AMERICA IN JEOPARDY

DESTROYING THE DOLLAR

2008-03-03T12:17:00.000-08:00

Ron Paul: Bernanke Deliberately Destroying Dollar

Congressman schools Fed chairman again during House Financial Services Committee meeting, warns "history is against you"

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet

Congressman Ron Paul slammed Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke during a House Financial Services Committee meeting today for following a policy of deliberately destroying the dollar and wiping out the American middle class.

Paul held Bernanke to task over his refusal to address the decline of the dollar and its clear link to inflation.

"Inflation comes from the unwise increase in the supply of money credit....to argue that we can continue to debase the currency, which is really the policy of that you're following, purposely debasing value of currency - which to me seems so destructive....it just puts more pressure on the federal reserve to create capital out of thin air in order to stimulate the economy and usually that just goes into mal-investment," said Paul.

Paul highlighted the fact that the M3 money supply was rising at a rate of 16 per cent and that this was the real rate of inflation.

"History is against you," Paul told Bernanke, "History is on the side of hard money - if you look at stable prices you have to look at the only historic sound money that's lasted more than a few years - fiat money always ends, gold is the only thing where you get stable prices," he added, pointing out that despite the price of oil's rapid ascent, it had remained flat when compared to the price of gold.

"I cannot see how we can continue to accept the policy of deliberately destroying the value of money as an economic value," said Paul, adding that the policy was "immoral," and would lead to a reduction in American's living standards and "the middle class being wiped out."

Asked how he could defend a policy of deliberately depreciating the dollar, Bernanke stumbled through his response and was basically forced to agree with Paul's point.

Paul's comments come on the day that the dollar hit its all time low against the Euro.

Earlier this week, former Fed chairman Alan Greenspan laid the groundwork for the further collapse of the greenback by encouraging Gulf states to abandon their dollar peg.

"AGENDA 21" IN THE NEWS

2008-03-03T12:13:00.000-08:00

Half of world to live in cities by end '08
By Louis Charbonneau

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - By the end of this year one half of the world's population will be living in cities for the first time in human history, the United Nations said in a new report released on Tuesday.

According to the report, by the year 2050 there will be 6.4 billion people living in cities, up from 3.3 billion at present. The world's total population is expected to rise to 9.2 billion in 2050 from the current figure of 6.7 billion.

As urbanization increases, the world's rural population is expected to begin declining in around a decade and should fall to 2.8 billion people in 2050 from 3.4 billion in 2007, the report said.
Some countries, like India -- home to two of the world's biggest metropolises, Mumbai and Delhi with 19 and 18.8 million people respectively in 2007 -- aim to slow down the process of urbanization by encouraging development of rural areas.

Despite the challenges urbanization poses for governments and local authorities, Hania Zlotnik, head of the U.N. Population Division, told reporters urbanization is generally a sign of a lively economy.

"Governments would be well advised that urban growth is a proof of economic dynamism," Zlotnik told reporters.

Still, intense urbanization and the expected addition of eight new "megacities" -- cities with 10 million or more inhabitants -- by the year 2025 will pose new challenges.
Governments need to make sure large urban populations have access to basic services, above all health care, Zlotnik said.

Asia and Africa are still mostly rural but will see booming urban populations over the next few decades. Both have around 40 percent in cities and 60 percent in the countryside now.

But this is steadily changing. Half of Africa's population will be in cities by between 2045 and 2050 while Asia will reach that point between 2020 and 2025, Zlotnik said.

MEGACITIES
Around 40 percent of China's population is in cities now, a figure that is expected to exceed 70 percent by 2050, when over 1 billion people will be living in Chinese cities, she said.
By 2025, China's booming foreign investment center Shenzhen, which borders Hong Kong, will join Beijing and Shanghai as China's third megacity with 10.2 million people, the U.N. report projected.

The world's second most populous country, India, has only 29 percent of its population in cities at the moment. By 2050, India will have 55 percent of its people in urban centers.
"India is expected to urbanize much less than China and therefore it's expected to remain the country with the world's largest rural population," Zlotnik said.

But India will get two new megacities to join Mumbai and Delhi by 2025 -- Calcutta, which will have an estimated 20.6 million people, and Madras with 10.1 million.

Europe will continue to lag well behind the urbanization seen elsewhere, the U.N. report said. Of the 19 megacities today, the only European metropolises are Moscow and Istanbul.
By 2025 there will be 27 megacities and Europe will add only one more to the list -- Paris. It will have an estimated 10 million people, making it number 27 on the list.

Tokyo is projected to remain the most populous city in the world. With 35.7 million people in its urban agglomeration at last count, this should rise to 36.4 million by 2025, it said.
Africa currently has only one megacity -- Egypt's capital Cairo. Joining the ranks of megacities by 2025 will be Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Lagos, Nigeria.

THE COMING SOCIALISM

2008-03-03T12:08:00.000-08:00

Former Congressman Warns Of Martial Law Camps In America
San Francisco Chronicle
Homeland Security ENDGAME

Steve Watson
Infowars.net

An article co-written by a former Congressman and carried by the San Francisco Chronicle has gained much attention recently as it shines light on a coordinated federal government program to build detention camps at undisclosed locations within the United States.

"Since 9/11, and seemingly without the notice of most Americans, the federal government has assumed the authority to institute martial law, arrest a wide swath of dissidents (citizen and noncitizen alike), and detain people without legal or constitutional recourse in the event of an emergency influx of immigrants in the U.S., or to support the rapid development of new programs." write Lewis Seiler and former Congressman Dan Hamburg of the watchdog group Voice of the Environment, Inc.

Voice of the Environment's mission is to educate the public regarding the transfer of public trust assets into private, mostly corporate, hands.

The article continues:

Beginning in 1999, the government has entered into a series of single-bid contracts with Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR) to build detention camps at undisclosed locations within the United States. The government has also contracted with several companies to build thousands of railcars, some reportedly equipped with shackles, ostensibly to transport detainees.

According to diplomat and author Peter Dale Scott, the KBR contract is part of a Homeland Security plan titled ENDGAME, which sets as its goal the removal of "all removable aliens" and "potential terrorists."

Seiler and Hamburg also warn of the alarming and numerous freedom killing pieces of legislation that have been passed recently, dovetailing with the build up of infrastructure of tyranny inside the US.

We have previously highlighted the shocking details behind this shining example of modern day corporate fascism.

The issue gained national attention two years ago when it was announced that Kellogg, Brown and Root had been awarded a $385 million dollar contract by Homeland Security to construct detention and processing facilities in the event of a national emergency.

The language of the preamble to the agreement veils the program with talk of temporary migrant holding centers, but it is made clear that the camps will also be used "as the development of a plan to react to a national emergency."

Following the story, first given wide attention by http://www.prisonplanet.com/, the Alternet website put together an alarming report that collated all the latest information on plans to initiate internment of political subversives and Muslims after the next major terror attack in the US.

The article highlighted the disturbing comments of Sen. Lindsey Graham, who encouraged torture supporting then Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to target, "Fifth Columnists" Americans who show disloyalty and sympathize with "the enemy," whoever that enemy may be.
It is important to stress that the historical precedent mirrors exactly what the Halliburton camp deal outlines. Oliver North's Reagan era Rex 84 plan proposed rounding up 400,000 refugees, under FEMA, in the event of "uncontrolled population movements" over the Mexican border into the United States.

The real agenda, just as it is with Halliburton's gulags, was to use the cover of rounding up immigrants and illegal aliens as a smokescreen for targeting political dissidents. From 1967 to 1971 the FBI kept a list of persons to be rounded up as subversive, dubbed the "ADEX" list.
According to author Naomi Wolf, the National Counterterrorism Center today holds the names of roughly 775,000 "terror suspects" with the number increasing by 20,000 per month.

Discussions of federal concentration camps are no longer the rhetoric of paranoid Internet conspiracy theorists, they are mainstream news.

Halliburton, through their KBR subsidiary, is the same company that built most of the major new detention camps in Iraq and Afghanistan. KBR have been embroiled in a human sex slave trade that their representatives have lobbied to continue.

We have a company that has been handed a contract to build prison camps in America that is engaged in trafficking young girls and women. Can this horror movie get any more frightening? Sadly, yes.

A much discussed and circulated report, the Pentagon's Civilian Inmate Labor Program, has recently been updated and the revision details a "template for developing agreements" between the Army and corrections facilities for the use of civilian inmate labor on Army installations."
The plan is clearly to swallow up disenfranchised groups like prisoners, immigrants and Muslims at first and then extend the policy to include 'Fifth Columnists,' otherwise known as anyone who disagrees with the government or exercises their Constitutional rights.

Respected author Peter Dale Scott speculated that the "detention centers could be used to detain American citizens if the Bush administration were to declare martial law."
Daniel Ellsberg, former Special Assistant to Assistant Secretary of Defense, called the plan, "preparation for a roundup after the next 9/11 for Mid-Easterners, Muslims and possibly dissenters. They've already done this on a smaller scale, with the 'special registration' detentions of immigrant men from Muslim countries, and with Guantanamo."

George Bush has declared himself to be dictator and to have supreme power over and above the limitations of the US Constitution. Bush administration officials like Alberto Gonzales have declared Bush to be "above the law." White House advisors are openly discussing the legality of crushing a child's testicles as part of the war on terror. Preparation for the internment of thousands of Americans who are 'disloyal' in times of emergency are afoot.

Under the enemy combatant designation anyone at the behest of the US government, even if they are a US citizen, can be kidnapped and placed in an internment facility forever without trial. Jose Padilla, an American citizen, spent over four years in a Navy brig before being brought to trial.

In 2002, FEMA sought bids from major real estate and engineering firms to construct giant internment facilities in the case of a chemical, biological or nuclear attack or a natural disaster.
Okanogan County Commissioner Dave Schulz went public three years ago with his contention that his county was set to be a location for one of the camps.

Furthermore, in May 2006, we exposed the existence of a nationwide FEMA program which is training Pastors and other religious representatives to become secret police enforcers who teach their congregations to "obey the government" in preparation for the implementation of martial law, property and firearm seizures, mass vaccination programs and forced relocation.
A whistleblower who was secretly enrolled into the program told us that the feds were clandestinely recruiting religious leaders to help implement Homeland Security directives in anticipation of a potential bio-terrorist attack, any natural disaster or a nationally declared emergency.

The first directive was for Pastors to preach to their congregations Romans 13, the often taken out of context bible passage that was used by Hitler to hoodwink Christians into supporting him, in order to teach them to "obey the government" when martial law is declared.

It was related to the Pastors that quarantines, martial law and forced relocation were a problem for state authorities when enforcing federal mandates due to the "cowboy mentality" of citizens standing up for their property and second amendment rights as well as farmers defending their crops and livestock from seizure.

It was stressed that the Pastors needed to preach subservience to the authorities ahead of time in preparation for the round-ups and to make it clear to the congregation that "this is for their own good."

Pastors were told that they would be backed up by law enforcement in controlling uncooperative individuals and that they would even lead SWAT teams in attempting to quell resistance.
Though some doubted the accuracy of this report at the time due to its fundamentally disturbing implications, the story was later confirmed by a KSLA 12 news report, in which participating clergy and officials admitted to the existence of the program.

What could the government be contemplating that leads it to make contingency plans to detain without recourse millions of its own citizens? ask Lewis Seiler and Dan Hamburg in the conclusion to their article.

The answer clearly lies in the fact that over the past decade we have witnessed an extreme acceleration of the physical implementation of a framework and infrastructure ready to receive those who will not go along with a coordinated destruction of traditional American values and freedom.

THE BEST WE HAVE?!

2008-03-03T11:59:00.000-08:00

A SYMPTOM OF SICKNESS

2008-03-03T11:55:00.000-08:00

School Bans Hugs Over 2 Seconds
Students Don't Embrace 'Public Display Of Affection' Policy

MESA, Ariz. -- A school policy banning student hugging prompted dozens of east Valley students to protest with a giant group hug across the street from campus.

"I think it's ridiculous," said Chelsea Branham, a 14-year-old student at Shepherd Junior High School in east Mesa.
Branham said she got detention this week for hugging her friend after school.

"It's not like it's supposed to mean anything," she said. "It's not like I was making out with him or something."

Branham joined her classmates on Friday for a 20-minute, public hug-a-thon.

"She's taking a stand and I'm standing behind her to do it," said Stephanie Wiegold, her mother.
The "no-hugging" rule had previously been in the student handbook. After many students began expressing concern about public hugging and kissing in the hallways, the school began reinforcing the guideline by punishing huggers, which led to Friday's protest.

Prior to the demonstration, the district said the principal and students brokered an agreement to clarify the "no-hugging" rule. According to the guidelines, small hugs, less than two seconds, are permitted but longer ones and kissing are not.

"We can only hug two seconds? That's ridiculous," Branham said. "It's barely even a hug."
"What we're doing here is hoping to help kids understand what's happening," said Kathy Bareiss of Mesa public schools.

The district said a list of acceptable and non-acceptable behaviors will be handed out to students on Monday.

THE ABSOLUTE CAUSE OF DEATH

2007-06-12T16:04:00.000-07:00

"...the high office of the President has been used to foment a plot to destroy the American's freedom, and before I leave office, I must inform the citizens of this plight." -John F. Kennedy (November 12, 1963, Columbia U, 10 days before his assassination)

FINAL THROES OF THE REPUBLIC

2007-06-12T15:42:00.000-07:00

Are People Really Stupid Or Is It Something Else?
By Ted Twietmeyer

In the morning and afternoon each weekday my drive takes my by a pasture of grazing Buffalo. Looking like a dark brown walking lawn grown out of control, they peacefully meander about all day in search of a tasty morsel of flora. These innocent herbivores have absolutely no idea what their future holds in store for them, but we do. They have the same dark future as other cattle.

Are there parallels between people and cattle? In a way there are. However, even if cattle were aware of their fate, there is little they could do about it. We are on the outside looking in but cattle are on the inside looking out. Quite a big difference. At least for now.

"Keeping up with the Jones' " has been a way of life in America extending deep into her past, and a syndrome which probably exists in most civilized countries. Curiously, this is a phenomenon of the rich and middle class but not so much for the poor. When we were married in 1975 there was no silver spoon, no endowment, no fistfuls of stock certificates or other handouts. In fact, we were quietly married by a town JP. I'm still glad of that to this day. In fact, we rented a house in what many would call "the combat zone" in a medium sized city. The thought of being robbed was always present. When you go without many things, it makes you try harder, and strengthens your resolve to improve your life.

But through it all did have time to try to keep up with what the Jones's were doing? Heck no! We were too preoccupied with making ends meet. When our youngest was about to enter school, it was time to move back out to the suburbs. And move we did. On the very day we went to go sign an apartment lease we came back home and found we were robbed. We lived there three years without any problems until that day. What irony.

The more money most people earn, the more they want and expect. In fact, for some it becomes a pathetic, obsessive way of life. Their version of "God" becomes the accumulation of worthless Federal Reserve Notes stuffed in their pocket. Or running up insane balances for credit card junk purchases, for which greedy banks freely extend more and more credit until the person is buried too deep to get out. It proves the old expression - "give someone enough rope and they will hang themselves.

Both mainstream and offshoot denomination Christians frequently fall into the money traps. They may attend church every week but their REAL God quietly resides on numerous pieces of green-inked worthless paper kept inside folded leather, tucked inside a purse or back pocket. Isn't money a nice god? He doesn't mind how many times you touch him. You can sit on him as long as you want, without fear of being sent to hell (though he can help get you there quicker.) Run him through the washer and dryer and he won't complain. Drive over him with a truck and he still won't complain. Keeps a licking and keeps on ticking. (Couldn't resist using that one.)

As a side note - Was president Jackson was the inspiration for Gene Roddenberry's character "Landrew" on the original Star Trek series? Landrew was a computer projection of the computer's creator on a distant planet. He kept the population in line for hundreds of years using hooded men called "lawgivers." Landrew was the spitting image of president Jackson on our currency today! Right down to his hair style.

Mandatory church attendance is exactly what the King of England required of early American settlers, and the king forced people to rent pews in churches. It was not an option. And they had better be in them on Sunday morning or else. This also held true in the 1700's in an Episcopal Church in the city of Richmond, VA. where Patrick Henry gave his famous speech on March 23rd, 1775. You can still tour this church today. Rarely are there any lines for tours which are given each hour. [1]

A LITTLE TRIVIA

What about the cattle of Patrick Henry's day? Graves outside of Patrick Henry's church had marble tables which sit atop four pillars mounted directly over each grave (see below.)

Only some people could afford the marble tops to protect their grave from cattle.
Was this the final word of that day to "keep up with the Jones'?" (Photo - author)

Did family members come to the cemetery to have picnics with the departed using these marble slabs as picnic tables? Yes they did, according to the meticulously accurate former Marine tour guide at the church. But the REAL purpose of the marble slabs was far more practical. It simply kept the free-roaming heavy livestock 200 years ago from collapsing the buried casket below and falling into the grave. Three hundred years ago this part of the City of Richmond, VA was still countryside and farmland. Picture this if you can church services taking place inside, while the town's cattle freely stomping around in the cemetery outside (and relieving themselves anywhere they want, too.) All this was going on while Patrick Henry was giving his famous speech. Did cattle of yesteryear or today, care about material possessions or money?

So where are we going with all this? Think about knowing your neighbor as thyself. It's easy for Patriots to look upon those who have not yet undergone a paradigm shift, and laugh and look down upon them. But changing one's mindset IS serious business. Like it or not, you too were once in the same mindless state like cattle. There will be many reasons why your friends, neighbors or relatives don't want to hear any "conspiracy theories." Many are already programmed to believe that what you may try to teach them about is invalid, even before they hear it. These people are now, as you once were. When this happens, think back to those days when you were like that, too. Now think about what it took to change your thinking. You can probably remember when and where you were when your paradigm shift happened. This epiphany is incredibly powerful and reaches deep into your very soul. That's why you still remember it.

People aren't necessarily stupid just preprogrammed from childhood. Correcting this problem is similar to erasing a corrupted computer hard drive by reformatting it. People may not require reformatting, but will first require a slow erasure of their "bad data." This almost never happens overnight and requires time and patience. It can range from days to perhaps months, even years. (Although we have very few years left, if any.) If you don't personally have the patience to help people remove their bad data and follow it through, then don't try. If you start the process and don't finish it, it can and will permanently damage your relationship with them. They will think you're a crackpot for years to come. It is NOT up to you to delete their preprogramming. You must give them the impetus to do it themselves. It's quite amazing that there are several parallels between computer hard disks and the human mind.

To help people reprogram themselves will be to travel a path paved with broken glass, upon which you must tread with bare feet. The broken glass represents the questions your "student" will have as you shatter his or her preconceived notions and preprogramming, and the bare feet represent exposing what's deep in your heart. You must show them what's in your heart and what you hold dear at some point in the process. This is what they will be looking for. Sure, doing this is a risk and a gamble. But no price can be placed upon the value of doing it and succeeding at it.

When looked at in the cold light of logic, is there anything to lose? If people do not reprogram themselves in time, they will surely fall into the traps that await them after the great collapse. For example, those who are still programmed will willingly and foolishly seek out a relocation (concentration) camp, thinking that the government is there to help them. It will be too late once inside and they realize what's happened to them, and the ultimate price they will pay for not listening now. They would be far better off struggling to survive in the woods, even in the dead of winter, than to be held in a (death) camp.

In most all camps, all inmates will be supposedly "immunized" with vaccines. Those not immunized will know their time is short. But these "vaccines" will have hidden vicious pathogens, as inmates will be unwillingly inoculated with diseases and watched like lab rats. And when they become seriously ill nothing will be done to help them. To help them would most definitely interfere with the "science" being done to study the death and disease process taking place. After they die, their bodies will be collected and dissected like frogs in a grade school science lab. Think there are no more Dr. Mengelas in the world? Think again. There are more of them than ever before.

Remember how we began with Buffalo and cattle? In reality, it's entirely logical for keepers of the livestock to be cattle themselves. Just a different species. We have entered a new era like China, where human life has become a commodity. And the value of human life has reached an all-time low.

Witness a massive growth of fast track approved drugs like Nexium and hundreds of others with deadly and crippling side effects sanctioned as safe with government approval. These drugs appear on the market, and after enough people DIE they just *might* be taken off the market. Just twenty five years ago drugs with long lists of side effects were unheard of. If a prescription drug had two or three side effects that was about all the FDA tolerated. Now data sheets on drugs go on for pages with cautions, warnings and other verbiage. A wise patient reads these sheets and knows when to shout NO! Now imagine what will happen to those unfortunate enough to be in POW camps, with no drug controls at all?

I stated several years ago in an older essay there would not be any further attacks on America unless the government does them. Why? Because the enemy everyone is preprogrammed to think exists everywhere does not exist at all. It's merely the classic scapegoat. If it did exist, the REAL truth is that any government would find it utterly impossible to stop. If there really was such a bad threat to America over the past 5 years, everything and everyone would have been destroyed by now. But the preprogramming of the masses has been nearly 100% effective. They believe every lie that flows forth from the video gods every day on their network news. Truly a sad, pathetic thing this is. But they are trapped in this paradigm, held in a jail of the mind encased with strong invisible bars. They constructed these bars as children, and parents unwittingly helped. They need help escaping they need you to bring them a virtual hacksaw. YOU can't saw the bars of their invisible prison for them they must do it themselves. But you can show them how one step at a time.

To borrow a line from the Good Book "See the Lillies of the field. They toil not, neither do they spin." In reality these simple (?) flowers live to look pleasing to the eye and yet can withstand the most inclement weather, and still reproduce. Unlike the Buffalo or cattle which are unaware what the ventilated big tractor trailer box means to their futures, we CAN realize what's happening if we want to. There is no need to be a doormat for anyone else. Christians today often fail to realize that even Jesus Christ never taught that we should be doormats! Being a good doormat is something that 501-C3 churches endlessly teach the gullible. The Bible is considered to be perhaps the bloodiest book in history, as it shows that more blood was shed in the name of God than for any other reason in ancient times. Does this show that these ancient people were doormats?

Today, a soldier's blood is only shed in the name of an evil intention or plan, not for good. Yet so few people recognize this is happening. Millions have their Chinese-made magnetic signs which say "Support Our Troops" - but do they realize just what it is they are supporting? Must the troops stay over in that Mideast rat- hole to be blown up with our own explosives? Stay there and be made chronically sick and dying by radiation from our very own depleted uranium weaponry and mystery biologicals? Is THAT what supporting our troops means? Count me out. Even a blind man can see what's happening over there. Yet many with perfect vision cannot.

Thousands of people are waking up every day and there is hope. Helping others to accomplish their own paradigm shift is perhaps one of the noblest things anyone can do in their lifetime. Each person you help convert to the truth will want to share that good news with others, too. Imagine how this can multiply with simple binary progression! Not everyone we talk to will be receptive at this time. Many will stubbornly refuse to hear the truth now - but once the evil comes knocking at their door they too, will wake up. Even if by then it's too late to change things, they will still wake up. And your words will ring in their head over and over like the sound of a blacksmith hammering out horseshoes.

Educating others is not optional. Do not be ashamed to do it! For years I've put my actions where my mouth is. Though I'm far from perfect, would anyone have taken me seriously if I were to hide under a pen name? Because I've been so outspoken there are relatives who won't talk to me anymore. So be it, I don't care. My resolve is firm in what I stand for. Many in the world are just scared that what they have been warned about will come to pass. They are scared they might lose everything they have, or THINK they have. Deep inside they know the truth will shatter their comfortable little world they pretend to live in. Think only children play house? Think again. Adults do it all the time; just in a bigger, different way.

Forget all about "keeping up with the Jones'." To hell with waxing your car every weekend, mowing your lawn when it grows a quarter of an inch or buying the latest, biggest vehicle. What a waste of time and energy. Educating others is MANDATORY work for anyone who considers themselves as Americans, patriots or citizens. Outside of raising children, educating others is perhaps the most important work you will ever do. Mistakes will be made and perhaps even an enemy or two will be the result. So what! If the founding fathers were wimps and backed down like most people have been brainwashed into doing today you and I would probably still be renting a pew from the King of England, and without doubt everyone would be speaking with a British accent and spelling color with a "u," and calling the hood of your car the "bonnet" and the car's trunk the "boot." Not to mention being taxed sky high and having video cameras in every conceivable place. Do we want to see this happen in America? It absolutely will if we just sit back and do nothing.

Nothing in life is risk free. Taking a shower entails the risk of having a fall. Many will convert more easily to the truth today than they would have just two years ago. Buying $4.00 gasoline has started many thinking about what's going on in their lives, and why. But in the end, inevitably every single person you reached out and touched and even those who laugh at you will one day find that everything you warned them about is real.

We MUST STAND UP for truth and that which is right in all times and in all places. Expose the evil which is already wreaking havoc in everyone's life today and the dark plans that evil leaders have made for the world of tomorrow. USE THE SYSTEM AGAINST ITSELF by showing what it's actually done to degrade life to where it is now. There is nothing more powerful than using the system against itself.

In past decades, when jobs were lost few people worried (except the unemployed.) Why? Because everyone knew the economy was cyclic, and new jobs would soon appear. Those days are gone because millions of jobs have been lost forever, all in the name of greed and power. Cursed are the MBA types who helped this happen. They see people as nothing more than a HUMAN RESOURCE to be used, chewed up and spit out. All of it is done in the name of profit which raises stock prices.

So who cares what people think about you, even if your teaching work doesn't go perfectly? Do you really live each day worrying what others think about you? I don't, and certainly hope you don't either. Forget about what they think! Don't waste time on it.

We're all in this together!

Damn the torpedoes and full steam ahead!

Ted Twietmeyer
www.data4science.net

As published at www.rense.com

HOMELAND SECURITY, MY @$$

2007-05-28T15:39:00.000-07:00

Less Than 0.01% Of Homeland Security Cases Are Terrorism Related,
So why does the government say terrorism is DHS primary focus?

Steve Watson
www.Infowars.net

Records obtained from the immigration courts under the Freedom of Information Act show that only 0.0015 percent of the total number of cases filed by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security were terrorism related, despite the fact that the Bush administration has repeatedly asserted that it is the primary focus of the DHS.

A report issued Sunday by independent research group The Transactional Records Action Clearinghouse (TRAC) found that in the last three years there have only been 12 charges of terrorism out of 814,073 cases.

This once again highlights that the terrorist threat to America is vastly over hyped and is being used by a criminally controlled government as an excuse to police the world and foment a domestic police state to crush any dissent amongst the American people.

"The DHS claims it is focused on terrorism. Well that's just not true," David Burnham, a TRAC spokesman told CNN. "Either there's no terrorism, or they're terrible at catching them. Either way it's bad for all of us."
DHS spokesman Russ Knocke called the TRAC report "ill-conceived" and said the group "lacked a grasp of the DHS mission."

Knocke said that, by clamping down on all forms of immigration, DHS has made it difficult for terrorists to come to the United States.

Knocke's comments are clearly absurd as there are still millions of illegal immigrants pouring into the country every year and the borders remain wide open, the very reason why there is currently a heated debate over total immigration reform.

Even more revealing was the fact that the TRAC analysis also found that out of those 800,000 or so individuals charged only 114, or 0.014 percent of the total were charged with national security violations.

This re-emphasizes the fact that the Department of Homeland Security is nothing more than a bloated bureaucratic federal Octopus protruding its lawless tentacles into local government and policing. It has nothing to do with protecting America and everything to do with scaring it into total subjugation.

Earlier this month President Bush signed legislation which declares that in the event of a "catastrophic event", the President can take total control over the government and the country, bypassing all other levels of government, including Congress, and thus ensuring total unprecedented dictatorial power. A key part of this legislation places the Secretary of Homeland Security in charge of domestic "security".

When he announced the creation of a new Department of Homeland Security in 2002, President Bush invoked the fight against "terror" or "terrorists" 19 times in a single speech. Thus the word was used seven more times in one speech than there have been actual terrorism charges brought by the department in the last three years.

Should we be surprised that the DHS has nothing to do with terrorism? Quite frankly no, as we have tirelessly exposed the DHS track record of purely targeting innocent US citizens.

Since 9/11 the PATRIOT Act has been used in numerous cases involving American citizens, including strip club owners, toy store proprietors, the homeless, owners of websites, writers, internet users, artists, journalists and photographers.

Maybe in order to find more terrorists the DHS should investigate itself. In 2004 the DHS employed former East German Stasi head, the 'Silver Fox' Markus Wolfe who had previously been denied entry to the US as he was considered a terrorist. In addition, the DHS also hired Ex-head of the Soviet KGB, General Yevgeni Primakov.

What was it about their CVs that attracted the DHS?

Welcome to the new America.

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WAR MONGERING AND DISINFORMATION

2007-05-28T15:32:00.000-07:00

How Can Bush Bring Freedom and Democracy to Iraq When He Brings Tyranny to America?
By Paul Craig Roberts
ICH

The Washington, DC, think-tank, The American Enterprise Institute, camouflages its purpose with its name. There is nothing American about AEI, and the organization’s enterprise is fomenting war in the Middle East against Israel’s enemies. Its real name should be The Likud Center for Middle East War. AEI has the largest collection of warmongers in America. AEI "scholars" have agitated for war in the Middle East for years. A moronic president and 9/11 gave them their opportunity. Now that the US invasions and occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan have failed, the AEI warmongers are conspiring with Vice President Cheney to foment war with Iran. Writing in The Washington Note, Steven C. Clemons reports that Cheney is working with the AEI warmongers to short-circuit the efforts of Bush’s secretaries of defense and state to find a diplomatic solution.

Clemons reports that one former high level national security official describes the Cheney-AEI conspiracy as possibly an act of "criminal insubordination" against President Bush. Now that the Democrats have betrayed their mandate of last November to end Bush’s war against Iraq and given Bush carte blanche to continue the gratuitous bloodshed, the neoconservative plan, spearheaded by Vice President Cheney, to initiate aggression against Iran is back on the front burner.

Disinformation is being fed to the media that Iran is responsible for attacks on US troops in Iraq. This disinformation is routinely reported without skepticism by the American media in the face of challenges from experts. For example, a recent British report concludes:
"few independent analysts believe Tehran is playing a decisive role in the sectarian warfare and insurgency."

While the Cheney/AEI conspirators strive to whip up American anger at Iran with lies and disinformation, they are doing everything possible to provoke Iran. The warmongers have planted the story in the media that the US is conducting covert operations against Iran. The US Navy is conducting "exercises" off Iran’s coast.

The US military in Iraq has violated diplomatic privilege and kidnapped Iranian officials in Iraq despite protests from the Iraqi and Iranian governments. The US government is stirring up more trouble in Lebanon by setting extremists Sunnis against Iran’s Hezbollah ally.

In short, the US government is doing everything possible to start a war with Iran. Bombing Iran, perhaps after a contrived "false flag" operation, is the next step. Bush continues to tell his favorite lies that he is bringing "freedom and democracy to Iraq" and that Muslims hate us because of our "freedom and democracy." He continues to make these inane assertions even as he ignores the will of the American people and destroys habeas corpus, the foundation of civil liberty.

Bush ignores the will of the people as expressed in last November’s congressional elections and as expressed in opinion polls. The New York Times/CBS News poll released May 24 shows another sharp drop in public support for Bush and his war. America is "seriously off on the wrong track" was the response of 72 percent of the public. President Bush, the Republican Party, and the Democratic Party have proved to the entire world that the American people have no voice. The American people have no more ability to affect their government’s policy than inmates in a gulag would have.

What do people in other countries think when they hear Bush prattle on about "freedom and democracy" while he ignores opinion polls and election results and detains people without warrants, tortures them, and puts them before military tribunals in which they are denied even knowing the evidence against them?

Bush has contrived a situation for defendants in which no defense is possible. In Bush’s America, people can be executed on the basis of hearsay and secret evidence. If this is "freedom and democracy," what is tyranny?

Recent polls show that the majority of the American people are no longer fooled, no matter what politicians say and media report. The election last November demonstrated the electorate's lack of support for continuing the war. The problem is in implementing the will of the people.

Democrats in Congress are not only recipients of AIPAC, oil industry, and military- security complex payoffs just as the Republicans are, Democrats are also behaving very cynically. They believe that it is Bush's policy that gave them control of Congress in November and that by continuing to let Bush prevail, they will clean up on a larger scale in 2008. They believe that their antiwar base has nowhere else to go. Their cynical logic is probably correct as far as it goes. Bush is being blamed for the war and its failure. The longer this goes on, the worse the situation for the Republicans.

Prior to Bush’s invasion of Iraq, I wrote in a column that the unintended consequences of an invasion would be the destruction of Bush, the Republican Party, and the conservative movement. It has taken longer than I thought, largely because of Americans’ blind desire for revenge for 9/11, but the prediction is on track. The problem with the Democrats’ cynical logic is that allowing Bush to prolong the war in Iraq increases the chances that Cheney, Israel, and the neoconservatives can contrive a war with Iran.

Most experts, and many in our own military, think that a war with Iran would go very badly for us, endangering our troops in Iraq by exposing them to more intense attacks from the more numerous Shiites, who would be armed with Iranian weapons that can neutralize our tanks and helicopters, leaving our fragmented and divided troops isolated and cut off from supplies and retreat routes. The pending disaster would play into Cheney's hands. With America faced with the loss of an army, Cheney and the neoconservatives would likely succeed in convincing Bush to nuke Iran.

Cheney and Rumsfeld have already changed US war doctrine to permit preemptive nuclear attack against non-nuclear powers. Surprised by the inability of the US military to prevail in Iraq and by Israel's military failure against Hezbollah, the neocons concluded that the only way to establish US/Israeli hegemony over the entire Middle East is to nuke Iran. The neocons believe that using nuclear weapons against Iran will demonstrate to the Muslim world that they have no alternative but to submit to US hegemony.

The Democrats are far from being alone in lacking the vision to see the abyss into which their cynicism is leading us. With the corporate media serving as propaganda ministry for the administration, Cheney will be able to whip up enough fear and anger to convince the American people that the use of nuclear weapons was imperative. Bush’s popularity will return as he prevails over the enemy and tells Americans how he saved them from Iran’s nuclear weapons. The Democrats’ cynicism will have destroyed them and opened new avenues to destruction and violence.

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SO THEN, CAN I BREAK THE LAW TOO?

2007-05-28T15:26:00.000-07:00

TREACHERY AGAINST AMERICAN CIVILIZATION
By Frosty Wooldridge
www.NewsWithViews.com

Senate Bill 1348, giving mass amnesty to 20 million illegal aliens, proves a treacherous and outrageous act against our civilization by Congress and President Bush.

"Every aspect of the current immigration bill, and of the arguments made for it, has fraud written all over it," said Dr. Thomas Sowell, African-American professor at Stanford University and writer for the San Gabriel Valley Tribune.

"What can we do with 12 million people already here illegally?" Sowell asked. "We can stop them from becoming 50 million, the way three million became 12 million from the previous amnesty in 1986."

Robert Rector of the Heritage Foundation said, "This bill will add 103 million people into the United States in 20 years and cost American taxpayers $2.3 trillion."

Current demographic figures show the United States doubling its population from 300 million to 600 million via immigration. The ramifications of multiplying our current dilemmas double in every aspect of this civilization.

After the 20 million illegals become legalized, Z-visas add 400,000 workers annually forever.
S.B. 1348 presents amnesty for 636,000 deportee convicted criminal absconders ‘lost’ somewhere in America.

The amazing aspect of this bill reverses justice by enforcing amnesty for lawlessness while abdicating the rule of law. For example, over 15,000 MS-13 gang members become eligible for amnesty and eventual citizenship.
This amnesty undermines American citizens and legal immigrants from A to Z. It hijacks our electoral system by giving millions of illegal aliens the ability to vote in our local and national elections. They will vote for everything "Mexico" and against anything "American." This amnesty shoplifts America’s sovereignty out the door toward Third World Momentum.

Illegal aliens become eligible for college tuition subsidies in the Dream Act. At the same time, your tax dollars fund lawyers for illegal aliens. "Every illegal alien working in the agricultural sector would have access to an immigration attorney to argue his case through the immigration courts and federal courts of appeals—all at taxpayer expense," said Dr. Mathew Spalding of the Heritage Foundation.

"These Z-visas are nearly as good as non-provisional Z-visas, giving the alien immediate lawful status, protection from deportation, authorization to work, and the ability to exit and enter the country," said Kris Kobach, professor of law at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

Bush touts this as a temporary guest worker program. Yes, and he would like to sell you a used car from the "Hood." But, what’s under the hood? Why after six years in office—after refusing to enforce our immigration laws—does he want to sell you a bogus ‘comprehensive immigration reform bill’?

John Boehner, former House Majority Leader, said, "I promised the President today that I wouldn’t say anything bad about...this piece of s**t bill." Mark Twain said, "Suppose you were an idiot; and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself."

