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|Carries wounded protester Kabul, Afghanistan, September 15, 2010 Thousands of angry people protested against the American occupation in Afghanistan's capital on Wednesday Occupation paid police fired upon the protesters
|Burning M-ATV armored vehicle after it struck an improvised explosive device (IED)near US occupation Combat Outpost Nolen in the Arghandab Valley
Osama bin Laden interview with the Daily Ummat in Urdu on September 28 2001 Translation into English by BBC Worldwide Monitoring September 29 2001
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It was the US military and US government scientists such as those connected with NIST who had access to highly energetic nano-thermite.
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They know, for example, that the infamous Plan D of 1947-8 resulted in the murderous depopulation of 369 Palestinian towns and villages by the Haganah Israeli army European Union member states authorised the export of €200 million in arms exports to Israel in 2007, the latest figures from Brussels disclose France is far and away the Israel state's biggest European weapons supplier The people of Venezuela manifest their unconditional solidarity by affirming that the government of Venezuela will not rest until it sees those responsible for these criminal atrocities severely punished A very large delivery of US weaponry to Israel consisting of 3,000 tons of 'ammunition' sails to Israel99% of US House joins 100% of US Senate in Supporting Israel with HRes34 The 42 vetoes of the US for Israel
DARPA Wants to Install Transcranial Ultrasonic Mind Control Devices in Soldiers' Helmets
By Clay Dillow September 9, 2010
DARPA has been trying to crawl inside the minds of soldiers for a while now, but a new ultrasound technology could let them get deeper inside than ever. Working under a DARPA grant, a researcher at Arizona State is developing transcranial pulsed ultrasound technology that could be implanted in troops' battle helmets, allowing soldiers to manipulate brain functions to boost alertness, relieve stress, or even reduce the effects of traumatic brain injury. Manipulating the brain to enhance warfighting capabilities and maintain mental acuity on the battlefield has long been a topic of interest for DARPA and various military research labs, but the technology to do so remains limited. Deep brain stimulation (DBS), for instance, requires surgically implanted electrodes to stimulate neural tissues, while less-invasive methods like transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) possess limited reach and low spatial resolution. But Dr. William J. Tyler, an assistant professor of life sciences at ASU, writes on the DoD's "Armed With Science" blog:
"To overcome the above limitations, my laboratory has engineered a novel technology which implements transcranial pulsed ultrasound to remotely and directly stimulate brain circuits without requiring surgery. Further, we have shown this ultrasonic neuromodulation approach confers a spatial resolution approximately five times greater than TMS and can exert its effects upon subcortical brain circuits deep within the brain."Tyler's technology, packaged in a warfighter's helmet, would allow soldiers to flip a switch to stimulate different regions of their brains, helping them relieve battle stress when it's time to get some rest, or to boost alertness during long periods without sleep. Grunts could even relieve pain from injuries or wounds without resorting to pharmaceutical drugs. More importantly, in the periods after brain trauma ultrasound technology could reduce swelling and metabolic damage that is often the root cause of lasting brain damage.
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Darpa Wants Remote Controls to Master Troop Minds
By Katie Drummond September 9, 2010 The Pentagon's blue-sky research arm wants to trick out troops' brains, from the areas that regulate alertness and cognition to pain treatment and psychiatric well-being. And the scientists want to do it all from the outside in with a gadget installed inside the troops' helmets. "Remote Control of Brain Activity Using Ultrasound," the Defense Department's Armed with Science blog promises. It's the latest out-there project in the military's growing arsenal of brain-based research. In recent months alone, the Pentagon's funded projects to optimize troop's minds, prevent injuries and even preemptively assess cognitive ability and vulnerability to traumatic stress. Now, Darpa's funding one lab that's trying to do it all from boosting troop smarts to preventing traumatic brain injuries. Arizona State University neuroscientist William Tyler has been working with funding from the Army Research Laboratory for years. That neurotechnology work has now caught the eye of Darpa, which awarded his lab a Young Faculty Award to improve upon non-invasive approaches to brain stimulation. "When people ask what this kind of device could do, I ask them what their brain does for them," Tyler tells Danger Room.
"The brain serves all the functions of your body, and if you knew the neuroanatomy, then you can start to regulate each one of those functions."Already, scientists have devised cutting-edge brain stimulation methods to treat medical disorders, like Parkinson's disease or severe depression. But current deep-brain approaches require invasive surgery to implant electrodes and batteries, and external ultrasound stimulation can't penetrate "the deep brain circuits where many diseased circuits reside," Tyler writes at Armed With Science Now, Tyler and his research team have created a "transcranial pulsed ultrasound" that's able to stimulate a myriad of brain circuits from the outside in.
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The device has already proven capable of targeting deep brain regions, unlike existing methods. And it's capable of zeroing in on extremely specific brain zones, as small as two or three millimeters. Plus, prototype devices are small enough to be fitted inside a typical helmet. "Going deep beneath the skull and having extremely specific spatial resolution are two huge advantages over existing approaches," Tyler says.
"Depth and specificity are what allow the ultrasound to do what other methods can't."With Darpa's funding, Tyler plans to expand the uses of the ultrasound and improve the device's spacial resolution even more, making it a veritable all-in-one brain stimulation device. Using a microcontroller device, the ultrasound would stimulate different brain regions to boost troop alertness and cognition, relieve stress and pain, and protect them against traumatic brain injuries. "The really damaging part of a TBI isn't the initial injury," Tyler says.
"It's the metabolic damage, the free radicals and the swelling that are happening in the hours afterward. If you can flick your remote and trigger an immediate intervention, you'd be curbing what might otherwise be lifelong brain damage."
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by Gordon Duff August 27, 2010 veteranstoday.com
WHY AMERICA MUST HAVE AN ANTI-WAR UPRISING I am not against war. I am a combat veteran. I sit on my tail, watch TV, go to restaurants and have fond delusional memories about Vietnam. In my bedroom closet, I have a trash bag. It is never opened, it has been there for years. It has, along with other "military mementos," a small green "government issued" address book. Marines, long ago, scrawled their names in it. Half of them never came back from Vietnam, never had children, grandchildren, got to finish college or even high school. Many, maybe most, had never had sex, owned a car or traveled more than 50 miles from home. Do we call us, cowards?
Their lives were stolen, stolen then and we are doing it every day, maybe not the numbers, not on such a grand scale, but the lessons of Vietnam have more than been forgotten. The brightest time in American history, another "greatest generation" may well have been the one that stopped an evil and corrupt war. That generation saw the cost. Only the young, the young and the parents of those the war destroyed knew Vietnam. America simply turned away, a nation of, do we call them, do we call us, cowards? Is there another term?
Of the two to three million that survived, a hundred thousand were seriously physically disabled and a million more suffered lifelong Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Not long after coming home, another 50,000 would die, some of mysterious illnesses, many by suicide. 50,000 or more went to prison, some for a few years, some are still there. One of my closest friends, LCpl. Daniel K. Staggs, winner of the Silver Star, would die in prison. A stabbing. By 1972, only a few troops were in Vietnam, fighting a "rear guard" holding action while America pretended it had won "peace with honor" at the bargaining table in Paris. Monster named Henry Kissinger A monster named Henry Kissinger won a Nobel Prize for that farce. Have we no shame? The vast majority of Americans didn't have 30 seconds a day to watch news about the war, not a minute a month to think about it, much less do something, take a stand for what was right. These are the people that love to hear about hippies and airport spitters.
These people love Ollie North and John McCain, cartoon heroes for a nation too dead inside to care. Bloated peddlers of death Scary terrorists and endless wars are bread and butter for the "drugstore Marine" and "Hanoi John." You don't know them by these names, the monikers they were tagged with by their fellow officers after Vietnam? Carefully hear what they say, that pair of bloated peddlers of death. Are they continually undermining America through the fear and mistrust their every word sews while they rake in millions?
Why are men like this whose pasts reek of the worst abuses imaginable, allowed to dishonor our dead while strutting around playing hero? Why has their real history been buried though the stench remains? Vietnam had real heroes. They aren't flying in private jets, eating at the finest restaurants, 58,000 of them came home dead, many in pieces, some burned to cinders. It wasn't just the 58,000 dead or the 50,000 soon to die or the maimed or damaged, the imprisoned or the endless thousands poisoned with Agent Orange. Oh, did we tell you that Agent Orange may have killed more Vietnam veterans than total combat deaths in World War II? According to Israeli officials, there are more holocaust survivors than living Vietnam veterans. Gulf War a scam This isn't news, no more than dozens dying each day from Gulf War Illness,no more than the Iraq/Afghanistan vet than commits suicide every 36 hours. Vietnam was a scam. The South Vietnamese government was brutal and corrupt, hated by all. North Vietnam was never part of a communist conspiracy to infiltrate America and force the evils of communism on our children. When more documents are declassified and the lying slows down, I am absolutely certain that the first Gulf War is going to turn out to be a scam also.
It is out there, the reason Saddam invaded Kuwait, and when it comes out, the Americans responsible for misleading us into war after war after war will will die of old age, honored and respected with their offshore bank accounts brimming with blood money.
The countless dead were forgotten long ago being the "un-newsworthy" lot they were. We already know, we and our gutless British cousins, that Bush and Blair and their cronies sent hundreds of thousands to war in 2003 based on, not only lies, but a plot to undermine the democratic freedoms of both governments and prestage the western world in their own image, totalitarian, interventionist and totally owned and operated by an international cabal of financial criminals. Billionaire Bush crony David Koch shadowy Israeli-American underwriting "grass roots" movement Take a look at politics. The same criminal empire controls, not only each party but they "throw the bums out" gang as well. Billionaire Bush crony David Koch, a shadowy Israeli-American is underwriting the "grass roots" movement to restore our constitution. He is also the same person who funded those who tore it apart. Those who think they are electing "Tea Party" candidates will have a rude awakening. When the bill comes due, they will be dancing to the same tune. Recent as it was, few Americans realize what the Gulf War really brought us.
We got that "New World Order" that "Pappy" Bush promised us in his "points of light" speech. "How do you like it so far?" What we got was an end to America as we know it, a government taking orders from Tel Aviv and a "New World Order" economy now openly looting the world, eating away even America's standard of living and flushing it down the toilet, turning the United States into a debt-ridden third world hell hole. The Romans gave away bread and amused the public with blood drenched spectacles in the arena. Our "bread and circuses" game is Islamophobia, phony "self induced" terrorism and exploitation of sub-human racial hatreds thinly veiled under the childish misnomer of "conservatism." Anyone who isn't suspicious of 9/11, the TV spectacular whose original cast of "19" now includes thousands, as years of credible research and investigation has proven, will gladly send others to die in their name around the world. Ignorance is complicity. Anyone who doesn't realize that the Bush cover story, now being resold under the "Ground Zero Mosque" label, is the most outlandish "conspiracy theory" in history is capable of cheerleading for any sociopathic political clown from Caligula to Hitler to Cheney. We have to end our war because America can no longer trust itself. All of Americas media owned by defense firms With all of Americas media outlets owned by defense firms, lets call them "war profiteers" and be honest about it or citizens of the State of Israel, a "huckster" nation, smaller than Vermont that is the third largest weapons exporter in the world, no American can be certain about anything, what is true or false, what is fact, what is myth.
