and traditionally goes to the mullah for his services to the community. There are reports that this is being absorbed by ‘the Taliban’ -- which is not a monolith.” He added that another situation which occurs is half the tax going to the mullah and the other 5 percent to the Taliban.
Thomas Pietschmann, a research officer with the UNODC Statistics and Surveys Section who is credited in the 2008 report, told the Journal that an estimated $50-70 million is made by warlords and Taliban from the farmers. An additional $200-400 million is made from the traffickers. But, he explained, “We do not have any good idea of how this income is divided up between warlords and Taliban.”
Mr. Pietschmann also confirmed to the Journal that, while they did profit from ushr and from offering security, “We also have not seen strong indications of much direct exporting of opiates by the Taliban.”
In commentary attached to the UNODC report, Mr. Costa asks, “Who collects this money? Local strong men. In other words, by year end, war-lords, drug-lords and insurgents will have extracted almost half a billion dollars of tax revenue from drug farming, production and trafficking.”
Notably, Mr. Costa does not answer his question with “the Taliban,” but includes a much broader range of participants who profit from the trade that includes, but is in no way limited to, the Taliban.
When Mr. Costa told reporters, “They have called a moratorium of sorts as a way of keeping the stocks stable and supporting the price,” the Times reported that “They” meant “the Taliban.” But it seems more probable the UNODC Executive Director intended his use of the pronoun to include other groups as well. In fact, the word “Taliban” does not appear in the report outside of Mr. Costa’s comments. The report refers instead more broadly to “anti-government elements” or AGEs.
The Times actually underreports the total estimated amount made by such elements as being $300 million, as opposed to nearly $500 million. But it attributes these profits to “the insurgents” -- which it uses nearly synonymously with “the Taliban” -- rather than differentiating between warlords, drug lords, and other insurgent groups besides the Taliban. As Mr. Pietschmann told the Journal, the UNODC did not estimate how much of that half million dollars is specifically going to the Taliban.
There are a number of other important facts to consider that the Times does not share with its readers. The total export value of opium and its derivatives (morphine and heroin) this year was estimated by the UNODC to be $3.4 billion. Therefore, a logical corollary of the Times’ own account is that the majority of profits from the opium trade are going to non-insurgents.
It should be noted that this conclusion, too, may be inaccurate, as there are simply too many unknowns. But what is clear is that the Taliban, while profiting from the opium trade, do not control it..
..And there’s an even bigger picture to consider with regard to the Afghan opium trade. The UNODC report estimates farm-gate prices and the export value of the opium, and also notes that rates of seizure of the drug indicate that it is going to Pakistan, Iran, and Turkey. Some of this opium is “exported by sea or by air,” Mr. Pietschmann told the Journal. “Direct exports from Pakistan go to the UK. The UK estimates that 20-25% comes directly from Pakistan and 75% comes via the Balkan routes and the Netherlands into the UK.”
But, he said, from Afghanistan, “Most of these opiates then go to Iran,” which he confirmed “is a major transit country.” He added, “Most is then trafficked from Iran to Turkey.”
Once the opium has left Afghanistan its cost increases exponentially, which is where the real profits are made. For example a Development Research Group report for the World Bank by Peter Reuter noted that “the principal costs . . . are associated with distribution rather than production.” In 2000, “A pure kilogram of heroin produced in Afghanistan for less than $1,000, was exported from Turkey for $10,000, and by the time it reached consumers in Western Europe it was priced at $175,000.”
The World Bank report noted that “The cost of production, as opposed to distribution, is a trivial share of the final price.”
The role of the Taliban in the opium trade is often greatly exaggerated by the U.S. corporate media. But even if one was to accept accounts like those the New York Times gives of the Taliban’s role, it nevertheless still remains self-evident that the Taliban’s cut is “trivial” if one considers the bigger picture.
The question still remains of who is really responsible for the lion’s share of the highly profitable Afghan opium trade. Mr. Pietschmann suggested a role of Kurdish groups in trafficking the drug from Iran into Turkey.
In Turkey, some have suggested the existence of a shadow government, or what is termed the “deep state,” that really controls things behind the scenes. Even a former president and seven-time prime minister of Turkey, Suleyman Demirel, has said, “It is fundamental principle that there is one state. In our country there are two.” He added, “There is one deep state and one other state. The state that should be real is the spare one, the one that should be spare is the real one.”
Writing in the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, John Gorvett, a freelance journalist based in Istanbul, said: “Defining the ‘deep state’ is not so easy, however. Some argue that it is a hangover from the Cold War, when Western powers sought to establish a network of armed groups that would stay behind in countries that might have fallen to the Soviet bloc. While these groups were then abolished in most countries when the Soviet Union collapsed, the theory is that in Turkey this never happened. Instead, the group continues to operate, an unofficial underground army tied to organized crime and a bevy of corrupt politicians, police and bureaucrats.”
In one case, a heroin trafficker on Interpol’s wanted list named Abdullah Catli died in a car accident in 1996 near the town of Susurluk and was found carrying a diplomatic passport signed by the Interior Minister of Turkey. Writing in Druglink Magazine in 2006, journalist and television producer Adrian Gatton commented, “The Susurluk Incident became Turkey’s Watergate, exposing the deep links between the Turkish state, terrorists and drug traffickers. It revealed what Turks call the Gizli Devlet, or Deep State -- the politicians, military officers and intelligence officials who worked with drug bosses to move drugs from Afghanistan into Europe.”
That corruption extends to the United States, according to former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds. According to Ms. Edmonds, U.S. officials were involved in helping foreign intelligence agents acquire sensitive nuclear secrets. She also says she was approached by a mole within the FBI who attempted to recruit her. The woman who approached her was a member of the American Turkish Council, which was the target of an FBI investigation because it was suspected of being involved in, among other things, drug trafficking. When she went to her superiors with concerns over possible misconduct and espionage within the FBI, she was fired. The Department of Justice then gagged her under the “state secrets privilege.”
