Space Weapon Test Set for Launch

 

Long-debated military satellite set for launch
NFIRE has sparked years of controversy over missile-watching technology
http://www.msnbc.msn.com:80/id/18248896/

By James Oberg
NBC News space analyst
April 22, 2007
The U.S. military is about to launch a small missile-watching satellite after years of quiet preparation — and years of alarming reports from critics about its purpose. The NFIRE satellite is due to be sent into space early Monday from a Virginia launch pad.

To the Defense Department, which owns and will operate the satellite, NFIRE stands for "Near Field Infrared Experiment." That encapsulates the mission's goal of observing the rocket plumes of military missiles to be launched past it later this year. NFIRE will map and characterize the brightness of the rocket plumes to help the Pentagon design future guidance systems for anti-missile weapons now under consideration.

But to its critics, NFIRE could well be spelled “Fire!” — as in, “launch the weapon!” The project has been labeled an irrevocable step toward the weaponization of outer space. The spacecraft's launch atop a commercial Minotaur booster, scheduled for 3:11 a.m. ET from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Virginia's Wallops Island, could light a new fire under the debate.

Just last month, Gen. Henry Obering, head of the Missile Defense Agency, gave the official view of the NFIRE mission: “We plan to develop space-based sensors to provide a persistent identification and global tracking capability,” he testified to a congressional committee. These are tests of passive tracking satellites, precursors of operational vehicles that could watch for attacks on the United States and its allies. Obering and other program officials insist that nothing on this project relates to interception of such missiles or any other objects.

Two demonstration satellites are to be launched late this year to perform acquisition, tracking and handover tests with live missiles. Prior to those flights, Obering said the NFIRE satellite would “collect high-resolution infrared phenomenology data from boosting targets.”

The explanation is a plausible one, because rocket plumes exist in their true form only in the vacuum of space, and sensors to track them often use wavelengths that are normally blocked by Earth’s atmosphere. To field-test tracking sensors, you have to do it in space — and both Russian and American satellites (and manned spacecraft, such as Russia's Mir space station and the space shuttle) have been experimenting with better and better technology for decades.

Opposing orbits

Critics of U.S. military space activities have an entirely different view. In her latest book, "War in the Heavens," peace activist Helen Caldicott writes: "NFIRE would track and kill missiles … [but] initial NFIRE tests will not include the kill vehicle." Furthermore, she adds, "Obviously if NFIRE and other such systems are deployed, they will provoke countermeasures by powers such as China and Russia" since "it is only a short step from hitting a missile in outer space to hitting an orbiting satellite."

The fuss over the "kill vehicle" peaked three years ago when an earlier version of the spacecraft was in final launch preparation. That object was indeed a component of a ground-launched anti-missile warhead, modified to carry more cameras and fewer maneuvering thrusters.

Caldicott’s book cited a Moscow newspaper for a quotation attributed to an anonymous Pentagon official upset with the NFIRE program. “We’re crossing the Rubicon into space weaponization,” the official was said to have remarked.

Rick Lehner, a spokesman for the Missile Defense Agency, insisted to MSNBC.com that the current NFIRE spacecraft is focused entirely on passive plume sensor tests.

"It’s just an experimental use of sensors to get data on rocket plumes," he said by telephone. “We can use that data to design the guidance system of the kinetic energy interceptor,” a high-acceleration anti-missile system that could be based on land or on ships near the border of a potential missile-launching state.

Lehner said the $10 million appropriation requested by Obering was for analysis and design. "There's no plan for prototypes or for construction," he said. Instead, the money would fund comparisons of the mathematical models and previous sensor tests with the actual results from the NFIRE observations.

“We will get data so that in the future we can make decisions from an informed position,” he said. No decisions about future deployments have been made, he insisted, nor would they be made for years to come. For now, this NFIRE mission is the only one planned, he said.

But that’s not the way that NFIRE and similar U.S. programs are being described around the world.

The Russian press has been highly vocal about sounding the alarm, with a classic example published on the newspaper Izvestia's front page on March 29.

"The United States is going to put an anti-missile shield in space – this was announced yesterday by General Henry Obering, head of the Missile Defense Agency," correspondent Dmitri Litovkin declared. The reason? “In his opinion, that is the only way of protecting America”.

Obering’s March 27 testimony before the Strategic Forces subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee is readily available (PDF file) and his actual words can be checked. They do not reflect what Litovkin claims they said.

After describing the orbiting sensor tests planned for this year, Obering elaborated on why an operational network of space-based sensors might be valuable. He urged lawmakers to consider deploying such a passive observation network — a network that would have been forbidden by the Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty that the current Bush administration withdrew from five years ago. The ABM treaty forbade any space-based components of an anti-missile system, whether or not they were actually related to weapons.

Confusing debate with decision

Obering did talk about actual interceptors in orbit, a concept that has been argued over for decades. In terms of pure practicality, a seemingly insurmountable operational obstacle has been the need for hundreds of fast-moving platforms to cover any possible location anywhere on Earth from which a missile might suddenly rise.

"I believe the performance of the [Ballistic Missile Defense] system could be greatly enhanced by an integrated space-based layer," Obering nevertheless continued, touching on the weapons-in-space issue. “Deployment of such a system must be preceded by significant, national-level debate.” To that end, Obering requested a budget of $10 million for 2008 “to begin concept analysis and preparation for small-scale experiments”.

That is hardly the description of an already-approved imminent deployment of a fleet of battle stations. Nor was it accurately reflected by the reporter for the Novosti news agency, who filed a story on the hearings with the headline, “U.S. missile defense chief argues for missile shield in space.” Novosti claimed that Obering said some elements of the missile defense system should be deployed in space, but what he really said was that the United States needed to debate that issue before making a decision years in the future.

Recognizing the realities

Russian press coverage is not universally garbled. A well-informed retired military officer named Vladimir Dvorkin uses original sources and direct interviews to correctly describe the over-wrought hyping of “U.S. space threats” by Kremlin officials. Dvorkin is one of the rare commentators in Russia recognizing the realities of the situation.

Fortunately, spaceflight is a technological exercise where physics is the ultimate judge of reality. The main fear about NFIRE seems centered on its potential to lead to orbiting satellite-killers, not merely missile-killers. None of these critics seems to have worked through the fundamental engineering of the NFIRE-type sensor system, which depends on tracking an extremely hot rocket plume trailing a powerful intercontinental missile.

Orbiting satellites, on the other hand, are in orbit, following a fixed course through space. Because they don’t emit enormous rocket plumes, they could not possibly be observed — much less attacked — by any weapons systems based on NFIRE-type sensors. They have no “fire,” hence nothing to fear from NFIRE.

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The World Can Halt Bush’s Crimes By Dumping the Dollar

 

By Paul Craig Roberts

What would be the consequences of a US or Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear energy sites?

0212/07 "ICH" -- -- At the 2006 Perdana Global Peace Forum, Australian medical scientist Dr. Helen Caldicott provided an authoritative analysis: [VIDEO] of the devastating impact on human life that would result from the radiation release from such an attack.

Dr. Caldicott described the catastrophic deaths that would result from a conventional attack on nuclear facilities and the long-term increase in cancer deaths from the radiation release.

Should the attack be made with nuclear weapons--as some of Bush’s criminally insane neoconservative advisers advocate--the populations of many countries would suffer for generations from radioactive particles in air, water, and food chains. Deaths would number in the many millions.

Such an attack justified in the name of “American security” and “American hegemony” would constitute the rawest form of evil the world has ever seen, far surpassing in evil the atrocities of the Nazi and Communist regimes.

Dr. Caldicott detailed the horrible long-term consequences for the Iraqi population from the US military’s current use of depleted uranium in explosive ammunition used in Iraq. Caldicott explained that “depleted” does not mean depleted of radiation. She explained that each time such ammunition is used, radioactive particles are released in the air and are absorbed into people’s lungs. We are yet to see the horrific civilian casualty rate of the American invasion--or the true casualty rate among US troops.

Dr. Caldicott expressed bewilderment why the rest of the world does not stand up to the US and force a halt to its crimes against humanity.

One man heard her--Vladimir Putin, President of Russia.

On February 10 at the 43rd Munich Security Conference, President Putin told the world’s assembled political leaders that the US was trying to establish a “uni-polar world,” which he defined as “one single center of power, one single center of force and one single master.”

This goal, Putin said, was a “formula for disaster.”

“The United States,” Putin said, truthfully, “has overstepped its borders in all spheres” and “has imposed itself on other states.”

The Russian leader declared: “We see no kind of restraint--a hyper-inflated use of force.”

To avoid catastrophe, Putin said a reconsideration of the entire existing architecture of global security was necessary.

Putin’s words of truth fell on many deaf ears. US Senator John McCain, America’s most idiotic and dangerous “leader” after Bush and Cheney, equated Putin’s legitimate criticism of the US with “confrontation.”

America’s new puppets--the states of central and Eastern Europe and the secretary general of NATO, no longer a treaty for the defense of Europe but a military force enlisted in America’s quest for empire--lined up with McCain’s argument that Russia was in fundamental conflict “with the core values of Euro-Atlantic democracies.”

Even the BBC’s defense and security correspondent, Rob Watson, jumped on the American propaganda bandwagon, tagging Putin’s speech a revival of the cold war.

No delegate at the security conference stood up to state the obvious fact that it is not Russia that is invading countries under pretexts as false as Hitler’s and setting up weapons systems on foreign soil in order to achieve military hegemony.

The reception given to Putin’s words made it clear to Russia, China, and every country not bribed, threatened or purchased into participation in America’s drive for world hegemony that the US has no interest whatsoever in peace. Intelligent people realize that American claims to be a moral and democratic force are mere pretense behind which hides a policy of military aggression.

The US, Putin said, has gone “from one conflict to another without achieving a fully-fledged solution to any of them.”

Putin has repeatedly stressed Russia’s peaceful intentions and desire to focus on its economy and to avoid a new arms race. In his speech on the 60th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany, Putin said: “I am convinced that there is no alternative to our friendship and our fraternity. With our closest neighbors and all countries of the world, Russia is prepared to build a kind of relationship which is not only based on lessons of the past but is also directed into a shared future.”

In his 2006 state of the nation speech, Putin noted that America’s military budget is 25 times larger than Russia’s. He compared the Bush Regime to a wolf who eats whom he wants without listening. Putin is being demonized by US propagandists, because he insists upon Russia being a politically and economically independent state.

The Bush Regime has taken the US outside the boundaries of international law and is acting unilaterally, falsely declaring American military aggression to be “defensive” and in the interests of peace. Much of the world realizes the hypocrisy and danger in the Bush Regime’s justification of the unbridled use of US military power, but no countries except other nuclear powers can challenge American aggression, and then only at the risk of all life on earth.

The solution is nonmilitary challenge.

The Bush Regime’s ability to wage war is dependent upon foreign financing. The Regime’s wars are financed with red ink, which means the hundreds of billions of dollars must be borrowed. As American consumers are spending more than they earn on consumption, the money cannot be borrowed from Americans.