Every day every American is told two things. Don't trust your government.
Don't trust your press. Both things are correct. The problem, of course, is that those that control the message control both the government and the press. The "new" government they continually offer is always the "old government" and the new lies are always the old lies, enemies, new plots, new fears. If what you believe is based on what you hear and see, whether it is an airplane crashing into a building or someone telling you that ending years of corrupt tax abatements for billionaires is going to end the world, something is always being kept from you. That something is what is true, what is real. "But I saw it!" Yes, you saw something then someone explained it all. What you want to do is ask yourself, who made money from this? Who can control the news? Where do the real conspirators live, caves in Afghanistan or inside the Beltway in Washington or the coffee shops of Tel Aviv.
Did I forget London? A few months ago, we learned that 824,000 Americans have top secret security clearances. How much do you think those nearly one million people know that would shock or sicken you? Are only 10,000 involved in illegal conspiracies? What if every Israeli spy flushed at the same time, would the Great Lakes suddenly disappear? I hope this isn't news to you, but most of history's wars were started with a "false flag" attack. A government attacks its own people to justify what it, out of delusion, tells itself is going to be best for everyone in the long run. The fact that billions, even trillions is made, not made, really stolen, is never spoken of. Nobody attacks a nation with 70% of the world's military might. It would only attack itself, "with a little help from its friends." How is America dealing with Afghanistan? Though a few lunatics are still running around talking about poor dead Osama bin Laden and imaginary Al Qaeda, the mysterious worldwide conspiracy of cab drivers, waiters and dishwashers, most Americans have forgotten Afghanistan. Brad Pitt and Al Qaeda Wasn't there a Brad Pitt movie about Al Qaeda? Think about the terrorist masterminds we manage to catch. Doesn't this remind you of something? Didn't we see this in the movie Fight Club?
What is the first rule of Fight Club? I am not allowed to tell you. Whenever Al Qaeda, the mythical "Fight Club" clone steps onto the scene, after the phony press reads their scripts,
"Building 7 has just collapsed even though nothing hit it... no wait a minute... oh... Building 7 is going to mysteriously collapse in two hours they are telling me now... (parody of BBC 9/11 'error')Dallas Many years ago, there was a popular TV series called Dallas.
The underlying story was about competition between two brothers one evil but fun and one good but boring as hell. After a couple of seasons, one brother, Bobby Ewing, the boring one, tragically died. The actor playing the part, Patrick Duffy, wanted to leave the show, thus his character was killed off. The next season, Duffy reconsidered his decision. The network simply raised him from the dead, begining an episode where he is suddenly alive again, taking a shower. The BBC coverage of Building 7 at the World Trade Center is another "Bobby Ewing returns from the dead" thing. Two episodes later, viewers will forget. More Americans remember the shock of seeing Bobby Ewing alive in the shower than "accidentally" hearing the report of a major disaster than hadn't happened yet. What do you say of a generation of Americans who can't say Palestinian without adding 'terrorist' but watch cluster bombs being dropped on playgrounds in Gaza and are willing to accept it as "poor frightened Israel" protecting herself.
This is the kind of ignorance that begged 9/11 and was amply rewarded. This is the kind of ignorance that will burn an American city to the ground with a "terrorist nuke" simply to remove Iran from competition in the oil and gas pipeline business.
Oh, newspapers don't report such things, not on the sports pages anyway. Millions of Americans are in a rage about an Islamic center being built in lower Manhattan because of sabre rattling by an Israeli run news organization commonly known as Fox. Hundreds of hours have been spent railing at terrorists funding the project. This week, a competing network, on a very popular news program, the genuinely humorous Daily Show with Jon Stewart, pointed out that the primary funding for what Fox News calls "the terrorist mosque" is one of the primary owners of Fox News. I keep seeing Bobby Ewing in the shower and the lame BBC reporter telling about the building withering to the ground, as CBS News anchor, Dan Rather described it, "as though someone had planted dynamite." Over 40 years ago, Americans of conscience went to the streets to end a war. They saved more than just the lives of American soldiers and Vietnamese civilians, they restored Americas honor. Control of American education and media, whether by Zionists, right wing fanatics, thieving banksters or a coalition of "evildoers" combining all three, has attempted to rewrite history. We are told mobs in airports attacked returning soldiers. We are told thousands of Americans died because of protests, not because of Kissinger's lies. Those who know better are still alive, some still awake and too many silent. A generation of soldiers, now men and women, return from war, maimed, crushed and thrown away 21st century America sees nothing, not the corruption, the narcotics, the lies, the evil in what has gone on so long in the name of the people of the United States. What is war? All war is class struggle. If we still had more communists around, they would remind us. Rich people start wars, poor people die and resources are stolen, banks emptied and all of it hidden behind flag waving and childish scare tactics. War is part of the grander plan.
Is war politics or is it economics? At one point in the last 2 years, it was estimated there there were as few as 12 "potential Al Qaeda suspects" in Afghanistan. The person reading my water meter is a "potential suspect." To a paranoid or law enforcement officer, anything that moves is a "person of interest." A "suspect" is a person of interest who isn't sleeping or dead. Thousands of such "suspects" have been kidnapped and tortured by the United States over the last decade. The vast majority were released, some with millions in cash to shut them up, some died and a few were railroaded to criminal convictions based on false testimony and phony evidence. Who would want to protest against that? Would you want to die to defend that? Your children already have. To read comments click here
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Olmert parties with Brown, Berlusconi, Topolanek, Merkel, Sarkozy and Zapatero Livni and Rice kiss And every president and prime minister who repeated this mendacity as an excuse to avoid a ceasefire has the blood lust on their hands It was a lie it was another lie then the Israeli helicopter mowed them down at close rangeIsrael massacres desire to kill one and half million people They came up again with the Hamas-was-in-the-UN-school lie
The criteria for a criminal sociopath requires an ongoing disregard for the rights of others! Oh Yes! Blair is responsible. Blair and his puppets the rest of the guilty war criminals in the Labour Party! And those in the country who have turned a blind eye getting fat and television induced senile, while so many others suffered from Britain's war economy! For a country that experienced Coventry to bomb a defenseless other beggars description! There is a sign inside the destroyed Coventry Cathedral: 'Forgive Them' I do not forgive them Kewe TheWE.cc
U.S. War Crimes
On Haditha and Al-Qa'im
an Iraqi doctor sent me this
"Listen...we witnessed crimes in the west area of the country of what the bastards did in Haditha and Al-Qa'im.
It was a crime, a really big crime we have witnessed and filmed in those places and recently also in Fallujah. We need big help in the western area of the country. Our doctors need urgent help there. Please, this is an URGENT humanitarian request from the hospitals in the west of the country. We have big proof on how the American troops destroyed one of our hospitals, how they burned the whole store of medication of the west area of Iraq and how they killed a patient in the ward...how they prevented us from helping the people in al-Qa'im. This is an URGENT Humanitarian request. The hospitals in the west of Iraq ask for urgent help...we are in a big humanitarian medical disaster..."
"The soldiers are doing strange things in Fallujah" "The soldiers are doing strange things in Fallujah," said one of my contacts in Fallujah who just returned. He was in his city checking on his home and just returned to Baghdad this evening. Speaking on condition of anonymity he continued:
"In the center of the Julan Quarter they are removing entire homes which have been bombed, meanwhile most of the homes that were bombed are left as they were. Why are they doing this?"
"The American warplanes came continuously through the night and bombed everywhere in Fallujah! "It did not stop even for a moment! "If the American forces did not find a target to bomb, they used sound bombs just to terrorize the people and children. "The city stayed in fear; I cannot give a picture of how panicked everyone was. "In the mornings I found Fallujah empty, as if nobody lives in it. "Even poisonous gases have been used in Fallujah-they used everything-tanks, artillery, infantry, poison gas. Fallujah has been bombed to the ground. Nothing is left."In Amiriyat al-Fallujah, a small city just outside Fallujah where many doctors from Fallujah have been practicing since they were unable to do so at Fallujah General Hospital, similar stories are being told. Last month one refugee who had just arrived at the hospital in the small city explained that he'd watched the military bring in water tanker trucks to power blast some of the streets in Fallujah.
"Why are they doing this," explained Ahmed (name changed for his protection), "To beautify Fallujah? "No! "They are covering their tracks from the horrible weapons they used in my city."
Also last November, another Fallujah refugee from the Julan area, Abu Sabah told me.
"They (US military) used these weird bombs that put up smoke like a mushroom cloud. Then small pieces fell from the air with long tails of smoke behind them."He explained that pieces of these bombs exploded into large fires that burnt peoples skin even when water was dumped on their bodies, which is the effect of phosphorous weapons, as well as napalm. "People suffered so much from these, both civilians and fighters alike," he said. My friend Suthir (name changed to protect identity) was a member of one of the Iraqi Red Crescent relief convoys that was allowed into Fallujah at the end of November. "I'm sure the Americans committed bad things there, but who can discover and say this," she said when speaking of what she saw of the devastated city. "They didn't allow us to go to the Julan area or any of the others where there was heavy fighting, and I'm sure that is where the horrible things took place." "The Americans didn't let us in the places where everyone said there was napalm used," she added, "Julan and those places where the heaviest fighting was, nobody is allowed to go there."
On 30 November the US military prevented an aid convoy from reaching Fallujah. This aid convoy was sent by the Iraqi Ministry of Health, but was told by soldiers at a checkpoint to return in "8 or 9 days," reported AP. Dr. Ibrahim al-Kubaisi who was with the relief team told reporters at that time, "There is a terrible crime going in Fallujah and they do not want anybody to know." With the military maintaining strict control over who enters Fallujah, the truth of what weapons were used remains difficult to find. Meanwhile, people who lived in different districts of Fallujah continue to tell the same stories.
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Files that document CIA connections to institutions and individuals figuring prominently in the lives of Barack Obama and his mother, father, grandmother, and stepfather Story of Obama: All in The Company Part Iclick here
Lolo Soetoro had been called back from Hawaii by General Suharto to serve as an officer in the Indonesian military to help launch a bloody CIA-backed genocide of Indonesian Communists and Indonesian Chinese throughout the expansive country. Suharto consolidated his power in 1966, the same year that Barack Obama, Sr.'s friend, Mboya, had helped to rally pro-U.S. pan-African support for the CIA's overthrow of Nkrumah in Ghana in 1966. Story of Obama: All in The Company Part IIclick here
The students including Obama Sr were selected by Kenyan nationalist leader Tom Mboya who would later conduct surveillance for the CIA at pan-African nationalist meetings. Mboya was particularly focused on two African leaders who were seen as too close to the Sino-Soviet bloc, Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana and Sekout Toure of Guinea. Obama, Sr. was part of the Kenyan student airlifted to the US by the CIA-inspired Airlift Africa project Story of Obama: All in The Company Part IIIclick here
The rural development project funded by the Ford Foundation had long been a cover for U.S. intelligence activities in Indonesia. Millions of dollars in CIA funds were "freely co-mingled" with funds in accounts such as those maintained in the Bank of Hawaii, as well as in overseas accounts. BBRDW accounts in Hawaiian and overseas banks were used to launder money for the Sultan of Brunei, Philippine banker Enrique Zobel and his close friend President Ferdinand Marcos, Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, Gandhi's son and future Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, and President Suharto of Indonesia. Story of Obama: All in The Company Part IVclick here
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The CIA's Project MOCKINGBIRD, a Cold War-era program designed to influence foreign and domestic media, and its successor programs, governed the CIA's use of BIC journalists, of which Obama was one, to push propaganda and disinformation at home and abroad. The CIA, Business International Corporation, Looking Glass, and nurturing future leadership! Story of Obama: All in The Company Part Vclick here
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Obama Orwellian Double Speak: The True Cost of the War Obama's "end of Iraq war" speech must have shattered any remaining belief. Resorting to Orwellian DoubleSpeak, Obama could only praise Bush who started it. Yet, as most earthlings, if not Americans, know by now, the troops died for a lie.click here
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|In 2000 the US merchandise trade deficit with China became larger than the chronic US trade deficit with Japan. By 2003 the US trade deficit with China was almost twice as large as the US deficit with Japan: $124 billion versus $66 billion. 2004 the US trade deficit with China was $162 billion, a 30.9% increase.
