Discussion about 09/11/2001: 04/03/06

Monday, April 03, 2006

[political-research] Bloglines - Mearsheimer & Walt on "the Israel Lobby" in the US...and "the herd of independent minds" (Leiter)

Bloglines user bill.giltner@gmail.com has sent this item to you, with the following personal message: Leiter disappoints. Leiter Reports: A Group Blog (Jan. 23-May 31 2006) Mearsheimer & Walt on "the Israel Lobby" in the US...and "the herd of independent minds" (Leiter) By Brian Leiter Noam Chomsky, perhaps not surprisingly, has the best analysis I've seen of the now well-known article and the reaction to it:M-W [Mearsheimer-Walt] deserve credit for taking a position that is sure to elicit tantrums and fanatical lies and denunciations, but...

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[political-research] Bloglines - "United 93" Trailer Pulled From New York Theater After Complaint...

Bloglines user bill.giltner@gmail.com has sent this item to you. The Huffington Post | Raw Feed The Huffington Post Raw Feed "United 93" Trailer Pulled From New York Theater After Complaint... By The Huffington Post If movie trailers are supposed to cause a reaction, the preview for "United 93" more than succeeds. Featuring no voice-over and no famous actors, it begins with images of a beautiful morning and passengers boarding an airplane. It takes you a minute to realize what the movie's even about. That's when a plane hits the World Trade Center. The effect is visceral. When the trailer played before "Inside Man" last week at the famed Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, audience members began calling out, "Too soon!" In New York City, where 9/11 remains an open wound, the response was even more dramatic. The AMC Loews theater on Manhattan's Upper West Side took the rare step of pulling the trailer from its screens after several complaints. "One lady was crying," says one of the theater's managers, Kevin Adjodha. "She was saying we shouldn't have [played the trailer]. That this was wrong ... I don't think people are ready for this." Link

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[political-research] Bloglines - Tomgram: The Hyperpower Hype and Where It Took Us

Bloglines user bill.giltner@gmail.com has sent this item to you, with the following personal message: Here's what you see about Tom Engelhardt at the "Tom Dispatch" web page: Tomdispatch.com is researched, written and edited by Tom Engelhardt (bio), a fellow at the Nation Institute, for anyone in despair over post-September 11th US mainstream media coverage of our world and ourselves. The service is intended to introduce you to voices from elsewhere (even when the elsewhere is here) who might offer a clearer sense of how this imperial globe of ours actually works. An editor in publishing for the last 25 years, Tom is the author of The End of Victory Culture, a history of American triumphalism in the Cold War era. He is at present consulting editor for Metropolitan Books, a fellow of the Nation Institute, and a teaching fellow at the journalism school of the University of California, Berkeley. Is there any more proof of "left gatekeepers" than this? (I'm referring, in case anyone might not put 2 and 2 together to the complete lack of mention of the probable truth about 9/11.) CRIMES AND CORRUPTIONS OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER NEWS CRIMES AND CORRUPTIONS OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER NEWS - LiveJournal.com Tomgram: The Hyperpower Hype and Where It Took Us Tomgram Exporting Ruins By Tom Engelhardt Just last week, a jury began to deliberate on the fate of Zacarias Moussaoui, who may or may not have been the missing 20th hijacker in the September 11th attacks. At the same time, newly released recordings of 911 operators responding to calls from those about to die that day in the two towers were splashed across front pages nationwide. ("All I can tell you to do is sit tight. All right? Because I got almost every fireman in the city coming…") Over four and a half years later, September 11, 2001 won't go away. And little wonder. It remains the defining moment in our recent lives, the moment that turned us from a country into a "homeland." With Iraq in a state of ever-devolving deconstruction, the President's and Vice President's polling figures in tatters, Karl Rove (Bush's "brain") again threatened with indictment, the Republican Party in disarray, and New Orleans as well as the Mississippi coast still largely unreconstructed ruins, perhaps it's worth revisiting just what exactly was defined in that moment. A DIY World of Terrorism The brilliance of the al-Qaeda assault that day lay in its creation of a vision of destruction out of all proportion to the organization's modest strength. At best, al-Qaeda had adherents in the thousands as well as a "headquarters" and training camps located in the backlands of one of the poorest countries on the planet. Its leaders made the bold decision to launch an attack on the political and the financial capitals of what was then regularly termed the globe's "sole hyperpower." Although this face-off might have seemed the ultimate definition of asymmetric warfare, in terms of theatrical value -- no small thing in our world of 24/7 news and entertainment -- the struggle turned out to be eerily symmetrical. By the look of it (but only the look), the Earth's lone superpower met its match that day. With box cutters, mace, two planes, and the use of Microsoft piloting software to speed their learning curve, a few determined fanatics, ready to kill and die, took aim at the two most iconic (if uninspired) buildings at the financial heart of the American system and managed to top the climax of any disaster film ever shot. What they created, in fact, was a Hollywood-style vision of the apocalypse, enough so that our media promptly dubbed the spot where those two towers crumbled in those vast clouds of dust and smoke, "Ground Zero," a term previously reserved for an atomic explosion. This was -- let's be blunt -- an extraordinary accomplishment for a tiny band of men with one of the more extreme religious/political ideologies around; and, if the testimony under CIA interrogation of al-Qaeda's Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is to be believed -- summaries were released at the Moussaoui sentencing hearing -- what happened seems to have stunned even him. ("According to the CIA summary, he said he ‘had no idea that the damage of the first attack would be as catastrophic as it was.'") And yet, so many years later, there have been no follow-up attacks here. This was obviously never the equivalent of breaking through military lines in war. There were no al-Qaeda troops poised to pour through that breach, ransack the rubble, and spread across New York; nor, like the Japanese at Pearl Harbor (to which the 9/11 assault was often compared), did al-Qaeda launch a simultaneous set of strikes elsewhere. Of this sort of activity the group was incapable. Such acts were far beyond its means. By the look of it, there weren't even sleeper cells in the U.S. ready to launch devastating follow-up attacks. (Given the Bush administration's record from New Orleans to Iraq, we can take it for granted that its officials would have been incapable of stopping any such well-planned attacks.) As far as we can tell, most of the major terrorist assaults launched since then, from Bali to Baghdad, were essentially franchised operations, undertaken by groups who claimed a kinship of inspiration and ideology; and, in a number of devastating cases, including London and Madrid, by small, self-organized groups, brought to a boil by Bush's War in Iraq, who struck on their own as, in essence, al-Qaeda wannabes. What al-Qaeda has really been promoting, because it was never capable of promoting much else, is a DIY world of terrorism. Crossing the Line, Apocalypse Bound Despite the limitless look of the destruction on September 11, 2001, the dangers al-Qaeda posed were of a limited nature. After all, it took the group a long time to meticulously plan each of its attacks, whether on the WTC, or the USS Cole in a harbor in Yemen, or two U.S. embassies in Africa. Years could pass between major attacks. When Osama bin Laden, according to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's CIA testimony, pushed for launching the attack on the World Trade Center in May 2001, seven months after the waterborne assault on the USS Cole, Mohammed ignored him because they simply weren't ready. Their attacks could be devastating locally, killing startling numbers, but that would be the end of matters for months or even years to come. Other than a finely tuned sense of the power of timing, theatrics, and publicity (which indicated just how "modern" a group calling for the return of a medieval Caliphate really was), the only thing al-Qaeda could brandish was an implicit futuristic threat: That someday they, or another group like them, might get their hands on an actual apocalyptic weapon, leaking out of the arsenals or labs of one of the two former Cold War superpowers or from those of proliferating lesser powers. Then they might create an actual Ground Zero, subjecting some city somewhere, possibly here, to a genuinely apocalyptic moment. Certain analysts had long feared just this. One was Robert Jay Lifton who, back in 1999, wrote a far-seeing if little noticed book, Destroying the World to Save It, about the Aum Shinrikyo cult in Japan. It too had been led by a fanatically driven leader possessing a vision of the end of the world that probably was, Lifton says, "as old as death itself." But whereas past religious groups had waited in expectation or terror for the predicted end of time to arrive, Aum's guru set out to make it happen, to trigger Armageddon. He actually managed to finance and set up his own science labs, attract scientific types to his cult, and create a poor man's weapon of mass destruction, the deadly nerve gas Sarin. In 1995, his followers let imperfectly produced Sarin loose in the Tokyo subway system during a morning rush hour. Due to Aum's amateurishness, few people were killed; but, as Lifton wrote, the cult had nonetheless crossed a "line" that few even knew existed. It became "the first group in history to combine ultimate fanaticism with ultimate weapons in a project to destroy the world." Its acts were also a reminder that, sooner or later, weapons of mass destruction of one sort or another might indeed fall out of the control of states and into the hands of groups, cults, or even individuals who might feel none of the restraints states turn out to be under when it comes to their use. This was an insight that lay just below the surface of our world until September 11, 2001, but that everyone evidently sensed -- otherwise that Ground Zero label would never have come so naturally to mind. Thought about with a cold eye, the single most important set of acts the Bush administration could have undertaken -- other than bringing to justice those who had launched the murderous assaults -- would have been to nail down the globe's nuclear as well as chemical and biological arsenals, and the Cold War labs that had produced them. It's worth recalling that the largely forgotten anthrax killer or killers, who closed down Congress and killed postal workers that same September, used weaponized anthrax, evidently from the American weapons labs. In addition, genuine national security would have meant putting full-scale efforts into reversing the global proliferation of nuclear weapons -- rather than just focusing ineptly on a couple of rogue states you were eager to whack anyway. You would certainly not have broken open the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, encouraged a state like India in its militarized nuclear dreams, or launched a major expansion and "modernization" of the already staggering American nuclear arsenal. But of course nothing like this happened. In that terrible moment when a choice might have been made between the vision of apocalypse and the reality of al-Qaeda, between a malign version of the smoke-and-mirrors Wizard of Oz and the pathetic little man behind the curtain, the Bush administration opted for the vision in a major way. Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, and other top officials chose to pump up al-Qaeda into a global enemy worthy of a new Cold War, a generational struggle that might comfortably be filled with smaller, regime-change-oriented, "preventive" hot wars against hopelessly outgunned enemies who -- unlike in those Cold War days -- would have no other superpower to call on for aid. Hyper about Power That radioactive decision, not the 9/11 attacks, determined the shape of our world. Bush declared his "crusade" -- make no bones about it -- against Islam (though al Qaeda was the fringiest of "Islamic" groups) and the Middle East. It was, above all, to be a crusade to dominate the energy heartlands of the planet. In its own way, al-Qaeda was ready to accept the Bush version of itself. After all, our President had just elevated it into the major leagues of enemyhood, right up there with the big boys of history. Via various videos, including one just before the 2004 presidential elections, al-Qaeda's leaders entered into a thoroughly bizarre "conversation" with the Bush administration, which, in press conferences, answered in kind. What a compliment! Who could reject a recruiting tool of that sort, right out of someone's Hollywood fantasies. Why not be a group of Islamic Dr. No's? (If only the Bush administration had reacted as James Bond did: "World domination. The same old dream. Our asylums are full of people who think they're Napoleon. Or God.") On their part, Bush and his cohorts were all-too-ready to dance with this minor set of apocalypts, in part because they were themselves into fantasies of world domination -- and considered themselves anything but mad. With visions of a "New Rome" -- and a one-party democracy at home -- dancing in their heads, they took that handy, terrifying image of the apocalypse in downtown New York and translated it into every sort of terror (including mushroom clouds threatening to go off over American cities and unmanned aerial vehicles spraying poisons along the East coast). In this way, they stampeded the American people and Congress into their crusade of choice. The story of what followed you know well. Miraculously, al-Qaeda grew and the United States shrank. For one thing, it turned out that top American officials and the various neocons who worked for them or simply cheered them on from Washington's think-tanks and editorial pages, had been taken in by their own hype about American military power. They deeply believed in their pumped-up version of our hyper-strength, our ability to do anything we pleased in a world of midgets; and with the Soviet Union gone, if you just checked out military budgets and high-tech weapons programs, it might indeed look that way. Economically, however, the U.S. was far less strong than they imagined and its military power turned out to be far more impressive when held in reserve as a threat than when put to use in Iraq, where our Army would soon be stopped dead in its half-tracks. In retrospect, the Bush administration badly misread the U.S. position in the world. Its officials, blinded by their own publicity releases on the nature of American power, were little short of self-delusional. And so, with unbearable self-confidence, the administration set out flailingly and, in just a few short years, began to create something like a landscape of ruins. Today, we stand in those ruins, whether we know it or not, though the Ground Zero of the Bush assault was obviously not here, but in Iraq. Starting with their "shock and awe," son-et-lumière air assault on downtown Baghdad (which they promoted as if it were a hot, new TV show), they turned out to want their apocalyptic-looking scenes of destruction up on screen for the world to see no less than al-Qaeda did. It took next to no time for them to turn huge swaths of Iraq into the international equivalent of the World Trade Center. And it's a reasonable guess -- these people being painfully consistent in their predilections -- that it's only going to get worse. (As Sidney Blumenthal recently put it in another context, "Like all failed presidents, Bush is a captive in an iron cage of his own making. The greater his frustration, the tighter he grips the bars.") Just a quick look at the situation in Iraq today reveals levels of chaos and a "steady diet of carnage" that not long ago might have seemed unimaginable. The Bush people now find themselves oscillating weekly between desperate policy non-alternatives, while a low-level, vicious, Lebanon-style civil war develops on the ground. Just last week, "Iraqi troops" with U.S. advisors were reported to have raided a Shiite mosque complex in a Baghdad neighborhood controlled by the forces of Moqtada al-Sadr's militia. A number of civilians, including an 80 year-old Imam, were killed, provoking an angry Shiite response, including calls for the sacking of Zalmay Khalilzad, the U.S. ambassador, indicating that a new stage had been reached. For one thing, it's now clear that there may no longer be "Iraqi troops." In this case, the attackers turned out to be a Kurdish unit with American advisors, evidently perfectly happy to slaughter Sadr's backers. What exists, what we're "standing up" (so we can "stand down," as the President regularly puts it) are Shiite units, Kurdish units, and even relatively modest units of Sunni troops. As Robert Dreyfuss recently commented, all of this signals "that the United States is now fighting virtually the entire Iraqi Arab population. Only the non-Arab Kurds seem loyal to the United States now, and the notoriously fickle Kurds, famed for shifting their allegiances on a dime, can't be counted on as permanent friends, either." Meanwhile, the country is officially without a government. As Dreyfuss sums the situation up, "Post-Saddam Iraq has become a nightmare, a Mad Max world in which warlords rule." While American power remains enormous there, it has proved less wieldable than anyone in the Bush administration ever imagined. The leading Shiite spiritual figure, Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, hasn't even bothered to open a letter from our President; previous Shiite allies have started denouncing us; Baghdad's provincial council has suspended "cooperation" with the U.S. military and the U.S. embassy. So here's a future scenario to imagine: Shiite, Sunni, and Kurdish troops all roaming urban neighborhoods, all engaging in revenge killings against the others, all with their own American advisors. It is no longer beyond the bounds of possibility that Americans could find themselves on every side of a future civil war; or, no less likely, that all sides could be attacking American troops -- or both; and so, of course, could the Iranians whom the Bush administration, in another catch-22, threatens to attack and yet desperately needs. In the meantime, the American air war against Iraqi cities quietly ratchets up and, amid the ruins, huge permanent American bases like the 19 square-mile Al-Asad airbase in Anwar Province -- with its 17,000 troops, Burger King, Pizza Hut, car dealership Yellow and Blue bus routes, and "PX jammed with customers" -- thrive. Only recently, the administration requested from Congress hundreds of millions more dollars to construct stronger perimeter defenses, better runways with permanent lighting, more permanent dining facilities and the like at the largest of these bases. While the basics of everyday life in urban Iraq continue to peel away and the Iraqi oil industry looks to be on its last legs, the Pentagon delivers electricity, potable water, and fuel, not to speak of i-Pods, televisions, Internet access, and other goodies to our massive bases, some of which, visiting reporters tell us, now resemble small American towns and to which the administration hopes to withdraw most of its troops sooner or later. At a time when Daniel Speckhard, director of the U.S. Iraq Reconstruction Management Office, is putting the country on notice that it can "no longer count on U.S. reconstruction funds," you might forgive an Iraqi for wondering how the administration that "liberated" their country could have done so much so efficiently for its soldiers and yet be so incapable of doing much of anything for the rest of the country. The Rubble of Victory At the moment, our bases exist like little untouched Edens in the eye of the storm. Undoubtedly, administration officials still imagine us camping out in the ruins in 2009 or 2019 -- after all, for a while the Pentagon actually referred to these ziggurats of modern Iraq as "enduring camps" -- while large cities like Mosul stew in their uncollected garbage and polluted sewage water, ever more rundown, ever more shot up, ever less under anyone's control. ("The Americans are now just one more of the tribes of Mosul," Patrick Cockburn of the British Independent quotes "one Arab source" as saying.) It's true that some neocons once imagined chaos as a kind of acceptable fallback position in the Middle East, if the best of all worlds didn't work out. But this was the fantasy of people who had essentially never made it out of the Washington world of think tanks, punditry, and politics, who were desperately ready to be dazzled by the tales of Ahmed Chalabi and other exiled Iraqi Scheherazades. Anyone today who thinks that we can simply retreat to those permanent bases and protect the oil, while Iraq sinks further into chaos, while the ruins spread, should really think again. "Imperial overreach" is too fancy a term for what the Bush administration has actually done. While its officials have talked a great game when it came to achieving "victory" in Iraq and exporting democracy to the Middle East, its main exports have turned out to be mayhem and ruins. And those it can continue to export. With every new move, yet more rubble, yet more terror, and undoubtedly yet more terrorists in Iraq and, sooner or later, in the wider region will be created. This is where the most essential choices made by the President, Vice President, and their chosen officials in the days after September 11, 2001 have taken us. Tom Engelhardt, who runs the Nation Institute's Tomdispatch.com ("a regular antidote to the mainstream media"), is the co-founder of the American Empire Project and the author of The End of Victory Culture, a history of American triumphalism in the Cold War. His novel, The Last Days of Publishing, has recently come out in paperback. Copyright 2006 Tom Engelhardt http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=73663 Comments

