There are 25 messages in this issue.
Topics in this digest:
1. Say Uncle, RummY-MATINEE IDIOT
From: "Bugs" brawny@twlakes.net
2. The National Airspace System needs your help B.E!
From: "Bugs" brawny@twlakes.net
3. What ?
From: "kitty285" kitty285@charter.net
4. Veteran's Request: Join Veterans for 9/11 Truth
From: "Cathy Garger" savorsuccesslady@yahoo.com
5. flag
From: "Bugs" brawny@twlakes.net
6. Be careful
From: "Bugs" brawny@twlakes.net
7. Retired Air Force General Warns Another 'Terrorist Attack' On Horiz
From: "Debi Clark" debiclark@sbcglobal.net
8. Re: Retired Air Force General Warns Another 'Terrorist Attack' On H
From: "mann david" dmann51@yahoo.com
9. A Day in the Life: 4/29/6
From: "President, USA Exile Govt." prez@usa-exile.org
10. 9/11 Update - 4/29
From: "reggie501" reggie501@optonline.net
11. Re: flag
From: "cherishedheart2005" cherishedheart2005@yahoo.com
12. Universal's Flight 93 'Hijacked' By Truth Seekers
From: "Joe Stokes" joestokes@sbcglobal.net
13. Re: Universal's Flight 93 'Hijacked' By Truth Seekers
From: "Cait" ansith@gmail.com
14. The impact of illegal aliens on America
From: "Bugs" brawny@twlakes.net
15. Deceased CIA agent foretold of this immigration invasion
From: "John Perna" savefreedom2005@yahoo.com
16. article on Moussaoui trial
From: "John Leonard" jpleonard@verizon.net
17. Invasion of the body snatchers!
From: "Victor Forsythe" angelman24@sprintmail.com
18. Re: Fisk: "United States of Israel?" -- Fisk calls 9-11 investigato
From: "Naveed" flanker12k@yahoo.com
19. Re: Universal's Flight 93 'Hijacked' By Truth Seekers
From: "Joe Stokes" joestokes@sbcglobal.net
20. FW: Blue Navy Blue--by Barry Chamish
From: "janet phelan" jcphelan10@yahoo.com
21. ever read poetry? -- "They gave my boy a gun ...
From: "Dick Eastman" olfriend@nwinfo.net
22. Re: Universal's Flight 93 'Hijacked' By Truth Seekers
From: "Naveed" flanker12k@yahoo.com
23. Chicago Chatter
From: "Naveed" flanker12k@yahoo.com
24. articles: Judy Andreas: Eyes To See -=- Russian Central Bank threat
From: "Dick Eastman" olfriend@nwinfo.net
25. Political Prisoner to be Committed to Mental Hospital
From: "janet phelan" jcphelan10@yahoo.com
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Message 1
From: "Bugs" brawny@twlakes.net
Date: Sat Apr 29, 2006 6:34am(PDT)
Subject: Say Uncle, RummY-MATINEE IDIOT
By MAUREEN DOWD
WASHINGTON
Even some State Department officials thought it was like watching a cranky,
eccentric uncle with an efficient, energetic niece.
Rummy was ordered to go to Iraq by the president, but he clearly has no
stomach for nation-building, or letting Condi run the show. He seemed under the
weather after a rough overnight ride on a C-17 transport plane from Washington
into Baghdad. And Condi's aides were rolling their eyes at the less than
respectful way the DefSec treated the SecState as she tried to be enthusiastic,
in her cheerful automaton way, about what she considers the latest last chance
for Iraq.
A reporter in Baghdad asked Rummy about the kerfuffle when Condi talked of
"thousands" of tactical errors in Iraq. Rummy later noted that "I don't know
what she was talking about, to be perfectly honest" and that anyone who said
that had "a lack of understanding" about warfare. She's just a silly girl,
after all.
He could have taken the opportunity to be diplomatic about the diplomat, but
he's incapable of that, so he just added more fuel to the fire.
"She's right here, and you can ask her," he said, pointing to Condi, who
said she had not meant errors "in the military sense." She must have meant
mismanagement in the civilians-mucking-up-the-military sense.
The former "Matinee Idol," as W. liked to call him, is now a figure of
absurdity, clinging to his job only because some retired generals turned him into
a new front on the war on terror. On his rare, brief visit to Baghdad, he was
afraid to go outside Fortress Green Zone, even though he yammers on
conservative talk shows about how progress is being made, and how the press never
reports good news out of Iraq.
If the news is so good, why wasn't Rummy gallivanting at the local mall,
walking around rather than hiding out in the U.S. base known as Camp Victory?
(What are they going to call it, one reporter joked, Camp Defeat?)
In further evidence of their astute connection with the Iraqi culture, the
cabinet secretaries showed up there without even knowing the correct name of
their latest puppet. It turned out that Jawad al-Maliki, the new prime
minister-designate, considered "Jawad" his exile name and had reverted to Nuri Kamal
al-Maliki.
On the cusp of the third anniversary of "Mission Accomplished," Rummy was
still in denial despite the civil war, with armed gangs of Shiites and Sunnis
going out and killing each other and Balkanizing whole communities.
When a reporter asked him what the U.S. had to do to get the militias under
control and stop the sectarian dueling, he answered bluntly: "I guess the
first thing I have to say is we don't, the Iraqis do. It's their country. It's a
sovereign country. This is not a government that has an 'interim' in front of
it or a 'transition' in front of it. It's a government that's in for a
period of years and undoubtedly, unquestionably, will be addressing the question
as to how they can best provide for the security of all of their people."
Yeah, let's leave it up to what's-his-name. We broke it. What's-his-name can
fix it.
The assertions that Iraq is largely peaceful were belied yesterday by our
own government. A State Department report on global terrorism counted 8,300
deaths of civilians in Iraq from insurgent attacks — more than half of all those
killed by terrorists worldwide — and noted that violence is escalating. The
elections have clearly not quelled the violence, and terrorists are said to be
trying to turn Iraq's Anbar province into a base for Al Qaeda and other
militants. (And since it's our State Department, you've got to figure it's
soft-peddling things.)
April was the most lethal month for U.S. soldiers this year; at least 67
died.
The Bush II hawks were determined to restore a Reaganesque muscular, "moral"
foreign policy, as opposed to the realpolitik of Bush I. But with no
solution in sight, Congress is pressing for some realpolitik. With W.'s blessing,
lawmakers are sending his father's old consigliere, James Baker, to Iraq to
look for a way out.
As Iran vows to go ahead with its nuclear ambitions, the administration
finds itself relying for help on the very people it steamrolled and undermined
before the Iraq war: the U.N. and international arms inspectors.
"The Security Council is the primary and most important institution for the
maintenance of peace and stability and security, and it cannot have its word
and its will simply ignored by a member state," Condi said after a NATO
meeting on Thursday.
Rummy may get prickly with his office niece, but who else but the automaton
could make that threat with a straight face?
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Message 2
From: "Bugs" brawny@twlakes.net
Date: Sat Apr 29, 2006 7:03am(PDT)
Subject: The National Airspace System needs your help B.E!
Fair FAA----- Original Message -----
From: National Air Traffic Controllers Association
Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2006 6:16 AM
Subject: The National Airspace System needs your help B.E!
National Air Traffic Controllers Association
Fair FAA
Dear ,
Thank you for taking the time to read this action alert e-mail, if you have already participated in the National Air Traffic Controllers Association's second Fair FAA e-mail campaign please pardon our intrusion and thank you for participating. If you haven't participated yet please read on.
On April 5, the FAA walked away from contract negotiations with our nation's air traffic controllers. After declining an offer from controllers that would have saved taxpayers $1.4 billion dollars - that amounts to an average concession of nearly $94K for each position covered by the agreement over its five year term - the FAA Administrator abdicated her responsibility to reach an agreement with her workers and sent the contract to Congress, allowing them only 60 days to review it before she imposes her one-sided terms. Under the FAA's interpretation of a disputed law, the agency can simply impose its last offer on controllers if Congress is unable to act on the contract during the small window of time. Under this dubious interpretation, the FAA has no incentive to negotiate a contract at all - in fact, the agency did not move on their proposal to cut pay rates by 30% while NATCA modified its own offers to accommodate every one of the FAA's publicly and privately stated goals for the contract. If the FAA is allowed to impose a contract, it could have a tremendous impact on an aviation system already strained by a staffing crisis: * One out of four controllers - nearly 4,000 - is eligible to retire by the end of 2007. The system's most experienced controllers and trainers would have no incentive to remain on the job and in most cases be penalized financially for remaining. * It will make hiring much-needed replacement controllers of quality and excellence considerably harder. Students currently at the FAA academy will see the rules dramatically changed in the middle of the game. They were hired under one pay system, but are now looking at 30% cuts. Students still in FAA approved Colleges may consider other career options since the system promised before they started paying for their own training no longer exists. The system's youngest controllers would see career-long pay freezes, even as they take the places of more experienced controllers at higher-traffic, higher-stress facilities. We can restore fairness in the process and ensure the differences in contract negotiations are dealt with in an impartial process, the same kind of process that is available in other federal agencies and private companies. You can help by asking your elected officials to support the bipartisan legislation to restore a fair process for dispute resolution for FAA employees. The Obama and Kelly-Costello Fair FAA Acts (S.2201 and H.R. 4755) doesn't dictate the outcome of any particular contract negotiation, it simply requires Congress to either approve the FAA proposal or send the matter to an impartial arbitrator. Ask your elected officials to support the fair treatment for America's aviation safety workforce. To date, a bipartisan group of over 210 lawmakers from the House and Senate have signed on to this vital legislation.
Send a letter to the following decision maker(s):
H.R. 4755 House Bill Targets
S.2201 Senate Bill Targets
Below is the sample letter:
Subject: The National Airspace System needs your help!
Dear [decision maker name automatically inserted here],
As you may know, the Federal Aviation Administration ended contract negotiations with America's air traffic controllers on April 5, 2006. The agency called an end to talks after rejecting an offer from the National Air Traffic Controllers Association that would have saved taxpayers $1.4 billion. That amounts to an average concession of nearly $94,000 for each position covered by the agreement over its five-year term. Within hours of declaring impasse, the FAA sent their proposal to Congress as you were preparing to leave DC for home and time with your constituents.
Unfortunately, it seems increasingly obvious that the FAA is intent on forcing a contract on its employees. The FAA has interpreted the current law to give it the ability to send the contract for a 60-day review by Congress. If Congress does not act, the FAA has interpreted the law to mean it can simply impose its last offer on controllers. By pursuing this strategy, the agency is showing a shocking lack of regard for the basic
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Message 3
From: "kitty285" kitty285@charter.net
Date: Sat Apr 29, 2006 7:24am(PDT)
Subject: What ?
Click here: AOL News - Conspiracy Film Rewrites Sept. 11
Look what someone just sent me...Kitty
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Message 4
From: "Cathy Garger" savorsuccesslady@yahoo.com
Date: Sat Apr 29, 2006 7:32am(PDT)
Subject: Veteran's Request: Join Veterans for 9/11 Truth
NOTE: The pictures you can not see are the pictures of an upside down flag, a sign that many of our Veterans are now using as a sign of national distress.
This picture and a description of why our nation is in distress is located at:
http://www.v911t.org/
While these Veterans do not claim to have all of the answers about what actually happened on 9/11, they are seeking a thorough investigation into unresolved questions of the mass murder of 3,000 of our own.
Please pass this along widely so all Veterans can read about this effort,
Thank you.
Cathy Garger
http://mytown.ca/garger/
[v911t] Will Vietnam Veterans of America JOIN Veterans for 911 Truth? Ray"titus" Sanborn
Veterans for 911 Truth April April 28, 2006
VVA's goals are to promote and support the full range of issues important to Vietnam veterans, to create a new identity for this generation of veterans, and to change public perception of Vietnam veterans.
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Vietnam Veterans of America,
Your service was instrumental in helping me completely resolve all claims and appeals that I had pending before the Department of Veterans Affairs for service-connected disability compensation during the years between 1971 and 1996. Your service provided the evidence I needed from U.S. Army and Joint Services Environmental Support Group to reopen a claim after the Board of Veterans Appeals, Final Denial, in 1987. That evidence showed that "Combat tracking with {dogs} required the dog and handler to almost always walk "Point" which subjected them to the highest danger from booby traps, snipers, ambushes and mines." in Vietnam. Your service helped me receive the Combat Infantryman's Badge in 1996, which was awarded in 1969. Your service helped me obtain the training & law library I needed to not only carry my own case to the Court Of Veterans Appeals, pro se, but to also help four other disabled Vietnam combat veterans receive 'Total and Permanent' disability ratings,
the same rating I have. I served with Co.A 1/501st Infantry, pointman; 557th Combat Tracker Team; volunteer while on medical leave, American Red Cross, tracking down dead and wounded, and reporting home to families. major stressor.
We've all grown accustomed to the power you wield. Just the mention of your name carries weight. It is for these reasons, especially your proven integrity and true grit that I write you now. Veterans across America are awakening to an ever growing threat from within the gates. We are making the call to all veterans to close ranks to protect our LIBERTY and INDEPENDENCE. The 1st AMENDMENT provides for "Redress of Grievances", however, my research clearly showed that no reply or polite dismissal has followed attempts by other groups seeking Constitutional protections.
Please consider the following statements true and urgent:
The Official story of September 11, 2001 is untrue. America is in great distress and peril!!!
SEE: Scholars for 911 Truth http://www.scholarsfor911truth.org/index.html {JOIN s911t }
I am calling on you again VVA. JOIN: Veterans for 911 Truth
http://www.v911t.org/MissionStatement.phpQ
MISSION STATEMENT, in part
"...In pursuit of our mission we have initially chosen to present evidence exposing the deception and lies that many in the military/intelligence/industrial/media establishment have been telling Americans and the world since September 11, 2001 concerning the events of that tragic day. Our mission includes seeking, discovering, and presenting evidence revealing the truth about the events of 9/11..."
We know everthing takes time and it may be a while before you are ABLE to respond to this appeal. That's fine; we just hope you respond by researching the issues surrounding the events of '9/11' so that we can all succeed together in exposing the truth and lies of 9/11 and relieve America of the great distress and peril she faces today.
Thank-you for taking these matters in hand and reaching out to help resolve the issues surrounding the truth and lies of 9/11.
If it is the policy of VVA not to join groups or lend support to groups such as ours, would you allow us a mention in 'The Veteran'?
Veterans for 911 Truth patiently await your reply.
Sincerely Yours,
Ray Harvey Sanborn,Jr.
aka titus
Mendocino County, CA.
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Message 5
From: "Bugs" brawny@twlakes.net
Date: Sat Apr 29, 2006 7:53am(PDT)
Subject: flag
WWW.V911T.ORG- VISIT OR JOIN
Since the war in Iraq,bush has had the flag with the union (which is the stars) flying on the right TOP side of our flag,
Always before since we have been the USA,the stars has always been on the top left side of our flag .
We as American's should DEMAND OUR CONGRESS TO CHANGE BUSH RULE AND FLY THE USA FLAG THE RIGHT WAY.STARS ON THE TOP LEFT SIDE OF OUR FLAG...
BUGS
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Message 6
From: "Bugs" brawny@twlakes.net
Date: Sat Apr 29, 2006 8:35am(PDT)
Subject: Be careful
I have always believe that cheney,bush were behind the 09-11,from day one,
To help cheney old companies,Haliburton,KBR to make more money and let bush start a war with Iraq,
When all on the plane where from Saudi Arabia??Now figure that? That where the terriost..
Also I seen,either on CNN or CBS bush saying he was going to get saddam... because he was going to kill bush 41.
Am I correct in saying Ronald REAGAN,and Bush 41 put saddam in POWER?
Bush,cheney,rummy ,rice are all warmongers,killing our children ,grandchildren,mothers,fathers,husbands ,wife's.over a lie told by bush and the war mongers he deals with.
The Congress has now put in place for bush to take over the USA,under the republican leadership in congress.
Homeland Security,military to take over another hurricane,declare Marshall law to ,all of us in the USA.
I'm no writer,check people and be careful with this gang at 1600 Penn.Ave.
bugs
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Message 7
From: "Debi Clark" debiclark@sbcglobal.net
Date: Sat Apr 29, 2006 8:43am(PDT)
Subject: Retired Air Force General Warns Another 'Terrorist Attack' On Horiz
Retired Air Force General Warns Another 'Terrorist Attack' On Horizon As
Trotskyites Within Government On The Move To Destroy America
By Greg Szymanski
4-28-6
A slow, meticulous and patient takeover of the United States is now
under way by a group of Trotskyites embedded in the government using
terrorism as a means of "fear and control," according to a retired Air Force
General. And the only way to defeat them, said Gen. Ben Parton, is to
immediately take back the political process from the treasonous hijackers
before it's too late and America is turned into a fascist state. Gen.
Parton added the insidious onslaught on freedom is well underway and the
initial groundwork of "manipulation and takeover" is clearly visible with
events like Ruby Ridge, Waco, Oklahoma City, the first WTC bombing and 911.
And now Americans should brace themselves for bigger and more bloody
terrorist acts, as the New World Order is not yet finished with its
diabolical plan to destroy America from within. Coming from a civilian
these ominous sounding words may go in one ear and out the other. But coming
from a General with more than 30 years of active service, the only real
question remaining is not if but when the next 911 will take place?
They are not finished with us yet and there will be another terrorist attack
" said Gen. Parton in an interview this week on Greg Szymanski's radio show,
The Investigative Journal. "The one thing that has to be clearly
understood about those who have taken over our government and the
governments of most every other country in the world is that they are very
patient while calculating every move in order to eliminate any chance of
failure." Saying the U.S. government and its intelligence agencies have
been infiltrated by New World Order minions and strategists, he warns
America 's only chance for survival is a quick takeover of the government,
not a military coup or revolution as both will fail due to power structure
set up by the enemy. "It boils down to this: the American people need to
take back the political process or the New World Order will succeed," added
Gen. Parton. The New World Order program, according to Gen. Parton, is
nothing new and can be traced to the writings of Leon Trotsky in the 1928
Program of the Communist Third International.
He said the Trotsky plan has been adopted throughout the world, including by
those now in command of the U.S., who are pushing the world towards a one
world government, meaning the end of liberty, freedom and the American way.
For rest of story and more informative articles, go to www
arcticbeacon.com
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Message 8
From: "mann david" dmann51@yahoo.com
Date: Sat Apr 29, 2006 8:50am(PDT)
Subject: Re: Retired Air Force General Warns Another 'Terrorist Attack' On H
This business about Trotsky is a huge JOKE and the
laugh is definitely on the General and perhaps Mr.
Szymanski. But for the uninitiated - Trotsky was
perhaps the Best and MOST LOYAL LEADER of the WORLD
WORKINING CLASS MOVEMENT in the last century. READ HIM
(!) before joining such an ignorant CHORUS LINE.
--- Debi Clark <debiclark@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> Retired Air Force General Warns Another 'Terrorist
> Attack' On Horizon As
> Trotskyites Within Government On The Move To Destroy
> America
>
> By Greg Szymanski
> 4-28-6
> A slow, meticulous and patient takeover of the
> United States is now
> under way by a group of Trotskyites embedded in the
> government using
> terrorism as a means of "fear and control,"
> according to a retired Air Force
> General. And the only way to defeat them, said
> Gen. Ben Parton, is to
> immediately take back the political process from the
> treasonous hijackers
> before it's too late and America is turned into a
> fascist state. Gen.
> Parton added the insidious onslaught on freedom is
> well underway and the
> initial groundwork of "manipulation and takeover" is
> clearly visible with
> events like Ruby Ridge, Waco, Oklahoma City, the
> first WTC bombing and 911.
> And now Americans should brace themselves for bigger
> and more bloody
> terrorist acts, as the New World Order is not yet
> finished with its
> diabolical plan to destroy America from within.
> Coming from a civilian
> these ominous sounding words may go in one ear and
> out the other. But coming
> from a General with more than 30 years of active
> service, the only real
> question remaining is not if but when the next 911
> will take place?
> They are not finished with us yet and there will be
> another terrorist attack
> " said Gen. Parton in an interview this week on Greg
> Szymanski's radio show,
> The Investigative Journal. "The one thing that
> has to be clearly
> understood about those who have taken over our
> government and the
> governments of most every other country in the world
> is that they are very
> patient while calculating every move in order to
> eliminate any chance of
> failure." Saying the U.S. government and its
> intelligence agencies have
> been infiltrated by New World Order minions and
> strategists, he warns
> America 's only chance for survival is a quick
> takeover of the government,
> not a military coup or revolution as both will fail
> due to power structure
> set up by the enemy. "It boils down to this: the
> American people need to
> take back the political process or the New World
> Order will succeed," added
> Gen. Parton. The New World Order program,
> according to Gen. Parton, is
> nothing new and can be traced to the writings of
> Leon Trotsky in the 1928
> Program of the Communist Third International.
>
> He said the Trotsky plan has been adopted throughout
> the world, including by
> those now in command of the U.S., who are pushing
> the world towards a one
> world government, meaning the end of liberty,
> freedom and the American way.