Ms. Edmonds later formed the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition, which includes as a member Daniel Ellsberg, who, as the former special assistant to the assistant secretary of defense, leaked the Pentagon Papers. Mr. Ellsberg has said, with regard to Ms. Edmonds, “Al Qaeda, she’s been saying to congress, . . . is financed 95 percent by drug money -- drug traffic to which the US government shows a blind eye, has been ignoring, because it very heavily involves allies and assets of ours -- such as Turkey, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Pakistan, Afghanistan -- all the ‘Stans -- in a drug traffic where the opium originates in Afghanistan, is processed in Turkey, and delivered to Europe where it furnishes 96% of Europe’s heroin.”
If such allegations are correct -- and Ms. Edmonds is not alone in making them -- then it might perhaps explain why the U.S. government is so keen on solely blaming the Taliban for the production of opium in Afghanistan and the lucrative drug trade.
And, as the reporting during the run-up to the Iraq war amply demonstrated, the U.S. mainstream media -- not the least of which includes the New York Times -- is only too willing to parrot government propaganda while failing to question the official line or critically examine key issues.
Peter Dale Scott contributed research to this report.
Jeremy R. Hammond is the editor of Foreign Policy Journal, a website dedicated to providing news, critical analysis, and opinion commentary on U.S. foreign policy from outside of the standard framework offered by government officials and the mainstream corporate media, particularly with regard to the “war on terrorism” and events in the Middle East. He has also written for numerous other online publications. You can contact him at jeremy@foreignpolicyjournal.com.
For complete article, with links, and resources, see:
http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_4067.shtml
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- - CIA, MOSSAD Hand Behind Sangh Parivar’s Extremists!
Muslim India - ViaMedia.MumbaiNews
Rashtriya Sahara, Urdu Daily, Mumbai
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Front Page News
CIA, MOSSAD HAND BEHIND SANGH PARIVAR'S EXTREMISTS!
Central Intelligence Agencies vigilant investigating in the aftermath of Malegaon blast; Enquiry being held into the February 2007 visit of prominent Israeli religious delegation and meetings with Hindutvadi Sadhu, Sanths and political leaders; Mossad infiltration a cause of deep concern for Intelligence officials.
New Delhi, November 25: (Agencies) – According to an exposé in a national daily published from Madhya Pradesh and several other cities, in the aftermath of the arrests of Sadhu, Sadhvi, and other extremist Hindutvadis as involved in the Malegaon bomb blast, Intelligence agencies are now concentrating on foreign connections of the radical Hindutvadis.
In an special report published by the national daily, it has exposed this sensational news that in central intelligence agencies are to be believed, extremist Hindutvadis have got support and motivation from Israeli secret agency, Mossad's operations against the Arab and Muslim countries in the past.
The newspaper writes that relations between Mossad and CIA are world known. Report mentions that intelligence agencies are worried about the infiltration of Mossad and CIA in the country. According to undisclosed sources, Indian intelligence agencies are now examining the full details of the visit of Israel's religious leaders to India and their meetings withSadhu, Sanths. Intelligence agencies are investigating all those Hindu and Muslim leaders that the Israeli religious delegation had met.
According to the newspaper, it was during the rule of BJP's Atul Behari Vajpayee; a beginning was made for the visits of Hindutvadis, and especially Sadhus anddharam gurus of the Sangh Parivar to Israel. These visits have been on the increase. It was during Vajpayee's time, that the visits to Israel and consequently the relations and contacts of Sangh Parivar Dharam gurus and Hindutva leaders with Israelincreased manifold.
According to the newspaper, for last ten years, the central intelligence agencies have been closely studying and analyzing the growing strength of Hindutvadi and Sangh Parivar organisations and the increasing violence through these organisations against Muslims, Christians, and minorities in Gujarat,Orissa, Karnataka and other states. Intelligence agencies have disclosed that the visits of Jews and Israeli rabbis was not very frequent in the past, but it has increased to worrisome proportions, during last few years. Of all, the most studied is the February 2007 visit to Delhi of the delegation of Israeli Jewish religious leaders. The delegation was headed byIsrael's Chief Rabbi, Yonah Metzger.
In this delegation, Jewish religious leaders from Israelas well as others rabbis from Belgium and Spain too were included. In India, the Israel Jewish religious delegation met important Hindutva leaders, which included especially the RSS Chief K. S. Sudharshan, President of VHP, Ashok Singhal, VHP leader Vishnu Hari Dalmia.
After the meeting of the Sadhu Sanths and Jewish leaders, both delegations had issued a common manifesto.
In this meeting, Jewish Rabbis expressed grave concern over the details of the terrorist attacks allegedly carried out by Muslims, as narrated by Hindu dharam gurus. Secret Service sources disclosed that at the invitation of Israeli Jewish religious leaders, a delegation of Hindutva leaders had visited Israel this year. In this, some leaders of Sangh Parivar too were included.
The national daily, published from Madhya Pradesh and other places, in its report has exposed that the officials of the national intelligence agencies have categorically stated that American secret service agency, CIA together with Israel's secret organisation Mossad, has carried out several secret operation all over Asia.
And now that the bomb blast of Malegaon and Modasa had involved the names of the fake Shankaracharya Amaranand alias Dayanand Pande, Sadhvi Pragya Thakur, enquiries and investigation of relations between Jewish and Hindutva religious leaders from Israel and India are being severely felt and is being analyzed. This was disclosed by the newspaper report.
(Translation from Urdu); Source URL:
http://ghulammuhammed.blogspot.com/2008/11/cia-mossad-hand-behind-sangh-parivars.html
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- - New Pearl Harbor Revisited: 9/11, the Cover-Up, and the Exposé
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- - Change.org censors 911 truth
Post@ 911truth.org November 29 2008
Updated 11/30: GO VOTE NOW -- Change.org -- Initiatives to (Hopefully) Guide Obama
UPDATE 11/30/08: After this initiative received more than 600 votes, and had become #1
of any idea listed at change.org, the authorities there removed it, and sent the following email:
– Ed.
Hello Janice,
We wanted to send you a note about an idea you recently voted on in the Ideas for Change in America competition titled "Conduct a new, independent investigation into the attacks of September 11, 2001"
We support calls for truth and transparency in our government on every subject and welcome you to directly petition the new administration about this matter, which you can do at http://change.gov/page/s/ofthepeople However, this is unfortunately outside the scope of the Ideas for Change in America project, which aims to offer specific policy solutions rather than investigations into past government action. As such, it is not eligible to enter the second round of the competition.
