[prez_usa_exile] SPECIAL: A Life in the Day 10/21/6
prez_usa_exile
Free Americans Reaching Out to Amerika's
Huddled Masses Yearning to Breathe Free
Via <pr...@usa-exile.org>
October 21, 2006
From: "Eric Stewart" <erics...@imap.cc>
Date: October 20, 2006 3:37:28 PM EST
Subject: [911TruthAction] U.S. Marines
Vid of Ammo Dump - Tactical Nukes?
In this video, we can see that stuff is going off all over the place but
when the big ones go off (creating mushroom clouds), the ones that bathe
the entire landscape in LIGHT, so do the sirens. Listen as the AMERICAN
soldiers describe just how powerful a shockwave they FELT. These guys
are concerned about fallout as well, either chemical or nuclear, because
they voice audible concern over the direction of the wind.
U.S. Marines Vid of Ammo Dump - Tactical Nukes?
http://justanotherblowback.blogspot.com/2006/10/us-marines-vid-of-ammo-dump-tactical.html
*
General Limnitzer in 1962: "We could blow up a
drone...Casualty lists in US newspapers would cause
a helpful wave of national indignation...We could
develop a Communist Cuba terror campaign in the
Miami area, in other Florida cities and even in
Washington...aircraft at Eglin AFB would be painted
and numbered as an exact duplicate for a civil
registered aircraft belonging to a CIA proprietary
organization in the Miami area..."
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From: "perppoppers" <perpp...@yahoo.com>
Date: October 21, 2006 7:54:48 AM EST
To: 911Trut...@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [911TruthAction] NOT SO MYSTERIOUS WEAPONS...
NOT SO MYSTERIOUS...
Arthur Clark's TV show aired a segment several times where people were
found incinerated from the inside with no marks of burning on the
outside of their bodies. Most of the people that were victims of this
(ahem) 'strange phenomena' were old and poor living in trailers with
no relatives who might investigate.
THIS IS THE NATURE OF THE EM WEAPONS BEING USED DAILY ON U.S. CITIZENS
BY SATELLITE NOW -- BUT NOT FULL FORCE -- SO THE DAMAGE IS NOT
NOTICEABLE.
IF YOU ARE AN ACTIVIST... THEY'RE DEFINITELY 'LIGHTLY NUKING' YOU TOO.
Gaza Doctors Say Patients Suffering Mystery Injuries
after Israeli Attacks
$ Deaths caused by burning and
internal wounds
$ Jerusalem denies using
experimental weapon
Rory McCarthy in Gaza City
Wednesday October 18, 2006
The Guardian
Doctors in Gaza have reported previously unseen injuries from Israeli
weapons that cause severe burning and leave deep internal wounds,
often resulting in amputations or death.
The injuries were first seen in July, when Israel launched operations
in Gaza following the capture of an Israeli soldier by Palestinian
militants.
Doctors said that, unlike traditional combat injuries, there was no
large shrapnel found in the bodies and there appeared to be a
"dusting" on damaged internal organs.
"Bodies arrived severely fragmented, melted and disfigured," said
Jumaa Saqa'a, a doctor at the Shifa hospital, in Gaza City. "We found
internal burning of organs, while externally there were minute pieces
of shrapnel. When we opened many of the injured people we found
dusting on their internal organs."
It is not clear whether the injuries come from a new weapon. The
Israeli military declined to detail the weapons in its arsenal, but
denied reports that the injuries came from a Dense Inert Metal
Explosive (Dime), an experimental weapon.
In Gaza, Dr Saqa'a said the small pieces of shrapnel found in
patients' bodies did not show up under x-ray. "We are used to seeing
shrapnel penetrate the body making localised damage. Now we didn't see
shrapnel, but we found the destruction," he said.
Most of the injuries were around the abdomen, he said. The doctors
also found that patients who were stabilised after one or two days
suddenly died. "The patient dies without any apparent scientific
cause," he said.
At the Kamal Odwan hospital, in Beit Lahiya, the deputy director,
Saied Jouda, said he had found similar injuries. "We don't know what
it means - new weapons or something new added to a previous weapon,"
he said. He too found patients with severe internal injuries without
signs of any large shrapnel pieces. "There was burning, big raw areas
of charred flesh," he said. "This must be related to the type of
explosive material."
Photographs of some of the dead from Shifa hospital showed bodies that
had been melted and blackened beyond recognition. In several cases
doctors amputated badly burnt limbs.
At least 250 Palestinians have died in Gaza since the latest military
operations began and hundreds more have been injured.
Neither of the doctors could give exact figures for the numbers of
patients suffering the new injuries, although both said that most of
those brought in during July showed signs of these injuries.
Dr Saqa'a said the injuries occurred over six weeks beginning in late
June, while Dr Jouda said he believed patients admitted even in recent
days still showed signs of unusual injuries.
The health ministry in Gaza reported that these injuries came from an
"unprecedented type of projectile," and also noted severe burning and
badly damaged internal organs. It called for an investigation into the
cause of the wounds.
"You have complete burns that lead to amputation. You find shrapnel
entering the body and leaving very, very small holes. We have never
seen this before," said Khalid Radi, a spokesman at the health ministry.
Tissue samples from patients in Gaza were given to journalists from
the Italian television channel RAI. In a documentary shown last week,
the channel said the injuries appeared similar to the effects of Dime.
An Italian laboratory that analysed the samples reportedly said its
results were compatible with the hypothesis that a Dime weapon was
involved.
The weapon is new and in the US it is still in the early stages of
development. It has a carbon-fibre casing and contains fine tungsten
particles rather than ordinary metal shrapnel. It causes a very
powerful blast, but with a much more limited radius than other explosives.
However, the Israeli military denies the use of Dime weapons.
"The defence establishment is investing considerable effort to develop
weaponry in order to minimise the risk of injury to innocent
civilians. With regard to allegations of the use of Dime weaponry, the
Israel defence forces deny the possession or use of such weapons," the
military said in a statement. "Due to operational reasons, the IDF
cannot specify the types and use of weapons in its possession. In
addition it should be emphasised that the IDF only uses weapons in
accordance with the international law."
Some Israeli military experts have also dismissed the suggestion that
a Dime weapon is involved.
Isaac Ben-Israel, a professor at Tel Aviv University and a retired
Israel air force general who was involved in weapons development, had
seen some of the photographs of the dead and injured and said he
believed that the wounds came from ordinary explosives. "I can tell
you surely that no one in Israel ever developed such a Dime weapon. It
doesn't exist at all," he said.
The International Committee of the Red Cross, which monitors weapons
used in conflicts, said it had heard reports of similar injuries from
Gaza and was collecting information on the case. "We haven't come to
any sort of conclusion about what kind of weapon it was," said Bernard
Barrett, an ICRC spokesman.
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From: "Henri the Celt" <henrit...@gci.net>
Date: October 21, 2006 3:54:44 AM EST
Subject: DIEBOLD TOUCHSCREEN SOURCE CODE STOLEN IN MARYLAND!
BLOGGED BY John Gideon ON 10/19/2006 8:42PM
WASH POST: DIEBOLD TOUCHSCREEN SOURCE CODE
DISCOVERED STOLEN IN MARYLAND!
