Re: The Nature of the US Military-Industrial-Financial Warplex -- "AGAINST" IS BETTER
senhor san
violence.
Get poster board and very thick marking pen.
Write up these signs and take them to a busy street corner in your town --
near a freeway off ramp is good, where cars have to wait for long lights.
Hold several signs in a big deck, change to another after you have given
drivers or pedestrians enough time to to read the first.
Have small pieces of paper with key URLs so people can find more detailed
information -- don't forget the proof that the 9-11 attack was a frame-up
and that the wars were justified totally with lies designed for that
purpose. etc.
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Bush and Kerry Pro-War
Where's OUR Candidate?
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US Soldiers are not Hit Men
for Gangster Corporations
Let Kucinich Bring Them Home
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Photos Prove
9-11 an Inside Job
For War Profit
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Primaries, Caucuses FIXED
Kucinich Only Real Candidate
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Support Them
Bring Them Home
Now
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The 9-11 Terrorists
Are Big Business Elite
and Kerry is For Them
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Who here voted for
war, police state,
and debt slavery?
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Kerry is Really for Bush!
Vote Kucinich, the only
Real Democrat running.
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and so forth.
And also this:
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Join me here if you want
peace and freedom.
Every Thrusday 5-7 p.m.
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Everyone is just waiting for someone to start the ball rolling -- all
fearing that the oligarchy may want to arrest demonstrators to avoid
igniting just such a dash for freedom and sanity --
but I say that if you start it you will be surrounded by like-minded fellow
citizens so fast that the oligarchy will not be able to react in time.
Dick Eastman
----- Original Message -----
From: "Let's Make Change" <nasf_r...@yahoo.ca>
To: <kucinich4...@yahoogroups.com>; <kick...@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 9:18 PM
Subject: [A-C] A street fighting man? The only way Kucinich can win
>
> A Street Fighting Man?
> The Only Way Kucinich Can Win
> by Josh Frank
> www.dissidentvoice.org
> April 22, 2004
>
> "Hey! I think the time is right for a palace revolution, Cuz' where I live
the game to play is compromise solution!"
>
> -- Rolling Stones (Street Fighting Man)
>
> While the sun in Iraq scorches an already turbulent soil, the heat of
election season is being felt back in the good ol' US of A. Polls are
indicting Bush is recovering from a slight dip in his approval rating as his
rival John Kerry is flying around the country ignoring the rising US death
toll in Iraq. The escalation in casualties, claims Kerry, has little to do
with him or any of the other Democrat and has everything to do with George
W. Bush. "We need to internationalize the effort [in Iraq]," blasts Kerry,
"and put an end to the American occupation!" Remember, he is admitting that
the occupation will surely continue, it'll just be administered with more
diversity. Call it the new age of affirmative action.
>
> Kerry isn't the only Democrat left in the ring however. Dennis Kucinich,
although haunted by a dry bank account and scarce media coverage, says he's
still swinging in the fray. But does the featherweight from Ohio have any
fight left in him? Ask his faithful supporters and they will inform you that
Kucinich's campaign still matters. He's antiwar, anti-investor rights
agreements (mislabeled free-trade by many), pro-environment, pro-universal
health care, and pro-choice (although late coming). Unlike Howard Dean,
Kucinich really does represent what the late Paul Wellstone called the,
"Democratic wing of the Democratic Party."
>
> Nevertheless, Dennis Kucinich has run his campaign without an iota of
hope.
>
> It's not that his supporters haven't tried hard, they have. In fact they
are some of the most committed electoral activists since Jesse Jackson's
Rainbow Coalition. And it is certainly not that Kucinich himself lacks
conviction.
>
> Despite his weak balance on the Wall in Palestine, and his call for a UN
backed occupation of Iraq, he is (was) clearly the best Democrat running for
president of the United States. But the lack of hope comes from something
else entirely. Are you stumped yet?
>
> Well, you must have forgotten, Kucinich is still a Democrat.
>
> That's right. His insurgent campaign no matter how well intentioned, was
always doomed for failure. Sure people acted surprised as Ted Koppel and
other moderators all but excluded Kucinich from the primary debates. But
come on, who was really stunned by such shenanigans? At this time the only
thing stunning is that Kucinich is staying in the hunt until June even
though Kerry has already solidified the nomination.
>
> Back in Iowa, when it became apparent that all his toiling had done little
to entice locals to vote for him, Kucinich unreservedly threw his weight
behind John Edwards of North Carolina. It was most likely a sign of what's
to come as Kucinich withdraws from the presidential race and advices his
faithful to follow the lead of John Kerry instead. In fact, the reference to
the Rainbow Coalition may truly be fitting, as Kucinich's progressive
cohorts fade back into the Democratic establishment like Jackson's broad
base of activists did back in 1988.
>
> If Kucinich were a true fighter he'd sock the Democrats in the collective
chin, join the Green Party, and call it a day. But don't count on such a
heroic clash to break out on the streets of Washington. After all, this is
American politics we are talking about, not Falluja -- where the most
exciting thing we've witnessed from a Democrat in the past year was when an
ex-Ku Klux Klan member stood up in the senate and waved his fist at the Bush
administration for its illegal war on Iraq.
>
> And they wonder why they keep losing elections. If Kucinich really wants
to come out a winner after all is said and done, he better switch sides as
soon as possible. Otherwise he'll just end up a loser like the rest of his
fellow Donkeys.
>
> It's the last round Dennis. You need a knock out. Better go down swinging.
>
> Josh Frank is author of a forthcoming book on the Left and the 2004
election. He can be reached at frank_...@hotmail.com.
>
>
>
> http://dissidentvoice.org/April2004/Frank0422.htm
>
senhor san
ECONOMIC COLLAPSE TO FOLLOW MILITARY DEFEAT
by Bruce Porteous
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Why has the war in Iraq turned out to be such a mess? What was originally
envisaged to be a short campaign, which the Iraqis would welcome the
"liberators" has now developed into a political, strategic and military
disaster.
The Iraq war has evolved into a quagmire that has now become impossible for
the USA and Britain to extract themselves from, without suffering defeat.
This article will discuss the implications of this coming defeat of the
Anglo-Saxon alliance and the impact that this will have on the world and the
global economy.
The defeat of America and Britain will have a far greater impact on the
geo-political landscape than the defeat of the USA by North Vietnam. It
will literally mean the end of the Anglo-Saxon dominance of the world, and
see the re-allegiance of international power blocs.
The invasion and occupation of Iraq has stirred up worldwide hatred towards
America and Britain greater than ever previously experienced. From Japan to
Europe, America and Britain are being blamed for the mess in Iraq and for
provoking Muslim fundamentalists into supporting terrorism. Nowhere is this
hatred towards the USA greater than in the Middle East, where the invasion
of Iraq has successfully unified Muslim hatred towards America.
As a consequence of invading Iraq, the survival of the some Middle East
regimes are now threaten, especially that of Saudi Arabia. In Afghanistan,
the Taliban and al-Qaeda remain undefeated, and are now gearing up for
another offensive, which will make it difficult for the depleted American
and British forces to resist. The rise of Muslim fundamentalism is
spreading like a bushfire throughout the Middle East, and is threatening the
existence of the American military bases around the Persian Gulf. American
dominance of the Persian Gulf has given it an enormous strategic influence
in securing the access and movement oil, and its effect on world commerce.
Without the American military presence to protect the passage of Middle East
oil through the Gulf, the lifeblood of the economies of Asia and Europe are
threatened.
The cost of fighting the war in Iraq and Afghanistan is having an
increasingly negative impact on the American and UK economies. This is not
obvious to the average citizen so far, as consumers benefit from loose
monetary policy and low interest rates. However, both the USA and UK
governments are running increasingly large and unsustainable deficits, and
as the costs of continuing the war rise, will have dire consequences. The
war, along with the war against terrorism, is draining resources from both
economies, making them less able to compete globally with other industrial
nations.
The recent IMF report on the implications to the global economy of America's
reckless economic policies, and failure to correct the imbalances caused
from their twin deficits makes frightening reading.
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2004/01/pdf/chapter2.pdf
The continued deterioration of America's trade and current account deficits
is requiring the USA to borrow ever increasing amounts of capital from
overseas. While recently this has caused a little firming in the dollar
against other main trading currencies, it is only putting off the day of
reckoning to when interest and capital repayments to their creditors become
unsustainable. Rising interest rates in the USA and UK will have a negative
impact on their economies, increasing the size of government deficits,
severely depressing consumer spending (especially in the over-heated
property market), and affect corporate profitability. There will follow a
decline in their GNP, reducing government income, and cause government
budgets to spiral out of control.