Arch conservative Rush Limbaugh screamed that the amnesty bill spells disaster for America. Ann Coulter echoed Limbaugh. Next up, Bush lapdog Sean Hannity lamented that the amnesty bill proved a disaster for all Americans. Pat Buchanan, former U.S. presidential candidate, said, "This bill will be the death of America."

Other more rational minds, columnist George Will, Congressman Newt Gingrich, Fred Thompson, Tom Tancredo, William F. Buckley and Ed Meese oppose S.B. 1348.

Who supports it? Senator Teddy Kennedy, a man who never stepped foot into America in his life and knows nothing of the cultural carnage he heaped on America with his 1965 Immigration Reform Act and 1986 amnesty. God help America if we allow this village idiot of a man to drive the final nail into the coffin of our civilization in 2007.

Nothing about S.B. 1348 benefits America. It proves treachery against citizenship, the U.S. Constitution, lawful behavior and responsible migration. It transforms all immigration into the USA into a free-for-all.

Congress injects a syringe into America’s aorta and when Bush signs it, he pumps this nation into a future of Balkanization, accelerating imported poverty, displacement of America’s middle class and certain loss of the American Dream.

This bill ensures the end of America’s most cohesive aspect; its English language. Emanuel Kant said, "The two great dividers are religion and language."

"Under this bill, every immigrant is his own bubble of linguistic entitlement," says Jim Boulet Jr., executive director of English First. Thanks to President Bill Clinton's Executive Order 13166! As Sen. James Inhofe, R-OK, told the Senate, this is "an entitlement for a translator in any language you want other than English."

This bill proves Mark Twain’s lament when he said, "No man’s life, liberty or property is safe while the Congress is in session." Hard to fathom paying U.S. senators to enact quality bills—but, instead, we receive drivel. Their actions illustrate the "good of the country" comes second to power, greed and money. Nothing in this bill benefits American citizens!

But who become the biggest fools of all? Who will bequeath to their children a whirlwind of consequences as they uttered not one word while they did nothing to stop their country being ripped out from under them?

The great American ‘Silent Majority’! It’s the same majority that twiddled its thumbs while the Vietnam War slaughtered 58,000 of its sons and wounded 350,000 into lives of legless and armless despair. They watched while three million Vietnamese suffered horrible deaths from napalm, bombs and Agent Orange. What a horrific tragedy for humanity! All of it based on the lie of the "Gulf of Tonkin Resolution" by Lyndon Baines Johnson!

That same ‘Silent Majority’ sits by while George Bush slaughters 3,440, and counting, U.S. combat soldiers and 24,000 wounded young American men and women in Iraq pretending to pursue a "War on Terror" while he leaves our borders stark raving open to any terrorist crossing in the dead of night. Bush killed, according to the Johns Hopkins Report, 655,000 Iraqi civilians. He’s dropped depleted uranium bombs that cause birth defects in Iraqis for generations while poisoning our own soldiers. He based his war on the bald faced lie of "Weapons of Mass Destruction."

If the "Silent Majority" sits idly by on this S.B 1348, neither the United States of America nor the "American Dream" will survive the sheer population numbers of adding 100 million people, let alone the Balkanization, conflicting languages, diseases, crime and poverty of this advancing "Human Katrina."What you can do for a better future for your country:

A republican form of government is not a spectator sport. It means you must jump in, roll up you sleeves and take personal and collective action. Of course, you could let a dictator take over and do everything for you, but that path would give you Cuba, China, North Korea and other unsavory examples.

To stop Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid from giving an amnesty, take action. Call for a full 10 year moratorium.

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9/11 PROOF

2007-05-22T16:17:00.000-07:00

9/11 Debunkers Hide From Slam Dunk Evidence Of Controlled Demolition
Electron microscope analysis of steel spheres from WTC site proves thermate, proves collapse of twin towers was an act of deliberate arson

Paul Joseph WatsonPrison Planet

Professor Steven Jones presented brand new and compelling evidence for the controlled demolition of the twin towers and WTC 7 recently, but the 9/11 debunkers and the corporate media are loathe to tackle it because it represents a slam dunk on proving the collapse of the buildings was a deliberate act of arson.

During a talk at the Rebuilding America's Senses event at the University of Texas last month, Jones laid out facts about steel samples recovered from the WTC site that Popular Mechanics dare not even attempt to debate. Debunkers are scared to even get near this information because the science behind it fundamentally contradicts the official story of what happened on 9/11.

Jones detailed his lab experiments in which he attempted to replicate NIST's conclusion that the lava like orange material flowing out of the south tower is aluminum from Flight 175, the plane that hit the building. Jones clearly documents the fact that liquid aluminum is silver and not orange as is seen in the video of the south tower, therefore the material cannot be aluminum. Jones then explains that the material is in fact a compound that can cut through steel like a hot knife through butter, thermite with sulphur added to make thermate.

The crux of the fresh evidence revolves around newly uncovered globules or spheres that were discovered at the WTC site that Professor Jones was able to obtain and run a electron microscope analysis on. The spheres contained iron and aluminum, which would be expected in any steel sample, but also sulphur which is a by-product of a thermate reaction.

So having moved from a hypothesis that thermate was used to bring down the towers from using video footage and debunking the aluminum explanation of NIST, Jones now has empirical scientific proof, undertaken under laboratory conditions, that thermate was indeed used as an artificial explosive at the World Trade Center. It has now been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that the collapse of the twin towers and WTC 7 was an act of deliberate arson and not as a result of fires from crashing planes.

Jones' evidence offers no other conclusion that insiders planted thermite devices within the buildings to literally pulverize the supporting columns and cause the collapse of the towers and also WTC 7. Debunkers have uniformly failed to address the existence of thermite and also molten metal at the ground zero site because they cannot dismiss the scientific proof, and are forced to resort to ad hominem insults and smears.

We are issuing a challenge to Popular Mechanics to rebut Professor Jones' analysis of the sphere samples and the clear evidence of thermate at the World Trade Center. Address the focused scientific proof without resorting to ad hominem attacks or straying off topic.

We don't expect the progenitors of yellow journalism to have any answers for what constitutes the smoking gun of controlled demolition.

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AGENDA 21

2007-05-21T17:21:00.000-07:00

SAVE THE PLANET - KILL YOURSELF?

By Darren Weeks
www.NewsWithViews.com

We are told that over-population is the greatest threat facing planet earth. Daily, we are given lectures of how we humans are screwing up the environment, damaging the earth’s “fragile” eco-system, killing the birds, and polluting the air and water. Forked-tongued politicians, finger-wagging bureaucrats, and a choir of “green” organizations moan an off-key chorus of alarm about the human “footprint” on earth.

We are blamed for over-fishing the seas, deforestation of wooded areas, droughts and desertification, wildfires and floods. We cause congestion in the cities, sprawl in the suburbs, and terrorize the creatures in the countryside. It is obvious from what we’re told, Americans have no place in the world and the world is better off without us.

We drive too much, eat too much, breathe too much and throw away too much. We are living too large, we take up too much space, we are too rich, we’ve become too fat, and we have too many children.

Every day, and in every way, we are evil. We kill, we destroy, we pollute, we intrude. We are the scourge of “Mother Earth”, and the warts on Gaia’s backside.

This is the message that is being declared from the halls of government, academia, tax-exempt foundations, and the Establishment-controlled media. Never before has it ever been clearer that not only are we unfit stewards of the land and its natural resources, we literally are not worthy to breathe the air.

As a matter of fact, with the recent Supreme Court decision that declared carbon dioxide a “pollutant” that must be regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency, we are officially damaging the planet by doing nothing else than breathing.

At the same time the venom of elite-driven hatred spews forth from every channel of propaganda, we have bacteria being added to our lunch meat and fluoride added to our water supply. We have foreign substances being sprayed in our skies, and genetically-modified crops producing their own pesticides for our consumption. Our vitamins and nutritional supplements are being eliminated in favor of a limitless bombardment of toxin-infested vaccines and mandated pharmaceutical drugs. [Read the book "Fluoride Deception"]

Our farmers and ranchers have been molested for years by endless regulations, land-use and irrigation restrictions, and have, for decades, been paid not to produce. As domestic food production has dropped, foreign food imports have risen, along with sicknesses, food poisonings and contaminations.

It is high time that every American begin to make the connection between the demonization of all normal human activity, versus the daily and ongoing attacks on our food, our water, our vitamins, on all of the basic staples that we need to sustain our lives.

Upon careful examination of the evidence, it is difficult to escape the reality that we are gradually and deliberately being made victims of a mass genocide. The necessary pieces are being placed together to eliminate a large number of the population.

In an April 16th Associated Press article headlined, Imported Food Rarely Inspected, it said,
“Just 1.3 percent of imported fish, vegetables, fruit and other foods are inspected — yet those government inspections regularly reveal food unfit for human consumption.”

On April 23rd, the Associated Press ran a follow-up article headlined, U.S. Food Safety Strained by Imports. The article said,

“The same food safety net that couldn't catch poisoned pet food ingredients from China has a much bigger hole.

“Billions of dollars’ worth of foreign ingredients that Americans eat in everything from salad dressing to ice cream get a pass from overwhelmed inspectors, despite a rising tide of imports from countries with spotty records, according to an Associated Press analysis of federal trade and food data.

“When U.S. Food and Drug Administration inspectors at ports and border checkpoints look, they find shipments that are filthy or otherwise contaminated. They rarely bother, however, in part because ingredients aren't a priority.”

How does that make you feel America? Your very own mainstream news media is telling you that you are eating trash! Your government is aware of the problem. In fact, they created the problem by persecuting domestic food producers at every turn, and forcing family farm owners out of business. In the vacuum, massive multi-national corporations and foreign producers have stepped up production to feed you and almost none of their products are inspected. It isn’t a priority. Why? [See Vedeo "Future of Food"]

Could it be that the answer lies in the fact that they keep telling us that over-population is a problem? Could it be that the real movers and shakers behind public policy in America consider you a liability to their environment, to their power base, and to their world Order?

The truth is that those who hold the reigns of power consider this planet theirs. The air you breathe, the water you drink, the land you think you own — it’s all theirs! That’s why you’ll pay to use it all. And make no mistake about it, taxes upon your carbon emissions are right around the corner. They will charge you to use the air because you’re a liability to their planet, simply because you’re alive. They place themselves in the position of the Almighty, and they’ve decided that you don’t belong here.

This principle is demonstrated with unequaled clarity at the Church of Euthanasia website, where their motto is “Save the planet, kill yourself.” This non-profit foundation promotes what they refer to as their “four pillars” — suicide, abortion, cannibalism, and sodomy. Their one commandment is, “thou shalt not procreate.” Although they say their purpose is to restore “balance between humans and the remaining species on earth,” they glorify death, encourage suicide and have even hosted instructions on how to commit suicide.

Though much less diplomatic in their choice of language, the Church of Euthanasia’s ideology is harmonious to the United Nations Environment Programme’s Agenda 21 initiatives that are being implemented all across America and around the world. Though the UN is much more careful to disguise it’s people-hating agenda with pretty terms such as “human rights”, “walkable communities”, “Smart Growth”, “New Urbanism”, “Cool Cities”, “Scenic Byways”, and “conservation easements”, the outcome is the same. The plans that are being implemented around the country and the world are designed to crush human activity, put the means of production off limits to you, and to stop human “sprawl” — meaning, people living any place they decide you shouldn’t.

Americans must quickly awaken and realize that there is a silent and undeclared war upon our freedom, our health, and our very existence. Quietly, and behind the scenes in secret meetings, these people haters are plotting to remove every support needed to sustain life.

In 1972, the Rockefeller Commission on Population and the American Future was commissioned by President Richard Nixon. The commission, which was chaired by John D. Rockefeller III, lamented the prospect of “one of the most serious challenges” facing America. They outlined three “positions” that needed to be addressed as population policy, which included greater access to contraceptives and “fertility control,” the promotion of “equal rights” for women and minorities — getting them busy in careers so they aren’t tempted to have children — and finally a reshaping of American values to harmonize them with environmental conservation. Of the last point, the commission writes,

“The third position deals with the population problem in an ecological framework, one whose primary axiom asserts the functional interdependence of man and his environment. It calls for a far more fundamental shift in the operative values of modern society. The need for more education and knowledge and the need to eliminate poverty and racism are important, but not enough. For the population problem, and the growth ethic with which it is intimately connected, reflect deeper external conditions and more fundamental political, economic, and philosophical values. Consequently, to improve the quality of our existence while slowing growth, will require nothing less than a basic recasting of American values.”

It is this “recasting of American values” that is precisely what attorney and environmental activist Daniel Sitarz, the author of the authoritative version of Agenda 21, referred to when in 1992, at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, he stated:

“Effective execution of Agenda 21 will require a profound reorientation of all human society, unlike anything the world has ever experienced — a major shift in the priorities of both governments and individuals and an unprecedented redeployment of human and financial resources. This shift will demand that a concern for the environmental consequences of every human action be integrated into individual and collective decision-making at every level. There are specific actions which are intended to be undertaken by multinational corporations and entrepreneurs, by financial institutions and individual investors, by high-tech companies and indigenous people, by workers and labor unions, by farmers and consumers, by students and schools, by governments and legislators, by scientists, by women, by children — in short, by every person on Earth.”

To put it another way, Sitarz is saying that there is no single person on the planet that won’t be effected by the implementation of Agenda 21. He chooses words such as “profound reorientation”, “major shift” and “unprecedented” to describe their own agenda! Does this not sound a little revolutionary?

At this point, one must ask the question, who gave these people the mandate to reshape society and “recast” our values toward the principles of “sustainability” and Agenda 21? What right do they have to tell us how and where to live, how much water to use, what we can and cannot eat, and what to do with our own property?

The answer is, of course, we did. We’ve been so pacified with TV, movies, celebrity worship, video games, gossip magazines, and a million other things that accomplish nothing, that we have not fulfilled our duties to govern our country. Now, we don’t like the results of leaving the process of government to the professionals. The truth of the matter is that we are living the consequences of our own acquiescence. We are reaping what we’ve sewn, and we are now being targeted for extermination.

Quoting again from the Rockefeller Commission,

“Population growth is one of the major factors affecting the demand for resources and the deterioration of the environment in the United States. The further we look into the future, the more important population becomes. From an environmental and resource point of view, there are no advantages from further growth of population beyond the level to which our past rapid growth has already committed us. Indeed, we would be considerably better off over the next 30 to 50 years if there were a prompt reduction in our population growth rate. This is especially true with regard to problems of water, agricultural land, and outdoor recreation. While the nation can, if it has to, find ways to solve the problems growth creates, we will not like some of the solutions we will have to adopt.”

To what potential solutions could Rockefeller and his cohorts on the commission have been referring? Could it have been the massive depopulation efforts that we are currently experiencing in the 21st century? Could they have been eluding to the poisoning of our air, water, and food supply? Could it have been the limitless wars, and orchestrated acts of terrorism? Perhaps, it was pre-born infanticide that they were referencing, as we’ve murdered over a million unborn children a year since the Supreme Court made its ruling on abortion the year after Rockefeller’s report on population was issued.

Chapter 5 of United Nations’ Agenda 21 says it this way,

“The growth of world population and production combined with unsustainable consumption patterns places increasingly severe stress on the life-supporting capacities of our planet. These interactive processes affect the use of land, water, air, energy and other resources. Rapidly growing cities, unless well-managed, face major environmental problems. The increase in both the number and size of cities calls for greater attention to issues of local government and municipal management. The human dimensions are key elements to consider in this intricate set of relationships and they should be adequately taken into consideration in comprehensive policies for sustainable development. … Population policy should also recognize the role played by human beings in environmental and development concerns. There is a need to increase awareness of this issue among decision makers at all levels and to provide both better information on which to base national and international policies and a framework against which to interpret this information.”

What are the specific details of the “population policies” inherent in Agenda 21? How is it that Amer
ica was never told about this program to organize and/or eliminate life on planet earth?

The truth is that we’re not supposed to know because if the great unwashed were made aware of the plans to control every aspect of their lives, and to kill off a major portion of their numbers, they might find it somewhat objectionable.

The radical environmentalists, once on the fringe of extremist groups, have now been institutionalized into every area of governance, academia, and law, from the United Nations on down. And you and your children are targeted for mass extinction.

To those who care, you are implored to educate yourself and then become involved in the fight to stop this agenda, at a local level where the plans are being implemented.

And to those radical environmentalists who truly believe the planet would be better served if there were less humans living here, you should lead by example. The rest of us might find, after you’re gone, that you were right.

© 2007 Darren Weeks - All Rights Reserved

THE BATTLE FOR THE UNITED STATES

2007-05-21T17:15:00.000-07:00

THE RON PAUL REBELLION
By Steven Yates

Ron Paul now has national visibility, courtesy of last Tuesday’s “debate” down in Columbia—much to the chagrin of mainstream media and Republican Party elites. His poll numbers are sufficiently high that a struggle to suppress them is underway. We are seeing what we might call a Ron Paul rebellion. Whether it will have staying power remains to be seen.

This was the exchange that opened the door. Fox New’s Wendell Goler addressed Paul and asked, “I believe you are the only man on the stage who opposes the war in Iraq, who would bring the troops home as quickly as— almost immediately, sir. Are you out of step with your Party? Is your Party out of step with the rest of the world? If either of those is the case, why are you seeking its nomination?”

Ron Paul articulated, “Well, I think the Party has lost its way, because the conservative wing of the Republican Party always advocated a non-interventionist foreign policy. Senator Robert Taft didn’t even want to be in NATO. George Bush won the election in the year 2000 campaigning on a humble foreign policy—no nation-building, no policing of the world. Republicans were elected to end the Korean War. The Republicans were elected to end the Vietnam War. There’s a strong tradition of being anti-war in the Republican Party. It is the Constitutional position. It is the advice of the Founders to follow a non-interventionist foreign policy, stay out of entangling alliances, be friends with countries, negotiate and talk with them and trade with them…. [T]here’s a lot of merit to the advice of the Founders and following the Constitution. And my argument is that we shouldn’t go to war so carelessly.”

Goler followed up with, “Congressman, you don’t think that changed with the 9/11 attacks, sir?”

His response: our foreign policy was a “major contributing factor. Have you ever read the reasons they attacked us? They attack us because we’ve been over there; we’ve been bombing Iraq for 10 years. We’ve been in the Middle East—I think Reagan was right. We don’t understand the irrationality of Middle Eastern politics. So right now we’re building an embassy in Iraq that’s bigger than the Vatican. We’ve building 14 permanent bases. What would we say here if China was doing this in our country or in the Gulf of Mexico? We would be objecting. We need to look at what we do from the perspective of what would happen if somebody else did it to us.”

Goler: “Are you suggested we invited the 9/11 attacks, sir?”

“I’m suggesting that we listen to the people who attacked us and the reason they did it, and they are delighted that we’re over there because Osama bin Laden has said, ‘I am glad you’re over on our sand because we can target you so much easier.’ They have already now since that time have killed 3,400 of our men, and I don’t think it was necessary.”

That was when Rudy Giuliani blew his top—giving this writer the best reason I’ve seen not to vote for him and to urge others not to support him. Giuliani jumped in with, “That’s really an extraordinary statement. As someone who lived through the attack of September 11, that we invited the attack because we were attacking Iraq. I don’t think I’ve heard that before, and I’ve heard some pretty absurd explanations for September 11th. I would ask the Congressman to withdraw that comment and tell us that he didn’t really mean that.” Delivered with the tone of a true authoritarian. An overwhelmingly neocon audience cheered.

Paul hadn’t said we invited 9/11, of course. He used the phrase contributing factor, which implies there were other contributing factors. When asked to reply, he elaborated:

“I believe very sincerely that the CIA is correct when they teach and talk about blowback. When we went into Iran in 1953 and installed the Shah, yes, there was blowback. A reaction to that was the taking of our hostages and that persists. And if we ignore that, we ignore that at our own risk. If we think that we can do what we want around the world and not incite hatred, then we have a problem. They don’t come here to attack us because we’re rich and we’re free. They come and they attack us because we’re over there. I mean, what would we think if we were—if other foreign countries were doing that to us?”

We saw, dramatized on national television and in ensuing media discussion, the two worldviews that may battle it out over the next year or so for control of the Republican Party—and possibly the country itself—with ramifications well beyond Election 2008. The one Rudy Giuliani represents (which is that of the Bush clan, the neocons, and the corporatist elite generally): the U.S. is an empire obliged or destined to rule the world, capable of building “democracies” in the Middle East and perhaps elsewhere, relying on a value system based on money and power. Power does not necessarily corrupt. We peons should fall in line behind our leaders.

The second, which Ron Paul represents, sees the U.S. as a Constitutional republic with a limited government, believes that sound economics requires sound money (not our present fiat dollar), would distinguish genuine free enterprise from corporatism, and advocate a foreign policy of trade with all but entangling alliances with none—i.e., a foreign policy rooted in respect for other nations’ sovereignty and their right to self-determination. Other nations’ internal affairs are not our business unless we are explicitly invited in.

This is not simply a clash between “left” and “right,” or between “liberal” and “conservative.” We may be approaching a major dust-up between those who want freedom and those who want power, between those who believe society must be aggressively centralized and those who wish to see power dispersed. We may see a struggle between those who want policies that allow the common man to live as he sees fit if he isn’t bothering anyone else, and a cadre of oligarchs who view the world as theirs, and who see themselves as unaccountable.

The Republican National Committee and its talk-show fellow travelers are all on the side of power. The latter immediately went into attack-dog mode. After the debate, Paul appeared on Fox News’s Hannity & Colmes show. Sean Hannity spluttered incoherently against Paul to the point where Paul had difficulty getting a word in edgewise; to his credit, he did not get flustered and refused to back down. He stood his ground the next day when Wolf Blitzer on CNN asked if he wanted to apologize for his statements. He retorted that Rudy Giuliani ought to apologize to him. He told Blitzer that Americans have the right to disagree with bad policy.

Interventionism is bad foreign policy, he said, and ought to be challenged. Fox News anchor John Gibson tried to associate Paul with the 9/11 Truth movement by crediting Paul with saying “the U.S. actually had a hand in the terrorist attacks.” Paul, of course, had said nothing of the sort. Glenn Beck, yet another neocon talk-show host and Rush Limbaugh wannabe, has repeatedly smeared Paul on his show, calling him “crazy” after the first debate and a “dope” after this one.

Michigan Republican Party Chair Saul Anuzis proposed barring Ron Paul from future debates. After the RNC and the Michigan GOP received thousands of phone calls and several online petitions totaling over 20,000 signatures, they scrapped that idea. We may thank the growing number of people who get their news over the uncensored Internet, where Ron Paul is now practically the frontrunner, for protecting free speech from Republican Party elites.

Ron Paul’s point of view is gaining an audience whether the neocons like it or not. Major CNN contributing writer Roland S. Martin has said that his thinking on U.S. foreign policy should at least be discussed. Paul, after all, is hardly the first to say that our policies in the Middle East might have contributed to our being attacked. Jacob G. Hornberger, of the Future of Freedom Foundation, in fact has a detailed timeline of our interventions in the region going back to 1953, the year a CIA-backed coup in Iran ousted democratically elected Mohammed Mosadegh and instilled the Shah. As the Shah proceeded to butcher the Iranian people for the next quarter-century, the Islamic terror underground formed and began to ferment (see Hornberger’s article “Iraq, Iran and September 11: A Chronology,”

But more generally, the Ron Paul candidacy is exposing how the power system in this country is gutting the Constitution. This is very good news! Ron Paul has arguably won two national debates now—won in the sense that he came from the incredible disadvantage of a media blackout and has reached the point of having a message that is resonating with that growing segment of the public that is fed up with government lies, whether the topic is Iraq, illegal immigration, the economy, or any number of other front burner issues.

Giuliani looks to be emerging as the elites’ favorite. This guy is pro-choice, favors special rights for gays, and advocates gun control. Have these become official Republican positions, and are they evidence of what has happened to the Republican Party since the neocons took it over? An attorney friend of mine with whom I spoke last Friday probably said it best. To paraphrase how he put it, if the Republicans choose Rudy Giuliani as their nominee after a protracted hate campaign drives Ron Paul back to “third party” status and the public lets them get away with it, they do not deserve to win next year. It will be fair and just to say that this country deserves a socialist Hillary/Obama presidency which would run Rome on the Potomac straight into the ground.

It might be worth noting as an aside that Giuliani has been linked to the proposed NAFTA Superhighway system. According to the Texas Department of Transportation, his Houston-based law firm, Bracewell & Guiliani, represents Cintra Concesiones, the Spanish megacorporation that has joined with San Antonio’s Zachry Construction on the Trans-Texas Corridor. This positions Giuliani firmly with the power elite. So again: do Americans really want him in the White House?

And should conservatives trust information from elite-controlled outfits like Fox News (owned by News Corporation, globalist Rupert Murdoch’s media empire)? Arguably the exchange between Ron Paul and Rudy Giuliani was a set-up. During debates such as the one last Tuesday, microphones of non-speakers are turned off. Giuliani’s, however, was left on while Ron Paul was speaking. Why? Was someone waiting for something Giuliani could attack? Cliff Kincaid of Accuracy in Media has observed, “[Fox News] seems to be emerging as an arm of the Giuliani-for-President campaign. Honest conservatives should demand better coverage.” Fox News Online published a dishonest Dick Morris column declining to mention Paul and portraying the race as “nine-way.”

A growing number of people aren’t buying it. They are responding to Ron Paul’s message of limited government, bringing America’s troops home from a pointless and increasingly destructive war, abolishing the IRS and the Federal Reserve, getting out of bad trade agreements like NAFTA and CAFTA, getting out of the WTO, restoring the Constitution, and returning to the idea of America as republic, not empire. It would be, as I’ve noted elsewhere, a first. But those who believe that America is still worth fighting for will get behind Ron Paul’s candidacy, and defend him from the media’s attack dogs. Since Ron Paul shows no signs of caving in, and I don’t see the neocons backing down, the next year promises to be very interesting!
© 2007 Steven Yates - All Rights Reserved

Steven Yates earned his Ph.D. in Philosophy in 1987 at the University of Georgia and has taught the subject at a number of colleges and universities around the Southeast. He currently teaches philosophy at the University of South Carolina Upstate and Greenville Technical College, and also does a little e-commerce involving real free trade. He is on the South Carolina Board of The Citizens Committee to Stop the FTAA.
He is the author of Civil Wrongs: What Went Wrong With Affirmative Action (1994), Worldviews: Christian Theism Versus Modern Materialism (2005), around two dozen philosophical articles and reviews in refereed journals and anthologies, and over a hundred articles on the World Wide Web. He lives in Greenville, South Carolina, where he writes a weekly column for the Times Examiner and is at work on a book length version of his popular series to be entitled The Real Matrix (hopefully!) to be completed this summer.

E-Mail: freeyourmindinsc@yahoo.com.

BRITS DETECT PRE-CRIME

2007-05-17T20:42:00.000-07:00

This is sick:

Unborn babies targeted in crackdown on criminality
Blair launches policy imported from US to intervene during pregnancy to head off antisocial behaviour
Lucy Ward, social affairs correspondent
The Guardian

Women can be identified for help just 16 weeks after conceiving.

Unborn babies judged to be at most risk of social exclusion and turning to criminality are to be targeted in a controversial new scheme to be promoted by Downing Street today.

In an effort to intervene as early as possible in troubled families, first-time mothers identified just 16 weeks after conception will be given intensive weekly support from midwives and health visitors until the unborn child reaches two years old.

Unveiling the findings of a Downing Street review, Tony Blair will make clear the government is prepared to single out babies still in the womb to break cycles of deprivation and behaviour.

He will also acknowledge that the state must do more to help a minority of families and will stress that the support they need cannot come through the promotion of marriage.

In an attempt to draw a clear division between Labour and the Conservatives Mr Blair will say that making marriage the primary focus of family policy will be ineffective and could lead to discrimination against children whose parents have split up or died.

The Nurse Family Partnership programme is the most striking attempt yet to pre-empt problems.
Downing Street will outline today how a £7m pilot scheme has already begun to recruit the first of 1,000 families in 10 areas in England.

Supporters of the policy say the risk of stigmatising unborn infants as potential future victims or troublemakers is outweighed by the advantages of helping poor families build on the aspirations they have for their children.

Under the programme, which has been copied from the United States, young, first-time mothers will be assigned a personal health visitor at between 16 and 20 weeks into their pregnancy. They will continue to have weekly or fortnightly visits until the child is two - far more than the few postnatal visits generally on offer.

The support includes help with giving up smoking or drug use in pregnancy, followed by a focus on bonding with the new baby, understanding behaviour such as crying, and encouraging a mother to develop her skills and resources to be a good parent. The programme is voluntary and the intention is to capitalise on the so-called "magic moment" when parents are receptive to support for themselves and their baby.

In the US, three large trials have seen consistently positive results, including higher IQ levels and language development in children, lower levels of abuse, neglect and child injuries in families, and improvements in the antenatal health and job prospects of mothers.

Proponents of the scheme, pioneered by the American paediatrician Professor David Olds, also point to the long-term cost savings, estimated at almost $25,000 (£12,500) by the time a child is 30.

The decision to target unborn babies is, in effect, an acknowledgement by Mr Blair that the government's focus on tackling social exclusion has left a hardcore - 2-3% - of the most excluded families behind.

The prime minister's introduction to today's family review says the state must help such children out of fairness, and because "some of these families actually cause wider social harms. The community in which they live suffers the consequences".

Kate Billingham, director of the project and deputy chief nursing officer, rejected suggestions the scheme could stigmatise deprived children. "I myself think labelling and stigmatising are used as ways of not giving people the help they want and their children can benefit from."

At a Downing Street breakfast to launch the policy this morning, Mr Blair will meet expectant mothers recruited to the scheme, as well as Professor Olds, its founder. Prof Olds told the Guardian the key to the scheme was its ability to "tap into" the instincts of parents. "We are wired as human beings to protect our children," he said.

It was possible that the UK's "superior health care system and social services" compared with the US could result in the relative benefits of the scheme here being smaller than the significant impact seen in American trials, he warned.

While the scheme is generally backed by children and parenting campaigners in the UK, concerns have been raised that the new focus on intensive help for excluded families could drain resources away from already overstretched health visiting services.

A spokeswoman for the Family and Parenting Institute said: "We very much welcome the health-led parenting projects, but they are only for a tiny proportion of the population and we think that a strong universal offer is critical for the majority of families who also need support and parenting help from health visitors.

"The problem is that the number of health visitors is falling - and there are massive variations in numbers throughout the country."

Thats right, the government will be knocking on your door soon to take over responsibility of your criminal unborn child. Yes, government; What should we eat? What should we think? How should we act and behave? Please tell me, what books should I read? How should I raise my children? Please tell me how to live?

Spooky, very spooky!!!

A COURSE IN FEAR

2007-05-16T17:24:00.000-07:00

CONTROL THROUGH FEAR

Faculty fakes gunman attack on crying 6th graders
RAW STORY

A teacher and assistant principal at a Tennessee elementary school staged a fake gun attack on frightened students during a class trip, sparking outrage among parents, according to a report from CNN's Newsroom.

According to school board member Lon Nuell, the prank was poorly timed. "Ghost stories are standard, and you scare the kids out of their wits," said Nuell. "But this was very unfortunate timing, if the timing would ever be good for this sort of thing, this was not it," referring to the Virginia Tech shootings that killed 33 students and professors in April.

According to one student who participated in the trip, Dalton Brown, the assistant principal instructed the students to get under desks and said that they had a "code red" – reserved for when an individual is in possession of a gun, knife, or bomb. The school later issued a press release classifying the events as a "typical campfire prank." According to Brown's mother, the prank crossed the line.

"It's just appalling that they would classify this as such a thing, because there's nothing typical about what they did to our children," said Brown. "The kids were underneath tables crying and praying to God and begging for their lives, thinking that they were gonna die and that they were never going to see their families again ."
(END)

WE SEE THIS AGAIN AND AGAIN; CONTROL THROUGH FEAR AND INITIATING THIS CONTROL WITH OUR CHILDREN. ONCE OUR LITTLE ONES ARE BRAINWASHED AND TOTALLY COMPLIANT, THEY ALWAYS WILL BE. ONE STORY REGARDING THE ABUSE, BY PUBLIC OFFICIALS, OF OUR CHILDREN MAY BE CALLED AN ACCIDENT OR A MISTAKE, BUT THESE STORIES NUMBER IN THE HUNDREDS OR EVEN POSSIBLY THOUSANDS. THESE ARE NOT SIMPLY MISTAKES. THIS IS INDOCTRINATION AND IT IS SICK. IT IS BLATENT AND IT MUST BE STOPPED.

CONTROL THRU CRISIS

2007-05-14T17:15:00.000-07:00

CRISIS EQUALS "OPPORTUNITY"
By Darren Weeks

"Along with this came a bit of a scolding that Americans had it too good anyway and just a little bit of terrorism would help convince Americans that the world is indeed a dangerous place... or can be if we don't relinquish control to the proper authorities." — The New Order of the Barbarians[1]

The date was September 11th, as President Bush stood before a joint session of Congress, and, by television, the nation. A fresh wind of patriotism had swept the country from sea to shining sea, as the Bush administration had begun a military operation against Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. As he spoke, the President’s comments were repeatedly interrupted by applause from both sides of the political aisle.

"If there ever was a time to put country before self and patriotism before party, the time is now ... We stand today at a unique and extraordinary moment. The crisis in the Persian Gulf, as grave as it is, also offers a rare opportunity to move toward an historic period of cooperation. Out of these troubled times, our fifth objective, a new world order, can emerge: a new era — freer from the threat of terror, stronger in the pursuit of justice, and more secure in the quest for peace. An era in which the nations of the world, East and West, North and South, can prosper and live in harmony. A hundred generations have searched for this elusive path to peace, while a thousand wars raged across the span of human endeavor. Today that new world is struggling to be born, a world quite different from the one we've known. A world where the rule of law supplants the rule of the jungle. A world in which nations recognize the shared responsibility for freedom and justice. A world where the strong respect the rights of the weak. This is the vision that I shared with President Gorbachev in Helsinki. He and other leaders from Europe, the Gulf, and around the world understand that how we manage this crisis today could shape the future for generations to come."[2] (Emphasis added)

The date was September 11, 1990. And the President was George Herbert Walker Bush, the 41st President of the United States. The crisis of which he spoke, was the first Gulf War.

The "opportunity" that he so eagerly hoped to seize, was the building of a "new world order," the globalists’ phrase for a world-wide socialist system that defines "freedom" and "democracy" as a socialist-communitarian system. It is in this system that individual liberties, or "the law of the jungle," are supplanted by "the rule of law" — a totalitarian police state.

It is the undying dream of every socialist throughout the history of mankind. A society where "freedom" and "liberty" mean the freedom and liberty to do as your government tells you, without question or dissention of any kind. Theirs is a world where participation in the governmental process is at the behest of those in power. And individual liberties — real liberties — are dissolved in favor of the well-being of the whole "community."
Property and privacy are forcefully surrendered to the protection of a "secure" nanny state — that is, secure until the "protector" becomes the aggressor. Indeed, it is as Bush said, "a world quite different from the one we've known." Is it any wonder why former Soviet leader and unrepentant communist Mikhail Gorbachev shared Bush’s vision in Helsinki?

As Bush Sr. spoke on that day, the plans were already being drawn for a second Iraqi invasion, a second and final war that would put the final pieces of the plan for world conquest into place.

As the twin towers of the World Trade Center collapsed, eleven years later to the day of that speech, the arrival of yet another "opportunity" would emerge. It would be another era, another Bush administration, a myriad of Mohammads, and another undeclared war.

This time, it was British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, who spoke of how marvelous an "opportunity" that the purported "attack" presented.

In an October 2, 2001 speech that The Guardian called "the most powerful speech of his career," Blair couldn’t contain his enthusiasm. Excitedly, he expounded upon his desire to use the corpses of the victims, as an "opportunity" to reorder the world, and build a world "community."
Blair said,

"This is a moment to seize. The Kaleidoscope has been shaken. The pieces are in flux. Soon they will settle again. Before they do, let us reorder this world around us. Today, humankind has the science and technology to destroy itself or to provide prosperity to all. Yet science can't make that choice for us. Only the moral power of a world acting as a community, can."[3]

Prosperity for all! A chicken in every pot! Thus, are the rallying cries of the socialists, to sell their plan to the naive and uneducated masses. It is the age-old promise of those in power, that if you give them the chance to direct your lives, they will provide prosperity for everyone.

Never mind the fact that this is the promise of communism, which has plunged every nation into poverty that has ever tried it. Never mind the turmoil, misery, and outright pauperism it has caused to the great unwashed, who have suffered under its iron fist. Never mind the lives that have to be destroyed in the process of putting the Plan into fruition.

