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Monitoring America
A Washington Post Investigation: 'Top Secret America'
Washington Post, by Dana Priest And William M. Arkin

Nine years after the terrorist attacks of 2001, the United States is assembling a vast domestic intelligence apparatus to collect information about Americans, using the FBI, local police, state homeland security offices and military criminal investigators.

The system, by far the largest and most technologically sophisticated in the nation's history, collects, stores and analyzes information about thousands of U.S. citizens and residents, many of whom have not been accused of any wrongdoing. ... (Read More)

Reporter Dana Priest Talks About The Article

Frontline Preview: Monitoring America
 
This program will air in January 2011 on PBS' Frontline. Check your local TV listings.

See more from PBS on "Top Secret America" here
An entire page dedicated to the Washington Post investigation
 

NewsFocus: Just in case you missed this one, San Francisco AT&T Room 641A...

Whistle-Blower Outs NSA Spy Room Wired News


The infamous room 641A in the SF AT&T building on Folsom Ave.

These Photos Illustrate NSA Phone, Internet Tracking From AT&T Room 641A

Big Brother Spying on Americans' Internet Data?
AT&T Whistleblower: Secret Room That Sends Internet Data to Government
ABC News - 110707

SAN FRANCISCO AT&T OFFICE OPENED TO NSA SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM
Former AT&T technician tells Washington DC lawmakers

THE NSA SPY ROOM AT AT&T

ABC Reports On NSA Surveillance

The NSA Room At AT&T

 

This is totally un-American. How long will "we the people" tolerate this?

    

Impending Police State
Can You Recognize The Signs?
MediaRoots.org, by Abby Martin - 120810


Fast becoming a familiar yet unwanted scene in America.  (Photo by Abby Martin)

In George Orwell’s 1984, Britain is depicted as a totalitarian police state that is ruled by the Party, or Big Brother– an enigmatic, ubiquitous elite that controls society through heavy surveillance, nationalist propaganda and historical revisionism. The concept seems like a far-fetched portrayal of a Democratic nation’s demise into totalitarianism, but in America’s “post 9/11” climate of fear, the United States government has been building a comprehensive grid of surveillance and control that bears frightening similarities to Orwell’s fictional narrative. (Read more on The Edge page)
 

Study: FOX News Makes Voters Stupid
Extended Exposure To Fox News Makes Voters Stupid, University Study Finds
RawStory, by Stephen C. Webster - 121610


It's official: A university study reveals that FOX News dumbs down voters.  (Graphic: NewsFocus)

The troublesome record of spin by conservative television station Fox News has long been a cause for concern to many Americans, who frequently allege that the nation's most viewed "news" network has the effect of dumbing down voters.

Turns out, they were right.

A University of Maryland study (PDF) published earlier this month found that people in the survey who had the most exposure to Fox News were more likely to believe falsehoods and rumors about national and world affairs when compared to those who paid attention to other news outlets. ... (Read More)


You just can't make this up. FOX has no idea where Egypt is. FOX dumbs you down.

(For geographically challenged FOX viewers: The correct location of Egypt)
 

Do You Know About FBI Whistleblower Sibel Edmonds? You Should.

This woman was considered the most gagged person in history under Bush-Cheney.

( See what all the fuss is about: The Sibel Edmonds Bombshell Testimony )


Click here for information that every person needs to know about 9/11

When you respect the truth, then you expect the truth. -Shark Stone

Halliburton May Pay $500-Million to Keep Cheney Out of Prison
Global Research, by Daniel Tencer - 121010

Oilfield services company Halliburton is in negotiations with the Nigerian government to keep its former CEO, Dick Cheney, out of prison, according to a news report.

Sources inside Nigeria's Economic and Financial Crimes Commission told GlobalPost this week that a settlement keeping the charges against Cheney out of court could cost as much as $500 million.

Nigeria filed charges against Cheney this week in an investigation of alleged bribery estimated at $180 million. Prosecutors named both Halliburton and KBR in the charges, as well as three European oil and engineering companies -- Technip SA, EniSpa, and Saipem Construction.

The charges allege that engineering contractor KBR, until 2007 a subsidiary of Halliburton, was among companies that paid bribes to secure a $6 billion contract for a natural gas plant. KBR pleaded guilty to the same bribes in a US court in 2009, and agreed to pay a $382 million fine. The Nigerian charges appear to stem from the US case -- though, in that trial, Cheney was never directly charged.

