Discussion about 09/11/2001: [911TruthAction] Digest Number 1237

Thursday, April 20, 2006

[911TruthAction] Digest Number 1237

There are 25 messages in this issue.

Topics in this digest:

1. Re: Gas Prices
From: "Judy Cunningham" drjudyforjustice@yahoo.com
2. Re: It appears that your blocking my posts - with no notice
From: "Kevin Hammond" sir_oglaigh@yahoo.com
3. Re: How successful has the 911 truth movement been?
From: "Kevin Hammond" sir_oglaigh@yahoo.com
4. Re: How successful has the 911 truth movement been?
From: "Kevin Hammond" sir_oglaigh@yahoo.com
5. Re: GET IT ! its about OIL
From: "Kevin Hammond" sir_oglaigh@yahoo.com
6. Re: A message for all the new members and a reminder to the rest!
From: "Kevin Hammond" sir_oglaigh@yahoo.com
7. Re: Gas Prices
From: "Matt Walch" caribbean10@yahoo.com
8. Re: Gas Prices
From: "Kevin Hammond" sir_oglaigh@yahoo.com
9. Re: Gas Prices
From: "Naveed" flanker12k@yahoo.com
10. A Day in the LIfe: 4/19/6
From: "President, USA Exile Govt." prez@usa-exile.org
11. David Duke's "open letter to the FBI"
From: "kenny318east3" kenny318east3@yahoo.com
12. S. Heller: Time to shake up the peace movement + JB comments
From: "R Bleier" bleier.r@gmail.com
13. VOTE AND PASS
From: "Bugs" brawny@twlakes.net
14. Re: S. Heller: Time to shake up the peace movement + JB comments
From: "kenny318east3" kenny318east3@yahoo.com
15. Re: How successful has the 911 truth movement been?
From: "Jolly Roger" slicingthroats@yahoo.com
16. Re: It appears that your blocking my posts - with no notice
From: "Jolly Roger" slicingthroats@yahoo.com
17. Re: How successful has the 911 truth movement been?
From: "Jolly Roger" slicingthroats@yahoo.com
18. Re: A message for all the new members and a reminder to the rest!
From: "Jolly Roger" slicingthroats@yahoo.com
19. Re: S. Heller: Time to shake up the peace movement + JB comments
From: "Jolly Roger" slicingthroats@yahoo.com
20. Video: The Bushes ad the bin Ladens Business Dealings
From: "reggie501" reggie501@optonline.net
21. New poll for 911TruthAction
From: "911TruthAction@yahoogroups.com" 911TruthAction@yahoogroups.com
22. Re: How successful has the 911 truth movement been?
From: "kitty285" kitty285@charter.net
23. Fw: Chronicle Hit Piece Says "Whole Country" Saw Plane Hit Pentagon!
From: "Dick Eastman" olfriend@nwinfo.net
24. Fw: Mearsheimer and Walt hit the glass wall -=- US asks Japan to sto
From: "Dick Eastman" olfriend@nwinfo.net
25. Re: An untold story of 9/11 - Magic Suitcase Find
From: "James Patton" james_patton@yahoo.com

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Message 1
From: "Judy Cunningham" drjudyforjustice@yahoo.com
Date: Wed Apr 19, 2006 10:30am(PDT)
Subject: Re: Gas Prices

I agree with Scott Peden. There is no shortage of oil. Conquering oil countries just allows them to control and raise oil prices. if you remember, Sadam was lower gas prices, and independent films, show that Sadam was just defending himself from Kuwait, which was taking over his oil fields.
Also, CNN Alaska has more oil than Arabia ever had, and CNN reported that Arabia has enough oil to supply the world at current rate for 72 years. Also, coal can be transformed into gasoline easily, and for about $0.35/gal. Brits report that all of their coal mines are shut down, so that everyone has to use oil based heat and energy.
Conquering Iraq, and oil, is just one part of the Odessa/Nazi/CIA/Republican/Bush plan to conquer the world. Read my e-mail on that topic that I sent yesterday. Judy

Naveed <flanker12k@yahoo.com> wrote:
How would you like it if you had a business and your buddies with the guns nullified your #1 competitor?

ROFLLMAO!!!! Don't you know that's Rockefeller style of doing business?

Scott Peden <scotpeden@cruzio.com> wrote:

v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} .shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);} The Oil in Iraq is going no where. After the first three months of farce, they never even tried to keep the oil line protected.

What they have done, for their oil buddies is take that competition out of circulation.

How would you like it if you had a business and your buddies with the guns nullified your #1 competitor?

Yes, it is about the Oil, but the Oil is only one of many plans in actions that evolves to economic control of the worlds governments.

-----Original Message-----
From: 911TruthAction@yahoogroups.com [mailto:911TruthAction@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of Bugs
Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 2:09 AM
To: a; 911truthaction@yahoogroups.com; texaskerry@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [911TruthAction] Gas Prices

To Find a Citgo station ,go to www.citgo.com, Oil today will open at an all time high of $71.35 per barrel,so dig deeper friends and remind all as you fill up ,bush,cheney cause this, I do and when i see the Black W ---I really ask them.You should too...
Oh by the way where is the IRAQ oil going to? Maybe China? Does anyone know?
Overton County,Tn gas prices is from $2.80 to $3.10 a gallon... Please post the price where you live...and lets keep doing it.. some here are saying it is going to $4.00 a gallon soon...
bugs

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Message 2
From: "Kevin Hammond" sir_oglaigh@yahoo.com
Date: Wed Apr 19, 2006 10:36am(PDT)
Subject: Re: It appears that your blocking my posts - with no notice

thsi woman is obviously a pea brained idiot/MORON Jolly. She does not even deserve a response. Both Naveed and myself have already pointed her errors out to her with absolutely no response but to further her propaganda dribble.

In The name of Christ Jesus,

Kevin
www.fightthenwo.org

Jolly Roger <slicingthroats@yahoo.com> wrote:
First of all, Leslie, I didn't block anything. Secondly, I didn't say/write anythjing rascist, and if you think I did, you need to work on your reading comprehension skills. Thirdly, this practice of accusing everyone who discusses Israel of being rascist or anti-semitic is exactly what the criminals have always done to divert the attention from their crimes, onto those who expose them.
I also never "presumed that Jewish people are going to hide their identity because you or others do not respect them," -- I merely stated that I know three Jewish people who did hide their ethnicity. You should learn how to read before you start responding to my (or anyone's ) posts.
The only one who brought up anything racist was you, and the fact you scream "racism" as a ploy to end all discussion of crimes committed by Israelis, or Zionists, makes me glad someone booted you, because you're probably working for the enemy if you're so quick to employ their standard tactics.

Leslie Schwartz <lhs_emf@pacbell.net> wrote:
Unfortunately that is about what I expected.

Your allowing racist comments to be posted and I recall you have made
such statements yourself (presuming that Jewish people are going to
hide their identity because you or others do not respect them), and
further if you are blocking my posts as it appears, it just proves to
me that your cowards and can't stand to have your biases questioned.

The sort of posts you ARE allowing are going to cause great harm to
the 9/11 truth movment, most of this anti-jewish crap has nothing to
do with 9/11, but it shows where your minds are at.

"There comes a time when every man feels the urge to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and start slitting throats." -- H.L. Mencken
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Message 3
From: "Kevin Hammond" sir_oglaigh@yahoo.com
Date: Wed Apr 19, 2006 10:36am(PDT)
Subject: Re: How successful has the 911 truth movement been?

The internet is NOT ENOUGH. There are millions that do NOT have access. We are now getting down to the wire and must pull out ALL of the stops and LITTERALLY do EVERYTHING that we can to get this information OUT! The alternative is a MASSIVE one world police state the likes of which NO ONE here can possibly fathom. PLEASE! everyone one this group that knows ANYTHING about 9/11 and false flag terror MUST get out there and educate as many people as possible! Otherwisw we are all up a creek without a paddle. Go to the files section and download flyers and copy them and put them EVERYWHERE! Burn copies of dvds and give them out. Do whatever you CAN to get this information OUT!.

Kevin
www.fightthenwo.org

Dick Eastman <olfriend@nwinfo.net> wrote:

v\:* { BEHAVIOR: url(#default#VML) } o\:* { BEHAVIOR: url(#default#VML) } w\:* { BEHAVIOR: url(#default#VML) } .shape { BEHAVIOR: url(#default#VML) } I have always placed my faith on using the internet to expose to the world what they are and what they have done. The 9-11 frameup is a crime big enough that people can't brush it aside. Our best hope is to show the world the ample evidence of the false-flag attack -- and then enlarge that hole until their motives and their other crimes are exposed. They cannot withstand public opinion.

It is the only strategy I know -- and it is one I will keep pushing -- but I must admit, in five years I have not seen the people take what we already know and use it to enlighten the world.

Charlie Sheen is the best thing that has happened in five years. May circumstances favor his efforts.

Dick Eastman
Yakima, Washington
----- Original Message -----
From: Scott Peden
To: 911TruthAction@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 9:27 PM
Subject: RE: [911TruthAction] How successful has the 911 truth movement been?

So, you are saying that it is hopeless?

Or do you proscribe a course of action as the internet ad our freedoms evaporate all at once?

Or are you depending on the masses to rise up when their entertainment is taken away?

-----Original Message-----
From: 911TruthAction@yahoogroups.com [mailto:911TruthAction@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of Dick Eastman
Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 11:10 AM
To: 911TruthAction@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [911TruthAction] How successful has the 911 truth movement been?

The plague will not be like the attack on the Pentagon -- it will be beyond our ability to investigate.

Next the nuclear bomb that will be blamed on Iraq -- because there will be no invasion right away, they are setting Iran up for blame for the false-flag nuclear attack -- the bomb that will be blamed on Iran will not leave evidence -- and the sudden loss of all freedoms by the declaration of martial law, including the shutdown of the internet, will not permit investigations of any kind.

Or perhaps they will let the internet continue so they can guage our thinking and trace our connections -- more for them to lose by cutting us off.

----- Original Message -----
From: Scott Legere

To: 911TruthAction@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 4:14 AM
Subject: Re: [911TruthAction] How successful has the 911 truth movement been?

It's amazing what a little awareness can do huh?

mikemeyer1964 <mike.meyer@asm.com> wrote:

With all of the saber rattling with Iran, I had the following
thought. I believe that the 911 Truth Movement has been successful in
one key area. While we have not broken through to main stream
America, I believe that we have created enough awareness about 911
that the gov't has to really think twice before they can stage another
False Flag event.

The gov't has gotten away with covering up 911 to date, in part
because they effectively created a cover story and destroyed the
evidence very quickly. With enough people aware of what our gov't is
capable of now, if they try another False Flag, there will be a lot of
people recording every news station and outlet; video and still
camera's everywhere, and a lot more people asking a lot more questions
right after the event. It will be more difficult to cover up
evidence. I was curious as to everyone's thoughts on what I would
call a small success for the movement.

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Message 4
From: "Kevin Hammond" sir_oglaigh@yahoo.com
Date: Wed Apr 19, 2006 10:41am(PDT)
Subject: Re: How successful has the 911 truth movement been?

I apologise for my pessimism.
Kevin

Jolly Roger <slicingthroats@yahoo.com> wrote:
The truth movement has been very successful. I remember not too long ago that people who suspected government complicity could only say so in whispers, and today it's being discussed on national TV. The persistant, low-level dissemination of truth across the nation is what made it safe for Charlie Sheen to say what he did. That's why he waited four years after having doubs on 9-11.
Don't judge our success by a congressional response or mainstream media coverage. Those two entitties are accomplices, so you shouldn't expect much from them. The American people are learning the truth quickly, except for those who are too afraid to face our scary reality. People tired of the lies are leaving the mainstream media in droves, and the mainstream media has lost all credibility, but this this is not to suggest that our work is done, because the truth movement is a lot bigger than 9-11.
If we stop at 9-11, Bush & Co. will be thrown to the dogs, and there will be no real change. Americans need to be re-educated in many areas, especially regarding our banking structure and monetary policy. I realize now that much of what I knew before being involved with the truth movement was bullshit, and that the most important knowledge was hidden from history classes, books, and of course, the mainstream media. I spend most of my time educating others, and producing educational materials. (CD's)

mikemeyer1964 <mike.meyer@asm.com> wrote:
With all of the saber rattling with Iran, I had the following
thought. I believe that the 911 Truth Movement has been successful in
one key area. While we have not broken through to main stream
America, I believe that we have created enough awareness about 911
that the gov't has to really think twice before they can stage another
False Flag event.

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Message 5
From: "Kevin Hammond" sir_oglaigh@yahoo.com
Date: Wed Apr 19, 2006 10:53am(PDT)
Subject: Re: GET IT ! its about OIL

I link to conspiracyarchive on my site www.fightthenwo.org

Naveed <flanker12k@yahoo.com> wrote: you know in the back of my mind I keep hoping you're
wrong kevin, but the evidence appears to support
you.......

this is more of the problem reaction solution
paradigm.

since we have so many new members I have a request to
make......

check out the website www.conspiracyarchive.com
its very well done compared to many of the other
conspiracy websites out there, pretty well documented
too.