Read more www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20081129220240296
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Note this by Kyle Hence and actions to take –
Dear friends and colleagues,
This afternoon the following letter (see below) was sent to all those who voted for the idea of a new investigation of September 11th over the past 5 days. At the time this idea was purged from change.org, there were over 680 votes, and it was the top rated idea on the entire site, by double. It rocked to the top in just 72 hours.
The claim of the site managers which, includes MySpace reps (owned by News Corps) is one of reserved right to exorcise any content they deem is not in keeping with the spirit of the project. I am arguing that any such Commission would also make vital policy recommendations and that any such commission would assemble brilliant minds and respected persons who would, we hope finally do justice for what happened on 9/11 and set out a prescription that puts accountability and transparency where it should be in a representational Republic, first and foremost always. And which sets forth protective policies and international law that will insure full and open investigation are the norm following any terrorist attack, with a mind to beware of false-flag terrorism a'la Gladio or Operation Northwoods.
I am seeking to have the original idea, with some new language reactivated on the site. Now is not the time to sit back and do nothing when this sort of censorship is taking place.
So I want to encourage you to vote here for this more forward and proactive idea:
www.change.org/ideas/view/outlaw_false_flag_terror_globally
And stay tuned to see if the original idea is restored to the site:
www.change.org/ideas/view/conduct_a_new_independent_investigation_into_the_attacks_of_september_11_2001
Since this is about US foreign policy please only vote if you are an American citizen. I am concerned that the project sponsors will use the foreign vote as another excuse to purge their so-called open marketplace of ideas from their social networking exercise. Also, please focus on facts and do not use the comment function just to voice your own personal conclusions or speculation even before our hoped for Commission has convened and conducted its investigation, etc.
Thank you.
Kyle F. Hence
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- - Conspiracies and Confabulation: Tales from two Naomis
Published by AmericanBuddhist.net 29 November 2008
By Kevin Ryan
[EXCERPT]
Learning about self-deception is important for all people today. That’s because many of our problems, both as individuals and as a society, are rooted in self-deception, and many of the ways in which others abuse us relate to our inherent tendency to self-deceive. We can overcome these problems, and have a decent chance at long-term survival as a species, only if we learn about such limitations, and strive to control them. One great way to rapidly learn about self-deception, and other forms of deception, is to learn about the events of September 11th.
It's easy to see widespread self-deception with regard to 9/11. For one thing, most people don't know the actual official story, given by the 9/11 Commission and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). This is despite the fact that everyone, at least in the US, has invested essentially their entire future in that story, whether they know it or not.
For the complete article, see:
www.americanbuddhist.net/conspiracies-and-confabulation-tales-two-naomis
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- - Financial Bailout Now Trillions,
Oil Speculation to be Regulated,
9/11-Truth Milestone
Revealing News Articles
November 28, 2008
2) Missile Defense-Offense - Left Cynicism – Melamine scandal
- - Tell Obama to Reject Bush Missile ‘Defense’ Plan Around Russia
- - Enough of 'Barbiturate' Left Cynicism, Obama Is a Victory over White Supremacy
- - Melamine scandal widens as FDA declares toxic chemical to be safe
- - Tell Obama to Reject Bush Missile ‘Defense’ Plan Around Russia
Sign-On to Obama Letter Calling on Him to Reject Bush Plan to Deploy
"Missile Defense" Systems in Poland and Czech Republic
The Global Network intends to send a letter in support of our friends in Poland and the Czech Republic who have been organizing to stop U.S. plans to deploy destabilizing "missile defense" systems in those countries.
Please let us know ASAP if you would like your name and/or organization included as signers of the following letter. Please include your city/state along with your name (and organizational name). Individual names are quite welcome.
Just copy and paste this message with your name and city/state and
Global Network will add you to the list - globalnet[AT}mindspring(dot)com
Thanks for your support.
Bruce K. Gagnon
Coordinator, Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
Update – The Global Network have over 300 names..
Letter gets sent Wednesday afternoon on Dec. 3rd
Dear President-Elect Obama:
We write to congratulate you on your recent election as President of the U.S. We want to help you in every way possible to promote peace around the world so that our national resources could be used for the tremendous needs we have here at home like health care, education, dealing with climate change and more.
We specifically write to urge you to reject the Bush administration plan to deploy "missile defense" interceptors in Poland and a Star Wars radar system in the Czech Republic. We know you are aware of Russia's deep concern that these deployments are really aimed at them in spite of Pentagon assurances they are only aimed at Iran.
Respected U.S. scientists George Lewis and Ted Postol recently studied these proposed deployments and wrote a piece called "The European missile defense folly" that was printed in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists in the May/June issue of 2008. In their report Lewis and Postol state that, "Despite claims to the contrary by both Missile Defense Agency and State Department officials, the interceptors that Washington wants to deploy in Poland are fast enough to catch Russian ICBMs launched from locations west of the Ural Mountains toward the continental United States. The location of the interceptor site in Poland is ideal for this purpose."
Russia of course has responded that they will be required to upgrade their offensive nuclear capability if these U.S. weapons are indeed deployed in Central Europe. The people of Poland and the Czech Republic are in large numbers opposed to their countries being used as U.S. bases and we understand that in recent days over 30 mayors from Czech towns near the proposed U.S. radar base wrote you urging the planned be scrapped.
We too write urging you, in the strongest way possible, to take a stand for peace and a step for nuclear disarmament by rejecting the dangerous Bush deployment plan for Central Europe. Expanding U.S. military operations near Russia's borders will only help create a new Cold War and a new arms race that would eventually spread throughout Europe and beyond.
We look forward to hearing from you about how you intend to deal with this important issue. We wish you well and thank you for your attention to this matter of grave concern to us.
In peace,
[If endorsing this letter, send Names/Organizations/City/State in the
USA to "Global Network" globalnet[at}mindspring(dot}com] by 12/3/08.]