Nigeria to Charge Dick Cheney in Pipeline Bribery Case
Nigeria to charge Dick Cheney in $180 million bribery case, issue Interpol arrest warrant

NewsFocus: Gee, let's get this straight... Cheney and Halliburton are in trouble for bribing Nigerian officials in a pipeline deal, however, they are now negotiating an out of court "settlement" to keep Cheney out of prison. Excuse me for asking perhaps a stupid question, but isn't that two payoffs now for Halliburton to Nigeria? What's the difference between the original bribe and the out of court settlement? <sigh>

Update! Halliburton to settle Nigeria charges
 

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

-John F. Kennedy 1961      

Geraldo Stuns O'Reilly With The Real Truth On FBI Stings
 

Geraldo is exactly right here. Pinhead O'Reilly is tragically ignorant to the issue.

Why Does The FBI Orchestrate Fake Terror Plots?
Is Encouragement To Commit A Crime By Federal Officials Really Justice Served?
Global Research, by Paul Craig Roberts - 113010

The latest one snared Osman Mohamud, a Somali-American teenager in Portland, Oregon. The Associated Press report by William Mall and Nedra Pickler (11-27-10) is headlined in Yahoo News: "Somali-born teen plotted car-bombing in Oregon."

This is a misleading headline as the report makes it clear that it was a plot orchestrated by federal agents. Two sentences into the news report we have this: "The bomb was an elaborate fake supplied by the [FBI] agents and the public was never in danger, authorities said."

The teenager was supplied with a fake bomb and a fake detonator.

Three sentences later the reporters contradict the quoted authorities with a quote from Arthur Balizan, special agent in charge of the FBI in Oregon: "The threat was very real."

The reporters then contradict Balizan: "White House spokesman Nick Shapiro said Saturday that president Barack Obama was aware of the FBI operation before Friday's arrest. Shapiro said Obama was assured that the FBI was in full control of the operation and that the public was not in danger."

Then Shapiro contradicts himself by declaring: "The events of the past 24 hours underscore the necessity of remaining vigilant against terrorism here and abroad."

The story arrives at its Kafka highpoint when President Obama thanks the FBI for its diligence in saving us from the fake plot the FBI had fabricated.

After vacillating between whether they are reporting a real plot or a orchestrated one, the reporters finally come down on the side of orchestration. Documents released by US Attorney Dwight Holton "show the sting operation began in June." Obviously, the targeted Portland teenager was not hot to trot. The FBI had to work on him for six months. The reporters compare "the Portland sting" to the recent arrest in Virginia of Faroque Ahmed who was ensnared in a "bombing plot that was a ruse conducted over the past six months by federal officials."

Think about this. The FBI did a year's work in order to convince two people to participate in fake plots. ...

High profile domestic terrorism plots appear to have increased in recent months, but they’ve been largely concocted Alternet

NewsFocus: And let's not forget this instance also...

FBI paid informant in Bronx synagogue bomb plot $97K, who provided terror suspects with fake bombs
NY Daily News, by Robert Gearty - 082510

The jury in the Bronx synagogue bomb plot case was told Wednesday that the informant who provided the four suspects with phony bombs and missiles was paid $97,000 by the FBI.

The FBI gave Pakistani immigrant Shahed Hussain $44,000 for expenses and $53,000 for "his services" over a three-year period, agent Robert Fuller said.

Fuller, the first prosecution witness in the trial that started Tuesday, showed the jury one of the unexploded bombs the would-be terrorists planned to use to blow up one of two Riverdale synagogues.

Defense lawyers contend that without the informant - who they say entrapped the suspects - their bumbling clients would never have tried to blow up two synagogues in Riverdale and shoot down airplanes. ...

Defense Motion: False-Flag Terror Bomb-Plot Was Feds Idea

NewsFocus: And don't forget this recent event either...

Congressional Hearing Reveals US Intelligence Agencies Shielded Flight 253 Bomber
InformationClearinghouse.info - 020310
A January 27 hearing of the House Committee on Homeland Security established that US intelligence agencies stopped the State Department from revoking the US visa of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. The Nigerian student, whom US officials suspected of being affiliated with the Yemeni terrorist group Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, attempted to set off a bomb on Northwest Flight 253 into Detroit on Christmas Day. Revocation of Abdulmutallab’s visa would have prevented him from boarding the airplane. ...