--- Kevin Hammond <sir_oglaigh@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Oil is only one piece of the puzzle here. Oil is
> only one objective out of a much more if one can
> imagine heinous agenda. They want a one world
> government, a one world religion, a completely
> cashless world with a single one world currency.
> They are only using this oil thing to create mental,
> emotional, financial, and most of all, spiritual
> instability. In regards to the money aspect they
> make 20 TIMES the money off of illicit dope than
> they do the oil.
>
> Kevin
>
> kenny318east3 <kenny318east3@yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- In 911TruthAction@yahoogroups.com, Judy
> Cunningham <drjudyforjustice@...> wrote:
> >
> > Its about raising prices on oil, and controling
> all oil. There is no shortage of oil. Cheney and
> the oil profiteers are making > > > > > trillions.
>
> It is undoubtedly also significant that Israel is
> using a proxy military force to achieve its
> strategic objectives.
>
> Ken.
>
> > Kevin Hammond <sir_oglaigh@...> wrote: Leslie!
> No one her EVER said that Hitler was a ""GOOD GUY""
> OR that he was ""FORCED"" by the jews to commit the
> holocaust! Either you are INTENTIONALLY twisting
> peoples words or are just not paying attention to
> what anyone is saying and are just being an IDIOT
> trying to cause trouble. PAY ATTENTION! Now I
> will not argue that there are a couple of people who
> REALLY NEED to chose their words much more
> carefully, But YOU nedd to pay much closer
> attention to what is being said here on this group.
> >
> > www.fightthenwo.org
> >
> > Kevin
> >
> > Naveed <flanker12k@...> wrote:
> > for the last time
> >
> > all JEWS ARE NOT ZIONISTS!
> >
> > ALL ZIONISTS ARE NOT JEWS!
> >
> > There is a ZIONIST ELEMENT to the 9/11
> conspiracy!!! Maybe you can't handle
> that............
> > did you even read the damn post i posted about
> ISRAELI spy rings awash in america? I POSTED IT
> TWICE.......
> >
> > this below come from my friend ryan!
> >
> > 'A Clean Break' JINSA/PNAC Neocons associated
> with AIPAC espionage:
> >
> > washingtonpost.com
> > Leak Inquiry Includes Iran Experts in
> Administration
> >
> > By Robin Wright and Dan Eggen
> > Washington Post Staff Writers
> > Saturday, September 4, 2004; Page A04
> >
> >
> > FBI counterintelligence investigators have in
> recent weeks questioned current and former U.S.
> officials about whether a small group of Iran
> specialists at the Pentagon and in Vice President
> Cheney's office may have been involved in passing
> classified information to an Iraqi politician or a
> U.S. lobbying group allied with Israel, according to
> sources familiar with or involved in the case.
> >
> > In their interviews, the FBI agents have also
> named two Israeli diplomats stationed in Washington
> and asked whether they would be willing recipients
> of sensitive intelligence, the sources added.
> >
> > The investigators have asked questions about
> personnel in the office of Pentagon Undersecretary
> for Policy Douglas J. Feith as well as members of
> the influential Defense Policy Board, an advisory
> panel for Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld,
> according to former U.S. officials who have been
> questioned and others familiar with the case.
> >
> > Investigators have specifically asked about a
> group of neoconservatives involved in defense
> issues, including Feith, Deputy Defense Secretary
> Paul D. Wolfowitz, Iraq and Iran specialist Harold
> Rhode and others at the Pentagon. FBI agents also
> have asked current and former officials about
> Richard Perle of the defense board and David
> Wurmser, an Iran specialist and principal deputy
> assistant for national security affairs in Cheney's
> office, according to sources familiar with or
> involved in the case.
> >
> > "The initial interest was: Do you believe certain
> people would spy for Israel and pass secret
> information?" said one source interviewed by the FBI
> about the defense officials.
> >
> > It remains unclear, however, how specific
> investigators' suspicions have become. And one
> official, a Feith ally, has said the investigation
> is an effort by some intelligence officials to
> discredit Pentagon hawks.
> >
> > The sources interviewed for this article requested
> anonymity because it involves classified information
> or because of the ongoing investigation.
> >
> > Perle, Rhode and Wolfowitz did not return
> telephone calls placed to their homes and offices
> late Friday. Reached at home, Feith declined
> comment, citing the ongoing investigation.
> >
> > But Pentagon officials insisted yesterday that FBI
> questions about key policymakers did not mean they
> were the subjects of the intelligence leak
> investigation. Senior Pentagon officials have said
> they were told by the FBI that the investigation is
> focused on just one suspect in the Defense
> Department, Lawrence A. Franklin, an Iran specialist
> in Feith's office.
> >
> > The FBI investigation first came to light last
> week with reports of a probe into whether Franklin
> passed a draft presidential directive on Iran to the
> American Israel Public Affairs Committee, and
> whether the directive was then passed to Israel,
> sources have said. AIPAC has strongly denied any
> involvement in espionage.
> >
> > A federal grand jury in Alexandria may take up the
> Franklin case as early as next week, law enforcement
> sources said.
> >
> > The questioning of Franklin is a recent part of an
> investigation that dates back more than two years
> and includes diverse threads, U.S. officials and
> people close to the case said. One aspect of the
> probe concerns AIPAC and another looks at whether
> intelligence on Iran ended up in the hands of Iraqi
> National Congress leader Ahmed Chalabi, a longtime
> Pentagon favorite once considered a possible
> replacement for Saddam Hussein.
> >
> > Iran has been a particularly controversial issue
> within the Bush administration, which still does not
> have a formal policy more than 3 1/2 years after
> taking office. A small group of Pentagon
> neoconservatives opposed a draft directive because
> it did not support a change of governments in
> Tehran, which they advocated, current and former
> U.S. officials said.
> >
> > The officials whose names came up during
> questioning have strong ties to Israel. They also
> share a long-standing position on Iran and other
> radical regimes. Wurmser, Feith and Perle were
> co-authors of a 1996 policy paper for then-Israeli
> Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu titled "A Clean
> Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm." It
> called for removing Hussein from power in Iraq as
> part of a broad strategy to transform the region and
> remove radical regimes.
> >
> > But current and former U.S. officials, including
> some who were interviewed by the FBI, are still
> puzzled by the nature of the investigation involving
> Israel, because its profoundly close ties with the
> United States date back six decades and have
> involved sharing sensitive intelligence. Yet
> officials also concede that Israel is one of the
> three countries most active in spying on the United
> States. Israel denies conducting espionage in the
> United States.
> >
> > Also yesterday, the ranking Democrat on the House
> Judiciary Committee demanded that a new prosecutor
> be assigned to investigate the alleged leaks,
> questioning the "political leanings" of the U.S.
> attorney in Alexandria who is handling the criminal
> portion of the case.
> >
> > In a letter to Attorney General John D. Ashcroft,
> Rep. John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) said the role of
> U.S. Attorney Paul J. McNulty in the case has
> "obvious political implications" in an election
> year, and Conyers cited anonymous allegations in a
> news report that McNulty had "put the brakes on" the
> probe.
>
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Message 6
From: "Kevin Hammond" sir_oglaigh@yahoo.com
Date: Wed Apr 19, 2006 10:59am(PDT)
Subject: Re: A message for all the new members and a reminder to the rest!

WOW! That was WELL PUT! I could not have said it anywhere NEAR as good!

Naveed <flanker12k@yahoo.com> wrote: Welcome to the frontlines of the ideological world
war,

By joining this group, you've decided to take the
journey of defending your home against the criminal
syndicate "in charge" of the planet and who see us as
beasts of burden, cattle. The way these bastards
that be get away with their crimes is that they have
to keep fooling us into thinking we really have no
power and they are the ones in control.....

The horrible events of 9/11 reinforce that thiesis
because without it there would be NO WAY in hell
american forces would be stuck in iraq and
afghanistan. Which goes to demonstrate that "they"
need our consent to launch their plans....The bastards
that be did this by decieving us into thinking there
was an external threat endangering the american
population and we needed to have a paradigm shift and
rethink the way we did things because of those evil
arab terrorists who attacked america.
Without 9/11 there is NO WAY in HELL they can
invade countries after countries w/o suffering some
sort of backlash from the public. If they are denied
9/11 was a legitimate attack on america, their whole
house of cards falls apart. We the fourth and most
powerful column of the american republic must deny the
"legitimacy" they bring to their actions by the way of
9/11 by acting as paul revere's and causing a counter
paradigm shift in our fellow americans in order to
stop the bastards that be from destroying the bill of
rights and constitution further.

sorry for the long rant and welcome to the group!

In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
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Message 7
From: "Matt Walch" caribbean10@yahoo.com
Date: Wed Apr 19, 2006 0:28pm(PDT)
Subject: Re: Gas Prices

Here is an interesting column from a guy who has had numerous best sellers including, Rich Dad Poor Dad. (Great book too!)

The Coming Oil Crisis by Robert Kiyosaki
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Tuesday, April 18, 2006
How many of you are old enough to have been working in 1973? If so, you would've had the kind of economic experience I did at that time. But if you were in school or missed the period of the oil crisis, get ready because those times could return with a vengeance.
I left the Marine Corps in 1974 and got my first (and only) real job with the Xerox Corporation. The U.S. economy was in terrible shape at that time. From 1973 to 1974, the U.S. was in the midst of an energy crisis, and inflation was in the double digits. Stagflation, a new word, had been introduced -- there was high inflation, but the economy wasn't growing.
Because of the energy crisis, I had not one but two cars. One was a Corvette, and one was a Karmann Ghia convertible, made by Volkswagen. I filled up my Corvette with gas on even-numbered calendar days and the other car on odd-numbered days. Also, the speed limit was cut from 65 to 55 mph to reduce gasoline consumption, which meant I was often pulled over for speeding.
Worst of all, as a brand new Xerox salesman just learning to sell, I found myself struggling to save Xerox copiers, rather than sell Xerox copiers. That's because back then, Xerox only rented copiers. As the economy worsened, one of the first items businesses got rid of was their Xerox copier. Each cancellation meant I had to sell two copiers -- one to cover the loss of the cancelled machine and another copier to earn enough money to put gas in my cars and food on the table. In some months, I was losing more machines than I was selling -- and was nearly fired several times.
Oil Prices Will Keep Heading Up
My reason for taking you on this trip down memory lane is because I believe we're approaching a repeat of that 1973-1974 crisis. Once again, oil prices are going through the roof. During the mid-70s, oil went from under $3 a barrel to over $35 a barrel. And in 1974, we were stuck in an unpopular war in Vietnam, a war we would not win.
In 1998, oil was just $10 a barrel, and today it is over $60. We're also stuck in a war we may not be able to win.
The difference this time is that things are actually worse than they were in 1974, at least in my opinion. One difference is that the oil crises back in 1973 to 1974 and again in 1978 were political problems. Today, the oil crisis is a problem of diminishing supply and increasing demand. In other words, this time, there really is an oil crisis.
Many people today believe that oil will once again return to the $35-a-barrel level and aren't concerned. Or they believe that with better technology, energy companies will find more oil, and happy days will be here again.
I believe differently. Not that I'm an oil expert, but in 1966 through 1968 I was hired as an apprentice by Standard Oil of California, where I learned a lot about oil and the oil industry. Although I did see oil prices slide back down in the 1970s, this time, I believe they will go higher, not lower. I wouldn't be surprised if we soon see oil at over $100 a barrel and gasoline at $5 to $12 a gallon at the pump.
Wealth and Energy
Pricey oil makes clear that wealth really is energy in various forms. And that means more than just money. If I'm correct, and oil does go over $100 a barrel, you'll see some individuals' -- and some companies' -- wealth equation look like this:

For people who live in the suburbs and must commute long distances to work, their wealth will sink as energy prices rise. The same is true for the airlines, food, and car companies, plus destinations such as Hawaii, which depend on cheap energy to grow.
For other people (and some companies), their wealth equation will look like this.

For people who invest in oil companies or own oil production, their finances will reflect this equation. This is why Exxon-Mobil (XOM) has recently replaced Wal-Mart (WMT) as the most profitable company in America.
An Alarming Gap
While many environmentalists, concerned with global warming, are thrilled that oil supply is on a decline (and we truly do need to replace oil with more renewable forms of energy, such as wind and solar power), there's another concern that must be considered. If energy costs continue to rise and our economy stops growing and starts shrinking, many stocks will crash, older Americans will not be able to retire, inflation may skyrocket, businesses will close or cut back, and jobs will be lost. Not only will we be facing global warming, we'll be facing civilized chaos.
The problem today is that oil companies are too short-sighted, the environmentalists too far-sighted, and politicians only concerned with being elected. As a result, there will be a gap between the end of oil and a conversion to less destructive forms of energy. In this gap, all hell may break loose.
In my next article, I'll go into what I'm doing to prepare for the gap, as well as why I believe the gap can't be avoided. In other words, it will not be 1973-1974, or stagflation, all over again. I believe it will be the end of civilization as we know it -- and possibly the birth of a brave new world.
As my greatest teacher, Dr. Buckminister Fuller, said to my class in 1982, "Humanity will soon have to choose between utopia or oblivion.... Do we work only for ourselves or for our planet?"

Judy Cunningham <drjudyforjustice@yahoo.com> wrote:
I agree with Scott Peden. There is no shortage of oil. Conquering oil countries just allows them to control and raise oil prices. if you remember, Sadam was lower gas prices, and independent films, show that Sadam was just defending himself from Kuwait, which was taking over his oil fields.
Also, CNN Alaska has more oil than Arabia ever had, and CNN reported that Arabia has enough oil to supply the world at current rate for 72 years. Also, coal can be transformed into gasoline easily, and for about $0.35/gal. Brits report that all of their coal mines are shut down, so that everyone has to use oil based heat and energy.
Conquering Iraq, and oil, is just one part of the Odessa/Nazi/CIA/Republican/Bush plan to conquer the world. Read my e-mail on that topic that I sent yesterday. Judy

Scott Peden <scotpeden@cruzio.com> wrote:

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From: "Kevin Hammond" sir_oglaigh@yahoo.com
Date: Wed Apr 19, 2006 0:45pm(PDT)
Subject: Re: Gas Prices

I usually dont ""PREDFICT"" or speculate, But I DID predict on one of my shows in december that oil will hit the 100 dollar a barrell mark by Nov. of this year. And when that happens watch what happens to the crime rate.

Naveed <flanker12k@yahoo.com> wrote: How would you like it if you had a business and your buddies with the guns nullified your #1 competitor?

ROFLLMAO!!!! Don't you know that's Rockefeller style of doing business?

Scott Peden <scotpeden@cruzio.com> wrote:

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From: "Naveed" flanker12k@yahoo.com
Date: Wed Apr 19, 2006 1:32pm(PDT)
Subject: Re: Gas Prices

2.79 in KS time to get out the bike.....I suppose

Kevin Hammond <sir_oglaigh@yahoo.com> wrote: I usually dont ""PREDFICT"" or speculate, But I DID predict on one of my shows in december that oil will hit the 100 dollar a barrell mark by Nov. of this year. And when that happens watch what happens to the crime rate.

Naveed <flanker12k@yahoo.com> wrote: How would you like it if you had a business and your buddies with the guns nullified your #1 competitor?

ROFLLMAO!!!! Don't you know that's Rockefeller style of doing business?

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From: "President, USA Exile Govt." prez@usa-exile.org
Date: Wed Apr 19, 2006 3:16pm(PDT)
Subject: A Day in the LIfe: 4/19/6

GOVERNMENT OF THE USA IN EXILE
Free Americans
Reaching Out to Amerika's Huddled Masses Yearning to Breathe Free

Via <prez@usa-exile.org>

April 19, 2006

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,18843175
-12272,00.html

The Australian — Phillip Adams

Lock him away to stop the next war
With his presidency reduced to a mess, George W. Bush may just decide
to lash out wildly at Iran, writes Phillip Adams
April 18, 2006

WE cannot wait any longer for the impeachment of George W. Bush. Far
more efficient to have Bush certified. There is no need for further
debate on his mental state. The US President is bonkers.

Having turned the White House into a madhouse, having taken more
lunatic positions on more issues than any head of state since GeorgeIII
(are they, perchance, related?). GWB needs a long rest and a change of
medication. And it shouldn't be too hard to guide him into a padded
cell. Just tell him it's the presidential bomb shelter.

Let's examine the symptoms of his mental decline. First, Bush convinced
Americans that Saddam Hussein was behind 9/11. This is something the
poor fool might have believed, given a tenuous grasp of geography,
history and political reality. He then began to hallucinate about
weapons of mass destruction, despite the evidence of Hans Blix and a
multitude of others that there weren't any. And he finally organised a
tatty little alliance to join him in the silliest war since Vietnam,
one guaranteed to recruit terrorists in unprecedented numbers.

Like Vietnam, the Iraq war was launched with presidential lies. Like
Vietnam, the Iraq war descended into a moral and military quagmire. And
if Iraq seems to be less of a stuff-up, consider this fact: it's taken
just three years in Iraq for US deaths to equal the body count after
six years in Vietnam.

Little wonder six retired senior generals have joined ranks with the
American public in condemning the war, or that the guru of
neo-conservatism, Francis Fukuyama, has broken ranks with the likes of
Charles Krauthammer and William Kristol in denouncing it. Or that many
in the Republican hierarchy have joined left-wing critics denouncing
the invasion as a mistake and a failure, calling for immediate
withdrawal.

When Bush was re-elected in 2004, this column suggested the President
would go on to blast Iran or have the job done by Israeli surrogates.
Both scenarios were dismissed as absurd and alarmist. Now journalist
Seymour Hersh's revelations of a US plan to destroy Iran's nuclear
facilities, perhaps with nuclear bunker-blasters, are causing national
and international dismay. They've also provoked anger among the
Pentagon's highest-ranking officers already enraged by Donald
Rumsfeld's stewardship of the Iraq invasion and occupation. Given
Rumsfeld's clear contempt for their opinions, they might well feel
mutinous should he and the Commander-in-Chief show further signs of
strategic insanity. But would that prevent air strikes by the Israelis?
Given the sabre-rattling by that ratbag in Tehran, what could hold
Israel back?

Bush is attempting to hose things down, but the world recalls his
endlessly repeated mantra before the invasion of Iraq. Military
intervention wasn't inevitable, just an option.

Now bleeding in the polls with mid-term elections looming, isn't it
possible that Bush might go for broke? Double or nothing? A final,
desperate throw of the dice?

Condoleezza Rice might join the Pentagon in trying to talk him down.
So, one hopes, would Tony Blair and John Howard. But did Bush listen to
reasoned argument last time? With a reckless, irrational President,
you've the perfect set-up for the tail to wag the dog. As with 9/11,
here's an opportunity for reality to follow a Hollywood script.

Last week I discussed this scenario with Fukuyama. His initial response
was that Bush's political situation is too perilous for such a tactic,
that the US public and its media wouldn't tolerate another Iraq. But
bombing Iran's nuclear facilities could be characterised as surgical.
It might not need troops on the ground and would certainly seem more
relevant to the war on terror than the neo-con adventure in Iraq.
Fukuyama conceded that such a strategy was possible.

