[cia-drugs] Fwd: Rev. Moon's Anti-Osama Agit-Prop
Begin forwarded message: From: "Consortiumnews.com" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: January 22, 2007 8:06:38 PM PST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Rev. Moon's Anti-Osama Agit-Prop Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] As Rev. Sun Myung Moon's media operations have done for two decades, the Korean cult leader's Insight magazine has stepped up to inject an early dose of poison into Campaign 2008. In this case, Moon's weekly magazine was peddling a bogus story suggesting that Barack Obama is a clandestine Islamic agent and that Hillary Clinton's operatives were dishing the dirt. Though the anti-Obama agit-prop was quickly disproved, it revealed again how valuable Moon and his mysterious money have been to the Republicans and especially to the Bush family. For the full story of how Moon's foreign money continues to distort the U.S. political process, go to Consortiumnews.com at http:// www.consortiumnews.com . To remove yourself from this list, click here: http:// www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizations/consortiumnews/ unsubscribe.jsp?remove
[cia-drugs] Bush Poll Ratings Before Speech Fall to Nixon's Level (Update2)
http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20670001&refer=&sid=a.aveoiqdgBU Bush Poll Ratings Before Speech Fall to Nixon's Level (Update2) By Nadine Elsibai Jan. 22 (Bloomberg) -- President George W. Bush's approval ratings are now the lowest for any president the day before a State of the Union speech since Richard Nixon in 1974, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll. Sixty-five percent of those surveyed said they disapprove of how Bush is handling his job as president while 33 percent approve. The rating matches Bush's career low in a May 2006 poll. Seventy-one percent of Americans said the country is on the wrong track, up from 46 percent in an April 2003 poll, the month after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. A majority of those polled this month don't approve of how Bush is handling the Iraq war, terrorism or the economy. Bush, who addresses the nation before a joint session of Congress tomorrow, will face many members of his own party who blame him for Republicans' losing majority control of the House and Senate in the November 2006 midterm elections. White House spokesman Tony Snow said Bush's State of the Union speech will focus on issues including the Iraq war, energy independence, health-care, immigration and education. Bush also received career-low approval ratings in a new CNN poll. Sixty-three percent of those surveyed said they disapprove of how Bush has handled his presidency and 34 percent said they approve. Sixty percent disapproved and 38 percent approved of Bush's performance in a March 2006 CNN poll. CBS, NBC Polls Bush reached an all-time low 28 percent approval rating in a CBS poll released today. Sixty-six percent of those surveyed in the CBS poll said they opposed Bush's sending 20,000 additional troops to Iraq, and 75 percent said the war there is going badly. Fifty percent said Congress shouldn't provide money for the 20,000 additional troops. The CBS poll surveyed 1,168 adults nationwide by telephone from Jan. 18 to 21. The poll has a sampling error of plus or minus three percentage points. Almost two-thirds of people in the U.S. don't support a troop increase in Iraq if Congress passes a resolution opposing it, and don't believe the war can succeed, according to an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. Investigators questioned 1,007 adults from Jan. 17 to Jan. 20, and the poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points. Giuliani, Clinton Former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani led among Republicans and New York Senator Hillary Clinton paced Democrats in a CNN poll on potential 2008 presidential candidates. Giuliani received support from 32 percent of Republicans surveyed; Arizona Senator John McCain followed with 26 percent; and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich was third at 9 percent. Giuliani and McCain have both formed presidential exploratory committees. Gingrich has yet to say whether he will seek the party's nomination for president. Support for Clinton dropped to 34 percent from 37 percent a month earlier, the poll found. Illinois Senator Barack Obama followed with 18 percent, up 3 percentage points from a December 2006 poll. Former North Carolina Senator John Edwards was third at 15 percent. Clinton, Obama and Edwards have each filed papers allowing them to raise and spend money through a presidential exploratory committee. Of the 1,008 adults in the CNN poll, 365 were asked about the Republican nomination and 467 were asked about the Democratic candidates. The margin of error for Republicans was plus or minus 5 percentage points, and plus or minus 4.5 percentage points for Democrats. The Washington Post-ABC News telephone poll of 1,000 adults nationwide was conducted Jan. 16-19. Opinion Research Corporation conducted the CNN telephone poll of 1,008 Americans Jan. 19-21. Both surveys had a 3 percentage point margin of error overall. To contact the reporter on this story: Nadine Elsibai in Washington at [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
