Vandals Hit Readyville Mill
MILL VANDALIZED -- A five gallon bucket of paint turned over on the Readyville Mill floor was only part of the damage vandals caused during a break-in last weekend. Extensive damage was done in the ice house portion of the property.
Vandals broke into the Readyville Mill last weekend and destroyed hours of work that Mill owner
Tomm Brady had put in trying to restore the historic site.
"I'm just sick and even cried when I walked in and saw the damage," said Brady as he showed the
destruction caused by the vandals.
"I worked here last Sunday and left about I :00 P.M. and was called by Mary Reed that the damage had
been done," said Brady.
Mary Reed, co-owner of Russell's Market, which sits in front of the Mill property, saw an open door
Monday evening about 7:00 P.M.
"I Usually walk in the afternoon and I noticed the open door to the Yce House but I thought Tomm had
forgot to shut it when he left," Reed said.
The old ice house was the area where the vandals spray painted Vulgar and racial slurs all over the
walls and turned over a five gallon bucket of paint on the refinished floors.
Brady, who was visibly upset, during the tour of the damaged building" has been restoring the old
mill for over two years by himself.
The Mill is on the National Historic Register.
Each day he drives over from Shelbyville to tackle another project at the Mill and has made dramatic
changes since the work began two years ago when Brady and his wife purchased the mill and surrounding
property which includes the dam across the road, totaling about five acres.
Cannon County Sheriff Billy Nichols and Deputy Aaron Hillis saw first hand the damage and gave Brady some consolation. "I will have my deputies do extra patrol in this area starting tonight,"said Sheriff Nichols.
Brady stated that he has had trouble when youths parking on his property and going to the river to swim.
"I have tried to be nice to these people, but you can go down to the swimming area and see the trash of beer cans, needles and other items they leave behind," said Brady. "I think I can sand out most of the spray paint graffiti on the walls but it will take some time and a lot of work."
Sheriff Nichols warned several swimmers who were in the area Monday during the investigation that the Mill area was private property and citations would be written to those violating the No Trespassing signs posted on the property.
"Mr. Brady has done a tremendous amount of work here in restoring the Mill and it is a shame to see the damage caused by a few people who had nothing better to do," said Sheriff Nichols.
Investigators Vance Walker and Charlie Wilder inspected the room that suffered the most damage and found fingerprints and collected other evidence that will hopefully lead to an arrest.
The Cannon County Historical Society was scheduled to meet at the Mill on Monday evening, May 19 for their quarterly meeting.
"The meeting will be held but I just won't be able to let everyone see all the building," said Brady. "I don't want those folks to see the terrible writing that was painted on the walls."
The Sheriff's Department is asking for help from citizens in the community. "If anyone remembers seeing anything over the weekend, a parked car or recognized someone in the area please call us. The tip will remain anonymous and it might lead us to the suspects," said Sheriff Nichols.
The new number at the Jail is 563-1000 and ask for Investigators Charlie Wilder or Vance Walker.
Brady is a gifted craftsman. He has done all the work himself, putting up paneling, rebuilding stone walls, mechanical, carpentry, painting and electrical and the list goes on and on.
The Mill actually ceased production in the early 1980s and one can imagine the state of disrepair the building became just sitting there with no daily maintenance.
The early history of the Mill dates back to 1878 when Charles Ready, the original owner died and the Mill was purchased by Robert Carter from Charles' son in law, Peter Talley.
Over the course of over 100 years the Mill changed hands several times. During those years theReadyville Mill provided corn meal, flour, lumber, ice, electricity and a machine shop to residents from Cannon and Rutherford counties.
In 1935 Leslie and George Justice purchased the Mill and installed turbines and replaced the grinding stones with steel rollers to produce the flour.
Brady stated when he purchased the Mill that it was basically "something to keep him busy" and it has for over two years.
Future plans even include the opening of a restaurant on the property. The possibilities go on and on as does Tomm's love of the Mill.
Source: The Cannon Courier, 5-27-08
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What the hell is Barack Obama talking about?
He says that America should be talking with leaders in Cuba, Iran, Venezuela, Korea, Syria. Fine. But he calls this “talking with our enemies.”
What enemies?
Let’s get something straight. Enemies are people who are fighting against you, who are trying to destroy you. Is Cuba fighting against America? Is Iran fighting against America? Is Venezuela fighting against America? Syria? China? No. These countries may be rivals, but they are not enemies.
The closest we come to having an actual enemy in today’s world is North Korea, where we are technically still in some kind of truce following a hot war, but of course that war itself has been over for half a frigging century, and nobody has been killing anyone on the Korean Peninsula in decades.
The truth is, America doesn’t have any real enemies, except for the ones it has made for itself in Iraq and Afghanistan, and of course the Al Qaeda organization. But Al Qaeda is a gang of terrorists, not a country, and in Afghanistan it is movement, the Taliban, once the government of that country, which we overthrew. And even there, where we have enemies, talk is better than war. It is obvious that at some point if we are ever to exit from Iraq and Afghanistan, there will have to be talks with the people we are fighting. Afghanistan’s leaders have said this—that there will have to be talks with the Taliban. And Bush’s own “Iraq Study Group,” headed by former Republican Secretary of State James Baker and former Democratic Congressman Lee Hamilton, concluded that the US will have to negotiate to settle the Iraq conflict. Both those processes should be begun immediately, not after more thousands have been killed.
By calling other countries “enemies,” Obama fell into a trap of his own making, though admittedly, he’s not the first to define all these rival nations as enemies. It’s a logical outcome of the Bush/Cheney position that “either you’re with us or you’re against us.”
Instead of buying into that nonsense, Obama should have questioned the premise. Then he wouldn’t be in the mess he’s in now, trying to fine-tune whom he would talk to and whom he wouldn’t talk to. Erstwhile Democratic presidential candidate and former Alaskan Senator Mike Gravel had it right when, during an early TV “debate” before the media decided to black him out, he replied to the moderator’s stupid question to all the candidates of “Who, after Iran, are America’s biggest enemies?” He challenged the premise, asking, “Iran’s not our enemy. Who are we afraid of? We don’t have any enemies.” He got one of the biggest applauses of the evening for that.
As for the basic point—talking with people we have disagreements or rivalries with—it is obvious that not talking is idiotic, and gets you nowhere—or worse, into a war.
Let’s take Cuba. For exactly half a century since its Communist revolution, we have treated Cuba like a mortal enemy, blockading the country, forcing other countries to join us in an embargo (an act of war, by the way), plotting and attempting to assassinate the country’s leader, Fidel Castro, and financing and supporting an obsessed group of dispossessed rich Cubans who want to return the island to its mob-infested, neo-colonial days. In those 50 years, the only thing not talking has accomplished has been the impoverishment of two generations of Cubans. Meanwhile, of course, the US has talked, conceded, caved in, given in, pandered and invested in China, another Communist country that, unlike Cuba, actually has fought against the US (in Korea, by proxy in Vietnam, and against an ally, Taiwan). There is clearly no logical reason for not talking with Cuba, and if we were talking with Cuba, life there would be better, and no doubt, things would be better here, too.
Iran is another example. It is known that when the US invaded Iraq, in 2003, Iran tried desperately to initiate talks with the US. The Bush/Cheney administration didn’t want to talk. It was calling Iran an “Axis of Evil” nation. Had talks begun, there might not even be a nuclear dispute today. Indeed, there might not even have been a rivalry. Instead, we now have the Bush/Cheney administration pushing forward for plans to attack Iran.
We could go back to Iraq, too, of course. Before the US launched its attack, Saddam Hussein was telling the Bush/Cheney administration he was willing to leave the country. All he wanted was a safe haven like Idi Amin got, and a billion dollars. We were not told about this offer until years later. Yet think how much cheaper that solution, arrived at through a little talking, would have been than what we got through not talking. Instead of letting Hussein run off with a billion of his own ill-gotten wealth, we’ve spent close to a trillion dollars, killed upwards of a million innocent Iraqis, destroyed a country, driven four million people in a nation of 24 million into exile, ruined America’s global reputation, and bankrupted the US treasury, not to mention running up the price of oil four-fold.
Talk is cheap, I’d say.
Obama should be more forthright and admit that America has no enemies, and that we can talk to anyone.
With Memorial Day now just a memory, the summer music festival season is on -- and with it, special drug law enforcement aimed at festival goers in what could be called a form of cultural profiling. If years past are any indicator, music lovers should be prepared to encounter everything from announced "Drug Checkpoints" that aren't -- they are instead traps to lure the freaked out -- to real, unconstitutional, highway drug checkpoints masquerading as "safety checks" (complete with drug dogs) to undercover cops working inside the festival grounds themselves.
The police enforcement actions are already getting underway. Last weekend, the 2008 Summer Camp Festival in Chillicothe, Illinois, drew some 13,000 fans to hear a diverse line-up of bands including the Flaming Lips, George Clinton & Parliament/Funkadelic, Blind Melon, the Roots, and the New Pornographers. It also drew city and state police, who claimed 20 drug arrests -- for marijuana, ecstasy, and LSD -- between them in and around the festival.
The police were pleased. "I think a lot of it had to do with all of the agencies getting together before the event and really planning out our attack," Chillicothe Police Chief Steven Maurer told local HOI-19 TV News. "Our goal is to prevent it from coming in and that's what we did a lot of."
Meanwhile, down in northeast Georgia, some other law enforcement agencies had also gotten together to plan an attack. This one wasn't aimed directly at concert-goers, but at the highway-traveling public in general. In what the Northeast Georgian described as "one of the county's largest highway interdiction and safety checks in at least five years," personnel from the Habersham County Sheriff's Office, Northeast Georgia Drug Task Force, Georgia National Guard Counter Drug Task Force, Georgia State Patrol, Georgia Bureau of Investigation, Georgia Department of Public Safety Motor Carrier Compliance Unit, Lee Arrendale State Prison, Phillips State Prison and Cornelia Police Department participated in a 24-hour checkpoint on a local highway.
Police bragged about the success of their checkpoint, which netted 74 arrests, 31 of them for drug offenses. "It worked well, I thought," said Habersham County Sheriff De Ray Fincher. "The operation resulted in a seizure of $36,000 in illegal drugs. And a total amount of currency, drugs and vehicles seized is estimated to have a value of $82,000."
Police did write some tickets for traffic offenses, Fincher told WNEG-TV 32 News. "We got a lot of people with no insurance, no driver's license or suspended license," he said. And some pot smokers: "The majority of our cases were marijuana cases; however, we did get several methamphetamine and we got one case of cocaine," Fincher explained.
In a 2000 Supreme Court decision, Indianapolis v. Edmonds, the high court held that indiscriminate highway drug checkpoints were unconstitutional since motorists were being stopped without suspicion for a law enforcement -- not a public safety -- purpose.
But Fincher was open about his constitutionally-suspect highway checkpoint. "We are trying to do everything we can to prevent drug activity in Habersham County, whether it's just passing through or stopping here," he said, noting that drug arrests in the county were on the rise. "That just means we've taken a real aggressive approach to drug enforcement."
"In the wake of the Indianapolis case, law enforcement has tried to figure out ways to still conduct drug checkpoints that comport with that ruling," said Adam Wolf of the ACLU Drug Law Reform Project. "Intent is the name of the game. If the intent is to conduct a checkpoint basically for law enforcement purposes, that's not okay. If it's for public safety purposes, such as sobriety checkpoints, that is okay."
A constitutional challenge to any given checkpoint would turn on intent, said Wolf. "If it turns out the intent was primarily to be a drug checkpoint, that would be an unreasonable search and not comply with the Constitution," he said. "That kind of checkpoint should be shut down, but it would take someone to challenge it."
Noting Sheriff Fincher's report of cash and goods seized, Wolf suggested the purpose of the checkpoints could really be about something other than law enforcement or public safety. "So often these things are being done to fund law enforcement agencies. Asset forfeiture is really a cash cow," he said.
Whether the checkpoints or other special law enforcement tactics are to raise money, wage the drug war, or indeed for "public safety," experts consulted by the Chronicle sang a remarkably similar song: Be prepared, don't be stupid, and don't give away your rights.
"The most efficient way to get arrested for marijuana possession short of blowing pot smoke in an officer's face is to smoke marijuana while driving or parked in your car, especially on the way to a festival," said Steven Silverman of the civil liberties group Flex Your Rights, which has released a video instructing people how to flex theirs. "You have a minimal expectation of privacy, and it reeks. Officers can smell it, and if they can smell it, that's probable cause to search you."
"Keep your private items out of view," recommended the ACLU's Wolf. A baggie full of weed on the front seat is all the probable cause an officer needs to search the vehicle and arrest the owner.
If you are stopped at a checkpoint (or pulled over for any reason) and you haven't provided police probable cause to search you or your vehicle, now is the time to exercise your rights. People in such situations should be polite but assertive, the experts said.
"If you are pulled over by police for any reason, the officers are very likely to ask you to consent to a search," said Silverman. "Don't do it. Never, ever consent under any circumstances. It might be couched in terms of a command, but it is a request. If you consent, you are waiving your Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable search and seizure. They won't 'go easier' on you; anything they find, they will confiscate, and arrest you and put you in jail. Don't do their job for them."
"There is no circumstance I can imagine where you should ever consent to a search," agreed NORML's Stroup. "If you give permission, you waive your Fourth Amendment protections. They may say it'll go easier if you cooperate, but that's bullshit. Their only reason for being there is to see if you have contraband and arrest you and put you in jail if you do."
"Just say no to warrantless searches," echoed the ACLU's Wolf. "Officers won't tell you you have the right not to consent, but you do, and it is one that people have held dear since the founding of the Republic."
There are other highway hazards for the unwary festival-goer. Law enforcement can be creative in its unending war on drug users and sellers.
"Anybody driving to see his favorite band should also be aware of fake drug checkpoints," said Silverman. "Drug checkpoints are unconstitutional, but what some sheriffs will do close to festival sites is set up a big 'Drug Checkpoint Ahead' sign, and then watch who turns off the highway at the next ramp or who throws something out his car window. Then they pull them over for littering or failure to signal a lane change or something. If you see such a sign, keep driving -- it's a bluff designed to see who it scares."
"When you see a sign like that, proceed ahead within the speed limit, driving safely through the area," advised Wolf.
Wolf has problems with the harassment of festival-goers that run deeper than particular law enforcement tactics. "Profiling based on race is not okay, profiling based on gender is not okay, and profiling based on the type of concert you attend is not okay," he said. "It's unreasonable and unjustifiable for police to target a group of people because they are going to any particular type of concert."
"Simply having a Grateful Dead sticker or dreadlocks doesn't constitute reasonable suspicion of anything," agreed Silverman.
But in the real world, it can. Festival-goers and other highway travelers need to be aware of their rights, as well as the realities of life in the contemporary US, as they hit the highway this summer.
And one last thing once you actually make it to the festival. "There's a big myth out there that police officers must reveal if they're an undercover cop," said Silverman. "That's wrong, and it's stupid to believe that. Police officers can and do legally lie in doing their jobs. Believing that has probably led to thousands of people being arrested."
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/538/summer_festival_drug_law_enforcement
If the recently concluded HBO series The Wire is arguably the most aesthetically accomplished fictional indictment of the decades-long war on drugs, there is no shortage of contenders for the most absurd bit of prohibitionist agitprop, from the unintentionally hilarious 1936 movie Tell Your Children (better known as Reefer Madness) to the widely parodied 1987 public service announcement in which the role of "your brain on drugs" is played by an egg frying in a skillet to an early 1990s TV ad in which the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles counsel a grammar school kid offered a fistful of joints ("Get a teacher," advise the Turtles, "get a pizza, get real").
Then there's the latest offering sponsored by the Office of National Drug Control Policy's National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign, a mockumentary called Stoners in the Mist, featuring a pith-helmet-wearing narrator explaining the strange customs of the slack-jawed, amotivational, Lava lamp-loving inhabitants of "Cannabis Isle." Online at abovetheinfluence.com and featuring squirrely navigation and a rhythmic drum track more stupefying than anything produced by Cheech & Chong, Stoners underscores what most Americans already knew: Real winners don't do anti-drug websites.
Here's a short magical mystery tour, culled from the foggy memories of reason's editors, of decades of advertising and small-screen messages that inadvertently made childhood just a little more bearable. And drugs—even NoDoz—just a little cooler.
"Marijuana...is the Hula Hoop of the Jet Generation!" Produced in the late 1960s by the American Medical Association, this anti-cannabis commercial featured animation groovier than the film Yellow Submarine and a detailed list of just how fun it is to get high. "The human brain," notes the serioso narrator, "is hardly a Tinker Toy." But judging from the spot's graphics, it sure looks like one, especially if you've been smoking dope.
Dragnet's "Blue Boy" Episode. Clocking in at number 85 in TV Guide's 1997 list of the best TV episodes ever, this segment told just the facts about LSD-and a face-painting hippie called Blue Boy, who overdosed on the stuff after being arrested by Sgt. Joe Friday, played by three-pack-a-day smoker Jack Webb, who died in real life of a heart attack at age 62. Honorable mention: the "Big High" episode, in which two cannabis-craving parents get stoned and let their child drown in a bathtub. "After 25 years on the job, it's finally happened," groans Friday's partner, Bill Gannon. "I'm going to be sick."