Flight 253: Intelligence Agencies Nixed State Department Move to Revoke Bomber’s Visa

NewsFocus: And finally, let's not forget the first World Trade Center attack, the 1993  bombing by Ramzi Yousef. Emad A. Salem was an ex-Egyptian army officer who was an FBI informant. Salem was to assist Yousef and others build a bomb, but supply them with fake explosive powder, per a FBI sting operation. Salem testified that the FBI knew about the attack beforehand and told him they would prevent it by substituting the explosives with harmless powder instead, but his FBI supervisor called off the plan, and the bombing was carried out for real against the World Trade Center. Salem suspected a double-deal, once it was clear that the FBI was providing real explosives. He began taping his telephone conversations with FBI agents. Salem testified about the bomb, saying, "It was built by supervising supervision from the Bureau (FBI) and the D.A. and we was all informed about it and we know that the bomb start to be built."

Those tapes were admitted in the trial and are now part of the public record. For his role in the plot, Yousef got life, plus 240 years in prison. How bad did they want him put away? Interestingly enough, U.S. District Judge Kevin T. Duffy also recommended that Yousef be kept in constant solitary confinement, limited to visits with his lawyer. So, I guess he won't be telling anyone about the FBI cooperation and planning in that attack. [New York Times, 10/28/1993]

The tactics employed by the FBI are nothing more than entrapment. This is not skilled intelligence or quality hard nosed police work. It is quite simply, "terrorist seduction." We entice them and encourage them, when in reality, if they were left on their own, they would have never had the physical means to coordinate such crimes.

FBI initiated the 1993 WTC bomb plot
1993 World Trade Center bombing.

The New York Times reported on Emad Salem  [New York Times, 10/28/93]

Who Bombed The World Trade Center? FBI Bomb Builders Exposed
Paper Says FBI Blocked Plan to Foil N.Y. Blast

 

Coincidence? Goldman Sachs Sells BP Stock Before Oil Disaster
Firm's stock sale nearly twice as large as any other institution; Represented 44 percent of total BP investment
RawStory.com, by John Byrne - 060210

The brokerage firm that's faced the most scrutiny from regulators in the past year over the shorting of mortgage related securities seems to have had good timing when it came to something else: the stock of British oil giant BP.

According to regulatory filings, RawStory.com has found that Goldman Sachs sold 4,680,822 shares of BP in the first quarter of 2010. Goldman's sales were the largest of any firm during that time. Goldman would have pocketed slightly more than $266 million if their holdings were sold at the average price of BP's stock during the quarter.

A Series Of Lucky Coincidences Involving Goldman Sachs And BP
ZeroHedge.com, by TylerDurden - 060110

Earlier, when observing the US AG disclosure of a civil and criminal investigation into BP plc, we noted in passing that BP's former Chairman, Peter Sutherland, who left the firm is a Chairman of Goldman Sachs International. Mr. Sutherland holds some other interesting titles, including a position on the Trilateral Commission ...

UPDATE!
BP CEO Tony Hayward Sold Shares Just Weeks Before Oil Spill
The chief executive of BP sold £1.4 million of his shares in the fuel giant weeks before the Gulf of Mexico oil spill caused its value to collapse. ...

NewsFocus: Since when does an investment group pull its money from a $5.6-billion 1st quarter profit cow?? How coincidental is it that the head of BP sold off significant shares of his own stock, just weeks before the disaster? Again, before the massive spill, British Petroleum was a huge profit leader, making billions of dollars in just three months time.

Like the 9/11 put options, this story reeks and needs to be investigated, but this possibly orchestrated diversion keeps the public from looking into more relevant issues... 1) the finding of military grade cutting charges (thermate) in four separate World Trade Center dust samples, 2) the anthrax attacks and the finding that not only were the spores created at Ft. Detrick, but the colleagues of patsy Bruce Ivins saying it was impossible for him to produce the anthrax, 3) the call by many within Congress for an audit of the crooked Federal Reserve, 4) the Bush-Cheney war crimes, 5) the engineering of the global financial collapse, etc, etc, etc. It's hard to discount coincidence out of hand when man conveniently profits in excess from it.

This story of the Goldman Sachs BP (British Petroleum) sell off smells immensely. Add to that the chief operating officer of the company selling off significant shares of his own stock and you have huge questions that need to be answered. You don't ignore a story like this just because you might personally find it hard to believe. You investigate it to assure that isn't a coincidence. Selling millions of dollars in very lucrative stock before the disaster and the demise of BP smells worse than the oil tainted Gulf.