The defeat of America and Britain in Iraq will have serious economic and
political implications for both countries. One of the consequences will be
a switch in the payment of oil from dollars to euros by the oil producing
countries. This will have a disastrous effect on the value of the $US,
which will plummet in value against the Euro and other currencies. The Euro
will replace the dollar as the world's reserve currency, making the heavily
indebted United States currency worthless. A worthless currency will
prevent America being able to attract the continued inflow of capital to
sustain its enormous deficits. Rather, there will be a massive outflow of
capital, as America's lenders try and recover their investments before they
become worthless. Even worse, the total collapse of dollar will make it
impossible for America to finance its massive external debts, forcing the
country into bankruptcy, and total economic collapse.
The collapse of the American dollar and economy will have major implications
to the global economy. It will especially cause real difficulties to the
Japanese economy, and threaten to bring about the collapse of the Japanese
banking system. It will make it increasingly difficult for the Japanese
Government to service it massive government debt. Other Asian economies
will also be badly affected, especially China, which has large and
unsustainable debt levels. The entire world will be thrown into a serious
global depression.
America and Britain will be blamed throughout the world for the collapse of
the global economy. They will be blamed for their consumer-driven greed,
debt-financing extravagances; their disregard of protecting the environment,
and their arrogant foreign policies, such as defying international law by
illegally invading Iraq.
The end of the dominance of the Anglo-Saxon alliance will see a turning
point in history. The only global power with the economic capacity to fill
the power vacuum that will follow an economic collapse of the USA will be
the newly formed United States of Europe. Europe will be less affected from
the collapse of the American economy than elsewhere, and will be in a better
position to lead the global recovery because of the size of their domestic
economy.
The United States of Europe will replace the USA as the engine economy for
the world, with the euro replacing the dollar in becoming the
internationally accepted reserve currency. This group of nations, under a
single political head, and in partnership with the Catholic Church, will
enforce many regulations upon the Western world, in an effort to protect the
world's environment from further exploitation, to regulate the right of
capital to exploit the environment and people, to an even greater extent to
what the EU does today in regulating the lives of Europeans.
The entire world will turn against the Anglo-Saxon people in a way few can
imagine. They will be held accountable for the troubles they have bought
upon the entire world. The USA and UK, along with Australia, Canada, New
Zealand and Britain will be held accountable for their massive overseas
borrowings - their creditors will demand their money back, or will seize
control over their assets. The collapse of the dollar, and currencies
linked to the dollar, will bring on incredible poverty and hardship upon our
people. Many will die from starvation and disease. Most economic activity
will grind to a halt. Law and order will break down. A state of anarchy
will prevail.
To bring about law and order out of the chaos that will exist, the United
States of Europe will take over the administration of our countries. Those
who survive the economic collapse, the starvation, wide-spread disease, and
break-down of law and order, will be subjected to the authority of the
government of this new EU super state. Our people will become enslaved to
the dictatorial rule of their administrators, similar to the people of
Europe under Nazi occupation.
The Bible talks about a time of great catastrophe, called the "Great
tribulation" to come our people. (Matthew 24:21-22; Daniel 11: 40-45,
12:1; Luke 21:19-36). It is also referred to a time of "Jacob's trouble"
in Jeremiah 30:3-7. Jesus Christ taught that in this time, unless these
dreadful days are shorten, no flesh would be saved. (Matthew 24:22). These
days are fast approaching.
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Dear Bruce Porteous,
Imperialism is always the remedy for bankruptcy at home. The monopolists
take profit exacted from higher-than-market-cost-plus-normal-return expense
of both wages (less to buy with) and consumer consumption (less wages and
higher prices) and they have do invest it somewhere -- but they can't
invest it at home because they have taken away all of the demand that would
have obtained without their monopoly power -- and so they must seek markets
abroad -- so they use it to buy governments, to buy into the drug trade
etc.
So of course failure of the war -- all that defense spending (an easy way
to get rid of monopoly surplus is to sell death) and investment in the
country you are plundering -- forcing a well-run country (as Iraq was,
except for our sanctions on them) to sell off its assets, both private and
public, to the investors holding the exacted monopoly surplus etc.
Tell me, -- who did 9-11? Is there really a terrorist threat from Moslems?
Who will you vote for and why?
What course of action do you recommend for the good of all?
Dick Eastman
Yakima, Washington
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"I don't know something called International Principles. I vow that I'll
burn every Palestinian child (that) will be born in this area. The
Palestinian woman and child is more dangerous than the man, because the
Palestinian childs existence infers that generations will go on, but the man
causes limited danger. I vow that if I was just an Israeli civilian and I
met a Palestinian I would burn him and I would make him suffer before
killing him. With one hit I've killed 750 Palestinians (in Rafah in 1956). I
wanted to encourage my soldiers by raping Arabic girls as the Palestinian
women is a slave for Jews, and we do whatever we want to her and nobody
tells us what we shall do but we tell others what they shall do."
[Ariel Sharon, current Prime Minister, In an interview with General Ouze
Merham, 1956]
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Here is the critical information needed to derive an informed opinion of
what really happened on September 11, 2001:
Consider what citizen investigators have uncovered regarding the alleged
"attack" on the Pentagon:
1. Pentagon security camera shows
a. Too short a plane
b. Smoke trail of a missile being fired
c. White-hot flash explosion consistent with a missile warhead
2. Photos show wrong crash imprint in the wall
3. Photos show and wrong flash-powder burn darkening the wall
4. Downed lampposts and witnesses each identified a different
approach path to the Pentagon, the Boeing's and the killer jet's
5. Wrong kind of debris
6. Single piece of right kind of debris shown to have been
found on the opposite side of the approach path from
the side of the plane where that particular piece had
to have come from.
7. Witnesses also
a. heard a missile
b. heard a sonic boom prior to blast
c. smelled burning chordite after the blast
d. saw a radar blip behaving like a jet-fighter blip
8. No photos of wreckage from inside consistent with the crash
9. Evidence of only one engine and one seat , a pilots seat.
10. A distraction plane, ur engine plane making dives over D.C.
both photographed, videotaped and shown on BBC, and
reported (erroneously) by many wintesses as the actual plane
"diving at an irrecoverable angle)
11. The attack was made almost horizontally into the first-floor
level -- consistent with a countour-hugging jet-fighter attack
12. Normal rescuers were prevented from entering the building
while only certain people, including Rumsfeld himself, conducted
(screened) victims from the building
13. Rumsfeld had recently been given exclusive power to
OK air interceptions -- and yet he was in his office the whole
time the twin towers were hit, and when the Pentagon was
hit he went to oversee "rescue" instead of going to the situation
room where his interception authority could be given -- he
arrived at the situation room at about the time the Pennsylvania
plane (backup for the Pentagon) was finally shot down.
14. The various drills and practices for an air attack on the Pentagon
including some kind of simulation on 9-11-01 itself, coupled with
denials that such an attack had been considered possible.
15. Impossible stories by, for example, John Judge (regarding
his amazing stewardess friend who claims to have seen the
Boeing inside the hole, recognized the plane as the one she
always flew, recongized her stewardess friend as a victim by
a photo of her severed arm with the matching "friendship
bracelett" they both wore; that she was passing out
doughnuts and coffee to the rescue workers with the salvation
army when the salvation army was nowhere in evidence at the
scene -- John Judge who is a professional JFK conspiracy
theory debunker and discloses that this same stewardess
friend is also a JFK theory investigator, the same
John Judge who launched the phony "People's Investigation
of 9-11 with a press conference by stating that the
Pentagon attack is not something responsible investigators
should bother investigating etc. since we "know" the Boeing
hit the Pentagon and don't want to be a laughing stock etc.
-- the People's investigation that never once reviewed any
of the evidence packages I posted to them -- the same
John Judge who to this day refuses to debate Dick Eastman
on any internet forum and whom all -- dare I use the term
-- "responsible" 9-11 investigators think is a John Judge
who is working for the coverup, for obstruction of justice,
and because he does it so badly is himself become one of
the proofs of the frameup along with the known- only-to-
himself flight attendant who works one of the flights that
most definitely had to have been regularly monitored by
US intelligence operatives, probably flight attendents, and
this one just happened not to take Flight 77 that day by
happenstance etc. -- so how about it, Mr. Judge?
[John Judge is also the only 9-11 investigator (so-called --
he hasn't contributed anything by the unconfirmed statements
of his unnamed stewardess friend), the only "conspiracy
theorist" who has taken upon himself to "shield" witnesses
victim families from irresponsible inveisigators -- getting
(somehow!) the addressesof all of them and contacting them --
and deciding NOT to share any of the Pentagon evidence
described here with them and effectively blocking other
investigators not screen by him against "small-plane"
theorists like me, Jim Hoffman, Prof. Dewdney etc.