Sonny Bono's Secret Message. "If you become a pothead," the curiously speech-slurring future congressman warned in this 1970 PSA, "you risk blowing the most important time of your life: Your teen age [sic]." The pitch might have been more effective if Bono's eyes weren't quite so red--or his jumpsuit so golden and shimmery.
Stop the Madness! This star-and-monkey-studded mid-'80s video is the Citizen Cocaine of Nancy Reagan's Just Say No campaign. (The First Lady even has a cameo.) Featuring past and future drug users ranging from Arnold Schwarzenegger to David Hasselhoff to Whitney Houston-and a spasticated spider monkey dancing to the strains of a Herb Alpert trumpet solo-"Stop the Madness" didn't just make a case for getting high (anything to stop the "Stop the Madness" video!). The title track previewed the lockdown that has given the U.S. the highest rate of incarceration in the world: "You thought that using dope would be a party/Now you're a prisoner in a cell crying to be free."
Heavy Metal Drug Addicts Destroy Communism. In August 1989, what The New York Times described as "thundering hordes of Western heavy-metal rock" acts, including Motley Crue, Ozzie Osbourne, Skid Row, and Bon Jovi, played at the Soviet-sanctioned Moscow Music Peace Festival as guitar-grinding "ambassadors of peace and temperance." The concert, which was broadcast to the West on MTV, was created by the American impresario Doc McGhee as part of a parole deal stemming from a 1987 conviction for marijuana importation. The Berlin Wall fell a scant 14 weeks later-long before Ozzy or Motley Crue's Nikki Sixx entered rehab.
I'm So Excited by Caffeine Pills! In a 1990 episode of the crypto-kiddie-porn high school sitcom Saved by the Bell, Jessie (played by Elizabeth Berkeley, later to triumph as a bare-it-all-to-get-ahead dancer in Showgirls) gets hooked on caffeine pills while studying for a big math test and rehearsing for a singing audition. Her friends' intervention comes soon enough to save Jessie from the ultimate coffee high but not before the audience hears her espresso-distorted version of the Pointer Sisters' anthem of chemically free overexuberance, "I'm So Excited!"
Pee-Wee Herman Says No to Crack-and Jail Time. "Everyone wants to be cool," the uber-ironic Saturday morning children's show host admits in this ad made as part of a sentencing deal after Pee-Wee's 1991 arrest for masturbating in a Florida movie theater. "But doing it with crack isn't just wrong. It could be dead wrong."
One Frying Pan Can Ruin Your Whole Kitchen. Riffing off the legendary 1987 ad "This Is Your Brain on Drugs," this 1999 spot created by the Partnership for a Drug-Free America features an underweight model personifying heroin chic, who explains the downside of smack (a drug regularly used by less than 0.1 percent of Americans) by smashing up a kitchen with a cast-iron frying pan.
If you're interested in related fare, check out The Best Week Ever's "10 Funniest Anti-Drug Commercials in Advertising History" and 10 Zen Monkey's "Five Druggiest High School Sitcom Scenes."
And if you're still locked in a terminal buzz from watching so many videos online after your coffee break, contribute a little more to the declining productivity of the American economy by watching the infamous episode of Quincy, M.E., that answers the musical question, "Can punk rock kill?"
Nick Gillespie is editor of reason.com and reason.tv. A version of this appeared in the June reason.
With the annual AIPAC treason fest set to begin in Chicago in June, shouldn't Americans be asking this question? Many of us are beginning to wonder for whom this Congress works. With one disastrous war not yet behind us many of these servants to AIPAC and Israel are suggesting that another nation may require obliteration. Who are these congressional pod people who show such devotion to AIPAC or more importantly the Jewish votes and political contributions that AIPAC can muster.
Has the need for these contributions become so important that our politicians would willingly forsake the real interests of the United States in order to pursue those contributions? Here are just three comments delivered by our current Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi in a speech to AIPAC at the 2005 treason fest with some editorial comments by your own Liberal White Boy.(This is same year that AIPAC's Rosen and Weissman were caught handing over classified secrets at the Israeli embassy).
"One thing, however is unchanged: America's commitment
to the safety and security of the State of Israel is unwavering. America and Israel share an unbreakable bond: in peace and war; and in prosperity and in hardship.
Why? Why should Americans care about Israel anymore than any other country? We have no formal alliances with Israel. Israel has never come to our aid in any war, not even in the Middle East. Their assistance would have been detrimental to our causes. Israel is despised throughout most of Arab world, not because of the fraud called anti-Semitism, but because these pretenders stole the Palestinians land from them and have brutalized and ethnically cleansed its people for sixty years.
“Prime Minister Sharon's leadership of Israel at this crucial time has been remarkable. He has brought Israel through an extremely challenging period, and now he has made the difficult decision that it is in Israel's national security interest to disengage from Gaza.
Yes this is the same leader that presided over Israel as its Mossad agents/terrorists watched the hijackers for a year before 9/11 and didn't tell us. He deserved the Speaker of the House's accolades. This piece of garbage allowed 9/11 to happen.
"In the next few months, Israeli settlers will be evacuated entirely from Gaza and from four settlements in the northern West Bank. This courageous decision is gut-wrenching for Israel.
Yes dragging a bunch of crazy Hebrew extremists off of their stolen land in Gaza and moving them to more defensible stolen land on the West Bank takes a lot of courage. All that gut wrenching(and we are talking about a rather large gut when speaking of Ariel Sharon) probably caused the stroke leading to Diaper Dan Sharon's current vegetative state.
But this is what are Congress has become. So very sad. It's time for a trim.
Hey Kids. Can you pick out the cow in this picture? Now can you pick out the war criminal?
By way of deception shall you Conquer...Mossad Motto
country must be bombed and invaded. More innocent blood must be spilled. And of course Mossad won't tell us any more about the next group of terrorists than they did the first. Don't bother sending a freedom of information request for the video tape that the Apartheid Israel Mossad Goons took of themselves in Liberty Park either. You remember the dancing Israelis high fiving and flicking their Bic's as the Towers burned in the background across the river. And even though Israel and our own Government assured us in no uncertain terms that the dancing Israelis were just as innocent as could be, the tape is now classified. (I bet the Goons got to the show early.) Gosh this is like deja vous all over again. (e.g. the U.S.S. Liberty treachery). Yes we have motive, means and opportunity. In the old days before politicized justice, that was all you needed to go after criminals. AIPAC you Tweasonous Wascally Wabbits!12/21/07 |
As we dig deeper into the assassination of Bobby Kennedy, things get curiouser and curiouser, as Alice would say.
It seems there are some things that people just "know." There are no such things as ghosts, astrology and psychic powers are just ploys used to get money from the gullible, the chances that Earth will be hit by a comet within our lifetimes are astronomical (forgive the pun) and everyone deep inside is basically the same: just trying to be good as they understand it.
The strange thing about this kind of "knowing" is that no one can tell you just how they know. Ask them how they know that two plus two equals four and they will have at least a vague recollection of their early school years. But ask them how they know about ghosts, astrology, psychics, comets and the psychology of the rest of humanity and you'll likely get a response that is something akin to, "Everybody just knows that." But the question bothers me. Just when did "everyone" learn these things and why can't they remember having learned them?
Here, we find a key to how people can be coerced into taking part in a conspiracy they know nothing about. It is the beliefs they hold, masquerading as knowledge or "common wisdom"&--beliefs that will paradoxically be defended more vociferously than 2+2=4--that are skillfully manipulated by the perception managers.
Throughout our lives, rarely anything happens to trigger a fear of ghosts, aside from the occasional scary movie that is easily dismissed as the product of the scriptwriter's imagination. We live our lives blissfully unaware of that part of us, still very much alive in our minds but normally quiet, that does believe in ghosts and knows that there is compelling evidence for the reality of spirit.
If we were to find ourselves alone in a drafty, creaky old house on a dark, windy night, we would be forced to face that part of ourselves. Despite what we would claim to believe in the movie theater or in the bright sunlight, our fears of things unseen would begin to creep up the back or our neck and cause the hair to stand up. We would find ourselves involuntarily looking behind, just to be sure there is nothing there.
And when we find the evidence that our fears were unjustified and childish--the banging shutter or the gap in the window through which the wind whistled--we would laugh at our gullibility and feel a palpable sense of relief that sanity had been returned to the world. And even if something inexplicable actually does happen, we rush to explain it away even at the cost of lying to ourselves.
We specifically look for the evidence that our fears are unfounded because the key to our beliefs, that "common knowledge" without a remembered lesson, is a desire for a world that is fully knowable, under control and, ultimately, safe for us. We want to believe that our most dire fears are only the product of our overactive imaginations. And when those fears are triggered, any "rational" explanation that returns sanity to the world is welcomed with open arms.
Even many of the most ardent seekers of truth have fears and beliefs they keep deeply buried under stones that must never be turned. It is a childish belief--not the belief in ghosts, but the belief that ignorance, masquerading as common wisdom, provides safety. So, we see even vehemently outspoken critics of the U.S. government label as conspiracy theorists of the lowest order those who would dare claim that, as an example, 9/11 was the product of anything but Arab hijackers.
This is how it is with events like 9/11 or the assassinations of JFK, MLK and RFK. For a moment, our deepest fears seem realized. We madly grope for something, anything, that will return sanity to the world. We desperately look for the banging shutter or broken window that will assure us there is nothing unseen, nothing unknowable and, ultimately, nothing really unsafe. In this way, each of us can be made, is made, a part of the conspiracy even without realizing that the conspiracy exists.
And now, on with our story...
The Woman in the Polka Dot Dress
Sandy Serrano, a young campaign worker for Kennedy, was there at the Ambassador Hotel the scary night that Bobby Kennedy died. Needing a break from the heat and the crowd, she found a little quiet on the steps that lead from the back of the kitchen area. Somewhere around 11:30 pm, she encountered three people, a woman and two men, entering the kitchen from the back, using the stairs she was sitting on. The woman she would described as wearing a white dress with dark polka dots and having a "Bob Hope" type nose. The two men with her were described as,
White male (Latin extraction), 5'5" tall, 21 to 23 years old, olive complexion, black hair, long - straight, hanging over his forehead and needed a haircut. [The other was] white male (Mexican American), about 23 years of age, 5'3" tall, curly, bushy hair and wore light colored clothes. She said after seeing a picture of Sirhan Sirhan in the newspaper she felt certain that this was the same person she saw go up the stairs with this woman. [Turner and Christian; The Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, The Conspiracy and Coverup]
Sometime later, seconds after Serrano heard what she described as sounding like automobile backfires, the woman and one of her male companions came running back down the stairs. According to Serrano, the woman was yelling, "We shot him, we shot him." When asked who they shot, she replied, "Senator Kennedy."
Serrano was not the only one to describe the woman in the polka dot dress and associate her with Sirhan and/or the assassination. Amongst them was Kennedy campaign worker Darnell Johnson and the son of an Ambassador Hotel maître d', Thomas Vincent DiPierro. DiPierro said that the only reason he noticed Sirhan was that there was a very good looking girl next to him. According to DiPierro,
I would never forget what she looked like because she had a very good looking figure - and the dress was kind of lousy...it looked like a white dress and it had either black or dark-purple polka dots on it.
Minutes after the shooting and well before any of the stories of the woman in the white dress had been made public or could have been shared, LAPD Sergeant Paul Sharaga heard news of the shooting on his police radio. Already in the vicinity, he arrived at the scene within a minute. An older couple approached Sharaga and, as he tells it:
They related that they were outside one of the doors of the Embassy Room when a young couple in their early twenties came rushing out. This couple seemed to be in a state of glee, shouting, "We shot him, we shot him, we killed him." The woman stated that she asked the lady, "Who did you shoot?" or "Who was shot?" and the young lady replied, "Kennedy, we shot him, we killed him."
The only defining characteristic of the young lady that the witnesses could give was that she was wearing a white dress with polka dots. Sharaga immediately put out an all point bulletin for police to be on the lookout for a woman in a polka dot dress in the company of a man.
And then something very strange happened that, as far as we know, has never happened before or since in the history of the LAPD. For about 15 to 20 minutes, all police radio communications were lost on all frequencies. This was ample time for the woman in the polka dot dress and her companion to get off the streets and out of reach of the police.
The elderly couple Sharaga had interviewed were lost and have never come forward. Serrano, being the sole witness to the woman in the polka dot dress claiming, "We shot Kennedy" was brought to the notorious Rampart Division of the LAPD for extensive questioning. I encourage you to follow the link on the Rampart Division. The story of the ongoing corruption in the LAPD and the Rampart Division in particular is very informative. The Bobby Kennedy assassination is not the only one in which the Rampart Division has taken part.
In this case, however, the witness was not so much questioned as she was browbeaten and verbally tortured into renouncing her testimony. The "questioning" was performed by Sergeant Enrique "Hank" Hernandez who, according to his resume, played a key role in "Unified Police Command" training for the CIA in Latin America. As is clear from the questioning, Hernandez had one goal in mind - to discredit Sandy Serrano and anything having to do with the story of the woman in the polka dot dress.
Here, for your listening pleasure, are two excerpts from that taped session which, amazingly, survived after the LAPD had attempted to destroy all evidence that would discount the official story of the assassination of Robert Kennedy. Keep in mind as you listen that Sgt. Hernandez is allegedly questioning a material witness who has nothing to gain from lying.
Serrano and Hernandez part 1
Serrano and Hernandez part 2
A thread of the web
Hernandez played a key role in the special LAPD task force created to investigate the Kennedy Assassination, called Special Unit Senator, or SUS. SUS was headed by LAPD Lieutenant Manuel Pena.
Interestingly, Pena had officially retired from the LAPD in November of 1967, less than a year before the Kennedy assassination, to take a position with the Agency for International Development Office of the State Department, or AID; AID, a known cover agency for the CIA for its counter insurgency and torture operations in South America. AID is probably best known for one of its most infamous agents, a man who Pena allegedly had worked with, Dan Mitrione. From 1960 to 1967, Mitrione worked with the Brazilian government under the cover of AID, torturing then killing, without trial, political dissidents.
Though Pena's farewell was a well attended and publicized event, sometime around April 1968 he returned to the LAPD quietly, without fanfare. His explanation was that the job with AID had not turned out to be what he had hoped. Within two months, he would find himself in charge of the most important murder investigation every conducted by the LAPD, the man who would have the final say on virtually everything that would happen in the investigation.
And here, we have an interesting thread of web to examine. Two of the most important investigator's of the case, Hernandez and Pena, are both ex (or perhaps current at that time) CIA operatives, both involved in CIA operations in South America. Pena, the man running the entire investigation, had just returned from duty with AID, a CIA front organization that specialized in crushing political dissidents and likely worked with Dan Mitrione.
In 1970, Mitrione was kidnapped by the Tupamaros, a leftist guerrilla organization fighting against the U.S. sponsored dictatorship in Uruguay. Though his name was changed, that event was the basis of the movie State of Siege. Mitrione's funeral, much like Pena's "retirement" from the LAPD, was a well publicized and attended affair. Following his funeral, a benefit concert was held in his home town of Richmond, Indiana, headlined by none other than Frank Sinatra and Jerry Lewis (go figure).
Sinatra, as you may remember, was one of the stars of the John Frankenheimer film The Manchurian Candidate. The film is a fictional account of a man, played by Lawrence Harvey, who is hypnotically programmed to perform assassinations without conscious knowledge of doing so. Following the Kennedy assassination, Sinatra purchased the rights to The Manchurian Candidate and removed it from circulation until 1987.
On June 3rd, Bobby Kennedy had dinner with his friend John Frankenheimer (who, coincidentally, drove him to the Ambassador Hotel that fateful night) along with a pretty actress named Sharon Tate and her husband, Roman Polanski.
Now, please bear with me as we descend into something of an abyss. When trying to see the web, we run across strange coincidences that may seem on the surface to be tenuous, improbable or even downright laughable. It's the nature of the beast. If you want to know what is really going on, these things must at least be put on the table, even if they are discarded later. Remember, though, webs are tenuous things made from very delicate threads. Often times, the most obvious and easily accepted data turns out to be nothing more than something caught in the web - an artifact, if you will, rather than the web itself. That said, here we go.
In August 1969, Sharon Tate was murdered by members of the Manson Family, who had strong connections to the Laurel Canyon music scene. Curiously, the year Kennedy was shot Sharon Tate was in the process of making a film entitled The Wrecking Crew, which co-starred Dean Martin. That same name was taken by a group of Los Angeles studio musicians associated with Phil Spector, who were also closely connected with the Laurel Canyon music scene. And Dean Martin, her costar in that film, was of course a long time collaborator with Jerry Lewis, who shared billing with Frank Sinatra at the Dan Mitrione benefit concert following his funeral. During the filming of that movie, Tate would be trained to do her own stunts by the martial arts expert Bruce Lee, with whom she would become close friends and who also later died under mysterious circumstances.
Tate, it should be noted for those who don't remember her, was a movie star on a meteoric rise. She was beautiful and talented. As the Hollywood Reporter stated concerning her role in The Wrecking Crew, "Sharon Tate reveals a pleasant affinity to scatterbrain comedy and comes as close to walking away with this picture as she did in a radically different role in Valley of the Dolls."