And that possibility is more than enough. A lame-duck President with
the eagle as his symbol once again takes the role of hawk. With his
presidency a total mess, what's there to lose? So it's time to certify
the President. Yes, you'd have to certify his equally deranged
Vice-President as well. And toss in Rumsfeld to keep them company.
Along with anyone else in the administration, the Congress, the Senate
or the Australian parliament mad enough to think Iraq a sane decision.

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Emerging Viruses - AIDS and Ebola

This book is Dr. Leonard G. Horowitz's nationally best-seller that the
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exploration into the origins of HIV and Ebola. Claims that these
"emerging viruses"
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grossly unfounded in light of the compelling evidence assembled in this
extraordinary text.

Alternatively, the possibility that these bizarre germs were laboratory
creations, accidentally or intentionally transmitted via tainted
hepatitis and smallpox vaccines in the U.S. and Africa - as numerous
authorities have alleged - is investigated herein.

This book reviews the numerous viral vaccine studies conducted
simultaneously in New York City and Central West Africa by a narrow
network of virologists working for major military-medical contractors
under the auspices of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the World
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(alleged) discoverer of the AIDS virus. The text presents bizarre and
horrifying facts about the biological weapons race of the 1960s and
early 1970s when these researchers developed countless immune system
ravaging viruses, and experimented with an assortment of antidote
vaccines allegedly for "defense"
and cancer prevention.

The book definitively determines with astonishing documentation
HIV/AIDS was man-made and vaccine delivered. Dr. Horowitz leaves you,
the reader, to draw your own conclusion whether this happened by
accident or political and economic intent.

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From: "RALPH OMHOLT" <skydrifter@comcast.net>
Date: April 18, 2006 11:38:04 AM EST
To: "'President, USA Exile Govt.'" <prez@usa-exile.org>
Subject: CONTACT!

FYI – a 9-11 timeline, with aviation expertise inserted.

(160 pages in hard-copy)

http://home.comcast.net/~skydrifter/timeline.htm

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Starve the Racist Prison Beast: Review of America's
System of Mass Incarceration

By Paul Street
April 19, 2006

Black Commentator

Let me start by quoting my favorite historical personality from Indiana
– the great democratic Socialist Eugene Debs, from Terre Haute. "While
there is a lower class," Debs once said, "I am of it. While there is a
criminal element," he added, "I am of it; while there is a soul in
prison, I am not free."

Prison Nation: "Not Unless This Country Plunges Into Fascism"

Debs would feel most un-free in contemporary America, where 2 million
adults spend their days behind bars in the nation that possesses the
world's highest incarceration rate. In the second year of the new
millennium, 40 of every 100,000 people in Italy were imprisoned. The
incarceration rate in Sweden was 60 per 100,000. France: 90 per
100,000. England: 125. South Africa: 400 per 100,000. Russia, with the
second highest rate in the world: 675. The United States led the world
with 690 per 100,000. Incredibly enough, the nation that proclaims
itself the homeland and headquarters of world freedom comprises 5
percent of the world's population but houses more than 25 percent of
the world's prisoners. "No other Western democratic country has ever
imprisoned this proportion of its population," says Norval Morris, a
professor emeritus at University of Chicago Law School. Indiana and
Illinois are playing major roles in this dark drama, contributing
43,000 (Illinois) and 22,000 (Indiana) state prisoners, respectively to
the inmate total in Prison Nation. With federal, local and county
prisoners included, the numbers would be considerably higher.

America's incarceration numbers are off the charts relative to the rest
of the world but they are also off the charts relative to our own
history. In the last two-and-a-half decades, America's prison
population has undergone "literally incredible" expansion, rising from
less than 300,000 in 1970 to the current shocking number. There were
less than 7500 state prison inmates in the entire state of Illinois in
1970. Thirty one years later, I found 7500 Illinois prisoners coming
from just six of Chicago's sixty-six zip codes, including five on the
city's west side and one on the south side. During the same period the
number of prisons in my state rose from 7 to 27.

Reviewing these numbers I am struck by the depths of an amazing
domestic development that has taken place quietly, behind the scene,
during my lifetime, captured quite well by Angela Davis. "When I first
became involved in anti-prison activities during the late 1960s,"
writes Davis, "I was astounded to learn that there were then close to
two hundred thousand people in prison. Had anyone told me that in three
decades ten times as many people would be locked away in cages, I would
have been absolutely incredulous. I imagine that I would have responded
something like this: 'As racist and undemocratic as this country may be
[remember, during that period, the demands of the Civil Rights Movement
had not yet been consolidated], I do not believe that the U.S.
government will be able to lock up so many people without producing
powerful resistance. No, this will never happen, not unless this
country plunges into fascism." (Angela Y. Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete?
Seven Stories Press, 2003, p.11)

The US incarceration rate began its dramatic upward acceleration in the
mid-1970s, after nearly 50 years during which it hovered around 100 per
100,000. Incarceration is now so extensive that several large states
currently spend as much or more money to incarcerate adults than they
do to provide their citizens with college and graduate educations.
States now spend 60 cents on prisons for every dollar they spend on
higher education, up from 28 cents in 1980.

Ex-Offender Nation: the Mark of a Criminal Record

Less commonly noted, America's mass imprisonment and related felony
marking boom has also generated a massive army of "ex-offenders," whose
liberty on the "outside" is strictly qualified by the lifelong mark of
a criminal record. More than 600,000 individuals are released from
state and federal prisons each year, feeding a swelling army of
ex-offenders, saddled with what The Economist last year called "The
Stigma That Never Fades." According to the best recent estimates,
roughly 13 million Americans – fully 7 percent of the adult population
and 12 percent of the adult male population – possess felony records.
Thanks to numerous barriers to ex-offender "reintegration" (a phrase
that tends to too-easily assume that former prisoners were meaningfully
integrated into American "opportunity structures" prior to arrest and
imprisonment), many released inmates claim that their "real sentence"
began upon release. This claim often contains a measure of
exaggeration, no doubt: "modern" US prisons are violent and
totalitarian structures, monuments of intentionally planned mass
misery, unmitigated by meaningful investment in rehabilitation and
treatment.

Still, former prisoners face remarkable obstacles. One of the key
barriers comes in the realm of employment. According to the best recent
estimates, incarceration carries a significant 10 to 20 percent "wage
penalty." "Prison time," Northwestern sociologist Devah Pager notes,
"serves to channel individuals away from skilled occupations and into
job sectors which are characterized by low wages, limited job
stability, and fewer opportunities for advancement." Based on
interviews with 3000 employers by the Multi-City Study of Urban
Inequality, researchers report, more than 60 percent of employers would
not knowingly hire an ex-offender. Possession of a felony record is the
single worst barrier to employer acceptance. This is no small societal
problem when 13 million possess such records in a capitalist society,
where most adults must purchase commodified life necessities through an
exchange medium that is obtained primarily by renting out their labor
power on a sustained basis. Employer and other forms of societal bias
against "ex-offenders" help explain why roughly two-thirds of released
prisoners are rearrested within three years. A considerable and growing
segment of the population has become part of a permanently stigmatized
"underclass" that recycles in and out of jails and prisons. It forms an
everlasting "criminal element" that is pushed yet further into the
lower class and functions as the key raw material for a bloated,
super-expensive hyper-carceral criminal justice state.

"Civil Death"

Along with socioeconomic disenfranchisement comes literal political
disenfranchisement. "Currently," note the leading academic authorities
on felon and ex-felon-voting rights (Jeff Manza and Christopher Uggen),
"48 states disenfranchise incarcerated felons, 37 states disenfranchise
felony probationers or parolees (or both), and 14 states additionally
disenfranchise some or all ex-felons who have completed their
sentences." No other democratic nation denies the vote to a remotely
comparable share of its offender and ex-offender population. One of the
worst 14 states is of course Florida, where felony disenfranchisement,
supplemented by the scandalous and illegal denial of voting rights to
many persons who were merely suspected of possessing felony records and
others whose out-of-state felony records (see the chilling first
chapter, "Jim Crow in Cyberspace," in Greg Palast's best-selling The
Best Democracy Money Can Buy) provided the spectacular world-systemic
transgressor George W. Bush with a key part of his "winning" margin in
the pitiful presidential selection of 2000.

The roughly 4.4 million Americans who are disenfranchised due to a past
or current felony conviction "are expected," note the experts, "to
respect the law (and indeed, are often subject to significantly harsher
penalties and face a higher level of scrutiny, than non-felons). They
are expected to pay taxes to the government, and to be governed by
elected officials. Yet they have no formal right to participate in the
selection of those officials or the public policies that allocate
government expenditures," including the tens of billions of dollars
that American government's spend on mass incarceration. Even in the
horribly diluted and qualified mechanism of democracy known as the
American voting process, much of the "criminal element" is banned from
having anything to say about the policies that have marked them for
life. In a modern-day version of the medieval practice of "civil
death," breaking the law leads to "complete loss of citizenship rights"
for a considerable segment of the population. At the same time, it is
worth noting that prisoners count towards the population count and
therefore to the political representation (under political districting
rules) and related state and federal funding allotments granted not to
their home communities (disproportionately urban) but to
(disproportionately rural) regions and communities that host prisons.
An investigation by The Chicago Reporter - an excellent local public
affairs magazine - finds that mass incarceration's interaction with the
geography of prison construction, political districting rules and
federal budgetary procedures cost Chicago's Cook County nearly $88
million in federal benefits between 2000 and 2010 (see Molly Dugan,
"Census Dollars Bring bounty to Prison Towns").

Corrections, Indeed: The Color of Prison and Ex-Offender Nation

Let's be clear, however, about who exactly is most prone to
socioeconomic and political disenfranchisement through incarceration
and related felony-marking. Beyond its sheer magnitude, the most
striking aspect of America's prison and broader criminal supervision
boom is its heavily racialized nature. As the penal population has
risen, it has become significantly less Caucasian: non-Hispanic whites
accounted for 42% of state prison inmates in 1979 but less than a third
by the end of the 20th century.

One group is most especially targeted: Blacks are 12.3 percent of US
population, but they comprise roughly half of the roughly 2 million
Americans currently behind bars. Between 1980 and 2000, the number of
black men in jail or prison grew fivefold (500 percent), to the point
where, as the Justice Policy Institute (2002) recently reported, there
were more black men behind bars than enrolled in colleges or
universities in the US. On any given day, Chaiken reported, 30 percent
of African-American males ages 20 to 29 are under correctional
supervision – either in jail or prison or on probation or parole.

The incarceration rate for African-Americans is 1,815 per 100,000
compared to 609 per 100, 000 for Latino-Americans, 99 per 100,000 for
Asian-Americans, and 235 per 100, 000 for American whites. For black
adult males the incarceration rate is a remarkable 4, 484 per 100,000,
compared 1, 668 per 100,000 for Hispanic males and 1,318 per 100,000
for white males. Roughly one in ten of the world's prisoners is an
African-American male. In mid-year 1999, 11 percent of Black US males
in their 20s and early 30s were in prison and 33 percent of Black male
high school dropouts were in prison or in jail.

Especially chilling is a statistical model used by the Bureau of
Justice Statistics at the turn of the 21st century to determine the
lifetime chances of incarceration for individuals in different racial
and ethnic groups. Based on current rates, it predicts that a young
Black man age 16 in 1996 faced a 29 percent chance of spending time in
prison during his life. The corresponding statistic for white men in
the same age group was 4 percent.

Consistent with these findings, nothing is more likely to predict high
incarceration totals and rates at the state level than the possession
of a disproportionately large black population. Also worth noting, race
is the single largest factor determining which states deny voting
rights to felons and ex-felons. The higher the black composition of a
state's prisoner population, the more likely that state is to
disenfranchise its officially marked "criminal element."

A recent New Left Review essay by left sociologist Loic Wacquant is
titled "From Slavery to Mass Incarceration." The experience of
incarceration is so ubiquitous and commonplace in the African-American
experience today that Wacquant can make a compelling case for
designating mass imprisonment as a full-blown historical stage in the
evolution of structural racism in the United States. Meanwhile,
criminologists Dina Rose and Todd Clear found Black neighborhoods in
Tallahassee where every resident could identify at least one friend or
relative who has been incarcerated. In predominantly Black urban
communities across the country, incarceration is so widespread and
commonplace that it has become what Chaiken calls "almost a normative
life experience."

The phenomenon of heavily disproportionate Black mass incarceration is
fraught with a savage historical irony. At the very moment that
American public discourse in racial matters has become officially
inclusive – even David Duke now has to deny that he is anti-Black – the
US is flooding its expanding number of cell blocks with an ever-rising
tide of Black people monitored by predominantly white overseers.

There is a widespread false belief among whites – ironically reinforced
by the demise of open public racial prejudice – that African-Americans
enjoy equal and color-blind opportunity. "As white America sees it,"
write Barbara Diggs-Brown and Leonard Steinhorn in their sobering By
the Color of Their Skin: the Illusion of Integration and the Reality of
Race (2000), "every effort has been made to welcome Blacks into the
American mainstream, and now they're on their own… 'We got the message,
we made the corrections [white Americans claim, P.S.] – Get on with
it.'"

Corrections, indeed: as the racially skewed demographics of the
American "correctional" system suggest, the US in the age of mass
incarceration is giving a darkly colored twist to the noble Christian
notion that we are "our brother's [today 'our brothers'] keeper."

A Policy-Driven Reality

At first blush, an outside observer from another country or planet
might observe America's prison numbers and conclude that the United
States experienced a significant upsurge in violent crimes,
disproportionately committed by African-Americans, during recent
decades. This would be a reasonable inference from the extreme measure
(by both historical American and contemporary global standards) of mass
and racially disparate incarceration over the last 25-30 years.
Contrary to the "law and order" rhetoric cultivated by many politicians
and policymakers, however, there has been no clear or consistent
pattern of rising criminality, including violent criminality, that
might explain the upward trend of America's prison numbers. "Since
1980," journalist Vince Beiser notes, "the national crime rate has
meandered down, then up, then down again, but the incarceration rate
has marched relentlessly upward every single year." During the 1990s,
indeed, the US incarceration rates rose dramatically in spite of crime
rates that fell, thanks largely to fairly robust economic growth during
the "Clinton boom." "Crime is dropping," noted the well-regarded public
affairs journal Illinois Issues, "but the prison population isn't."

The black crime rates have been consistently higher than the white
crime rate, consistent with blacks' lower socioeconomic status and
related higher stress levels and weaker social and familial structures,
but there has been no massive upsurge of black criminality that could
even remotely explain the skyrocketing black incarceration rate.

The central factor is that imprisonment in the US has "changed," in
Pager's words, "from a punishment reserved for only the most heinous
offenders to one extended to a much greater range of crimes and much
larger segment of the population [emphasis added]. Recent trends in
crime policy have led to the imposition of harsher and longer sentences
for a wider range of offenses, thus casting an ever widening net of
penal intervention." It is largely for this reason that the majority of
Americans entering the inherently violent space of America's "prison
nation," where as many as 7 percent of inmates are raped, now do so for
nonviolent crimes. Between 1980 and 1997, the Justice Policy Institute
(JPI) reports, "the number of violent offenders committed to state
prison nearly doubled (up 82 percent)," but "the number of nonviolent
offenders tripled (up 207 percent)." People who committed nonviolent
crimes accounted for more than three fourths of the nation's massive
increase in prisoners between 1978 and 1996. The Justice Policy
Institute estimates that there are currently more than 1.2 million
nonviolent criminals behind bars in the US.

These trends have impacted black communities with special harshness.
While blacks make up just 15 percent of illicit drug users, they
account for 37 percent of those arrested for drug offenses. They
comprise 42 percent of those held in federal prison for drug charges
and 62 percent of those in state prisons. Not surprisingly, white drug
offenders are much less likely than their counterparts to serve time in
prison. Blacks constituted more than 75 percent of the total drug
prisoners in America in one third of all states according to a report
issued in 2000 by the prestigious human rights organization Human
Rights Watch. In my own state, Illinois, Human Rights Watch reported
that "blacks constituted an astonishing 90 percent of all drug
offenders admitted to prison in Illinois" in 1996. By 2000, the
percentage had barely fallen to 89 percent, making Illinois number two
in the nation in terms of this key disparity.

