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2007 - A YEAR WE SHOULD NEVER FORGET
By Jack Blood Time magazine named YOU person of the year. Ron Paul gave us hope, and a rEVOLution. "We Are Change" took gorilla street actions to a new level and changed everything….For the first time the traitors, and perpeTraitors feared us, instead of the other way around!
(A special mention to John Conner, AKA Mark Dice for helping to start the wave of video street activism)
You Tube, Digg, and Myspace changed the way we use the internet.
Rosie O'Donnell took 911 Truth to the mainstream on ABC's "The View" Ed and Elaine Brown, fought the good fight and lost, for now.
Start up internet radio networks boomed with the additions of the We The People Radio Network and Ron Paul Revolution Radio among others, and so it seems the seeds we planted for years now are growing and bearing fruit.
And… We the People are better for it.
"From Freedom to Fascism" Reigned as Aaron Russo's masterpiece captivating and motivating millions to defend liberty, even while Aaron lost his fight against cancer…
Millions of Americans came to the full realization that Congress, the White House, and the courts are liars and murders, and that our police are taze happy thugs…Thus breaking many of the controlled paradigms, and dialects that have enslaved the human mind for decades.
The mainstream media found it harder to ignore us in the alternative media, and those of you who wrote, called, emailed, spammed, and cajoled them into coverage of important issues such as national and personal sovereignty, 9/11, The IRS, The Fed, and overall government hypocrisy and corruption… Won some dignity, satisfaction, and VINDICATION.
Because of this there are more and better avenues for truth than ever before!
The Term NAU and Amero entered into the national lexicon, while global warming fully evolved into a cult religion. (One of my proudest accomplishments of the year was heckling Al Gore and ruining his night at the Erwin Center in Austin, TX in front of thousands of adoring group-thinkers, calling him a Fascist and a cherry picker before being escorted out by police.)
The democrats failed to fulfill any of their promises from 06, and rubber stamped just about everything the Bush administration pushed ahead. We didn't repeal much in 07, and in that sense we were not as successful as in 2006, but this was maybe the best thing to happen as the bigger hole the "demopublicans" dug for themselves, the more room they made for the bodies that will be buried in 2008.
2007 was a good year, but it took a lot out of me. It was an uphill climb.
The balkanization of the various Truth and Patriot movements was a bit frustrating,
but no one ever said that preserving freedom would be easy I guess.
Through the ups and the downs I believe we were all forced to grow up, graduating from toddlers in the truth to young adults.
2008 promises to be a stellar year for truth and freedom. We are positioned to take our message to the next level, and apply our strategies to get the public moving in a direction that may finally end our national nightmare.
It is key that everyone up their game and demand results. It is key that we stop future wars, and re-establish the checks and balances put in place to separate powers, and keep the authority in the hands of "We the People"
It is KEY that we continue in our efforts to DECENTRALIZE and REPEAL!
Refocus, recalibrate, and renew yourselves. We need each other now more than ever.
-Wishing you all a happy, and healthy new year, filled with love and Freedom.
Mobile ID / Death Labs planned for Iraq
Anh Duong survived the Vietman as a child, and she credits Americans for "saving" her from death and poverty. Now, at age 47 and living in Maryland, Duong is known as "the bomb lady" around the Pentagon and as the engineer behind America's first thermobaric, bunker-busting explosive. A 5-foot-1-inch suburban mother of four, Duong has become, according to Thomas A. Betro, director of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, "one of the most important weapons-developers of the modern era." - Duong's most recent innovation, the Joint Expeditionary Forensics Facilities (JEFF) project or "lab in a box," analyzes biometrics. It will be delivered to Iraq at the beginning of 2008, the Navy said, to help distinguish insurgents from civilians. The military has been scanning the irises and taking the fingerprints of Iraqis, feeding a biometrics data base in West Virginia. To date, a few ad hoc labs have processed about 85,000 pieces of evidence taken from weapons caches or roadside devices. Duong's mobile forensic labs, with an initial budget of $34 million, will be deployed all over Iraq. - Each collapsible, sand-colored, 20-by-20-foot unit has its own generator and satellite link. If things go as planned, data will beamed to the Biometric Fusion Center to check against more than a million Iraqi fingerprints. Hundreds of Marines are learning how to process a crime scene, "an unheard-of tactic . . . snapping on rubber gloves," Betro said.
The next stage is to miniaturize, create "a backpack lab," so that soldiers who encounter a suspect "could find out within minutes" if he's on a terrorist watch list, Duong said. "A war fighter needs to know one of three things: Do I let him go? Keep him? Or shoot him on the spot? - This contraption will be Judge, jury and executioner for those who might be identified as "terrorists" in Iraq. Machines make mistakes. - Looks like we have finally found Colin Powell's mobile death labs in Iraq. Read More
MAIMI 7 - NOT GUILTY OF SEARS TOWER PLOT
Another desperate attempt by the Bush Admin to scare the public into giving up their liberties has crashed and burned in a US court. - The "Miami 7" were set up in an FBI sting operation akin to the FBI op running the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, only in this case the suspects did not actually go through with the deed. - We can be thankful of that. - The jury found out what we have been saying all along in this case, that these so called "Terrorists" are only guilty of being stupid enough to take the bait. The defendants claim that they were merely trying to scam the FBI undercover agent out of $50,000. - 6 of the 7 will allegedly be re-prosecuted next year, though don't be surprised if they suspend future trials in this case altogether... Announced of course in the back of your local newspaper. - This is just another black eye for the war on terror and the DHS! The track record for convictions is deplorable, and juries are now skeptical of just about everything the government claims. We saw this in the Jose Padilla trial as well. - Doesn't this hinder a "War on Terror"? Crying wolf and deceiving the people night and day with these obvious cases of entrapment? - By losing the confidence, and support of the people the Bush Admin has blown all of their credibility! Both in the US and abroad. - If we were ever under A REAL THREAT... No one will believe it. - Hey George Jr. Was it worth the small bump in the polls at the time to be remembered as the biggest BS artist since Joseph Goebbels -- "Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play." - Joseph Goebbels --- ABC Story and coverage here Read More
Free-Energy Battery Inventor Killed at Airport?
Official statement cites "natural causes" but others familiar with the disruptive potential of the inventor's technology to the existing power structure consider it a probable assassination. (These people in the Free Energy field have a very short life span)- On Nov. 11, inventor of a revolutionary, affordable, clean energy technology, Arie M. DeGeus of AMDG Scientific Corp was found slumped in his car, totally unresponsive, in the long-term parking lot of the Charlotte Douglass International Airport in North Carolina. He was taken to the hospital and died a short time later. The autopsy suggested heart failure, so officials were saying the death was a result of a medical problem or natural causes, and not likely to be a homicide.
Those who were involved with his research are doubtful, citing, among other things, that he had been in relatively good health. The timing is also suspicious. He was apparently on his way to Europe where he was to secure major funding for the development and commercialization of his technology, which could make oil obsolete as a fuel source. - Tom Bearden, a well-known figure in the cutting-edge, clean energy technology industry, wrote a lengthy report on the inventor, his death, and his technology. He said:
"DeGeus was the inventor of a thin wafer-like material/device that somehow specially aligned the atoms or electron currents ongoing in that material, so that the wafer produced a constant amperage at a small voltage – continuous real power, or in other words a strange kind of “self-powering battery”.
Bearden also speculates about the cause of death, citing a technology that shoots an electromagnetic beam that destroys the body's control of its heartbeat. He said there are two basic sizes of the Venus ECCM technique. One has a range of around thirty feet, and the other, about the size of a bazooka, has an effective range of around 200 feet. - Charlotte Macklenburg Police detective, M. Conner, said that it would be a while yet before the toxicology report comes in on this case. Read More

National Intell Estimate: NO NUKES IN IRAN - Program suspended in 2003
That's right. Just like Saddam Hussein the Iranians were playing off a hoax, and doing so to hold off the global oligarchy from repeating Op Ajax. All of the BS we have heard about Nukes in Iran were LIES. According to this official Government Intel report, Iran couldn't possibly get nukes until 2015! Of course this is what we wrote HERE almost 2 years ago. Maybe this is why Bush has been trying to shift the reasons for attacking Iran to acts of "terrorism" in Iraq. - I'm sure that if China invaded and occupied Mexico the USA would never meddle in their affairs to spread communism... er "Democracy"- The NIE Report: Solving a Geopolitical Problem with Iran:
- The United States released a new National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Dec. 3. It said, "We judge with high confidence that in the fall of 2003, Tehran halted its nuclear weapons program." It went on to say, "Tehran's decision to halt its nuclear weapons program suggests it is less determined to develop nuclear weapons than we have been judging since 2005." It further said, "Our assessment that Iran halted the program in 2003 primarily in response to international pressure indicates Tehran's decisions are guided by a cost-benefit approach rather than a rush to a weapon irrespective of the political, economic and military costs."
- With this announcement, the dynamics of the Middle Eastern region, Iraq and U.S.-Iranian relations shift dramatically. For one thing, the probability of a unilateral strike against Iranian nuclear targets is gone. Since there is no Iranian nuclear weapons program, there is no rationale for a strike. Moreover, if Iran is not engaged in weapons production, then a broader air campaign designed to destabilize the Iranian regime has no foundation either. Read More
Court Finds Unlimited Police Power to Plant GPS on Vehicles
Depressing Fourth Amendment decision from a lower court: Plaintiff's car was suspected of being at the scene of several burglaries in 2002, and the police decided, after consultation with supervisors, to plant a GPS with a cellphone transmitter on the car. Plaintiff's Fourth Amendment claim failed[.]
- Interesting that the officers had time to consult with "supervisors," but not with a judge (i.e., to obtain a warrant based on probable cause).