Classified Spending On the Rise
By Dan Morgan
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, August 27, 2003; Page A23 "Black," or classified, programs requested in President Bush's 2004 defense budget are at the highest level since 1988, according to a report prepared by the independent Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. The center concluded that classified spending next fiscal year will reach about $23.2 billion of the Pentagon's total request for procurement and research funding.
When adjusted for inflation, that is the largest dollar figure since the peak reached during President Ronald Reagan's defense buildup 16 years ago. The amount in 1988 was $19.7 billion, or $26.7 billion if adjusted for inflation, according to the center. Because they're not telling anybody "It's puzzling. It sets the mind to wondering where the money's going and what sort of politically controversial things the administration is doing because they're not telling anybody," said John E. Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org, a research group in Alexandria that has been critical of the administration's defense priorities. Pike said part of the surge in the classified budget probably can be explained by increases for the Central Intelligence Agency's covert action programs, which are central to the war on terrorism. Traditionally, Pike said, much of the funding for the CIA is hidden in Air Force weapons procurement accounts. But unlike the 1980s, when it was widely known that the 'black' budget was going to the development of stealth aircraft such as the B-2 bomber and F-117 fighter, the uses of the classified accounts today are far murkier, Pike said. The Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments is a Washington research group that analyzes many aspects of the defense budget. Steven Kosiak, who prepared the report on classified spending, said he reached his conclusions by comparing sums requested for 'open,' or nonclassified, programs with the total Defense Department request for fiscal 2004. Some black spending in the Pentagon budget is designated for code-named programs such as the Army's "Tractor Rose" and the Navy's "Retract Larch." Accounting fictions But sources said some names may be accounting fictions that do not stand for actual programs.
Other classified spending is accounted for under such bland headings as "special activities." Officials at the Pentagon and in Congress declined to comment on the center's report, which was compiled earlier this summer. Key congressional defense committees will meet in the next several weeks to resolve differences over the 2004 Pentagon spending plan, including those involving classified programs. According to the Kosiak analysis, the Air Force's classified weapons procurement budget has jumped from $7 billion in 2001 to almost $11 billion as requested for 2004. In dollar terms, total classified spending in the Pentagon budget request has almost doubled since the mid-1990s, according to tables provided by Kosiak. Kosiak said in his report that performance in the classified programs has been mixed. He noted that highly successful weapons systems such as the F-117 and the B-2 were initially developed within the classified budget. But so was the Navy's A-12 medium attack plane, which was canceled in 1991 after a series of technical problems and cost increases. After it was canceled, manufacturers complained that secrecy in the program kept them from acquiring critical data needed to head off some of the problems. Likes to play I've got a secret "Restrictions placed on access to classified funding have meant that the Defense Department and Congress typically exercise less oversight over classified programs than unclassified ones," Kosiak wrote. In the case of the new defense budget, it is anybody's guess where most of the classified money is going, Pike said. But he said it is a good bet that some of it is going to programs that the administration is known to strongly favor, such as missile defense and the development of hypersonic planes that can fly beyond Earth's atmosphere. "This is an administration that likes to play I've got a secret," he said.
"The growth of the classified budget appears to be part of a larger pattern of this administration being secretive."
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Keep the people frightenedBlack Budget? What Black Budget? At the time of the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in September 2001 according to the Government Accounting Office (GAO), Pentagon had incurred $3.4 trillion of "undocumentable transactions," that is to say that there were $3.4 trillion worth of financial transactions for which there was no discernible purpose.
Of things they cannot know
Is the secret of the Tomb
If they knew what you and I know
They would know it is just men
Who rob them, cheat them, kill them
Then start it all again
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The day before the attack, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld warned that the lack of control over its budget was a greater danger to the national security of the United States than terrorism. After the attacks, the government stopped publicly disclosing information about "undocumentable transactions". Blame the Bookkeeper The problem is not restricted to the Pentagon but affects the entire spectrum of government agencies and departments from the Bureau of Indian Affairs to the Defense Department. For a number of years the GAO has compiled a parallel set of books for the Federal Government called the Financial Report of the United States. This report attempts to impose "Generally Accepted Accounting Principles" to the government's financial reporting process in order to give a clearer picture of the government's actual assets and liabilities and thereby enable better planning. Neither the Pentagon nor the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), to name just two, have ever been able to pass a GAO audit on this basis. Significantly, the government does not employ double entry bookkeeping in the preparation of its accounts. This has been standard accounting practice since the seventeenth century, which classifies and tracks sources and uses of funds to create an accurate picture of a business (or public) enterprise. Today the Pentagon utilises no accountable means of tracking money authorised by Congress from its initial authorisation to its use, say in developing a fighter plane. Running a 21st century military machine using antique accounting methods is an anomalous situation with interesting implications, not least of which is that government agencies cannot, or will not, explain what they are doing with the money that is appropriated for their operations by Congress. A similar state of affairs prevails at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). It exists primarily, at least in law, to ensure that low income Americans have access to affordable housing, which HUD provides as well as both credit and credit insurance on a nationwide scale.
Yet HUD has never compiled information on its activities so that it or anyone else can see, by place, whether or not its activities in that place make money, lose money, or are simply irrelevant. Conflict of Interests Few Americans are probably aware that Lockheed Martin, builder of the F22 air superiority fighter, is also a major outside contractor supplying financial control and accounting systems to the Pentagon. The Pentagon for its part is Lockheed Martin's biggest customer. This example is by no means unique. Lockheed also has a subsidiary employed by HUD to administer housing in American cities, an unusual diversification for a corporation the majority of whose business is done with the military and intelligence agencies. [ii] Similarly Dyncorp (recently acquired by Computer Sciences Corporation) is another contractor that, like Lockheed, derives almost all its revenue from government security and military contracts. It is also a contractor supplying information technology to a variety of government agencies including the Pentagon, HUD, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Department of Justice. At the Department of Justice it manages the case management software used by DOJ lawyers to manage investigations. [iii] A prime example of overlapping interests is Herbert "Pug" Winokur. Not only was he on Dyncorp's board of directors but he is also the Enron director in charge of that company's risk management committee, and a long-standing board member of the Harvard Management Corporation, which invests in HUD projects. AMS Inc., a computer software firm hired by HUD in 1996 to take over the management of its internal software for accounting and financial control, presided in two short years over an explosion in undocumentable transactions of nearly $76 billion. AMS violated fiduciary and control practices by installing its own equipment and software with no parallel runs against the legacy software and accounting system. In those same two years, HUD's management more than tripled the volume of loan and insurance business being pushed through the system. Anyone familiar with running such systems in a bank or an insurance company immediately understands that a decision such as this (for it had to be a decision) would result in huge losses. [iv] Is this incompetence or design? Only the credulous would believe accident: the reward for Charles Rossotti, president of AMS, was to be named Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner at the Department of the Treasury, from which position he oversaw significant Treasury contract amendments to AMS. He was a direct beneficiary of this as a special White House waiver permitted Rossotti and his wife to retain their AMS stock. Government's response to criticism The reaction of many people to the sorts of facts related above is to dismiss them as no more than evidence of incompetence and accident.
The government does little to resist this sort of interpretation; on the contrary, it encourages it. For example, in response to calls for an investigation of its financial control, the Pentagon countered with an offer to investigate credit card abuse. Complaints about the performance of outside contractors such as AMS have been answered by a government-wide contract award to IBM for the standardisation of IT systems and practices. IBM, in turn, has awarded subcontracts to AMS, Lockheed, Dyncorp, SAIC and Accenture (formerly spun out from Arthur Andersen of Enron fame). It is these firms that have failed to provide systems that can pass a GAO audit. This manoeuvring and the government's justifications affront common sense and are unethical. As private sector firms, they have to pass audits before their own accounts can be approved and reported to shareholders. Yet they routinely fail to meet the same standard for the government. Often the government blames the previous, outgoing administration. However, consider that the incoming Bush administration replaced all the senior Clinton political appointees except: the Comptroller of the Currency, John D. Hawke; IRS commissioner Charles Rossotti (formerly of AMS); Comptroller General David Walker (Formerly of Arthur Andersen [v] and CIA director George Tenet. (see: http://www.npr.org/programs/npc/2001/010423.dwalker.html) In short, the key positions necessary for the control of the federal credit, financial control, audit and intelligence.