Chicago Story

Reflecting these dark realities, there is now a growing and
increasingly respectable body of academic and policy literature on
"racially disparate mass incarceration" – liberal academic and
foundation terminology for the racist prison state – and related issues
of mass black criminalization and "prisoner reentry." The literature
bears dramatic titles like The Race to Incarcerate, Incarceration
Nation, Lockdown America, Prison Nation, Cell Blocks Over Classrooms,
Travels in a Prison Nation, Color Bind, and the like.

My own study released last year is part of this literature. Titled The
Vicious Circle: Race, Prison, Jobs and Community in Chicago, Illinois
and the Nation, it's full of shocking details on how and why the penal
system has become a central part of the institutional framework that
produces racial and related socioeconomic inequality in the United
States. Among the worst revelations:

As of June 2001, I learned, there were nearly 20,000 more black males
in the Illinois state prison system than the number of black males
enrolled in the state's public universities. There were more black
males in the state's correctional facilities just on drug charges than
the total number of black males enrolled in undergraduate degree
programs in state universities. By 2000, I learned and reported,
Illinois' prison population had reached nearly 46,000 and the number of
correction facilities had mushroomed to 27. Illinois' rising state
prison (IDOC) population (94 percent male) stood suggestively close to
the falling number of households (predominately female-headed) in the
state receiving public family cash assistance – 46,801. Nine years
before, the number of prisoners in Illinois made up less than 15
percent number of the state's welfare families. The report section in
which I included this data was titled "From Welfare to Prison State."
Black male ex-prisoners, I found, are equivalent in number to nearly
one quarter (24 percent) of the black male workforce in the Chicago
area. Black male ex-felons are equivalent in number to 42 percent of
the black male workforce in the Chicago area. In the finding that most
interested reporters, I reported that ten very predominantly black
Chicago zip codes (including five on the city's West Side and four on
the South Side) received 25 percent of Illinois prisoners released in
the years 2000, 2001, and 2002. I determined that released prisoners
are returning to the same highly disadvantaged communities from which
they came prior to incarceration. The top 15 zip codes for prison
releases contain 10 of the city's top 15 zip codes for poverty, 11 of
the top 15 zip codes for unemployment, 10 of the lowest 15 zip codes
for median income, and 10 of the lowest zip codes for possession of a
high school degree. There is, I noted, a significant racial disparity
in mass incarceration's labor market and related economic development
consequences in Illinois as throughout the country. The prison
construction boom – fed by the rising "market" of black offenders – is
a significant source of jobs and associated local economic multipliers
for prison-hosting "downstate" Illinois communities. Because of its
racially dichotomous economic and related political and budgetary
impact in Illinois, I argued in The Vicious Circle for understanding
mass incarceration as a form of Reverse Racial Reparations - a form of
radical state intervention that transfers wealth, census count,
earnings, government dollars, voting power and even campaign finance
influence away from the black and into the white community. The analogy
with slavery (including the infamous "three-fifths" compromise that
permitted slave states to count black chattel towards their
Congressional representation) is hard to miss, though black prisoners
function much more as raw material than as labor under the modern mass
incarceration system.

The Racist Prison State vs. National Mythology

My study resonated well in Chicago's black community and among
intellectuals and activists working to rollback American incarceration.
It failed, however, to achieve remotely comparable recognition in the
mainstream media, even at the local level.

This lukewarm media response is fairly typical, I think, for those of
us who are writing about and against the racist prison state. There's
an epic disconnect between its significance (well understood especially
in the black community) and the mainstream attention it receives,
especially when you recall that George W. Bush seized power – with
historic consequences – thanks to the disenfranchisement of tens of
thousands black ex-felons (real and supposed) in Florida.

"Freedom's Beacon"

The reasons for this disconnect are complex but part of the problem
relates to the filtering power of dominant ideology, whose core
elements are shared across the American political class, including both
policymakers and owners and managers of the nations' media
corporations. The full story of policy-driven racist mass imprisonment
and related rampant black felony marking is richly anomalous for
related core and overlapping American myths that dominant media has no
interest in challenging, particularly in the post-9/11 period of
intensified nationalism and related domestic mobilization for permanent
imperialist war.

One such myth holds that the United States is the natural homeland,
epitome and headquarters of freedom, "the beacon to the world of the
way life should be" – to quote Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson
justifying her support for the White House's planned invasion of Iraq
in the fall of 2002. Hutchinson's phrase epitomizes the widespread
belief among the political class that America is the embodiment of
human existence at its best – a God- and/or History-ordained City on a
Hill, one that "stands taller and sees farther" than the rest of the
world, as Madeline Albright put it years ago. This belief certainly
informed a statement made by James F. Dobbins, Director of the Rand
Corporation's Center for International Security and Defense Policy and
a former special White House envoy during US interventions in Somalia,
Haiti, Bosnia, Kosovo, and Afghanistan. "The partisan debate" within
the US, "is over," Dobbins proclaimed just before the US invaded Iraq.
"Administrations of both parties are clearly prepared," Dobbins noted,
"to use American military forces to reform rogue states and repair
broken societies."

To counter this toxic national-imperial narcissism and show that the
United States is itself a "broken society," activists can pick from an
empirical embarrassment of riches relating to inequality, poverty,
gun-deaths, suicides, the uninsured and so on. But few social
statistics trump the incarceration numbers when it comes to tearing
down the elite's vainglorious American-exceptionalist story line,
particularly the part of the dominant trope that identifies the US with
"freedom." Even if media authorities wanted to, it would be difficult
for them to tell the truth on such a graphically counter-doctrinal
horror story at the same time that America's aggressively nationalist
power elite – dominated by the formerly radical-turned "respectable"
right wing – is telling itself and the world that America is the
"single sustainable model" of societal excellence, specially chosen by
God and History to exemplify and even export its superior, liberating
virtues.

"Color Blind America"

A second great myth challenged by the real story on the mass carceral
warehousing and related permanent criminal marking of millions of
African-American citizens and ex-citizens is of course the related
mainstream notion that America has become for all intents and purposes
a color-blind post-racist nation, where correctives like affirmative
action, not to mention reparations, are no longer necessary. Even the
Manhattan Institute's John McWhorter, who has made a lucrative career
out of arguing that the chief cause of persistent black difficulties in
a generally post-racist America is black cultural "self-sabotage,"
acknowledgers that racial discrimination continues to be a problem in
America's hyper-carceral criminal justice system.

The Selective Targeting of the Government "Beast"

Another myth I want to mention is the widely advertised and much
lamented notion of the powerless and cash-strapped state – the idea
that government can't really do anything anymore; that it doesn't have
the strength, the legitimacy, the money, the wherewithal to carry out
key objectives. Tell that to the nation's mass of prisoners and
ex-prisoners.

To break through the last myth, you have to ask whose objectives
American government can and supposedly can't carry out. In the
wealthiest nation on earth, the public sector lacks the money to
properly fund education for all of the country's children. It lacks the
resources to provide universal health coverage, leaving 42 million
American without basic medical insurance. It can't match unemployment
benefits to the numbers out of work. It lacks or claims to lack the
money to provide meaningful rehabilitation and reentry services for its
many millions of very disproportionately black prisoners and
ex-prisoners, marked for life with a criminal record. The list of unmet
civic and social needs goes on and on. Listen, however, to what our
public sector can supposedly pay for. It can afford to spend trillions
on Tax Cuts rewarding the top 1 percent in the thoroughly disingenuous
name of "economic stimulus." It can spend more on the military than on
all of America's possible "enemy" states combined many times over,
providing massive subsidy to the high-tech corporate sector, including
billions on weapons and "defense" systems that bear no meaningful
relations to any real threat faced by the American people. It can
afford hundreds of billions and perhaps more than a trillion dollars
for an invasion and occupation of distant devastated nation that poses
minimal risk to the US and even to its own neighbors. And of course, it
can afford to incapacitate and incarcerate a greater share of its
population than any nation in history and to spend hundreds of millions
each year on various forms of corporate welfare and other routine
public subsidies to "private" industry. The American public sector, in
short, is weak and cash-strapped when it comes to social democracy for
the people but its cup runs over in powerful ways when it comes to
meeting the needs of wealth, racial disparity and empire. It's useful
to keep that distinction in mind when we hear people like the powerful
Republican tax cut maven and political strategist Grover Norquist say
that their goal – and here I quote Norquist – "is to cut government in
half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can
drown it in the bathtub." When Norquist and his followers say they want
to "starve the beast" of government, they target some parts of
"government" for malnourishment a lot more energetically than others.
They are most concerned to dismantle the parts of the public sector
that serve the social and democratic needs of the non-affluent majority
of the American populace. They want to de-fund what the late French
sociologist Pierre Bordieu referred to as the left hand of the state,
the programs and services that embody the victories won by past
struggles for justice and equality. They want to preserve the right
hand of the state, the parts that provide service and welfare to the
privileged few and dole out punishment to the poor, from the budgetary
axe.

Their wishes are being met. Under the pressure of a relentless,
well-funded political and ideological campaign led in its most extreme
forms by radically regressive and repressive Republicans like Norquist,
Newt Gingrich, and Karl Rove, the public sector is being stripped of
its positive social and democratic functions. It is increasingly
reduced to its policing and repressive functions, which are expanding
in ways that are more than merely coincidental to the assault on social
supports and programs. It is criminalizing and thereby deepening social
inequality and related social problems through self-fulfilling policies
of racially disparate (racist) mass surveillance, arrest, and
incarceration – a perfect homeland counterpart to its racially
disparate (racist) militarization of global US empire and its attendant
social, political, and economic problems. The well-funded right-led
campaign to "starve" government's left hand produces instructive
disparities in mainstream news coverage. Dominant media covered the
terrible "problem" posed by the supposedly horrendous swelling of the
family cash public assistance rolls so heavily that punitive
"work-first" "welfare reform" became practically inevitable during the
mid-1990s. The huge societal and related budgetary problems posed by
massive, costly swelling of prison, parole and probation rolls and the
related need to move people from prison and the felony-stigmatized
margins of society into the labor market and other areas of civil
society are non-issues by mainstream comparison. They evoke only minor
concern outside the communities of color that are most targeted by
American criminal justice authorities.

The Liberating Market vs. the Evil State

The rise of "Racially disparate mass incarceration" also challenges a
fourth great American myth, strongly related to the third. This legend
claims that the defining political and ideological conflict of our time
is between the glorious, liberty-enhancing logic of supposedly "free
market" capitalism on one hand and the dark, decrepit, and deadening
hand of the public sector on the other hand. "The market," we are told
again and again, is the answer to society's problems. It is very
different from the inherently evil, irresponsible, and authoritarian
State, which suppresses the virtuous "freedom" of unfettered trade and
investment – the magnificent world of freely circulating commodities,
capital, and currency. This is one of the great fairy tales of our age.
The real domestic policy conflict that matters today, as at the
beginning of the Republic and ever since, is not between the
state/polity and the market/economy. It is between one type
(aristocratic and authoritarian) of public policy and political economy
and another type (social and democratic) of public policy and political
economy. The first brand of policy serves the interests of the
privileged few and punishes the poor and many others as well. It
excludes those at the bottom and exacerbates their pain and stigma. The
second, more left-handed brand serves the social and democratic needs
of the majority, reaching out especially to those who are most
disadvantaged and in need of uplift and assistance – in the name of
equity and justice.

The situation of America's burgeoning incarcerated and ex-offender
population is an excellent case in point. Nobody seriously concerned to
ameliorate the plight of the increasingly hyper-criminalized black and
urban population can believe that group is going to be usefully served
by the "free market." That not-so free market is no small part of what
has crippled inner city communities, pushing many of their residents
into "crime" (especially drug trading and using) and (along with some
help from racially disparate policing and sentencing) the criminal
justice system in the first place. Deeply enabled by and reflective of
state-capitalist public ("trade" and non-industrial) policy, it has
removed the industrial jobs that used to sustain those communities and
denied inner-city people access to the more affluent communities where
jobs and skills have concentrated (insofar as they have not disappeared
overseas or simply been eliminated). At the same time, the "free"
market has precious little to offer inner-city blacks with criminal
records; that population requires public intervention either to
directly engage and compensate their labor and/or to encourage or
compel employers to hire them.

The dire situation of the people left behind in hyper-segregated,
deeply impoverished, and savagely de-industrialized communities by
racially disparate sprawl, globalization, and automation calls for
aggressive public, governmental intervention. The only relevant
question is what sort of intervention it's going to be: left-handed or
right-handed. Racist mass incarceration, launched under the aegis of
the ineffective and costly War on Drugs, is one such intervention, a
high- and right-handed one with fascist implications that can only
deepen the intertwined cycles of poverty, racial inequality, violence,
crime, inner-city destabilization, substance abuse and despair. It
promotes the dangerous criminalization of social problems, a perfect
domestic mirror for the dominant foreign policy, which exacerbates
global crises and deepens violence through the militarization of world
political and social issues. It functions, it is worth repeating, as a
method of racially inverted reparations, distributing a massive share
of wealth from black to white communities that has yet to find its
statistician.

Other Myths

There are other national myths that might be included in a more
extended discussion of how the rise of "racially disparate mass
incarceration" contradicts dominant national narratives: the notion of
hard work and personal moral agency as the key factor determining one's
life condition; the idea that "the criminal element" bases its behavior
on a "rational" cost-benefit analysis of outcomes, factoring in the
likelihood and severity of punishment to their decisions on whether or
not to commit illegal actions; the notion that crime is rampant (a
staple of the violence-happy news media); the notion that "punishment
works" in the effort to stem problem substance abuse; and the
transparently false idea that all Americans are equally empowered by
the rights granted and subject to the punishments inflicted by the
state. This last notion (long ago ridiculed by the venerable American
working-class slogan claiming that "money talks and bullshit walks" in
and out of the courtroom), is hard to maintain in a time when (a)
corporate crooks are mildly punished for illegal practices that erased
the jobs and butchered the life savings of tens of thousands of
Americans (or more) while (b) hundreds of thousands of
disproportionately black and poor Americans do hard time under shocking
conditions (including the endemic threat of rape) for nonviolent and
especially narcotic offenses.

Policy, Ideology, and Discourse

There's little mysterious or tricky about what might and should – from
a minimally social, democratic, and racially inclusive perspective – be
done to close the vicious circle of racially disparate mass
incarceration. The standard "liberal" litany of minimally reasonable
policy solutions is loaded with ideas that make basic social,
democratic, budgetary, and common sense, including: the repeal of
mandatory sentencing laws, and the establishment of new structures for
reviewing and revising state sentencing policies and pointing judges
towards the most effective use of correctional options; the creation of
new prison and post-prison supports and responsibilities for prisoners
and released ex-prisoners; an end to racial profiling in traffic and
pedestrian stop-and-search and surveillance and to racially disparate
practices in the prosecution and sentencing of drug and other
offenders; the creation of a new policy focus and government agency to
coordinate the transition from prison to work; the elimination of
inappropriate barriers to, and the creation of new possibilities and
incentives for, the appropriate employment of ex-offenders; investment
in treatment instead of incarceration. In an exhaustive social science
research study that has been scandalously ignored by all but a few
policy makers in the US for almost a decade now, the conservative RAND
corporation found that every additional dollar invested in substance
abuse treatment saves taxpayers $7.46 in societal costs to pay for
crime, violence, and lost productivity.

Policy matters of course, but a big part of the problem – a reason
these minimally civilized policy steps are so hard to implement – is
moral and ideological, reflecting and relating to the creation and
maintenance of dominant homeland narratives. To roll back the
ineffective and costly strategy of what the Open Society calls
"over-incarceration," we need specific, carefully-crafted policy
"fixes." We also need to turn off – or, better, learn to critically
scrutinize – its overabundance of reactionary,
law-enforcement-worshipping television shows and news coverage and drop
its related nasty habit of blaming the victims of its radical
experiment in "racially mass incarceration." The rise of Incarceration
Nation is a radical, deeply racist, and partly even fascist state
development, not a tragic and unavoidable response of the state to
terrible behavior on the part of a massive "criminal element" that
needs to be punitively conditioned to act rationally upon the
supposedly remarkable opportunities it faces in the glorious world of
stateless, color-blind marketplace capitalism.