> For rest of story and more informative
> articles, go to www
> arcticbeacon.com
>
>
>
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Message 9
From: "President, USA Exile Govt." prez@usa-exile.org
Date: Sat Apr 29, 2006 8:56am(PDT)
Subject: A Day in the Life: 4/29/6
GOVERNMENT OF THE USA IN EXILE
Free Americans
Reaching Out to Amerika's Huddled Masses Yearning to Breathe Free
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Via <prez@usa-exile.org>
April 29, 2006
From: Tim Barton <tim_decenter@yahoo.com>
Date: April 28, 2006 4:36:28 PM EST
To: _BlueGreenEarth Forum <bluegreenearth@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [bluegreenearth] Fwd: InI Newsletter - The battle for
Internet Freedom has just begun
The Battle for
Internet Freedom Has Just Begun
Yesterday afternoon, a House committee caved to the narrow interests of
telecom companies and
voted to strip Net Neutrality from a bill moving through Congress.
Network Neutrality is the Internet's First Amendment -- without it
companies like AT&T, Verizon
and Comcast will move to control what you do, where you go, and what
you watch online.
The vote was an outrage, but the fight for Internet freedom is far from
over. More important votes
are coming in Congress -- and we have the momentum.
More than 250,000 people have written and called Congress in the past
five days. Because we've
raised public awareness of this issue, no member of Congress can in
good conscience vote with the
telephone and cable cartel.
Politicians take action when they realize we are paying attention. Let
them know you're watching:
Tell Congress to Protect Internet Freedom
We have ignited a prairie fire of protest. In less than one week, our
SavetheInternet.com
Coalition has lit up the phones in Congress. We've rallied more than
600 blogs to write about this
issue. We've formed a diverse, bipartisan coalition of more than 75
organizations banding together
to fight for a free and open Internet.
Congress needs to hear from us right away. Please sign our letter to
Congress. And don't forget to
spread the word to your friends, colleagues and family:
Stop Congress from Selling Out the Internet
The fight has just begun. We've already proven that people can make a
difference by simply
speaking out. Now, let's win.
Onward,
Timothy Karr
Campaign Director
Free Press
www.freepress.net
P.S. Stay up to date on breaking developments in the campaign. Visit
SavetheInternet.com
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From: Henri the Celt <henrithecelt@gci.net>
Date: April 26, 2006 11:46:18 PM EST
To: AAAHenri <henrithecelt@gci.net>
Subject: Fw: The Voice of the White House
TBR News --� April 24, 2006
In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is
distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest
in receiving the included information for research and educational
purposes.
� The Voice of the
White House
From: Dstacey
April 23, 2006: �I can fully understand how the remaining passengers
and crew, scrambling up on the stern of the sinking �Titanic� just
before the final plunge into freezing waters must have felt. That�s the
general attitude here inside the White House.
Andy Card was pleasant enough and approachable but Bolton is a
self-important prick who is now beginning to annoy Bush Himself. It�s
like the CIA when the oafish Goss took over to clean out any anti-Bush
people.
At this point, there are now very few staffers really loyal to Bush.
He is seen as a gross failure, not well-wrapped and liable to start an
atomic war at any minute. At best, Bush was a brittle, wise-cracking
retired frat rat and at worst, a shouting and vicious man who used
great quantities of foul language, regardless of who was listening,
shocked women staffers included.
He depended almost entirely on the plots and plans of Rove and it is
now obvious to everyone that Rove will be indicted and removed from
power. Since Rove is one of the most sneaky, vicious men I have ever
met, no one will suffer�except Bush who won�t move without Rove�s
suggestion.
A Roveless Bush will be eyeless in Gaza.
Rove has been behind the calculated leaks about a plan to attack Iran
because Karl feels that the Iranians will come to heel and make Bush
look like a glorious conqueror, an invulnerable �wartime president� who
could use the theme to crack down on anti-Republicans across the
country.
I have heard Rove discuss the Vietnam war, which he calls �a
Democratic war and a political failure.� He said that he would set
things up so there would be no draft riots, no student activists, no
opposition in either House of Congress and a press unified behind the
Christian Savoir and Protector of America.
If you�re thinking I am inventing this, I am not.
Bush is a pathetic failure (and responsible for the deaths of untold
thousands) but Rove is purely vicious and ought to be removed from
office, and influence, at once and then tried. Rumsfeld is getting
senile and Cheney, another crook, hasn�t much longer to live, according
to his last cardiologists� reports. One more attack and we have another
State Funeral under the Capitol dome and the outraged and desperate
Republicans can stick someone more palatable, and saner, in the second
job and groom him for �08. I suppose that someone will get the bright
idea that the dour and inflexible Cheney might suffer some kind of a
cardiac �accident� but now we get into the blogger�s realm.
Rove is supposed to run the Republican campaigns for the mid terms in
November and as his techniques consist of blackmailing anyone (via FBI
files) who dares to get in his way, it will be a really disgusting blot
on the democratic process.
I shudder to realize that there are three more years of this.
How far down into the septic tank of political oblivion can Bush go
during this time if he has fallen so badly to date?
And I know enough people to state that if the Democrats take control
of either or both Houses, criminal investigations are guaranteed to be
launched, that will make Watergate look like a church picnic.
This is another reason why certain Very Important Republicans are
wearing dignity pants these days. And if the public had any idea how
much in taxpayers� funds were stolen via the Halliburton deals, and the
FEMA �relief programs� in Jeb Bush�s Florida, they would realize that
these outrageous thieves make Boss Tweed look like Mother Theresa.�
�www.tbrnews.org �
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�Diplomacy�, the Smokescreen for Savagery
By Ghali Hassan
April 27, 2006
GlobalResearch.ca
Open any Western newspaper and you are struck by the abundant use of
the word �diplomacy�. It is the second-most-used word after
�democracy�. However, careful analysis shows that the U.S. version of
diplomacy has become the favourite smokescreen of the U.S. war of
aggression. Iraq and Iran provide the best cases.
In relation to Iran, the Bush Administration alleges that it is using
�diplomacy� to convince Iran to give up her rights to nuclear
technology. President Bush frequently says that �we are working with
our European allies� to use diplomacy to avert a nuclear impasse with
Iran. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said that a �diplomatic
solution� will be found to the Iranian nuclear crisis. The reality is
the opposite. By accusing Iran of intending to manufacture nuclear
weapons, the U.S. and its European vassals are using�so-called
�diplomacy� to coerce as many nations as possible to report Iran to the
UN Security Council and pave the way for sanctions and most likely a
war of aggression against Iran.
The U.S. version of diplomacy is accompanied by a vicious propaganda
campaign to demonise and portray the Iranian President, Mahmoud
Ahmedinejad in a very unfavourable way. Western mainstream media, led
by the�New York Times, the BBC and the Washington-based�Middle East
Media Research Institute (MEMRI), have fabricated allegations against
President Ahmedinejad. They allege that President Ahmedinejad denied
the Jewish holocaust took place and threatened to �wipe Israel off the
map�.�In fact, none of President Ahmedinejad� speeches (in Farsi)
contain anything close to what has been magnified.
However, without any proof, Western leaders, led by Bush and Blair,
Western journalists and the intellectual elites were quick to take
advantage of the lie and unashamedly use it to justify their attacks on
the Iranian President. The clich� of �anti-Semitism� provided the
perfect bullying tool not only for the Israeli government�but also for
those who follow in their footsteps. (See Fikentscher & Neumann).
President Ahmedinejad is now threatened with assassination by
Israeli-sponsored state terrorism. The threat against a democratically
elected head of state passed without condemnation in Western capitals.
Furthermore, President Ahmedinejad was democratically elected and he
cannot be considered�as a Western-imposed �tyrant� or a �dictator�.�
Iran had a democracy from 1951-1953 before the U.S. staged a coup
d�etat against Prime Minister Muhammad Mossadeq and imposed the vicious
dictatorship of the Shah on Iran. The U.S. version of �democracy� is a
colonial dictatorship masked with fraudulent elections.
Iran has made numerous diplomatic efforts to address the various
issues.�While accusing Iran of aspiring to produce nuclear weapons, the
U.S. turns�a blind eye to Israel�s violence against the Palestinian
people, Israeli threats in the region and to Israeli�s huge arsenal of
nuclear weapons. Other countries such as Australia, Brazil and Japan,
all have advanced nuclear programs ready to produce nuclear weapons
within short notice. It seems, the U.S. has become obsessed with
Muslims' independent development, and prefers to keep Muslim nations
under its imperialist thumb.
The Iran nuclear issue is nothing more and nothing less than a pretext
used by the U.S. against Iran. The current U.S.-engineered crisis is
reminiscent of the fabricated pretext of Weapons of Mass Destructions
(WMDs) that the U.S. used to instigate a war of aggression against
Iraq. Iran is signatory to the Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT) and has
the rights to acquire nuclear technology for peaceful use. Indeed, the
NPT encourages other nations to assist Iran in its quest for nuclear
technology. However, this doesn�t stop the U.S. from accusing Iran of
�aspiring� to possess WMDs and interfering in Iran�s domestic affairs;
instead, the U.S. rejects diplomacy and continues to beat the drums of
war. The alleged threat posed by Iran is a falsehood. An attack on Iran
would be an unprovoked act of aggression in violations of international
laws.
Throughout the�history of US imperialism, the U.S. has always
concentrated its war propaganda on one individual in the target nation.
For example presidents Fidel Castro, Saddam Hussein and Hugo Ch�vez are
made the epitomes of hatred. They are demonised to the highest point in
order to make the American people feel obliged to support war against
the target nation. The U.S. creates an illusion that the native
population are suffering and helpless, and they need �our� help. As
American author Stephen Kinzer writes; �Americans love to have a demon,
a certain person who is the symbol of all the evil and tyranny in the
regime that we want to attack�. For example, Saddam has become
synonymous with evil and provided justification to commit greater evil
against the people of Iraq. The U.S. Administration writes Kinzer,
�play[s] on the American compassion to achieve support for
interventions� and commits war crimes against the Iraqi people.
In 1991, the U.S. rejected every peaceful proposal to resolve the
Kuwait-Iraq crisis. The U.S. flatly rejected all proposals advanced by
Yugoslavia, the USSR, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, France, Jordan and Iraq.
Instead, the U.S. used the diplomacy of coercion to bribe those who
voted for the war and punished those nations who insisted on diplomacy.
At the end, Kuwait was just a pretext for premeditated mass murder and
gross war crimes against the Iraqi people. The war followed by
13-years-long criminal sanctions that needlessly killed more than 1.6
million Iraqi civilians--a third of them children under the age of
five.
For more than 13 years, the U.S. rejected all diplomatic solutions to
end its war on the Iraqi people. Annoyed by the severity of the
sanctions, France and Russia introduced a peaceful resolution to end
the sanctions against Iraq in return for Iraq�s continued cooperation
regarding WMDs, but the resolution was vetoed by the U.S. In March 2003
and after outright rejections of all diplomatic solutions, the U.S.
illegally invaded Iraq on the pretext � non-existence � of WMDs. Since
then, U.S. forces and mercenaries have indiscriminately killed � in
cold blood � hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi men, women and
children. In addition to the deliberate and planned destruction of Iraq
as a functioning state, the U.S. is turning Iraq into a purely
sectarian state and encouraging the erosion of Iraqi national identity
that prevailed throughout Iraq�s history.
Furthermore, the U.S. continues to occupy Iraq against the wishes of
the majority of the Iraqi people. The U.S. also continues to impose a
victor (American) culture on the Iraqi people. In addition, the U.S. is
denying Iraqis their democratic rights by imposing (by force) a puppet
regime or a fa�ade � consisting of a collection of thugs and criminals
� programmed to serve U.S. corporate interests.
Like the U.S. version of �democracy�, the U.S. version of �diplomacy�
has become the favourite smokescreen for U.S. foreign policy. There can
be no doubt that democracy is the perfect alibi for state repressive
powers. It is used to serve U.S. corporate interests. The U.S. version
of �democracy� in Iraq is meant to ignite war and bloodshed. Iran must
be encouraged to reject U.S. diktats and pursue her own development for
the benefit of the Iranian people.
While the U.S. and its European vassals pretend to solve the Iranian
nuclear crisis through �diplomacy�, they are embarking on a path that
leads only to a war of aggression against Iran. Resistance to U.S.
imperialism through peaceful struggle is the only way to stop U.S.
aggression and violence.
Global Research Contributing Editor Ghali Hassan lives in Perth,
Western Australia.
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From: Henri the Celt <henrithecelt@gci.net>
Date: April 27, 2006 1:48:46 PM EST
To: AAAHenri <henrithecelt@gci.net>
Subject: Fw: Former White House Chief Of Staff's Cousin Jailed For
Opposition To Iraq War
�
Former White House Chief of Staff Andy Card's Cousin
Jailed
For Making Case Iraq Was "No Threat and Invasion Was
Illegal."
Susan Lindauer, a journalist and former Congressional aide, held in
federal correctional facility six months for psychiatric evaluation
after bogus espionage charges dropped. Lindauer told Bush officials,
including Card, Iraq was no threat according to her intelligence
sources, but became target herself.
27 Apr 2006
By Greg Szymanski�������� From: feenyite1@yahoo.com
�
The story of another American political prisoner needs to be told, a
story about journalist Susan Lindauer illegally jailed and placed under
psychiatric evaluation for urging the U.S. government not to attack
Iraq since it had no weapons of mass destruction.
�
As bizarre as it sounds, it's true according to Mark Bilk, J. Buford
Fields and Janet Phelan, three concerned citizens and activists trying
to get Lindauer released from a federal correctional center.
�
Lindauer, 42, an ex-Seattle Post-Intelligencer reporter, former U.S.
Congressional aide and a cousin of White House Chief of Staff, Andrew
Card, was charged in March 2004 with espionage for conspiring to act as
a spy and being an unregistered Iraqi agent.
�
Although the espionage charge has since been dropped, U.S. prosecutors
originally alleged the antiwar activist accepted $10,000 from Hussein's
intelligence unit over five years and sought to support resistance
groups after the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
�
Lindauer always had categorically denied accepting Iraqi money, saying
she was framed for wanting to go public about sensitive information she
possessed about the illegal Iraqi invasion, as well as information she
was going to publish clearly demonstrating that Pan Am Flight 103 was
an inside government job and blown up over Lockerbie, Scotland, by
Syrians, not Libyans as the U.S. insists.
�
Lindauer has recently been charged with posing as an unregistered
lobbyist, but jailed six months ago even though she has not been
convicted of a crime, technically being held for psychiatric
observation.
�
Although the Arctic Beacon has tried to interview Lindauer this week,
federal authorities are not allowing her to talk to the media, as she
remains essentially a political prisoner, according to the trio of
activists fighting for her release, at MCC NEW YORK METROPOLITAN
CORRECTIONAL CENTER, 150 PARK ROW, NEW YORK, NY under the inmate number
of 56064-054.
�
"She's been imprisoned by the federal government for six months for
psychiatric evaluation, despite the fact that she was found to be quite
sane by a court-appointed psychiatrist who had many sessions with her
before her imprisonment," said Bilk Wednesday on Greg Szymanski's
popular radio show, The Investigative Journal, making a case for
Lindauer's immediate release.
�
"We are urgently seeking legal representation for Susan Lindauer, a
journalist who met with some Iraqis associated with the UN delegation,
and then through her cousin Andrew Card, the White House Chief of
Staff, urged the U.S. government not to attack Iraq since it had no
weapons of mass destruction.
�
"She has not been tried, much less convicted of a crime.� She's now
being held in a New York City federal prison. She's scheduled for a
hearing as early as May 2, next week, to determine whether she should
be forcibly drugged."
�
The trio of activists finally decided to take to the airwaves on
Szymanski's radio show after becoming fruistrated with the mainstream
media who has ignored the case, downplaying its importance.
�
Lindauer has been jailed since last October for psychiatric evaluation
despite the fact she was found mentally competent by a court-appointed
psychiatrist who evaluated Landauer numerous times before her
imprisonment.
�
She is schedule for a May 4 competency hearing in a New York courtroom
and Bilk and the others fear she'll be "locked away as insane" to avoid
a trial or public debate on the charges. Further, the hearing is being
held to determine if the state will be allowed to forcibly continue
administering drugs without her consent.
�
"I think our only hope is to find a good lawyer before the hearing,"
added Bilk.
�
Janet Phelan, a journalist who became�aware of the Lindauer's
struggles, alerting both�Bilk and Fields to her political persecution,
said Lindauer was trying to use her intelligence sources to warn
government officials the Iraqi War was wrong, but it backfired when
forces inside the government turned their attack on her.
�
"Now they want to label her mentally incompetent in order to discredit
her," said Phelan on the Investigative Journal radio broadcast.
�
Besides the Iraqi connection regarding sensitive WMD information and
her family ties to the White House Chief of Staff, Lindauer became
embroiled with former CIA agent. Dr. Richard Fuisz, who claimed Libya
was not responsible for the Lockerbie bombing.
�
In 2000, a gag order was placed on Dr. Fuisz by the U.S. government
under state secrecy laws, facing 10 years in prison if he revealed any
information about the terrorist attack.
�
According to a Sunday Herald article one month before a court order was
served on him by the US government gagging him from speaking on the
grounds of national security, he spoke to US congressional aide Susan
Lindauer, telling her he knew the identities of the Lockerbie bombers
and claiming they were not Libyan.
�
The 2000 article, appearing in London but not here, went on to say:
�
"In her affidavit, she goes on: "Dr Fuisz has told me that he can
identify who orchestrated and executed the bombing. Dr Fuisz has said
that he can confirm absolutely that no Libyan national was involved in
planning or executing the bombing of Pan Am 103, either in any
technical or advisory capacity whatsoever."
�
"Fuisz's statements to Lindauer support the claims of the two Libyan
accused who are to incriminate a number of terrorist organisations,
including the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General
Command, which had strong links to Syria and Iran."
�
The article went on to say that Lindauer said Fuisz told her he could
provide information on Middle Eastern terrorists, and referred to
Lockerbie as an "example of an unsolved bombing case that he said he
has the immediate capability to resolve".
�
Lindauer also said that Fuisz told her CIA staff had destroyed reports
he sent them on Lockerbie. Lindauer also refers in her affidavit to
speculation that the USA shifted any connection to Lockerbie away from
Syria to Libya in return for its support during the Gulf war.
�
"She added that Fuisz told her: "If the [US] government would let me, I
could identify the men behind this attack today. I could do the right
thing ... I could go into any crowded restaurant and pick out these men
... I can tell you their home addresses ... You won't find [them]
anywhere in Libya. You will only find [them] in Damascus. I was
investigating on the ground and I know."
�
Regarding her recent connections leading to espionage charges in
conspiring with Iraqi terrorists, a charge since dropped, J. Fields who
is helping to get Lindauer set free said her publicly defender has
"failed to mount any serious defense."
�
Writing on a web site compiling a case on her behalf at
www.radio4houston.com/Lindauer Fields added:
�
"Susan is not charged with espionage or treason. She is charged with
being an unregistered lobbyist, and the Justice Department flowered up
the indictment. They alleged that she conspired with the sons of the
Iraq diplomat representing Iraq in weapons inspection talks. Those sons
were not convicted of anything, but were shipped out of the country on
immigration charges. Susan's attorney, I'm told, has no depositions
even from them, and he had plenty of time to get the job done before
they were deported.
�
"Susan has witnesses who know her thoughts during the FBI's attempted
counter intelligence sting operation. She told the FBI agent that she
knew he was no intelligence officer from Libya, and said same to Park
Godfrey, an IT professor who now lives in Toronto, who boarded with her
at the time. This is one of her witnesses that her lawyer has refused
to interview.
�
"Her lawyer wants to claim in court that Susan's insistence that she
was trying to work as an asset (or was doing so) for American
intelligence agencies is delusional. Unfortunately for him, Susan's
connections were well documented by the Scottish court during the
Lockerbie trial, where it seems our government, or at least its
political leadership, was so eager to not look impotent that they
knowingly prosecuted Libyans instead of the Syrians who Susan claimed
Dr. Fuisz, reportedly the former Syria CIA station chief, told Susan he
knew had planned and executed it. Susan provided a deposition to the
court, and it is in the Scottish press and court documents, the PDF of
the CIA's letter, not equivocating about Dr. Fuisz's employment status
one bit, but releasing him from his oath of silence in that matter.
�
"From my point of view, Susan told anybody she could what she was up
to. Given the notorious lack of human intelligence assets in Iraq, it
seems to me that the likelihood that the CIA was ignorant of what Andy
Card's cousin was up to, is very unlikely. The fact that she did have
access to senior diplomats, and the fact that she was Andy Card's
cousin all fits pretty well to argue against delusion. With such access
and connections, any peace activist might feel compelled to engage.
�
"Susan's Psychiatric records during pre-trial counseling are posted on
the website. You will see that the doctor directly addresses the
question of psychosis and finds contrary to what her lawyer and the
prosecution are alleging."
�
For rest of story and more informative articles, go to
www.arcticbeacon.com
�
Greg Szymanski Greg also has his own daily show on the Republic
Broadcast Network. Go to www.rbnlive.com Greg Szymanski is an
independent investigative journalist and his articles can been seen at
www.LewisNews.com. He also writes for American Free Press and has his
own site www.arcticbeacon.com
Listen to my Radio Broadcast live Monday night at 8pm Pacific time on
LewisNews, returning Jan. 1 2006 Radio
http://webs.lewisnews.com/radio/index.htm. Greg is also regular on
Rense.com the first Thursday of every month at 9-10 pm pacific time.