The US is totally dependent upon foreigners to finance its budget and trade deficits. By financing these deficits, foreign governments are complicit in the Bush Regime’s military aggressions and war crimes. The Bush Regime’s two largest lenders are China and Japan. It is ironic that Japan, the only nation to experience nuclear attack by the US, is banker to the Bush Regime as it prepares a possible nuclear attack on Iran.

If the rest of the world would simply stop purchasing US Treasuries, and instead dump their surplus dollars into the foreign exchange market, the Bush Regime would be overwhelmed with economic crisis and unable to wage war. The arrogant hubris associated with the “sole superpower” myth would burst like the bubble it is.

The collapse of the dollar would also end the US government’s ability to subvert other countries by purchasing their leaders to do America’s will.

The demise of the US dollar is only a question of time. It would save the world from war and devastation if the dollar is brought to its demise before the Bush Regime launches its planned attack on Iran.

Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration. He was Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal editorial page and Contributing Editor of National Review. He is coauthor of The Tyranny of Good Intentions.

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More testing radioactive devices DU devices in the U.S.

 

Marion Fulk, a highly respected Manhattan Project and Livermore atomic scientist, says that depleted uranium "is perfect for killing lots of people." That, in fact, along with contamination of the land, is the purpose of the devices being tested.

If it's news to you, you're not alone. Livermore National Laboratory has been testing radioactive devices – exploding depleted uranium and tritium into the open air – just 50 miles east of San Francisco since 1961. And now the lab has a permit to raise the amount of radioactive material they detonate yearly from 1,000 to 8,000 pounds.

Those who know are spreading the word and calling on the Bay Area to turn out for two meetings next week in protest: the Tracy City Council meeting Tuesday, Feb. 6, 7 p.m., at Tracy City Hall, 325 East 10th St., and the San Joaquin Air Pollution Control District Hearing Board meeting Wednesday, Feb. 7, 10 a.m., at 4800 Enterprise Way in Modesto.

The test site, called Site 300 by the Livermore nuclear weapons lab, is located on 11 square miles in the Altamont Hills between Tracy and Livermore. Like the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, formerly the site of the Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory, Site 300 is a Superfund site, one of the most contaminated places in the U.S. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Site 300 "is operated by the University of California for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) primarily as a high-explosives and materials testing site in support of nuclear weapons research."

Site 300 Manager Jim Lane downplays the danger, saying in the Site 300 Annual Report: "Depleted uranium is used routinely. ... It contains a trace amount of radioactivity. However, it is less than normal daily exposure to the sun."

Marion Fulk, a highly respected Manhattan Project and Livermore atomic scientist, however, says that depleted uranium "is perfect for killing lots of people." That, in fact, along with contamination of the land, is the purpose of the devices being tested.

The tests at Livermore Site 300 use exotic high explosives to detonate weaponized uranium gas in solid metal form. The uranium metal catches fire and burns at more than 3,000 degrees, producing fumes of radioactive gas – or aerosols – that are deadly to all life forms.

Even a microscopic particle of these depleted uranium (DU) – mostly Uranium-238 – aerosols lodged inside a human lung can cause severe health problems, from cancers to diabetes, asthma, birth defects, organ damage, heart failure and auto-immune system diseases. And this radioactive gas travels long distances.

Nine days after the U.S. began its "shock and awe" bombing campaign in Iraq on March 21, 2003, Dr. Chris Busby found DU aerosols in giant high volume air filters in England, 2,500 miles from Baghdad.

The 7 million residents of the San Francisco Bay Area are all endangered by the testing at Livermore Site 300, as are the people and produce of the agriculturally rich Central Valley. In reality, San Francisco and Northern California are under attack by the Livermore nuclear weapons lab.

Since the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District issued Livermore the new permit on Nov. 12, "(t)wo appeals have been filed, one by a housing developer and the other by a resident who lives about five miles from the radioactive blast location, Site 300," writes Washington, D.C., area-based investigative journalist Cathy Garger. A large turnout at the meetings Feb. 6 and 7 will show support for those appeals.

"Lawrence Livermore representatives will not reveal to Tracy residents precisely how many bombs might be 'tested' in a year," writes Garger. "Tracy Press reports that the only reason given by Lawrence Livermore for the eight-fold annual increase in explosives testing is 'national security,' according to air district spokeswoman Kelly Morphy."

Bob Nichols is a Project Censored Award winner, newspaper correspondent and a frequent contributor to various online publications. Now completing a book based on 15 years of nuclear radiation war in Central Asia, he is a former employee of the McAlester Army Ammunition Plant. He can be reached at DUweapons [at] gmail.com. To learn more, read Cathy Garger's story and blog at http://tinyurl.com/32pghh and http://haltdutesting.blogspot.com/. Bay View staff contributed to this report.

PHOTO: Livermore Site 300 1961 radioactive device pictured below.

CAPTION: This photo and the following comment come from the Livermore Laboratory archives: "Hydrodynamic (bomb core) test on a firing table at Site 300, 1961. The bright 'streaking' effect in the photo is likely from shards of pyrophoric metal, such as Uranium 238, hurtling through the air. U-238 is one of the contaminants of concern in the Site 300 Superfund cleanup."

 

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NASA PLANS MOON BASE TO CONTROL PATHWAY TO SPACE

 

At a time when the U.S. faces historic debt, NASA announced last week its intention to establish a permanent base on the Moon by 2024.

In an interview on December 4 from the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, Scott Horowitz, NASA’s associate administrator for exploration said, “We’re going for a base on the Moon.”

The NASA plan is portrayed as the next phase of the space agency’s exploration agenda after space shuttles are retired in 2010. NASA’s ambitious schedule includes a 2009 test of one of the lunar spaceships, a 2014 manned test flight of the new Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV) without a Moon landing, and a 2020 flight with a four-astronaut crew that would land on the Moon for a short visit. NASA envisions people living on the Moon for six-month intervals beginning in 2024.

The most likely destination for the permanent base is the Moon's south pole because it's sunlit for three-quarters of the time and has possible resources to mine in areas nearby.

Just to ensure that Congress will support funding for the Moon program, NASA is spreading the operation out to 13 states: Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Louisiana, Maryland, Minnesota, Ohio, Texas, Utah, and Virginia. Pratt & Whitney in West Palm Beach, Florida is now working on the engines for a lunar lander. Bechtel is interested in building structures on the Moon for NASA.

Last year, NASA said it would cost $104 billion just to return to the Moon for a first visit, but has declined to give estimates for the total cost of a permanent base. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) reports that NASA’s procurement plan for the Moon lander risks delivering a product that is late, over budget, and short on capability. This is what happened in the case of the International Space Station (ISS) that was originally supposed to cost taxpayers $10 billion; the price has grown to $100 billion and the station is still not complete.

With space-related spending a low priority for most governments around the world, NASA hopes that by calling the Moon base an international post it will be able to recruit partners to help convince their publics and politicians to buy into the new exploration plan. By inviting some “allies” to share in the creation of the Moon base, the U.S. also hopes to absorb energies from countries like Japan that have announced plans of their own to establish Moon colonies.

The idea of a U.S. base on the Moon is nothing new. In a secret study called “A U.S. Army Study for the Establishment of a Lunar Outpost” published on June 9, 1959, the military maintained that, “The lunar outpost is required to develop and protect potential United States interests on the Moon; to develop techniques in Moon-based surveillance of the Earth and space; in communications relay, and in operations on the surface of the Moon; to serve as a base for exploration of the Moon…Any military operations on the Moon will be difficult to counter by the enemy because of the difficulty of his reaching the Moon, if our forces are already present and have means of countering a landing or of neutralizing any hostile forces that have landed.”

In 1999, John Young, former Gemini, Apollo, and space shuttle astronaut, said that the Moon would also be useful for “planetary defense.”

Recognizing that “control” of the Moon could cause enormous conflict over time, the United Nations created the Moon Treaty in 1979. Much of the Moon Treaty reiterates earlier and internationally-accepted “space law,” particularly the Outer Space Treaty of 1967. Article 11 of the treaty maintains, “The Moon and its natural resources are the common heritage of mankind.” The treaty also prohibits national appropriation, adding the words “by means of use or occupation, or by any other means.” In other words, no military bases and no claims of ownership are allowed. The U.S. never signed the Moon Treaty, and in fact it was only ratified by nine nations.

A 1989 study commissioned by Congress, called "Military Space Forces: The Next 50 Years" reports that whoever holds the Moon militarily will control the "earth-Moon gravity well" and thus will essentially control the front gate to the Moon.

Former Nazi Major General Walter Dornberger, who was in charge of the entireV-1 and V-2 missile operation for Hitler’s Germany, testified before the U.S. Congress in 1958 that America's top space priority ought to be to "conquer, occupy, keep, and utilize space between the Earth and the Moon." (Dornberger, along with 1,500 other top Nazi scientists, was smuggled into the U.S. under Operation Paperclip after WW II. He became Vice-President at Bell Aerospace in New York.)

The Moon has one resource that is getting everyone’s attention. It is helium-3, and, say many space enthusiasts, could be used for fusion power back here on Earth. In a 1995 New York Times op-ed, science writer Lawrence Joseph asks the question: “Will the Moon become the Persian Gulf of the 21st Century?” Joseph maintains that the most important technological question of our time will be “which nation will control nuclear fusion?” He ends his piece by saying, “If we ignore the potential of this remarkable fuel, the nation could slip behind the race for control of the global economy, and our destiny beyond.”

One person who is not ignoring helium-3 on the Moon is former astronaut and engineer Harrison Schmitt who has created a corporation to mine the Moon for it. Schmitt, though, is concerned about obstacles to his grand plans. In a 1998 piece for the industry newspaper Space News called “The Moon Treaty: Not a Wise Idea” he writes, “The strong prohibition on ownership of ‘natural resources’ also causes worry….The mandate of an international regime would complicate private commercial efforts…. The Moon Treaty is not needed to further the development and use of lunar resources for the benefit of humankind...including the extraction of lunar helium-3 for terrestrial fusion power.”

Some scientists predict that one metric ton of helium-3 could be worth over $3 billion. Researchers at the Princeton University Plasma Physics Laboratory have estimated that some one million tons of helium-3 could be obtained from the top layer of the Moon.

If all this turns out to be true and scientifically possible, imagine the gold rush to the Moon and the conflict that could follow in years to come. Who would police the Moon, especially when countries like the U.S. refuse to sign the Moon Treaty that restricts “ownership claims”?

The U.S. Space Command's plan, Vision for 2020, says, "Historically, military forces have evolved to protect national interests and investments — both military and economic. During the rise of sea commerce, nations built navies to protect and enhance their commercial interests....Likewise, space forces will emerge to protect military and commercial national interests and investment in the space medium due to their increasing importance."

I have always been convinced that, by creating offensive space weapons systems, one of the major jobs of the Space Command would be to control who can get on and off planet Earth, thus controlling the “shipping lanes” to the Moon and beyond.