In the effort to slay this many headed prison beast, we need to
liberate ourselves from crippling doctrinal orthodoxies and rekindle a
basic understanding of the need for constructive and positive
(left-handed) government action across deadly, socially constructed
barriers of race, class, gender, and power. We need to take our
political lives and social imaginations back from the aristocratic,
well-funded authoritarians who have captured public policy and
discourse and turned them into mechanisms of repression and privilege.
The stakes are not minor. As it is now, we are heading towards a Brave
New World in which permanent American racist war and empire abroad both
feeds on and reflects permanent racist inequality and repression at
home, both imposed in the curious names of freedom, the market, and
democracy.

Paul Street (pstreet@cul-chicago.org ) is the author of Empire Abroad

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Message 11
From: "kenny318east3" kenny318east3@yahoo.com
Date: Wed Apr 19, 2006 3:37pm(PDT)
Subject: David Duke's "open letter to the FBI"

http://www.davidduke.com/mp3/dukeradio060418.mp3

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Message 12
From: "R Bleier" bleier.r@gmail.com
Date: Wed Apr 19, 2006 3:45pm(PDT)
Subject: S. Heller: Time to shake up the peace movement + JB comments

*4.15.06*

*Jeffrey Blankfort writes:*

This is a very important article by long-time Labor and anti-war activist
Stan Heller. What he is describing here is what has been going on in the
anti-war/peace movement for more than 20 years in which the very same
arguments that were made to exclude the Palestinian issue in the 80s are
still being made now, and by the same people, albeit some are a little
grayer. The argument that if the Palestinian issue is mentioned, the
movement will alienate labor and Democrats is getting old and very tired and
at this point in time is, in my opinion, nothing more than a cover for the
soft-core Zionists in the leadership of UFPJ to do what they have always
been doing, *damage control for Israel.* Forget what they put on their web
sites. It is the demands made in rallies and marches that are printed on
posters and stay on walls and telephone balls long after the marches are
over that connect the issues for people, and in this instance, not to
mention, as well, the threat of war against Iran, currently being pushed
exclusively by the Zionist lobby is neither acceptable or forgivable.

*April 13, 2006*

*Lessons from Connecticut*

*Time to Shake Up the Peace Movement*

By STAN HELLER

In what country will a huge peace coalition hold an anti-war rally have
nothing to say about Iran, Israel and Palestine or Afghanistan? Is the
answer Israel? Turkey? Micronesia? Sadly it's the USA. On April 29 United
for Peace and Justice is holding a big demonstration in New York City called
"March for Peace, Justice and Democracy". The only "peace" demand mentioned
is bringing troops home from Iraq.

The silence about Iran is staggering. On April 9 the Washington Post
reported on US military planning for an attack. In includes this sentence,
"Pentagon planners are studying how to penetrate eight-foot-deep targets and
are contemplating tactical nuclear devices". Contemplating? We're not
talking about mediation here, but dropping "tactical" Hiroshima-size atomic
bombs. And UFPJ has nothing to say.

The conventional wisdom smugly says this is all a bluff, that with all the
losses in Iraq and sagging polls at home Bush would be crazy to attack Iran.
But Sy Hersh reports [New Yorker April 17, 2006] that a government
consultant with ties to the Pentagon told him " that the President believes
that he must do 'what no Democrat or Republican, if elected in the future,
would have the courage to do,' and 'that saving Iran is going to be his
legacy.'" Mission is part of Bush's "reborn" personality. Remember he
seriously believes that he was chosen by God to be President.

Who is going to stop him? The non-cooperation of France and Germany of 2003
is a thing of the past. Russia and China? Can anyone believe that these
money-sotted regimes would put up any opposition to a US full court press?
How about the US Congress? Hersh reports that the White House briefings of
the leadership are underway and the only questions that are being raised are
"How are you sure you can hit the targets deep enough?" What about the
Democrats? Kerry and Obama tried to win the macho crowd by claiming in 2004
that Bush wasn't taking a hard enough line on Iran. They're not about to
change their spots now. Lieberman? He's probably signing his name on the
nukes themselves.

The peace movement seems paralyzed by the charge that Iran is developing
nuclear weapons. Never mind that Scott Ritter, who was dead right about
Iraq's WMD, has said repeatedly in interviews and speeches that Iran has no
nuclear weapons program. [See my Jan. 24 video
interview<http://thestruggle.org/MediaP.htm>.] or that the IAEA
officials have no evidence of such a program. Never mind
that the US has thousands of nuclear weapons that could holocaust Iran in
minutes. Never mind that Israel has hundreds of nuclear weapons pointed at
Tehran.

Oops, I mentioned Israel. UFPJ doesn't want to say anything about it.
Condemn "unending oil war" and that's the beginning and ending of analysis.
The Christian Zionists who see a Jewish conquest of Palestine as the start
of Armageddon? They don't really matter. AIPAC, which draws half the Senate
and a third of the House to their blood-curdling conventions. Not really
worth mentioning, not even the 2006 gathering which was devoted to demands
that the US "take care" of Iran. Bush himself has stated, "We will use
military might to protect our ally Israel", but why get into that?

And those pesky Palestinians. Yes, they have their troubles, but why mention
them in an anti-war movement? As if Israeli war-mongering wasn't based on
its apartheid-like oppression of Palestinians. As if an Israeli official
hadn't publicly said that wiping out Saddam would help Israel impose a new
"order" on the Palestinians. As if the al-Qaeda killers haven't tried to
adopt the Palestinian cause as their own. Bringing up Palestine in
connection with the war will just alienate us from those thousands and
thousands of Israel partisans who are just itching to join the movement once
we get rid of our "anti-Semitism". Uh-huh.

Unstated in the UFPJ rally call is a rush to the Democrats. After grassroots
activists pushed the UFPJ and ANSWER coalitions into having one successful
giant demonstration on September 24, 2005, UFPJ passed a resolution to never
work with ANSWER again! Instead it found new allies with liberal
environmental groups, feminists and Jesse Jackson's PUSH. Jesse Jackson,
father confessor to war criminal Clinton, is going to teach us morality.
Grand. Dump all the bleeding hearts who sympathize with the Arabs and
Muslims and the Dems will pick up votes in the heartland.

Well, in CT this strategy of pandering to the so-called center has been
tried and it's failed.

*
The Connecticut Experience*

We in Connecticut have had a statewide umbrella group, Connecticut United
for Peace, that for over three years has run the large statewide
demonstrations. We're members of UFPJ, but years ago we formally decided
that the oppression of Palestinians was intimately tied up with the war and
have mentioned it in all our rallies.

We started making plans for this year's March 18 rally last November, and we
held two ultra-democratic votes about the demonstration's demands. Anyone
who showed up at the meetings could vote. In November we proposed the slogan
"End Israeli Occupation and Apartheid". We also had slogans for immigrant
rights, opposition to persecution of Muslims and rejection of war with Iran.

At our final meeting in January (with 125 in attendance) a number of people
demanded a single issue rally, totally on Iraq, saying by going for the
lowest common denominator we'd get labor, the Democrats and anti-war Jews.
The majority wouldn't go for it. We weren't going to abandon the immigrants
and Muslims and we'd be fools not to mention Iran, but we figured the real
sticking point was Palestine. So we offered a compromise. Instead of the
slogan "End Israeli Occupation and Apartheid" we offered the vague "Justice
for the Palestinian People".

People voted for the compromise by a large majority. Still the very notion
that the Palestinians were the victims was too much for some and others were
afraid of offending the Democratic Party and the Democratic Party oriented
labor leaders. So the Israel-apologists, the Peace Council and some labor
leaders went off and did their own thing. They held a rally on March 19, a
day after ours and formed a group with the acronym COW, Connecticut Opposes
War.

On March 18 we marched 20 blocks from a largely Latino neighborhood and held
and rally on the New Haven Green that according to the AP attracted 1,000.
We think it was larger. Perhaps 10% were Muslim and Palestinians. We had
pro-immigrant speakers in English and Spanish and a section of the Green
with Spanish translators. It was a great demo, but we had expected double
that number to attend and we blame it largely on the split.

So how well did the splitters do on the 19th in Hartford? Politically the
rally sucked. It was two blocks from Senator Lieberman's office and none of
the speakers denounced Lieberman. Neither Democrat Ned Lamont who was
challenging Lieberman for anti-war reasons nor Ralph Ferrucci who was
running as a Green were invited to speak. The only chant was this
embarrassing bleat,"We are Americans, This is Our Country". Imagine after
three years of the war they still think we have to defend our patriotism?
All the speeches denounced one person and one person only, George Bush. As
if the Democrats hadn't pushed for the war enthusiastically and as if they
weren't still supporting it. Iran was mentioned in one sentence. And, of
course, they didn't say a word about Israel's constant pressure for war
against Iraq and Iran or the fact that Gaza is now without flour.

But the bottom line is numbers. Did they draw out the "silent majority"? No.
Their rally was about the same size as ours (and included many of our
people). It was hardly the breakthrough that COW was predicting. There were
a dozen Democratic state legislators. As for labor, state AFL-CIO President
John Olsen spoke and there was a sizeable presence by SEIU-1199, maybe 50 or
so union officials and members. That was about it.. Organized Jewish
presence was invisible. No one saw a single sign from a Jewish organization
and only one person objected to the tons of pro-Palestinian rights
literature we gave out. On the other hand whatever was gained from the
"middle" was lost from the fact the Muslims were conspicuous by their
absence.

The COW strategy is a model for what shouldn't be attempted on April 29th..

We have three weeks. Something has to be done to change the political
direction of UFPJ. Ignoring Iran is madness. Abandoning Muslims and
Palestinians is disgraceful. Silence about Israel is inexcusable. We need to
pressure the out of touch UFPJ leadership. We need public statements,
petitions and a ton of emails to the UFPJ steering committee at their
address <>ufpj-sc@unitedforpeace.org Tell them to change the demands and to
get speakers who'll talk about all the realities of the war.

*Stanley Heller* is chairperson of the Middle East Crisis Committee and host
of its weekly TV news program that can be seen on the internet
www.TheStruggle.org.
<http://www.thestruggle.org/>He is a member of the organizing committee of
Connecticut United for Peace. He can be reached at mail@thestruggle.org

--
Ronald Bleier
http://desip.igc.org

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Date: Wed Apr 19, 2006 3:55pm(PDT)
Subject: VOTE AND PASS

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Message 14
From: "kenny318east3" kenny318east3@yahoo.com
Date: Wed Apr 19, 2006 4:05pm(PDT)
Subject: Re: S. Heller: Time to shake up the peace movement + JB comments

--- In 911TruthAction@yahoogroups.com, "R Bleier" <bleier.r@...> wrote:

> As if the al-Qaeda killers haven't tried to
> adopt the Palestinian cause as their own.>

THE AUTHOR IS REFERRING TO FICTIONAL ENTITIES AND PSY-OP TERMINOLOGY.

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Message 15
From: "Jolly Roger" slicingthroats@yahoo.com
Date: Wed Apr 19, 2006 5:46pm(PDT)
Subject: Re: How successful has the 911 truth movement been?

the bill of rights has always been sacred to me, but not until being involved with the 9-11 truth movement did I know much about our monetary system, and I have also had to re-learn much of history, in place of the BS history that's taught in schools. It's also given me lessons in politics, propaganda, psychology, etc., etc.
I think much of the nation might be realizing that they have a lot to un-learn and re-learn now they're aware of how the MSM had them duped -- at least I hope it's the case. I worry that the elites might throw a few patsies to the dogs and try to move on with business as usual.

Naveed <flanker12k@yahoo.com> wrote:
ya, the buck doesn't stop at shrub co... it goes WAY beyond these mofos.....

for myself, 9/11 represented a new period of self-awareness and monumental paradigm shifting, if it wasn't for 9/11 I wouldn't have known that WWI and WWII were controlled conflicts by the oligarchy/corporate powers. I wouldn't have known about the alternative health history and fantastic discovery (Royal Rife), or about the federal reserve fraud, and learning the REAL truth about how really beautiful the american form of republican government is (NO not the republican party! we are a REPUBLIC not a democracy!!), or why the 2nd amendment was added and how monumentally important the bill of rights are.....No Bill of Rights No america! i'm sad to say it took the violent deaths of thousands of people to bring about such a powerful epiphany. We must make this tragedy into a triumph, that is the least we can do for all those who died at the hands of these murderers........

In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
- Notebook, 1904

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Message 16
From: "Jolly Roger" slicingthroats@yahoo.com
Date: Wed Apr 19, 2006 6:04pm(PDT)
Subject: Re: It appears that your blocking my posts - with no notice

she may be an idiot, but I'm a bit more certain she's a troll who is dedicated to stifling discussion about the zionist's role in 9-11, and blame everything on Bush. I think that's their new strategy now that much of American knows the truth. If they're succesful a few low-level heads will roll, but there will be no real change, and all of our efforts will be in vain. People must see that this is much bigger than just a few American criminals. Your website is important because it exposes people behind the scenes (Rothschilds -- Zionists) who would be perfectly happy to sacrifice a few patsies to remain in control.

Kevin Hammond <sir_oglaigh@yahoo.com> wrote: thsi woman is obviously a pea brained idiot/MORON Jolly. She does not even deserve a response. Both Naveed and myself have already pointed her errors out to her with absolutely no response but to further her propaganda dribble.

In The name of Christ Jesus,

Kevin
www.fightthenwo.org

Leslie Schwartz <lhs_emf@pacbell.net> wrote:
Unfortunately that is about what I expected.

The sort of posts you ARE allowing are going to cause great harm to
the 9/11 truth movment, most of this anti-jewish crap has nothing to
do with 9/11, but it shows where your minds are at.

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Message 17
From: "Jolly Roger" slicingthroats@yahoo.com
Date: Wed Apr 19, 2006 6:14pm(PDT)
Subject: Re: How successful has the 911 truth movement been?

No need to, Kevin -- this 9-11 Truth mission can be frustrating at times, especially when you run across people who insist on keeping their head up their ass. There is a silent, underground awakening sweeping across America, or else they wouldn't risk any additional exposure with things like the popular mechanics (or other MSM) hit pieces. If it were only a few of us, they wouldn't mention it at all in the press (they were silent for years), because that would expose the idea to people who hadn't already suspected government involvement.
They're constantly polling the public to see what they think, and I also believe that's why they wanted google's records of web searches.
Charlie Sheen is on TV because most of America knows the truth, and it's becoming necessary to pin the tail on a patsy.

Kevin Hammond <sir_oglaigh@yahoo.com> wrote:
I apologise for my pessimism.
Kevin

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Message 18
From: "Jolly Roger" slicingthroats@yahoo.com
Date: Wed Apr 19, 2006 6:18pm(PDT)
Subject: Re: A message for all the new members and a reminder to the rest!

I agree -- that sums it up nicely, Naveed

Kevin Hammond <sir_oglaigh@yahoo.com> wrote: WOW! That was WELL PUT! I could not have said it anywhere NEAR as good!

Naveed <flanker12k@yahoo.com> wrote: Welcome to the frontlines of the ideological world
war,

sorry for the long rant and welcome to the group!

In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
- Notebook, 1904

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Message 19
From: "Jolly Roger" slicingthroats@yahoo.com
Date: Wed Apr 19, 2006 6:36pm(PDT)
Subject: Re: S. Heller: Time to shake up the peace movement + JB comments

yes -- UFP&J is part of the controlled-dissent system, and theire only purpose is to make sure that demonstrations accomplish nothing. I blasted them more than a year ago for several reasons, especially their refusal to adress the trruth of the cause of all the wars -- 9-11.
My advice to would be to avoid wasting your time writing letters to them, and instead ignore them and organize your own networks of dfissenters. You can write all the letters you want, but it won't change the fact that UFP&J leadership is the enemy.