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From: "marguerite hampton" <ecopilgrim@aabol.com>
Date: April 28, 2006 11:44:46 PM EST
To: "Centre4Change" <Centre4Change@yahoogroups.com.au>, "Cyberspace
Society" <cyber-soc@topica.com>, "ConsilienceP"
<ConsilienceP@topica.com>, "GatherTheWomen"
<GatherTheWomen@yahoogroups.com>, "Peace_ERA"
<peace_era@yahoogroups.com.au>, <awpd@yahoogroups.com>, "FixGov"
<FixGov@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Stop the Insanity of DU
Dear Co-learners
I have written previously on the insanity of using
DU. This is the most comprehensive coverage
I have seen on this issue. (See URL below.)
Let's please broadcast this far and wide so that
those being sent into battle are forewarned as
to the hell they are going into and can make an
informed choice.
If you know of someone supporting the war,
try to get this into their hands and ask them
how they can support this kind of insanity.
This is where the Gather the Women
organization could really be effective by
getting this information in the hands of all of
their members. I think more frightening to
me than most anything is the failure of women
to bond together over this issue and demand
a halt. Where is Code Pink on this?
Thanks to Binu at www.countercurrents.org for
this.
eco
--------------------------
GI's Beware of Radioactive Showers!
By Irving Wesley Hall
http://www.countercurrents.org/us-hall280406.htm
Bush's impending, insane nuclear attack on Iran has provoked an
unprecedented rebellion within the top leadership of the United States
military. At the same time, depleted uranium (DU) is steadily taking
down
our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. It's time for the soldiers to
follow the
lead of their commanders in order to end the war
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From: David West <davidgordonwest@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: April 28, 2006 9:34:25 PM EST
To: prez@usa-exile.org
Subject: Mexico set to legalize personal amounts of pot
Mexico set to legalize personal amounts of pot, ecstasy,
cocaine, heroin
Friday, April 28, 2006; Posted: 10:10 p.m. EDT (02:10 GMT)
FACT BOX:
Excerpts from changes approved Friday by Mexico's Senate to the
country's Federal Penal Code:
Article 478: No criminal prosecution will be brought against:
I. Any person in possession of medications which contain substances
classified as narcotics ... when these medications, in their nature and
amounts, are those necessary for the treatment of the individual or
persons in his custody or care.
II. Any drug addict or consumer who is found in possession of a
narcotic for personal use.
Article 474: (Defines a "consumer" as):
Any person who consumes or uses psychotropic or narcotic substances,
and who does not exhibit any symptoms of addiction.
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AP) -- Mexico's Congress on Friday approved a
bill decriminalizing possession of small quantities of marijuana,
ecstasy, cocaine and even heroin for personal use, prompting U.S.
criticism that the measure could harm anti-drug efforts.
The only step remaining was the signature of President Vicente Fox,
whose office indicated he would sign the bill, which Mexican officials
hope will allow police to focus on large-scale trafficking operations
rather than minor drug busts.
"This law gives police and prosecutors better legal tools to combat
drug crimes that do so much damage to our youth and children," said
Fox's spokesman, Ruben Aguilar.
If Fox signs the measure and it becomes law, it could strain the two
countries' cooperation in anti-drug efforts -- and increase the vast
numbers of vacationing students who visit Mexico.
Oscar Aguilar, a Mexico City political analyst, said Fox appeared
almost certain to sign the law -- his office proposed it, and his party
supports it -- and that he had apparently been betting that it would
not draw much notice.
"That's probably why they (the senators) passed it the way they did, in
the closing hours of the final session," Aguilar said. "He's going to
sign it. ... He's not going to abandon his party two months before the
(presidential) election."
U.S. officials scrambled to come up with a response to the bill. One
U.S. diplomat who requested anonymity because he was not authorized to
speak publicly said "we're still studying the legislation, but any
effort to decriminalize illegal drugs would not be helpful."
The bill, passed 53-26 with one abstention by Mexico's Senate in the
early morning hours, already has been approved in the lower house of
Congress. It also stiffens penalties for trafficking and possession of
drugs -- even small quantities -- by government employees or near
schools, and maintains criminal penalties for drug sales.
The bill says criminal charges will no longer be brought for possession
of up to 25 milligrams of heroin, 5 grams of marijuana (about one-fifth
of an ounce, or about four joints), or 0.5 grams of cocaine -- the
equivalent of about 4 "lines," or half the standard street-sale
quantity (though half-size packages are becoming more common).
"No charges will be brought against ... addicts or consumers who are
found in possession of any narcotic for personal use," according to the
Senate bill, which also lays out allowable quantities for an array of
other drugs, including LSD, ecstasy and amphetamines.
Some of the amounts are eye-popping: Mexicans would be allowed to
possess more than two pounds of peyote, the button-size hallucinogenic
cactus used in some native Indian religious ceremonies.
Mexican law now leaves open the possibility of dropping charges against
people caught with drugs if they are considered addicts and if "the
amount is the quantity necessary for personal use." But the exemption
is not automatic. The new bill drops the "addict" requirement --
automatically allowing any "consumers" to have drugs -- and sets out
specific allowable quantities.
Mexican officials declined to explain how the law would work --
including whether drug use in public would be tolerated, or discouraged
by other means.
The law was defended by Mexican legislators -- and greeted with glee by
U.S. legalization advocates.
"We can't close our eyes to this reality," said Sen. Jorge Zermeno, of
Fox's conservative National Action Party. "We cannot continue to fill
our jails with people who have addictions."
Ethan Nadelmann, director of the New York-based Drug Policy Alliance,
said the bill removed "a huge opportunity for low-level police
corruption." In Mexico, police often release people detained for minor
drug possession, in exchange for bribes.
Selling all these drugs would remain illegal under the proposed law,
unlike the Netherlands, where the sale of marijuana for medical use is
legal and it can be bought with a prescription in pharmacies. While
Dutch authorities look the other way regarding the open sale of
cannabis in designated coffee shops -- something Mexican police seem
unlikely to do -- the Dutch have zero tolerance for heroin and cocaine.
In both countries, commercial growing of marijuana is outlawed.
In Colombia, a 1994 court ruling decriminalized personal possession of
small amounts of cocaine, heroin and other drugs.
The effects in Mexico could be significant, given that the country is
rapidly becoming a drug-consuming nation as well as a shipment point
for traffickers, and given the number of U.S. students who flock to
border cities or resorts like Cancun and Acapulco on vacation.
"This is going to increase addictions in Mexico," said Ulisis Bon, a
drug treatment expert in Tijuana, where heroin use is rampant. "A lot
of Americans already come here to buy medications they can't get up
there ... Just imagine, with heroin."
Copyright 2006 The Associated Press.
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From: Henri the Celt <henrithecelt@gci.net>
Date: April 28, 2006 1:34:22 PM EST
To: AAAHenri <henrithecelt@gci.net>
Subject: A Tottering Line of Huge Dominos...
MASSIVE WORLD SPECULATION DOMINOS
by Christopher Laird
PrudentSquirrel.com
http://www.financialsense.com/fsu/editorials/laird/2006/0320.html 2006
Last year, many Asian and other foreign stock markets went up as much
as 50%. There is a synchronized world housing bubble that is a very
analogous follow-on bubble from the Japan collapses in the early 90�s,
and the Fed loosening following 911.
We had the tech bubble crash in 2000/1, and a have now a general US
stock bubble that is yet to really pop. Right now, we are about at the
same DOW level before the market collapses in 2001/2.
There is a massive US and Japanese bond bubble because interest rates
are so low, and have been for over ten years, at least from Japan�s
perspective. Japan has acted as a virtual central banker for the world,
with their zero interest rates. That has caused both a multi trillion
dollar value Yen carry trade (borrowing cheap yen then lending the
money in the US for example for a net gain of about 3%). The massive
Yen carry trade has also financed much of the world stock bubbles as of
this point. Also, that money has found its way into the world real
estate market bubbles through various forms of mortgage backed
securities. This list is endless for the Yen carry trade.
For bonds, in general there is a huge increase in risk taking because
interest rates world wide are so low. Fixed income investors like
insurance companies, mutual funds and individual savers have no choice
but to send their hard earned money into the under priced bond markets.
There is no other place to get �safe� returns.
The ultra low US interest rates of late have created the huge US and
world real estate bubbles, and these are all synchronized and are going
to crash together within 6 months of a public/investor consensus that a
pop in the real estate bubble has occurred. This public and investor
consensus has not completely formed yet, but is now forming. Housing
data is now coming out every week with very significant statistics that
prove the housing bubble is cooling. With over 30% of homes in the last
few years being purchased as second homes or investment/speculation
properties, the now 6 months backlog of houses on the market is going
to cause a rush to the exits for speculators. That will ultimately
bring down the housing market all by itself, even if many people did
wish to keep their overpriced homes for a few years.
There is an unprecedented derivatives atom bomb waiting to collapse.
The derivatives outstanding according to the Bank of International
Settlements (BIS) has grown from roughly $20 trillion of value in the
early 1990�s to about $300 trillion now. The Fed and US banking
authorities have had two meetings in the last year to address the fact
that there is a very large percentage of these derivatives agreements
that are not closing their paperwork within even a month of their
creation! The Fed and other regulatory agencies are very concerned that
the Banking industry cannot handle the volume.
Warren Buffett has stated that derivatives are weapons of financial
mass destruction, due to their incredible leverage. Every year now, we
hear of old time banks and new ones going broke in a day or two when a
derivatives trade goes south for them. The recent victims are the
Chinese petroleum procuring company that lost about $700 million in
some air fuel hedges gone wrong. The trader responsible has been
arrested, as I recall, and probably going to rot in a Chinese work
prison.
I could talk about the Barings collapse, the LTCM collapse, and others.
What would happen if there was a real interlinked derivatives domino
collapse and not just one affecting two or three banks only? A
financial catastrophe of unimaginable scope.
Now I am going to stop here listing the dominoes that are all
synchronized world wide, because my fingers are getting tired, and I
don�t plan on typing all day and night to even to begin to list all of
these. I just wanted to list enough to give you a good idea because:
All of these dominoes are going to crash together in a period of less
than a year of each other and perhaps even within 3 months of each
other! I�ll tell you why in a moment.
Also, at this juncture, I wish to say again that there is a big ETF
mania going on in all financial and commodity realms. The hot ticket is
supposedly hard asset ETFs, to include gold. Many investors are turning
to ETFs because they are a hot new idea. Hedge funds and other
speculators are pouring money into ETFs, and increasing volatility in
the metals markets.
My point is that ETFs are a hot investing vehicle, but are not suitable
to people who want to own metals for monetary and wealth safety
reasons. For speculators, I suppose ETFs are fine. In fact, most of the
activity in ETFs now are speculators anyway and they are not in them
for the monetary reasons, but to obtain speculative gains. I go into
this in more detail in a special ETF report out this week at the
PrudentSquirrel newsletter.
To get back to the issue of synchronized global bubbles�
The issue at hand about the world stock, bond, and real estate bubbles
is that they are all peaking together. They are all at historic highs.
And they are all peaking at the same time in every nation on earth.
Developed nation or not, many world stock markets had incredible gains
in excess of 50% just last year!
That, combined with maturing real estate bubbles world wide, and the
fact that bonds are at a high peak because interest rates have been so
low mean that, when any one of these lets go, it will cascade into the
other like markets around the world. That cascade in the like markets
will lead to stampedes out of the other bubble markets as well.
Then we will see a massive financial collapse with all the synchronized
bubbles world wide, real estate, bonds, stocks collapsing in one fell
swoop.
This will not be just a national or regional collapse, it will be a
total world economic collapse because all these bubbles are now
synchronized.
Kondratieff studied bubbles of all kinds, from population growth to
economic. He found that bubbles invariably rise until a catastrophic
collapse. It is my view that we are in the last stages of a world
synchronized Kondratieff bubble that has subsumed all of the world
stock, bond, and real estate markets. The inception of the final stage
of this bubble occurred in the 1990�s when Japan opened a decade long
policy of zero interest rates. That money ultimately acted like a
global central bank liquidity wave that has found its way into all
world markets, and has synchronized them in conjunction with the tech
revolution and the emergence of globalization. The US participation
since 1998 and after 911 only heightened the process and magnitude.
� 2006 Christopher Laird
Editorial Archive
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April 27, 2006
http://www.counterpunch.com/fisk04272006.html
http://www.rense.com/general70/isra.htm
The United States of Israel
By ROBERT FISK
Stephen Walt towers over me as we walk in the Harvard sunshine past
Eliot
Street, a big man who needs to be big right now (he's one of two
authors of an
academic paper on the influence of America's Jewish lobby) but whose
fame, or
notoriety, depending on your point of view, is of no interest to him.
"John and
I have deliberately avoided the television shows because we don't think
we can
discuss these important issues in 10 minutes. It would become 'J' and
'S',
the personalities who wrote about the lobby - and we want to open the
way to
serious discussion about this, to encourage a broader discussion of the
forces
shaping US foreign policy in the Middle East."
"John" is John Mearsheimer, a political scientist at the University of
Chicago. Walt is a 50-year-old tenured professor at the John F Kennedy
School of
Government at Harvard. The two men have caused one of the most
extraordinary
political storms over the Middle East in recent American history by
stating what
to many non-Americans is obvious: that the US has been willing to set
aside its
own security and that of many of its allies in order to advance the
interests
of Israel, that Israel is a liability in the "war on terror", that the
biggest Israeli lobby group, Aipac (the American Israel Public Affairs
Committee),
is in fact the agent of a foreign government and has a stranglehold on
Congress
- so much so that US policy towards Israel is not debated there - and
that
the lobby monitors and condemns academics who are critical of Israel.
"Anyone who criticises Israel's actions or argues that pro-Israel
groups have
significant influence over US Middle East policy," the authors have
written,
"...stands a good chance of being labelled an anti-Semite. Indeed,
anyone who
merely claims that there is an Israeli lobby runs the risk of being
charged
with anti-Semitism ... Anti-Semitism is something no-one wants to be
accused
of." This is strong stuff in a country where - to quote the late Edward
Said -
the "last taboo" (now that anyone can talk about blacks, gays and
lesbians) is
any serious discussion of America's relationship with Israel.
Walt is already the author of an elegantly written account of the
resistance
to US world political dominance, a work that includes more than 50
pages of
references. Indeed, those who have read his Taming Political Power: The
Global
Response to US Primacy will note that the Israeli lobby gets a thumping
in this
earlier volume because Aipac "has repeatedly targeted members of
Congress
whom it deemed insufficiently friendly to Israel and helped drive them
from
office, often by channelling money to their opponents."
But how many people in America are putting their own heads above the
parapet,
now that Mearsheimer and Walt have launched a missile that would fall
to the
ground unexploded in any other country but which is detonating here at
high
speed? Not a lot. For a while, the mainstream US press and television -
as
pro-Israeli, biased and gutless as the two academics infer them to be -
did not
know whether to report on their conclusions (originally written for The
Atlantic
Monthly, whose editors apparently took fright, and subsequently
reprinted in
the London Review of Books in slightly truncated form) or to remain
submissively silent. The New York Times, for example, only got round to
covering the
affair in depth well over two weeks after the report's publication, and
then
buried its article in the education section on page 19. The academic
essay,
according to the paper's headline, had created a "debate" about the
lobby's influence.
They can say that again. Dore Gold, a former ambassador to the UN, who
now
heads an Israeli lobby group, kicked off by unwittingly proving that the
Mearsheimer-Walt theory of "anti-Semitism" abuse is correct. "I
believe," he said,
"that anti-Semitism may be partly defined as asserting a Jewish
conspiracy for
doing the same thing non-Jews engage in." Congressman Eliot Engel of
New York
said that the study itself was "anti-Semitic" and deserved the American
public's contempt.
Walt has no time for this argument. "We are not saying there is a
conspiracy,
or a cabal. The Israeli lobby has every right to carry on its work - all
Americans like to lobby. What we are saying is that this lobby has a
negative
influence on US national interests and that this should be discussed.
There are
vexing problems out in the Middle East and we need to be able to
discuss them
openly. The Hamas government, for example - how do we deal with this?
There may
not be complete solutions, but we have to try and have all the
information
available."
Walt doesn't exactly admit to being shocked by some of the responses to
his
work - it's all part of his desire to keep "discourse" in the academic
arena, I
suspect, though it probably won't work. But no-one could be anything but
angered by his Harvard colleague, Alan Dershowitz, who announced that
the two
scholars recycled accusations that "would be seized on by bigots to
promote their
anti-Semitic agendas". The two are preparing a reply to Dershowitz's
45-page
attack, but could probably have done without praise from the white
supremacist
and ex-Ku Klux Klan head David Duke - adulation which allowed
newspapers to
lump the name of Duke with the names of Mearsheimer and Walt. "Of
Israel,
Harvard and David Duke," ran the Washington Post's reprehensible
headline.
The Wall Street Journal, ever Israel's friend in the American press,
took an
even weirder line on the case. "As Ex-Lobbyists of Pro-Israel Group Face
Court, Article Queries Sway on Mideast Policy" its headline proclaimed
to
astonished readers. Neither Mearsheimer nor Walt had mentioned the
trial of two Aipac
lobbyists - due to begin next month - who are charged under the
Espionage Act
with receiving and disseminating classified information provided by a
former
Pentagon Middle East analyst. The defence team for Steven Rosen and
Keith
Weissman has indicated that it may call Secretary of State Condoleezza
Rice and
National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley to the stand.
Almost a third of the Journal's report is taken up with the
Rosen-Weissman
trial, adding that the indictment details how the two men "allegedly
sought to
promote a hawkish US policy toward Iran by trading favours with a
number of
senior US officials. Lawrence Franklin, the former Pentagon official,
has pleaded
guilty to misusing classified information. Mr Franklin was charged with
orally passing on information about a draft National Security Council
paper on Iran
to the two lobbyists... as well as other classified information. Mr
Franklin
was sentenced in December to nearly 13 years in prison..."
The Wall Street Journal report goes on to say that lawyers and "many
Jewish
leaders" - who are not identified - "say the actions of the former Aipac
employees were no different from how thousands of Washington lobbyists
work. They
say the indictment marks the first time in US history that American
citizens...
have been charged with receiving and disseminating state secrets in
conversations." The paper goes on to say that "several members of
Congress have
expressed concern about the case since it broke in 2004, fearing that
the Justice
Department may be targeting pro-Israel lobbying groups, such as Aipac.
These
officials (sic) say they're eager to see the legal process run its
course, but are
concerned about the lack of transparency in the case."
As far as Dershowitz is concerned, it isn't hard for me to sympathise
with
the terrible pair. He it was who shouted abuse at me during an Irish
radio
interview when I said that we had to ask the question "Why?" after the
11 September
2001 international crimes against humanity. I was a "dangerous man",
Dershowitz shouted over the air, adding that to be "anti-American" - my
thought-crime
for asking the "Why?" question - was the same as being anti-Semitic. I
must,
however, also acknowledge another interest. Twelve years ago, one of the
Israeli lobby groups that Mearsheimer and Walt fingers prevented any
second showing
of a film series on Muslims in which I participated for Channel 4 and
the
Discovery Channel - by stating that my "claim" that Israel was building
large
Jewish settlements on Arab land was "an egregious falsehood". I was,
according to
another Israeli support group, "a Henry Higgins with fangs", who was
"drooling
venom into the living rooms of America."
Such nonsense continues to this day. In Australia to launch my new book
on
the Middle East, for instance, I repeatedly stated that Israel -
contrary to the
anti-Semitic conspiracy theorists - was not responsible for the crimes
of 11
September 2001. Yet the Australian Jewish News claimed that I "stopped
just
millimetres short of suggesting that Israel was the cause of the 9/11
attacks.
The audience reportedly (and predictably) showered him in accolades."
This was untrue. There was no applause and no accolades and I never
stopped
"millimetres" short of accusing Israel of these crimes against
humanity. The
story in the Australian Jewish News is a lie.
So I have to say that - from my own humble experience - Mearsheimer and
Walt
have a point. And for a man who says he has not been to Israel for 20
years -
or Egypt, though he says he had a "great time" in both countries - Walt
rightly doesn't claim any on-the-ground expertise. "I've never flown
into
Afghanistan on a rickety plane, or stood at a checkpoint and seen a bus
coming and not
known if there is a suicide bomber aboard," he says.
Noam Chomsky, America's foremost moral philosopher and linguistics
academic -
so critical of Israel that he does not even have a regular newspaper
column -
does travel widely in the region and acknowledges the ruthlessness of
the
Israeli lobby. But he suggests that American corporate business has
more to do
with US policy in the Middle East than Israel's supporters - proving, I
suppose,
that the Left in the United States has an infinite capacity for
fratricide.
Walt doesn't say he's on the left, but he and Mearsheimer objected to
the
invasion of Iraq, a once lonely stand that now appears to be as
politically
acceptable as they hope - rather forlornly - that discussion of the
Israeli lobby
will become.
Walt sits in a Malaysian restaurant with me, patiently (though I can
hear the
irritation in his voice) explaining that the conspiracy theories about
him
are nonsense. His stepping down as dean of the Kennedy School was a
decision
taken before the publication of his report, he says. No one is throwing
him out.
The much-publicised Harvard disclaimer of ownership to the essay - far
from
being a gesture of fear and criticism by the university as his would-be
supporters have claimed - was mainly drafted by Walt himself, since
Mearsheimer, a
friend as well as colleague, was a Chicago scholar, not a Harvard don.
