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Forced Vaccination: Will you lie down and take it? Not me.

2009-07-15T23:48:00.001-07:00

Seven More Banks Fail!

2009-07-05T22:23:00.000-07:00

Friday July 3, 2009

Depression 2 Update: Seven More Banks Fail!

Oh, the joys of not having to get up with the first ring of the alarm clock! But then, as I laid in bed this morning wondering what to write about, it came to me in a flash: There have been numerous alarming signs and portents in the markets this week, if one knows where to look.

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The FDIC announced seven bank failures after the market closed Thursday, which brings the number of banks closed this year to 52. But, if you count the number of branch offices closed this week it's 30 branches.

Founders Bank

Millennium State Bank of Texas

First National Bank of Danville

Elizabeth State Bank

Rock River Bank

First State Bank of Winchester

John Warner Bank

But what's even more alarming is that if you look back over the last year of "We're not in a Depression" bank numbers, you'll see that the number of banks closed is nominally up to 75, but if you count up branches, the banking system has shuffled ownership of 2,969 branches.

That FDIC seems to be doing a smooth job of it - making depositors whole in each case (so far), one can't help but wonder what's the cost of all this to be in the longer term, especially since the real guts of the second leg down in financial markets isn't expected till this fall.

When will FDIC have to go looking to recharge its coffers?

Meantime, at least the bad news was released after the markets were closed and has an extra day to contemplate what this all means. Answer to that should be apparent to anyone with half a brain (Depression 2.0 may be real and George may not be so crazy after all...).

If you divide the total offices closed (2,969) by 51 weeks (since July 11, 2008 is the IndyMac failure - 51 weeks back) closings have been averaging 58.21 offices per week, although admitted the data is skewed a bit by the WAMU and Downey Savings failures. Still, the count is the count.

Stop internet censorship!

2009-01-28T17:37:00.000-08:00

Please sign the petition to save the Internet from The media and government lobbyists that have vested interest in shutting down freedom of information. The internet as we know it is the most important entity of our time.

10/13/2008 - Peter Schiff On Glenn Beck: Inflation Nation?

2008-11-13T22:40:00.001-08:00

If you want to be informed on the Fed and economics in general, read 'The Creature from Jekyll Island' by G. Edward Griffin. He goes into great detail about central banking and fiat money(he condemns both). Its on Ron Paul's list of recommended reading, and it is probably the most enlightening piece of literature that you will ever read.

Rosie O'Donnell and William Rodriguez

2008-09-14T17:49:00.000-07:00

In this Powerfull Little Video Rosie and Willy outline what happened to him that Day seven years ago.

911 Loose Change (full-length)

2008-08-23T03:56:00.001-07:00

The first internet hit film, actually the most downloaded film on the internet.

SHADOWPLAY - 9/11 PUPPETMASTERS ... Part 1 ...

2008-08-15T18:57:00.001-07:00

Here is the fantastic film Shadowplay, the first Australian 9/11 truth film!

Its a realy good film
PART I
�9/11 PUPPETMASTERS
Featuring:�
CHARLIE SHEEN - with InfoWars.com
General LEONID IVASHOV - Commander of Russian Armed Forces, September 11, 2001
ANDREAS VON BUELOW - Former State Secretary of Defense,�Germany�
CONNIE FOGAL - Leader Canadian Action Party, Canada
WEBSTER GRIFFIN TARPLEY - Historian, USA
G.EDWARD GRIFFIN - Founder Freedom Force International, USA
WILL THOMAS - Investigative Journalist
BARRIE ZWICKER - Media Critic, Canada
Prof KEVIN BARRETT - Islamologist, Univ Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Prof MICHEL CHOSSUDOVSKY - Economist, Univ Ottawa, Canada
Prof JOHN McMURTRY - Moral Philosopher, Univ Guelph, Canada

Please come and see the full length film on the 12th of September at the Tom Mann Theartre, Surry Hills, Sydney.

Prisonplanet.com gets facelift

2008-07-03T21:51:00.000-07:00

Alex Jones's PrisonPlanet.com has had a long time coming face lift. The new System is bound to be easier for publishers to publish stories and would also make room for such technologies as RSS feeds for the website.

Some people like it and some people don't but the important thing is the content. and the content is as good as always.

The only thing I would say is that the Logo is in desperate need of help.
To give it a main stream look and feel.

I have knocked up this one.
Let me know what you think.

J

9/11 Hijackers ALIVE!

2008-07-01T17:14:00.001-07:00

Just another nail in the coffin of the official 9/11 conspiracy theory.!

Preparing the Battlefield

2008-06-30T20:43:00.000-07:00

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/07/07/080707fa_fact_hersh
Preparing the Battlefield

The Bush Administration steps up its secret moves against Iran.

by Seymour M. Hersh July 7, 2008

Late last year, Congress agreed to a request from President Bush to fund a major escalation of covert operations against Iran, according to current and former military, intelligence, and congressional sources. These operations, for which the President sought up to four hundred million dollars, were described in a Presidential Finding signed by Bush, and are designed to destabilize the country’s religious leadership. The covert activities involve support of the minority Ahwazi Arab and Baluchi groups and other dissident organizations. They also include gathering intelligence about Iran’s suspected nuclear-weapons program.

Clandestine operations against Iran are not new. United States Special Operations Forces have been conducting cross-border operations from southern Iraq, with Presidential authorization, since last year. These have included seizing members of Al Quds, the commando arm of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, and taking them to Iraq for interrogation, and the pursuit of “high-value targets” in the President’s war on terror, who may be captured or killed. But the scale and the scope of the operations in Iran, which involve the Central Intelligence Agency and the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), have now been significantly expanded, according to the current and former officials. Many of these activities are not specified in the new Finding, and some congressional leaders have had serious questions about their nature.

Under federal law, a Presidential Finding, which is highly classified, must be issued when a covert intelligence operation gets under way and, at a minimum, must be made known to Democratic and Republican leaders in the House and the Senate and to the ranking members of their respective intelligence committees—the so-called Gang of Eight. Money for the operation can then be reprogrammed from previous appropriations, as needed, by the relevant congressional committees, which also can be briefed.

“The Finding was focussed on undermining Iran’s nuclear ambitions and trying to undermine the government through regime change,” a person familiar with its contents said, and involved “working with opposition groups and passing money.” The Finding provided for a whole new range of activities in southern Iran and in the areas, in the east, where Baluchi political opposition is strong, he said.

Although some legislators were troubled by aspects of the Finding, and “there was a significant amount of high-level discussion” about it, according to the source familiar with it, the funding for the escalation was approved. In other words, some members of the Democratic leadership—Congress has been under Democratic control since the 2006 elections—were willing, in secret, to go along with the Administration in expanding covert activities directed at Iran, while the Party’s presumptive candidate for President, Barack Obama, has said that he favors direct talks and diplomacy.

The request for funding came in the same period in which the Administration was coming to terms with a National Intelligence Estimate, released in December, that concluded that Iran had halted its work on nuclear weapons in 2003. The Administration downplayed the significance of the N.I.E., and, while saying that it was committed to diplomacy, continued to emphasize that urgent action was essential to counter the Iranian nuclear threat. President Bush questioned the N.I.E.’s conclusions, and senior national-security officials, including Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, made similar statements. (So did Senator John McCain, the presumptive Republican Presidential nominee.) Meanwhile, the Administration also revived charges that the Iranian leadership has been involved in the killing of American soldiers in Iraq: both directly, by dispatching commando units into Iraq, and indirectly, by supplying materials used for roadside bombs and other lethal goods. (There have been questions about the accuracy of the claims; the Times, among others, has reported that “significant uncertainties remain about the extent of that involvement.”)

Military and civilian leaders in the Pentagon share the White House’s concern about Iran’s nuclear ambitions, but there is disagreement about whether a military strike is the right solution. Some Pentagon officials believe, as they have let Congress and the media know, that bombing Iran is not a viable response to the nuclear-proliferation issue, and that more diplomacy is necessary.

A Democratic senator told me that, late last year, in an off-the-record lunch meeting, Secretary of Defense Gates met with the Democratic caucus in the Senate. (Such meetings are held regularly.) Gates warned of the consequences if the Bush Administration staged a preëmptive strike on Iran, saying, as the senator recalled, “We’ll create generations of jihadists, and our grandchildren will be battling our enemies here in America.” Gates’s comments stunned the Democrats at the lunch, and another senator asked whether Gates was speaking for Bush and Vice-President Dick Cheney. Gates’s answer, the senator told me, was “Let’s just say that I’m here speaking for myself.” (A spokesman for Gates confirmed that he discussed the consequences of a strike at the meeting, but would not address what he said, other than to dispute the senator’s characterization.)

The Joint Chiefs of Staff, whose chairman is Admiral Mike Mullen, were “pushing back very hard” against White House pressure to undertake a military strike against Iran, the person familiar with the Finding told me. Similarly, a Pentagon consultant who is involved in the war on terror said that “at least ten senior flag and general officers, including combatant commanders”—the four-star officers who direct military operations around the world—“have weighed in on that issue.”

The most outspoken of those officers is Admiral William Fallon, who until recently was the head of U.S. Central Command, and thus in charge of American forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. In March, Fallon resigned under pressure, after giving a series of interviews stating his reservations about an armed attack on Iran. For example, late last year he told the Financial Times that the “real objective” of U.S. policy was to change the Iranians’ behavior, and that “attacking them as a means to get to that spot strikes me as being not the first choice.”

Admiral Fallon acknowledged, when I spoke to him in June, that he had heard that there were people in the White House who were upset by his public statements. “Too many people believe you have to be either for or against the Iranians,” he told me. “Let’s get serious. Eighty million people live there, and everyone’s an individual. The idea that they’re only one way or another is nonsense.”

When it came to the Iraq war, Fallon said, “Did I bitch about some of the things that were being proposed? You bet. Some of them were very stupid.”

The Democratic leadership’s agreement to commit hundreds of millions of dollars for more secret operations in Iran was remarkable, given the general concerns of officials like Gates, Fallon, and many others. “The oversight process has not kept pace—it’s been coöpted” by the Administration, the person familiar with the contents of the Finding said. “The process is broken, and this is dangerous stuff we’re authorizing.”

Senior Democrats in Congress told me that they had concerns about the possibility that their understanding of what the new operations entail differs from the White House’s. One issue has to do with a reference in the Finding, the person familiar with it recalled, to potential defensive lethal action by U.S. operatives in Iran. (In early May, the journalist Andrew Cockburn published elements of the Finding in Counterpunch, a newsletter and online magazine.)

The language was inserted into the Finding at the urging of the C.I.A., a former senior intelligence official said. The covert operations set forth in the Finding essentially run parallel to those of a secret military task force, now operating in Iran, that is under the control of JSOC. 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. But the borders between operations are not always clear: in Iran, C.I.A. agents and regional assets have the language skills and the local knowledge to make contacts for the JSOC operatives, and have been working with them to direct personnel, matériel, and money into Iran from an obscure base in western Afghanistan. As a result, Congress has been given only a partial view of how the money it authorized may be used. One of JSOC’s task-force missions, the pursuit of “high-value targets,” was not directly addressed in the Finding. There is a growing realization among some legislators that the Bush Administration, in recent years, has conflated what is an intelligence operation and what is a military one in order to avoid fully informing Congress about what it is doing.

“This is a big deal,” the person familiar with the Finding said. “The C.I.A. needed the Finding to do its traditional stuff, but the Finding does not apply to JSOC. The President signed an Executive Order after September 11th giving the Pentagon license to do things that it had never been able to do before without notifying Congress. The claim was that the military was ‘preparing the battle space,’ and by using that term they were able to circumvent congressional oversight. Everything is justified in terms of fighting the global war on terror.” He added, “The Administration has been fuzzing the lines; there used to be a shade of gray”—between operations that had to be briefed to the senior congressional leadership and those which did not—“but now it’s a shade of mush.”

“The agency says we’re not going to get in the position of helping to kill people without a Finding,” the former senior intelligence official told me. He was referring to the legal threat confronting some agency operatives for their involvement in the rendition and alleged torture of suspects in the war on terror. “This drove the military people up the wall,” he said. As far as the C.I.A. was concerned, the former senior intelligence official said, “the over-all authorization includes killing, but it’s not as though that’s what they’re setting out to do. It’s about gathering information, enlisting support.” The Finding sent to Congress was a compromise, providing legal cover for the C.I.A. while referring to the use of lethal force in ambiguous terms.

The defensive-lethal language led some Democrats, according to congressional sources familiar with their views, to call in the director of the C.I.A., Air Force General Michael V. Hayden, for a special briefing. Hayden reassured the legislators that the language did nothing more than provide authority for Special Forces operatives on the ground in Iran to shoot their way out if they faced capture or harm.

The legislators were far from convinced. One congressman subsequently wrote a personal letter to President Bush insisting that “no lethal action, period” had been authorized within Iran’s borders. As of June, he had received no answer.

Members of Congress have expressed skepticism in the past about the information provided by the White House. On March 15, 2005, David Obey, then the ranking Democrat on the Republican-led House Appropriations Committee, announced that he was putting aside an amendment that he had intended to offer that day, and that would have cut off all funding for national-intelligence programs unless the President agreed to keep Congress fully informed about clandestine military activities undertaken in the war on terror. He had changed his mind, he said, because the White House promised better coöperation. “The Executive Branch understands that we are not trying to dictate what they do,” he said in a floor speech at the time. “We are simply trying to see to it that what they do is consistent with American values and will not get the country in trouble.”
Obey declined to comment on the specifics of the operations in Iran, but he did tell me that the White House reneged on its promise to consult more fully with Congress. He said, “I suspect there’s something going on, but I don’t know what to believe. Cheney has always wanted to go after Iran, and if he had more time he’d find a way to do it. We still don’t get enough information from the agencies, and I have very little confidence that they give us information on the edge.”

None of the four Democrats in the Gang of Eight—Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Intelligence Committee chairman John D. Rockefeller IV, and House Intelligence Committee chairman Silvestre Reyes—would comment on the Finding, with some noting that it was highly classified. An aide to one member of the Democratic leadership responded, on his behalf, by pointing to the limitations of the Gang of Eight process. The notification of a Finding, the aide said, “is just that—notification, and not a sign-off on activities. Proper oversight of ongoing intelligence activities is done by fully briefing the members of the intelligence committee.” However, Congress does have the means to challenge the White House once it has been sent a Finding. It has the power to withhold funding for any government operation. The members of the House and Senate Democratic leadership who have access to the Finding can also, if they choose to do so, and if they have shared concerns, come up with ways to exert their influence on Administration policy. (A spokesman for the C.I.A. said, “As a rule, we don’t comment one way or the other on allegations of covert activities or purported findings.” The White House also declined to comment.)