Comptroller of the Currency, John D. Hawke ---->control of the federal creditThis undisturbed transition from Democratic to Republican administrations represents a remarkable cross-party consensus, and highlights the real positions of power. With the exception of Rossotti, all these men are still in place in 2004. And Rossotti? He left the IRS to become a senior adviser to the Carlyle Group for information technology. A more richly symbolic and meaningful job move could scarcely be imagined. Carlyle's business is global venture venture capital, which is to say it invests in corporate acquisitions all over the world with a speciality in arms manufacturers and technology. The large levels of undocumentable transactions at HUD and the Department of Defense inevitably inspire curiosity. Where is the money associated with those transactions? It is no great leap of imagination to wonder equally where the Carlyle Group raises the money with which to finance its acquisitions. [vi] The trusts are dead. Long live the trusts The cartelisation of the American economy was for all intents and purposes completed by the end of the first decade of the twentieth century. [vii]
IRS commissioner Charles Rossotti ----> financial control
Comptroller General David Walker ----> audit
CIA director George Tenet ----> intelligence
In 1889, America's leading banker JP Morgan held a meeting at his 5th Avenue mansion in New York. Its purpose was to reach a consensus whereby the owners of America's railroads merged their competing interests. [viii] This was no mere group of transportation executives agreeing to fix prices. The railroads also controlled the nation's coalfields and oil supplies, and were tightly bound to the nation's largest banks. The creation of the Federal Reserve in 1914 completed this process of consolidation. In effect, Congress ceded control of the US currency system and the federal credit to the banks, thereby officially recognizing the cartel. This placed a relatively small number of men in a position to set prices across the economy with a degree of control heretofore unknown in US history. The banking cartel's interest in war American foreign policy and the wars that America has fought over the course of the twentieth century (including the Spanish American War in 1898 [ix] and the present War on Terror) have successfully extended the cartel's control over the world economy. The American Civil War was fought to determine control of the US economy. [x] Most Americans would explain the last 150 years of warfare as sadly necessary for reasons beyond America's control. The implication is that America has accumulated its preponderant international position by some providential accident and not by design. Arguments for a contrary view elicit derisive accusations of falling victim to "conspiracy theory." Reassuringly, they believe that self-interested individuals and organisations are incapable of collaboration to achieve common ends. When JP Morgan sat the owners of America's railroads around a table and hammered out a non-compete agreement, it was no accident. Similarly, neither have America's wars been accidents; they have been far more profitable than is widely understood. The US confiscated billions of dollars worth of German and Japanese war treasure at the end of World War Two. President Truman made a conscious decision to not reveal this to the public or repatriate it. Instead, it was used to finance covert operations. [xi] Command economy Popular myth has it that the trusts were broken up in the first decade of the twentieth century thanks to the crusade of Theodore Roosevelt on behalf of the middle class. Roosevelt certainly used his public stance against "big business" to successfully bid for campaign money from the very businessmen whom he was attacking. This perhaps explains why he subsequently signed legislation repealing criminal penalties for those same businessmen. This is a common trait of "liberal" or "progressive" presidents. The second Roosevelt, Franklin, is remembered as the champion of the downtrodden, who put an end to the Great Depression. It was he who established the nation's social security system which in reality was (and is) funded by a highly regressive tax on its beneficiaries. Matching contributions from business were allowed to be deducted as a business expense before tax which simply extended the regressive nature of the program by financing business' share out of foregone tax revenue. Roosevelt, a superb politician, won a landslide victory on a platform of reform which he adroitly sidestepped fulfilling.
Instead, he declared a national economic emergency, short-circuiting any constitutional challenge to his power in the court. He promptly defaulted on the gold clause in the government's bond contracts, and established the Exchange Stabilisation Fund (ESF) in 1934. Ostensibly meant to promote dollar stability in the foreign exchanges, the Fund in practice was and is something quite different. It is exempt from reporting to Congress and is answerable only to the President and Secretary of the Treasury. It is, in short, an undisclosed fund that can tap federal credit. Apparatus of a Command Economy The establishment of the ESF was an extension of the same logic behind the creation of the Federal Reserve in 1914. The latter, the Fed, was also created in response to a crisis: the crash of 1907. The Wall Street legend credits JP Morgan's genius and patriotism with saving the Nation. In reality, the crash and resulting depression enabled Morgan to destroy his competitors, buy up their assets and in the process revealed to the nation and the world just how powerful the banks and Morgan were. Not all were grateful, and some demanded legislative action to bring the federal credit and national monetary system under public oversight and control. In a campaign of masterful political legerdemain, the Federal Reserve was created in 1912 by an act of Congress to do just this. But by creating it as a private corporation owned by the banks, Congress effectively ceded to the banks a position even stronger than they had occupied before. Even today it is not widely understood that the Fed is a privately held business owned by the very interests that it nominally regulates. Thus the control of federal credit and the US monetary system and the rich flow of insider information that results from that control are veiled from public view and are privately controlled in secret which rather explains the Delphic nature of the Fed's chairman. The extension of secret control was not limited to finance. The National Security Act of 1947 created the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the National Security Council (NSC) and consolidated control of the three armed services under one roof at the Pentagon. This merely served to extend this principle of secrecy to the field of "national security." Like the Fed, the CIA was exempted from public disclosure of its budget and was given budgetary control over the entire intelligence community, while the National Security Council was set up as a policy-making body separate from the existing organs of state policy such as the State Department and the military commands reporting directly to the president. The CIA Act of 1949 created a budget mechanism that allowed the CIA to spend as much money as it wanted "without regard to the provisions of law and regulations relating to the expenditure of government funds."
In short, the CIA has a way to fund anything legal or illegal behind the protection of national security law. [xii] Implementation Having created the bureaucratic means to conceive and make policy in secret, the next development was to create the means to implement it. The main issue was how to control money flows in the national economy. The government's solution was to assume a commanding position in the credit markets. To that end, it created first the Federal Housing Authority in 1934 (forerunner of HUD and now part of HUD) [xiii] and subsequently Ginnie Mae and then Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which are government sponsored enterprises (GSEs) to supply mortgage finance and insurance for homebuyers. The underlying political purpose is more subtle. Combined with the power of the Federal Reserve (i.e. the cartel) to set the price of money, the ESF, the GSEs, and latterly the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), have proven to be a powerful force for regulating money flows and demand in the US economy. The military, too, was reformed with the adoption for the first time in American history of a wartime military budget and force structure in peacetime. In the early 60s this was fine tuned with the adoption of an explicit cost-plus acquisition process. The justification for this was, as usual, national security. This military budget has proven as effective in regulating the industrial sector as control over home finance has proven in regulating credit. Together they confer virtual control over the economy as conventionally measured in terms of money GDP. Credit, credit, and more credit A few moments reflection on the institutional structure briefly outlined above makes clear the central importance of the federal credit in underwriting it.
The federal government underwrites the GSEs by extending to them a subsidised line of credit from the Treasury. An additional indirect subsidy in the form of lower borrowing costs flows from the belief in the marketplace that this constitutes an implicit government guarantee of their solvency. While this subject from time to time excites controversy, the truth is that the GSEs are not the only corporate entities benefiting from government support. Since the failure of Continental Illinois in the early 80s, the government has informally made it clear that it stands behind the banking system. This was made even more explicit with the bailout of Citibank in the early 90s and the implicit subsidy that the entire banking industry received as a result. Nor are financial institutions the only ones to enjoy this kind of support. Both Lockheed Martin and Chrysler have been effectively saved from insolvency by the taxpayer in the past, presumably due to their status as major defence contractors. Such a system places a significant value premium on sheer size, if for no other reason than what the banking system cheerfully and disingenuously refers to as the "too-big-to-fail" doctrine. But for industrial firms, too, there is significant value in having a contracting relationship with the Pentagon. Not only is there the economic nirvana of cost-plus contracting but, if you are big enough, your fundamental business risk is underwritten for national security reasons. Thus, there is a tendency for firms to migrate their businesses to military rather than purely civilian markets; today the Boeing Company is a perfect case study of this in action. And a result is that civilian business in sector after sector has been driven into insolvency or into acquisition by the very national security industry that is ostensibly protecting them. [xiv] The dynamics of cost-plus contracting are such that profits rise as costs rise. [xv] This explains a great deal about the size of American military budgets, which have risen inexorably over the years even as military preparedness has fallen. [xvi] But as we have seen, the losses in terms of lower productivity are felt across wide swaths of the economy as non-military contracting competition is squeezed out or acquired. Obviously these losses in the real economy have to be financed, producing a higher demand for credit than would otherwise be the case. Given declining productivity and a narrowing production base, it was inevitable that at some point net exports would become negative, a condition that the US entered in 1982 and which has intensified since. Today the US net foreign debt [xvii] is on the order of $3,000 billion (30% of GDP) and is increasing at a rate of some $500 billion per year (5% of GDP). [xviii] Concentrating capital To finance such a large foreign borrowing requirement without currency depreciation requires both the ability to control as much of the national cash flow as possible as well as the collaboration of at least a few key foreign countries to achieve the same sort of control over international cash flows.
In the latter case, this takes the form, in part, of ever larger amounts of intervention on the part of those countries running dollar surpluses and strong net export positions to prevent the markets from driving the dollar lower. In practice this means that they accumulate more and more dollars, which they in turn invest in US Treasury securities. Foreigners now own some 45% of US Treasury debt outstanding. In January this year the Bank of Japan intervened in the currency markets on behalf of Japan's Ministry of Finance, purchasing a whopping $69 billion in that month alone, or more than 30% of its total intervention in 2003 which was itself a record year. Current trends All of this may seem to have little to do with the black budget, which most people associate with intelligence covert "black" operations. The truth, however, is that the black budget cannot be understood in isolation without understanding the political, historical and economic context from which it springs. One way of understanding this is by comparing trends. For example, in 1950 the Dow Jones Industrials stood at 200, and today the Dow is at 10,600. In 1950 narcotics trafficking was a relatively unknown crime in the United States. Today it is endemic, and not only in cities but in smaller towns and rural communities as well. In 1950 the US possessed most of the world's gold and was the world's biggest creditor. Today it is the world's biggest debtor. In 1950 the US was a major exporter of industrial goods to the rest of the world. On current trends the US is not self-sufficient in manufactured goods and will not even have a manufacturing industry worth the name by 2020.
Then And Now
Narcotics trafficking and the stock market Is there a connection between these trends or are they random? It may seem strange to think of a positive correlation between narcotics trafficking and the stock market, but consider: in the late 90s the US Department of Justice estimated that the proceeds of such trade entering the US banking system were between $500 and $1.000 billion annually, or more than 5-10% of GDP. Now the proceeds of crime need to find a way into legitimate, that is legal, channels or they are worthless to the holders. If one further imagines that the banking system earns a fee of 1% for handling this flow (rather low considering that money laundering is a seller's market) then the profits for the banks from this activity are on the order of $5 to $10 billion. Applying Citigroup's current stock market multiple of 15 or so to this yields a market capitalisation of anywhere from $65 to $115 billion.
One can thus readily see the importance of the illegal drug trade to the financial services industry. As it happens, this trade in illegal profits is concentrated in four states: Texas, New York, Florida and California, or four Federal Reserve districts: Dallas, New York, Atlanta and San Francisco. Can anyone seriously suppose that the Fed is unaware of this if the Department of Justice is? It, after all, handles the flows. Narcotics trafficking and the National Interest One reason for the Fed's silence is that agencies of the government itself have been involved in drug trafficking for sixty years or more. [xix] For the purposes of understanding the black budget, one needs to be aware of the American practice of opening the American consumer market for drugs to foreign exporters in order to pursue strategic objectives abroad. The portability of narcotics and the huge price mark up from production to point of sale makes them a particularly useful source of financing for covert operations. Even more important is that the proceeds from narcotics sales fall completely outside conventional, constitutional channels of funding. This helps explain the ubiquitous presence of narcotics trafficking in zones of conflict around the world, from Columbia to Afghanistan. [xx] Little examined, however, is the impact of narcotics trafficking on communities and economies at the point of sale. Consider, for example, the impact on real estate markets and financial services. Real estate is an attractive area in which to employ the cash surplus resulting from narcotics sales because it is, as an industry, entirely unregulated with respect to money laundering. Because cash is an acceptable and in some places familiar method of payment, large sums can be disposed of easily and with little comment. This can and does result in considerable distortion to local demand, and in turn provide fuel for real estate speculation and increased credit demand to finance it along with considerable opportunities for speculation and fraud. [xxi] The Iran Contra episode during the 1980s contained all these elements; although many are familiar with the sale of arms to Iran to provide cash to finance CIA backed guerrillas in Nicaragua and death squads in El Salvador, less well-known is the systematic looting of local financial institutions and narcotics sales in the US. Banking allows the application of leverage to the cash that is generated by "illegal" activity while simultaneously making it possible to launder the funds. And when a bank fails, it is the shareholders, uninsured depositors and the taxpayer who pick up the bill. The point here us that narcotics trafficking creates a milieu in which the incentives to engage in uneconomic activity are greater than those to engage in economic activity. In a word, the profits from stealing are higher than the profits from playing by the rules. What counts from a public policy point of view in the cartelised economy is the ability to control and concentrate cash flows of any kind. To this end, it is less important that a bank fails than that the federal credit is available to make good the losses. In doing so, the cash cost of losses is shifted, or socialised, to the national taxpayer base. As long, therefore, as there are willing lenders to the Federal Government, the game can go on. Technology gives an edge Government's power combined with advancing computer technology has over the last thirty years vastly simplified the task of managing the national and by extension the international cash flow. Politically, the American victory in the Second World War meant that the entire West and its dependencies were co-opted into the International Monetary Fund (IMF) negotiated at Bretton Woods in 1944. Forty-five years later, the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989 meant that for the first time in history there was no alternative monetary or political choice in the international arena. The British Empire had surrendered to the Americans precisely because America, represented an alternative to sterling, namely the dollar. Today the US presides over a more or less fully closed global monetary system centred on the dollar. In practice this means that those countries within the system must exchange real value in the form of manufactures and commodities with the US cartel in exchange for dollars, which are no more than an accounting entry created out of thin air. This is analogous to a company with no assets exchanging watered stock for cash, and indeed this is no accident. It was a favoured technique by which the JP Morgans of the nineteenth century successfully financed the consolidation of American industry and finance. Today their heirs are busily dong the same thing, but on a global scale.