But something surely has to give.
Across the United States, there is growing evidence that the Israeli and
neo-conservative lobbies are acquiring ever greater power. The
cancellation by a
New York theatre company of My Name is Rachel Corrie - a play based on
the
writings of the young American girl crushed to death by an Israeli
bulldozer in
Gaza in 2003 - has deeply shocked liberal Jewish Americans, not least
because it
was Jewish American complaints that got the performance pulled.
"How can the West condemn the Islamic world for not accepting Mohamed
cartoons," Philip Weiss asked in The Nation, "when a Western writer who
speaks out on
behalf of Palestinians is silenced? And why is it that Europe and Israel
itself have a healthier debate over Palestinian human rights than we
can have
here?" Corrie died trying to prevent the destruction of a Palestinian
home.
Enemies of the play falsely claim that she was trying to stop the
Israelis from
collapsing a tunnel used to smuggle weapons. Hateful e-mails were
written about
Corrie. Weiss quotes one that reads: "Rachel Corrie won't get 72
virgins but she
got what she wanted."
Saree Makdisi - a close relative of the late Edward Said - has revealed
how a
right-wing website is offering cash for University of California at Los
Angeles (UCLA) students who report on the political leanings of their
professors,
especially their views on the Middle East. Those in need of dirty money
at UCLA
should be aware that class notes, handouts and illicit recordings of
lectures
will now receive a bounty of $100. "I earned my own inaccurate and
defamatory
'profile'," Makdisi says, "...not for what I have said in my classes on
English poets such as Wordsworth and Blake - my academic speciality,
which the
website avoids mentioning - but rather for what I have written in
newspapers about
Middle Eastern politics."
Mearsheimer and Walt include a study of such tactics in their report.
"In
September 2002," they write, "Martin Kramer and Daniel Pipes, two
passionately
pro-Israel neo-conservatives, established a website
(www.campus-watch.org) that
posted dossiers on suspect academics and encouraged students to report
behaviour that might be considered hostile to Israel... the website
still invites
students to report 'anti-Israel' activity."
Perhaps the most incendiary paragraph in the essay - albeit one whose
contents have been confirmed in the Israeli press - discusses Israel's
pressure on
the United States to invade Iraq. "Israeli intelligence officials had
given
Washington a variety of alarming reports about Iraq's WMD programmes,"
the two
academics write, quoting a retired Israeli general as saying: "Israeli
intelligence was a full partner to the picture presented by American
and British
intelligence regarding Iraq's non-conventional capabilities."
Walt says he might take a year's sabbatical - though he doesn't want to
get
typecast as a "lobby" critic - because he needs a rest after his recent
administrative post. There will be Israeli lobbyists, no doubt, who
would he happy if
he made that sabbatical a permanent one. I somehow doubt he will.
Robert Fisk writes for the Independent.
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Message 10
From: "reggie501" reggie501@optonline.net
Date: Sat Apr 29, 2006 9:01am(PDT)
Subject: 9/11 Update - 4/29
9/11 News : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#911
· Universal's Flight 93 'Hijacked' By Truth Seekers - Universal
Studio's Flight 93 movie online forum has been completely infiltrated
by people opposing the official government 9/11 fable and its
moderators are having to delete entire threads in real time deeming
them, "inappropriate."
· Official: Too early to tell 9/11 health effects - The federal
government's new Sept. 11 health coordinator said Friday that it's too
early to say for sure whether anyone will die from illnesses stemming
from their exposure at or near the World Trade Center site after the
terrorist attacks in 2001.
· "False Flagg" op called Rosetta Stone of 9/11 - You know. A false
flag op is when a nation attacks itself but makes it appear that an
enemy has committed the attack. This way it stirs its more or less
peace-loving people into going to war with the demonized "enemy." It's
false flag ops 1.1.
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Message 11
From: "cherishedheart2005" cherishedheart2005@yahoo.com
Date: Sat Apr 29, 2006 9:21am(PDT)
Subject: Re: flag
---
I agree with this post. I get very angry every time I see the field and
stars backwards on the American flag. I heard a proverb many years ago
that went ," The Devil always works backwards ".
In 911TruthAction@yahoogroups.com, Bugs <brawny@...> wrote:
>
> WWW.V911T.ORG- VISIT OR JOIN
>
> Since the war in Iraq,bush has had the flag with the union (which is
the stars) flying on the right TOP side of our flag,
> Always before since we have been the USA,the stars has always been on
the top left side of our flag .
> We as American's should DEMAND OUR CONGRESS TO CHANGE BUSH RULE AND
FLY THE USA FLAG THE RIGHT WAY.STARS ON THE TOP LEFT SIDE OF OUR FLAG...
>
>
> BUGS
>
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Message 12
From: "Joe Stokes" joestokes@sbcglobal.net
Date: Sat Apr 29, 2006 9:48am(PDT)
Subject: Universal's Flight 93 'Hijacked' By Truth Seekers
Universal's Flight 93 'Hijacked' By Truth Seekers
Forum moderators deleting entire threads in real time
Paul Joseph Watson/Prison Planet.com | April 29 2006
http://prisonplanet.com/articles/april2006/290406truthseekers.htm
Universal Studio's Flight 93 movie online forum has
been completely infiltrated by people opposing the
official government 9/11 fable and its moderators are
having to delete entire threads in real time deeming
them, "inappropriate."
A cursory visit to the forum confirms that the entire
website has been turned into a battle ground for
countering the government apologist propaganda being
regurgitated in an impetuous lunge to give credibility
to a tale about as reality-based as Humpty Dumpty.
The establishment press is spewing forth hit pieces as
fast as its antiquated 'one column per columnist per
week' ratio can muster. USA Today were the latest to
use this shockudrama screen drivel as a pugel to try
and bash a truth movement spreading like wildfire
across the four corners of the cyber globe.
I have a policy of issuing rebuttals to the most
distasteful hit pieces but now I'm content to sit back
and just lap up the hilarity of their desperation as
every attack piece is met with thousands of angry and
informed responses.
Neo-Con conspiracy theorist Betsy Hart reckoned all
the evidence could be explained away by saying that
people who question the official story "fear Islamic
terrorism." Her forum was overrun with cyber patriots
putting her in her place and she threatened to shut it
down.
Befuddled liberal turned Bushite Cinnamon Stillwell
gave us all a chuckle when she claimed that, "the
whole country witnessed the horrific sight of planes
flying into....the Pentagon."
When this website pointed out that no such video
exists of a plane flying into the Pentagon, Stillwell
was left reeling and red-faced after the San Francisco
Chronicle were forced to issue a retraction to the
fairy tale story.
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Despite multiple large websites encouraging people to
help Stillwell with her homework by e mailing her, she
backed down from the subject and her next article was
about immigration.
The Universal website carries a message at the top of
the page stating, "We apologize for the removal of the
message boards - due to technical difficulties all
previous threads have been inadvertantly deleted. We
invite you to renew your dialog and discuss your
thoughts on the film."
Yeah and the moon is made of cheese.
They deleted a whole backlog of threads because they
uniformly exposed the fact that Greengrass' shill
excuse for a movie is just another manufactured movie
script, much like the government's version of 9/11.
"Inappropriate posts which include profanity,
defamations, or threats will be removed. Posts that
are not deemed appropriate for a particular thread may
be moved by the moderator, says the site." By
'defamation' they mean defamation of the official yarn
that would put Hans Christian Anderson to shame and
truly is an insult to the victims of 9/11.
On the flip side websites like Counterpunch and even
the Philadelphia Daily News are carrying balanced
pieces highlighting unanswered questions about Flight
93 that were carefully avoided in the new release.
Universal are removing dissenting posts so fast that
children who suck their thumbs and believe the
establishment Jack and Jill version of 9/11 are now
starting to look like the majority. Visit the forum
and show them that a committed and educated minority
will always triumph over an ignorant brainwashed mass
of stupefied zombies.
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Message 13
From: "Cait" ansith@gmail.com
Date: Sat Apr 29, 2006 10:00am(PDT)
Subject: Re: Universal's Flight 93 'Hijacked' By Truth Seekers
I've been posting to the rebuilt board as "Heather" and have found an
amazing number of 9/11 truth supporters there. A few of the typical shill
type personalities are of course, present, but their posts seem to consist
of slanderous name calling and nothing more.
They (the OV supporters) seem to all be citing 911myths.com as their main
source of information and "debunking". We need to rip that site apart and
come up with a centralized answer to it to offer in response.
Does anyone have the web skills necessary to create such a site? Debunking
the 911myths site point by point with some of the hard information we've all
gathered over the years?
If so, please let me know! I'd love to add it into my arsenal for this
board!
-------Original Message-------
From: Joe Stokes
Date: 04/29/06 11:49:14
To: The_Corrupt_Republicans_Club@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [911TruthAction] Universal's Flight 93 'Hijacked' By Truth Seekers
Universal's Flight 93 'Hijacked' By Truth Seekers
Forum moderators deleting entire threads in real time
Paul Joseph Watson/Prison Planet.com | April 29 2006
http://prisonplanet.com/articles/april2006/290406truthseekers.htm
Universal Studio's Flight 93 movie online forum has
been completely infiltrated by people opposing the
official government 9/11 fable and its moderators are
having to delete entire threads in real time deeming
them, "inappropriate."
A cursory visit to the forum confirms that the entire
website has been turned into a battle ground for
countering the government apologist propaganda being
regurgitated in an impetuous lunge to give credibility
to a tale about as reality-based as Humpty Dumpty.
The establishment press is spewing forth hit pieces as
fast as its antiquated 'one column per columnist per
week' ratio can muster. USA Today were the latest to
use this shockudrama screen drivel as a pugel to try
and bash a truth movement spreading like wildfire
across the four corners of the cyber globe.
I have a policy of issuing rebuttals to the most
distasteful hit pieces but now I'm content to sit back
and just lap up the hilarity of their desperation as
every attack piece is met with thousands of angry and
informed responses.
Neo-Con conspiracy theorist Betsy Hart reckoned all
the evidence could be explained away by saying that
people who question the official story "fear Islamic
terrorism." Her forum was overrun with cyber patriots
putting her in her place and she threatened to shut it
down.
Befuddled liberal turned Bushite Cinnamon Stillwell
gave us all a chuckle when she claimed that, "the
whole country witnessed the horrific sight of planes
flying into....the Pentagon."
When this website pointed out that no such video
exists of a plane flying into the Pentagon, Stillwell
was left reeling and red-faced after the San Francisco
Chronicle were forced to issue a retraction to the
fairy tale story.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------
Find out the truth about 9/11: Subscribe to Prison
Planet.tv and watch all of Alex Jones' films!
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Despite multiple large websites encouraging people to
help Stillwell with her homework by e mailing her, she
backed down from the subject and her next article was
about immigration.
The Universal website carries a message at the top of
the page stating, "We apologize for the removal of the
message boards - due to technical difficulties all
previous threads have been inadvertantly deleted. We
invite you to renew your dialog and discuss your
thoughts on the film."
Yeah and the moon is made of cheese.
They deleted a whole backlog of threads because they
uniformly exposed the fact that Greengrass' shill
excuse for a movie is just another manufactured movie
script, much like the government's version of 9/11.
"Inappropriate posts which include profanity,
defamations, or threats will be removed. Posts that
are not deemed appropriate for a particular thread may
be moved by the moderator, says the site." By
'defamation' they mean defamation of the official yarn
that would put Hans Christian Anderson to shame and
truly is an insult to the victims of 9/11.
On the flip side websites like Counterpunch and even
the Philadelphia Daily News are carrying balanced
pieces highlighting unanswered questions about Flight
93 that were carefully avoided in the new release.
Universal are removing dissenting posts so fast that
children who suck their thumbs and believe the
establishment Jack and Jill version of 9/11 are now
starting to look like the majority. Visit the forum
and show them that a committed and educated minority
will always triumph over an ignorant brainwashed mass
of stupefied zombies.
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Message 14
From: "Bugs" brawny@twlakes.net
Date: Sat Apr 29, 2006 10:27am(PDT)
Subject: The impact of illegal aliens on America
The PORT DEAL FOLKS>>>>Bush is making...
bugs
----- Original Message -----
From: Scott Peden
To: 911TruthAction@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2006 12:22 AM
Subject: RE: [911TruthAction] The impact of illegal aliens on America
John, searching the LA Times and google I couldn't find a thing to corroborate these 'facts' or find a link to what might even have been the original article.
These look like all the other facts that alarmists with an agenda make up on the spot.
Have you ever been in LA? I did construction there for 20 years, they have 300,000 garages in LA????????
I assume you got this and took it as truth from the Close the Borders group.
So, these Mexican illegal aliens, how many of them were flying planes on 9/11?
What is this issue suppose to be diverting our attention from? This is exactallly the same thing as the Bird Flu, Rumsfeld's Tami Flu has killed more people than bird flu alone has. Sheesh, Beller, run in circles and scream and shout.
Coffee break is over, I have to get back to work.
Scott
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Subject: [911TruthAction] The impact of illegal aliens on America
The impact of illegal aliens on America
According to the Los Angeles Times,
1. 95% of warrants for murder in Los Angeles are for illegal aliens.
2. 75% of people on the most wanted list in Los Angeles are illegal aliens.
3. Over 66% of all births in Los Angeles County are to illegal alien Mexicans on Medi-Cal whose births were paid for by taxpayers.
4. Nearly 25% of all inmates in California detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally.
5. Over 300,000 illegal aliens in Los Angeles County are living in garages.
6. The FBI reports half of all gang members in Los Angeles are most likely illegal aliens from south of the border.
7. Nearly 60% of all occupants of HUD properties are illegal.
8. 21 radio stations in L.A. are Spanish speaking.
9. In L.A.County 5.1 million people speak English. 3.9 million speak Spanish (10.2 million people in L.A.County).
(29% of inmates in federal prisons reportedly are illegal aliens.)
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Message 15
From: "John Perna" savefreedom2005@yahoo.com
Date: Sat Apr 29, 2006 10:32am(PDT)
Subject: Deceased CIA agent foretold of this immigration invasion
Deceased CIA agent foretold of this immigration invasion
CM Ross <Reader@copper.net> wrote:
Hi There,
In case my reply to the guy who dismissed my civil war remark does not get posted to the List, here it is:
No, it's not. I am acquainted with the daughter of a deceased CIA agent who was stationed in South America.
He predicted the fall of the USA to the Reds, and said they would come up through Mexico. He said the start of the Revolution would be signaled by the mass migration of Mexicans into the USA.
The plan is to divide the USA into regions while fomenting a racial civil war. He also said that in the last days of the USA, there would be the appearance of freedom, but not its actual substance.
I interviewed a lady who infiltrated a Communist front group in Switzerland. She met a real Communist there, and asked her about their plans for the USA. She said the same thing as the CIA agent.
The lady asked the Red how they would accomplish this since you need a lot of soldiers to start a war. The Red said they are already in the USA - they came disguised as
Central American refugees and received aid through the churches' Sanctuary movement.
Take care,
Christine
CM Ross <Reader@copper.net> wrote:
My radio program was "Choose Life." The agent in question was Lafayette Vann Over, PhD, and he was the author of the unpublished manuscript The Brown Bear, which described the coming Soviet takeover of the USA via the Mexico. Mrs. Werthmann is still alive, and works with Eagle Forum. As a survivor of the Nazi and Communist regimes in Austria, she goes all over the USA warning of the coming police state.
Christine
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Message 16
From: "John Leonard" jpleonard@verizon.net
Date: Sat Apr 29, 2006 11:31am(PDT)
Subject: article on Moussaoui trial
http://www.waronfreedom.org/press/moussaoui-poor-patsy.html
Moussaoui: Mad Patsy Playing for the Prosecution.
Show Trial Unconstitutional, Experts Say
Witness tampering, faked evidence, inflammatory
testimony display political motives and confirm
Charlie Sheen's allegations, experts claim.
Washington, DC April 21, 2006 -- The trial
holding Zacarias Moussaoui responsible for the
horrors of 9/11 has all the marks of a political
charade, according to Scholars for 9/11 Truth, a
society of experts devoted to exposing falsehoods
and establishing truths about the events of that day.
The mentally instable Moussaoui "confessed" that
he and shoe-bomber Richard Reid were going to
hijack a fifth Boeing -- but even the FBI found
this implausible, and Reid himself could not be brought to confess to it.
Although Moussaoui wasn't directly linked to
9/11, the government wants him put to death for
failing to report everything he knew about it.
This is plainly unconstitutional, says 9/11 Truth
Scholar Webster Tarpley. The Fifth Amendment
states: "No person shall be compelled in any
criminal case to be a witness against himself."
"This trial is a grave violation of due process,"
says Professor James H. Fetzer. "They couldn't
link him to 9/11, so the prosecutors used a
confession to an invented plot as if it were relevant."
"Government prosecutors have contaminated
witnesses, elicited testimony they cannot
corroborate, and -- according to multiple reports
-- even forced Moussaoui to wear a 'stun belt'.
50,000 volts should be enough to keep anyone from
straying from the script," said Fetzer, who is
founder and co-chair of the Scholars with physics professor Steven Jones.
The fast-growing, over 200-member strong society
is only the tip of an iceberg of a "9/11 Truth"
movement which has produced dozens of books and
acres of websites assailing the official version of 9/11.
It's an uphill battle. Tarpley's publisher and
9/11 Truth Scholar John Leonard says you can get
the basic "9/11 Truth" idea across in less than a
minute, but most Americans have psychological barriers to it.
"When we hit a fact that contradicts our world
view, we usually pause, rationalize it away and
just keep on going. We don't come to a crashing
halt like a computer program that runs into a
misplaced comma. We are influenced too easily by
repetition, and too little by logic.
But sometimes we do stumble onto something that
makes us want to dig deeper. That's where 9/11 researchers come from."
As an experiment, Leonard asks people to look at three points.
First, the little video-clip image of a building
smoothly collapsing into dust. This was Building
7 of the World Trade Center, which collapsed at
about 5:30 p.m. on 9/11/2001, with all the signs of a controlled demolition.
Second point: the WTC 7 collapse is not mentioned
at all in the official 9/11 Commission report,
was never explained anywhere by the government,
and is hushed up by the corporate-controlled media.
If you are the researcher type, you now realize
that something is very, very wrong.
Third, look at the image of one of the Twin
Towers exploding, an hour after the jet fuel
burned off. Could this energetic eruption be caused by gravity?
This quick intro may not be enough to bring about
anyone's instant conversion experience, but it
might at least help see where the Scholars are
coming from when they report things like "there
were no Arabs on the passenger list" or "cell
phones don't work at 30,000 feet."
* * Close Enough for Government Work * *
The most hilarious moment of government mendacity
in the Moussaoui mistrial as noted by Fetzer came
with the inflammatory recordings, allegedly of
the last moments of Flight 93 which went down
over Pennsylvania. "Not only should they never
have been admitted into evidence," Fetzer said of
the crude fakes, "but Allen Green has noted that
much of the conversation is from the passenger
cabin -- which would never be picked up by the
cockpit voice recorder, even through an open
door. And most of the time, the cockpit door was
supposed to be closed." (CVR's or "black boxes"
from the WTC and Pentagon were allegedly never
found, an almost unprecedented occurrence in itself.)
Another howler was noted by a Muslim member of
S9/11T. Of the last words of the "hijackers" on
the tape, "Allah is great!" ("Allahu akbar!"),
Muhammad Columbo says, "The last words of a
Muslim cannot be these! This is in the call to
prayer, or in an attack at war. On dying, a
Muslim must confirm that "There is but one God,
Allah, and that Mohammed is his prophet!"
Either they were fake tapes, or fake Muslims,
shouting "Let's roll!" in Arabic. And now the
corporate media leg of the synthetic terror
structure has rolled a whole new fake, "United 93 the movie."
* * Patsies and Molehills * *
"I'm just a patsy!" Lee Harvey Oswald cried out,
in an unforgettable, desperate bid to save
himself. The term "patsy" goes back to the
medieval Pazzi family, who were fooled into
thinking they would be rewarded for trying to
overthrow the Medicis, but were only hanged for
their trouble. "Pazzi" is now the word for "crazy" or "fools" in Italian.
Webster Tarpley brought the vocabulary of patsies
and moles to the 9/11 issue. The analytical power
of Tarpley's rogue network model was made even
clearer with the Moussaoui trial. Without his
framework of patsies and moles, one can be easily
overwhelmed by the propaganda barrage around the case.
The actual terror acts are executed by other
specialists in the war party network, the
professional killers. In his Confessions of an
Economic Hit Man, John Perkins calls them the
"jackals," the real hit men who come in to
assassinate honest officials where the corrupt
blandishments of the EHM's fail. The network is
rounded out by a privatized command center, and
the controlled corporate media that covers up
loose ends and trumpets the party line.
Tarpley writes, "Moussaoui represents the classic
case of the patsy -- part double agent
consciously working for the government, part
psychotic, part fanatic, part dupe. His lawyers
tried to save him by showing that he is a
delusional paranoid schizophrenic, and this is doubtless accurate."
"Like shoe bomber Richard Reid, Moussaoui is a
product of Finsbury mosque in London, long
notorious as a British intelligence recruiting
center for expendable patsies..." (Full text at
end of this article) In his book 9/11 Synthetic
Terror, the chapter "Islamic Fundamentalism:
Fostered by US Foreign Policy, Tarpley makes a
broad statement: "Again and again, terrorist
groups with US-UK backing have intervened against
progressive nationalists in the Arab world, in favor of fundamentalists."