Tate, it should also be noted, had taken a keen interest in Bobby Kennedy's campaign. She was a frequent attendee at Kennedy campaign dinners. It's funny (and not in a humorous way) how often those in the public eye who take a political stance that is in favor of human rights, human dignity and simply doing the right thing are found in a pool of their own blood.
As for Dan Mitrione, he was not the only famous former resident of Richmond, Indiana. For a fairly small town (the 2000 census shows a population of only 39,124) it has had more than its fair share of celebrity. Richmond can boast at least four NFL players, one of whom was a rookie of the year, an NFL coach, two NBA coaches, an Olympic gold medalist, Margaret Landon (the author of The King and I), Orville and Wilbur Wright, the legendary and cutting edge R&B singer Baby Huey and actress Polly Bergen along with Mitrione and a street preacher there who Mitrione befriended while he was Chief of Police in Richmond; a man by the name of Jim Jones.
But that is another story for another time.
More to come...
Source: Sott.net
The assassination of Robert Kennedy - Part 1| Written by Ed Corrigan | |
Saturday, 31 May 2008 | |
| A new German owner has purchased Haaretz and a "Putsch is being carried out among reporting staff," in the most important and liberal Zionist paper in Israel. According to inside sources, the new owner has carried out a rough, sittingroom survey that revealed that "the occupation doesn't sell newspapers" and they are therefore concentrating on the business world (ie. The Marker). Twilight Zone, Gideon Levy's regular Friday column, has been scrapped, Amira Hass has been degraded to freelance on half salary, Meron Rapaport has been fired and Akiva Eldar has lost at least one half page a week. The paper frequently allowed journalists critical of the Israeli occupation to publish articles that exposed the reality of the occupation to be exposed to the Israeli population and was circulated around the world. The new editorial direction is disturbing news. Haaretz was one of the few decent Israeli media outlets and showed that in Israel there was some respect for freedom of the press and critical discussion. This is a repeat of the situation when Conrad Black bought the Jerusalem Post and hired an Israeli censor to be publisher. The decent journalists all quit in protest, including Benny Morris back when he still had a moral conscience. It reflects a more disturbing trend. Norman Finkelstein was recently denied entry into Israel and the West Bank. Bishop Desmond Tutu was denied entry into Israel too. Prominent Palestinian journalists are routinely denied exit visas by the Israelis to leave the Occupied Territories to go on speaking tours and a group of Palestinians students from Gaza were also recently denied exit visas to attend American universities after being granted Fulbright Scholarships from the American Government. It appears that the Israelis are closing down many if not all of the sources of critical information coming out of Israel. The hypocracy of it all is that Israel complains that when the British Academic Union proposes a boycott of Israeli academic institutions as a way to pressure Israel and to protest Israel's policies toward the Palestinians the Israelis start to scream that the proposed boycott is a violation of freedom of speech and a violation of academic freedom. Israeli authorities have been crushing academic freedom and free speech for Palestinians, and even Israeli critics, for decades. Israel does not want its own population and the rest of the world to know what it is doing to the Palestinians. Source: ZioPedia.org |
Received some new photos of the WTC destruction. More roasted cars are shown, and these have not been moved, but are pictured at the point of roasting – in the WTC parking complex.
These cars have been violently scorched to the point that nothing remains but metal.
There are clearly signs of some kind of violent fire. But the tires are gone (wheels remain), the headlights and taillights are gone, the glass is gone (not broken - gone), bumpers are gone, the fabric of the seats is gone, and even the steering wheel and dashboard is gone where this is visible.
What could have suddenly and cleanly evaporated all the non-steel parts of so many cars?
It’s clear these cars were not impacted by falling, burning debris. Also, we can safely rule out the overworked “bolus of jet fuel” diversion. And although it shouldn’t require mention, “star wars beams” would require a very unusual orbit to operate in these enclosed underground areas.
That leaves the very real possibility of aluminothermic energetic materials placed in the WTC basement levels. A superthermite powder mixture, exploding and scorching as it goes, should be the highest priority root cause in any investigation. These photos alone make that case.
The volunteer fireman who sent the photos told me that an iron worker took them. When the fireman asked the iron worker photographer, who is now dying of cancer, for more information, he said this.
“He said access to the garages was extremely restricted. I asked him if he saw any molten metal, he told me there were pools of molten metal under the pile and in the basements. He even said that there were spots that water had pooled up and was just bubbling like a pot of boiling water with molten metal underneath, like in the Nat/Geo movies of underwater volcanic lava flows.”
» Kevin Ryan's blog
I FORMED AN INCURABLE addiction at a tender age, which speaks to my residence here at the asylum. The illness lacks a formal name, but it is a compulsion to explore matters beyond our grasp. Whatever the virtue of being consumed with fundamental issues, it is not a healthy pursuit in a force-fed culture. Socrates suffered from the same affliction, and the Athenians disposed of him for fear of the disease spreading. Little has changed over the years, as a thinking populace remains an anathema to the ruling class. Judging from history and the contemporary landscape, the elites can rest easy.
Epistemology has been my principal obsession, as the methodology with which we define, acquire, and validate knowledge is at the center of our being. Exploring whether we know anything with certitude is unforgiving territory, a perilous minefield not to be traversed lightly. In the existential realm, existence precedes essence—granting an open license to chart one’s course. When speaking of universal truths, however, we blindly feel our way. Navigating in darkness is the sine qua non of our species, but an epistemological compass requires more than necessity for calibration.
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No thoughtful person would describe the human animal as healthy. To manage our deficits, we develop compensatory mechanisms to maintain equilibrium and meet exigencies of the moment. This adaptive behavior would be impaired were we drowning in doubt, and thus we fabricate plausible insights—artificial constructs, if you will—to get us through the night. Nothingness evokes dread, an ontological paralysis that demands purpose as its cure. In medicating ourselves with answers that do not exist, our epistemological filter ceases to distinguish between need and knowledge.
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The advent of quantum mechanics unlocked an unknown universe, a macrocosm of fundamental randomness strikingly demonstrated in Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle. The world as we knew it no longer existed, with old assumptions supplanted by unsettling questions. When heading an environmental ethics institute, before my madness became manifest, I was asked how we formulate moral precepts in a sea of ignorance. I responded, attempting to mask my characteristic confusion, “With great humility.” Our disordered cosmos gives pause to all but the arrogant.
Lamentably, the President does not pause before voicing his Kafkaesque gospel; corporados do not pause before donning their predatory suits; media elites do not pause before pandering to pirates; the Supreme Court does not pause before defiling justice; the populace does not pause before ingesting trickle-down crumbs; and progressives do not pause before taking themselves more seriously than their principles. There is little room for critical analysis or nuance in a frantic, linear culture that manufactures truth on the assembly line.
The great thinkers brilliantly grappled with epistemological theory, but one cannot know the unknowable. Perhaps the most intense clash was between the Empiricists and Rationalists, with the former relying on sensory experience and the latter advancing reason. Kant countered that knowledge is derived from both sources, with Hegel’s dialectic challenging the transcendental arguments of Kant. This epistemological battle has raged since the ancient Greeks, and will never subside. Abstractions, however, compelling though they may be, are not to be confused with truth.
Notwithstanding the uncertainty that binds us all, I am driven by an equalitarian ethos that has been my faithful companion through the dead ends and detours. It has nourished me in the best of times, and sustained me in the worst. I would give my life to touch justice, but I lack the moral certitude and hubris to presume my truth is the truth. For some, impatient with such distinctions, that is sufficient in itself to rescind my credentials as a radical. I respond only with the words of Schopenhauer: “To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else’s meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.” Our ignorance of the universe extends to each other.
I am not suggesting, in the absence of absolutes, we should succumb to paralysis. On the contrary, life is for loving, learning, creating, and playing. We do not need Aristotelian logic to interpret our perceptions or certain knowledge to comprehend the language of being. Beauty awakens the senses; passion feeds the heart; and beneficence defines the spirit. Our sensations speak to us with an unmistakable rhythm, and we need not look to the cosmos for broader meaning. The moments still belong to us.
Ed Duvin is Cyrano’s Journal’s Online Editor at Large and chief consigliere.
Graphic: Conscience by Joseph Eagle
By Charles Sullivan
5/30/08
It is evident that a substantial majority of U.S. citizens are, in principle, opposed to the most destructive governmental policies stemming from the nation’s capital. These include, but are not limited to—the continuing war and occupation of Iraq, as well as the pervasive consumer fraud that preys upon the innocent and the unwary and causes them undue hardship. These charges are born out by the abysmal approval rating of Congress and the president. It is equally evident that the government, while pretending to be sympathetic to these views, continues to carry forth those same policies both at home and abroad. It does so without the consent of the people and, therefore, it has abrogated its responsibility to them.
These destructive policies are formulated in the various branches of government and in the corporate board rooms of America. They are a prominent feature of the run amok presidency of George W. Bush, where they manifest themselves to the world. However, their history precedes Bush and his corporate gangsters by generations, and they are an outgrowth of the exploitive capital system.
In some respects the presidency serves as a distraction from the machinations that are operating behind the scenes to spew forth one disastrous policy after another. With so much attention given to Bush, the people are failing to confront the root cause of which George W. Bush is but a single manifestation: the sociopolitical system that put the present criminal regime in power.
Beyond capitalism, other destructive paradigms are operating to produce a hybridized and even more virulent form of economics. One might call it hyper capitalism. This explains why the American form of capitalism is so much more destructive than most of its European counterparts. For example, most European workers enjoy a shorter work week, higher wages, and have more paid vacation than do American workers; and most of them have union representation and, therefore, more and better benefits. In Germany, even Wal-mart is unionized.
One of these harmful paradigms that interact synergistically with capitalism is the idea of American exceptionalism: the persistent belief that America knows best and everything we do is good for the world. This synergism is tinged with powerful elements of racism, sexism, and other belief systems that are rooted in bigotry, hate, and religious intolerance. It is this lethal combination that gave rise to the concept of Manifest Destiny. It was these paradigms that attempted to sweep the continent clean of its indigenous population, and is blowing across the planet, touching ground in the Middle East and beyond like a violent cyclone.
What is so exasperating to many of us is that the corruption of the political system is widely understood and yet so little is done about it. The people continue to participate in it; they continue to vote in the absence of meaningful choice and they continue to support it with their taxes. There have been peace marches and other forms of token protest, but they have had little bearing on the continuing policies of economic disparity, environmental destruction, and imperial war that are prominent features of American capitalism.
Because protest in America has become more symbolic than effective, those in power can afford to ignore it. Even when participation in protest is great, it is of short duration; it does not cause serious economic or political disruption, and it does not pose a real threat to the established orthodoxy. After a few hours of peaceful marching, the people pack up and go back to their lives and everything remains as it was before they came.
Effective protest causes economic and political disruption. It persists until the just demands of the people are met. The established orthodoxy feels pain and discomfort from it; it feels a palpable threat and understands that the injustice cannot continue. Either it addresses the demands of the people, or it perishes. This is a manifestation of democracy. It is serious stuff that requires enormous sacrifice from those who protest in this way. The Montgomery bus boycott of the 60s was that kind of protest; and it was a protest that was won by the people, despite a constant threat of violence and death.
These days few people are willing to put anything tangible on the line. One wonders: Is there anything that the American people are willing to fight and die for? Is there anything real that we really believe in? Or do we relish the symbols of freedom more than we love freedom itself?
American exceptionalism is fostered in all of our social and political institutions. This includes the educational system and religious institutions. Thus, these beliefs are continually reinforced from cradle to grave, and never more so than in the corporate media. So it is not surprising that our political leaders behave as if they were endowed with the powers of deities, even though they are nothing more than fallible human beings like everyone else. It requires enormous hubris for anyone to adopt such doctrines, but there appears to be an inexhaustible supply of hubris in this country and a paucity of humility and compassion. Those who think in this way are prone to behaving toward the world with vitriol, as we witness daily.
The collective result of so many individually destructive paradigms is dehumanization. When we allow people to be dehumanized it is easy to hate them and to exploit them; to see them as entities endowed with less inherent value than ourselves or our chosen kind. It is easy to kill or subjugate inferior people and inferior beings. That is also how the government (the economic elite) perceives the working class and in their eyes that perception makes working people exploitable and expendable. Giving our continued allegiance to such government is irrational and immoral; it is also cowardly and self-destructive.
We are faced with a situation in which the body politic not only does not care what the American people think; it disdains populism as much here as it does in Latin America and elsewhere in the world. Populism and its close cousin—democracy—pose an enormous threat to the established order; and that order provides wealth and privilege to a select few, while denying it to everyone else. This is why corrupt politicians and so many academicians spare no effort to suppress and crush democratic movements, and cover up their crimes through a disingenuous rendering of history.
Yet with so much of the population aware of the government’s disdain of the people’s needs, why isn’t there effective organized resistance to it? Why isn’t there widespread social and economic disruption? Why do the people not revoke their consent to be governed and refuse their allegiance to a government that is not only corrupt and devoid of moral capital but is also clearly predatory or even cannibalistic? Why do we continue to fund criminal governments, including our own, with our taxes? Why isn’t there social unrest and civil disobedience in the streets? Why are those who expose these crimes punished and the criminals go free and reap financial reward for their malfeasance?
One explanation for the widespread social malaise in this country is that people are overwhelmed by it; shocked and awed by it; disorientated by it. They cannot believe the audacity of the Bush regime. Disorientation makes the plunder of the commonwealth easy to carry out. Even while dazed and confused, so many people remain wed to the idea of America’s inherent goodness and moral superiority to the rest of the world, despite mountains of evidence against such views. Thus, they view the criminal Bush regime as an aberration rather than a continuation of an historical pattern.
Social justice advocates are rightly infuriated to know that amidst this worsening climate a solid majority of the people can remain indifferent and willfully ignorant of what is being done in their names. There is a reason for this. The American people do not want to acknowledge any wrong doing on the part of their government, which is, in theory, an extension of the people. Of course, that is not the actual practice. This refusal psychologically absolves them from guilt or complicity and it permits them the luxury of apathy. By refusing to acknowledge wrong doing, no further action is required of them. They can go on consuming, falling asleep in front of the television and sending their offspring to die in unnecessary wars, while sinking ever deeper into debt and economic servitude.
Furthermore, the inert masses are mentally and spiritually ill equipped to deal with reality; so they block it out of their minds—aided, of course, by the corporate media and the propaganda apparatus of the government, itself. This is why fantasy is freely substituted for reality; plutocracy is mistaken for democracy, and the majority of the people do not know the difference. Millions of good people thus refuse to allow into their psyche the suffering and misery that U.S. policy has produced and exported to the world, even as that reality is closing in upon them. Unfortunately, I can point to my own family as an example of such delusional thinking, as no doubt can many of my readers.
Understanding this, the greatest obstacle to creating a vibrant and effective social justice movement is convincing the inert masses that they must acknowledge the suffering we have caused and are continuing to inflict upon the world. The multitudes must see the wisdom of looking behind the veneer of propaganda and confronting an ugly and often painful truth: the brutal and violent history of our nation, including the suppression of democracy wherever it is encountered. Eventually, perhaps very soon, they must also come to grips with the demise of capitalism.
We the people must find the courage to confront reality, and that means that we must be willing to feel the pain and suffering we have inflicted on others. We must admit that we are not exceptional or superior, and that we are not more entitled to our share of the world’s bounty than any other people. But we must go even deeper than that: we must bring about restitution for our past wrong-doing.
The citizens of the United States must become one with the world and look beyond nationality; beyond race, sex, and religious creed. Suffering and joy are conditions of life and they should be kept in balance as much as possible. Because suffering causes discomfort that few people want to experience, the alleviation of suffering is powerful motivation to demand justice; and that is the force that motivates most good people to do what they do, which is resist the tyranny of evil government. Once our indiscretions have been acknowledged and acted upon, we will find that the world is more than willing to forgive our past transgressions. This act alone will allow us to rejoin the world, so to speak.
Many years ago I questioned my mother about eating meat and the suffering it caused so many innocent animals. Her response revealed much about the American consciousness. She did not witness the suffering of those animals. She did not hear their cries of pain. She saw no blood in the sanitized product that was sold in the grocery store, wrapped in clear plastic and served up on pristine styrofoam. So their suffering was not real to her; it was too far removed from her experience. But the suffering of those animals and their cries of pain are very real indeed; and so is the suffering the United States government is inflicting upon the world.
Were we on the receiving end of our government’s foreign policies, we would have a very different perception of them. But like wrapped meat in the grocery store, we do not see the pain and the blood—or the suffering. So for many people it is not real; it is not happening…but it is.
By admitting some of this pain into our lives we are simultaneously admitting all of the other things into our lives that define our collective humanity; among them hope and joy. Then, and only then, can we take a principled stand for social and environmental justice and build an effective movement toward these ends. We must pry open closed minds and allow reality to penetrate delusion, as witnessing cause and effect often does. By this process sheeple are transformed once again into people, each of them endowed with a conscience capable of distinguishing right and wrong. This moral evolution is itself a revolutionary act of monumental import to any justice movement. It provides the means for people to act according to the dictates of conscience, and that is an act of liberation from dogma.