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[political-research] Bloglines - Why do so few prominent people in the US publicly criticize Israel or its American supporters?

Bloglines user bill.giltner@gmail.com has sent this item to you. CRIMES AND CORRUPTIONS OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER NEWS CRIMES AND CORRUPTIONS OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER NEWS - LiveJournal.com Why do so few prominent people in the US publicly criticize Israel or its American supporters? Old hat that calls out for open debate The Daily Star Middle East | Rami G. Khouri Beirut Why do so few prominent people in the United States publicly criticize Israel or its American supporters? Because - modern history suggests - this is a sure, speedy route to political and professional oblivion, especially for politicians, academics, writers and others who work in the public realm. An example before our eyes today is worth considering, both for the issues and the personalities involved. Two respected American scholars at leading universities published earlier this month a controversial paper about what they see as the excessive and detrimental impact of the pro-Israel lobby in the United States. John Mearsheimer, professor of political science at the University of Chicago, and Stephen Walt, professor of international affairs and academic dean at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, published a working paper on the Kennedy School Web site entitled simply: "The Israel Lobby," and a shorter version in the London Review of Books. This is not an original or path-breaking piece of scholarship, to be sure. It is not based on new research, interviews, insights or fieldwork, but rather largely compiles into a single text, and provides supporting examples of, the many ways the authors believe the pro-Israel lobby in the U.S. drives and distorts American policy in the Middle East, to the long-term detriment of both Israel and the U.S. Many of Mearsheimer and Walt's points about the lobby are obviously correct; others can be challenged or debated; a few may be flat wrong. Their article reads more like a long opinion essay than a work of empirical social science research. It has been criticized on these and other grounds. The pro-Israel lobby is intriguing and important, but foreign policy and its impact is what matters in the end, especially whether recent Israeli and American policies truly serve Israeli and American national interests, not to mention the well-being of the rest of the Middle East and the world. That's where discussion of this matter should focus. The essay and its copious criticisms are worthy of more serious, sincere public debate, for the two questions at the heart of the issue they raise remain profoundly valid: "Why has the U.S. been willing to set aside its own security and that of many of its allies in order to advance the interests of another state?" Why is there no serious public discussion in the U.S. of the thrust of American foreign policy in the Middle East or the activities of pro-Israel partisans in the U.S.? Israel alone among foreign policy issues occupies sacred space in the American psyche and political system, for many historical and contemporary reasons, including many legitimate ones. This same Israel is also among the most widely and routinely censured countries in the world, because of its brutal, often colonial, policy toward the Palestinians and other Arabs. Why the United States government celebrates Israel's heroism but largely ignores its controversial, criminal and inhuman deeds is a question that simply is not seriously discussed in public in the U.S. Why not? What explains Israeli exceptionalism in America? Perhaps the pro-Israel lobby is the main reason, as the authors suggest. Perhaps other important forces are at play, and the lobby is less dominant. Perhaps Israelis are simply good at lobbying in a democratic society while the Arabs are mostly incompetent. Maybe it's our tough luck in much of the Arab world to have joined the wrong side of the Cold War. Or Americans and Israelis simply may share a powerful, identical moral and political tradition, which translates into a common policy. Perhaps the collective Western commitment to the security of Israel as the state of the Jewish people, in the wake of the Holocaust, is so compelling that it momentarily overrides the rights of others in our Middle Eastern neighborhood. The author-scholars will digest the criticisms they have generated, and I hope they come back with a revised article that allows them to achieve their important goal of prompting a public debate on this issue. They wrote: "Powerful states can maintain flawed policies for quite some time, but reality cannot be ignored for ever. What is needed is a candid discussion of the lobby's influence and a more open debate about U.S. interests in this vital region. Israel's well-being is one of those interests, but its continued occupation of the West Bank and its broader regional agenda are not. Open debate will expose the limits of the strategic and moral case for one-sided U.S. support and could move the U.S. to a position more consistent with its own national interest, with the interests of the other states in the region, and with Israel's long-term interests as well." It's hard to oppose a call for open, democratic debate that aims simultaneously to promote the national interests of the U.S., Israel and the Arabs. So why is this question so rarely asked - let along answered - in the American public realm? Mearsheimer and Walt have suggested one answer - the lobby - which may or may not be the full story. More importantly, they have put the issue before the public, inviting an honest conversation. That's what good scholars, and good citizens, do in a democracy. Rami G. Khouri writes a regular commentary for The Daily star. © 2006 The Daily Star http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=5&article_ID=23418 Comments