The diagram is a stylized representation of the relationship between the cartel and its allies outside the United States. Flows are both concrete and abstract. Concrete flows are manufactures, narcotics and commodities (mainly oil) inwards and arms outwards. Abstract flows are money outwards in payment for concrete flows inwards, which profits are recycled inwards where they both finance the inflation of the Federal Credit as well as buying political influence.Technology has transformed the possibilities for creative management in banking. Its sheer number-crunching power has rendered the cost of iterative calculations to more or less zero. This has enabled the creation of a new sector in the industry, the derivatives business, which is nothing more than the breaking down of financial instruments such as stocks and bonds into their constitutive parts.
This has increased the power of the banks many-fold, thanks to the cooperation of the Federal Reserve and Congress, who have allowed the banks to not only self-regulate their derivatives portfolios and businesses but have enacted rules to force other banks to use derivatives to "control" risk. In practice this has meant that the most profitable business of the banks has been moved off balance sheet, in effect creating a high level of secrecy in their business. It also confers a huge advantage on the largest banks to whom the others have to come for their derivatives. This has, in part, fuelled the manic consolidation in banking over the last twenty five years and has been applied with tremendous success internationally thanks to the imposition of the Basel Accords on money and banking which have forced other country's financial institutions to either cooperate, which in practice has largely meant be acquired, or go out of business. The banks' tactics have been copied and refined by industry. An excellent example of this is the case of Enron, nominally an industrial company engaged in the production and transport of petroleum and natural gas, but which was transformed into a highly leveraged financial operation with a huge off balance sheet business trading derivatives. It secured a release from regulatory oversight by the time-tested method of purchasing lawmakers and by suborning its auditors. This gave it the power to restate earnings, virtually at will, simply by changing the assumptions on future interest rates embedded in the options, swaps and futures contracts constituting its unregulated derivatives book. Enron is a model also of the increasingly blurred distinction between the public and private sector. It employed as many as twenty CIA officers. One of its senior executives, Thomas White, was an army general before joining Enron and then left Enron to become Secretary of the Army. Enron executives were intimately involved with Vice President Richard Cheney's energy task force. It is difficult to avoid concluding that Enron was anything other than a money-laundering operation employed in the interest of "National Security" on behalf of the cartel. [xxii] The US has embarked on a costly global military adventure the outcome of which is anything but certain. This marks the culmination of more than fifty years of nearly continuous overt and covert warfare. In this it is supported by the most sophisticated financing apparatus in history, capable of mobilising the cash generated from a wide variety of activities both open and covert. The price has been the progressive hollowing out of the American economy itself, and the progressive erosion of civil liberties and the rule of law. The black budget is not the cause of this but the means. (rearranged by TheWE.cc originally at beginning of page) Introduction The United States government has operated a secret budgeting and spending program for decades outside the framework of the American Constitution. The institutional and political roots of this system of clandestine finance reach back to at least a century. The turn of the 19th and 20th centuries saw the consolidation of American industry and banking under the control of a restrictive cartel that for all practical purposes assumed control of the economy. The great magnates of American industry and finance in the late nineteenth century were superb practitioners of covert operations.
Witness to this fact are the institutions set up during the twentieth century through which their descendants maintain control. This paper is a summary of the structure of the American political economy which fits the facts better than the official model. Officially, American capitalism is characterised by democracy, opportunity, self-improvement, open and free markets, and constructive regulation for the public good, in short, happiness. Under this construct America has never fought a war of aggression and harbours no designs to do so. Its leaders have the nation's interests at heart, and its politicians listen to their constituencies. The truth is different. Why the United States is so widely misunderstood is due in part to a controlled educational system and media. As the system evolved over the decades, time lent it legitimacy spanning the political spectrum. Gustavus Meyers, author of the seminal work History of the Great American Fortunes and no panegyrist, believed following Marx as did many on the left that the consolidation of American industry was inevitable and that the men who accomplished it were acting their part in a predetermined historical evolution. Once monopoly control had been achieved, the proletariat would rise and its dictatorship would begin. We shy away from such determinism; nothing happens but as a consequence of what men do and choose to do. If Meyers were alive today, he would still be waiting. Published in Scoop: Thursday, 26 August 2004 About the authors Catherine Austin Fitts http://www.solari.com is the founder of Solari, Inc and a member of the advisory board of Sanders Research Associates. Ms. Fitts is a former managing director and member of the board of directors of Dillon Read & Co, Inc, a former Assistant Secretary of Housing-Federal Housing Commissioner in the first Bush Administration, and President of The Hamilton Securities Group, Inc. She is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and The Wharton School. Chris Sanders http://www.sandersresearch.com is a principle of Sanders Research Associates in London. Mr. Sanders has been a banker and asset manager for 21 years, and is a visiting professor in international finance at the School of Public Administration at the University of Göteburg in Sweden. He has degrees from in political science from Duke University and Arabic literature from the University of Michigan. He began his financial career as a private banker with Citibank in Saudi Arabia in 1979. Since 1984, he has lived in London and worked in the international investment management industry. He founded Sanders Research Associates in 1997. Sanders Research Associates Ltd. provides international strategic planning and risk management services to both corporate and private clients. SRA also publishes a webzine available by subscription. Visit http://www.sandersresearch.com to get a good feel for the real deal. FOOTNOTES:
[i] Remark attributed to a Wall Street broker in 1895 describing J.P. Morgan. Gustavus Meyers (2002). History of the Great American Fortunes. University Press of the Pacific, Volume 3, p.225. Morgan, regularly portrayed as a patriot, was at the time deeply engrossed in relieving the government of its gold reserve. [ii] Lockheed's contract was recently terminated by HUD an action that the company is contesting. [iii] Dyncorp was appointed as well to run the Department of Justice's asset forfeiture program in 1993, winning a $60 million five year contract to do so. [iv] For an insider's account of the problems at HUD, see Catherine Austin Fitts, The Myth of the Rule of Law at www.sandersresearch.com. [v] See http://www.npr.org/programs/npc/2001/010423.dwalker.html
[vi] See Dan Briody (2003), The Iron Triangle, Inside the Secret World of the Carlyle Group. John Wiley & Sons: Hoboken. ISBN 0-471-28108-5.Carlyle's phenomenal success as an investment firm owes a great deal to its ability to lure former political figures and senior industry executives onto its executive team and advisory board. Examples are former US President George H.W. Bush and former British Prime Minister John Major; Frank Carlucci, former deputy director of the CIA and former Secretary of Defense; James Baker III, former Secretary of State; Richard Darman former director of the Office of Management and Budget; Colin Powell, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and present Secretary of State (a Carlucci protégé); William Kennard, former head of the Federal Communications Commission; Arthur Levitt, former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission; Park Tae Joon, former Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea, and Louis Gerstner, former chairman of IBM. Of some interest as well has been the involvement of the Bin Laden family as major private investors in the Carlyle Group, represented by Shafiq Bin Laden, a brother of Osama Bin Laden.
[vii] For a brilliant history of the rise of America's elite and its disenchantment with democracy and free markets, see Sven Beckert (2001). The Monied Metropolis. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. ISBN 0521790395. [viii] Gustavus Meyers (2002). History of the Great American Fortunes, Volume 3. University Press of the Pacific: Honolulu. (Reprint of the 1910 edition), p.225. [ix] See Walter Karp ((1979). The Politics of War. Harper & Row: New York) for an analysis of the move to war in the case of both the war with Spain and WWI. Of particular interest here is Woodrow Wilson's extension of a domestic security apparatus ostensibly to deal with a supposed foreign threat during war time. In fact, the draconian legislation and executive orders that created the FBI as a new appendage of the Department of Justice was hardly used during wartime, but were deployed after the war against domestic political opponents in the labour unions and the Progressive Movement. [x] See Beckert, op. cit. [xi] See Tim Weiner ((1990) Blank Check: The Pentagon's Black Budget, Warner Publishing) and Sterling and Peggy Seagrave ((2003) Gold Warriors, Verso Press: New York). There is ample evidence that these funds were invested and have grown substantially in the years since, and are still used to further political and personal agendas. [xii] Seagrave, Sterling and Peggy, op. cit., pp 119-120. The use of National Security as a rationale for acts that would otherwise be considered unconstitutional and illegal has become embedded in the America legal system, a curious inversion of original intent. Franklin Roosevelt declared a national economic emergency in the 30s which was used to justify extraordinary measures by the executive, including the abrogation of the government's obligations to redeem government debt I gold. The Supreme Court refused to hear a case contesting the administration's action. More recently, the government intervened in a labour dispute between the International Longshoremen Workers Union and the Pacific Maritime Association, citing the Patriot Act of 2001 and equating the union's position to economic "terrorism". In fact, rather than the union striking, the PMA locked the union out of the ports. Government intervention was in the form of the direct intercession of Tom Ridge, head of the Department of Homeland Security to force the union to accede to PMA demands. [xiii] Notably, this is the same year in which the Exchange Stabilisation Fund was set up. [xiv] In a similar fashion, manufacturing firms have migrated into finance, finding it easier to make money by arbitrage than by competition. Thus General Motors manufactures cars as collateral for its leasing business; similarly GE or Boeing make as much or more money out of financing the purchase of their products than from making them. [xv] This is to say nothing of the wholesale transfer gratis of research undertaken at the taxpayer's expense; for example nuclear technology transferred to the power industry. [xvi] See Franklin Spinney, The Defense Death Spiral, www.d-n-i.net for an in depth analysis of the micro economics of military procurement and its impact on force readiness.