- From the decision: A person traveling in an automobile on public thoroughfares has no reasonable expectation of privacy in his movements from one place to another." United States v. Knotts, 460 U.S. 276 (1983). The use of the GPS Device did not permit the discovery of any information that could not have obtained by following an automobile traveling on public roads, either physically or through visual surveillance (e.g. through the use of cameras or from a helicopter), conduct that neither requires a warrant nor implicates Fourth Amendment rights. "Nothing in the Fourth Amendment prohibit[s] the police from augmenting the sensory faculties bestowed upon them at birth with such enhancement as science and technology afford[s] them." Id. at 282.
- This is, of course, utter nonsense. Read More
Neo Con Wolfowitz Returns to State House
Thats right the man who lied and scammed us into Iraq is back, his new job is to gage the threat of WMDs to the USA. - An Old Face Resurfaces: The Bush administration has offered the former World Bank president a new public service position. - Don't ever say the Bush administration doesn't take care of its own. Nearly three years after Paul Wolfowitz resigned as deputy Defense secretary and six months after his stormy departure as president of the World Bank-amid allegations that he improperly awarded a raise to his girlfriend-he's in line to return to public service. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has offered Wolfowitz, a prime architect of the Iraq War, a position as chairman of the International Security Advisory Board, a prestigious State Department panel, according to two department sources who declined to be identified discussing personnel matters. The 18-member panel, which has access to highly classified intelligence, advises Rice on disarmament, nuclear proliferation, WMD issues and other matters. "We think he is well suited and will do an excellent job," said one senior official.
- Wolfowitz, now a visiting scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, will replace former senator Fred Thompson, who quit over the summer to run for president. Although officials declined to say how Rice came to choose him, Wolfowitz began his government career in the 1970s in the State Department as an arms-control expert; he forged a relationship with Rice during the 2000 presidential campaign, when they both served as top foreign-policy advisers to the then candidate Bush. But his selection has raised more than a few eyebrows within State because he'll be providing advice on some of the same issues that critics say the administration got spectacularly wrong when Wolfowitz was pushing the case for the Iraq War at the Pentagon. (One of the department sources called the appointment "amazing.") At least Wolfowitz, who did not return calls seeking comment, will have like-minded company: other panel members include Robert Joseph, the former National Security Council official in charge of Iraq WMD intelligence, and ex-CIA director James Woolsey, both strong allies during the Iraq debate.
- The sources said Wolfowitz has already accepted Rice's offer to fill the part-time position, though it won't be announced until the completion of a standard check for conflicts of interest. But he won't have to worry about any complaints from pesky Democrats. The position doesn't require Senate confirmation. (The picture above is of Wolfie macking on Fred Thompson's young wife) Read More
US Navy's swastika-shaped barracks to get a make-over
A US Navy barracks in Southern California that resembles a swastika from the air is to get a £300,000 make-over after the growing popularity of satellite images from Google Earth alerted people to it.
On the ground, the four L-shaped buildings are part of the US amphibious base at Coronado island in San Diego. But the growing popularity of the satellite images has alerted people to the fact that it is shaped like a swastika when seen from above. The images has spawned a myriad of conspiracy theories and concerns by Jewish groups. - The Navy has said the buildings, which serves barracks for the Seabees, were constructed in the late 1960s and were not intended to resemble the Nazi symbol.
But that has done nothing to silence theories circling the internet in the past two years. - One suggests they were built by German prisoners of war who slipped the layout past the Navy. - Another hypothesis suggests the shape was intended to help the buildings survive bombing formations used by the Japanese navy. (Ok well that clears that up. The Navy contractors, and architects just never noticed that they were building a giant swastika honoring Hitler, and in some sense the Phoenicians where the symbol allegedly originated from, though inverted... More sun worshipping as per usual. I find it hard to believe that this was all a big coincidence of four L buildings, and that planes or helicopters didn't notice this before google earth. Maybe the swastika shaped tracker chip put out by Carlyle Group Subsidiary "MATRICS" was just a coincidence too. Maybe Hitler never noticed the swastika on his nationalist Nazi flag? Well if the ADL barks, the navy climbs up a tree. What is more likely to have happened is: Thanks to Google Earth the people found out what was well known all along... Our leaders were / are sympathetic with Nazis! Adieu Nazi Navy building, back into the shadows... Though we will all know that its still there hiding under the new construction.) Read More
C.H.A.N.G.E confronts Alan Greenspan
We Are Change confront former Fed chairman Alan Greenspan during a recent book signing event. Greenspan is called out for his traitorous bad-mouthing of the dollar and his crimes against working and middle class Americans. The clip opens with a scathing rebuke of Former Fed Chief Alan Greespan by Rep. Bernie Sanders at a congressional hearing, and moves to a book signing where several wearechange.org members confront Greenspan about his traitorous actions. Greenspan seems to be in shock for the entire affair. It is essential that we keep the heat on these NWO monsters, and teach all who follow them that we will not stop until we get answers and accountibility! Read More
Bush quietly advising Hillary Clinton, and top Democrats
President Bush is quietly providing back-channel advice to Hillary Rodham Clinton, urging her to modulate her rhetoric so she can effectively prosecute the war in Iraq if elected president.
In an interview for the new book “The Evangelical President,” White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten said Bush has “been urging candidates: ‘Don’t get yourself too locked in where you stand right now. If you end up sitting where I sit, things could change dramatically.’ ”
Bolten said Bush wants enough continuity in his Iraq policy that “even a Democratic president would be in a position to sustain a legitimate presence there.”
“Especially if it’s a Democrat,” the chief of staff told The Examiner in his West Wing office. “He wants to create the conditions where a Democrat not only will have the leeway, but the obligation to see it out.” Read More
Run away the ray-gun is coming : We test US army's new secret weapon
Silent Guardian is making waves in defence circles. Built by the U.S. firm Raytheon, it is part of its "Directed Energy Solutions" programme.
What it amounts to is a way of making people run away, very fast, without killing or even permanently harming them. That is what the company says, anyway. The reality may turn out to be more horrific. - I tested a table-top demonstration model, but here's how it works in the field. A square transmitter as big as a plasma TV screen is mounted on the back of a Jeep.
When turned on, it emits an invisible, focused beam of radiation - similar to the microwaves in a domestic cooker - that are tuned to a precise frequency to stimulate human nerve endings. It can throw a wave of agony nearly half a mile. - Because the beam penetrates skin only to a depth of 1/64th of an inch, it cannot, says Raytheon, cause visible, permanent injury.
But anyone in the beam's path will feel, over their entire body, the agonising sensation I've just felt on my fingertip. The prospect doesn't bear thinking about. "I have been in front of the full-sized system and, believe me, you just run. You don't have time to think about it - you just run," says George Svitak, a Raytheon executive.
Silent Guardian is supposed to be the 21st century equivalent of tear gas or water cannon - a way of getting crowds to disperse quickly and with minimum harm. Its potential is obvious. Read More
Ron Paul: Florida Republican Debate Commentary...UN-FAUXED!!
Fox focus group manipulations uncovered. - Ron Paul outfoxes Hannity & Colmes in post debate commentary. Yes we all knew that FOX was fixing their debate so that Ron Paul would get negative press and slant the debate to Rudy. In this short you tube video you can see proof that the Frank Luntz "focus groups" are a complete and utter FRAUD! - Fox and Luntz are not only cheating their listeners and themselves, but they are subverting the integrity of the election / debate process. They cheat America as they attempt to steal the election for the umpteenth time. When will Americans hold Fox's hooves to the fire? - Spread this around and DEMAND an explanation from Fox, who is only too happy to point out when a Clinton or "liberal" network fixes the games. Read More
Weather Channel Founder: Global Warming ‘Greatest Scam in History’
By John Coleman: It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming; It is a SCAM. Some dastardly scientists with environmental and political motives manipulated long term scientific data to create an allusion of rapid global warming. Other scientists of the same environmental whacko type jumped into the circle to support and broaden the “research” to further enhance the totally slanted, bogus global warming claims. Their friends in government steered huge research grants their way to keep the movement going. Soon they claimed to be a consensus. - Environmental extremists, notable politicians among them, then teamed up with movie, media and other liberal, environmentalist journalists to create this wild “scientific” scenario of the civilization threatening environmental consequences from Global Warming unless we adhere to their radical agenda. Now their ridiculous manipulated science has been accepted as fact and become a cornerstone issue for CNN, CBS, NBC, the Democratic Political Party, the Governor of California, school teachers and, in many cases, well informed but very gullible environmentally conscientious citizens. Only one reporter at ABC has been allowed to counter the Global Warming frenzy with one 15 minute documentary segment.
- I do not oppose environmentalism. I do not oppose the political positions of either party. However, Global Warming, i.e. Climate Change, is not about environmentalism or politics. It is not a religion. It is not something you “believe in.” It is science; the science of meteorology. This is my field of life-long expertise. And I am telling you Global Warming is a non-event, a manufactured crisis and a total scam. I say this knowing you probably won’t believe a me, a mere TV weatherman, challenging a Nobel Prize, Academy Award and Emmy Award winning former Vice President of United States. So be it.
I have read dozens of scientific papers. I have talked with numerous scientists. I have studied. I have thought about it. I know I am correct. There is no run away climate change. The impact of humans on climate is not catastrophic. Our planet is not in peril. I am incensed by the incredible media glamour, the politically correct silliness and rude dismissal of counter arguments by the high priest of Global Warming.
- In time, a decade or two, the outrageous scam will be obvious. As the temperature rises, polar ice cap melting, coastal flooding and super storm pattern all fail to occur as predicted everyone will come to realize we have been duped. The sky is not falling. And, natural cycles and drifts in climate are as much if not more responsible for any climate changes underway. I strongly believe that the next twenty years are equally as likely to see a cooling trend as they are to see a warming trend. Read More
AT&T whistleblower: I was forced to connect 'big brother machine'
A former technician at ATandT, who alleges that the telecom forwards virtually all of its internet traffic into a "secret room" to facilitate government spying, says the whole operation reminds him of something out of Orwell's 1984. - ppearing on MSNBC's Countdown program, whistleblower Mark Klein told Keith Olbermann that a copy of all internet traffic passing over AT&T lines was copied into a locked room at the company's San Francisco office -- to which only employees with National Security Agency clearance had access -- via a cable splitting device.