That Moussaoui is a mental wreck was made clear
in the Washington Post's April 19th report,
Psychologist Tells Court Moussaoui Is Delusional.
"Zacarias Moussaoui is convinced that the FBI
tried to track his movements in the United States
through a surveillance device placed inside his
electric fan, and believes President Bush will
free him in a prisoner exchange."
Moussaoui's defense team evidently were not
acquainted with Tarpley's model, or they should
have turned the tables and accused the moles,
their client's controllers. Their psychologist
would have realized that Moussaoui is suffering a
form of induced psychosis. Much of Moussaoui's
behavior fits the pattern of a confused,
vulnerable and suggestible subject operating
under the instructions of terrorist case officers.
Before he was turned into a fundamentalist
fanatic in the MI-6 mosque, Moussaoui was a
playboy, known for "a proclivity for alcohol,
women and partying before conversion to strict
Islam," according to news reports. "Those who
remember Moussaoui from his loudmouth displays at
London mosques, and who trained with him in
Afghanistan, describe him as a man who enjoyed
exaggerating his own importance." The double
agent role appeals to this kind of vain, weak mind.
To what extent the spy service training left him
obsessed with the idea of jihad, suicide missions
and hatred for America, and to what extent this
is the role-playing of a double agent, is a moot
point. Moussaoui is very confused and constantly
under intense pressures to display the repellent
"enemy image" behaviors, so his psychosis may be
purely induced by constant reinforcement and the
sheer madness of the situation he has gotten into.
One clear sign of the dominant influence of his
handlers is Moussaoui's insane hostility to his
defense team. Tarpley stresses that Moussaoui's
belief in a pardon by Bush is a sign of case
officer control -- they are telling him to put
his head all the way into the noose to be saved.
As a precedent Tarpley cites from the master
template of all Anglo-American false-flag
psy-ops, the 1605 Guy Fawkes hoax. The double
agents there were compromised individuals, living
under conditional pardons. Two of them had been
literally saved from the noose at the last minute
by Cecil, the grand mole and controller. This
example helped him fool a whole gaggle of
gullible stooges to go along with the
instructions to incriminate themselves as needed
to create a grand fake terror design. They were then hanged.
Moussaoui's delusion about the fan was not
entirely irrational either. He knew the FBI were
tracking him, and said so in his own defense at
one point in the case. The fan could have been a
suggestion from a case officer to reinforce
control. Of course, if he knew he were being
tracked, he couldn't rationally plan terror acts
on his own. More to the point, he knew he was
being tracked by them because he was employed by them -- as terror bogeyman.
His strange remark at the trial, "No pain, no
gain, America," seems to indicate some overall
understanding of the purpose of his employment:
to create a war pretext by a false-flag
operation. His lack of emotion at the scenes of
destruction of the WTC also fits, as do other
indications we have that none of the "alleged
hijackers" were involved with the 9/11 plot.
These "flight students" etc. existed only as a
species of human camouflage for the false-flag op.
A false-flag operation is a term from sailing
ship days, when a war could be instigated by
raising an enemy flag on one's own warships and
attacking one's own side. In false-flag
operations, Tarpley says, "The patsies ultimately
have three vital functions. The first is that
they have to be noticed. They must attract lots
and lots of attention. They may issue raving
statements." This helps makes them credible
scapegoats -- and also repugnant as enemy images.
It is what Moussaoui was good at; it even got him
arrested, perhaps due to a shortage of moles in Minneapolis.
Secondly, meanwhile, the patsies must stay out of
jail, not to carry out the terrorist attack --
that is a job for the professionals -- but to be
scapegoated for it. Keeping them out of jail is a job for the moles.
After the atrocity, the moles turn on the patsies
and liquidate them -- perhaps secretly, in the
case of alleged suicide hijackers, or publicly,
like Lee Harvey Oswald. Moussaoui's greatest
usefulness for now is as the perfect buffoon in a
show trial. After all, the whole purpose is war
propaganda, and he plays his part to the hilt.
The barbarity of the entire procedure, from
recruiting a naive subject, entangling him in
intrigue, turning him into a human wreck to be
pilloried as a bogeyman, then executing him, and
this all in the service of far greater atrocities
against millions of innocent victims in the
target countries: the sheer depravity beggars the imagination.
As for the moles, CBS reported on Mar. 21 that
"prosecutors allege that Moussaoui's lies to FBI
agent Samit prevented the FBI from thwarting or
at least minimizing the Sept. 11 attacks," yet
Samit "warned higher-ups and others in the
government at least 70 times that Moussaoui was a
terrorist." Samit blamed the FBI's failure to
launch a timely investigation on "criminal
negligence" and careerism by certain agents in FBI headquarters."
"Ignoring five or six reports of this kind might
reflect incompetence. Twenty or thirty, criminal
negligence. But ignoring 70 reports has to be a
matter of deliberate policy," Fetzer observed.
In his book, Tarpley noted that suspected moles,
like David Frasca at FBIHQ who sat on the
warnings, should logically be standing trial
before this jury on multiple counts of "failing
to prevent 9/11" -- not getting promoted!
Instead, an American kangaroo court came to a
harshly unconstitutional decision. Writer Jerry
Mazza explains this as the result of
"Painwashing" in Online Journal -- repeating
painful stories until judgment breaks down and
the jurors give in. He points out that on 9/11,
the same thing was done to the American people.
"It was what Pavlov called traumatic
conditioning," says Leonard, "A way of reversing
your normal characteristics by deep shock. Then
ordinary repetitious conditioning is used to
maintain the new traits." He thinks this may be
how ex-playboy Moussaoui was flipped around into
a fanatic. And his trial is just such a "booster shot" for America.
Commenting on the prosecutors' use of
conditioning tricks on the jury, trial judge
Brinkema himself warned, "You may pay a price for that down the road."
The price would be condemning the wrong person to
death and letting the real culprits go free.
And who might they be?
For the answers to that, see 9/11 Synthetic Terror: Made in USA.
==========
Notes.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N20300001.htm
"There is no information available to indicate
that Richard Reid had pre-knowledge of the 9/11
attacks or was instructed by the al Qaeda
leadership to conduct an operation in
coordination with Moussaoui," the FBI statement
said. It said that Reid had written a will naming
Moussaoui as the beneficiary of his belongings.
The FBI concluded the will showed that it was
"highly unlikely" Reid was to have been part of
the same martyrdom operation as Moussaoui.
NBC TV reporter Paul Williams gave the consensus
view of observers at the trial that Moussaoui
seemed to be wearing a stun belt. Video clip at
http://prisonplanet.com/articles/march2006/280306_b_belt.htm
. This is another parallel to the Guy Fawkes
trial, where the confessions of the duped
conspirators could only be obtained by severe torture.
For background see also The strange case of
Zacarias Moussaoui: FBI refused to investigate
man charged in September 11 attacks.
The entire text of Tarpley's remarks on the
Moussaoui case is given below. A similar essay is
included in the preface to the third edition of
9/11 Synthetic Terror, to be released in May/June
2006. See also the discussion of patsies in 9/11
Synthetic Terror, Ch. II, The Theory and Practice
of Synthetic Terrorism, p. 73.
"Zacarias Moussaoui, now the protagonist of a
show trial in Alexandria VA, represents the
classic case of the patsy – part double agent
consciously working for the government, part
psychotic, part fanatic, part dupe. As a subject
he is vastly inferior to Lee Harvey Oswald, the
patsy in the JFK assassination. Moussaoui’s
lawyers have tried to save him from execution by
showing that he is a delusional paranoid
schizophrenic, and this is doubtless accurate.
Like shoe bomber Richard Reid, Moussaoui is a
product of Finsbury mosque in London, long
notorious as a British intelligence recruiting
center for expendable patsies. Moussaoui attended
a flight school in Norman, Oklahoma for months,
but failed to obtain a pilot’s license. Moussaoui
has saved the federal case against him from
collapsing at least twice – once when he plead
guilty to capital crimes in the first place and,
more recently (after unprecedented prosecutorial
misconduct in prepping witnesses), by reversing
his earlier denials of a personal role in 9/11
and claiming that he and Reid were supposed to
fly a Boeing 747 into the White House on
September 11. But the specter of the mentally
disturbed derelict Reid and the psychotic
Moussaoui succeeding in this undertaking is
absurd – these two bunglers could hardly hijack a
tricycle. Moussaoui has repeatedly and obligingly
tightened the noose around his own neck when the
prosecution was at its weakest. His repeated
outbursts in the court have provided a steady
stream of inflammatory headlines in support of
the government’s account of 9/11, headlines which
have been eagerly spread by the corporate
controlled media. This suggests that he remains
under the influence of terrorist controllers or
case officers inside the US military-security
bureaucracy. What Moussaoui’s case officer is
telling him is suggested by the Moroccan’s claim
that he is going to be pardoned by George Bush as
part of a future exchange of prisoners.
Moussaoui’s controllers have reportedly fitted
him with an electric stun belt as an additional
means to influence his behavior. This makes the
entire proceeding a barbarous travesty. Moussaoui
should be confined in an institution for the
criminally insane and treated, not executed.
The government has argued that Moussaoui must die
because he did not reveal the full scope of the
9/11 plot when he was arrested in August 2001.
But, under the Fifth Amendment to the US
Constitution, nobody can be prosecuted for a
failure to incriminate themselves. The government
witness list has included prima facie FBI moles
such as Michael Rolince, the boss of the
notorious FBI executive David Frasca who received
the Phoenix memo and the Minneapolis warnings
about Arabs in flight schools, but who
systematically sabotaged action on these
warnings. Rolince testified that key warnings
never reached him. Harry Samit of the Minneapolis
FBI took the stand to accuse FBI headquarters
officials like Rolince and Frasca of "criminal
negligence" for their failure to respond to
seventy messages sent by Minneapolis. FBI
whistleblower Collen Rowley has said in this same
connection that Minneapolis agents joked "that
the key FBIHQ personnel had to be spies or
moles." She was right. But they were not moles
for "al Qaeda," but rather for the rogue network
in the bowels of the US military-security
establishment which carried out 9/11 as a means
of unleashing the war of civilizations. The
Alexandria show trial represents the government’s
clumsy attempt to shore up the discredited
official explanation of 9/11 in the face of the
growing influence of the 9/11 truth movement.
This article by John Leonard is based on his
draft version of the press release issued by 911
Truth Scholars at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/4/prweb375105.htm
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Message 17
From: "Victor Forsythe" angelman24@sprintmail.com
Date: Sat Apr 29, 2006 1:10pm(PDT)
Subject: Invasion of the body snatchers!
Subject: Re: The impact of illegal aliens on America
Subject: [911TruthAction] The impact of illegal aliens on America
The impact of illegal aliens on America
According to the Los Angeles Times,
That should actually read "Tiempos de Nuestra Senora de los Angeles, Alta
California"
Please take note Pilgrim.
1. 95% of warrants for murder in Los Angeles are for illegal aliens.
Also 95% of all huge assholes big enough to drive a MAC truck through
are Gringo assholes.
2. 75% of people on the most wanted list in Los Angeles are illegal
aliens.
They are wanted to clean up your fucking mess because everyone else
is too fucking lazy you piece of shit.
3. Over 66% of all births in Los Angeles County are to illegal alien
Mexicans on Medi-Cal whose births were paid for by taxpayers.
Good news but it doesn't even begin to pay us back for all the shit the
fucking
Gringo world fucking bank has stolen from us, together with NAFTA.
4. Nearly 25% of all inmates in California detention centers are Mexican
nationals here illegally.
5. Over 300,000 illegal aliens in Los Angeles County are living in
garages.
We gotta get 'em guns so they can take over the houses!
6. The FBI reports half of all gang members in Los Angeles are most
likely illegal aliens from south of the border.
We're working on a full 100% !
7. Nearly 60% of all occupants of HUD properties are illegal.
8. 21 radio stations in L.A. are Spanish speaking.
Time to start taking classes or go back to England.
9. In L.A.County 5.1 million people speak English. 3.9 million speak
Spanish (10.2 million people in L.A.County).
The rest speak Korean or Jamaican
(29% of inmates in federal prisons reportedly are illegal aliens.)
Invasion of the body snatchers!
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Message 18
From: "Naveed" flanker12k@yahoo.com
Date: Sat Apr 29, 2006 2:42pm(PDT)
Subject: Re: Fisk: "United States of Israel?" -- Fisk calls 9-11 investigato
I think people tend to get scared of the israeli connection to 9/11 or they are controlled.......
chomski is a whore, bastard claims that terrorism really and not the terrorism brought to you by the spook agencies........
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
http://www.fightthenwo.org/
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From: Dick Eastman <olfriend@nwinfo.net>
To: Undisclosed-Recipient@yahoo.com
Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 11:46:23 PM
Subject: [911TruthAction] Fisk: "United States of Israel?" -- Fisk calls 9-11 investigators fingering Israel "anti-Semitic" - calls Chomsky great moral philosopher.
You may think he's great -- but Fisk just lost me -- calling "anti-Semitic" those who point out the evidence implicating the Zionist neo-cons and Israel in the 9-11 false-flag frame-up -- and praising "jewish-lobby-cover-up-artist Chomsky as a great moral philosopher
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Thu, 27 Apr 2006 16:18:58 -0600
United States of Israel? by Robert Fisk
When two of America's most distinguished academics dared to suggest that US foreign policy was being driven by a powerful 'Israel Lobby' whose influence was incompatible with their nation's own interests, they knew they would face allegations of anti-Semitism. But the episode has prompted America's Jewish liberals to confront their own complacency. Might the tide be turning?
By Robert Fisk
04/27/06 "The Independent" -- - Stephen Walt towers over me as we walk in the Harvard sunshine past Eliot Street, a big man who needs to be big right now (he's one of two authors of an academic paper on the influence of America's Jewish lobby) but whose fame, or notoriety, depending on your point of view, is of no interest to him. "John and I have deliberately avoided the television shows because we don't think we can discuss these important issues in 10 minutes. It would become 'J' and 'S', the personalities who wrote about the lobby - and we want to open the way to serious discussion about this, to encourage a broader discussion of the forces shaping US foreign policy in the Middle East."
"John" is John Mearsheimer, a political scientist at the University of Chicago. Walt is a 50-year-old tenured professor at the John F Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. The two men have caused one of the most extraordinary political storms over the Middle East in recent American history by stating what to many non-Americans is obvious: that the US has been willing to set aside its own security and that of many of its allies in order to advance the interests of Israel, that Israel is a liability in the "war on terror", that the biggest Israeli lobby group, Aipac (the American Israel Public Affairs Committee), is in fact the agent of a foreign government and has a stranglehold on Congress - so much so that US policy towards Israel is not debated there - and that the lobby monitors and condemns academics who are critical of Israel.
"Anyone who criticises Israel's actions or argues that pro-Israel groups have significant influence over US Middle East policy," the authors have written, "...stands a good chance of being labelled an anti-Semite. Indeed, anyone who merely claims that there is an Israeli lobby runs the risk of being charged with anti-Semitism ... Anti-Semitism is something no-one wants to be accused of." This is strong stuff in a country where - to quote the late Edward Said - the "last taboo" (now that anyone can talk about blacks, gays and lesbians) is any serious discussion of America's relationship with Israel.
Walt is already the author of an elegantly written account of the resistance to US world political dominance, a work that includes more than 50 pages of references. Indeed, those who have read his Taming Political Power: The Global Response to US Primacy will note that the Israeli lobby gets a thumping in this earlier volume because Aipac "has repeatedly targeted members of Congress whom it deemed insufficiently friendly to Israel and helped drive them from office, often by channelling money to their opponents."
But how many people in America are putting their own heads above the parapet, now that Mearsheimer and Walt have launched a missile that would fall to the ground unexploded in any other country but which is detonating here at high speed? Not a lot. For a while, the mainstream US press and television - as pro-Israeli, biased and gutless as the two academics infer them to be - did not know whether to report on their conclusions (originally written for The Atlantic Monthly, whose editors apparently took fright, and subsequently reprinted in the London Review of Books in slightly truncated form) or to remain submissively silent. The New York Times, for example, only got round to covering the affair in depth well over two weeks after the report's publication, and then buried its article in the education section on page 19. The academic essay, according to the paper's headline, had created a "debate" about the lobby's influence.
They can say that again. Dore Gold, a former ambassador to the UN, who now heads an Israeli lobby group, kicked off by unwittingly proving that the Mearsheimer-Walt theory of "anti-Semitism" abuse is correct. "I believe," he said, "that anti-Semitism may be partly defined as asserting a Jewish conspiracy for doing the same thing non-Jews engage in." Congressman Eliot Engel of New York said that the study itself was "anti-Semitic" and deserved the American public's contempt.
Walt has no time for this argument. "We are not saying there is a conspiracy, or a cabal. The Israeli lobby has every right to carry on its work - all Americans like to lobby. What we are saying is that this lobby has a negative influence on US national interests and that this should be discussed. There are vexing problems out in the Middle East and we need to be able to discuss them openly. The Hamas government, for example - how do we deal with this? There may not be complete solutions, but we have to try and have all the information available."
Walt doesn't exactly admit to being shocked by some of the responses to his work - it's all part of his desire to keep "discourse" in the academic arena, I suspect, though it probably won't work. But no-one could be anything but angered by his Harvard colleague, Alan Dershowitz, who announced that the two scholars recycled accusations that "would be seized on by bigots to promote their anti-Semitic agendas". The two are preparing a reply to Dershowitz's 45-page attack, but could probably have done without praise from the white supremacist and ex-Ku Klux Klan head David Duke - adulation which allowed newspapers to lump the name of Duke with the names of Mearsheimer and Walt. "Of Israel, Harvard and David Duke," ran the Washington Post's reprehensible headline.
The Wall Street Journal, ever Israel's friend in the American press, took an even weirder line on the case. "As Ex-Lobbyists of Pro-Israel Group Face Court, Article Queries Sway on Mideast Policy" its headline proclaimed to astonished readers. Neither Mearsheimer nor Walt had mentioned the trial of two Aipac lobbyists - due to begin next month - who are charged under the Espionage Act with receiving and disseminating classified information provided by a former Pentagon Middle East analyst. The defence team for Steven Rosen and Keith Weissman has indicated that it may call Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley to the stand.
Almost a third of the Journal's report is taken up with the Rosen-Weissman trial, adding that the indictment details how the two men "allegedly sought to promote a hawkish US policy toward Iran by trading favours with a number of senior US officials. Lawrence Franklin, the former Pentagon official, has pleaded guilty to misusing classified information. Mr Franklin was charged with orally passing on information about a draft National Security Council paper on Iran to the two lobbyists... as well as other classified information. Mr Franklin was sentenced in December to nearly 13 years in prison..."
The Wall Street Journal report goes on to say that lawyers and "many Jewish leaders" - who are not identified - "say the actions of the former Aipac employees were no different from how thousands of Washington lobbyists work. They say the indictment marks the first time in US history that American citizens... have been charged with receiving and disseminating state secrets in conversations." The paper goes on to say that "several members of Congress have expressed concern about the case since it broke in 2004, fearing that the Justice Department may be targeting pro-Israel lobbying groups, such as Aipac. These officials (sic) say they're eager to see the legal process run its course, but are concerned about the lack of transparency in the case."
As far as Dershowitz is concerned, it isn't hard for me to sympathise with the terrible pair. He it was who shouted abuse at me during an Irish radio interview when I said that we had to ask the question "Why?" after the 11 September 2001 international crimes against humanity. I was a "dangerous man", Dershowitz shouted over the air, adding that to be "anti-American" - my thought-crime for asking the "Why?" question - was the same as being anti-Semitic. I must, however, also acknowledge another interest. Twelve years ago, one of the Israeli lobby groups that Mearsheimer and Walt fingers prevented any second showing of a film series on Muslims in which I participated for Channel 4 and the Discovery Channel - by stating that my "claim" that Israel was building large Jewish settlements on Arab land was "an egregious falsehood". I was, according to another Israeli support group, "a Henry Higgins with fangs", who was "drooling venom into the living rooms of America."
Such nonsense continues to this day. In Australia to launch my new book on the Middle East, for instance, I repeatedly stated that Israel - contrary to the anti-Semitic conspiracy theorists - was not responsible for the crimes of 11 September 2001. Yet the Australian Jewish News claimed that I "stopped just millimetres short of suggesting that Israel was the cause of the 9/11 attacks. The audience reportedly (and predictably) showered him in accolades."
This was untrue. There was no applause and no accolades and I never stopped "millimetres" short of accusing Israel of these crimes against humanity. The story in the Australian Jewish News is a lie.
So I have to say that - from my own humble experience - Mearsheimer and Walt have a point. And for a man who says he has not been to Israel for 20 years - or Egypt, though he says he had a "great time" in both countries - Walt rightly doesn't claim any on-the-ground expertise. "I've never flown into Afghanistan on a rickety plane, or stood at a checkpoint and seen a bus coming and not known if there is a suicide bomber aboard," he says.
Noam Chomsky, America's foremost moral philosopher and linguistics academic - so critical of Israel that he does not even have a regular newspaper column - does travel widely in the region and acknowledges the ruthlessness of the Israeli lobby. But he suggests that American corporate business has more to do with US policy in the Middle East than Israel's supporters - proving, I suppose, that the Left in the United States has an infinite capacity for fratricide. Walt doesn't say he's on the left, but he and Mearsheimer objected to the invasion of Iraq, a once lonely stand that now appears to be as politically acceptable as they hope - rather forlornly - that discussion of the Israeli lobby will become.