There has long been a military connection to NASA’s Moon missions. In early 1994, NASA launched the Deep Space Program Science Experiment, the first of a series of Clementine technology demonstrations jointly sponsored with the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO). The Pentagon announced that data acquired by the spacecraft indicated that there is ice in the bottom of a crater on the Moon, located on the Moon’s south pole — the same venue NASA now envisions as the site for the 2024 permanent base. According to a Pentagon website, “The principal objective of the lunar observatory mission though was to space qualify lightweight sensors and component technologies for the next generation of Department of Defense spacecraft [Star Wars]. The mission used the Moon, a near-Earth asteroid, and the spacecraft’s Interstage Adapter (ISA) as targets to demonstrate sensor performance. As a secondary mission, Clementine returns valuable data of interest to the international civilian scientific sector.”

In the end, the NASA plan to establish permanent bases on the Moon will help the military “control and dominate” access on and off our planet Earth and determine who will extract valuable resources from the Moon in the years ahead.

The taxpayers will be asked to pay the enormously expensive “research and development” costs of this program that in the end will profit the aerospace industry and those corporation like Bechtel that intend to build the bases and extract resources on the Moon.

NASA is not really looking for the “origins of life,” as it tells school children today. Instead, it is laying the groundwork for a new gold rush that will drain our national treasury and enrich the big corporations that now control our government. It is beyond time for the American people to wake up to the shell game underway.

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The Dreamslayers & the Internet

 

By Jim Kirwa

 

Unregulated Capitalism is a continuing crime that has enabled most of what passes for commerce today.

The latest and perhaps most serious attempt to regulate those of us who challenge these behemoths of commerce and industry; is the pending legislation that seeks total control over who can use the world-wide web. If these people have their way, the internet will become a toll-road with diamond lanes for them and the backroads of lengthy delays for the rest of America. If these multi-national interests get what they want, the money will virtually own the right of total control, over what gets downloaded, as well as who can download what.

The ostensible reason for trying to establish this new regulation over the formally free internet, is to hand over the ability to broadcast television images on the web – mainly to yuppies to watch their corrupted media broadcasts of “The their form of news” on private little phone screens. This will be costly for the internet providers but by creating these new rules, the money crowd can both get what they want (and who they want to reach) by taxing everyone else for the costs of that ‘new access’. Of course in that bargain they will eliminate all those truly troublesome sites that insist on reporting what’s really going on in the USA and in the world. All of this is being floated though the houses of congress as an ‘absolutely necessary’ measure to modernize and regulate something that is The-Last-Best-Hope-for-Humankind.

Since there have been nation states in the world, capitalism has largely been what has allowed those states to become viable. However whenever capitalism is treated as a religion—with unfettered access to anything they might want to do—that path has always led directly to disaster. Sometime well back in time The Fairness Doctrine for broadcasters was eliminated: thus discarding the need for any broadcast medium to balance whatever they chose to report. This permanently skewed the ‘playing field’ in favor of those with the money, and direct access to government regulators. This also insured that their piece of the public’s airwaves could not be contaminated by anything that might challenge the views that these captains of media and entertainment wanted to spread. The only avenue still standing that serves to prevent their total control over America is the World Wide Web. So for Congress to punish Americans by crushing public access on the web, and allowing only the most powerful to dictate terms to the rest of us – Congress shall be responsible for killing freedom of speech and information in the USA – if they pass this pending legislation.

Let’s go back, in order to understand what happened to “the public’s right to know.” When the Bill of Rights was written the scope or reach of information technology was not even a dream. But the principle the founders were trying to protect was the right of the public to be informed. The only level playing field on which that is even remotely possible today – is the Internet. ‘Information’ is and has always been POWER. To deny the public access to the information that is needed to make sound and meaningful choices – means that in effect the public will be confined to the current mass media which is wholly owned by the same people that are funding the problems and the crimes that are bringing the world to the brink of global war.

The other aspect in the ‘selling of these new rule changes for the internet’ is that capitalism must remain unfettered and free to do what it does best, which is business. Deregulation of corporate business practices is what unleashed unfettered capitalism, and than in turn bought us The New World Order! If Capital can demand de-regulation of all they choose to do – why then is’ regulation’ such a good idea for a forum that reaches the entire world, and allows that world to respond openly and fully on any subject?

Information or data is only that, if there is no context: and Context is what the web is all about. A story can be told and augmented with video clips, or interactive web sites that can actually provide much clearer images of whatever the topic might be. Precisely because of this capability; and the frequency with which the web has routinely challenged the lies and the completely fabricated excuses of governments around the planet—this is why the “too-powerful” are demanding the regulation of the web. If the public does not DEMAND and end to these continued attempts to silence any criticism of the corrupted pathways of the powerful; then congress can no longer hide behind the lie that they “didn’t know” what they were doing when they took on this question for “new revisions” that would kill what’s left of our resistance to tyranny.

According to those advocating for – “The Internet of the Future,” there is no precedent to show how well this will work because it has not been tried before. That’s a lie. There was an effort in San Francisco that was begun in 1988, to create a “Library of the Future.” This sad story starred the same cast of evil characters, who were seeking to make the kinds of profits now envisioned by those who want to own the web. And it’s all about the telecommunications applications as well as public use.

The story was printed in San Francisco FRONTLINES, in June of 1997. It was called High-Tech Barbarians at the Gates: The Plunder of the San Francisco Public Library. The relevance of that story here is that the entire battle with the current government over privatizing the internet can be seen in our mini-war with the San Francisco Public Library. This involved everything from the criminal misuse and abuse of the public's money – to denial of public access. From the skewing of political and public interests, to specializing particular groups for inclusion or exclusion - based on their individual ability to pay - and all of that had been in the planning stages for ten years prior to the City Librarian’s wet dream of destruction and mega-profits for the same phone companies (then Pacific Bell, now AT&T) that are pushing for the "NEW" telecommunications reform act. That “ACT” will wipe out the public's right to information and anything like an Alternative American Media! (1)

This “NEW Telecommunications Act” is also pivotal in another way. Money and Power are at the root of what most society’s value—and yet both (Money & Power) are dependent on critical information for their growth and their effectiveness. In a representative democracy, so much depends on everyone’s access to events as they happen, and to the extent possible, to knowledge about who pays for whatever is happening – so there must exist at least one place where “the playing field” is nearly level. That place today is the World Wide Web. The Net makes it possible to read and observe events from many different perspectives, and from a great variety of viewpoints. This allows the reader/viewer to decide what to search for, how far they may want to go to discover what they want to know – and on the web now – they can take advantage of as much information as they can process.

If the Telecommunications Act passes, then Multi-national Corporations and this Outlaw government of USA Incorporated shall become the crown rulers of the American form of the Internet. This action would inherently deny or severely cripple any site that publishes anything counter to the government or to the corporate view that those with the bulk of the money and the power now, seek to see dispensed — unchallenged! Currently, for a variety of reasons, the people who own the media now, along with publishing, entertainment and the arts are the same people who own the major controlling interests in much of everything that matters in American business, commerce, and government. It has taken over a hundred years for these changes in ownership and influence to arrive where they are today. Most of the key positions are now held by or are directly controlled by Jews. The Jews are not the only people in power, but many are there now and there can be no real question as to this fact. (2)

What matters in all of this, besides whether or not there is another global war, is that for a society to freely grow and prosper, many diverse people and interests need to be part of whatever is going on anywhere in this country or the world. No one group or cabal of individuals should obtain control over all that any society is trying to do—because that’s unhealthy for the nation as well as the great numbers of those who are not part of the upper classes (without the middle and the lower classes – no society can long survive).

There is one other pivotal point where everything comes together in a representative Republic: that place is in the separation of government from those that government was created to monitor and control. In the US that place was the Congress of the United States (where the laws are made and where “oversight” originates). Yet Congress now freely admits that for the last ten years they have relinquished their oversight responsibilities, when it comes to presidential actions. There is no question that they long ago gave up on regulating corporate interests, monopolies, or anti-trust laws: they just accept the bribes and let those they are supposed to regulate write the legislation for themselves – and then they rubber-stamp it all and move on to the next-big-thing!

But there’s an even more damning connection between money, power and information. That’s national election campaigns. The Supreme Court ruled quite a few years back, that corporations have a right to free speech (as if they were people). Then they added to that insult and made Money a legitimate tool of corporate free speech – so that MONEY could be given in unlimited amounts to campaigns (depending only on how they labeled what they chose to give). As an added bonus, most of that money raised in political campaigns tends to end up either in political bribes to individual politicians, or to the media campaigns which most of the money goes to pay for. This is “the best little investment in America.” Because the dividends that this kind of thoughtful giving yields, is something like at least a thousand to one.

Add to this, the fact that media is central to everything that Americans see, or think, or do – and you begin to see how important this controlling feature is; that there is more than one group controlling all of that information. The reason that all these happy coincidences of power, money and influence took so long to happen was that it took time to stack the courts, and coerce the congress to the extent that it currently will not tolerate anything that smacks of anything negative to do with Israel’s polices, or whatever that country might choose to do, supposedly to defend their country. It should be remembered that not everything that’s good for one country is by definition good for the other.

Besides the USA – Israel is the only other nation that gets away with doing exactly what they please, no UN resolutions matter to them, no international agreements have any standing in their world of global special-ness – in brief Israel has become a law unto itself: and god help anyone who ever challenges that in any way! In America today, there is still AIPAC, the American Israel Lobby which is a lobby for a foreign power, but which is still not registered as such. Congress should also be polled to see how many got what from Israel.

A large number of current officials within the exiting US government also have dual-passports, and had them long before they were appointed to key positions in the US government. People like the head of Homeland Security and key government advisors within the Pentagon and the US Department of State are also in that category. Most Americans might wonder why those positions could not have been filled with Americans citizens exclusively – because as it stands – this seems like a government conflict of interest in action. So The Dreamslayers exist, much as they have always existed; except that now they are about to destroy the internet, the worldwide web – and with it our way of life.(3) That can only happen if you allow business as usual to happen in congress, in the courts or in the administration. Americans used to be thought of as being ‘very creative people’ – isn’t it time that a lot more people began seriously to become “VERY CREATIVE” – in order to protect not just ourselves but the lives and futures of our children and our loved ones as well!

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Deadly Arrogance

By
Randy Atkins

I don’t know what is worse, discovering our country the United States of America is a corporate/government controlled criminal enterprise that’s clearly out of control or that no one in the
world can do anything about it.

With this current administration in office, we are, with every passing second closer to nuclear war. All the pieces are now in place. We have the Bush/Neo-Con takeover of the U.S. government, and their “illegal invasion for control and profit” of the Middle East. We also have the ever insane evangelical Christian fundamentalist’s hypocritical and unquestioning support of the Bush administration, cheering him on in the name of God. They are convinced that Bush is right simply because he publicly says he is a God fearing Christian, and apparently Bush also speaks directly to God. Since the Christian fairy tale promise of heaven on earth after Armageddon, the “born-again” Christian fundamentalists say they have nothing to fear from nuclear annihilation because they will float up in the sky, meet Jesus and be saved.