[cia-drugs] This War is for Us
- Original Message - From: Robert Busser To: Undisclosed-Recipient:; Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 5:33 PM Subject: [work_democracy] This War is for Us http://www.israelnationalnews.com/article.php3?id=2125 This War is for Us Arutz Sheva IsraelNationalNews.com by Ariel Natan Pasko March 26, 2003 Of course this war against Iraq and Saddam Hussein is for us. Even the anti-Semites, like Patrick J. Buchanan and Congressman Jim Moran know it. Pat Buchanan has been accusing the neo-conservatives, what he calls the War Party - i.e., the Jews and their followers in America - of pushing the United States into this war. He's also blamed Prime Minister Sharon and Israel for wanting the war. That's what he said in a recent article, "Whose War?" Rep. Moran recently came out of the closet saying, "If it were not for the strong support of the Jewish community for this war with Iraq, we would not be doing this." Other anti-Semites have also been saying it. They're both right, and dead wrong. True, most Jews in America and Israel want the US to capture Saddam Hussein and his gang, disarm Iraq of Weapons of Mass Destruction, institute some form of regime change, and introduce freedom and democracy. But so do most Americans, many Iraqis, and many other freedom-loving people in the region and around the world. Although it might be in Israel's interest to see the 'neighborhood bully' - Iraq - have its non-conventional weapons confiscated, it is also in America's interest, it is also in Europe's interest, it is even in Russia's and China's interest - they have both been plagued by Islamic terror in recent years. And, though they might not like to admit it publicly, it is even in the interest of Arab states in the region. Nobody who thinks about it for a couple of seconds should want a dictator like Saddam Hussein - who has already used chemical weapons on his own citizens, the Kurds, and his neighbors, the Iranians - to have Weapons of Mass Destruction. Whether he uses them himself or passes them off to terror groups like al-Qaida, Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines, the Chechens, or Hamas and Islamic Jihad, who wants some nut cases releasing Small Pox, Anthrax, or VX Nerve Gas onto innocent civilian populations? However, we already knew that this war is for us - i.e., the Jews and Israel. Chazal - our sages - throughout the ages have explained the Torah, telling us that everything that happens in the world is for the benefit of the Jewish People. Simply put another way, if all the world is a stage, then the Jews - and especially those in the Land of Israel - are the lead actors on the stage of history, and the goyim - the nations, i.e. the gentiles - have supporting roles, while the evil-doers are props and background scenery. As our tradition states, G-D - the great playwright - created the world for the sake of the Jewish People, and it is our responsibility to implement the Torah - absolute morality and the blueprint of creation - in it. Stop and think for a moment: the last Gulf War in 1991 ended erev - just before - Purim. This Gulf War began motzei - just after - Shushan Purim. Get the picture? In between, "The Jews had light, and gladness, and joy, and honor." (Book of Esther 8:16) Read the Purim story in Megilat Esther again, it is a rags to riches story on a national scale. Haman, the proto-typical anti-Semite, plans mass murder of the Jews and in the end pays with his life, the life of his ten sons - all hanged - and the Jews kill 75, 800 members of the anti-Semitic - i.e. Nazi - party of the time. This is not so different from the Nuremberg Trials after World War II, when 23 Nazi war criminals were tried. Originally 11 were to have the death penalty imposed if found guilty. Everybody in those days thought that they would be shot - as is customary in military executions - or get the electric chair - as was common in the United States. But when the judges announced the verdict of guilty, they also said that hanging would be the method of execution. Two hours before the execution, they found Hermann Goering dead in his cell. He had committed suicide. That left only 10 Nazis to execute. There is more to this story than meets the eye. In Megilat Esther (9:7-9), when it describes the execution of Haman's ten sons, their names are listed in a vertical column. If you look at the Hebrew closely, you'll notice extra-small letters in three of the names. The first name, Parshandata, has a small tav. The seventh name, Parmashta, has a small shin. The tenth name, Vayzata, has a small zayn. Hebrew letters are also used as numbers, as well as for dates in the Jewish calendar. Tav, shin, zayn numerically means 707, corresponding to the year 5707, which began with Rosh HaShanah - the Jewish New Year - on September 25, 1946. On October 16, 1946, as foreshadowed in the names of Haman's ten sons, ten Nazi leaders were hanged as war criminals. And if tha
[cia-drugs] Ethnic Cleansing in L.A.