ALSO: State Report Finds Sensitive Voter Registration Database
Vulnerable to 'Across-the-Board Access'
Diebold, State Election Director Lamone Continue State of Denial
Guest Blogged by John Gideon (with additional snark provided by Brad
Friedman)
The Washington Post is reporting in Friday editions that the FBI is
investigating the "possible theft" of Diebold electronic touch-screen
voting system source code in Maryland.
While the Maryland State Board of Elections admits that the disks
contained "the softwareused in Maryland in the 2004 elections,"
Diebold denies everything. Of course. They gave their catch-all
apologia the software is for "versionsthat are no longer in use in
Maryland" although they were forced to acknowledge "the version of
one program apparently stored on the disks is still in use in 'a
limited number of jurisdictions.'"
The disks feature logos from Ciber Inc. and Wyle Labratories, Inc.,
two labs that test voting machines and software (sort of) for Diebold.
Both firms deny the disks are theirs.
According to the article
The disks delivered to [ex-Delegate Cheryl C.] Kagan's office bear
labels indicating that they hold "source code" the instructions that
constitute the core of a software program for Diebold's Ballot
Station and Global Election Management System (GEMS) programs. The
former guides the operation of the company's touch-screen voting
machines; the latter is in part a tabulation program used to tally
votes after an election.
Three years ago, Diebold was embarrassed when an activist obtained
some of its confidential software by searching the Internet. The
company vowed to improve its security procedures to prevent another lapse.
The release of such software poses a risk, computer scientists say,
because it could allow someone to discover security vulnerabilities or
to write a virus that could be used to manipulate election results."
WaPo goes on to report
The Washington Post obtained copies of the disks Wednesday and allowed
Avi Rubin, a computer scientist at Johns Hopkins University, along
with a colleague and a graduate student, to review the software on the
condition that they make no copies of it.
"I would be stunned if it's not real," Rubin said.
Rubin, who has said that electronic voting systems that do not produce
a paper record of each vote cannot be secured, led a team that
produced an analysis that pointed out security vulnerabilities in the
Diebold software found on the Internet in 2003.
Sam Small, the graduate student, said the version of Ballot Station
"was consistent with what we've seen previously." Small could not gain
access to the GEMS software because the material on two of the disks
was protected by a password."
The Diebold statement said "it would take years for a knowledgeable
scientist" to break the encryption used on the software apparently
contained on the disks delivered to Kagan. But Rubin said "the data
and files were not encrypted" on the Ballot Station disk he reviewed.
So will Diebold just continue to deny that anything has happened or
can happen? Will MD State Election Director, Linda Lamone, just pass
on Diebold disinformation as she always does (despite knowing
bettersince she's seen the unredacted scientific reports on these
systems from security organizations like SAIC and RABA?) Or will
someone finally understand that this is a massive problem that needs
immediate attention?
Maryland, along with Georgia, was one of Diebold's original "showcase
states," implementing Diebold's hackable paperless touch-screen voting
across virtually the entire state since 2002. With failure after
failure, we might add.
If it's all not bad enough, in what is reported by WaPo as "an
unrelated development" in the same article, a new report from Maryland
state auditors revealed that the state's new voter registration
database does not have proper security controls in place for access to
the data
Maryland state auditors said in a report yesterday that the State
Board of Elections is not properly controlling access to a new
statewide database of registered voters or verifying what changes are
made to it. The report comes at a time of heightened concern over the
security and effectiveness of electronic voting systems.
Legislative auditor Bruce Myers said it was unusual to allow
"across-the-board access" by local election officials to a sensitive
database, but Lamone defended the board's practices. In a letter
released with the Office of Legislative Audits report, she wrote that
the board "is unaware of any allegations of the falsification of
additions or deletions to the system."
Phew! Lamone is "unaware of any allegations" of changes to the voter
registration database. We feel better. If she's "unaware" of them,
they couldn't possibly existeven though the state found they could
possibly exist and she's unaware of them.
Not bad enough for you yet? Read on
The Office of Legislative Audits report also said the Maryland
elections board has paid bills submitted by contractors without proper
documentation and has not taken appropriate steps to safeguard its
computer network and Web site.
Lamone said, "It seems inappropriate to base findings on a partially
implemented system," referring to the new MDVOTERS database, which
Maryland has established to comply with federal law.
She said it is appropriate for local election workers to have access
to the database and said procedures are in place to verify changes.
Lamone concurred with the auditors' criticism of her staff's
accounting practices and said they had "obtained nearly all necessary
documentation" for contractors' bills.
Providing the sort of local oversight envisioned by the auditors, she
said, "simply cannot be conducted with existing resources."
Apparently Lamone who incredibly still has a job feels wide and
uncontrolled access to the state's database of registered voters is
just fine because it's only "partially implemented."
As usual Lamone, a Democrat by the way, uses 'smoke and mirrors' to
cover for her own egregious failings as the state's elections
administrator.
Have we mentioned how incredible it is that she still has a job?
UPDATE: Posted by John Gideon 11:45am Pac: The complete Office of
Legislative Audits report can be found here.
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US Republicans Launch Terror Ad
controversial terror-linked TV ad to bolster
support ahead of mid-term elections
October 21, 2006
BBC
The US Republican Party has launched a controversial terror-linked TV
advertisement to bolster support ahead of mid-term elections next month.
The footage shows al-Qaeda leaders with captions of threatening
statements, while the soundtrack of a ticking bomb plays in the
background.
The advertisement, which ends with the sound of a bomb exploding, is
due to air from Sunday.
Democrats have hit out at the commercial, calling it scaremongering.
US voters go to the polls on 7 November to elect members of Congress.
Republicans have made a tough stance on terrorism a major part of
their campaign strategy.
'Desperate ploy'
Both Osama Bin Laden and his second in command, Ayman al-Zawahiri,
are shown in the commercial, which is entitled "The Stakes".
Attributed quotes such as "Kill the Americans" and "What is yet to
come will be even greater" are flashed across the screen.
Gun-bearing militants in training camps are also shown, followed by
the stark message: "These are the stakes. Vote November 7th."
A statement on the Democratic National Committee website called the
advertisement "a desperate ploy to once again try to scare voters and
distract from their failures".
"Republicans are so afraid of their abysmal record they can't offer
one example of what they've done to keep America safe," the response said.
But the Republican National Committee said the advertisement
"underscores the high stakes America faces in the global War on Terror".
The BBC's Justin Webb in Washington says the advertisement comes as
the Republican Party face up to the real possibility that it could
lose control of one or both houses in the polls.
This is an outcome that would in effect torpedo the Bush presidency,
our correspondent adds.
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From: Tim Barton / BlueGreenEarth <tim_de...@yahoo.com>
Date: October 20, 2006 6:10:06 AM EST
To: _BlueGreenEarth Forum <bluegre...@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [bluegreenearth] Faslane blockades...good press all round!
Reply-To: bluegre...@yahoogroups.com
From: "Cass, Noel" <n.c...@lancaster.ac.uk>
Subject: [knowledgelab] Faslane blockades...good press all round!
Read the following stories to be inspired to come with the Lancaster
and Cumbria group to blockade
Halloween and All Saints Day...we need to be as creative as possible!
Scotsman 18th October
Teenager Proud of Nuclear
Blockade Action
A THIRTEEN-year-old girl who was arrested after blocking the entrance
to Faslane Naval Base has
spoken of her pride at being involved in the action.