"My job was to connect circuits into the splitter device which was hard-wired to the secret room," said Klein. "And effectively, the splitter copied the entire data stream of those internet cables into the secret room -- and we're talking about phone conversations, email web browsing, everything that goes across the internet." - "As a technician, I had the engineering wiring documents, which told me how the splitter was wired to the secret room," Klein continued. "And so I know that whatever went across those cables was copied and the entire data stream was copied..."
- According to Klein, that information included internet activity about Americans. "We're talking about domestic traffic as well as international traffic," Klein said. " And that's what got me upset to begin with." (AND THE BUSH ADMIN KNEW THIS! They LIED to you! Another unconstitutional act making the case for Impeachment. Not much of a suprise though. This is the second big story like this to come to light. Next time someone tells you that Bush is only spying on Terrorists abroad, hit them with this story!) Read More
Duty, Honor, Country 2007 - A letter to the Pentagon by USAF Hero Bob Bowman - to stop the attack on Iran - ACT NOW!
Duty, Honor, Country 2007
An Open Letter to the New Generation of Military Officers Serving and Protecting Our Nation
By Dr. Robert M. Bowman, Lt. Col., USAF, ret., National Commander, The Patriots
Dear Comrades in Arms,
You are facing challenges in 2007 that we of previous generations never dreamed of. I'm just an old fighter pilot (101 combat missions in Vietnam , F-4 Phantom, Phu Cat, 1969-1970) who's now a disabled veteran with terminal cancer from Agent Orange. Our mailing list (over 22,000) includes veterans from all branches of the service, all political parties, and all parts of the political spectrum. We are Republicans and Democrats, Greens and Libertarians, Constitutionists and Reformers, and a good many Independents. What unites us is our desire for a government that (1) follows the Constitution, (2) honors the truth, and (3) serves the people.
We see our government going down the wrong path, all too often ignoring military advice, and heading us toward great danger. And we look to you who still serve as the best hope for protecting our nation from disaster.
We see the current Iraq War as having been unnecessary, entered into under false pretenses, and horribly mismanaged by the civilian authorities. Thousands of our brave troops have been needlessly sacrificed in a futile attempt at occupation of a hostile land. Many more thousands have suffered wounds which will change their lives forever. Tens of thousands have severe psychological problems because of what they have seen and what they have done. Potentially hundreds of thousands could be poisoned by depleted uranium, with symptoms appearing years later, just as happened to us exposed to Agent Orange. The military services are depleted and demoralized. The VA system is under-funded and overwhelmed. The National Guard and Reserves have been subjected to tour after tour, disrupting lives for even the lucky ones who return intact. Jobs have been lost, marriages have been destroyed, homes have been foreclosed, and children have been estranged. And for what? We have lost allies, made new enemies, and created thousands of new terrorists, further endangering the American people.
But you know all this. I'm sure you also see the enormous danger in a possible attack on Iran , possibly with nuclear weapons. Such an event, seriously contemplated by the Cheney faction of the Bush administration, would make enemies of Russia and China and turn us into the number one rogue nation on earth. The effect on our long-term national security would be devastating.
Some of us had hoped that the new Democratic Congress would end the occupation of Iraq and take firm steps to prevent an attack on Iran , perhaps by impeaching Bush and Cheney. These hopes have been dashed. The lily-livered Democrats have caved in, turning their backs on those few (like Congressman Jack Murtha) who understand the situation. Many of us have personally walked the halls of Congress, to no avail.
This is where you come in.
We know that many of you share our concern and our determination to protect our republic from an arrogant, out-of-control, imperial presidency and a compliant, namby-pamby Congress (both of which are unduly influenced by the oil companies and other big-money interests). We know that you (like us) wouldn't have pursued a military career unless you were idealistic and devoted to our nation and its people. (None of us do it for the pay and working conditions!) But we also recognize that you may not see how you can influence these events. We in the military have always had a historic subservience to civilian authority.
Perhaps I can help with whatever wisdom I've gathered from age (I retired in 1978, so I am ancient indeed).
Our oath of office is to "protect and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic." Might I suggest that this includes a rogue president and vice-president? Certainly we are bound to carry out the legal orders of our superiors. But the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) which binds all of us enshrines the Nuremberg Principles which this country established after World War II (which you are too young to remember). One of those Nuremberg Principles says that we in the military have not only the right, but also the DUTY to refuse an illegal order. It was on this basis that we executed Nazi officers who were "only carrying out their orders."
The Constitution which we are sworn to uphold says that treaties entered into by the United States are the "highest law of the land," equivalent to the Constitution itself. Accordingly, we in the military are sworn to uphold treaty law, including the United Nations charter and the Geneva Convention.
Based on the above, I contend that should some civilian order you to initiate a nuclear attack on Iran (for example), you are duty-bound to refuse that order. I might also suggest that you should consider whether the circumstances demand that you arrest whoever gave the order as a war criminal.
I know for a fact that in recent history (once under Nixon and once under Reagan), the military nuclear chain of command in the White House discussed these things and were prepared to refuse an order to "nuke Russia ." In effect they took the (non-existent) "button" out of the hands of the President.. We were thus never quite as close to World War III as many feared, no matter how irrational any president might have become. They determined that the proper response to any such order was, "Why, sir?" Unless there was (in their words) a "damn good answer," nothing was going to happen.
I suggest that if you in this generation have not had such a discussion, perhaps it is time you do. In hindsight, it's too bad such a discussion did not take place prior to the preemptive "shock and awe" attack on Baghdad . Many of us at the time spoke out vehemently that such an attack would be an impeachable offense, a war crime against the people of Iraq , and treason against the United States of America . But our voices were drowned out and never reached the ears of the generals in 2003. I now regret that I never sent a letter such as this at that time, but depended on the corporate media to carry my message. I must not make that mistake again.
Also in hindsight, President Bush could be court-martialed for abuse of power as Commander-in-Chief. Vice President Cheney could probably be court-martialed for his performance as Acting Commander-in-Chief in the White House bunker the morning of September 11, 2001 .
We in the U.S. military would never consider a military coup, removing an elected president and installing one of our own. But following our oath of office, obeying the Nuremberg Principles, and preventing a rogue president from committing a war crime is not a military coup. If it requires the detention of executive branch officials, we will not impose a military dictatorship. We will let the Constitutional succession take place. This is what we are sworn to. This is protecting the Constitution, our highest obligation. In 2007, this is what is meant by "Duty, Honor, Country."
Thank you all for your service to this nation. May God bless America , and sustain us in this difficult time. And thanks for listening to the musings of an old junior officer.
Respectfully,
Robert M. Bowman, PhD, Lt. Col., USAF, ret. ( Copy this letter and get it out far and wide! Send this letter to the Pentagon, Congress, the White house, send it to the media and demand that Bob Bowman be allow to read it on the air. Bowman is a long serving american patriot, and former insider of the Military Industrail Complex, A whistleblower trying to appeal to others in the military to stop this madness! Get your proirities staight! There is nothing more important than stopping this attack RIGHT NOW! Before its too late! - I am counting on you. - JB) Read More
Aaron Russo, filmmaker for liberty, dies at 64
'America: Freedom to Fascism' creator was critic of Fed, income tax, government power: Longtime movie producer and 2004 Libertarian presidential candidate Aaron Russo is dead at age 64, having succumbed to cancer yesterday.
The Hollywood veteran made his name with popular films such as "Trading Places," starring Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd, and Bette Midler's "The Rose." In later years, his interests and energies turned to political activism. - The Brooklyn native was awarded a Tony, an Emmy, a Grammy and had nominations for six Academy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards. He also was the first Hollywood movie producer to garner a $1 million fee. Additionally, he helped Bette Midler rise to stardom as her manager and created a politically oriented television program, "Aaron Russo's Mad As Hell."
"I believe in individual freedom," he said. "I don't believe in a big, monolithic state."
Whether the leadership is Democratic or Republican, Russo contended, "you have $44 trillion in unfunded liabilities, a Federal Reserve that is broken, a situation in Iraq which I think is disgusting, and you have both parties stopping people from bearing arms. Where is that in the Constitution?"
"I believe there are millions and millions of unheard voices in America who would come out and vote for someone they believed in," he said.
Although he was a strong critic of President Bush and the war in Iraq and remained committed to libertarian policies, Russo was one of the first to endorse Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul for the 2008 election. - But Russo was a filmmaker and wasn't dependent on election cycles to get his message of individual liberty across.
In 2006, Russo released a documentary dealing with the Federal Reserve system, income tax and government power – "America: From Freedom to Fascism."
The film pegs 1913 as the year the United States lost its freedom. That was the year the Federal Reserve banking system was put into place and a federal income tax was instituted.
"In 1913, America was a free country," states capital white letters on a black background at the start of the film's online trailer. "Then a band of powerful bankers achieved their fathers' and great grandfathers' goal. America has never been the same. Soon the world will not be the same."
States one review of the film posted on its website: "Aaron Russo has earned his place in the preferred section of heaven with this film, and the nation owes him a large debt of gratitude for having produced it. Eliciting cheers and tears from the audience, 'America: From Freedom to Fascism' is incredibly moving and effective." (I first interviewed Aaron in 2003. I found him to be both honest and passionate about freedom for all. Aaron lived an incredible life. He will be missed. I hope to see you again someday Aaron. RIP. Long Live Aaron Russo!!!) Read More
THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX AND 911 TRUTH: Understanding the History Channel Hit piece
By Jack Blood: It wasn't so much what they said, but what they didn't say. - No mention of WHO BENEFITS? This would be GE (General Electric and its executives and employees gave more than 70% of their campaign contributions to Bush and the Republicans in the last election cycle. They have been paid back in spades with somewhere around a Billion per year in contracts for the Wars.), The Carlyle Group, Bechtel, DynCorp are among others who have profited in record numbers from the Wars, the surveillance society, and FEAR.