Walt sits in a Malaysian restaurant with me, patiently (though I can hear the irritation in his voice) explaining that the conspiracy theories about him are nonsense. His stepping down as dean of the Kennedy School was a decision taken before the publication of his report, he says. No one is throwing him out. The much-publicised Harvard disclaimer of ownership to the essay - far from being a gesture of fear and criticism by the university as his would-be supporters have claimed - was mainly drafted by Walt himself, since Mearsheimer, a friend as well as colleague, was a Chicago scholar, not a Harvard don.
But something surely has to give.
Across the United States, there is growing evidence that the Israeli and neo-conservative lobbies are acquiring ever greater power. The cancellation by a New York theatre company of My Name is Rachel Corrie - a play based on the writings of the young American girl crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer in Gaza in 2003 - has deeply shocked liberal Jewish Americans, not least because it was Jewish American complaints that got the performance pulled.
"How can the West condemn the Islamic world for not accepting Mohamed cartoons," Philip Weiss asked in The Nation, "when a Western writer who speaks out on behalf of Palestinians is silenced? And why is it that Europe and Israel itself have a healthier debate over Palestinian human rights than we can have here?" Corrie died trying to prevent the destruction of a Palestinian home. Enemies of the play falsely claim that she was trying to stop the Israelis from collapsing a tunnel used to smuggle weapons. Hateful e-mails were written about Corrie. Weiss quotes one that reads: "Rachel Corrie won't get 72 virgins but she got what she wanted."
Saree Makdisi - a close relative of the late Edward Said - has revealed how a right-wing website is offering cash for University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) students who report on the political leanings of their professors, especially their views on the Middle East. Those in need of dirty money at UCLA should be aware that class notes, handouts and illicit recordings of lectures will now receive a bounty of $100. "I earned my own inaccurate and defamatory 'profile'," Makdisi says, "...not for what I have said in my classes on English poets such as Wordsworth and Blake - my academic speciality, which the website avoids mentioning - but rather for what I have written in newspapers about Middle Eastern politics."
Mearsheimer and Walt include a study of such tactics in their report. "In September 2002," they write, "Martin Kramer and Daniel Pipes, two passionately pro-Israel neo-conservatives, established a website (www.campus-watch.org) that posted dossiers on suspect academics and encouraged students to report behaviour that might be considered hostile to Israel... the website still invites students to report 'anti-Israel' activity."
Perhaps the most incendiary paragraph in the essay - albeit one whose contents have been confirmed in the Israeli press - discusses Israel's pressure on the United States to invade Iraq. "Israeli intelligence officials had given Washington a variety of alarming reports about Iraq's WMD programmes," the two academics write, quoting a retired Israeli general as saying: "Israeli intelligence was a full partner to the picture presented by American and British intelligence regarding Iraq's non-conventional capabilities."
Walt says he might take a year's sabbatical - though he doesn't want to get typecast as a "lobby" critic - because he needs a rest after his recent administrative post. There will be Israeli lobbyists, no doubt, who would he happy if he made that sabbatical a permanent one. I somehow doubt he will.
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Message 19
From: "Joe Stokes" joestokes@sbcglobal.net
Date: Sat Apr 29, 2006 3:01pm(PDT)
Subject: Re: Universal's Flight 93 'Hijacked' By Truth Seekers
"Heather"! you have been doing a GREAT JOB. I am "TRUTH"!....Joe
--- In 911TruthAction@yahoogroups.com, "Cait" <ansith@...> wrote:
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> I've been posting to the rebuilt board as "Heather" and have found an
> amazing number of 9/11 truth supporters there. A few of the typical
shill
> type personalities are of course, present, but their posts seem to
consist
> of slanderous name calling and nothing more.
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> They (the OV supporters) seem to all be citing 911myths.com as their
main
> source of information and "debunking". We need to rip that site
apart and
> come up with a centralized answer to it to offer in response.
>
> Does anyone have the web skills necessary to create such a site?
Debunking
> the 911myths site point by point with some of the hard information
we've all
> gathered over the years?
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> If so, please let me know! I'd love to add it into my arsenal for this
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Message 20
From: "janet phelan" jcphelan10@yahoo.com
Date: Sat Apr 29, 2006 3:13pm(PDT)
Subject: FW: Blue Navy Blue--by Barry Chamish
www.barrychamish.com
BLUE NAVY BLUE
OR
WHY THE CYPRIOT RACKETEER RACKETEERS
by BARRY CHAMISH
Sharon's doctors confessed. They murdered the Prime Minister, and on April 27 said so on the Channel Two show, Uvda, meaning, fact. They should have said, "Peres blew the first attempt on Dec. 19 because Sharon didn't drink enough poisoned tea. So these thugs cornered us and made us murder Sharon for good." But they coordinated their testimonies. They were all "frustrated" that they killed Sharon.Yes, they found his weak brain veins and prescribed an anti-coagulant guaranteed to pop them.
But they weren't alone. They got lots of help from the secret service, the Shabak.
** Three days before our trip to Cyprus, my son and I made a grand discovery. He could make me discs from his computer and he could download practically any song for me. So we made a disc of my favorite 20 songs. The first song to be chosen was Navy Blue, a grand melody by Diane Renay. It was a perfect hit in 1964, by a lovely Jewish singer. I never understood why she changed her name from the far sexier Rene Kushner. The inspiring lyrics began:
Blue, navy blue, I'm as blue as I can be
'cause my steady boy said "Ship ahoy"
And joined the Nay-ee-ay-vee
Who wouldn't be driven by such a thought?
The disc-making function would come to great use. The wonderful person who filmed my last two lectures, just couldn't make a reliable final product. Now my own son could make a testable and saleable CD. Our host in Cyprus, Jim Searcy made such products and could train him.
** And the Uvda show, taught us all how the Shabak is used to kill prime Ministers. It turns out that on Dec. 19th, Sharon had a private meeting in the Knesset with Shimon Peres. By the end of the meeting, Sharon felt badly. Now it turns out, Shabak headquarters never heard about this turn because communication with the Knesset was disrupted for 15 minutes. Now, since Yoram Rubin was Sharon's chief bodyguard, the communication breakdown was with him. Uvda host Ilana Dayan didn't mention Rubin's name, or that he knocked off Rabin when he was his chief bodyguard, or that he is in the direct employ of Shimon Peres.
But 15 minutes is nothing compared to the day Sharon was really done in. First, Olmert leaves Sharon's Negev farm with permission to be Prime Minister while Sharon undergoes "minor" heart surgery the next day in Jerusalem. A few hours later Sharon doesn't feel good, so his Shabak keeper decides to move him by ambulance to Jerusalem. Sharon, meanwhile, collapses in the bathroom and it took the keeper 50 minutes to get him on a stretcher and out of the house.
Yes, 50 minutes, that's what Uvda reported.
But here's the kicker! Israel didn't care. There was minimal coverage in the papers, and no one talked about it . AND...No one stood up and demanded a more thorough investigation.
But I shouldn't have been so surprised. During the past election, I advised candidate Yaacov Schlosser to take a reporter to the closest police station and complain against Sharon's doctors. This act would make him a hero and get him a seat in the Knesset.
Needless to say, one more coward chose not to represent the Jewish people in the Knesset.
What worries me is, as, in the case of Rabin, people are already supplying me with the real facts on Sharon. But I'm not spending another decade on justice for Sharon when most Israelis despise him anyway.
Still, a short passage from a long essay by a man who knows:
Yes - and obviously thought of you and what you wrote, immediately!
I am a pharmacologist-toxicologist, Barry. I used to be the Head of the Drug
Registration Department in the Ministry of Health here;
I am also today a consultant re new drug entities, clinical studies; I write
this intro. because I am considered as a drugs expert. The treatment which
the 'late' PM received could, under no circumstances, advised for a person
in his condition...To hear the Head of Hadassah telling how Medicine (with a capital M) today
is NOT really accurate and so risky - made me wonder if he is the right man
for his job! What a lot of nonsense; Medicine has never had it so good!
It is impossible to understand how daily PR assessment to establish the
correct dosage for Sharon could have been made so quickly-and if any plan
was made for this test to be continued at his home....If as was indicated he
received injections of Clexane - a "hell-of-an" anti-coagulant, then to be travelling home with a body full
of the stuff is an apt description of a walking time-bomb...I think Ilana Dayan is probably on a hit-list now and we may see some doctors being retired early or us being informed they are abroad for
Sabbaticals!
http://www.rense.com/general70/killed.htm
** My friend Jim Searcy doesn't share that much with me, but what we do share is profound. In short, we both fight the New World Order in our writing, and we fish, I mean really fish. This was his second invite and I refused it at first. Last June he promised me bass and I flew to Cyprus, fished like an otter and caught none. Jim was the only angler in Cyprus to catch them. But he pitched in money this time and I added a bit more to bring my son to the island. It was at a cost. I also lost two great selling days in Hebron.
My son is very quick and after his first hour of Cyprus from a taxi, he proclaimed, "This is primitive Europe like the Balkans."
Funny he should say that. Just prior to my last visit, I read a long book; The Cyprus Conspiracy. I would recommend it, but it's so boring. In short, Kissinger got the Turks to attack in '74. The island is kept prosperous but not too...
Kinda makes you recall the great lyrics of Navy Blue:
He said he wanted to settle down
And let me be his girl
But first he had to do a little travelin' around
And see the whole wide world
That's why I'm ..
Blue, navy blue, I'm as blue as I can be
'cause my steady boy said "Ship ahoy"
And joined the Nay-ee-ay-vee
** Now where did Israel's great courage go to? Maybe, most of it ran away when you consider what becomes of people who get involved. Like Sharon's lawyer:
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/705177.html
Last update - 06:14 12/04/2006
Mother, son killed in six-car pile-up in northern Tel Aviv
By Assaf Carmel, Haaretz Correspondent
The accident occurred when the SUV driven by attorney Avigdor "Dori" Klagsbald slammed into the Wexlers' car as they were waiting at a red light. It is still unclear why Klagsbald failed to see the other car and to brake in time. Other vehicles were also involved in the accident, in which six people including Klagsbald sustained minor injuries...Klagsbald, who lives in Kfar Shmaryahu, is one of Israel's top lawyers. He is cofounder and partner of an office specializing in corporate law. His clients have included Ariel Sharon, whom he represented during the police investigations into the "Greek Island" and "straw companies" affairs, as well as Shaul Mofaz and Ofer Nimrodi.
** This trip was different. I caught 2 bass. My boy was satisfied catching way more of an easier fish, but I stuck with my guns and lo and behold, I caught the piscine prince for my fishing legends; two largemouth bass. Only one thing could dull the trance, a very minor scratch on the car. You couldn't see if from 2 meters away. But Jim wasn't worried. He fully insured me. I might have to lose my $100 deductible.
But we had never dealt with the likes of rentalsman, Stavros Aresti.
He informed me that Jim had insured me for the usual 500 pound, $1200 deductible. He demanded a bit over $700 for my trouble.
Immediately, the lyrics of Navy Blue resounded:
I got a letter yesterday from Tokyo
And a souvenir
A walky-talky wind-up little China doll
That says "Wish you were here"
Blue, navy blue, I'm as blue as I can be
cause my steady boy said "Ship ahoy"
And joined the Nay-ee-ay-vee
** Up tempo to present day! Why should I be bothered trying to get the Jews to know that they've been infiltrated, and many of the "great" Jews guiding them are Frankists, their very worst enemy? They always inform them that these Frankists, like Joseph Lieberman, are Orthodox though they never wear a kippah. The newest Frankist creep is Joshua Bolten, White House Chief-of-Staff, hired to keep Bush in check.
http://armeniangenocide.com/forum/showthread.php?p=14283
http://www.wzo.org.il/en/resources/view.asp?id=1636
There is, first of all, the well-known fact that Brandeis' ancestors had been believers in the eighteenth century pseudo Messiah, Jacob Frank. While his family did not follow their leader into the Catholic fold, they were prominent among the crypto-Frankist sectarians in the Jewish community of Prague. By the mid-nineteenth century, descendants of these religious" dissidents were no longer mystical antinomians, and they often destroyed records of their past; yet they retained the memory of it as a proud family tradition.
Gershom Scholem has published the ethical will of Brandeis' mother's uncle, Gottlieb Wehle, in which members of the family are exhorted (in 1864) to respect their ancestors' tradion of antinomian disdain for the normative Judaism of traditional rabbis. This document came to Scholem through the good offices of Justice Brandeis himself. Strangely enough, Brandeis did not remember-or choose to remember?-that there exists a privately printed book of reminiscences, written in: German by his mother, at his own request, and translated for the benefit of their grandchildren by his wife, Alice Goldmark Brandeis. This is a fascinating little document in which the family atmosphere of anti-traditional dissidence is strikingly evoked.
Brandeis gave mute testimony in one respect to the lingering vitality of at least some aspects of the family tradition. A bachelor until the ripe age; of thirty-four, when he finally did marry he followed, knowingly or not, a custom widely practiced among Jewish crypto-Frankist families. His wife, a cousin, was like himself a descendant of the Central European circle of crypto-Frankist Jews, who, as Scholem reports continued to maintain close contact and intermarry among themselves.
Accounts of Brandeis's life often note the influence of his mother on his own political idealism, while the recently published volume of Brandeis' letters shows him frequently writing on current politics, especially on international affairs, to his father. He takes unfeigned pride in his family's immediate European background: they considered themselves "Forty-Eighters," and his father in-law, Joseph Goldmark, had been one of the foremost student leaders of the 1848 revolution in Vienna. But these were hardly influences that could make a Jewish leader, let alone a Zionist, out of him. Indeed, his Zionism was not shared by his parents, his own generation, or his children except for his daughter, Susan.
There remains his uncle, Lewis Dembitz; an early American Zionist. According to Alpheris Mason, the standard, authorized Brandeis biographer, in the close Wehle-Dembitz-Brandeis circle in Louisville this eminent Kentucky lawyer, scholar, and abolitionist "was easily the dominating figure of the group: Brandeis himself eulogized his uncle as, "to those of my generation, a living university." The strong attachment of L.D.B.to LeWis Dembitz is not only attested by Brandeis' express statements; it is borne out by certain acts of plainly symbolic character. He consciously followed his uncle's example in becoming a lawyer-and a 1egal scholar. He changed his name: originally Louis David Brandeis, he chose to call himself Louis Dembitz Brandeis. Whatever the significance of his act in relation to his mother, who was a Dembitz, it is a blatant identification with her brother, his Uncle Lewis. His mother's reminiscences (written at his request, from 1880 to 1886, after he had left to
settle in- Boston and it was clear he intended to remain far away from home) cast a revealing light on the special position in the Brandeis clan of Uncle Lewis, as well as on the general attitudes prevailing in the family. Her memories of the Old Country evoke the atmosphere of: something larger than family or clan: it is the unmistakable flavor of a movement that is conveyed. There are references to heroic and noble characters more precisely, to men and women of titled nobility who were associated with what is not specifically named but proudly indicated, the Frankist underground. Anyone who has participated in a rebellious movement, particularly in one that goes underground, will recognize the style of intimacy with greatness, the ,pride in exceptionalism, the consciousness of belonging to an elite that emerge from those pages.
**My son is always right. Cyprus has a big enough exchange in foreign tourists that the car renters can pull off this racket. Don't give them real insurance and pounce when there's a sucker. But Stavros Aristos was not merely a racketeer who racketeers, he was also an established conman. He assured me that Cyprus had a marvelous deal with American Express. You pay the full insurance here and are repaid in full back home.
With time running out, his con was accepted.
In Israel he was immediately reported to AMEX, while copies of the report were sent to Cyprus' Tourism Minister, and Insurance Federation. I e-mailed Jim and asked him to report the gangster to similar agencies.
But he hemmed and he hawed. Clearly I could be raped for $700, and he would do nothing to defend my honor. Or his.
Which leads to the universal question: If you're writing against a whole New World Order, why won't you fight the local racketeer the same way?
I figure, the right answer here might explain why Israel has lost its cajones.
Till then, I can only be consumed by the hopeful closing lyrics of Navy Blue:
He's comin' home to see me on a weekend pass
A forty-eight hour day-ate
That boat he's sailin' on just better get here fast
'cause I can hardly wait
Till then I'm ..
Blue, navy blue, I'm as blue as I can be
'cause my steady boy said "Ship ahoy"
And joined the Nay-ee-ay-vee
**What's ten years? Fine, someone else has had his eyes opened wide.
The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin - Peres Connection?
Compiled by Steven Shamrak
"The police and hospital records prove beyond doubt that Amir could not have been Rabins killer. All the filmed and eye-witness testimonies show that he did not and could not have shot Rabin point blank and from the front." - Linda Goldman co-produced a four-minute report of the assassination for "NBC-Extra.".
Mother of Yigal Amir stated that her son had been goaded into shooting the prime minister by an agent provocateur working for Shin Bet.
According to a report by Maariv, Yossi Ginosar, an ex-secret service officer, who was former Prime Minister Ehud Baraks special envoy to Yasser Arafat, was also handling monies on behalf of the PLO leader. According to the report, the monies that passed through Ginosars hands on behalf of Arafat reached the sum of up to 300 million dollars, and were deposited in a secret account in Switzerland. Peres got a cut of Ginosar's deals and we know that because the Peres Center for Peace, owns a 1.3% share of Arafat's telephone company Paltel and has been conducting other internationally sponsored deals with PA.
Rabin wanted out of Oslo and that would have been very costly for Yossi Ginosar. Was he in on the Peres assassination team? If he and Peres aren't investigated, we'll never know.
After Rabin's assassination in 1995, and Peres succeeded him as prime minister... ( The case against Peres involvement in Rabin's assassination is circumstantial, but it merits the need for criminal investigation against him. Now Peres is the second man in the Kadima party. If Kadima forms the government, history might repeat itself. True democracy must not allow it!)
http://www.jfkmontreal.com/jfk_jr_&_rabin.htm
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=16355
http://thetruthonly.narod.ru/GinosarMoneyArafat01.htm
**So now I have to get the work and make up my lost $700. So what do I do? I lose another $1200 to pay my lawyer to fight Itamar Ben Gvir. Right now, the Kach boys are being rewarded brilliantly by the courts. Itamar won 66,00 shekels four days ago in a suit against the police. Noam Federman got over a million shekels for his house arrest.
My, how the courts suddenly, even fabulously, love Kach these days.
But I got somebody to talk. And it wasn't easy. But I have got a witness
You know what? I'd love to send you a long videotape on Ben Gvir. I'll even throw in Yigal Amir telling Israel police, on four separate occasions, that Bin Gvir was supposed to get a toy gun from Avishai Raviv and fake-shoot Rabin. I'll even add the Police's written records of the interrogation.
What the heck, if I get ten orders, I'll make the whole package. Maybe I'll ask for 30 shekels for historic films and documents.
All this to get Ben Gvir really good and worried! Join in.
**I learned some lessons from the last article about Larry Silverstein. One is 9-11 has to be looked at individually. The experts' consensus is that UA Flight 93 landed in Cleveland Heights and who knows what did or didn't crash in Pennsylvania. More important, the world is too ignorant to differentiate between the vast millions of Jews and the thousands of Frankists who both hate the Jews and claim to represent them.
The latter are up to their ears in 9-11 and I'm not saying another word. Finito!
http://www.pentagonstrike.co.uk/flash.htm#Main
http://www.erichufschmid.net/PainfulQuestionsBook.html
** So, I'm with my son a few days before the Cyprus trip. We download Navy Blue. I hear it for the first time in a few decades. I say to my son, "That's it. I'm writing Diane and she'll write me right back."
His reply; "Yeah, sure you will."
I wrote her that night. I told her that she was, for me, the grand lady of Jewish chanteuses. That she should have recorded under the name Rene Kushner. And that I was in the Israeli Air Force, not Navy.
Within a day she answered with this wonderful, no beautiful, reply.
Dear Barry:
Thank you for your email!
For your information I have many relatives that live in Israel that were related to my Grandfather, whom I do not know!
I only met a cousin from Israel when he came to the US for a visit when I was a little girl. His name was Ami, if that is the correct spelling!
He was tall and had blonde hair and the bluest eyes....I had a terrible crush on him, LOL.
However a war broke out during the 50s and he had to go back to Israel to fight.
We never heard from him again!
Love: Diane Renay <{:>)
end
You know what? My son can reproduce any CD. I'm going to try an experiment. He will make you a CD
without any labels or design for...
20 shekels
and
10 dollars.
It's tight but let's try it for a week. The CDs are:
Tzion First: The Vaticans New Crusade For Jerusalem
Hebrew:
The Secret War Against The Settlers. Filmed in Qiryat Arba this year.
Who Murdered Yitzhak Rabin.
All CDs in 2, 2 hour sets.
Available at chamish@netvision.net.il
are my English books; Shabtai Tzvi, Labor Zionism And The Holocaust; Save Israel!; Who Murdered Yitzhak Rabin; Israel Betrayed; The Last Days of Israel;
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Message 21
From: "Dick Eastman" olfriend@nwinfo.net
Date: Sat Apr 29, 2006 4:08pm(PDT)
Subject: ever read poetry? -- "They gave my boy a gun ...