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- - Enough of 'Barbiturate' Left Cynicism, Obama Is a Victory over White Supremacy
By Tim Wise, Red Room
Published by Alternet.org November 26, 2008
[EXCERPT]
“..one of the key problems with the left in the U.S. Namely, for the sake of ideological purity few within the professional left expressed any joy about life, or any emotion whatsoever that wasn't rooted in negativity. They were like the political equivalent of quaaludes: guaranteed to bring you down from whatever partly optimistic place you might find yourself from time to time..”
For the complete article, see: www.alternet.org/story/108746/
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- - Melamine scandal widens as FDA declares toxic chemical to be safe
From naturalnews.com
The big health story right now is the widening melamine scandal now involving U.S. infant formula makers. As revealed in my latest feature article, up to 90 percent of U.S. infant formula products may potentially be contaminated with trace levels of melamine (www.naturalnews.com/024947.html) under 1ppm.
There are three things you need to understand about this issue: First, after the melamine scandal broke in China and sickened tens of thousands of babies, the FDA assured the American people that U.S. infant formula products were 100% safe and contained no melamine.
They were wrong.
Secondly, when the FDA's own tests discovered melamine contamination in U.S. infant formula products, it actively sought to hide the test results from the public. It only disclosed the test results after being forced to do so by a FOIA petition filed by the Associated Press. (We gotta thank AP for doing this, by the way. Nice job on their part!)
Thirdly, once the melamine contamination results were made public, the FDA abruptly announced that 1ppm (or less) of melamine in infant formula was suddenly "safe." This decision was based on no science whatseover and was obviously a panicked defense of the U.S. infant formula manufacturers whose products are contaminated with melamine.
I suspect we haven't heard the last on this melamine issue. Watch NaturalNews for more breaking news on this issue, and in the mean time, don't feed your babies infant formula made from cow's milk! (I've been recommending the Goat's Milk formulas from www.GenesisOrganics.com )
NaturalNews
3) Citizen’s Campaign for 2009 Year of 9/11 Truth
News Release/Letter to Editor
“What luck for the rulers that men do not think”….Adolph Hitler
The Citizen’s Campaign for 9/11 Truth was officially launched 12/1/08.
Petition 200804, (www.voicesofsafety.co/pogonews/petitions/200804), requests that citizens review the 9/11 Truth Proclamation, to learn that the government’s seismic evidence, when underground explosions occurred in the basement of each tower, occurred before the planes struck each tower, based on FAA radar data and air traffic control software logic; these plane impact times are in the Official Report of the 9/11 Commission. This is in accordance with the testimony of William Rodriguez before the 9/11 Commission. His testimony was omitted from the Official 9/11 Commission Report but is contained in the 9/11 Truth Proclamation.
The government also stated the free fall time of towers 1 2;and WTC 7 ; these times agreed with the calculated free fall time. Only a controlled demolition, that removed any resistance to falling, caused the collapse of these buildings and proves that fires did not cause the collapse of the twin towers or WTC 7.
“The Report of the Citizen’s Commission on 9/11” (2008 edition) contains the above facts and the page numbers are specified in the 9/11 Truth Proclamation.
We are asking all citizens to present this News Release to their local government officials and police chief who all take an “Oath of Office” to “enforce and defend the U.S. Constitution” ; the first amendment states the right of a citizen to petition his local government for grievances.
The “right to petition” contains an implied “obligation to respond” otherwise the constitution is a useless document.
Violation of the “Oath of Office” is a betrayal of trust and a crime against the petitioner.
We ask all local officials to either sign the petition, that recognizes “The Report of the Citizens Commission on 9/11”, or provide a valid written answer for not signing. We ask the local police chiefs to enforce the “Supreme Law of the Land” -- the U.S. Constitution by demanding that the town officials respond to the petitioner.
Donald Meserlian, P.E.,
National Leader, Citizen’s Campaign for 2009 Year of 9/11 Truth
www.voicesofsafety.com
Telephone Tel: (973) 228-2258 Email: dmeserlian{at)voicesofsafety(dot}com
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ReGen Power - $5M - 21Ventures Invest
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ReGen Power Systems Receives $5 Million Equity Commitment from 21Ventures
NEW SALEM, MA – November 17, 2008. ReGen Power Systems LLC today closed a significant equity financing that will enable the company to continue development of its low temperature differential engine to convert waste industrial heat to power. The $5 million investment by 21Ventures, LLC, and the Quercus Trust will fund the design and fabrication of two prototype engines. The first will be a 10kW engine for purposes of evaluation and testing. The second will be a 500kW engine to be installed at a corporate user site for field testing.
“As an external combustion engine, our design will be capable of using a wide range of heat sources to produce power,” notes ReGen President, Ricardo Conde. “We plan to offer engines that operate at 250º Centigrade for furnace exhaust, and others at 100º Centigrade to condense low pressure steam. We are excited to enter these very large markets.”
“Not only will the engine use ‘free’ fuel,” Conde explained, “but its use will produce power without producing a single molecule of greenhouse gas.” The engine will make power that would otherwise have been produced by a polluting central power plant. As a result, it will be environmentally positive as well as economic.
The new technology will be useful in many major industries, including paper, chemicals, refining, steel, aluminum, glass and cement. “In the U.S. alone, industry wastes the heat equivalent of more than 20 gigawatts of power each year,” according to David Anthony, Managing Director, of 21ventures.. “If this energy were converted to power using ReGen’s technology, it would eliminate the need to build twenty nuclear power plants.” The company expects demand for its power systems from around the world
The $5 million funding will also enable ReGen to fabricate several follow-up beta units for broader field tests, and to design a production prototype.
SOURCE: ReGen Power Systems, LLC
CONTACT: Richard Meloy, Chairman,
ReGen Power Systems at 203-328-3045
or visit the company’s website at www.rgpsystems.com
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is also associated with ReGen Power Systems LLC
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Obama-Agenda * American Gestapo
10 November 2008
"I never would have agreed to the formulation of the
Central Intelligence Agency back in forty-seven,
if I had known it would become the American Gestapo."