R Bleier <bleier.r@gmail.com> wrote:
4.15.06 Jeffrey Blankfort writes:
This is a very important article by long-time Labor and anti-war activist Stan Heller. What he is describing here is what has been going on in the anti-war/peace movement for more than 20 years in which the very same arguments that were made to exclude the Palestinian issue in the 80s are still being made now, and by the same people, albeit some are a little grayer. The argument that if the Palestinian issue is mentioned, the movement will alienate labor and Democrats is getting old and very tired and at this point in time is, in my opinion, nothing more than a cover for the soft-core Zionists in the leadership of UFPJ to do what they have always been doing, damage control for Israel. Forget what they put on their web sites. It is the demands made in rallies and marches that are printed on posters and stay on walls and telephone balls long after the marches are over that connect the issues for people, and in this instance, not to mention, as well, the threat of war
against Iran, currently being pushed exclusively by the Zionist lobby is neither acceptable or forgivable.
April 13, 2006
Lessons from Connecticut
Time to Shake Up the Peace Movement
By STAN HELLER
In what country will a huge peace coalition hold an anti-war rally have nothing to say about Iran, Israel and Palestine or Afghanistan? Is the answer Israel? Turkey? Micronesia? Sadly it's the USA. On April 29 United for Peace and Justice is holding a big demonstration in New York City called "March for Peace, Justice and Democracy". The only "peace" demand mentioned is bringing troops home from Iraq.
The silence about Iran is staggering. On April 9 the Washington Post reported on US military planning for an attack. In includes this sentence, "Pentagon planners are studying how to penetrate eight-foot-deep targets and are contemplating tactical nuclear devices". Contemplating? We're not talking about mediation here, but dropping "tactical" Hiroshima-size atomic bombs. And UFPJ has nothing to say.
The conventional wisdom smugly says this is all a bluff, that with all the losses in Iraq and sagging polls at home Bush would be crazy to attack Iran. But Sy Hersh reports [New Yorker April 17, 2006] that a government consultant with ties to the Pentagon told him " that the President believes that he must do 'what no Democrat or Republican, if elected in the future, would have the courage to do,' and 'that saving Iran is going to be his legacy.'" Mission is part of Bush's "reborn" personality. Remember he seriously believes that he was chosen by God to be President.
Who is going to stop him? The non-cooperation of France and Germany of 2003 is a thing of the past. Russia and China? Can anyone believe that these money-sotted regimes would put up any opposition to a US full court press? How about the US Congress? Hersh reports that the White House briefings of the leadership are underway and the only questions that are being raised are "How are you sure you can hit the targets deep enough?" What about the Democrats? Kerry and Obama tried to win the macho crowd by claiming in 2004 that Bush wasn't taking a hard enough line on Iran. They're not about to change their spots now. Lieberman? He's probably signing his name on the nukes themselves.
The peace movement seems paralyzed by the charge that Iran is developing nuclear weapons. Never mind that Scott Ritter, who was dead right about Iraq's WMD, has said repeatedly in interviews and speeches that Iran has no nuclear weapons program. [See my Jan. 24 video interview .] or that the IAEA officials have no evidence of such a program. Never mind that the US has thousands of nuclear weapons that could holocaust Iran in minutes. Never mind that Israel has hundreds of nuclear weapons pointed at Tehran.
Oops, I mentioned Israel. UFPJ doesn't want to say anything about it. Condemn "unending oil war" and that's the beginning and ending of analysis. The Christian Zionists who see a Jewish conquest of Palestine as the start of Armageddon? They don't really matter. AIPAC, which draws half the Senate and a third of the House to their blood-curdling conventions. Not really worth mentioning, not even the 2006 gathering which was devoted to demands that the US "take care" of Iran. Bush himself has stated, "We will use military might to protect our ally Israel", but why get into that?
And those pesky Palestinians. Yes, they have their troubles, but why mention them in an anti-war movement? As if Israeli war-mongering wasn't based on its apartheid-like oppression of Palestinians. As if an Israeli official hadn't publicly said that wiping out Saddam would help Israel impose a new "order" on the Palestinians. As if the al-Qaeda killers haven't tried to adopt the Palestinian cause as their own. Bringing up Palestine in connection with the war will just alienate us from those thousands and thousands of Israel partisans who are just itching to join the movement once we get rid of our "anti-Semitism". Uh-huh.
Unstated in the UFPJ rally call is a rush to the Democrats. After grassroots activists pushed the UFPJ and ANSWER coalitions into having one successful giant demonstration on September 24, 2005, UFPJ passed a resolution to never work with ANSWER again! Instead it found new allies with liberal environmental groups, feminists and Jesse Jackson's PUSH. Jesse Jackson, father confessor to war criminal Clinton, is going to teach us morality. Grand. Dump all the bleeding hearts who sympathize with the Arabs and Muslims and the Dems will pick up votes in the heartland.
Well, in CT this strategy of pandering to the so-called center has been tried and it's failed.

The Connecticut Experience
We in Connecticut have had a statewide umbrella group, Connecticut United for Peace, that for over three years has run the large statewide demonstrations. We're members of UFPJ, but years ago we formally decided that the oppression of Palestinians was intimately tied up with the war and have mentioned it in all our rallies.
We started making plans for this year's March 18 rally last November, and we held two ultra-democratic votes about the demonstration's demands. Anyone who showed up at the meetings could vote. In November we proposed the slogan "End Israeli Occupation and Apartheid". We also had slogans for immigrant rights, opposition to persecution of Muslims and rejection of war with Iran.
At our final meeting in January (with 125 in attendance) a number of people demanded a single issue rally, totally on Iraq, saying by going for the lowest common denominator we'd get labor, the Democrats and anti-war Jews. The majority wouldn't go for it. We weren't going to abandon the immigrants and Muslims and we'd be fools not to mention Iran, but we figured the real sticking point was Palestine. So we offered a compromise. Instead of the slogan "End Israeli Occupation and Apartheid" we offered the vague "Justice for the Palestinian People".
People voted for the compromise by a large majority. Still the very notion that the Palestinians were the victims was too much for some and others were afraid of offending the Democratic Party and the Democratic Party oriented labor leaders. So the Israel-apologists, the Peace Council and some labor leaders went off and did their own thing. They held a rally on March 19, a day after ours and formed a group with the acronym COW, Connecticut Opposes War.
On March 18 we marched 20 blocks from a largely Latino neighborhood and held and rally on the New Haven Green that according to the AP attracted 1,000. We think it was larger. Perhaps 10% were Muslim and Palestinians. We had pro-immigrant speakers in English and Spanish and a section of the Green with Spanish translators. It was a great demo, but we had expected double that number to attend and we blame it largely on the split.
So how well did the splitters do on the 19th in Hartford? Politically the rally sucked. It was two blocks from Senator Lieberman's office and none of the speakers denounced Lieberman. Neither Democrat Ned Lamont who was challenging Lieberman for anti-war reasons nor Ralph Ferrucci who was running as a Green were invited to speak. The only chant was this embarrassing bleat,"We are Americans, This is Our Country". Imagine after three years of the war they still think we have to defend our patriotism? All the speeches denounced one person and one person only, George Bush. As if the Democrats hadn't pushed for the war enthusiastically and as if they weren't still supporting it. Iran was mentioned in one sentence. And, of course, they didn't say a word about Israel's constant pressure for war against Iraq and Iran or the fact that Gaza is now without flour.
But the bottom line is numbers. Did they draw out the "silent majority"? No. Their rally was about the same size as ours (and included many of our people). It was hardly the breakthrough that COW was predicting. There were a dozen Democratic state legislators. As for labor, state AFL-CIO President John Olsen spoke and there was a sizeable presence by SEIU-1199, maybe 50 or so union officials and members. That was about it.. Organized Jewish presence was invisible. No one saw a single sign from a Jewish organization and only one person objected to the tons of pro-Palestinian rights literature we gave out. On the other hand whatever was gained from the "middle" was lost from the fact the Muslims were conspicuous by their absence.
The COW strategy is a model for what shouldn't be attempted on April 29th..
We have three weeks. Something has to be done to change the political direction of UFPJ. Ignoring Iran is madness. Abandoning Muslims and Palestinians is disgraceful. Silence about Israel is inexcusable. We need to pressure the out of touch UFPJ leadership. We need public statements, petitions and a ton of emails to the UFPJ steering committee at their address <>ufpj-sc@unitedforpeace.org Tell them to change the demands and to get speakers who'll talk about all the realities of the war.
Stanley Heller is chairperson of the Middle East Crisis Committee and host of its weekly TV news program that can be seen on the internet www.TheStruggle.org. He is a member of the organizing committee of Connecticut United for Peace. He can be reached at mail@thestruggle.org

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Message 20
From: "reggie501" reggie501@optonline.net
Date: Wed Apr 19, 2006 6:37pm(PDT)
Subject: Video: The Bushes ad the bin Ladens Business Dealings

9/11 News : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#911

· The Bushes and the bin Ladens Business Dealings - BBC video with
Greg Palast

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Message 21
From: "911TruthAction@yahoogroups.com" 911TruthAction@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wed Apr 19, 2006 6:49pm(PDT)
Subject: New poll for 911TruthAction

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o The WTC disaster of 9-11-01 was just a fluke that occurred because of poor building design.
o The WTC disaster was engineered by some old bearded Arab guy in a cave who "hates our freedom."
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Message 22
From: "kitty285" kitty285@charter.net
Date: Wed Apr 19, 2006 6:53pm(PDT)
Subject: Re: How successful has the 911 truth movement been?

Kevin,im trying to work the Bible Belt without my head blown off by a red
neck !!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Hammond" <sir_oglaigh@yahoo.com>
To: <911TruthAction@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 1:30 PM
Subject: Re: [911TruthAction] How successful has the 911 truth movement
been?

> The internet is NOT ENOUGH. There are millions that do NOT have access.
We are now getting down to the wire and must pull out ALL of the stops and
LITTERALLY do EVERYTHING that we can to get this information OUT! The
alternative is a MASSIVE one world police state the likes of which NO ONE
here can possibly fathom. PLEASE! everyone one this group that knows
ANYTHING about 9/11 and false flag terror MUST get out there and educate as
many people as possible! Otherwisw we are all up a creek without a paddle.
Go to the files section and download flyers and copy them and put them
EVERYWHERE! Burn copies of dvds and give them out. Do whatever you CAN to
get this information OUT!.
>
> Kevin
> www.fightthenwo.org
>
> Dick Eastman <olfriend@nwinfo.net> wrote:
>
>
> v\:* { BEHAVIOR: url(#default#VML) } o\:* { BEHAVIOR:
url(#default#VML) } w\:* { BEHAVIOR: url(#default#VML) } .shape {
BEHAVIOR: url(#default#VML) } I have always placed my faith on
using the internet to expose to the world what they are and what they have
done. The 9-11 frameup is a crime big enough that people can't brush it
aside. Our best hope is to show the world the ample evidence of the
false-flag attack -- and then enlarge that hole until their motives and
their other crimes are exposed. They cannot withstand public opinion.
>
> It is the only strategy I know -- and it is one I will keep pushing --
but I must admit, in five years I have not seen the people take what we
already know and use it to enlighten the world.
>
> Charlie Sheen is the best thing that has happened in five years. May
circumstances favor his efforts.
>
> Dick Eastman
> Yakima, Washington
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Scott Peden
> To: 911TruthAction@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 9:27 PM
> Subject: RE: [911TruthAction] How successful has the 911 truth movement
been?
>
>
> So, you are saying that it is hopeless?
>
> Or do you proscribe a course of action as the internet ad our freedoms
evaporate all at once?
>
> Or are you depending on the masses to rise up when their entertainment
is taken away?
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: 911TruthAction@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:911TruthAction@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of Dick Eastman
> Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 11:10 AM
> To: 911TruthAction@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [911TruthAction] How successful has the 911 truth movement
been?
>
> The plague will not be like the attack on the Pentagon -- it will be
beyond our ability to investigate.
>
> Next the nuclear bomb that will be blamed on Iraq -- because there will
be no invasion right away, they are setting Iran up for blame for the
false-flag nuclear attack -- the bomb that will be blamed on Iran will not
leave evidence -- and the sudden loss of all freedoms by the declaration
of martial law, including the shutdown of the internet, will not permit
investigations of any kind.
>
> Or perhaps they will let the internet continue so they can guage our
thinking and trace our connections -- more for them to lose by cutting us
off.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Scott Legere
>
> To: 911TruthAction@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 4:14 AM
> Subject: Re: [911TruthAction] How successful has the 911 truth movement
been?
>
> It's amazing what a little awareness can do huh?
>
> mikemeyer1964 <mike.meyer@asm.com> wrote:
>
> With all of the saber rattling with Iran, I had the following
> thought. I believe that the 911 Truth Movement has been successful in
> one key area. While we have not broken through to main stream
> America, I believe that we have created enough awareness about 911
> that the gov't has to really think twice before they can stage another
> False Flag event.
>
> The gov't has gotten away with covering up 911 to date, in part
> because they effectively created a cover story and destroyed the
> evidence very quickly. With enough people aware of what our gov't is
> capable of now, if they try another False Flag, there will be a lot of
> people recording every news station and outlet; video and still
> camera's everywhere, and a lot more people asking a lot more questions
> right after the event. It will be more difficult to cover up
> evidence. I was curious as to everyone's thoughts on what I would
> call a small success for the movement.
>
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Message 23
From: "Dick Eastman" olfriend@nwinfo.net
Date: Wed Apr 19, 2006 7:23pm(PDT)
Subject: Fw: Chronicle Hit Piece Says "Whole Country" Saw Plane Hit Pentagon!

From: BryanD
Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 10:20 AM
Subject: Chronicle Hit Piece Says "Whole Country" Saw Plane Hit Pentagon!

Chronicle Hit Piece Says "Whole Country" Saw Plane Hit Pentagon!
Erm, no it didn't!

Paul Joseph Watson/Prison Planet.com | April 19 2006

A San Francisco Chronicle hit piece which purports to tell 'the truth about 9/11 conspiracy theories' dismisses questions about what happened at the Pentagon by saying that the whole country witnessed the site of a plane flying into the building. The only problem with that statement is that nobody outside of the FBI has seen anything fly into the Pentagon save a few grainy frames from a security camera which the Pentagon doesn't even validate.

Cinnamon Stillwell's feeble scribe follows the same tired old 101 rules for demonization, bias references and racist tarring.

"Whatever one's criticisms of the administration and its approach to the war on terrorism, one would have to be awfully cynical to believe that it would kill or allow thousands (at the least) of Americans to die, simply to accumulate additional powers," chunters Stillwell.

It's the familiar 'they'd never do that' bunkum.

Has Stillwell ever read a history book? Who killed over 200 million people in the last century alone? It wasn't Al-Qaeda or Osama bin Laden's long lost relatives. It was governments all over the world because that is what governments and oligarchs do, they kill to further their own agendas.

How many American soldiers has this administration allowed to die in order to accumulate additional powers in shaping the Middle East?

How many American citizens was the government prepared to kill when the Pentagon wrote that a terror campaign waged by the US government on its own people would enable "casualty lists in US newspapers," that "would cause a helpful wave of indignation."

In their own declassified documents, the US government saying dead Americans will help them accumulate power.

Stillwell obviously afforded more time to sunning herself on the west coast than reading the declassified Operation Northwoods documents before penning her diatribe.

The Popular Mechanics hit piece, a Holy Bible for defenders of the government conspiracy theory written by Michael Chertoff's cousin (no conflict of interest there), is again referenced.

"We assembled a team of reporters and researchers, including professional fact checkers and the editors of PM, and methodically analyzed all 16 conspiracy claims," boasted PM.

What actually happened was that PM set up a straw man case and ascribed arguments to 9/11 skeptics that were not even embraced by the 9/11 truth movement, thereby creating a straw man argument and then demolishing it.

We had first-hand knowledge of the shoddiness of the so-called 'fact checkers' that PM employed, who to us sounded like junior high tea boys and employed a technique of selecting years old articles written by other people that we had syndicated on our website, and holding them aloft claiming they were the sum of our 9/11 smoking gun evidence.

The hit piece made several glaringly fraudulent statements of purported 'fact' - like the lie that there had only been one intercept of errant aircraft before 9/11. This is a claim debunked even by one of Popular Mechanic's own cited "experts," Maj. Douglas Martin, who stated that there were, "67 scrambles from September 2000 to June 2001."