16. The deaths of only the CIA's indepdendent intelligence
revivals , the Offices of Naval Intelligence personel, and
auditors of defense spending contracts etc. alone moved
into the "newly renovated" section that was hit -- on the side
where most of the witnesses would be the Arlington Cemetery
dead or people involved with driving their cars. Naval Intelligence
would have independently investigated 9-11 had they lived --
the investigator that no official has yet conducted -- Wolfowitz
sure bin Laden had done it and ready with the solution of invading
Afganistan on the very first day -- even as they were allegedly taken
by complete suprise only a few hours before that determination.
See the evidence photos and witness testimony confirming all of the above
and further analysis in support of these conclusions by respected men of
science here:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TRUTHBAZOOKA/message/5
and here
http://www.cosmicpenguin.com/911/Eastman/m18h05.html
The U.S. 9-11 Commission -- originally planned to be headed by
Henry Kissinger who once said, "It is not a matter of what is true
that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true." -- has
never acknowledged publically the existence of citizens with
photographic evidence they claim establishes
that 9-11 to have been frame-up.
Al Felzenberg has been the gatekeeper and triage of all information
directed to the Committee -- note the Jewish name and realize that the Bush
administration would not select one of the 45 percent of Jews who oppose the
current wars of conquest against Moslem nations -- must be held accountable
for active obstruction of justice, for assisting in a coverup of evidence
that fingers the true perpetrators.
The Commission, I conclude, and I am confident future impartial history will
bear me out, has had only two objectives from the beginning:
1. To consumate the cover-up; and
2. To provide contrived rationale for consolidation of police power into a
Stalinist "NVKD"-type police state, unanswerable to anyone, the operations
and objectives of which are unknown to anyone, and the control of which
remains in the hands of America's power-elite Oligarcy, the proven
perpetrators of 9-11.
Dick Eastman
223 S. 64th Ave.
Yakima, Washington 98908
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Yes, but what is behind Ariel Sharon -- what power let a man who thinks
like this gain control of Israel? what power let men like Wolfowitz, Perle,
Kissinger and Rumsfeld etc. gain control of the United States foriegn policy
and military with total abdication of the exclusive constitutional
war-making-powers of the Senate?
In short, who is bringing down the US with forced suicidal wars? Look to the
creditors of our planned economic destruction -- billionaire Merchant
Bankers who trade with China and with them to the Chinese princeling
dictatorship itself.
Always aware of this fact, yet we ignore it in our political discourse
because it is too big to take into account, to crushing to mind and spirit
to consider.
The Chinese (in this case Chow En-lai (Zhou Enlai) was the mastermind) make
ware indirectly by corrupting the "princes" of the enemy state and having
them destroy their own country from withing.
But the Chinese are allied with, are part of, are inseperable from the
merchant bankers (Rothschilds etc.) who have made their money from
monopolizing trade between China and the West and from the drug trade where
the East India Company -- the first multinational corporation in the modern
sense -- conquered India exactly as Afganistan has been captured (using
corporation mercenary armies mixed with "sucker" soldiers from the country
the parasite merchants have attached to (Britain under DeIsraeli, America
under first Baruch, then Rockefeller, now Perle, Wolfowitz, Kissinger,
Brzezinski etc. -- just to suggest the influences of arrangements not well
understood) and for the same purpose, opium.
China, before Western corporations entered the scene, was ruled by a nearly
perfect government undet the Ming Dynasty. It was a state that was
self-sufficient and highly moral -- but corrupted by outsiders who wanted
its wealth and who bankrolled the Manchu who overthrew the Ming --
allowing the first intercourse with the West (Marco Polo etc.)
Today China is ruled by the Triad princelings -- Zhou Enlai, having
enlisted the Triad families networked to all overseas Chinese to save the
Chinese dictatorship after several near-fatal mistakes by the Mao regime.
The Triads helped Zhou with his plane of destroying the West through drug
invasion, social sabotage by Princes under the control of the planned
subversion. That is why the US government has done everything to destroy
the US socially and economically, sugar-coating their poisoned pills with
spin from their monopoly media.
And yes, Zionism is part and parcel of the ancient banking monopolies of
China-West trade -- it is the ideology of the great Merchant Banking houses
of Europe -- and it is the alienatable Zionist Jew that has most
consistently been the most reliable agent of this Sino-Zionist war of
cultural, economic, and psycho-chemical warfare. [I should add that "the
Jews" are as much victims of the Sino-Zionist conspiracy, as anyone -- for
it is the later that have undone the assimilation and melding of Jew and
Gentile into one civilization -- creating Hitler for that purpose -- these
being the financial powers within Germany that sent Lenin in an armed German
train and got Trotsky from Brooklyn to Moscow to ensure that no liberal
republic would arise from the ashes of the liberal Romanov Dynasty (easily
the most liberal autocrat of his age -- the liberalism of the British being
only an on-again off-again thing as liberals got the worst of it from Tories
and later always Tony-Blairish Labour.)
Never think that a few hundred billionaires could themselves hold out
against the billions of the world population -- especially the warped crop
of billionaires by inheritance that seem to be on top in the West -- the
fact is that they are on top and thriving because of the great hostile power
behind them. The US has seven percent of the world population. Perle,
Wolfowitz, and Kissinger who are the Board controlling Rumsfeld and the
unified US military and foreign policy fully intend to grind the American
military to sausage in the cities of Iraq and Afganistan and the cities of
other targeted Moslem nations still on their to-do list. And in the end
when the princelings of China are ready, there will be war with Korea --
did you forget that technically the Korean War of the early 1950's never
ended -- that the Chinese have merely been strategically waiting (and
subverting) until there is a favorable "correlation of forces" as their
Marxist-Leninist-Stalinist-Maoist warfare doctines combined with the older
and more pervasive Chinese military traditions of Sun Tzu etc demand?
How should you react to all this when someone lays out reality for you?
You should re-prioritize your life, from one of trying to hold your own in a
deteriorating economy and culture, and become a citizen conscious that his
goverment has been taken over by a ruthless enemy bent on your destruction,
bent on the destruction of us all. In practice that means
1) exposing the hostile subverters for the crime of September 11, 01 (use
the evidence from the Pentagon attack which shows that the Boeing overflew
the target as another aircraft performed the missile attack and
crashbombing;
2) defeating both subverted party leaderships and the the candidates they
have manipulated to nomination (Kerry and Bush -- as if these were the best
men in the country to run this government!!! and then throwing out the
Congressional and Court leadership by legal proceedings, and putting in
politicians who are loyal to the Constitution and to Western Civilization
itself, who will repair the structure of government (for example returning
selection of Senators to the state legislatures, freeing the Presidential
electors from the political parties so that, as the founding fathers
originally designed, we merely choose the most intelligent people from our
communities as electors who will then convene and pick us a benevolent and
competent philosopher rather than a Bush or Clinton or Eisenhower or Johnson
or Wilson -- to name some prime examples. (And there have been presidents
unaware of what was going on in their Administrations -- Reagan, partially
FDR, partially Wilson.
3) breaking up the power of the subverters by taking down the corporations,
first and foremost breaking up the media,
onopoly/oligopoly/concentration -- outlawing interstate newspaper chains
and ending the legality of the holding company -- each country being
allowed to assume ownership of all the physical assets of the eliminated
multinationals contained within their boarders
4) ending unregulated international trade and eliminating international
investment -- this must be done by international agreement among nations
that have freed themselves from the billionaire "traitor princes" --
elimination of all international debt of all nations
Hey, do I think you are going to do this?
Ha ha ha.
Although a remote hope that all things are possible impels me to telegraph
this suggestion to you. This is what I would do.
It is the only way out that I can see.
--
Letter #2:
The current Presidential election in the United States will be pivotal for
the future course of political history throughout the world.
If the Oligarchy is able to elect one of its two criminal stooges, Bush or
Kerry, for another four years of war and consolidated tyranny and plunder,
and do so despite the being made public throughout the world the guilt of
the governing in perpetrating the September 11, 01 false-flag black-op
inside-job mass-murder frame-up of innocent Moslems for purposes of theft,
monopoly, heroin profits and racist murdering of innocents in the Mideast
and Central Asia, then we must conclude that the remaining vestiges of the
checks and balances originally built into our constituion to prevent the
centralization of a despotic power no longer avail in safeguarding our
freedoms and the means of life against more such intrigues of the
economically powerful who can mold any form of political machinery to their
own advantage -- and concluding that we must then proceed to tear down the
entire structure of laws and institutions that have no become mere
instrumentalities of theft, fraud, privilege and exploitation -- eliminating
this individual-repressing monstrosity that violates all laws of human
nature and well-being. The American people -- the second Kerry or Bush are
declared the winner of presiding over four more years of oligarchic crimes
against humanity -- must instantly resort to self-defense against these
morally and intellectual inferior men in high places who begger and murder
us (9-11, cocaine, heroin, war, economics, pollution, useful-to-them crime
and immorality, and now taking our sons and daughters in the prime of their
young lives to be spent in killing and being killed in foreign lands against
innocent and wholly respectable and worthy peoples in Iraq and Afganistan,
not unlike we ourselves in our victimization at the hands of global piracy.