Now, because of the Bush administrations “first strike winnable nuclear war” policy, and the illegal invasion of two countries that DID NOT attack us, all nuclear weapons states are on optimum nuclear alert.
Now, the word around the camp fire is Dick Cheney ordered the Strategic Command (STRATCOM) to prepare contingency plans for a conventional and tactical nuclear strike in against hundreds of targets in Iran, in the event of a "new 9/11-style attack" on the United States. The plan includes a large-scale air assault employing both conventional and tactical nuclear weapons. The real question is, what “new 9/11-style attack”? Another faults flag operation? After all, smart Americans now knows 9/11 was an inside job.
If a nuclear war should start in Iran it could go massive. Israel has between 200 and 400 illegal nuclear weapons sitting right in the center of the “growing out of control” conflict in the Middle East. No one seems to have an accurate count of Israeli nukes. I wonder why that is?
Other nuclear weapons states may strike the U.S. for fear that if they wait too long they will be next on the U.S. “HIT LIST”?

The United States has and will use “Low Yield Battle Field Nuclear Weapons” or “Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator Weapons”. The use of these weapons is a crime against humanity. Anyone using these weapons against any nation is clinically sick and should be locked away in a home for the criminally insane. If any kind of nuclear weapons is used, the fall out will continue to kill life on earth for years just as the nuclear weapons testing of the past has contaminated everything and is still continuing to kill today.

In 1997 the National Cancer Institute released a study showing that just the iodine 131 releases from atmospheric nuclear weapons testing at Nevada had been over 130 million curies, that’s 15 times greater than the Chernobyl accident. The fallout has spread all over the United States poisoning most of the milk supply and this is just one part of the contamination. These tests had been conducted by many countries in the 50s, and 60’s, contaminating everything. Nuclear contamination causes cancer and cancer is now the number one killer surpassing heart diseases.

It’s also clear the United States will go ahead with weaponizing space if we survive the coming nuclear war, including nuclear weapons and nuclear rocket engines for Project Prometheus and the New Horizons mission to explore Pluto and its moon. One launch failure and the nuclear contamination could be devastating.
Space is already militarized with satellites for command control of US forces in the air, on land and the sea. Without satellites we couldn’t wage such a horrific war in Iraq on a scale of this magnitude. Other nuclear weapons states like China and Russia have already warned the U.S. that a move to put weapons in space will start a new arms race into the heavens and they will consider it a threat to their national security.
The U.S. will violate the 1967 out space treaty also known as the "non armament" treaty, meaning no WMD in outer space. Of course this is just one of many treaty violations by the Bush administration.
The invasion of Iraq is a NUCLEAR WAR, with the use of depleted uranium creating increased cancers and childhood deformities of all sorts. The effects of DU does not discriminate and is ONE of the largest cover-ups by the pentagon under 9/11. DU will continue to kill forever! It will NOT go away and is coming to a city near you sooner or later in ever increasing doses, because it can travel in the atmosphere.
Most of the American people don’t have a clue of the new nuclear nightmare because the main press is owned and operated by corporations that make Nuclear weapons and profit from other weapons used in Iraq and soon Iran, North Korea and Syria, nor do they care anyway, it seems. They just don’t believe its’ happening.
Today diplomats from all around the world are terrified of the new nuclear danger brought on by this arrogant Neo CON Bush administration. The buildup of the military around the world for this “war of terrorism” for economic and strategic conquest has not increased stability for the world or the economy as the press keeps printing but undermines it.

The new nuclear nightmare is the number one issue facing all life on Earth. Albert Einstein said “The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has made more urgent the necessity of solving an old one”. That “old problem” continues and will persist for a long time to come it seems. Who can stand up to this insanity and demand nuclear disarmament before it is too late to save the planet? I believe only the masses can, but I also believe it will never happen because the corporate controlled media whores is the problem and deliberately ignores the very issues that can decimate the world! Of course the “powers that be” understand this and took measures to control the media to cover up these crimes a long time ago.

In the event of even a limited nuclear exchange the living may envy the dead, and few could end their own life no matter how sick they become from nuclear contamination. The victims will fight to live the most horrible existence until their last dying breath.
It’s just a matter of time now. Nuclear war has been on earth since 1945 and has been increasing in intensity every year since and there is no where to run and no where to hide.

Randy Atkins
www.ArsenalofHypocrisy.com

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TERRORISM IS TERRORISM!

 

The Christian Science Monitor tries to redefine the definition of terrorism.
No where does it mention the United States acts of terrorism!
See video: http://www.csmonitor.com/specials/terrorism/frameset.html
Clearly the United States is the largest terrorist state in the world and by our own definition.
The US Department of Defense defines terrorism as: "the unlawful use of -- or threatened use of -- force or violence against individuals or property to coerce or intimidate governments or societies, often to achieve political, religious, or ideological objectives."
Is this not what the United States is doing to Iraq? Divide and Conquer!
You don’t have to look hard to find articles that explain it. http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=22797&s2=25
Israel is the second largest terrorist state http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=22797&s2=25
The United States Government refuses to admit terrorist acts that we use around the globe with this fake “Global War On Terror” ( GWOT ) against militarily weaker peoples and countries. This is sold to Americans by the shovel load through the main stream press that sells our terrorism as the “advancement of democracy” to “protect the American people” All designed to fool the American public into believing our terrorism is necessary when in actuality it is calculated plot for economic and strategic conquest. Terrorism has always been used to support military spending throughout our American history.

On Feb. 27, 1947, "President Truman met with Congressional leaders in the White House. Undersecretary of State Dean Acheson was present at the meeting, and Truman had him tell the Congressmen what was at stake. Acheson spoke for ten minutes, informing the legislators that nothing less than the survival of the whole of Western civilization was in the balance at that moment; he worked in references to ancient Athens, Rome, and the course of Western civilization and freedom since those times. The Congressmen were silent for a few moments, and then, at last. Senator Arthur Vandenberg of Michigan, a prominent Republican who had come to support an active foreign policy, spoke up. All this might be true, Vandenberg said, but, if the President wishes to sell his program to the American people, he would have to 'scare hell out of the country'. It was at that moment that the Cold War began in earnest for the United States." This is one of the most revealing statements in American history. This is the smoking gun which proves that the federal government used a teerror campaign to frighten the American peoplee into supporting four decades of Cold War spending on armaments that cost Americans $5 TRILLION.
Here is the list by the Congress of some of the Countries “terrorized” or have been “engaged” by the US Military in the last 50 years:
Taiwan Straits, Quemoy Matsu Island , Congo, Laos, Vietnam, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Korea, Cambodia, Thailand (in direct support of Cambodia Operation), Operation Eagle Pull-Evacuation of Cambodia, Operation Frequent Wind-Evacuation of Vietnam, Mayaguez Operation, Operation Urgent Fury-Grenada, Lebanon, Germany (West Berlin), Austria, Korea, Japan, Italy, Trieste, Germany (except West Berlin), Austria, Asiatic Pacific, Korean Service Medal (Army, Navy, Air Force), Berlin, Libyan Operation El Dorado Canyo, Persian Gulf Operation Earnest Will, Panama Operation Just Cause, Somalia-United Shield-Operation Restore Hope, Haiti-Operation Uphold Democracy, Operation Southern Watch (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, Oman, Gulf of Omen W. Of 62' E. Long, Yemen, Egypt, Jordan), El Salvador, Bosnia-Operation Joint Endeavor, Operation Joint Guard, Operation Vigilant Sentinel, Operation Northern Watch, Operation Maritime Intercept, Operation Joint Forge (Bosnia-Herzegovina), Operation Desert Thunder, Operation Desert Fox, Thailand Military Operation, Cuban Military Operation, Iranian, Yemen Indian Ocean Operation, Lebanon, Libyan Expedition, Panama - (pre and post invasion) Liberia (Operation Sharp Edge) Rwanda (Operation Distant Runner), Vietnam Service Medal, Iraq Operation Desert Storm/Operation Desert Shield, Combat Action Ribbon, Korean Service, Kosovo Campaign Medal (Allied Force),, Joint Guardian, Allied Harbor Sustain Hope/Shining Hope, Nobel Anvil, Kosovo Task Force Hawk, Kosovo Task Force Saber, Kosovo Task Force Falcon, Kosovo Task force Hunter, Kosovo Air Campaign, Kosovo Defense Campaign, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Iran.
Some of these countries are repeated, but the dates of action are different. That means that we have repeatedly returned to some countries for new “engagements” or “terrorist acts” like we are now doing in Iraq and Iran. Terrorism has always been used to support military spending throughout American history.
As you can see Terrorism is Terrorism! By this list the United States has been very busy with our "Military Might" (Military Industrial Complex) and (Secret Operations) that have been in the forefront of U.S. Foreign Policy (Terrorism) over the last 50 years.
Definitions of Terrorism on the Web:

• is defined by the US Department of Defense as "the unlawful use of -- or threatened use of -- force or violence against individuals or property to coerce or intimidate governments or societies, often to achieve political, religious, or ideological objectives."
www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/teach/alqaeda/glossary.htm

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• This seems to be exactly what the United States is doing in Iraq!


• The FBI defines terrorism as "the unlawful use of force or violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives.
www.theisraelproject.org/site/apps/nl/content2.asp

• This is exactly what the Bush Administration is now doing to Iraq!

• use of terror, especially the systematic use of terror by the government or other authority against particular persons or groups; a method of opposing a government internally or externally through the use of terror
www.imuna.org/c2c/app_a.html

• This is case documented and used by: CIA, MOSSAD, MI6 and others!

• Any act including, but not limited to, the use of force or violence and/or threat thereof of any person or group(s) of persons whether acting alone or on behalf of, or in connection with, any organization(s) or government(s) committed for political, religions, ideological or similar purposes, including the intention to influence any government and/or to put the public or any section of the public in fear.
www.ecis.org/finance/paisdefin.htm

• This is exactly what the Bush NeoCONS are doing with our US foreign policy to weaker countries and to the American People!

• Acts of murder and destruction deliberately directed against civilians or military in non-military situations.
www.jafi.org.il/education/hasbara/glossary.html

• Used by the intelligent agency’s throughout the Viet Nam war and South America! Now in Iraq and covert op’s in Iran.

• The systematic use of terror, the deliberate creation and exploitation of fear for bringing about political change
wps.prenhall.com/chet_langan_preparing_1/0,9681,1613226-content,00.html
• This is now what the US and Israel is staging through out the Middle East.

• Terrorist activities are illegal and involve the use of coercion including the use of force, intended to intimidate or coerce, and committed in support of political or social objectives.
www.austin.cc.tx.us/audit/Glossary/LetterT.htm

• This is US foreign policy!

• a psychological strategy of war for gaining political ends by deliberately creating a well-founded climate of fear among the civilian population. Such a strategy may be used by an occupying army on the occupied population. Many terrorist acts, especially against an occupying military or against illegal occupants are acts of war or resistance, and not terrorism.
www.naiadonline.ca/book/01Glossary.htm

• Could it be any clearer of what we are doing in Iraq and soon to be in Iran!

• the calculated use of violence (or threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

• This is exactly what the US Government and Media are doing to Americans!