http://www.alternet.org/story/46855/ Ethnic Cleansing in L.A. By Brentin Mock, Intelligence Report. Posted January 20, 2007. Acting on orders from the Mexican Mafia, Latino gang members in Southern California are terrorizing and killing blacks. Los Angeles, Calif. -- Ascending the steep steps that lead from the street to the scene of her son's murder, 47-year-old Louisa Prudhomme is charged by a Doberman Pinscher. Prudhomme reaches over a gate and gives the guard dog a rough pat on the head. "Sam doesn't seem to remember me," she says. What Prudhomme will never forget is that just past the snarling Doberman is the apartment on a hill where six years ago her 21-year-old son Anthony was shot in the face with a .25-caliber semi-automatic while lying on a futon she had purchased for him from IKEA. He died wearing a shirt that read, "Keep the Peace." Anthony Prudhomme was slain by members of the Avenues, a Latino street gang. But he was not a rival gang member, or a police informant, or a drug dealer. The Avenues did not target him for the content of his character, or even the contents of his apartment. They targeted him for the color of his skin. Prudhomme was murdered because he identified himself as black (he was in fact mixed-race) in a neighborhood occupied by one of the many Latino street gangs in Los Angeles County. Incredibly, even though these gangs are fundamentally criminal enterprises interested mainly in money, gang experts inside and outside the government say that they are now engaged in a campaign of "ethnic cleansing" -- racial terror that is directed solely at African Americans. "The way I hear these knuckleheads tell it, they don't want their neighborhoods infested with blacks, as if it's an infestation," says respected Los Angeles gang expert Tony Rafael, who interviewed several Latino street gang leaders for an upcoming book on the Mexican Mafia, the dominant Latino gang in Southern California. "It's pure racial animosity that manifests itself in a policy of a major criminal organization." "There's absolutely no motive absent the color of their skin," adds former Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney Michael Camacho. Before he became a judge, in 2003, Camacho successfully prosecuted a Latino gang member for the random shootings of three black men in Pomona, Calif. "They generally don't like African Americans," Pomona gang unit officer Marcus Perez testified in that case. "If an African American enters their neighborhood, they're likely to be injured or killed." A comprehensive study of hate crimes in Los Angeles County released by the University of Hawaii in 2000 concluded that while the vast majority of hate crimes nationwide are not committed by members of organized groups, Los Angeles County is a different story. Researchers found that in areas with high concentrations, or "clusters," of hate crimes, the perpetrators were typically members of Latino street gangs who were purposely targeting blacks. Furthermore, the study found, "There is strong evidence of race-bias hate crimes among gangs in which the major motive is not the defense of territorial boundaries against other gangs, but hatred toward a group defined by racial identification, regardless of any gang-related territorial threat." Six years later, the racist terror campaign continues. A pervasive attitude Anthony Prudhomme presented no threat to the Avenues. Even so, he was murdered two months after he moved into Highland Park, a neighborhood in northeastern Los Angeles that is home to many gang members. "He didn't have anything [to steal]," his mother says. "He had nothing when they broke in. So to shoot him, I'm sure it was a stripe. They get stripes for killing black people." "Stripes" are a gang-soldier's badges of honor. Latino gang members in Southern California earn them by doing the bidding of their godfathers in the Mexican Mafia, a powerful criminal syndicate based in the California state prison system that controls most Latino street gangs south of Bakersfield. According to gang experts and law enforcement agents, a longstanding race war between the Mexican Mafia and the Black Guerilla family, a rival African-American prison gang, has generated such intense racial hatred among Mexican Mafia leaders, or shot callers, that they have issued a "green light" on all blacks. A sort of gang-life fatwah, this amounts to a standing authorization for Latino gang members to prove their mettle by terrorizing or even murdering any blacks sighted in a neighborhood claimed by a gang loyal to the Mexican Mafia. "This attitude is pretty pervasive throughout all the [Latino] gangs," says Tim Brown, a Los Angeles County probation supervisor. "As long as [street] gangs are heavily influenced by the prison gangs, particularly the Mexican Mafia, racism is just part and parcel of why they come into being and why they continue to exist." Last fall, four members of
[cia-drugs] FW: 19-Jan-2007 I'll be on Coast to Coast tonight January 19, 2007
>From: "gary" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: 19-Jan-2007 I'll be on Coast to Coast tonight January 19, 2007 >Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 17:52:27 -0500 > > >I was asked a few minutes ago to do the first hour with Coast to Coast >tonight. Our topic will be the latest news that the Big Bopper, Jr. is >having his father's remains examined by Doctor Bass at the Body Farm in >Knoxville, Tennessee. The examination will begin in March. Tonight, we >will examine the myths and legends of what happened as three rock stars >and a young pilot plummeted to earth in a pile of twisted metal--The show >begins at 10:00 PM PST (1:00 AM EST). I hope that you get a chance to >listen. This early notice will give you a chance to get into the phone >lines first if you have any questions. I'd love to speak with as many of >you as possible. > >Rock On, > >Gary > >This e-mail was sent to you because you subscribed to the >mailing list at http://www.rgarypatterson.com/newsletter.htm >If you no longer wish to receive this newsletter, please >click on the link below or copy & paste it into your browser. >http://www.authorsguild.net/unsub.php?EID=16773&VC=54499 >
[cia-drugs] Please allow to post because all our issues connect>(((This is war)))Bob Shultz