They seek only our devt-slavery dependence and submission. It is the
desploitation of humanity by unjust and ill-gotten claims, bringing people
of infinite worth and goodness to conditions of chronic helplessness,
uselessness, worthlessness, planned ignorance, superstition and traumatized
emotion -- so that we are dead in our social relations and our capactiites
for benefiting life and giving happiness which each of us was born capable
of doing and desirous of doing -- while, meanwhile, the children of the
oligarchy live in veryt luxury and with perfect mobility and advantage for
their spoiled junior tyrant children. And with these advantages going to
their children, growing them strong and familiar with so much of the good
things in the world, which so much richer an education than the rest of us
can ever hope to scrape together for our crying children -- they take their
childrens health and vigor over ours as the sure sign of their natural
nobility, of their natural superiority over us, when it fact the deformity
of our children is most unnatural, most unjust, most indicative of their own
moral and political unfitness to rule over anyone or even to looks us
squarely in the face as anything like our equals in morality, ethics or
general regard for others and for this country. Yet, despite their abuse of
power to shower themselves with our wealth, obtained through teft, fraud,
rigging the game and all means of holding down their fellows, amazingly
engenders feelings of superiority within them! far in excess of any real
merit or earned distinction they, even with their ill-gotten advantages,
have attained -- when infact their position and status stands on nothing but
a willingness to cheat, bribe, rob blind and murder.
IF BUSH OR KERRY ENDS UP THE NEW PRESIDENT AFTER THE NOVEMEBER ELECTIONS --
DEPITE ALL THOSE WHO OPPOSE THE WAR; DESPITE ALL THOSE WHO OPPOSE THE
CORPORATIONS; DESPITE ALL THOSE WHO OPPSE RULE BY THE OLIGARCHY; DESPITE ALL
THOSE WHO OPPOSE GLOBALIZATION THEFT; DESPITE ALL THOSE UNEMPLOYED,
UNDEREMPLOYED, RUINED, FORECLOSED, BURIED IN DEBT BECAUSE OF POLICIES
SERVING THIS TINY ELITE THAT CONTROLS THE TWO PARTIES FROM THE TOP; DESITE
THOSE, EVEN BETTER INFORMED, WHO OPPOSE RULE BY SECRET CRIMINAL SOCIETY; AND
MOST OF ALL, OPPOSE RULE BY LEADERSHIP THAT WOULD PERPETRATE THE 9-11
FRAME-UP MASS-MURDER ON THE AMERICAN PEOPLE SO THAT WE WOULD WILLING TURN
OVER ALL OF OUR WEALTH AND THE VERY LIVES OF OUR SONS AND DAUGHTERS FOR THEM
TO SEND ON FOOLS ERANDS, ON HIT-MEN'S ERRANDS AGAINST INNOCENT PEOPLE
EXACTLY LIKE WE OURSELVES -- IF ONE OF THESE TWO OLIGARCH FRONT MEN IS
PRESIDENT IN JANUARY OF 2005, THEN WHAT THE DIRECTOR OF HOMELAND SECURITY
HAS PREDICED WILL INDEED BE THE CASE -- THE OLIGARCHY IS GOING TO NEED
MUCH MUCH MORE SEVERE POLICE STATE LAWS AND POWERS AND PERSONEL TO GUARD
AGAINST THE "EXTREMISM" THAT IS WAITING IN THE WINGS -- THEY ARE GOING TO
NEED A HUNDRED TIMES MORE THAN ANYTHING EVEN DREAMED UNDER THE PATRIOT ACT
AND HOMELAND SECURITY. THEY THINK THE NEXT STEP OF THEIR TYRANNY IS
BEING HELD BACK UNTIL AFTER THE ELECTION -- A CONTEST TO SEE WHICH PIT BULL
GETS TO CHEW UP OUR CHILDREN IN THE PLAYGROUND -- BUT LET ME TELL THE PIT
BULLS THIS -- WE TOO ARE ALSO GOING TO BE BEHAVING DIFFERENTLY AFTER THIS
ELECTION IF ANOTHER OF YOUR KIND IS AGAIN SADDLED ON OUR BACKS. YOU HAVE
OBSTRUCTED SOCIETY'S NATURAL STRIVING FOR BETTER LIFE IN EVERY NATION --
KEEPING US IN OUTRAGEOUS CONSTRAINTS OF BAD LAWS AND CORRUPT GOVERNMENT AND
RAW MONOPOLY POWER -- PRETENDING ALL THE TIME TO BE "LOVING AMERICA," OF
CARING FOR OUR "DEFENSE" OR SERVING OUR "FREEDOM" AND MOST OF ALL OF
PROTECTING "PROPERTY" WHICH IN FACT YOU NOW OWN ALMOST EXCLUSIVELY. FOR
FIFTY YEARS, MAYBE A HUNDRED YEARS, WE KNEW IT WAS HAPPENING BUT WE DIDN'T
BOTHER TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT -- BECAUSE IT WASN'T PERSONALLY WORTH THE
FIGHT TO US -- BUT NOW IT WILL BE. NOW WE ARE GOING TO BRING DOWN YOUR
ASSES BECAUSE WE SEE IT MEANS DEATH TO EVERYONE IF WE DON'T.
YOU, OLIGARCHS AND THE BOGUS CHRISTIANITY YOU FORCE ON THE POOR -- THE
EXACT ANTITHESIS OF THE TEACHINGS OF THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT -- AND YOUR
MEDIA MONOPOLY -- ALL OF IT WILL BE SWEPT AWAY -- YOUR HOLDINGS
CONFISCATED ALL AROUND THE WORLD, YOUR CONTROL OVER CORPORATIONS ENDED,
YOUR CONTRACTS AND BONDS AND DERIVATIVES INVALIDATED -- THE PHYSICAL
CORPORATIONS DIVIDED AMONG THE NATIONS WHERE THEY NOW SPRAWL AND BROKEN UP
INTO SO MANY SMALL CONCERNS IN LEGAL ENVIRONMENTS WHERE LARGE CONCENTRATIONS
OF ECONOMIC POWER WILL NO LONGER BE POSSIBLE -- WHERE THE MONOPOLIZATION OF
THE WEALTH OF OUR EFFORTS AND THE EFFORTS OF OUR PARTENTS AND GRANDPARENTS
ALL OF WHICH YOU HAVE ACCUMULATED TO YOURSELVES, WILL BE FREED FROM YOUR
MISERABLE ANTI-SOCIAL MURDEROUS HANDS, THE HANDS BEHIND ALL THE WORLDS
SUFFERING AND INJUSTICE.
I JUST CAN'T WAIT FOR KERRY OR BUSH TO WIN -- IT WILL BE SO MUCH EASIER
THEN -- SO MUCH CLEARER WHAT WE HAVE TO DO.
YES, YOU WERE RIGHT. WE ARE EITHER FOR YOU OR AGAINST YOU -- IT WAS YOU
WHO LEFT US NO OTHER CHOICE.
DICK EASTMAN
YAKIMA, WASHINGTON
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Let's be smarter than they are for a change.
====================================
Yep, we know the Oligarchy was gunning for us as much as for Arabs when they
got us to do the fightn, cause everybody knows that when this country has
sought to overthrow any other country they have always done so by fomenting
conflicts of some kind between that country and some other country. But now
we know they are gunning for us, because instead of getting Iran to fight
Iraq or Afganistan to fight Russia or Serbia to fight Croatia this time they
pulled the 9-11 mass-murder frameup so's we middle-class folks would have to
do the killin' and payin'. ?
And now they think they got us over a barrel cause we are stuck with two
skull 'n Bones pirates, Kerry and Bush as the only candidates and they know
lack the brains or gumption to think for ourselves and not rely on our own
traditional habitual political parties to do our thinking and deciding for
us, right?
But hold on. I don't see where it is written in the Constitution that we
have to be stupid fools and fall for the same damn trick every damn time, do
you? In fact, it seems to me as we've got them over a barrel.
Think about it. Most of us don't want this killing of foreigners and
getting our sons and daughters killed, especially when there's no point to
it. Iraq never hurt America and neither did Afganistan, nor did any of the
other countries they're talking about taking over next, did they.
Especially since we now know from the those pictures taken by witnesses at
the Pentagon and by the security camera they had there that the whole stoary
of hateful Arabs taking box cutters and taking over those jetliners and
crashing them is all a hoax. Got the URLs that prove it right here:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TRUTHBAZOOKA/message/5
http://www.cosmicpenguin.com/911/Eastman/m18h05.html
Like I said, we've got them over a barrel and, in fact, they've painted
themselves into a corner to boot.