• Terrorism is a controversial and subjective term with multiple definitions. One definition means a violent action targeting civilians exclusively. Another definition is the use or threatened use of violence for the purpose of creating fear in order to achieve a political, economic, religious, or ideological goal. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism

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Police use terrorist tactics against Eustace Mullins

 

Date: Tuesday, 13 June 2006, 7:27 p.m.
THE CONTRACT MURDER OF EUSTACE MULLINS
By Eustace Mullins

For more than five years, I have been battling to stay alive in the
State in which I live. My adversary has not been the mafia, but the
Commonwealth of Virginia. The occasion was my publishing the
American-Christian Messenger, founded in 1972, in the summer of '72
issue, titled the Red State of Virginia.
I revealed for the first time that the famed Byrd machine, which
maintained iron control over the people of Virginia for many years,
was actually the Rothschild-Byrd Machine.
In December, 1893, Tom Martin, a railroad lawyer representing Jacob
Schiff of Kuhn Loeb and Company, the American branch of the House
of Rothschild, ran for the U.S. Senate from Virginia. He was
predicted to lose against the popular Fitzhugh Lee, but Kuhn Loeb
bought ten members of the Democratic Caucus of the Virginia
Assembly for the sum of one thousand dollars each. They then
switched their votes from Lee to Martin, who won the Senate seat.
Two young men from Martinsburg, VA are launching their careers at
that time. They were long time friends, Harry Byrd and Lewis
Lichtenstein Strauss. Strauss joined Kuhn, Loeb and Company and
with his financial backing, Byrd went into the Martin Organization,
which later became the Byrd Machine, with Rothschild backing. After
many years of total dictatorial rule in Virginia, Byrd finally
died. Strauss pushed his son to replace him, and the Byrd Machine
continued with his son Harry Jr. It was continuing now and was
always known as the Byrd Machine, but although to those in the
know, it was always the Byrd-Rothschild Machine.
When Byrd Jr. decided to run as an Independent, Strauss mailed
flyers to every voter in the State of Virginia, notifying them that
he supported Byrd Jr. as an Independent.
Speaking of this strange alliance, over WRNL, Richmond, VA. Feb.
10, 1949, Colonel Frances Pickens Miller said "Virginia has not
been functioning normally as a free society because of the
Political Clique that has controlled the Commonwealth during the
past half century."
Byrd referred to Byrd's lieutenant, a man never elected to any
Office, E.R. Combs, State Chairman of the Compensation Board, who
set the pay for every Byrd henchman who held every Office in
the State, which was modeled after the Communist Party of the
Soviet Union, which Byrd had used as a model in setting up his own
totalitarian State bureaucracy in Virginia. Miller then had to move
to North Carolina after making this speech. There has been no
opposition to the Rothschild-Byrd Machine since 1949, in Virginia.
This continues the absolutist tradition in Virginia, which began as
huge Estates, owned by men like King Carter and the Byrd's. From
its inception, it has been the very rich and masses of peasants.
Its Capitol, Richmond, VA is referred to as FIC, referring to three
groups which have always held power there. F is for Freemasons, I
is for the State of Israel and C for Communism. All three flags
have on occasions flown over the State Capitol in Richmond. There
is no Virginia flag, as Virginia is the last thing in the minds of
the Virginia legislature, as corrupt today as it was in 1893 when
its bribed members voted Tom Martin into the U.S. Senate.
When we think of the wonderful people we have had in this State,
Washington, Jefferson and so many others, we wonder how we came to
this sorry pass? The truth is, Virginians haven't changed that
much. We have been deleteriously influenced by changing mores, and
changing times. The people in my area, Staunton, VA, have not
changed that much, but their morals have been loosened that much.
The pressures around them have changed. It is as deep sea diving,
we have gone beyond our depths, and we are now trying to change to
adapt to the pressures of a lower depth. If indeed we are in the
lower depths, we must recognize our situation and adapt to the
lower depths.
The rise of the Byrd-Rothschild rule in Virginia does not mean that
we must ignore the changes of history. The fact is that the
Byrd-Rothschild group thrust Virginia onto the stage of world
history. Kuhn Loeb, which bought Virginia for the Rothschilds, also
bought Tom Martin. They long for Communist rule of the entire
world.
Schiff financed the Rockefeller oil empire, the Harriman railway
empire, and many others. Primarily, he was responsible for
fostering the Rothschild money system on the entire world, by
passing the Federal Reserve System in the U.S., and creating the
greatest financial empire in the history of the world, which the
Rothschild’s passed in Congress, by using their tool Woodrow Wilson
and getting it through Congress with the help of Virginian, Carter
Glass, because Wilson was so despised by Congress, he had no chance
of getting the Bill passed, Glass came to the rescue and became the
pillar of the new money monopoly. He is remembered today for his
work in fastening the tentacles of the Wall Street Rothschild
octopus fatally into the American government.
So Richmond's Importance in the rise of Communism is noted. Not
only did Woodrow Wilson become the champion of world terrorists,
but he condemned the 20th century to be remembered eternally as the
century of terrorism, all the work of one man. I am still hated
today in Richmond today for my ground breaking expose of the
Communist empire and its use of the Federal Reserve System to
create the Communist world empire, which finally collapsed only
because it was a fake system, as its fake Federal Reserve origin.
Wilson supported and defended the Communist Dictatorship to his
dying day, and is remembered still for his status as a hero of the
Soviet Union. He bailed out the collapsing Bolshevik government by
embezzling $100 million of the Special War Fund which Congress had
voted him to defend the U.S. in WW-1, and which saved Communism
when he sent it to the Soviet Union with his compliments. This gift
is rarely mentioned in histories of the time.
I mentioned this unknown chapter of history in a lawsuit filed
against the Commonwealth of Virginia January 30, 2006 in Federal
Court, which they are now trying to dismiss with prejudice. This
case must be heard in the remembering of history as it actually
happened.
I had filed this suit in trying to defend myself against the
furious vendetta which the Rothschild-Byrd organization had
launched against me, which had languished for five years. It was
caused by a series of strokes and heart attacks brought on by the
stress in my work.
The Rothschild-Byrd machine seized on this opening as I was in a
series of nursing homes trying to regain my health, and during this
period my Virginia Drivers License had expired without my
knowledge. The alert bureaucrats seized on this opening and began
to harass me daily to renew the license. As I had been driving for
72 years without incident in this State, I expected no problem with
this routine renewal, but the Rothschild-Byrd organization seized
upon this opening and denied my renewal.
Over the next 5 years, I took the test 82 times. Each time I was
told that I failed the written test, which denied me the driving
test. I continued to drive to medial appointments and offices,
realizing that I was in extreme danger.
I then filed a $900 million damage suit against Commonwealth of
Virginia in the Federal District Court of the United States in
Harrisonburg, Virginia, charging violations of Federal laws against
age discrimination, but not mentioning the Rothschild-Byrd terrorist
organization.
Having no response to my lawsuit from the Commonwealth, I waited 20
days and filed the usual Motion for Default Judgment This got
immediate attention and they launched an all-out campaign against
me. On April 3, I went to the store to pick up medicine. When I
returned, I noticed a number of local police cars in my vicinity.
As I turned onto my street, I was surrounded by many squad cars. I
counted 25, which was very unusual, as rarely would more than 2
cars answer the most serious call. The size of this terrorist
attack was to panic me into making a run for it, which would have
been fatal to me in this terrorist assault.
I stopped immediately and the Officers began yelling orders to me,
many of them conflicting with each other. The Officers then wrote
me a number of tickets, including the usual "Expired Driving
Permit". This was the notorious driving license scam.
Some years ago, someone had come up with the idea that the State
should hold all Titles to vehicles, mailing a Certificate of Title
to the 'owners'. This created a legal fiction that the State owned
the vehicles. Drivers were thus driving a State owned vehicle,
mandating drivers must have a license to drive a State vehicle,
which was false.
The State reaped many millions with its drivers license scam, and
began issuing heavy fines for not having a State license. Writing
the tickets, the Officers warned me that I could not drive a few
feet to park in front of my home. I was near collapse from the
shock of this assault, having had a number of strokes and heart
attacks at the age of 83. I later found out that this was a police
murder raid which the attackers were certain I could not survive.
A few minutes later, I collapsed on the steps to my front door and
suffered a massive coronary occlusion which shut down my heart and
nervous system. I fell down a flight of concrete steps, inflicting
many abrasions and broken bones. A neighbor saw me fall and rushed
over to take me to the emergency room where I remained for many
hours. This was my first intimation of the murder plot against me.
I was never intended to survive this assault.
I left the State to recuperate from this attack and remained away
for some weeks. I had returned the tickets because I had filed a
lawsuit on drivers licensing in Federal Court. On January 30.
I returned home in late May. On Sunday morning, June 3, I was
awakened by armed Police, who began to shout at me to produce any
weapons I had. I replied that I had no weapons. They then cuffed me
for the first time and dragged me in my pajamas to a police car and
taken to jail. The charge was failing to appear in Court, a
standard charge for assaults on citizens.
A TV set produced a Magistrate who set the date for my sentencing,
July 28, 2006. I was then told I could go and had to walk up a
steep hill back to my home, stumbling on my flimsy slippers. I
realized this was the second police murder raid on me, in my home.
The demands that I tell police what weapons I had was designed to
force me to produce weapons and be shot down at once as a crazed
writer in a battle with police. I had known of many such cases. An
old friend, Bill Cooper, a prominent anti-Communist writer, had
recently been shot down under the same circumstances.
For 18 years after my fathers death, I cared for my invalid mother
and my handicapped sister in their home. During this time, they
were constantly harassed by police because of my well known
anti-Communist writings. After they passed away, the police had
only me to harass and they never let up on their surveillance of
me.
At that time, I had not learned of the longtime association of the
Rothschild-Byrd machine and its Communist work, which would have
explained their antipathy to me. I and my relatives had been
assigned to the blacklist of the Richmond Taliban, fanatical
Communist zealots who are determined to attack anyone who
criticized Communism, and which inspired the two Staunton Police
murder raids on my Staunton home.
These murder raids on an anti-Communist were reminiscent of other
terrorist acts in Recent history, the Waco holocaust, in which an
entire Christian congregation was burned alive in their Texas
church, the only time this has happened in the history of America,
not a single protest was heard from any minister, which of course
would be bad for business.
Then the Ruby Ridge massacre in Idaho, in which Randy Weaver living
in a mountain shanty, was charged with 'failure to appear', then
attacked in his home by a Swat Team of FBI assassins, and the most
famous assassin, Lon Horuichi of the FBI, then shot his wife in the
head as she was holding their baby in her arms. No one has ever
been charged with these murders.
I have grounds for a class action suit in the police murder raids
on my home, and also with conspiracy to murder by a political
organization, which would make a very interesting civil rights
case.
I cannot charge the Rothschild-Byrd party with these crimes because
it is composed of two units, the Virginia Democratic Party, known
as the Scalawags since they were organized by the occupation troops
in 1865, and the Virginia Republican Party, known as the
Carpetbaggers, formed on the same date. Since I as the Plaintiff
cannot charge these criminal groups under their correct names, it
will be difficult to obtain indictments against them. President
Bush constantly warns us of the terror, but neglects to tell us
that they are government agents.
The grand climax of the murder plot against Eustace Mullins will
come next month, when he is sentenced to a long term for his crime
of failure to appear in Court. He will then become one of those
mysterious 'suicides' which routinely occur in remote Southern
Jails where a person is imprisoned on a minor traffic charge. The
deed is carried out by The resident hit man, who is always present
in the infamous Southern dungeons as a feature of the ongoing
Occupation since 1865.
The State of Virginia is now permanently branded as the FCI State?
F for freemasonry,
I for Israel,
C for Communism.
June 13, 2006

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Miami “terror” arrests—a government provocation

By Bill Van Auken
24 June 2006

There are many incongruities surrounding the arrest of seven men from the impoverished Liberty City neighborhood of Miami on charges of conspiracy to “wage war on the United States” that suggest it, like so many previous “terrorist plots” announced by the Bush administration, is a government-inspired provocation mounted for reactionary political ends.