They gave my boy a gun,
loaded with uranium.
war complex profits rise
you filthy rotten scum!
Our leaders lie and deceive,
to feed their corporate friends greed,
pre-emptive war is what we need
while our veteran�s kids are born with no feet
Our children will cry,
"what have you done?
You believed a lie?
Now look what has come"
Propaganda blows,
agitation grows,
blood and oil flows
the right wing knows
Our children will cry,
"what have you done?
You believed a lie?
Now look what has come"
Politicians working for you and me?
Neo-cons and mega money
Now we�re voting electronically
PLEASE WAKE UP!
Fascist screws tightening down,
Corporations control your town,
Climate change is....
just around the corner....
They won�t spend a dime
destroying the environment is no crime
they got a place in the Cayman Ils
you filthy rotten scum
How is the air?
How is the ice?
Oceans are diluting,
but why stop polluting?
They won�t spend a dime
destroying the environment is no crime
they got a place in the Cayman Ils
you filthy rotten scum
(new verse)
They brought my boy back
then they sent him back to Iraq
oil simply must flow
Stop loss, stock price, mega money is just like crack
Our children are being murdered
Who profits - Halliburton
they got a place in the Cayman Ils
you filthy rotten scum
They gave my boy a gun
said he�d get an education
they gave my boy a gun
loaded it up with uranium .
http://lonestaricon.com/2006/CurrentIssue/17/14guest.htm
MP3 - http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2005/07/5801.php
Two images changed my life when I visited the Peace Museums in Hiroshima
and Nagasaki in August of 2000, on my first trip to Japan. I had worked
as a geoscientist in two U.S. Nuclear weapons labs - Lawrence Berkeley
National Lab and Lawrence Livermore National Lab - but I never knew what
a nuclear weapon really was, nor the horrific effects of radiation on the
environment and biological systems. Now I know.
In the Hiroshima Museum, as a nuclear weapons lab whistleblower I
wandered through the exhibits with TV cameras in my face, keeping it
together by stuffing my emotions. I walked past the mangled lunch boxes
and tricycles, thinking of the school children as I looked at the watches
and clocks stopped at the moment the first thermonuclear weapon detonated
on a human population. Shadows of people vaporized on stones, and on the
steps of a building where one had sat, waiting for the bank to open on
that fateful morning. A diorama showed the reality of dying people
walking through the streets of Hiroshima with skin dripping and hanging
from their bodies. In another image a man stood looking down at his
eyeball he held in his hand. When I looked up at a model of LITTLE BOY,
the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, I lost it and broke down in sobs
which did not stop until half an hour later, half way through a press
conference. The cameras continued to roll, capturing my horror and real
feelings of the realization that scientists had made that "gadget"
possible. I am a scientist, I worked in those laboratories of death. And
I am a graduate of the University of California, which will forever be
known as "the University that poisoned the world". The University managed those laboratories of death, unchallenged, for more than 60 years.
Three days later in the Nagasaki Peace Museum, I saw FAT MAN, the first plutonium atomic bomb which was dropped on Nagasaki. There were photos taken by a local photographer just hours after the bomb destroyed the city. People were standing on a bridge absolutely devastated, lying on the ground dying, patterns from their kimonos burned into their skin. And then I saw THE photo. A young mother standing with her kimono open barebreasted, with a vacant stare, while she nursed her dying baby.Sobbing overwhelmed me once again, and still brings tears to my eyes when I think of that image, which is burned into my brain by now. I am a mother, and in that moment I knew that mother could have been me, with the life of my baby taken from me, or any other mother around the world. Radiation respects no living thing. That is when I made the decision to spend the rest of my life doing research and educating the public about radiation.I never knew that I could make a difference.Now I know that, as a citizen scientist, empowering others is the best way of all.
I started by writing a Letter to the Editor, not expecting to have it
published, but it was. And then I started writing articles about depleted
uranium which I had learned about from a journalist, Akira Tashiro, whom
I met in Hiroshima on that first trip to Japan. In 2002 he asked me to
write the Forword to his prize-winning book DISCOUNTED CASUALTIES: THE HUMAN COST OF DEPLETED URANIUM. Then I was asked to be an expert witness in Japan for the International Criminal Tribunal for Afghanistan in 2003. Marion Fulk, a Manhattan Project scientist and Livermore nuclear weapons program researcher, prepared me with the best science in the world for my testimony. The testimony resulted in a very strong conviction on depleted uranium weapons, illegal under all laws, war conventions, US Federal Code, and US military law. In fact, during testimony the exposure of the original 1943 Manhattan Project plan to develop it as a radioactive poison gas weapon, convinced the international panel of Judges to make two additional charges: it was a crime against the environment, and President George Bush was guilty of war crimes by knowingly exposing his own troops to illegal radioactive weaponry.
My motivation to expose the horrible truth about depleted uranium,
resulted in very unexpected successes. One of the most important actions
was taking a bill, introduced and stuck in limbo in the Connecticut
legislature, to New Orleans on a speaking tour in March 2005. I joined
antiwar protestors and veterans marching through the streets of New
Orleans on March 19. We ended up standing on the white marble steps of the antebellum Louisiana Supreme Court in the heart of the French
Quarter. While I stood in the hot sun describing the horrors of depleted
uranium weapons, a withered grinch of a security guard glared out at me
from behind the locked doors of the Courthouse, while a police van across the street secretly videotaped our speeches. Bob Smith, a Vietnam veteran, came up afterwards and asked me for a copy of the Connecticut
depleted uranium bill originally written and introduced by Pat Dillon.
Dillon is an epidemiologist and was the Speaker of the House in
Connecticut, a position she lost shortly after her bill was introduced.
Much to my complete shock, Bob Smith and Ward Reilly, two Vietnam era veterans, took it to the Louisiana legislature. They told two legislators
willing to introduce the bill to "white out Connecticut and write in
Louisiana". It was quickly passed unanimously by the legislature and
signed into law by the Governor within a few months.What I didnt know then, was that bill would set States rights against Federal rights, and
National Guardsmen against regular military personel, busting the
depleted uranium issue open on a national scale. Because state
governments have legal jurisdiction over the National Guard, the state
bill requiring mandatory testing for depleted uranium exposure did not
cover regular military personel. This angered the regular soldiers who
were frustrated and angry over being "kicked to the curb" by the Pentagon and Veterans Administration. The state is legally entitled to force the Pentagon to pay the costs of implementing the bill, because the Pentagon is in violation of its own mandates, directives and orders which require training, testing, and treatment for soldiers handling depleted uranium.
In May of 2005, Congressman McDermott M.D. (D-WA), introduced a depleted uranium bill in Congress. Attached to the bill as a supporting document was an entire issue of President Bush�s hometown newspaper in Crawford, Texas, THE LONE STAR ICONOCLAST, which Leon Smith, the Editor, had dedicated to "What is DU?". On March 1, 2006, a second issue "Have DU,Will Travel" came out with extensive interviews with scientists. After covering Cindy Sheehan and Camp Casey last summer, the paper is now widely read in Washington DC. Recently, Editor Leon Smith published a book called THE VIGIL: 26 DAYS IN CRAWFORD, TEXAS about Camp Casey.
Today, more than 15 states have introduced a depleted uranium bill, and
Louisiana and Connecticut have passed theirs. It has created a nightmare
for the Federal Government and put the Pentagon in permanent PR
counterspin as well as exposed 15 years of official coverup under three
Presidents and corruption in Congress. Our children, our sons and
daughters, have been sent off to the battlefields of the Middle East and
Central Asia to become uranium meat. The cost of their care has been
dumped on the state medical facilities. Their families have been
destroyed, not to mention their lives. It is time for citizens and state
elected officials to pass depleted uranium bills which will help all
soldiers by putting pressure on the Federal Government.
Each of us has a part to play by demonstrating at local facilities like
Alliant (manufacturer of depleted uranium weapons), writing letters to
local newspapers, contacting elected officials, counter-recruiting in
schools, or just passing on the information so that others can become
aware. Put a song in their hearts by sending; Johnny Got A Gun, to your
local radio station or Indymedia site to play on the air.
Depleted uranium is Washingtons secret nuclear war.
Download the MP3 file for Johnny Got A Gun
http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2005/07/5801.php
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Message 22
From: "Naveed" flanker12k@yahoo.com
Date: Sat Apr 29, 2006 4:46pm(PDT)
Subject: Re: Universal's Flight 93 'Hijacked' By Truth Seekers
HAhahahahah!!!!
DATS HILAROUS!!
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
http://www.fightthenwo.org/
----- Original Message ----
From: Joe Stokes <joestokes@sbcglobal.net>
To: "The_Corrupt_Republicans_Club@yahoogroups.com" <The_Corrupt_Republicans_Club@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2006 11:47:57 AM
Subject: [911TruthAction] Universal's Flight 93 'Hijacked' By Truth Seekers
Universal's Flight 93 'Hijacked' By Truth Seekers
Forum moderators deleting entire threads in real time
Paul Joseph Watson/Prison Planet.com | April 29 2006
http://prisonplanet.com/articles/april2006/290406truthseekers.htm
Universal Studio's Flight 93 movie online forum has
been completely infiltrated by people opposing the
official government 9/11 fable and its moderators are
having to delete entire threads in real time deeming
them, "inappropriate."
A cursory visit to the forum confirms that the entire
website has been turned into a battle ground for
countering the government apologist propaganda being
regurgitated in an impetuous lunge to give credibility
to a tale about as reality-based as Humpty Dumpty.
The establishment press is spewing forth hit pieces as
fast as its antiquated 'one column per columnist per
week' ratio can muster. USA Today were the latest to
use this shockudrama screen drivel as a pugel to try
and bash a truth movement spreading like wildfire
across the four corners of the cyber globe.
I have a policy of issuing rebuttals to the most
distasteful hit pieces but now I'm content to sit back
and just lap up the hilarity of their desperation as
every attack piece is met with thousands of angry and
informed responses.
Neo-Con conspiracy theorist Betsy Hart reckoned all
the evidence could be explained away by saying that
people who question the official story "fear Islamic
terrorism." Her forum was overrun with cyber patriots
putting her in her place and she threatened to shut it
down.
Befuddled liberal turned Bushite Cinnamon Stillwell
gave us all a chuckle when she claimed that, "the
whole country witnessed the horrific sight of planes
flying into....the Pentagon."
When this website pointed out that no such video
exists of a plane flying into the Pentagon, Stillwell
was left reeling and red-faced after the San Francisco
Chronicle were forced to issue a retraction to the
fairy tale story.
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Despite multiple large websites encouraging people to
help Stillwell with her homework by e mailing her, she
backed down from the subject and her next article was
about immigration.
The Universal website carries a message at the top of
the page stating, "We apologize for the removal of the
message boards - due to technical difficulties all
previous threads have been inadvertantly deleted. We
invite you to renew your dialog and discuss your
thoughts on the film."
Yeah and the moon is made of cheese.
They deleted a whole backlog of threads because they
uniformly exposed the fact that Greengrass' shill
excuse for a movie is just another manufactured movie
script, much like the government's version of 9/11.
"Inappropriate posts which include profanity,
defamations, or threats will be removed. Posts that
are not deemed appropriate for a particular thread may
be moved by the moderator, says the site." By
'defamation' they mean defamation of the official yarn
that would put Hans Christian Anderson to shame and
truly is an insult to the victims of 9/11.
On the flip side websites like Counterpunch and even
the Philadelphia Daily News are carrying balanced
pieces highlighting unanswered questions about Flight
93 that were carefully avoided in the new release.
Universal are removing dissenting posts so fast that
children who suck their thumbs and believe the
establishment Jack and Jill version of 9/11 are now
starting to look like the majority. Visit the forum
and show them that a committed and educated minority
will always triumph over an ignorant brainwashed mass
of stupefied zombies.
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Message 23
From: "Naveed" flanker12k@yahoo.com
Date: Sat Apr 29, 2006 4:54pm(PDT)
Subject: Chicago Chatter
http://www.cloakanddagger.de/lenny/ghost%20troopapr26.htm
Yeah I realize I'm sounding like a nut but hell listen to the broadcast and tell me what you think!
Keep in mind shrub-co needs another 9/11 to keep them going, and at this point their ship is going down in flames!!!
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
http://www.fightthenwo.org/
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Message 24
From: "Dick Eastman" olfriend@nwinfo.net
Date: Sat Apr 29, 2006 5:57pm(PDT)
Subject: articles: Judy Andreas: Eyes To See -=- Russian Central Bank threat
From: "Peter Myers" <myers@cyberone.com.au>
April 29, 2006
(1) Chomsky signs the Vanunu petition
(2) Eyes To See, by Judy Andreas
(3) Bush to proclaim May of every year as "Jewish American Heritage Month"
(4) Sweden called to explain Hamas visas
(5) Former Military Chief says "Keep West Bank"
(6) Chaos among the Noahides
(7) Italian authorities investigate anti-Israel protests at Milan march
(8) Russian Central Bank threat to $ reserve currency status
(1) Chomsky signs the Vanunu petition
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 00:17:33 +0200 Forwarded from: "Gideon Spiro"
<spiro@bezeqint.net>
> Please let me know if Chomsky signs the
> Vanunu petition
He did.
Gideon.
(2) Eyes To See, by Judy Andreas
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 04:06:54 EDT From: Jude10901@aol.com
Eyes to See by Judy Andreas
Sometimes it is difficult to write an essay, not because I have nothing to say,
but because I have too much to say.
When I wrote Opening Jewish Eyes http://www.rense.com/general67/opening.htm I
was barely aware that the "Jewish Eyes" to which I referred, were my own.
In 1993, I began an 11 year experience working for the Department of Social
Services. My first position involved placing clients on work programs in
exchange for their welfare grants. If the client did not comply, in other words,
if he did not attend his workfare program, his grant was reduced substantially.
Most clients obeyed. Some of them ultimately opted to find a job and get out of
the system. However, there was one group who did not need to comply.
The Hasidic Jewish men had their own set of rules. I was surprised to see that
Social Services did the proverbial "back bend" to accommodate them. Since their
religion forbade them to work on a site with women, special conditions were
arranged. However, even so, they did not show up for their assignment.
The wife often would call. "My husband is too depressed to go."
Sometimes there was no call at all.
When a client was not complicit, we would go through a process of conciliation;
a hearing involving two impartial witnesses. If the excuse was not adequate, the
sanction process was instituted and the welfare grant would be cut accordingly.
Most often the Hasidic men were subject to sanction.
"You are an anti-Semite", one man yelled at me.
"No," I responded. "You are not obeying the rules."
It was difficult to watch my other clients doing their workfare jobs. I saw too
many overqualified minorities cleaning toilets at The Psychiatric Center because
they could not get a job. I saw people pushing brooms to get their grants. There
were supposedly no favorites in the organization, or so I thought. I soon
learned differently.
The Commissioner of Social Services, upon hearing about the sanction of the
Hasidic male, would inform my Supervisor to drop it. My Supervisor, a close
friend of mine, was appalled. And, to make matters worse, he began to wear the
label "anti-Semite" when he objected. It was unfair. It was unjust.
Years have elapsed since my experiences in Social Services and my knowledge of
injustices has grown to intolerable proportions. As I mentioned in past essays,
works such as The Hidden History of Zionism by Ralph Schoenman
http://www.marxists.de/middleast/schoenman/, the writings of Lenni Brennar and
Prof. Norman Finkelstein have destroyed my previously held myths about the State
of Israel and replaced them with images of slaughtered and starving
Palestinians. Most recently, I listened in horror as Jennifer Dixon reported on
present day Palestine, from her book The Holy Land Unveiled.
How many Americans are aware that there is a genocide of the Palestinian
populace occurring? How many people care? How many people have "eyes to see" or
are they too busily focused on their high definition television sets?
In November of 2005, I was invited on Hesham Tillawi's show, "Current Issues
TV". Dr. Tillawi is a Palestinian American whose Internet show is an education
that people will never receive in school. Those who are familiar with me and my
work know that I was scheduled to appear with David Duke. Despite clamoring from
friends and foe alike, I kept my appointment.
At the time, I went in with the usual bias that most uneducated people have
about David. A mere google of his name would reveal a sordid series of
quotations. Many of them, I later learned, were untrue. In order to further
smear him, he was often referred to a "former KKK member" David Duke. I did not
realize that "former" meant over 30 years ago. I did not realize that David had
not participated in any of the "made for TV" propaganda about The Klan. I did
not realize that this would truly be the opening of my Jewish eyes.
Aside from some technical glitches, I began to learn about David Duke and even
had a chance to ask him some questions that were preying on my mind. After the
show, we began an email exchange and further issues became clarified.
Since there were those who consider David an anti-Semite, my mailbox became a
clutter of Zionist invective. I even became the recipient of hate phone calls.
Imagine that? There were people who were eager to terrorize me for my freedom of
association. Ignorance and close mindedness are an unGodly duo.
And now, it is almost a year later. I have learned a great deal about the roots
of anti Semitism from people like David Duke, who, by the way, is quick to
distinguish the difference between the average righteous Jew and the Jewish
Supremacists. Unfortunately, the average Jew will probably never listen to his
show or read his work.
I have watched helplessly as people like Ernst Zundel, David Irving and Germar
Rudolf were jailed merely because they dared to question certain details of
World War 2. I have watched "freedom of speech" imprisoned along with these men.
Questions are now a "hate crime" in many countries. (depending, of course, on
WHAT one questions) The disease of supposed "hate crimes" is spreading faster
than the "bird flu."
Brevity has always been my trademark and I know this is one topic in which
brevity is difficult. And so, I urge you to listen to the speech of the
courageous Ben Freedman. I urge you to read about the Chabad Lubavitch and the
influence they are exerting, not only on this government but governments all
over the world. I urge everyone to get informed.
Knowledge is power. And yet, once we have the knowledge, what are we going to do
with it? My prayer is that we will have an informed populace of Jews, Muslims
and Christians who will no longer allow themselves to be manipulated by a small
insidious cabal? That is my dream. That is my hope. That is our only chance for
saving this planet.
Copyright: 2006 JUDE10901@AOL.com www.judyandreas.com
(3) Bush to proclaim May of every year as "Jewish American Heritage Month"
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 14:58:47 EDT From: RePorterNoteBook@aol.com
Bush to proclaim designated month for Jewish history
http://www.columbiatribune.com/2006/Apr/20060422Feat002.asp
By BETH REINHARD Knight Ridder Newspapers Published Saturday, April 22, 2006
MIAMI - In a history-making moment, President George W. Bush is expected next
week to proclaim May of every year as Jewish American Heritage Month.
The proclamation will be the culmination of months of work by U.S. Rep. Debbie
Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., who pushed resolutions through the House and Senate
that urged Bush to take action. That's no small feat for a first-term Demo-crat.
Now it's up to school districts, museums and community groups to make the
symbolic designation meaningful. Wasserman Schultz wants these institutions to
raise awareness about Jewish contributions to American life, as they have done
with Black History Month and Women's History Month.
"We've all observed a precipitous rise in bigotry and anti-Semitism across the
country and globally," said Wasserman Schultz. "If through educational and
cultural programming we can foster understanding and tolerance, that would be a
significant accomplishment."
The month of May will replace the little-known Jewish American Heritage week in
April that has been proclaimed annually by presidents - including Bush - since
1980. May was chosen because it does not include any major Jewish holidays.
"There will be no religious emphasis," Wasserman Schultz said. "It will be
purely cultural and educational, so we didn't want it tied to any particular
Jewish holiday."
The U.S. House of Representatives put a stop to laws commemorating a certain
period of time in 1995, responding to the deluge of members seeking a symbolic
way to connect with certain constituents or special-interest groups. But
lawmakers still ask the president frequently to issue proclamations, and he has
honored Irish Americans, the Wright brothers and family caregivers.
Bush courted Jewish voters, who traditionally lean Democratic, during his two
presidential campaigns. He began an annual Hanukkah celebration at the White
House. Before last year's event, the White House brought in a team of three
rabbis to oversee the cleansing of the kitchen and preparation of kosher food.
"The president recognizes the importance of celebrating Jewish-American
contributions to the nation," said White House spokesman Blair Jones.
Wasserman Schultz will officially announce Jewish American Heritage Month at a
ceremony at 11 a.m. Monday at the Jewish Museum of Florida in Miami Beach. The
museum's founding executive director, Marcia Zerivitz, worked closely with
Wasserman Schultz.
"We don't want to forget the larger story of immigration and that everyone has
come from somewhere else," Zerivitz said. "American Jews have contributed so
much, and we thought we should have a month to commemorate that."
(4) Sweden called to explain Hamas visas
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 16:09:35 +0200 From: "Kristoffer Larsson"
<kristoffer.larsson@sobernet.nu>
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1145961240664&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FPrinter
Sweden called to explain Hamas visas
JPost.com Staff, THE JERUSALEM POST Apr. 27, 2006
The Foreign Ministry on Thursday sharply criticized Sweden's decision to drop
out of military exercises including Israel and the possibility that the
Scandinavian country will issue visas to members of Hamas.
Foreign Ministry Director-General Ron Prosor summoned Swedish Ambassador Robert
Rydberg to Jerusalem to express Israel's displeasure after Sweden pulled its
eight jet fighters from an international air force exercise once it found out
Israel would be participating.