A member of the House Appropriations Committee acknowledged that, even with a Democratic victory in November, “it will take another year before we get the intelligence activities under control.” He went on, “We control the money and they can’t do anything without the money. Money is what it’s all about. But I’m very leery of this Administration.” He added, “This Administration has been so secretive.”

One irony of Admiral Fallon’s departure is that he was, in many areas, in agreement with President Bush on the threat posed by Iran. They had a good working relationship, Fallon told me, and, when he ran CENTCOM, were in regular communication. On March 4th, a week before his resignation, Fallon testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee, saying that he was “encouraged” about the situations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Regarding the role played by Iran’s leaders, he said, “They’ve been absolutely unhelpful, very damaging, and I absolutely don’t condone any of their activities. And I have yet to see anything since I’ve been in this job in the way of a public action by Iran that’s been at all helpful in this region.”

Fallon made it clear in our conversations that he considered it inappropriate to comment publicly about the President, the Vice-President, or Special Operations. But he said he had heard that people in the White House had been “struggling” with his views on Iran. “When I arrived at CENTCOM, the Iranians were funding every entity inside Iraq. It was in their interest to get us out, and so they decided to kill as many Americans as they could. And why not? They didn’t know who’d come out ahead, but they wanted us out. I decided that I couldn’t resolve the situation in Iraq without the neighborhood. To get this problem in Iraq solved, we had to somehow involve Iran and Syria. I had to work the neighborhood.”
Fallon told me that his focus had been not on the Iranian nuclear issue, or on regime change there, but on “putting out the fires in Iraq.” There were constant discussions in Washington and in the field about how to engage Iran and, on the subject of the bombing option, Fallon said, he believed that “it would happen only if the Iranians did something stupid.”

Fallon’s early retirement, however, appears to have been provoked not only by his negative comments about bombing Iran but also by his strong belief in the chain of command and his insistence on being informed about Special Operations in his area of responsibility. One of Fallon’s defenders is retired Marine General John J. (Jack) Sheehan, whose last assignment was as commander-in-chief of the U.S. Atlantic Command, where Fallon was a deputy. Last year, Sheehan rejected a White House offer to become the President’s “czar” for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. “One of the reasons the White House selected Fallon for CENTCOM was that he’s known to be a strategic thinker and had demonstrated those skills in the Pacific,” Sheehan told me. (Fallon served as commander-in-chief of U.S. forces in the Pacific from 2005 to 2007.) “He was charged with coming up with an over-all coherent strategy for Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan, and, by law, the combatant commander is responsible for all military operations within his A.O.”—area of operations. “That was not happening,” Sheehan said. “When Fallon tried to make sense of all the overt and covert activity conducted by the military in his area of responsibility, a small group in the White House leadership shut him out.”

The law cited by Sheehan is the 1986 Defense Reorganization Act, known as Goldwater-Nichols, which defined the chain of command: from the President to the Secretary of Defense, through the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and on to the various combatant commanders, who were put in charge of all aspects of military operations, including joint training and logistics. That authority, the act stated, was not to be shared with other echelons of command. But the Bush Administration, as part of its global war on terror, instituted new policies that undercut regional commanders-in-chief; for example, it gave Special Operations teams, at military commands around the world, the highest priority in terms of securing support and equipment. The degradation of the traditional chain of command in the past few years has been a point of tension between the White House and the uniformed military.

“The coherence of military strategy is being eroded because of undue civilian influence and direction of nonconventional military operations,” Sheehan said. “If you have small groups planning and conducting military operations outside the knowledge and control of the combatant commander, by default you can’t have a coherent military strategy. You end up with a disaster, like the reconstruction efforts in Iraq.”

Admiral Fallon, who is known as Fox, was aware that he would face special difficulties as the first Navy officer to lead CENTCOM, which had always been headed by a ground commander, one of his military colleagues told me. He was also aware that the Special Operations community would be a concern. “Fox said that there’s a lot of strange stuff going on in Special Ops, and I told him he had to figure out what they were really doing,” Fallon’s colleague said. “The Special Ops guys eventually figured out they needed Fox, and so they began to talk to him. Fox would have won his fight with Special Ops but for Cheney.”

The Pentagon consultant said, “Fallon went down because, in his own way, he was trying to prevent a war with Iran, and you have to admire him for that.”

In recent months, according to the Iranian media, there has been a surge in violence in Iran; it is impossible at this early stage, however, to credit JSOC or C.I.A. activities, or to assess their impact on the Iranian leadership. The Iranian press reports are being carefully monitored by retired Air Force Colonel Sam Gardiner, who has taught strategy at the National War College and now conducts war games centered on Iran for the federal government, think tanks, and universities. The Iranian press “is very open in describing the killings going on inside the country,” Gardiner said. It is, he said, “a controlled press, which makes it more important that it publishes these things. We begin to see inside the government.” He added, “Hardly a day goes by now we don’t see a clash somewhere. There were three or four incidents over a recent weekend, and the Iranians are even naming the Revolutionary Guard officers who have been killed.”

Earlier this year, a militant Ahwazi group claimed to have assassinated a Revolutionary Guard colonel, and the Iranian government acknowledged that an explosion in a cultural center in Shiraz, in the southern part of the country, which killed at least twelve people and injured more than two hundred, had been a terrorist act and not, as it earlier insisted, an accident. It could not be learned whether there has been American involvement in any specific incident in Iran, but, according to Gardiner, the Iranians have begun publicly blaming the U.S., Great Britain, and, more recently, the C.I.A. for some incidents. The agency was involved in a coup in Iran in 1953, and its support for the unpopular regime of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi—who was overthrown in 1979—was condemned for years by the ruling mullahs in Tehran, to great effect. “This is the ultimate for the Iranians—to blame the C.I.A.,” Gardiner said. “This is new, and it’s an escalation—a ratcheting up of tensions. It rallies support for the regime and shows the people that there is a continuing threat from the ‘Great Satan.’ ” In Gardiner’s view, the violence, rather than weakening Iran’s religious government, may generate support for it.

Many of the activities may be being carried out by dissidents in Iran, and not by Americans in the field. One problem with “passing money” (to use the term of the person familiar with the Finding) in a covert setting is that it is hard to control where the money goes and whom it benefits. Nonetheless, the former senior intelligence official said, “We’ve got exposure, because of the transfer of our weapons and our communications gear. The Iranians will be able to make the argument that the opposition was inspired by the Americans. How many times have we tried this without asking the right questions? Is the risk worth it?” One possible consequence of these operations would be a violent Iranian crackdown on one of the dissident groups, which could give the Bush Administration a reason to intervene.

A strategy of using ethnic minorities to undermine Iran is flawed, according to Vali Nasr, who teaches international politics at Tufts University and is also a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. “Just because Lebanon, Iraq, and Pakistan have ethnic problems, it does not mean that Iran is suffering from the same issue,” Nasr told me. “Iran is an old country—like France and Germany—and its citizens are just as nationalistic. The U.S. is overestimating ethnic tension in Iran.” The minority groups that the U.S. is reaching out to are either well integrated or small and marginal, without much influence on the government or much ability to present a political challenge, Nasr said. “You can always find some activist groups that will go and kill a policeman, but working with the minorities will backfire, and alienate the majority of the population.”

The Administration may have been willing to rely on dissident organizations in Iran even when there was reason to believe that the groups had operated against American interests in the past. The use of Baluchi elements, for example, is problematic, Robert Baer, a former C.I.A. clandestine officer who worked for nearly two decades in South Asia and the Middle East, told me. “The Baluchis are Sunni fundamentalists who hate the regime in Tehran, but you can also describe them as Al Qaeda,” Baer told me. “These are guys who cut off the heads of nonbelievers—in this case, it’s Shiite Iranians. The irony is that we’re once again working with Sunni fundamentalists, just as we did in Afghanistan in the nineteen-eighties.” Ramzi Yousef, who was convicted for his role in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who is considered one of the leading planners of the September 11th attacks, are Baluchi Sunni fundamentalists.

One of the most active and violent anti-regime groups in Iran today is the Jundallah, also known as the Iranian People’s Resistance Movement, which describes itself as a resistance force fighting for the rights of Sunnis in Iran. “This is a vicious Salafi organization whose followers attended the same madrassas as the Taliban and Pakistani extremists,” Nasr told me. “They are suspected of having links to Al Qaeda and they are also thought to be tied to the drug culture.” The Jundallah took responsibility for the bombing of a busload of Revolutionary Guard soldiers in February, 2007. At least eleven Guard members were killed. According to Baer and to press reports, the Jundallah is among the groups in Iran that are benefitting from U.S. support.

The C.I.A. and Special Operations communities also have long-standing ties to two other dissident groups in Iran: the Mujahideen-e-Khalq, known in the West as the M.E.K., and a Kurdish separatist group, the Party for a Free Life in Kurdistan, or PJAK.

The M.E.K. has been on the State Department’s terrorist list for more than a decade, yet in recent years the group has received arms and intelligence, directly or indirectly, from the United States. Some of the newly authorized covert funds, the Pentagon consultant told me, may well end up in M.E.K. coffers. “The new task force will work with the M.E.K. The Administration is desperate for results.” He added, “The M.E.K. has no C.P.A. auditing the books, and its leaders are thought to have been lining their pockets for years. If people only knew what the M.E.K. is getting, and how much is going to its bank accounts—and yet it is almost useless for the purposes the Administration intends.”

The Kurdish party, PJAK, which has also been reported to be covertly supported by the United States, has been operating against Iran from bases in northern Iraq for at least three years. (Iran, like Iraq and Turkey, has a Kurdish minority, and PJAK and other groups have sought self-rule in territory that is now part of each of those countries.) In recent weeks, according to Sam Gardiner, the military strategist, there has been a marked increase in the number of PJAK armed engagements with Iranians and terrorist attacks on Iranian targets. In early June, the news agency Fars reported that a dozen PJAK members and four Iranian border guards were killed in a clash near the Iraq border; a similar attack in May killed three Revolutionary Guards and nine PJAK fighters. PJAK has also subjected Turkey, a member of NATO, to repeated terrorist attacks, and reports of American support for the group have been a source of friction between the two governments.

Gardiner also mentioned a trip that the Iraqi Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, made to Tehran in June. After his return, Maliki announced that his government would ban any contact between foreigners and the M.E.K.—a slap at the U.S.’s dealings with the group. Maliki declared that Iraq was not willing to be a staging ground for covert operations against other countries. This was a sign, Gardiner said, of “Maliki’s increasingly choosing the interests of Iraq over the interests of the United States.” In terms of U.S. allegations of Iranian involvement in the killing of American soldiers, he said, “Maliki was unwilling to play the blame-Iran game.” Gardiner added that Pakistan had just agreed to turn over a Jundallah leader to the Iranian government. America’s covert operations, he said, “seem to be harming relations with the governments of both Iraq and Pakistan and could well be strengthening the connection between Tehran and Baghdad.”

The White House’s reliance on questionable operatives, and on plans involving possible lethal action inside Iran, has created anger as well as anxiety within the Special Operations and intelligence communities. JSOC’s operations in Iran are believed to be modelled on a program that has, with some success, used surrogates to target the Taliban leadership in the tribal territories of Waziristan, along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. But the situations in Waziristan and Iran are not comparable.

In Waziristan, “the program works because it’s small and smart guys are running it,” the former senior intelligence official told me. “It’s being executed by professionals. The N.S.A., the C.I.A., and the D.I.A.”—the Defense Intelligence Agency—“are right in there with the Special Forces and Pakistani intelligence, and they’re dealing with serious bad guys.” He added, “We have to be really careful in calling in the missiles. We have to hit certain houses at certain times. The people on the ground are watching through binoculars a few hundred yards away and calling specific locations, in latitude and longitude. We keep the Predator loitering until the targets go into a house, and we have to make sure our guys are far enough away so they don’t get hit.” One of the most prominent victims of the program, the former official said, was Abu Laith al-Libi, a senior Taliban commander, who was killed on January 31st, reportedly in a missile strike that also killed eleven other people.

A dispatch published on March 26th by the Washington Post reported on the increasing number of successful strikes against Taliban and other insurgent units in Pakistan’s tribal areas. A follow-up article noted that, in response, the Taliban had killed “dozens of people” suspected of providing information to the United States and its allies on the whereabouts of Taliban leaders. Many of the victims were thought to be American spies, and their executions—a beheading, in one case—were videotaped and distributed by DVD as a warning to others.

It is not simple to replicate the program in Iran. “Everybody’s arguing about the high-value-target list,” the former senior intelligence official said. “The Special Ops guys are pissed off because Cheney’s office set up priorities for categories of targets, and now he’s getting impatient and applying pressure for results. But it takes a long time to get the right guys in place.”
The Pentagon consultant told me, “We’ve had wonderful results in the Horn of Africa with the use of surrogates and false flags—basic counterintelligence and counter-insurgency tactics. And we’re beginning to tie them in knots in Afghanistan. But the White House is going to kill the program if they use it to go after Iran. It’s one thing to engage in selective strikes and assassinations in Waziristan and another in Iran. The White House believes that one size fits all, but the legal issues surrounding extrajudicial killings in Waziristan are less of a problem because Al Qaeda and the Taliban cross the border into Afghanistan and back again, often with U.S. and NATO forces in hot pursuit. The situation is not nearly as clear in the Iranian case. All the considerations—judicial, strategic, and political—are different in Iran.”

He added, “There is huge opposition inside the intelligence community to the idea of waging a covert war inside Iran, and using Baluchis and Ahwazis as surrogates. The leaders of our Special Operations community all have remarkable physical courage, but they are less likely to voice their opposition to policy. Iran is not Waziristan.”

A Gallup poll taken last November, before the N.I.E. was made public, found that seventy-three per cent of those surveyed thought that the United States should use economic action and diplomacy to stop Iran’s nuclear program, while only eighteen per cent favored direct military action. Republicans were twice as likely as Democrats to endorse a military strike. Weariness with the war in Iraq has undoubtedly affected the public’s tolerance for an attack on Iran. This mood could change quickly, however. The potential for escalation became clear in early January, when five Iranian patrol boats, believed to be under the command of the Revolutionary Guard, made a series of aggressive moves toward three Navy warships sailing through the Strait of Hormuz. Initial reports of the incident made public by the Pentagon press office said that the Iranians had transmitted threats, over ship-to-ship radio, to “explode” the American ships. At a White House news conference, the President, on the day he left for an eight-day trip to the Middle East, called the incident “provocative” and “dangerous,” and there was, very briefly, a sense of crisis and of outrage at Iran. “TWO MINUTES FROM WAR” was the headline in one British newspaper.