Their Plan is the end, and to them, the end justifies the means. Their means is crisis upon crisis, manipulating the population through endless wars, killings, and orchestrated terrorism, designer diseases and pandemics, famine and starvation, floods, droughts and other anomalous disasters precipitated by weather manipulation.
The global would-be despots, by their own words, never see human suffering of any kind as a true tragedy. Whenever adversity strikes, they will always see it as an "opportunity" for change. Crises serve as proper conditioning mechanisms, whereby human minds can be made fertile with new ideas that would ordinarily be rejected. It’s called the Hegelian dialectic, and it is the vehicle by which society is moved toward a predetermined outcome.

When anguish prevails due to a catastrophe that extinguishes the light of human life, these Luciferians gleefully gather like hungry vultures to capitalize upon it for the furtherance of their agenda. While average Americans are attending to every detail of their busy lives, the Establishment planners are never distracted. Day and night, they are constantly at work, toiling away at the next big event, planning more scenarios, creating for themselves more "opportunities."

In 1997, then Defense Secretary, William Cohen, hinted at what "opportunities" lie ahead. In a September 10th interview with the Army Times, Cohen predicted:

"Terrorism is escalating to the point that Americans soon may have to choose between civil liberties and more intrusive means of protection."

He went on to describe an America that would include armored vehicles surrounding civilian hotels or government buildings. And the Posse Comitatus law — which prevents the government from using the military in domestic law-enforcement roles — would be revoked. Mr. Cohen was describing the agenda for the Office of Homeland Security, Total Information Awareness and the U.S.A. Patriot Act — key elements of the effort to establish an Orwellian communitarian police state in America.

With the signing of the John Warner National Defense Authorization Act by President Bush in October 2006, Public Law 109-364 has now effectively gutted the Posse Comitatus law[4], just as William Cohen said would happen. How did he know?

The agenda to move America into a totalitarian system, began with the creation of an atmosphere of fear in America, caused by a purported act of terrorism. Then, when the public mindset was properly conditioned with the fertilizer of fear, the seed would be planted in their minds that their liberty would have to be forfeited in favor of their security.

This agenda was covertly referenced by Henry Kissinger in a Bilderberg Conference in Evians, France in 1991. According to one of the Swiss delegates, Kissinger stated:

"Today, Americans would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order. Tomorrow, they will be grateful. This is especially true, if they were told there was an outside threat from beyond — whether real or promulgated — that threatened our very existence. It is then that all the peoples of the world will pledge with world leaders to deliver them from this evil. The one thing that every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished with the guarantee of their well-being, granted to them by their world government."

Kissinger was saying that "crisis equals opportunity." Upon the foundation of created chaos, they can build their new "Order."

Once world government is in place, so will be fulfilled their communist dream. America will have ceased to exist, as will the sovereignty of every nation. And that is the real reason for September 11th, and the "War on Terror." It is to shore up control of every country that won’t surrender their sovereignty to the global system under the auspices of the United Nations. It is also the reason for the countless states of emergency, warnings, drills, and exercises. The message is clear: Be afraid; be very afraid.

Lest we fall prey to the logic that most certainly the powerful wish for us to adopt, let us always remember the words of Benjamin Franklin.

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Or Patrick Henry...

"Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God, I know not what course others may take, but give me liberty or give me death!"

Liberty and national sovereignty go hand in hand. Without the one, you cannot have the other. Our Founding Fathers provided for us a Constitution that was as miraculous as it was sacred.

Despite the fact that it’s God-inspired words are largely being ignored by our criminal government leaders, the U.S. Constitution stands as a testament to the purity and integrity of what has been, for over 200 years, the greatest country in the history of mankind.

Regardless of despots who conveniently lay claim to the notion that its sacred text is outmoded, its remains as a limit on overbearing government, waiting patiently to be enforced by blind, ignorant, and occupied Americans. It’s words are precious, providing viable principles by which to live, and if necessary — as Patrick Henry suggested — for which to die.

The Founding Fathers knew the value of liberty. If they were alive today, wouldn’t they weep at how quickly their achievements have been squandered?

Footnotes:
_ftnref11, New Order of the Barbarians, An Insider Spills The Beans,
a transcript of the reminisces of Dr. Laurence Dunnegan, a pediatric physician, and attendee of a meeting where insider Dr. Richard Day spoke in 1969. Note-taking and recording devices weren't allowed.
_ftnref22, George Bush Sr. speech on September 11, 1990, taken from National Archives_ftnref33,
Blair says 'Let us reorder this world', Michael White, Guardian, October 3, 2001_ftnref44, For more information, see
Two Acts of Tyranny on the Same Day by Daneen G. Petersen

© 2007 Darren Weeks - All Rights Reserved

REBUILDING THE LOST REPUBLIC

2007-05-14T17:12:00.000-07:00

SOMEBODY WAKE ME UP WHEN THIS INSANITY IS OVER!
By David Brownlow

A friend of mine recently shed his corporate handcuffs, sold everything he owns, and moved to a small island in the Caribbean. His parting words as he left were, "Man, I am so outta here!"

There are mornings when I wake up wondering how much more of this I can take. Between watching our burgeoning police state expand at an exponential rate, to having my oldest son getting his butt shot off in some Iraqi hellhole - it is tempting to think of packing this all in and hightailing off to some remote corner of the world.

However, as much as I would rather be lounging on some white sandy beach with my lovely wife, I feel compelled to stay here and fight this one out. This happened on our watch, and we cannot leave this mess for our kids to clean up.

The enormity of the challenge we face can seem overwhelming at times. An already difficult task has been made next to impossible with the sad revelation that instead of the praying Christian we thought we elected in 2000, our President has turned out to be a liar and a murderer, like his father the devil. That will probably sound a little harsh to some, but it is too late in the game to pussyfoot around the truth any longer, so I am just going to say it like it is.

If George Bush were the only one attempting to stampede our nation over a cliff, we'd have a chance of putting up some real opposition. But unfortunately, most of those who rule alongside him seem to share his diabolical death wish. Not a good sign.

The enemies of freedom have pulled off an amazing feat by convincing the American people that there are two opposing political parties – when in fact, we are living under one party rule. To hide that reality from the people, they keep us so busy chasing after the symptoms, (and our tails!) that few are even able to identify the disease that infects our nation - which is that a gang of bloodthirsty criminals have seized control of our government.

Fighting the symptoms without treating the disease will eventually kill the patient.
The Symptoms of a Dying Republic:

Since the beginning of the Republican Revolution of 1994, 15,000,000 American children have been murdered in the abortion holocaust, with the death toll increasing at the rate of 3,400 dead babies every single day - while "pro-life" Republicans never lifted a finger to stop it - phony partial birth abortion bans not withstanding. May God have mercy on us.

Lawlessness pervades from every level of our federal government, which has more in common with a criminal enterprise than it does anything even remotely resembling a legitimate government. Anyone attempting to resist the latest governmental whim will quickly find themselves confronted by a heavily armed, increasingly belligerent federal police force that has ballooned to nearly 100,000 strong.

As if thuggery at the federal level was not enough, the phony "war on drugs" and the "war on terror" have morphed our local police forces into paramilitary fighting units armed with; helicopters, armored vehicles, SWAT teams, snipers, machine guns, grenades, body armor, infrared detectors, command and control systems, and electronic surveillance, along with what is often a seriously bad attitude – all of which is made available as a force multiplier to the feds, without question, whenever they really want to knock some heads.
Illegal federal spending has skyrocketed across the board, with nearly 85 cents of every dollar stolen from us going to fund literally thousands of unconstitutional programs. As our wealth is drained away from us, our national debt continues to explode - to upwards of 60 trillion dollars when all the unfunded liabilities are added in. This spiraling debt is a time bomb just waiting to go off.

The staged attacks of nine eleven spawned the avalanche of lies that were used to justify our invasion of Iraq, a country that never threatened to harm us. As our military is being transformed (rather poorly) into an imperialist fighting force, deployed in 142 of the worlds 192 countries, we have left 160,000 of our finest soldiers stranded in a deadly quagmire - their only apparent mission is to avoid getting killed as the generals force them to wander aimlessly around a vast Iraqi shooting gallery.

Silly little slogans designed to pacify the weak-minded have replaced any real dialog with those who rule us. "We must support our troops" and "It is better to fight them over there rather than over here" are two of the classics. Many still cling to the notion that Iraq was involved in 9/11. Call it "mission accomplished" for a government education system that continues to churn out an annual crop of fearful, obedient servants.
The military industrial complex, aided by the 100,000 or so contractors and mercenaries they have in Iraq, is cashing in on the half a trillion dollars we have spent raining carnage down on the Iraqi people.

Another convenient outcome of nine eleven - for the enemies of freedom - is the major assault that is being aggressively waged against the Constitution, resulting in illegal wiretaps, email snooping, airport strip searches, along with a huge increase in federal spying into just about every facet of our lives. The NSA/CIA/FBI domestic spy ring is completely out of control, posing a far greater threat to our freedom than any wandering band of desert Bedouins could ever hope to.

The unprecedented increase in domestic spying - or more correctly, domestic treason - was accompanied by the loss of our right to habeas corpus - which means we can be arrested without being charged, and hauled off to a secret prison - possibly one located in a country that has even less aversion to torturing prisoners than we do. For anyone classified as an "enemy combatant," there is no right to counsel, and no right to a trial. Secret evidence and forced confessions may be used against those imprisoned. To that end, there are enough indecipherable new laws and restrictions such that any one of us could be caught up in the "Fatherland Security" net without ever knowing what we did wrong - which is exactly the intent.

Lies and propaganda pour out of nearly every talking head in Washington, which is spoon fed to us 24 hours a day by a compliant media - with shows like Fox "News" bearing a stronger resemblance to Pravda, the former Soviet Union's propaganda arm, than anything like real news reporting.

A private banking cartel, called The Federal Reserve, created nearly 5,000,000,000,000 (that's five trillion!) Federal Reserve Notes - out of thin air - since January 2000. This desperate attempt to prop up the failing American empire was in reality a five trillion dollar hidden tax. The counterfeiters got rich, while we got ripped off. Unbelievable.

After just a few months in power, the Democrats have already proven they are just as useless as the Republicans. (Like we ever had any doubt!) Our political system has degraded to such a sorry condition that we are left with the equivalent of two competing crime families running our government, each side vying for the right to grab a bigger slice of the plunder. As part of the scam, they masquerade as a two party political system. A Hillariod administration is looming just over the horizon.

Corporate robber barons often take home tens of millions a year in salary, while our government encourages them to move their family wage jobs to countries that will provide the equivalent of slave labor. The biggest losers in this cozy little deal are the American people, along with our manufacturing base, which has been left in ruins.

We continue to burn Middle Eastern oil at an unsustainable rate, ensuring that we will be bogged down there for decades to come. This, while Detroit is building cars that get fewer miles per gallon than a Model T got one hundred years ago. The solution? The federal government is handing out incentives to pull corn out of the food chain for use as an ethanol feedstock - which is produced at a net energy loss! Brilliant, just brilliant.
Exxon/Mobil, with $40 billion in profits last year, comes out the big winner in all this confusion - which is probably why they, and the rest of their corporate cohorts, continue to bribe nearly every congressman who skulks the halls of Congress.

This battle is no longer about defending our freedoms, it is about winning it back. Anyone with even half a brain can see that a moral and economic tsunami is barreling toward our shores, yet God's people sit in their government incorporated, 501C bribed, Caesar worshipping churches - where conniving shepherds teach that Romans 13 commands them to bow down before, and swear allegiance to, the gang of violent criminals who have seized control of our government. Clearly, trying to serve two masters has been a disaster for those who claim to be followers of Christ.

I often wonder if it will be God's own people who will be the most enthusiastic supporters of the antichrist if he will only spout off enough godblessamericas.

While we were cowering beneath our covers, hiding from the Islamic bogymen they told us was lurking under every bed, we let our real enemies overrun our camp undetected - and they have completely trashed the place. Our freedoms and our way of life are just a false flag attack away from being completely annihilated.
The hour is late, very late. But if we are willing to repent before God for the sins of our nation - for the warfare and the murders - and regain the spirit of independence and self-sacrifice upon which this country was founded, there may still be time to pull this one out of the fire.

© 2007 David Brownlow - All Rights Reserved

KEEPING A TROPHY

2007-05-10T19:35:00.000-07:00

Rumsfeld Keeps Ghastly 9/11 Souvenirs
Posted by: Leonid Shalimov

The Justice Department investigation that criticized FBI agents for taking souvenirs from the World Trade Center site also found that Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and a high-ranking FBI official kept items from the Sept. 11 attack scenes.

Excuse me? What the hell is Rumsfeld doing taking souvenirs from 9/11. First off, I must question the legality of this. Wouldn’t a piece of the airplane be considered a part of the crime scene? The whole 9/11 report and documentation is gnarled to death with inconsistency but hell, let’s take some evidence for the road.
Sure, some might think it would be easy to overreact but let’s get real. This isn’t some random citizen - its the former Secretary of Defense. I want to hear your comments.

For those who doubt that a plane hit the pentagon, maybe you can call Rumsfeld and he’ll prove it to you:

The final investigatory report said the Justice Department inspector general confirmed Rumsfeld “has a piece of the airplane that flew into the Pentagon.” The Associated Press obtained a copy of the report Friday.

FOR THAT REPORT CLICK HERE:
http://fbiwhistlestop.com/FBI/RumsfeldTookItems.pdf

THE REST OF THE BIG LIE

2007-05-10T19:03:00.000-07:00

Why an Income Tax is Not Necessary to Fund the U.S. Government

Devvy Kidd
Originally published and copyrighted in June 2001
Changes in text (c) 2005

Can this statement possibly be true?

In order to answer this question, Americans must first understand what is the source of the money that funds the government and where it goes. Contrary to the sound bites issued by the two mainstream political parties, the reality of how the system actually works will not only open your eyes, but hopefully stimulate the American people to demand that the thievery underway come to an end.

Where do your "income" tax dollars go?

The best place to look for an answer to this question would be a government report, so let's take just one at random:

President's Private Sector Survey On Cost Control A Report to The President (Reagan)
January 15, 1984. Available from the Congressional Research Service. The excerpt below can be found on page 12.

"Importantly, any meaningful increases in taxes from personal income would have to come from lower and middle income families, as 90% of all personal taxable income is generated below the taxable income level of $35,000.

Further, there isn't much more that can be extracted from high income brackets. If the Government took 100% of all taxable income beyond the $75,000 tax bracket not already taxed, it would get only $17 billion, and this confiscation, which would destroy productive enterprise, would only be sufficient to run the Government for several days.

Resistance to additional income taxes would be even more widespread if people were aware that:
With two-thirds of everyone's personal income taxes wasted or not collected, 100% of what is collected is absorbed solely by interest on the Federal Government contributions to transfer payments.

In other words, all individual income tax revenues are gone before one nickel is spent on the services which taxpayers expect from their government."

How can that be? In order to answer this question, an individual must learn how the privately owned "Federal" Reserve (central bank) actually works. In a nutshell, this is how the scam works:

This excerpt from Debt Virus by Dr. Jacques Jaikraan, page 216 is very revealing. The "Federal" Reserve Act of 1913, requires the central bank to return a small portion of its unconstitutional gains to the U.S. Treasury.

Here is an example of the numbers:
"In 1988 the Federal Reserve has an income of 19.5 billion, and it turned back $17.36 billion to the U.S. Treasury as provided under its charter.The Federal Reserve Act of 1913 provided that a substantial portion of the Feds annual profits be turned over to the National Treasury. Does this fact dilute the argument that there are vast profits built into the commercial banking system? No. Consider for a moment that the total debt (public debt plus private debt) at the end of 1988 was in excess of $11 trillion.

[Editorial note: Today it is in excess of $23 trillion.] Then, the discount rate, the rate at which banks can borrow from the Federal Reserve, was about 9.4%. Assuming the debt carried the same rate as the discount rate, there was an annual interest charge of almost $1 trillion on the total debt owed to the banking system. While all of this interest payment does not go to commercial banks, an overwhelmingly large part of it does. The $17.36 billion turned over to the U.S. Treasury is thus much less than 2% of the total carrying charge on the total debt. which they created out of thin air. Now can you appreciate what is happening?" End of excerpt.Our Founding Fathers, the ones our elected public servants are always chirping they respect, warned the American people about usury and unscrupulous bankers:

"If the American people ever allow the banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation, and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property, until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power of money should be taken from banks and restored to Congress and the people to whom it belongs. I sincerely believe the banking institutions having the issuing power of money, are more dangerous to liberty than standing armies." ~ Thomas Jefferson

So what we have is a central bank issuing worthless paper "money" that controls our economy, our lives and our future. This private banking cartel was unconstitutionally granted this power by a devious, scheming group of senators back in 1913. In essence what they did was place the American people into indentured servitude by forcing The People to pay usury on worthless fiat currency (paper money created out of nothing), not to fund the government, but to enrich the bankers and fund wars in which America should never be involved. This system exists not to fund the government, but to allow the U.S. Congress carte blanche power to continue funding unconstitutional agencies and programs by providing them with a bottomless source of worthless ink.

The National Debt and the Deficit

These two little bookkeeping items are not the same thing. Few Americans actually know the difference, but the difference is quite important. We continually hear members of Congress, president after president, and political pundits call for "reduction in the debt." But what does that really mean? Here's how it works in the most simplified way to fit into this document:

Let's say that for 2002, Congress and the President decide they want $1.7 trillion dollars to fund this bloated pig called our government. We know that 100% of all personal "income" taxes extorted by the IRS goes to the "Federal" Reserve Banking System and does not fund a single function of the government. So, let's take the people's blood and sweat off the table.

What other revenues does the government collect? Corporate taxes, social security taxes, constitutional revenues such as excise taxes on cigarettes, alcohol, tobacco, firearms, tires, etc., tariffs on trade, military hardware sales, and some minor categories. Let's say that those revenues will total $900 billion dollars. The politicians want $1.7 trillion to spend on their favorite welfare programs, wars and foreign welfare, but have a short fall of $800 billion dollars. This is called the deficit and the deficit, created by the spending of Congress, creates the "national debt."

How? Because the politicians are $800 billion dollars short, they simply call up Al Greenspan and borrow your children's and grand babies' futures. The "Federal" Reserve Banks don't loan anything of value to Congress. They aren't banks; they're really an overpaid, powerful, private accounting service. When that $800 billion dollars worth of ink is transferred to the Treasury, it gets piled on top of the existing "national debt."

This is how the magical money machine works. Congress overspends. It borrows from this accounting firm called the "Fed" and then turns around and tells you to pay for these crimes against the people. In other words, Congress basically pays the bills with social security and borrowed ink from the "Fed." Pretty slick scam, wouldn't you say?

The people of America are also responsible to a large degree for this out-of-control spending. Americans have been bred to a welfare dependent mentality. Special interest groups who have no interest in the U.S. Constitution, demand that billions of dollars be spent on their pet interests. Billions upon billions of dollars have been unconstitutionally thrown to foreign governments, some days our friend, a week later our enemies. They are only our friend as long as the U.S. throws money at their corrupt governments.

Billions of dollars have unconstitutionally been spent on grants to colleges and universities, which in turn sell their research to the highest bidder, paid for by the sweat off the back of the little guy out in America. No, they don't return any back to the little guy who funded these studies and research programs.

As long as the American people themselves condone continued unconstitutional spending by Congress, the longer they will violate their oath of office, and continue to fund unconstitutional expenditures, placing your children and grand babies in a state of unpayable, massive debt.

Unless The People demand an end to this insanity, our economy eventually will collapse under the weight of this massive, unpayable debt, no matter how much ink the "Fed" transfers into the coffers of the U.S. Treasury. The pain of withdrawal from unlawful government hand-outs will be far less now than it will be down the road.
America became the greatest, debt free nation on earth by a resourceful, independent, self reliant people. Sadly, today we have a large percentage of our population who can't get through the day without a government memo telling them how, step-by-step, with a redistribution of average, ordinary Americans assets into the hands of the unproductive. A very sad commentary to what made our nation great and prosperous.

But I heard the debt is being paid down?

What you heard and reality are two separate issues altogether. The politicians must continue to fool the American people lest they catch on to this chicanery. Let's have a look at the numbers so you can see that any utterance that the national debt has been paid down X billions of dollars, is nothing more than bombastic gas, passed from one administration to the next and the latest recycled Congress.

In the chart below, an R next to the amount indicates a Republican President; a D is for a Democrat in the Oval Office. The Democrats had control of Congress from 1954, until the illusion billed as the "Republican Revolution" in 1994. Both houses of Congress were Republican controlled until after the 2000 "election", but this ended when in May 2001 James Jeffords 'fessed up to his real political agenda.
Current Congressionally created debt:

9/29/2006 $8,506,973,899,215.23 7% (R)
9/30/2005 $7,932,709,661,723.50 8% (R)
9/30/2004 $7,379,052,696,330.32 9% (R)
9/30/2003 $6,783,231,062,743.62 9% (R)
9/30/2002 $6,228,235,965,597.16 7% (R)
9/28/2001 $5,807,463,412,200.06 2% (R)
9/29/2000 $5,674,178,209,886.86 0% (D)
9/30/1999 $5,656,270,901,615.43 2% (D)
9/30/1998 $5,526,193,008,897.62 2% (D)
9/30/1997 $5,413,146,011,397.34 4% (D)
9/30/1996 $5,224,810,939,135.73 5% (D)
9/29/1995 $4,973,982,900,709.39 6% (D)
9/30/1994 $4,692,749,910,013.32 6% (D)
9/30/1993 $4,411,488,883,139.38 9% (D)
9/30/1992 $4,064,620,655,521.66 11% (R)
9/30/1991 $3,665,303,351,697.03 13% (R)
9/28/1990 $3,233,313,451,777.25 13% (R)
9/29/1989 $2,857,430,960,187.32 10% (R)
9/30/1988 $2,602,337,712,041.16 11% (R)
9/30/1987 $2,350,276,890,953.00 (R)

Average ('R) 9%
Average ('D) 4%

The statistics above were obtained from the Bureau of The Public Debt's web site:http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/opd/opdpenny.htm

You can check the growth of this BORROWED DEBT by party here:http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/opd/opdhisto4.htm

As you can see, it doesn't matter which party is in office, there is no surplus and the debt cannot be paid down, it can only grow exponentially as long as Congress and the President have the central bank at their fingertips.

A "balanced budget" is nothing more than good political rhetoric, but in reality, it's a pipe dream strictly for public consumption. How can you balance your budget if you have no money to spend and are trillions of dollars in the hole? You can't. It's just another well crafted illusion to keep the masses pacified.

You can fool some of the people some of the time, but the American people have awakened to this monumental theft and are demanding the only real solution that can be implemented: Abolishing the central bank, and a return to a constitutional monetary system with no income tax.

No "Fed," no need for a direct tax

Without the central bank siphoning off the wealth of our nation, there would be no need for a personal income tax.

President Andrew Jackson booted out the central bank; his speech can be read here:
http://alpha.furman.edu/~benson/docs/ajveto.htm

This battle fought by Jackson was a huge deal back then and he refused to back down. Jackson was the last honest president with the guts to stand up to the international bankers who are literally stealing US blind.
"The greatest party battle of Jackson's presidency centered around the Second Bank of the United States, a private corporation but virtually a Government-sponsored monopoly. When Jackson appeared hostile toward it, the Bank threw its power against him.

"Clay and Webster, who had acted as attorneys for the Bank, led the fight for its recharter in Congress. "The bank," Jackson told Martin Van Buren, "is trying to kill me, but I will kill it!" Jackson, in vetoing the recharter bill, charged the Bank with undue economic privilege.

"His views won approval from the American electorate; in 1832 he polled more than 56 percent of the popular vote and almost five times as many electoral votes as Clay."

Please note that the words "a private corporation but virtually a Government sponsored monoploy" comes directly from the White House's web site. What a huge admission!

On line, you can also read Congressman Louis McFadden's indictment on the Federal Reserve Corporation. It is a very concise explanation of how the international banking cartel has been sacking this country's wealth since 1913.

Don't be fooled by this chant around the country for a flat tax, a consumption tax, sales tax or any other kind of personal income tax. There is absolutely no authority in the U.S. Constitution to implement any of these forms of taxation without apportionment. It is for this reason and this reason alone, that when it became apparent that the 16th Amendment was not going to be ratified by the states, fraud was committed and it was simply "proclaimed" ratified by then Secretary of State Philander Knox.

We don't need any direct taxation and these popular mantras are just new lies to replace old lies. Any one of these forms of taxation will still feed the cancer: the central bank. Any one of these forms of taxation is just another way to fleece the American people to enrich the pockets of the international banking cartel. Please consider the words of Congressman Ron Paul:

"Strictly speaking, it probably is not necessary for the federal government to tax anyone directly; it could simply print the money it needs. However, that would be too bold a stroke, for it would then be obvious to all what kind of counterfeiting operation the government is running. The present system combining taxation and inflation is akin to watering the milk: too much water and the people catch on."

Please don't fall for these alternative taxing SCHEMES. The banking cartel doesn't care what form it is they fleece your hard earned dollars (flat tax, fair tax, sales tax, etc.) - just as long as they continue to steal from us:

Beware alternative taxing schemes

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43242

Make IRS check payable to stockholders of private Fed

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43820

Today is April 15 ... again

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44036

What we need to do is take away the magical money machine called the "Fed," which will force Congress to live within its means and fund only those activities specifically enumerated by the supreme law of the land in Art. 1, § 8 of the U.S. Constitution:

Lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States, but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States, borrow Money on the credit of the United States, regulate commerce (trade), naturalization, bankruptcy laws, coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign Coin, fix the Standard of Weights and Measures, punishment regarding counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States, establish Post Offices and post Roads, Promote [Editorial note: "promote" does not mean fund] the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries, constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court, define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations; declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water, Raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years, provide and maintain a Navy, make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces; provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions, provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress, Exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings, make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof. **

There is absolutely no authority for the federal government to legislate in areas of the environment, education, the NEA, the FDA and many others. It may surprise you to find out that agencies such as FDA, DEA and the EPA all derive their jurisdiction from international treaties. When the powers that be wish to circumvent the U.S. Constitution, they do it either through an executive order or international treaties. We strongly encourage you to investigate this issue thoroughly.

Prior to the Federal Department of Education, America had the finest schools in the world. Since this disastrous and unconstitutional grab for power, we can all see that a quadrillion dollars a year will not fix our schools, and they continue to decline faster than the feds or states can shovel money into them. Even if a direct tax were necessary, only by keeping it at its lowest possible percentage would it ever benefit this nation:

"The point now emphasized is that the evil effects of high surtaxes fall not upon the individual whose income is seized and taken, but ultimately almost entirely upon the mass of the people who are thereby deprived of the benefits which would result from the free flow of commercial transactions and the use of the additional capital which would be available for productive enterprise. "Freedom of business transactions essential.

"The revenues to be obtained by the Government from this class of taxes depends upon transactions in trade and commerce which bring about income available for payment of taxes. It is highly desirable, in the interest of the production of revenue, that the volume of business transactions giving rise to gain shall be as great as possible, and to this end it is essential that the natural laws of trade and commerce and the free flow of business shall not be interfered with or prevented.

The excerpt below is from pgs 19-20, Annual Report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the State of Finances for 1921:

"But the direct effect of these very high taxes is to hinder and prevent business transactions which would otherwise take place. A man may have property which he has held for years and which has greatly increased in value, and he would like to sell it, but if he does a large part of the gain would have to be paid out in taxes. He would rather keep the property than sell it, pay the tax, and invest what is left in something else. At the same time the party desiring to buy this property, if he obtained it, would improve it with buildings.

What is the result? The transaction does not take place, and the community loses the advantage which would come in the stimulation that would arise from the transactions resulting from the buyer's improvement of the property, and it also loses the advantage of the seller's putting his money into some other form of investment, which in turn would give rise to business transactions. The same thing on a much greater scale is true in manufacturing and mercantile lines. Men have built up enterprises to the point where they are highly successful. They would like to take their profit and turn the business over to younger men to carry on.

These transactions are highly desirable not only for the parties but for the community, yet they are absolutely stopped, because if made the seller would have to pay in one year a tax on a gain which has been the result of perhaps the better part of a lifetime of effort. And in all such cases the Government gets no tax, whereas if the rates were reasonable the transactions would take place and the Government's revenues would benefit accordingly.

The free interchange of property in business transactions is essential to the normal prosperity of the country, and each such transaction has a direct tendency to bring about others of like character with the result of increasing the amount of gain or income available for taxation; but when the tax is so high as to act as a deterrent against usual and desirable business transactions, and the volume of such transactions is thereby lessened, the inevitable result is for the tax to become less and less productive.

It is for these reasons that, particularly in the higher brackets, a lower tax rate will produce more revenue in the long run than excessive rates. So long as the high rate stands in the way of accomplishing bargains and sales, the Government receives no tax; but at a lower rate the transactions proceed and the Government shares in the profits." (End of excerpt.)

Today Americans are being fleeced to the tune of approximately 52% of every dollar going for local, state and federal taxes. The day is rapidly approaching when making even $1,000 per hour will not be enough to survive. How much longer are the people of this nation going to put up with this state of affairs? We say enough is enough!

A Pioneer on the withholding issue

Vivien Kellems was a woman before her time who knew the grand theft taking place against the working man's paycheck. [For more information on Ms. Kellems, see: http://www.vivienkellems.com/]. The following excerpt from pages 41-46 of her book, Toil, Taxes and Trouble, published in 1952 is legally right on point:
"Since a capitation means a tax of the same amount for every person, this provision makes doubly sure that all federal taxes must be at the same uniform rate for everybody. This limitation that direct taxes be levied by the Federal Government must be in proportion to a census and apportioned among the States in accordance with numbers, is the only provision in the Constitution that is stated twice.

"The only reason that our Constitution required a census to be taken every ten years was to count the people to determine how many Representatives should go to Congress, and how direct taxes should be levied. I wonder how many Americans thought of this in 1950 when those little busybodies came knocking on their doors, asking ten thousand impudent, silly questions which were none of their, or Washington's, business.

"There is absolutely no power granted in the Constitution which enables a top-heavy bureaucracy of empty-headed simpletons, and worse, to invade the privacy of the American people in such a monstrous manner. This census is just a preview of what is really in store for us if they actually take over, which they most certainly will do unless we uproot and vote them out.

"The census was to count the people - that was all. The number of people determined the number of Representatives in Congress and the apportionment of direct taxes among the states.

"For a long time I asked myself, 'Why were Representatives and direct taxes linked together and apportioned among the States in accordance with population?' It was understandable that Representatives should be chosen in accordance with numbers but why should taxes be apportioned the same way? And then one day, out of the blue, it came to me crystal clear. All at once I understood the plan to safeguard the future freedom of the nation, conceived and executed by those scholarly men.

"I read again: 'Representatives and direct taxes shall be included within this Union, according to their respective numbers...' 'No capitation, or other direct tax shall be laid, unless in proportion to the Census of Enumeration hereinbefore directed to be taken.' And in those two sentences our forefathers bound fast the hands of Congress and secured the liberty and freedom of the American people. How? By making it utterly impossible to levy an income tax.

"An income tax is certainly a direct tax, probably the most direct tax of all since it cannot be shifted but must be paid by the person receiving the income. By specifying that direct taxes must be levied in accordance with the number of people, not upon what they produced, as in the days of ancient Egypt, an income tax was simply out of the question. It cannot be levied upon a man but must be levied upon what he receives.

"Our forefathers designed and incorporated in the Constitution a new system of government. It was built upon a revolutionary idea; the conviction that the government belonged to the people and existed only by their consent. Its genius lay in the careful system of checks and balances among the three departments, the Legislative, the Executive, and the Judicial. And it went further and maintained a balance between the powers of the individual States and the Federal Government. In addition it carefully reserved to the States and to the people all rights and powers not specifically delegated, or prohibited to the Federal Government and further stated that because certain rights were enumerated in the Constitution it did not mean that others not mentioned were still not the property of the people.

"However everything in the Constitution was arrived at by compromise. The interests and concerns of the thirteen states varied widely and each delegate was sent to Philadelphia to protect the commerce, industry and agriculture of his particular state. It required months of patient discussion, argument and forbearance to finally produce the finished document, which when completed, comprised a system of government to protect the people in the rights and liberties set down in flaming words in the Declaration of Independence. It is a wonderful document, the best system of government ever devised for human beings, but it could have varied in some respects and still have worked satisfactorily......

"The supreme achievement of the combined brains of all those men were written into those two sentences and the freedom and liberty of the American people were secured in them. For in those two sentences the right of the free man to own something was made inviolate. This was his distinguishing mark, the only criterion of freedom in all the world, the right of the common man to retain for himself the fruit of his labor.
Now this is how it worked. Every man was given a vote with which he could vote for his Representative. Originally only Representatives were elected, Senators were appointed by the State Legislatures and it's too bad we changed that provision."

(Editorial Note: We didn't. Like the 16th Amendment, the 17th Amendment is a fraud--it was never ratified by the states. Therefore, we have not had a lawfully seated senate since 1913.)

"That Representative having to stand for election every two years was close to the people and responsive to their wishes. That is why he was given the power to tax; all bills of revenue arise in the House. And that is why he must come home every two years and give an accounting to the people.

"But his power to levy direct taxes was limited by an ironbound restriction: that tax must be apportioned among the States in accordance with the population. Since all taxes were to be at a uniform rate, Congress simply could not penalize one section of the country, or one group of citizens for the unfair advantage of another.

"When Congress levied a tax, everybody had to pay and at the same rate. The amount would vary with the wealth of an area, as it does today with the different values of real estate, but the rate was the same for all and the tax was distributed among the States according to population.

"The men who wrote our Constitution did not found a democracy. They feared the so-called 'Democrats' of their day as much as we fear the Communists today. They did not believe in mob rule, or government by the unintelligent, irresponsible mass. They founded a republic and they made certain that the right to vote should be curbed and controlled by the necessity of paying taxes. Scheming politicians could not take taxes from a helpless minority and buy themselves back into office with the votes of the tax exempt majority. When a Representative voted a tax, he voted to tax everybody because the tax was based upon numbers, not upon dollars.

"This was the most brilliant plan ever conceived for guaranteeing the freedom of a nation. It protected every person in his right to private property, rich and poor alike, and under this protection we built the richest, most powerful nation on earth. We achieved and maintained for the majority of our people a standard of living undreamed of before, the hope and the envy of the whole world.

"And we accomplished something even more important: we developed a vigorous, self-reliant, self- respecting race of people. An American citizen would have been ashamed to ask for a handout from his Government. The Government belonged to him, he did not belong to the government.

"And then what happened? We chucked our carefully safeguarded right to own something out the window, and we passed the income tax amendment. Gone was our apportionment among the States in accordance with population, and also gone was our principle of uniformity. Income 'from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration' could be taxed and without limit. And when we passed this income tax amendment the slow, distilled poison of tax slavery dripped into our veins. We sowed the seeds of our national decay which is rapidly coming to maturity before our eyes today. The heritage of freedom so carefully insured for us by our forefathers is gone; it has been taxed away." (End of excerpt.)

The "General Welfare" Clause of the Constitution

The majority of unconstitutional spending is justified by the "general welfare" clause of the constitution. Shawn O'Connor of the Free Enterprise Society summed up this misconception in one of his speeches, paraphrased below:

"Discussion of the general welfare clause of the Constitution by the courts relies upon the Federalist Papers. This term simply means: Taxation was to protect the individuals' life, liberty and ownership of private property. One can go to Art. 1, Sec. 8, Clause 1 of the constitution and read the general welfare clause. Then one can do some history research and see what the Anti-Federalists had to say about this clause:

"That this clause conveys absolute power to the central government. Patrick Henry was very vocal in his opposition to putting this kind of language into the constitution. Madison, however, assured Henry and others that all the general welfare clause represented was a preliminary introduction prior to the enumerating the specific powers the delegates were about to grant to this new federal government and that the general welfare clause granted no new power to the government whatsoever. It was simply an introductory statement.

The Anti-Federalists still weren't satisfied. Hamilton and Madison came back to re-state that if the general welfare clause conveyed absolute power to the government, why would they go on to list the specific powers they were going to grant the government? That wouldn't make any sense at all if they were going to give absolute power to this government. It was finally conceded by all at the convention that the general welfare clause conveyed absolutely no power to the government." [End of comment.]

The general welfare clause of the constitution has been misused for personal gain by special interest groups to enrich the pockets of the banking cartel, by politicians hoping to "get that vote," and an all out push to turn America into a socialist country, beginning with the "New Deal" implemented by FDR and supported by a weak Congress. Lyndon Johnson took the quest to turn America into a socialist nation to new and grotesque heights.

How would you fund the government without any direct taxation?

The powers that be know it's just a matter of time before the truth reaches enough Americans about the voluntary income tax system. Already trial balloons are being floated to once again fool the people into some form of alternative tax in order to feed the central bank.