"Never mind that the whole country witnessed the horrific sight of planes flying into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon," says Stillwell.

The whole country witnessed a plane flying into the Pentagon? Does Stillwell have access to footage of whatever happened at the Pentagon seized by the FBI on 9/11? Because the "whole country" certainly doesn't and that means Stillwell just brazenly lied.

She also frequently references the State Department website as if it's an independent source. The government could not possibly be involved because they deny they were! If our law courts followed this insane logic then we would have a 100% acquittal rate!

Furthermore, the State Department previously claimed that China's sale of human organs from executed political prisoners was an "urban myth"! An urban myth! I presume the sun coming up this morning, cars on the highway and birds singing also never happened. In a BBC article released just today the prestigious British Transplantation Society condemns the practice of human organ harvesting from executed prisoners. Numerous other international medical and human rights organizations have done the same.

The State Department is not independent and it has been caught propagating blatant misinformation again and again. To hold it up as an authority disproving 9/11 evidence is proof that Stillwell hasn't done her own research and is relying on these widely debunked sacred cows of the tin-foil hat wearing government conspiracy theory believing crowd.

Continuing to sing from the boot-licking hymn book, Stillwell echoes Besty Hart and Mark Kermode by regurgitating the 'we all fear chaos and Muslims' pablum to try and psychologically explain away questions about 9/11. This method is very useful because a) it gives Stillwell more time to top up her tan due to b) her not having to actually research for herself any of our points of evidence.

Ironic therefore it is that Stillwell, with her 'government would never harm us' garbage, gets to hide under the bed sheets and suck her thumb because the evil is far far away, while accusing others of cowardice in facing the truth.

The truth about 9/11 and how it has changed the lens of historical perspective, much to the chagrin of Stillwell and her establishment mouthpiece comrades, is that the accidental view of history is finally on its way out and the conspiratorial view of history is in vogue. When a government incessantly lies as if it's going out of fashion and the media collaborates in broadcasting that deception like a loyal puppy dog, the people have no choice but to turn to those of us who actually try to do what umpteen years of journalism school seems to bypass these days, and that is tell the truth.

Newspaper sales are dwindling as the alternative Internet media flourishes. That is why Stillwell and her ilk are desperately trying to patch up the gaping wounds of the orthodoxy by churning out these cookie-cutter hit pieces.

We will continue to blow them our of the water and we would encourage all our readers to politely point Stillwell in the direction of the truth by e mailing her with their comments.

Part 2 of this rebuttal will feature later today.

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Message 24
From: "Dick Eastman" olfriend@nwinfo.net
Date: Wed Apr 19, 2006 7:58pm(PDT)
Subject: Fw: Mearsheimer and Walt hit the glass wall -=- US asks Japan to sto

From: "Peter Myers" <myers@cyberone.com.au>

April 19, 2006

An abstract of the Mearsheimer / Walt paper The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign
Policy is at http://ksgnotes1.harvard.edu/Research/wpaper.nsf/rwp/RWP06-011

The full paper is at
http://ksgnotes1.harvard.edu/Research/wpaper.nsf/rwp/RWP06-011/$File/rwp_06_011_walt.pdf

(1) Mearsheimer and Walt hit the glass wall
(2) World Socialist Web Site makes no mention of Mearsheimer/Walt paper on Jewish Lobby
(3) Chomsky skips over Mearsheimer/Walt thesis on Jewish Lobby
(4) Chomsky mentions Norman Finkelstein's Beyond Chutzpah, but not The Holocaust Industry
(5) US asks Japan to stop Iran oil development
(6) Judas as saint of Copts
(7) AK-47 inventor: U.S. troops in Iraq prefer my rifle to theirs
(8) UK Police to Quiz Blair on Loans; the "Labour Friends of Israel" connection

(1) Mearsheimer and Walt hit the glass wall

Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 17:22:42 EDT

From: Ichee@aol.com

ICHEE.org - the glass wall -- critical analysis of American foreign policy is
restricted and prejudicial to present and future employment -- the glass wall --
you don't know it's there till you hit it -- so -- can it be claimed that there
is freedom of speech in the USA - Is that what American and coalition forces
kill and die for in Iraq and Afghanistan? Walt and Mearsheimer - Two leading
academics who broke the taboo against criticizing Israel's powerful U.S. lobby.

Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer, political science professors at Harvard and
the University of Chicago respectively, apparently hoped to break through the
taboos against criticizing Israel and its American supporters with their paper
"The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy." It was published last month in the
London Review of Books and, in an expanded version, on the Web site of the
Kennedy School of Government, where Walt is academic dean. The article argues
that the United States' close relationship with Israel is not in America's
national interest -- that it is, indeed, counterproductive -- and that it is
sustained largely through the work of the Israel lobby (Walt and Mearsheimer
refer to it, simply and ominously, as "the Lobby.") Walt and Mearsheimer also
argue that the Lobby was a major force pushing for war in Iraq, a war they
vocally opposed.

Walt will soon be resigning from his job as academic dean -- something he says
was in the works well before the paper's publication -- and it's unlikely he'll
ever be put in such a position again.

"It is too soon to tell what all of the repercussions will be, but we believed
going into this that both of us would pay a significant price in our
professional lives," says Mearsheimer. "We think, for example, that it would be
almost impossible for Steve to ever be a high-level administrator at Harvard or
any other top university. It is also highly unlikely that either one of us would
ever get appointed to an important government position after this article. Plus
there will be conferences and meetings that we won't be invited to because of
the piece."

Is the "Israel lobby" distorting America's Mideast policies?

By Michelle Goldberg

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/04/18/lobby/print.html

Apr. 18, 2006 | The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, may be
the most powerful lobby in the country. As its Web site says, "Through more than
2,000 meetings with members of Congress -- at home and in Washington -- AIPAC
activists help pass more than 100 pro-Israel legislative initiatives a year.
From procuring nearly $3 billion in aid critical to Israel's security, to
funding joint U.S.-Israeli efforts to build a defense against unconventional
weapons, AIPAC members are involved in the most crucial issues facing Israel."
At its conferences, a parade of politicians from both parties pay homage -- this
year, speakers included Vice President Dick Cheney, House Majority Leader John
Boehner and former Sen. John Edwards.

(2) World Socialist Web Site makes no mention of Mearsheimer/Walt paper on
Jewish Lobby

WSWS' search is either/or. There were some finds for "Walt", but a different
Walt. Therefore, one must search for "Mearsheimer".

Here were the results on April 19, 2006:

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Your search for Mearsheimer did not return any matches (24291 documents were
searched):

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(3) Chomsky skips over Mearsheimer/Walt thesis on Jewish Lobby

Now for Noam Chomsky's website on April 19, 2006:

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Failed States

Noam Chomsky interviewed by Amy Goodman & Juan Gonzalez

Democracy Now, March 31, 2006

AMY GOODMAN: In this first broadcast interview upon publication of his book,
Professor Noam Chomsky joins us today from Boston for the hour. We welcome you
to Democracy Now!, Noam.

NOAM CHOMSKY: Glad to be with you again. ...

AMY GOODMAN: We're talking to Noam Chomsky ...

You mention Israel, Palestine, and I wanted to ask you about this new study
that's come out. A dean at Harvard University and a professor at the University
of Chicago are coming under intense criticism for publishing an academic
critique of the pro-Israel lobby in Washington. The paper charges that the
United States has willingly set aside its own security and that of many of its
allies, in order to advance the interests of Israel. In addition, the study
accuses the pro-Israel lobby, particularly AIPAC, the America Israel Public
Affairs Committee, of manipulating the U.S. media, policing academia and
silencing critics of Israel by labeling them as anti-Semitic. The study also
examines the role played by the pro-Israel neoconservatives in the lead-up to
the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

The authors are the Stephen Walt, a dean at Harvard's Kennedy School of
Government, and John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago. They, themselves,
are now being accused of anti-Semitism. In Washington, a Democratic congressman,
Eliot Engle of New York, described the professors as dishonest so-called
intellectuals and anti-Semites. The Harvard professor, Ruth Wisse, called for
the paper to be withdrawn. Harvard Law School professor, Alan Dershowitz,
described the study as trash that could have been written by neo-Nazi David
Duke. The New York Sun reported Harvard has received several calls from
pro-Israel donors, expressing concern about the paper, and Harvard has already
taken steps to distance itself from the report. Last week, it removed the logo
of the Kennedy School of Government from the paper and added a new disclaimer to
the study. The report is 81 pages. It was originally published on Harvard's
website and an edited version appeared in the London Review of Books.

The controversy comes less than a year after Harvard law professor Alan
Dershowitz attempted to block the publication of Norman Finkelstein's book
Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History. Now,
this goes into a lot of issues: the content of the study, what you think of it,
the response to it and also the whole critique. In this country, what happens to
those who criticize the policies of the state of Israel? Noam Chomsky.

NOAM CHOMSKY: Well, the answer to your last question is well described in Norman
Finkelstein's quite outstanding book and also in the record of Dershowitz's
attempts to prevent its publication. Some of the documents were just published
in the Journal of Palestine Studies. Finkelstein's book gives an extensive
detailed account, the best one we have, of a frightening record of Israeli
crimes and abuses, where he relies on the most respectable sources, the major
human rights organizations, Israeli human rights organizations and others, and
demonstrates, just conclusively, that Alan Dershowitz's defense of these
atrocities, based on no evidence at all, is outrageous and grotesque.

Nevertheless, Finkelstein comes under tremendous attack for being anti-Semitic,
and so on. Now that's pretty normal. It goes back, I suppose, to the
distinguished diplomat, Abba Eban -- it must be thirty years ago -- wrote in an
American Jewish journal that "the task of Zionists," he said, "is to show that
all political anti-Zionism" ? that means criticism of the policies of the state
of Israel ? "is either anti-Semitism or Jewish self-hatred." Well, okay, that
excludes all possible criticism, by definition. As examples of neurotic Jewish
self-hatred, I should declare an interest. He mentioned two people. I was one;
the other was Izzy Stone.

Once you release the torrent of abuse, you don't need arguments and evidence,
you can just scream. And Professors Walt and Mearsheimer deserve credit for
publishing a study, which they knew was going to elicit the usual streams of
abuse and hysteria from supporters of Israeli crimes and violence. However, we
should recognize that this is pretty uniform. Try to say a sane and
uncontroversial word about any other issue dear to the hearts of the
intellectual elite that they've turned into holy writ, you get the same
reaction. So ? and there's no lobby, which does raise one of a few minor points
that raises questions about the validity of the critique.

It's a serious, careful piece of work. It deserves to be read. They deserve
credit for writing it. But it still it leaves open the question of how valid the
analysis is, and I notice that there's a pretty subtle question involved.
Everyone agrees, on all sides, that there are a number of factors that enter
into determining U.S. foreign policy. One is strategic and economic interests of
the major power centers within the United States. In the case of the Middle
East, that means the energy corporations, arms producers, high-tech industry,
financial institutions and others. Now, these are not marginal institutions,
particularly in the Bush administration. So one question is to what extent does
policy reflect their interests. Another question is to what extent is it
influenced by domestic lobbies. And there are other factors. But just these two
alone, yes, they are ? you find them in most cases, and to try to sort out their
influence is not so simple. In particular, it's not simple when their interests
tend to coincide, and by and large, there's a high degree of conformity. If you
look over the record, what's called the national interest, meaning the special
interests of those with -- in whose hands power is concentrated, the national
interest, in that sense, tends to conform to the interests of the lobbies. So in
those cases, it's pretty hard to disentangle them.

If the thesis of the book ? the thesis of the book is that the lobbies have
overwhelming influence, and the so-called "national interest" is harmed by what
they do. If that were the case, it would be, I would think, a very hopeful
conclusion. It would mean that U.S. policy could easily be reversed. It would
simply be necessary to explain to the major centers of power, like the energy
corporations, high-tech industry and arms producers and so on, just explain to
them that they've ? that their interests are being harmed by this small lobby
that screams anti-Semitism and funds congressmen, and so on. Surely those
institutions can utterly overwhelm the lobby in political influence, in finance,
and so on, so that ought to reverse the policy.

Well, it doesn't happen, and there are a number of reasons for it. For one
thing, there's an underlying assumption that the so-called national interest has
been harmed by these policies. Well, you know, you really have to demonstrate
that. So who's been harmed? Have the energy corporations been harmed by U.S.
policy in the Middle East over the last 60 years? I mean, they're making profits
beyond the dream of avarice, as the main government investigation of them
reported. Even more today ? that was a couple years ago. Has the U.S. ? the main
concern of the U.S. has been to control what the State Department 60 years ago
called "a stupendous source of strategic power," Middle East oil. Yeah, they've
controlled it. There have been ? in fact, the invasion of Iraq was an attempt to
intensify that control. It may not do it. It may have the opposite effect, but
that's a separate question. It was the intent, clearly.

There have been plenty of barriers. The major barrier is the one that is the
usual one throughout the world: independent nationalism. It's called "radical
nationalism," which was serious. It was symbolized by Nasser, but also Kassem in
Iraq, and others. Well, the U.S. did succeed in overcoming that barrier. How?
Israel destroyed Nasser. That was a tremendous service to the United States, to
U.S. power, that is, to the energy corporations, to Saudi Arabia, to the main
centers of power here, and in fact, it's in ? that was 1967, and it was after
that victory that the U.S.-Israeli relations really solidified, became what's
called a "strategic asset."

It's also then that the lobby gained its force. It's also then, incidentally,
that the educated classes, the intellectual political class entered into an
astonishing love affair with Israel, after its demonstration of tremendous power
against a third-world enemy, and in fact, that's a very critical component of
what's called the lobby. Walt and Mearsheimer mention it, but I think it should
be emphasized. And they are very influential. They determine, certainly
influence, the shaping of news and information in journals, media, scholarship,
and so on. My own feeling is they're probably the most influential part of the
lobby. Now, we sort of have to ask, what's the difference between the lobby and
the power centers of the country?

But the barriers were overcome. Israel has performed many other services to the
United States. You can run through the record. It's also performed secondary
services. So in the 1980s, particularly, Congress was imposing barriers to the
Reagan administration's support for and carrying out major terrorist atrocities
in Central America. Israel helped evade congressional restrictions by carrying
out training, and so on, itself. The Congress blocked U.S. trade with South
Africa. Israel helped evade the embargo to all the ? both the racist regimes of
Southern Africa, and there have been many other cases. By now, Israel is
virtually an offshore U.S. military base and high-tech center in the Middle
East.

(4) Chomsky mentions Norman Finkelstein's Beyond Chutzpah, but not The Holocaust
Industry

The search at Chomsky's site is an AND one.

Thus if one enters both keywords, all results must contain both words (not
necessarily contiguous). But none use the phrase "Holocaust Industry".

April 19, 2006

Web Results 1 - 10 of 10 from chomsky.info for holocaust industry. (0.42
seconds)

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(5) US asks Japan to stop Iran oil development

Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 23:46:09 +0800 From: "Max" <max@mailstar.net>

US asks Japan to stop Iran oil development-paper

Thu Mar 23, 2006 3:30 AM ET

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=
2006-03-23T083023Z_01_T226916_RTRUKOC_0_US-NUCLEAR-JAPAN-IRAN.xml

By Elaine Lies

TOKYO (Reuters) - The United States has informally asked Japan to suspend its
plans to develop an Iranian oil field as part of world efforts to prevent Iran
from obtaining nuclear weapons, a Japanese newspaper said on Thursday.

Resource-poor Japan has been planning to develop Iran's Azadegan oil field,
estimated to hold the world's second-biggest single oil reserve, despite
objections from Washington.

But Japan's top government spokesman, Shinzo Abe, said Tokyo's plans to develop
Azadegan were not currently a topic of discussion with the United States and
added that the project was vital for Japan's aim of securing stable energy
supplies .

The report comes a week after Japan's largest refiner, Nippon Oil Corp., said it
would cut imports of Iranian crude due to rising risks associated with the
country, the first hint that Tehran's nuclear dispute is affecting its vital oil
trade.

According to U.S. government sources quoted by the daily Sankei Shimbun, U.S.
Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick and Undersecretary of State Robert
Joseph informally asked Japan to at least temporarily suspend its plans to
develop Azadegan.