The crisis was quickly defused by Vice-Admiral Kevin Cosgriff, the commander of U.S. naval forces in the region. No warning shots were fired, the Admiral told the Pentagon press corps on January 7th, via teleconference from his headquarters, in Bahrain. “Yes, it’s more serious than we have seen, but, to put it in context, we do interact with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and their Navy regularly,” Cosgriff said. “I didn’t get the sense from the reports I was receiving that there was a sense of being afraid of these five boats.”

Admiral Cosgriff’s caution was well founded: within a week, the Pentagon acknowledged that it could not positively identify the Iranian boats as the source of the ominous radio transmission, and press reports suggested that it had instead come from a prankster long known for sending fake messages in the region. Nonetheless, Cosgriff’s demeanor angered Cheney, according to the former senior intelligence official. But a lesson was learned in the incident: The public had supported the idea of retaliation, and was even asking why the U.S. didn’t do more. The former official said that, a few weeks later, a meeting took place in the Vice-President’s office. “The subject was how to create a casus belli between Tehran and Washington,” he said.

In June, President Bush went on a farewell tour of Europe. He had tea with Queen Elizabeth II and dinner with Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni, the President and First Lady of France. The serious business was conducted out of sight, and involved a series of meetings on a new diplomatic effort to persuade the Iranians to halt their uranium-enrichment program. (Iran argues that its enrichment program is for civilian purposes and is legal under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.) Secretary of State Rice had been involved with developing a new package of incentives. But the Administration’s essential negotiating position seemed unchanged: talks could not take place until Iran halted the program. The Iranians have repeatedly and categorically rejected that precondition, leaving the diplomatic situation in a stalemate; they have not yet formally responded to the new incentives.

The continuing impasse alarms many observers. Joschka Fischer, the former German Foreign Minister, recently wrote in a syndicated column that it may not “be possible to freeze the Iranian nuclear program for the duration of the negotiations to avoid a military confrontation before they are completed. Should this newest attempt fail, things will soon get serious. Deadly serious.” When I spoke to him last week, Fischer, who has extensive contacts in the diplomatic community, said that the latest European approach includes a new element: the willingness of the U.S. and the Europeans to accept something less than a complete cessation of enrichment as an intermediate step. “The proposal says that the Iranians must stop manufacturing new centrifuges and the other side will stop all further sanction activities in the U.N. Security Council,” Fischer said, although Iran would still have to freeze its enrichment activities when formal negotiations begin. “This could be acceptable to the Iranians—if they have good will.”

The big question, Fischer added, is in Washington. “I think the Americans are deeply divided on the issue of what to do about Iran,” he said. “Some officials are concerned about the fallout from a military attack and others think an attack is unavoidable. I know the Europeans, but I have no idea where the Americans will end up on this issue.”

There is another complication: American Presidential politics. Barack Obama has said that, if elected, he would begin talks with Iran with no “self-defeating” preconditions (although only after diplomatic groundwork had been laid). That position has been vigorously criticized by John McCain. The Washington Post recently quoted Randy Scheunemann, the McCain campaign’s national-security director, as stating that McCain supports the White House’s position, and that the program be suspended before talks begin. What Obama is proposing, Scheunemann said, “is unilateral cowboy summitry.”

Scheunemann, who is known as a neoconservative, is also the McCain campaign’s most important channel of communication with the White House. He is a friend of David Addington, Dick Cheney’s chief of staff. I have heard differing accounts of Scheunemann’s influence with McCain; though some close to the McCain campaign talk about him as a possible national-security adviser, others say he is someone who isn’t taken seriously while “telling Cheney and others what they want to hear,” as a senior McCain adviser put it.

It is not known whether McCain, who is the ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, has been formally briefed on the operations in Iran. At the annual conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, in June, Obama repeated his plea for “tough and principled diplomacy.” But he also said, along with McCain, that he would keep the threat of military action against Iran on the table. ♦

ILLUSTRATION: GUY BILLOUT

New IBM ad Bosts about total survailence society and database Linking control grids.

2008-06-19T23:42:00.000-07:00

The same company that brought you the organization tools behind The Nazi Concentration camps is now trying to cell I mean sell you their big brother nanny state control grid.
Watch this IBM film to see how they manipulate language in an Orwellian Manner to make it a good thing that you are paying for total control and total tyranny.

Transcript.
OPERATOR
Police operator 122. What's your emergency?
MAN
Yeah, a guy just robbed me. He stuck a gun in my
face and took everything.
OPERATOR
Do you know what he was wearing?
MAN
No, I'm not sure. It happened so fast. All I know ...
he had a tattoo on his neck.
OPERATOR
Okay, sir. Police are on their way.
(MUSIC)
JOE D'AMICO
On Saturday, November 5th, a ... a male walked into
a midtown pizzeria.
BILL McNEELY
He ordered one slice of pepperoni pizza, sat down in
the back of the pizzeria and remained there until
closing. At this time, the owner approached him and
asked him to leave. The gentleman produced a
silver handgun, took the owner at gunpoint around
the counter and removed a large sum of money from
the cash register.

(CASH REGISTER SOUND)
JOE D'AMICO
On the way out of the location, the manager noticed
that he had a tattoo on his neck. Had the word
"sugar" written in it.
(MUSIC)
MIKE HORBACZ
We're heading north over here, and uh ... we're
passing 11th Street and Avenue B, and that was a
big block for uh, crime. Very big block. There was a
place over here called the Brown Door which used to
serve heroin and cocaine, and junkies used to flock
all night over there to buy the stuff.
(MUSIC)
TRAVIS RAPP
Uh, growing up as a kid in the lower east side, it was
not the best of neighborhoods. Drug use is very big.
The crack epidemic, I saw a lot of that. Uh, there
were also street gangs that ruled a lot of the
neighborhood.
EVELYN ROSARIO
My parents wouldn't allow me downstairs uh, by
myself.
JIM MOONEY
When I was in the detective school on the 110 in
Queens years ago, I remember putting 189th
robbery on a sheet.
(SIREN)

MIKE HORBACZ
When the NYPD focused on the uh, street level
crime, that started the uh, changing of this
neighborhood. Thompson Square Park, where the
homeless used to eat pigeons ... now it served a
squab on Avenue B.
RAY KELLY
In the aftermath of the attacks of September 11th,
we simply had to do more with less. Our budget was
cut. Our personnel were significantly reduced. It
was a classic case of trying to be more efficient,
more effective with uh, diminishing resources.
MARIANNE COOPER
I think the vision from Commissioner Kelly's
standpoint was how do you utilize and leverage
technology to do a better job of providing a
knowledge based tool for the detectives so that they
could in fact, be able to solve crimes more
effectively.
JOE D'AMICO
Our old systems only gave us the capability to do
certain queries, very limited search capabilities ...
RAY KELLY
I wanted to be able to get information ...
(NOISE)
RAY KELLY
that we knew we had. We're kind of a classic
case of a big organization not knowing what it
knows.
MARIANNE COOPER
It was out there. It was in multiple forms, paper,
separate databases, separate processes. And now
the challenge was, how do you integrate all of this ...
(SIREN)
MARIANNE COOPER
... into an opportunity where there would be one
place to go.
RAY KELLY
The question was, how do we gather the information
and get it to our officers on patrol. The answer to
that is the Real Time Crime Center.
(MUSIC)
JOE D'AMICO
The RTCC is a 24 hour, seven day operation which
provides information and investigative support to
detectives who are investigating violent crime, and
the information is delivered to them right at the crime
scene.
RAY KELLY
It is in essence, a data warehouse where we brought
this information together.
CHRISTINE TYLER

Some of those databases are incident databases,
arrest databases, patrol databases, corrections
databases, warrants databases.
JIM ONALFO
We've taken a lot of the grunt work out of the hands
of the detectives, and uh, given them the time to
spend with ... we want them to do most ... which is
hard nosed uh, detective analysis and solving
crimes.
BILL MCNEELY
The Real Time Crime Center can give us information
much faster than we can ever gather it ourselves.
RADIO VOICE
Perp is a male Caucasian, six foot two, sugar tattoo
on his neck, last seen ...
JIM MOONEY
The detectives had reached out to us with the
nickname of sugar.
JOE D'AMICO
We were able to back the man with a violent robbery
history. We pulled up his photo and his physical
attributes, and he matched the description to a T.
We then helped him (sic) develop information on his
possible whereabouts.
BILL McNEELY
Myself and a team of detectives from the midtown
north squad went to a housing project. A group of us
walked through the front door, up a flight of stairs till
we came to apartment 2B. We knocked on the door,
and inside was our perpetrator.
(BANG)
JOE D'AMICO
If it wasn't for the technology that's available here,
we wouldn't have been able to solve the case.
PAM DELANEY
Fighting crime is all about information. It's
connecting the dots. There are literally hundreds of
cases like Sugar, and when you have that
information, you're able to connect it all using
technology in a place like the Real Time Crime
Center. You're gonna make New York and any city a
safer place.
RAY KELLY
The Police Foundation has contributed significants
(sic) amounts of money for components of the Real
Time Crime Center.
PAM DELANEY
Ninety-five percent of the Police Department's
budget goes for personnel services, leaving only five
percent to pay for everything else. Our mission is to
close the gap between what they need and what
they have, and we do that through the generosity of
... of the citizens of New York.
(MUSIC)
EVELYN ROSARIO
I believe the city of New York is a safer place today
than it was years ago.
JIM ONALFO
That's probably the most satisfying thing to hear,
knowing that we're bringing something important to
the police operation at the NYPD. It's improving the
way they do business. It's improving the way they
solve crimes.
MARIANNE COOPER
I think one of the terrific aspects of what IBM can
bring to the table as something that differentiates us
is that we can marry all of these aspects -
technology, software, services um, to help the city of
New York fight crime.
RAY KELLY
What can help us in ... in the short term and the long
term? The obvious answer is technology and we're
going to do everything we can to make certain that
New York remains in the lead in that regard.
MIKE HORBACZ
Right now, we're at the waterfront of Brooklyn ... at
Williamsburg, and all this is gonna be taken down
and all new luxury high rises are gonna go over here.
Now, before where they had gangs and grafittis all in
this neighborhood ... now you see mothers with baby
carriages walking into this park and people do
calisthenics. Uh, somehow things changed.
(MUSIC)
(END OF TAPE)

Bush impeachment commences!

2008-06-18T16:15:00.000-07:00

How Congress and the Media Duck Impeachment

The Elephant in the Room
Counterpunch

By DAVE LINDORFF

On Monday last week, something important happened in Washington. Rep. Dennis Kucinich, the Democratic representative from Cleveland, OH, who early in the primary season won some of the biggest applause lines in the Democratic presidential candidate debates, introduced 35 articles calling for the impeachment of President George W. Bush for high crimes and misdemeanors.

You'd be excused if you didn't know this happened. There was almost no reporting on the event that day or the next, which took several hours to accomplish, along with several hours Tuesday for to be read into the Congressional Record. Kucinich's address to the House was broadcast live on C-Span. But it was not announced in advance or highlighted on the C-Span website, and there were not many news reports on the historically significant fact that articles of impeachment had been filed against the president during subsequent days.

A week later, it has still not been reported in the New York Times, the nation’s self-described “newspaper of record,” even though the Times had just days before Rep. Kucinich’s action, editorialized about the enormity of the president’s lies in tricking the country into invading Iraq—one of the crimes leading Rep. Kucinich’s long list.

A number of papers did editorialize against impeachment, including the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Florida Sun Sentinel—but it says something that these publications thought it more important to attack Rep. Kucinich’s action than to actually report on it as a news item.

Even the Washington Post’s news report was an example more of the sclerotic state of American journalism than of genuine reporting. It began:

“Having failed in efforts to impeach Vice President Cheney, Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich (D-Ohio) escalated his battle against the administration this week by introducing 35 articles of impeachment against President Bush, using a parliamentary maneuver that will probably force a vote today.”

Any journalism student who wrote a lede like Post staff writer Ben Pershing’s in a classroom exercise would have gotten a “D” or an “F” for it. Talk about backing into a story! First of all, Kucinich hasn’t “failed” in his effort to impeach Cheney. Congress has failed to impeach our criminal vice president and regent. Technically, Kucinich’s Cheney impeachment bill is still lodged in the House Judiciary Committee, where it is now joined in political limbo by the Ohio congressman’s new Bush impeachment measure.

The unwillingness of the nation’s news media to seriously consider the need for Congress to respond to and challenge the president’s clear abuses of power—even as they themselves condemn of those abuses of power—is a blot on the journalistic profession perhaps worse, and of more lasting consequence, than their failure to act as watchdogs and critics during the run-up to the Iraq War, when they acted more as patriotic cheerleaders than as news organizations.

As impeachment advocates, including Rep. Kucinich, have pointed out, unless this president and vice president are impeached by the current Congress, any—and probably every—future president will feel empowered by unchallenged precedent to ignore laws passed by the Congress, to go to war without Congressional approval, to spy on Americans in violation of the law, to ignore court orders, to abrogate international treaties, and to lie to Congress and the American people. Unless Congress asserts its rights under Article I, it will no longer even be a co-equal branch of government, but instead will have been reduced to nothing more than a debating society.

Editorialists, while refusing to honestly report on this Constitutional crisis, have been parroting the claim of gutless and calculating Democratic Party leaders like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in saying that with the nation at war and with a critical election approaching, there are “more pressing” matters to consider than impeachment, and that impeachment would be a “diversion.”

This is nonsense. As hundreds of American troops continue to die each quarter in a war that never should have happened, and that was launched five years ago and continued for half a decade thanks to administration lies and deception, there is nothing more important facing this nation than restoring Constitutional government and Constitutional checks and balances—something that can only be done through the Constitutional process of impeachment.

The American people instinctively know this. In polls, fully half or more of the public consistently continue to say, even at this late date, that they want the president impeached. Considering the media blackout on the issue, this is truly astonishing and even heartening. But it will take more than polls to get impeachment rolling. The public needs to start demanding that its representatives take action, on pain of being voted out of office.

I was at an anti-war forum in New Jersey last Friday evening sponsored by a group of peace activists calling themselves the Iraq Forum Organizing Team. When forum panelist Rep. Rob Andrews was asked by an audience member whether he favored impeachment and supported Rep. Kucinich’s articles of impeachment, Andrews fudged. He claimed, ingenuously, that the articles had been sent to the House Judiciary Committee for hearings, and said that he personally thought that Bush had committed an impeachable “high crime” by outing the identity of a covert agent of the CIA, Valerie Plame, and added that if the Judiciary Committee “develops a bunch of evidence” to support that charge, he would vote to impeach.