America functioned very well without an income tax throughout the history of this Republic. The answer to the question of funding without a direct tax is found is Article 1, Section 9 of the Constitution since 1787. It provides for Congress to pass a legislative bill for tax money to be paid by each state in proportion to its population.

Proper, constitutional funding will allow large amounts of money to fund a limited form of Republican government. To continue on the path of this massive and unconstitutional spending will bring a final and total collapse of the economy. Make no mistake about it.

Has your government been truthful?

Do you know why the "withholding tax" system was put into place? Let me provide you with just one shocking example of how things work behind the scenes:

Declassified (Confidential Committee Print) Withholding Tax Hearing Before A Subcommittee of The Committee on Finance, United States Senate, 77th Congress, Second Session on: Data Relative to Withholding Provisions of the 1942 Revenue Act, August 21 and 22, 1942 (Printed for the use of the Committee on Finance) United States Government Printing Office, Washington 1942 SUMMARY/Contents Statement of:

Friedman, Milton, Division of Tax Research, Treasury Department Hardy, Charles O., of Brookings Institution Jacobstein, Meyer, of Brookings Institution Paul, Randolph E., Treasury DepartmentOverview Because the war effort resulted in increased production and employment, which caused a sudden large influx of money into circulation, the Federal Government and Federal Reserve System had to find a method of "mopping up excess purchasing power" thereby control inflation and obtain immediate funds for the Treasury. Several plans were put forth before the House, Ways & Means Committee and the Senate Committee on Finance to accomplish this purpose.

The following points were made by the Senators and those testifying before the committee:

1. The overall purpose was to obtain immediate money for the war effort, to control inflation and to get the income tax on a current basis instead of being one year behind.
2. To accomplish this goal, it was recognized that a scheme was needed to reach the largest number of people.
3. That the scheme, regardless of whether it was a "coupon," "stamp" or "withholding of income tax at source," would constitute a "forced loan" to the Federal Government and it would apply to taxpayers and nontaxpayers alike, with exceptions.
4. Where an individual had money withheld and ultimately no tax liability, the individual would file an income tax return and that income tax return would constitute an automatic claim for refund.
5. The proposed plan was an emergency war time measure.

Hearing Experts, Beginning Page 99

Statement of Meyer Jacobstein of Brookings Institution
"It is obvious that it is necessary to mop up the excess purchasing power of the community, not only because of it's effect on the price situation but because the Treasury needs the money and needs it quickly.*
Obviously the Treasury can collect from the consumers as the purchases are made and the Treasury has the use of those funds long before it would obtain them by the income-tax method.

Now, there are many ways, of course, of mopping up this surplus purchasing power...Now, there is the withholding tax at the source based on payrolls."

Senator Clark: "Doctor, what this plan is, it is essentially a compulsory savings plan based on sales tax methods, is it not?"

Mr. Jacobstein: "I should say that is a fair description of it, yes. It is the use of a sales tax method without being a tax."

Senator Clark: "So far as the impact on the public is concerned, it is precisely the same as a sales tax, except you give the money back sometimes."

Mr. Jacobstein: "That is right. That is a very fair statement, I think. Senator Danaher used the word "self-assessment." If I buy a dollar necktie I pay $1.10 under his plan. A withholding tax is usually withheld at the source. Here you withhold it not at the manufacturer's end but at the retailer's end. You are using the retailer instead of the manufacturer to siphon off several billion dollars, depending on the rate of the assessment of a tax.

It may be that several systems can be used. Any one of them might be very useful to the Treasury in accomplishing this purpose. But...for siphoning off purchasing power into the Treasury from day to day, or week to week, or month to month; and it has that advantage.

Now, there is an aspect to this question which was not brought out in the original memorandum which would make the scheme perhaps a little more palatable if certain deductions were made by any method, either by the withholding tax method or direct sales tax method or by Senator Danaher's proposal...."
Statement of Charles O. Hardy of the Brookings Institution

Mr. Hardy: "First...mainly for the purpose of providing an exemption from the tax or forced loan, either one. Now, as has been stated a moment ago, this is a forced loan. It should be pointed out, I think, that you can do the same thing with the mechanics of any other tax, that is, under the income tax you can give out bonds or coupons redeemable in bonds instead of giving receipts for the income tax. You can do that, as far as I can see, with any tax, for the whole schedule of taxes.

I would like to say...that we have to bring about a readjustment of consumption in the country to the amount of consumers goods and services that we can spare the resources to produce under war conditions. First, we have got to devote our productive energies to the war.

Or, you can use the mechanism of the sales tax, as far as I can see, by mopping up the increased purchasing power that is created by the rising amount they receive in their paychecks. On the other hand, if the money is stored up, whether it is in the form of these stamps or in the form where people haven't spent it because they have had no way to spend it, in either case if it is too large a proportion you are going to have the problem, whenever you do turn it loose, that you have now in the other case, namely of having a lot more purchasing power than you have goods and services to make it good with.

That is the answer, I think, to the question that might be raised as to why not carry this principle through and apply it to income tax, corporation tax, and everything else. Obviously, this has the advantage that this definitely sews up the purchasing power in such a way that it cannot be released until we discover the proper way to release it.

I think it has a great advantage over the deficient spending program. This program just postpones the problem of administration, in deciding how much purchasing power is available to release and to what extent it will create the old wartime inflation over again."

Senator Danaher: "Let me ask you this question: Considering the withholding tax, simply the treasury withholds it currently and applies the proceeds against the tax due in a given year..."

Mr. Hardy: "The deduction from salaries and interest, and so on, at the source?"
Senator Danaher: "Yes."
Mr. Hardy: "Yes."
Senator Danaher: "That is a currently applied method of withholding so much of the consumer purchasing power as is represented by the tax collected or withheld."
Mr. Hardy: "That is right."
Senator Danaher: "And the applied as against the tax due."
Mr. Hardy: "Yes. The withholding tax provision has the effect of withholding purchasing power at the time the income is realized rather than a year hence through the income tax structure."
Senator Danaher: "And if it were in effect for 1 year it would apply only 1 year?"
Mr. Hardy: "I assume so."
Senator Danaher: "Yes. Whereas this proposal is a continuing thing."
Mr. Hardy: "It seems to me the essential difference is that the withholding tax plan applies at the point of receipt of income, and this applies at the point of expenditure of income."
Senator Danaher: "Of course, you withhold not only from taxpayers but nontaxpayers."
Mr. Hardy: "Yes. Some people that I talked to about this plan, Federal Reserve people, have been rather favorable to the idea."
Mr. Jacobstein: "Don't you want to add that Mr. Selko pointed out that such difficulties as are encountered in the States are, partially at least, overcome when you have a uniform Federal tax? Where you have a uniform tax all over the country by one administration, the Federal Government, it is easier to administer than a sum total of 48 states. Now that was Mr. Selko's conclusion."

Statement of Milton Friedman, Division of Tax Research, Treasury Department

Senator Danaher: "I have only one other thought on that point. In the event of withholding from the owner of stock and no taxes due ultimately, where does he get his refund?"
Mr. Friedman: "You thinking of a corporation or an individual?"
Senator Danaher: "I am talking about an individual."
Mr. Friedman: "An individual will file an income tax return, and that income tax return will constitute an automatic claim for refund." End of document excerpts.
What bald faced lies. "Mop up purchasing power"? Fleecing Americans dry is a more accurate way to describe this terrible injustice against US. How about letting Americans decide to save the fruits of their labor? No, the government wants it all.

* Art. 1, Sec. 8 of the U.S. Constitution gives Congress the power to issue money, not the private fed: "To coin money, regulate the value thereof," Cut out the middle man ("Fed") and the Treasury wouldn't "need the money." What a con game.

T. Coleman Andrews. Mr. Andrews (a Democrat) was Commissioner for the first 33 months of the Eisenhower Administration, stated the following in an article for U.S. News & Report, May 25, 1956:

"....We're confiscating property now....That's socialism. It's written into the Communist Manifesto. Maybe we ought to see that every person who gets a tax return receives a copy of the Communist Manifesto with it so he can see what's happening to him."

Beardsley Ruml, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York stated in one of his speeches in 1946: "The second principal purpose of federal taxes is to attain more equality of wealth and of income than would result from economic forces working alone. The taxes which are effective for this purpose are the progressive individual income tax, the progressive estate tax, and the gift tax. What these taxes should be depends on public policy with respect to the distribution of wealth and of income.

It is important, here, to note that the estate and gift taxes have little or no significance, as tax measures, for stabilizing the value of the dollar. Their purpose is the social purpose of preventing what otherwise would be high concentration of wealth and income at a few points, as a result of investment and reinvestment of income not expended in meeting day-to-day consumption requirements. These taxes should be defended and attacked it terms of their effects on the character of American life, not as revenue measures. Taxes on corporation profits have three principal consequences --- all of them bad."

Does the average man or woman in America know this?

What do we mean when we say that the IRS is not a government agency? Read this quotefrom an U.S. attorney submitted in court documents in a tax case up in Idaho:

Betty Richardson, United States Attorney, Box 32, Boise, Idaho 83707. Civil No. 93-405-E-EJL, United States' Answer and Claim re: Diversified Metal Products, Inc., Plaintiff v. T-Bow Company Trust, Internal Revenue Service and Steve Morgan, Defendants, page 4, paragraph #4: "Denies (the U.S. government) that the Internal Revenue Service is an agency of the United States government ..."

If the IRS is not an agency of the federal government, just what is it? In a nutshell, the income tax is international in scope and not incumbent upon domestic Americans. That is a provable fact. The IRS for more than 80 years has been misapplying the IRCode against unsuspecting Americans and back up their unlawful activities with brute force. This must stop.

What can you do?

The federal government must generate revenues to operate what our Founding Fathers created: A limited form of Republican government. State constitutions are all guaranteed a limited form of Republican government. America is not a democracy. We believe America is a nation of laws, not lies. We can't have it both ways for political expediency or to please any and every special interest group that bribes politicians at all levels with the politically correct "PAC money."

Sometimes it's difficult to be the messenger of news that people would rather not hear.

However, Americans can no longer remain in their comfort zones because the message isn't what they want to hear. If your house is on fire, you don't sit and continue to watch the television set, you call the fire department. America: Our house is on fire and it is the obligation of every American to safeguard the liberties and freedoms given to us by those who paid the ultimate price. Please join the growing numbers of millions who are ready to take back our country and stop the assault on our rights.

I realize everyone's time is at a premium, but I encourage you to read these recent columns over a cup coffee. Things are escalating and going to get much worse and Americans are going to get caught off guard:

http://www.newswithviews.com/Devvy/kidd129.htm
http://www.newswithviews.com/Devvy/kidd131.htm
http://www.newswithviews.com/Craig/roberts8.htm
http://www.newswithviews.com/Erica/Carle21.htm
http://www.newswithviews.com/Yates/steven.htm

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THE BIG LIE

2007-05-10T18:59:00.000-07:00

INCOME TAX ACTIVISTS REJECT BITTER REALITY

By: Devvy©
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"The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse." James Madison, speech in the Virginia constitutional convention, Dec 2, 1829

My last column covered the income tax and the complete and total integration of these united States of America into a "North American Union," which would mean the end of our sovereignty and republic; I dare call it treason. No one had a problem with the facts regarding the NAU/SPP, but many had a problem with my observation about the income tax and the fight to expose the truth: the federal income tax does NOT apply to domestic Americans. The thugs at the IRS have been misapplying the Internal Revenue Code for almost 100 years. The federal courts, in collusion with U.S. Attorneys who have no conscience and care nothing for truth or the law, continue to jail Americans who have broken no law. The court's pat response to any challenge is "frivolous arguments." Hundreds of thousands of Americans make their paycheck off the big lie, i.e., H & R Block, tax preparers, planners and lawyers who betray their clients in favor of serving mother government as an "officer of the court." Their bread and butter is dependent upon the big lie remaining intact.

Here are just two e-mails in response to that column: "Devvy, don't be negative. The People are waking up. I've admired your efforts for years and the movement is taking off. The time is now! The Ron Paul Revolution." And, "I never thought I'd see you tuck tail and run, Devvy." First, as I have already written: Ron Paul is the only constitutional candidate running for president, hands down. However, unless he wins the GOP nomination next summer at their convention, it's over. You won't be able to vote for him, the party faithful will get who ever gets the nod at that convention. If Americans who support Ron Paul don't beat these buggers at their own game, they will get sewage like Rudy Guiliani and it’s "hold your nose and vote" time, again, again, again. Either enough Republicans become delegates to get him nominated or it's over. That's the game rules; see my column here.

There's no question the American people are on the warpath over the thousands cuts being inflicted upon us every day, the flushing of the Constitution and Bill of Rights and the treason underway: the NAU. There's no question millions of Americans know the truth about key issues like the income tax and the privately owned "Federal" Reserve Banking System. However, one simply cannot over look reality because it makes you feel ineffective and hopeless. We are having victories and we do have more to do. We beat the so called mandatory HPV vaccine here in Texas. Gov. Perry has announced he will not veto the legislature's bill to over turn his stupidity. Congressman Ron Paul, has articulated in a new column something I've been pounding on for weeks: H.R. 1592 is unconstitutitonal; Congress has no authority to legislate in this area and Bush has indicated he will veto it; see Dr. Paul's analysis here about federal crimes under the Constitution. He lists three types of conduct, I have listed four in my columns.

Action alert: We are beating the insidious National ID - get on the phone today and call your state rep and senator, your Congress person and your counterfeit U.S. Senator and tell them you will refuse this ID: "Opposition may delay or repeal Real ID program by Margaret Talev, McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON - A nationalized system for driver's licenses that was to take effect next year already had been postponed because of a backlash from Congress and several states, and the Senate began hearings Tuesday to consider repealing it altogether." Make those calls today!

Seventeen years ago I began my journey for the truth. Once I discovered the truth about the central bank, a quest for one world government under communist domination and the fraudulent application of the federal income tax against Americans, I thought all we have to do is educate enough people and Congress will respond. How many hours, days, months, I poured over court cases where the federal courts can't even agree on this issue, read books and did the hard research. Of course I was quite naive back then, I still believed in an illusion. Over the years, I have learned what naked evil really means. This has been no easy road to travel, I can assure you.

As more and more Americans learn the truth thanks to the Internet, superb books like 'Constitutional Income: Do You Have Any?' by Idaho State Rep. Phil Hart and excellent documentary films like Aaron Russo's 'America: Freedom to Fascism,' they join this movement to take down the beast. However, we have a two-fold problem. Many people who e-mailed pointed out victories like the acquittal of Vernice Kuglin, a former UPS pilot. I know the lovely and vivacious, Vernie, and her attorney, Larry Becraft. Yes, she was acquitted because she got a jury, just like Joseph Banister, who believed these defendants. But, for each of these victories, you have another 1,000 good, decent Americans like Dick Simkanin, Irwin Schiff and Dr. Tom Clayton rotting in federal prisons because their juries didn't have the stones to stand up to the federal government. It's also about the process. Have you ever been in a federal court room and watched one of these trials? I have and if you want to talk about raw, stark reality, attend one of these trials. You will see total collusion between federal judges and U.S. Prosecutors; same at the state level. Watch as defense attorneys try to get expert witnesses on the stand or even the law! only to be shot down by U.S. Attorneys who tell the judge, "Oh, we can't have that!" The juries are thrown BS, kept in the dark and come back with a guilty verdict.
Now, let me be very specific here because immediately following Vernie and Joe's acquittal, the e-mails flew fast and furious: the income tax is dead! This is wishful thinking. Neither of those trials decided the legality of the income tax and it's misapplication. In Vernie's case, the jury concluded that Vernie's belief in her position was sincere and acquitted her. They determined in her case and several others that their reliance defense was sincere; see Cheek v U.S below in the reference section. There was absolutely no adjudication as to the legality of the income tax.

Whitey Harrell is another victory for the truth. Whitey was charged at the state level for failure to file and was acquitted by a jury. In Whitey's case, he was fortunate enough to get a jury that asked real questions and didn't like the answers they were getting from the judge. Marcella Brooks was the jury fore person. I have had the honor of meeting and knowing this remarkable woman. She came to the National Press Club in Washington, DC, and shared the stage with yours truly and several other speakers. Marcella's recounting of Whitey's trial was emotional; her words (and deeds) came from the heart of a true American. But, jurors like Marcella are rare. So few Americans have any knowledge of our legal system, just the distorted nonsense they see on Law & Order, which is why I have been a champion of Fully Informed Jury for a long time.

I am aware of Pete Hendrickson's situation and the fight now being mounted by Tommy Cryer, a lawyer in Shreveport, Louisiana, who spent two years researching the entire history of the income tax and it's illegal application against domestic Americans. He has been charged with a felony: Attempt to evade or defeat tax. Cryer, who I do not know, has decided that he must step forward and fight for the truth, for what is right, no matter the cost. He is no fool, he's an experienced attorney and he's in the fight for his freedom, his livelihood, his life. I want him to prevail because I don't want to see one more American jailed and bankrupted to feed a machine that needs victims to stay in business and to protect the big lie. Everything will depend on his jury. Why? Because it doesn't matter if the defendant is wealthy enough to pay for the best legal defense ($50,000 or more), it's uninformed juries who are brain washed by state and federal prosecutors right out of the chute with rhetoric like, "He doesn't want to pay his fair share of taxes! Mr. Cryer wants you to pay his portion, too!!!" Straight out of a Charles Dickens novel, Scrooge (federal prosecutor) jabbing his bony finger into the noses of the jury. And, if you've sat and watched these jurors, you can see what they're thinking before one shred of evidence is presented.

Dr. Edwin Vieria told me a few years ago and I've never forgotten it: The only hope defendants have now is for their defense attorney to convince the jury their client was too stupid to understand the law. Edwin quit practicing more than a year ago and when he told me, I was shocked and asked, why? Edwin told me he could no longer participate in this farce called our judicial system that is so corrupt, one runs out of words. I was saddened. This man has a brilliant legal mind, a true champion of what this nation was founded upon; the rot and corruption has deprived the American people of his gifts. Other crack lawyers like Donald McPherson, warriors for many years in the fight to keep their clients out of prison on income tax charges, simply walked away from tax cases for similar reasons and because the movement itself was constantly shooting themselves in the foot peddling poison and refusing to do what was really needed to win. Instead the desperate continue buying into bogus legal arguments, poison like the strawman/redemption nonsense and others.

Yes, I am aware of these cases:

"The Constitution prohibits any direct tax, unless in proportion to numbers as ascertained by the census..... [and] ... prohibits Congress from laying a direct tax on the revenue from property of the citizen without regard to state lines...- United States Supreme Court in Pollack v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Company (1895) "... [the 16th Amendment] conferred no new power of taxation... [and]... prohibited the ... power of income taxation possessed by Congress from the beginning from being taken out of the category of indirect taxation to which it inherently belonged...".-United States Supreme Court in Stanton v. Baltic Mining (1916)
If the Sixteenth Amendment conferred no new power of taxation, how then does the IRS get away with using it as the "income tax amendment" to crucify and destroy Americans - especially in light of the incontrovertible fact that it was NEVER legally ratified by the required number of states?

Is there no hope? Absolutely, but we have to honestly look at what we're faced with:

(1) a machine out to get you, employing lackeys who care nothing for the law or the truth just those paychecks; federal judges, U.S. Attorneys, state judges, state prosecutors, Congress and thousands of "elected" public servants in state legislatures who make the tax laws, tying them to the federal lie
(2) an uninformed, brainwashed population. We have to remember that most adults today have grown up with the income tax, social security taxes, withholding taxes and fear of their own government. They know nothing else and they surely know nothing about freedom. Despite our best efforts, millions of us have had to fight this battle with no help from the farce called a "free press" in this country. The bald faced lies spewed by ABC, NBC, CBS, cable "news" networks and the major newspaper conglomerates on issues like the income tax is repulsive. These giant monopolies are nothing more than paid hired guns; their total disregard for the truth is sickening.

It’s not just the media monopolies contributing to the on-going fraud, it's also entities like big unions which influence how Americans vote. My brother is 100% disabled from a work related accident, but when he was a teamster, the Teamsters Union used to send him a brochure each election cycle with their "strong recommendations" on which candidates their member should vote for - one of those brochures he sent me recommended voting for Comrade Diane Feinstein, an outright crook; every recommendation was for a Democrat, no matter how corrupt that incumbent proved to be. Huge organizations like AARP endorse the unconstitutional Federal Reserve Banking System. Too many people blindly follow the lead of these organizations without doing a single minute of research because each of them offers something that a voter wants from their prostitute in Congress or a state legislature. Tens and tens of millions of Americans have no idea how these systems actually work, why they don't work or whether they're constitutional - only what the system can bring to their pocket book or medicine cabinet. It's called dependency, it breeds slavery. Then, there is the fear factor and people should fear the IRS because that organization is a parasite that will do ANYTHING to stay alive because over 99,000 jobs are at stake.

In my 17 years, I have found the most effective way to get brain and body weary Americans to sit up and pay attention is what I brought out in my last column regarding the income tax and where those taxes go. I have painstakingly explained all of this in a post on my web site titled, Why an income tax is not necessary to fund the federal government. I explain the difference between the national debt and the deficit, something not enough Americans really understand. How it's created, who creates it and how it gets paid. I have given my permission to hundreds of individuals over the years to reprint this document for their newsletters and handouts. It also explains why no alternative taxing SCHEME is necessary and why it's just another trap to feed the central bank. I hope you will take the time to read this because, as I said, the one way to get Americans riled up is by showing them how their pocketbook is being robbed and not for the reasons they have been led to believe. The light bulb goes on and then they understand.

As I said in my last column, at some point and we're getting close for all the reasons listed in that column, the IRS becomes worthless to the money lenders because they're walking on a tightrope now. The time is coming when the financial folly will come home to roost and then the people will rise up with empty bellies and pitch forks. In the meantime it is critical the states of the Union adopt an honest money bill and that won't happen without dedicated activists like those out in New Hampshire. We do live in perilous and unsettling times. The money lenders who own Congress are not going to sit back and allow we the people to get in their way and they have the might of a federalized police force an agency under a big umbrella called The Department of Homeland Security (with all those new jobs its created) behind them.

Knowledge truly is power and we should continue getting Aaron's film, Freedom to Fascism and the truth about the income tax, the withholding scam, etc., to as many Americans as we can to a reach critical mass that cannot be ignored - just like what happened with prohibition. In the interim, though, we need to be prepared for reality with what's coming as I have covered so many times in my columns on the economy.
As always, I ask you to study the links at the bottom of my columns because they contain critical information, documentation and resources. Also, I will be a keynote speaker June 9, 2007 at the Constitution Party for the State of Texas at Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas. I hope to see you there; for information and registration, please click here.

Important information:
1. Trial Transcripts: Vernie Kuglin
2. Trial Transcripts: Joseph Banister
3. Joseph Banister trial
4. Cheek v. United States/Supreme Court of the United States, 1991
5. Cheek v. United States - Oral Argument
6, Marcella Brooks Speech - Free Internet video
7, The Andrew Jackson Society (Central Bank)
8, Fully Informed Jury Association
Tax Fraud & Evasion: The War Stories by Donald MacPherson (Amazon) April Fifteenth: The Most Pernicious Attack Upon English Liberty by Donald W. MacPherson (Amazon)
9, The Founder's Constitution
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"PRESIDENTIAL" CONTROL

2007-05-08T18:16:00.000-07:00

Now Yahoo! Censor Popular Support For Ron Paul

ABC forced to address Texas Congressman's campaign, but remain silent on why they scrubbed him from online poll

Prison Planet

Paul Joseph Watson

Yahoo! News have become the latest establishment media outlet to ignore and censor Ron Paul's presidential campaign, despite the fact that he won Thursday night's GOP debate hands down, according to an overwhelming majority that voted for him in online polls.
Yahoo! News' 2008 Presidential election coverage page features a list of candidates from both Democrat and Republican parties, but fails to list Ron Paul, despite the fact that he easily trounced the likes of Sam Brownback, Mike Huckabee and Duncan Hunter - who are featured, in every online poll since Thursday's debate.

No room for Ron Paul at Yahoo! Only establishment shill Republicrats and Democons allowed.
MySpace users are also claiming that bulletins expressing support for Ron Paul are being blocked and that prominent supporters of Paul's campaign are having their accounts suspended.
ABC News were swamped with furious e mails and calls over the weekend after they deliberately scrubbed Ron Paul from their online poll , ensuring no one could vote for him. After he was reinstated, the Congressman received thousands of votes and won the poll at a canter.
In a simpering puff piece released last night , ABC News correspondent Rick Klein claims that Paul's popularity is not reflected nationwide and is merely the result of "viral marketing" on behalf of the Congressman's online supporters.
Apologists for the establishment press have tried to argue that popular support for Ron Paul is skewed by activist voting, but the fact remains that Paul had topped the MSNBC online vote before it had even been widely publicized, as Keith Olbermann stated during live coverage of the debate.
If we accept this to be the case are we to then assume that Giuliani, Romney and the other gaggle of shill candidates don't have any online support? If so, who is going to vote for them? Do Giuliani and McCain supporters not have access to the Internet?

Klein also erroneously claims that Paul's online votes in the MSNBC poll were artificially inflated because users were voting multiple times. This isn't possible, since the website only affords one vote to one IP address - there is no option to vote again if you have already voted. Klein obviously didn't even bother to check whether his statement was correct before including it in the article.
The fact that ABC deliberately tried to censor Paul by not including him in the original poll is not addressed in the article.
What we are witnessing is a deliberate effort to poo-poo Ron Paul's chances to ensure that he has no chance - this is a chicken and egg scenario. If Ron Paul was afforded as much coverage as Giuliani and Romney he would have a real shot of becoming President - but the military-industrial complex that owns the media are loathe to allow that because Paul is a true anti-war Jeffersonian paleoconservative and he represents the people.
We couldn't possibly have a President that represented the people now could we! Only a compromised slimeball shill pre-approved and selected by the anointed ones and their mouthpiece hacks in the corporate media.

www.infowars.com

ANOTHER 9/11 LIE

2007-05-08T14:14:00.000-07:00

Radiation & Another One Of Those Endless 911 'Coincidences'
By Christopher Bollyn

"AMEC Construction Management, a subsidiary of the British engineering firm AMEC, renovated Wedge One of the Pentagon before 9-11 and cleaned it up afterward. AMEC had also renovated Silverstein's WTC 7, which collapsed mysteriously on 9-11, and then headed the cleanup of the WTC site afterward. The AMEC construction firm is currently in the process of closing all its offices in the United States."

Radiation Shows 9-11 Pentagon Hit Not By 757: Something With DU?
By Christopher Bollyn

More damning fuel for the funeral pyre of the 9-11 'official story' that is completely dead by now.

"Around the Pentagon there were reports of high radiation levels after 9-11. American Free Press has documentation that radiation levels in Alexandria and Leesburg, Va., were much higher than usual on 9-11 and persisted for at least one week afterward. In Alexandria, seven miles south of the burning Pentagon, a doctor with years of experience working with radiation issues found elevated radiation levels on 9-11 of 35 to 52 counts per minute (cpm) using a "Radalert 50" Geiger counter. One week after 9-11, in Leesburg, 33 miles northwest of the Pentagon, soil readings taken in a residential neighborhood showed even higher readings of 75 to 83 cpm. "That's pretty high," Cindy Folkers of the Washing ton-based Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS) told AFP. Folkers said 7 to 12 cpm is normal background radiation inside the NIRS building, and that outdoor readings of between 12 to 20 cpm are normal in Chevy Chase, Md., outside Washington. The Radalert 50, Folkers said, is primarily a gamma ray detector and "detects only 7 percent of the beta radiation and even less of the [very short lived] alpha." This suggests that actual radiation levels may have been significantly higher than those detected by the doctor's Geiger counter. "The question is, why?" Folkers said. If the radiation came from the explosion and fire at the Pentagon, it most likely did not come from a Boeing 757, which is the type of aircraft that allegedly hit the building. --- "Boeing has never used DU on either the 757 or the 767, and we no longer use it on the 747," Leslie M. Nichols, product spokesperson for Boeing's 767, told AFP.

Depleted Uranium Released During Canadian Plane Crash
Little-Known Use of DU In Commercial Jets Exposed
[and another little known piece of the Pentagon hit puzzle]
By Christopher Bollyn

The recent crash of a Boeing 747 in Halifax, Canada, raises a number of questions about the use of depleted uranium (DU) in airplanes, public health concerns and the 9-11 attacks. When a Boeing 747 crashed and burned on takeoff at Halifax International Airport in Nova Scotia, Canada, on Oct. 14, an official accident investigator said the aircraft probably contained radioactive depleted uranium.

Bill Fowler, an investigator with the Transportation Safety Board of Canada, said the plane was likely equipped with DU as counterweights in its wings and rudder.

"A 747 may contain as much as 1,500 kilograms [3,300 lbs.] of the material," the Canadian Press reported. It took 60 firefighters and 20 trucks about three hours to control the fire.

Fowler said: "there is no threat or concern" about DU exposure to those working on the wreckage.

"That's baloney," Marion Fulk, a retired staff scientist from Lawrence Livermore National Lab, told American Free Press. Fulk, 83, is currently researching how low-level ionizing radiation causes cancer, birth defects and a host of other health problems. Burning depleted uranium creates a "whole mess of oxides," Fulk said, "which is what makes it so wicked biologically."

In 1988, American physicist Robert L. Parker wrote that in the worst- case scenario, the crash of a Boeing 747 could affect the health of 250,000 people through exposure to uranium oxide particles. "Extended tests by the Navy and NASA showed that the temperature of the fireball in a plane crash can reach 1,200 degrees Celsius. Such temperatures are high enough to cause very rapid oxidation of depleted uranium," he wrote.

"Large pieces of uranium will oxidize rapidly and will sustain slow combustion when heated in air to temperatures of about 500 degrees Celsius," Paul Lowenstein, technical director and vice-president of Nuclear Metals Inc., the company that has supplied DU to Boeing, wrote in a 1993 article.

Now, some researchers are turning to the large number of sick firefighters and workers from the World Trade Center site and reports of elevated radiation levels around the Pentagon after 9-11. They contend that the Boeing 757 and 767 aircraft involved in the attacks may have also contained depleted uranium counterweights.

PENTAGON RADIATION LEVELS

Around the Pentagon there were reports of high radiation levels after 9-11. American Free Press has documentation that radiation levels in Alexandria and Leesburg, Va., were much higher than usual on 9-11 and persisted for at least one week afterward.

In Alexandria, seven miles south of the burning Pentagon, a doctor with years of experience working with radiation issues found elevated radiation levels on 9-11 of 35 to 52 counts per minute (cpm) using a "Radalert 50" Geiger counter.

One week after 9-11, in Leesburg, 33 miles northwest of the Pentagon, soil readings taken in a residential neighborhood showed even higher readings of 75 to 83 cpm.

"That's pretty high," Cindy Folkers of the Washing ton-based Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS) told AFP. Folkers said 7 to 12 cpm is normal background radiation inside the NIRS building, and that outdoor readings of between 12 to 20 cpm are normal in Chevy Chase, Md., outside Washington.

The Radalert 50, Folkers said, is primarily a gamma ray detector and "detects only 7 percent of the beta radiation and even less of the alpha." This suggests that actual radiation levels may have been significantly higher than those detected by the doctor's Geiger counter.

"The question is, why?" Folkers said.

If the radiation came from the explosion and fire at the Pentagon, it most likely did not come from a Boeing 757, which is the type of aircraft that allegedly hit the building.

"Boeing has never used DU on either the 757 or the 767, and we no longer use it on the 747," Leslie M. Nichols, product spokesperson for Boeing's 767, told AFP. "Sometime ago, we switched to tungsten, because it is heavier, more readily available and more cost effective."

The cost effectiveness argument is debatable. A waste product of U.S. nuclear weapons and energy facilities, DU is reportedly provided by the Department of Energy to national and foreign armament companies free of charge.

DU is used in a wide variety of missiles in the U.S. arsenal as an armor penetrator. It is also used in the bunker-buster bombs and cruise missiles. Because no photographic evidence of a Boeing 757 hitting the Pentagon is available to the public, 9-11 skeptics and independent researchers claim something else, such as a missile, struck the Pentagon.

A white flash, not unlike those seen in videos of the planes as they struck the twin towers, occurs when a DU penetrator hits a target.

Photographs from the Pentagon reveal that large round holes were punched through six walls in the three outer rings. The outside wall is 24 inches thick with a six-inch limestone exterior, eight inches of brick and 10 inches of steel reinforced concrete; the other walls are 18 inches thick.

The object that hit the Pentagon on 9-11 penetrated several feet of reinforced concrete, leaving holes with diameters between 11 and 16 feet.

Bill Bellinger, then head of the EPA's Radiation Program for Region III, which includes Virginia, told AFP that he had received information of elevated radiation levels and contacted EPA officials at the Pentagon.

"I was concerned about that," Bellinger said. "I didn't disregard it at all."

Bellinger told AFP that he thought the radiation was from DU in the aircraft.

Bellinger, who was based in Philadelphia, did not personally visit the Pentagon site and said that EPA personnel at the site had not reported high levels of radioactivity. However, the EPA official who Bellinger said had worked at the Pentagon, Craig Conklin, now at FEMA, told AFP that he had not been involved at the site, "directly or indirectly."

Workers and FEMA officials at the Pentagon were seen wearing special protective outfits and respirators. FEMA photos show the workers going through decontamination procedures.

Bellinger told AFP that the Department of Defense was responsible for on-site safety procedures at the Pentagon.

In New York, however, considerably less attention was paid to the health risks the burning rubble posed to workers at the WTC site. A recent screening done by Mount Sinai Hospital found that nearly three- quarters of the 1,138 first responders had experienced respiratory problems while working at Ground Zero, and half had respiratory ailments that persisted for an average of eight months afterward.

"We were dumfounded by how many people were sick, and how sick they were, and how sick they still are," said Robin Herbert, co-director of the program.

Thomas Cahill, professor of physics and atmospheric sciences, analyzed the plumes from a station one mile north of the burning WTC rubble. "The small particles worried me the most," Cahill told AFP, referring to the sub-micron-size particles, which can pass through the filters of respirators.

Cahill said the high levels of silicon, vanadium, nickel and sulfuric acid concerned him. The fine concrete dust, he said, acted "like Drano" in the lungs of the workers, where it irritated and burned the wet membranes.

Until Dec. 15, the pile was so hot, a piece of paper would ignite on contact with the rubble, Cahill said. "You had the workers working on top of a huge incinerator in the rush to get Wall Street going again," Cahill said. "It was really dumb.

"Only 30 percent of the firefighters working at the site in October were wearing any protection at all," he said.

A class action lawsuit on behalf of more than 800 people who suffer health effects was filed against WTC leaseholder Larry Silverstein and the companies that supervised the cleanup: AMEC, Bovis Lend Lease, Turner, and Tully Construction.

The suit was filed on Sept. 10, the last day set by a federal three- year statute of limitations for lawsuits related to 9-11.

"Under state labor law, employers have a duty to provide a safe place to work," lead attorney David Worby said. "They violated that duty. Everyone knew what was on the ground."

As many as 100,000 workers at Ground Zero and hundreds of thousands more people in the area were exposed to airborne toxins, Worby said.

"If you expose a person to this amount of lead, cadmium, benzene, asbestos and glass shards, they are going to be sick," he said. "More people could die from this than died on the day of 9-11."

AMEC Construction Management, a subsidiary of the British engineering firm AMEC, renovated Wedge One of the Pentagon before 9-11 and cleaned it up afterward.

AMEC had also renovated Silverstein's WTC 7, which collapsed mysteriously on 9-11, and then headed the cleanup of the WTC site afterward. The AMEC construction firm is currently in the process of closing all its offices in the United States.

http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/depleted_uranium.html

OF THE PEOPLE, FOR THE STATE

2007-05-08T13:58:00.000-07:00

THE TRANSFORMING OF CIVILIAN POLICE AGENCIES INTO PARAMILITARY ORGANIZATIONS
By Jim R. Schwiesow

I truly value the mail that I receive from the old timers of law enforcement; they are a unique group of individuals. I used to love the profession and the people in it. When I entered into the profession 48 years ago it was a long suffering and put upon fraternity. The pay was rotten, the benefits nil, and appreciation seemed to be non-existent. Yet the people who filled the ranks were more dedicated and professional at that time than any other group of people in this nation.

Unfortunately I was a witness to a steady and progressive decline in the profession during the years that I was active in the law enforcement community. Ironically as the pay, benefits and other perks increased the professionalism seemed to decrease proportionally. And it seemed that every individual overblown local politician wanted a piece of the control over the internal affairs of the law enforcement agencies within their districts. And, as if that wasn't bad enough, civilian review boards and civil service boards came into being, and somewhat later there were unions to contend with. Then the government with its LEAA grants came upon the scene and law enforcement administrators gave away what little remained of their control of their agencies to the feds in exchange for the funds that tight fisted local politicos had, through the years, consistently and steadfastly refused to adequately provide.