Broughton High School pupil Catherine Holmes locked her arm to that of
her 15-year-old friend
Nikki Logan via a pipe hidden inside a teddy bear, in an attempt to
obstruct business at the
Trident nuclear submarine base.
She was one of around 60 people who took part in a weekend of action
organised by a number of
Edinburgh peace groups at the base, as part of a planned year-long
series of blockades and
protests.
In total, 12 people were arrested over the weekend, which was mainly
organised by Edinburgh CND,
Edinburgh University's People and Planet group and School Students
Against War. Today, Catherine
said she was happy she had taken part in the protest.
The young campaigner said: "While I was lying in the road, one of the
police officers made a
comment about my age.
"Surely they know that there are innocent children much younger than
myself being killed in Iraq
because of depleted uranium."
Anti-Trident Protesters Arrested (BBC)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/5399492.stm
<http://exchange.lancs.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/5399492.stm>
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Last Updated: Friday, 20 October 2006, 14:03 GMT 15:03 UK
Anger as New 9/11 Remains Found
Human remains - some as large as arm or leg bones - have been found at
the site of the 11 September attacks in New York, AP news agency has
reported.
The remains were found in rubble excavated from a manhole near the
site of the World Trade Center.
Relatives say the find proves the need for a thorough new search of
the area around Ground Zero.
"We can no longer rely on accidental discoveries," said WTC Families
for Proper Burial in a statement.
"This must be a deliberate search. May this awful news be the
catalyst needed to go back and do the job well."
Families of more than 1,100 of the victims of 9/11 have never
received any remains of their loved ones.
The campaign group is to hold a news conference over the latest
discovery later on Friday.
Abandoned site
The material excavated from the manholes was removed from the site
without anyone noticing it contained the remains, said utility company
Consolidated Edison.
On Thursday, the Port Authority contractor spotted the remains, the
agency said.
Some of the remains were as big as arm or leg bones, said Steve
Coleman, a spokesman for the Port Authority.
Construction workers have been instructed to look for human remains
and notify the medical examiner's office when they find them.
"No official identifications have been made at this time and the New
York City Police Department and the Office of the Chief Medical
Examiner are heading up the investigation," said Patrick J Brennan of
the Mayor's Community Assistance Unit was quoted by the AP news agency.
The discovery comes just weeks after the fifth anniversary of the
attacks.
Earlier this year, construction workers in New York discovered 74
bone fragments from 9/11 victims. The remains were found mixed in with
roofing material at the condemned Deutsche Bank building, which stands
next to Ground Zero.
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From: "Henri the Celt" <henrit...@gci.net>
Date: October 19, 2006 11:12:44 PM EST
To: "AAAHenri" <henrit...@gci.net>
Subject: The 9/11 Operation: A Summary
Writings of a Finnish military expert
The 9/11 Operation: A Summary
The 9/11 operation consisted of at least the following:
Military exercises by the North American Aerospace Defense Command
(NORAD) with 22 imaginarily hijacked planes on 9/11/2001, before and
simultaneously with the 'real' hijackings. Some of the defense
interceptors flew to Alaska, as far as possible from the cities that
were being attacked.
The 'hijackings' of four civil aircraft and the substitution of all of
the planes that really were used on the real flights to
remote-controlled ones. It is certain that an operation this complex
and heavy in the preparations of the demolitions is not left to be
handled by arabs with carpeting knives. Plissken-Valentine or Pearl
are well-assumed estimations on how the aircraft operation was
performed. Since the part of airplanes hijacked and flown into
buildings was critical to the real aims of the operation there must
have been a couple of reserve planes for the USAF Boeing 767's and the
Global Hawk. Alternatively, the Boeing 757 shot down in Pennsylvania
might have been a remote- controlled reserve plane like those.
The booking of seats on certain flights was artificially kept low;
those coast-to-coast flights were booked by 20% instead of the usual
75% in order to minimize deaths, which could cause problems. If the
flights were real, the passengers on them had to die (or at least
disappear). Two of the flights were probably nothing but fictious,
real only on radar screens, which minimized the amount of passengers
to be murdered.
There was use of put options with airline stocks and with the
re-assurance companies related (American Airlines, United Airlines,
Allianz, Munchener Re, Schweizer Re, AXA). Furthermore, the assurance
values of the WTC were doubled in July 2001.
The camouflaging of six remote-controlled aircraft in order to make
them look like Boeing 767's or 757's. The four planes probably were 2x
USAF 767 tankers, a Global Hawk in Pentagon and a 'real' 757 in
Pennsylvania.
False tracks leading to 'terrorists' using young moslem looking
persons, who take aviation classes in Southern USA and party at night
clubs, were created.
The demolition preparations of the wing of the Pentagon that was under
reparation. This was supposed to collapse a horseshoe-shaped area of
the building, which would seem to be caused by the crash of a Boeing
757 after the Global Hawk attack. This partly failed. There is
photographic evidence of a small plane before the actual collapse of
the wing of the Pentagon. The structures did not collapse until
firefighters sprayed lots of water on the ceiling of the building.
The demolition preparations of the WTC towers and WTC 7 so that it was
possible to make them collapse completely. Also the positioning of an
electronic homing device in the towers and in Pentagon in order to
ensure the accurate hits of the remote-controlled aircraft. Extra
napalm for dramatizing the effects of hits of airliners. The WTC
buildings could have been exploded down to earth in same way even
completely without the airplanes.
Ordering, preparing and transportation of the charges for the
demolition of the WTC. Solely for the steel pillars of the outer
circle 40 x 240 charges were needed, let's say 10 000 cutting charges
each weighing 50 lbs for each tower. For WTC 7 at least 4000 charges
were needed. Also at least one small thermonuclear bomb for each of
these three buildings.
The locating of critical targets for the conspiracy in the WTC towers.
For example, there was a lot of evidence of world-wide economic
crimes. The FBI was in WTC 1 in the floors from 22 to 24. (It has been
said that one case was the case against Mobil Oil and James Giffen on
illegal oil swaps between Iran and Kazakhstan and the evidence in the
investigation of gold price fixing stemming from charges brought
against Alan Greenspan, Morgan & Company, Goldman Sachs.) It is
possible that some targets were attacked because of the unique
opportunity exploitable where the human bodies and all evidence of the
crimes automatically disappeared when a hydrogen bomb exploded.
Explosions heard from the towers before the commencing of the
'collapse' may have been related to these attacks. There is a reason
for the huge explosion in the customs building, as well.
THE DEMOLITION OPERATION OF THE WTC TOWERS
1) One needs to find out the right size and the dimensions of suitable
cutting charges and then order 24 000 pieces. One must as well order
fitting detonators (detonators were needed a lot more). Fitting
detonators usually already exist in stores of military forces (or the
CIA). Time of delivery is several months in any case. All detonators
must be equipped with some kind of safety mechanism, which will be
removed by a radio signal at the final moment.