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[political-research] Bloglines - London Review of Books Editor hits back over Israel Lobby row

Bloglines user bill.giltner@gmail.com has sent this item to you. CRIMES AND CORRUPTIONS OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER NEWS CRIMES AND CORRUPTIONS OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER NEWS - LiveJournal.com London Review of Books Editor hits back over Israel Lobby row Editor hits back over Israel row London Review of Books stands its ground after being accused of anti-Semitism in an article attacking pro-Israeli influence on US policy Peter Beaumont, foreign affairs editor Sunday April 2, 2006 The Observer She is, in the words of her many admirers, the 'mater familias of London's liberal intelligentsia'. This weekend, however, Mary-Kay Wilmers, editor of the London Review of Books, is on the defensive - speaking out for the first time in an escalating transatlantic row that has seen her respected journal accused of promoting anti-Semitism. The argument has erupted over a cover article in the latest issue of the LRB by two prominent American academics on the influence of the pro-Israel lobby in the US. The article, which argues that the lobby holds a disproportionate and damaging sway over American foreign policy, prompted a bitter and growing controversy, particularly in the US, where rival camps have exchanged claims of anti-Semitism and intellectual intimidation by those accused of being members of 'the Lobby'. The article, by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, was originally written for, but rejected by, the Atlantic Monthly and picked up by the LRB, when Wilmers 'became aware of its existence'. The article set out at exhaustive length to list every way in which it claimed US foreign policy had been captured on behalf of Israel by an all-encompassing lobby of academics, campaign groups, journalists and pro-Israeli activists in government. Among the fiercest critics have been Eliot Engel, a Democratic congressman from New York, who branded the authors 'anti-Semites', and the right-wing New York Sun, which likened the piece to the 'rantings' of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The article has been praised by white supremacist and former head of the Ku Klux Klan David Duke - a move that Wilmers admits was 'unsettling'. 'I don't want David Duke to endorse the article,' he told The Observer from France on Friday. 'It makes me feel uncomfortable. But when I re-read the piece, I did not see anything that I felt should not have been said. Maybe it is because I am Jewish, but I think I am very alert to anti-Semitism. And I do not think that criticising US foreign policy, or Israel's way of going about influencing it, is anti-Semitic. I just don't see it.' Harvard University, where Walt is a professor, has also weighed into the row, distancing itself from the report. It is not the first time in recent years that the LRB has been embroiled in controversy with the US - it was accused of anti-Americanism in a special issue following the attacks on 11 September. President Bill Clinton's special Middle East envoy, Dennis Ross, cited by the authors as having 'close ties' to pro-Israel organisations, said the authors displayed a 'woeful lack of knowledge'. For their part, the two authors, despite the row, describe themselves as 'philo-Semites'. Wilmers says they are members of the Realist School of US Foreign Policy which insists that America should be guided by its own interests and not by Israel's. Wilmers defends the article: 'I know Israel thinks it is a monstrous presumption. But then I don't think that the way that Israel behaves is terribly helpful. The article doesn't talk about a "Jewish Lobby" or a "Cabal". I feel very clear about that. We were very conscious of that risk.' But while Wilmers feels confident that the article examines legitimate concerns - in particular about the lobby group American Israel Public Affairs Committee - it is not a view shared by critics of the LRB. Among them is Professor Alan Dershowitz, a colleague of Walt at Harvard, who is criticised in the article for being an 'apologist' for Israel. Dershowitz denounced the authors last week as 'liars' and 'bigots' and compared their argument to neo-Nazi literature. It is a view shared by US academics Jeffrey Herf and Andrei Markovits, who wrote to the LRB: 'Accusations of powerful Jews behind the scenes are part of the most dangerous traditions of modern anti-Semitism.' But while some have focused on the issue of anti-Semitism, others, following Dennis Ross's lead, have condemned the article as a shoddy piece of pseudo-academia. It is a view endorsed by journalist Christopher Hitchens, who has accused the authors of an exercise in Jewish 'name listing', and perhaps - most surprisingly - by Noam Chomsky, the Nobel-prize winning academic who has written on the pro-Israeli bias of the US media. 'Recognising that Mearsheimer-Walt took a courageous stand which merits praise,' he wrote for online magazine ZNet last week, 'we still have to ask how convincing their thesis is. Not very, in my opinion.' Wilmers rejects the accusation by Hitchens, Ross and others that the Mearsheimer-Walt article has done little more than attempt to join up a disconnected list of people and organisations lobbying on different aspects of Israeli concern into a central 'Israel Lobby' - capitalised by the LRB. She admits now, however, that it would have been better to use a lower case 'l' for the word 'lobby' - to have avoided the risk of being misunderstood. 'It is not true that the authors simply lumped together a long list of people and organisations in the same piece to make their case for an "Israeli Lobby". To say that because someone is mentioned in context in a long piece is tainted by association with any other is wrong.' Wilmers believes, too, that the most angry denunciations of anti-Semitism - while designed to serve the purpose of censorship by those attempting to forestall criticism of Israel - may actually encourage anti-Semitism in the long run. 'It serves a purpose. No one wants to be thought of as anti-Semitic because it is thought of as worse than anything else, although it is not worse being anti-Semitic than being anti-black or Islamophobic. 'Really, one of the most upsetting things is the way it can contribute to anti-Semitism in the long run just by making so many constant appeals and preventing useful criticism of Israel. No one can say Israel's posture does not contribute to anti-Semitism, yet charges of anti-Semitism are used to justify that policy.' http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,1745026,00.html Comments

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1. 911
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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2006 22:17:43 -0000
From: "rahmt5050" <rahmt5050@yahoo.com>
Subject: 911

What really happened on September 11th, 2001? If you do not believe
what our government has told us, then please go to the following link:

http://www.infowars.com/articles/sept11/sheen_questions_official_911_story.htm

You will read some very interesting facts. Let me know what you think..

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[911TruthAction] Digest Number 1208

There are 21 messages in this issue.

Topics in this digest:

1. Google - "Arrest Bush 41"
From: "stoelting1981" <fiat@sofnet.com>
2. 'Enduring' US and UK Bases Built in Iraq!
From: "reggie501" <reggie501@optonline.net>
3. Re: Just curious
From: Naveed <flanker12k@yahoo.com>
4. Re: JOBS {Clarification}
From: "Caomhain {Kevin} Lee Hammond" <sir_oglaigh@yahoo.com>
5. Re: Just curious
From: Kevin Hammond <sir_oglaigh@yahoo.com>
6. Say thanks to Sheen for speaking up and out
From: Cathy Garger <savorsuccesslady@yahoo.com>
7. Re: Just curious
From: Naveed <flanker12k@yahoo.com>
8. Re: A witness to "175"
From: "Dick Eastman" <olfriend@nwinfo.net>
9. Re: Just curious
From: Kevin Hammond <sir_oglaigh@yahoo.com>
10. What I sent to www.bestysblog.com
From: Scott Legere <sledger911@yahoo.com>
11. 911 TAX OUT! Dear Good Friends and fellow Country Folks, The a
From: ranger116@webtv.net
12. Zionist Lubavitchers rally in Boulder
From: "Victor Forsythe" <angelman24@sprintmail.com>
13. An Obvious question that could be added to the list
From: Scott Legere <sledger911@yahoo.com>
14. Re: An Obvious question that could be added to the list
From: linelites@mindspring.com
15. TAX OUT! P E R I O D !
From: "hvncb" <hvncb@yahoo.com>
16. Fw: Forgotten links Between Bush/Hinckley -- JFK etc.
From: "Dick Eastman" <olfriend@nwinfo.net>
17. Fw: British military chiefs believe a US-led strike against Iran is inevitable - the Sunday Telegraph of London
From: "Dick Eastman" <olfriend@nwinfo.net>
18. Re: An Obvious question that could be added to the list
From: "Dick Eastman" <olfriend@nwinfo.net>
19. too much wealth in too few hands? not so, say the super rich's hired brains-- just kill off the losers Fw: Saving the Earth with Ebola
From: "Dick Eastman" <olfriend@nwinfo.net>
20. POWERFUL: "On the Eve," by Ian Buckley Setting faith and culture above money ...
From: "Dick Eastman" <olfriend@nwinfo.net>
21. A New Pearl Harbor
From: Joe Stokes <joestokes@sbcglobal.net>

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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2006 16:22:27 -0000
From: "stoelting1981" <fiat@sofnet.com>
Subject: Google - "Arrest Bush 41"

Google - 9/11 and October Surprise scandal

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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2006 16:41:29 -0000
From: "reggie501" <reggie501@optonline.net>
Subject: 'Enduring' US and UK Bases Built in Iraq!