Next, police professionals with law enforcement savvy who had progressed through the ranks were being passed over for administrative jobs, and agency or department heads were being selected by search committees, city councils and city administrators from college graduates with business or administration degrees. These over-educated and experience deficient administrators had no feel for the profession and not an ounce of the common sense and wisdom that police regulars acquire through long-time service. They were simply bean counters that ingratiated themselves with the local politicians by kissing their behinds. These new honchos hired grant writers and other civilians to go after more federal money, and thereby assured that their agencies would be forever bound to a dictatorial federal control. What they could and could not do in regard to hiring and firing, setting internal policies, and a host of other heretofore-autonomous prerogatives was now regulated by the fine print in the federal contracts that had been accepted in order to receive federal funding. The contracts were long term and binding, there was no backing out unless local governments were willing to pay back huge sums of money, and they were not so disposed or inclined.

Whereas a job well done by competent professionals used to be the best public relations tool that the law enforcement fraternity possessed, the new yuppie commanders now felt the need to implement public relations programs to sell their agencies to the public. Soon we had Officer Friendlys, McGruffs and Crime Pups everywhere. Community relation’s officers met with various civic and social groups to establish a warm and fuzzy feeling between law enforcement and the community. There were also programs to stroke the media. News conferences were regularly scheduled to share sensitive information on departmental activities. Soon it was necessary to satiate a newfound public desire for a blow-by-blow account of agency investigations and other activities. Ingratiating the agency with the media seemed to be more important than acquiring public backing by dedicated professional work. It used to be that actions spoke louder than words, but that seems to be no longer the case. And of course this was also another way to tap into federal money, and get back some of the taxes that had been forcibly extracted from local taxpayers. The feds were more than willing to pony up more of the taxpayers’ own money to support these public relations programs and to firm up their takeover of the heretofore exclusive rights of local law enforcement agencies.

The local politicians, who had control over law enforcement agency budgets, were becoming aware of these so called new found revenues and began salivating like Pavlov’s dogs at the thought of tapping into the federal largesse of taxpayer monies. Soon law enforcement agencies, large and small, were crowding around the federal trough like hogs on a feeding frenzy. Local politicians made the acquisition of law enforcement grant monies a quest. Sheriff's and chiefs were pressured to bring in more and more federal dollars. If they were reluctant the politicians put the pressure on them by campaigning against them in local elections by suggesting that they were responsible for heavy local taxation by not bellying up to the federal trough. The people who are always, it seems, gullible when it come to taxes, ate it up. I doubt that they ever gave a thought to the fact that the money came from their own pockets whether it was funneled through the feds or through the local government. The prevalent thought was hallelujah; we’re getting free money!

Since true police professionals were in many cases no longer in charge of law enforcement agencies, and given the fact that police administrators had been frozen out of the hiring and firing process by restrictive civil service statutes, civilian boards, union grievance policies, and the continual meddling of county boards, city councils, and city administrators there began to be a noticeable decline in the quality of many of the rank and file. Professionalism slipped perceptively. To many it was now simply a job and little thought was given to the principles that had been so important to the officers of the past. Officers punched in and punched out of their shifts like factory workers. Many others were disgusted with the change in the profession and simply left the ranks and found their way to other vocations. The pursuit of benefits, wages and early retirement programs occupied the minds of those who stayed. They were being converted to a blue-collar worker’s mentality, and they saw the old ethics and the dedication of their predecessors as being tantamount to slavery to the profession. To be absolutely fair I have to concede that some of the slippage was tied to the general deterioration of society itself and to the newfound commitment to moral relevancy in the nation. Whatever the case, law enforcement officers were now ripe for an indoctrination that would transform them into tools of the federal bureaucracy.

The truth is that peace officers in the old days did not need fancy public relations programs to gain the confidence of the people who they served. The people understood that they were there to help them and to stand for them against those who would do them harm. They instinctively knew by the demeanor of their peace officers that their sole desire was to ensure that others would not violate the person, the property or the families of those for whom they were responsible. Peace officers in those days wanted the people of their communities to be free from tyranny. The last thing on their mind was to enforce tyranny upon the people whose interests they represented. They were of the people and for the people. We have come a million miles from those days and all of it in the wrong direction.

Rather than acting as servants of the people too many law enforcement officers in this day and age have become willing tools of a system that despotically oppresses freedom, and forces upon the people thousands of dictatorial decrees. The government bureaucracy that has seized absolute power in the country has also seized control of the law enforcement agencies of the land. And the rank and file thereof is used as soldier enforcers much in the way that the mafia used its soldiers to enforce the tyrannies of that order, coldly, cruelly, without conscience and with an iron fist. Law enforcement agencies all too often now employ brutal tactics in their service to the state. Please notice that I said service to the state, law enforcement officers no longer serve the people. Read on for an example of the corruption of a once fine fraternity.

In November a medically discharged United States Marine, Sergeant Derek Hale, was cold bloodedly murdered by a police undercover squad in Wilmington Delaware. The decorated veteran had traveled to Wilmington to participate in a Toys For Tots event, and while in the city he was also doing a favor for a friend by house sitting. He was thus involved and sitting on the front stoop minding his own business when a police death squad screeched up and in proper Gestapo fashion first tortured him mercilessly with multiple hits from a taser gun as he tried desperately to comply with shouted commands to put up his hands, and then executed him by pumping three .40 caliber bullets point blank into his chest. In a matter of minutes an unarmed man, who had committed no crime and who had served his country honorably in wartime, lay dead. Killed not by an enemy combatant but by a domestic death squad comprised of law enforcement officers who were carrying out the dictates of a totally depraved system. In order to understand the absolute viciousness and inhumanity of these police agents I urge readers to use the link provided for the full story. Death Squad in Delaware.

Recently, Greg Evensen, a NewsWithViews.com columnist has written an article Will you Stand, Fight, Hide or Surrender? In which, he candidly and accurately describes the utterly putrid state of the nation and the lateness of the hour. Greg is offering solutions. Something that we see very little of in our wanders through the many written articles in regard to the present corruptness of the nation.

We have a situation from which extrication is difficult. It will take courage, and Greg has courage. I have not met Greg personally, but I have corresponded with him a number of times. He is a former peace officer, and one of the old timers that I wrote about at the beginning of this article. He is a believing Christian, and we are friends and fellow travelers. And he is right in all that he has written.

© 2007 - Jim R. Schwiesow - All Rights Reserved

RON PAUL FOR PREZ

2007-05-07T19:55:00.000-07:00

Ron Paul Winner of Republican Presidential Debate?

By Ray Perdue

Portland – Thursday night the first debate among Republicans for the 2008 presidential election was held at the Ronald Reagan Library in Simi Valley, California. The debate has been described as everything from a worthless endeavor to a "political game show". MSNBC’s Chris Matthews was one of the debate’s moderators.

While the mainstream media has paid the debate a passing interest, by Friday morning the Internet chatter was alive with various opinions and comments. Most news agencies, websites, broadcasters and commentators have overwhelmingly declared Mitt Romney, John McCain or Rudy Giuliani as the winner of the debate, while choosing to ignore most of the other candidates altogether. Perhaps that is because most of the focus was upon the three frontrunners. However, the Internet chatter was alive with kudos for Ron Paul, Tom Tancredo and some of the lesser-known candidates.

Internet polls also indicate that most were impressed, if not enthused with the prospect of a Paul or Tancredo nomination. According to a press release by the Ron Paul 2008 Campaign, a poll conducted on MSNBC’s website last night after the debate showed that 43% of people felt that Ron Paul won and stood out among the ten debaters.

However, not all of the chatter was favorable for Rep. Paul. According to the Vox Baby Blog, Ron Paul was an embarrassment along with former Wisconsin governor Tommy Thompson, and "both of them should understand their roles as the GOP’s Crazy Uncle Bob’s and return to the attic forthwith."

Other reports of the debate mentioned Rep. Paul with only a few terse sentences.

The Ron Paul Campaign has seemed to brush off the low press and negative chatter. The Ron Paul 2008 Campaign chairman, Kent Snyder, said, "Last night, Americans met Ron Paul and loved what they heard. Dr. Paul's message of freedom and limited government resonates with Republicans hungry for a return to their party’s core values."

When questions were directed to Rep. Paul, he continued in his time honored strict Constitutionalist style. He spoke of his foreign policy, which he says is based upon the original intent of the founding fathers.

When asked why the other Republican candidates were wrong on the Iraq War, Dr. Paul reminded everyone that in the past Republican presidents were elected to stop making America a global police force. He said that Eisenhower was elected to end the Korean War and that Nixon was elected to end the Vietnam War. He went on to say that he did everything he could to solve the problems that we are now facing with the current Iraq situation. "…[D]eclare war if you want to go to war; fight it and win it, but don’t get into it for political reasons or to enforce UN resolutions or pretend the Iraqis were a national threat to us."

Dr. Paul was also asked if he would get rid of the IRS, something he is well known to oppose. When he said he would do so immediately, it was apparently thought of as a joke, as it received a round of laughter. He continued by stating that the IRS could not be dissolved unless the "ideas about what the role of government out to be" is changed. But, "if you think the government has to take care of us from cradle to grave, and if you think one government should police the world and spend hundreds of billions of dollars on a foreign policy that we cannot manage, [then] you can’t get rid of the IRS."

Chris Matthews did at one point recognize Dr. Paul as carrying on the great conservative tradition of men like Barry Goldwater. But Matthews seemed to avoid Dr. Paul as much as possible, and to be in a hurry every time he asked him a question.

Dr. Paul also had the opportunity to discuss his opposition to government regulation of the Internet and a national ID card, things that many of his fellow candidates support. He said that the Internet should be left alone without any government interference. His thoughts on a national ID card will likely gain him a few more supporters. "This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government."

WATCH TV; EVERYTHING IS FINE

2007-05-03T14:48:00.000-07:00

EVERYDAY BRAINWASHING

2007-05-03T14:17:00.000-07:00

10 Disturbing Trends in Subliminal Advertising

Subliminal advertising has gone mainstream - fake news, mind control scripts, propaganda and stealth voicemail are in wide use by corporations, government bodies and industry groups.

By Martin HowardSource: HowTheyChangeYourMind.com

Some of the biggest advertisers are taking their advertising away from full page ads and television spots and spending up on hidden persuasion. You won't find these secret messages in ice-cubes or flickering film footage like they were in the sixties. Subliminal advertising has gone mainstream - fake news, mind control scripts, propaganda and stealth voicemail are in wide use by corporations, government bodies, and industry groups. Have you spotted any of these?

1. Point of Sale Mind Control Scripts
Clothing store staff and car salesmen use them to close the deal - carefully planned questions and subverbal cues to get you to sign. If you’ve ever walked out of a store, after spending twice as much as you wanted to, chances are you’ve fallen victim to one of these scripts. The GAPACT is used by Gap staff to upsell you. Other salesmen use word techniques to make you buy, even when you don’t have the money - because they make more by selling you 'easy' finance. When a car salesmen takes you on a test drive and asks you “Is this the type of vehicle you would like to own?”, he is using a subtle mental framing trick - it can create an embarrassing distraction while you drive. The technique is called disassociation - which is the ideal state for mental manipulation.

2. Doctor-Patient Drug Kick-backs
When a doctor recommends a certain heart medication or an antidepressant, chances are he has been paid a cash bonuses and perks by the manufacturer, making it difficult to give objective advice. Some pharmaceutical firms have gone so far as to invent and promote a new syndrome in order to create a market for a new drug! Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD) was devised in 1998 and publicised by planting fifty press stories and quizzes such as: “Do you have social anxiety disorder?”. Soon after, Smithkline Beecham released Paxil - the 'cure' for SAD.

3. In-Store Sensory Manipulation
Scientifically tested visual displays, Muzak tapes, and even mind altering scents combine to maximize impulse spending. Specially designed music loops can keep shoppers in the supermarket for 18% longer. One study into use of airborne aromas, pumped into a Canadian mall, resulted in an increase of over $50 per customer that week. In supermarkets, scientifically generated Planograms create the ideal shelf arrangement for certain products, skewing the shopper's eyes towards high value items. Companies pay slotting allowances for favoured placement. Aisle layout are change regularly - which prevents systematic shopping - forcing extra trips past the impulse item displays.

4. Private Conversation Rental
Positive buzz can be triggered artificially for a price. Marketers now recruit secret 'buzz agents' to promote to their friends and family. One buzz agency claims to have an army of agents in every major US city. Their job is to mention or display certain products as they go about their day, using their relationships as marketing channels. Music labels, book sellers, entertainment venues, and fashion outlets are using this method to establish new brands. Today’s billion dollar 12-16 year olds are so immune to traditional advertising, mass media is no longer a reliable persuasive device - so the alternative is a 'synthetic grapevine.’

5. Neuromarketing
Corporations are going to enormous lengths to probe the minds of consumers - literally tapping into their brains. The Brighthouse Institute for Thought Sciences, in Atlanta, is one lab that is scanning people's brains with MRIs, in an effort to decode and record our subconscious thoughts and devise more seductive advertising. The process is being called neuromarketing. They are hoping to determine specific biological triggers that can be used by language engineers to stimulate purchases. This is the hi-tech fulfilment of pioneer psychologists Freud and Jung who established the connection between language and behaviour.

6. Chatbots and Stealth Voicemail
Personal phone messages from businesses or political campaigners can turn up in your morning voicemail, having been delivered late the previous night. Voicemail broadcasters like DialAmerica uses massive computer installations to deliver identical copies of spoken messages to millions of householder simultaneously. On the internet, chat room 'bots' masquerading as personal real buddies are actually distributed simultaneously by powerful computers 24 hours a day. Virtual word-of-mouth communication is replacing other promotional technologies because of its speed and price.

7. Real-time Bugging of Personal Data
Your browser is probably revealing more than you might want: your location, the software and hardware you are using, details of other links you clicked on and your browsing habits. Many third party dataminers use 'cookies' to track your path across the web. Extensive realtime information is processed to target you. Larger databases harvest your personal medical and financial records to be bought and sold by interested companies and government departments. Datamining is a fuzzy science that filters you personal information for links about your personal behaviour and finances. These details are used in turn to create elaborate marketing campaigns to sell you more stuff.

8. Sidewalk Stalkers
The public space of streets, neighborhoods and communities is being mapped and targeted by viral marketers and fake grassroots organizations. In some cases the campaigns are overt but, increasingly, street 'agents' are making unannounced social approaches. Fake tourists flash around the latest camera-phone to passing crowds. 'Product seeders' circulate at sports events to find influential young players to wear their gear. Others wander the street wearing colored corporate tattoos. Personal space is the last frontier for commerce. As citizens attempt to retreat from the deluge of media advertising they can now be stalked when they step out the door.

9. Planted News Stories
Industry front groups, public relations firms and government departments are planting news stories on TV, radio, newspapers and the web. Those 'miracle drug' stories or research reports are often Video News Release (VNRs). TV newsrooms love these prepackaged news items that are distributed across the networks. It saves them time and money but it is killing community news and genuine investigative reporting. Real news items are being replaced by slick corporate promotions and political messages. According to one Nielsen Media Research Survey, about 80 percent of U.S. news directors air VNRs several times a month, and all American television newsrooms now use VNRs in their newscasts.

10. Government Propaganda
When it's time to launch a war or promote an unpopular policy, the government needs special help to sell the idea through the media. Opinion engineers are paid to "manage" public perception of inconvenient facts, and turn them around for better. Using the universal tools fear, patriotism, and phrase repetition, these high flying spin doctors can easily sway the population. The most successful public relations campaigns aim to change public perception without our awareness of the campaign. They are typically launched by governments, institutions and countries who need to change their public image, restore their reputation or manipulate public opinion. There are PR firms today who advise dictatorships, dishonest politicians and corrupt industries to cover up environmental catastrophes and human rights violations.

Martin Howard is a media researcher and author of "We Know What You Want: How They Change Your Mind".

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2004 VOTING PRACTICES

2007-05-03T13:58:00.000-07:00

20 Amazing Facts AboutVoting in the USA

Did you know....
1. 80% of all votes in America are counted by only two companies: Diebold and ES&S.
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/042804landes.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diebold

2. There is no federal agency with regulatory authority or oversight of the U.S. voting machine industry.
http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0916-04.htm
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/042804landes.html

3. The vice-president of Diebold and the president of ES&S are brothers.
http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/private_company.html
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/042804landes.html

4. The chairman and CEO of Diebold is a major Bush campaign organizer and donor who wrote in 2003 that he was "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year."
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/07/28/sunday/main632436.shtml
http://www.wishtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1647886

5. Republican Senator Chuck Hagel used to be chairman of ES&S. He became Senator based on votes counted by ES&S machines.
http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/2004/03/03_200.html
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/031004Fitrakis/031004fitrakis.html

6. Republican Senator Chuck Hagel, long-connected with the Bush family, was recently caught lying about his ownership of ES&S by the Senate Ethics Committee.
http://www.blackboxvoting.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=26
http://www.hillnews.com/news/012903/hagel.aspx
http://www.onlisareinsradar.com/archives/000896.php

7. Senator Chuck Hagel was on a short list of George W. Bush's vice-presidential candidates.
http://www.businessweek.com/2000/00_28/b3689130.htm
http://theindependent.com/stories/052700/new_hagel27.html

8. ES&S is the largest voting machine manufacturer in the U.S. and counts almost 60% of all U.S. votes.
http://www.essvote.com/HTML/about/about.html
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/042804landes.html

9. Diebold's new touch screen voting machines have no paper trail of any votes. In other words, there is no way to verify that the data coming out of the machine is the same as what was legitimately put in by voters.
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0225-05.htm
http://www.itworld.com/Tech/2987/041020evotestates/pfindex.html

10. Diebold also makes ATMs, checkout scanners, and ticket machines, all of which log each transaction and can generate a paper trail.
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0225-05.htm
http://www.diebold.com/solutions/default.htm

11. Diebold is based in Ohio.
http://www.diebold.com/aboutus/ataglance/default.htm

12. Diebold employed 5 convicted felons as consultants and developers to help write the central compiler computer code that counted 50% of the votes in 30 states.
http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,61640,00.html
http://portland,indymedia.org/en/2004/10/301469.shtml

13. Jeff Dean was Senior Vice-President of Global Election Systems when it was bought by Diebold. Even though he had been convicted of 23 counts of felony theft in the first degree, Jeff Dean was retained as a consultant by Diebold and was largely responsible for programming the optical scanning software now used in most of the United States.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0312/S00191.htm
http://www.chuckherrin.com/HackthevoteFAQ.htm#how
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/bbv_chapter-8.pdf

14. Diebold consultant Jeff Dean was convicted of planting back doors in his software and using a "high degree of sophistication" to evade detection over a period of 2 years.
http://www.chuckherrin.com/HackthevoteFAQ.htm#how
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/bbv_chapter-8.pdf

15. None of the international election observers were allowed in the polls in Ohio.
http://www.globalexchange.org/update/press/2638.html
http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/10/26/loc_elexoh.html

16. California banned the use of Diebold machines because the security was so bad. Despite Diebold's claims that the audit logs could not be hacked, a chimpanzee was able to do it! (See the movie here: http://www.bbvdocs.org/videos/baxterVPR.mov.)
http://wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,63298,00.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4874190

17. 30% of all U.S. votes are carried out on unverifiable touch screen voting machines with no paper trail.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/07/28/sunday/main632436.shtml

18. All -- not some -- but all the voting machine errors detected and reported in Florida went in favor of Bush or Republican candidates.
http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,65757,00.html
http://www.rise4news.net/extravotes.html
http://www.ilcaonline.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=950
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0411/S00227.htm

19. The governor of the state of Florida, Jeb Bush, is the President's brother.
http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/tallahassee/news/local/7628725.htm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10544-2004Oct29.html

20. Serious voting anomalies in Florida -- again always favoring Bush -- have been mathematically demonstrated and experts are recommending further investigation.
http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/tens_of_thousands.html
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1106-30.htm
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2004/110904.html
http://uscountvotes.org/

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THE REAL HOMELAND SECURITY

2007-05-03T13:51:00.000-07:00

THE REAL HOMELAND SECURITY

Coach Dave Daubenmire
May 3, 2007
www.NewsWithViews.com

I don’t know if you have flown commercially lately, but I marvel every time I do. The hoops we have to jump through in order to get on a plane are unbelievable. What used to be a fun experience has turned into an ordeal similar to a trip to Disney World, as one stands in line for a trip upon the latest ride.

I’m all for safety. Heck, who isn’t? But the charade at our airports, designed to make us feel safe aboard the aircraft, is a joke. Take off your shoes, no toothpaste, no water bottles, the list of “protective measures” taken by the airport screener borders on lunacy. Why do we put up with it? Do you really feel safer? Do you really think that disrobing and wanding 80 year old grandmas makes a flight safer?

Like so many Americans, I am really beginning to re-think this “war on terror.” The purpose of this article is not to debate the pros and cons of our involvement in Iraq, whether or not we should be there, or who did and didn’t lie. That is what “the clowns” do. I would much rather talk about solutions that are outside the box. So much of what serves as policy in America is so unimaginative.

I was driving through the Ohio countryside this past weekend, an experience that most city-dwellers rarely have the opportunity to enjoy. Life away from the hustle and bustle of the city sure gives one a different perspective on America. As my wife and I rolled up and down the tree-lined hills of our county I was struck by a couple of observations.

In real America, “fly-over country,” as Washington insiders call it, there is still a profound sense of community. Although we are not as connected as we once were, most Buckeyes are willing to do whatever they can to help out a neighbor. This spirit helped make America great. The sense of community and local pride runs deep across the amber waves of grain in this nation. Believe it or not, there are still areas of my community where you can drive a mile between houses.

As Michele and I were rolling down one long hill on the back roads, something obvious hit me. “You know,” I said to my perky little wife, “If someone out here needed help from the police it would take a half- hour for the sheriff’s department to get to them, if they could even find the place. If I lived out here, I’d be sure to own a few guns. I don’t think these folks can count on the sheriff, or Homeland Security to protect them from an intruder.”

No, out in the hills of Eastern Ohio, your neighbors and your guns are the original Homeland Security. Perhaps we should begin to think outside the box on this one.

Look around your community. Do you really think that Homeland Security can protect you? Are we really safer since 9-11 or are we just being given the impression that we are? I’m beginning to think that the purpose of Homeland Security is not to protect the people, but to control the people! Our freedom makes us so vulnerable, but giving up freedoms does not make us safer. Can you say Virginia Tech?

What if, simultaneously, terror attacks were launched on a multiplicity of targets in Ohio? In our county alone there are 10 government high schools, a slew of junior high and elementary schools, as well as many private schools, not to mention shopping malls. If a committed group of terrorists decided to descend on all of these schools at once and put the lives of our children at risk, I can promise you our local law-enforcement would be unable to protect the children. Imagine if it happened simultaneously in the next county west of us, with their scores of schools and innocent children. What if it happened in five counties at the same time? Do you really think that Washington D. C. would be able to save our children from the carnage? What unimaginable havoc could 100 death-embracing terrorist thrust upon small-town America?

Is it possible that those who love death have considered such a scenario?

“Let’s fight the terrorist over there so we don’t have to fight them here,” I hear the clowns say. What foolishness. They are already here, that’s why we have to take off our shoes at the airport. The clowns know it and we know it.

Is it time we prepared to fight them here? What about that old saying, “Better to be safe than sorry.” Are you really willing to give up your right to self-defense so that the “government” can protect you?

I was a child of the 60’s and the Cold War. I remember having drills in elementary school to practice how to behave if the Russians decided to bomb us. “Get under your desk, put your hands over your heads, put your chin on your chest, and rest your elbows on your knees….” Oh, the futility of thinking that would protect us against an atomic blast! But it made us FEEL safer.

But are we any smarter today? Did you see how FEMA and Homeland Security responded to Katrina? Do you really want to trust the federal government to protect you and your property? Can you say Virginia Tech?

Are you old enough to remember the Civil Defense Corps? Check this out. This is from the day when our government still believed that an armed citizenry was a good thing. All around the nation ordinary citizens became involved in the defense of our nation. Our parents didn’t count on the government to protect them. They knew that God-fearing men and women with the right to keep and bear arms was the greatest security that this nation could offer.

I suggest it is time that we return to those days. But we must understand that there are forces that do not want to see that. They don’t want an organized and armed citizenry. Each new mass-murder brings a cry to get rid of guns. How stupid can we be? Why do you suppose those who wrote the Constitution put this in it?

A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
I went to high school with our local sheriff. He is a good man who cares deeply about our community. His roots run deep. I trust him far more than I trust some former CIA or FBI agent working for the Department of Homeland Defense. Sheriff Thorp would take my call, he knows the lay of the land, and he knows the people. We elected him. He is one of us. There are thousands of local public servants just like him around this nation. Look at Michael Chertoff. Does he make you feel safe? I’ll take my chances with our local sheriff.

So here is a plan. It may not be perfect but it is a start. Bring back the Civil Defense. If it was good enough for the Russians who were going to bomb us from the sky, it is even better for the terrorists who live amongst us. I say enough of this gun-control foolishness. I trust my neighbor. He cares about America, too. Most importantly, he cares about his own neighbors -- and we care about his family's safety. We're here for each other – after all, it's just common sense.

For starters, let’s re-institute the draft. A six-week boot-camp for every American boy is exactly what the doctor ordered for this narcissistic generation. Our young people need discipline more than they need a college education. Boot-camp will give many a new direction for their life, and a renewed sense of responsibility. At the conclusion of the six-week training only those who choose to volunteer for military service will continue on in their training, those who do not, return to their local communities where they are required to serve a period of time as a ready-to-defend local force under the leadership of the local sheriff. They would be civilians in every sense of the word, but they would be a contingent properly trained in the use of firearms and other military techniques who would be available at any time to defend their homeland should the sheriff issue the call.

Let’s stop being the policeman of the world. If the battle is to come to us, let each community be prepared to defend itself. Men will willingly defend what they see as theirs. We must wrest control of our lives from the powers in Washington before it is too late. Let’s allow former lawmen like Greg Evenson and Sheriff Jim Schwiesow lead the effort.

Do you think that when Paul Revere made his famous ride he had to stop, knock on doors, and try and convince folks to join him at Lexington and Concord? No, quite the contrary, they were ready, willing and waiting.

Where would we be today if those Patriots had counted on the King for their protection?

"No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation." -- General Douglas MacArthur

The British are coming. It is time to prepare.

© 2007 Dave Daubenmire - All Rights Reserved

INTENTIONAL WAR AND DEBT

2007-04-30T15:46:00.000-07:00

THE POWER ELITE'S USE OF WAR AND DEBT

By Dennis L. Cuddy, Ph.D.

Several hundred years ago, the Bank of England was established by money from the Bank of Amsterdam and the Dutch power elite, who also brought William and Mary to power in England in 1689. Within 9 years, King Willilam got the British Treasury in great debt to the Bank of England, following the power elite's principle of "get them in debt" to control them. This principle was used thorughout the 18th and 19th centuries via costly wars to control entire nations which had imperialist ambitions.

Tremendous fortunes were built during this time by the power elite, primarily reflected in emerging oil cartels such as Standard Oil (Rockefellers) with Anglo-Iranian (worked with Rhodes/Milner Group) and Shell (Royal Dutch, William and Mary came to England from Holland). By the early 20th century, John D. Rockefeller had his agents in every hamlet of the U.S., and foundations (e.g., Rockefeller) were used to further the power elite's designs. Congressional Research director Norman Dodd said that minutes from a Carnegie Endowment meeting revealed the attitude that war would be a primary vehicle for accomplishing their goals.

Both Presidents Woodrow Wilson and FDR have spoken and written about these powerful people who literally own our government. This power elite has had its operatives in key positions, and a young Druid, Winston Churchill, conducted a study of what the U.S. reaction would be if a passenger liner with Americans on board were to be sunk by a German submarine. Some years later, British Secretary of State Sir Edward Grey (close to the Rhodes/Milner Group) deliberately misled German Ambassador Lichnowsky to begin World War I. And Lord Esher (member of Cecil Rhodes' Circle of Initiates) plotted "to shed American blood as soon as possible" to get the U.S. into the war.

Why a war with Germany? This was done to weaken Germany militarily and economically as a threat to the power elite's plans, including access to Middle East oil. After the war, Sir Percy Cox (Rhodes/Milner Group) carved up the Middle East into various nations, establishing Kuwait as a block to Iraq's access to the sea, thus controlling oil routes. The First World War was also fought to get nations in debt and to bring about the power elite's League of Nations as a world government.

When the League wasn't successful, a second world war was needed, so the power elite built up Germany again as well as imperialist Japan, even selling the latter scrap metal with which to build warships. Nazi officers were on many Standard Oil tankers to be sure they weren't sunk. And the German General Staff developed a secret plan to bring about the power elite's control beginning in the 1990s (see Chapter 9 of Sumner Welles' THE TIME FOR DECISION, 1944). Prime Minister Churchill (who had a "secret circle") and FDR knew about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in advance (see Skull & Bones member Henry Stimson's diary about FDR maneuvering Japan into firing the first shot). The Second World War also allowed the permanent stationing of U.S. forces in Germany and Japan.

After World War II, the power elite finally fulfilled the promise of the Balfour Declaration to the Jews, and the nation of Israel was established in 1948. This was not due to any particular affinity for the Jewish people, but rather to have a militarily strong but economically dependent (and therefore subject to coercion) country in the midst of Arab oil nations. An example of Israel being able to check Arab military efforts can be seen with the Israeli victory in their 1967 war. But the power elite's "management" of Israel can also be seen in the recent Israeli failure to crush Hezbollah, probably due to economic coercion (e.g., threats of no further loans or foreign investments).

The year after the founding of Israel, the power elite in 1949 facilitated the success of the Chinese Communists over Chinese Nationalists, who relocated largely to Taiwan, thus allowing the permanent presence of U.S. forces there. The permanent stationing of U.S. troops in South Korea near the north of China and the south of the USSR was facilitated by the deliberately "no win" Korean War in the early 1950s.

I have quoted many times Lincoln Bloomfield's 1962 study for the State Department, in which he indicated that if the Communist dynamic were greatly abated, the West might lose whatever incentive it has for world government. Thus, it was important to the power elite that the USSR and China be perceived as real threats so as to further the dialectical process that would synthesize Eastern Communism and Western Capitalism into a final World Socialist Government. Ford Foundation president H. Rowan Gaither in 1953 even told Norman Dodd (mentioned earlier) that they and others were under directives from the White House to so alter life in the U.S. as to make possible a comfortable merger with the Soviet Union.

Also in 1953, the independent elected Iranian leader, Mossadegh, was removed from office by the power elite (via the CIA and Allen Dulles) because he nationalized Iranian oil, which greatly displeased the oil cartel mentioned earlier. The year after Mossadegh was ousted, the Dutch (remember Royal Dutch Shell mentioned earlier) hosted the first Bilderberg meeting where, according to William Jasper in GLOBAL TYRANNY...STEP BY STEP, "the international ruling elite meet to scheme and palaver."

War was used by the power elite again in the 1960s and 1970s with the Vietnam War serving more than one function. First, it served to distract from radical domestic changes the power elite wanted, as described in James Kunen's THE STRAWBERRY STATEMENT. In this book, he revealed ESSO (Rockefeller) money was used to try to "buy up a few radicals" to seem so extremely liberal, the populace would not notice the power elite's own move to the left (e.g., "ping pong diplomacy" opening up China to the West). Also, Vietnam was another deliberately "no win" war that "turned off" youth from patriotic nationalism as part of the power elite's created "generation gap." That this can be recognized as part of the power elilte's plan is evident from Philip Freneau's July 1792 AMERICAN MUSEUM article, where he warns the young American Republic that getting people in debt and using military defeat (e.g., Vietnam War) were part of the elite's strategy to gain control of the U.S.
It was also toward the end of the Vietnam War that the power elite's agent, Henry Kissinger, revealed how they think about us common folk when he stated that soldiers are simply "dumb animals" to be used in the furtherance of an administration's foreign policy decisions. That the Vietnam War wasn't a "real war" seems clear from the fact that the U.S. continued financially to assist the USSR and China throughout the war, even though they were the 2 nations primarily responsible for North Vietnam's and the Viet Cong's ability to wage war against the U.S.

In the 1980s, the power elite turned its attention to the Persian Gulf causing a prolonged war between Iraq and Iran (both sides were assisted by the U.S.). Iraq won this war but accrued great debt as a result, and when the power elite denied Saddam Hussein loans to pay off the debt, he invaded Kuwait which he thought had given (not loaned) him the funds to conduct the war against Iran. In a repeat of Lord Grey's misleading Germany to begin World War I, American Ambassador to Iraq April Glaspie seems to have misled Saddam into thinking he would not be opposed if he invaded Kuwait. This was all done to "set up" Saddam, whom the power elite did not want to obtain undue influence over oil production in the Gulf region.

It was one thing to reduce Saddam's military strength in the first Gulf War, but it was quite another thing to persuade people to support an occupation of that nation. That would take a pretext or incident like 9/11, which Bush administration officials immediately tried to blame on Saddam. Remember that longtime Middle East CIA agent Robert Baer in SEE NO EVIL indicated that a high-ranking CIA officer said 9/11 would eventually be considered a "triumph" of the intelligence community, not a failure.

The prolonged chaos (now over 4 years) in Iraq has allowed U.S. troops to obtain a permanent military presence there in the region, which is what the power elite wanted all along. The removal of the Taliban from power in Afghanistan after the attacks of 9/11 also facilitated the permanent presence of U.S. military forces in the Caspian region, likewise part of the power elite's plan. According to famous author H. G. Wells in THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME (1933), there will be eventually a conference in Basra, Iraq, which will bring to fruition the power elite's ultimate goal of a World Socialist Government.

This goal has been pursued for many years using primarily wars and debt. For recent examples concerning debt accrued by means other than war, see John Perkins' AN ECONOMIC HIT MAN and Steve Hiatt's A GAME AS OLD AS EMPIRE. Examples include the Philippines being told to borrow great sums of money to improve its infrastructure so that factories will locate there, but then cheaper labor is found in other countries, so Filipinos are left holding the bag. Also, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank funnel loans to nations where dictators pocket the money in their offshore accounts, and the people of that country are left to pay the debt and restructure their economies along the lines required by the IMF and World Bank.

© 2007 Dennis Cuddy - All Rights Reserved

THE GRAND CHESS BOARD PART 7

2007-04-25T17:10:00.000-07:00

The Deep Politics of God (Part Seven): The CNP, Dominionism, and the Ted Haggard Scandal
By Phillip Collins and Paul Collins
www.RaidersNewsNetwork.com

The Franklin Cover-up and the CNP

If the Franklin scandal can be tied to the Iran-Contra affair, then the name of CNP member Ollie North will invariably resurface. After all, North was the chief coordinator of the Iran-Contra operation. Evidence that this may be the case comes from Rusty Nelson, King’s personal photographer. Nelson testified on February 5, 1999 at the U.S. District Court in Lincoln, Nebraska in a civil action known as Bonacci v. Lawrence E. King (Steinberg, no pagination).

This case ended with the Judge Warren K. Urbom ordering King to pay Bonacci $1 million in damages (no pagination). Nelson described to a journalist for the LaRouche publication Executive Intelligence Review an incident that linked King to Lt. Col. Michael Aquino while he was still on active reserve duty. This incident also ties Oliver North to Aquino and King. Jeffrey Steinberg elaborates:

Some time in the late 1980s, Nelson was with King at a posh hotel in downtown Minneapolis, when he personally saw King turn over a suitcase full of cash and bearer-bonds to "the Colonel," whom he later positively identified as Aquino. According to Nelson, King told him that the suitcase of cash and bonds was earmarked for the Nicaraguan Contras, and that "the Colonel" was part of the covert Contra support apparatus, otherwise associated with Lt. Col. Oliver North, Vice President George Bush, and the "secret parallel government" that they ran from the White House. (No pagination)

Who exactly is Michael Aquino? Aquino was a high ranking Army officer who joined LaVey’s Church of Satan in 1969 (Goldston, no pagination). In 1975, Aquino started his own satanic church, the Temple of Set (no pagination). Aquino’s wife, Lilith, was a priestess in the temple’s Order of the Vampyre (no pagination). It seems that the Temple of Set had a rather elaborate system at the Presidio in San Francisco. Linda Goldston elaborates:

INSIDE A CONCRETE BUNKER BEHIND THE MILITARY Intelligence Building at the Presidio, the words "Prince of Darkness" are painted boldly in red on one wall. Used decades ago to house artillery guns, the reinforced concrete batteries appear to have been converted to something like ritual chambers.