2) After this, the cutting charges are installed in the selected rooms
that are not in use. Some of these rooms may as well serve as
temporary storages for charges needed elsewhere. After this the
apartment is renovated and circulated to the clients in the WTC. One
man continuously assembles maybe 5 cutting charges per hour. With 10
assemblers 350 charges are installed a day. As surplus transportations
of supplies, renovators and guards. Maybe about 20 people more were
needed (5 of them know what is going on, 15 do not). For the
installation of the charges this operation takes at least four months
with 30 men. Considering step 1), six months are probably needed. The
amount of personnel could not have been increased, but probably
decreased, if more time was available.
3) To some of the chosen apartments, no one had access. That is why on
the weekend on 9/8/2001 and 9/9/2001 it is announced, that floors up
from the 40th floor are being equipped with cables and no normal
employee has access to the working area there. The installations of
explosives are completed and at the same time at least in the charged
areas listening devices are set to find out a possible premature
discovery of the plan. If someone finds charges the guards are soon on
the scene and will deal the situation in one way or another.
4) One completes the area of secret service in WTC 7 so that its
demolition operation can be carried out. A military flight beacon is
placed there (planes are homing to it from far away). Remote controls
for air planes and radio transmitters to be capable of blowing up at
least one third of the cutting charges are placed. At this location,
the ability to eavesdrop any area of the WTC, for example by a
laserbeam, aimed to a selected window, probably already existed.
5) A radio beacon helping the final approach is placed in targeted
apartments in the WTC towers. Close to these, remote controlled napalm
explosives are placed as well, in order to draw the interest from the
planes to fires. The higher in the towers the planes are targeted, the
less there will be deaths. (Real terrorists would do exactly the
opposite.) Evacuation from lower floors should be possible through the
staircases. The target is to create a new reason for odd wars and
fascistic laws, not to kill as many Americans as possible. 'A new
Pearl Harbor', meaning the death of about 3000 citizens is probably
the desired loss of lives.
6) The attack plans are made so that they can be executed during the
chaos, for example in the offices of the investigations of the
economic crimes by the FBI. (The attackers had already their own men
infiltrated in these facilities.) Also in WTC 6 (customs) either a
small nuke or a very strong bomb is blown out (which one, depends on
whether there was melted steel ponds in the cellar of WTC 6.) An
explosion, of course, hides the loss of any supplies (A nuclear
explosion covers up murders, as well.)
7) In the morning of 9/11 the operations are performed after a
timetable in which seconds are important. From the command post
facilities the actions in towers are monitored. To hide the true
nature of the operation, there was probably an agent on call in both
towers, who could silence the people finding out too much. (The agent
probably did not know what was going to happen.)
It is not likely that all the people, who knew about the demolition
charges in the WTC, or those who installed the remote controls of the
aircraft or did some camouflage paintings for drones are still are
alive and capable of telling about their acts, which changed the world.
8) The mini-nukes are transported to the cellar floors in elevators.
After that the elevators are locked down, guarded and monitored - no
service repairman will be allowed near these elevators. The
thermonuclear device used in WTC 7 was different, its yield was set
lower and it was directed in a way better suitable for that building.
9) The explosions have been timed so that 99.9% of people around will
look at the top of towers, and perhaps two seconds later the small
thermonuclear bomb is exploded in the cellar of the south tower, and
again two seconds later another very powerful charge in the WTC 6
customs building while nobody is looking that way. There are also the
continuous explosions of the thousands of cutting charges tearing the
south tower down at the speed of gravity-driven free fall.
10) The demolition of either of the WTC towers took at least half a
year to prepare, including installation of 10 000 cutting charges and
the delivery of a thermonuclear device at the last moment. The
demolition of those ultra strong steel pillars in the central core
using cutting charges only is not possible without waking up unwanted
attention. These charges must be in touch of the steel pillars, and
there is not enough enclosed space in the central core to hide these
biggest possible charges.
11) The demolition operation is finished by destroying WTC 7 using a
nuke and completely destroying the op center with its equipment.
Concrete evidence like the military flight beacon and the remote
control devices for cutting charges and napalm as well as the
recordings of eavesdropping devices regarding events within the towers
vapourize and vanish without a trace.
SIDE MARKINGS
Most of the media is controlled by people related to the attack and
tell misleading stories only, as if crushing of the airliners or a
weak fire could have caused the 'collapse' of the towers. The true
attackers are the ones with strong and vigorous broadcasting around
their false version of the events which is very different to what
really happened.
Until these days, no single newspaper, magazine nor a national tv
channel in the western nations have taken a critical view on the
so-called truth, according to which the planes and fires caused the
WTC towers to collapse. The destruction of WTC 7, which has no
explanation at all, is bypassed without any comments. A huge bomb,
explosed in WTC 6 is also bypassed as a non-existing event.
Some things, like the sharply-drawn pictures of the closest
seismographs may have been falsified. A Specialist in demolitions, V.
Romero, may have been forced to change his original statement. The
hoax is completed by Osama Bin Laden, who as a CIA agent 'confesses'
to have ordered the airliner strikes. The Bin Laden hoax and the
suicidal arabs construct a net of lies that catches the most of the
mankind.
Laymen have no experience in observing differences in collapses,
controlled demolitions and underground nuclear demolitions. Even the
destruction of heavy steel constructions or a typical fire damage are
far away from their field of experience. These towers were build to
take the impacts of hitting Boeing 707's, comparable to Boeing 767's,
taking into account the fires caused by the aviation fuel. And the
buildings did survive well all that.
The knowledge of relevant advances regarding weapon technology is even
rarer. Many of those who are up to date are bound by strict commitment
of loyality that is vigorously looked after. In some cases, they get
executed (an 'accident' occurs).
The author of this text feels as his duty to spread mainly the
advanced knowledge in explosives from a military point of view in
public discussion as it is obvious that lacking this information the
events observed around 9/11 cannot be explained.
The photographs attached in this non-profit distribution are for
securing volatile, important evidence on 9/11 for discussion and
education. Author hereby grants full permission to reproduce the
drawing 'The Bombs in the WTC' and his writings. You are encouraged to
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From: Bea Bernhausen <beaber...@yahoo.com>
Date: October 18, 2006 2:00:21 AM EST
Subject: [WarOnFreedom] Europe Moves To Kill The Internet
http://www.infowars.net/articles/October2006/171006Internet.htm
Europe Moves
to Kill the Internet
New EU rules would
prevent uploading video without a license
Steve Watson / Infowars.net | October 17 2006
The latest move to kill off online freedom and the spread of
information comes in the form of proposed EU legislation that would
prevent users from uploading any form of video, whether that be a hard
hitting political documentary film or your friends goofing around with
diet coke and Mentos.
A proposed EU directive could extend broadcasting regulations to the
internet, hitting popular video-sharing websites such as YouTube.,
reports the London Times. This would mean that websites and mobile
phone services that feature video images would have to conform to
standards laid down in Brussels.
Personal websites would have to be licensed as a "television-like
service". Once again the reasoning behind such legislation is said to
be in order to set minimum standards on areas such as hate speech and
the protection of children.
In reality this directive would do nothing to protect children or
prevent hate speech - unless you judge protecting children to be
denying them access to anything that is not government regulated or
you assume hate speech to be the criticism of government actions and
policy.
Whilst it may not seem a great loss to some people that there would be
no more home videos of "Girls snogging for fun" or "Bad Bus Driver",
under such rules it would also be illegal throughout the entirety of
Europe to upload and spread informative documentary films such as Alex
Jones' Terror Storm, important activist tools which seek to expose the
fraud behind the war on terror.