(((This is war)))Bob Shultz showed @ Ed Brown's Stand Off in NH>>>www.givemeliberty.org Your assistance, too, is needed to help assure fair trial in Concord, NH...This opposed to the kangaroo court that's already taken place...Ed & Elaine Brown's sentencing is scheduled for April...Please forward this everywhere & do all else possible before it's too late for recovery in America If you need media or elected official email addresses contact me and I'll send [EMAIL PROTECTED] & [EMAIL PROTECTED] to both so I'll be sure to see the request, please This "is" war as you'll see fox news reporting here>>> http://www.questforfairtrialinconcordnh.blogspot.com/<<>>Income tax is illegal, oppressing and unnecessary with all the many other taxes being collected...Income tax was to last only for the duration of world war II and is voluntary, only The truth behind income tax>>>Aaron Russo's, "Freedom To Fascism">>http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=- 4312730277175242198 or http://tinyurl.com/ybdb9j Update on Ed>>>http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070119/ap_on_re_us/tax_evader New Hampshire Underground>>>http://www.nhfree.com/ If links come apart, paste in browser, carefully closing gaps before clicking Invitation to join activists & patriots to help "US" take Back our country>>> In these dire & dangerous times we must stand together No matter what group, issue or matter you represent>>>"United We Can Stand" but if we stay divided, we'll fall, for sure...We're all related & connected by our same enemy responsible for all our dilemmas and problems>>>The corrupt who oppress and suppress us all We are many and there are wa more of us, than them... WTP_U have hundreds of sister groups standing with "US" We are over 1000 at our original forum you are being invited to & most are group owners...Many radio show hosts are with us...VIP's from all walks of life putting differences aside enough to work together on the important issues we do agree on...This to make the needed changes and secure America's future as well as the whole planet's "We The People United Movement" We are many Political and Patriot Groups joining together, to help right the wrongs in America..."United We Will Stand" http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WETHEPEOPLE_UNITED/ Our website under construction that belongs to "We The People" from everywhere>>>http://www.wethepeopleunited.com/...Soon we'll be loading all the groups who stand with "US"...If you're a group owner and would like yours added, let me know Marsha
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Henry Kissinger: "It's the OIL, Stupid"
Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: January 21, 2007 10:29:51 PM PST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Henry Kissinger: "It's the OIL, Stupid" I should have highlighted Henry Kissinger's statement, which slipped past me: "[T]he United States, the most powerful country of the West, [is] is the indispensable component of any attempt to build a NEW WORLD ORDER." (Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain: Henry the K works as a hitman for Lord Rothschild.)
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Impeachment Is a Just Slap on the Wrist -- HANG the Bastards for TREASON!
Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: January 21, 2007 9:46:45 PM PST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Impeachment Is a Just Slap on the Wrist -- HANG the Bastards for TREASON! http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/ Saturday, January 20, 2007 Was Iraq War a `Blunder' or Was It Treason? New Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco), is calling President Bush's invasion of Iraq a "stark blunder" and says that his new scheme to send 21,500 more troops into the mess he created is just digging the hole deeper. I wonder though. It seems ever more likely to me that this whole mess was no blunder at all. People are wont to attribute the whole thing to lack of intelligence on the president's part, and to hubris on the part of his key advisers. I won't argue that the president is a lightweight in the intellect department, nor will I dispute that Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and that whole neocon gang have demonstrably lacked the virtues of reflection and humility. But that said, I suspect that the real story of the Iraq War is that Bush and his gang never really cared whether they actually would "win" in Iraq. In fact, arguably, they didn't really want to win. What they wanted was a war. If the war they started had ended quickly with the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, that would have served their purposes, at least for the short term. Bush would have emerged from a short invasion and conquest a national hero, would have handily won re-election in 2004, and would have gone on to a second term as a landslide victor. But if it went badly, as it has, they figured he would still come out ahead. He would be a wartime president, and he'd make full use of that role, expansively misdefining his "commander in chief" title to imply authority over the Congress and the courts, to grab power heretofore unheard of for a president. This, I suspect, was the grand strategy underlying the attack on Iraq. If I'm right, there may have been method to the madness of not building up enough troops for the invasion to insure that U.S. forces could occupy a destroyed Iraq and help it rebuild, method to the madness of allowing looters free sway to destroy the country's remaining post-invasion infrastructure, method to the madness, even, of allowing remnant forces of Hussein's to gather up stockpiles of weapons and even of high-density explosives, so they could mount an effective resistance and drag out the conflict. So many apparently stupid decisions were made by people who should clearly have been too smart to make them, from leaving hundreds of tons of high explosives unguarded to cashiering all of Iraq's army and most of the country's civil service managers, that it boggles the mind to think that these could have been just dumb ideas or incompetence. (L. Paul Bremer, for instance, who made the "dumb" decision about