No mention of the drills that were running in sync with the highjackings, which by "coincidence" mimicked the live event. Drills were also running "coincidentally" during the London Underground Bombings... NO mention of Steven Jones research into how the WTC buildings fell. Specifically the forensic evidence of Thermate being used in the demolition of the towers and Building 7. No mention of the eternal fires and pools molten metal swirling under the rubble for weeks. - No mention of the 47 core columns creating redundancy in the WTC Towers. No mention of George Bush's peculiar behavior and non action upon hearing about the "Attack." No mention of the FBI sting operation in the 1993 attack on the WTC. No mention of the ISI connections and ISI director-general Lt-Gen Mahmud Ahmad who allegedly wired 100K to Mohammad Atta before 911, and happened to be meeting with future CIA director Porter Goss the day after 911. That's OK though I guess because the 911 Commission didn't mention this either. And for that matter No mention of potential bribes by Pakistan to the 911 commission? Not a word about George H. W. Bush spending the morning of 9/11/2001 meeting with Osama Bin Laden's brother at a Carlyle Group meeting. No mention of Marvin Bush's company Securacom running "security" for the WTC and Dulles Airport et al? No mention of the fact that no Muslims were on the flight manifests on ANY of the planes. No mention the fact that most of the evidence was sent to China immediately after locating the Nova Scotia Gold in the rubble. No mention of the UNOCAL oil pipeline deals though Afghanistan? or the troops that were amassed on the border of Afghanistan BEFORE 911. Not a peep about the "Airlift of Evil" or the incident at Tora Bora where Bin Laden was allowed to escape, which is covered extensively in "911 Press for Truth."
No mention of Michael Springman - former consulate officer in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia where 15 of the 19 terrorist hijackers obtained visas - and his testimony about being forced to give clearance to potential terrorists while working with the Saudi Arabian Embassy?
No mention of the FOIA notes from Rummy telling his aid minutes after the Pentagon attack to blame this on OBL and Saddam Hussein, "Go massive . . . Sweep it all up. Things related and not."
No mention of the high level authorities out for 911 truth. No mention of the fact that the Bush Administration did everything in their power to stop the investigation into 911, only losing in the end to the FAMILIES of the victims, and why no mention of the victims family members, and first responders who are with 911 truth????? -- Nope... Nothing. -- What does NBC, the History Channel, and Popular Mechanics have to hide? Are they just lazy or are they just not interested in answering these questions because they cannot answer these questions with anything other than, "Conspiracy Theorists hate a vacuum." Read More
Secret memo: One-world agenda dominates SPP summit
PREMEDITATED MERGER - Secret memo: One-world agenda dominates SPP summit Document reveals plan for meeting of U.S., Mexico, Canada leaders - By Jerome R. Corsi: The memo states "the most dynamic element on the plenary agenda was a meeting with the NACC, the body created by the Leaders in 2006 to give the private sector a formal role in providing advice on how to enhance competitiveness in North America."
The NACC consists of 30 multinational business corporations that advise SPP and set the action agenda for its 20 trilateral bureaucratic working groups.
- According to the memo, the NACC made recommendations in three areas: border-crossing facilitation, standards and regulatory cooperation, and energy integration.
The memo suggested NACC members were getting impatient, charging the speed of SPP regulatory change was too slow. The members complained of "the private sector's seeming inability to influence the pace of regulatory change 'from the bottom up.'"
- WND has reported that as many as 10,000 protesters plan to assemble in Quebec to show opposition to the summit. - WND also has previously reported that under SPP, the military of the U.S. and Canada are turning USNORTHCOM into a domestic military command
structure, with authority extending to Mexico, even though Mexico has not formally joined with the current U.S.-Canadian USNORTHCOM command structure. Read More
Think Tank Calls For Bush to Be Dictator For Life
Family Security Matters a neo-conservative based think tank has published an article advocating that George W. Bush should be a dictator for life. The organization has since taken the article down, but is still viewable via this cached link. - The article written by Philip Atkinson states that Bush would fail his country by becoming an ex-President or can achieve greatness by becoming President-for-Life Bush in order to bring sense to Congress and sanity to the Supreme Court. Atkinson is bluntly advocating that Bush should become dictator for life with these outrageously anti-American statements.
From the article: President Bush can fail in his duty to himself, his country, and his God, by becoming "ex-president" Bush or he can become "President-for-Life" Bush: the conqueror of Iraq, who brings sense to the Congress and sanity to the Supreme Court. Then who would be able to stop Bush from emulating Augustus Caesar and becoming ruler of the world? For only an America united under one ruler has the power to save humanity from the threat of a new Dark Age wrought by terrorists armed with nuclear weapons.
Atkinson also advocates that Bush should get rid of everyone in Iraq through military force and repopulate the country with Americans.
From the article: If President Bush copied Julius Caesar by ordering his army to empty Iraq of Arabs and repopulate the country with Americans, he would achieve immediate results: popularity with his military; enrichment of America by converting an Arabian Iraq into an American Iraq (therefore turning it from a liability to an asset); and boost American prestiege while terrifying American enemies.
Although these statements by Atkinson are completely insane and entirely anti-American, the author also shows complete ignorance as to the type of government the United States is supposed to be. The author states that Bush is a victim of Democracy when in fact the United States is not a Democracy. Read More
9/11 Firefighter Sets the Historical Record Straight
By Manny Badillo, Victim’s Family Member, August 7th, 2007: BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Firefighter John Schroeder, assigned to Engine Company 10 directly across the street from the World Trade Center complex, holds back tears and describes his first-hand experience on Sept. 11th. His story directly contradicts many aspect of the National Commission on Terrorist attacks though corroborates many other eyewitness testimony. - In this exclusive interview, Firefighter Schroeder recollects in great detail how he was one of the first firefighters to rush to the complex. “We first assembled on West Street, where we saw someone burnt beyond recognition. We were like ‘What is going on here?’ and then went straight into the Marriot building” From there, Firefighter Schroeder made his way to the lobby of the North Tower. “It looked like a bomb went off, and we started making our way up the stairs to rescue as many people as we could.”
As they were making there way up the floors, Firefighter Schroeder heard a huge explosion. “The elevators just blew right out. We couldn’t believe it. The plane hits 80 floors up but the elevators explode at least five minutes later? It was unreal.”
Firefighter Schroeder made it all the way up to the 23rd floor before barely hearing on the failing radios that another plane was coming in. That plane would hit the South Tower though for some reason “We were tossed like a rag doll by another explosion in our building. People were making there way down the stairwells burnt like you couldn’t believe. We were all shocked because it seemed as if there was fire everywhere, on so many floors. It just didn’t make sense”. (Look for our radio archives for EXCLUSIVE interviews with Willie Rodriguez and John Schroeder on DEADLINE LIVE August 9th and 10th of 2007.) Read More
RIGHT TO TRAVEL VS THE POLICE STATES OF AMERICA - By Jack Blood
I have flown many times in the past without ID, but never on Delta who for whatever reason have a non negotiable policy on flying without ID. Fong seemed a bit too happy about the outcome, and his eyes lit up a little to much when saying "Government Issued ID." I assume that since having an ID is a matter of choice and it is technically unconstitutional to force someone to have one, that Delta caved to federal pressure to enforce the rule or policy. Delta has been in bankruptcy for years and counts on Federal subsidiaries (welfare) to stay in business. Years ago I heard that the Rockefeller family owned 60+ % of all airlines. They are the railroads of the modern era. A basic search for stockholders yielded nothing.
Delta's financial advisor, is the Blackstone Group, (The Blackstone Group has deep ties to the Carlyle Group.) Delta's previous financial advisor was the now defunct Arthur Anderson (Enron)
There is a precedent for this of course in Gilmore v. Ashcroft -- FAA ID Challenge Read More
GOOGLE is for Ron Paul
I have definitely had my problems with Google in past years. From spiking my essays, and investigative reports... To Pac Manning You Tube, to promoting War Propaganda, to caving in on NSA Spying. Its fair to say that Google is the enemy. Could it be that Google has seen the light? (Cue the angels singing in choir) - Watching this video I believe that there is not only hope for companies like Google, but that Ron Paul fever can spread to other Big Brother businesses across the globe! - The joy of having a constitutionalist rising in popularity is something to behold. Maybe just maybe with YOUR HELP we can push Ron Paul to the top and change the way mega companies think and respond to the public (or should we say the Republic) - Get after it people. Win or lose Congressman Paul is already making a difference by showing in contrast what frauds the other candidates really are. Change is in the air. Take a deep breath and google RON PAUL! Read More
Even "Moonie Times" columnist, and former Bush Shill Bob Novac supports RON PAUL
When asked to rate the current field of Republican presidential candidates, Novak didn't have any kind words for the current top-tier field of Rudy Giuliani, Fred Thompson, Mitt Romney and John McCain. But when pressed as to who he thinks will be the eventual nominee, Novak said he expects Thompson to get the nod.
However, Novak offered his own personal endorsement of Texas congressman Ron Paul. "He's a very engaging person... I'd like to see him as president," Novak said. "Can you imagine him at the United Nations?"
Novak had harsh words for other Republican lawmakers and causes as well. He said he didn't believe the hotly contested immigration bill equated to amnesty, but acknowledged the politics of the debate were "poison." And he described the fight over congressional earmarks as a "show," lacking substance because he believes most members of Congress will say they oppose federal spending but will turn around and vote for spending bills anyway. (Could it be that Red Dog republicans know what Bush has in store for the nation? Do they know that Bush is selling the country down the tubes? OR... Is Novak trying to poison the well?) Read More
FROM THE ALAMO TO PLAINFIELD NH (All In A Days Work)
By Jack Blood and Danny Romero: Is it any wonder that the Ron Paul Campaign is gaining so much momentum while many of the other campaigns are stalling and dying? What a show, what a night.