As I pointed out to the congressman, he certainly knows that that is a cheap dodge. I said that he was well aware that the way legislation moves forward in Congress is that members like himself sign on as co-sponsors of legislation they favor, and that then, and only then, those measures get hearings. Without co-sponsors, bills go to committee to be killed by inaction, which is the intention of sending Kucinich’s articles of impeachment to the committee. I said if Rep. Andrews were honestly to believe that the president might have committed any high crimes, he should either file articles of impeachment himself, or co-sign the excellent set of articles already filed by Rep. Kucinich. Instead, Andrews, like the rest of the Democrats and Republicans in the House, with the notable exception of Rep. Wexler and California Reps. Barbara Lee and Lynn Woolsey, have avoided Kucinich’s articles like the plague.

The audience loudly applauded this condemnation of Rep. Andrews.

We are at a critical point on impeachment. The elected leadership is afraid to challenge even this unprecedentedly unpopular president, who continues to defy Senate and House subpoenas, continues to promote war and to violate laws and treaties, and who is now conspiring with his vice president to launch yet another, bigger, war against the nation of Iran.

At the end of the day, if we get to January 19 without any impeachment hearings, we may see Bush and Cheney depart Washington, we may even see a Democratic president and a Congress with a significant Democratic majority in both houses, but it will be a hollow victory.

The nation’s democracy will at that point have been left a smoking ruin.

DAVE LINDORFF is a Philadelphia-based journalist. His latest book is “The Case for Impeachment” (St. Martin’s Press, 2006 and now available in paperback edition). His work is available at www.thiscantbehappening.net

japanese parliament starts to doubt official 9/11 story.

2008-06-17T03:35:00.000-07:00

Lawmaker takes 9/11 doubts global

By JOHN SPIRI
Special to The Japan Times

In a September 2003 article for The Guardian newspaper, Michael Meacher, who served as Tony Blair's environment minister from May 1997 to June 2003, shocked the establishment by calling the global war on terrorism "bogus." Even more controversially, he implied that the U.S. government either allowed 9/11 to happen, or played some role in the destruction wrought that day. Besides Meacher, few politicians have publicly questioned America's official 9/11 narrative — until Diet member Yukihisa Fujita.
Yukihisa Fujita addresses the Diet
Speaking out: Democratic Party of Japan lawmaker Yukihisa Fujita addresses the Diet and Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda on his doubts about the official story of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the U.S. COURTESY OF YUKIHISA FUJITA

In January 2008 Fujita, a member of the Democratic Party of Japan, asked the Japanese Parliament and Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda to explain gaping holes in the official 9/11 story that various groups — including those who call themselves the "911 Truth Movement" — claim to have exposed.

Fujita, along with a growing number of individuals — including European and American politicians — are leading a charge to conduct a thorough, independent investigation of what happened on Sept. 11, 2001.

"Three or four years ago I saw some Internet videos like 'Loose Change' and '911 In Plane Site' and I began to ask questions," Fujita said in an interview, "but I still couldn't believe this was done by anyone but al-Qaida.

"Last year I watched more videos and read books written by professor David Ray Griffin (a professor emeritus of philosophy of religion and theology at Claremont Graduate University who wrote the most famous Truth Movement book, 'The New Pearl Harbor') about things such as the collapse of World Trade Center No. 7. This building, which was never hit by an airplane, collapsed straight down. Between the videos showing the way it fell, and the numerous reports of explosions, many are convinced that this building was demolished."

Fujita's presentation to the Diet and Fukuda focused a great deal on yet another aspect of 9/11 that now quite a few around the world find extremely suspicious: the Pentagon crash.

"I don't think (a) 767 could have hit the Pentagon," Fujita reckons. "There is no evidence of the plane itself. Almost nothing identifiable was left on the lawn or inside. The official story says the entire plane disintegrated, but the jet engines in particular were very strong (two 6-ton titanium steel turbine engines). And the damage to the building is much smaller than the size of the supposed airplane. The official claims just don't fit the facts."

While some label that claim "wacky" and label critics of the official 9/11 story "conspiracy theorists," Fujita has impressive company. For one, former Maj. Gen. Albert Stubblebine, who was commanding general of U.S. Army Intelligence and Security until 1984, is quoted on the "Patriots Question 911" Web site as saying, "I look at the hole in the Pentagon and I look at the size of an airplane that was supposed to have hit the Pentagon. And I said, 'The plane does not fit in that hole.'

"So what did hit the Pentagon? What hit it? Where is it? What's going on?"

Fujita urges the Bush administration to put the issue to rest simply by showing videos that show the plane that hit the Pentagon. Instead, only a few grainy images have been released to the public. More disconcertingly, many videos taken by surrounding businesses were confiscated by the FBI immediately after the Pentagon explosion.

The Pennsylvania crash, like the Pentagon explosion, also yielded virtually no recognizable plane parts at the crash site. Rather, small pieces of debris were found up to 10 km away. The official story — that the plane "vaporized" when it hit the ground — is inconsistent with the evidence left by every other plane crash in the history of aviation.

Plane crashes always yield plane fragments, Fujita explained, which can be identified by the plane's serial number, but that's not the case for the four planes which crashed on 9/11. Strangely, the U.S. government managed to produce passports and DNA samples of individuals killed, but no identifiable plane parts. In an online article entitled "Physics 911," 34-year U.S. Air Force veteran Col. George Nelson notes, "It seems . . . that all potential evidence was deliberately kept hidden from public view."

Fujita has largely relied on the voluminous amount of video and written material published in books and on the Internet, including the "Patriots Question 911" site, on which hundreds of allegations are leveled against the official story by senior officials from the military, intelligence services, law enforcement, and government, as well as pilots, engineers, architects, firefighters and others.

While not many other Japanese have taken an interest in this story, a few notable individuals besides Fujita have disputed the U.S. government's version, including Akira Dojimaru, a Japanese writer living in Spain. In his book, written in Japanese, "The Anatomy of the WTC Collapses: Flaws in the U.S. Government's Account," he uses photos, drawings and blueprints of the WTC buildings to back up his claim that buildings one and two could not have fallen in the manner they fell due to the plane crashes and subsequent fires. "And even if it was conceivable that they could fall due to the damage that day," Dojimaru wrote in an e-mail, "they never would have collapsed horizontally, and would have scattered steel beams and smashed concrete much farther than 100 meters."

For Fujita, it was Dojimaru's meticulous research, combined with the aforementioned Web sites, that convinced him the official story was nothing more than a house of cards.

One book that Fujita found unconvincing was the "9/11 Commission Report."

"The head of the 9/11 Commission is close with (U.S. Secretary of State) Condoleezza Rice and (Vice President Dick) Cheney. One commission member (Sen. Max Cleland) resigned, saying the White House did not disclose enough information."

On Democracy Now's radio show in March 2004, Cleland even went as far as to say, "This White House wants to cover it (the facts of 9/11) up."

More recently, a New York Times article in January quoted Thomas Kean, the chairman of the 9/11 Commission, as saying that "the CIA destroyed videotaped interrogations of Qaeda operatives," and concluded that that "obstructed our investigation."

Following the lead of Fujita, Karen Johnson, a conservative Republican senator from Arizona, has publicly voiced her doubts about 9/11 before the U.S. Senate. Inspired by Blair Gadsby — who on May 27 started a hunger strike to bring attention to the 911 Truth Movement — Johnson, like Fujita, is encouraging politicians to conduct a thorough, independent investigation.

Fujita, who worked for more than 20 years for the international conflict resolution NGO group MRA and the Japanese Association for Aid and Relief (AAR), has become something of a global cause celebre since his extraordinary questioning at the Diet. In February 2008, he participated in a conference at the European Parliament led by EMP Guilietto Chiesa calling for an independent commission of inquiry into 9/11. While in Europe, he met with NGOs from 11 European countries to discuss 9/11.

One month later Fujita spoke at the "Truth Now" conference in Sydney, Australia. One focus of these meetings was the Italian documentary "ZERO," whose release will mark the first time the 9/11 movement's message has moved from the "cyberworld" to public venues. Fujita has also spoken about his 9/11 doubts on two U.S. radio shows, one hosted by Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul, and another by Alex Jones of infowars.com.

He is also making ripples in Japan. Fujita was featured in a March 2 article by well-known critic Takao Iwami on "How to deal with doubts about 9/11" in the Sunday Mainichi weekly. He was also featured in a March 26 Spa! magazine piece headlined, "European conference discusses 9/11 doubts."

However, not everyone is enthralled with Fujita's bold line of questioning.

"One person showed strong anger towards me," Fujita noted, "and another (Japanese person) threatened my life. A few others advised me to be extremely careful."

Still, Fujita says, the vast majority — around 95 percent — have been positive.

"One man said, 'You're a true samurai.' Another man came all the way from Okayama in western Japan to thank me personally. And among other Parliament members, I received only words of encouragement and support."

While in Europe, Fujita met British former MP Meacher, who dared to question the official story when it was still considered gospel. Time, the Iraq war and well-sourced online videos are emboldening many people, including politicians, to step out of the cyberworld and voice their doubts in newspapers, magazines, theaters, and — most importantly — government chambers.

"Now Blair is gone, and Bush will soon be gone," Meacher told Fujita. "Our time is coming."

GMO Trilogy - Unnatural Selection

2008-06-11T01:26:00.000-07:00

www.seedsofdeception.com

This explosive exposé reveals what the biotech industry doesn't want you to know - how industry manipulation and political collusion, not sound science, allow dangerous genetically engineered food into your daily diet. Company research is rigged, alarming evidence of health dangers is covered up, and intense political pressure applied. Chapters read like adventure stories and are hard to put down:

* Scientists were offered bribes or threatened. Evidence was stolen. Data was omitted or distorted.

* Government employees who complained were harassed, stripped of responsibilities, or fired. * Laboratory rats fed a GM crop developed stomach lesions and seven of the forty died within two weeks. The crop was approved without further tests.

* The only independent in-depth feeding study ever conducted showed evidence of alarming health dangers. When the scientist tried to alert the public, he lost his job and was silenced with threats of a lawsuit. Read the actual internal memos by FDA scientists, warning of toxins, allergies, and new diseases - all ignored by their superiors, including a former attorney for Monsanto. Learn why the FDA withheld information from Congress after a genetically modified supplement killed nearly a hundred people and disabled thousands.

The GMO Trilogy's was released in April 2006 in conjunction with Earth Day (April 22) and International GMOpposition Day (April 8)—a coordinated 30-nation campaign to raise awareness about genetically modified (GM) food. The three-disc set includes: Set 1: Unnatural Selection (part 1- 5) Set 2: Hidden Dangers in Kids’ Meals: Genetically Engineered Foods (part 1-3) Set 3: You’re Eating WHAT?

Kucinich presents 35 articles of impeachment against Bush

2008-06-10T06:59:00.001-07:00

An Ohio Democratic lawmaker and former presidential candidate has presented articles of impeachment against President George W. Bush to Congress. Thirty-five articles were presented by Kucinich to the House of Representatives late Monday evening, airing live on CSPAN...

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U.S. Corporate Media Blackout On Bilderberg Meeting

2008-06-07T09:05:00.001-07:00

Ben Bernanke, Condoleezza Rice, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton amongst a host of other global power brokers have all convened in Chantilly Virginia to secretly discuss the future of the world - yet not one mainstream U.S. corporate media outlet has uttered a single word about the 2008 Bilderberg conference.

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Company to turn off your lights when energy gets low

2008-06-05T23:42:00.000-07:00

This is just a little bit more control that you are giving away to someone else and eventually when the tech grid is in place the government. Only in a prison does someone else have control of your lights and electricity usage. not anymore soon we will live in a prison planet.

Free Bees - 9/11's a Lie (Stayin' Alive)

2008-06-05T19:32:00.001-07:00

FREE MP3 DOWNLOAD: http://c.ilike.com/d/0000/227/0000227...
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The 'Free Bees' are looking for help in spreading their '9/11's a lie' music video and song far and wide. Reluctantly they have decided that even though they're extremely proud of the work, they are releasing it anonymously.

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Australian PM to form Asian Union.

2008-06-05T05:16:00.003-07:00

Kevin Rudd to drive Asian union

2008-06-05T04:31:00.000-07:00

Matthew Franklin, Chief political correspondent | June 05, 2008

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KEVIN Rudd wants to spearhead the creation of an Asia-Pacific Union similar to the European Union by 2020 and has appointed veteran diplomat Richard Woolcott - one of his mentors - as a special envoy to lobby regional leaders over the body.

The Prime Minister said last night that the union, adding India to the 21-member APEC grouping, would encompass a regional free-trade agreement and provide a crucial venue for co-operation on issues such as terrorism and long-term energy and resource security.

And he outlined his plans for his visits to Japan and Indonesia next week, saying he would explore greater defence co-operation between Australia, Japan and the US - an approach that had been championed by John Howard.

Speaking in Sydney last night to the Asia Society Australasia Centre, the Mandarin-speaking Mr Rudd said global power and influence was shifting towards the Asia-Pacific region and that Australia must drive the creation of a new global architecture for the Asia-Pacific century.

"We need to have a vision for an Asia-Pacific community, a vision that embraces a regional institution, which spans the entire Asia-Pacific region - including the United States, Japan, China, India, Indonesia and the other states of the region," said the Prime Minister.

The body would be "able to engage in the full spectrum of dialogue, co-operation and action in economic and political matters and future challenges related to security".

"The purpose is to encourage the development of a genuine and comprehensive sense of community whose habitual operating principle is co-operation," Mr Rudd said.

"The danger of not acting is that we run the risk of succumbing to the perception that future conflict within our region may somehow be inevitable."

Government sources said last night that Mr Rudd was attempting to revive the reformist spirit of former Labor prime minister Bob Hawke, who successfully pressed for the creation of the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation group 20 years ago.

Mr Woolcott, 80, was Mr Hawke's right-hand man in establishing APEC and was a frequent critic of the Howard government's foreign policy.

Mr Woolcott told The Australian last night that Mr Rudd had made it clear there was great scope to co-ordinate existing regional organisations.

"This fits neatly into the concept of greater middle-power diplomacy," Mr Woolcott said.

"If the US or China or Japan or some other big power were to suggest it, other nations might be apprehensive and back away. It's better for a middle power like Australia to take the initiative.