[xvii] This is the cumulative borrowing from abroad to finance net exports (or the trade deficit if you prefer). [xviii] The annual rate of increase is the current account deficit. [xix] See Alfred McCoy (1991). The Politics of Heroin in South East Asia. 2nd ed. Lawrence Hill Books: Brooklyn. ISBN 1556521251. McCoy documents thoroughly the genesis of US wartime cooperation with the mafia in Italy during WWII and its post-war toleration of narcotics trafficking in the US as a quid pro quo for the cooperation of Corsican and Italian organised crime in its covert war against the Communist Party in France and Italy. In Asia, it supported the opium and heroin business of a Chinese nationalist army in Burma after the Chinese Revolution in 1948. In Indochina the US supplanted French colonial rule after the French defeat at Dien Bien Phu, inheriting in the process French covert ties to opium production amongst the Hmong hill tribes. With overt American intervention in 1965 the importance of this traffic grew enormously, financing an escalation of the ground war in Laos. See also Seagrave, Sterling and Peggy, op. cit. There is ample international precedent for American involvement in narcotics trafficking, beginning with the British organisation of opium production in Bengal two centuries ago and of its illegal distribution into China. For that matter, Japan turned Manchuria under its occupation into the biggest producer of opium and refined opiates in the world, the cash flow from which proved to be immensely useful to the operations of Japan's Manchurian Army and intelligence services. [xx] Peter Dale Scott (2003). Drugs, Oil and War: the United States in Afghanistan, Columbia and Indochina. Rowman & Littlefield Pub: Oxford. ISBN 0742525228. [xxi] See Roger Morris ((1999) Partners in Power: The Clintons and Their America, Regnery Publishing) for a case study of the interaction of covert operations, narcotics trafficking, financial markets and politics in Arkansas during the governorship of Bill Clinton. [xxii] See Catherine Austin Fitts and Daniel Armstrong, The Real Deal About Enron at www.sandersresearch.com. Copyright (c) 2004 Scoop Media
International terrorism does not exist General Leonid Ivashov
The use of the term "international terrorism" has the goals of hiding the real objectives of military forces deployed all over the world in the struggle for dominance and control. The use of "international terrorism" turns people's demands to a struggle of undefined goals against an invisible enemy. "International terrorism" has no reality yet it destroys basic norms, changing concepts such as aggression, state terror, dictatorship, a movement of national liberation. The use of the term "international terrorism" transforms objectives in the military field by giving priority to a pseudo "war on terror." The use of the term "international terrorism" violates to the detriment of a real defense, establishing in reality a renunciation of real national interests.
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|Torture - Broken laws broken lives Physicians for Human Rights At the time of his arrest, he was beaten to the point of losing consciousness! He was kept naked and isolated in a cold dark room for three weeks, where both during and in between interrogations he was frequently beaten, including being hit on the head and in the jaw with a rifle and stabbed in the cheek with a screwdriver! He was then placed in isolation in a urine-soaked room for two months!
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Hung by your wrists for an extended period, gagged, and beaten so harshly that you have almost 30 rib fractures and a broken sternum, but still alive But this is something that has been U.S. policy for 40 years Lips sewn shut as torture Plywood shacks that reeked of urine and excrement Prisoner boxes Humans kept in cages by USHistory of CIA Interrogation They started torturing us before they posed any questions
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Financial collapse and the Illuminati Gods
Stabilization and recovery is not part of the plan. Only extension of the economy until the right spot is reached to pull the plug on the entire system. The key to that is the bond market, which is ten times larger than the stock market.
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The same Salafist while still in an embryonic stage later renamed Al Qaeda by the CIA, the new name Al Qaeda taken up by CIA internalized local operative networks in Lebanon and elsewhere was used by Mossad and the CIA to spy in Lebanon from the creation of the faux state of Israel on, from the 40's up to and during the 1980s, 1990s, and this past decade, as well as spy on Syria during its stay in Lebanon.
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Atrocities Lebanon and Palestine
Through a series of shocking massacres the territory assigned to the Jews suddenly became 77% resulting in more than 750,000 Palestinians being forcibly expelled and dispossessed of their homes, personal property and their homeland The tragedy of Gaza has been described a hundred times over, as have the tragedies of 1948, of Qibya, of Sabra and Shatila, of Jenin 60 years of atrocity perpetrated in the name of Judaism Those who are horrified and there are many cannot penetrate the shield of impassivity that protects the political and media elite in Israel, even more so in the U.S., and increasingly now in Canada and Europe, from seeing, from caring Children suffering from cerebral palsy lie with other children on beds at the Dar Al-Ajaza-Islamia Hospital as US Israel bombs are falling all around themIn their sickness they do this Missiles to rain down upon Palestine women children and men
Transcript of interview with Niels Harrit on Danish TV2 News 6th April 2009. Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe Danish TV2 International researchers have found traces of explosives among the World Trade Center rubble.
A new scientific article concludes that impacts from the two hijacked aircraft did not cause the collapses in 2001. We turn our attention to 9/11 the major attack in New York. Apparently the two airplane-impacts did not cause the towers to collapse, according to a newly published scientific article. Researchers found nano-thermite explosive in the rubble, that cannot have come from the planes. They believe several tonnes of explosives were placed in the buildings in advance. Niels Harrit, you and eight other researchers conclude in this article, that it was nano-thermite that caused these buildings to collapse. What is nano-thermite? Niels Harrit We found nano-thermite in the rubble. We are not saying only nano-thermite was used. Thermite itself dates back to 1893. It is a mixture of aluminum and rust-powder, which react to create intense heat. The reaction produces iron, heated to 2500 °C. This can be used to do welding. It can also be used to melt other iron. Nanotechnology makes things smaller. So in nano-thermite, this powder from 1893 is reduced to tiny particles, perfectly mixed. When these react, the intense heat develops much more quickly. Nano-thermite can be mixed with additives to give off intense heat, or serve as a very effective explosive. It contains more energy than dynamite, and can be used as rocket fuel. Danish TV2 I Googled nano-thermite, and not much has been written about it. Is it a widely known scientific substance? Or is it so new that other scientists are hardly aware of it? Niels Harrit It is a collective name for substances with high levels of energy. If civilian researchers (like myself) are not familiar with it, it is probably because they do not do much work with explosives. As for military scientists, you would have to ask them. I do not know how familiar they are with nanotechnology. Danish TV2 So you found this substance in the WTC, why do you think it caused the collapses? Niels Harrit Well, it's an explosive. Why else would it be there? Danish TV2 You believe the intense heat melted the building?s steel support structure, and caused the building to collapse like a house of cards? Niels Harrit I cannot say precisely, as this substance can serve both purposes. It can explode and break things apart, and it can melt things. Both effects were probably used, as I see it. Molten metal pours out of the South Tower several minutes before the collapse. This indicates the whole structure was being weakened in advance. Then the regular explosives come into play. The actual collapse sequence had to be perfectly timed, all the way down. Danish TV2 What quantities are we talking about? Niels Harrit A lot. There were only two planes, but three skyscrapers collapsed. We know roughly how much dust was created. The pictures show huge quantities, everything but the steel was pulverised. And we know roughly how much unreacted thermite we have found.
This is the "loaded gun", material that did not ignite for some reason. We are talking about tonnes. Over 10 tonnes, possibly 100 tonnes. Danish TV2 Ten tonnes, possibly 100 tonnes, in three buildings? And these substances are not normally found in such buildings? Niels Harrit No. These materials are extremely advanced. Danish TV2 How do you place such material in a skyscraper, on all the floors? Niels Harrit How you would get it in? Danish TV2 Yes. Niels Harrit If I had to transport it in those quantities I would use pallets. Get a truck and move it in on pallets. Danish TV2 Why hasn't this been discovered earlier? Niels Harrit By whom? Danish TV2 The caretakers, for example. If you are moving 10 to 100 tonnes of nano-thermite around, and placing it on all the floors. I am just surprised no-one noticed. Niels Harrit As a journalist, you should address that question to the company responsible for security at the WTC. Danish TV2 So you are in no doubt the material was present? Niels Harrit You cannot fudge this kind of science. We have found it. Unreacted thermite. Danish TV2 What responses has your article received around the world? Niels Harrit It is completely new knowledge for me. It was only published last Friday. So it is too early to say. But the article may not be as groundbreaking as you think. Hundreds of thousands of people around the world, have long known that the three buildings were demolished.
This has been crystal clear. Our research is just the last nail in the coffin. This is not the 'smoking gun', it is the 'loaded gun'. Each day, thousands of people realise that the WTC was demolished. That is something unstoppable. Danish TV2 Why has no-one discovered earlier that there was nano-thermite in the buildings? Almost ten years have passed. Niels Harrit You mean in the dust? Danish TV2 Yes. Niels Harrit It was by chance that someone looked at the dust with a microscope. They are tiny red chips. The biggest are 1 mm in size, and can be seen with the naked eye. But you need a microscope to see the vast majority. It was by chance that someone discovered them two years ago. Danish TV2 It has taken 18 months to prepare the scientific article you refer to. Niels Harrit It is a very comprehensive article based on thorough research. Danish TV2 You have been working on this for several years, because it didn't make sense to you. Niels Harrit Yes, over two years actually. It all started when I saw the collapse of Building 7, the third skyscraper. It collapsed seven hours after the twin towers. And there were only two airplanes. When you see a 47-storey building, 186m tall, collapse in 6.5 seconds, and you are a scientist, you think "what?". I had to watch it again… and again. I hit the button 10 times, and my jaw dropped lower and lower. Firstly, I had never heard of that building before. And there was no visible reason why it should collapse in that way, straight down, in 6.5 seconds. I have had no rest since that day. Danish TV2 Ever since 9/11 there has been speculation, and conspiracy theories. What do you say to viewers who hear about your research and say, "we?ve heard it all before, there are lots of conspiracy theories". What would you say to convince them that this is different? Niels Harrit I think there is only one conspiracy theory worth mentioning, the one involving 19 hijackers. I think viewers should ask themselves what evidence they have seen to support the official conspiracy theory. If anyone has seen evidence, I would like to hear about it No-one has been formally charged. No-one is 'wanted'. Our work should lead to demands for a proper criminal investigation of the 9/11 terrorist attack. Because it never happened. We are still waiting for it. We hope our results will be used as technical evidence when that day comes. Danish TV2 Niels Harrit, fascinating, thanks for coming in. Niels Harrit My pleasure
It's common knowledge, he reveals
CIA Mossad behind terror attacks
By the Staff of American Free Press
Former Italian President Francesco Cossiga, who revealed the existence of Operation Gladio, has told Italy's oldest and most widely read newspaper that the 9-11 terrorist attacks were run by the CIA and Mossad, and that this was common knowledge among global intelligence agencies. In what translates awkwardly into English, Cossiga told the newspaper Corriere della Sera:
"All the [intelligence services] of America and Europe… know well that the disastrous attack has been planned and realized from the Mossad, with the aid of the Zionist world in order to put under accusation the Arabic countries and in order to induce the western powers to take part … in Iraq [and] Afghanistan."Cossiga was elected president of the Italian Senate in July 1983 before winning a landslide election to become president of the country in 1985, and he remained until 1992. Cossiga's tendency to be outspoken upset the Italian political establishment, and he was forced to resign after revealing the existence of, and his part in setting up, Operation Gladio. This was a rogue intelligence network under NATO auspices that carried out bombings across Europe in the 1960s, 1970s and '80s. Gladio's specialty was to carry out what they termed 'false flag' operations terror attacks that were blamed on their domestic and geopolitical opposition. In March 2001, Gladio agent Vincenzo Vinciguerra stated, in sworn testimony:
"You had to attack civilians, the people, women, children, innocent people, unknown people far removed from any political game. The reason was quite simple: to force … the public to turn to the state to ask for greater security."Cossiga first expressed his doubts about 9-11 in 2001, and is quoted by 9-11 researcher Webster Tarpley saying:
"The mastermind of the attack must have been a sophisticated mind, provided with ample means not only to recruit fanatic kamikazes, but also highly specialized personnel. I add one thing: it could not be accomplished without infiltrations in the radar and flight security personnel."Coming from a widely respected former head of state, Cossiga's assertion that the 9-11 attacks were an inside job and that this is common knowledge among global intelligence agencies is illuminating. It is one more eye-opening confirmation that has not been mentioned by America's propaganda machine in print or on TV. Nevertheless, because of his experience and status in the world, Cossiga cannot be discounted as a crackpot.