Revolution begins by altering consciousness. We stand at the brink of a multitude of possible futures, many of them tragic. The failure to act and rebel when the conditions demand it is a betrayal not only of our own humanity; it is a crime of great magnitude. The world’s foremost thinkers and visionaries have always understood this. Can we?
Charles Sullivan is a nature photographer, a naturalist, an environmental educator and free-lance writer residing in the Ridge and Valley Province of geopolitical West Virginia. He welcomes your comments at csullivan@copper.net(no spam).
In that video of Condoleezza Rice responding to Ron Paul, she sure says "um" a lot.
Doesn't that seem odd for someone who's surely a polished public speaker and who's spoken extemporaneously on complicated matters countless times?
Not really, when you consider what the late Dale Leathers has to say in his book, Successful Nonverbal Communication. He opens one chapter with the precise quote from a 1979 TV interview with Ted Kennedy in which Kennedy is asked how his marriage is going. Kennedy's whole response, in which he tries to suggest things are going well, is little more than a string of "uhs." It's literally a textbook example of someone lying and doing a bad job of it.
And so it is with Miss Rice when she suggests there are no plans to attack Iran.
(Complete Kennedy quote after the jump.)
"Well, I think that, uh, it's a, uh, uh, uh we've had, um, uh, some uh, difficult uh, uh, times but I think we uh, have uh, uh, oof, I think been able to make some uh, very good progress and uh, uh, it's uh, uh, I would say that it's uh, uh it's it's um delighted that we're able to, to share, share the time and the, the relationship that we do share."
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Friday, May 30, 2008
Jim Corr: What we are seeing is tip-toe totalitarianism
Corrs guitarist Jim Corr has claimed that there was overwhelming evidence that the 9/11 attacks in America were carried out by "rogue elements" of US President George Bush's "neo-con administration".
In a rare intervention into the political arena, the male singer with The Corrs band also came out against the Lisbon Treaty claiming that it is " tip-toe totalitarianism in the West".
In an interview with Matt Cooper on Ireland's Today FM's 'Last Word', Corr made the case for voting 'No' to Lisbon, claiming it could introduce the death penalty to Ireland and contribute to a "new world order".
Corr's opposition is based on his three years "studying the New World Order which the European Union is a part of".
He said "the EU is a stepping stone towards a world government, they will merge it with the Asia Pacific Union, the African Union and the North American Union". The Lisbon Treaty itself will introduce "a scientific technocracy" to Europe which will erode national sovereignty.
Corr claimed that The Charter of Fundamental Rights allows for the introduction of the death penalty.
"It makes provision for the introduction to law for the death penalty in times of war or imminent threat of war.
"What we are seeing is tip-toe totalitarianism in the West with 9/11 the key to understanding this.
"When you study 9/11 it becomes very apparent... it was a staged terrorist attack, what they call a false flag operation."
Corr said overwhelming evidence suggests 9/11 "was carried out by rogue elements in the Bush neo-con administration".
Source: The Belfast Telegraph
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Olmert's Secret Visit and Israeli False Flag Operations in 
President George W. Bush, during his January 2008 visit to
To understand how the 9-11 false flag operation was set up requires an understanding of the extensive network of Israeli companies in the When I discovered that Buried deep in the sports section of the Jerusalem Post of July 23, 2004, in an article about the Likud party's soccer club, Betar, I discovered this very significant bit of information: Three years ago, Betar was sold to a four-man consortium (US businessmen Meir and Shaul Levy, local businessman Meir Finegel, and Jerusalem real estate agent Sasson Shem Tov, who pulled out a few weeks ago), following a meeting in New York with then-mayor Ehud Olmert on September 10, 2001. There were no other potential buyers. If Olmert's visit to
Why has the controlled media kept it secret? Olmert, who was raised in a family of the Irgun (the Zionist terror organization of the 1930s and 40s which became the Likud party), became the prime minister of
The secrecy surrounding Olmert's pre-9-11 visit suggests that it has something sinister to do with the terror events which befell the city the following day. With so much evidence of Israeli prior knowledge and involvement in 9-11, Olmert's secret visit raises obvious questions: Were the "
From a tip that I received, I found that Shaul and Meir Levy are connected to an extensive Israeli network in
An Israeli-owned firm will only disguise itself as an Arab-owned company when it is playing a part in a false flag operation, like 9-11. The purpose of the Arab disguise is to put up a false front to hide the real people involved in the operation. This is, for example, exactly the kind of disguise that was used by Ptech, the Massachusetts-based enterprise software company that loaded Israeli-written spy and control software onto the most sensitive computer networks in the
THE TIP
I received this very interesting email at the end of 2007:
Dear Mr. Bollyn,
Something has been bothering me for some years. I feel it may be insignificant, but the event is so out of place, that I had to share it with someone like you who investigates 9-11 earnestly.
My wife and I run a small gift shop selling seashells, t-shirts, and
This time it was different, there was no secretary and nobody in attendance, so I went along the corridor to my left towards the end where I knew there was a large conference room, something like you would use for presentations, and just before entering the room I was accosted by an Israeli (I knew by accent) who started to ask me about my business and expressed an interest in buying it.
It was obvious that he was trying to engage me in conversation so I would not go into the room. I ignored him and went straight in. I saw about 10-12 Israelis sitting around this very large conference table. I engaged some of them in conversation, because some spoke Russian, the language I speak fluently. We spoke about the business, but I soon discovered that they knew nothing about graphics. It is only after 9-11 that I put two and two together and realized the significance of the Israelis being there: Next Graphics is owned by a Palestinian family, which recently purchased their building in a high-profile industrial area.
After receiving this interesting tip, I looked into Next Graphics and found that it was not truly Palestinian or Arab-owned at all. While the company was registered under the names of Nabil and Nidal Alif, the "principal" person behind the company was actually a Sephardic (Spanish or Arabic Jew) Israeli named Samuel Anidjar. The Anidjar name comes from a Jewish family in Moorish Spain that was expelled in 1492 to
Samuel Anidjar was a business partner in a Boca Raton-based company called The Big Apple Corp., whose website says this about Mr. Anidjar:
Samuel Anidjar is a merchandising consultant for The Big Apple and the principal of Next Graphics, Inc., based in
Anidjar worked with another Israeli at the Big Apple scheme named Dror Levy.
The Big Apple website provided this about Mr. Levy:
Dror Levy (age 28) is Vice President of Research and Development for The Big Apple. Currently, Mr. Levy provides consulting services to sportswear manufacturers in the
(Note: Some of the places in these biographical sketches do not exist as written, e.g.
Anidjar's partner at the Big Apple (a theme park which does not seem to have materialized), Dror Levy, has long been a business partner with Shaul and Meir Levy, the Israeli Jews of Syrian origin who met with Ehud Olmert in New York City on the eve of 9-11. The Levy brothers are the founders of Levy & Levy, and L & L Wings, which operates a chain of beach stores called Wings.
Dror Levy and another Israeli, Eliezer Tabib, are the registered heads of several companies that were started by Shaul and Meir Levy, for example, the 1000 Highway 98 East company, which is also the address of the Wings store in
Dror Levy was described as "vice president and marketing director for Miami-based Marco Destin Inc., parent of Wings" in the Mobile Register (AL) and Naples Daily News (FL) of January 7, 2004. Marco apparently stands for
"Marco Destin Inc. is led by Elizer 'Eli' Tabib, who took over Wings in
I wrote to the person who provided the tip and told him that Next Graphics was clearly an Israeli-owned business that was putting up a false front of being an Arab-owned company.
He responded:
Amazing, amazing, amazing. Next Graphics is out of business. I used to buy transfers from them via phone for years between 1996 and 2001. At that time they were at a different location. Sometimes I had a rush job when someone ordered a dozen shirts or something so I used to go there…
I am puzzled by the behaviour of these people. If you entered Graphics waiting room, they had a small altar on your left with and elaborate "kursi" an Islamic prayer on the wall, and several very beautiful Islamic inscriptions, small table with a gold trimmed Holy Quran on it, and several other Islamic mementos.
I am a Muslim and was happy to see display of their faith, but we are not that showy, and very few Muslims have things hanging on their walls. If you go in my house, you will see very little besides The Quran and some scenes from old
…I know that they bought this warehouse around 1999, when they moved from another Lauderdale location at 5600 NW 12th Ave. 33309. Their last location was 2131 Blount Road. You mention that you would like to know how far their location was from the phony hijackers. You will find that it is not that far. "Atta" lived in one of those two story motel type buildings in Forth Lauderdale, near the beach, there are hundreds of such structures near the water there. The distance would be about 1.5 to 2 miles at most, and the Delray location would be about 4 to 5 miles.
Interestingly, at that time there was a mosque in an industrial park near FAU, that was operated by a fellow called Ibrahim Bedali, very nice guy, ocean geologist by profession; many of us attended the place, he also taught martial arts, but we never saw a single one of these "hijackers" there. Maybe they attended a synagogue, instead!
Why were the Israelis running a false front graphics business in the
How did Shual (or Shaul) and Meir Levy become multi-millionaires selling beach towels and bathing suits? Is there another reason they have so many free-standing warehouses along the coast of the
Why was Ehud Olmert really meeting these men in
Next week - Part 3
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“Sinn Fein was the political front for Catholic terrorists, the self-styled Irish Republican Army (IRA), whose aim was to remove the British from Northern Ireland, at times using indiscriminate bombing against civilian targets. Its leaders proudly declared they would achieve their aims with a ballot box in one hand and a rifle in the other… and Sinn Fein were welcomed by the White House for years, even at the height of their bloody campaign. The IRA was ‘de-designated’ as a foreign terrorist organization by the US State Department in 1994 – because peace talks were underway in Northern Ireland. Yet the political wing of Hamas, despite being democratically elected to the Palestinian assembly in 2006, has been shunned, even having offered a ceasefire.”Dateline: 5/23/08
The definition of what constitutes a terrorist has exercised some of the best minds in history, but in answer to the question “When is a terrorist a terrorist?” the current US President replies, “When I say so…”
Ok, he didn’t actually use those exact words, at least not in public, but he did say this about Saddam Hussein in 2006:
“He was a state sponsor of terror. In other words, the (US) government had declared, you are a state sponsor of terror.”
Iran/Iraq
More recently the entire Iranian Republican Guard – a force of over 125,000 elite soldiers – was labeled a terrorist organization by Bushco for allegedly supplying dissident factions in Iraq with weaponry. Never mind that successive US administrations have a hideous and prolonged history of doing the same thing with vicious terrorist groups and sadistic despots, just as long as they were ideologically aligned to the government of the day.
Perhaps the most edifying example is the sale of WMD to Saddam by the US under Ronald Reagan to support his ambitions and keep Iranian fundamentalism at bay. Exports included biological agents such as anthrax, vital ingredients for chemical weapons, and cluster bombs - all delivered by a CIA front organisation in Chile… Obviously this was all well before Iraq’s psychopathic tyrant fell out of favour by invading Kuwait.
In this instance it is fair to ask - who are the real state terrorists in the Middle East?
American political dualism (ie hypocrisy) allows the current White House incumbent to holler about his thrust for democracy and trumpet his war on terror while threatening Iran – all the while ignoring the USA’s disgraceful interference in that country’s affairs.
Operation Ajax
This unholy military support for Saddam is just one recent example of the US acting against the interests of the citizens of Iran. Back in 1953 the CIA ran Operation Ajax with the aim of overthrowing Iran’s democratically elected government to re-install the Shah as an autocratic pro-western puppet.
The operation was seen as a triumph for US Middle Eastern foreign policy at the time, but was hardly a proud moment for American’s who believe their country has long stood as a champion for democracy and human rights. But then again, most of them will never hear about it as such travesties barely rate a mention in mainstream US media.
The truth is that the good ‘ole US was responsible for strangling Iranian democracy at birth and thrusting an autocratic monarch back on the people. The Shah ruled with an iron fist, a truly tyrannical leader, using his Savak secret service operatives to terrorize his people and torture ‘dissidents’ – some of whom were ‘dangerous’ members of pro-democracy groups; journalists, poets and the like.
This CIA operation was undeniably state sponsored terrorism against a democratically elected government. Why was it deemed necessary at the time? The answer is a familiar theme being mirrored in modern day Iraq: to install a pro-western puppet regime to ensure the country’s massive oil reserves could be plundered.
Can there be any doubt that the resultant anti-western feeling generated by US interference in Iran’s internal political affairs is the defining factor for the backlash that resulted in the Islamic Revolution in Iran in 1979? Or continued anti-US feeling in Persia and the wider Middle East?
And Bush asks, ‘Why do they hate us?’
He might as well ask why Muslims have become more radicalized over the years… If he troubled to read anything by Osama bin Laden or President Ahmadinejad he would know - and it’s not jealousy or hatred of our ‘way of life’, our wonderful freedoms, our democracy, or even Christianity.
It is because of our actions.
A modern day Jeremiah
This truth has recently been publicized during the race for the Democratic nomination in the States… The Reverend Jeremiah Wright has been slammed by the hysterical US media for his unpatriotic/incendiary comments, but in the light of America’s involvement in the Middle East his words about ‘chickens coming home to roost,’ and ‘You cannot do terrorism on other people and expect it never to come back on you,’ have the ring of veracity to them – no matter how unpalatable to the US public.
American government hypocrisy extends beyond supporting anti-democratic despots – it includes funding and arming terrorist groups like the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan to overthrow the ‘tyranny’ of Soviet occupation. Some reputable sources – including Robin Cook, the UK Foreign Secretary from 1997 to 2001 – claim members of bin Laden’s Al Qaeda were recruited and trained with the backing of the CIA. In those days Al Qaeda were considered ‘freedom fighters’ because they were battling the ‘scourge of communism’ but, now they’ve focused on the tyranny of a US client state - Israel - they are labeled terrorists.
As are Hamas and Hezbollah - at least, by this administration. Many Arab nations and other countries around the world consider both organizations as being comprised of freedom fighters defending Palestinians against US sponsored Israeli aggression, yet blinkered American political intransigence refuses to even acknowledge the possibility. They’re terrorists, right? They’re bad people so we can’t talk to them…
Who wants peace anyway?
Jimmy Carter has been pilloried for giving Hamas credibility by having the audacity to do just that - talk with their political leaders - but surely dialogue is the only way to bring about a meaningful and lasting peace.
Could it be that the US and Israel have no wish for a peaceful resolution to the conflict if it means creating a Palestinian state? Could they have a common interest in an unstable and fractured Middle East where their military might can secure some of the world’s most valuable real estate? Could the existence of terrorism and Islamic extremism, combined with internecine fighting between Sunnis and Shia militia, help serve this purpose?
And speaking of Israel - what about Ariel Sharon? Wasn’t he labeled a terrorist and subject to a US State Department bulletin demanding that he be brought to account for his part in leading the Q’Biya massacre of 66 Palestinian civilians – also in 1953?
When is a terrorist a terrorist? Obviously the prevailing political view at the time is the most significant determinant.
Of course, all the while terrorism occurs a long way away and involves the non-peoples of the world such as A-rabs and the like, it isn’t that important, is it?
The day the world changed…
Everyone is agreed that the world changed on 9/11, although in truth it was American attitudes that changed. Terrorism was no longer a remote threat to US citizens going about their daily business, but became a clear and present danger to the comfortable lives of the most pampered individuals in the history of the world – a threat to be confronted with hysteria, fear, belligerence and paranoia, sparking a conflagration that consumed America’s values and rights as an opportunist and power hungry government fanned the flames, assisted by the quiescent cowering media.
Even so, despite the propaganda surrounding the so-called war on terror, not even convicted terrorists are necessarily all bad…
A terrorist in the White House?
President Bush welcomed one such self-confessed, convicted terrorist to the White House as recently as December 2007, and even shook hands with him for a photo-call - yet no-one in the US seemed to notice. You would have thought the hysterically paranoid media would have squealed in outrage, with Fox’s Bill O’Really foaming at the mouth over such an appalling travesty – especially as Bush’s guest was described as ‘Britain’s number one terrorist’ as recently as 1993.
Except, of course, the terrorist in question is now Deputy First Minister for the Northern Ireland Executive and a Member of Parliament representing Sinn Fein: Martin McGuinness.
Sinn Fein was the political front for Catholic terrorists, the self-styled Irish Republican Army (IRA), whose aim was to remove the British from Northern Ireland, at times using indiscriminate bombing against civilian targets. Its leaders proudly declared they would achieve their aims with a ballot box in one hand and a rifle in the other… and Sinn Fein were welcomed by the White House for years, even at the height of their bloody campaign.
The IRA was ‘de-designated’ as a foreign terrorist organization by the US State Department in 1994 – because peace talks were underway in Northern Ireland. Yet the political wing of Hamas, despite being democratically elected to the Palestinian assembly in 2006, has been shunned, even having offered a ceasefire.
Clearly, Bush’s definition of democracy is similar to his definition of terrorism: it is only democracy if he deems it so, and in reality he means a pro-western democracy, otherwise it just doesn’t count.
Such duplicitous double standards come as no surprise to anyone living outside of the United States media bubble.