HEADLINES and NEWS LINKS Courtesy of TvNewsLies.org
http://tvnewslies.org/news
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Apr.02-2006
WAR : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#war

· Afghan Bomb Wounds 5 G.I.'s
**US and UK forces establish 'enduring bases' in Iraq - Despite
talk of withdrawal 'when the job is done', there are signs
that coalition troops will be there for the long term
· The Worst Case Scenario Exists in Iraq!
· Insurgents Blow Up Shiite Mosque in Iraq
· Thousands of Iraqis Flee to Avoid Spread Of Violence
· Government in secret talks about strike against Iran

POLITICS : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news#politics

· How the GOP Became God's Own Party
· Accountability Office Finds Itself Accused - A senior
Congressional investigator has accused his agency of covering
up a scientific fraud among builders of a $26 billion system
meant to shield the nation from nuclear attack.

DOMESTIC : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#domestic

· Hole discovered drilled into pipe at Miami-Dade nuclear
reactor

ENVIRONMENT : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#environment

· Blair blocked plan to cut emissions
· Vessel Measures Record Ocean Swells

INTERNATIONAL : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#international

· In Remote Pakistan Province, a Civil War Festers
· Australia's discriminatory uranium policy

EDITORIAL : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#editorial

· The Only Hope For the World - roll over and "play dead" or
else retaliate.
· Is it All in My Imagination? - It is supposed to be anti-
Semitic to say that the Jews control the American media or
exert a powerful influence upon American foreign policy and
political life. Yet I see this-

HEALTH & SCIENCE : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#health

· Medicare scrambles to resolve expiration of grace period
· Food wrap linked to prostate cancer - A CHEMICAL used to make
food wrapping and line tin cans could be the cause of surging
prostate cancer rates in men, says a study.
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Your email to Oprah Winfrey can reopen the 9/11 investigation!
Help make history:
http://tvnewslies.org/html/9_11_truth_calling_oprah.html

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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2006 10:25:12 -0700 (PDT)
From: Naveed <flanker12k@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Just curious

i'm watching videos right now....

suggestion, make it your email signature, the link to your site.

Caomhain {Kevin} Lee Hammond <sir_oglaigh@yahoo.com> wrote:
Anyone here checked out www.fightthenwo.org yet?

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Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2006 17:39:26 -0000
From: "Caomhain {Kevin} Lee Hammond" <sir_oglaigh@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: JOBS {Clarification}

-just want to clarify that while i think that this is just another
globalist hustle, I do not have a problem with the people that are
actually just trying to feed themselves and their families. But I
DO NOT think that they should have special priveleges over citizens
and green card holders here! This is absolutely attroscious.
{SPELLING?} It is just one more step towards the destruction of the
U.S.A. and its constitution and bill of RIGHTS! I RESENT this
actually as my wife has come here LEGALLY and I cant get her MOTHER
here. My wife has worked HARD to become a permanant resident.

Kevin

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> I am in COMPLETE agreement with you Bugs. I grew up in the
midwest, and I KNOW FOR A FACT that there are thousands upon
THOUSANDS back there AND in areas RIGHT HERE in California that are
MORE than WILLING to do the work! The thing about it is that There
is a so called communist that I know who is a native san franciscan
here and has actuall FALKEN for this hogwash propaganda! I KNOW
personally folks up in the marysville and eureka areas that wiould
do the work. Any one who believes differently is a MORON who lives
in a shell. thsi is just another Illuminati trick and our mexican
brothers and sisters are playing right into their hands.
>
> Kevin
> P.S. kind of interesting that this all happened when 911
started getting out there! Hmm!
>
> Bugs <brawny@...> wrote:
> Do a little math. The Bureau of Labor Statistics says
there are 7.6 million unemployed Americans right now. Another 1.5
million Americans are no longer counted because they've become "long
term" or "discouraged" unemployed workers. And although various
groups have different ways of measuring it, most agree that at least
another five to ten million Americans are either working part-time
when they want to work full-time, or are "underemployed," doing jobs
below their level of training, education, or experience. That's
between eight and twenty million un- and under-employed Americans,
many unable to find above-poverty-level work.
> Now with about 40 million illegal people in the USA most
working, Im sure the 9.1 Million American out of work would do any
job that is now taken by someone from the south..Even killing
Chickens.
> AND BUSH CONTINUES SAYING THESE PEOPLE WILL WORK AT THE JOBS
THAT AMERICAN'S WON'T DO? DO YOU BELIEVE THIS? I DON'T...
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Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2006 10:40:46 -0700 (PDT)
From: Kevin Hammond <sir_oglaigh@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Just curious

AWESOME! OK!

Naveed <flanker12k@yahoo.com> wrote: i'm watching videos right now....

suggestion, make it your email signature, the link to your site.

Caomhain {Kevin} Lee Hammond <sir_oglaigh@yahoo.com> wrote:
Anyone here checked out www.fightthenwo.org yet?

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Message: 6
Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2006 10:49:36 -0700 (PDT)
From: Cathy Garger <savorsuccesslady@yahoo.com>
Subject: Say thanks to Sheen for speaking up and out

Here is a website in which the public can say Thank You to Charlie Sheen for speaking up and out about 9/11 on CNN.

To learn more, and to watch the CNN program that featured Sheen talking about why the facts that we have been told about 9/11 are questionable:
http://www.bravocharlie911.com/

Cathy Garger
Associate Member
Scholars for 9/11 Truth
http://www.st911.org/

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Message: 7
Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2006 10:51:47 -0700 (PDT)
From: Naveed <flanker12k@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Just curious

Oppenhiemer was a freaking GROVER????!!! WTF!?!?

your video was very informative, damn it was overflowing with information.

where did you get the quote regarding the national pressclub presstitute admission? just wondering?

Kevin Hammond <sir_oglaigh@yahoo.com> wrote:
AWESOME! OK!

Naveed <flanker12k@yahoo.com> wrote: i'm watching videos right now....

suggestion, make it your email signature, the link to your site.

Caomhain {Kevin} Lee Hammond <sir_oglaigh@yahoo.com> wrote:
Anyone here checked out www.fightthenwo.org yet?

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Message: 8
Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2006 13:20:33 -0700
From: "Dick Eastman" <olfriend@nwinfo.net>
Subject: Re: A witness to "175"

> Despite the fact he was in the south tower the article states:
> "he looked up and saw American Airlines Flight 11 heading straight for
> him"

> Saw biggest aircraft he'd ever seen bearing down on him coming in from
> the Statue of Liberty.

Yes, Ron -- but do you believe he saw the "big" plane coming at him? Why
or why not?

What does the fact that he was in the South Tower have to do with him seeing
the plane coming at him? To come towards the North Tower the plane would
also be coming towards the South Tower, would it not?

You "no-planers" are a phenomenon that social psychologists should take an
interest in.

I regret that I cannot download this piece -- will someone besides Ron
please give an account of this witness?

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To: <planehuggers@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 01, 2006 9:38 AM
Subject: [planehuggers] A witness to "175"

> http://www.ambassadoragency.com/client_profile.cfm/cid/29
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> Despite the fact he was in the south tower the article states:
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> "he looked up and saw American Airlines Flight 11 heading straight for
> him"
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> But anyway listen to him speak
> [43:38 mins]
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> Brief notes:
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> He evacuated the south tower when he saw fire balls.
>
> Wondered if the guy who order him back was "part of the game plan"
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> Saw biggest aircraft he'd ever seen bearing down on him coming in from
> the Statue of Liberty.
> Nothing about of what the "press" have attributed to him of what he
> saw specifically of the plane.
>
> Thought they were bombing the financial area
>
> Talking gibberish about them hot-wiring the bridge.
>
> The towers were built to withstand 5 helicopters.
>
> Sprinklers were working inside the south tower.
>
> Wing wasn't aflame but a glow.
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> Spelt sulphur.
>
> Listen at the end to discover his religion.
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Message: 9
Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2006 13:27:14 -0700 (PDT)
From: Kevin Hammond <sir_oglaigh@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Just curious

Turns out that he DID make that statement, But not in 1953. And he was NOT chief of staff of the nytimes. i have since found out that that info is false. Just do a search for John swinton. the 2 books that I got the quote from were by a fellah by the name of Bill Hughes. I will no longer dissemenate any information that comes from him. he has taken a lot of stuff out of context. It is VITAL that this is NOT DONE! i now have to address ths issue on the show for the sake of my own credibility. DAMN IT! I have to get ahold of him and address these things and see if what his response is. he actually died in the early 1900's. Swinton that is. The thing is, is that Hughes is not the only one that has used this quote. Which means that there are people that are out there putting out incorrect information. Some intentionally, And some unkowingly. This means That I and the rest of us MUST do our research more thuroughly and not just take people's word for things
just because they are coming from an alternative perspective. PEOPLES LIVES ARE AT STAKE!

Kevin

Naveed <flanker12k@yahoo.com> wrote:
Oppenhiemer was a freaking GROVER????!!! WTF!?!?

your video was very informative, damn it was overflowing with information.

where did you get the quote regarding the national pressclub presstitute admission? just wondering?

Kevin Hammond <sir_oglaigh@yahoo.com> wrote:
AWESOME! OK!

Naveed <flanker12k@yahoo.com> wrote: i'm watching videos right now....

suggestion, make it your email signature, the link to your site.

Caomhain {Kevin} Lee Hammond <sir_oglaigh@yahoo.com> wrote:
Anyone here checked out www.fightthenwo.org yet?

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Message: 10
Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2006 16:40:35 -0700 (PDT)
From: Scott Legere <sledger911@yahoo.com>
Subject: What I sent to www.bestysblog.com

Betsy

God’s Challenge to us all is very simple … “Will you choose Love or Fear?” Christ’s shinning example of what choosing love can do for the world is truly a very “high bar” to achieve for us “ham and eggers.” But it is what motivates me to raise my consciousness to a level where I Know that my soul is immortal and my current incarnation is temporary. It is in the KNOWING of this that we draw strength to choose love over fear. Those brave souls of the 9/11 truth movement have all chosen love. I am not hear to judge you Betsy, but I do have a question… Why have you chosen fear?