"I've always thought that this was the part of the world where Australia lives, and if an Asia-Pacific community does develop, it's essential that Australia be part of it."

The proposed new pan-Asian body would come in addition to a range of existing forums through the region, including ASEAN, ASEAN Plus Three and the East Asian Summit.

But Mr Rudd said now was the appropriate time to re-examine the regional diplomatic and economic architecture because foreign policy based only on bilateral agreements had "a brittleness".

"To remove some of that brittleness, we need strong and effective regional structures," Mr Rudd said.

"Strong institutions will underpin an open, peaceful, stable, prosperous and sustainable region."

Mr Rudd said the existing forums were not configured to promote co-operation across the entire region.

And he said his proposal was consistent with US President George W.Bush's call for the development of an Asia-Pacific free trade area.

While the EU should not provide "an identikit model", the Asia-Pacific region could learn much from the union, which in the 1950s had been seen by sceptics as unrealistic.

"Our special challenge is that we face a region with greater diversity in political systems and economic structures, levels of development, religious beliefs, languages and cultures, than did our counterparts in Europe," Mr Rudd said. "But that should not stop us from thinking big."

Mr Rudd said he would send Mr Woolcott to complete the "unfinished business" he had begun with Mr Hawke. "Subject to that further dialogue, we would envisage the possibility of a further high-level conference of government and non-government representatives to advance this proposal," he said.

"I fully recognise this will not be an easy process ... but the speed and the scope of changes in our region means we need to act now. Ours must be an open region - we need to link into the world, not shut ourselves off from it.

"And Australia has to be at the forefront of the challenge, helping to provide the ideas and drive to build new regional architecture."

Mr Rudd said his Government's foreign policy was based on three pillars: its relationship with the US; its links with the UN; and "comprehensive engagement with Asia".

Discussing his visits to Japan and Indonesia next week, Mr Rudd said he would continue talks with Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda toward the creation of a free-trade agreement as well as advancing talks on security co-operation between Australia, Japan and the US. In Indonesia, he would pursue talks about a free-trade agreement and anti-terrorism co-operation with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, as well as seeking a template for greater co-operation on dealing with natural disasters.

Additional reporting: Greg Sheridan

even Coloring book s are brain washing kids to use a neurotoxin to brush their teeth with.

2008-06-04T06:14:00.000-07:00

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars
June 3, 2008

As the above page from Milk Matters coloring book demonstrates, the point is not so much promotion of toothpaste but rather deadly fluoride (note the title on the tube).

Brainwashing kids and parents alike is apparently the mission of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research. In order to indoctrinate the little ones and make sure they get their dose of fluoride, these bureaucracies have published a coloring book, available here in PDF format. As the page capture at right demonstrates, the point is not so much promotion of toothpaste but rather deadly fluoride (note the title on the tube).

It’s all part of the global elite’s eugenics and dumbing-down program.

There is plenty of research, studiously ignored by the corporate media, that indicates fluoride not only dumb-downs children and adults alike, but is a killer. In 1995, neurotoxicologist and former Director of toxicology at Forsyth Dental Center in Boston, Dr. Phyllis Mullenix published research showing that fluoride permanent effects the brain. “The toxic effects of fluoride on the central nervous system was subsequently confirmed by previously-classified government research. Two new epidemiological studies which tend to confirm fluoride’s neurotoxic effects on the brain have shown that children exposed to higher levels of fluoride had lower IQs,” writes the Holistic Healing web page. In addition, small levels of fluoride created “histologic lesions in their brain similar to Alzheimer’s disease and dementia.” Moreover, according to a study conducted by Varner et al., exposure to fluoride caused “damage to the blood brain barrier.”

The Department of Health in New Jersey found that bone cancer in male children was between two and seven times greater in areas where water was fluoridated. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) researchers confirmed the bone cancer-causing effects of fluoride at low levels. In fact, fluoride build up in the bones and causes adverse changes to bone structure.

Fluoride is a perfect weapon for the eugenicists, as a toxicologist in the United Kingdom recently found that perinatal deaths in a fluoridated area was 15% higher than in neighboring non-fluoridated areas. The fluoridated area had a higher socio-economic status and would have been expected to have less perinatal deaths. The fluoridated area also had a 30% higher rate of Down’s Syndrome. Chile banned fluoridation because of research by the world-renowned researcher, Dr Albert Schatz, which showed a link to infant deaths due to fluoridation.

Research also discovered that fluoride “impairs the functioning of the immune system. In the United States, where toxic fluoride compounds are regularly added to water and given to children since the 1960s and 1970s, we are beginning to see an overwhelming number of people of that generation who are developing chronic immune system disorders,” the above cited web site notes.

Double-blind studies revealed additional adverse affects, including: gastrointestinal symptoms, stomatitis, joint pains, polydipsia, headaches, visual disturbances, muscular weakness, and extreme tiredness. For more information on these double-blind studies, check out the review of Fluoride: The Freedom Fight, by Dr. Hans Moolenburgh of the Netherlands. Other studies indicate exposure to fluoride increases the risk to contamination from lead, arsenic and radio nuclides since fluoride compounds are toxic waste byproducts which largely come from pollution generated by scrubbers of fertilizer plants (see this study’s abstract).

Add to the list exacerbation of Repetitive Stress Injury, osteoarthritis, suppression of the and thyroid function, and more.

Finally, contrary to the assertion of the coloring book, fluoride causes dental fluorosis in children, that is to say it causes permanent adverse structural change to the teeth.

You’d think the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research would be aware of the above research. No doubt they probably are, while many others working and volunteering for these “institutes” are unaware of the research and believe they are promoting dental health. In fact, what they are promoting is the eugenics agenda to dumb-down and kill off large numbers of people, including no shortage of children.

O'Reilly gets angry while interviewing Scott McClellan

2008-06-04T05:15:00.000-07:00

David Edwards and Mike Sheehan
Raw Story
Tuesday, June 3, 2008

'O'Reilly Factor' host Bill O'Reilly became visibly upset as he questioned Scott McClellan about Iraq war propaganda and the CIA leak case.

McClellan, the former Bush White House press secretary whose recently released book has caused a sensation with its scathing critiques of the administration he once worked for, appeared on the show to promote his memoirs.

O'Reilly was particularly incensed with McClellan's critique of President Bush's reasons for invading Iraq, overtly to find weapons of mass destruction.

"If the director of the CIA believes it, British intelligence believes it, John Kerry believes it, Hillary Clinton believes it, and President Clinton believes it..." said O'Reilly, "If they all believe Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction, sir: don't you have a nerve accusing me of not being vigilant enough?"

O'Reilly later thundered, "If two presidents of the United States (sitting), the former CIA guy who works for both presidents, Tony Blair, and The New York Times all tell me and you [Saddam has] got [WMDs], we can't say 'no, he doesn't!'

McClellan attempted to explain himself continuously through the interview, but O'Reilly could not be satisfied. "The central theme of your book is wrong," accused O'Reilly.

This video is from Fox's O'Reilly Factor, broadcast June 2, 2008

Day 5 of the 9-11 Hunger Strike at John McCain's Office

2008-06-01T07:05:00.001-07:00

Professor Blair Gadsby delivers a message to Senator McCain's office on his 5th day of the hunger strike for 9-11 truth. Get daily updates at hungry4truth.com

Please contact your your local news and tell them about this!

Prototype EU Airplane Spy Cams Watch For Facecrime

2008-05-30T16:39:00.000-07:00

"You can't make stuff like this up. The EU is actually testing a prototype system of cameras in airplanes to monitor passengers' facial expressions in order to detect both terrorism and 'air rage.' The Security of Aircraft in the Future European Environment (SAFEE) project used an Airbus A380 fuselage with six wide-angle cameras to watch for people running or loitering near the cockpit door, as well as a camera in the back of every seat to watch for facecrime like sweating too much, or acting nervous. But that's okay, because the system won't alert anyone until it sees a 'combination of signs,' instead of just one stray expression, or they might accidentally catch a lot of people who are afraid of flying or of being watched."

http://technology.newscientist.com/channel/tech/dn14013-inflight-surveillance-could-foil-terrorists-in-the-sky.html

Its really sick that we are turning into a cooperate fascist world where we are not free but tracked and traced. The EU should be ashamed of themselves.! I will boycott any company that installs this rubbish.

To quote Thomas Jefferson - "The man who would choose security over freedom deserves neither." The real terror will come from governments. Who have control grids like this in place. A citizenship full of sheep will attract a government of wolves.

Stay free! don't let the terrorists win!

Help Us Take The Infowar To The Next Level This Saturday

2008-05-30T07:01:00.001-07:00

Saturday is the big day - the day when you can make a statement and pledge your support for one of the most exciting and ambitious developments that the alternative media has ever undertaken, by participating in the Infowars Money Bomb.

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July 12, 2008: Ron Paul Revolution March on Washington D.C.

2008-05-29T19:39:00.001-07:00

Ron Paul Revolution March on Washington D.C.
Be there on JULY 12, 2008. Hear the Bells of Liberty.. and do NOT forget to take a copy of the Constitution with you!!

Go to: http://www.revolutionmarch.com

Gathering is on the west side of Capitol Hill. Ronvoys are there that will take you to Washington.

It's time.. Come and MARCH! BE THERE! JULY 12, 2008! Because it's almost too late..

Please, distribute this video all over You Tube, MySpace and Google Video!! Thanks to nibirushock for this great video, and allowing others to post it as well!!

DOWNLOAD/COPY HERE (stereo! + choose from other front picture (crowd)!!): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-C44J1...

The Ron Paul movement is passionately dedicated to a smaller, less activist government. It is beholden to no power structure and decentralized in how it gets information or organizes itself to act.

Even Fort Detrick Scientists Themselves Think the Killer Anthrax Came from their Facility

2008-05-29T17:41:00.000-07:00

Even experts at the U.S. bioweapons facility at Fort Detrick think that the anthrax which was used in the 2001 attacks came from their facility:

"In an e-mail obtained by FOX News, scientists at Fort Detrick openly discussed how the anthrax powder they were asked to analyze after the attacks was nearly identical to that made by one of their colleagues.

"Then he said he had to look at a lot of samples that the FBI had prepared ... to duplicate the letter material," the e-mail reads. "Then the bombshell. He said that the best duplication of the material was the stuff made by [name redacted]. He said that it was almost exactly the same … his knees got shaky and he sputtered, 'But I told the General we didn't make spore powder!'"

Indeed, 3 of the 4 suspects the FBI is investigating are employees of Fort Detrick, which is run by the Army.

This new information verifies that the anthrax came from the Fort Detrick military base (confirmed here).

Some people are pretending that someone unconnected with the army bioweapons facility at Fort Detrick stole the anthrax. However, as the above-quoted article states:

"Fort Detrick is run by the United States Army. It's the most secure biological warfare research center in the United States," a bioterrorism expert told FOX News."

It is not very likely that someone could steal anthrax from the most secure facility in the U.S., run by the Army.

Indeed, the FBI apparently knew in 2002 who mailed the anthrax letters. See this, this, and this.

And yet government investigators and prosecutors have covered up and refused to disclose who did it for 6 years. Initially, the FBI tried to frame an innocent man for the attacks.

More importantly, "The FBI has completely shut Congress out of its now five-year investigation into anthrax attacks on Capitol Hill and around the nation". In other words, Congress -- which legally has every right to know what really happened, and which was the main victim of the attack -- is being kept in the dark. If the FBI really didn't know who did it, and was really conducting an honest investigation, why would it stonewall Congress?

There is strong evidence that the anthrax attacks were a false flag attack. Indeed, the bioweapons expert who actually drafted the current bioweapons law (the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989) while working for President George H.W. Bush has said that he is convinced the October 2001 anthrax attacks that killed five people were perpetrated and covered up by criminal elements of the U.S. government. The motive: to foment a police state by killing off and intimidating opposition to post-9/11 legislation such as the USA PATRIOT Act and the later Military Commissions Act. See also this.

At the very least, the FBI and the White House are actively covering up for the person who really did it.

The Running Man (pt 1)

2008-05-27T22:49:00.001-07:00

This is a tyrannical dictatorship portrayed in Arnold Schwarzenegger's 1987 movie The Running Man, where citizens are reminded by huge TV screens that they can "earn a double bonus for reporting on a family member!"

New Hampshire Ballot Box Fraud Caught On Video

2008-05-26T02:08:00.001-07:00

Thanks to BlackBoxVoting for doing this video. Hmmmmm. As I sit back and watch this video and many others like this one and ponder over many issues such as who will be the next puppet that will be in office, which is the candidate, or candidates that the behind the scene people want in office? In the end it does not matter who we vote for because that seat in the oval office is already spoken for. The true question is what will happen when the majority vote (population) clearly outweighs the Electoral College. I remember learning this back in the days but had forgotten it until I was reminded by my son and a co-worker. Interesting thought to think how we Americans would handle it. It did happen one election but is was a close race. But my question is when the common people's vote clearly with a large margin outweighs the Electoral College.What will we do? Sit back and let it happen or take action? Makes me wonder. Maybe that is why things like this video happen to ensure that it is never known, that the mass population does not get the person they pick. I encourage everyone to vote, but not for the reasons that you think. It more like a selfish reason. I personally would love for everyone or a large # of people to vote for the underdog, and I would love to see it play out. Would they ever allow a Mike Gravel or Ron Paul in office or would they try every means to stop it from happening. So ask everyone and vote for Mike Gravel and bring it on.

Join The Alex Jones Money Bomb

2008-05-22T21:36:00.000-07:00

Are your friends and family still asleep? Imagine being able to watch, on a dish network, at your friends house, all of the content found on InfoWars.com and other like-minded minded organizations. Imagine the conversations that will occur after they see and hear some of the news they haven't been getting from the main stream... It is time to get Alex and others on the "tube" as we have only just begun to fight the InfoWars.

The Energy Non-Crisis

2008-05-21T22:48:00.000-07:00

Please watch this very very brave man Lindsey Williams give his testimony of why we are no where near peek oil and why the peek oil myth is being propergated. He even goes on tell you who "they" are!

VERY VERY IMPORTANT VIDEO.
Please pass this on!

Hunger-Strike by Professor to put the Spotlight on Senator John McCain about 9/11 Truth

2008-05-20T19:40:00.000-07:00

In an effort to focus national attention on the 9/11 truth issue by going directly to a power center of the 2008 Presidential Campaign, members of Phoenix 9/11 Truth will support Blair Gadsby, a professor of Religious Studies and signatory to the PatriotsQuestion911 website, in a hunger-strike slated to begin Memorial Day, 2008 at the Phoenix office of Senator John McCain. McCain has supported the official account of 9/11 by writing the foreword to the 2006 Popular Mechanics book [Debunking 9/11 Myths: Why Conspiracy Theories Can't Stand Up to the Facts].