-- Harry S Truman
Quote attributed to 33rd US President
1) The Obama Agenda – Con or Constitutional Law – You Decide
- - Why Karl Rove Pulled the Plug; Finally, An Elected President
- - How Will He Lead? NOW interviews Charles Ogletree
- - YES WE DID - By Marianne Williamson
- - Conned Again - By Paul Craig Roberts
- - The Obama Agenda – By Paul Krugman
- - Obama Positioned to Quickly Reverse Bush Actions
- - Letter from Leonard Peltier, November 5, 2008
- - Barack Obama: Stand for Change in Elko
- - Can Obama's Win Lead to Meaningful Health Care Reform?
- - Lobby for a Department of Peace for the Obama Administration
2) William Rodriguez - Able Danger + Mossad – Truth & Law
- - 9/11 Hero Speaks to tens of thousands
- - Members of Israeli spy ring 'related to 9/11 hijacker'
- - Lawyers for 9/11 Truth
3) FED robbery - SHELL & Iraq’s oil – Guantanamo – RAND 4 War
- - Fed refuses to identify recipients of $2 trillion in U.S. taxpayer loans
- - Shell secures 25-year access to Iraq's oil, gas
- - Judge asks media whether to release Guantanamo Bay 'torture' evidence
- - RAND Lobbies Pentagon: Start War To Save U.S. Economy
Editor’s Notes:
Congressman Rahm Emanuel, who supported authorizing GW Bush into the Iraq war and occupation, has a strong reputation as a hard-headed hawk. Obama’s choosing him as a chief of staff sends mixed messages. Yet all is not black and white where politics are in play. The public is mostly in the dark about what is really going on. However, the oversimplification in claiming that Obama is groomed for the New World Order is in the other extreme. I have heard Barack Obama called a Manchurian Candidate. FN endorsed and supported Obama as President as a critical step for reclaiming a lost USA democracy. Having a majority-elected US President in this Millennium is nothing to snuff at. Also, Obama is a person of substance and family, and a citizen, though some would argue. But the bottom line is that the people in the US responded with a mandate for change after 8-years of destructive GWB policies.
In item one, make sure you read the Mark Crispin article, which shows all the work was worthwhile to stop another stolen election. But also, too, Obama compromised a lot to get elected. So, this issue provides multiple points of view, from Paul Craig Roberts, ”Conned Again” to a PBS TV interview with Charles Ogletree, a Harvard professor and adviser to the university's Black Law Students Association when Barack Obama was a member. At the University of Chicago from 1992 until his election to the U.S. Senate in 2004, Barack Obama served as a professor and lecturer in the Law School. His main interest is in Constitutional Law, and he was a community organizer. I believe in what Marianne Williamson wrote, we just experienced a nonviolent revolution, a spiraling of a political movement for the reclamation of evolving principles in the US Constitution. To keep this going (even with the Emanuel appointment), we must engage Obama for such options as a Department of Peace, Instant Run-off Voting, a new 9/11 investigation, free Leonard Peltier. In Iowa when Obama was either going to make or break it, Dennis Kucinich directed support to Obama during the Caucuses, when he could not win in a district. At the end of the first item take time to write to Obama and support these critical directions. And read how hope has touched Leonard Peltier. His case represents 33 years of injustice, and a continued oppression against the original people of this land we call home.
Also, good news.. Jehan Abdur_Raheem has been released from the BOX where he was placed in isolation since December 2005 for being labeled as an 'influential Muslim.' He was moved to a minimum security prison and will come up for parole this December. I have written extensively with Jehan, who is committed to nonviolence and spiritual values. To learn more, see FN's page on A Nation Behind Bars: the buried talents of a population.
You can be sure that FN will not depend on Obama for bringing out 9/11 truth. Item two has articles on this issue. William Rodriguez, the hero of 9/11, continues to inspire thousands, and represents what truth and justice is about. In item three there’s a typical-crazy story of alleged members of an Israeli spy ring 'related to 9/11 hijacker', plus a new place to recruit and join with Lawyers for 9/11 Truth. Meanwhile, don’t forget the key for truth is in a concentration of awareness breaking free in New York City, the NYC 9/11 ballot initiative 2009-referendum vote is critical for a new investigation. Without truth and justice – we live in a nuclear power crazy mad world with a possible terrible ending for all of us.
Have you read World Reports? I am looking forward to this analysis regarding the upcoming world financial summit next weekend. There is so much more going on that the mainstream media is hiding from, like many people, unwilling to see how corrupt our government has become. The top Truman quote is a revelation, but too late to stop a shadow government creating a Constitution and global crises. If you need more information, see FN's homepage or following link for the Bill Moyers’ 1987 PBS program: THE SECRET GOVERNMENT: The Constitution In Crisis
On Saturday, Nov. 22, there will be an END THE FED protest in 39 American cities. This day is also the 45th anniversary of the JFK assassination. On June 4, 1963, Executive Order 11110, was signed into law by President John F. Kennedy with the authority to basically strip the Federal Reserve Bank of its power to loan money to the United States Federal Government at interest. “With the stroke of a pen, President Kennedy declared that the privately owned Federal Reserve Bank would soon be out of business.” President Kennedy fought against the Federal Reserve by issuing precious metals backed United States Notes. JFK also was planning for a second term as President to continue fighting against nuclear weapon proliferation. There were others in the Government who wanted to illegally give nuclear weapon technology to Israel. Instead, the JFK assassination in 1963 led to the proliferation of nuclear weapons, an escalation of the Vietnam War, and enabled the assassinations and cover-up of RFK and MLK in 1968. All this with Bush Sr. in the CIA wielding power for him and family to take over the highest office in the US, and which led to the wishes of "The New American Century" and the horrible events of September 11, 2001, leading to preemptive endless war for terror and oil. Obama has quite a job in front of him and what we do from here can make all the difference. So far we have done little, besides voting to elect a minority-race representative as US President. After eight years of GW Bush, we do have something to celebrate and much to accomplish.
In late breaking news from Citizens for a Legitimate Government on 10 November, item 3 opens with an article about the “Fed refusing to identify recipients of $2 trillion in U.S. taxpayer loans.”. Now is the time to expose truth more than ever. Once we get to January 20th inauguration, another chapter could open. Let’s hope it happens, and strive for change.