Here's what I mean. Only a select few people in this country really enjoy
the idea of killing Arabs time or tossing our sons and daughers into the
furnace of war or bankrupting the country or making the criminal bosses
running this country even more rich and powerful, right? And its becoming
more and more obvious that that's what we're doing, isn't it?
Now think about it. That small group of people who love getting innocent
people killed and bankrupting the country and setting up rich-kid Emperor's
with a taste for throwing people to the lions, those people are no going to
be dividing their votes between Bonesman pirate Bush and Bonesman pirate
Kerry, right? Which means that there is going to be a minority that's
divided in its vote between equally desirable-to-them but
rotten-to-the-rest-of-us candidates, right?
So how can we loose? Only one way. If they get you to think that Bush and
Kerry, Democrat and Republican, are the only possible choices that can be
made. But that is totally untrue, unless they can hoodwink us into thinking
it is true so that we give up without even trying to take what is really
plum ripe for the taking. Did you get that?
Now, I haven't heard a peep from the Libertarians, or the Prohibitionists,
or the Socialist, or the Taxpayer Party, or the Greens, or the Reform Pary,
or any of those other parties, have you? And I haven't seen any man against
these wars and this theft and corruption even looking like he is thinking
about getting up on a white horse and asking one of these parties if he can
be their champion and go up against the plundering pirates to get them off
our throats, have you? I suspect that there is a lot of big money and
favors and politicing going on in all those parties to either keep them from
fielding an anti-war anti-plutocracy candidate or else to field one who is
such a jackass and who is so fatally flawed in so many ways that he won't
have a chance of winning, someone the party will just go through the motions
of supporting, but not really intending that the candidate would win -- not
really fighting for the candidate. Remember Pat Buchanan running on the
Reform Party Ticket?
So that is what they are counting on to keep their two bloodthirsty bonesmen
from getting any competition from a candidate and a party that will provide
the country with what the country really desperately needs.
The question is can we beat that game and are you willing to try?
I think their game can be beaten if we use the internet to get the situation
explained to enough people and then offer them the only way out that makes
any sense.
In fact it make so much sense I don't even have to spell it out for you.
But I will make this suggestion -- don't get behind a third party or a
candidate unless they and he frankly acknowledge that the odd of them living
through the reforms they will have to initiate are going to be too slim for
any regular politician to want to throw in. Harry Brown is going to look
out for number one and stay free of bullets in an unfree world. Buchanan is
going to spend his campaign in the pub talking about the little people.
Nader is actually pro-war and pro-occupation too -- in fact he probaly
declared as a independent "me-too" because he was afraid the Greens might
pick him again and force him to offer himself as a target to another
disturbed Catcher in the Rye fan. Kucinich, of course, is prohibited by
new laws from running as a third party candidate after seeking a major party
candidacy. So who does that leave for a third pary candidate?
Actually any honest intelligent candidate would do if he (or she) had the
heroic character and a simple grasp of how the oligarchy works its scams.
And since it would be a coalition of third parties, there would have to be
patronage, giving each party its own segment of the government for promote
their ideas.
Secretary of the Treasury: Libertarian nationalist (not anarcho-capitalist)
Secretary of State: Buchananite
Secretary of Defense: Kucinich Democrat
Secretary of Interior: Naderite not beholden to lawyers
Attorney General: Populist willing to apply anti-trust where as it has
never been used before
Commerce: LaRouchian
Education: eliminate
etc.
Pooling all the best minds of each third party, plus the Kucinich and Dean
democrats and the paleoconservative Republicans to play rough and for
keeps with the old corruption -- who I think everyone will desert once they
are stripped of key power.
And I am sure we all have pet reforms we would like to put in to fix the
broken republic. Mine would be returning selection of Senators to the
respective state legislatures. Returning selection of the President to
locally elected electors who run as candidates in their own right tied to no
man or party -- but who convene in session until they agree on a President
and Vice President. That is the system the Founding Fathers gave us, and it
sure makes no sense to pretend that we support there principles when we have
let the criminals do away with the most important elements of the "checks
and balances" system, don't you think?
And of course I'd like to see international trade and the monetary system
re-regulated -- ending forever the practice of overseas investing, limiting
free trade to what it should be -- the trade in goods and in raw materials
and in tourism and nothing else.
So, tell me -- are you willing to foget about your past political party
habits and to get behind the first candidate of whatever third party who is
willing to end the war, end the occupation, and impose holy hell on the
corporations and the perverse corporation and financial system that made
these crimes inevitable.
They'll call him/her a dictator, like they did Huey Long, and they will
probably kill him or her like they did Huey too -- but that is what great
people do, isn't it? and we are about due for another crop of great people
arent we.
So let's watch the third parties and see which one has what it takes to
offer what it is going to take.
Dick Eastman
Yakima, Washington
Every man is responsible to every other man.
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If Kucinich is real (assume this until we find otherwise) then fight for
him.
and so forth.
And also this:
Dick Eastman
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Make no mistake, anyone who votes for Kerry for any reason is a dangerous
ally of the oligarchy, whatever their reasoning.
Do you think the Oligarchy is above infiltrating Kucinich's campaign
managers and eyse-and-ears men (and women) to sabotage Kucinich? THis is
the same shut-off I get whenever I try to contact any Congressman or
Senator about 9-11 evidence, Iraq or economic policy.
Kucinich will have to be put over by the kind of decentralized spontaneous
in-the-streets-with-signs-and-homemade-flyers or he is going nowhere.
Dick Eastman
Yakima
senhor san
impoverished dispossessed U.S. people or their paper constitution
controlled and drained dry by internationalists (Zionist bankers, media
moguls, defense corporations, drug and arms trade corporations, brokers and
traders in derivatives, futures, currencies etc.)
The founding fathers warned against "entangling alliances" and "standing
armies" and "foreign trade" and "corporations" -- and through taking
control of education from parents and centralizing it under first state and
federal control, through control of newspapers, book publishing radio,
television, theaters they effected the dumb down -- the warnings Washington,
Jefferson and Madison and the rest were forgetten or obscured so that
merchant baner controlled corporations could gain a foothold in the US as
base for their conquest of the world.
Our protests against the Perle-Wolfowitz-Rumsfeld-Myers Pentagon are as
ineffectual and pointless in controlling the pirate oligarchy as would be a
street demonstration in Bangladesh. Congress is their not ours --
controlled by drugs, deviant blackmailable sex, blackmailable dealings of
all kinds so that Congressmen and Senators are owned, their staffs, loyal to
those who really own them and not to their aquiescent figurehead "office
holders."
but of course Kerry is not Bush and because of that sterling qualification
he is the champion of the oligarchy's other in-their-pocket team of asset
managers for overseeing the bankrupt, liquidated, in-receivership United
States and the controlled worker-tax-base and soldiering "units" held
capitve and controllable on the land that that exhausted, insolvent and
impecunious corporation contains among its attached assets.
So vote for Kerry. He'll be better than Bush and he -- as "realists" high
in the Democratic party (those who know the true state of affairs at the
nation's capital) know -- is the only even-apparent choice the creditor
oligarchy will let you have anyway -- the Catholic who discovered he was
Jewish only after he began running for the Presidency (just like Madeleine
Allbright, who said she was Catholic yet was raised Episcopalian found out
that she was really Jewish and the daughter of one of Stalins commisars only
after her questioning before the Senate relative to her selection as
Clinton's Secretary of State.
Or are you willing to take the risk and pay the very great cost it will
take of giving to the future what the founding fathers, though their
sacrifice gave to generations who sold it all for a mess of pottage that now
is an empty bowl.
================
George Galloway, MP from Scotland, and Senior Vice Chairman Parliamentary
Labour Party Foreign Affairs Committee, Britain writes:
"The English-speaking countries, especially the United States and Britain,
have a deeply cynical policy of double standards regarding the Islamic world
of 1.3 billion people ...
In spite of Osama Bin Laden's violence, his primitive politics and his
misogyny he is the most popular figure in this Islamic world, where he has
little competition from the corpulent kings, generals, dictators and juntas,
who obey orders from the west ...
I was with Arabs in Iraq, Jordan and Palestine while they listened to Osama
Bin Laden's first video and saw the reaction: Their faces were wet with
tears. He pierced their hearts with his message, which had three arrows:
First: That America will never have peace until Palestine has peace and
justice.
Second: That America will never have peace as long as 6,000 Iraqi children
die each month due to U.S. enforced UN sanctions.
Third: America will never have peace as long as the west maintains tyrants
and puppet rulers in the Islamic world.
The Islamic world sees 6,000 Iraqi children die every month for ten years
and sees that the west doesn't care, but when 3,000 people die in the World
Trade Centers the whole world shakes and is now on the brink of many wars
...
this is part of a pervasive double-standard by which the blood of Americans
is worth so much more than the blood of Iraqis or Afghanis."