Emblazoned next to the "Prince of Darkness" is the word "Die," and what looks like a list of names, painted in red, that have been crossed out with heavy black paint. One wall is covered with the numerals 666, a sign of the devil, and occult drawings. A clearing in the center of the concrete floor, where the ground is exposed, is filled with refuse and partly burned logs. On the front wall beneath the window that faces the Military Intelligence Building is a huge pentagram inside a circle. In the rear, where sunlight gives way to darkness, white and black candle drippings sit atop a dome shaped recession in the wall, apparently a crude altar. Incense sticks lie half burned to the side.

At another battery farther up Lincoln Boulevard, a large drawing of Satan, with red eyes and horns appears on an outside concrete wall. Doors to the battery are secured shut; there are no windows to climb though. No entry is possible here. It would be easy to dismiss the satanic graffiti as the pranks of adolescents, taking advantage of the isolated bunkers to play new versions of "Dungeons and Dragons." But events in the Presidio case suggested something more sinister could have been involved. (No pagination)

What sort of sinister activity related to satanism was taking place at the Presidio? The testimony of a former base MP named Albanoski provides some clarity:

Satanic goings-on are not new to the Presidio. In the early 1980's, when he was an MP at the Presidio, Albanoski recalls, "We got a call from the Portola MacArthur housing area. One person reported a man dressed in black holding a little girl's hand running toward the park. Another call came in saying they heard screams near the creek.

"The search led to a gardener's shack at Julius Kahn Park, a strip of city-owned playground adjacent to the Presidio, behind the housing area. "We heard noises coming from inside," Albanoski recalls. "We kicked the door open and here's this nice little bedroom. In a corner was a mannequin with a gun aimed at the door. On the left side there was a bunk against the wall. There was a pentagram on the floor, a huge one. There were dolls' heads all over the ceiling, just off-the-wall stuff." Music was blaring from a radio.

Albanoski and another MP were given approval to set up surveillance of the shack. After a while, the investigation was called off. "We were sitting there, we've got a cult on the Presidio of San Francisco and nobody cares about it," Albanoski says. "We were told by the provost marshall to just forget about it". (No pagination)

Apparently, the Temple of Set has Nazi overtones. During a NATO tour in 1982, Aquino "performed a satanic ritual in the Westphalian castle that had been used as an occult sanctuary by Heinrich Himmler's SS elite in Nazi Germany" (no pagination). Rusty Nelson’s testimony linking Aquino to pedophile Larry King seems to suggest that the Temple may also have been involved in an organized pedophile ring. Evidence that this was the case came in 1987. When their three year old daughter began having nightmares and wetting herself when frightened, Larry and Michelle Adams-Thompson sought the help of a therapist at Letterman Army Medical Center (no pagination). During therapy, the girl began to speak about being molested by Gary Hambright, a baptist minister and the man who taught the girl’s class at the Presidio Day Care Center (no pagination). The girl also claimed that a man named "Mikey" and a woman named "Shamby" were involved in the abuse (no pagination). "Mikey" and "Shamby" remained unidentified until Aug 12, 1987. Goldston elaborates:

On Aug. 12, 1987, the Adams-Thompsons were shopping at the PX at the Presidio. Suddenly the girl ran to Larry Adams-Thompson and clutched his leg. He looked up and saw a man whom he knew as Lt Col. Michael Aquino. "Yes, that's Mikey," the 3-year-old told Adams-Thompson. After being taken outside, the girl added, "he's a bad man and I'm afraid." As they were leaving the parking lot, the Adams-Thompsons saw Aquino's wife, Lilith. Larry asked the child if she knew the woman."Yes, that's Shamby," the girl said. (No pagination)

After this incident, the FBI were called by the family (no pagination). When interviewed by authorities, the girl positively identified Hambright as one of her victimizers in a photo line-up (no pagination). The girl then explained that Hambright had transported her from the Day Care Center to the home of Mikey and Shamby (no pagination). There, she was abused and photographs were taken of her (no pagination). Goldston continues:

The investigators drove her to Leavenworth Street in San Francisco. The girl was asked to identify any of the houses that she had been to before. While walking past 2430 Leavenworth, the girl identified the house as the one where she met "Mikey" and "Shamby." It was the Aquinos' house.A search warrant was served on the Aquino home on Aug. 14. In attendance were agents from the FBI and the San Francisco Police. Because the abuse allegedly occurred on city property, it was to be a city case.

Among the items seized were video tapes, cassette tapes, notebooks with names and addresses, two photo albums one paper plate and two plastic gloves from the kitchen garbage, four plastic cases of negatives and 29 photos of costumes and masks. (No pagination)

No formal charges were ever brought against Aquino. It makes little sense that Aquino, a Satanist and possible pedophile, would be part of "Christian" Oliver North’s Contra support apparatus. Perhaps former CIA pilot Gary Eitel hit the nail on the head with his remark about North: "Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian, anymore than going to a car wash makes you a car." The sincerity of Ollie’s Christianity aside, his possible link to Aquino is one connection between the CNP and sexual deviant rings.

One possible link between the CNP and organized sexual deviants that is closer to Haggard’s backyard lies with his close friend and CNP member James Dobson’s promotion of Joseph Nicolosi’s reparative therapy. This controversial psychotherapy is supposed to help homosexuals rid themselves of their gay desires. To prevent homosexuality in young boys, Nicolosi recommends that a father "even take his son with him into the shower, where the boy cannot help but notice that Dad has a penis, just like his, only bigger" (no pagination). This is a very bizarre method of preventing a young boy from becoming sexually confused, to say the least. It is questionable whether reparative therapy is effective or not. So why is it still embraced by people in the Evangelical establishment. Is reparative therapy used to cure young boys, or seduce them?

Another possible tie comes through Mark Foley and his Scientology connections. On May 24, 2003, Foley attended a brunch held in his honor at Fort Harrison’s Crystal Ballroom. The event was organized by the Flag Land Base of the Church of Scientology ("Cached webpage from Flag Service Org website showing Mark Foley accepting awards at special dinner along with Mary Story of the Office of Special Affairs," no pagination). At this event, Foley received leather-bound copies of two major Scientology works, Dianetics and The Way to Happiness (no pagination). Wayne Garcia has also claimed to have seen Foley at a Scientology event at the Celebrity Center in Los Angeles (Garcia, no pagination). After the Foley scandal broke, Scientology scrubbed Foley from their site (Bercovici, no pagination).

CNP members Gary Bauer, Beverly LaHaye, Carol Steinke, and Paul Weyrich are all connected to Scientology ("CNP and Scientology," no pagination). LaHaye and Steinke are signatories of the Scientology Pledge (no pagination). Bauer’s Family Research Council is listed at Hubbard’s CCHR web page (no pagination). Weyrich’s former group American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is funded by Scientology (no pagination).

According to investigative journalist Tom Flocco, a retired intelligence agency official with multiple Capitol Hill sources told him that Mark Foley was "just the tip of the iceberg" (no pagination). Flocco reported that federal agents linked Foley to GOP lobbyist Jack Abramoff and GOP reporter/former male prostitute Jeff Gannon (no pagination). Flocco’s intelligence insider informed him that Abramoff "operated the sex / spy ring at the Watergate, Ritz-Carlton and Sheraton hotels in Washington, DC" (no pagination). The insider also told Flocco that Gannon and Abramoff acted as "facilitators for the poker parties and an elaborate prostitution ring of pedophiles and extortion-friendly homosexuals-in-the-closet serving elements of the Republican leadership" (no pagination). If Flocco’s allegations are true and his sources are correct, this is yet another tie to the CNP. Abramoff has been a member of the CNP ("Council for National Policy: Selected Member Biographies," no pagination). Abramoff has collaborated with other CNP members, one being Grover Norquist.

In June 2006, the Senate Indian Affairs Committee released an investigative report charging that CNP member Grover Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform:served as a "conduit" for funds that flowed from Abramoff's clients to surreptitiously finance grass-roots lobbying campaigns. As the money passed through, Norquist's organization kept a small cut, e-mails show. (Schmidt and Grimaldi, no pagination)

Norquist’s Council of Republicans for Environmental Advocacy was also involved in Abramoff’s operations. Susan Schmidt and James V. Grimaldi elaborates:A second group Norquist was involved with, the Council of Republicans for Environmental Advocacy, received about $500,000 in Abramoff client funds; the council's president has told Senate investigators that Abramoff often asked her to lobby a senior Interior Department official on his behalf. The committee report said the Justice Department should further investigate the organization's dealings with the department and its former deputy secretary, J. Steven Griles. (no pagination)

Norquist and Abramoff have been very close friends since they were leaders of the College Republicans (no pagination). CNP members Jesse Helms and Alan Keyes also worked with Abramoff’s International Freedom Foundation which was "a Washington-based organization in part clandestinely funded by the South African military to prop up overseas support for apartheid" (Ballenger, no pagination). Abramoff also arranged for CNP member Tom DeLay to make a trip to the island of Saipan over the New Years holiday in 1997 (Ross, no pagination). DeLay went on at least three other free trips that were connected to Abramoff (no pagination). These include a trip to Moscow in 1997, a trip to London and Scotland in 2000, and a trip to South Korea in 2001 (no pagination).

At one time, CNP member Ralph Reed acted as an unpaid intern for Abramoff ("Jack Abramoff," no pagination). Reed was invited to sleep on Abramoff’s couch and, in his book Active Faith, Reed even claims that Abramoff introduced him to his future wife (no pagination). Reed’s marketing company was also involved in Abramoff’s lobbying efforts (no pagination).This places the CNP very close to GOP deviant sex rings, if Flocco’s allegations concerning Abramoff prove to be true and his intelligence source is legitimate.

Flocco’s allegations are supported by the fact that former CNP member Abramoff’s lobbying team was involved in preparing Republican Representative Ralph Hall’s statements on the House floor. These statements questioned the credibility of a teenage girl who claimed to be a victim of the sex trade in the Northern Marianas Islands (Kiel, no pagination). CNP member DeLay was Abramoff’s closest Congressional ally when it came to the Marianas issue, and Hall took money from DeLay when he was still a democrat (no pagination). CNP member Diana Weyrich is also a former staff assistant to Ralph Hall ("Council for National Policy: Selected Member Biographies," no pagination). What do these individuals with CNP ties want to keep people from knowing about the Marianas sex slave trade?

Another compelling tie between the CNP and GOP deviant sex rings is Covenant House. According to DeCamp, Covenant House was used to acquire children for pedophilia. The former Nebraska senator provides the following description:Lauded by the Reagan and Bush Administrations as a showcase for the privatization of social service, Covenant House had expanded into Guatemala as a gateway to South America. According to intelligence community sources, the purpose was procurement of children from South America for exploitation in a pedophile ring. The flagship Guatemalan mission of Covenant House was launched by a former business partner of Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza, Roberto Alejos Arzu, who had ties to the CIA, according to the Village Voice of Feb. 20, 1990. The Voice quoted Jean-Marie Simon, author of Guatemala: Eternal, Spring, Eternal Tyranny: "It’s like having Idi Amin on the board of Amnesty International." (180)

A major source of money for Covenant House has been Robert Macauley, the founder of Americares (180). CNP member J. Peter Grace helped found Americares (Collins, "Order of Malta valuable to church in Zaire," no pagination). CNP member Pat Robertson’s Christian Broadcasting Network is one of Americares’ largest contributors (no pagination). In February of 1989, when Covenant House’s director, Father Bruce Ritter, was accused to of having molested children at the youth organization, the powerful PR firm Hill and Knowlton dispatched Charles Perkins to help with Covenant House’s public relations dilemma (DeCamp 180). Perkins rushed from New York and gave aid to Covenant House for a fraction of Hill and Knowlton’s regular fee (180).

In 1986, one the Hill and Knowlton’s former employees, Robert Keith Gray, became chairman and CEO of the PR giant after his own firm was bought out by Hill and Knowlton (178). According to DeCamp, Gray "is also reportedly a specialist in homosexual blackmail operations for the CIA" (178). DeCamp also reveals Gray’s relationship with two major covert operators, Edwin Wilson and Frank Terpil. DeCamp states:

During the Watergate era, Robert Keith Gray served on the board of Consultants International, founded by CIA agent Edwin Wilson. When Wilson and fellow agent Frank Terpil got caught running guns abroad, Gray tried to deny his connection with Wilson. "Yet ten years before," according to Peter Maas’ book Manhunt, "in a top secret Navy review of Wilson’s intelligence career, Gray described Wilson as a person of ‘unqualified trust,’ with whom he’d been in contact ‘professionally two or three times a month’ since 1963.’" (179)

Gray’s connection to Wilson is significant. Fugitive ex-CIA officer Frank Terpil has claimed that sexual blackmailing operations directed by the CIA were intensive in Washington during the Watergate era (DeCamp 179). Terpil also asserts that his former partner, Ed Wilson, was coordinating one of these sexual blackmail operations (179). In a letter to author Jim Hougan, Terpil revealed Wilson’s modus operandi:

"Historically, one of Wilson’s Agency jobs was to subvert members of both houses [of Congress] by any means necessary…. Certain people could be easily coerced by living out their sexual fantasies in the flesh…. A remembrance of these occasions [was] permanently recorded via selected cameras…. The technicians in charge of filming… [were TSD [Technical Services Division of the CIA]. The unwitting porno stars advanced in their political careers, some of [whom] may still be in office." (Qtd. in DeCamp 179)

DeCamp asserts that the Wilson/Terpil/Gray operations were merely continuations of sexual blackmail operations ran by the infamous Roy Cohn:Gray’s associate Wilson was apparently continuing the work of a reported collaborator of Gray from the 1950’s-McCarthy committee counsel Roy Cohn, now dead of AIDS. According to the former head of the vice squad for one of America’s biggest cities, "Cohn’s job was to run the little boys. Say you had an admiral, a general, a congressman, who did not want to go along with the program. Cohn’s job was to set them up, then they would go along. Cohn told me that himself." The first president of Tong Sun Park’s George Town Club, where Wilson’s sexual blackmail operations were reportedly run, was Robert Keith Gray. (179-80)

Cohn’s sexual blackmail operation may have even included the cult that Maury Terry alleges was behind the Son of Sam killings. Terry conducted a meticulous investigation into the Son of Sam murders an gathered compelling evidence that David Berkowitz was only one participant in what was, in fact, a string of cult killings. The cult behind these crimes was the Process Church of the Final Judgement. According to David Berkowitz, the Process provided children for sex at parties held by wealthy people in Westchester, Manhattan, Connecticut, and Long Island (Terry 534). Berkowitz informed Terry that one of these parties were held at Cohn’s house in Connecticut and Berkowitz even got to meet the infamous McCarthy aide during the party (534).

Cohn is important because of his connection to the CNP. After the mysterious death of Larry MacDonald, Cohn ran Western Goals Foundation for a short time ("Western Goals Foundation," no pagination). Recall that CNP member John Singlaub was a joint-founder of Western Goals (no pagination). CNP member J Peter Grace had the CNP’s major funder, Roger Milliken, on the board of Directors of his W.R. and Grace Company (no pagination). One of Western Goals’ major contributors, Nelson Bunker Hunt, was a CNP member (no pagination). Two other CNP members, Daniel Graham and Mildred Jefferson, were also involved in Western Goals (no pagination). It is also possible the former CNP member Abramoff’s sex/blackmail ring is yet another continuation of the Cohn/Wilson operation.

Is the CNP some monolithic conspiracy of sexual deviants? Of course not. However, it does seem to be part of a network where a sexually deviant subculture has flourished hiding under a cloak of "family values." Furthermore, given these sexual deviants’ intelligence connections, it is not out of line to contend that the CNP is merely part of the deep political system. There is a very real risk that involvement in the CNP could lead genuine Christians away from Jesus and into the practice of deep politics.In the eighth installment of the ongoing investigation, we shall examine religious engineering and the creation of a new Gnostic Christ to inspire the Promethean ambitions of modern sociopolitical Utopians.

Sources Cited

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WHO'S IN CHARGE NOW?

2007-04-25T17:01:00.000-07:00

EMERGENCY POWERS TO GOVERN WORLDS "REGIONS"
Nancy Levant
www.NewsWithViews.com

Federal law, Title 10 United States Code, Section 153 sets the functions of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the U.S. Armed Forces. "(6) Other Matters.— (A) Providing for representation of the United States on the Military Staff Committee of the United Nations in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations."

The UN Charter states its mission is "...to ensure, by the acceptance of principles and the institution of methods, that armed force shall not be used, save in the common interest."

The American military forces, according to Federal law, are used in the common interest of the United Nations. Our young men and women, who no longer serve on American soil, in protection of American people, or in defense of the American nation, operate under the auspices and direction of the United Nations charter. Hence, the American military forces are no longer here – nor have they been for many, many decades. All service is now filtered through the United Nations. How does that make you feel?

As we are now an undefended nation, with an Executive Branch that has full emergency powers granted to it by Congress, who in 1933 declared America into what became an on-going state of declared emergency, and with no president willing to give up those war powers, this state of emergency brought into our nation new and extraordinary military forces and on-going missions.

On that note, let’s start with a partial list of America’s new “homeland” and regional military partners:

The United Nation
Department of Homeland Security
FEMA
NASA
International Peacekeeping Forces
Nationwide military-trained law enforcement departments
SWAT teams
PMCs (Private Military Companies)
Halliburton, Bechtel, Kellog-Brown-Root and their “political” connections
Private Security Contractors
Rapid deployment civilian reserves (see Reconstruction and Stabilization Civilian Management Act of 2007, and the already implemented new Office of Coordinator for Stabilization and Reconstruction that reports directly to the Secretary of State)
Community Oriented Policing Services (C.O.P.S.)
Active Response Corp
Citizens Corp
Citizens Neighborhood Groups

As outsourcing has become a state of corporate affairs in our nation, it would appear that “security” is being outsourced to corporate mercenaries. One contemplates why these corporate warriors are targeting America? Shall we ask Dick Cheney? How about the U.N.?

According to writer Jeffrey Steinberg, “…PMCs [are] collectively modeled on the neo-feudal British East India Company, which had administered the 18th- and 19th-Century British Empire through a private cartel of banks and chartered corporations… Today, this system is called "globalization." Do tell…

As we know, “globalization” means every nation with or without the consent of the people. What we don’t know is what our “representatives” are doing and intending. Case in point – Senate Bill 613 (passed Senate) and H.R. 1084. Latest action taken on 4-10-07 (Senate Reports: 110-50).

Summary as quoted, “Reconstruction and Stabilization Civilian Management Act of 2007 - States that the purpose of this Act is to provide for the development, as a core mission of the Department of State and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), of an expert civilian response capability to carry out stabilization and reconstruction activities in a country or region that is in, or is in transition from, conflict or civil strife.

Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to authorize the President to furnish assistance and permit the export of goods and services to assist in stabilizing and reconstructing a country or region that is in, or is in transition from, conflict or civil strife [emphasis added].

Amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to establish within the Department an Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization.

Authorizes the Secretary, in consultation with the Administrator of USAID, to establish a Response Readiness Corps to provide stabilization and reconstruction activities in foreign countries or regions that are at risk of, in, or are in transition from, conflict or civil strife [emphasis added].

Provides that the Corps shall have: (1) an active federal component of up to 250 personnel and a standby federal component of up to 2000 personnel; and (2) a non-federal Civilian Reserve of at least 500 personnel (which may include federal retirees).

Amend the Foreign Service Act to authorize the Secretary, in cooperation with the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of the Army, to establish a stabilization and reconstruction curriculum for use in programs of the Foreign Service Institute, the National Defense University, and the United States Army War College.
Sets forth related personnel provisions.” Library of Congress

More sweeping powers that can be used in America’s globalized region, more emergency powers coordinated with the United Nations, which can be used toward globalization efforts in America, and more dedicated loyalty and proof that American “representatives,” against the will or even knowledge of the American people, are raising forces that can be used against the resistance of the American people who do not believe their nation should be regionalized and governed by the current one-world governmental system.

I want all readers, whether you want to, have time, or not, to go to http://www.effectivepeacekeeping.org/. This site speaks for itself, and it is a site that should be memorized by every person who is worried about the leadership in this nation, the sovereignty of this nation, and the future of this nation. This site shows you the blueprint, the intentions, the missions, and the force behind the U.S.-U.N. dynasty – and I do mean dynasty.

Scroll down through the menu items on the left side, look at everything, and read it all. Then ask yourselves how and why nations fall. Make sure you’re looking in a mirror when you ask yourselves this question. Also keep in mind that all children, in every nation, are being taught that questioning governmental authority is out of the question.

It is all but impossible to comprehend the power and financial backing of whole-world domination. Indeed, it is next to impossible to believe that military force would be used to conquer the whole world. But, if in doubt, take the Mid-East, for example. The Mid-East is a conjoined military take-over plot, conjoined by the United Nations, to force into submission the Arab global “region.” The European Union is complete. The North American Union is all but complete. Clearly the Asian-Russian Union is developing according to plan, and the “war on terror” in the Mid-East is inhumanely forcing the development and submission of that “region.”

Emergency powers, erected on a global basis, are enforcing the “common security perimeters” around all global regions, and the U.S.-U.N. dynasty, coupled with their global administration (World Bank, World Court, Bank for International Settlements, World Court, etc.) continue unabated to set their version of the world stage.

Now, I specifically ask the American people the following questions:
Which of you told your “representatives” to force America’s military to serve the United Nations?
Which of you told your “representatives” to close American military bases, and to fund and erect them all over the world, whereby relocating our forces all over the world?

Who told “representatives” to dissolve American borders and to merge America with Mexico and Canada into a global government region?

What American citizen told their “representatives” to submit the Constitution beneath international laws and, specifically, the United Nations Charter?

Which “citizens” told their “representatives” to federalize and control the public school system in this nation, and to implant the one-world global citizen curriculum?

And, referring you to the “homeland” military partners list at the beginning of this article, which American “citizens” demanded the implementation of all the new and rapidly growing paramilitary systems on the “homeland?” Where, mind you, are our Constitutional government and the powers of the people?
Where did they go? And who took them away?

Better use your “rights” while you can, because your “representatives” are Act-ing them, Executive Ordering them, Signing Statement-ing, and Declaration-ing them into oblivion. Welcome to the world of Emergency Powers, as so declared in a nation that has been in a “declared” state of emergency since the Act of March 9, 1933. Don’t forget Martial Law. It’s “homeland/regional” paramilitary power is growing by the minute.

1) Contact A.C.E (Americans for Constitutional Enforcement) and click on the link, "A.C.E. Download Page.” Or, you can go directly to the download page. A.C.E. provides a free packet of information on how to start community groups, and will also provide you with educational materials for your groups.

2) Attend the Kansas City Summit. Go to http://www.heartlandusaparty.org/, and register to attend this national meeting of like minds this coming July. Don’t even think about summer vacations, folks. This year, serve what’s left of your nation by building the coalition that can muster the numbers and the media attention to save our country. Pray, and with your help, this will be a historic event in American history.

3) Please read Dr. Edwin Vieira’s newest book titled Constitutional Homeland Security. Remember that we must always look to our Constitution for answers to tyranny. If we, the people, fail to protect our liberties and our homeland, we will, in fact, as Dr. Vieira states, “…degenerate into a centralized bureaucratic police state.” This is a book with a constitutional and viable plan that CAN save this nation. THIS BOOK IS A MUST READ.

© 2007 Nancy Levant - All Rights Reserved

GIULIANI LIED, KERRY DIDN'T?

2007-04-25T16:52:00.000-07:00

Giuliani Caught In Bizarre Building 7 LieClaims WTC 7 collapsed in stages, Kerry Building 7 admission explodes on You Tube popularity charts
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet

Rudy Giuliani has been caught in a bizarre lie about WTC 7, in which he claims the building collapsed in stages over a sustained period of time, when in reality the structure fell in under seven seconds. Giuliani also reveals that he expected the twin towers to collapse but "not in the way they did."

Giuliani was a speaker along with former Oklahoma City Mayor Ron Norick at an April 19th event held at the Oklahoma City Museum and National Memorial in Ahoma City, Oklahoma. The entire video can be viewed here courtesy of C-Span.

Giuliani is asked if he had expected the twin towers to collapse on 9/11. Here is his response.

"Yeah, but not in the way they did."

"It occurred to us all that they might ultimately collapse over....the way buildings usually collapse, which is in stages."

"It looked like at some point the top of the building would come off, and then maybe the middle of the building and then maybe there'd be a shell left....the way number 7 came down 4 or 5 o'clock in the afternoon - over a period of time - but the idea that it would implode, the implosion that took place, I actually didn't realize that until much later."

Building 7 collapsed in just 6.5 seconds - videos of the structure before its collapse show the building fully intact and suffering sporadic fires across a limited number of floors.

It has since also been proven to a reasonable degree that the smoke seen emanating from the area of Building 7 was mostly coming from Buildings 5 and 6, which had taken the direct brunt of the collapse of the twin towers and were completely ablaze.

WTC 7 imploded at near free fall speed and fell in its own footprint, barely even blocking the adjacent road. Giuliani's emergency command bunker was located in the building but he and his crew evacuated just before the collapse of the twin towers. Building 7 had been structurally reinforced to compensate for numerous floors to be taken out without compromising the integrity of the building.

For Giuliani to claim that Building 7 collapsed in stages is completely bizarre and totally inaccurate. One has to wonder if he is intentionally attempting to mislead with such a wildly false statement.

Is Giuliani attempting to re-write history in an attempt to deflect clearly documented accusations that Building 7 was brought down by a controlled demolition?

In addition, his claims that the collapse of the twin towers, though not in the fashion they eventually fell (controlled demolition), was expected, completely contradicts the words of the very people who designed the World Trade Center, who are on the record on multiple occasions stating that the towers were designed to absorb airliner impacts without collapsing.

No steel framed building had collapsed from fire damage in history until September 11 2001 when three fell within the space of seven hours, so for Giuliani to have both expected the collapse and have received a warning immediately beforehand is highly suspicious.

In a related story, John Kerry's comments that Building 7 was deliberately demolished during an Austin Texas speaking event have gone viral since the You Tube video was posted and featured in our story on Monday. Despite receiving massive traffic, Google does not list the Prison Planet.com article in its search results nearly two days after the piece was first posted.

Just one version of the video has already received over 42,000 views and rising and features in multiple different You Tube most popular categories. The clip is currently the 5th most discussed video on You Tube today.

Calls to Kerry's office for a further clarification on his comments were not returned.

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DYNASTY OF DEATH

2007-04-24T18:58:00.000-07:00

HOW THE LIES AREN'T REALLY LIES

2007-04-24T17:57:00.000-07:00

DOWNPLAYING ACTIVITIES THAT DICTATE CERTAIN GEOPOLITICAL GOALS
By Dennis L. Cuddy, Ph.D.

In my recent article "The Iraq War, Oil, and World Government," I quoted from a report produced by the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and the James Baker III Institute a year before 9/11. Basically, it said that obtaining oil from the Caspian region would be important, but "diplomatic activities that dictated certain geopolitical goals" pertaining to transportation routes would be "downplayed" in this regard.

Since many have wondered what these secretive geopolitical goals were, I thought giving several examples of how the power elite operates in these areas would be instructive. For example, I have previously mentioned a 1952 map developed by the World Association of Parliamentarians for World Government regarding what nations' forces will police what other nations under a world government. This is because a nation's own soldiers would be less willing to crack down on its own population than would foreign troops.

Although economic forces are the driving mechanism the power elite is using to bring about a world government, enforcement of their will is always dependent upon military force or the threat of its use. Relevant to the U.S., if one were looking ahead in 1952, one would try to place permanent military forces as near as possible to both Russia and China, the 2 greatest threats to American interests. Strategically, the placement would be in the Caspian region of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, etc., which is where the 1952 map has U.S. forces policing under a world government. About 10 years ago, the U.S. held military exercises in those areas, then negotiated "short term" military bases there after 9/11, but now these bases are appearing to be "permanent."

While protection of the new Afghan government and of Caspian oil routes against Taliban activities is given as the reason for this permanency, the "downplayed certain geopolitical goal" is the strategic permanent placement of forces between Russia and China.

Similarly concerning Iraq, the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) stated as a goal the permanent placement of American military forces in the Gulf region. Various rationales (e.g., Weapons of Mass Destruction, liberating Iraqis from a dictator, etc.) were given for the American invasion of Iraq. However, the allowance of continued chaos in Iraq has enabled the U.S. to persuade the new Iraqi government to permit the large American military bases recently constructed there to become, in effect, permanent. The accomplishment of this "downplayed certain geopolitical goal" places U.S. forces strategically between Syria and Iran to "police" the Middle East region. The Democrat response to the Iraq conflict was reflected by Sen. Carl Levin on FOX News Sunday, April 15, 2007, when he said political progress must be made by the Iraqis, or U.S. troops should start withdrawing. The majority Shiite response to this, though, will probably be that if our troops withdraw, that will just allow the Shiites to do as they please with the Sunnis.

While the American military is the most useful enforcement tool of the power elite at the moment, the eventual world government will have many nations' military forces involved. According to the 1952 map mentioned earlier, not only would U.S. troops also be policing Bosnia (where they went in 1995) under a world government, but Russian forces would be policing the U.S. from about Ft. Riley (KS) to Ft. Polk (LA) eastward to North Carolina. Not coincidentally, former Soviet bloc forces were engaged in joint military exercises in the mid-1990s at Ft. Riley, at Ft. Polk in August 1995, and a Russian police officer also in 1995 helped arrest someone in western North Carolina.

Pertaining to China, the 1952 map has Chinese (Mongolian) forces under a world government policing Mexico, where a Chinese company, Hutchinson-Whampoa, now operates the deep water port of Lazaro Cardenas. This is to facilitate the off-loading of Chinese containers from ships, and then moving the containers (largely uninspected and possibly containing Weapons of Mass Destruction) into the U.S. via the TransTexas Corridor and the TransAmerica Highway. This is occurring under NAFTA and the Security and Prosperity Partnership, which will bring about the North American Community and eventually the North American Union (just like the European Community led to the European Union).

This North American Union (with its new international currency, the Amero) can then be linked with others (e.g., the European Union with its currency, the Euro) to form a World Socialist Government. Most heads of European nations are already vice-presidents of Socialist International.

A World Socialist Government formed from the linkage of regional economic arrangements has been the power elite's ultimate "downplayed certain geopolitical goal," according to Cecil Rhodes' secret Society of the Elect plan. And the various currencies (e.g., Amero, Euro, etc.) will be replaced by one global currency, the Phoenix, by the year A.D. 2018 (see the cover of THE ECONOMIST, January 9, 1988).

Because the military is the key enforcement mechanism concerning Rhodes' and the power elite's plan, personnel becomes critically important. In that regard, when a number of generals criticized President Bush's handling of the Iraq war, they were dismissed or resigned, and the president reached down the ladder of ranking officers on August 1, 2003, to name a new Army Chief of Staff, Gen. Peter Schoomaker.

Why Schoomaker? He was Rhodes scholar Gen. Wesley Clark's assistant at Ft. Hood (TX) when the BATF raid on the Branch Davidian compound occurred. There was an actual mock-up of the compound built at Ft. Hood for training purposes.

After the raid, Schoomaker "met with Gov. Ann Richards on the evening of February 28, 1993, and answered her questions concerning the types of military equipment the BATF had used during the raid and the types of military equipment which federal law enforcement officials might use in the future" (see U.S. House of Representatives Report 104-749, "Investigation into the Activities of Federal Law Enforcement Agencies Toward the Branch Davidians," August 2,1996). Gen. Schoomaker had also advocated building training links to his Communist Chinese counterparts (see "U.S. Elite Forces Seek PLA Training Links," THE HONG KONG STANDARD, July 18, 1998). Schoomaker and Wesley Clark are just the type of military generals the power elite likes.

Of course, there's always an "incident" (e.g., the alleged sinking of THE MAINE by Spain in 1898), which allows the power elite to place military forces where their world government plan requires. The attack of 9/11 was the incident which allowed U.S. forces to be placed in the Caspian region. Now that American forces are in Iraq strategically between Iran and Syria, "incidents" can occur which will allow the invasion of those nations. Concerning Iran, it could be their involvement in the ongoing sectarian conflict in Iraq or Iran's development of nuclear weapons.

But what about Syria? The "incident" could be a new attack upon Israel by Syrian allies Hamas or Hezbollah, which is also supported by Iran. Or it could be our "discovery" that Syria is where Saddam sent his Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD).

We constantly hear that Saddam had no WMD, but that's ridiculous. We know he used WMD (chemical weapons) against Iran, so the only question is what did he do with them? It's doubtful Saddam voluntarily destroyed all his WMD, so at the appropriate time according to the power elite, we will "discover" Syria is where they were sent.

"Incidents" do not just occur internationally but also domestically. Another primary goal of the power elite is to disarm the citizenry so that people cannot resist the power elite's enforcement of its plan. Thus, the school shootings of several years ago prompted increased demands for gun control.

The power elite does not have to directly cause the "incident" (e.g., tell a student to shoot others), but rather dialectically creates situations from which "incidents" can occur. For example, I have a page from a DARE program in the Los Angeles schools which shows a boy looking at a gun and he's asked, "What good things can happen by bringing a gun to school?"

And before teenage blacks rioted in Florida in the 1970s, Carnegie-funded Project Read there taught black children in the 1960s how to read the word "porch," for example, by showing them a picture of a black child who would "torch" a "porch." Could this have influenced the 1970s teens? Florida prosecutor (later a judge) Ellen Morphonios said regarding this: "It's like subliminal advertising. If this isn't subversive and deliberately done as part of a master plan...only a sick mind could have produced it."

Similarly, the power elite wants to shape our thinking, especially in terms of values.
Therefore, they didn't direct the recent shooting at Virginia Tech University, but those shootings by a mentally disturbed student will prompt cries for more mental health screenings for all youth as well as others. And those screenings will afford the power elite the opportunity to shape what's considered appropriate mental health.

The Virginia Tech student who killed the others admired the Columbine student killers, calling them martyrs. And all 3 of them took their own lives (suicide). Some years ago, THE WASHINGTON POST reported a dramatic increase in youth suicides, and the POST then published my letter showing how elementary school children recently had been taught the theme song from "M.A.S.H.," which is "Suicide Is Painless." The song explains that the game of life is lost, cheating is the only way to win, and that suicide is painless. Concerning other means of conditioning youth's values, could the abundance of violent videogames also affect children's behavior?

Thus, while it is all right to look at events on the surface level, I always recommend that people not just take incidents at face value, but should also analyze them in terms of how they further the power elite's "downplayed certain geopolitical goal" of a World Socialist Government.

© 2007 Dennis Cuddy - All Rights Reserved

OOOPS!!

2007-04-22T17:00:00.000-07:00

ANNOUNCING A COLLAPSE BEFORE A COLLAPSE

THE GRAND CHESS BOARD PART 6

2007-04-16T17:23:00.000-07:00

The Deep Politics of God (Part Six): The CNP, Dominionism, and the Ted Haggard Scandal
By Phillip Collins and Paul Collins
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Deep Politics and the Evangelical Establishment

The CNP should concern people, but not necessarily for the reasons that the Left present. Groups like the CNP can draw innocent Christians into the practice of deep politics. Deep politics is a term first coined by Professor Peter Dale Scott. Scott gives the following description of deep politics:

My notion of deep politics… posits that in every culture and society there are facts which tend to be suppressed collectively, because of the social and psychological costs of not doing so. Like all other observers, I too have involuntarily suppressed facts and even memories about the drug traffic that were too provocative to be retained with equanimity. (No pagination)

Quite simply, deep politics are those criminal activities that make up the everyday business of the power elite and the deep political system (i.e., those factions of the government that have been prostituted out to the elite). Bill Moyers confirmed that modern day elites practice deep politics on a 1980 broadcast of his show Bill Moyers Journal. Commenting on the warnings of David Rockefeller’s detractors, Moyers stated: "what some critics see as a vast international conspiracy, he considers a circumstance of life, and just another day’s work" (Hoar 325). Christians should find it disturbing that many CNP members, such as John K. Singlaub and Oliver North, were involved in one of the greatest modern day examples of deep politics: the Iran-Contra Scandal.

The group responsible for systematizing the means and the methods that constitute deep politics is Adam Weishaupt’s Bavarian Illuminati. The Illuminists were anything but Christian. In his writings, Weishaupt wrote:

If in order to destroy all Christianity, all religion, we have to have the sole true religion, remember that the end justifies the means, and that the wise ought to take all the means to do good which the wicked take to do evil. (Webster, World Revolution, 13)

The Illuminati’s anti-Christian beliefs may have also been expressed through the group’s founding date: May 1st, 1776. Ralph Epperson elaborates:

The reason that Weishaupt chose the First of May to found his anti-Christian religion has not been satisfactorily explained. However, there are some interesting clues as to why he might have chosen that date.

One possible explanation involves the Roman emperor Diocletian, who reigned from 284-305 A.D. After the death of Jesus, the Christian world continued to be persecuted by a string of violent Caesars of the Roman Empire. But the violence inaugurated by Diocletian surpassed them all in violence.