It is safe to say that without the freedom of the internet grass roots
activism could never evolve into huge ideologies such as the 9/11
truth movement, which has exploded into one of the most powerful and
important movements of modern times thanks to the ease with which the
information can be disseminated through the web.
We have previously highlighted the trouble we have had with
censorship from Google Video who reset viewing totals for Terror Storm
from hundreds of thousands of views on several different video
versions back down to zero for each one. This seemingly stalled the
viral spread of the film for a while.
However, the proposed EU legislation dwarfs any Google censorship as
it would kill off Google Video/You Tube as a project before it had
even started.
The latest proposed directive is another in a long line of draconian
legislative procedures that seek to totally centralize and regulate
the spread of information and ideas. Anyone in Europe can already be
arrested and possibly extradited under the European arrest warrant,
which passed into law in 2002. This supercedes national law and means
that anyone could be arrested for expressing an opinion deemed to be
illegal in another EU country.
The BBC reported that under such laws people who distribute stories
about fictional children's hero Biggles or the Old Testament could be
criminalized under the guise of anti-racism legislation.
Such laws in turn require implementation and upholding, therefore
increasing the need for broad data retention, which had previously
come up against opposition as part of anti-terror legislation, but has
not faced as much backlash under anti-racist or child protection laws.
This means surveillance on a massive and coordinated centralized scale.
The EU data retention bill, passed in February after much controversy
and with implementation tabled for late 2007, obliges telephone
operators and internet service providers to store information on who
called who and who emailed who for at least six months. Under this
law, investigators in any EU country, and most bizarrely even in the
US, can access EU citizens' data on phone calls, sms', emails and
instant messaging services.
Such EU directives mirror US proposals for data retention, the
reasoning for which as either a standalone measure or as an amendment
to a broad telecommunications bill, is that it is designed to protect
children.
This may mean that any normal website or blog would have to fall into
line with such new rules and suddenly total web regulation would
become a reality.
We are being led to believe that a vast army of maniac pedophiles are
on the loose and we must do away with all forms of privacy in order to
stop them. This is akin to saying that blanket cctv prevents crime. As
if to say "if we film everyone all the time, even innocent people,
then no one will ever commit any crimes."
Increasingly we are seeing this in every aspect of our lives.
Recording, tracking and retaining our data in the name of keeping us
all safe. Everyone is now treated as guilty until proven innocent.
The attack on internet freedom is forging ahead every day. Monday saw
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff declare the internet as a
"terror training camp" that attracts Disaffected people. His solution
is "intelligence fusion centers," staffed by Homeland Security
personnel which will go into operation next year.
The US government is also funding research into social networking
sites and how to gather and store personal data published on them,
according to the New Scientist magazine.
"At the same time, US lawmakers are attempting to force the social
networking sites themselves to control the amount and kind of
information that people, particularly children, can put on the sites."
Both American and European moves mimic stories we hear every week out
of State Controlled Communist China, where the internet is strictly
regulated and virtually exists as its own entity away from the rest of
the web.
We have also previously exposed how moves are afoot to clamp down on
internet neutrality and even to designate a new form of the internet
known as Internet 2.
This would be a faster, more streamlined elite equivalent of the
internet available to users who were willing to pay more for a much
improved service. providers may only allow streaming audio and video
on your websites if you were eligible for Internet 2.
Of course, Internet 2 would be greatly regulated and only "appropriate
content" would be accepted by an FCC or government bureau. Everything
else would be relegated to the "slow lane" internet, the junkyard as
it were. Our techie rulers are all too keen to make us believe that
the internet as we know it is "already dead".
The Internet is freedom's best friend and the bane of control freaks.
Its eradication is one of the short-term goals of those that seek to
centralize power and subjugate their populations under a surveillance
panopticon prison, whether that be in Communist China, Neoconservative
America or the Neofascist EU.
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America's Housing Boom Turns Bust,
but Asia Will Withstand It - The Economist
From: Dave Chiang Date: 21/10/06 08:34
Asian Economies to Withstand Global
Impact from Looming US Economic Recession
The alternative engine
Oct 19th 2006 | HONG KONG
>From The Economist print edition
http://www.economist.com/business/displaystory.cfm?story_id=8049652
A sharp slowdown in the American economy could be offset by the
growing and largely unrecognised power of Asia's consumers
AMERICAN consumers have been one of the main engines of global growth
for the past decade. But now, as America's housing boom threatens to
turn into a bust, many forecasters expect household spending to stall.
A few even worry that America could come perilously close to a
recession in 2007. Previous American downturns have usually dragged
the rest of the world economy down, too. Yet this time its fate will
depend largely upon whether China and the other Asian economies can
decouple from the slowing American locomotive.
According to conventional wisdom, American consumers have
single-handedly kept the world economy chugging along, whereas
cautious Europeans and Asians have preferred to save. Yet the
importance of America's role in global growth is often exaggerated.
During the past five years America has accounted for only 13% of
global real GDP growth, using purchasing-power parity (PPP) weights.
The real driver of the world economy has been Asia, which has
accounted for over half of the world's growth since 2001. Even in
current dollar terms, rather than PPP, Asia's 21% contribution to the
increase in world GDP exceeded America's 19%. But current dollar
figures understate Asia's weight in the world, because in China and
other poor countries things like housing and domestic services are
much cheaper than in rich countries, so a dollar of spending buys a
lot more. If you want to compare consumer spending across countries,
it therefore makes more sense to convert local currency spending into
dollars using PPPs rather than market exchange rates.
However, the doomsayers argue that Asia's growth has itself been based
largely on exporting to America, whereas domestic demand in the region
has languished. Their evidence for this is that Asia is running a
combined current-account surplus of over $400 billion, implying that
it is contributing much more to world supply than to demand. Thus if
America's demand stumbles, the growth in Asia's exports and output
would also plunge.
Asia's export growth would certainly slow sharply, but it is the
change in net exports that contributes to a country's growth rate, not
the absolute size of that surplus. Since 2001 the increase in emerging
Asia's trade surplus has added less than one percentage point a year
on average to the region's average growth rate of almost 7%. Contrary
to the received view, the bulk of Asia's growth has been domestically
driven. True, domestic demand (investment and consumption) has grown
more slowly than GDP over the past year everywhere except in Malaysia
(see chart 1). But in most cases the gap has been small, especially in
China, India, Japan and Indonesia. In contrast, growth in Taiwan, Hong
Kong and Singapore has been heavily dependent on external demand over
the past year.
It is true that exports account for 40% of China's GDP, but those
exports have a large import component; only a quarter of the value of
China's exports is added locally. The impact of a slowdown in export
growth would therefore be partially offset by a slowdown in imports.
China's GDP growth has come mainly from domestic demand, which has
been growing by an annual 9% in recent years.
The idea that China's growth is mainly export-led is not the only
popular myth. Another, says Jonathan Anderson, an economist at UBS, is
that China's consumer spending is feeble. Several recent reports
highlight that according to official figures spending has fallen from
50% of nominal GDP in 1990 to 42% today. But this partly reflects an
even stronger boom in capital spending. Real consumer spending has
been growing at an average annual pace of 10% over the past
decade—the fastest in the world and much faster than in America
(see chart 2).