The honored White House guest had this to say when he was convicted in 1973: ‘We have fought against the killing of our people. I am a member of Oglaigh na Eireann (IRA) and very, very proud of it.’ No doubt members of Hamas would express similar sentiments.
The Troubles
For decades many patriotic Irish-Americans supported the IRA by raising funds to pay for their bloody campaign of terror – euphemistically known as The Troubles. Dollars collected in the Irish bars of Boston were being used to buy Armalite rifles and Semtex explosives for the terrorists to use against the British in Northern Ireland and in England.
Perhaps we should be asking: where was the US support for Britain against the IRA over these years? And especially in 1984 when British Prime Minister Thatcher and her cabinet were blown up in the UK coastal town of Brighton, killing five members of the Conservative party and injuring 34 others?
The IRA claimed responsibility and had this to say at the time: “Today we were unlucky, but remember, we only have to be lucky once; you will have to be lucky always. Give Ireland peace and there will be no war.”
Whilst Muslims are considered dehumanized non-peoples because a few of their number have allegedly done a similar thing on US soil (admittedly on a much greater scale) the American attitude to terrorism is enlightening. There was popular support for the IRA, explicitly with funds raised through organisations like NORAID - which many believe paid for arms and explosives - and at government level Irish extremists were wooed by the White House, even as their colleagues were fighting against the USA’s supposed ‘special’ ally.
Christians are different
Many people say that Christians would never resort to violence to pursue their views in the way the Islamists do, yet it is worth remembering that the conflict in Ireland was as much a religious war as a political one: Catholic violence on Protestants and vice versa led to over 30 years of terrorist atrocities in Northern Ireland and England. The result was more than 3000 deaths with almost 50,000 other people crippled and injured.
It was the UK’s own 9/11, but spread over three decades.
At the height of the ‘Troubles’, being the wrong type of Christian in parts of Northern Ireland could get you tortured - kneecapped with a bullet or with a Black& Decker drill if ammunition was scarce, brutally battered with a pick axe handle or similar, shot dead, blown up or mutilated. Fraternising with the wrong man could see a girl beaten, shaven headed and tarred and feathered – or worse. The man would not get off so lightly.
The IRA even developed the concept of a ‘proxy bomb’ – a suicide bomb delivered by a reluctant victim. In October 1990, they held a man’s family hostage, chained him to a car filled with explosives, and made him to drive to a checkpoint where the bomb was detonated, killing the hapless victim and five British soldiers. The IRA dropped the practice only because revulsion was undermining their support in the local community.
So-called Christians were doing these things to each other just a few years back in our ‘civilised, democratic’ UK. Were all Catholics vilified for the actions of a few in the way Islamists are today?
Hardly.
A defining act of terror
Perhaps we should remember the worst example of a state sponsored terrorist act in living memory. One perpetrated by the nation whose leaders now claim to be waging a war on terror.
If ‘terrorism’ can be defined as deliberately targeting innocent civilians to generate terror among them and thereby coerce their government to change direction, World War 2 provides the definitive case study. Can there be a more flagrant disregard for innocent human life demonstrated by the American body politic and their military industrial complex than the deliberate obliteration of the civilian populations of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
The morality of using an atomic bomb to end the Pacific conflict is worthy of debate in its own right. Regardless, it would be difficult to deny that dropping the second bomb was an unnecessary act of state terrorism – the first had demonstrated the USA’s overwhelming force and was enough to bring Japan to its knees.
Some would say that any war is just a form of terrorism by powerful nations, while terrorism is the only form of war available to the powerless.
Others would argue that the definition of terrorism belongs to the powerful… after all, they’re the ones who write history aren’t they?
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This article is copyright Will Patching and appears at www.willpatching.com.
Will is the author of The Free World Petition which can be viewed at www.petitiononline.com/Patching/petition.html
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In a recent issue, we outlined how Barack Obama was told by Ted Kennedy not to take Hillary Clinton on as a running mate and gave some of the background behind that recommendation. Basically, Ted knows that the Clinton and Bush crime families, who have reeked their reign of terror on the citizens of the US in the Bush-Clinton-Bush triple whammy, were most likely behind the assassination of JFK, Jr., or if you prefer, the "accidental" plane crash that took him out of contention as a potential presidential candidate for the 2000 election year. The "accident" took place in 1999 while Clinton was finishing his second and final term as President and the candidates for the office of President for the 2000 election year were being lined up. JFK, Jr. could probably have beaten Dubya hands down if he had taken the Democratic nomination away from Al Gore, who in fact later won the election, but for the fraud in Florida voting counts where brother Jeb took care of things for brother George. Al Gore, under pressure from the Bush crime family, who were in the process of "influencing" the US Supreme Court, was promised a special hat trick in connection with a movie about global warming disinformation he was asked to create and promote by upper tier Illuminists. Hence, the piece of cinematic garbage, "An Inconvenient Truth," which brought Gore an Emmy, an Oscar and a Nobel Peace Prize as payola for giving up the Presidency to Caligula.
Ted also has to know that the Clinton's have left behind scores of dead bodies in the wake of their notorious political careers and would not hesitate to take Obama out to push Hillary into the Presidency. He also has to know that both the Bush and Clinton crime families were major players in the neocon setup of the phony "War on Terror" and the dastardly 911 mass murder the beginnings of which were well underway during the Clinton Administration, which saw both the First World Trade Center Bombing in 1993 followed by the Oklahoma City Bombing in 1995. So clearly Senator Obama is taking on some extremely dangerous, hardcore sociopaths, as is Ron Paul for that matter. And Ted knows they would not hesitate to take Obama out to put the Queen of Marxism, often referred to as the "Womanoid," into the Oval Office, if Obama was foolish enough to make her his running mate and then was to win the Presidential election against the Bush Clone, McCain, aka the "Albino Chipmunk."
So now, a couple weeks after our original comment about Ted's recommendation to Obama, when Hillary Clinton is asked why she is not conceding the nomination to Obama despite being hopelessly behind in the delegate count, she reminds the reporter about the Robert Kennedy assassination in June of 1968. Nice little "Freudian slip" there, eh! You mean when the frontrunner was assassinated? Her statement seems more like a thinly veiled threat to us. Later we are told that she was simply referring to the fact that the nomination was still being contended in June of that election year, but come on, what does that have to do with the facts and circumstances of this election and whether she should concede or not. If Obama takes the Democratic nomination and then makes the mistake of selecting the Queen B as his running mate, he is inviting an assassination attempt, ala Gerald Ford and Rockefeller's attempt to take him out, twice, or he will be compromised and disgraced like Richard Nixon, ala Rockefeller's revenge on Nixon for naming Ford as his Vice President over Rockefeller to avoid the inevitable assassin's bullet (Nixon was indeed a reprobate, but a smart one).
Did you really think that Watergate was about Nixon getting caught in the cover-up and about seeking truth, justice and the American way? Please, spare us. No one gets caught, unless the elitists want them to be caught. Ask Elliot Spitzer.
Watergate was all about taking Nixon out to make way for elitist Rockefeller to become President. The arrangement to propel S&M Master, Nelson Rockefeller, into the Presidency, came complete with a full pardon for Nixon in exchange for dupe Gerald Ford's ascendency to the Presidency, to be followed by Rockefeller's subsequent appointment as Vice President (which required a Constitutional amendment that Rockefeller had made mighty efforts to pass beforehand so he could step into the Vice Presidency without being voted in by the US public who hated his perverted guts), and then Gerald Ford's assassination to put the King of Perverts (Rocky) in the White House. This all followed Vice President Agnew's elitist-arranged removal through exposure of certain of his income tax "problems" so Nixon could appoint Rocky as his Vice President. As we said, Nixon appointed Ford instead to avoid assassination at the hands of the Prince of Darkness (Rocky).
Incidentally, Ford was in on the Warren Commission's cover-up of JFK, Sr.'s treasonous assassination, and was a dupe for the elitists from the beginning. For his services to the Illuminati, Gerald Ford received the Presidency for what, apparently unbeknownst to him, was supposed to be a very short period of time that was supposed to end with each of the two assassination attempts. Had he been assassinated, considering his actions while on the Warren Commission, it would have been a nice piece of poetic justice. But that would mean that elitist scumbag, Nelson Rockefeller, would have become President and taken us into World War III, so we're glad that Ford survived.
We are called the greatest nation on earth, yet this is how our politics are conducted. What a sham. What a disgrace. We predict that if Obama makes Clinton his running mate, and then beats McCain, he will not make it through his first term in office. He will be either assassinated or disgraced out of office so the evil Marxist Womanoid can become President. Truly, there is nothing new under the sun.
Of course, this all assumes we have an election in November, which is in substantial doubt. Because of the treasonous actions and mass murder of 911, the neocons must stay in power to continue the cover-up of their actions. This is why we had voter fraud during the 2004 election, this time in Ohio instead of Florida, to ensure a Bush victory. A loss would mean the loss of control over the CIA and the military and the potential for a real investigation into 911, into the phony "War on Terror", into the lies about Saddam Hussein and Iraqi WMD's to justify our entry into Iraq, into torture and other war crimes and into the mountain of corruption in connection with military and civilian no-bid contracts, payments for non-performance and missing cash and weapons, to name but a few.
The neocons are quaking in terror at the prospect of leaving their seats of power and at the potential for being exposed to endless inquiries and recriminations which might lead them to the gallows, which is where they all belong. So all this adds up to the potential for another 911-type false-flag attack, this time to keep the neocons in power so they can continue the cover-up of their misdeeds during a period of martial law to be declared under the auspices of the Patriot Acts and the Military Commissions Act. As a bonus, this type of situation would be intended to draw our attention away from the intentional and malevolent destruction of our economy, which was enabled by the Illuminist, privately-owned Fed and which occurred primarily during the era of unparalleled debauchery which we refer to as the Bush-Clinton-Bush triple whammy. The non-stop rise of oil prices may be reflecting some insider knowledge about such a false-flag attack or about the creation of a new theater of war in Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Kosovo and/or Georgia to distract attention away from the failings of our incumbent miscreants with respect to the handling of our economy (not included among the miscreant incumbents is of course, Ron Paul, one of the few remaining true patriots left in our corrupt government). Bush, Sr. has picked up some remote land in Paraguay as a new potential criminal family compound in order to hedge his bets.
The ongoing destruction of our economy and the free trade agenda were energized during the period of the Bush-Clinton-Bush triple whammy of Presidential Administrations, and all of their nefarious dealings were assisted by Reagan's Executive Order creating the President's Working Group on Financial Markets, also known as the PPT. The PPT has been used to manipulate markets to assure insider-trading profits for elitists on Wall Street, in corporate America and in our government, and also to hide the destruction of our economy by preventing our markets from reflecting the truth about underlying fundamentals. Our markets are not free, and many decisions are made based on economic statistics that are more related to opium and mushroom induced pipe-dreams of the fiction writers at the Bureau of Lying Statistics than they are to any financial realities. This is why our markets have become counterintuitive. And if you try to trade based on truth instead of on elitist lies about the economy, you are destroyed by nonsensical, schizophrenic market action brought about by the PPT to cover up the nefarious dealings of the Illuminati. Charts, graphs and software programs are useless under these circumstances and cartel knowledge of what these methods predict is actually used against those who cling to them for a crutch.
Our entire society, from its citizens, to its corporations, to its government, is one big monumental cluster-you-know-what, and will only be changed when the people of our nation are made to feel the full impact of the destructive forces unleashed by the Illuminati and which the people of our nation, by their sluggish, doltish and oafish inaction, have allowed to happen. Yes indeed, you get the kind of government you deserve, and our disgusting and revolting government, which has now succeeded in utterly destroying the US economy, could not be more richly deserved by our ignorant, complacent, narcissistic and hedonistic citizens. The Fall of Rome will no longer be discussed. The Fall of the United States of America will take its place.
If we get a Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton quadruple whammy, it's all over but the crying. If this monumentally disastrous event occurs, you should immediately remove yourself and as many of your family members as possible from the US. If you can't leave, be sure to accumulate weapons, ammunition and freeze-dried food by the truckload and get ready to rumble. A new Clinton Administration means that the epic battle of Armageddon approaches. Anything she does will increase the destructive power of our current debacle by an order of magnitude. The fact that so many of our citizens are head-over-heels about the Womanoid's candidacy tells you all you need to know about the intellect of average American citizens, who now appear to have I.Q.'s that can be counted on the fingers of one hand. The public's current disinterest in gold and silver is an equally good indicator of America's cretinism. The stupidity of our citizens is probably the scariest thought of all. How do you work your way out of a crisis when everyone around you is an idiot?
Source: The International Forcaster
By Steve Jonas
5/29/08
The Rev. Hagee was unceremoniously dropped from the McCain campaign not because he called Catholicism the “great whore” or because he said that Katrina was God’s way of punishing New Orleans for its wicked ways. He was dropped because he said that Hitler’s true historical role was to serve as a “hunter” whose intent was to drive the European Jews from their homelands of many centuries to live in Palestine, realizing among other things a centuries-old dream of so-called “Christian Zionists” (who happen to trace their lineage in North America back as far as the Pilgrims of Massachusetts). Much criticism was heaped upon the good Rev. for making such a statement, particularly considering that he does acknowledge that the Holocaust did occur. However, recent historical research (done in my head over the past weekend) has revealed that he was quite right. The tragedy of the Holocaust occurred not because of Hitler’s orders, but because of a mis-understanding of them by the chief managers of the horror, Reinhardt Heydrich and Adolf Eichmann.
Hitler never gave a written order for the Holocaust, or at least none the intelligence services or scholars have ever been able to find. It was at the Wannsee Conference of January 20, 1942, that the whole-sale murder of European Jewry was planned (Roseman, R., The Villa, the Lake, the Meeting: Wannsee and the Final Solution, Penguin Books, 2002). It was held in a beautiful villa just outside of Berlin overlooking Lake Wann (which I had the privilege of visiting last summer). The meeting was chaired by Heydrich, its minutes taken by Eichmann. In those minutes, Eichmann made it clear that Heydrich made it clear that he was acting on direct verbal orders from Hitler. The tragedy is that since they were verbal, not written, those orders got confused. New research shows that the order that Hitler gave to Heydrich was to “shoo” the Jews out of Europe. Unfortunately, Heydrich heard the order as “shoot” the Jews out of Europe.
Now that had already been tried, and dropped by the SS and the Wehrmacht. It was determined to cost too much in precious lead in the bullets, and some of the weaker-kneed members of the murder squads were showing that they did not have the stomach for mass killings by shooting of up to 40,000 civilians at a time (even if they were untermenschen). Next came the gas vans, but they used up too much precious gasoline and to boot were rather slow in doing the job. And so it was at Wannsee that Heydrich, totally misunderstanding Hitler’s order, came up with the idea of mass extermination, using the just-developed Zyklon-B gas. The 15 men in the conference room, half of them lawyers (sound familiar, folks?), all agreed that gas-chambering was the most economical way of doing the job, and Eichmann took it from there. No one ever thought to go back to Hitler to confirm the order. So his obvious desire, as the Rev. Hagee told us, simply to “shoo” the Jews out of Europe to the Holy Land became “shoot” them out of Europe, so they could never get there. Thanks for your insight, Rev. Hagee (long-time supporter of the oh-so “experienced” John McCain, whether presently with him on the campaign trail or not).
Steven Jonas-Professor of Preventive Medicine at Stony Brook University (NY)– is Special Contributing Editor for Cyrano on Politics & Culture. Always involved in progressive politics, Jonas is also the author of The 15% Solution: A Political History of American Fascism, 2001-2022.published in 1996 under the pseudonym “Jonathan Westminster. Lately Jonas has been following the Democratic Party meanderings during a particularly snarky primary season.
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There was considerable speculation in press circles when he took over the Wall Street Journal that Rupert Murdoch would make the newspaper’s editorial positions a little bit more mainstream and a little less neo-conservative than they had been, if for no other reason than to further expand its competitiveness with the New York Times. While I only read the Journal’s foreign policy-related editorials, columns, and op-eds, I think I’m safe in saying that the speculation has so far proved unfounded.
Take just the past couple of days’ opinion pages as examples. On Tuesday, it published yet another Islamophobic rant by its “Global View” columnist and former Jerusalem Post editor, Bret Stephens, comparing the recent guidelines by the Departments of Homeland Security and State on the possibly counter-productive use of politically and religiously provocative words in the “global war on terror” with George Orwell’s “Newspeak.” It also published a particularly unenlightening — and not very credible — excerpt from ultra-Likudist Doug Feith’s recent book, War and Decision. Although it’s hard to figure out exactly why the Journal published the article other than to help him promote the book — Stephens wrote a glowing review (unfortunately not available online) of it a few weeks ago — the excerpt appeared designed to reassure readers that Iraq’s alleged WMD programs and terrorist ties really were the main reasons the Bush took the nation to war in Iraq (a thesis that has once again been cast into doubt by Scott McClellan’s new book) and that he, Feith, was right and everyone else was wrong about the administration’s post-invasion “communications strategy” that made democracy promotion the principal justification. (It apparently didn’t occur to Feith that the administration had to come up with a new rationale, beyond WMD and terrorist ties his office worked so hard to establish, in order to justify keeping U.S. troops there.)