dismantelling the Iraqi army, prior to becoming Iraq's occupation viceroy, had headed the nation's leading risk assessment consultancy, and surely knew what all the risks were of his various decisions.) I mean, we expect a measure of idiocy from or elected leaders and their appointees, but not wholesale idiocy! This disaster has been so colossal, it almost had to have been orchestrated. If that's the case, Congress should be taking a hard look at not just the latest installment of escalation, but at the whole war project, beginning with the 2002 campaign to get it going. Certainly throwing 21,500 new troops into the fire makes no sense whatever. If 140,000 of the best-equipped troops in the world can't pacify Iraq, 160,000 aren't going to be able to do it either. You don't need to be a general to figure that out. Even a senator or representative ought to be able to do it. So clearly Congress should kill this plan. Since it's not about "winning" the war, it has to be about something else. My guess would be it's about either dragging things out until the end of 2008, so Bush can leave office without having to say he's sorry. But of course, it could also be about something even more serious: invading Iran. We know Bush is trying mightily to provoke Iran. He has illegally attacked an Iranian consulate in Iraq (an act of war), taking six protected consular officials there captive. He is sending a second aircraft carrier battle group into the Persian Gulf, and is setting up Patriot anti-missile missile bases along Iran's western border. This buildup has all the earmarks of a pre-invasion. All that's needed now is a pretext -- a real or faked attack on an American ship, perhaps, ala the Gulf of Tonkin "incident" that launched America into the Vietnam War. The way I see it, either way the president is committing treason, because he is sending American troops off to be killed for no good reason othe
[cia-drugs] Neocons �Clearing a Path to the Targets� in Iran
Neocons âClearing a Path to the Targetsâ in Iran Saturday January 20th 2007, 12:45 pm Kurt Nimmo It takes a âspecialistâ on âPersian Gulf affairs, with special emphasis on Iran and Iraqâ to get at the real reason behind the impending neocon attack on Iran. Kenneth Katzman, who analyzes U.S. policy and legislation on the Persian Gulf region for members of Congress and their staffs, assigned to the House International Relations Committee, talks the talk across the corporate media spectrum, i.e., he is a neocon propagandist. Katzman tells us âIranâs ascendancy is not only manageable but reversible,â that is if one âunderstands the Islamic republicâs many vulnerabilities,â Reuters reports. As should be obvious by now, the neocon plan to deal with Iranâs âascendancyâ has nothing to do with nukes. It has everything to do with the fact our rulers, in particular the neocon faction, believe Iran is too big for its britches and thus will be cut down to size. As the Clean Break boys told us a decade ago, an âeffective approach, and one with which American can sympathize, would be if Israel seized the strategic initiative along its northern borders by engaging Hizballah, Syria, and Iran.â In this context, we can define âstrategic initiativeâ as back-to-back bombing runs, wanton destruction of civilian infrastructure, and plenty of mass murder and prolonged misery, and not simply along Israelâs northern border. According to Wayne White, former top Middle East analyst for the State Departmentâs bureau of intelligence and research, the neocon plan for mass destruction will not be limited to a âsurgical strikeâ against phantom nuke facilities. âIâve seen some of the planning,â claims White. âYouâre talking about a war against Iranâ that likely would destabilize the Middle East for years. âWeâre not talking about just surgical strikes against an array of targets inside Iran. Weâre talking about clearing a path to the targetsâ by taking out much of the Iranian Air Force, Kilo submarines, anti-ship missiles that would undoubtedly target âcommerceâ (i.e., oil tankers) or U.S. warships now parked in the Gulf, patiently waiting for a new Gulf of Tonkin incident to get the World War Four ball rolling. Mr. White, no longer attached to the State Department, is âmuch more worried about the consequences of a U.S. or Israeli attack against Iranâs nuclear infrastructure,â and rightfully so. Iranâs illusory nukes, not dissimilar from Iraqâs nonexistent weapons of mass destruction, are simply a pretext, as the idea is to âshock and aweâ the target population into submission. âThe logic of targeting civilian infrastructure appears in the book from which the Bush Administration drew its bombing strategy in 2003. Military researchers at the National Defense University wrote Shock and Awe: Achieving Rapid Dominance in 1996. The text suggested applying U.S. military âresources to controlling, affecting, and breaking the will of the adversary to resist,ââ writes William Van Wagenen. âThrough Shock and Awe, the authors hoped that âthe non-nuclear equivalent of the impact that the atomic weapons dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki had on the Japaneseâ would result. President Bush responded enthusiastically to the concept of âShock and Aweâ when Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld introduced it to him in the lead up to the warâ¦. As a war against Iran may be upon us in the coming years, we need to keep in mind the effects of U.S. military tactics on civilian populations. Targeting civilians is still terrorism, whether undertaken for the best of motives or the worst.â For the neocons, nuclear âshock and aweâ is perfectly acceptable, even preferable. Meanwhile, as âspeculation over whether the American President was considering a nuclear strike against Tehran grew after his remarks in which he said that the U.S. will take any steps to halt Tehranâs alleged meddling in Iraq, Democratic leaders in Congress stepped up warning against what they said were White House plans to launch an attack against the Islamic Republic without first seeking approval from Congress,â reports Alijazeera. Note the Democrats are not opposed to attacking Iran, but rather irked by Bushâs insistence on going it alone in solitary unitary decider fashion. âThe president does not have the authority to launch military action in Iran without first seeking congressional authorization,â Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Democrat version of a warmonger, complained. Reid apparently had nothing to say about the morality or sanity of such an attack. Of course, as events unfold, any pissing contest between the unitary decider and the Democrats, the latter insulted because they are out of the neocon loop, is entirely irrelevant. As the aircraft carrier John C. Stennis set sail for the Middle Ea