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November 11, 2008; 7:00 PM
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Tuesday, November 18, 2008; 5:30 PM
1) The Obama Agenda – Con or Constitutional Law – You Decide
- - Why Karl Rove Pulled the Plug; Finally, An Elected President
- - How Will He Lead? NOW interviews Charles Ogletree
- - YES WE DID - By Marianne Williamson
- - Conned Again - By Paul Craig Roberts
- - The Obama Agenda – By Paul Krugman
- - Obama Positioned to Quickly Reverse Bush Actions
- - Letter from Leonard Peltier, November 5, 2008
- - Barack Obama: Stand for Change in Elko
- - Can Obama's Win Lead to Meaningful Health Care Reform?
- - Lobby for a Department of Peace for the Obama Administration
- - Why Karl Rove Pulled the Plug; Finally, An Elected President
By Mark Crispin Miller
Barack Obama was overwhelmingly elected by citizens in all regions of the country. Unlike the past two elections where the results were contested in two states run by partisans who rigged the results, this election was won hands down by the person who ran the best campaign. This is not to say that there were not massive problems with voting systems in many states. But this election did not come down to one state or county controlled by corrupt officials.
Four years ago, Velvet Revolution [VR] was formed out of the chaos of the 2004 election. Since then, we and all of you have fought a long battle to ensure that our elections are fair, honest and transparent. We demanded accurate voting machines and paper ballots. In this election, both Florida and Ohio, now with paper ballots, went Blue and there is no one questioning that result.
Over the past several months, we have raised the specter of a Man in the Middle computer attack on the vote tabulators controlled by partisan evangelicals. We identified Michael Connell as the key GOP IT expert who created these nefarious networks. We took legal action against Connell in the form of a federal deposition. Karl Rove responded by threatening Connell to either take the fall or keep his mouth shut. Connell's Bush/Cheney attorneys did everything possible to keep Connell from testifying.
Two weeks ago, Rove was confidently saying that John McCain could win ten battleground states to become President. McCain was confidently telling everyone that he would win with a surge in the wee hours of election night.
Well, last Friday, something important happened: Michael Connell was forced to appear before Solomon Oliver, a Clinton appointed Afro-American federal Judge in Cleveland. After Attorney Cliff Arnebeck accused Connell in open court of rigging elections for Karl Rove, the judge ordered Connell to submit to a sworn deposition 18 hours before the polls were to open. On Monday at noon, Connell was placed under oath and grilled about election fraud, Man in the Middle attacks, Trojan horse manipulations and threats from Rove.
And guess what happened? Connell didn't know a thing! He had no knowledge of any secret steps to change the vote-counts, in any past elections--or in the election to come. He stonewalled like a champion, denying everything.
It was a remarkable performance; but what was even more remarkable was the abrupt reversal, just hours later, by Karl Rove. Rove wrote on his blog late Monday that Obama would win by a landslide--even in those states he had previously predicted McCain would win.
In other words, Rove pulled the plug, because he felt the heat, and knew that using Connell to rig this election too would be too risky.
In short, at VR, with all the help from you, our affiliates, our supporters and others, we played a role in helping to make this presidential election more fair than the past two. Our education campaign, our paper ballot campaign, our whistleblower campaign and our legal strategies worked. That's what democracy is all about.
Thank all of you for your confidence in our work, your dedication and your kind and generous support. We hope to continue to do our small part to make our government more accountable to everyone.
Subscribe to Mark Crispin Miller's "News From Underground" newsgroup. Visit www.pbs.org/now/shows/444/index.html
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- - YES WE DID – By Marianne Williamson
YES WE DID
By Marianne Williamson
America has had a non-violent revolution.
As long as there are historians writing about the United States, this moment of fundamental re-alignment of our national purpose will be remembered, pored over and analyzed. It will be seen as one of the shining points along the evolutionary arc of the American story. Yet it will never submit itself to being summed up in a nice little package that reason alone can understand.
It's been noted before that Americans get excited about politics every forty years. Then, in the words of comedian Will Rogers, "We have to go sleep it off."
We were certainly excited in the l960's. And this is 2008; exactly forty years since the most dramatic and violent year of the Sixties decade: the year when both Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. were literally killed before our eyes.
At that point, a generation of young people -- looking much like the youthful army so out in full force today, only grungier -- marched in the streets to repudiate an oppressive system and to try to stop an unjust war. And then bullets stopped us. The shots that killed the Kennedy's and King carried a loud, unspoken message for all of us: that we were to go home now, that we were to do whatever we wanted within the private sector, yet leave the public sector to whomever wanted it so much that they were willing to kill for it. And for all intents and purposes, we did as we were told.
According to ancient Asian philosophers, history moves not in a circle but in a spiral. Whether as an individual or as a nation, whatever lessons we were presented once and failed to learn will come back again but in a different form. For the generation of the Sixties and for our children, the lessons of that time -- as well as its hopes and dreams and idealism -- came back in 2008.
During our forty years in the desert, we learned many things. Then, we marched in the streets; this time, we marched to the polls. Then, we shouted, "Hell no, we won't go!" This time, we shouted, "Yes, we can." Then, we were so angry that our anger consumed us. This time, we made a more compassionate humanity the means by which we sought our goal as well as the goal itself.
In the words of Gloria Steinem, "I feel like our future has come back." And indeed it has. For in the words of Martin Luther King, Jr., "No lie can last forever." What Bobby Kennedy tried to do, and was killed for trying; what Martin Luther King tried to do, and was killed for trying; what the students at Kent state were trying to protest, and were killed for daring to; Barack Obama and his army of millions of idealists with the audacity to hope have now succeeded at doing.
Praise God. Praise God.
And that praise to God didn't just go out last night, when Obama's election to the Presidency was finally achieved. That praise was part of what allowed the waters to part here in the first place. Millions of Americans have been deeply aware that this kind of historic and fundamentally positive effort has not gone well in the recent past, and the spiritual understanding of this generation of Americans -- an understanding not yet fully formed forty years ago -- created an invisible light around the Obama campaign. How many people over the last twenty-one months have posted, in their own way, angels to Obama's left and angels to his right, angels in front of him and angels behind him, angels above him and angels below him? I know I have, and so has everyone I know. Hopefully we will continue to do so.