Little did we know that the night was just beginning for many of us, and it was about to be a very long night indeed for Ed and Elaine Brown and their faithful in Plainfield New Hampshire, where Dr Paul will battle it out for the GOP nomination in the primary January 2008. - Like a movie thriller we were all on the edge of our seats as the Browns et al were seemingly pinned down in the main house, locked and loaded, and live on the air for most of the evening / morning. A series of events were heard real time by all who tuned in, from unidentified persons sneaking around and near the house, to the rocking and shaking of a trailer on the property occupied by long time Brown supporter "Jim." (Later Jim exhibited the ultimate in courage by walking into the night from said trailer to the main house stating, "I am unarmed. Go ahead and shoot me you cowards!"
We rode shotgun with the Browns throughout as Jack Blood continued to offer suggestions to Elaine Brown off the air. One of those suggestions was enthusiastically accepted as Ed Brown launched a parallel Psychological Warfare Op by bull horning the alleged federal agents hiding like snakes in the deep forest.
Eventually the fog rolled in and dawn cast the light that sent the snakes scurrying back to their nests. Alas we had seen the Browns through another night. Just one more night and one more day following for the Browns to seek the answer to their challenge... SHOW US THE LAW! Read More
More Info that Hero Pat Tillman was Assassinated by US Military
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Army medical examiners were suspicious about the close proximity of the three bullet holes in Pat Tillman's forehead and tried without success to get authorities to investigate whether the former NFL player's death amounted to a crime, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.
"The medical evidence did not match up with the, with the scenario as described," a doctor who examined Tillman's body after he was killed on the battlefield in Afghanistan in 2004 told investigators.
The doctors - whose names were blacked out - said that the bullet holes were so close together that it appeared the Army Ranger was cut down by an M-16 fired from a mere 10 yards or so away. - The medical examiners' suspicions were outlined in 2,300 pages of testimony released to the AP this week by the Defense Department in response to a Freedom of Information Act request.
Among other information contained in the documents: - In his last words moments before he was killed, Tillman snapped at a panicky comrade under fire to shut up and stop "sniveling."
- Army attorneys sent each other congratulatory e-mails for keeping criminal investigators at bay as the Army conducted an internal friendly-fire investigation that resulted in administrative, or non-criminal, punishments.
- The three-star general who kept the truth about Tillman's death from his family and the public told investigators some 70 times that he had a bad memory and couldn't recall details of his actions.
- No evidence at all of enemy fire was found at the scene - no one was hit by enemy fire, nor was any government equipment struck.
The Pentagon and the Bush administration have been criticized in recent months for lying about the circumstances of Tillman's death. The military initially told the public and the Tillman family that he had been killed by enemy fire. Only weeks later did the Pentagon acknowledge he was gunned down by fellow Rangers. (Of course this can't be hung on the Cheney Admin either... Or Rummy, or Kissinger et al. Like Adu Graib the fall guys, and patsies will be assigned the guilt, and the killing will continue. More bad PR for the Pentagon I guess.) Read More
Homeland General: Attack 'Could Happen Any Day'
The U.S. military commander in charge of defending the U.S. homeland said Tuesday that he believes there are al-Qaida cells in the United States or people working to create them. Air Force Gen. Victor "Gene" Renuart said that while the terrorism threat within the nation's boundaries has increased in the past year, officials have strengthened intelligence sharing, particularly in an effort to shore up weaknesses in security at U.S. ports. - I believe there are cells in the United States, or at least people who aspire to create cells in the United States," Renuart said in an interview with The Associated Press. "To assume that there are not those cells is naive and so we have to take that threat seriously."
He added, "Am I concerned that this will happen this summer, I have to be concerned that it could happen any day."
Other U.S. officials last week said they did not know of al-Qaida cells in the United States.
Renuart, who took over the job as the head of U.S. Northern Command just four months ago, said that to counter the growing threat, the military also needs to create two more brigade-size units to be available to respond to nuclear, chemical and biological incidents at home - because currently there is only one. A brigade is about 3,500 troops. Read More
White House preparing to stage new September 11 - Says Former Reagan official
A former Reagan official has issued a public warning that the Bush administration is preparing to orchestrate a staged terrorist attack in the United States, transform the country into a dictatorship and launch a war with Iran within a year.
Paul Craig Roberts, a former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, blasted Thursday a new Executive Order, released July 17, allowing the White House to seize the assets of anyone who interferes with its Iraq policies and giving the government expanded police powers to exercise control in the country.
Roberts, who spoke on the Thom Hartmann radio program, said: "When Bush exercises this authority [under the new Executive Order], there's no check to it. So it really is a form of total, absolute, one-man rule."
"The American people don't really understand the danger that they face," Roberts said, adding that the so-called neoconservatives intended to use a renewal of the fight against terrorism to rally the American people around the fading Republican Party. (To stop this call in to Talk radio shows and mention that the "Father of Reaganomics" is warning of a FALSE FLAG TERROR ATTACK!) Read More
FBI Proposes Building Network of U.S. Informants
According to a recent unclassified report to Congress, the FBI expects its informants to provide secrets about possible terrorists and foreign spies, although some may also be expected to aid with criminal investigations, in the tradition of law enforcement confidential informants. The FBI did not respond to requests for comment on this story.
The FBI said the push was driven by a 2004 directive from President Bush ordering the bureau to improve its counterterrorism efforts by boosting its human intelligence capabilities.
The aggressive push for more secret informants appears to be part of a new effort to grow its intelligence and counterterrorism efforts. Other recent proposals include expanding its collection and analysis of data on U.S. persons, retaining years' worth of Americans' phone records and even increasing so-called "black bag" secret entry operations. ( We assume that this program will go hand in hand with general sweeps for political dissenters, and freedom fighters. Please dont snitch on your neighbors!) Read More
Operation FALCON - Mass Round-Ups a rehearsal for dissidents?
The Bush administration has carried out three massive sweeps in the last two years, rolling up more than 30,000 minor crooks and criminals, without as much as a whimper of protest from the public.
So far, not one of the more than 30,000 victims has been charged with a terror-related crime. - Operation Falcon is the clearest indication yet that the Bush administration is fine-tuning its shock-troops so it can roll up tens of thousands of people at a moment's notice and toss them into the newly-built Halliburton detention centers. This should be a red flag for anyone who cares at all about human rights, civil liberties, or simply saving his own skin.
Operation Falcon was allegedly the brainchild of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and his counterpart in the US Marshal's office, (Director) Ben Reyna. But its roots go much deeper into the nexus of right-wing Washington think tanks where fantasies of autocratic government have a long history. The name, Falcon, is an acronym for “Federal and Local Cops Organized Nationally.” It relates to the more than 960 state, local and federal agencies which are directly involved in the administration's expansive criminal dragnets.
Typically, law enforcement agencies are protective of their own turf and wary of outside intervention. The Falcon program overrides these concerns by streamlining the information-sharing processes and setting up a chain-of-command structure that radiates from the Justice Department. This removes many of the traditional obstacles to agency interface. It also relocates the levers of power in Washington where they can be manned by members of the Bush administration.
Dictatorships require strong centralized authority and the Falcon program is a logical corollary of that ambition. It creates new inroads for Bush to assume greater control over the nationwide police-state apparatus. That alone should be sufficient reason for alarm. (This is a must read! Challenge your local cops, and legislature about this federal plan Read More
BUSH'S LATEST EXECUTIVE ORDER & JURISDICTION
By Devvy Kidd: Last week while a disinterested, self-absorbed population concerned themselves with fun times, Harry Potter and Britney Spears flashing her private parts at a local beach in Malibu, Bush executed another executive order (Blocking Property of Certain Persons Who Threaten Stabilization Efforts in Iraq) that has caused a huge firestorm on the Internet. Is this yet another assault on the Bill of Rights should it be used against domestic Americans? Bush's justification for this latest EO: He doesn't want anyone threatening the stabilization and financial reconstruction of Iraq. The war in Iraq is immoral, it was built on a mountain of lies, it was/is an unconstitutional invasion. The almost one TRILLION BORROWED dollars thrown at another, predictable failure at nation building is clearly nothing more than rape and plunder of the people's treasury, not to mention the loss of precious life - our military and innocent civilians who know nothing of the games evil men play. Soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan are not fighting for my freedom, they are fighting for a new world order and establishment of the U.S. as a bully empire. Read More
Cheney Determined To Strike In US With WMD This Summer Only Impeachment, Removal or General Strike Can Stop Him
By Webster G. Tarpley: The greatest threat now is "a 9/11 occurring with a group of terrorists armed not with airline tickets and box cutters, but with a nuclear weapon in the middle of one of our own cities." - Dick Cheney on Face the Nation, CBS, April 15, 2007
- A few days ago, a group of lawyers from western Massachusetts met with the local congressman, Democrat John Olver. Their request was that Olver take part in the urgent effort to impeach Bush and Cheney. Olver responded by saying that he had no intention of doing anything to support impeachment. He went further, offering the information that the United States would soon attack Iran, and that these hostilities would be followed by the imposition of a martial law regime here.
- According to reports in the British press, the Cheney war party has gained the upper hand in the secret councils of the Bush White House, pushing aside the purported hesitations of Miss Rice, Secretary Gates, and the NATO allies to chart a direct course towards war with Iran: Read More
UK's Brown won't rule out military action in Iran
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Monday he would not rule out military action against Iran, but believed a policy of sanctions could still persuade Tehran to drop its disputed nuclear program. - "I firmly believe that the sanctions policy that we are pursuing will work, but I'm not one who's going forward to say that we rule out any particular form of action," Brown told a news conference, when asked if he would rule out a military strike against Iran. - Brown said he believed the current sanctions were having an effect, but he thought there would still be a third resolution.
"There will probably be a third resolution in relation to Iran soon ... I appeal to the Iranian authorities to understand the feelings that other countries have about the development of a nuclear weapons program," he said.