But both Stephens’ column and Feith’s op-ed were relatively tame compared to Wednesday’s opinion pages. In the lead editorial, entitled “Punxsutawney Condi,” the newspaper called for the U.S. drop its diplomatic efforts to get Tehran to freeze its uranium enrichment program and instead mount a “month-long naval blockade of Iran’s imports of refined gasoline” — a clear act of war — in order to, in its words, ”clarify for the Iranians just how unacceptable their nuclear program is to the civilized world.”
It also carried a companion op-ed by Amir Taheri, the Iranian-born, London-based journalist occasionally featured by the Journal who gained considerable notoriety two years ago by falsely reporting that the Iran’s Majlis would soon pass legislation requiring Jews, Christians, and Zoroastrians to wear distinctly colored ribbons on their clothes, which argued (for the nth time) that it was useless to engage an Iran that is “bent on world conquest under the guidance of the ‘Hidden Imam’” and whose revolutionary identity impelled it to act in ways that recalled Napoleon Bonaparte, Adolf Hitler, and the Soviet Union. Like “Punxsutawney Condi,” the op-ed was as much an attack on the secretary of state as it was on that other foreign-policy naif, Sen. Obama.
Indeed, it seems that Murdoch and the neo-cons really have it in for Condoleezza Rice these days, quite a change from when they greeted her replacement of Colin Powell with undisguised glee at the beginning of Bush’s second term. Thus, this week’s feature article in the Murdoch-owned Weekly Standard blames her — and her exclusively — for “jettisoning the Bush Doctrine” and leading the president himself down the garden path toward appeasement, particularly with respect to Syria, Iran, and North Korea. While the article does not tell us much that was not already in the public record, the fact that it was written by Feith’s former favorite leakee and Cheney’s personally authorized biographer, favorite reporter, and occasional travel companion, Stephen Hayes, makes it worth at least a quick read-through if, for no other reason, than to demonstrate the contempt that the vice president and presumably Elliott Abrams (if I’m reading the anonymous sources correctly) bear for Bush’s secretary of state. That Rice gave Hayes at least two extended interviews — from which he published what have to be the most unflattering and frankly embarrassing excerpts — shows a remarkable lack of judgment on her part.
Of course, Murdoch may not have had anything to do with running the story; it may have been solely Bill Kristol’s call, which would be particularly ironic in light of Kristol’s earlier infatuation with Condi. At a dinner with Bates College Republicans very early in the second term, I am reliably told, he couldn’t stop talking about her many virtues as a political asset, her unlimited future, and her irresistible persona as a “psycho-sexual dominatrix” (his words) in her then-recent appearance at the U.S. airbase in Wiesbaden.
This entry was posted on Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
The bottle-top slogan of a brewer with a head for business in Weed, Calif., draws a warning from U.S. drug watchdogs. All he's pushing is a respectable local enterprise, backers say.
Not content to have sacrificed the lives of US soldiers in his failed war of aggression against Iraq, Bush now says that the deaths of some 4,000 US soldiers in Iraq have 'laid the foundations for peace'. It's another bald face lie from the man who fabricated evidence against Saddam when, in fact, Iraq had no 'weapons of mass destruction', when, in fact, Bush sent US soldiers to their deaths upon a calculated, evil fraud!
"One day, people will look back at this moment in history and say, 'Thank God there were courageous people willing to serve, because they laid the foundations for peace for generations to come,' " Bush told reporters after a meeting at the State Department.-- Bush: US deaths in Iraq 'laid foundations for peace'It's another bald-faced lie from an habitual liar, sociopath and traitor. People will look back and marvel that Bush --the worst 'leader' since Nero -got it away with it for so long! The prospects for peace have never been worse and will continue to deteriorate as long as Dick Cheney et al are given the resources of a nuclear power! They have exploited that power to steal the oil resources of nations like Iraq and, eventually, Iran. Bush would rather you did not know that, in fact, the world is more dangerous, terrorism is worse, and deaths from the Iraq war mount daily. Total US and Iraqis deaths from Bush's order to attack, invade and occupy Iraq now top 1.2 million. This act of mass murder has now cost the American tax payer about 525 billion dollars that might have been spent educating people, improving infrastructure, encouraging neighborhood development, improving job prospects and leveling playing fields. The US taxpayer was suckered into writing out the check for Dick Cheney's plunder of the middle east. Cheney and his 'energy task force' plotted to carve up the oil fields of Iraq prior to 911 and prior to the attack and invasion of Iraq. The oil fields of Iraq are clearly 'divvied' up among the plotters --Exxon Mobil, Conoco (before its merger with Phillips), Shell Oil, BP America Inc et al. The common sense interpretation of the undeniable timeline (in the public record) is that Bush and Cheney conspired with their neocon and oil industry 'base' to perpetrate a hoax upon the US --a 911 pretext --upon which they would raise the bogus specter of 'terrorism'! While the nation was still in shock, Colin Powell would peddle the cover story at the UN with falsified papers, bogus 'evidence and lies. It was a deliberate and treasonous fraud! Recently Scott McClellan charged that Bush Misled Americans In Order to Go to War. Earlier Colin Powell had stated on national television that he, too, has been misled prior to his presentation to the UN in which he cited a plagiarized student paper.
One embarrassing revelation about Powell's speech was that a key part of his evidence against Iraq was cut and pasted from a California graduate student's outdated academic paper, ripped directly from the Internet. In academia, we call this plagiarism. Stealing something straight off of a website, an act easily detected by feeding a string of words into a Google search, is plagiarism in its cheesiest form. Students who do it fail classes--this is nonnegotiable. In Powell's case, he isn't the plagiarizer. He properly cited a British intelligence service report--four pages of which were ripped off without citation, complete with spelling and grammatical errors--from a paper that appeared in October 2002 in an obscure academic journal.--Michael I. Niman, Powell, plagiarism, taxes, and war - Watch On The Right - Editorialand ten year old satellite photos in support of a bald faced lie that Saddam had WMD.
Powell presented satellite photos of industrial buildings, bunkers and trucks, and suggested they showed Iraqis surreptitiously moving prohibited missiles and chemical and biological weapons to hide them. At two sites, he said trucks were "decontamination vehicles" associated with chemical weapons.These and other sites have now undergone 500 inspections in recent months. Chief U.N. inspector Hans Blix, a day earlier, had said his well-equipped experts had found no contraband in their inspections and no sign that items had been moved. Nothing has been reported found since.Addressing the Security Council a week after Powell, Blix used one photo scenario as an example and said it could be showing routine as easily as illicit activity. Journalists visiting photographed sites hours after the Powell speech found similar activity to be routine.Norwegian inspector Jorn Siljeholm told AP on March 19 that "decontamination vehicles" U.N. teams were led to by U.S. information invariably turned out to be simple water or fire trucks. On June 24, Blix said of the entire Powell photo package, "We were not impressed with that particular evidence."Amid Powell's warnings, a critical fact was lost: Iraq's military industries were to have remained under strict, on-site U.N. monitoring for years to come, guarding against the rebuilding of weapons programs. --Powell's Case for Iraq War Falls Apart 6 Months Later, Charles HanleyThe world is not safer and may never be as safe again. We have George W. Bush and his evil regime to thank.
The new study, by Peter Bergen and Paul Cruickshank, argues that, on the contrary, "the Iraq conflict has greatly increased the spread of al-Qa'ida ideological virus, as shown by a rising number of terrorist attacks in the past three years from London to Kabul, and from Madrid to the Red Sea."Our study shows that the Iraq war has generated a stunning increase in the yearly rate of fatal jihadist attacks, amounting to literally hundreds of additional terrorist attacks and civilian lives lost. Even when terrorism in Iraq and Afghanistan is excluded, fatal attacks in the rest of the world have increased by more than one third."In trying to gauge the "Iraq effect", the authors had focused on the rate of terrorist attacks in two periods - from September 2001 to 30 March 2003 (the day of the Iraq invasion) and 21 March 2003 to 30 September 2006. The research has been based on the MIPT-RAND Terrorism database.The report's assertion that the Iraq invasion has had a far greater impact in radicalising Muslims is widely backed security personnel in the UK. Senior anti-terrorist officials told The Independent that the attack on Iraq, and the now-discredited claims by the US and British governments about Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction, had led to far more young Muslims engaging in extremist activity than the invasion of Afghanistan two years previously. --How the war on terror made the world a more terrifying placeTerrorism is always worse under GOP regimes and continues to worsen now.
The combination of bloody wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, continued terrorist attacks from Britain to Somalia, and a presidential election in which candidates are defining themselves based on how they would stare down the threats has many seeing shades of gray. Six years after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, just 29 percent of Americans believe the United States is winning the war on terror—the lowest percentage at any point since 9/11.The world will never be safe as long as the US makes of the Pentagon a huge, bureaucratic mechanism by which your tax monies are channeled into the coffers of 'military contractors', in fact our largest industry. That this 'death' industry exploits the labors of millions who would be out of productive employment in times of peace proves the utter failure of the GOP to encourage or support a peace time economy. Since Ronald Reagan, GOP regimes have presided over the dissolution of American industrial might....
In Iraq, for instance, the same surge in U.S. forces that is meant to help pacify Baghdad only escalates violence elsewhere in the country. In the broader Middle East and South Asia, some of the same countries that are now the United States’ most crucial allies have also been guilty of cultivating the very terrorists we look to bring to justice. Deciphering priorities from such difficult paradoxes can be hard. So, how can one determine whether the war on terror is making America safer or more dangerous?...
The world these experts see today is one that continues to grow more threatening. Fully 91 percent say the world is becoming more dangerous for Americans and the United States, up 10 percentage points since February. Eighty-four percent do not believe the United States is winning the war on terror, an increase of 9 percentage points from six months ago. More than 80 percent expect a terrorist attack on the scale of 9/11 within a decade, a result that is more or less unchanged from one year ago.--The Terrorism Index
"And so long as they were at war, their power was preserved, but when they had attained empire they fell, for of the arts of peace they knew nothing, and had never engaged in any employment higher than war."It is telling that over the course of the American aggression in Iraq, the 'coalition of the willing' is no more. Bush and his last allies --Rush Limbaguh and the Faux Network --would have you believe the lie that Bush alone is right while the entire world is wrong. Wrong! The war was begun upon a fraud amd is therefore a capital crime under US codes, a war crime under the Nuremberg Principles and other international convention.
--Aristotle (384BC-322BC)
From: INTERNATIONAL CITIZENS 9/11 WAR CRIMES TRIBUNAL
Leuren Moret- 5/27/08
When asked about the Newmont Uranium project proposed for Park County Colorado, Leuren stated that one cannot understand what is happening locally without first understanding the big picture. Regarding the global uranium business, the international bankers located within the ancient Roman "City of London" have decided that: if you control the food, you control the nation, if you control the energy, you control a region, and if you control money, you control the whole world. The City of London international bankers are the descendants of the Merchants of Venice, who are descended from those who controlled the Roman, Egyptian, and Mesopotamian empires. They invented the concept of a corporation to relieve themselves of any liability for their actions.
Maurice Strong, more than anyone else in the world, has written the rules for the global takeover of land, resources and people by these international bankers. Strong began working for the Rockefellers when he was 18 and he continues to work for and with the Wall Street-City of London bankers today. Maurice Strong is also a major factor in the coming (intended) merger of Canada, the United States and Mexico into a North American Union. All this is about a gigantic land grab of the resources of the world. And under the terms of globalization set up by Strong and others, private corporations like Newmont Mining Company) have no responsibility or liability. Since 1995, Jacob Rothschild and the Rothschild Family won 80% of the world's uranium. Individual property owners now typically own only the top 6" of soil on their land. Everything else, presumably down to the center of the earth, is owned by the City of London. Today, this global land grab is comprised of countless local land grabs.
Governments such as the US government are creating Wildlands and National Heritage Sites. And this is proceeding under the justification of environmental protection. Meanwhile, people are being squeezed off their land. The environmental movement and NGOs (non-governmental organizations) have tricked us into relinquishing our private property rights guaranteed to us by the US Constitution. Agenda 21- the UN Agenda for the Twenty-First Century, also created by Maurice Strong- is proceeding at triple speed under Bush II.
The tripling of gas prices since Bush II became president is restricting our movement and causing food prices to go up. During the last 10-20 years, the world's oil companies consolidated into three- BP (British Petroleum), Shell, and Exxon-Mobile. (These three companies are all primarily controlled by members of the Committee of 300, according to intelligence analyst Dr. John Coleman. The Committee of 300 includes representatives of the the Rothschild and Rockefeller families, Queen Elizabeth II and many other European royalty, Henry Kissinger, George Bush Sr., and, of course, Maurice Strong; Coleman, 1997-2006).
Princess Diana's mother is a Rothschild (Jewish), so technically, Prince William is also a Jewish Rothschild by blood. And he, of course, is positioned to be King of England- and hence, many believe the ultimate controller of the entire global secret government/Rothschild Octopus that includes the Committee of 300, M16, the Round Table, the Royal Institute for International Affairs, the CIA, Mossad, the state of Israel, and their myriad corporations, think tanks, intelligence agencies, false business fronts, etc.
She quotes the Winston Churchill's statement (2/08/1920, Illustrated Sunday Herald):
This movement amongst the Jews (the Russian Revolution) is not new. From the days of Spartacus (Adam) Weishaupt to those of Karl Marx, and down to Trotsky (real name- Bronstein, Russia), Bela Kuhn (Hungary), Rosa Luxembourg (Germany) and Emma Goldman (United States), this world-wide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization and the reconstruction of society on the basis of arrested development, of envious malevolence, and impossible inequality, has been steadily growing. It played, as a modern writer, Mrs. Nesta Webster, has so ably shown, a definitely recognizable part in the tragedy of the French Revolution. It has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during the 19th Century; and now at last this band of extraordinary personalities has gripped the Russian people by the hair of their heads and have become practically the undisputed masters of that enormous empire. There is no need to exaggerate the part played in the creation of Bolshevism and in the actual bringing about of the Russian Revolution by these international and for the most part atheistic Jews. Moreover, the principal inspiration and driving power comes from Jewish leaders.
Moret then notes that what is occurring is "spiritual warfare" and the Khazar Jews are not really Jews. They have adopted the Jewish religion as a fig-leaf. An example of the disconnect within the world Jewish community is that whereas Israeli Jews mostly support Bush II, American Jews do not. Meanwhile, the international bankers do view humans as "human cattle" (goyim is the Jewish term). She states that 300,000 American children are picked up by police each year and their organs are harvested (however, she did not mention the source of this statistic). Dyncorp forces young women into sex trafficking. The ruling elite use organized crime and the military to maintain their power. Today, as a result of their activities, organized crime is seamless around the world. The European Union is a Jacob Rothschild creation.
Today, the world's ruling elite view the United States as a giant turkey to be carved up and divided amongst themselves. The Newmont Uranium gold mine takes $1 billion a year in gold from Nevada. Canadian companies are raping America and American companies are raping Canada.
President Nixon, using Executive Orders, carved America into 10 regions. The U.N. is now trying to control the water, because no living thing can survive without water.
Maurice and his wife, Hannah Strong (the Manitou Foundation) have leased land to numerous spiritual groups in the Crestone area of south-central Colorado, adjacent to the San Luis Basin. In effect, Moret suggests they are "colonizing" the Crestone area for its resources. Because native Americans have a more coherent culture than the dominant American cultures, they are most aware of these kinds of land grab activities. However, we have Indy media and the internet.
WWII nuclear targets, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, were chosen by Skull and Bonesman, Stimson. Stimson and other Bonesmen set up the University of California to be the institution that would create our weapons of mass destruction. The U.S. government has used 800 tons of depleted uranium in their wars against Iraq and Afghanistan. In July, the Air Force carried out 835 strikes using DU tipped missiles. In July, 2007, the uranium content in Los Angeles drinking water doubled- as a result of our use of these weapons in Iraq and Afghanistan.
On 9/11, the World Trade Center Buildings were demolished using exotic, directed energy or beam weapons. The buildings went up in nanoparticles- that you can't even see. The particle size evidence is critical and reveals that DEW (directed energy weapons) were used. Re: the 9/11 Truth Movement, Moret re-iterated that some of the leading figures, including the "Three Popes" of the movement, Dr. Steven Jones, Webster Tarpley and Dr. David Ray Griffin, are all counter-intelligence agents. Dr. Steven Jones, the ex-physics professor from the University of Utah who was co-founder of Scholars for 9/11 Truth is a "Department of Energy liar" who is trying to promote the false conclusion that WTC 1 and 2 came down based on chemical/thermite explosions. A Mormon, Jones also worked at Los Alamos labs and sabotaged the two University of Utah scientists who discovered cold fusion back in the 1980's. (Mormons are heavily represented in the nuclear industry, according to Moret). Dr. David Ray Griffin, a retired professor of theology from Southern California, is affiliated with the Club of Rome (a top Committee of 300 think tank, according to Dr. John Coleman). His "handler" is Richard Falk, of the CFR (Committee on Foreign Relations, another Committee of 300-controlled think tank). Tarpley is an alarmist who continually predicts the next 9/11 attack.