The Obama phenomenon did not come out of nowhere. It emerged as much from our story as from his -- as much from our yearning for meaning as from his ambition to be President; as much from our determination to achieve collective redemption as from his determination to achieve an individual accomplishment. And those who fail to recognize the invisible powers at work here -- who see the external drama of politics yet fail to discern the profound forces that moved mountains by moving the American heart -- well, they're just like Bob Dylan's Thin Man to whom he sang, "You don't know what's going on here, do you, Mr. Jones?"
Back then, Mr. Jones didn't know what was going on, but many of us did. We knew what was going on then and we knew what needed to happen; we simply weren't mature enough and we were too wounded then, as people and as a culture, to pull it off.
This time, we both knew and we did. We knew who we had to become and we knew what we had to do. The violent American revolution of 1776 entailed separating from another country.
The non-violent revolution of 2008 -- a non-violent revolution that did not quite fail, yet also did not quite succeed in the l960's -- has entailed separating from who we used to be.
In the l960's, we wanted peace but we ourselves were angry. This time, after hearing Gandhi's call that we must be the change we want to see happen in the world, we came to our political efforts with an understanding that we must cast violence from our hearts and minds if we are to cast it from our world; that we must try to love our enemies as well as our friends; and that when a genius of world-historic proportions emerges among us, we cannot and we must not fail to do everything humanly and spiritually possible to support him.
For his sake and for ours.
Having gone to a higher place within ourselves, a higher level of leadership began to emerge among us. A higher level of leader now having emerged among us, he calls us to an even higher place within ourselves. And from this spiraling dance, these two forces together can and will, as Obama has told us, truly change the world. Having moved one mountain, we will now go about the work of removing the ones that remain.
With God's help, yes we can. Yes we did. And yes we will.
--- by Marianne Williamson,
author of Healing the Soul of America Visit www.marianne.com
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- - Conned Again - By Paul Craig Roberts
November 09, 2008 "Information Clearinghouse" -- If the change President-elect Obama has promised includes a halt to America’s wars of aggression and an end to the rip-off of taxpayers by powerful financial interests, what explains Obama’s choice of foreign and economic policy advisors? Indeed, Obama’s selection of Rahm Israel Emanuel as White House chief of staff is a signal that change ended with Obama’s election. The only thing different about the new administration will be the faces.
Rahm Israel Emanuel is a supporter of Bush’s invasion of Iraq. Emanuel rose to prominence in the Democratic Party as a result of his fundraising connections to AIPAC. A strong supporter of the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee, he comes from a terrorist family. His father was a member of Irgun, a Jewish terrorist organization that used violence to drive the British and Palestinians out of Palestine in order to create the Jewish state. During the 1991 Gulf War, Rahm Israel Emanuel volunteered to serve in the Israel Defense Forces. He was a member of the Freddie Mac board of directors and received $231,655 in directors fees in 2001. According to Wikipedia, “during the time Emanuel spent on the board, Freddie Mac was plagued with scandals involving campaign contributions and accounting irregularities.”
In “Hail to the Chief of Staff,” Alexander Cockburn describes Emanuel as “a super-Likudnik hawk,” who as chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in 2006 “made great efforts to knock out antiwar Democratic candidates.”
My despondent friends in the Israeli peace movement ask, “What is this man doing in Obama’s administration?”
Obama’s election was necessary as the only means Americans had to hold the Republicans accountable for their crimes against the Constitution and human rights, for their violations of US and international laws, for their lies and deceptions, and for their financial chicanery. As an editorial in Pravda put it, “Only Satan would have been worse than the Bush regime. Therefore it could be argued that the new administration in the USA could never be worse than the one which divorced the hearts and minds of Americans from their brothers in the international community, which appalled the rest of the world with shock and awe tactics that included concentration camps, torture, mass murder and utter disrespect for international law.”
But Obama’s advisers are drawn from the same gang of Washington thugs and Wall Street banksters as Bush’s. Richard Holbrooke, son of Russian and German Jews, was an assistant secretary of state and ambassador in the Clinton administration. He implemented the policy to enlarge NATO and to place the military alliance on Russia’s border in contravention of Reagan’s promise to Gorbachev. Holbrooke is also associated with the Clinton administration’s illegal bombing of Serbia, a war crime that killed civilians and Chinese diplomats. If not a neocon himself, Holbrooke is closely allied with them.
According to Wikipedia, Madeline Albright was born Marie Jana Korbelova in Prague to Jewish parents who had converted to Catholicism in order to escape persecution. She is the Clinton era secretary of state who told Leslie Stahl (60 Minutes) that the US policy of Iraq sanctions, which resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children, had goals important enough to justify the children’s deaths. Albright’s infamous words: “we think the price is worth it.” Wikipedia reports that this immoralist served on the board of directors of the New York Stock Exchange at the time of Dick Grasso’s $187.5 million compensation scandal.
Dennis Ross has long associations with the Israeli-Palestinian “peace negotiations.” A member of his Clinton era team, Aaron David Miller, wrote that during 1999-2000 the US negotiating team led by Ross acted as Israel’s lawyer: “we had to run everything by Israel first.” This “stripped our policy of the independence and flexibility required for serious peacemaking. If we couldn't put proposals on the table without checking with the Israelis first, and refused to push back when they said no, how effective could our mediation be?” According to Wikipedia, Ross is “chairman of a new Jerusalem-based think tank, the Jewish People Policy Planning Institute, funded and founded by the Jewish Agency.”
Clearly, this is not a group of advisors that is going to halt America’s wars against Israel’s enemies or force the Israeli government to accept the necessary conditions for a real peace in the Middle East.