There is also good reason to believe that official figures understate
consumer spending in China because of their inadequate coverage of
services. Purchases of homes by the Chinese have risen rapidly since
they were first allowed in 1998, but these are also excluded from the
figures. If they are added in, Mr Anderson calculates, total household
spending has not fallen as a share of GDP.
How does this square with the common perception that Chinese household
saving is extraordinarily high and rising? The truth is that it is
not. The saving of Chinese households has in fact fallen from 20% to
16% of GDP over the past decade. The main reason why China's total
national saving rate looks so high (at close to 50%) is that Chinese
companies have been saving a much bigger slice of their booming
profits (see article).
Bags and bags of shopping
Across many other Asian countries, the notion of the frugal Asian
consumer is equally flawed, says Mr Anderson. Although consumption has
fallen as a share of GDP in most Asian countries, this does not mean
that households are saving more. Excluding China and India, household
saving has fallen sharply, from 15% of GDP in the late 1980s to 8%
today. The paradox is explained by the fact that wage incomes have
risen more slowly than GDP as production has become more capital
intensive. But this means that Asian consumers are spending a rising
share of their income by borrowing or running down their savings.
Amazingly, the savings rate of Japanese households has fallen more
sharply than that of American households over the past decade.
AFP Doing their bit to help the world economy
The IMF estimates that in Asia as a whole (including Japan as well as
the emerging economies) real growth in consumer spending has averaged
a healthy 6.3% a year in 2005 and 2006. This suggests that Asian
consumers can help sustain fairly robust GDP growth in Asia even if
America's economy takes a dive.
Some pundits have predicted a boom in Asian consumer spending over the
coming years, which would help to fill the gap left by American
consumers cutting back on their purchases. But if consumer spending is
already rising strongly in Asia, there is little pent-up demand ready
to explode. On the other hand, spending by firms could pick up. After
the Asian economic crisis in the late 1990s, investment plunged
everywhere except China. It has remained relatively weak. However, as
the overhang of excess capacity and debt has disappeared, capital
spending is now starting to perk up across Asia.
Japanese firms' average return on assets now exceeds long-term
interest rates by 5%, the widest margin for decades, according to
Merrill Lynch. The Bank of Japan's latest Tankan survey of business
confidence found firms to be unexpectedly cheery. Big Japanese
manufacturers now report insufficient production capacity for the
first time since 1991 and plan to increase capital spending by 17% in
the year to March.
Another reason for believing that Asian economies can decouple from an
American downturn is that most of them have small budget deficits or
even surpluses. This means they have plenty of scope to ease fiscal
policy to support domestic demand so as to offset some of the fall in
exports. The main exception is Japan, which has a massive public debt;
Taiwan, where domestic demand is worryingly weak, is also constrained
by a large budget deficit. South Korea, on the other hand, which has
run a budget surplus for seven years, has plenty of scope to ease up.
The United States of where?
Not only is growth in China and the rest of Asia chiefly domestically
led, but America's share of Asia's total exports has fallen from 25%
to 20% over the past five years. Regional trade links within Asia have
also deepened, thanks partly to growing Chinese demand. Goldman Sachs
reports that five years ago China's imports for domestic use were only
half as big as those for the assembly and re-export of products, but
now they are roughly the same size. So strong domestic demand in China
sucks in more imports.
China's exports to America have fallen from 34% of its total exports
in 1999 to 25% now (adjusting for the re-exports which are made
through Hong Kong). Chinese exports to the European Union are now
almost as big as those to America and are growing faster.
When America sneezes, the rest of the world's economies may no longer
catch a cold
America takes only 23% of Japan's exports, down from almost 40% in the
late 1980s. However, this understates Japan's total exposure. Japanese
firms (like those in South Korea and Taiwan) send a lot of components
to China for assembly into goods, which are then exported to America
as finished products. On top of this, if a sinking American economy
pulled the dollar down with it, this would further squeeze Asian
exporters.
A recent report by Peter Morgan at HSBC estimates that slower American
growth will hurt China, India and Japan much less than it will the
smaller Asian economies, such as Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong, that
are more dependent on foreign demand. China, India and Japan account
for three-quarters of Asia's GDP and so, given the deeper regional
trade links, they should help to support demand in the whole region.
If America's GDP growth slows next year to 1.9%, from 3.5% in 2006, as
HSBC expects, then Asia's growth is tipped to slow from just above 7%
this year to just below 6% in 2007. Weaker exports will badly hurt
some industries, but overall, the region will continue to grow at a
reasonable pace.
Could Asia withstand a sharper American slowdown? Hong Liang at
Goldman Sachs estimates that if America's GDP growth drops to zero by
the end of 2007 then China's annual export growth could plummet from
26% in early 2006 to a decline of 2% by late 2007. That sounds dire.
Yet after taking account of the impact of slower export growth on
imports and domestic demand (ie, slower growth in investment), Ms
Liang estimates that China's GDP would still expand by a respectable
8%. That is significantly down from this year's growth rate of over
10%, which is still too fast to be sustained. China is today
tightening policy so as to slow down its runaway economy: weaker
external demand could be partly offset by reversing these measures.
In sum, if America suffers a slump, the economies of China and the
rest of Asia would slow, but they are unlikely to be derailed.
However, a slowdown in America could affect Asia indirectly through
other channels. Most important and least certain of all would be the
impact of an American recession on financial markets. Even if
economies can decouple, global financial markets tend to be more
tightly linked through the investment strategies of hedge funds and
the like. If America's economy hits the buffers, this will surely
trigger a rise in risk premiums and a drying up of market liquidity,
pushing share prices lower in Asia as well as in America. When America
sneezes, the rest of the world's economies may no longer catch a cold;
but if Wall Street shivers, global tremors will still be widely felt.
--
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Skinhead Violence Surging, Watchdog Group Says
POSTED: 0036 GMT (0836 HKT), October 20, 2006
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (Reuters) -- Violence by skinhead gangs in the
United States is on the rise because of splits in the extreme right
movement, a U.S. watchdog group said Friday.
The Hammerskin Nation gang has long dominated the skinhead scene, but
in the last two years other gangs like the Outlaw Hammerskins and the
Vinlander Social Club have rebelled against them, said Mark Potok,
director of the Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Project.
"When these small groups are trying to prove themselves you see an
upsurge in extreme violence," said Potok who estimated that tens of
thousands of people belonged to U.S. skinhead gangs.
"The remarkable thing of this rebellion is that it is a rebellion of
the ultraviolent against the extremely violent," said Potok.
The gangs consist mainly of young white men and some women who are
bonded around music, racist ideology and violence, according to the
center, which is based in Montgomery, Alabama, and has tracked
far-right groups for decades.
"The skinhead scene is both growing and is very much destabilized
[because of splits in its ranks] and that presents a danger to the
public," Potok said in an interview after the center published a
report on skinhead gangs.
Skinheads became active in the United States in the early 1980s. Their
violence reached a peak between 1988 and 1992 before falling off
because of a crackdown by law enforcement agencies.
The gangs are mainly active in cities like Los Angeles, Portland, Salt
Lake City, Denver, Boston and in the Midwest. The groups have links to
similar gangs in Europe.
They are increasingly mixing with neo-Nazi and Ku Klux Klan groups,
but pose no political threat because they are not linked to any
mainstream party or organization, Potok said.