None of the claims made by the government and repeated uncritically by the media concerning the arrest of these young working-class men can be accepted as good coin. Both the flimsiness of the criminal indictment and the lurid headlines surrounding it mark this event as an escalation in the anti-democratic conspiracies of the Bush administration.

There is every indication that this latest purported terrorist threat—described by some media outlets as “even bigger than September 11”—was manufactured by the FBI, which used an undercover agent posing as a terrorist mastermind to entrap those targeted for arrest.

While the Justice Department declared that the arrests had foiled a plot to blow up the tallest building in the US, the Sears Tower in Chicago, authorities in that city assured its residents that there had never been any threat to the structure.

The four-count indictment presented by the Justice Department in a Miami federal court on Friday contains not a single indication of an overt criminal act or even the means to carry one out. The brief 11-page document consists almost entirely of alleged statements made by the defendants to the FBI informant, referred to in quotes throughout the indictment as “the al Qaeda representative.”

The government chose to consummate its entrapment plan by unleashing dozens of combat-equipped federal agents, dressed in olive drab fatigues and carrying automatic weapons, on the predominantly African-American Liberty City neighborhood, one of the poorest in the country. Liberty City was the scene of riots that broke out in 1980 after the acquittal of white police officers for the beating death of a black motorist.

On Thursday, the government’s paramilitary squads confronted residents with pictures of the accused, demanding to know their whereabouts. The seven defendants are representative of the impoverished working class population of Miami, including Haitian immigrants.

It appears they were targeted by the FBI because they had formed a religious group, calling themselves the “Seas of David,” which reportedly incorporated elements of Christianity and Islam. One of their crimes, according to the FBI’s deputy director, John Pistole, was that the Seas of David “did not believe the United States government had legal authority over them.”

According to some residents of the neighborhood, the group lived together in the warehouse that was raided by the FBI, using it for religious worship and as a base of operations for a construction business.

Elements of the federal indictment are so self-incriminating as to border on the ludicrous. Among the charges are that the defendants “swore an oath of loyalty to al Qaeda.” Who administered this oath? The “al Qaeda representative,” AKA, the paid informant of the FBI.

Aside from this “loyalty oath” solicited by the FBI, only one of the seven defendants is accused of any overt act, outside of driving the FBI informant to meetings.

The only action with which this one individual is charged—all else is words—is taking pictures of the FBI headquarters in Miami. Who supplied the camera? The “al Qaeda representative”—i.e., the FBI agent provocateur.

The indictment further charges two of the accused with driving “with the ‘al Qaeda representative’” to a store in Dade County, Florida to purchase a memory chip for a digital camera to be used for taking reconnaissance photographs of the FBI building. The document does not say who paid for the chip, but there is hardly room for doubt.

In one of the more curious sections of the indictment, one of the accused, Narseal Batiste, is accused of asking the FBI informant to provide various items for his group, including footwear, for which he provided a “list of shoe sizes.” Apparently the FBI delivered the shoes.

Pistole, the FBI deputy director, admitted that the supposed plots to blow up buildings had been “more aspirational than operational.” In the raids carried out by the FBI squads, no weapons and no explosive substances were found.

“We preempted their plot,” declared Pistole. But the indictment and the facts of the case indicate that the alleged plot would never have existed had the government not planned and instigated it in the first place.

At a Washington press conference, US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales acknowledged that the alleged plot had posed no actual danger. He claimed this was because the authorities had intervened “in its earliest stages.”

So “early” was the preemption that officials associated with the supposed targets of the plot dismissed the government’s indictment. Barbara Carley, the managing director of the Sears Tower, told the press, “Federal and local authorities continue to tell us they’ve never found evidence of a credible terrorism threat against Sears Tower that’s ever gone beyond just talk.”

Her remarks were echoed by Chicago Police Superintendent Phil Cline, who said, “There never was any credible threat to the Sears Tower at all.”

In his press conference, Attorney General Gonzales asserted that the Miami group represented a “new brand of terrorism” created by “the convergence of globalization and technology.”

What these words mean is anyone’s guess. There is no indication that those charged, who were living in a warehouse in the poorest city in America, had access to any technology, and their supposed contact to the wider world was an informer planted by the FBI. The suggestion that the seven men were a “home-grown” terrorist group inspired by contact with Al Qaeda elements over the Internet is supported neither by evidence nor the charges contained in the government’s own indictment.

R. Alexander Acosta, the United States attorney in South Florida, told the media that the defendants had “lived in the United States for most of their lives, but developed a hatred of America.” This is presented as though it constituted evidence of a crime.

It is hardly surprising for someone living in Liberty City to hate the poverty and oppression that prevail there, or for Haitian immigrants to despise the imprisonment and repression that Washington metes out to those attempting to escape the brutal conditions imposed by US imperialism upon their homeland.

What is highly noteworthy is that the federal government decided to intervene in this situation to concoct a phony Al Qaeda connection and trumped up “terror plot.”

What is the government’s motive in manufacturing such a plot? Whose interests are served? Under conditions in which the majority of the American people have turned against the Iraq war and support the withdrawal of American troops, the Bush administration is desperately attempting to once again link its neo-colonial venture in Iraq with a supposed “global war on terror” waged to defend the American people against another 9/11.

To sustain such a fiction, fresh evidence of terrorist threats is periodically required. And it has been forthcoming on a regular basis. Every several months another “conspiracy” is unveiled, invariably involving an FBI informant and hapless individuals ensnared in a plot orchestrated by the government.

Until now, these “sting” operations have been targeted at Muslim immigrants. Last month, for example, Pakistani immigrant Shahawar Siraj in New York City was found guilty of plotting to blow up the Herald Square subway station in a “plot” that the evidence indicated was based entirely on suggestions from an FBI informant. The FBI agent provocateur taunted the defendant with photographs of Abu Ghraib torture victims and demanded to know how, as a Muslim, he could fail to take action.

Similarly, in Albany, New York two years ago, the FBI recruited a Pakistani immigrant, promising him leniency on minor fraud charges, to ensnare two other immigrants in a fictitious scheme to help a non-existent person buy a weapon for a fake terrorist plot.

These provocations and conspiracies are symptomatic of a government that is both ruthless and desperate. Confronting a population that is increasingly hostile to its political agenda of reaction at home and war abroad, it is driven to manufacture an endless series of terrorist threats aimed at disorienting and intimidating public opinion.

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The new Iron Curtain

What's that shadow in your mind,
and how long has it been there?

By John Kaminski

The Iron Curtain was a phrase commonly used in the 1950s to describe
the post-World War Two partitioning of Europe. The sinister label was
used to convey the lockstep conformity of thought and action demanded
by the old Soviet Union of the hapless Eastern European nations it
controlled.

Today, the Iron Curtain is electronic, and engulfs the whole world. Its
totalitarian terror apparatus is entirely conceptual, and has been
implanted in the minds of every person on this planet by what at first
seems to be a totally by chance arrangement of a seemingly infinite
variety of commercial media. But upon deeper inspection, a chilling
pattern emerges, that is perhaps best reflected by the overall loss of
intellectual capacity in the United States during the past half
century.

Once a vibrant and intelligent society, the USA is now a lockstep
fascist state that justifies torture and preemptive war because it
inadvertently robotized itself using the combination of political
manipulation backed by the raw power of movies, television and
newspapers. The unending search for profit at any cost turned the
beacon of liberty into the mad master of horror in search of a twisted
comfort it can never achieve, and as a consequence, America continues
to turn the world into rubble on a daily basis.

But perhaps the robotizing has not been inadvertent. In the bevy of
recent media revelations from Harvard about Israel?s control of the
U.S. as well as an increased mainstream media presence about the
obvious inside job crimes connected to 9/11, the majority of the
American people continue to prove they will willingly ignore the
horrible crimes being committed by their so-called leaders at the
expense of not only the rest of the world ? but also themselves.

And for what? Security? All honest and decent humans have always known
you can't have real security without faith in some higher hope. Yet the
men who control these activities in today's world do not lead us toward
real security. They lead us toward false hope and terrible deeds
questing for plunder and power. Some may say this is the way it has
always been, but the healthier among us ? who are all currently running
for our lives ? know that the way to permanent peace lies through an
understanding of the other, and that security has never been
established through the use of raw power, but only through mutual
understanding and empathy.

The actual use of raw power guarantees only hatred and incessant
revolution to follow.

We may not live this life for ourselves. Both Jesus and Milton Friedman
have uttered these words. It is obvious to real human beings.

But it is not obvious to mass media, nor to neocon politicians, who
play on our fears and reward us with graft. And blood. Lots of blood.
It is a profitable substance. Just ask the pharmaceutical industry. And
while you're at it, before you slip into that final coma from which you
may not emerge, ask yourself what impact the stuff doctors are putting
into your veins has had on your life, the disintegration of your
formerly happy country, and the condition of the whole world.

A lot like the impact mass media have had, wouldn't you say?

Then other pieces of the puzzle begin to coalesce.

1. The Soviet Union and its horrific gulags (60 million dead) were
originally a Jewish enterprise, funded by bankers from New York and
executed by Jews from Brooklyn. Somewhere there's a famous quote that
"Communism is Judaism."

2. The creation of the so-called Jewish homeland in Israel was a
subtext (if not the real reason) of both World Wars One and Two. The
USA was taken over by international Jewish financiers in 1913, and has
not regained its financial freedom since. The Balfour Declaration
during WW1 committed Britain to the establishment of a Jewish
Palestine. The state of Israel was formed out of the rubble of WW2,
although the actual Jewish Holocaust religion would not be established
until the middle-1960s, after the Kennedy assassination was engineered
by a Jewish mobster working closely with the Mossad.

3. The ideological guides for the current Bush adminstration, Perle and
Wolfowitz, who wrote PNAC, are high-level Israeli agents. So is U.S.
Homeland Security Director Michael Chertoff. As was Pentagon finance
chief Rabbi Dov Zakheim. I trust I do not need to go on to you about
principal 9/11 players, from Larry Silverstein to Tommy Franks, who are
also Jewish.

4. The foundation of Western capitalism, ostensibly when William
Paterson founded the Bank of England in 1694, rests on the abilities
and formulas of Jewish bankers from Holland. The actual rise of the
worldwide British Empire coincides with when Jews took over the
finances and made the City of London the power center of the world.
Rothschild banks have handled the coffers of the Catholic church for
many years. The flag of Israel, as you may now, is based on the
Rothschild model. A story is circulating that the mother of a recent
former pope, the Polish one, was Jewish.