Moret attended a July, 2005 9/11 Truth conference in Washington, DC. This conference was internally sabotaged by many cointel-pro workers. What we need is an international citizens effort to uncover the truth of 9/11. Richard Falk may soon be taking the lead in an international UN investigation. This will be another bogus investigation.
Dr. Thomas Cahill, University of California, Davis, monitored air quality at Ground Zero for 5 months after 9/11. His Delta Group published a 4" thick report that showed that tritium and deuterium were used. This is evidence, perhaps, that 4th generation nuclear weapons, DEW (beam) weapons, and/or DU were used. As Dr. Judy Wood showed her photographic evidence in her talk at the Madison, WI 9/11 Conference put on by Dr. James Fetzer, Dr. Doug Rokke turned to Leuren Moret and whispered- "it had to be mini-nukes and directed energy weapons."
In fact 9/11 was carried out by M16, the CIA, and Mossad (intelligence agencies of England, the US and Israel) (on behalf of the Committee of 300- ETK). 9/11 gave the ruling elite justification to repeal our Bill of Rights in the Patriot Act and Domestic Military Authorization Act (that eradicated posse comitatus), their wars in the Middle East. What do Kazakhstan and Afghanistan have in common? Lots of uranium. The ruling elite now have their eye on Siberia for its abundant oil and natural gas.
Moret recommends that everyone read the following articles:
Global Landgrab Coming Soon to Your Neighborhood, by Judith Moriarty (2/27/05) http://www.rense.com/general63
Maurice Strong: The New Guy in Your Future, by Henry Lamb January, 2007, http://www.sovereignty.net/p
The Rothschild Octopus, by Vlada Sindjelic, http://www.dejanlucic.net/THE
George Soros: An Evil Rothschild Agent, Brother Nathanael Kapner, http://phoenix.,craigslist.org/pol/692559290
Carlyle Empire, by Eric Lesser, http://www.culturechange.org
Famine Killed 7 Million People in the USA, by Dmitry Lyskov (Pravda) http://www.picassodreams.com
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Two hour interview: http://www.givemesometruth
If Bin Laden is the mean, nasty SOB that's behind the 9/11 attacks, then why doesn't the FBI list that on its Usama Bin Laden poster?
There's only two ways to find BL: One, is to use a shovel and the other, is to defrost BL from that freezer he's been kept in since December of 2001.
From the FBI's most wanted terrorists page
MURDER OF U.S. NATIONALS OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES; CONSPIRACY TO MURDER U.S. NATIONALS OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES; ATTACK ON A FEDERAL FACILITY RESULTING IN DEATH
USAMA BIN LADEN
Aliases:
Usama Bin Muhammad Bin Ladin, Shaykh Usama Bin Ladin, The Prince, The Emir, Abu Abdallah, Mujahid Shaykh, Hajj, The Director
DESCRIPTION
Date of Birth Used: 1957
Hair: Brown
Place of Birth: Saudi Arabia
Eyes: Brown
Height: 6'4" to 6'6"
Sex: Male
Weight: Approximately 160 pounds
Complexion: Olive
Build: Thin
Citizenship: Saudi Arabian
Language: Arabic (probably Pashtu)
Scars and Marks: None known
Remarks: Bin Laden is left-handed and walks with a cane.
CAUTION
Usama Bin Laden is wanted in connection with the August 7, 1998, bombings of the United States Embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya. These attacks killed over 200 people. In addition, Bin Laden is a suspect in other terrorist attacks throughout the world.
REWARD
The Rewards For Justice Program, United States Department of State, is offering a reward of up to $25 million for information leading directly to the apprehension or conviction of Usama Bin Laden. An additional $2 million is being offered through a program developed and funded by the Airline Pilots Association and the Air Transport Association.
SHOULD BE CONSIDERED ARMED AND DANGEROUS
IF YOU HAVE ANY INFORMATION CONCERNING THIS PERSON, PLEASE CONTACT YOUR LOCAL FBI OFFICE OR THE NEAREST AMERICAN EMBASSY OR CONSULATE.
| New York Field Office | Most Wanted Terrorists |
| FBI Home Page | FBI Field Offices |
Wanna find BL? Ask Pakistani President Musharraf where's he's buried.
Now, can I have my 25 million dollar reward?
http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/6976| "If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all." -Noam Chomsky
Is it acceptable for a student to hotly contest his professor? When may an apprentice argue with his master? Or when may a lowly skeptic like myself loudly disagree with a widely known and respected figure?
Suppose a top politician, entertainment figure, or sports star said it didn't really matter who shot Lincoln or why, who attacked Pearl Harbor, the Alamo or the USS Liberty. Imagine the derision. Imagine the ridicule. Imagine the loss in credibility and marketing revenue. Now imagine if a well-respected academic"who should know better"said exactly the same thing. It doesn't really matter who committed a great crime; history had nothing to teach us; we should never waste precious time trying to apprehend the perpetrators, nor understand their motives but focus only on the outcome of their foul deeds.
Well, that is exactly what Noam Chomsky appears to believe. Do not focus on the plot or the plotters or the clever planning of any crime but only the aftermath. Strangely, I had always thought Linguistics was the scientific study of language rather than a lame attempt at disinformation.
Noam Chomsky is a brilliant man. According to his Wiki Bio, Chomsky holds honors and degrees from well over forty colleges and universities. His books enjoy a wide popularity and critical acclaim. He holds a PHD in Linguistics and lectures worldwide, and much of what he has said or written resonates with a certain insight that might appeal to the Founding Fathers.
Recently one of his overseas lectures caused a firestorm of controversy, but if you simply got your news and opinion from the mainstream media, you would never have known. Chomsky spoke of a topic he had written about"911--and yet brushed the topic aside with an off-hand remark.
Seems Chomsky spoke to a modest gathering of acolytes in Budapest , Hungary . On the video, we see Chomsky relaxed, surrounded by wine bottles, banners in the background. The moderator asked him a two-part question regarding the repercussions of 911 and towards the end he says: "Even if (911 conspiracy theories) were true, which is extremely unlikely, who cares? It doesn't have any significance. It's a little bit like the huge energy that's put out on trying to figure out who killed John F. Kennedy. Who knows? And who cares? Plenty of people get killed all the time, why does it matter that one of them happened to be John F. Kennedy? If there was some reason to believe that there was a high level conspiracy, it might be interesting. But the evidence against that is just overwhelming. And after that, if it happened to be a jealous husband, or the mafia, or someone else, what difference does it make? It's just taking energy away from serious issues onto ones that don't matter."
Who cares?
As one respondent to the YouTube video wrote: "This guy has lost all credibility when he says investigating mass murder and coups d'etat takes energy away from 'serious matters'. What could be more serious?"
Unfortunately for Mr. Chomsky, nearly a half million (and counting) viewers have watched that rare six minute performance, captured at an odd moment of frankness. Indeed, nearly twice as many viewers have heard Noam,s true opinion of two catalytic events that spawned imperial American hubris then have bought Noam,s book on 9-11.
Is Chomsky relevant anymore? Seriously, a public figure, lauded as the most brilliant intellectual of his day, who brushes aside two key events that triggered massive US policy change, enormous changes that affected the rest of the world; does this intellectual retain any merit as a clear thinker? To remark flippantly, "who cares" about the assassination of a American political leader despised by The Pentagon, the FBI, CIA and Mafia, not to mention oil tycoons and arms dealers, is the sort of inanity normally reserved for Fox News hosts.
Especially curious, since Chomsky stated: "People will want to know what you mean. Why did you say that? You'd better have a lot of evidence."
Yes. Evidence is ammunition, as any good CSI knows. But suppose this evidence is never allowed in a court of law, never allowed in the mainstream media, never allowed a forum in the very controlled system Chomsky derides?
Clearly, here is a man who adheres to a widely held theory of attacking the branches of evil. 1. Speak from an ivory tower but rarely take a cutting tool in hand, unless when advising others. 2. Lecture at length, inspire others to unselfish acts of civil disobedience or quiet resistance, but rarely perform such acts yourself. 3. Become a widely-heralded critic of the state from within a respected state institution.
In 1963, at the time of the JFK assassination, Chomsky was a tenured professor at MIT. Did he ever discuss world events such as this in the faculty lounge with his fellow professors? Did any of them ever draw conclusions? Did any of them observe the immediate escalation of the Vietnam War by LBJ? If not, how could any of these men, or anyone else for that matter, consider themselves intellectuals?
Only after FOUR YEARS of escalation did Chomsky deign to pen an essay for The New York Times Review of Books. At the time he claims, "I was very much involved in the resistance movement in the 1960's. In fact, I was just barely -- the only reason I missed a long jail sentence is because the Tet Offensive came along and the trials were called off. So I was very much involved in the resistance, but I was never against the draft."
Resistance? By penning an essay to the NYT Review of Books? By 1968 I was in a military jail. Sentenced to thirty five days for AWOL, car theft and refusing to become a Security Policeman, likely bound for Vietnam . But then, I had never heard of Noam Chomsky; I had simply listened to my conscience and determined the war in Vietnam did not require my presence there, nor did it to my sworn oath to protect the Constitution from all enemies, foreign or domestic.
Consider then Chomsky on dissenting discussion: "The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate."
Brilliant, wouldn't you say?
But then Chomsky himself limits the discussion of the pivotal events of 911 or JFK, with exactly the same derision, as the mainstream media. But since Chomsky wrote a book called 9-11, one would think that to "allow very lively debate," would include discussion of the very topic he wrote about. I mean if you wrote a book called "Bass Fishing," and people attempted to discuss the myriad ways of bass fishing and you waved them away, most fishing aficionados would rightly conclude you were either a hypocrite, a poseur or a pompous ass.
Previous to the 9-11 attack, talk radio host, Alex Jones remarked: "Chomsky, you're a New World Order shill, and I've got twice the brain you've got with both arms tied behind my back." Since Jones predicted the attack prior to 911, and what that event might mean to the average American, Jones appeared to be right. Noam no longer mattered.
Many of Chomsky's biggest fans have noticed an aversion to connect 911 with huge crimes of the state. The off-hand remarks on YouTube only verify what many feel. For many Americans, 911 was the key that fully opened Pandora,s Box, releasing this up-armored imperialism, this New World Order. Why, many wonder, is Chomsky averse to speak out against the imperial juggernaut that used this singular event to launch an American Blitzkrieg in the Middle East ? As top detectives always ask: Cui bono?
Dissident, novelist and resident skeptic, Douglas Herman resides near Bullhead City, Arizona and knows less than he claims and more than given credit for. http://rense.com/general82/chom.htmPost by way of: Curt Maynard's Blog & New From the West |
The new tell-all [sic] book from professional liar and former White House mouthpiece Scott McClellan may best be seen as a crass attempt to make a few bucks while trying to avoid responsibility for the war crimes and crimes against humanity in which he so gleefully participated.
It seems almost impossible that the Bush administration, while threatening to wage war in order to prevent Iran from enriching uranium, could simultaneously give enriched uranium to another radical Islamic country.
All the civilized countries of the world have voted for a ban on cluster bombs. But -- big surprise -- the US was not among them!More than 100 countries reached agreement Wednesday to ban cluster bombs, controversial weapons that human rights groups deplore but that the United States, which did not join the ban, calls an integral, legitimate part of its arsenal.Legitimate!
The weapons consist of canisters packed with small bombs, or "bomblets," that spread over a large area when a canister is dropped from a plane or fired from the ground. While the bomblets are designed to explode on impact, they frequently do not. Civilians, particularly children, are often maimed or killed when they pick up unexploded bombs, sometimes years later.And that's legitimate!
Navy Cmdr. Bob Mehal, a Pentagon spokesman, [said] "cluster munitions have demonstrated military utility, and their elimination from U.S. stockpiles would put the lives of our soldiers and those of our coalition partners at risk."Of course it's much better -- and much more legitimate -- to put the lives of innocent civilians at risk, while we wage illegitimate wars with so-called legitimate weapons.
(May 28, 2008) Homeland Security needs some more PR, and they've bought off veteran Hollywood schlockmeister Arnold Shapiro ("Big Brother")to make a new ABC Fake Reality Show (a la "American Icon") called "Border Security USA."
Shapiro's job will be to try to gussy up the failed efforts of the Department of Homeland Security, making a 'Cops'-like attempt to make the poor schlubs working for ICE look like "homegrown heroes"-- instead of the Real Life Keystone Kops they really are.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/
news/e3ib3f082bb63c9203855994a.ea8e627f0b)
"A typical episode might jump from a border patrol in Texas to security screeners at a New York airport to a Coast Guard boat off Puerto Rico," Hollywood Reporter reports. But it certainly won't show Homeland Security -- Border Patrol agents taking money from Mexican drug cartels like in Real Life.
Remember -- this is a Fake Reality TV Show. Also called a Docudrama, aka Hollywood Bullshit.
And you can bet they won't show CIA drug trafficking from Mexico or Colombia or Afghanistan.
This Fake Reality TV Show (meaning that probably no writers or actors will be paid either) "is billed as the first multiepisode television series to be shot in cooperation with the Department of Homeland Security, as well as several other government agencies."
Can you repeat after me -- Hollywood-Government Propaganda?
"We're showing everyday heroes who are risking their lives to protect us," said Shapiro, who also produced the law enforcement series "Rescue 911" and the classic jailhouse documentary "Scared Straight." "Every mode of transportation to get into the country, we have covered."
Arnie Shapiro is not only a Schlock-meister, but he's a Propaganda-meister too.And he's in bed with the "right boys." And hopefully they're not videotaped dead young boys in a hotel room from a while back.
(How else would you explain this?)
Probably with an assist from his co-religionst Michael Chertoff, head of Homeland Security, "Shapiro wrangled the cooperation of the DHS (as well as the Transportation Security Administration, U.S. Coast Guard, United States Citizenship & Immigration Services, the Secret Service, Customs & Border Protection and Immigration & Customs Enforcement).
(Having the same rabbi to advise them probably didn't hurt, either. Yuck yuck.
"The security agents depicted in the show stop a wide range of criminal behavior. In one episode, customs finds a human skull shipped through the mail. In another, a Coast Guard boat chases cocaine smugglers.
"They want people to know how diligent they are," Shapiro said. "You hear about every problem that the Department of Homeland Security is having; you never hear about what they're doing that's good."
"Diligent"? "Good"? Hey Arnie, ever heard about what DHS did during the Katrina Disaster?
"Such security problems in recent years have ranged from media reports of border agents taking bribes, to ongoing concerns that cargo inspections at airports and shipping ports remain dangerously lax," says Hollywood Reporter.
Shapiro says -"I love investigative journalism, but that's not what we're doing," he said. "This show is heartening. It makes you feel good about these people who are doing their best to protect us.
You got that right, Arnie. You're not doing "investigative journalism."
You're doing Schlocky Propaganda. For "Big Brother."
Now that's a lott yucks.
By ADAM ENGEL
5/29/08
“Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask not what you can do cause you’ve probably already done it your country thanks you very much. Ask nothing, and if you’re lucky you shall receive nothing worse than nothing.”
Well, why NOT ask what my country can do for me? Why not ask simply, what’s in it for me?
What has America done for me lately, that big plot of land shared by 280,000,000 head trips, some minute percentage of which are somewhat similar to my own in some small way, but otherwise born to be programmed, propagandized, brain-washed about how god wanted us: manifest by god and destined by god to take god’s country and everything in it, and every one, and do with them what we will?
Maybe I’d fight for the old neighborhood where I grew up. Or maybe I’d die to protect the ‘hood. But even NYC is too big and complex — 8,000,000 head trips. Might as well be 280,000,000 or 280 for all that “united we stand” bullshit.
How many people do I really stand united with? How many is it possible to stand united with? Certainly not 280,000,000. Only thing I have in common with most of them is I want to be left the hell alone. But that is the one impossibility in America, unless you happen to be very, very rich and connected to the kind of wealth that is not to be fucked with. The kind of wealth that frightens even government to stay at least 100 feet away at all times, to look at you with awe and defer to your superior collection of whatever stuff it is of value (another fiction) that you possess in obscene abundance - paper, metal, electronic pulses of on and off, one and zero.
“Stay away, I’m a wealthy man. Just stay away. Don’t begrudge me my freedom.”
Now there’s a word you don’t hear everyday. “Freedom.” You can’t possibly hear it, it’s repeated so often it’s part of the aural atmosphere. Freedom in the air, choking us like smog. Who needs this kind of “freedom” anyway, this gift to us from Uncle Sam for being such good children?
“Really you’re lucky you weren’t born in China or Somalia or some place REALLY bad…”
But am I? I mean, “Who says?”
We should be grateful that government officials, elected or selected, don’t kill us or torture us or throw us away like garbage? Grateful that they’re not - at least to white people - as vicious as some others (whom they nonetheless support with guns and butter)? Well then, my wife and kids should be grateful I don’t beat them half as badly or as often as my neighbor next door beats his.