Prosor conveyed the message that Sweden would not be looked upon favorably as a
participant in the peace process following Stockholm"s indication that Israel
was not considered a peace-loving country, according to Foreign Ministry
Spokesman Mark Regev.
"If a country believes that Israel is not good enough to participate in
peacekeeping maneuvers, Israel will be entitled to think that that country is
not qualified to play a role in the Middle East peace process," Regev said.
"This stance could be interpreted as a decision to boycott Israel," he added.
"This stance could be interpreted as giving support to those extremists in the
international community who want to delegitimize the Jewish state." Sweden has
rejected that assertion, explaining the decision to drop out of the exercise as
stemming from technical and financial concerns.
Swedish Prime Minister Goran Persson told reporters in Stockholm Thursday that
Sweden withdrew from the May 8-26 Volcanex 2006 exercise in Decimomannu, Italy
because his country sees no need to train with the Israeli military since the
two countries do not work together in any peacekeeping operations.
"We are careful about joining exercises with countries that we won't cooperate
with in international missions under UN or EU mandates," he said. "That's our
principle ... that's our history. The Israelis have another, more warlike,
history, which I find regrettable for that matter."
Eliasson sought to downplay the diplomatic spat Thursday, saying it had grown to
"larger proportions than it deserves," according to news agency TT.
"There is no reason to dramatize this," he said. "It has nothing to do with our
relationship to Israel that we want to protect and promote. It is a purely
practical judgment based on the exercise needs we have."
Israeli diplomatic sources, however, said they were entirely dissatisfied with
Sweden's reaction to their concerns and dismissed as "not serious" and
"illogical" the argument that the move was made for logistical reasons.
"It's ridiculous because they planned to do it and then they pulled out," said
one source.
Israel was also not pleased with the response it received on the issue of visas
for two Hamas representatives of the Palestinian Legislative Council, Salah
Muhammad el-Bardawil and Muhammad al-Rantisi, slated to visit Sweden on March
16.
A source familiar with Thursday's meeting at the Foreign Ministry said that
Rydberg told the Israelis that no visas had yet been granted, but that he
couldn't rule out their being granted in the future. Rydberg did stress,
however, that the visit was unofficial and would not include any meetings with
government representatives.
But the Israeli embassy in Sweden criticized the distinction. "The two Hamas
members who are coming to Sweden in May are coming in order to garner support
for Hamas, that is to say, for a terror organization," an embassy statement
said. "They are not innocent bystanders."
The expected visit comes on the heels of Paris's decision not to issue visas for
Hamas representatives to participate in a conference in France. The EU includes
Hamas on its list of terrorist organizations.
Prosor pointed out that if Hamas operatives were to come to Malmo, Sweden as
scheduled, it would be the first time a member nation of the European Union
allowed such a visit.
AP contributed to this report.
(5) Former Military Chief says "Keep West Bank"
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 13:04:04 +0100 From: Rowan Berkeley
<rowan.berkeley@googlemail.com>
Former Military Chief: Keep West Bank
By Ori Nir, Forward, April 28, 2006 http://www.forward.com/articles/7710
[this is 'Bugi' lining up for leadership of the Likud, I guess. For a really
crap video of IDF brass singing a little song for his retirement, download here
(30MB) : http://www.idf.il/media/Moshe_MosheClip.wmv - RB]
WASHINGTON - Moshe Yaalon, the recently retired chief of staff of the Israeli
military, is a kibbutznik from a Labor movement background. But in sharp
contrast to the retired military men entering the next Knesset, Yaalon is the
rare, and arguably most important, retired Israeli general to publicly oppose
unilateral Israeli withdrawals from the West Bank and Gaza.
Yaalon, who in many circles is credited as the military leader most responsible
for Israel's success in curbing Palestinian terrorism in the past few years, has
made his opposition known in recent months in a series of speeches and
publications in Israel and the United States. The former chief of staff has
harshly criticized the two-state solution as unviable and chastised Israeli
leaders for offering "illusions" to the public. He laments what he describes as
widespread combat-fatigue among Israelis and says Israel must come to grips with
many more years of needing to occupy the West Bank.
His argument is simple: The Palestinian leadership, whether Hamas of Fatah,
still strives to destroy Israel. Only when Palestinians give up the dream of
reclaiming their pre-1948 communities inside Israel and recognize Israel's right
to exist as a Jewish state will peace be possible. Until then, Israel must show
strength, fight terrorism with all its might and not reward terrorists or expose
the country's volatile eastern border to attacks by withdrawing. It will take at
least a generation - probably more than one - for the Palestinian society to
ripen for peace negotiations. Until then, Israelis have to simply toughen up and
continue fighting.
Contrary to most retired Israeli generals, who have come to the conclusion that
an end to Israel's occupation of the West Bank would best serve the country's
security interest, Yaalon believes the opposite: An effective Israeli rule in
the West Bank is strategically necessary as long as the Palestinian society is
not ready to live in peace with the Jewish state.
The Israeli right has been celebrating Yaalon's disapproval of territorial
unilateralism. But the former chief of staff says his views come not from a
nationalistic or messianic vision of a "greater Israel"; he insists that he does
not share the worldview of the ideological right.
"Any division between right and left in Israel today is irrelevant," he told the
Forward in a recent interview at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy,
where he is spending a year as a guest scholar.
His analysis, Yaalon said, is based on realism - not ideology - stemming from a
deep sense of disillusionment with the Palestinians, which has been fermenting
for a decade.
Yaalon, 56, grew up in a Labor movement home in Kiryat Haim, a working class
suburb of Haifa. When he was 18, together with friends from the Labor youth
movement, he established the southern kibbutz of Grofit, where he still has a
home. When the Oslo Accord was signed in 1993, opening the door to PLO rule in
the West Bank and Gaza, Yaalon supported the peace process, he said, despite
having no role in planning or negotiating the agreement.
"Personally, politically - I can say today - I was ready for a territorial
compromise," he said. When asked if he had been willing to return to the 1967
borders, he replied: "Yes. For a real, comprehensive lasting peace, I was. Yes."
At the time, he said, that seemed possible. But hopes for a viable deal with a
reliable partner started fading when he became chief of Israel's military
intelligence in 1995. "I then started to ask many questions," he said. "I
discovered lots of holes in the agreement. I looked at the Palestinian Authority
under [Yasser] Arafat, which by then had been on the ground for a year, and
asked what it has done to fight terrorism, to prepare Palestinians for peace."
The answers were alarming, he said. And with time he discovered that Arafat was
not behaving like a man of peace, but rather like a "jihadist" preparing
Palestinians for war. Many in Israel, Yaalon said, refused to see it. Others saw
it but declined to draw the conclusion that the Palestinian leader was
unreliable and untrustworthy.
That conclusion further ripened, he said, in 1998, after he became the commander
of Israel's Central Command, responsible for the West Bank. He became so
convinced of Arafat's belligerent intentions, he told the Forward, that in the
summer of 1999 he wrote a memo warning that around September 2000, Arafat would
launch a terrorism war against Israel.
That prophetic assessment, he said, stemmed from the announcement by then-prime
minister Ehud Barak of his intention to reach a final settlement with Arafat in
15 months. "Fifteen months meant September 2000," Yaalon said, explaining he was
certain that Arafat would rather go to war than sign a final compromise deal.
"We, at the Central Command, were preparing for such a war for more than a year,
while the Israeli people were too blind to see" what was about to unfold, Yaalon
said.
Even after the war started - Yaalon insists on calling it a war, not an uprising
or an "intifada" - it took Israeli politicians a long time to realize that the
hostilities were a planned, strategic choice by the Palestinians, he said.
"I didn't let hopes and illusions distract me," Yaalon added.
That clarity, according to Yaalon, equipped him with the precision and
perseverance he needed to fight terrorism as deputy chief of staff in 2001 and
2002, and then as chief of staff starting July 2002.
As chief of staff, Yaalon coined the controversial phrase that Israel must
"brand into the Palestinians' consciousness" that violence would not yield them
any political gains. He took the Israeli military on the offensive, stepping up
the "targeted killings" of terrorism suspects and launching large-scale raids
into Palestinian towns and villages. The offensive strategy was somewhat
successful, and in the minds of many Israelis - and Americans, who often seek
his expertise on counterterrorism techniques - Yaalon is perceived as the chief
of staff who won the war on terrorism.
This temporary victory, he says, will have a lasting political effect only if
Israel maintains its pressure on the Palestinians. His main criticism of the
unilateral disengagement strategy is that Israeli withdrawals play into the
hands of the terrorists because the moves are perceived by Palestinians as
surrender. "What we are doing is leaving a legacy for the next generation where
they are dealing with Palestinians who believe that terrorism pays, that Israel
cuts and runs under pressure," he said.
Yaalon admits that his prescription is not as easy to sell to an Israeli society
that is battle-fatigued and yearning for quick fixes. In a way, he admits, his
relatively quick successes in the fight against terrorism undermined the effort
to condition the Israeli public for a long-term conflict.
"The more we improve the security situation, paradoxically, we receive less and
less [public] backing for [additional] military activity," he said. "The moment
we push the sword away from our neck, we go back to behaving like a glut
society. Unfortunately, Israeli society must realize that it must hold on to its
sword while pursuing modernity and prosperity."
When asked how battle-weary Israelis could be convinced to make such a long-term
sacrifice, Yaalon replied without hesitation: "leadership."
"A bold leader," he said, "has to simply come and tell the Israeli people:
'Folks, this is our situation; we're in for the long haul.'"
Yaalon wouldn't say if he sees himself as that future leader.
Under Israeli law, he was forbidden from assuming political office for six
months after he retired from military service last July. He is free, at this
point, to jump into the political fray, but Yaalon is now undergoing a
self-imposed cooling-off period that will end when he returns to Israel in the
summer. Then, according to colleagues who know him well, he is very likely to
run for office.
Asked about his intentions, Yaalon wouldn't rule out politics.
(6) Chaos among the Noahides
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 11:12:17 +0100 From: Rowan Berkeley
<rowan.berkeley@googlemail.com>
Statement of Clarification from the Bet Din for Bnei NoaH
Bet Din for Bnei NoaH, 26 Apr. 2006
http://www.bnainoach.com/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=223
Several months ago (10 Teveth), in an interview on the Tamar Yonah show, Mr. Jim
Long, one of the 10 Bnei NoaH who formed the High Council of Bnei NoaH under the
guidance of the Sanhedrin, fielded a caller's question concerning the Rainbow
Covenant web site, the book by the same title, and its author Michael Dallen.
The question and its answer have given the impression to many that the Sanhedrin
has banned the web site and the book. This is totally false. While several
rabbis did voice concern over some of the content of the web site, the Beith Din
for Bnei Noah made a conscious decision not to issue any ban on the site, and
certainly not on the book, which has been widely praised.
Recently, before the PesaH holiday, the Beith Din for Bnei NoaH under the
auspices of the Sanhedrin issued a clarification concerning Billy Jack Dial, a
former member of the High Council of Bnei NoaH, who resigned his post for
personal reasons and started another organization. This clarification was issued
in the interest to prevent confusion, to clarify that his new organization and
web site, while not banned, were neither connected to nor endorsed in any way,
neither by the Sanhedrin, nor its Beith Din for Bnei NoaH. This clarification
was deemed necessary because of Billy Jack Dial's well-known former association
with the High Council of Bnei NoaH.
Due to this widespread misunderstanding, the Beth Din for Bnei NoaH of the
Sanhedrin has found it necessary to issue a statement of further clarification:
To date, we have not banned any web site. It must be stated with equal clarity
that the only site with our endorsement at present and the only website under
Beith Din supervision is the website of the High Council for Bnei NoaH.
The internet searcher/surfer is advised not to take Orthodox rabbinical
endorsement or lack thereof lightly. There are hundreds of web sites related to
the Seven Mitswoth of Bnei NoaH. Some sites are indeed genuine Torah sites.
Others may appear to contain authentic material, but in fact are Christian
missionary sites in disguise. However, being that these sites are more
well-known to Internet-savvy Noahides, many of whom have left the Christian
religion, the sites posing the greatest risk to Noahide souls can be
non-Christian sites, airing understandings of halakhah that appear authentic,
but in fact are well beyond the bounds of halakhah. Some may air misinformation,
promoting outright heresy, without arrousing the least suspicion on the part of
the reader.
Guarding one's eyes and ears from falsehood and slander are fundamental Torah
(Talmudic) values, and the path to holiness. Fittingly, as with all internet
information, the G-dfearing surfer must be aware of these risks, and exercise
great caution. Even if one has confidence in the strength of one's own proper
beliefs and opinions, friends and family (particularly older children) who use
the same computer can be much more vulnerable. This is not a mere theory, but
tragic reality: irresponsible internet usage has destroyed hundreds of G-d
fearing homes in Israel and abroad.
The Beith Din for Bnei NoaH hopes to compile a list of websites with our
official endorsement in the near future. Other sites may receive a note of
warning over specific content. And although the Beith Din exercises extreme
reservation in employing such means, we do reserve the right to ban any site. In
the meantime, it should not be assumed that the lack of mention of any
particular site implies its endorsement or ban by the Beith Din. Anyone who
would like to submit a site for our endorsement and supervision is welcome to do
so. Furthermore, websites grow and change continually. The Beith Din does not
have the means to monitor changes over hundreds of websites. Should adverse
material be found on a website with Beith Din endorsement, G-d forbid, this
should be brought to our attention immediately. Likewise, if problematic
material is removed from un-endorsed or even banned websites, this should be
brought to our attention as well.
Signed,
Ribbi Yoel Schwartz, Av Bet HaDin Ribbi Dov Abraham Ben-Shorr Ribbi Michael
Shelomo Bar Ron
(7) Italian authorities investigate anti-Israel protests at Milan march
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 17:35:09 +0100 From: Rowan Berkeley
<rowan.berkeley@googlemail.com>
Italian authorities investigate anti-Israel protests at Milan march
AP via Haaretz, 28/04/2006 http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/710782.html
Italian authorities are investigating anti-Israeli protests that marred a march
in Milan commemorating the 61st anniversary of Italy's liberation from fascism,
a prosecutor said Friday. Armando Spataro, an anti-terrorism prosecutor in the
northern city, said a number of people have been placed under investigation for
incitement to commit a crime, causing damage and holding an unauthorized
demonstration. Spataro refused to release the number of those investigated or
their nationality, saying only that police had identified them as having taken
part in Tuesday's protests, during which demonstrators trampled and burned
Israeli flags and shouted slogans in support of the Palestinians. The protests
happened on the sidelines of a Liberation Day commemorative march and were
apparently prompted by the presence in the march of Israeli flags in honor of
members of the Jewish Brigade, an infantry unit that helped liberate Italy.
Commemorations are held throughout Italy on the April 25 national holiday in
honor of the partisan uprising that began on that day in 1945 and ended with the
execution of Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini. Italian politicians joined
Jewish leaders and the Israeli ambassador to Italy in harshly condemning the
flag burning as having marred the celebration. Center-left leader Romano Prodi,
who will lead Italy's incoming government, called it a "vile demonstration of
intolerance." Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano wrote Wednesday that "to
offend a flag means to offend the people for whom it is a symbol, and therefore
in this case it was an offense to the entire Jewish people, precisely on the day
in which we celebrate liberation from their infamous oppressors."
(8) Russian Central Bank threat to $ reserve currency status
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 18:33:58 -0400 From: "David Chiang"
<sino.economics@verizon.net>
The threat to a fistful of petrodollars
By Liam Halligan (Filed: 23/04/2006)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2006/04/23/ccliam23.xml
From Russia, you might say, with love. This weekend, Alexei Kudrin, Russia's
finance minister, dropped a bombshell in Washington.
Attending the annual meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund,
Kudrin caused his American hosts discomfort by openly questioning the dollar's
pre-eminence as the world's "absolute" reserve currency.
The greenback's recent volatility and the yawning US trade deficit, "are
definitely causing concern with regard to its reserve currency status," he said.
"The international community can hardly be satisfied with this instability."
Kudrin's intervention coincided with another meeting, also in Washington, of
finance ministers and central bankers from the Group of Seven - which doesn't
include Russia.
Top of the agenda: the effect of ever-rising oil prices on inflation and
interest rates.
G7 countries are worried the spiraling price of crude - which closed at $72.79 a
barrel on Friday and which has now trebled in three years - could inflict real
economic damage. The US Federal Reserve, in particular, has been forced to take
drastic action - raising interest rates 15 times since June 2004 to keep
inflation in check.
Given that fragility, it is significant that Kudrin is now wondering aloud if
the long-standing dollar hegemony can last. For him to do so is to highlight
that America is vulnerable should that status be lost. That's because Russia,
with its awesome oil and gas reserves, could kick-start a challenge to the
dollar's supremacy.
Most nations stockpile their foreign exchange holdings in dollars. The US
currency accounts for more than two thirds of all central bank reserves
worldwide.
This reserve status means that the dollar is constantly in demand, whatever the
underlying strength of the US economy.
And now, with massive trade and budget deficits to finance, America is
increasingly reliant on that status. The unprecedented weight of US liabilities
means a threat to the dollar's dominance could result in a currency collapse,
plunging the world's largest economy into recession.
That won't happen immediately. The dollar has sat astride the globe for some
time now - in fact, for most of the last century. But this statement from Russia
- a country of growing financial and strategic significance - still caused the
dollar to slide. It also fuelled speculation that central banks could
increasingly diversify their holdings away from dollars.
Kudrin's statement followed news that Sweden has cut its dollar holdings, from
37 per cent of central bank reserves to 20 per cent, with the euro's share
rising to 50 per cent. Central banks in some Gulf states have also lately mooted
a shift into the euro. Such sentiments helped push the dollar to a seven-month
low against the single currency last week.
But Russia's intervention will have raised eyebrows in Washington because the
backbone of the dollar's reserve currency status - the main guarantee that
status continues -is the fact that oil is traded in dollars. And that is
something the likes of Kudrin can directly affect.
For historic reasons, the dollar remains the world's "petrocurrency" - the only
currency for the settlement of oil contracts on world markets. That makes the EU
and Russia dependent on it. But with central banks switching to euros, the
logical next step would be for fuel-exporting countries to start quoting oil
prices in euros too.
The EU is Russia's main trading partner. More than two thirds of Russia's oil
and gas is exported to the EU. That makes Russia a strong candidate to become
the first major oil exporter to start trading in euros. Such a scenario, in
recent years, has become theoretically possible. But now, with these latest
comments, Kudrin has thrust that possibility into the open.
The G7 meeting was dominated, of course, by concern over Iran's nuclear
programme. The threat of military action against Iran, itself a major crude
exporter, is one reason oil prices are now testing record highs.
It is worth noting that Tehran has ongoing plans to set up an oil trading
exchange to compete with New York's NYMEX and with London's International
Petroleum Exchange. In the light of Kudrin's comments, it is significant that
the Iranians want to run their oil bourse in euros, not dollars.
Were the Iranians to establish a Middle-East based euro-only oil exchange, the
dollar's unique petrocurrency status could unravel. That, in turn, would
threaten its broader dominance - which, given America's groaning twin deficit,
could seriously hurt the US economy.
Some cite this as the real reason the US wants to attack Iran: to protect the
dollar's unique position. I wouldn't go that far, but the prospect of a
non-dollar oil exchange in Tehran is certainly an aggravating factor.
The opening of Iran's new oil exchange has recently been delayed. But, having
spoken with numerous officials in Tehran, and western consultants who've been
working with the Iranians for several years, I think it will go ahead. The
exchange entity has already been legally incorporated in Iran and a site
purchased to house administrative and regulatory staff.
The reality is that as long as most of Opec's oil - read Saudi Arabia - is
priced in dollars, the US currency will retain its hegemony. But the opening of
an oil bourse in Tehran, which now looks likely, will signal at least tacit
Saudi consent for euro-based oil trading. The US knows this, which is why it is
nervous about the dollar's status being questioned.
From the G7's fringe, Kudrin has now touched this raw nerve. This weekend's
meetings have been dominated by questions of global financial imbalance - in
particular, America's huge deficits.
Kudrin's missive comes as central bankers, and currency dealers, start to
conclude the only way to resolve the massive US external deficit is a somewhat
weaker US currency. As the IMF itself warned yesterday, a "substantial" dollar
decline may be needed.
One way to bring that about would be for the euro to enter the global oil
trading system. This is unlikely to happen soon. It might not happen at all. But
the idea is now not only realistic but firmly on the table in Washington.
Perhaps not with love, but it was placed there by the Russians.
Liam Halligan is Economics Correspondent at Channel 4 News
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From: "janet phelan" jcphelan10@yahoo.com
Date: Sat Apr 29, 2006 6:10pm(PDT)
Subject: Political Prisoner to be Committed to Mental Hospital
http://cosmicpenguin.com/Lindauer/
Susan Lindauer -- Held Political Prisoner
to Cover Up U.S. Genocide in Iraq
In March 2001 Susan Lindauer carried a message from the Iraqi
government to her cousin, the White House Chief of Staff, requesting the
return of weapons inspectors. This strongly indicated that Iraq had no WMD,
so the U.S. government was aware of this at that point in time, if not before.
But Bush and Cheney nevertheless attacked and invaded Iraq using WMD as a pretext, murdered as many as 500,000 people, and spread radioactive
poison over the entire country, which will murder millions
more. Now they are holding Lindauer in prison on false claims
of insanity, and are about to commit and forcibly drug her,
to prevent her from ever being able to tell her story.
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