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Pre-9/11 World Trade Center Power-Down
by Victor Thorn
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Did the World Trade Center towers undergo a deliberate "power-down" on the
weekend prior to the 9-11 terrorist attacks? According to Scott Forbes, a
senior database administrator for Fiduciary Trust, Inc. - a high-net
investment bank which was later acquired by Franklin Templeton - this is
precisely what took place. Forbes, who was hired by Fiduciary in 1999 and is
now stationed at a U.K. branch office, was working on the weekend of
September 8-9, 2001, and said that his company was given three weeks advance
notice that New York's Port Authority would take out power in the South
Tower from the 48th floor up. The reason: the Port Authority was performing
a cabling upgrade to increase the WTC's computer bandwidth.
Forbes stated that Fiduciary Trust was one of the WTC's first occupants
after it was erected, and that a "power-down" had never been initiated prior
to this occasion. He also stated that his company put forth a huge
investment in time and resources to take down their computer systems due to
the deliberate power outage. This process, Forbes recalled, began early
Saturday morning (September 8th) and continued until mid-Sunday afternoon
(September 9th) - approximately 30 hours. As a result of having its
electricity cut, the WTC's security cameras were rendered inoperative, as
were its I.D. systems, and elevators to the upper floors.
Forbes did stress, though, that there was power to the WTC's lower floors,
and that there were plenty of engineers going in-and-out of the WTC who had
free access throughout the building due to its security system being knocked
out. In an e-mail to journalist John Kaminski, author of The Day America
Died (Sisyphus Press) and America's Autopsy Report (Dandelion Books), Forbes
wrote: "Without power there were no security cameras, no security locks on
doors, and many, many 'engineers' coming in and out of the tower."
Forbes didn't think much of these occurrences at the time, and said that he
worked until Monday morning (September 10th) to get all the computer systems
back online. Due to his IT-related duties on Saturday & Sunday, Forbes had
Tuesday, September 11th off, and thus watched the World Trade Center towers
collapse from his apartment. While doing so, he recalled, "I was convinced
immediately that something was happening related to the weekend work."
In addition, Forbes says there were other peculiarities revolving around
this unreported event, including:
1) Fiduciary employees trapped between the 90-97th floors of the South
Tower told family members (via cell-phone calls) that they were hearing
"bomb-like explosions" throughout the towers.
2) Video cameras positioned atop the World Trade Center which were used to
feed daily images to local television stations were inexplicably inoperative
that morning.
3) A Fiduciary employee who was on one of the lower floors and escaped
immediately after the first (North) tower was struck, reported that he was
amazed by the large number of FBI agents that were already on the streets
surrounding the WTC complex only minutes after the initial strike.
4) Last but not least, Ann Tatlock, CEO of Fiduciary Trust and now a board
member of Franklin Templeton, had just arrived at a conference hosted by
Warren Buffet at the Offutt Air Force Base (home of the U.S. Strategic
Command Headquarters in Omaha, Nebraska) when the 9-11 attacks took place.
Coincidentally, later that day President George W. Bush flew into this very
same base on Air Force One for "security reasons." Even more chilling are
the Offutt AFB ties to the CIA's MK ULTRA experiments, Project Monarch, the
Franklin Cover-Up, and the diabolical practices of Michael Aquino. (Type any
of these words into a search engine for more information.)
In the end, Forbes says that even though these disclosures could jeopardize
his current employment, he has stepped forward because, "I have mailed this
information to many people, including the 9/11 Commission, but no one seems
to be registering these facts."
=======================
Blair-Bush Meeting Bears Fruit -- Brisih Home Secretary David Blunkett is
considering jailing those who merely "sympathise" with so-called extremist
Islamic groups or who continue to "associate" with alleged terrorist
suspects. The Observer wrote on April 11, "Sympathisers with extremist
Islamic groups will risk jail under controversial plans to make merely
associating with a suspected terrorist a crime." The next day, the Times
reported, "Those whose names were found on seized mobile phones, computers
or e-mails and who tried further contact would find themselves facing
prison." The paper added that the home secretary would like a formal
warning given to "every known contact of a terror suspect or extremist
Islamic group." A source close to the home secretary was quoted saying, "We
are targeting support networks, the things that enable terrorism to be
perpetrated by other people. It is intended to deter people from hanging
around the fringes of undesirables." -- The latest musings of Blunkett
are a double attack on democratic rights. -- Firstly, the proposal to
introduce "guilt by association" makes criminals of those who have committed
no crime. Secondly, by extension the so-called "undesirables" with whom they
associate face a form of banning order reminiscent of the apartheid regime
in South Africa, preventing them from coming into contact with anyone. --
The Labour government has introduced some of the most draconian
"anti-terrorist" legislation in Europe. Britain has declared a "technical"
state of emergency, enabling the suspension of sections of the European
Convention on Human Rights. This then makes possible the indefinite
internment of foreign nationals as "terrorist suspects," without recourse to
the normal juridical process. -- The 14 individuals who have been locked
up under the terms of the
Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001 (ATCSA) enter a Kafkaesque world
where they may not see the evidence that supposedly justifies their
incarceration, nor may they appoint an independent legal representative to
challenge their imprisonment in the courts. They can only be set free if
they agree to be deported back to the country from which they have fled,
where their life may well be in danger. The choice is stark: indefinite
detention without due legal process, or possible death. -- In February,
Blunkett proposed the introduction of a form of "pre-emptive" justice, where
suspects could be jailed based on charges for crimes they had not yet
committed.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/apr2004/blun-a24.shtml
American troops fighting insurgents killed scores of civilians in protracted
battles in a remote town on Iraq's Syrian border last week. The deaths, not
previously reported due to the remoteness of the area, will raise tensions
still further in the country and make the increasingly frantic attempts by
the US-led coalition to ensure security and stability even harder.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1202636,00.html
==============
Go to http://www.antiwar.com for these articles:
The Real Lessons of 9/11 by Rep. Ron Paul
Iraq: The Moon Is Down, Again! by William Marina
The Release of Vanunu and US Role in Israel's Nuclear Arsenal by Stephen
Zunes
Advocating Terror to Defeat Terror by Paul Robinson
The Basic Flaw in Neoconservatism by Charley Reese
Algeria 1830: Legacy of Occupation by Richard Wall
==============
James Ridgeway | Bush-Saudi Relations an
Election Focus
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/042504A.shtml
The Image Turning America Against Bush
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/042504B.shtml
Steve Weissman | Israel: Cousin Aviel the Terrorist
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/042504C.shtml
Diebold May Face Criminal Charges
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/042504D.shtml
GOP Targets It's Own Moderates
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/042504E.shtml
California GOP Faces Election Forgery/Fraud in
it's Ranks
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/042504F.shtml
================
Denmark's defence minister resigned Friday as lawmakers questioned military
intelligence reports the government used to justify its support for the
U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. -- Svend Aage Jensby said he was stepping down
because of a "smear campaign" by critics who say the government lied about
Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction. A year after the invasion, no
such weapons have been found. Denmark has nearly 500 troops in Basra and
nearby Qurnah, some 400 kilometres southeast of Baghdad.
http://tinyurl.com/23vbm
New policy will use former Baathist soldiers as paid human shields for US
occupation forces -- Paul Bremer, outgoing occupation chief, announced
that members of the disbanded army would be allowed to join the ranks of the
new U.S.-trained army. --- He also added that measures to speed up the
reinstatement of thousands of teachers who lost their jobs because they were
members of Saddam Hussein's ruling Baath party. -- One year after driving
thousands of people jobless in vital service sectors on charges of
membership in the ousted Baath party, Washington admitted the mistake --
Thousands of Iraqis were laid off when Bremer announced on May23 , the
dissolution of the Iraqi army and several ministries. --The fired chief
army officers turned into sellers and drivers to make ends meet after the
dissolution, which law experts along with human rights activists called
unfair and illegal. -- it left Iraq in a chaotic state as thousands of
teachers, university professors, doctors and other sorely-needed personnel
were dismissed under the policy. -- U.N. envoy Lakhdar Brahimi criticized
the de-Baathification policy, saying people with these professions were
ousted at a time when they were much needed. -- "Banning party members
from top jobs led to the dismissal of "10, 000or more" surgeons, engineers
and school teachers who are stewing at home instead of rebuilding society,"
http://www.islam-online.net/English/News/2004-04/24/article04.shtml
Ahmed Chalabi, a Shiite politician who for years was a favorite of the
Pentagon and the office of Vice President Cheney [and whose nephew is
overseeing the "Iraqi" trial of Saddam Heussein, ] generated anger in
Washington yesterday when he said a new U.S. plan to allow some former
officials of Hussein's ruling Baath Party and military to return to office
is the equivalent of returning Nazis to power in Germany after World War
I. -- That criticism may curtail Chalabi's influence over the removal of
former officials -- and his power over the employment and income prospects
of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis. -- Chalabi has headed the committee
in charge of removing former Baathist officials. In a nationwide address
yesterday designed to promote national reconciliation, U.S. administrator L.