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Message: 11
Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2006 21:30:31 -0400
From: ranger116@webtv.net
Subject: 911 TAX OUT! Dear Good Friends and fellow Country Folks, The a

911 TAX OUT!
Dear Good Friends and fellow Country Folks,

The awakening has been long coming and we see that the hundredth
monkey has seen the Light! The Nation is beginning to realize the shell
shock of the 911 Lie and subsequent Cover Up to hide these criminals
running the ship aground. Let's not lose sight of all the other
plans coming together on the periphery of the globalist gamble for world
domination by mass environmental destruction. One wonders why they claim
their Agenda 21 efforts are to save the future environment for their own
little selves and yet, are the greatest destroyers of said environment.
How many of you read the statements from the chinese general
stating that "80% of
Humanity is human garbage?" Have you yet realized that he, the take over
of our port in the Bahamas, and maurice strong the globalist billionaire
glove puppet for rockefeller all have the commonality of wanting world
domination and the deaths of "80% of the human garbage?"
The bush regime, the congress critters, and senate toads are all in
on this globalist world domination and population elimination agenda.
What they don't realize is after they have been used to destroy America,
and just as they think they are safe in the underground cities, they too
will be killed off for being good stupid cronies and puppets. The master
plan does not hold ANY respect for traitors to their own kind. So in
other words, after you have served your purpose you useless idiots, you
congress critters and senate toads are as dead as they want us all to
be. This will come to pass if you continue on your path of obedience to
mammon the god of money and the zionist bankster masters of illusion.
You patsies will die along with your families and never be heard from
again because they want no contamination of the master race from the
co-conspirators of the plans to destroy America all for the Agenda 21
illusions of the master plan puppeteer, maurice strong. They really have
very SPECIAL PLANS of torture for the managed media idiots that HAVE
COWTOWED in step and have blinded the American people so well. Old
maurice sits pretty good up there in socialist-controlled Canada with
his buddies the chinese. They ready for the attack as this is being
written!
http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:2WgrGk92_YsJ:www.halturnershow.com/ChineseDefenseMinisterTalksWarAgainstUS.html+&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1
So what can we do? Watch the ship sink and polish silverware as she goes
down? Seems to be the in-thing. Seems to be what most Americans want.
What they don't see is that they have made no plans to survive so the
consequences of any disruption in the norm be it mexican sponsored or
gov sponsored terror will be instant chaos, looting, killing, murder,
and mayhem. All according to the delight of the satanic luciferic
leadership stuck in the old paradigm of "evil is best."
So what can we do about it? This is obvious to those with eyes to see,
and ears to hear. By now, most of you are out of the cities of future
chaos. Remember, "order out of chaos" but first they will create the
chaos using the refined german philosophy of Hegel and his dialectic
madness of problem>reaction>solution. And the people are just now
realizing there is something really wrong. Prepare is the best advice.
Take action to speak your truth and most of all SPEAK OUT NOW.
The spirit now renders this idea. What are the thoughts about a TAX OUT?
For the corruption in our gov, do we reward it? Yes we do when all the
dumb people pay their taxes. We have been subsidizing this illegal and
dishonest corrupted warmongering gov for too long now. We must learn to
do as they teach us, and just say NO! No more financial support of this
lying chaotic regime. No more monitorial support for the illegal war. If
it's OK to pull of the biggest crime in history, then it is also OK to
not be complicit in this crime. YOU ARE COMPLICIT in the CRIME OF 911 by
paying your taxes that support the corrupt regime of bush and co, and
continue to cover it up today. The gov regime is not being truthful with
the American People, so why should we be truthful with them? True, two
wrongs don't make a right, but in this case, why should the American
People be honest with a gov that is dishonest? It would be like laying
down on the train track and BELIEVING the gov train will not run you
over. Your gov has already MURDERED over 3,000 innocents on 9-11-01!!
Your corrupted gov used this 911 Lie to go and murder hundreds of
thousands more innocents in Iraq. And lets not forget other heroes like
Paul Wellstone, Joe Villes, William Cooper, and thousands of others that
have been murdered by the dastardly bush crime cabal, the CFR, the
Tri-Lats, the comm of 300, the clubies of rome, the bilduhburgers, the
skunks and bonners, and all other assorted dragon-dreamers. Remember the
part in the "Red Dawn" movie when they were shooting the towns people
and the families had to watch it!
Now look, you can remain as smart as a toilet plunger handle in your
little complacent comfort zones if you want to. The fact is, the
insanity of chaos and war is fast coming to your doorstep and you can
bet on the fact that when the chinga hit's the fan, so will that innate
human response of flight or fight. The question is, will you fight with
your un-prepared hands, or be well prepared in advance by actions taken
now?
Right now, we have the illegal tax time deadline coming. What can we do
now? Refuse to support the criminal's retirement funds and war machine
by not paying the illegal tax to the dishonest gov until they tell the
truth about the 911 Cover Up.
Stop reading the main stream lying news papers. Stop watching the
mind-controllers on the nations TV systems. Protest the Lies! Call the
TV media and newspaper sponsors and advertisers. Tell them you will no
longer support anyone that advertises with the tellers of lies and
perpetrators of dis-information.
Therefore, let it be passed around fast. Is it right to support a system
that is not honest and hides the truth of the 911 Lie? If you support
the Lie, then send your tax that will be used for your destruction. If
you don't support the Lies, then send NO TAXES! Just say No Truth, No
Taxes to support the liars anymore.
You choose.
NO 911 TRUTH…NO TAX!
The people of this nation must rise up to save what we have left before
the mexicans and chinese come and take it. Let's not tolerate the bush
regime that keeps the nation in a state of Fear ANYMORE. Let us not
tolerate another false-flag-911-type-event in Texas or anywhere during
the Easter week. Lets not tolerate the bankster backed race riots from
the illegal aliens. How can this clown say he is protecting America,
when the chinese are openly saying they are coming to surprise attack us
and the mexicans claim parts of America as their own? Why do we continue
to pay taxes that are not stopping the border crossings of so many
illegals and enemies of this country? Why would we continue to support
the WAR PROFITEERS with the taxes we pay? Why do we support a regime
that has already declared war on Iran by using the HAARP TO CREATE THE
EARTHQUAKES THERE RECENTLY? It's as if they are trying to make them mad
to incite them into the trap of doing something so this corrupted regime
can blame those poor Iranians for it, be it whatever contrived gov
sponsored 911 type Event. They are test firing the Earthquaking Volcano
making machine for its use on the West Coast.
It's to be another globalist/zionist/bankster/bush regime created Event
staged to look like a natural caused Earthquake and or Volcanic
disaster. They can use this as an excuse for the falling dollar, but
really, it's all staged planning to bring the country into martial law.
By not paying taxes to support this madness, it keeps the money in the
hands of the people, and not in a dishonest gov that uses it for
personal gains, the military industrial complex, and payments to war
profiteers like daddy bush and all the rest of those evil luciferians in
the power monger positions.
ARE THERE ANY REAL LAW ENFORCEMENT PEOPLE LEFT IN THIS COUNTRY THAT ARE
NOT AFRAID OF THE BIG-BAD WOLF???
COME OOOONNNNN MARSHALL DILLON!!!
IT'S NOT ABOUT MONEY; IT'S ABOUT THE SURVIVAL OF THE PLANET THAT NEEDS
PEOPLE TO SURVIVE. WHEN WE DIE, IT DIES!!!!
IT'S LONG PAST THE TIME TO WEILD THE DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD OF TRUTH AND
JUSTICE!!!!
Get ready peoples, they are starting the big spin of the merry-go-round
from hell that spins so fast, it will be near impossible to hang on for
dear life. All as it was meant to be….or not!
Friday (3-31-06) we were all given a great example of how far the
constitutional rights violating nasty-noses are up the arse of Free
Speech. It was well shown to the MANY when they took the Greg Z show off
the air and half the John show because of real time tracking and
interference of the program. Unbeknownst to those that have not heard it
on the Archives at RBNLIVE.COM yet, but you will be astonished that this
vibe about another 'created earthquake event' got to EVERYONE that
understands the mentality of these EVIL haters of Mankind using toys God
never meant them to have. Brother Greg hit the Linchpin on the Head with
his accurate gut feeling, and as ANYONE KNOWS, knowledge of the
possibility to 'manipulate earthquakes' and the MORE than suspicious
possibility of a CAUSED Earth Quake in poor Iran!
THE GOD OF RIGHTEOUSNESS WEEPS FOR A NATION THAT ALLOWS THIS KIND OF
CRIMINALITY TO MANIFEST.
EVERYONE KNOWS ABOUT EARTHQUAKE MAKING TECHNOLOGY!!!!
AND IS IT ALLOWED BY ALL THE WORLD GOVERNMENTS????
A GOVERNEMENT IS THE PEOPLE, NOT A CORRUPTED FEW!!!
GET IT?
HOW DOES IT GO ON???
God has always shown you the problems and has ALWAYS provided the
answers to the Problems. The simple answer here is to clean up the
corruption RIGHT NOW! SIMPLE!!! WHAT WOULD JESUS DO????
BUY AMERICAN? JUST SAY NO TO WALLY-WORLD? Take a collective 360 degree
multi-dimensional look around for gov ops in places like Seattle?
Link to Greg Szymanski 3-31-06 Part-2
http://mp3.rbnlive.com/Greg/0603/20060331_Fri_Greg2.mp3
http://www.weatherwars.info/index.php
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO409F.html
http://worldvisionportal.org/wvpforum/viewtopic.php?t=296
http://www.rense.com/general50/owningweather.htm
This is how YOUR TAX DOLLARS ARE SPENT!!! When it comes to Tax Day JUST
SAY; NO 911 TRUTH FOR AMERICA, NO TAXES FOR MORE CORRUPTION AND LIES!!!
No more Tax $$ for the warmonger machine that declares war on its own
people!!!!
4 1/2 years of Lies is Enough!
Speak out for AMERICA!!
SPEAK OUT FOR TRUTH!!!
ALL DONATIONS ARE FOR SCOLARS FOR 911 TRUTH. PLEASE GO TO THE SITE AND
SIGN THE PETITION. http://st911.org/
Remember, the enemy kills children for speaking their truths.
http://www.startribune.com/467/story/342036.html
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/march2006/300306raceriots.htm
Just trying to save what we can…we endure for you…ITS NOT TO LATE
YET.
ROSE KING
HEY YAHOO!!!
YAHOO is in violation of the 1974 Privacy Act and Constitutional Right
to Privacy for the intrusions into Americans Private Mail!!!