5. Media ownership in the United States and throughout the Western
corporatized world are EXCLUSIVELY Jewish. And so with the the biggest
media power center of all, Hollywood. The impact of movies on the world
throughout the 20th century has defined the social aspects of ALL of
human civilization. People you thought were good Americans, like Judy
Garland and Billy Graham, were Jewish. And participating in something
so huge, some experiment so audacious, that I won?t even attempt to
explain to you because you wouldn?t believe it if you heard it.

Anyway, these are just five things. Try to compile a list of shadowy
traits to match this for any other group. Then explain to me how a
certain people can cohere for 5,000 years without their own state, yet
survive and prosper century after century while the countries they live
in decay and die.

Explain that to me, please.

You won?t be able to, of course. One of the reasons you can?t is
because you were brought up in an educational system that concealed
these facts, that presented you with a history of the world that
doesn?t talk about these things, that doesn?t give you the real
history.

Try to understand what?s going on through psychiatry, and you will
discover it is a Jewish science. The National Education Association, to
which all public school teachers must belong, is a Jewish organization.

WW1 President Woodrow Wilson?s involvement in the robbery of Germany
and creation of a two-tiered educational system in the United States,
one for the privileged rich, and the other for us worker bees, for
example. And people wonder how today?s torture-happy USA rooters
devolved into lesser beings from their formerly happy pioneer spirit?
Wilson?s top advisor, Colonel House, was Jewish. WW2 President
Roosevelt?s top advisor, Bernard Baruch, was Jewish.

Currently, the Jewish state known as Israel gets $3 billion per year it
has never been required to repay (although $15 billion including
commercial tangents is more accurate) from U.S. citizens. This is both
robbery and slavery. Israel is putting up a wall around its enslaved
indiginents and calling them terrorists. The practice seems destined
for the United States as well.

As one commentator described it: ?Israel is not a country. Israel is
the crime syndicate for the people who run the world.?

A life built on blood inevitably means a horribly bloody death awaits
those who choose to travel that path.

And this is the current fate all Americans face, provided to us not so
free of charge by that same shadowy, no longer hard to identify group
that has done the same things to other people in other countries in
other times.

See the shadow in the sky sometime soon before you die. Identify it
clearly before it?s too late. It is the only hope any of us has.

It?s the new Iron Curtain.

 

John Kaminski is a writer who lives on the Gulf Coast of Florida
whose Internet essays are seen on hundreds of websites around the
world. These have been collected into three anthologies, the latest of
which is titled ?Recipe for Extinction.? See
http://www.johnkaminski.com/

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Experts Claim Official 9/11 Story is a Hoax + 9/11 Times Square action

Experts Claim Official 9/11 Story is a Hoax + 9/11 Times Square action
Tuesday Jan. 31 below at bottom.

Address:http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2006/1/emw339303.htm

January 30, 2006
Global News & Press Release Distribution
Experts Claim Official 9/11 Story is a Hoax

Scholars for 9/11 Truth call for verification and publication by an
international consortium.
Duluth, MN (PRWEB) January 30, 2006 -- A group of distinguished
experts and scholars, including Robert M. Bowman, James H. Fetzer, Wayne
Madsen, John McMurtry, Morgan Reynolds, and Andreas von Buelow, have
concluded that senior government officials have covered up crucial facts
about what really happened on 9/11.
They have joined with others in common cause as members of "Scholars
for 9/11 Truth" (S9/11T), because they are convinced, based on their own
research, that the administration has been deceiving the nation about
critical events in New York and Washington, D.C.
These experts suggest these events may have been orchestrated by
elements within the administration to manipulate Americans into
supporting policies at home and abroad they would never have condoned
absent "another Pearl Harbor."
They believe that this White House is incapable of investigating
itself and hope the possibility that Congress might hold an
unaccountable administration accountable is not merely naive or wishful
thinking.
They are encouraging news services around the world to secure
scientific advice by taking advantage of university resources to verify
or to falsify their discoveries. Extraordinary situations, they believe,
require extraordinary measures.
If this were done, they contend, one of the great hoaxes of history
would stand naked before the eyes of the world and its perpetrators
would be clearly exposed, which may be the only hope for saving this
nation from ever greater abuse.
They hope this might include The New York Times, which, in their
opinion, has repeatedly failed to exercise the leadership expecedt from
our nation's newspaper of record by a series of inexplicable lapses. It
has failed to vigorously investigate tainted elections, lies leading to
the war in Iraq, or illegal NSA spying on the American people, major
unconstitutional events. In their view, The Times might compensate for
its loss of stature by helping to reveal the truth about one of the
great turning-point events of modern history.
Stunning as it may be to acknowledge, they observe, the government
has brought but one indictment against anyone and, to the best of their
knowledge, has not even reprimanded anyone for incompetence or
dereliction of duty. The official conspiracy theory--that nineteen Arab
hijackers under control of one man in the wilds of Afghanistan brought
this about--is unsupportable by the evidential data, which they have
studied.
They even believe there are good reasons for suspecting that video
tapes officially attributed to Osama bin Laden are not genuine.
They have found the government's own investigiation to be severely
flawed. The 9/11 Commission, designated to investigate the attack, was
directed by Philip Zelikow, part of the Bush transition team in the NSA
sector and the co-author of a book with Condoleezza Rice. A Bush
supporter and director of national security affairs, he could hardly be
expected to conduct an objective and impartial investigation.
They have discovered that The 9/11 Commission Report is replete
with omissions, distortions, and factual errors, which David Ray Griffin
has documented in his book, The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and
Distortions. The official report, for example, entirely ignores the
collapse of WTC7, a 47-story building, which was hit by no airplanes,
was only damaged by a few small fires, and fell seven hours after the
attack.
Here are some of the kinds of considerations that these experts and
scholar find profoundly troubling:
* In the history of structural engineering, steel-frame high-rise
buildings have never been brought down due to fires either before or
since 9/11, so how can fires have brought down three in one day? How is
this possible?
* The BBC has reported that at least five of the nineteen alleged
"hijackers" have turned up alive and well living in Saudi Arabia, yet
according to the FBI, they were among those killed in the attacks. How
is this possible?
* Frank DeMartini, a project manager for the WTC, said the buildings
were designed with load redistribution capabilities to withstand the
impact of airliners, whose effects would be like " puncturing
mosquito netting with a pencil." Yet they completely collapsed. How is
this possible?
* Since the melting point of steel is about 2,700*F, the temperature
of jet fuel fires does not exceed 1,800*F under optimal conditions, and
UL certified the steel used to 2,000*F for six hours, the buildings
cannot have collapsed due to heat from the fires. How is this possible?
* Flight 77, which allegedly hit the building, left the radar screen
in the vicinity of the Ohio/Kentucky border, only to "reappear" in very
close proximity to the Pentagon shortly before impact. How is this
possible?
* Foreign "terrorists" who were clever enough to coordinate
hijacking four commercial airliners seemingly did not know that the
least damage to the Pentagon would be done by hitting its west wing. How
is this possible?
* Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta, in an underground
bunker at the White House, watched Vice President Cheney castigate a
young officer for asking, as the plane drew closer and closer to the
Pentagon, "Do the orders still stand?" The order cannot have been to
shoot it down, but must have been the opposite. How is this possible?
* A former Inspector General for the Air Force has observed that
Flight 93, which allegedly crashed in Pennsylvania, should have left
debris scattered over an area less than the size of a city block; but it
is scattered over an area of about eight square miles. How is this
possible?
* A tape recording of interviews with air traffic controllers on duty
on 9/11 was deliberately crushed, cut into very small pieces, and
distributed in assorted places to insure its total destruction. How is
this possible?
* The Pentagon conducted a training exercise called "MASCAL"
simulating the crash of a Boeing 757 into the building on 24 October
2000, and yet Condoleezza Rice, among others, has repeatedly asserted
that "no one ever imagined" a domestic airplane could be used as a
weapon. How is this possible?
Their own physics research has established that only controlled
demolitions are consistent with the near-gravity speed of fall and
virtually symmetrical collapse of all three of the WTC buildings. While
turning concrete into very fine dust, they fell straight-down into their
own footprints.
These experts and scholars have found themselves obliged to conclude
that the 9/11 atrocity represents an instance of the approach--which has
been identified by Karl Rove, the President's closest adviser--of
"creating our own reality."

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US plans to 'fight the net' revealed

 

By Adam Brookes
BBC Pentagon correspondent

A newly declassified document gives a fascinating glimpse into the US military's plans for "information operations" - from psychological operations, to attacks on hostile computer networks.

The document says information is "critical to military success"

Bloggers beware.

As the world turns networked, the Pentagon is calculating the military opportunities that computer networks, wireless technologies and the modern media offer.

From influencing public opinion through new media to designing "computer network attack" weapons, the US military is learning to fight an electronic war.

The declassified document is called "Information Operations Roadmap". It was obtained by the National Security Archive at George Washington University using the Freedom of Information Act.

Officials in the Pentagon wrote it in 2003. The Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, signed it.

Information Operations Roadmap
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The "roadmap" calls for a far-reaching overhaul of the military's ability to conduct information operations and electronic warfare. And, in some detail, it makes recommendations for how the US armed forces should think about this new, virtual warfare.

The document says that information is "critical to military success". Computer and telecommunications networks are of vital operational importance.

Propaganda

The operations described in the document include a surprising range of military activities: public affairs officers who brief journalists, psychological operations troops who try to manipulate the thoughts and beliefs of an enemy, computer network attack specialists who seek to destroy enemy networks.

All these are engaged in information operations.

The wide-reaching document was signed off by Donald Rumsfeld

Perhaps the most startling aspect of the roadmap is its acknowledgement that information put out as part of the military's psychological operations, or Psyops, is finding its way onto the computer and television screens of ordinary Americans.

"Information intended for foreign audiences, including public diplomacy and Psyops, is increasingly consumed by our domestic audience," it reads.

"Psyops messages will often be replayed by the news media for much larger audiences, including the American public," it goes on.

The document's authors acknowledge that American news media should not unwittingly broadcast military propaganda. "Specific boundaries should be established," they write. But they don't seem to explain how.

"In this day and age it is impossible to prevent stories that are fed abroad as part of psychological operations propaganda from blowing back into the United States - even though they were directed abroad," says Kristin Adair of the National Security Archive.

Credibility problem

Public awareness of the US military's information operations is low, but it's growing - thanks to some operational clumsiness.

When it describes plans for electronic warfare, or EW, the document takes on an extraordinary tone. It seems to see the internet as being equivalent to an enemy weapons system

Late last year, it emerged that the Pentagon had paid a private company, the Lincoln Group, to plant hundreds of stories in Iraqi newspapers. The stories - all supportive of US policy - were written by military personnel and then placed in Iraqi publications.

And websites that appeared to be information sites on the politics of Africa and the Balkans were found to be run by the Pentagon.

But the true extent of the Pentagon's information operations, how they work, who they're aimed at, and at what point they turn from informing the public to influencing populations, is far from clear.

The roadmap, however, gives a flavour of what the US military is up to - and the grand scale on which it's thinking.

It reveals that Psyops personnel "support" the American government's international broadcasting. It singles out TV Marti - a station which broadcasts to Cuba - as receiving such support.