See more: BP Oil Disaster
 

 

Key 'October Surprise' Evidence Was Purposely Hidden
Report Proves That Reagan-Bush Were Guilty of Treason Against America
ConsortiumNews, by Robert Parry - 050610

A Russian government report, which corroborated allegations that Ronald Reagan’s presidential campaign interfered with President Jimmy Carter’s Iran-hostage negotiations in 1980, was apparently kept from the Democratic chairman of a congressional task force that investigated the charges a dozen years later.

Lee Hamilton, then a congressman from Indiana in charge of the task force, told me in a recent interview, “I don’t recall seeing it,” although he was the one who had requested Moscow’s cooperation in the first place and the extraordinary Russian report was addressed to him. ... (Read More)

NewsFocus: This was the straw that broke the camel's back for me with the highly hypocritical Republican party. Reagan and Bush were caught red-handed making a deal to keep American hostages held longer in Iran, just so they could damage Carter's re-election chances. The Walsh Commission indicted many, only to have all of the guilty pardoned by Bush. Then Clinton did one of the worst things of his Presidency (aside from undoing the Glass-Steagal Act), he let Reagan and Bush off the hook for irrefutable treason against America. And how did Republicans thank him? By going after Clinton for consensual oral sex with Monica Lewinsky. Clinton was guilty of lying about a personal affair, while Reagan and Bush were clearly guilty of treason, an offense punishable by prison or execution. (And don't call this reporter a Clinton sympathizer. I voted independent that election.)

This was the beginning of the GOP revolution and the Gingrich "Contract on America." It has been downhill with Republicans ever since. They fight dirty and have proven time and again that they will lie about anything to get elected. Ron Paul is one of the few Republicans who is honest and has a moral center. Long story short, not only is George HW Bush guilty of war crimes in the first Iraq war, he is guilty of treason and should be held accountable and punished with imprisonment or execution for the continued torture of Americans in Iran. And could we please get off the "St. Reagan" soapbox? He lied about the Iran-Contra deal, only admitting to it after he and Bush were caught red-handed.

And to be perfectly fair, the Obama administration must also now be accountable for its myopic continuation of bad Bush policies that have kept us in this horrible position.
 

 


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Why Was Dick Cheney In Saudi Arabia?
MotherJones.com - 050610
Dick Cheney just went on a junket to meet with Saudi Arabian leaders, a quiet pow-wow that's been discussed in the Saudi media but not so much over here. Cheney—who's been busy defending torture and complaining that Barack Obama lets world leaders "think they're dealing with a weak president"—weakened the president by visiting a leading torture regime and its caliph, King Abdullah. ...
 
 
Microbiologist: Anthrax Numbers Don't Add Up
Impossible For Ivins To Grow That Many Spores In Short Amount of Time

ProPublica.org, by Gary Matsumoto - 042310

Other biodefense scientists who didn't work with Ivins have done the same calculations and reached the exact same conclusion as Dr. Heine

A microbiologist who supervised the work of accused anthrax killer Bruce E. Ivins explained to a National Academy of Sciences panel Thursday why the arithmetic of growing anthrax didn't add up to Ivins' mailing deadly spores in fall 2001.

"Impossible," said Dr. Henry S. Heine of a scenario in which Ivins, another civilian microbiologist working for the Army, allegedly prepared the anthrax spores at an Army lab at Fort Detrick. Heine told the 16-member panel that Ivins would have had to grow as many as 10 trillion spores, an astronomical amount that couldn't have gone unnoticed by his colleagues.

According to FBI calculations, Ivins accomplished this working after-hours in a special suite for handling lethal agents designated B3, for Biohazard Level 3. A bar chart released by the bureau [1] (PDF) when it closed its nearly 9-year-old Amerithrax case in February showed that in August and September 2001, the months immediately before the first anthrax letters were mailed, Ivins logged 34 more hours in the B3 suite than his combined total for the previous seven months.

"That's more than 8,000 hours (close to a year) short of what he would have needed to grow the anthrax," Heine told ProPublica in an interview after his NAS presentation. ...

Colleagues Dispute Case Against Anthrax Suspect
NewYorkTimes.com, by SCOTT SHANE - April 22, 2010
WASHINGTON — A former Army microbiologist who worked for years with Bruce E. Ivins, whom the F.B.I. has blamed for the anthrax letter attacks that killed five people in 2001, told a National Academy of Sciences panel on Thursday that he believed it was impossible that the deadly spores had been produced undetected in Dr. Ivins’s laboratory, as the F.B.I. asserts.