Ralph Nader predicted as much. In his “Open Letter to Barack Obama (November 3, 2008), Nader pointed out to Obama that his “transformation from an articulate defender of Palestinian rights . . . to a dittoman for the hard-line AIPAC lobby” puts Obama at odds with “a majority of Jewish-Americans” and “64% of Israelis.” Nader quotes the Israeli writer and peace advocate Uri Avnery’s description of Obama’s appearance before AIPAC as an appearance that “broke all records for obsequiousness and fawning.” Nader damns Obama for his “utter lack of political courage [for] surrendering to demands of the hard-liners to prohibit former president Jimmy Carter from speaking at the Democratic National Convention.” Carter, who achieved the only meaningful peace agreement between Israel and the Arabs, has been demonized by the powerful AIPAC lobby for criticizing Israel’s policy of apartheid toward the Palestinians whose territory Israel forcibly occupies.
Obama’s economic team is just as bad. Its star is Robert Rubin, the bankster who was secretary of the treasury in the Clinton administration. Rubin has responsibility for the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act and, thereby, responsibility for the current financial crisis. In his letter to Obama, Nader points out that Obama received unprecedented campaign contributions from corporate and Wall Street interests. “Never before has a Democratic nominee for President achieved this supremacy over his Republican counterpart.”
Obama’s victory speech was magnificent. The TV cameras scanning faces in the audience showed the hope and belief that propelled Obama into the presidency. But Obama cannot bring change to Washington. There is no one in the Washington crowd that he can appoint who is capable of bringing change. If Obama were to reach outside the usual crowd, anyone suspected of being a bringer of change could not get confirmed by the Senate. Powerful interest groups--AIPAC, the military-security complex, Wall Street--use their political influence to block unacceptable appointments.
As Alexander Cockburn put it in his column, “Obama, the first-rate Republican,” “never has the dead hand of the past had a ‘reform’ candidate so firmly by the windpipe.” Obama confirmed Cockburn’s verdict in his first press conference as president-elect. Disregarding the unanimous US National Intelligence Estimate, which concluded that Iran stopped working on nuclear weapons five years ago, and ignoring the continued certification by the International Atomic Energy Agency that none of the nuclear material for Iran’s civilian nuclear reactor has been diverted to weapons use, Obama sallied forth with the Israel Lobby’s propaganda and accused Iran of “development of a nuclear weapon” and vowing “to prevent that from happening.” http://news.antiwar.com/2008/11/07/obama-hits-out-at-iran-closemouthed-on-tactics/
The change that is coming to America has nothing to do with Obama. Change is coming from the financial crisis brought on by Wall Street greed and irresponsibility, from the eroding role of the US dollar as reserve currency, from countless mortgage foreclosures, from the offshoring of millions of America’s best jobs, from a deepening recession, from pillars of American manufacturing--Ford and GM--begging the government for taxpayers’ money to stay alive, and from budget and trade deficits that are too large to be closed by normal means.
Traditionally, the government relies on monetary and fiscal policy to lift the economy out of recession. But easy money is not working. Interest rates are already low and monetary growth is already high, yet unemployment is rising. The budget deficit is already huge--a world record--and the red ink is not stimulating the economy. Can even lower interest rates and even higher budget deficits help an economy that has moved offshore, leaving behind jobless consumers overburdened with debt?
How much more can the government borrow? America’s foreign creditors are asking this question. An official organ of the Chinese ruling party recently called for Asian and European countries to “banish the US dollar from their direct trade relations, relying only on their own currencies.”
“Why,” asks another Chinese publication, “should China help the US to issue debt without end in the belief that the national credit of the US can expand without limit?”
The world has tired of American hegemony and had its fill of American arrogance. America’s reputation is in tatters: the financial debacle, endless red ink, Abu Ghraib, Gitmo, rendition, torture, illegal wars based on lies and deception, disrespect for the sovereignty of other countries, war crimes, disregard for international law and the Geneva Conventions, the assault on habeas corpus and the separation of powers, a domestic police state, constant interference in the internal affairs of other countries, boundless hypocrisy.
The change that is coming is the end of American empire. The hegemon has run out of money and influence. Obama as “America’s First Black President” will lift hopes and, thus, allow the act to be carried on a little longer. But the New American Century is already over.
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- - The Obama Agenda – By Paul Krugman
Published 07 November 2008 by The New York Times
Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008, is a date that will live in fame (the opposite of infamy) forever. If the election of our first African-American president didn't stir you, if it didn't leave you teary-eyed and proud of your country, there's something wrong with you.
But will the election also mark a turning point in the actual substance of policy? Can Barack Obama really usher in a new era of progressive policies? Yes, he can.
Right now, many commentators are urging Mr. Obama to think small. Some make the case on political grounds: America, they say, is still a conservative country, and voters will punish Democrats if they move to the left. Others say that the financial and economic crisis leaves no room for action on, say, health care reform.
Let's hope that Mr. Obama has the good sense to ignore this advice.
About the political argument: Anyone who doubts that we've had a major political realignment should look at what's happened to Congress. After the 2004 election, there were many declarations that we'd entered a long-term, perhaps permanent era of Republican dominance. Since then, Democrats have won back-to-back victories, picking up at least 12 Senate seats and more than 50 House seats. They now have bigger majorities in both houses than the G.O.P. ever achieved in its 12-year reign.
Bear in mind, also, that this year's presidential election was a clear referendum on political philosophies - and the progressive philosophy won.
Maybe the best way to highlight the importance of that fact is to contrast this year's campaign with what happened four years ago. In 2004, President Bush concealed his real agenda. He basically ran as the nation's defender against gay married terrorists, leaving even his supporters nonplussed when he announced, soon after the election was over, that his first priority was Social Security privatization. That wasn't what people thought they had been voting for, and the privatization campaign quickly devolved from juggernaut to farce.
This year, however, Mr. Obama ran on a platform of guaranteed health care and tax breaks for the middle class, paid for with higher taxes on the affluent. John McCain denounced his opponent as a socialist and a "redistributor," but America voted for him anyway. That's a real mandate.
What about the argument that the economic crisis will make a progressive agenda unaffordable?
Well, there's no question that fighting the crisis will cost a lot of money. Rescuing the financial system will probably require large outlays beyond the funds already disbursed. And on top of that, we badly need a program of increased government spending to support output and employment. Could next year's federal budget deficit reach $1 trillion? Yes.
But standard textbook economics says that it's O.K., in fact appropriate, to run temporary deficits in the face of a depressed economy. Meanwhile, one or two years of red ink, while it would add modestly to future federal inter