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The illegal immigrant (Mexican) problem can be solved for as little as
$10 million a year. Here's how:

Hire / pay off 10 Mexican Army Generals. Pay them $1 million. Stipulate
that they are responsible for stemming the flow of their countrymen into
the US. For each illegal that succeeds in crossing the border we catch,
his $million is reduced by $10,000.

Simple, effective, cheap. The $10,000 is about what it costs for us to
capture, process and return each illegal (if caught soon after entry).
We regain some of our costs and the Generals get to foot the bill. The
better job they do, the less we have to cough-up in taxes for the
purpose.

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(Just Say No ! - To Banning the US Flag !)

AOL News - U.S. Flag Banned Amid Racial Tensions
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Hole discovered drilled into pipe at Miami-Dade nuclear power plant
reactor | theledger.com

Address:http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060401/APN/604010787

This Nuclear Power Plant is located about 15 miles South of me, A friend
of mine used to work for Florida Power & Light (but not at the power
plant) He heard through the company grapevine that about 15 years ago
the plant that has a control room like the one you saw in the movie
"China Syndrome" and it also has another complete full size control room
just like it as a backup and yet another smaller control room as a third
back up.
The only problem was the engineering geniuses that built the plant ran
all the monitoring and control wires from all three control rooms into
the reactor room through just "one large pipe"
While doing some maintenance work in the reactor room about 15 years
ago they dropped a beam on the control wires pipe and crushed it
shorting out all the control wires from all three control rooms !
They managed to keep the reactor under control somehow and also managed
to not let this accident ever get out to the public - Until Now !

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Impeachment on CSPAN & in Washington Post
from Center for Constitutional Rights

The Washington Post just ran a front-page story about impeaching
President Bush,

quoting two attorneys from the Center for Constitutional Rights.
Click here to read this important story.
CCR
Address:http://www.ccr-ny.org/v2/newsroom/headlines/headline.asp?ObjID=t7zEPRceKj&Content=750
CCR
Address:http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizationsORG/ccr/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=2702

That's not all. This Sunday, C-SPAN 2 is broadcasting a panel
discussion on the CCR impeachment book that we recently convened. You
can see me and several other CCR attorneys outlining the case for
impeachment this Sunday, April 2 at 4pm (Eastern Time) on the BookTV
segment of CSPAN 2.
Please consider taking a moment to spread the word about this
important movement to hold the President accountable and protect our
democracy. Forward this email so others can see the Washington Post!
story and consider watching our event on Sunday at 4pm.
Of course, today the Senate Judiciary Committee is also considering a
resolution to censure President Bush for illegal domestic spying. This
is a start, but a censure resolution will not: Remove a single wiretap
from Americans' phones; end the Iraq War; halt U.S. government torture
or stop the President's other violations of the constitutional principle
of the separation of powers. Impeachment will ensure thorough
investigation, real accountability and the restoration of our
Constitution. Please take a moment now to forward this email to spread
the word.

You can also
click here to make sure your representative supports the resolution to
investigate impeachment.

Thank you for taking the time to act today , and I hope you will watch
our impeachment event this Sunday at 4pm (EST) on C-SPAN 2.

Sincerely,
William Goodman

Legal Director, Center for Constitutional Rights
P.S. Please spread the word and forward this article to friends:

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The Raw Story | Republican congressman brags of calling Cindy Sheehan
'nutcase,' then yanks blog post

Address:http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Republican_congressman_brags_of_calling_Cindy_0331.html

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The word from dispatchers to people in the WTC Towers on Sept. 11:

"Was Sit tight" ?

(Bush needed enough people to Die to insure the sheeple & Congress would
go along with invading inocent countries )

Address:http://www.iht.com/bin/print_ipub.php?file=/articles/2006/03/31/news/tapes.php

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Here is where we should send Bush - He would be happy
Alcohol found in space

Address:http://www.labnews.co.uk/new_labnews/article.php?artid=1017&categoryid=2&scheme=2

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Rumsfeld admits a missile hit the pentagon
DoD News: Secretary Rumsfeld Interview with Parade Magazine
Address:http://www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/2001/t11182001_t1012pm.html

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Message: 12
Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2006 19:54:37 -0600
From: "Victor Forsythe" <angelman24@sprintmail.com>
Subject: Zionist Lubavitchers rally in Boulder

On April 10, 2006 in Math 100 at 7pm on the CU campus in Boulder Colorado

Zionist Lubavitchers will hold a rally to "stand with Israel" according or organizers
like the Boulder Weekly and Hillel.

So who are prominent Lubavitchers? Lets see:

Well we have Ari Fliescher, the ex White House "Spokesperson" press secretary.
The most prominent backer of the Lubavitchers on Capitol Hill is Senator Joseph Lieberman (D.Conn.), an Orthodox Jew, and the former candidate for the Vice-Presidency of the United States. The chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), has commended Chabad Lubavitch "ideals" in a Senate floor statement. Jewish members of Congress regularly attend seminars conducted by a Washington DC Lubavitcher rabbi. The Assistant Secretary of Defense, Paul D. Wolfowitz, the Comptroller of the US Department of Defense, Dov Zakheim (an ordained Orthodox rabbi), and Stuart Eizenstat, former Deputy Treasury Secretary, are all Lubavitcher groupies.

What do Lubavichers believe in? What makes them different from real Jews?

For this go to:

http://www.public-action.com/christmas.html

What you can do:

1. Pass this on far and wide
2. Come to Boulder for a counter demonstration in front of Math 100.

Peace

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Message: 13
Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2006 18:57:17 -0700 (PDT)
From: Scott Legere <sledger911@yahoo.com>
Subject: An Obvious question that could be added to the list

Sent to a friend:

Ya know a question I would like to ask Bro? After both buildings in N.Y. were hit (with whatever...lol) and our country was truly on alert..How is it, inside our nation’s capital... where there are hundreds of news teams and cameras all " looking to the skies" for more hijacked aircraft,.. That NOT one news team or armature photographer, not one Chinese tourist with a video cam, No one with a regular camera... NOBODY was able to catch a low flying 100 ton aircraft on video (or still) with both JT9D engines at full throttle with 200 decibels of sound drawning onlookers from miles away in every direction?????? Not a single picture of what was supposed to be 77!! Lots of "eyewitnesses"...not a single frame of video evidence? Except those wonderful 5 frames ...It's F'n laughable!

A 5 year old would understand the importance of that simple question.

Ledge

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Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2006 23:01:58 -0400 (GMT-04:00)
From: linelites@mindspring.com
Subject: Re: An Obvious question that could be added to the list

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Message: 15
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2006 03:30:48 -0000
From: "hvncb" <hvncb@yahoo.com>
Subject: TAX OUT! P E R I O D !

For the record...the tax IS NOT illegal. Congress, the President,
the Popular Press, your accountant, your "employer" and the IRS_
have bamboozled Americans into the biggest thefts by deception scams
of all time..YES Congress did this to you. The IRS has been
stealing your money for the past 61 years under the pretense that
you have to "pay your fair share" that you were and "employee" with
an "employer" that you earned "wages" and had "income" THESE ARE ALL
TRICK WORDS...YES...READ THAT AGAIN, ESSENTIALLY, THEFT BY
DECEPTION!

THEREFOR, THERE IS NO NEED TO "REFUSE" TO PAY BECAUSE YOU MOST
PROBABLY DON'T OWE ANY FEDERAL INCOME TAX. LEARN THE TRUTH, THERE
IS MUCH INFORMATION ON THE INTERNET..WAKE UP AND TAKE YOUR COUNTRY
BACK and while you're at it...get your money back as well!

turn off your mind numbing, corporate funded TV and open your eyes,
PLEASE!

http://www.us-usa.info/flyerInfo.html

http://famguardian.org/Subjects/Taxes/taxes.htm

Check out this trailer for upcoming film!
http://www.freedomtofascism.com/

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Message: 16
Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2006 22:01:09 -0700
From: "Dick Eastman" <olfriend@nwinfo.net>
Subject: Fw: Forgotten links Between Bush/Hinckley -- JFK etc.

From: Capt. Chemtrails, USN (ret)

April 02, 2006

Forgotten links Between Bush/Hinckley etc.

Thanks, Emily, for your good work. Your website http://www.abidemiracles.com/ fearlessly covers the today's most important issues. Anyone who still gives a hoot about our COUNTRY, would agree. I have added it to our links library.

This article, and the one citing Flocco re: Bush41 and Daly Plaza http://www.tomflocco.com/fs/FbiMemoPhotoLinkBushJfk.htm may confirm something that I have suspected (or known in my heart?) for years.

During "June Week" 1963 JFK visited the USAFAcademy to give the graduation speech to the 5th graduating class. I was in the audience and recall his comments concerning CIA and the military industrial complex; he mentioning Ike, his predecessor. The "Bay of Pigs" fiasco was fresh in everyone's mind, especially military types like us, and this was sorta something of an apology or explanation. He acknowledged responsibility and vowed never again. The CIA was to be dismantled, or at least drastically reduced.... no longer would it be allowed to create policy.

JFK was dead a few months later.

I consider this the "Coup" of 1963. Kennedy had succeeded, by acting in the best interests of the Country, in alienating lots of powerful people. Executive order 11110, signed during this same week, restricted debt ceiling and reduced Federal Reserve power; his position on the OIL "depletion" allowance angered Texas oil men. J Edgar was at wits end, having for the first time in 35 years, a "boss", RFK.

Perhaps it would be a strange conincidence if one man had connections to all these groups. Bonesman Bush41 did.

Our Country has not been the same since; LBJ style strong arm politics, "Great Society" government intrusion, and illegal wars have become the standards.

The HISTORY CHANNEL, on 40th anniversity of assassination did a very revealing special that, in my mind, shows the TX oil// LBJ//CIA connection. LBJ's aide, Malcolm Wallace's fingerprints were supposedly found near the 6th floor sniper's nest and his mistress, Maddy Brown candidly reported of the gatherings leading up to the assassination and the grief (and insanity?) for being responsible that wracked LBJ in his later years. Now Flocco reports Bush41 on the scene.

Hinckley's dad was a business partner of Neal. There had also been two (2) attempts on "good guy" FORD's life within a month's period of time by "manchurian candidate' type whackos; Neil Bush's company was in charge of security for UAL, American, LoganAP and WTC; what are the odds?