French Foreign Ministry deputy spokesman Denis Simonneau told an online briefing it was necessary to maintain "a message of firmness" until Iran suspended sensitive activities. (NWO Loving Gordon Brown picking up right where Tony Blair Witch Project left off: Centralization, Militarization, and a prison planet ruled by an elite unrestrained by morals... God help us!) Read More
Giuliani has connection with accused pedophile priests
Republican presidential candidate Rudolph W. Giuliani has close ties to a Catholic priest accused of sexually molesting boys and who also was the lawyer for a now-closed Whitinsville counseling house for troubled priests that has been described as the center of a pedophile sex ring.
Monsignor Alan J. Placa, who works for Mr. Giuliani’s consulting firm, Giuliani Partners, was legal adviser in the 1980s to the House of Affirmation, where priests accused of sexual abuse were sent for psychotherapy and other counseling services. The center closed in 1987 amid a financial scandal.
Monsignor Placa, who while an active priest arranged the annulment of Mr. Giuliani’s first marriage, baptized his two children and officiated at the funeral of his mother, is a childhood friend of Mr. Giuliani and they both attended Manhattanville College.
He was stripped of his duties as a priest, but not defrocked, after Newsday, a Long Island newspaper, published a story in 2002 about young men who alleged that Monsignor Placa abused them in the 1970s. He has been on administrative leave since and has worked for Mr. Giuliani for the past five years.
Catholic activists who are fighting the church over the clergy sex abuse issue say Mr. Giuliani’s association with the monsignor raises serious questions about the former New York mayor’s candidacy. (In the past few months Ghouliani has had two campaign managers go down for Cocaine Trafficing, prostitution, and has been outted by the Firefighters Union as a 911 phony (perp) - Ghouliani has a shady past with the Mob, got caught under a scandle with former police chief Bernie Kerik, caught representing CINTRA in the takeover of the TTC Etc... Now does this story really surprise anyone? I have to wonder if Rudy played dress up with his priest while... Better not go there I guess) Read More
Ron Paul emerges as GOP's unlikely rock-star candidate
Long-shot libertarian iconoclast pulls in surprising cash totals, eclectic young crowds. - LAS VEGAS -- The punk-band members, with spiked hair, tattooed arms and piercings, stood with a crowd of more than 300 and cheered at the rock star on stage, especially when he called for abolishing the Federal Reserve -- you know, the banking system that for nearly a century has helped stabilize the U.S. economy, give or take a Great Depression. - Presidential candidate Ron Paul didn't stop with the Fed. The devout and suddenly popular libertarian-running-as-a-Republican also wants to repeal the Patriot Act. (More cheering.) And the IRS and NAFTA-like trade deals. (Loud applause.) And bring home American troops, all of them, from Iraq and from every last spot on the globe. (Standing ovation.) And that national ID card, forget about it. - Abolish the IRS, the Fed, the Patriot Act? Is that libertarian or a lefty anarchist? - The crowds he's drawing across the country are often an unusual mix of 20- and 30-something lefties and righties. Some are drawn to his beliefs. But many said that they admire him most for sticking to a clear set of principles, even if they disagree on some issues. - Thus Paul has become the early surprise of the 2008 campaign. Read More
HOMELAND SECURITY CRASHES THE BROWN'S LIVE FREE OR DIE JAMBOREE - TAUNTED BY GUESTS by Jack Blood
The chopper returned appearing about 100 feet out of the trees. It must have been lying low in silent mode before it jumped out and buzzed the crowd. It felt like apocalypse now, Vietnam or Iraq. - The chopper was traced by its ubiquitous ID numbers N187AE as solo artist Dave Cahill was tearing through a blistering set on stage. With the help of GCN radio host Mike Rivero of www.whatreallyhappened.com we were able to determine that the helicopter was created exclusively for the US Government, and was registered to Homeland Security, and this was announced to the live audience and live web viewers. - Maybe this was the culmination of Michael (the Devil) Chertoff's "gut Feeling" and concert goers were all relieved that any attempt by Al Qaeda to attack the Brown home would be thwarted by the DHS Chopper. Read More
NPR covers Brown Standoff and concert, will US Marshalls seal off property?
New Hampshire Couple in Showdown Over Taxes: Morning Edition, July 17, 2007 · New Hampshire couple Ed and Elaine Brown has holed up in their hilltop home since April in defiance of a federal court that sentenced them to a five-year prison term for income tax evasion. The Browns say the IRS lacks the authority to require such a levy and say they won't be taken alive. (Though this audio from NPR appears to be "objective" - it might seem that they are advocating cutting off the supply lines for the Browns. I think this will eventually happen which makes it even more important to keep the stockpile of supplies flowing into Plainfield. And Yes... I support Ed and Elaine Brown) Read More
White House Manual for Silencing Critics
So the truth comes out. After a myriad of stories about people being excluded from events where the President is speaking, now we know that the White House had a policy manual on just how to do so.
Called the “Presidential Advance Manual,” this 103-page document from the Office of Presidential Advance lays out the parameters for how to handle protesters at events.
“Always be prepared for demonstrators,” says the document, which is dated October 2002 and which the ACLU released as part of a new lawsuit. - In another section, entitled “Preparing for Demonstrators,” the document makes clear that the intention is to deprive protesters of the right to be seen or heard by the President: “As always, work with the Secret Service and have them ask the local police department to designate a protest area where demonstrators can be placed, preferably not in view of the event site or motorcade route.”
The document also recommends drowning out protesters or blocking their signs by using what it calls “rally squads.” It states: “These squads should be instructed always to look for demonstrators. The rally squad’s task is to use their signs and banners as shields between the demonstrators and the main press platform. If the demonstrators are yelling, rally squads can begin and lead supportive chants to drown out the protestors (USA!, USA!, USA!). As a last resort, security should remove the demonstrators from the event site.”
The document offered advice on how to recruit members for such squads: “The rally squads can include, but are not limited to, college/young republican organizations, local athletic teams, and fraternities/sororities.” Read More
Rothschild banking group "unifies"
(As if they were ever really fueding... Rothschilds admit super centralization would be a better title for this story) THE French and English branches of the fabled Rothschild banking family announced their unification overnight, ending a separation that dates from the 19th century.
Under an agreement announced overnight the two will unify their shareholdings under a single holding company, the French group Paris-Orleans.
Symbols of big money and finance, the Rothschild dynasty, which includes media personalities, amateurs of horse racing and owners of prestigious vineyards, is best known for its capital management activities.
The two branches were created at the beginning of the 19th century when the founder of the dynasty, Frankfurt-based Meyer Amschel, sent his sons on a mission throughout Europe to develop the bank he had created. Read More
Fox News' Pro-Giuliani Conflict of Interest - By Cliff Kincaid
Rudy Giuliani's much-publicized but misleading put-down of Ron Paul during Tuesday night's Republican presidential debate should have been tempered by a report that Saudi Arabia, the country that spawned most of the 9/11 hijackers, has been one of Giuliani's lucrative foreign clients. However, Fox News questioners Chris Wallace and Wendell Goler did not bring it up.
Perhaps this can be explained by the fact that the same Associated Press story that named Saudi Arabia as a Giuliani client listed News Corporation, the parent company of Fox News, as another Giuliani client. This AP story, which was not disputed by Giuliani or News Corporation, was carried on the Fox News website.
This writer had raised questions about Fox News' co-sponsorship of the debate, based on the fact that the company had a relationship with Giuliani when he was mayor of New York City. But now we know that the relationship has continued into the period of time that Giuliani has been planning a presidential run. It is an obvious conflict of interest.
It was during a discussion of foreign policy that Paul, a Texas congressman, identified U.S. involvement in the Middle East, especially in Iraq, as a factor in the 9/11 attacks. Giuliani pounced on that, saying the claim was worse than absurd. "Rudy's Wrath" was the headline as Fox News proclaimed Giuliani the winner of the exchange. However, the Fox News text-message poll, with 40,000 votes, gave Paul 25 percent over Giuliani's 19 percent. Mitt Romney came in first with 29 percent.
Giuliani was the first Republican candidate to come on Fox News after the debate and talk about his performance. Co-host Sean Hannity wanted to focus on Giuliani's comments on 9/11 and his attack on Paul. Later, Michael Steele, Maryland's former Lieutenant Governor, was on Fox News, declaring that Giuliani had destroyed Ron Paul. "It's done," Steele said of Paul's campaign. It wasn't mentioned that Giuliani had campaigned for Steele when he ran for a Maryland Senate seat.
The exchange with Paul over 9/11 might have been seen in a different light if Hannity had asked Giuliani about why, according to the AP report, his firm represented Saudi Arabia. But that was a taboo topic.
Equally important, it turns out that Paul's point-that the 9/11 attacks were linked to U.S. involvement in Iraq and the Middle East-was factually correct. Osama bin Laden's 1996 "Declaration of War against the Americans Occupying the Land of the Two Holy Places" specifically mentioned the situation in Iraq, blaming the U.S. for the impact of economic sanctions on the Saddam Hussein regime. Bin Laden accused the U.S. of "aggression" against Iraq and the record shows that his anti-Americanism was motivated, at least in part, by the U.S. military presence in Saudi Arabia. (Can this be YOUR idea of "Fair and Balanced?" GHOULIANI was at the head of OXYCONTIN distributers... "Unfair and Chemically Imbalanced?" might be a better slogan for whats left of the GOP) Read More
Jack Blood on NIGHTLINE - ABC: Law & Order' Politics Potential Presidential Candidates, Unifers, and Conspirarcy Theorists Populate 'Law & Order' Cast
One White House hopeful who will likely not be on the Unity '08 ticket is Waterston's predecessor on "Law & Order," actor Michael Moriarty, who played Executive Assistant District Attorney Benjamin Stone.
Moriarty left the show under uncomfortable circumstances in 1994, claiming then-attorney general Janet Reno was trying to censor television.