The request was based on the belief that developing the field would provide
income for Iran that could support its nuclear activities, as well as make it
hard for the international community to present a united front in dealing with
Iran, the newspaper said.

It said there was a movement within the U.S. Congress to make a similar request.

Asked about Azadegan, Japan's Abe said Tokyo would pay heed both to nuclear
non-proliferation and its own energy needs.

"It is not the case that the Japanese government is holding concrete discussions
at this juncture with the United States regarding the future direction of the
development of the Azadegan oil field," said Abe, the chief cabinet secretary.

"We would like to deal with this firmly based upon our basic recognition that
both...the nuclear non-proliferation issue and stable crude oil supplies are
important," Abe told reporters.

ENERGY SECURITY

Japan sealed a deal with Iran two years ago on a billion-dollar project to
develop Azadegan.

The Japanese government has a 36 percent stake in INPEX Corp., Japan's biggest
oil developer, which plans to develop the southern part of Azadegan, estimated
to hold 26 billion barrels of oil.

An INPEX official said it has not been contacted by the U.S. or Japanese
governments regarding the Azadegan oilfield, and officials at Japan's foreign
and trade ministries declined to comment.

The United Nations Security Council, which can impose sanctions, has so far
failed to reach accord on a statement calling on Iran to suspend its uranium
enrichment activities.

Both Russia and China have balked at approving a draft statement, fearing that
threats might escalate and prompt Iran to cut off all contact with the U.N.'s
nuclear watchdog agency.

Earlier this month, John Bolton, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations,
urged Japan to work with Washington, saying that he understood Japan's difficult
energy situation but that the global community had to work together to combat
nuclear proliferation.

Resource-poor Japan imported almost all of its crude oil needs amounting to 4.2
million barrels per day (bpd) last year, and about 90 percent of the volume was
supplied by Middle Eastern producers.

Iran is Japan's third-largest oil supplier, and Tokyo has maintained healthy
relations with Tehran even at the expense of upsetting Washington.

But Nippon Oil said last week it would reduce its purchases of Iranian crude by
an average of 22,000 bpd to 120,000 bpd this year in view of growing risks
related to the country.

The cut represents 2 percent of its refining capacity.

The company will reduce Iranian crude imports via traders but will not change
the amount that it purchases through direct long-term contracts with Iran.

A government council said on Wednesday that Japan should more than double crude
oil imports from its equity oilfields in the next 25 years to improve energy
security.

(Additional reporting by Ikuko Kao and Masayuki Kitano)

(6) Judas as saint of Copts

Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:11:14 +0300 From: "Israel Shamir"
<adam@israelshamir.net>

Re: Judas and Copts

Coptic Church is a 'radical' (ie non-Orthodox) church, but not that radical!
Probably the writer confused Judas and Jude, surely the same name, different
guy?

Rhome also writes "it seems unlikely that the Temple police who arrested Jesus
needed anyone to point him out." It is a weak argument for Judas. Jesus could
ask for legions of angels if he wished to be saved; alternatively, he could flee
from Gethsemane into the desert just on the other side of the mountain. So the
question is not whether Judas' intervention was necessary or was it useful - for
sure it would be better if he weren't born, from the Christian point of view. He
is damned, and all know of his place in Christian hell by Dante. Probably the
readers of this letter are aware of the place of Christ in Jewish hell.

From the Jewish point of view, Judas is indeed a saint and a hero; actually the
infamous Maase Taluy (or Maase Yeshu) is also called Gospel of Judas, or Gospel
of Jews. The similarity of sound Jews-Judas is not a chance, but a sign of
"birds of feather fly together".

It is nice to discuss Gnostic lore, but I am afraid that this publication is
just a brutal attack of Christianity. Not many people understand the subtleties
we deal with; for them Judas is the hero of Jews and he was cleared. Now only
antisemites will be against him and his betrayal. Shamir

(7) AK-47 inventor: U.S. troops in Iraq prefer my rifle to theirs

Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 12:50:13 +0100 From: Rowan Berkeley
<rowan.berkeley@googlemail.com>

AK-47 inventor: U.S. troops in Iraq prefer my rifle to theirs

Reuters via Haaretz, 17/04/2006
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/706780.html

Mikhail Kalashnikov, designer of the world's most popular assault rifle, says
that U.S. soldiers in Iraq are using his invention in preference to their own
weapons, proving that his gun is still the best. "Even after lying in a swamp
you can pick up this rifle, aim it and shoot. That's the best job description
there is for a gun. Real soldiers know that and understand it," the 86-year-old
gunmaker told a weekend news conference in Moscow. "In Vietnam, American
soldiers threw away their M-16 rifles and used [Kalashnikov] AK-47s from dead
Vietnamese soldiers, with bullets they captured. That was because the climate is
different to America, where M-16s may work properly," he said. "Look what's
happening now: every day on television we see that the Americans in Iraq have my
machine guns and assault rifles in their armored vehicles. Even there American
rifles don't work properly."

Some U.S. troops in Iraq have reportedly taken to using AK-47s in preference to
the standard-issue M-16. The Cold War-era gun, renowned for its durability and
easy handling, is plentiful in Iraq. Kalashnikov designed his first weapon in
1947 and is still chief constructor at Izhmash arms factory in Izhevsk in the
Urals mountains. The factory's director Vladimir Grodetsky told the news
conference that around a billion rifles had been produced around the world using
parts of Kalashnikovs or based on the same design, only 10-12 percent of which
were made in Russia.

(8) UK Police to Quiz Blair on Loans; the "Labour Friends of Israel" connection

Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 18:09:32 -0700

From: Jeff Blankfort <jblankfort@earthlink.net>

Thanks to Muhammad Idrees Ahmad for doing the research and sending this:

What is not mentioned in the following article is that Lord Levy struck his
initial bargain back in 1993 on behalf of the Labour Friends of Israel with a
promise of financial support in return for a policy more favorable towards
Israel. In the past, Levy has also fundraised for Ehud Barak.

Here is an excerpt from a profile on the Labour Friends of Israel:

Michael Abraham Levy is a former chairman of the Jewish Care Community
Foundation, a member of the Jewish Agency World Board of Governors, and a
trustee of the Holocaust Educational Trust. [4] According to Andrew Porter of
The Business, Levy expressed his willingness "to raise large sums of money for
the party" which led to a "tacit understanding that Labour would never again,
while Blair was leader, be anti-Israel". [5] The partnership proceeded as Levy
started inviting potential donors for tennis at his palatial home where Tony
Blair would join them for a set or two. Levy would then proceed to ask the
guests for donations after Blair had left. [6]The genius of Levy's fundraising
strategy ensured that most of Labour's election funds came from private sources,
rather than its traditional source ? the trade unions, thereby weakening their
say over policy. [7]

Levy's investment eventually paid off, with Blair's accession to power. The
reward was not long in coming as Levy was ennobled and subsequently retained as
a "special envoy" to the Middle-East, leading predictably to the development of
a strong pro-Israel line. [8] Given the fact that Levy has both a business and a
house in Israel and his son Daniel used to work for Yossi Beilin ? the former
Justice Minister of Israel ? speaks of a serious conflict of interest,
especially when he is the man assigned by Blair to negotiate impartially with
Palestinians and Israelis. [9]The fact that Levy acted as a fundraiser for
former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak casts further doubt on his capacity for
impartiality.According to Neil Sammonds of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign in
2002, Four of the previous five ministers with Responsibility for the Middle
East had been active members of LFI. [10

EXCLUSIVE: POLICE TO QUIZ BLAIR ON LOANS EXCLUSIVE But don't come to No10, he
says
By Justin Penrose, Crime Correspondent Sunday Mirror, 16 April 2006

http://www.sundaymirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=16952585%26method=full%26siteid=62484%26headline=exclusive%2d%2dpolice%2dto%2dquiz%2dblair%2don%2dloans-name_page.html

POLICE are to formally question Tony Blair over the cash-for-honours scandal.

Officers from Scotland Yard's Specialist Crime Directorate contacted Downing
Street last week asking for an appointment with Mr Blair.

The PM's chief of staff Jonathan Powell and his chief fundraiser Lord Levy will
also be quizzed by detectives as potential witnesses.

Police are also demanding access to telephone records, emails and documents
relating to the awarding of honours and donations to the Labour Party.

The decision to interview a sitting Prime Minister as part of an on-going
criminal inquiry is unprecedented.

Downing Street - horrified at the thought of police officers being pictured
walking into No 10 - has made it clear that the interview should take place at a
neutral venue.

The move, which signals just how seriously Deputy Assistant Commissioner John
Yates is treating the investigation, will send shockwaves through Westminster.

Yesterday it emerged that detectives entered the Cabinet Office in Whitehall to
seize documents.

Former Number 10 adviser Des Smith was arrested on Thursday over claims he gave
an undercover reporter a "shopping list" of titles for potential donors to Mr
Blair's city academy schools.

Mr Smith had boasted to the undercover reporter that £10m gifts to Mr Blair's
city academies would make a seat in the Lords "a certainty".

There is no suggestion Mr Blair will be arrested. "Everything will be handled in
an extremely discreet and private manner," said a Downing Street source.

Mr Blair is one of just a handful of people who knew about secret loans to the
Labour Party from supporters.

Lord Levy negotiated secret loans worth £14million ahead of last year's General
Election.

The emergence of the loans - which did not have to be declared - led to the
police inquiry which has been broadened into the funding of city academies.

Critics have complained about the apparent link between sponsors of academies
and the honours list.

Eight donors to the schools - which are funded directly by Whitehall - have been
nominated for gongs.

Downing Street has desperately tried to distance the PM from Mr Smith and
refused to comment on the investigation, saying that it was a "matter for the
Metropolitan Police".

Lord Levy has also insisted that he will not be the fall guy in the scandal

j.penrose@sundaymirror.co.uk

To interview a sitting PM for an on-going criminal inquiry is unprecedented

MONEY MEN ON YARD LIST

A DOZEN millionaires who loaned Labour £14m for the last election are set to be
interviewed by police as potential witnesses:

ROD ALDRIDGE: Ex-boss of IT giant Capita, awarded huge Whitehall contracts -
£1m.

RICHARD CARING: Owner of the trendy Ivy restaurant and a fashion chain - £2m.

GORDON CRAWFORD: Ex-chairman of London Bridge Software - £500,000.

SIR CHRISTOPHER EVANS: Chairman of Merlin Biotechnology. Knighted in 2001 - £1m.

SIR DAVID GARRARD: Property tycoon' also supported academies. Knighted 2003 -
£2.3m.

NIGEL MORRIS: Made a fortune from Capital One Financial Services group - £1m.

SIR GULAM NOON: Made millions from readymade curry meals - £250,000.

CHAI PATEL: Head of Priory clinics - £1.5m

ANDREW ROSENFELD: Property tycoon' also supported academy schools - £1m.

LORD DAVID SAINSBURY: Supermarket mogul' science minister and Labour's biggest
single donor - £2m.

BARRY TOWNSLEY: Stockbroker who has put over £1m into a city academy - £1m.

DEREK TULLETT: City high-flyer - £400,000.

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Message 25
From: "James Patton" james_patton@yahoo.com
Date: Wed Apr 19, 2006 8:31pm(PDT)
Subject: Re: An untold story of 9/11 - Magic Suitcase Find

It seems to me that the government/FBI/Intelligence agencies etc. have gone to G-R-E-A-T lengths
to muddy the waters and obscure the truth of the events of September 11. To my mind this is more proof
of "black-psy-false-flag-ops" (or whatever else you want to call it).

For example:

Planes hit the buildings, giving an immediately plausible story for their collapse
to the casual observer who doesn't care to look any deeper (which is most people, I'm afraid).

The video footage from around the Pentagon was quickly removed, and then
only 5 grainy frames of footage were released, thus giving birth to a multitude
of theories about what may or may not have happened.

Within days the "official" story was released - the govt knew exactly who the hijackers were
and who was responsible. Osama bin Laden's face was on the front of every newspaper
with the caption "The Face of Evil". Again, to the casual observer, ignorant of history,
and the dark side of government machinations, it's "crime solved, case closed,
get over it and move on."

To many people, an "official" story carries the weight of "authority", therefore they will
never question it. Most people's lives are too busy, anyway, to give them much time or energy
to think beyond their immediate concerns (which is the way those in positions of power and wealth
like it, I think).

Then Bush rapidly went into a prayer meeting, surrounded by religious "authorities", invoking
God Almighty Himself to bring about "justice", so, to the "religious mind", to question
the "official" story is to question God himself!

The evidence (the steel beams) were rapidly removed from the crime scene so that they
could never be properly tested for traces of explosives.

The Keene report, (which many see as little more than a whitewash job that doesn't
satisfactorily explain many of the key events of 9/11), never-the-less lends "credibility"
to the "official" tale in the minds of many.

The release of the tapes from the supposed flight that crashed over Pennsylvania
(again, not made public, but hidden away in some court room), even further muddies the waters.

And of course the "mainstream" media, owned by very wealthy and powerful men, plays
a key role in all of this. Their silence on talking about Building 7, of which many people are still ignorant,
and simply carrying the "official" govt stories as though they are "truth", without asking
any of the hard questions (this is like the "weapons of mass destruction" lies) has succeeded
in muddling the minds of many.

The fact is that most people are sheeple, conditioned from youth to believe what they are told
and not to question "authority". I'm afraid this has always been so, ever since ancient times.

The people who planned and executed 9/11 aren't dumb. They knew that 9/11 would evoke "conspiracy"
theories, and they knew that all they had to do was sufficiently muddy the waters and rely on
their rich and powerful friends in media and big business, and they could spin it out for ever
and escape justice, leaving the "conspiracy theorists", mired in a deliberately created vacuum
of solid evidence, to argue amongst themselves, as to which "conspiracy" is true.

As for this latest story of the "magic suitcase", who knows? Perhaps it's just another govt fabrication
planted in the media, like Saddam's "WMD programs" and "people shredding machine"? Perhaps
the suitcase was planted by MOSSAD or the CIA or by the same people who planned 9/11?
I mean, if you were going to kill yourself, why would you pack a suitcase full of evidence?
If you're dead, what "on earth" are you going to do with it? Take it to Paradise with you, perhaps?

Or maybe the terrorists genuinely did hate America (God knows that filthy US foreign policies
over the last 50 years have given millions more than enough reasons to), but they were being
used and manipulated by forces of which they were hardly aware?

It seems to me that those in positions of wealth and power have created such a tangled web of lies, truths and half-truths
surrounding 9/11, that I sometimes despair that the true culprits who planted those bombs in those buildings
will ever be caught and brought to justice.

But we must press on regardless!

Kind regards,

James.
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Subject: [911TruthAction] An untold story of 9/11 - Magic Suitcase Find (
govt. spinstory to

An untold story of 9/11 - Magic Suitcase Find

( govt. spin story to try to explain how 19 photos and names of
hijackers were found within 48 hours ? )

An untold story of 9/11
BY MICHAEL DORMAN / Newsday Staff Writer / April 17, 2006

Former federal terrorism investigators say a piece of luggage
hastily checked in at the Portland, Maine, airport by a World Trade
Center hijacker on the morning of Sept. 11 provided the Rosetta stone
enabling FBI agents to swiftly unravel the mystery of who carried out
the suicide attacks and what motivated them.

A mix-up in Boston prevented the luggage from connecting with the
plane that hijackers crashed into the north tower of the trade center.
Seized by FBI agents at Boston's Logan Airport, investigators said, it
contained Arab-language papers revealing the identities of all 19
hijackers involved in the four hijackings, as well as information on
their plans, backgrounds and motives.

The luggage saga represents what the former federal authorities
describe as an untold story of 9/11 -- offering explanations for
questions long unanswered about the investigation of the tragedy, such
as how authorities were able to identify the hijackers so soon after the
attacks.

The former federal investigators said information found in the bag
was passed on to Justice Department lawyers, who prosecuted Zacarias
Moussaoui on charges growing out of the suicide attacks. A Justice
Department spokesman, Brian Roehrkasse, said: "Under the judge's order,
we're not going to comment on anything relating to the case."

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