Paul Bremer now is saying complaints that the program under Chalabi has been
"unevenly and unjustly" administered are "legitimate" and that the overall
program has been "poorly implemented."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A37921-2004Apr23
At least 4 nonviolent protesters have been arrested during a women anti-wall
demonstration in Biddu today. One Palestinian women, Deema Hamdan from
Al-Isawiya was reportedly beaten by the soldiers after she was arrested.
Other arrestees are French citizen Angela Coppin, and British citizen Angela
Julian from the IWPS. A fourth international activist was arrested during
the same charge. -- They were arrested as the Israeli soldiers charged the
nonviolent demonstrators. Around 55 women were gathered to protest the
construction of the wall and the destruction of their land. The
demonstration has remained totally peaceful even after the soldiers used
excessive violence to disperse the crowd. --As the people were walking
peacefully to the worksite, they were fired at with teargas canisters above
their heads. One international activist from ISM was injured in the arm with
a teargas canister. The soldiers then grabbed 4 of the women who were
standing in the front. -- Approximately half an hour after the beginning
of the march, Israeli
soldiers on horses charged the rest of the women who were dispersing,
hitting them with batons. An elderly was hit in the neck during the charge.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/palsolidarity/message/948
[One] thing is what we claim to believe and what actually guides the
country' s foreign policy. American military doctrine of "Shock and Awe"
assumes that instilling fear of death will achieve "rapid dominance" over
the adversary. The doctrine was first elucidated by Harlan K. Ullman,
professor at the US War College. A corollary of "Shock and Awe," also
enunciated by the professor, is that the United States can 'turn the lights
on and off' of an adversary as we choose" and no choice will be left "except
to cease and desist or risk complete and total destruction." Or so goes the
"logic." -- On April 11 the Washington Post reported that Lt. Col. Brennan
Byrne, commander of the 1st Batallion, 5th Marine Regiment, from outside the
city of Fallujah stated, "What is coming is the destruction of
anti-coalition forces in Fallujah. . . . They have two choices: submit or
die." For the American Marine commander, in a Borg-like fashion, resistance
is also futile. ... -- Yet, the sources of resistance in the face of
overwhelming odds are limitless. We should know by merely paying attention
to our own imagined cultural archetypes. History tells us as much. Defiance
has many names: self-respect, honor, courage, pride, revenge, nationalism,
self-determination, religious calling, soul power, liberty, family,
neighborhood, community and, of course, choice. -- In the long run
overwhelming technological military coercion is no match against a people
fighting for its own independence.
http://www.counterpunch.org/valdes04242004.html
Pavlovian psy-op pacification in Iraq -- Iraqi children given toy bears made
from US military uniform material. A US Air Force spokesman said they were
only trying to do the right thing. Lieutenant Jason McCree told BBC Radio
Suffolk it was an act of charity.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/suffolk/3650175.stm
Could the United States government conceive of carrying out attacks
against the American people under the pretext that the attacks came from a
foreign enemy? We have to look back only 40 years to find that the answer
is yes. The plan was called Operation Northwoods and it called for
engaging in such unsavory activities as assassination, hijacking airplanes,
blowing up ships, orchestrating violent terrorism in U.S. cities, and even
blowing up John Glenn's space capsule, while pinning the blame on Fidel
Castro. This would whip up necessary public support for a full-scale
invasion of Cuba, which the military believed was necessary.
http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/Molson043002/molson043002.html
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Oligarchy's stable of intellectuals are as misguided as their government
and military --
Given the mountain of written words coming out of Iraq -- reports,
commentaries, observations, journalism -- it sometimes seems writers
outnumber soldiers by some 1,000 to one. Yet it is the outpourings of
researchers and intellectuals affiliated with the US administration that are
most astonishing and, unfortunately, far more significant than the flood of
information coming out of Iraq. Many of these people produced one book after
another in the 1980s as they climbed up the academic ladder. Now they find
themselves advising the occupation authorities in Baghdad. They are now,
then, in a rare position for academics: they can put their theories into
practice. Washington's voracious appetite for ideology has given these
academics-cum- advisers a chance to dictate approaches to the Greater Middle
East.
These administration-affiliated academics conveniently define the Middle
East as that area designated as such by US Central Command. Such a glib
formulation saves any speculation on whether the Middle East is Arab or not,
or on why it should include Pakistan and not Turkey, etc.
If any good comes from all this twaddle it is to be found in the sudden
realisation that the academic machine, and the whirlwind of conferences and
seminars it spawns, is pointless. Professor Larry Diamond, of Stanford
University, is a good example. Diamond has advised the administration to act
swiftly against Al-Sadr's movement and to disarm its militia. His argument
is that democracy will never materialise in the presence of militias. What
Diamond conveniently omits is any reference to the militias operated by
parties participating in the Governing Council, perhaps because the latter
symbolise the sectarian federalism on which the Americans are so keen. It
makes one regret ever reading the books Diamond penned, one after another,
on democracy and the transition to democracy in the 1980s and 1990s.
Abstraction serves the status quo. The professional theorists who dwell in
academia, and propagate notions of the abstract truly believe that
dictatorship is something that lacks roots. They are stunned when the
collapse of a dictatorship leads to the collapse of other structures. They
truly believe that dictatorship is a naked force that, once smashed, would
make room for democracy pure and simple. According to the theorists this can
happen without democrats, without the middle classes. It is the result of a
relentless imperial quest that breaks the country into pieces and gives the
nation a foretaste of sectarianism.
It is interesting to see the theorists link references to dictatorship in
the so-called Sunni triangle with commentary on unwanted foreign
intervention by Syria and Iran, and both of the above with the latest
outburst of Shia extremism. Quite a puzzling situation, it would seem to me.
Large sections of the population, it would appear, benefited in some way
from dictatorship and now resent the US presence. The abstract images no
longer hold true. The simple contrast between dictatorship and democracy
tells us nothing. Suddenly the "triangle" has morphed into a trapezoid.
Having vacillated endlessly on its definitions of evil, from Al-Qa'eda to
Saddam and back, the Americans have found an easy way out. Blame it all on
an alliance between Al-Qa'eda and Saddam Hussein. Look no more for evidence
or explanations. The democratic media, in its newfound role as the
mouthpiece of officialdom, will take it from there, thank you very much.
Does it make any sense that the US administration cannot explain to its own
public, or to itself, the nature of the Iraqi resistance? What is happening
in Falluja? Why did the Americans expect Al-Sadr to backtrack once
threatened with detention, only to be faced with a Shia uprising? Why have
things become so desperate that troops of an advance party of marines, sent
to replace the intelligence unit of the 82nd Airborne (the devil knows what
these terms mean) are told to grow moustaches to win over a local population
which supposedly equates moustaches with manliness?
The Americans have bombed a mosque because five marines were injured by
shots from within it. It is as if America is not supposed to pay any price
for occupation, as if an injured marine justifies the bombardment of a
mosque and the killing of 50 civilians. What can this conduct be if not an
amalgam of fundamental fanaticism, imperial arrogance and barbarism?
The US has created a new dynamic in Iraq and it is the dynamic of
occupation. Once the occupation was in place and once its intentions became
known (regarding Iraq's form of government, regional relations, wealth,
Arabism, and future military role), conflict became a question of when, not
if. A young leader, one whose office is named after his father (a victim of
Saddam's dictatorship), one who cannot credibly contend for power, not even
within his own community, took up the cause. This is a classic model of what
happens under occupation and we have yet to see the last of it. America, a
country that boasts about democracy and the rule of the law, issues an
arrest warrant for the young cleric in connection with a murder case but
then uses the warrant as a bargaining chip to make him alter his political
stand. This is also a part of the occupation dynamic. The occupying
authority is now above the law. It furthers its own interests in whatever
manner it deems suitable, and the manner is
invariably imperialist.
The occupation is rebuilding the economy in the way it sees best. The
foreign army arrives accompanied by another army of fortune-seeking
civilians, individuals who the locals are bound to identify with the
occupiers. These are the people who will sign fat reconstruction contracts.
During ensuing tensions the fortune hunters are targeted. The horrific acts
of mutilation that happened recently are a case in point.
Resistance is a fire that spreads through the timber of communal
aggravation. We may not know much about the Iraqi resistance, but it mirrors
both the people and the country, both the good and the bad. Resistance may
be accompanied by chaos as well as fanaticism, vitality as well as
backwardness. But what we now see in Iraq is an armed uprising against a
merciless foreign occupation, an occupation that symbolises everything
backward, fanatical, and bellicose about America. What we see in Iraq is an
armed civilian uprising, and there is no contradiction in terms here. The
Iraqi combatants are civilians under arms.