[cia-drugs] Christian Mafia: "The Fellowship"
January 19-21, 2007 -- "Christian Mafia" spokesperson tossed out of high-tech firm's leadership. WMR has highlighted in the past the activities of the secretive "Fellowship," a group of wealthy "Christians" who are headquartered in Arlington, Virginia and whose tentacles reach into the White House (the Fellowship sponsors the annual National Prayer Breakfast in February), the Congress, the Pentagon, and foreign governments. The Fellowship is led by Douglas Coe, who Sen. and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton referred to as her "spiritual adviser" in her biography. Senator Sam Brownback, another presidential candidate, is a follower of the Fellowship. The Fellowship's anointed spokesman, former Assistant Secretary of the Air Force Richard Carver has been effectively expelled, along with his colleagues, from the governance of Competitive Technologies, Inc. (AMEX: CTT) as the result of a stockholders' meeting held January 16, 2007. With enough proxy votes, former CTI corporate officials managed to vote out Carver's group and take back control of the company. After the vote, Carver and his associates reportedly snuck out of the building where the shareholder meeting was being conducted. An altercation between the outgoing corporate officials, the rebels led by ex-CEO John B. Nano, and Fairfield, Connecticut police took place on January 18 when the CTI officials voted out refused to concede control to the victorious insurgent stockholders. CTI incumbents claimed that a quorum was not present for the proxy fight while the insurgents said a quorum was, in fact, present. The scene in Connecticut is emblematic of the Fellowship, also known as the "Christian Mafia." The following is from our May 2005 report on the Fellowship: "Although secrecy was paramount to its operations, the Fellowship saw a need for a public relations point man. They selected Richard E. Carver, a former Republican mayor of Peoria, Illinois; a reserve Air Force colonel, and Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Financial Management under Ronald Reagan. In 1982, Carver, a member of Reagan’s Commission on Housing, recommended cutting billions of dollars from the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Section 8 housing program. That resulted in thousands of people, including families with children, going homeless across the nation. According to the Chicago Tribune, Carver caused waves in the Air Force when he insisted on purchasing custom made Air Force dinnerware and whiskey glasses from a West German manufacturer for the use of 65 Air Force attaches in capital around the world. It turned out that Carver wanted to impress the top management at Passau, West Germany-based ZF Industries with his abilities to expedite procurement through the vast Air Force bureaucracy. There was one problem for Carver – the Pentagon had a directive prohibiting such purposes except for a very few top flag rank officers. In 1986, Carver bypassed the Secretary of Defense and went straight to the Secretary of the Air Force for authorization to spend $100,000 on the West German dinnerware. When the cost of the dinnerware increased to $115,000, Air Force purchasing officers began to complain. Subsequently, the West German china manufacturer went through ZF Industries to complain that the cost did not cover shipping. Carver then requested additional money for shipping costs. When that posed a problem, carver suggested that the dinnerware order be increased to $1.1 million to cover the original order in addition to custom made china for 138 commanders, mostly colonels, of Air Force bases and stations around the world. Lt. Gen. Carl Smith, chief of the Air Staff, then put his foot down – telling Carver that his china deal was way out of line. Smith said if colonels received dinnerware, every general would want it also. The bill could top $6.3 million. Smith told Carver the money could be used to improve dilapidated housing for officers and enlisted men in some of the Air Force’s residential units. Carver told General Smith that he should reconsider, whereupon, Smith retorted with a firm 'No.' In other words, Smith was not about the follow such a ludicrous order from a civilian superior. Carver eventually left the Pentagon. He hooked up with the Fellowship as its major front man, became a consultant for Smith Barney (it was reported that Carver actually was retained by Smith Barney as a consultant while he still worked at the Pentagon at a fee of $920 a month), and joined ZF Industries as head of its U.S. subsidiary. The Chicago Tribune referred to Carver as an "Ed Meese of the Pentagon." The comparison was serendipitous. Meese, Reagan’s ethically-challenged Attorney General, was also a core member of the Fellowship. One of Carver’s deputies at the time was Ernie Fitzgerald, the whistleblower who, in 1968, identified a $2 billion overrun with the C5A cargo plane. As a result of his deputy's repu
[cia-drugs] Perle: Bush Will Green Light Iran Attack