Gadsby, an Arizonan who is represented by Senator McCain, stated for the record, "I believe Mr. McCain is a man of deep integrity. He has stood up to corporate influence in campaigns and to the very powerful Military Industrial Complex in the past, and he has a record of being a maverick. That's why I've chosen to offer him this opportunity to face the issues head-on publicly. He may be one of the very, very few who have the integrity and stature to keep the military loyal and find the broad-based political support to bring about a change in our great country. But today, he is in a perilous position. By writing the Foreword to the official cover-up story, he has sided with the corrupt and war-mongering elements in our society and government. But if he can be made to see that he has been lied to, like the rest of the American people, he may be able to pull us back from the brink of an America perpetually at war. In the end, that's what this is all about - a wartime economy that is out of control We need someone to rein it in, and I'm pinning my hopes that Senator McCain will do the right thing, and not be so desperate to become President that he will sell himself out. I only hope it's not too late."

Gadsby goes on to say that the reason he is willing to do a hunger-strike is because, "As an Arizonan, having my Senator write the Foreword to an obviously false story gives me a golden opportunity to draw attention to 9/11 truth issues. I believe I am handing the Senator an opening to look at the evidence and change his position. Mr. McCain could have the American people on his side in a heartbeat if and when they are given a chance to learn the truth. Once all of the American people come to learn details about 9/11, they are going to be mad as hell. The country has been far too patient with the many misdeeds of the Bush Administration. The Afghanistan war, and to no small degree, the Iraq war, were a direct result of 9/11. What the 9/11 Truth Movement and many others have established beyond a shadow of a doubt is that 9/11 was a classic case of "false-flag terrorism" used to mobilize the country for war. There's much more at stake here than just 9/11 truth. I believe if Mr. McCain hears our message and acts with the integrity that I know he possesses, he will go down in history as the political maverick he has striven to be."

Gadsby says he will fast until McCain agrees to give him and the Phoenix 9/11 Truth group two hours of time: one hour for presentation of evidence and facts followed by one hour of debate between leading investigators and scientists on both sides of the issue, "I challenge them to allow the American people to view the video footage of WTC7's collapse and the various experts describing the characteristics of a controlled demolition. The people are not stupid, once they see the evidence, huge questions will arise and it is right here where folks become intimidated. But this must be done, as painful as it is."

Tim King, a spokesman for Phoenix 9/11 Truth urges activists around the country to assist the Phoenix group in bringing media attention to Gadsby's unprecedented Hungry for 9/11 Truth, hunger-strike. King urges citizens and activists to question McCain about the hunger-strike while he's on the campaign trail. For more information about the hunger-strike, go to 9-11.meetup.com/350. For more information about Professor Blair Gadsby, see
http://patriotsquestion911.com/professors.html.

22,000 scientists refute Al Gore's global-warming religion

2008-05-16T07:23:00.001-07:00

There is NO consensus among scientists in support of the UN claims.

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ABC Australia Askes about Unanswered 9/11 questions

2008-05-16T07:18:00.001-07:00

"Current research indicates that an incendiary (thermite) may have been used to sever the massive box columns of the towers, causing the buildings to plummet to the ground at close to free-fall speed.

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BAYER SPREADS AIDS HIV through Hemopheliac medicine to children

2008-05-08T23:06:00.001-07:00

Bayer Corporation put live H.I.V. Virus in their hemophiliac medicine for children- and shipped it all over the world.

Why is this company still aloud to trade?

I'm pretty sure there are laws against this type of mass murder.
I feel so bad for all the thousands of families and children who were infected due to Bayer Corporation.
This is the epitome of bad-business, and un-ethical, careless behavior.
Why would they do this to us?
They have a moral responsibility to protect us. We are the source of their wealth. We are their customers.

Please spread this around.
and Boycott Bayer!

WH Admits: No Email Backup Tapes From Start of Iraq War

2008-05-06T20:36:00.001-07:00

The White House acknowledged in a court filing last night that it no longer has backup tapes of email from between March 1, 2003 and May 22, 2003, a period that includes the beginning of the Iraq war. How convenient!

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Pentagon Secretly Goes To War With The Internet

2008-05-06T20:32:00.001-07:00

The Pentagon is to spend $30 Billion building a super secret National Cyber Range in order to prepare for all out cyber warfare by using it to conduct mock online battles with realistic info-warriors.

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Geraldo At Large On DC Madam With Alex Jones 5/3/08

2008-05-04T21:24:00.001-07:00

Sock Puppet Zawahiri Claims Iran Behind 9/11 Conspiracy

2008-04-23T00:36:00.001-07:00

Al-CIAda sock puppet Ayman al-Zawahiri was quoted in an audiotape released today accusing Iran of behind behind 9/11 conspiracy theories, in another crude public relations stunt designed to generate hostile opinion towards the 9/11 Truth Movement.

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2008-04-17T23:15:00.000-07:00

This is one of the most powerfull film youll see about the war in Iraq!
Please take a moment to watch the film and plase pass it on!

J

Xeni's Boingboing TV episode on Tibet

2008-04-10T20:10:00.001-07:00

Xeni Jardin blogged in her Boingboing TV an episode where she is interviewing a tibetan human rights advocate who tells us what really happens in Tibet and how China is a abusing the media.

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Australian greens leader Sceptical over China's terrorism claims

2008-04-10T19:36:00.000-07:00

Australia's Uighur community says it is sceptical about claims that the Chinese Government has foiled an Islamic terrorist plot centred on the Beijing Olympics.

The Chinese Government says 45 Uighur men from the north-western province of Xinjiang have been arrested for plotting attacks during the Games.

China says Uighur militants have been agitating to establish an independent East Turkestan in the predominantly Muslim north-western region, which borders Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia.

Kuranda Seyit from Australia's World Uyghur Congress says the timing of the arrests is suspicious.

"I would be very surprised if there are any legitimate claims that there are people from that Eastern Turkestan region planning any type of terrorist attack," he said.

"I really believe that this is just a diversionary attempt to take the pressure off China because of what's happening in Tibet."

Greens leader Bob Brown says he also doubts the veracity of the Chinese claims.

Senator Brown says Chinese authorities have been making similar claims for several months.

"You simply don't know what to think because this is a police state that manufactures and manipulates the news to its own purposes," he said.

"I think the Olympics in Beijing will be as secure as any Olympics can be."

scource: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/04/11/2214025.htm

How Beijing Olympic Got Its Logo

2008-04-09T23:34:00.000-07:00

Props to Vincent Chow, creator of this cartoon.
Many of my friends laughed at it, and I thought you might also…
If you like this post, leave a comment in the box below!

Japanese Parliamentarian Yukihisa Fujita talks about 9/11 being an inside job

2008-03-31T22:38:00.000-07:00

Yukihisa Fujita (藤田幸久, Yukihisa Fujita? born 1950) is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan, a member of the House of Councilors in the Diet (national legislature)

On the Sunday Edition this week, Alex interviews Yukihisa Fujita, member of the Japanese Democratic Party , who questions the official 9/11 version and the "war on terror."

Stop the Clash of Civilizations

2008-03-27T00:49:00.001-07:00

Great little vid

We Are Change UK - SOCPA Arrest

2008-03-18T19:36:00.001-07:00

Simon from We Are Change UK gets arrested for demonstrating within the SOCPA Zone in London.

The Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (SOCPA) was introduced into the House of Commons on 24 November 2004 and was passed by Parliament and given Royal Assent in April 2005.

The Act is controversial primarily for an additional, entirely unrelated provision, which restricts the right to demonstrate within an exclusion zone of up to one kilometre from any point in Parliament Square. Demonstrators have to apply to the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police six days in advance, or if this is not reasonably practicable then no less than 24 hours in advance. No equivalent provision is made for any other Parliament in the United Kingdom.

In October 2007, the Home Office published a public consultation document, Managing Protest Around Parliament [5], which 'takes another look at sections 132-138 (of SOCPA) and explores whether there is another way to address the situation that would both uphold the right to protest while also giving police the powers they need to keep the peace'. Campaigners are worried that this document contains new threats to freedom of assembly and the right to protest in that is suggests that there could be 'harmonisation of powers to manage marches and assemblies' throughout the UK.

http://www.repeal-socpa.info/

9/11 Questioned in European Parliament!

2008-03-12T16:14:00.001-07:00

Members of We are Change UK were at the European Parliament in Brussels to watch the Premiere of Zero, a new film that questions the official version of events on 9/11. A panel of guests were in attendance to answer questions before and after the film. These included David Ray Griffin, Yukisha Fujita MP and Giullietto Chiesa MEP.

David Ray Griffin is one of the leading authors on 9/11, having written 6 books on the subject. His newest book looks at the 25 largest contradictions in the 9/11 Commission Report.

http://www.amazon.com/11-CONTRADICTIO...

Yukihisa Fujita is a Japanese opposition MP who recently questioned the Japanese Prime Minister about outstanding questions regarding 9/11. This was televised on national television reaching an audience of millions.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oq4_07...

Giullietto Chiesa is an Italian MEP and journalist. He is one of the producers of the film Zero and was responsible for the screening in the European Parliament.

Speeding Ticket Taser

2008-02-14T21:40:00.001-08:00

This is what happens! We are not slaves of police! police work for we the people! I hope that guy sued the cop in the civil court! I also love that the letters on the cam are NWOO (New World Order O)

Absurd Cop Video Warns of “Seven Signs of Terrorism”

2008-02-12T01:24:00.001-08:00

Once again, I am obliged to mention George Orwell and his novel, 1984. In the novel, Orwell describes the Youth League and the Spies, children in cahoots with the state who turn in their neighbors for all manner of imagined crimes.

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David Rockefeller Fears Ron Paul 2008

2008-02-07T16:15:00.001-08:00

This is a great little video exposing the Council on foreign relations, That is a group started by David Rockefeller to push the concept of a one world government, if you don't believe me please go and read the councils memorandum

How Romney's Departure Equals Victory for Paul

2008-02-07T15:52:00.001-08:00

With the unexpected concession of Mitt Romney, Ron Paul is suddenly thrust into serious contender status. EVERY ONE NEEDS TO GET THIS STORY OUT!

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Ron Paul Bests Everyone in Military Donations, Again.

2008-02-02T15:48:00.001-08:00

Paul received approximately three times as many Army donations as Senator John McCain, twice as many from the Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force, and more military donations overall than all the other Republican candidates combined.

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Middle East Internet Blackouts Spur Suspicions

2008-02-02T06:16:00.001-08:00

Unprecedented mass Internet outages throughout the Middle East and Asia after no less than four undersea Internet cables were cut without explanation are spurring suspicions that a major event of geopolitical proportions may be just around the corner.

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Australian Government To Pass Fluoride Bill

2008-01-30T07:05:00.001-08:00

The Australian Gov wants to spray airisolised fluride on all our foods now!

So you think you know where money comes from?

2008-01-29T15:47:00.001-08:00

By Colin Smith, Glasgow City

So where? Where does the money you have in your pocket and in your bank account come from?

Who created it?

It comes from the Government! ... Nope. It doesn't.
It comes from the Treasury! ... Nope. And that's part of the government.
It comes from the Mint! ... Nope. It doesn't, though they do print some.
It comes from the Bank of England! ... Generally Nope. Though they do have the ability.

Of all of the money we have, almost all of it is created by your local bank. Yes, created.

In the UK, the system of banking we use is called Fractional Reserve Banking. This is a system whereby the government allows the bank to hold a small reserve of any cash it has been given, and then loan out up to the value of the rest. They have to hold on to, on average, about 3% of the cash as "reserves".

The act of loaning out the cash literally creates new money. This is where all of our money comes from. I can feel the scepticism from here. The bank just loans out your money doesn't it, that doesn't create new money...

Well... This is how Fractional Reserve Banking creates new money. Lets pretend the reserve ratio is 10% for easy calculation.

1: The mint prints £100 and gives it to you (Person A).

2: You (Person A) take it to Bank A. They now have £100 in your bank account...

3: Someone else (Person B) goes to Bank A and borrows £90 at 5%. Bank A legally has to hold on to £10 as reserve.

4: Person B sticks the borrowed money into their bank account in Bank B. Bank B now has £90.

5: Person C comes along to Bank B and borrows £81 at 5%. Bank B holds on to £9 as reserves.

6: Person C sticks the £81 money into his account at Bank A.

Now...

Bank A now has 181 pounds in their accounts, Bank B has 90 pounds in their accounts...

That does not add up to the 100 pounds the mint originally printed. There is now, £271 worth of cash in our economy. There is £171 worth of new money.

Person A still has £100
Person B now has £90
Person C now has £81

Now, I don't know if you noticed, but as well as the £171 of money which has been created from nothing by the banks when the loans were taken out, there has also been £171 worth of debt created at exactly the same moment.

So there you have it. Almost all of our money (97% of the money in circulation) was created by your friendly local bank, wasn't that nice of them.

But wait.

They don't create this money from nothing for the good of their health. They are slaving over those hot books 8 hours a day to loan you that money they just created... from nothing... They charge interest on the cash which they created from nothing for your loan. They charge interest on the debt. But... if they charge interest, and 97% of our cash comes from loans, how can we repay all the debts?

I've established that almost all of our money is "borrowed into existence"... But if that's the case and the banks charge interest on it that means that more must be repaid than was ever created.

A £100 loan at 5%.

£100 cash and £100 of debt.
1 year later.
£100 cash and £105 of debt. Pay off £20.
1 year later.
£80 cash and £89 debt. Pay off £20.
1 year later.
£60 cash and £72 debt. Pay off £20.
1 year later.
£40 cash and £54 debt. pay off £20.
1 year later.
£20 cash and £35 debt. Pay off £20.
1 year later.
£0 cash and £16 debt...

Oops. No money left in the economy, there is none in existence but we still owe a debt of £16.

What's the solution? Well... What happens at the moment is we simply take out another larger loan to pay off the existing loan and interest and postpone the problem. The debts get larger every year and the amount of money and debt in the economy grows every year.

This is where all the money in our economy comes from and it is also where all the debt in the economy comes from. Our monetary system is debt based, we have trillions of pounds of money and even more trillions of pounds of debt.

So, our money is created by the high street banks; Abbey National, Alliance & Leicester, Barclays, HBOS, HSBC, Lloyds. It is created from debt we owe to these banks, it is not created by the government.

This animated Film explains very simply how our system works.
Please pass it on.