I believe... No, I KNOW and would stake my life on it.. that 911 was choreographed by a cabal that includes high government officials. Anyone that has researched the data has come to the only conclusion it supports or they have found a way to be in denial. To deny the facts is to deny the laws of logic, physics, and common sense. I am happy to report that this is the overwhelming consensus of members of a group (http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/Avian2005/) to which you would be more than welcome; a group where you belong. (actually, my original original purpose was to invite you and any folks reading this who are capable of thinking for themselves to join us--and even if you don't--- please THINK before lining up for any "Bird Flu" inoculations, "Mandatory" or not..sorry for the length, important subject.

Take care, regards and beware the needle..Capt."Shag Spencer" (USN/ret/)

ps. Emily, I know you are already busy, obviously...you may want to opt for digest/no email...but do include us on your posts, pls.

--- In abidemir@yahoogroups.com, "Emily Cragg" <chaiyah2001@...> wrote:
>
> (forgotten links between the Bushes and Hinckleys.)
>
> http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/
> Apr 2, 2006
>
>
> pril 2, 2006 -- Curious George's abrupt schedule change. Last week,
> George W. Bush abruptly changed his travel schedule to attend the
> North American Summit in Cancun, Mexico. Originally, Bush was to
> depart for Cancun on Thursday, March 30 after appearing at the
> annual Washington egoist event, the Radio & Television
> Correspondents' Association dinner, held on the evening of
> Wednesday, March 29. Instead, Vice President Dick Cheney was tapped
> to speak at the dinner after Bush decided to leave a day early for
> Cancun. There was an obvious problem with George W. Bush attending
> an affair at the Washington Hilton Hotel on the eve of March 30.
> This March 30th was the 25th anniversary of the attempted
> assassination of Ronald Reagan by Bush family friend John Hinckley
> Jr. The juxtaposition of the 25th anniversary with Bush at the very
> same hotel where a family friend tried to kill the president, thus
> ensuring his father's ascendancy to the presidency, may have dredged
> up some long forgotten links between the Bushes and Hinckleys.
>
> The death of Ronald Reagan would have propelled George H. W. Bush
> into the presidency in 1981, placing the nation into the hands of
> the Bush family eight years earlier. Scott Hinckley and Neil Bush
> were to have dinner on March 31, 1981, but the dinner was canceled.
>
> Dubya didn't want to be anywhere near the "Hinckley Hilton" on March
> 30. Cancun was as close as necessary.
>
> The connections between the Bushes and Hinckleys were highlighted in
> the Houston Post on March 31, 1981: "Houston, AP, March 31, 1981:
> The family of the man charged with trying to assassinate President
> Reagan is acquainted with the family of Vice President George Bush
> and had made large contributions to his political campaign, the
> Houston Post reported today.
>
> The newspaper said in a copyright story, Scott Hinckley, brother of
> John W. Hinckley Jr., who allegedly shot Reagan, was to have dined
> tonight in Denver at the home of Neil Bush, one of the vice
> president's sons.
>
> The newspaper said it was unable to reach Scott Hinckley, vice
> president of his father's Denver-based firm, Vanderbilt Energy
> Corp., for comment. Neil Bush lives in Denver, where he works for
> Standard Oil Co. of Indiana.
>
> In 1978, Neil served as campaign manager for his brother, George W.
> Bush, the vice president's oldest son, who made an unsuccessful bid
> for Congress. Neil lived in Lubbock throughout much of 1978, where
> John Hinckley lived from 1974 through 1980.
>
> On Monday, Neil Bush said he did not know if he had ever met 25-year-
> old John Hinckley.
>
> "I have no idea," he said. "I don't recognize any pictures of him. I
> just wish I could see a better picture of him.
>
> Sharon Bush, Neil's wife, said Scott Hinckley was coming to their
> house as a date of a girl friend of hers. "I don't even know the
> brother. From what I know and I've heard, they [the Hinckleys] are a
> very nice family and have given a lot of money to the Bush campaign.
> The dinner was canceled, she added.
>
> George W. Bush said he was unsure whether he had met John W.
> Hinckley."
>
> Of course, there are many things that George W. Bush does not
> remember. And, as with Bush's recent summits in India and Pakistan,
> the Cancun meeting was a disaster. The "Three Amigos" -- Bush,
> Vicente Fox, and Stephen Harper -- are now known as two lame ducks
> (Bush and Fox) and a dead duck (Harper).
>

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Message: 17
Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2006 22:04:15 -0700
From: "Dick Eastman" <olfriend@nwinfo.net>
Subject: Fw: British military chiefs believe a US-led strike against Iran is inevitable - the Sunday Telegraph of London

DEBKAfile, Political Analysis, Espionage, Terrorism Security
British military chiefs believe a US-led strike against Iran is inevitable - the Sunday Telegraph of London

April 2, 2006, 6:32 AM (GMT+02:00)

The paper reports the prospect will be aired at a secret high-level UK defense ministry meeting Monday.

DEBKAfile's military sources report: British generals will examine Iran's successful test of a Fajr-3 multiple warhead missile that can reach Israel, that was carried out undetected by US or Israel radar Friday, March 31. It was launched on the first day of a large-scale Iranian exercise in the Persian Gulf and Sea of Oman.

Those sources add that the Israeli Arrow anti-missile system has no answer for multiple warhead ballistic missiles.

The US hopes for a multinational military operation to destroy Iran's ability to develop a nuclear bomb - if Tehran fail to comply with the UN security council demand to freeze uranium enrichment. But British defense chiefs believe that failing international support, the Bush administration would go it alone or with Israel's assistance.

DEBKAfile adds: Last month, former Israel chief of staff Moshe Yaalon estimated that a strike of this kind would be phased, suggesting that each phase would be undertaken by a different armed force.

In Blackburn, northwest England, Saturday, US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice said all negotiating options including the use of force remained open for resolving the Iran crisis. Last month, foreign secretary Jack Straw took the opposite stance saying a military attack was inconceivable.

According to the Sunday Telegraph, British military chiefs believe an attack would be limited to a series of air strikes against nuclear plants rather than a land assault - tactical Tomahawk cruise missiles fired from US navy ships and submarines in the Gulf, followed by B2 stealth bombers equipped with 8 4,500lb enhanced BLU-28 satellite-guided bunker-busting bombs flying from Diego Garcia, the RAF base in Gloucestershire in the UK and Whiteman USAF base in Missouri.

At least eight nuclear sites are known within Iran but there are many more secret ones.

The London paper reports Washington fears an Iranian nuclear weapon could be used against Israel or US forces in the region as well as destabilizing the Middle East with Egypt, Syria and Saudi Arabia opting for nuclear weapons programs.

Steve

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Message: 18
Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2006 22:09:50 -0700
From: "Dick Eastman" <olfriend@nwinfo.net>
Subject: Re: An Obvious question that could be added to the list

Actually there was a four-eninge plane circling the D.C. restricted airspace that was photographed and video-taped -- many people saw this plane and concluded that they had seen the "hijacked" Flt. 77

Whether this plane was a distraction aircraft or whether its purpose was to guide the jetliner and the actual (small) killer jet is anyone's guess.

This plane was probably military -- the wings were up close to the cockpit -- unlike a 757.

I had pictures of this plane up, that is until my old pal decided to take them down.

Dick Eastman
Yakima, Washington
http://bedoper.com/eastman
----- Original Message -----
From: Scott Legere
To: 911TruthAction@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2006 6:57 PM
Subject: [911TruthAction] An Obvious question that could be added to the list

Sent to a friend:

Ya know a question I would like to ask Bro? After both buildings in N.Y. were hit (with whatever...lol) and our country was truly on alert..How is it, inside our nation's capital... where there are hundreds of news teams and cameras all " looking to the skies" for more hijacked aircraft,.. That NOT one news team or armature photographer, not one Chinese tourist with a video cam, No one with a regular camera... NOBODY was able to catch a low flying 100 ton aircraft on video (or still) with both JT9D engines at full throttle with 200 decibels of sound drawning onlookers from miles away in every direction?????? Not a single picture of what was supposed to be 77!! Lots of "eyewitnesses"...not a single frame of video evidence? Except those wonderful 5 frames ...It's F'n laughable!

A 5 year old would understand the importance of that simple question.

Ledge

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Message: 19
Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2006 22:44:26 -0700
From: "Dick Eastman" <olfriend@nwinfo.net>
Subject: too much wealth in too few hands? not so, say the super rich's hired brains-- just kill off the losers Fw: Saving the Earth with Ebola

http://www.sas.org/tcs/weeklyIssues_2006/2006-04-07/feature1p/index.html

Saving the Earth with Ebola

Professor Pianka said the Earth as we know it will not survive without drastic measures. Then, and without presenting any data to justify this number, he asserted that the only feasible solution to saving the Earth is to reduce the population to 10 percent of the present number.

He then showed solutions for reducing the world's population in the form of a slide depicting the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. War and famine would not do, he explained. Instead, disease offered the most efficient and fastest way to kill the billions that must soon die if the population crisis is to be solved.

Pianka then displayed a slide showing rows of human skulls, one of which had red lights flashing from its eye sockets.

AIDS is not an efficient killer, he explained, because it is too slow. His favorite candidate for eliminating 90 percent of the world's population is airborne Ebola ( Ebola Reston ), because it is both highly lethal and it kills in days, instead of years. However, Professor Pianka did not mention that Ebola victims die a slow and torturous death as the virus initiates a cascade of biological calamities inside the victim that eventually liquefy the internal organs.

After praising the Ebola virus for its efficiency at killing, Pianka paused, leaned over the lectern, looked at us and carefully said, "We've got airborne 90 percent mortality in humans. Killing humans. Think about that."

With his slide of human skulls towering on the screen behind him, Professor Pianka was deadly serious. The audience that had been applauding some of his statements now sat silent.

After a dramatic pause, Pianka returned to politics and environmentalism. But he revisited his call for mass death when he reflected on the oil situation.
"And the fossil fuels are running out," he said, "so I think we may have to cut back to two billion, which would be about one-third as many people." So the oil crisis alone may require eliminating two-third's of the world's population.

How soon must the mass dying begin if Earth is to be saved? Apparently fairly soon, for Pianka suggested he might be around when the killer disease goes to work. He was born in 1939, and his lengthy obituary appears on his web site.
When Pianka finished his remarks, the audience applauded. It wasn't merely a smattering of polite clapping that audiences diplomatically reserve for poor or boring speakers. It was a loud, vigorous and enthusiastic applause.