Asked by reporters after his testimony whether he believed that there was any chance that Dr. Ivins, who committed suicide in 2008, had carried out the attacks, the microbiologist, Henry S. Heine, replied, “Absolutely not.” At the Army’s biodefense laboratory in Maryland, where Dr. Ivins and Dr. Heine worked, he said, “among the senior scientists, no one believes it.” ...

Glenn Greenwald On The Anthrax Story

Co-worker: Ivins didn't do it

NewsFocus: "Oh Lucy (FBI)... you gotta lotta 'splainin' to do."
Re-open this case that should never have been closed and catch the real perpetrators who did this solely to scare us just so they could get the Patriot Act passed. "We the people" demand that you do your duty and arrest these domestic intel terrorists.

 

 
The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first.  -Thomas Jefferson
 
The Pentagon Papers Are Public This Time
AfterDowningStreet.org, by
David Swanson - 041610
If a new Daniel Ellsberg were to release a new pile of Pentagon Papers exposing the lies behind the Afghanistan War, or even the past few decades of misdeeds by our country in that one, the result would differ from what happened to Ellsberg in a number of stark ways. No newspaper would touch it. The whistleblower would go to prison. Little of substance would be added to what we already know and tolerate. Nobody would be impeached. And no war would end. ...

The Most Dangerous Man In America

We need another Daniel Ellsberg For 9/11

Must See Film On Daniel Ellsberg And The Pentagon Papers
New Film Shows The True Patriotism Of A Real American Hero
042210

The Most Dangerous Man in America tells the story of Daniel Ellsberg, a high-level Pentagon official and Vietnam War strategist, who in 1971 concluded that the war was based on decades of lies and leaks and gave 7,000 pages of top secret documents to The New York Times, making headlines around the world. A riveting story of how this one man's profound change of heart created a landmark struggle involving America's newspapers, its President and the Supreme Court. With Daniel Ellsberg, Patricia Ellsberg, Tony Russo, Howard Zinn, Hedrick Smith, John Dean, and, from the secret White House tapes, Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger, who called Ellsberg the most dangerous man in America.

The Most Dangerous Man In America: Co-winner of this years Freedom of Expression Award from the National Board of Review (and one of their Five Best Documentaries of the Year), Winner of the Special Jury Award at IDFA, and in contention for the years Best Documentary Oscar,

Directed by: Judith Ehrlich, Rick Goldsmith
Starring: Daniel Ellsberg, Patricia Ellsberg, Tony Russo, Howard Zinn, Hedrick Smith, John Dean

More YouTube video containing Daniel Ellsberg interviews

NewsFocus: It should be obvious to most Americans by now that whenever the government gets outed for wrongdoing, they always villain-ize the messenger. It clearly happened with Ellsberg in the 70s and again recently with the New York Time's Judith Miller, and now Sibel Edmonds. The worst of it is when they cry about getting caught. They always try to say how horrible it is for a government to endure getting ratted out. Perhaps a more accurate statement would be, how horrible for a crooked government. A good government has nothing to hide from the people it is elected to serve. Truth and virtue have never had to worry about hiding in the shadows.
 

 

How FOX Sells Fear In A Post 9/11 World
 
Why anyone watches this propaganda network for news is baffling.

U.S. Indicts Five Blackwater Ex-Officials
New York Times, by James Risen and Mark Mazzetti - 041610

Federal prosecutors charged the former president of Blackwater Worldwide and four other former senior company officials on Friday with weapons violations and making false statements in the first criminal inquiry to reach into the top management ranks of the private security company.

The executives were some of the closest advisers to Blackwater’s founder, Erik Prince, and helped him steer the company during its swift rise to become the leading contractor providing security for American diplomats in Iraq and Afghanistan, working for the State Department, the C.I.A. and the Pentagon. ...

Lawyer hints CIA approved Blackwater exec’s alleged gun crimes

NewsFocus: Ah, but how about the head of the snake, Erik Prince?
 

 
9/11 Commission Was Warned About ‘Line It Should Not Cross’
Bush Administration Cautioned Members Against Probing Too Deeply
RawStory.com, by Sahil Kapur - Wednesday, March 17th, 2010


The infamous 9/11 Report, along with the 9/11 Commission responsible for its content.