An edict requiring uniformity of worship was issued in 303 A.D., and the Christians resisted by refusing to pay homage to the image of the emperor. Diocletian met that resistance with specific retaliation against the Christians: they lost their public and private possessions, and their assemblies were prohibited. Their churches were torn down, and their sacred writings were destroyed.

In addition, many Christians paid for their resistance with their lives, it has been estimated that the victims numbered into the hundreds of thousands.

Finally, Diocletian grew ill, and abdicated on May 1, 305 A.D. The persecution persisted, but never again approached that of the emperor Diocletian.

Is it possible that Professor Weishaupt learned about the date of this abdication and picked up the mantle laid down by Diocletian, and started the persecution of Christians again, some 1400 years later? (106-7) By engaging in deep politics, CNP members are mimicking the anti-Christian Illuminists, whether they are aware of it or not. A good example is the Bush and Reagan Administration’s use of a secret team of covert operators to conceal its secret agenda. As Joel Bainerman points out in Crimes of a President, this method is strikingly similar to the Illuminati’s strategy of never appearing under its own name and establishing other organizations to carry out its secret agenda (307). CNP members John K. Singlaub and Oliver North were part of the secret team of covert operators carrying out the Reagan and Bush Administration’s secret agenda. Bainerman also notes that Weishaupt:…was also successful in convincing many Christian leaders to join the order by telling them that the Illuminati was a Christian organization and that its purpose was to unify the world for the sake of Christ. (307)

This is similar to the CNP’s strategy of luring in Christians with thinly camouflaged Dominionist rhetoric. These facts should give Christians some pause. Perhaps shying away from groups like the CNP and remaining on a grass roots level better serves the cause of righteousness.

The whole Haggard scandal may prove to be a result of deep politics on the Colorado political scene. When one considers the proximity of the Haggard scandal to the November 2006 elections, the idea that the scandal is explained by the accidentalists begins to strain credulity. Haggard’s New Life Church in Colorado Springs gave six thousand dollars to the Coloradans for Marriage coalition that has proposed a constitutional amendment defining marriage as solely between a man and a woman (Simpson, no pagination). This made Haggard an enemy of Tim Gill, a gay rights activist and computer software entrepreneur. Gill’s Foundation Action Fund gave fifty-five thousand dollars to the Coloradans for Fairness Issue Committee, which is the opposition of Coloradans for Marriage (no pagination).

Gill’s foundation in Washington, the Gill Action Fund, is headed by Patrick Guerriero, who is the former leader of the Log Cabin Republicans, the gay faction of the GOP ("Gill Action Fund," no pagination). This puts Gill in a perfect position to collect intelligence on closet homosexuals in or close to the GOP. Haggard is definitely connected to the GOP. Until the scandal, Haggard would speak to President George W. Bush or his advisors every Monday (Sharlet, "Soldiers of Christ," no pagination). While this is only a theory, it is a possibility that must be considered.

Does the GOP have a sex problem that makes it susceptible to blackmail and manipulation? Unfortunately, the answer seems to be a resounding yes. On September 28, 2006, Rhonda Schwartz and Maddy Sauer reported on ABC News that a sixteen-year-old male former congressional page alerted Capitol Hill staffers of questionable e-mails that he had received from Congressman Mark Foley’s office (no pagination). Foley asked the boy about his age, what he wanted for his birthday, and requested a photograph of the boy (no pagination). A day later, ABC reported that it had seen the sexual explicit excerpts of the e-mails and Foley announced that he was going to resign (Ross and Sauer, no pagination).

Another example of a sexual deviant within the ranks of the GOP is none other than Cheney’s deposed chief of Staff Scooter Libby. Many Americans are familiar with Scooter Libby because of his connection to the Valerie Plame affair. What many people are not aware of is Libby’s sexually explicit writings. In 1996, Libby released The Apprentice, a book that took him more than twenty years to write (Collins, "Scooter’s Sex Shocker," no pagination). The book is filled with homoeroticism, bestiality and incestuous themes, with an unspeakably gross passage where a ten-year-old girl is abused ("Scooter’s Sex Shocker," no pagination).

GOP sexual deviants are, by no means, disorganized. There is a large body of evidence suggesting that there is actually a well-organized homoerotic cabal within the GOP. This cabal is also involved in satanic ritual abuse and the dirty side of the intelligence community. This revelation did not originate with a conspiracy theorist or some crank who reads too many Dan Brown novels. It came from John DeCamp, a former Nebraska Senator and decorated Vietnam War hero. While looking into the collapse of Nebraska’s Franklin Community Federal Credit Union, investigators happened upon evidence of criminal activities of the part of the credit union’s manager: Republican Party activist Lawrence E. "Larry" King Jr. According to DeCamp, Larry King led a double life:

When Larry King traveled the political circuit, he evidently had two agendas. To the public, he was the rising GOP star with the resonant baritone voice. Something else went on behind closed doors. (166)

What exactly went on behind closed doors? Drawing upon the notes of a private investigator named Gary Caradori, DeCamp examines darker events that percolated just below the surface of the 1984 GOP convention. The events in question involved the Webb foster child Kendra, the Webb children’s’ aunt Marcy, and a social worker named Joanie:

At the Dallas convention in 1984, King threw his splashy party at Southfork Ranch, remembered by me and many other delegates as an unparalleled extravaganza. According to the several victim-witnesses, he also arranged some private events during the convention. They recall being flown to Dallas, to be sexually used by convention-goers. Gary Caradori mapped the recollections of the Webb foster children in his notes of February 1990:

"During this visit [the children’s aunt] Marcy informed [social worker] Joanie that [the youngest Patterson Webb sister] Kendra had told her she had been transported around the country several times, she thought to Texas and Louisiana. Marcy remembered Texas in particular, and a Republican Convention because one of the children, possibly Kendra, had a book of matches from Texas and that is how the children had known where they were at. Joanie stated that she remembered that the children had been exploited sexually in Texas, and she indicated that it was [the] feeling this activity had been occurring for several years." (167)DeCamp also fleshes out the allegations against King with the testimony of yet another victim-witness, Paul Bonacci:

I was later to learn from Paul Bonacci, that he was also at the famed Southfork party. He described it for me in exact detail, some seven years after the party took place. He had been here for the purpose of providing sexual favors for people Larry King wanted to accommodate, satisfy, or compromise. Paul said he was one of a troop of teenaged boys and girls, whom King had shipped to Dallas for his purposes. (167)

There are several aspects of Bonacci’s testimony that suggest that what he is saying is legitimate and true:

I have talked to Paul repeatedly about this party. I have listened to his description. Only by having been there, could someone describe the setting the way Paul did to me. Because I was there myself for the party, I am certain that Paul Bonacci was there and did not invent his story or his description of the party. This was, it happens, just one of Paul’s leads into matters surrounding Larry King and Franklin that I could personally check out and know the boy was telling the truth. Not because somebody told me he was telling the truth. Not because somebody said he passed a lie detector test on the subject. But because I was there and saw a part of it, and saw the exact same things this boy did. (167)

King was also present at a New Orleans Republican convention:

Again in 1988, attendance at Larry King’s party was virtually mandatory for any true Nebraska Republican attending the Republican National Convention, held this time in New Orleans. Most of the Nebraska delegation was transported to the party by bus. The theme of the festivities was Mardi Gras. (167)According to DeCamp, in New Orleans, King engaged in the same nefarious activities that he been involved in at the 1984 Dallas convention:

King’s parties were designed to bring in everybody, from the innocent to the top-ranking businessmen and politicians. I personally attended the two largest parties he ever threw, as did many Republican officials. As a guest at the party, you would not know from the outer glitter, what sordid activity was going on behind the scenes. I am sure that was the character of many of Larry King’s parties, particularly the political events. Outwardly, they had the appearance of legitimacy, with prominent people in attendance, from mayors to presidents, from businessmen to congressmen. So, when people say to me, Well, I was at one of Larry King’s parties and I did not see any of this sex or drug or pedophilia stuff,’ I understand that they may be speaking with honesty and accuracy. As to what really went on, I believe they are wrong. (168)

DeCamp also speaks of King’s connections to the late Craig Spence:

King acquired contacts in Washington’s homosexual prostitution scene, one of whom was the late Craig Spence. A lobbyist and political operative, Spence maintained a call boy ring that catered to the political elite and, unlike most D.C. call boy rings, offered children to its clients. (169)

Craig Spence’s operation reached into high places, and even had connections into the murky world of intelligence. Eventually Spence’s racket became the center of media attention:Spence’s activities made banner headlines in the Washington Times on June 29, 1989: ‘Homosexual prostitution inquiry ensnares VIP’s with Reagan, Bush.’ Spence’s access was so good, that he could arrange nighttime tours of the White House for his clients. The Times added on August 9, 1989, that Spence ‘hinted the tours were arranged by ‘top level’ persons, including Donald Gregg, national security advisor to Vice President Bush. . . ." Spence, according to friends, was also carrying out homosexual blackmail operations for the CIA. (169)

DeCamp informs the reader that investigations conducted journalists uncovered the connection between King and Spence:According to a Washington, D.C. investigative journalist who researched the Spence ring, "The way we discovered Larry King and this Nebraska-based call boy ring, was by looking through the credit card chits of Spence’s ring, where we found King’s name." Another investigator, with personal knowledge of the call-boy rings operating in Washington, put it this way:

"Larry King and Craig Spence were business partners. Look at two companies, ‘Dream Boys’ and ‘Man to Man’, both of which operated under another service, ‘Bodies by God.’" (169)

Spence would eventually die under mysterious circumstances, but the questions persisted even after the man’s death. These questions focused on rumors that both King and Spence participated in the Iran-Contra scandal:

When Craig Spence turned up dead—a suicide, police were quick to say—in a Boston hotel room, in November 1989, it was the latest in the long string of deaths of persons linked to Iran-Contra covert operations and funding. There is evidence that Larry King had Washington business in that area as well. ‘In the 6 ½ months since federal authorities closed Franklin, rumors have persisted that money from the credit union somehow found its way to the Nicaraguan contra rebels,’ said a World-Herald article on May 21, 1989. (169)

Reporter James Allen Flanery was one of the individuals who took a closer look into the Iran-Contra aspect of the King/Spence story. After some digging, Flanery found that there was substance to the rumors. DeCamp shares Flanery’s story:

The first World-Herald reporter on the Franklin case, James Allen Flanery, apparently found more than rumors about the money-laundering. In late 1988, Flanery called Carol Stitt to discuss what he had learned. Their conversation is related in a February 21, 1989 report by Jerry Lowe: "Carol’s notes also have a reference to Larry King running guns and money into Nicaragua . . . . Carol’s notes on Dec. 21, 1988 reflect that she talked with Flanery and in addition to the Nicaraguan info, he was also now talking about CIA involvement and provided info that yesterday (Dec. 20) the FBI quit cooperating with him . . . .Carol’s notes next jump to Feb.6, 1989, where she talked on the phone with Flanery and Flanery told her that the appropriate people didn’t want to believe any of this and who was ever going to prosecute it.

Apparently Flanery told Carol he was close to resigning and the reasons he didn’t think anyone wanted to do anything was because of the possibility of a White House connection, the connections to a number of big people, and he fact that the investigators wanted badly to confine this all to the money. Also many white people made Larry King [who was African-American], he did not happen on his own." (170)

Apparently, Flanery’s snooping into Franklin caught the attention of people who did not want the story told. Pressure began to be applied on Flanery to convince him to leave the Franklin story alone:

Apparently Flanery told Carol he was uncomfortable on the phone, his editor was distressed and things he had written were continually edited, he wanted to his byline off the article printed the 9th among other things . . . Flanery also expressed concern to Carol that if he didn’t get off this story he worried about being compromised.

"The pressure and intimidation began to take a heavy toll on Flanery. This campaign of scare-tactics had the desired effect:

Soon Flanery was off the Franklin case, which continued for months to be the major news lead in Nebraska, and went to the University of Kansas on Sabbatical. When he returned a year later, Flanery no longer wrote about Franklin. (170)

During the legislative Franklin probe, DeCamp was contacted by an insider at National Credit:Squelching interest in an Iran-Contra connection to Franklin was also a topic of the hour, in that phone call I received from National Credit Union administration official Fenner, back in the early months of the legislative Franklin probe. ‘Why would the head of the NCUA be wanting to talk to me?’ I wondered out loud, when my secretary said that Fenner was on the line. The man on the other end of the phone said he knew I was a close friend of former CIA head Bill Colby, and that I also was Senator Loran Schmit’s personal attorney. He quickly came to his point. (170-171)

During the conversation, Fenner tried to steer DeCamp clear of any connection of Franklin to Iran-Contra:

"I know there are a lot of rumors, that Franklin was being used as a front for laundering money for the Contras and that a lot of the money that is missing from Franklin actually went to finance the Contras." I acknowledged that I had heard such talk, and told, him, "I myself am one of those who wonder, if that is not a real possibility, in light of the way things have been shaking out on the Contra scandal." Fenner then gave me a flood of details on the secret Franklin accounts, and where the missing money supposedly went. No destinations linked with Iran-Contra were mentioned. (171)

While Fenner was evaded questions concerning connections between Franklin and Iran-Contra, he did make a startling admission that suggests the existence of a homoerotic cabal. This cabal is intimately tied to the Franklin affair:

"So tell me," I said, "just what is at the bottom of it? If it is not laundered money involved in the Iran-Contra scandal, what the blazes is it? And how could Larry King get away with this, without you or somebody else knowing what was going on? Looks to me as if he had to have one heck of a lot powerful political protection at the highest levels." "Homosexuals," Fenner said, "Franklin financed the biggest group of homosexuals any state has ever seen. A lot of awfully powerful and prominent personalities involved. But probably not anything you can do anything about." (171)

Does this organized network of sexual deviants connect in any way to the CNP? We shall answer this question in the seventh installment of this ongoing investigation.

Sources Cited

All sources will be cited in the final installment of this series

YOUR PAPERS PLEASE

2007-04-16T17:17:00.000-07:00

Registry would treat gun owners like criminals
Christian Berg Outdoors

If someone told you he had been forced to provide the Pennsylvania State Police with their fingerprints, photograph, Social Security number and a host of other personal information, you'd probably assume they were arrested and charged with a crime.

Well, that kind of police ''booking'' process could be in store for Pennsylvania's roughly 3 million firearms owners if gun-control advocates in Harrisburg have their way.

Last month, a group of six state lawmakers introduced legislation that would require the annual registration of virtually every privately-owned firearm in the state. Those who would refuse to register their guns would become criminals, and those denied registration certificates for any reason would have their guns confiscated by the government.

''There's nothing more slanderous to our Second Amendment rights,'' said Melody Zullinger, executive director of the Pennsylvania Federation of Sportsmen's Clubs. ''It's scary, and it should be a wake-up call to sportsmen.

''The gun registration proposal, known as House Bill 760, is co-sponsored by Reps. Lisa Bennington, D-Allegheny; Angel Cruz, D-Philadelphia; Lawrence H. Curry, D-Montgomery and Philadelphia; Cherelle L. Parker, D-Philadelphia; Jake Wheatley, D-Allegheny; and Rosita C. Youngblood, D-Philadelphia.

In addition to providing the information mentioned above, gun owners would be required to undergo an annual criminal background check and provide police with the make, model, caliber and serial number for every gun they own -- along with a $10-per-year, per-gun registration fee.

Private gun owners whose applications are approved would receive registration certificates for each firearm. The certificates, which would include the gun owner's name, address, date of birth, photograph and other information, would have to be carried with the associated gun at all times and presented to police on demand.It gets worse.

Gun owners also would be required to notify state police within 48 hours of any gun that is lost, stolen or destroyed. And gun owners could not sell or give a firearm to anyone else without notifying state police at least 48 hours in advance.

Finally -- and this one is really the icing on the cake -- gun owners would be required to keep all firearms unloaded and disassembled (or bound by a trigger lock or gun safe) unless the firearm is in the owner's immediate control and possession at the owner's residence or business or while being used for legal recreation.

So, the government would not only decide whether you deserve to own guns, but also how and where you could store and use them. Hard to believe that's what the framers of the Constitution had in mind when they declared ''…the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

''Naturally, there is an exemption for law enforcement officers, corrections officers and for any guns owned or under direct control of the federal, state or local governments. Collectible firearms, along with flintlock, match-lock and percussion firearms manufactured before 1898 (including replicas) also would be excluded.
The rules I mentioned so far are only for those whose registration applications are approved. If your registration application is rejected for any reason, and your appeal is denied, you have three days to turn over all your guns to the state police.

So, if the government screws up and denies your application because of its mistake, you lose your guns. There's nothing in the bill addressing what happens to seized guns or when, if ever, you can get them back.Needless to say, House Bill 760 hasn't exactly been embraced by rank-and-file gun owners or gun rights organizations such as the National Rifle Association, which issued a statement calling the proposal ''misguided.'' A gun-owning colleague here at the paper said the proposal reminded him a lot of the Big Brother government in George Orwell's ''1984.

''Before I go any further, it's important to point out that House Bill 760 doesn't appear to have anywhere near enough support to win approval in the General Assembly. Still, the mere fact that six House members are proposing it serves as evidence that gun control is an issue alive and well in the halls of state government.

It's also no surprise all six of the lawmakers pushing for gun registration represent either Philadelphia or Pittsburgh. Both those cities struggle with more than their fair share of violent crime -- many of them involving the illegal use of firearms.

While I sympathize with the crime victims, and the lawmakers' desire to address the problem, a statewide gun registry simply is not the answer.

You can bet your bottom dollar that criminals will not register their guns. In fact, the NRA noted the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that since felons are prohibited from owning firearms, compelling them to register them would violate their Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination.

Firearms registries also happen to be terribly expensive. Canada's national gun registration program, in place for more than a decade, was initally projected to cost $119 million to set up. However, it ended up costing more than $1 billion and is widely considered a boondoggle by Canadian citizens. Some political leaders are pushing a plan to eliminate hunting rifles and shotguns -- which were added to the registry program five years ago -- to slash costs.

A recent spate of high-profile shootings in Canada also is causing renewed debate over the effectiveness of the program, with groups on both sides of the gun-control debate offering reports and statistics to support their point of view. Depending on which ''expert'' you ask, the Canadian registry has either been a colossal success or a colossal waste of time.

At best, Pennsylvania's proposed registration system is a duplication of government oversight already in place. For example, instant criminal background checks already are required every time a person buys a gun. And existing gun owners who lose their right to own firearms because of a felony or domestic violence conviction have their guns seized through the court system.

At worst, the registration proposal is an overbearing, unconstitutional invasion of privacy. You have to ask yourself, why does the government need a list of guns owned by honest, law-abiding citzens anyway?I can think of several reasons, but none that make me feel more secure -- either in terms of my personal safety or my Second Amendment rights.

cberg@mcall.com

PENTAGON FOR HIRE

2007-04-16T15:33:00.000-07:00

WHO HIRED THE PENTAGON & WHAT DO THEY WANT DONE?
By Joshua Daniels
www.NewsWithViews.com

On September 10, 2001, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld admitted that the Pentagon had lost, by the estimate he chose to use for his speech, $2.3 trillion dollars. Many of you good readers know about this and are asking where the money went? That's a good question, but what really intrigues me is: Where did it come from?

If you add up the entire US defense budgets from 1996 to 2001, you only come up with circa $1.6 trillion. Yet, according to Rummy, not only was that much money lost, but an ADDITIONAL $700 billion dollars has disappeared. Remember, we're talking about $2.3 trillion dollars missing.

Exact figures vary by source, but are close to each other, so I'll deal in round numbers. To come up with $2.3 trillion dollars of military spending, you have to add up all the defense budgets from about 1991 to 2001. For all those years, the Pentagon spent hundreds of billions and didn't get a single receipt nor account for a single dime? Not possible and no one's claiming that it happened. The missing money was part of some budget, but it's bigger than the defense budgets we're to believe it's a part of, so it was a part of some OTHER budget, one we don't know about.

1996 through 2001 is a lot of years for the Government Accounting Office (GAO) to fail to notice that the entire defense budget went missing. I don't believe they did fail to notice it, because the missing money wasn't on the books to begin with. It couldn't have been; it's more money than we gave them.

This is not an accounting error. We know the soldiers and sailors got paid, the tanks and planes got bought, and the missiles got purchased, because the companies that made them cashed the checks, and the banks issued statements showing that the money went out and to whom it went. We know that most of that money got properly accounted for, because the GAO and OMB have been checking figures, making recommendations for savings, etc., and would have spotted a gap of any real size. We also suspect the usual drugs, cars, mansions, and hookers of all ages and sexes. But all these only add up to the official hundreds of billions, not the missing thousands of billions.

Most of the missing money could never have been part of a defense budget, and could not have come from our government. It had to have come from someone else, someone who MUST want the Pentagon to do something for them. Nobody gives gifts that big but God.

So, just who hired the Pentagon to do whatever they hired it to do? Who wrote those checks? What are they paying for? When do they expect it? Who is its target? How can we put a stop to this blatant prostitution?
I have no answers, but I can narrow the list: not many people outside the Federal Reserve owners have access to that kind of money. And not many people beside the Federal Reserve owners want to use the American military and its loyal, devoted troops to bend the world to their will.

Come to think of it, NO ONE outside the Federal Reserve owners meets those two criteria. The American people have a right to know what is going on because everyone of those thousands of billions had to be borrowed from the privately owned central bank with this congressionally debt slapped on the backs of the American people and their children.
Sources:

1, $2.3 trillion Missing Sept. 10, 2001 Donald Rumsfeld2, 2001 Highlights of the FY 2001 Request
Adittional Information:
1, Highlights of the FY 2000 Request2, 1999 Department of Defense Budget For FY 19993, 1998 Department of Defense Budget For FY 19984, Press Release DOD5, 1997 Military Budget at a Glance6, 1996 The President's FY 1996 budget requests $246.0 billion in budget authority and $250.0 billion in outlays for the Department of Defense.
© 2007 Jashua Daniels - All Rights Reserved
joshua@brokenwall.com

OF THE LAST GLARING SIGNS

2007-04-09T18:52:00.000-07:00

Climate and Ocean Scientists Put Under New Speech Restraints
Any Scientific Statements "of Official Interest" Must be Pre-Approved
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AP
Washington, DC — Federal climate, weather and marine scientists will be subject to new restrictions as to what they can say to the media or in public, according to agency documents released today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). Under rules posted last week, these federal scientists must obtain agency pre-approval to speak or write, whether on or off-duty, concerning any scientific topic deemed “of official interest.”

On March 29, 2007, the Commerce Department posted a new administrative order governing “Public Communications.” This new order covers the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which includes the National Weather Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service. Commerce’s new order will become effective in 45 days and would repeal a more liberal “open science” policy adopted by NOAA on February 14, 2006.

Although couched in rhetoric about the need for “broad and open dissemination of research results [and] open exchange of scientific ideas,” the new order forbids agency scientists from communicating any relevant information, even if prepared and delivered on their own time as private citizens, which has not been approved by the official chain-of-command:

* Any “fundamental research communication” must “before the communication occurs” be submitted to and approved by the designated “head of the operating unit.” While the directive states that approval may not be withheld “based on policy, budget, or management implications of the research,” it does not define these terms and limits any appeal to within Commerce;

* National Weather Service employees are allowed only “as part of their routine responsibilities to communicate information about the weather to the public”; and

* Scientists must give the Commerce Department at least two weeks “advance notice” of any written, oral or audiovisual presentation prepared on their own time if it “is a matter of official interest to the Department because it relates to Department programs, policies or operations.”

“This ridiculous gag order ignores the First Amendment and disrespects the world-renowned professionals who work within Commerce agencies,” stated PEER Executive Director Jeff Ruch. “Under this policy, National Weather Service scientists can only give out name, rank, serial number and the temperature.”The agency rejected a more open policy adopted last year by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The new policy also was rushed to print despite an ongoing Commerce Office of Inspector General review of communication policies that was undertaken at congressional request.

While claiming to provide clarity, the new Commerce order gives conflicting directives, on one hand telling scientists that if unsure whether a conclusion has been officially approved “then the researcher must make clear that he or she is representing his or her individual conclusion.” Yet, another part of the order states non-official communications “may not take place or be prepared during working hours.” This conflict means that every scientist who answers an unexpected question at a conference puts his or her career at risk by giving an honest answer.

http://www.peer.org/news/news_id.php?row_id=841

SICKNESS TARGETING CHILDREN

2007-04-09T18:51:00.000-07:00

13-Year-Old Arrested In School For Writing On Desk
Principal Urges Cops To Arrest Girl For Writing 'Okay'

Tanya Rivero
Reporting

(CBS) NEW YORK In this day and age where young students are frequently charged for serious school offenses such as possessing weapons, dealing drugs, or assaulting other students on school property, one Brooklyn teen's arrest may come as a surprise. A 13-year-old girl was handcuffed and placed under arrest in front of her classmates in Dyker Heights after she wrote "Okay" on her desk.

The "suspect," Chelsea Fraser, says she's sorry for scribbling the word on her desk, but both she and her mother are shocked at the punishment.

"I'm appalled, because here we have rapists, murderers, and you're taking a 13-year-old kid? Wasting valuable manpower to arrest a child who wrote on a desk?" Fraser's mother Diana Silva told CBS 2.

Police confirm that that's exactly what's written on her arrest record and for the crime, she's been charged with criminal mischief and the making of graffiti. Fraser says the day she marked her desk, she was wrongly grouped together with troublemakers who had plastered stickers all over the classroom.

Fraser was arrested at the Dyker Heights Intermediate School on March 30 along with three other male students. She says she was made to empty her pockets and take off her belt. Then she was handcuffed and led out of the school in front of her classmates and placed in the back of a police car.

"It was really embarrassing because some of the kids, they talk, and they're going to label me as a bad kid. But I'm really not," Fraser said. "I didn't know writing 'Okay' would get me arrested."

"All the kids were ... watching these three boys and my daughter being marched out with four -- they had four police officers -- walking them out, handcuffed," Silva said. "She goes to me, 'Mommy, these hurt!'"

The students were taken to the 68th Precinct station house where Silva says they were separated for three hours. "MY child is 13-years-old -- doesn't it stand that I'm supposed to be present for any questioning?" Silva said. "I'm watching my daughter, she's handcuffed to the pole. I ask the officer has she been there the entire time? She says, 'Yes.'"

On her report card, under conduct, Fraser has earned all "satisfactory" marks and one "excellent" mark.

"My daughter just wrote something on a desk. I would have her scrub it with Soft Scrub on a Saturday morning when she should be out playing, and maybe a day of in-house and a formal apology to the principal," Silva said.

CBS 2 contacted both the NYPD and the Board of Education for a response. The police say the arrests followed a request by the school's principal. The Board of Education said the matter is under investigation, adding that graffiti was found on several desks.

(© MMVII, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.)

ORWELL'S HOME HAS BEEN BIG BROTHERED

2007-04-04T16:56:00.000-07:00

George Orwell, Big Brother Is Watching Your House

By BOB GRAHAM

The Big Brother nightmare of George Orwell's 1984 has become a reality - in the shadow of the author's former London home.

It may have taken a little longer than he predicted, but Orwell's vision of a society where cameras and computers spy on every person's movements is now here.

According to the latest studies, Britain has a staggering 4.2million CCTV cameras - one for every 14 people in the country - and 20 per cent of cameras globally. It has been calculated that each person is caught on camera an average of 300 times daily.

Use of spy cameras in modern-day Britain is now a chilling mirror image of Orwell's fictional world, created in the post-war Forties in a fourth-floor flat overlooking Canonbury Square in Islington, North London.

On the wall outside his former residence - flat number 27B - where Orwell lived until his death in 1950, an historical plaque commemorates the anti-authoritarian author. And within 200 yards of the flat, there are 32 CCTV cameras, scanning every move.

Orwell's view of the tree-filled gardens outside the flat is under 24-hour surveillance from two cameras perched on traffic lights.

The flat's rear windows are constantly viewed from two more security cameras outside a conference centre in Canonbury Place.

In a lane, just off the square, close to Orwell's favourite pub, the Compton Arms, a camera at the rear of a car dealership records every person entering or leaving the pub.

Within a 200-yard radius of the flat, there are another 28 CCTV cameras, together with hundreds of private, remote-controlled security cameras used to scrutinise visitors to homes, shops and offices.

The message is reminiscent of a 1949 poster to mark the launch of Orwell's 1984: 'Big Brother is Watching You'.

In the Shriji grocery store in Canonbury Place, three cameras focus on every person in the shop. Owner Minesh Amin explained: 'They are for our security and safety. Without them, people would steal from the shop. Although this is a nice area, there are always bad people who cause trouble by stealing.'

Three doors away, in the dry-cleaning shop run by Malik Zafar, are another two CCTV cameras.

'I need to know who is coming into my shop,' explained Mr Zafar, who spent £400 on his security system.

This week, the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAE) produced a report highlighting the astonishing numbers of CCTV cameras in the country and warned how such 'Big Brother tactics' could eventually put lives at risk.

The RAE report warned any security system was 'vulnerable to abuse, including bribery of staff and computer hackers gaining access to it'. One of the report's authors, Professor Nigel Gilbert, claimed the numbers of CCTV cameras now being used is so vast that further installations should be stopped until the need for them is proven.

One fear is a nationwide standard for CCTV cameras which would make it possible for all information gathered by individual cameras to be shared - and accessed by anyone with the means to do so.

The RAE report follows a warning by the Government's Information Commissioner Richard Thomas that excessive use of CCTV and other information-gathering was 'creating a climate of suspicion'.

©2007 Associated Newspapers Ltd

THE GRAND CHESS BOARD PART 5

2007-03-19T19:21:00.000-07:00

The Deep Politics of God (Part Five): The CNP, Dominionism, and the Ted Haggard Scandal
Phillip Collins and Paul Collins www.RaidersNewsNetwork.com

The Cult of Neo-Gnostic Jihadists

Many CNP members are adherents of Dominionism. Dominionism is a popular religio-political doctrine that is gradually co-opting Protestant Christian evangelicalism. It is premised upon a gross misinterpretation of Genesis 1:28. Basically, Dominionism holds that the Church must dominate all social and governmental institutions (Leslie, no pagination). According to this radical form of theology, Jesus is either unwilling or unable to return to Earth until the Church stages a successful political coup (No pagination). Thus, Jesus’ kingdom is reduced to a secular government established by and maintained through secular power.

Chris Hedges provides a fairly accurate description of Dominionism:

What the disparate sects of this movement, known as Dominionism, share is an obsession with political power. A decades-long refusal to engage in politics at all following the Scopes trial has been replaced by a call for Christian "dominion" over the nation and, eventually, over the earth itself. Dominionists preach that Jesus has called them to build the kingdom of God in the here and now, whereas previously it was thought we would have to wait for it. America becomes, in this militant biblicism, an agent of God, and all political and intellectual opponents of America’s Christian leaders are viewed, quite simply, as agents of Satan. (No pagination)

Readers who are not acquainted with Dominionists may find such a description too fantastic to accept. After all, the average small town church that is familiar to most people does not conform to the Dominionist model. Those who doubt that such a movement exists would find the Dominionist tract, "The Integration of Theory and Practice: A Program for the New Traditionalist Movement" quite enlightening. Written by Eric Heubeck for CNP member Paul Weyrich’s Free Congress Foundation, this document perfectly presents the gospel of Dominionism. In it, Heubeck writes:

It must be emphasized that this new movement will not be "disengaged" from the wider society, only "differently engaged." We are, quite simply, replacing political activism with cultural activism as the center of our focus. And while the visibility of the new movement will be less pronounced than the existing (political) conservative movement in the short term, the seeds that we now sow will have dramatic repercussions over the long term. We have the capacity to fundamentally transform the face of American culture in the 21st century by following a different path, one built on the aggressive dissemination of our cultural values, rather than the idle hope that enough of our cultural values still remain in the body of the American people to carry us on to a few more isolated electoral victories.We will never stop being engaged in the wider culture. We will not "hunker down" and wait for the storm to blow over. Our strategy will be to bleed this corrupt culture dry. We will pick off the most intelligent and creative individuals in our society, the individuals who help give credibility to the current regime. To do this, we will promote a set of beliefs more compelling than that of our opponents. We will launch a movement with more energy and more intensity than our opponents are capable of summoning. (No pagination)

In a passage that echoes the revolutionary fervor of Robespierre’s radical Jacobinism, Heubeck declares:

Our movement will be entirely destructive, and entirely constructive. We will not try to reform the existing institutions. We only intend to weaken them, and eventually destroy them. We will endeavor to knock our opponents off-balance and unsettle them at every opportunity. All of our constructive energies will be dedicated to the creation of our own institutions. (No pagination)

Heubeck goes on to say that the Dominionists "will use guerrilla tactics to undermine the legitimacy of the dominant regime" (No pagination). None of what Heubeck writes resembles the Jesus presented in the Gospels. Instead, the language is comparable to the eighteenth century revolutionaries who were actually trying to tear down Christian civilization. Nonetheless, Heubeck’s words capture the heart and soul of Dominionism.

Several CNP members subscribe to Dominionism. These include Gary North, D. James Kennedy, Howard Ahmanson, Jr., and Marvin Olasky.Essentially, Dominionism is the product of religious engineering. Sociologist William Sims Bainbridge defines religious engineering as "the conscious, systematic, skilled creation of a new religion" ("New Religions, Science, and Secularization," no pagination).

Typically, the religion that is designed affirms the socially and politically expedient contentions of those engineering it. For instance, the Process Church, which was a satanic cult that Bainbridge conducted a five-year ethnographic study with, engineered a religion that suited its Hegelian Weltanschauung and hedonistic practices ("Social Construction from Within: Satan’s Process," no pagination). Older occult organizations, like Freemasonry, combined elements of the ancient Mystery religions with metaphysical naturalism, materialism, and transformism (of a somewhat Lamarckian variety that would presage Darwinism) to engineer a secular faith in "progress."

Of course, this technocratic evangel of "progress" would help to spawn the Enlightenment, which was the edifying secular religion of the radical sociopolitical Utopians of the French Revolution. In turn, the French Revolution would act as a precursory model for all subsequent socialist revolutions. Most Establishment members adhere to some variant of Enlightenment rationalism. Thus, the entire Establishment could qualify as the product of centuries of religious engineering. It comes as little surprise that the CNP is attached to this vast conspiratorial body. Like its predecessors, the CNP is continuing the tradition of religious engineering in pursuit of political and social hegemony.

At any rate, Bainbridge recognizes the socially and politically expedient applications of religious engineering. In his essay, "New Religions, Science, and Secularization," Bainbridge presents the mandate for social scientists to become "religious engineers." In actuality, Bainbridge’s mandate merely reiterates one of the technocratic concepts developed by the founding father of sociology, August Comte. Specifically, Bainbridge advocates the Comtean concept of a "sociocracy." Frank Fischer explains:

. . .Comte advanced the concept of a "sociocracy," defined as a new "religion of humanity." Sociologists were to identify the principles of this new faith and to implement them through a "sociolatry." The sociolatry was to entail a system of festivals, devotional practices, and rites designed to fix the new social ethics in the minds of the people. In the process, men and women would devote themselves not to God (deemed an outmoded concept) but to "Humanity" as symbolized in the "Grand Being" and rendered incarnate in the great men of history. (71)

In short, one could characterize a sociocracy as a scientistic theocracy with social scientists acting as the ruling priesthood. Sociologists actively experiment in the development of a scientistic faith that is politically and socially expedient to the ruling elite. In a sense, Dominionism could be considered a quasi-sociocracy. Given its distinctly secular character, Dominionism qualifies as a "religion of humanity." However, its ruling priesthood is not peopled by social scientists, but by a confused amalgam of neoconservatives, Establishment insiders, Rockefeller internationalists, and Iran-Contra conspirators. Despite their varying pedigrees, the religious engineers of this emergent sociocracy share one doctrinal commonality: the Utopian vision of an earthly kingdom shaped and maintained through earthly power.

This doctrinal commonality illustrates the conspicuously neo-Gnostic character of Dominionist eschatology. Like the adherents of neo-Gnosticism, the religious engineers of Dominionism are not satisfied with the supposed limitations of cognitio fidei (the cognition of faith). Thus, Dominionists engage in the neo-Gnostic practice of immanentization. That is, they re-conceptualize transcendant objects of faith as objects of immanent experience. This practice began with earlier sociopolitical Utopians, specifically communists and fascists. Sociopolitical Utopians typically rejected the traditional Abrahamic faiths in favor of a radically secular Weltanschauung.