Since then, his interest in controversy only seems to have increased. He says he's running a write-in campaign for president as a member of the Realists 2008 party.
A staunch conservative and opponent of abortion rights, Moriarty lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, and holds some interesting conspiracy theories, including one about 9/11.
"My theory is that Bush talked to the bin Laden family in Riyadh," Moriarty recently said on the conservative radio show "Deadline Live With Jack Blood"
The colony the legal drama created for these candidates and activists has graduated to a full-on political scale.
As one surveys the options from right to left -- Moriarty's realists to Thompson's Republicans to Waterston's bipartisan ticket -- just be grateful it's "Law & Order" and not "American Idol." (Mr Moriarty will be back on DEADLINE LIVE May 17th 2007) Read More
Israeli officer sells weapons to terrorists in Iraq
Ma'ariv Daily has reported that an Israeli retired officer sells weapons to terrorist groups in Iraq.
Shmoel Avivi, an Israeli retired officer, had established a firm in Iraq 2 years ago, which secretly sold arms to terrorist groups in Iraq, Ma'ariv reported.
Amnesty International reported that Avivi was one of the biggest weapon dealers in the Middle East.
Iraqi sources earlier announced that terrorist attacks in Iraq were backed by the intelligent agencies of CIA and Mossad and the secret agents of Iraqi former regime.
Earlier, Iraqi parliament security commission chairman Hadi Ameri had accused the occupying soldiers of secretly directing the terrorist attacks and forming terror squads in Iraq. (Proof that Mossad is arming terrorists? Why aren't we threatening Israel as we have Iran? These weapons are killing our troops. Hypocricy at its lowest.) Read More
BBC Reported Building 7 Had Collapsed 20 Minutes Before It Fell
Revealing, shocking video shows reporter talking about collapse with WTC 7 still standing in background, Google removes clip: An astounding video uncovered from the archives today shows the BBC reporting on the collapse of WTC Building 7 over twenty minutes before it fell at 5:20pm on the afternoon of 9/11. The incredible footage shows BBC reporter Jane Standley talking about the collapse of the Salomon Brothers Building while it remains standing in the live shot behind her head. -- The fact that the BBC reported on the collapse of Building 7 over twenty minutes in advance of its implosion obviously provokes a myriad of questions as to how they knew it was about to come down when the official story says its collapse happened accidentally as a result of fire damage and debris weakening the building's structure. Read More
Rumsfeld is still running the War Department
A recent article in the Washington Times by Rowan Scarborough, (“Rumsfeld’s transition raises questions” 1-25-07) confirms that Rumsfeld has resurfaced in Arlington, VA and opened a “government-provided transition office with 7 Pentagon-paid staffers working for him”. He is listed as a “nonpaid consultant” so he can continue to “review secret and top-secret documents”.
As Scarborough aptly notes, “Rumsfeld has left the Pentagon but not the Defense Department”. He is accompanied by his top aide, Stephen Cambone.
The question this raises, of course, is whether Rumsfeld is still calling the shots at the Pentagon?
My guess would be; Yes. The Rummy-resignation was just more-of-the-same War Department hocus-pocus (psy-ops) There was never the slightest possibility that Dick Cheney would take congress’ disapproval of Rumsfeld’s performance seriously and throw him overboard. Rummy and Cheney are joined at the hip; you can’t dump one without the other.
Consider Cheney’s comments just last week to fully appreciate his disdain for congress. When he was asked about the senate resolution which rebukes the president for surging more troops into Baghdad, Cheney sneered, “It won’t stop us.” Read More
CONGRESS PUSHES ANTI-GUN BRADY LAW EXPANSION BILL
The first major anti-gun bill of the new Pelosi-led Congress has already been introduced, and it could prove to be the most serious threat yet to Second Amendment Rights.
On the first full day of the new Congress, Rep. Carolyn McCarthy introduced H.R. 297, the most massive expansion of the Brady law since it passed in 1993. This is a bill that was quashed last year but under the new Pelosi House leadership, the Bill has a higher likelihood of getting passed this time. -- the proposed Bill provides, in the form of grants, about $1 billion to the states to "provide the National Instant Criminal Background Check System [NICS] with all records concerning persons who are prohibited from possessing or receiving a firearm under subsection (g) or (n) of section 922 of title 18, United States Code, regardless of the elapsed time since the disqualifying event."
Now that is a mouthful, but the danger of this Bill is that under the Lautenberg ban, people who have committed very minor offenses that include pushing, shoving or, in some cases, merely yelling at a family member, can no longer own a firearm for self-defense. Then, if a real criminal invades your home with a gun, the home owner is defenseless to protect his or her family.
NICS is the system used by the FBI to conduct a background check prior to a firearm sale by a federally licensed gun dealer. Most people are aware that NICS records include a list of convicted felons, but there are many other categories of persons who are prohibited from possessing firearms for which computerized lists may not be available. It is these categories that are targeted by this bill. (The NRA is FOR this! We will discuss this bill on DEADLINE LIVE today: Jan 30th 2007 with Larry Pratt from Gun Owners of America - Link Here ---> Read More
Toll Road Giant Buys Newspapers to Silence Critics
Critics charge that the Macquarie purchase of American Consolidated Media is designed to silence critics of a Texas toll road project. -- Australian toll road giant Macquarie agreed Wednesday to purchase forty local newspapers, primarily in Texas and Oklahoma, for $80 million. Macquarie Bank is Australia's largest capital raising firm and has invested billions in purchasing roads in the US, Canada and UK. Most recently the company joined with Cintra Concesiones of Spain in a controversial 75-year lease of the 157-mile Indiana Toll Road. - Sal Costello, the leading opponent of toll road projects as head of the Texas Toll Party, says the move is directly related to a 4000-mile toll road project known as the Trans-Texas Corridor. It will cost between $145 and $183 billion to construct the road, expected to be up to 1200 feet wide, requiring the acquisition of 9000 square miles of land in the areas through which it will pass. "The newspapers are the main communication tool for many of the rural Texan communities, with many citizens at risk of losing their homes and farms through eminent domain," Costello wrote. Many of the small papers purchased, most have a circulation of 5000 or less, have been critical of the Trans-Texas Corridor. An article in the Bonham Journal for example, states, "The toll roads will be under control of foreign investors, which more than frustrates Texans." Read More
WE WON! Section 220 taken out of S.1
We won! Late last night the Senate voted 55 to 43 to strip the grassroots regulations out of S.1.
This is a major victory for the 1st Amendment, for Downsize DC, for our coalition partners, and for small grassroots groups all across the political spectrum. It is a major victory for YOU!
As little as three days ago this stunning success seemed impossible. So what happened?
We proved a concept. Actually, we proved a couple of concepts.
We proved that mere citizens can change the minds and votes of members of Congress.
The Senate was deluged with phone calls and Internet messages supporting Amendment 20 to S.1. This had a huge impact . . .
Senators got nervous. Senators got enlightenment. Many Senators learned for the first time the true nature of the legislation they were being asked to pass. Senators changed their minds and their votes. And we won! Read More
Will Plainfield be another Waco?
Ed is 64 years old. His wife is a dentist. They have not filed or paid federal income taxes since 1997. Prosecutors claim (based upon arbitrary figures provided by the IRS) that the couple "owes" $625,000 in taxes. - The Browns represented themselves in court and insisted, rightfully, that (1) they cannot find any statute that requires them to pay (there is none), and that (2) the federal court has no subject matter jurisdiction in a state venue. But the jury never heard any of that. - When it became apparent Thursday that the judge would not permit them to present the law to the jury, as evidence in their own defense, they left at the end of the court day and decided they would not appear for the next court session scheduled for Friday morning. They didn't. They expect that, when they failed to appear Friday, that a bench warrant was probably issued and a heavily-armed task force will be dispatched, probably Tuesday, to their residence to arrest them and take them into custody. Read More
Gordon Brown wants a 'new world order'
Chancellor Gordon Brown has spoken of the need for a "new world order" to deal with future security and environmental challenges.
He called for a "new diplomacy" to go alongside military power to defeat terrorism, share prosperity and "win the battle of hearts and minds".
That meant strengthening Britain's global alliances but also reforming institutions such as the EU and UN.
Mr Brown was speaking in Mumbai on the latest stage of his tour of India.
The chancellor said he had been inspired by Mahatma Gandhi as he laid a wreath at the memorial to the former leader. (Dropping the name of Gandhi is shameful. The NWO means total control and world domination, depopulation, covert slavery, and rights replaced with privileges... I doubt Gandhi would support, Blair, Brown, or Bush(s) no matter how flowery they put it!) Read More
Bush Seizes Control Over State Militias
A little-noticed change in federal law packs an important change in who is in charge the next time a state is devastated by a disaster such as Hurricane Katrina.
To the dismay of the nation’s governors, the White House now will be empowered to go over a governor’s head and call up National Guard troops to aid a state in time of natural disasters or other public emergencies. Up to now, governors were the sole commanders in chief of citizen soldiers in local Guard units during emergencies within the state.
A conflict over who should control Guard units arose in the days after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. President Bush sought to federalize control of Guardsmen in Louisiana in the chaos after the hurricane, but Gov. Kathleen Blanco (D) refused to relinquish command.