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Message: 20
Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2006 22:58:53 -0700
From: "Dick Eastman" <olfriend@nwinfo.net>
Subject: POWERFUL: "On the Eve," by Ian Buckley Setting faith and culture above money ...

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/shamireaders/message/693

On the Eve
by Ian Buckley
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Just days ago, worshippers at a Baghdad mosque were massacred by American troops.These 'uncivilised' ones were lovers of the Ahl al-Bayt 2, while their oh-so-civilised GI slaughterers were most likely devotees of sado-porn, trash food and bone-crunching football games. 'Weer goin duSIVILEYEZUM', as e.e. cummings satirically commented on an earlier American mission to 'civilise' yet another part of Asia.
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But I would say this to Muslim and Arab world : Bush and Blair hate your freedom. They hate your freedom from social atomisation. They hate your freedom from large-scale commercial chicanery. They hate your freedom from usury, which has, incidentally, reduced most of their own citizens to the status of drudges, if not modern-day slaves. In fact, the West is so completely brainwashed by now that hardly anyone has even heard of the term 'usury', though the practice was once (rightly) forbidden by Christianity as it still is by Islam. How very inconvenient that last detail is for the exploiters!
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"In this fallen land of Arda where the servants of Morgoth are worshipped" - J.R.R. Tolkien

Despite all the predications, the attack on Iran has not yet come. So there is a sense of a pause, an interregnum, as we wait on the eve of another bitter and nihilistic rampage. The United States remains a grim golem1 that stalks the world, particularly the Arab and Muslim world. Dry statistics are there to tell us of several hundred tank buster planes stationed here, a multitude of Apache attack helicopters scattered there and of dozens of cruise missiles stored almost everywhere.

But why, sirs, do you need such an array of weaponry? After all, the USA is a Continental power, with neighbours that are quiescent and unthreatening. But we should note that the United States was, and remains, what we might term an immature state formation, with heavy doses of both violence and Puritanism featuring strongly in its brief history. Self-evidently, the Book of Joshua was the guiding light of American expansion westward, long before the hijacking of a nation by US Likud. The distance between Sand Creek and Deir Yassin is not all that great, except in terms of geography.

It is noticeable too that the Thatcherites, Reaganites and neo-cons who have bedevilled us for too long were at least as influenced by old Puritan ideas as they were by Judaic thought. Of course, the two have long been entwined, part of the same tree, as in the rise of capitalism. This puritanical impulse can be illustrated by Britain's present Chancellor, a dim Scottish Presbyterian by name of Brown, who cuts back on health care - several hospitals face bankruptcy - while ensuring that so-called defence spending remains high. British Expeditionary forces are placed at vast expense in Afghanistan, Iraq and maybe next in Iran, but back home hardly anyone can find a dentist. Rotten teeth and a rotten government!

Now Blair in one of his recent keynote speeches stated that he wanted to spread the blessings of 'modernity' and 'civilisation' among all those poor, benighted and fanatical Muslims. But what sort of civilisation does the West offer - and offer, moreover, using the stern persuasion of those aforementioned Apache helicopters and Cruise missiles? Is it the civilisation of the real West anyway, or an Ersatz non-civilisation of money-grubbing, falsity, trash and violence? Drink-fuelled thuggery and drug warfare haunt large parts of most British - and American - cities. Spreading civilisation is it, Mr. Blair? Start on your own doorstep!

In Manchester, a 'Wild West' style pub shootout left two men dead in a drug gang incident. At the University of Liverpool a few months earlier, the body of murdered prostitute was found stuck in a bush. Professor Peanut of the Chemistry Department probably walked past the strangled hooker as he pondered upon some abstruse problem or other.These are but vignettes of the new primitivism that falsely masquerades as 'civilisation', if only in the mouths of deceivers like Blair. And this barbarism that ludicrously passes itself off as modern, Western civilisation is exported to those who never wanted or desired it.

Just days ago, worshippers at a Baghdad mosque were massacred by American troops.These 'uncivilised' ones were lovers of the Ahl al-Bayt 2, while their oh-so-civilised GI slaughterers were most likely devotees of sado-porn, trash food and bone-crunching football games. 'Weer goin duSIVILEYEZUM', as e.e. cummings satirically commented on an earlier American mission to 'civilise' yet another part of Asia.

But I would say this to Muslim and Arab world : Bush and Blair hate your freedom. They hate your freedom from social atomisation. They hate your freedom from large-scale commercial chicanery. They hate your freedom from usury, which has, incidentally, reduced most of their own citizens to the status of drudges, if not modern-day slaves. In fact, the West is so completely brainwashed by now that hardly anyone has even heard of the term 'usury', though the practice was once (rightly) forbidden by Christianity as it still is by Islam. How very inconvenient that last detail is for the exploiters!

But you can be sure that a gaggle of Gordon Geckos is waiting in the wings, should all those economic conscripts from Alabama and Kentucky manage to 'stabilise' Iraq. The militarisation and official regimentation of American society is a growing problem. A failing country can offer little more to its young men in the dreary, forsaken towns than the chance to become a soldier or prison guard. Truly a land ruled by the 'servants of Morgoth'! I have written before on the vast and burgeoning prison population in both sides of the Atlantic. No further comment is required, except to state that every passing month brings a new record for numbers incarcerated.

Should some desperado steal trifling, low-value items, such as video tapes, then the State of California could quite possibly jail that miscreant for life. This procedure is popularly termed Three strikes and you're out, but even one offence could be counted as three in certain circumstances. Puts all the fuss about Sharia law into some perspective! Mote and beam, as they used to say..

Then again, consider the planned provocation of the cartoons. To the 'servants of Morgoth', profits are sacred, not Prophets. Any quasi-religious devotion they do have is reserved for 'the Zionist Entity' - to borrow a term that was once popular with Arab radicals like Gamel Nasser and Georges Habash.

The economic men in charge of the corporations and 'big business friendly' governments of the West are not so secure that they do not feel unease. Setting faith and culture above money is a cause of fear for them. How can you control or manipulate someone who puts religion before cash?

People of the Muslim world, these 'civilised' men hate your freedom, and they fear your example!
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1 The legendary animated monster of Loewe ben Bezalel, a precusor of Frankenstein's creature.
2 The Family of the Prophet of Islam

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Message: 21
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 03:43:34 -0700 (PDT)
From: Joe Stokes <joestokes@sbcglobal.net>
Subject: A New Pearl Harbor

AFTERDOWNINGSTREET.ORG just posted this article on the
PNAC. Its time we bombard their "post a comment" with
the TRUTH

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/9920

Bush planned Iraq 'regime change' before becoming
President
Submitted by prissears on Sun, 2006-04-02 22:21. Iraq
War

http://www.sundayherald.com/27735

Sunday Herald - 15 September 2002

By Neil Mackay

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A SECRET blueprint for US global domination reveals
that President Bush and his cabinet were planning a
premeditated attack on Iraq to secure 'regime change'
even before he took power in January 2001.
The blueprint, uncovered by the Sunday Herald, for the
creation of a 'global Pax Americana' was drawn up for
Dick Cheney (now vice- president), Donald Rumsfeld
(defence secretary), Paul Wolfowitz (Rumsfeld's
deputy), George W Bush's younger brother Jeb and Lewis
Libby (Cheney's chief of staff). The document,
entitled Rebuilding America's Defences: Strategies,
Forces And Resources For A New Century, was written in
September 2000 by the neo-conservative think-tank
Project for the New American Century (PNAC).

The plan shows Bush's cabinet intended to take
military control of the Gulf region whether or not
Saddam Hussein was in power. It says: 'The United
States has for decades sought to play a more permanent
role in Gulf regional security. While the unresolved
conflict with Iraq provides the immediate
justification, the need for a substantial American
force presence in the Gulf transcends the issue of the
regime of Saddam Hussein.'

The PNAC document supports a 'blueprint for
maintaining global US pre-eminence, precluding the
rise of a great power rival, and shaping the
international security order in line with American
principles and interests'.

This 'American grand strategy' must be advanced for
'as far into the future as possible', the report says.
It also calls for the US to 'fight and decisively win
multiple, simultaneous major theatre wars' as a 'core
mission'.

The report describes American armed forces abroad as
'the cavalry on the new American frontier'. The PNAC
blueprint supports an earlier document written by
Wolfowitz and Libby that said the US must 'discourage
advanced industrial nations from challenging our
leadership or even aspiring to a larger regional or
global role'.

The PNAC report also:

l refers to key allies such as the UK as 'the most
effective and efficient means of exercising American
global leadership';

l describes peace-keeping missions as 'demanding
American political leadership rather than that of the
United Nations';

l reveals worries in the administration that Europe
could rival the USA;

l says 'even should Saddam pass from the scene' bases
in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait will remain permanently --
despite domestic opposition in the Gulf regimes to the
stationing of US troops -- as 'Iran may well prove as
large a threat to US interests as Iraq has';

l spotlights China for 'regime change' saying 'it is
time to increase the presence of American forces in
southeast Asia'. This, it says, may lead to 'American
and allied power providing the spur to the process of
democratisation in China';

l calls for the creation of 'US Space Forces', to
dominate space, and the total control of cyberspace to
prevent 'enemies' using the internet against the US;

l hints that, despite threatening war against Iraq for
developing weapons of mass destruction, the US may
consider developing biological weapons -- which the
nation has banned -- in decades to come. It says: 'New
methods of attack -- electronic, 'non-lethal',
biological -- will be more widely available ... combat
likely will take place in new dimensions, in space,
cyberspace, and perhaps the world of microbes ...
advanced forms of biological warfare that can 'target'
specific genotypes may transform biological warfare
from the realm of terror to a politically useful
tool';

l and pinpoints North Korea, Libya, Syria and Iran as
dangerous regimes and says their existence justifies
the creation of a 'world-wide command-and-control
system'.

Tam Dalyell, the Labour MP, father of the House of
Commons and one of the leading rebel voices against
war with Iraq, said: 'This is garbage from right-wing
think-tanks stuffed with chicken-hawks -- men who have
never seen the horror of war but are in love with the
idea of war. Men like Cheney, who were draft-dodgers
in the Vietnam war.

'This is a blueprint for US world domination -- a new
world order of their making. These are the thought
processes of fantasist Americans who want to control
the world. I am appalled that a British Labour Prime
Minister should have got into bed with a crew which
has this moral standing.'

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