Perle: Bush Will Green Light Iran Attack Sunday January 21st 2007, 11:16 pm Kurt Nimmo Richard Perle, more accurately referred to by his moniker, the Prince of Darkness, tells us from Herzliya, Israel, that Bush will eventually give the order to kill Iranians. “If all options were exhausted in the attempt to stop the Iranian nuclear project, and US military involvement was needed for a successful strike on Tehran, US President George Bush would give the green light for the operation, former director of the US Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee, Richard Perle, told the Herzliya Conference on Sunday evening,” reports Yedioth Internet. Perle may fool a few Israelis, even more than a few Americans, those who bother to notice, but for the rest of us, those who have followed this gang of criminals for nearly five years, he is simply blowing smoke out of a certain orifice. Asked if Bush and the neocons would “do it,” that is engage in mass murder, Perle responded, “I think that until the day he leaves office, this is a president that, if he is told, ‘Mr. President, you are at the point of no return,’ I have very little doubt that this president would order the necessary military action.” The Prince of Darkness would have us believe the “point of no return” is Iran armed to the teeth with nukes, a demonstrable fairy tale. In fact, Bush’s “point of no return” is the day he leaves office, failing to accomplish the neocon plan of sowing ruin and chaos in the Middle East. “Perle expressed astonishment at the lack of support granted by the West to Iranian opposition movements who wish to overthrow the regime of the Ayatollahs,” the Israeli news site continues. “I’m not convinced that we have a lot of time. Given the peril that would result, its astonishing to me that we do not now have a serious political strategy with Iran…. If we continue on our current course, we have only a military option. So what I’m urging, and this should have happened a very long time ago, is that we make a serious effort to work with the internal (Iranian) opposition.” Of course, for Perle, the Israel First neocons, and the Likudniks in Israel, the idea of subverting an Islamic government from within is natural as rain. Indeed, Israel has messed with its neighbors since the Zionists state was established—after running off a large number of Palestinian Arabs and stealing their land—a historical fact evinced by the Lavon Affair, the Mossad’s framing of Libya for the LaBelle Disco bombing, the attack on the USS Liberty, killing 34 Americans and wounding 171, the botched assassination of U.S. ambassador John Gunther Dean in Lebanon, and Israel’s connection to the Abu Nidal Organization, to name a few. As well, the CIA and Pentagon are no strangers to attacking, subverting, undermining and overthrowing governments, as they have a long and sordid track record beginning in the late 1940s, following up on more than a hundred years of interventions, from the Philippines in 1899 to Honduras, Panama, Guatemala, China, Mexico, Dominican Republic, Colombia, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Haiti, even the Soviet Union near Vladivostok during the Bolshevik revolution, right up to the present day. Naturally, Perle understands full well any effort to “work with the internal opposition” in Iran is doomed to failure, as this opposition consists basically of the son of the late Shah, Reza Pahlavi, who lives in exile in Virginia, and a scattering of other groups, including Mojahedin-e-Khalq, a terrorist organization involved in killing Iranian civilians. Perle actually expects us to believe the people of Iran will support the butchers of MEK or reinstall a monarch, the son of a dictator who unleashed SAVAK, a particularly brutal secret police, on the people of Iran for over three decades. In fact, Perle and the neocons are impatiently waiting for Bush to attack Iran, as their plan is to destroy Iranian society, not free the Iranian people from the mullahs. Perle, like a demented carnival barker, is setting the stage, telling us Bush will “do it,” when it fact the neocons will, as Bush is little more than a trained monkey from an elite family that made its way in the world after rubbing elbows with Nazis. http://kurtnimmo.com/?p=725 <>
[cia-drugs] Anti-First Amendment S.1 Passes Congress
Anti-First Amendment S.1 Passes Congress Friday January 19th 2007, 3:29 am Kurt Nimmo It was bad enough George Bush Senior found it necessary to blame bloggers for creating what he deems an “adversarial and ugly climate” (never mind his particular bit of ugliness in Iraq more than a decade ago, eventually resulting in the murder of more than a million people), last month we had the Manchurian candidate, John McCain, introducing legislation “that would fine blogs up to $300,000 for offensive statements, photos and videos posted by visitors on comment boards, effectively nixing the open exchange of ideas on the Internet, providing a lethal injection for unrestrained opinion, and acting as the latest attack tool to chill freedom of speech on the world wide web,” as Paul Joseph Watson writes for Prison Planet. Since Watson wrote his piece about McCain’s anti-First Amendment bill, Richard A. Viguerie has warned that Congress is attempting the silence bloggers and other critics of the government. “We have the First Amendment right to speak and urge citizens to contact Washington—without the intimidation inherent in federal regulation of our activities.” Of course, as a Republican partisan, Viguerie concentrates on Pelosi and the Democrats while quite naturally ignoring Bush and the neocons. But even so, his warning about Section 220 of S. 1, a lobbying reform bill that went before the Senate should not go unheeded—it will “require grassroots causes, even bloggers, who communicate to 500 or more members of the public on policy matters, to register and report quarterly to Congress the same as the big K Street lobbyists. Section 220 would amend existing lobbying reporting law by creating the most expansive intrusion on First Amendment rights ever. For the first time in history, critics of Congress will need to register and report with Congress itself,” according to Viguerie. It’s comical, in a perverse sort of way, that Democrats and Republican—turn them upside down, they all look the same—are “bitterly split on … how to clean up the scandal-rocked U.S. Congress,” according to the Washington Post. Never mind that Congress is basically a whorehouse of corporate and political special interests and such a bill would not touch most of them. Republicans are not opposed to the “bipartisan bill to revamp the Senate’s ethics and lobbying rules” because it is a slap in the face to the First Amendment, but rather because they want to include a “line item veto” provision that would further consolidate Bush’s unitary decidership. “Attaching an unrelated