Over objections from all 50 governors, Congress in October changed the 200-year-old Insurrection Act to empower the hand of the president in future stateside emergencies. In a letter to Congress, the governors called the change "a dramatic expansion of federal authority during natural disasters that could cause confusion in the command-and-control of the National Guard and interfere with states' ability to respond to natural disasters within their borders." (Militias are NOT The National Guard! This will however challenge the authority of the Militas in time of emergencies.) Read More
Copycat 'London bomb plot was just a hoax' - BBC
One of the defendants in the London "bomb plot" trial, Hussein Osman, was arrested in Rome and interviewed at length by police. - He is said to have told officers after his arrest he and his co-accused had been making a political point and the devices they carried were never meant to explode. - Explosives 'not real' - Mr Sweeney (Prosecuter) said Mr Osman told police they first decided to carry out a "demonstration" about a week after the 7 July attacks on London. (This is important because the Sequel to the 7/7/05 Bombings, like 911, have no specific evidence proving what happened and trying it to rogue terrorists. The UK planned to use this "copycat" bombing to convince the people of a terrorist presence in London...) Read More
MARTIN LUTHER KING - TH E FATAL SHOT CAME FROM A DIFFERENT DIRECTION
According to the government, James Earl Ray shot Dr. Martin Luther King from that window. There is, needless to say, no physical evidence to prove this charge. James Earl Ray spent his life in prison based solely on a coerced confession which he immediately retracted. None of the ballistics tests, which were performed on the rifle James Earl Ray allegedly used, were able to link that rifle to the actual bullet that killed Dr. Martin Luther King. Dr. King's family does not think James Earl Ray was the killer, and recently won a civil court case proving there was a conspiracy. - Now, thanks to writer Ted Wilburn, in a story which follows, new evidence has surfaced to prove that the government and the media have been lying to the public about the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King. -- Martin Luther King Family Still Convinced Assassination Was Conspiracy (See story here) Read More
THE DEVIL'S SEVEN-PRONG FORK - By Charlotte Iserbyt
The most devastating aspect of The Fork’s use is that we victims hadn’t the foggiest idea we were being victimized, but thought, to the contrary, that the government had our best interests at heart. The government, in partnership with the “usual suspects:” the elitist, internationalist corporate sector, the tax-exempt foundations, the Federal Reserve Bank, the educational system, the controlled media, and some important religious denominations, has year after year, consistently, worked to create an environment which keeps its citizens ignorant regarding what is really going on, thereby creating the necessary citizen apathy which allows “the usual suspects” to accomplish the dismantlement of the greatest, freest, most successful nation in the history of the world. If Americans do not understand how they have been victimized by “The Seven Prong Fork,” if they do not start asking questions, and demanding answers; if they do not take action to reverse our nation’s slide into world government, they will experience, in the very near future, what George Orwell described so well in his novel 1984. (Charlotte Iserbyt is the former Deputy Secretary of Education under Reagan, and she will be our guest on DEADLINE LIVE January 15th 2007) Read More
Presidential Candidate Fears "Gulf Of Tonkin" To Provoke Iran War
Developments converge to signify inevitable conflict despite ongoing chaos in Iraq: Republican Congressman and 2008 Presidential candidate Ron Paul fears a staged Gulf of Tonkin style incident may be used to provoke air strikes on Iran as numerous factors collide to heighten expectations that America may soon be embroiled in its third war in six years.
Writing in his syndicated weekly column, the representative of Texas' 14th district warns of "a contrived Gulf of Tonkin-type incident (that) may occur to gain popular support for an attack on Iran."
The August 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident, where US warships were apparently attacked by North Vietnamese PT Boats, was cited by President Johnson as a legitimate provocation mandating U.S. escalation in Vietnam, yet Tonkin was a staged charade that never took place. Declassified LBJ presidential tapes discuss how to spin the non-event to escalate it as justification for air strikes and the NSA faked intelligence data to make it appear as if two US ships had been lost.
Should a staged provocation take place in an attempt to justify striking Iran it would not be the first time the current administration has considered such a ploy. Read More
110th CONGRESS 1st Session H. RES. 33 -- Recognizing the thousands of Freemasons in every State in the Nation
(You can't make this up) -- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 5, 2007 - Mr. GILLMOR submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform RESOLUTION: Recognizing the thousands of Freemasons in every State in the Nation and honoring them for their many contributions to the Nation throughout its history. Whereas Freemasons, whose long lineage extends back to before the Nation's founding, have set an example of high moral standards and charity for all people; Whereas the Founding Fathers of this great Nation and signers of the Constitution, most of whom were Freemasons, provided a well-rounded basis for developing themselves and others into valuable citizens of the United States; Whereas members of the Masonic Fraternity, both individually and as an organization, continue to make invaluable charitable contributions of service to the United States;
Whereas the Masonic Fraternity continues to provide for the charitable relief and education of the citizens of the United States;
Whereas the Masonic Fraternity is deserving of formal recognition of their long history of care-giving for the citizenry and their example of high moral standards; and
Whereas Freemasons have always revered and celebrated St. John's Day, June 24th, as dedicated to their patron saints: Now, therefore, be it Resolved, That the House of Representatives recognizes the thousands of Freemasons in every State in the Nation and honors them for their many contributions to the Nation throughout its history. (HR 33? Come on......) Read More
Lawyer, Talk radio Host, Ends Up Dead After Taking On Rove
By Kurt Nimmo: It’s fishy as hell. Paul Sanford, a prominent Aptos, California, attorney, who accused Karl Rove of treason in the Plame outing case, took a leap from the Embassy Suites Hotel in Monterey Bay on Christmas Eve. Police describe it as “probable” suicide, even though it appears Sanford was not depressed. -- On July 25, 2005, in the James S. Brady Briefing Room at the White House, Sanford asked then press secretary Scott McClellan about Karl Rove, accused at the time by Joseph Wilson, the husband of Valerie Plame, of outing his wife as a CIA employee in retaliation for Wilson’s op-ed published in the New York Times. Wilson criticized the citation of bogus yellowcake documents used as flimsy justification for invading Iraq and murdering more than 650,000 Iraqis. (See story Below) Read More
President FORD was too scared of the Bush cabal to speak out... Until he was dead
After multipal assassination attempts on his life Jerry Ford learned the hard way to go along and get along with his elite handlers. In a shocking development, Bob Woodward (who was in some small way responsible for putting Ford in the white house after watergate) has revealed information that Ford did not support the war in Iraq. -- 'Former president Gerald R. Ford said in an embargoed interview in July 2004 that the Iraq war was not justified. "I don't think I would have gone to war," he said a little more than a year after President Bush launched the invasion advocated and carried out by prominent veterans of Ford's own administration. "Rumsfeld and Cheney and the president made a big mistake in justifying going into the war in Iraq. They put the emphasis on weapons of mass destruction," Ford said. "And now, I've never publicly said I thought they made a mistake, but I felt very strongly it was an error in how they should justify what they were going to do." '... Marty Kaplan fo the Huffington post synthesizes into this, "The person I do fault is Ford. There was no national interest to be served by keeping his thoughts to himself. Former presidents may constitute a kind of Skull & Bones, but speaking out to try to save us from our next "long national nightmare" would have been way more patriotic than preserving the towel-snapping bonhomie of the Ex-POTUS Society.
One by one, refugees from the Bush Administration have been telling the truth about what goes on inside there. Though Colin Powell has been doing it in a particularly craven way -- telling Washington intimates, off-the-record -- he's been doing it nevertheless. Paul O'Neill did it. Tyler Drumheller, Lawrence Wilkerson, Pentagon whistleblowers, others whose names we didn't know before they exited: they've done it.
Why do these people wait? What does it say about Washington's code of conduct that loyalty to patrons, power and Party outweighs loyalty to truth, to country, to national security, to tens of thousands of America's finest young people, now wounded or dead?
For all we know, Condi, Tony and the rest of them may already be whispering sweet somethings into Bob's ear. It may be verbal Viagra for him. But for them, it's too late. The I-fought-it-from-the-inside tales they tell Bob, or their memoirs, or their biographers, will undo no damage they have done. Their reputations, like their conscience, are already beyond salvage." (Its hard to disagree with Kaplan here... But he misses part of the point. In this era of retribution by the Cheney Admin. Whistle-blowers in the know are in fear of the elites who pull the strings. Ford knew all to well what happens to people who break from the playbook. He witnessed the assassinations of our greatest leaders in the sixties, and no doubt knew full well what the Kissingers, and Rockefellers of the world can do. Ford also knew just how dangerous Dick Cheney is. Still, no excuse for not facing the music, and defending his country. I guess that's our job.) Read More
Rumsfeld denies making claims Iraq had WMDs - 'Never said that ... never did,' defense secretary now asserts
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld tried to rewrite history last week when he denied making prewar claims that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.
Rumsfeld's latest effort at backtracking on his prewar statements came Thursday at a contentious public forum in Atlanta when he faced a handful of hecklers and an anti-war questioner in the audience, who charged that he had lied about Saddam having weapons of mass destruction, which was President Bush's chief rationale for invading the country and starting the war.
-- The Pentagon chief denied he had lied and said he had relied on official intelligence reports about Saddam's weapons.
-- His questioner persisted: "You said you knew where they were."
- Rumsfeld: "I did not. I said I knew where 'suspect' sites were." -- The record shows that in the weeks preceding the war, Rumsfeld flatly claimed to know the whereabouts of Saddam's WMD arsenal. Read More
Gerald R. Ford - Welcome to Hell
The crimes and coverups Gerald R. Ford was a major part of, the JFK assassination and the Watergate Scandal, are two of the biggest acts of treason in United States’ history.
Ford is all that is wrong with politics in the United States. The quest to lie and cover-up government crimes while offering aid and comfort to the criminals who commit them was Jerry’s career motus operandi. The fact that all too many folks from our home state of Michigan gloss over his crimes is a sad, sad, joke.
Here are a couple of articles from former UPI White House reporter Don Fulsom to give you an idea about the magnitude of Ford’s crimes against his country.
Gerald Ford’s Role in the JFK Assassination Cover-up Richard Nixon’s Greatest Cover-Up: His Ties to the Assassination of President Kennedy... (CFR, Bilderberger, 33rd degree freemason, Rockefeller stooge, cover-up artist Gerald Ford will be fondly remembered this week in ritual public cermonies befitting a king. He was forced to admit that The Warren Report was "Fictionalized" - He covered for Bush and "CREEP" during Watergate - He centralized CIA power under Bush... And he made Chevy Chase Famous! Tune into our Dec 27th 2006 show to hear more.) Read More
New Bush "Signing Statement" - We can now legally open your mail! |