Ex-UN Weapons Inspector Ritter Asks If Bush, Cheney Planned Implosion Of WTC

2008-01-23T16:47:00.000-08:00

Jason Charles
TruthAlliance.net
Wednesday, January 23, 2008

In his usual form, former U.N. weapons inspector Scott Ritter told a packed crowd at the Oriental Theater in Denver to stop whining about corporate media and become their own intelligence operatives. We the people have the same resources and tools that intelligence networks rely heavily on; it’s called “Google” he said.

In his hilarious analogy, the American people like baby birds wait each night in front of their television sets for the corporate news bird to land in their living room and lovingly puke down our necks with that day’s regurgitated news. Suggesting that as our own intelligence operatives we can’t allow CNN, FOX, NBC, and ABC to edit and cherry pick information, but ask questions and find the answers ourselves.

In that vein TruthAlliance.net Editor Jason Charles had a few questions for Mr. Ritter which he graciously allowed us to film. We explored 3 topics, if the Bush admin got its way in the mid-east what would it look like, how can these dis-separate yet justice driven revolutions in America unite, and his amazing thoughts on a new, fully empowered investigation into the cause of 9-11.

He asked, “Did Bush and Cheney Plan the demise of the building? Was this a terrorist attack by Al-Qaeda? Or was it something in between? Well frankly we don’t know.” How important is this to establishing justice? Mr. Ritter seems to think it is an “absolute requirement to know what happened on 9-11”

Biometric Surveillance Control Grid Revealing Itself

2008-01-16T03:00:00.001-08:00

A vast intelligence program is to establish a global biometric database known as "Server in the Sky" that will collate and provide an "International Information Consortium" with access to the biometric measurements and personal information of citizens of the US, UK, Australia, Canada and New Zealand in the name of fighting the "war on terror".

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Scientific Study Finds Fluoride Horror Stories Factual

2008-01-15T17:00:00.000-08:00

Scientific Study Finds Fluoride Horror Stories Factual
Industrial by-product consumed by millions of Australians lowers IQ, causes cancer

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Tuesday, January 15, 2008

The establishment media will have to find a new tactic with which to ridicule those who oppose the fluoridation of water after a major new Scientific American report concluded that "Scientific attitudes toward fluoridation may be starting to shift" as new evidence emerges of the poison's link to disorders affecting teeth, bones, the brain and the thyroid gland, as well as lowering IQ.

"Today almost 60 percent of the U.S. population drinks fluoridated water, including residents of 46 of the nation’s 50 largest cities," reports Scientific American's Dan Fagin.

Fagin is an award-wining environmental reporter and Director of New York University's Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program.

"Outside the U.S., fluoridation has spread to Canada, the U.K., Australia, New Zealand and a few other countries. Critics of the practice have generally been dismissed as gadflies or zealots by mainstream researchers and public health agencies in those countries as well as the U.S. (In other nations, however, water fluoridation is rare and controversial.)"

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Indeed, the zeitgeist for scoffing at those who spoke of the dangers of mass medicating the public against their will with fluoride was the deranged and paranoid character of General Ripper in the hit 1964 Peter Selllers movie Dr. Strangelove.

But that stereotype is quickly fading as serious scientific research uncovers proof that all the horror stories about sodium fluoride told down the decades are essentially true.

The Scientific American study "Concluded that fluoride can subtly alter endocrine function, especially in the thyroid -- the gland that produces hormones regulating growth and metabolism."

The report also notes that "a series of epidemiological studies in China have associated high fluoride exposures with lower IQ."

"Epidemiological studies and tests on lab animals suggest that high fluoride exposure increases the risk of bone fracture, especially in vulnerable populations such as the elderly and diabetics," writes Fagin.

Fagin interviewed Steven Levy, director of the Iowa Fluoride Study which tracked about 700 Iowa children for sixteen years. Nine-year-old "Iowa children who lived in communities where the water was fluoridated were 50 percent more likely to have mild fluorosis... than [nine-year-old] children living in nonfluoridated areas of the state," writes Fagin.

The study adds to a growing literature of shocking scientific studies proving fluoride's link with all manner of health defects, even as governments in the west, including recently the UK, make plans to mass medicate the population against their will with this deadly toxin.

In 2005, a study conducted at the Harvard School of Dental Health found that fluoride in tap water directly contributes to causing bone cancer in young boys.

"New American research suggests that boys exposed to fluoride between the ages of five and 10 will suffer an increased rate of osteosarcoma - bone cancer - between the ages of 10 and 19," according to a London Observer article about the study.

Based on the findings of the study, the respected Environmental Working Group lobbied to have fluoride in tap water be added to the US government's classified list of substances known or anticipated to cause cancer in humans.

Cancer rates in the U.S. have skyrocketed with one in three people now contracting the disease at some stage in their life.

The link to bone cancer has also been discovered by other scientists, but a controversy ensued after it emerged that Harvard Professor Chester Douglass, who downplayed the connection in his final report, was in fact editor-in-chief of The Colgate Oral Health Report, a quarterly newsletter funded by Colgate-Palmolive Co., which makes fluoridated toothpaste.

An August 2006 Chinese study found that fluoride in drinking water damages children's liver and kidney functions.

FACTS ABOUT FLUORIDE

- Fluoride is a waste by-product of the fertilizer and aluminum industry and it's also a Part II Poison under the UK Poisons Act 1972.

- Fluoride is one of the basic ingredients in both PROZAC (FLUoxetene Hydrochloride) and Sarin nerve gas (Isopropyl-Methyl-Phosphoryl FLUoride).

- USAF Major George R. Jordan testified before Un-American Activity committees of Congress in the 1950's that in his post as U.S.-Soviet liaison officer, the Soviets openly admitted to "Using the fluoride in the water supplies in their concentration camps, to make the prisoners stupid, docile, and subservient."

- The first occurrence of fluoridated drinking water on Earth was found in Germany's Nazi prison camps. The Gestapo had little concern about fluoride's supposed effect on children's teeth; their alleged reason for mass-medicating water with sodium fluoride was to sterilize humans and force the people in their concentration camps into calm submission. (Ref. book: "The Crime and Punishment of I.G. Farben" by Joseph Borkin.)

- 97% of western Europe has rejected fluoridated water due to the known health risks, however 10% of Britons drink it and the UK government is trying to fast track the fluoridation of the entire country's water supply.

- In Germany, Belgium and Luxembourg fluoridation of water was rejected because it was classified as compulsive medication against the subject's will and therefore violated fundamental human rights.

- In November of 2006, the American Dental Association (ADA) advised that parents should avoid giving babies fluoridated water.

- Sources of fluoride include: fluoride dental products, fluoride pesticides, fluoridated pharmaceuticals, processed foods made with fluoridated water, and tea.

Click here to find out if your water supply is poisoned with deadly fluoride.

Please donate to this effort,

2008-01-13T20:56:00.000-08:00

The main streem media is doing its best to ignor Ron Paul so we the people must and have become the mainstream media.

Please visite the Ron Paul DVD bomb site to help them distribute RP DVD's

You can download the movie from here
http://www.ronpauldvdproject.com/download.php

Please burn as many copies as you can and put them in the post boxes of every one in your street!

Please stop the money bombs!

2008-01-07T22:23:00.001-08:00

A commentary calling for the end of the money bombs. And I agree.

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Message from Ron Paul

2007-12-17T19:05:00.000-08:00

What a day! I am humbled and inspired, grateful and thrilled for this vast outpouring of support.

On just one day, in honor of the 234th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, the new American revolutionaries brought in $6.04 million, another one-day record. The average donation was $102; we had 58,407 individual contributors, of whom an astounding 24,915 were first-time donors. And it was an entirely voluntary, self-organized, decentralized, independent effort on the internet. Must be the "spammers" I keep hearing about!

The establishment is baffled and worried, and well they should be. They keep asking me who runs our internet fundraising and controls our volunteers. To these top-down central planners, a spontaneous order like our movement is science-fiction. But you and I know it's real: as real as the American people's yearning for freedom, peace, and prosperity, as real as all the men and women who have sacrificed for our ideals, in the past and today.

And how neat to see celebrations all across the world, with Tea Parties from France to New Zealand. This is how we can spread the ideals of our country, through voluntary emulation, not bombs and bribes. Of course, there were hundreds in America.

As I dropped in on a cheering, laughing crowd of about 600 near my home in Freeport, Texas, I noted that they call us "angry." Well, we are the happiest, most optimistic "angry" movement ever, and the most diverse. What unites us is a love of liberty, and a determination to fix what is wrong with our country, from the Fed to the IRS, from warfare to welfare. But otherwise we are a big tent.

Said the local newspaper: "The elderly sat with teens barely old enough to vote. The faces were black, Hispanic, Asian and white. There was no fear in their voices as they spoke boldly with each other about the way the country should be. Held close like a deeply held secret, Paul has brought them out of the disconnect they feel between what they know to be true and where the country has been led."

Thanks also to the 500 or so who braved the blizzard in Boston to go to Faneuil Hall. My son Rand told me what a great time he had with you.

A few mornings ago on LewRockwell.com, I saw a YouTube of a 14-year-old boy that summed up our whole movement for me. This well-spoken young man, who could have passed in knowledge for a college graduate, told how he heard our ideas being denounced. So he decided to Google. He read some of my speeches, and thought, these make sense. Then he studied US foreign policy of recent years, and came to the conclusion that we are right. So he persuaded his father to drop Rudy Giuliani and join our movement.

All over America, all over the world, we are inspiring real change. With the wars and the spying, the spending and the taxing, the inflation and the credit crisis, our ideas have never been more needed. Please help me spread them https://www.ronpaul2008.com/donate in all 50 states. Victory for liberty! That is our goal, and nothing less.

Sincerely,

Ron

Consensus Shattered As Major Scientific Study Says Global W

2007-12-11T20:14:00.001-08:00

Attempts to reduce CO2 emissions "pointless" as sun is cited as climate change culprit.We need clean fuel and to get out of oil because the air is poisonous for us to breath and for lots of reasons but the global man made global warming hysteria which is being used to push through an agenda to tax life because we all breath carbon.

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Ex-Italian President: Intel Agencies Know 9/11 An Inside Job

2007-12-10T20:24:00.000-08:00

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Man who set up Operation Gladio tells Italy's largest newspaper that the 9/11 attacks on NY were run by CIA, Mossad
Ex-Italian President: Intel Agencies Know 9/11 An Inside Job
Man who set up Operation Gladio tells Italy's largest newspaper attacks were run by CIA, Mossad

Former Italian President and the man who revealed the existence of Operation Gladio Francesco Cossiga has gone public on 9/11, telling Italy's most respected newspaper that the attacks were run by the CIA and Mossad and that this was common knowledge amongst global intelligence agencies.

Cossiga was elected President of the Italian Senate in July 1983 before winning a landslide 1985 election to become President of the country in 1985.

Cossiga gained respect from opposition parties as one of a rare breed - an honest politician - and led the country for seven years until April 1992.

Cossiga's tendency to be outspoken upset the Italian political establishment and he was forced to resign after revealing the existence of, and his part in setting up, Operation Gladio - a rogue intelligence network under NATO auspices that carried out bombings across Europe in the 60's, 70's and 80's. Gladio's specialty was to carry out what they coined "false flag operations," terror attacks that were blamed on their domestic and geopolitical opposition.

Cossiga's revelations contributed to an Italian parliamentary investigation of Gladio in 2000, during which evidence was unearthed that the attacks were being overseen by the U.S. intelligence apparatus.

In March 2001, Gladio agent Vincenzo Vinciguerra stated, in sworn testimony, "You had to attack civilians, the people, women, children, innocent people, unknown people far removed from any political game. The reason was quite simple: to force ... the public to turn to the state to ask for greater security."

Cossiga's new revelations appeared last week in Italy's oldest and most widely read newspaper, Corriere della Sera. Below appears a rough translation.

"[Bin Laden supposedly confessed] to the Qaeda September [attack] to the two towers in New York [claiming to be] the author of the attack of the 11, while all the [intelligence services] of America and Europe ... now know well that the disastrous attack has been planned and realized from the CIA American and the Mossad with the aid of the Zionist world in order to put under accusation the Arabic Countries and in order to induce the western powers to take part ... in Iraq [and] Afghanistan."

Cossiga first expressed his doubts about 9/11 in 2001, and is quoted in Webster Tarpley's book as stating that "The mastermind of the attack must have been a “sophisticated mind, provided with ample means not only to recruit fanatic kamikazes, but also highly specialized personnel. I add one thing: it could not be accomplished without infiltrations in the radar and flight security personnel.”

Coming from a widely respected former head of state, Cossiga's assertion that the 9/11 attacks were an inside job and that this is common knowledge amongst global intelligence agencies is highly unlikely to be mentioned by any establishment media outlets, because like the hundreds of other sober ex-government, military, air force professionals, allied to hundreds more professors and intellectuals - he can't be sidelined as a crackpot conspiracy theorist.

Ron Paul : House of Cards

2007-12-06T21:26:00.001-08:00

A good view of monetary policy from the man him self Ron Paul

Naomi Wolf talks to Alex Jones about her new book : The End of America (Audio Interview)

2007-12-05T22:32:00.000-08:00

I just listened to all three parts of this interview. It is excellent. Please - by all means - postpone your bedtime by half an hour tonight and listen. If you have problems with either Alex Jones or Naomi Wolf, suspend your disbelief for half an hour and please just listen. It is an excellent reminder of why we are all fighting for Ron Paul.

Part 1

It is very rushed, and gets cut off at the end of Part III, so if you want to read the whole scoop, please get Namoi Wolf's book for yourself or someone else as a holiday gift: The End of America - Letter to a Young Patriot Parts II & III below. She mentions Ron Paul favorably at the end of Part II.

Part 2

Part 3

Get it at Amazon now: The End of America - Letter to a Young Patriot

police test Remote Control Drone In Texas, USA -- EXPOSED!

2007-11-25T06:14:00.001-08:00

"...mysterious black trucks...Satellite dishes and a swirling radar added to the neighbors' suspense." ... "I wasn't ready to publicize this," Executive Assistant Police Chief Martha Montalvo said.

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9/13/2001: How Could 9/11 Hijackers Obtain Secret Service Codes?

2007-11-21T16:51:00.000-08:00

How could reportedly disorganized and incompetent hijackers or cave dwelling terrorists thousands of miles away, know how to threaten Air Force One with classified Secret Service codes on 9/11/2001?

Carl Sagan Who Speaks For Earth 03

2007-11-15T00:06:00.001-08:00

Wow This is a great little wake up call to stop spending so much on war.