However, they simultaneously transplanted the traditional metaphysical concepts of these faiths within the ontological plane of the physical universe. This included the Eschaton ("the end of days"). Wolfgang Smith explains:

In place of an Eschaton which ontologically transcends the confines of this world, the modern Gnostic envisions an End within history, an Eschaton, therefore, which is to be realized within the ontological plane of this visible universe." (238; emphasis added)

The final product of this neo-Gnostic religious experimentation would be entire movements devoted to the erection of an anti-theistic, anti-spiritual theocracy. Ever-present was a religious fanaticism that rivaled even that of the traditional jihadist. Yet, because of their secular veneer, these neo-Gnostics were seldom discernible from any other common revolutionary. James Webb observes:

In this century, with the presentation of traditional religious positions in secular form, there has emerged a secular Gnosticism beside the other great secular religions--the mystical union of Fascism, the apocalypse of Marxist dialectic, the Earthly City of social democracy. The secular Gnosticism is almost never recognized for what it is, and it can exist alongside other convictions almost unperceived. (Webb 418)

Likewise, the Dominionists can exist alongside the common Christian virtually unperceived. Unbeknown to the evangelical establishment, it is being co-opted by a neo-Gnostic aberration. Dominionists are attempting to immanentize the Eschaton. They are attempting to accelerate the march of God on earth. The intended outcome is no different from the earthly Heavens envisioned by earlier sociopolitical Utopians: a socialist totalitarian system. To be sure, some Dominionists envision a federal government whose role is limited to the "protection of property rights and ‘homeland security’" (Hedges, no pagination).

However, this desired future is no different from the deluded Marxist contention that the state would eventually "wither away," facilitating the emergence of "stateless socialism." Like their Marxist predecessors, Dominionists cannot identify the exact point after which their theocratic dictatorship will give way to a limited form of federal government. Dominionism is guilty of the same sort of Utopian deception perpetrated in all socialist revolutions, past and present. The promise of an earthly heaven is actually a thinly veiled mandate for the apotheosis of the omnipotent State.

Dominionism does slightly invert some features of traditional sociopolitical Utopianism. The neo-Gnostic immanentism of communists and fascists produced secular movements that, sociologically, behaved like religions. Secular Gnostics violently rejected all religions. Yet, simultaneously, they exhibited all the zealotry of a religious fanatic. In the case of Dominionist immanentism, the result is a religious movement that, sociologically, behaves like a secular movement. Dominionists publicly espouse spiritual principles and concepts. Yet, simultaneously, they are preoccupied with secular institutions and secular power. Because of its ostensible Christian foundation, Dominionist doctrine does present some marginally spiritual concepts. However, Dominionist eschatology remains preoccupied with the ontological plane of the physical universe.

The specific variety of Dominionism that preoccupies CNP members is Theocratic Dominionism or Hard Dominionism. This particular strain of Dominionist thought advocates "a future in which all the institutions of society will be governed by the principles of their form of Christian faith" ("Dominionism," no pagination). The postmillennialist eschatology of Calvinism reflects the paradigmatic character of this militant belief system (no pagination). In fact, Dominionism is derivative of Christian Reconstructionism, a very rigid form of theocratic Calvinism (Goldberg 13).

In a way, John Calvin’s authoritarian Geneva was a precursor to the theocratic societal configuration envisioned by some Dominionists (no pagination). Calvinism promoted a doctrine of predestination, which presented the following contentions:That all humans are, inherently wicked and offend God; That there is an elect that God chose to be saved regardless of their actions and how deserving; That Jesus died just for those special elect, not for everyone; That once God has chosen an elect they are saved by irresistible grace no matter what; That these elect or Saints cannot fall from grace once saved. (Millegan 405)

According to Calvinism, there is only abundant life for some. Jesus Christ did not "set the captives" free. He merely affirmed the elitist pedigree of a few. In Haeckelian terms, supernatural selection is "aristocratic in the strictest sense of the word." The vast majority of humanity can only expect death, both physical and spiritual, irrespective of the individual’s capacity for accepting for Christ as savior. With its mandate for a theocratic state ruled by a select few, Dominionism echoes such elitist sentiments.

Given the prevalence of Dominionist thinking in the Bush White House, this thread of Calvinist themes becomes even more significant. George W. Bush is a member of Skull and Bones, a secret society headquartered at Yale University. Yale was established and administrated by Calvinist clerics (Millegan 417). Bonesmen like Bush could possibly be guided by "Hyper-Calvinist beliefs of Hell, predestination, and infallible salvation mixed with potent duality of Western Ritual Magic tradition" (419). If such beliefs pervade the present administration, then it is only natural for the Bush White House to be so amicable to the Dominionist agenda. Certainly, the administration’s militaristic campaigns abroad synchronize rather comfortably with the Dominionist brand of neo-Gnostic jihadism.

The beliefs of CNP member Ted Haggard bear out this contention. Jeff Sharlet explains:Globalization, he [Haggard] believes, is merely a vehicle for the spread of Christianity. And that is why he believes spiritual war requires a virile, worldly counterpart. I teach a strong ideology of the use of power," he says, "of military might, as a public service." He is for preemptive war, because he believes the Bible’s exhortations against sin set for us a preemptive paradigm, and he is for ferocious war, because "the Bible’s bloody. There’s a lot about blood." ("Soldiers of Christ," No pagination)

Haggard’s talk of "power" sounds more like Nietzsche than Jesus Christ. His endorsement of preemptive warfare, which is central to neoconservative geopolitical doctrine, bespeaks a resounding approval for the global exercise of America’s "will to power." Moreover, Haggard distorts the Bible’s references to "blood" and restates them in a purely militaristic context. Gone is any spiritual significance that the Biblical passages concerning blood once held. Spiritual warfare is re-conceptualized as an object of immanent experience, a concept confined entirely to the ontological plane of the physical universe. Haggard’s neo-Gnostic interpretation is a complete inversion of Ephesians 6:12.

No longer does the Christian wrestle with the principalities, powers, and spiritual hosts of wickedness in heavenly places. Now, the enemy is entirely flesh and blood, a corporeal Adversary embodied by those who oppose Dominionism’s purely immanent heaven. Herein is the neo-Gnostic jihadism of Dominionism, which pervades the doctrines of the CNP and heavily influences the policies of the neoconservative-dominated administration.In the sixth installment of this ongoing investigation, we shall examine the concept of deep politics and its relationship to the controlled Evangelical movement.

Sources Cited
All sources will be presented in the twelfth and final installment of this series

A GLARING LOOK AT OUR FUTURE

2007-03-19T19:19:00.000-07:00

Operation Falcon and the Looming Police State

By Mike Whitney

On 29th June, 1934, Chancellor Adolph Hitler, accompanied by the Schutzstaffel (SS), arrived at Wiesse, where he personally arrested the leader of the Strum Abteilung (SA), Ernnst Roehm. During the next 24 hours 200 other senior SA officers were arrested on the way to Wiesse. Many were shot as soon as they were captured but Hitler decided to pardon Roehm because of his past service to the movement. However, after much pressure from Hermann Goering and Heinrich Himmler, Hitler agreed that Roehm should die. At first Hitler insisted that Roehm should be allowed to commit suicide but, when he refused, Roehm was shot by two SS men. (Spartacus.schoolnet.co)

Later, Hitler delivered a speech at the Reichstag in which he justified the murders of his rivals saying:

"If anyone reproaches me and asks why I did not resort to the regular courts of justice, then all I can say is this: In this hour I was responsible for the fate of the German people, and thereby I became the supreme judge of the German people. It was no secret that this time the revolution would have to be bloody; when we spoke of it we called it 'The Night of the Long Knives.' Everyone must know for all future time that if he raises his hand to strike the State, then certain death is his lot."

The Night of the Long Knives is seen by many as the turning point where Hitler made it clear that he was above the law and the supreme leader of the German people.

Operation Falcon: Blueprint for removing dissidents and political rivals

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.

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 thy 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.

The first Operation Falcon took place during the week of April 4 to April 10, 2005. According to the US Marshal’s official website, "The emphasis centered on gang related crimes, homicides, crimes involving use of a weapon, crimes against children and the elderly, crimes involving sexual assaults, organized crime and drug related fugitives, and other crimes of violence." More than 10,000 criminal suspects were arrested in a matter of days. It was the largest criminal sweep in the nation’s history and, according to U.S. Marshall chief Ben Reyna, "produced the largest number of arrests ever recorded during a single initiative." The Washington Times noted, "The sweep was a virtual clearinghouse for warrants on drug, gang, gun and sex-offender suspects nationwide."

The emphasis was clearly on quantity not quality.

Still, this doesn’t explain why state and federal agencies had to be integrated with local law enforcement simply to carry out routine police work.

More importantly, it doesn’t explain why local police ignored their duty to protect the public just so they could coordinate with outside agencies. According to one report "162 accused or convicted of murder" were picked up in the first sweep. That means that the police knowingly left murderers on the street and put the public at risk while they orchestrated their raids with federal agencies.

That’s irresponsible. It also suggests that there may be a more sinister motive behind the program than just ensuring public safety. The plan appears to have been devised to enhance the powers of the "unitary" executive by putting state and local law enforcement under federal supervision. Once again, it’s an attempt by the administration to extend its grip to the state and local level. We saw a similar strategy unfold after Hurricane Katrina when the Bush administration used the tragedy to seize control of local police and National Guard units so they could establish de facto martial law. Troops, armored vehicles and mercenaries were deployed to New Orleans to fight lawlessness and looting even though desperate people were still stranded on their rooftops waiting for food, water and medical attention.

Operation FALCON II was another massive dragnet which covered the western half of the country and focused primarily on "violent sex offenders". The raids took place from April 17-23, and succeeded in apprehending 9,037 alleged fugitives. The US Marshals web site boasts that the operation "took some of the country's most dangerous wanted criminals off the streets and made America's communities safer".

Nonsense. Despite the claims of success, only 462 "violent sex crime" suspects were arrested, along with 1,094 "unregistered sex offenders" and other minor "sex crime" suspects. That leaves 7,481 suspects who were rounded up for other unrelated reasons.

Who are they and what crime did they commit? Were these drug violations, dads who were delinquent on child-support payments, traffic tickets, jay-walking?!?

7,481 people who were incarcerated are unaccounted by the government’s estimate. This means that the bulk of them were probably undocumented workers who were shunted off to the INS (Immigration and Naturalization) or dispatched to Cheney’s tent-city gulags in western Texas. (See: Democracy Now "Human Rights Groups Call for Closure of Texas Jail Holding Undocumented Immigrants" 2-23-07)

Similar inconsistencies appear in "Operation FALCON III, which covered the eastern half of the country from October 22 - 28, 2006." State, local and federal police-units arrested 10,773 fugitives; including 1,659 sex offenders, 971 unregistered sex offenders, 364 gang members, 140 homicide suspects, and 3,609 drug violations. Once again, the US Marshal’s official tally doesn’t pencil out. This time, 4,030 extra people were rounded up without any further explanation.

Who are they and have they been charged with a crime?

Furthermore, sex offenders, drug users and gang-bangers are not what we normally consider "some of the country's most dangerous wanted criminals". In fact, there are indications that the great majority of these people are not violent at all. For example, of the 30,110 total fugitives who were apprehended in all three Falcon sweeps, a measly 586 firearms were seized.

Clearly, the people who were arrested for the most part were not "armed and dangerous" nor were they a serious threat to public safety. They were probably just the unwitting victims of an overzealous US Marshals office and an ideologically-driven Justice Department.

So, what was the real impetus for the Falcon raids? Was it just a bean-counting exercise to see how many people would fit in the back of a Paddy-wagon or are they a dress rehearsal for future crackdowns on potential enemies of the state?

Bogus News Reports

The Falcon operation illustrates the incestuous relationship between the media and the state. They are two wings on the same plane. The Justice Department provided the TV networks with official footage of policemen and government agents raiding homes and handcuffing suspects; and the media dutifully aired the video on stations across the country. The scenes were accompanied by a reassuring commentary lauding the administration’s new crime fighting strategies and linking homeland security with the nebulous war on terror.

Attorney General Gonzales told reporters, "Operation FALCON is an excellent example of President Bush’s direction and the Justice Department’s dedication to deal both with the terrorist threat and traditional violent crime." He added, "This joint effort shows the commitment of our federal, state, and local partners to make our neighborhoods safer, and it has led to the highest number of arrests ever recorded for a single initiative of its kind."

So far, not one of the more than 30,000 victims has been charged with a terror-related crime.

The media-hype surrounding the raids has been celebratory and uniform; cookie-cutter articles appeared throughout the US press (most of them unsourced) highlighting the cooperation between the divers agencies while providing an upbeat account of what amounts to police repression. Thousands of nearly identical articles appeared in the nation’s newspapers which seem to have been authored by high-ranking officials at Homeland Security and protégés of George Orwell; although the difference between the two is far from certain.

Even stranger, most of the articles in the mainstream media can no longer be retrieved via a Google search. They seem to have vanished into the black-hole of Homeland propaganda.

No matter. If the media was supposed to make Gestapo-like crackdowns look like normal police operations; they succeeded admirably. Mission accomplished.

Former Governor of Louisiana, Huey Long once opined, "When fascism comes to America, it will come wrapped in an American flag." Indeed, he could have added that the corporate media will gladly provide the flag and the public relations campaign as they have with Falcon.

Falcon; new drills for a new world order

The Falcon operations can only be understood in the broader context of the ongoing assault on the constitutional system of checks and balances; including the repeal of habeas corpus, warrantless wiretaps and searches, and the use of torture.

For the last 6 years, the Bush administration has been busy dismantling the legal safeguards which protect the citizen from the arbitrary and, oftentimes, ruthless actions of the state. To that end, detention camps are being prepared by Halliburton within the U.S., secret courts have been established which deny due process of law, American citizens are arrested without charge, law enforcement is increasingly militarized, and the media has strengthened its alliance with the central government.

Additionally, in October 2006, George Bush quietly changed the Insurrection Act, which prevented the President from deploying troops inside the United States. Bush’s revision effectively overturns the Posse Comitatus Act which put strict limits on the executive’s power to use US troops in domestic situations. Just days earlier Bush signed a similar bill, "The John Warner Defense Authorization Act of 2007" which gives Bush the power to take command of National Guard units across the country which are traditionally under the control of the state governors.

Without fanfare, Bush has taken control of all armed forces and militias inside and outside of the country and now has a monopoly on all the state-sanctioned tools of organized violence. It’s a coup that could never have succeeded without the tacit cooperation of the media.

Bush is now free to declare martial law in response to a natural disaster, a pandemic or a terrorist attack. The congress is powerless to stop him.

Also, Bush recently signed the Military Commissions Act of 2006, which allows the president to arbitrarily declare citizens and non citizens "enemy combatants" and imprison them indefinitely without charge. The new law gives Bush the authority to disregard the Geneva Conventions and the 8th amendment’s ban on "cruel and unusual" punishment and apply "harsh interrogation" which may include torture. The act effectively repeals habeas corpus, the cornerstone of American jurisprudence and the Bill of Rights.

The Military Commissions Act cannot coexist with the US Constitution; the two are mutually exclusive.

The Military Commissions Act, The John Warner Defense Authorization Act, the Homeland Security Act, the Patriot Act, and the myriad presidential signing statements have conferred absolute power on George Bush. The question is whether or not some incident will arise that will persuade Bush to use his extraordinary new powers.

General Tommy Franks predicted that a "massive, casualty producing event" might cause "our population to question our own Constitution and begin to militarize our country;" a scenario that many see as likely now.

Is that it? Will another terrorist attack provide the rationale for overturning republican government and declaring martial law?

If so, then we should know what to expect.

According to FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) it would mean "the suspension of the normal functions of civilian government, implying the cancellation or postponement of state and federal elections." (Global Research) It would also "close public and government facilities not critical for continuity of essential operations." (FEMA)

Northern Command would assume control and under "the classified 'Continuity of Government" (COG) Operations Plan' a secret 'shadow government' would become functional, redeploying key staff to secret locations." (Global Research)

Also, "all forms of public gatherings or citizen's protests which question the legitimacy of the emergency procedures and the installation of a police state" would be banned. The military would be deployed to carry out "police and judicial" functions.

Martial law in the US would be applied with the utmost attention to public sensibilities and perceptions, avoiding the garish display of force we see in Iraq. It would be a "kinder and gentler" martial law with a limited number of military personnel on the streets (just enough to remind us that things have changed) and an emphasis on "preemptive" policing operations. (Expect Falcons’ 4, 5 and 6 etc) It would probably be disguised by a carefully crafted public relations campaign and a predictably cheery moniker, such as, "The Security Enhancement and Homeland Fortification Act". The possibilities are limitless.

The Bush administration is also prepared if some unforeseen tragedy befalls congress, like another anthrax attack.

In fact, the American Enterprise Institute, to which the Bush team is closely aligned, has already "issued proposals for the operation of Congress following a catastrophic terrorist attack". They advocate the "APPOINTING" of individuals to the House of Representatives "to fill the seats of dead or incapacitated members, a first in American history" "The Continuity of Government Commission is self-commissioned', its members being neither elected nor appointed by any government body and mostly made up of professional lobbyists". (Read the whole article: http://www.conservativeusa.org/cog-ronpaul.htm) (Coincidentally, Newsweek article "White House Rehearses for Domestic Attack" 2-23-07; "The White House is staging a high-level exercise Saturday to test responses to the prospect of a massive domestic terrorist attack." These drills are a critical part of the C.O.G. regimen dating back to the Reagan administration)

According to the AEI’s plan, the future United States congress will be comprised of lobbyists and industry representatives. What else would one expect from an organization that believes that corporate interests should determine policy?

These are the chilling precedents which have paved the way for further government lawlessness and abuse. They foreshadow the ominous transition from representative government to autocratic rule; from inalienable rights to martial law.

The Falcon operations are just a small part of this larger paradigm. The program is not designed for rounding up minor crooks and drug dealers, (which no one really cares about anyway) but for removing leftists, dissidents and political rivals. These are the real targets. The power of the state is measured in terms of how effectively it defeats or eliminates its enemies. And, the Bush administration has shown a remarkable aptitude for crushing its rivals.

The Crawford Fuehrer

One day, after a particularly savage domestic purge; we can expect President Bush to stride to the presidential podium and reiterate the same words that were uttered by his German predecessor 60 years ago:

"If anyone reproaches me and asks why I did not resort to the regular courts of justice, then all I can say is this: In this hour I was responsible for the fate of the American people, and thereby I became the supreme judge of the American people….Everyone must know for all future time that if he raises his hand to strike the State, then certain death is his lot."

CHENEY/ AL QAEDA TIES?

2007-03-19T18:44:00.000-07:00

Neocons in Cheney's Office Fund al Qaeda-Tied Groups ... and No One Cares?
By Tom Engelhardt, www.Tomdispatch.com.

Seymour Hersh's recent report that Iran-Contra veterans working out of Dick Cheney's office are using stolen funds from Iraq to arm al Qaeda-tied groups and foment a larger Sunni-Shia war is a very big deal.

Let me see if I've got this straight.

Perhaps two years ago, an "informal" meeting of "veterans" of the 1980s Iran-Contra scandal -- holding positions in the Bush administration -- was convened by Deputy National Security Advisor Elliott Abrams. Discussed were the "lessons learned" from that labyrinthine, secret, and illegal arms-for-money-for-arms deal involving the Israelis, the Iranians, the Saudis, and the Contras of Nicaragua, among others -- and meant to evade the Boland Amendment, a congressionally passed attempt to outlaw Reagan administration assistance to the anti-communist Contras.

In terms of getting around Congress, the Iran-Contra vets concluded, the complex operation had been a success -- and would have worked far better if the CIA and the military had been kept out of the loop and the whole thing had been run out of the Vice President's office. Subsequently, some of those conspirators, once again with the financial support and help of the Saudis (and probably the Israelis and the Brits), began running a similar operation, aimed at avoiding congressional scrutiny or public accountability of any sort, out of Vice President Cheney's office. They dipped into "black pools of money," possibly stolen from the billions of Iraqi oil dollars that have never been accounted for since the American occupation began. Some of these funds, as well as Saudi ones, were evidently funneled through the embattled, Sunni-dominated Lebanese government of Prime Minister Fouad Siniora to the sort of Sunni jihadi groups ("some sympathetic to al-Qaeda") whose members might normally fear ending up in Guantanamo and to a group, or groups, associated with the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood.

All of this was being done as part of a "sea change" in the Bush administration's Middle Eastern policies aimed at rallying friendly Sunni regimes against Shiite Iran, as well as Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Syrian government -- and launching secret operations to undermine, roll back, or destroy all of the above.

Despite the fact that the Bush administration is officially at war with Sunni extremism in Iraq (and in the more general Global War on Terror), despite its support for the largely Shiite government, allied to Iran, that it has brought to power in Iraq, and despite its dislike for the Sunni-Shiite civil war in that country, some of its top officials may be covertly encouraging a far greater Sunni-Shiite rift in the region.

Imagine. All this and much more (including news of U.S. military border-crossings into Iran, new preparations that would allow George W. Bush to order a massive air attack on that land with only 24-hours notice, and a brief window this spring when the staggering power of four U.S. aircraft-carrier battle groups might be available to the President in the Persian Gulf) was revealed, often in remarkable detail, just over a week ago in "The Redirection," a Seymour Hersh piece in the New Yorker. Hersh, the man who first broke the My Lai story in the Vietnam era, has never been off his game since.

In recent years, from the Abu Ghraib scandal on, he has consistently released explosive news about the plans and acts of the Bush administration. Imagine, in addition, that Hersh went on Democracy Now!, Fresh Air, Hardball with Chris Matthew, and CNN Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer and actually elaborated on these claims and revelations, some of which, on the face of it, seem like potentially illegal and impeachable offenses, if they do indeed reach up to the Vice President or President.

Now imagine the response: Front-page headlines; editorials nationwide calling for answers, Congressional hearings, or even the appointment of a special prosecutor to look into some of the claims; a raft of op-ed page pieces by the nation's leading columnists asking questions, demanding answers, reminding us of the history of Iran-Contra; bold reporters from a recently freed media standing up in White House and Defense Department press briefings to demand more information on Hersh's various charges; calls in Congress for hearings and investigations into why the people's representatives were left so totally out of this loop.

Uh ...All I can say is:

If any of this happened, I haven't been able to discover it. As far as I can tell, no one in the mainstream even blinked on the Iran-Contra angle or the possibility that a vast, secret Middle Eastern operation is being run, possibly illegally and based on stolen funds and Saudi money, out of the Vice President's office. You can certainly find a few pieces on, or reports about, "The Redirection" -- all focused only on the possible build-up to a war with Iran -- and the odd wire-service mention of it; but nothing major, nothing Earth-shaking or eye-popping; not, in fact, a single obvious editorial or op-ed piece in the mainstream; no journalistic questions publicly asked of the administration; no Congressional cries of horror; no calls anywhere for investigations or hearings on any of Hersh's revelations, not even an expression of fear somewhere that we might be seeing Iran-Contra, the sequel, in our own moment.

This, it seems to me, adds up to a remarkable non-response to claims that, if true, should gravely concern Congress, the media, and the nation. Let's grant that Hersh's New Yorker pieces generally arrive unsourced and filled with anonymuous officials ("a former senior intelligence official," "a U.S. government consultant with close ties to Israel").

Nonetheless, Hersh has long mined his sources in the Intelligence Community and the military to striking effect. Undoubtedly, the lack of sourcing makes it harder for other reporters to follow-up, though when it comes to papers like the Washington Post and the New York Times, you would think that they might have Washington sources of their own to query on Hersh's claims. And, of course, editorial pages, columnists, op-ed editors, Congressional representatives, and reporters at administration news briefings don't need to do any footwork at all to raise these subjects. (Consider, for instance, the White House press briefing on April 10, 2006, where a reporter did indeed ask a question based on an earlier Hersh New Yorker piece.)

As far as I can tell, there haven't even been denunciations of Hersh's report or suggestions anywhere that it was inaccurate or off-base. Just the equivalent of a giant, collective shrug of the media's rather scrawny shoulders. Since the response to Hersh's remarkable piece has been so tepid in places where it should count, let me take up just a few of the many issues his report raises. "

Meddling" in Iran

For at least a month now, our press and TV news have been full to the brim with mile-high headlines and top-of-the-news stories recounting (and, more rarely, disputing) Bush administration claims of Iranian "interference" or "meddling" in Iraq (where U.S. military spokesmen regularly refer to the Iraqi insurgents they are fighting as "anti-Iraq forces").

Since Hersh published "Plan B" in the New Yorker in June 2004 in which he claimed that the Israelis were "running covert operations inside Kurdish areas of Iran and Syria," he has been on the other side of this story. In "The Coming Wars" in January of 2005, he first reported that the Bush administration, like the Israelis, had been "conducting secret reconnaissance missions inside Iran at least since" the summer of 2004. In April of 2006 in "The Iran Plans," he reported that the Bush administration was eager to put the "nuclear option" on the table in any future air assault on Iranian nuclear facilities (and that some in the Pentagon, fiercely opposed, had at least temporarily thwarted planning for the possible use of nuclear bunker-busters in Iran).

He also reported that American combat units were "on the ground" in Iran, marking targets for any future air attack, and quoted an unnamed source as claiming that they were also "working with minority groups in Iran, including the Azeris, in the north, the Baluchis, in the southeast, and the Kurds, in the northeast. The troops ëare studying the terrain, and giving away walking-around money to ethnic tribes, and recruiting scouts from local tribes and shepherds,' the consultant said. One goal is to get ëeyes on the ground' ... The broader aim, the consultant said, is to ëencourage ethnic tensions' and undermine the regime."

In "The Redirection," he now claims that, in search of Iranian rollback and possible regime change, "American military and special-operations teams have escalated their activities in Iran to gather intelligence and, according to a Pentagon consultant on terrorism and the former senior intelligence official, have also crossed the [Iranian] border in pursuit of Iranian operatives from Iraq." In his Democracy Now! radio interview, he added:

"[W]e have been deeply involved with Azeris and Baluchis and Iranian Kurds in terror activities inside the country ... and, of course, the Israelis have been involved in a lot of that through Kurdistan ... Iran has been having sort of a series of backdoor fights, the Iranian government, because ... they have a significant minority population. Not everybody there is a Persian. If you add up the Azeris and Baluchis and Kurds, you're really 30-some [%], maybe even 40% of the country."

In addition, he reported that "a special planning group has been established in the offices of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, charged with creating a contingency bombing plan for Iran that can be implemented, upon orders from the President, within twenty-four hours," and that its "new assignment" was to identify not just nuclear facilities and possible regime-change targets, but "targets in Iran that may be involved in supplying or aiding militants in Iraq."

Were there nothing else in Hersh's most recent piece, all of this would still have been significant news -- if we didn't happen to live on a one-way imperial planet in which Iranian "interference" in (American) Iraq is an outrage, but secret U.S. operations in, and military plans to devastate, Iran are your basic ho-hum issue. Our mainstream news purveyors don't generally consider the issue of our "interference" in Iran worthy of a great deal of reporting, nor do our pundits consider it a topic worthy of speculation or consideration; nor, in a Congress where leading Democrats have regularly outflanked the Bush administration in hawkish positions on Iran, is this likely to be much of an issue.

You can read abroad about rumored American operations out of Pakistan and Afghanistan aimed at unsettling Iranian minorities like the Baluchis and about possible operations to create strife among Arab minorities in southern Iran near the Iraqi border -- the Iranians seem to blame the British, whose troops are in southern Iraq, for some of this (a charge vociferously denied by the British embassy in Tehran) -- but it's not a topic of great interest here.

In recent months, in fact, several bombs have gone off in minority regions of Iran. These explosions have been reported here, but you would be hard-pressed to find out what the Iranians had to say about them, and the possibility that any of these might prove part of a U.S. (or Anglo-American) covert campaign to destabilize the Iranian fundamentalist regime basically doesn't concern the news mind here, even though past history says it should. After all, many of our present Middle Eastern problems can be indirectly traced back to the Anglo-American ur-moment in the Middle East, the successful CIA-British-intelligence plot in 1953 to oust Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh (who had nationalized the Iranian oil industry) and install the young Shah in power. After all, in the 1980s, in the anti-Soviet war in Afghanistan, the CIA (with the eager connivance of the Pakistanis and the Saudis) helped organize, arm, and fund the Islamic extremists who would someday turn on us for terror campaigns on a major scale.

As Steve Coll reported in his superb book Ghost Wars, for instance, "Under ISI [Pakistani intelligence] direction, the mujahedin received training and malleable explosives to mount car-bomb and even camel-bomb attacks in Soviet-occupied cities, usually designed to kill Soviet soldiers and commanders. [CIA Director William] Casey endorsed these despite the qualms of some CIA career officers."Similarly, in the early 1990s, the Iraq National Accord, an organization run by the CIA's Iraqi exile of choice, Iyad Allawi, evidently planted, under the Agency's direction, car bombs and explosive devices in Baghdad (including in a movie theater) in a fruitless attempt to destabilize Saddam Hussein's regime. The New York Times reported this on its front page in June 2004 (to no effect whatsoever), when Allawi was the Prime Minister of American-occupied Iraq. Who knows where the funding, training, and equipment for the bombings in Iran are coming from -- but, at a moment when charges that the Iranians are sending into Iraq advanced IEDs, or the means to produce them, are the rage, it seems a germane subject.

In this country, it's a no-brainer that the Iranians have no right whatsoever to put their people, overtly or covertly, into neighboring Iraq, a country which, back in the 1980s, invaded Iran and fought a bitter eight-year war with it, resulting in perhaps a million casualties; but it's just normal behavior for the Pentagon to have traveled halfway across the planet to dominate the Iraqi military, garrison Iraq with a string of vast permanent bases, build the largest embassy on the planet in Baghdad's Green Zone, and send special-operations teams (and undoubtedly CIA teams as well) across the Iranian border, or to insert them in Iran to do "reconnaissance" or even to foment unrest among its minorities. This is the definition of an imperial worldview.

Sleepless Nights

Let's leave Iran now and briefly take up a couple of other matters highlighted in "The Redirection" that certainly should have raised the odd red flag and pushed the odd alarm button here at home far more than his Iranian news (which did at least get some attention): 1. Iran-Contra Redux: Does it raise no eyebrows that, under the leadership of Elliot Abrams (who in the Iran-Contra period pleaded guilty to two counts of unlawfully withholding information from Congress and was later pardoned), such a meeting was held? Does no one want to confirm that this happened? Does no one want to know who attended? Iran-Contra alumni in the Bush administration at one time or another included former Reagan National Security Advisor John Poindexter, Otto Reich, John Negroponte (who, Hersh claims, recently left his post as Director of National Intelligence in order to avoid the twenty-first century version of Iran-Contra -- "No way. I'm not going down that road again, with the N.S.C. [National Security Council] running operations off the books, with no [presidential] finding."), Roger Noriega, and Robert Gates.

Did the Vice President or President sit in? Was either of them informed about the "lessons drawn"? Were the Vice President's right-hand men, I. Lewis Libby and/or David Addington in any way involved? Who knows? In the Iran-Contra affair, the Reagan administration drew together the seediest collection of freelance arms dealers, intelligence agents, allies, and -- in the case of Ayatollah Khomeini's Iranian regime -- sworn enemies in what can only be called "amateur hour" at the White House.

Now, it looks like the Bush administration is heading down a similar path and, given its previous "amateur hour" reputation in foreign policy, imagine what this is likely to mean.2. Jihadis as Proxies: Using jihadis as American proxies in a struggle to rollback Iran -- with the help of the Saudis -- should have rung a few bells somewhere in American memory as another been-there, done-that moment. In the 1980s -- on the theory that my enemy's enemy is my friend -- the fundamentalist Catholic CIA Director William Casey came to believe that Islamic fundamentalists could prove tight and trustworthy allies in rolling back the Soviet Union. In Afghanistan, as a result, the CIA, backed by the Saudis royals, who themselves represented an extremist form of Sunni Islam, regularly favored and funded the most extreme of the mujahedeen ready to fight the Soviets. Who can forget the results?

Today, according to Hersh, the Saudis are reassuring key figures in the administration that this time they have the jihadis to whom funds are flowing under control. No problem. If you believe that, you'll believe anything.3. Congress in the Dark:

Hersh claims that, with the help of Saudi National Security Adviser Prince Bandar bin Sultan (buddy to the Bushes and Dick Cheney's close comrade-in-arms), the people running the black-ops programs out of Cheney's office have managed to run circles around any possibility of Congressional oversight, leaving the institution completely "in the dark," which is undoubtedly exactly where Congress wanted to be for the last six years. Is this still true? The non-reaction to the Hersh piece isn't exactly encouraging.

To summarize, if Hersh is to be believed -- and as a major journalistic figure for the last near-40 years he certainly deserves to be taken seriously -- the Bush administration seems to be repeating the worst mistakes of the Reagan administration and of the anti-Soviet war in Afghanistan, which led inexorably to the greatest acts of blowback in our history. Given what we already know about the Bush administration, Americans should be up nights worrying about what all this means now as well as down the line. For Congress, the media, and Americans in general, this report should have been not just a wake-up call, but a shout for an all-nighter with NoDoz. In my childhood, one of the Philadelphia papers regularly ran cartoon ads for itself in which some poor soul in a perilous situation -- say, clinging to the ledge of a tall building -- would be screaming for help, while passersby were so engrossed in the paper that they didn't even look up.

Now, we have the opposite situation. A journalist essentially writing bloody murder in a giant media and governmental crowd. In this case, no one in the mainstream evidently cares -- not yet anyway -- to pay the slightest attention. It seems that there's a crime going on and no one gives a damn. Think Kitty Genovese on a giant scale.

Tom Engelhardt, editor of Tomdispatch.com, is co-founder of the American Empire Project and author of The End of Victory Culture.

LOGGED AND TRACKED

2007-03-19T18:38:00.000-07:00

Revealed: DNA Database Rises By 600,000 In Just One Year
By JASON LEWIS

Almost 600,000 people have been added to Tony Blair's national DNA database in the past 12 months, according to new figures obtained by The Mail on Sunday. They show that the Government now holds samples of almost four million individuals - and one in four has no criminal record or even a police caution.

The database is expanding rapidly as all suspects arrested in connection with any imprisonable offence now routinely have DNA swabs taken. New plans will extend these powers to allow police to take genetic samples from anyone arrested or suspected of any crime - however minor. The samples remain on official records even if the alleged offender is never charged or is later cleared by a court.

The Government and the police insist the register is crucial for solving serious crimes, including rapes and murders. But Opposition MPs and civil rights groups said the figures were evidence of a 'sinister' attempt to turn every British citizen into a suspect. The new figures, released under the Freedom of Information Act, show the database now holds 3.98million DNA samples from people in England and Wales - up from 3.4million the previous year.

News of the register's growth comes amid fears that the Government intends to link it with identity card records, allowing unprecedented monitoring of individuals. Ministers deny any such plans but Mr Blair has insisted there should be 'no limit' to DNA records - suggesting even those who are not accused should offer up their data. The Government already holds samples of around 140,000 people who have never been arrested, some of them victims of crime.

A recent Home Office report showed that 5.24 per cent of the UK population now has a DNA profile on the database. This compares with an EU average of 1.13 per cent and 0.5 per cent in the US. Liberal Democrat MP Lynne Featherstone said:

"The Government is building a national DNA register by stealth. If it wants a database for everyone, it should go to Parliament and fight for it." However, the Home Office insists the database is a key police intelligence tool and that there are no plans to make it compulsory. It adds that maintaining and developing the register is a top priority, with Government and police investment of more than £300million over the past five years.

Meanwhile, the number of crimes solved through DNA technology has quadrupled. These include the case of 65-year-old Brian Field, arrested for drink driving in 1999. A DNA sample from Field matched one from the clothes of Surrey schoolboy Roy Tutill, 14, who was raped and strangled on his way home from school on April 23, 1968. Field pleaded guilty to the murder and was jailed for life in November 2001.

©2007 Associated Newspapers Ltd ·

THE REAL FEMINIST AGENDA

2007-03-19T18:36:00.000-07:00

"Feminism, Socialism, and Communism are one in the same, and Socialist/Communist government is the goal of feminism." - Catharine A. MacKinnon, Toward a Feminist Theory of the State (First Harvard University Press, 1989), p.10

"A world where men and women would be equal is easy to visualize, for that precisely is what the Soviet Revolution promised." - Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (New York, Random House, 1952), p.806

"Destroy the family and you destroy society." -- V.I. Lenin

"The nuclear family must be destroyed, and people must find better ways of living together. ...Whatever its ultimate meaning, the break-up of families now is an objectively revolutionary process. ...Families have supported oppression by separating people into small, isolated units, unable to join together to fight for common interests." -- Linda Gordon, Function of the Family, WOMEN: A Journal of Liberation, Fall, 1969

"In order to raise children with equality, we must take them away from families and communally raise them." -- Dr. Mary Jo Bane, feminist and assistant professor of education at Wellesley College and associate director of the school's Center for Research on Woman

(Thanks to Rob Fedders' http://no-maam.blogspot.com/)

$20

2007-03-19T18:32:00.000-07:00

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