Freedom to work for a corporation, to be locked in a cubicle in the labyrinth of the great office on the thirty-somethingth floor. Working away at nothing particularly important, but it’s the only way to get health insurance, and possibly money enough to live in your “own” apartment, if you’re single, or share a decent apartment with your spouse and kids, provided they bring in money (these damn spoiled kids! in the good old days before child labor laws, kids were worth something, whether you were a farmer sending them to the fields or a shopkeeper making them sweep up or a factory worker begging The Big Boss hire your kids “oh PLEASE, master! they’re all at least ten years old, the eldest almost thirteen.”)
Went to the National Institute of Health (NIH) to become a guinea pig but thought to myself, “There’s no national aspirin, there’s no national penicillin, there’s no national out patient clinic, hospital or anything else that might let people benefit from experiments done on yours truly.”
So where is all this research data going? Who’s benefiting from this NIH? I don’t have to tell you to go to your Duane Read or Walgreen’s or other National pharmacy chain to figure that out.
Anyway, back to the issue at hand: what has “my” country done for me lately?
Besides waste my most impressionable years drumming lies into my head?
Besides terrify me with tales of nuclear menace, effectively holding a “bomb of Damocles over my head, and stories of drudgery and breadlines and having to share apartments with strangers (!!!) and other horrors from them Commie Soviets who no longer exist, allegedly, because my tax money afforded Uncle Sam more missiles than “Collective Ownership” provided Uncle Misha?
Besides perpetual war for perpetual fleece, the mayhem and suffering that I am perpetually funding, thereby making me perpetually complicit to murder?
Besides making me “grateful” I was born with white skin and therefore not a congenital enemy of the state?
Besides making me an enemy of EVERYONE ELSE not lucky enough to have been born on this great chunk of stolen property?
Besides spending an incredible on $1,000,000,000,000 of peoples’ tax money on its war machine, and a fraction of that on feeding, clothing, housing educating and tending to the health of its citizens?
Besides being nothing but a legal fiction, created on and held together by a piece of paper, yet demanding that I love it and its corporations, which are not “which’s” but “who’s” and far more important than its people, for corporations are immortal and richer than god, who may not bless America, but certainly blesses Raytheon and Boeing?
Besides being nothing but a MERE fiction and demanding that I love it, not a LEGAL fiction, because it broke nearly every law written on the piece of paper that allegedly provided its life, its “constitution?”
Besides allowing me to follow the advice of a friend and take “Unemployment” when I was unemployed (”Hell, they took it from your paycheck these past fifteen years, it’s your money,” he said), and forcing me to undergo the humiliation of not serving a corporation, at least not the one that downsized me, and then…and then…double-dip TAXING me on these measly “benefits.”
Besides telling lies, lies, lies everywhere and always, from the lie that it is anything more than a fiction (and not even a legal one) to the lie that it values me as a customer; therefore, I should love it.
I know, I know: “America, love it or leave it!” Well I’ll leave it soon enough, Jackson, and YOU can pay the bill. I hope my corpse gives you the plague.
Adam Engel is a Contributing Editor for Cyrano’s Journal. Adam has published poetry, fiction, articles, and reviews in several web sites and magazines such as CounterPunch, Dissident Voice, Online Journal, Hudson Review, Accent, The Concord Journal, Beacon, Art World, Ward6 Review, CounterCurrents, LewRockwell.com, Literal Latte, Lummux, POESY, Chronogram, Press Action,and many others.
http://www.bestcyrano.org/THOMASPAINE/?p=730#more-730By Tom DeWeese
May 30, 2008
NewsWithViews.com
Hillary Clinton. John McCain. Barack Obama. Those are our choices for the next president of the United States. Are you happy with that selection? If not, what is your alternative? As the saying goes, “The lesser of two evils is still evil.”
Beyond the presidential race we have congressional candidates, governors, state legislators, county commissioners, mayors, and city council candidates. Are you happy with whom the parties have chosen to offer for election? If not, what’s your alternative?
The real issues of the day are not even being addressed in the campaigns. The falling dollar that will render our money worthless; the rising gas prices that grab the last of our worthless money; the invasion of illegal aliens that are changing our society; the globalization of our economy; assaults on our private property; the loss of American jobs to foreign countries; and now the threat of food shortages.
These are real problems facing every American, yet it is apparently politically incorrect to discuss them. There are no questions concerning these issues during debates, on Sunday morning political talk shows, or anywhere in the news media in relationship to the candidates. It’s not there. Not to be discussed. The powers in charge are picking the issues – no matter how frustrated the electorate is.
Is it any wonder that there are millions of Americans who don’t vote or participate in our nation’s debate because they think it doesn’t matter anyway. The “average voter” increasingly feels that the decisions have been made for them.
College students, just starting out in the world, wide eyed and ready to make a difference, end up just shrugging their shoulders at the selection of candidates and stay home.
Those who hold conservative points of view that our nation should live within the Constitution now believe socialism is inevitable, so why bother going to the polls.
And the poor think they are simply pawns in a vice grip between big money and special interests which control the elections. Why bother? Helplessness now rules the world’s greatest representative democracy. As people stay home or trudge to the polls to unenthusiastically vote to the next lesser of two evils, 93% of incumbents are routinely returned to office – year after year after year.
The instant a candidate is elected and joins the ranks of the incumbents he/she begins the dance. Get the money for the next campaign. How? Special interests groups, corporations and foreign interests flood into their offices to make deals, promote their personal agendas and show the way to fame, fortune and perpetual office – if only the incumbents go along. They have the whole process well in hand. Campaigns become little more than big PR projects, promoted in positive platitudes, specifically designed to assure nothing negative sticks. Just get through it and keep the gravy train running.
Above all, do not talk about controversial subjects like dollar values, global trade or immigration; just stick to issues like health care and the environment – coincidentally, two issues bought and paid for by the special interests. See how it works?
So year after year we officially hold elections and politicians pontificate about how our going to the polls is a revered right; a valued tradition; the underpinning of a free society. And they wonder why there is such division in the nation. How did we end up in such a mess? We voted for these guys. But did we enjoy it? Are we satisfied with the results? Would we like to demand a do over?
Don’t despair. Don’t give up. There is a logical, effective way out of this. But it won’t happen by depending on political parties to lead the way. We have to take things into our own hands. We need an effective, binding form of protest to say NO to bad candidates. There is such a way.
Imagine going into the voting booth and looking down the list of candidates offered. None really appeal. None seem to offer satisfaction as an answer to the issues that concern you. If only there was something else you could do. A write in won’t help. It would take such a difficult, expensive effort. It rarely works.
Then you look further down the ballot. Something new. It says “NONE OF THE ABOVE.” It’s a final choice after the candidates – after the candidates in every category, from president, to congress to city council. What does it mean?
It means you have the power to decide who will hold office – not the power brokers. When the votes are tallied, if “NONE OF THE ABOVE” gets a majority of votes over any of the candidates listed, then “NONE OF THE ABOVE” wins. And that means none of those candidates will win the office. The election will have to be held again and new candidates will have to try to win the public’s support.
Fixing the election process could be that simple. You, the voter, would be completely in the driver’s seat with the power to reject candidates, forcing a new election with new choices. The political parties would be forced to provide candidates the people want -- or face being rejected. They would have to talk about real issues – or face being rejected. Incumbents would have to answer for their actions in office – or face being rejected. “NONE OF THE ABOVE.” Period. The power of labor unions and international corporations would be broken.
Think of the consequences. No longer would voters have to settle for the lesser of two evils. If all the candidates are bad – none would be able to force their way into office. It would mean that powerful special interests could no longer rely on their money to buy elections. They could buy all the ads they wanted, spend millions on “volunteers” going door to door, and sling their dirt, but if the voters aren’t buying, none of it will save their candidate from being rejected by “NONE OF THE ABOVE.”
Moreover, the power of entrenched incumbents who have been unbeatable because of their massive war chests and party ties would be broken. Picture Ted Kennedy unable to run for office because he was rejected by “NONE OF THE ABOVE.”
However, in order to work, “NONE OF THE ABOVE” would have to be binding. It would have to have the power of law behind it. It cannot be just a “protest” vote that has no other meaning.
“NONE OF THE ABOVE” is completely non-partisan. There is no way to control its outcome. There is no need for a massive campaign chest to support “NONE OF THE ABOVE,” although it could certainly be done. But the option, once permanently placed on the ballot, would always be there. America’s representative system would be restored.
To get the job done, activists in every state would have to begin a campaign to demand that “NONE OF THE ABOVE” be given a permanent spot on the ballot. It would have to be done state by state. Some states have ballot referendums and initiatives using petition drives to get an issue on the ballot so the people can decide. It’s difficult and expensive to do, but popular ideas have a chance.
In other states, “NONE OF THE ABOVE” advocates would have to find a friendly state representative or senator to introduce the idea before the state legislature and then get enough votes to pass it in both houses and then signed by the governor. And if the effort is successful then every one of those legislators is an incumbent who will have to face “NONE OF THE ABOVE” or the ballot for their re-election. They probably won’t be too excited about the idea.
Of course, one of their main objections to the “NONE OF THE ABOVE” idea would be the requirement for holding a new election should it win. Too expensive, our responsible public servants would say as they dismissed the idea. The fact is, such a need would probably not arise often once political power brokers began to understand that they must offer candidates acceptable to the people rather than to the special interests. That’s all they really have to do. It’s all we want.
The fact is, the idea of “NONE OF THE ABOVE” has been around for a long time. Over the years, most states have had some kind of legislation introduced supporting the concept. Nevada actually has it on the ballot – but it is not binding. It doesn’t force a new election. It is just a measure of protest. That’s not good enough to make it effective.
One of the reasons it has not been successful is because there has never been a serious national drive to promote the idea. However, with the growing dissatisfaction voters are feeling with the quality of candidates running for public office, particularly in the presidential campaign, perhaps there has never been a better time to start a national discussion on the issue.
The best part is that “NONE OF THE ABOVE” isn’t a conservative or liberal idea. It’s not a Republican of Democrat proposal. In fact, Republican leadership might see it as a good way to break the back of big labor’s influence over elections. Equally, Democrats could see it as a way to stop the power and influence of the Republican’s big business money. However they want to look at it, the bottom line is that the voters win.
So as we sigh and moan over the choices of Obama, Hillary and McCain, let’s start the debate and as Larry the Cable Guy says, “let’s get ‘er done.” Perhaps by the next election cycle we won’t have to take it anymore!
© 2008 Tom DeWeese - All Rights Reserved
http://www.newswithviews.com/DeWeese/tom111.htm
And those of you who sold your better judgment for a free hot-dog and a flag at a Clear Channel sponsored pro-Bush rally, well, you were lied to as well, and worse, made to look totally stupid before the rest of the world. The media which walked right past peace demonstrations to video tape the Clear Channel party plastered your face across the TV sets of the planet, waving your flag and shouting "Sig WMD! Sig WMD" and singing "Dubya Dubya Uber Alles" or something to that effect. And here you stand now, with egg on your collective faces, finally facing up to what your more intelligent neighbors knew all along; There were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Bush made a total fool of you. The whole world is laughing at you. Those lacking the courage to admit they were wrong will no doubt descend into the ranks of fanatical "true believers", ready to drink the Kool-Aid for his highnessness der Dubyer. For the rest of you brave enough to admit you were fooled, are you angry yet?
And for you Congressional types reading this web site (and I know that many of you do), Bush made total jackasses out of you as well. Under the Constitution, which you are sworn to uphold, only Congress can declare war. Changing the name to "police action" or "battle" does not get you off of the hook. When our army marches into another nation to take it over, that's a war by any meaningful definition of the word. So, you passed a bill that authorized the President to send in the military to Iraq, but ONLY if the President could prove that Saddam was hiding weapons of mass destruction in defiance of UN Resolution 1441. The President said he had proof, and you did not check him on it. And now that the world knows that the President did not actually have any such proof, the world knows that the US Congress failed in their job. You were had, used, swindled, conned, etc. Bush bypassed you. He got his illegal war right past you. The President has made the entire Congress look like weak and impotent idiots and fools before the rest of the world for not exercising due diligence over a serious matter like war. Are you angry yet?
Our media has tried to teach us all that hate and anger are bad. Anger must be "managed". Hate of any and all kinds must be suppressed. Well, I am here to tell you that certain hates and angers are not only justified, they are essential. I hate drug dealers, don't you? I hate liars, don't you? You're a sucker if you don't. I hate spies who use deception to trick our nation into doing things it ought not to be doing. Hate and anger helped drive the British out of the colonies 1776. Hate and anger fueled the victory of WW2, which is why Bush, with his lies, tried to trick us all (or at least the gullible ones) into hating and being angry at a designated target for invasion.
I am very angry. #$%^#%$ anger management, I am pissed off! And if you carry any of the blood of those who made this nation what it is today you have to be angry too. You should be angry. You must be angry. Because right now there is a battle about to start over whether this nation will continue to be ruled by those who lie, or whether the liars will be kicked out. Whether we will have honest government or not. Whether we will be slaves to liars, or free citizens with honorable and respectful and fair government.
Be angry. Be very angry. Hate liars. Focus your anger on them. Drive them from office and from the media. There is no other choice but permanent servitude.
See also: Okay, so what happens now?
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/angryyet.html
Groups that monitor Islamic websites say al-Qaeda will post a new video in the next 24 hours urging jihadists to use biological, chemical and nuclear weapons to attack the West, the FBI said.
The FBI warning came as the US-based monitoring group SITE said the video encouraging terrorists to develop and detonate weapons of mass destruction in the US and Europe was posted on an Islamist militant forum.SITE also released a computer-generated image, showing Washington DC in the aftermath of a nuclear attack, which reportedly appeared on an Islamist forum.
The 39-minute, documentary-style video, titled Nuclear Jihad: The Ultimate Terror, was posted on the al-Ekhlaas forum on May 25, SITE said in a statement.
"The idea of killing lots of people, this idea is available to us, and it must be used under the idea of treating others the same, so I say that terror in their countries must involve human losses and these human losses must be with WMDs," the video says, according to SITE's translation.
Paul Joseph Watson has some very interesting information on American 'intelligence specialists' who have turned the distribution of all but meaningless Al Qaeda propaganda into a very profitable business, and explains why we don't see anymore beheading videos from 'Al Qaeda' :
Nearly four years after Benjamin Vanderford hoodwinked the global media by manufacturing a fake Al-Qaeda beheading tape, America's corporate press whores are once again gearing up to fearmonger about the prospect of mushroom clouds over American cities by instantly ascribing gospel status to a dubious "Al-Qaeda fan" Internet videotape that encourages the use of WMD in a terrorist attack.
Since the dubious series of beheading videos, which coincidentally came to a stop when one of our readers managed to expose the ludicrousness of accepting such propaganda at face value by hoodwinking the world media with a fake beheading tape, "Al-Qaeda" has been resigned to spreading its message through Mossad agents like Adam Pearlman and alleged sketchy Bin Laden audio recordings...
Now Al Qaeda 'fan made' videos, as this 'documentary' is being described, are getting mass media exposure. The MSM is petrified that if they don't pump any and all AQ propaganda that comes their way, and there is another attack on the US, they will be seen as being guilty of not having informed the public of what they knew might have been coming.
Whatever Al Qaeda is, the American (and Australian) mainstream media is doing their job of spread the threat of terror for them, and making money at the same time utilising dramatic free content supposedly supplied by terrorists.
It doesn't matter how absolutely crap and ridiculous the supposed Al Qaeda videos are, the mainstream media gives them all front page and lead evening news story exposure, almost seven years after the United States was last attacked.
How much longer can this Al Qaeda crapfest be kept up? Not much longer. The bitter cynicism from reader-commenters across the American media spectrum in reaction to this 'documentary' has been almost unanimous, and many are disgusted and furious. Not at Al Qaeda necessarily, but at the MSM for once again doing the terrorists' job of trying to spread fear and unease.
Rupert Murdoch, and the rest of the MSM, should give this shit a fucking rest, Or at the very least start mocking the creators of this propaganda for being absolutely crap at what they do.
All the great enemies of the West were mocked relentlessly during the wars of the 20th century. But for this war we are told, by President Bush in particular, that we must listen closely to and believe every word that Osama Bin Laden, or one of his lackey arseholes, have to say.
The scary truth is that the American war machine has as much interest in prolonging this war as Al Qaeda, or whatever passes for Al Qaeda, has. Neither side wants it to end.
We don't seem to get to have a say in this. No matter who we vote for, the war goes on. And on. And onandonandon.
If you preach hatred, violence and intolerance, you should not expect the mainstream media to do most of your work for you in getting out your vile message.
Enough is enough.*******************************************************************Reports: Osama bin Laden has been 'located'
PR run up to something...a dead guy is still a dead guy.
Tuesday, 27th May 2008
Matthew d'Ancona6:49pm
The Dubai-based satellite TV channel Al Arabiya is reporting that Osama Bin Laden has been “located” by US intelligence in the Kararakoram – a mountain range that spans the borders of Pakistan, the Kashmir and China (K2 is one of its peaks). There was a high-level meeting last week in Doha including General Petraeus, the recently-nominated Commander of US Central Command, and it is reasonable to speculate that – if there is truth to the report – it flows from this piece of intelligence. Whether the latest rumours about the tracking down of OBL have foundation will quickly become apparent. If they do have substance, Al Arabiya will have scored a huge world scoop – and have its rival Al Jazeera spitting nails.