measure to this bipartisan bill is an obvious attempt to derail passage of the strongest ethics reform legislation,” complained Democrats Russ Feingold and Barack Obama, the presidential wanna-be. As noted here last week, Democrats made sure to set up a special loophole, called an “ethics exemption,” for their friends. “A major loophole in the Democrats’ recently unveiled ethics package will allow non-profit arms of controversial lobbying organizations to fund travel excursions for members of Congress,” Raw Story reported earlier this month. Pelosi and crew designed this “loophole” specifically for AIPAC and the Aspen Institute, a Rockefeller and Carnegie globalist crime syndicate. Not that opposition matters. “The Senate, responding to voter frustration with corruption and special interest influence in Washington, on Thursday overwhelmingly approved far-reaching ethics and lobbying reform legislation,” reports Time. “Under the bill, passed 96-2, senators will give up gifts and free travel from lobbyists, pay more for travel on corporate jets and make themselves more accountable for the pet projects they insert into bills.” No mention here of the fact “Pelosi & Company’s lobbying legislation ‘reform’ would define political communications to and even between citizens as ‘lobbying.’ This turns the definition of lobbying on its head and is in violation of the First Amendment,” according to Viguerie. “Moreover, their legislation would treat grassroots activists more harshly than the K Street lobbyists and the big corporations and unions. They get loopholes that the smallest critics using the Internet wouldn’t enjoy. Communicating to as few as 500 people would trigger the registration and quarterly reporting to Congress…. In truth, the grassroots legislation would help protect corruption in Washington by silencing critics and diminishing the ability of grassroots causes to communicate with the general public.” But the Democrats, portrayed as our saviors during the last election cycle, are not finished. “As the new Democratic majority continues its 100-hour legislative blitz in the U.S. House, one Democrat has quietly reintroduced controversial legislation that would give the federal government more authority over so-called ‘hate crimes,’” the Cybercast News Service reported on January 16. “This is the most da
[cia-drugs] Gold-Plated Indifference: PAUL KRUGMAN - Bush & Health +
Gold-Plated Indifference: PAUL KRUGMAN - Bush & Health + by PAUL KRUGMAN - The New York Times Monday Jan 22nd, 2007 KRUGMAN: President Bush is someone with no sense of what its like to be uninsured. THE COMPLETE ARTICLE AND MORE --> OP-ED COLUMNIST Gold-Plated Indifference By PAUL KRUGMAN Published: January 22, 2007 President Bush's Saturday radio address was devoted to health care, and officials have put out the word that the subject will be a major theme in tomorrow's State of the Union address. Mr. Bush's proposal won't go anywhere. But it's still worth looking at his remarks, because of what they say about him and his advisers. On the radio, Mr. Bush suggested that we should "treat health insurance more like home ownership." He went on to say that "the current tax code encourages home ownership by allowing you to deduct the interest on your mortgage from your taxes. We can reform the tax code, so that it provides a similar incentive for you to buy health insurance." Wow. Those are the words of someone with no sense of what it's like to be uninsured. Going without health insurance isn't like deciding to rent an apartment instead of buying a house. It's a terrifying experience, which most people endure only if they have no alternative. The uninsured don't need an "incentive" to buy insurance; they need something that makes getting insurance possible. Most people without health insurance have low incomes, and just can't afford the premiums. And making premiums tax-deductible is almost worthless to workers whose income puts them in a low tax bracket. Of those uninsured who aren't low-income, many can't get coverage because of pre-existing conditions everything from diabetes to a long-ago case of jock itch. Again, tax deductions won't solve their problem. The only people the Bush plan might move out of the ranks of the uninsured are the people we're least concerned about affluent, healthy Americans who choose voluntarily not to be insured. At most, the Bush plan might induce some of those people to buy insurance, while in the process whaddya know giving many other high-income individuals yet another tax break. While proposing this high-end tax break, Mr. Bush is also proposing a tax increase not on the wealthy, but on workers who, he thinks, have too much health insurance. The tax code, he said, "unwisely encourages workers to choose overly expensive, gold-plated plans. The result is that insurance premiums rise, and many Americans cannot afford the coverage they need." Again, wow. No economic analysis I'm aware of says that when Peter chooses a good health plan, he raises Paul's premiums. And look at the condescension. Will all those who think they have "gold plated" health coverage please raise their hands? --MORE-- http://mparent.blogspot.com/2007/01/gold-plated-indifference-paul-krugman.html Labels: Bush, health, health insurance, income, News, PAUL KRUGMAN, Politics, taxes, The New York Times, workers Lying Like Its 2003: FRANK RICH ; President Carter accused of anti-Semitism http://mparent.blogspot.com/2007/01/lying-like-its-2003-frank-rich.html New proposal: Ethnic cleansing-for-cash plan http://mparent.blogspot.com/2007/01/new-proposal-ethnic-cleansing-for-cash.html Hang Up! Tehran Is Calling: NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF http://mparent-2.blogspot.com/2007/01/hang-up-tehran-is-calling-nicholas-d.html And More http://mparent-2.blogspot.com/ New website http://mparent.blogspot.com/ Alternate website with unique articles CRIMES AND CORRUPTIONS OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER NEWS MARC PARENT mparent mparent MARC PARENT CRIMES AND CORRUPTIONS OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER NEWS http://mparent.blogspot.com/ New website mparent mparent - The best gets better. See why everyone is raving about the All-new Yahoo! Mail.