I find it absurd that US officers grumble about how the resistance fighters
mingle with civilians so that occupation forces cannot distinguish between
the two. Well, these combatants are actually civilians under arms. What does
the US army expect them to do, set up a camp outside Falluja? The combatants
mix with the civilian population because they are civilians, because they
live in civilian homes. The occupation comes without civilians because it is
far removed from home, because its soldiers are not sleeping in their own
homes -- they only bomb the homes of others. The aerial bombardment of a
civilian house leaves mutilated bodies. The media has just carried scenes of
the Israeli bombardment and its effect on the bodies of Al- Rantisi and his
companions. What was that if not mutilation?
The occupation authorities may soon regret the disarmament of the Iraqi
Army, an ill-advised move taken on the advice of the Pentagon and its Iraqi
advisers. Suddenly, 400,000 Iraqi troops were disbanded, jobless. Any
imperialist novice should know that the first task of the colonial is to buy
the loyalty of the security forces. In Iraq the US civil administrator
disbanded the army and other institutions having assumed that democracy
would materialise overnight. And what do we see in Iraq today, apart from
the US attempting to exercise its will?
But America cannot even impose its will: Iraq is undemocratic and a pain in
the neck, a pain that comes in many shapes and forms. Even America's men in
Iraq, with and without moustaches, now find it convenient to distance
themselves from US actions. When opportunists begin deserting expect the
worst.
This is the occupation dynamic, simple, unadorned. And there is no easy way
out for the Americans. People are sick and tired of the sound bites of John
Abi Zeid and Ricardo Sanchez. If one were to land in Iraq from another
planet, one would suspect that there are more non-whites in America than
whites. America is using identity politics of the cheapest sort, and even
this is not working.
This is an occupation. It may not end well, or in democracy. Democracy is
not an automatic substitute for dictatorship. The alternative could be
another dictatorship, or chaos. Only democrats can make democracy an option
and then only when the political and economic elites decide such course is
in their favour.
The US occupation is not a model one. Remember Afghanistan? Well, you will
soon enough. The US elections will bring it to mind, for the US president
and his administration need a foreign policy accomplishment to boast off, Ir
aq being out of the question. Let's remember Afghanistan. Elections there
have been postponed from June to September because, more than three years
after the occupation only 15 per cent of eligible voters have registered.
Afghanistan elections will have to be held before November's US elections,
more for the sake of US than Afghan democracy. Let's also remember that the
Afghan president is basically the mayor of Kabul, that Afghanistan still
produces three-quarters of the world's opium, that pro-US militias live on
revenue from narcotics and that the Taliban still has checkpoints in parts
of Afghanistan?
Remember Palestine? The same US administration that promised to compensate
for its unilateralism in Iraq by showing respect for international decisions
in Palestine has changed its mind. It has just issued a pledge that closely
echoes the Balfour Declaration. Unilaterally, it shifted the course of the
roadmap presented by the Quartet . Bush has promised Sharon that any lasting
solution will not involve a return to the 1967 borders or honour the right
of return for refugees, and that certain settlements are there to stay. This
is old- fashioned colonialism. The Israeli occupation is being rewarded for
the status quo it enforced. Land seized by force is being primed for
annexation. This is the logic of the current US administration, a logic that
undermines any basis for negotiations in Palestine, a logic that has sent
Israel on a rampage of killing and bullying in a bid to impose Israeli-US
dictates without negotiation. Anyone who questions this logic is killed.
Under these circumstances any hope pinned on the roadmap is pointless. Any
Arab politician claiming otherwise is deceiving himself and his people. US
policy has put an end to wishful thinking. Arab nations can no longer see US
policy in Iraq and Palestine except as an all out war against them. Arab
regimes are left with no face- saving options. And if you think this is just
a phase the region is going through, think again.
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/687/op62.htm
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9-11 Commission discredits 9-11 Theories -- The ...the 9-11 Commission has
cleared the government of any wrongdoing, saying that all of the passengers
were screened by the FBI and other agencies... Skeptics of the commission's
work and self-appointed Sept. 11 investigators say the commission still has
failed to address an array of suspicious events surrounding the attacks. Al
Felzenberg, a spokesman for the commission and the man who directs
information presented to the commission to whomever he deems appropriate,
said the panel doesn't consider it part of its charter to run down every
rumor related to the Sept. 11 attacks, but that the investigative staff has
made a point of addressing some of the most common erroneous claims. The
Commission was created merely as a means of determining what steps must be
taken to avoid future attacks from Arab and other terrorists, and, as
specifically argreed to in the commissioning statement, it is not to
establish blame for any failure to prevent the attack. It is not a criminal
investigation and is prevented by the commission charter from becoming
one -- so without being allowed to investigate evidence of a conspiracy it
nontheless passes judgement on those citizens who have taken the known
photo, witness and documentary evidence and derived the implications that
all officials are prevented from deriving.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04116/305595.stm
Or do they?: I have on three occasions made full brief with photo evidence
to the 9-11 COmmission through Mr. Felzenberg, offering the following
incriminating compilation of evidence from the attack on the Pentagon. When
there was no sign that any commission member or staff investigator had
received the brief I wrote to Felzenberg, who responded with no specifics
but merely his assurance that he had forwarded the information to the group
that he felt ought to see it. Here is a list of the evidence that was in
that package once more:
Are you also uninformed about the evidence proving 9-11 was a frame-up?
7. Witnesses also
a. heard a missile
only-to himself flight attendant who works one of the flights that
most definitely had to have been regularly monitored by
US intelligence operatives, probably flight attendents, and
this one just happened not to take Flight 77 that day by
happenstance etc. -- so how about it, Mr. Judge?
16. The deaths of only the CIA's indepdendent intelligence
revivals , the Offices of Naval Intelligence personel, and
auditors of defense spending contracts etc. alone moved
into the "newly renovated" section that was hit -- on the side
where most of the witnesses would be the Arlington Cemetery
dead or people involved with driving their cars. Naval Intelligence
would have independently investigated 9-11 had they lived --
the investigator that no official has yet conducted -- Wolfowitz
sure bin Laden had done it and ready with the solution of invading
Afganistan on the very first day -- even as they were allegedly taken
by complete suprise only a few hours before that determination.
See the evidence photos and witness testimony confirming all of the above
and further analysis in support of these conclusions by respected men of
science here:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TRUTHBAZOOKA/message/5
and here
http://www.cosmicpenguin.com/911/Eastman/m18h05.html
The Last Word on the 9-11 Commission
Without 9-11 Investigators' Input its Conclusions are but Uninformed Opinion
by Dick Eastman
Citizen investigator of 9-11
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The Commission -- originally planned to be headed by Henry Kissinger who
once said, "It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of
what is perceived to be true." -- has never acknowledged publically the
existence of citizens with photographic evidence they claim establishes
that 9-11 to have been frame-up.
Al Felzenberg has been the gatekeeper and triage of all information
directed to the Committee -- note the Jewish name and realize that the Bush
administration would not select one of the 45 percent of Jews who oppose the
current wars of conquest against Moslem nations -- must be held accountable
for active obstruction of justice, for assisting in a coverup of evidence
that fingers the true perpetrators.
The Commission, I conclude, and I am confident future impartial history will
bear me out, has had only two objectives from the beginning:
1. To consumate the cover-up; and
2. To provide contrived rationale for consolidation of police power into a
Stalinist "NVKD"-type police state, unanswerable to anyone, the operations
and objectives of which are unknown to anyone, and the control of which
remains in the hands of America's power-elite Oligarcy, the proven
perpetrators of 9-11.
Dick Eastman
223 S. 64th Ave.
Yakima, Washington 98908
A little before 9.30am, reports emerged that another plane had been
hijacked. Within 10 minutes, a medium-sized passengerplane flew in low over
Arlington Cemetery and the Navy Annexe in Washington DC and plunged into the
Pentagon's south-west face, throwing up a huge fireball. Omar Campo, a
Salvadorean, was cutting the grass on the other side of the road when the
plane flew over his head. "It was a passenger plane. I think an American
Airways plane," Mr Campo said. "I was cutting the grass and it came in
screaming over my head. I felt the impact. The whole ground shook and the
whole area was full of fire. I could never imagine I would see anything like
that here."
The proven fact is that if the Boeing was over the Annex, over the Sheraton,
over any portion of Arlingoton Cemetery, then it could not have been the
same plane that knocked down the first lamppost south of the overpass and
southwest of the crash -- that pole had to have been knocked down by another
aircraft, the killer jet which we see firing the air-to-ground missile in
the security video.
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