Chinese soldiers shooting at Tibetan pilgrims

2007-11-14T15:56:00.000-08:00

Pro Tv cameraman Sergiu Matei ... all » returned to Romania after climbing Himalaya and brought home with him a shocking story.

Ron Paul Philadelphia Veterans? Rally Draws 5,000

2007-11-13T04:12:00.001-08:00

PHILADELPHIA, PA.– Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul today addressed a crowd of over 5,000 enthusiastic supporters in Philadelphia. The Veteran's Day weekend rally took place from 1:00 to 3:00 PM at Independence Mall.

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(video) AT&T whistleblower: I was forced to connect 'big brother machine' that spys on every one using the internet.

2007-11-08T16:32:00.000-08:00

The following video is from MSNBC's Countdown, broadcast on November 7, 2007.

Asch's Conformity Experiment

2007-11-07T22:54:00.001-08:00

This is classic, This is how the media gets an opinion no matter how untrue or scientifically false (the official 911 conspiracy) to be the popular opinion.
THINK FOR YOUR SELF!.

Ten Questions That Every Intelligent Skeptic Must Answer

2007-11-07T16:44:00.000-08:00

This short video explores some plausibility concerns about the popularly accepted account of the September 11th attacks. For anyone who's ... all » trying to convince a skeptic, this film does in 20 minutes what takes other video 90 minutes or more.

Ron Paul Mops the Floor with CNN Anchor (05/20/07)

2007-11-06T18:06:00.001-08:00

Man Ron Paul is a king!!! you have to watch this master of debate. He absolutly mops the floor with this CNN Anchor that is trying his best to bring Ron Down by using withdrawn statements, false Polls and misguided Naivety about what it means to be a conservative republican. Donate to Ron Paul at http://www.ronpaul2008.com

Is George W Bush Mentilly Ill?

2007-11-01T18:00:00.001-07:00

Near the end of this interview Bush says;

"Whether it be Afghanistan or Iraq, we got more work to do. We the free world has more work to do, and I believe those of us who live in liberty have a responsibility to promote forms of government that deal with what causes 19 kids to get on airplanes to kill 3000 students."

What is he talking about???

Fox news producer busted Censoring Ron Paul at a republican convention

2007-10-30T16:20:00.001-07:00

Its amazing how good microphones are these days, and when this fox news producer gets busted telling the camera man not to get shots of the Ron Paul people we have just one more piece of evidence from the thousands showing how fox news is propaganda straight from the bankers CFR, New world orders mouth.

U.K. Kids Get RFID Chips In School Uniforms

2007-10-30T06:51:00.000-07:00

Thomas Claburn
InformationWeek
Monday October 29, 2007

Ten schoolchildren in the United Kingdom are being tracked by RFID chips in their school uniforms as part of a pilot program.
If the program proves successful as a way to hasten registration, simplify data entry for the school's behavioral reporting system, and ensure attendance, Trevor Darnborough, whose company, Darnbro, filed for a patent on securing RFID tags to clothing, hopes other schools will be interested, according to the Doncaster Free Press.

The chipped children are enrolled at Hungerhill School in Edenthorpe, England, a secondary school for ages 11 to 16.

David Clouter, a parent and founder of Leave Them Kids Alone, a children's advocacy group, condemned the plan. "With pupils being fingerprinted and now this it seems we are treating children in a way that we have traditionally treated criminals," he told the Doncaster Free Press.

"The system is not intrusive to the pupil in the slightest," Hungerhill teacher Graham Wakeling told the Doncaster Free Press. He also said that all the patents of the children in the trial supported the tracking effort.

Video surveillance is already commonplace in the United Kingdom, and a growing number of schoolchildren are fingerprinted for administrative and security reasons. Since 2001, nearly 6,000 pupils have been fingerprinted in the United Kingdom, the Daily Mail reported earlier this month, with 20 new schools embracing the practice every week.

In a blog post about the report, security expert Bruce Schneier quipped, "So now it's easy to cut class; just ask someone to carry your shirt around the building while you're elsewhere."

Martin Sheen Questions Official 9/11 Story

2007-10-30T06:32:00.001-07:00

Actor Martin Sheen questioned the official 9/11 story, as well as the collapse of Building 7 and Larry Silverstein's "pull it" comment during an anti-war march this past weekend in Los Angeles, saying that recent revelations about the attacks had caused him to have doubts.

Sheen was interviewed by We Are Change L.A. along with fellow actor Mark Ruffalo during an event hosted by the ANSWER Coalition at which around 20,000 people attended.

Ron Paul: A New Hope

2007-10-25T22:42:00.001-07:00

One of the best videos explaining what Ron Paul is all about!
If you are American please check out Ron Paul because he is the only one that can save Americas demise.

Neo-Con Podhoretz Tells Audience To "Shut Up" After Tough Questions

2007-10-23T20:46:00.000-07:00

Arch-Neo Con Norman Podhoretz's book reading at a recent Barnes and Noble appearance in New York turned into a hostile affair after he told the audience that Iran should be bombed because "We were attacked by Islamofascists on 9/11," before being bombarded with accusatory questions and eventually telling the crowd to "shut up".

This is what more people should be doing! Its great to see what happens when these people get educated people asking questions and not a bunch of mindless sheeple.

The REAL Reasons You Want to Avoid Genetically Modified Foods

2007-10-22T06:31:00.000-07:00

In this lecture, Jeffrey Smith, author of Seeds of Deception, summarizes the contents of his book, which explains the health dangers of genetically modified foods, and the industry cover-up.
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Get ready to start paying by the mile when you drive

2007-10-16T18:24:00.001-07:00

Tests are in preparation for a new system to replace or supplement the current gas tax with a per mile driven fee metered by GPS which will mandate a Big Brotheresque situation in which everywhere you go and when will be logged in order to bill you. Alex Jones called this one 5 years ago.

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Milton Friedman's view on libertarianism

2007-10-16T00:09:00.000-07:00

This is such a great overall look at Milton Friedman's view on libertarianism. you can really see where Ron Paul got his inspiration from. What a legend!

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Milton Friedman pure brilliance!

2007-10-15T23:21:00.001-07:00

It's funny because this looks like it was filmed in the 60s and its content has never been more relevant as it is today. Power to the people!

A small Extract from a film called the Network 1976

2007-10-14T18:34:00.001-07:00

Brilliant! It somes up a hell of a lot!
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Sydney 9/11 Truth Action - 11th October 2007

2007-10-14T18:24:00.001-07:00

Well done to every one in Sydney We need to stand up for what our for fathers died for and that is our way of life and freedom.
9/11 OZ meets at town hall on the 11th of every month if you can make it please do because we need to show numbers.

Blackwater the privitised military, Dick Cheney's lifes work.

2007-10-10T23:25:00.000-07:00

Welcome to the new world order of privatised secretive army's.

The privitised War on freedom

2007-10-10T05:19:00.000-07:00

Here is some of the advance praise Naomi and The Shock Doctrine:

"Naomi Klein is an investigative reporter like no other. She roams the continents with eyes wide open and her brain operating at full speed, finding connections we never thought of, and patterns which eluded us. She shows us, in clear and elegant language, how catastrophes -- natural ones like Katrina, unnatural ones like war -- become opportunities for a savage capitalism, calling itself 'the free market,' to privatize everything in sight, bringing huge profits to some, misery for others. To ensure the safety of such a system, it becomes necessary to constrict freedom, to assault human rights. The torture chambers for some then match the torturing of the larger society. This is a brilliant book, one of the most important I have read in a long time." -- Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States.

Jimmie Vaughan Shackles On Me

2007-09-26T20:26:00.001-07:00

The Amaizing Jimmie Vaughan With his song about the times we live in.

Love it.

The Police don't know the Law.

2007-09-24T21:45:00.001-07:00

This is just another example of Harassments, They are aloud to film and track every thing we do but as soon as we film our police ( the people we pay to keep criminals at bay) they get shirty.
FREEDOM!
check out my blog about all of this
exposethis dot blogspot dot com

The Weird Russian Mind-Control Research Behind a DHS Contract

2007-09-20T19:44:00.001-07:00

This is just another example that mind control is real, This article for wired magazine.

Click here for the wired article

Andrew Meyer--Tasered by Police for asking John Kerry a question that he didn't like

2007-09-19T21:37:00.001-07:00

Once again we see police crushing the voice of decent! Why aren't people aloud to ask their representatives questions? Why when its a question they don't like do they get tazerd? This is what happened in Germany when the Nazis took over. This is Obserd.

Police dressed as radicle protesters where busted bieng provocateurs

2007-09-10T21:17:00.001-07:00

At a rally to stop the North American Union in Canada, Police Where busted dressed as violent protesters to cause violence so that the riot police could move in.
This is Extremely important to expose this because I talk to people all the time and they don't believe me that agent provocateurs exist.
Well here is proof.

Government and Police always want more powers, and they will get it, because they keep saying that protesters are violent, when they aren't the police cause it so that the media catches the images and then the Government can justify draconian laws and cops can justify Massive expenditure on control hardware to use against the people that pay their wages, (us the tax payers).

Please get these videos out to every one.

Here is the original footage

to find out more about the north american Union have a look at this

9/11 Truth: MIT Engineer Jeff King Says WTC Demolished

2007-09-03T05:13:00.000-07:00

MIT engineer Jeff King presents evidence that has led him to the conclusion that the twin towers and building seven were demolished in a controlled fashion on September 11 2001.

C.H.A.N.G.E. at the Emergency Management Conference

2007-08-20T03:17:00.001-07:00

FEMA Runs from Confrontation on WTC7 and Camps
FEMA Admits Role of Informing, Monitoring and Controlling Media During Emergency Operations Like the September 11 Attacks!!

Lies Lies Lies Lies Lies man I'm sick of lies

2007-08-17T00:31:00.000-07:00

this film is called "How to create an angry american"
OPEN YOUR EYES!

Bush Set To Veto To Remove Mercury From Infant Vaccines

2007-08-16T23:32:00.000-07:00

Source
http://www.emaxhealth.com/50/14153.html
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/77268.php

Infant Vaccines

President Bush would veto the HHS-Labor-Education Appropriations Bill because of the cost and "objectionable provisions" such as a measure to ban the use of childhood flu vaccines that contain thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative.

Autism advocacy groups are outraged because President Bush stated in a questionnaire during his 2004 campaign: "I support the removal of Thimerosal from vaccines on the childhood national vaccine schedule. During a second term as President, I will continue to support increased funding to support a wide variety of research initiatives aimed at seeking definitive causes and/or triggers of autism. It is important to note that while there are many possible theories about causes or triggers of autism, no one material has been definitely included or excluded."

But since 2005, President Bush has steadfastly refused to issue an Executive Order banning high amounts of mercury in vaccines that would protect children and pregnant women despite repeated requests from the autism community that he uphold his campaign promise. Under his current administration, mercury has been and will continue to be knowingly injected into the youngest of American citizens. The controversial mercury-containing preservative thimerosal has been linked by thousands of parents as being the cause of their children's mercury poisoning and autism.

The flu vaccine which continues to be manufactured with mercury is recommended for all pregnant women, infants and children despite the fact that the Institute of Medicine in 2001 recommended against the policy of exposing these same sensitive groups to thimerosal containing vaccines. According to the EPA, one in every six women of childbearing age already has blood levels of mercury high enough to cause neurological damage to their unborn children due to environmental exposures alone.

"Injecting even more mercury into the bodies of pregnant women, infants and children when it is not a necessary component of vaccines is just bad medicine," said Lyn Redwood, president of SafeMinds and parent of a mercury-injured child. "It defies logic that a flu vaccine must be disposed of as a hazardous waste if it is not used, but somehow injecting the same mercury-containing vaccine into a baby is safe."

Maybe surveillance is bad, after all!

2007-08-08T20:02:00.000-07:00

John Borland
Wired News
Wednesday, August 8, 2007

Privacy advocates have a problem.

People who want to increase the amount of surveillance in society, whether it's wire-tapping, closed-circuit cameras, or data mining, have an easy argument. There are terrorists and criminals out there, and these tools can help stop violence and crime, they say.

Philosopher Sandro Gaycken, a PhD student at Germany's Institut für Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung in Bielefeld, wants to give pro-privacy forces stronger arguments to counter these concerns. Speaking today at the Chaos Communication Camp, he conceded that activists' justifications for their concerns often fail to resonate with the broad public. Many anti-surveillance arguments are based on vaguely emotional concerns, or appeals to abstract values, as opposed to the hard facts of suicide bombers or commuters killed on the subway.

In response, Gaycken argued that there are well-established psychological consequences to being watched, observed consistently in studies. People change, tailoring their behavior to fit what they believe the observer wants (or in some cases actively rebelling against those wishes).

Now imagine a society where everyone knows they are or may be watched as they walk through the streets, or while surfing online. That – as in societies like Hitler's Germany or Soviet Russia – will have tangible and widespread psychological consequences, reinforcing conformity, and literally crippling the ability to make autonomous and ethical decisions, he argued.

An analogy might be the well-studied population of children with overprotective mothers, the philosopher said. Studies show that such children tend to be indecisive, dependent on others, have little "ethical competence," and often live suppressed and unhappy lives.

As or more disturbing may be the political implications of having a surveillance infrastructure in place.

Many philosophers reject the notion that given technologies are inherently politically neutral, Gaycken said. Surveillance, for example, can be used to support democratic values of freedom, equality, and state neutrality – but its tendency to create a watched and a watching class lends itself better to totalitarianism. In a country such as Germany, which has seen democracy slide into the Nazi state, such a warning resonates strongly.

"Surveillance stabilizes totalitarianism, and destabilizes democracy," Gaycken warned.

Are these issues enough to harden privacy advocates' arguments against the apocalyptic warnings of surveillance supporters? Not everyone in this hackers' audience was entirely convinced, with some asking for still more concrete arguments to counter Cheneyesque predictions of violence and chaos.

Others offered their own practical suggestions for action. Philippe Langlois, a French programmer, told of his own project hanging Christmas decorations on the closed-circuit cameras in Parisian Metro stations, thus drawing people's amused -- but often shocked -- attention to the devices' prevalence.

"That's a hack, too," he said. "Besides, it's fun."

We're afraid not

2007-08-08T19:07:00.001-07:00

I love this Vid! It is just fantastic! it parodies an ad that is playing on air hear in Australia telling every one to ring a stupid hot line every time that see something "sus" This just ads to the Noise and keeps people scared.!

General Wesley Clark

2007-07-30T17:46:00.000-07:00

Discussing just how early the Iraq war was planned and the lack of reasons to justify it. The whole interview is available here.