He said disaffected young people are initially attracted to the
movement through music, which they usually hear on the Internet, and
are later recruited at concerts before adopting the gangs' racist views.
There are also gangs of anti-racist skinheads, Potok said.
Copyright 2006 Reuters. All rights reserved.This material may not be
published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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From: Henri the Celt <henrit...@gci.net>
Date: October 20, 2006 7:48:01 PM EST
To: AAAHenri <henrit...@gci.net>
Subject: Fw: Grim reality of Iraq
America has finally taken on the
grim reality of Iraq
The US is radically rethinking its exit strategy, while Britain waits
zombie-like for new instructions
Simon Jenkins
Wednesday October 18, 2006
The Guardian From: EGYPT From: cherifo1
The Baker report on an exit strategy from Iraq, leaked this week in
the US, is as sensible as it is sensational. It rejects "staying the
course" as no longer plausible and purports to seek alternatives to
just "cutting and running". Stripped of political sweetening, it
concludes that there is none. America must leave Iraq without
preconditions and hope that its neighbours, hated Syria and Iran, can
clear up the mess. This advice comes not from some anti-war coalition
but from the Iraq study group under the former Republican secretary of
state, James Baker, set up by Congress with President George Bush's
endorsement. Students of Iraq studies should at this point sit down
and steady their nerves. Kissinger is in Paris. The Vietnam moment is
at hand.
Earlier this week Bush telephoned the Iraqi prime minister, Nuri
al-Maliki, to reassure him about rumours swirling through Washington
that the Pentagon was about to topple him for being useless. It was
reported that Maliki had just two months to get both his army and the
escalating violence - running at some 100 deaths a day - under
control. Washington was allegedly searching for a new "strong man" to
pull the militias into line and assert the power of central government
over Iraq's catatonic insecurity.
Lending force to these rumours, Republican Senator John Warner has
spoken of a deadline for withdrawal and some version of a
"three-state" solution. The Kurds are already autonomous. Let the same
apply to the Sunnis and Shia. In the west of the country a Sunni body,
the Mujahedin Shura, has come out for a six province western region
under Prince Abu Omar Baghdadi. In the south the Iranians are watching
as the British cede control and a possible eight-province
"confederacy" slides effortlessly under their de facto aegis. Every US
thinktank is now busying itself (at last) with alternative futures for
Iraq.
Since accurate reporting is near impossible, the scale of that
country's collapse under three years of US and UK occupation is hard
to measure. Civil war is normally indicated by death rates and
population movements. Whether the figure of civilian deaths is 50,000
or ten times that number is immaterial; either is a horrific comment
on the impotence of the occupation. The UNHCR estimates 365,000
internal refuges in Iraq this year alone. More are seeking asylum
abroad than from any other nation.
A third of Iraq's professional class is reported to have fled to
Jordan, a flight of skills worse than under Saddam. UN monitors now
report 2,000 people a day are crossing the Syrian border. Over a
hundred lecturers at Baghdad university alone have been murdered,
mostly for teaching women. There are few places in Iraq where women
can go about unattended or unveiled. Gunmen arrived earlier this month
at a Baghdad television station and massacred a dozen of the staff, an
incident barely thought worth reporting. The national museum is walled
up. Electricity supply is down to four hours a day. No police uniform
can be trusted. The arrival anywhere of an army unit can be prelude to
a mass killing and makes a mockery of the American policy of "security
transfer". All intelligence out of Iraq suggests this is no longer a
functioning state.
For all the abuse which Europeans regularly heap on the American
political process, it has one strength, its capacity for
course-correction. A constitution heavy with checks and balances
enables it to respond to new circumstances with brutal pluralism.
Three years ago America went to war on a lie, a wing and a prayer.
That war has clearly failed and consensus is disintegrating. Congress
subjects serving and retired generals to searing cross-examination.
Senior figures go to Baghdad and, when they break free of their
minders, report independently. There is none of the executive
deference of Britain's parliamentary committees and tongue-tied "loyal
opposition". America's debate on Iraq is now a grim, grinding
encounter with reality.
The debate must contemplate the painful but not unfamiliar experience
of imperial retreat. As in Vietnam, Lebanon and Somalia the moment is
delayed but the deed will be efficient. The Baker commission,
appearing in full after November's congressional election, realises
the senselessness of the present bloodbath. It reportedly accepts that
the continued presence of foreign forces does not prevent but adds to
the chaos. American troops are in occupation but not in control. Their
departure can hardly undermine security, except possibly that of
Baghdad's green zone, and that is largely privatised.
A measure of the collapse is the astonishing suggestion that America
find a new regime in consultation with Iran and Syria. This can only
mean accepting some degree of confederacy, looking to the shadowy
militias, warlords and sheikhs for provincial and regional leadership.
Last year's Iraq constitution negotiated by the American ambassador in
Baghdad, Zelmay Khalilzad, remains the best template for this. It is
significant that Maliki, in a recent interview with US Today, referred
to the possibility of giving Sunnis and Shia muslims some of the
autonomy enjoyed by the Kurds. Given the sheer scale of civil violence
rife in and around Baghdad the price of such autonomy may be
population migration, but that is happening on a massive scale
already: Iraq is partitioning itself. It might at least presage a sort
of political reconstruction, without which peace and prosperity are
inconceivable.
What is humiliating for Britons is that not a whisper of such lateral
thinking can be heard from the government. Downing Street is
intellectually numb, like a forgotten outpost of a crumbling Roman
empire. It can see the barbarians at the gates yet it dare not respond
as it knows it should because no new instructions have arrived from
Rome. As for parliament, the opposition, academics, thinktanks and
most of the media, a zombie-like inertia is all. Last week's row over
controversial remarks by the army chief, Sir Richard Dannatt, was
concerned not with what he said but whether he should have said it.
Everyone is waiting for the US to move.
Blair's last comment on Iraq was that any withdrawal would be "craven
surrender" and would endanger British security. This is mad. Even Bush
can admit to be "open to new ideas on Iraq". Blair has clearly not
heard of Baker's report. Perhaps he should hurry to Washington for new
instructions from the boss.
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From: "Henri the Celt" <henrit...@gci.net>
Date: October 19, 2006 11:41:28 PM EST
To: "AAAHenri" <henrit...@gci.net>
Subject: Military Matters: Cynicism on Iraq
Military Matters: Cynicism on Iraq
By WILLIAM S. LIND
http://www.upi.com/SecurityTerrorism/view.php?StoryID=20061019-104408-1976r
WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 (UPI) -- At least 70 American troops have been
killed in Iraq this month. Hundreds have been wounded. The "battle for
Baghdad" is going nowhere.
A Marine friend just back from Ramadi said to me, "It didn't get any
better while I was there, and it's not going to get better." Virtually
everyone in Washington, except the people in the White House, knows
that is true for all of Iraq.
Actually, I think the White House knows it too. Why then does it
insist on "staying the course" at a casualty rate of more than one
thousand Americans per month? The answer is breathtaking in its
cynicism: so the retreat from Iraq happens on the next President's
watch. That is why we still fight.