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Told for the first time the story of Mossad's advance 'knowledge' about the 9-11 attack and how the US Army reported that Mossad "has capability to target US forces and make it look like a Palestinian/Arab act." Suppressed Details Of Criminal Insider Trading Lead Directly Into The Cia's Highest Ranks In the hours following the World Trade Center attack, millions of American Jews were shocked and deeply hurt at accusations spreading around the world like wildfire that Israel had been behind the attack, and had even warned thousands of Jews working in the Twin Towers not to go to work that morning. It is a fair question to ask if Israeli intelligence might have known in advance and, further, if Mossad (the Israeli intelligence agency) might have had a hand in advancing the act to deflect criticism against Israeli actions in Palestine.The secret story of Mossad and the World Trade Center attack The Odigo Warning: Israeli employees get e-mail warnings of 9-11 SEC Secret Probe Of Stock Dealings Before 9/11
A satanic act par excellence You stole our country, you murdered our people, you destroyed our homes, and you expelled and dispersed the bulk of our people to the four corners of the world. Some of you habitually babble the word 'hatred' whenever a Palestinian asserts his people's humanity and dignity. Well, you are really sick to the bone if you think Palestinians must sacrifice their dignity in order to become a hate-free people according to the Zionist lexicon. We will not pay tribute to the killers of our children, we will show respect to our grave-diggers. Besides, who do you think you are anyway to lecture us on hatred? After all, you represent and embody hatred in its ugliest form. The extirpation of a people from its ancestral homeland from time immemorial is a satanic act par excellence. The destruction and obliteration of hundreds of Palestinian towns and villages to fulfill Israel nationalism is diabolical act of the highest order. Your recent blitzkrieg in Gaza during which your Nazi-like army ganged up on a helpless, unprotected civilian population, exterminating them with bombs and missiles and incinerating their children with White Phosphorus proved once again that you are no better than the hateful Nazis you curse day and night for what they did to you sixty years ago.
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Young children attacked by Israel US assault on Gaza, Palestine, 21 days December 2008 - January 2009.
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A satanic act par excellence
Young child killed by Israel and US attack on Gaza, Palestine, 21 days December 2008 - January 2009.
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Israel Caused Holocaust Palestine Lebanon
They perforate the organs, the kidneys and liver like a sieve rendering the victims inoperableUS Israel massacres desire to kill one and half million people They keep sucking off the teat of America and the banking systems of Europe
The so-called flechettes, literally the force of these razor sharp steel slivers has taken people's legs offThey ran those bulldozers over everything including shelters which people were trying to take refugeYou had the family members clinging to the bulldozers, they crushed these people and buried them aliveThe mass graves in Ein el-Hilweh created rivulets of body fluids, the body fluids were flowing right into the Red Cross building
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Israel Caused Holocaust Palestine Lebanon
They perforate the organs, the kidneys and liver like a sieve rendering the victims inoperableUS Israel massacres desire to kill one and half million people They keep sucking off the teat of America and the banking systems of Europe
The so-called flechettes, literally the force of these razor sharp steel slivers has taken people's legs offThey ran those bulldozers over everything including shelters which people were trying to take refugeYou had the family members clinging to the bulldozers, they crushed these people and buried them aliveThe mass graves in Ein el-Hilweh created rivulets of body fluids, the body fluids were flowing right into the Red Cross building
|Canada, US, Western rogue governments War crimes continue
|Child killed by Western rogue governmentsby CanadaUSUKby all Western European nations that have troops in Afghanistan propping up a US imposed puppet government
Afghanistan hit by record number of bombs
Bruce Rolfsen, Air Force TimesJuly 19, 2008
Air Force and allied warplanes are dropping a record number of bombs on Afghanistan targets. For the first half of 2008, aircraft dropped 1,853 bombs more than they released during all of 2006 and more than half of 2007's total 3,572 bombs.
What's shocking and I would say, to me, completely immoral is that 90 percent of the cluster bomb strikes occurred in the last 72 hours of the conflict A member of the Chinese U.N. Interim Force mine-clearing unit walks through a fruit farm carrying unexploded bomblets from cluster bombs dropped by Israel forces during their attacks near the village of Al Hinneyeh in southern Lebanon The government seems unable to break its habit of killingCluster bombs Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon US new generation of landmines called Spider
|IraqAlmost a million dead4 million displaced, scattered into other countriesUntold injuredHorror of US UK invasion continuingSadriya market, Baghdad, Iraq. Unknown if any of the explosions were paid and setup by US government and British government special black budget secret cell operations.
Before our invasion, Iraq never had a suicide-terrorist attack in its history. Every year that the United States has stationed 150,000 combat troops in Iraq, suicide terrorism has doubled The American Conservative: Your new book, Dying to Win, has a subtitle: The Logic of Suicide Terrorism. Can you just tell us generally on what the book is based, what kind of research went into it, and what your findings were?Resistance to US, UK, Bombing Resistance is response to foreign occupation Will stop once troops withdraw
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- Carol Brouillet "Fool Me Twice" described as 'A documentary about the Australian government's lies about the East Timor massacres, the cover-up of the Bali Bombings and subsequent anti-terror laws.'
The 25 year old, Clancy is Australia's Dylan Avery (of Loose Change fame). The work was originally created to be viewed online, but Clancy is working on improving the resolution for larger screen and theatrical viewing. Glen wrote on December 4, 2008
To all, After discovering 911 was an inside job, through such movies as Loose Change, Terrorstorm and Zeitgeist, I decided to investigate the Bali bombings. The evidence was overwhelming. There had been a cover-up. As shocking as the truth may be, please keep an open mind while viewing this documentary. FOOL ME TWICE is 100% sourced. Please see reference list below. I tried to produce a documentary as true to the genre as possible, limiting opinion and simply documenting the facts. I believe that 911 Truth is one of the most important movements of our time and exposing the cover-up of the 2002 Bali bombings can help destroy the "911/War on terror/Al-CIAda" myth. Please help spread this information. Kind regards, GlenTo listen to the March 10, 2008 interview of Glen Clancy by Carol Brouillet broadcast on:
We The People Radio Network Right Click Here (Save Target As, Link As, File) MP3 1 hour Firefighters for 9/11 Truth Erik Lawyer: I, like most Americans, remember exactly where I was when I saw the attacks and had the overwhelming urge to take action. I was shocked, outraged, scared and confused. I called my Battalion Chief and asked if Seattle would be sending any teams to help. I was a member of the MMST, and figured we would be needed and I wanted to know where to report. Due to the nature of the incident we were not called up, and instead USAR teams, including Seattle's, were sent.
I first visited Ground Zero in October of 2001 with several firefighters from Seattle. We went to pay our respect and show support. We raised money for our brother firehouses and attended the funerals of our fallen Brothers. I was deeply moved and humbled by the community support, the sheer enormity of the tragedy along with the courage and compassion of the FDNY "Brotherhood." I vividly remember the anger, the intense desire for vengeance,the feelings of helplessness Even though I listened to their stories for days, I cannot even begin to imagine the pain and tragedy they suffered on that day and the years to come. I vividly remember the anger I felt, the intense desire for vengeance, and the feelings of helplessness. I was relieved when the government identified the terrorists and satisfied that we were going to have a swift deliverance of "justice." I've been a conservative my entire life; a registered Republican since I could vote. I am a self proclaimed Patriot with George Washington as one of my all time heroes. So when conspiracy theories quickly surfaced, and "Liberals" cried foul on the erosion of civil liberties, I chalked it up to their political beliefs and bitterness towards the Republican President. I read many debunking articles including Popular Mechanics and watched many debunking videos including, Farenhype 9/11. I was convinced that these "Liberals" were misinformed and were grasping at straws to discredit the "official" story. Don't confuse me with the facts, I have my mind made up! Like most people with strong opinions, instead of looking at all the facts, I was specifically looking for anything that supported my own beliefs.
As soon as I discovered any inaccuracy in a conspiracy claim, I wrote it off. My father, a big city cop and Korean War veteran, loved to say, "don't confuse me with the facts, I have my mind made up!" Well, I had my mind made up. I told conspiracy theorists like my own Truck Officer, Lt. Earl Emerson, that they were insane if they thought anyone other than the terrorists did this. Bin Laden confession tapes how much clearer did they need it Heck, we have ID cards, security camera videos, Bin Laden confession tapes how much clearer did they need it? The years went on and I was satisfied in my beliefs. I even believed these "Wackos" that doubted the "official" story were distracting our country from focusing on the real threat of terrorism... Fast forward to March of 2008. A great friend of mine with a Business degree from West Point, as conservative and non-conspiratorial as they get, came over one night to talk about what he saw happening in the economy. Began researching such things as economies, who is in control of currencies He provided some disconcerting evidence that we as a nation are at risk of entering into another depression; he pointed out historical parallels where other countries, such as Germany, suffered economic collapse. THAT was my eye opener. I became obsessed researching things such as economies, who is in control of currencies, what causes depressions, who profits during war, etc. So many things kept pointing to 9/11. Another one of my dad's favorite quotes was, "believe half of what you see and none of what you hear." So, I looked at both sides and quickly noticed a pattern. On one side, the general media ignores some of the most compelling evidence that contradicts the "official" story... When I voiced my new opinion and concerns most of my friends listened. Shocked that a staunch Conservative could have such a major shift I think because they were shocked that a staunch Conservative could have such a major shift, or because they thought I had lost my mind and wanted to diagnose the cause.