It recommends that a global website be established that supports America's strategic objectives. But no American diplomats here, thank you. The website would use content from "third parties with greater credibility to foreign audiences than US officials".

It also recommends that Psyops personnel should consider a range of technologies to disseminate propaganda in enemy territory: unmanned aerial vehicles, "miniaturized, scatterable public address systems", wireless devices, cellular phones and the internet.

'Fight the net'

When it describes plans for electronic warfare, or EW, the document takes on an extraordinary tone.

It seems to see the internet as being equivalent to an enemy weapons system.

"Strategy should be based on the premise that the Department [of Defense] will 'fight the net' as it would an enemy weapons system," it reads.

The slogan "fight the net" appears several times throughout the roadmap.

The authors warn that US networks are very vulnerable to attack by hackers, enemies seeking to disable them, or spies looking for intelligence.

"Networks are growing faster than we can defend them... Attack sophistication is increasing... Number of events is increasing."

US digital ambition

And, in a grand finale, the document recommends that the United States should seek the ability to "provide maximum control of the entire electromagnetic spectrum".

US forces should be able to "disrupt or destroy the full spectrum of globally emerging communications systems, sensors, and weapons systems dependent on the electromagnetic spectrum".

Consider that for a moment.

The US military seeks the capability to knock out every telephone, every networked computer, every radar system on the planet.

Are these plans the pipe dreams of self-aggrandising bureaucrats? Or are they real?

The fact that the "Information Operations Roadmap" is approved by the Secretary of Defense suggests that these plans are taken very seriously indeed in the Pentagon.

And that the scale and grandeur of the digital revolution is matched only by the US military's ambitions for it.

 

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Hello Gestapo!

House Report 109-333 - USA PATRIOT IMPROVEMENT AND REAUTHORIZATION ACT OF 2005

What BushCo wants, according to the fine print (Sec. 605) of the new PATRIOT Act,
is a permanent Praetorian Guard, or Cheka, or Gestapo. It's all too easy to come up with
apt historical analogies--but not with any from this nation's history.

"A permanent police force, to be known as the 'United States Secret Service Uniformed
Division,'" empowered to "make arrests without warrant for any offense against the
United States committed in their presence" (what is "an offense against the United
States?), "or for any felony cognizable under the laws of the United States if they
have reasonable grounds to believe that the person to be arrested has committed or
is committing such felony" (what are "reasonable grounds"?).

I'm not making this up. See the text and URL below.

What will it take to get the press to notice this?

MCM

House Report 109-333 - USA PATRIOT IMPROVEMENT AND REAUTHORIZATION ACT OF 2005

SEC. 605. THE UNIFORMED DIVISION, UNITED STATES SECRET SERVICE.

(a) In General- Chapter 203 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by inserting after section 3056 the following:

Sec. 3056A. Powers, authorities, and duties of United States Secret Service Uniformed Division

(a) There is hereby created and established a permanent police force, to be known as the United States Secret Service Uniformed Division'. Subject to the supervision of the Secretary of Homeland Security, the United States Secret Service Uniformed Division shall perform such duties as the Director, United States Secret Service, may prescribe in connection with the protection of the following:

(1) The White House in the District of Columbia.

(2) Any building in which Presidential offices are located.

(3) The Treasury Building and grounds.

(4) The President, the Vice President (or other officer next in the order of succession to the Office of President), the President-elect, the Vice President-elect, and their immediate families.

(5) Foreign diplomatic missions located in the metropolitan area of the District of Columbia.

(6) The temporary official residence of the Vice President and grounds in the District of Columbia.

(7) Foreign diplomatic missions located in metropolitan areas (other than the District of Columbia) in the United States where there are located twenty or more such missions headed by full-time officers, except that such protection shall be provided only--

(A) on the basis of extraordinary protective need;

(B) upon request of an affected metropolitan area; and

(C) when the extraordinary protective need arises at or in association with a visit to--

 

(i) a permanent mission to, or an observer mission invited to participate in the work of, an international organization of which the United States is a member; or

 

(ii) an international organization of which the United States is a member;

except that such protection may also be provided for motorcades and at other places associated with any such visit and may be extended at places of temporary domicile in connection with any such visit.

 

(8) Foreign consular and diplomatic missions located in such areas in the United States, its territories and possessions, as the President, on a case-by-case basis, may direct.

 

(9) Visits of foreign government officials to metropolitan areas (other than the District of Columbia) where there are located twenty or more consular or diplomatic missions staffed by accredited personnel, including protection for motorcades and at other places associated with such visits when such officials are in the United States to conduct official business with the United States Government.

 

(10) Former Presidents and their spouses, as provided in section 3056(a)(3) of title 18.

 

(11) An event designated under section 3056(e) of title 18 as a special event of national significance.

 

(12) Major Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates and, within 120 days of the general Presidential election, the spouses of such candidates, as provided in section 3056(a)(7) of title 18.

 

(13) Visiting heads of foreign states or foreign governments.

(b)(1) Under the direction of the Director of the Secret Service, members of the United States Secret Service Uniformed Division are authorized to--

 

(A) carry firearms;

(B) make arrests without warrant for any offense against the United States committed in their presence, or for any felony cognizable under the laws of the United States if they have reasonable grounds to believe that the person to be arrested has committed or is committing such felony; and

 

(C) perform such other functions and duties as are authorized by law.

(2) Members of the United States Secret Service Uniformed Division shall possess privileges and powers similar to those of the members of the Metropolitan Police of the District of Columbia.

(c) Members of the United States Secret Service Uniformed Division shall be furnished with uniforms and other necessary equipment.

(d) In carrying out the functions pursuant to paragraphs (7) and (9) of subsection (a), the Secretary of Homeland Security may utilize, with their consent, on a reimbursable basis, the services, personnel, equipment, and facilities of State and local governments, and is authorized to reimburse such State and local governments for the utilization of such services, personnel, equipment, and facilities. The Secretary of Homeland Security may carry out the functions pursuant to paragraphs (7) and (9) of subsection (a) by contract. The authority of this subsection may be transferred by the President to the Secretary of State. In carrying out any duty under paragraphs (7) and (9) of subsection (a), the Secretary of State is authorized to utilize any authority available to the Secretary under title II of the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956.'.

(b) Amendment to Table of Sections- The table of sections at the beginning of chapter 203 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 3056 the following new item:

3056A. Powers, authorities, and duties of United States Secret Service Uniformed Division.

(c) Conforming Repeal to Effectuate Transfer- Chapter 3 of title 3, United States Code, is repealed.

(d) Conforming Amendments to Laws Affecting District of Columbia- (1) Section 1537(d) of title 31, United States Code, is amended--

 

(A) by striking and the Executive Protective Service' and inserting and the Secret Service Uniformed Division'; and

 

(B) by striking their protective duties' and all that follows and inserting their protective duties under sections 3056 and 3056A of title 18.'

(2) Section 204(e) of the State Department Basic Authorities Act (sec. 6--1304(e), D.C. Official Code) is amended by striking section 202 of title 3, United States Code, or section 3056' and inserting sections 3056 or 3056A'.

(3) Section 214(a) of the State Department Basic Authorities Act (sec. 6--1313(a), D.C. Official Code) is amended by striking sections 202(8) and 208 of title 3' and inserting section 3056A(a)(7) and (d) of title 18'.

(e) Additional Conforming Amendments-

 

(1) Title 12, United States Code, section 3414, Special procedures', is amended by striking 3 U.S.C. 202' in subsection (a)(1)(B) and inserting 18 U.S.C. 3056A'.

 

(2) The State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 is amended--

 

(A) in the first sentence of section 37(c) (22 U.S.C. 2709(c)), by striking section 202 of title 3, United States Code, or section 3056 of title 18, United States Code' and inserting section 3056 or 3056A of title 18, United States Code';

 

(B) in section 204(e) (22 U.S.C. 4304(e)), by striking section 202 of title 3, United States Code, or section 3056 of title 18, United States Code' and inserting section 3056 or 3056A of title 18, United States Code'; and

 

(C) in section 214(a) (22 U.S.C. 4314(a)), by striking sections 202(7) and 208 of title 3, United States Code' and inserting subsections (a)(7) and (d) of section 3056A of title 18, United States Code'.

 

(3) Section 8D(a)(1)(F) of the Inspector General Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.) is amended by striking section 202 of title 3' and inserting section 3056A of title 18'.

 

(4) Section 8I(a)(1)(E) of the Inspector General Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.) is amended by striking section 202 of title 3' and inserting section 3056A of title 18'.
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America has never had a federal police force, but hidden in the new "Patriot" Act is language that creates just such a beast.

SEC. 605. THE UNIFORMED DIVISION, UNITED STATES SECRET SERVICE.

There is hereby created and established a permanent police force, to be known as the United States Secret Service Uniformed Division'.

The Secret Service, Uniformed Division will not operate solely in DC, but anywhere former Presidents travel, or foreign dignitaries, or even "as the President, on a case-by-case basis, may direct." #8

A federal police force, directed by the President. Is this not the Gestapo all over again?

If the new "Patriot" Act passes, the new SSUD federal police can show up at:

(11) An event designated.. as a special event of national significance.

(12) Major Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates and, within 120 days of the general Presidential electionŠ

A federal goon squad on hand to arrest any 'disruptors' during the next Presidential ElectionŠ how can you look in the mirror and tell yourself that there's hope for 2008? Or is that just an excuse to continue doing nothing right now?

Note: This bill comes up in two weeks, to date only myself and Kurt Nimmo have written about it. I've written Democracy Now, CommonDreams, etcŠ nobody wants to touch it.

Please do what you can to break this story
....
http://www.benfrank.net/blog/

Do not sit there cowering and pretending the only way to win is as Republican-lite.
If the Washington-based party can't get up and fight, we'll find someone who can.
- Molly Ivins

I sent this to my list on 1/12/06.
Chris
Bush to criminalize protesters under Patriot Act as "disruptors"

http://www.bushflash.com

Bush wants to create the new criminal of "disruptor" who can be jailed
for the crime of "disruptive behavior." A "little-noticed provision" in
the latest version of the Patriot Act will empower Secret Service to
charge protesters with a new crime of "disrupting major events
including political conventions and the Olympics."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/12/
AR2005121201448.html

Secret Service would also be empowered to charge persons with
"breaching security" and to charge for "entering a restricted area"
which is "where the President or other person protected by the Secret
Service is or will be temporarily visiting." In short, be sure to stay
in those wired, fenced containments or free speech zones.

Read More, here... Because the linked version contains more hyperlinks.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/1/11/212726/954
Bush to criminalize protesters under Patriot Act as "disruptors"
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/1/11/212726/954
by Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse
Wed Jan 11, 2006 at 07:27:26 PM PDT

Bush wants to create the new criminal of "disruptor" who can be jailed for the crime of "disruptive behavior." A "little-noticed provision" in the latest version of the Patriot Act will empower Secret Service to charge protesters with a new crime of "disrupting major events including political conventions and the Olympics." Secret Service would also be empowered to charge persons with "breaching security" and to charge for "entering a restricted area" which is "where the President or other person protected by the Secret Service is or will be temporarily visiting." In short, be sure to stay in those wired, fenced containments or free spe