Yep, it's now all about President George W. Bush. Anyone who thinks
that is too low, too mean, too despicable even for this bunch does not
understand the meaning of the adjective "Rovian." Would they let
thousands more young Americans get killed or wounded just so the
president does not have to face the consequences of his own folly? In
a heartbeat.
Not that it's going to help. When history finally lifts it leg on the
Bush administration, it will wash all such tricks away, leaving only
the hubris and the incompetence. Jeffrey Hart, who with Russell Kirk
gone is probably the top intellectual in the conservative movement,
has already written that George W. Bush is the worst president America
ever had. I think the honor still belongs to Woodrow Wilson, but if
Bush attacks Iran, he may yet earn the prize. That third and final act
in the Bush tragicomedy is waiting in the wings.
A post-election Democratic House of Representatives, Senate or both
might in theory say no to another war. But if the Bush
administration's cynicism is boundless, the Democrats' intellectual
vacuity and moral cowardice are equally so. You can't beat something
with nothing, but Democrats have put forward nothing in the way of an
alternative to Bush's defense and foreign policies. On Iran, the
question is whether they will be more scared of the Republicans or of
the Israeli lobby. Either way, they will hide under the bed, just as
they have hidden under the bed on the war in Iraq.
It appears at the moment that a congressional demand for withdrawal
from Iraq is more likely if the Republicans keep the Senate and Sen.
John Warner, R-Va., remains chairman of the Senate Armed Services
Committee than if the Democrats take over.
There is a great deal of material available to the Democrats to offer
an alternative, much of it the product of the Military Reform Movement
of the 1970s and 80s. Gary Hart, the former Democratic senator from
Colorado, can tell them all about it. There is even a somewhat
graceful way out of Iraq, if the Dems will ask themselves my favorite
foreign policy question, WWBD -- What Would Bismarck Do? He would
transfer sufficient Swiss francs to interested parties so that the
current government of Iraq asks us to leave. They, not we, would then
hold the world's ugliest baby, even though it was America's
indiscretion that gave the bastard birth.
But donkeys will think when pigs fly. A Democratic Congress will be
as stupid, cowardly and corrupt as its Republican predecessor; in
reality, both parties are one party, the party of successful career
politicians. The White House will continue a lost war in Iraq, solely
to dump the mess in the next president's lap. America or Israel will
attack Iran, pulling what's left of the temple down on our heads. The
U.S. Congress will do nothing to stop either war.
By 2008, I may not be the only monarchist in America.
(William S. Lind, expressing his own personal opinion, is Director
for the Center for Cultural Conservatism for the Free Congress
Foundation.)
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Friday, October 20, 2006
The Post-Israel Middle East
Norman Finkelstein has predicted that Israel is two wars away from
complete destruction. That sounds about right. The next one,
psychologically required after losing in Lebanon, will be a partial
success, setting up the final over-reach.
The Zionists have put all their eggs in the basket of American
support, but that basket has developed two holes. One is the paradox
that support for the Zionist series of wars and conflicts has so
weakened the United States that it is no longer a reliable ally.
Faced with a real crisis in Korea, the Americans are powerless to do
anything, and have to rely on China to fix things. It's China that is
going around the world Africa, South America, Asia sealing up oil
contracts, and not, contrary to what I keep reading about the Bush
Administration's great geopolitical plans, the United States. It's
Russia that is methodically reestablishing its power over the `Stans,
Ukraine, and Georgia, and dangling promises of hydrocarbons at
Europe. Americans are so nackered from fighting Israel's wars that
the world's sole superpower isn't so super any longer.
The other hole is the fact that Americans are slowly waking up to the
power of the Lobby, and don't like it. A Zogby International poll
(Zogby remains the only fair American polling company, as witnessed by
the fact that its results are correct, instead of the `push-polls'
sold by all the other corrupted pollsters):
" . . . reveals that 39% of the American public `agree' or `somewhat
agree' that `the work of the Israel lobby on Congress and the Bush
administration has been a key factor for going to war in Iraq and now
confronting Iran.' However, a similar number, 40%, `strongly
disagreed' or `somewhat disagreed' with this position. Some 20% of the
public, or more than one in five, were not sure."
This despite the fact that a significant minority of Americans are
religiously insane (if you extract the Christian Zionists from the
Israel Lobby poll, it appears that practically every sane American
opposes the Lobby). Perhaps more importantly, 50% of those between
the ages of 18 and 29 agreed that the Israel lobby had a hand in
forming the current pro-war policy. The tide is turning.
It is time to consider what a post-Israel Middle East will look like,
and how Judaism handles post-Zionist Jewish settlement in what used to
be Israel.
posted at 1:33 AM
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From: "Henri the Celt" <henrit...@gci.net>
Date: October 19, 2006 11:28:08 PM EST
To: "AAAHenri" <henrit...@gci.net>
Subject: Australian Treasurer Seeks Orderly Withdrawal From U.S. Dollar
Australian Treasurer Seeks Orderly Withdrawal from U.S. Dollar
By John Garnaut
Economics Correspondent
10/19/06 "SMH" -- -- TREASURER Peter Costello has called on East
Asia's central bankers to "telegraph" their intentions to diversify
out of American investments and ensure an orderly adjustment.
Central banks in China, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea and Hong Kong have
channelled immense foreign reserves into American government bonds,
helping to prop up the US dollar and hold down American interest rates.
Mr Costello said "the strategy had changed" and Chinese central
bankers were now looking for alternative investments.
"Of course you can have an orderly adjustment," he told reporters.
"And what I would recommend is that these matters be telegraphed well
in advance. I think we should begin preparing ourselves for it."
Mr Costello said the "re-emergence" of China as the world's greatest
economy "is not something to be feared".
Asked if a muscular China would be a force for good, however, Mr
Costello said it would be good for growth and stability. "With the
growing economic strength you will see growing influence in diplomacy
in the regional architecture, as you would expect.
"I am sure it will be a force for economic development and I am sure
that in partnership with other global powers, China wants to see a
stable East Asian region."
Earlier, in a speech to open the Australian National University's East
Asian Bureau of Economic Research, Mr Costello said Australia's
involvement in the region was broader than economics.
"It is a key ingredient of who we are as a people," he said. "While
Australia has its own unique culture, we are also a people who
confidently enjoy the cultures of Asia, with seven of our top 10
overseas travel destinations being in the region."
Ahead of next month's G20 meeting in Melbourne, Mr Costello called on
regional leaders to reform their anachronistic financial systems.
He said underdeveloped financial markets were to blame for the
emerging economies of East Asia sending 94 per cent of outward
portfolio investment to "ageing" countries outside the region.
He said the region needed to improve poor macroeconomic frameworks,
inadequate regulatory systems, uncompetitive markets and insufficient
investment in health and education
Copyright ) 2006. The Sydney Morning Herald.
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The Post-Israel Middle East
do anything, and have to rely on China to fix things. Its China
that is going around the world Africa, South America, Asia sealing
up oil contracts, and not, contrary to what I keep reading about
the Bush Administrations great geopolitical plans, the United States.
Its Russia that is methodically reestablishing its power over the
Stans, Ukraine, and Georgia, and dangling promises of hydrocarbons
at Europe. Americans are so nackered from fighting Israels wars
that the worlds sole superpower isnt so super any longer.
The other hole is the fact that Americans are slowly waking up to
the power of the Lobby, and dont like it. A Zogby International