Curiously, some became angry at my new questions and actually thought I was supporting Terrorists with my concerns. Being a part of that same mindset myself only a few weeks ago, and then having a major shift in consciousness, really shook me to the core. What has happened to our collective consciousness that we believe anyone who doubts the "official" story or what the government tells us is an enemy? What has happened to us are we not founded on Freedom of Speech and taught to check our Government? Anyone who asks for the Truth is labeled a "Wacko" or "Terrorist Sympathizer?" What has happened to us? Are we not founded on Freedom of Speech and taught to check our Government?... To be honest, I was asleep at the wheel, and relied on what I was being told by mainstream media. The same media whose parent corporations, are some of the largest suppliers of weapons in this war. Before this "awakening" I had no idea the extent of our civil liberties that had been eroded in the name of Terrorism. I had never really wrapped my brain around what legalized torture means. I had always claimed America was noble. Just look at how we treated POW's during WWII and Vietnam compared to our enemies. [Ever check out the real story of John McCain as a POW, keep investigating! TheWE.cc] That separated us. We were setting the example of Human Rights to the rest of the world. [Check out the real facts of US instigations in Central and South America! TheWE.cc] Sure, you'll always have individuals that will take things too far, but Government sponsored torture? [Let's mention CIA activity across the planet since its inception, including inside the US, and other black budget US government special operations agencies! TheWE.cc] What has happened to our country? What kind of example are we setting for our children, and the world? You would be interested to learn how many of our own rights have been stripped away recently. Look up the Military Commissions Act of 2006, John Warner Defense Authorization Act, Homegrown Terrorism Act, Presidential Directive 51. Amazing the rights we have all lost It is amazing the rights we have all lost in the past couple of years and very little is covered by the U.S. media. After discovering this, I applied the "common sense" test that my Grandfather always said wasn't so common.
Why would a government so aggressively suppress truth and blatantly destroy evidence if there was nothing to hide? Why has every testimony from sworn government and military officials that points to "prior knowledge" been stricken from the 9/11 Commission Report? How did paper business cards, cloth bandanas, and plastic ID's that implicate the terrorists survive so neatly through jet fueled fireballs hot enough to destroy titanium and steel? I've seen bodies burned beyond recognition, yet I have never found one that was wearing unburned clothing. These questions alone are enough to make me risk everything for a real investigation and accounting... When I truly realized the enormity of the effect 9/11 has had on our Rights, our Economy, our Beliefs, our Fears, our Intolerances and our Government I felt fear, then anger, then the need to take action. Bill Chickering said it best:
"Anger is a very appropriate and necessary response to an injustice. "But stand back now; the truth, clearly spoken, is always your best weapon. "Calmly spoken, it can burn a hole through the hardest heart."When I realized the extent of the force and attitudes working to silence those who peacefully ask questions, demand answers, and seek truth, it became clear to me that our Country is in serious trouble and I must now stand alongside those Patriots who seek Truth and Constitutional Restoration.
Richard Gage, AIA is the founding member of Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth ae911Truth.org. He has been a practicing Architect for 20 years and has worked on most types of building construction including numerous fire-proofed steel-framed buildings. He is employed with a San Francisco Bay Area architecture firm and has most recently performed Construction Administration services for a new $120M High School campus including a $10M steel-framed Gymnasium. Currently he is working on the Design Development for a very large mixed use urban project with 1.2M sq.ft. of retail and 320K sq.ft. of mid-rise office space altogether about 1,200 tons of steel framing. He has been one of the most tireless speakers on the issue of 9/11 truth, and more specifically on challenging the official narrative of the disintegration of the 3 major skyscrapers in the World Trade Center complex that took place on September 11th. He has been lecturing widely across the US and in Canada. Those who see his presentation rarely walk away still thinking that fires alone could have brought down the buildings. When NIST came out with a report recently that fires were responsible for the destruction of WTC7, Richard and Architects and Engineers were quick to challenge that report. See NY Times quotes Richard Gage on WTC7 "collapse" Aside from the NYT's reporter and a media request from Bulgaria, the press has tried to ignore the serious criticisms that Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth has raised about their reports. Richard Gage gives an insightful interview on major points that scientifically do not agree with the official story of 9/11.
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For Film: Loose Change Final Cut Click Here Loose Change Final Cut is the third installment of the documentary that asks the tough questions about the 9/11 attacks and related events. This movie hopes to be the catalyst for a new independent investigation, in which the family members receive answers to their questions, and the TRUE PERPETRATORS of this horrendous crime are PROSECUTED and PUNISHED.
By all accounts, the unprecedented events of September 11th, 2001 changed the way our country functions, and in turn, the world. It is therefore critical that conscientious Americans, as well as people around the globe, understand these events in detail. Unfortunately the official reports, including The 9/11 Commission Report and the NIST WTC Report, written by those working under the direction of the Bush Administration, have been proven to be elaborate cover-ups.Film: 9/11 Revisited September 11th Revisited is perhaps the most riveting film ever made about the destruction of the World Trade Center. This is a powerful documentary which features eyewitness accounts and archived news footage that was shot on September 11, 2001 but never replayed on television. Featuring interviews with eyewitnesses & firefighters, along with expert analysis by Professor Steven E. Jones, Professor David Ray Griffin, MIT Engineer Jeffrey King, and Professor James H. Fetzer. This film provides stunning evidence that explosives were used in the complete demolition of the WTC Twin Towers and WTC Building 7.
For Film: 9/11 Revisited Click Here Film: 9/11 Press for Truth An excellent documentary about the families of the victims of 9/11 and their fight to uncover and expose the truth about what happened that day.
For Film: 9/11 Press for Truth Click Here Film: 9/11 Mysteries 90 minutes of pure demolition evidence and analysis, laced with staggering witness testimonials. Moving from "the myth" through "the analysis" and into "the players," careful deconstruction of the official story set right alongside clean, clear science. The 9/11 picture is not one of politics or nationalism or loyalty, but one of strict and simple physics. How do you get a 10-second 110-story pancake collapse?
'Oh! You don't believe the 9-11 official version,' they say. 'You mean where they want you to accept the buildings were not blown up from below. 'Plane fuel! Substance never burns higher then a gas stove! That it caused the inner core steel to melt! 'Steel melting! 'Concrete vaporizing! ' 'No! I don't believe that conspiracy theory. 'Cheney! Bush! Rudy Giuliani! HA! HA! 'Tower 7 that never had a plane hit just came tumbling down! 'You believe that, eh! 'Ever think it had to be blown up because the plane scheduled to fly into it was off getting shot down. 'Thermite in Tower 7's walls, you see incriminating evidence impossible to get out without people watching! Had to be blown up! 'Next you'll be saying Obama is not a Wall Street Illuminati banker stooge? 'Take your pick: The partner in a comedy team who feeds lines to the other comedians. 'Him who allows himself to be used. 'Oh! I can't really blame you, Television it turns minds to pulp. 'Turn off the television. It's the only way.'
'Turn off the television?''Get rid of it really. I mean what else is there to do!'
'Get rid of the television?''Don't forget all radio garbage is propaganda, even the songs. 'Then those five minute propaganda hits they send you every hour! 'The ones they refer to as News 'Get rid of all the propaganda from your brain, the only way to do it.' 'Stop being hooked on those Hollywood movies even those that make you think they are making you think' 'All paid performers to make your brain dead. 'You turn the brainwashing off, you'll begin to become yourself. 'It really is the only way!'
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The War On Democracy is a powerful new documentary from award winning journalist and film-maker John Pilger. Pilger interviews several ex-CIA agents who purportedly took part in secret campaigns against democratic countries and who he claims are profiting from the war in Iraq. The film uses archive footage to show how democracy has been wiped out in country after country in Latin America since the 1950s. The Venezuelan segment of the film features the President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez being captured in the coup of 2002, a takeover backed by rich and powerful interests under U.S. support.
Humankind as we know it at the 'End Point' Don't forget: Behind it all is the desire for depopulation by those rich enough to have their islands for temporary residence while depopulation takes place. Doesn't matter if it is killing in the fight for food when the trucks no longer arrive at your local supermarket. Doesn't matter if it is tribe against tribe. Or thermobaric bombs environmentally friendly compared to nuclear. Bombs that send ultra-sonic shock waves and searing fireballs to destroy everything in their dropping wake. Or those special bombs that do not destroy the infrastructure kill only you and those you love. You are in the way, folks! There are too many of you! This is the plan.
Israel Caused Holocaust Palestine Lebanon
They perforate the organs, the kidneys and liver like a sieve rendering the victims inoperableUS Israel massacres desire to kill one and half million people They keep sucking off the teat of America and the banking systems of Europe
The so-called flechettes, literally the force of these razor sharp steel slivers has taken people's legs offThey ran those bulldozers over everything including shelters which people were trying to take refugeYou had the family members clinging to the bulldozers, they crushed these people and buried them aliveThe mass graves in Ein el-Hilweh created rivulets of body fluids, the body fluids were flowing right into the Red Cross building
The horror of January 2009
'Two soldiers were on the tank eating chips, then one man came out of the tank with a rifle and started shooting the kids,' Mr Abed Rabbo, who receives a salary as a policeman from the Fatah-dominated Palestinian Authority in Ramallah said. 'I carried Suad who was dead, my wife carried Amal and my brother Ibrahim carried Samer' On Friday January 23, 2009, days after the ceasefile was called by US Israel, Mohammed woke early and walked to the ocean to fish for the first time since the horrific attacks on the Gaza population by US Israel in late December 2008 through the three weeks in January He and two of his sons had caught only three fish when a US Israel navy gunboat fired on themIsrael massacres children bullets to the head I watched an Israeli soldier shoot dead my two little girls
In the insanity that is the U.S. today the US Congress have given this to Israel The issue we are dealing with is dual loyalties the double allegiance of the myriad officials at high and middle levels who cannot distinguish U.S. interests from Israel interests Financed by US military aid to Israel, the United States has given Israel 5,000 smart bombs including 1,000 bunker-buster high precision GPS-guided Small Diameter Guided Bomb Units 39 (GBU-39) smart bombs produced by Boeing Beneath cabinet level the list of pro-Israel people who are either policy functionaries themselves or advise policymakers from perches just on the edges of government, reads like the old biblical 'begats'US Israel Europe attack on Gaza City The Politics of Anti-Semitism 99 US Senators, 350 US House members attend AIPAC meeting
Did you see any of these images on the BBC? Even the most fearsome inquisitors purr like a pussycat Their rottweiler instincts evaporate, their investigative skills desert them, objectivity takes a nosedive Palestinians in the West Bank don't fire rockets yet the Israelis are still in occupation after 40 years, still stealing their land and water, and now dumping their toxic waste thereTwenty Questions Radio/TV interviewers avoid asking about Israel Which parts of the Declaration of Human Rights and Geneva Conventions don't Israelis understand? Why is Israel still stealing Palestinian land for more illegal construction?
What the army used here yesterday was not tear gasIsrael, chemical weapons and phosphorous bombs New and unknown deadly weapons used by Israeli forces Undetectable poison-needle gun for 'clean' assassinations
We know what tear gas is, what it feels like
That was something totally different… Israel's soldiers are not going to march into Gaza and truck all the inhabitants away.
The strategy is simply to make the place into a garbage dump picked over by destitute people. The typhoid poisoning of Palestinian wells and water supplies in 1948 The conversion of F-16s into nerve gas 'crop dusters' in 1998
Close cooperation between IIBR and the British-American biological warfare programme
Unspeakable grief and horror
...and the circus of deception continues...
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