Senior Bush administration officials sternly cautioned the 9/11 Commission against probing too deeply into the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, according to a document recently obtained by the ACLU. ... (Read More)

Download the ACLU document: http://www.aclu.org/files/assets/CIA.pdf

NewsFocus: Whoa, wait a minute. You mean the Bush administration, the people who didn't want a 9/11 investigation and drug their feet for 441 days before getting started, and then put evidence constraints and time limitations on the commission... they also warned the 9/11 Commission about how far their investigation could actually go (as in, towards the White House)? Wow. I feel somewhat bad for all of those who are staking their personal reputations on the government version of 9/11. Blind faith in a troubled administration will get you trouble. (Read more about 9/11: NewsFocus 9/11 page.)
 

 


Click here to learn more on how we are deceived by a complicit, sold out media.

Sibel Edmonds Speaks Out on Whistleblower 'Protections'
The Corbett Report, by James Corbett - 15 March, 2010

FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds joined The Corbett Report last Friday to discuss the deplorable state of whistleblower "protections" in the United States, including S.372, a bill making its way through the Senate that would allow the FBI and other "national security" agencies to dismiss whistleblowers' claims without any form of oversight. ...

    (See more on the Sibel Edmonds case farther down this page...)

 
SENATE BURGLARY: CIA BLACK-OP TEAM ARRESTED
ALL INVOLVED IN SENATE HOMELAND SECURITY BREAK-IN ARE CIA AGENTS
VeteransToday.com, By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor - 013010
Last week’s break-in at Senator Mary Landrieu’s office in the New Orleans Federal Building was more than it seemed, much more.  All of the 4 arrested had been trained by the CIA and, possibly, Israel.  One arrested, Stan Dai, is listed as an Operations Officer of the Department of Defense Irregular Warfare Program and  a known expert and lecturer on, not only surveillance but explosives training, assassinations and “false flag operations.”  If you wanted a plane to crash, an enemy to get sick and die or a building to blow up, Dai would be the man to know how to make it happen.  Problem is, his skills were being used as part of a criminal conspiracy inside the United States against members of our own government.

Original reports on the “break-in” were also wrong.  One of those arrested was found blocks away with a covert receiver, managing the office bugs.  The man in the car is identified as Stan  Dai, Operations Officer for the Department of Defense Irregular Warfare Program: ...

Landrieu phone plot: Men arrested have links to intelligence community RawStory
Senate Burglary: CIA Domestic Black-Op Team Arrested
RumorMillNews

NewsFocus: The CIA is by design an international organization and is not to be involved in domestic operations. That is the job of the FBI. We need to scream very loudly to Congress about this egregious misuse of power.

 
Capitol Hill Eyes CIA Moonlighting Policy
Politico.com, By KASIE HUNT & JOSH GERSTEIN - 020210
Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein says she wants answers about a Central Intelligence Agency policy that allows the agency’s employees to moonlight for private companies. ...
 
 
"I never would have agreed to the formulation of the Central Intelligence Agency back in '47, if I had known it would become the American Gestapo."
--
Harry S Truman (1961)
 

Re-Think War

 
Queen Elizabeth II The Largest Landowner On Earth
Over $33-Trillion Dollars In World Real Estate Holdings

WhoOwnsTheWorld.com

Queen Elizabeth II, head of state of the United Kingdom and of 31 other states and territories, is the legal owner of about 6,600 million acres of land, one sixth of the earth’s non ocean surface. ...
 

Largest Five Personal Landowners On Earth

 Queen Elizabeth II  6,600 million acres
 King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia  553 million acres
 King Bhumibol of Thailand  126 million acres
 King Mohammed IV of Morocco  113 million acres
 Sultan Quaboos of Oman  76 million acres

NewsFocus: And of course she's supporting our schools by paying property tax, right?

 
"No free man shall ever be de-barred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain their right to keep and bear arms is as a last resort to protect themselves against tyranny in government." --Thomas Jefferson
 

Obama Attorneys Argue For Warrantless Cell-Phone Tracking
RawStory.com, by Stephen C. Webster - February 13th, 2010

This is not "change" that privacy advocates can believe in.

A US appeals court began weighing Friday whether police should be allowed to track citizens through their cell-phones without first obtaining a warrant.

The case "could prove to be one of the most important privacy rights battles of the modern era," The Legal Intelligencer noted.

Adopting a Bush-era argument, Obama administration attorneys asked the court to allow telecoms companies to hand over their subscribers' location information, even without a probable cause warrant. ...

NewsFocus: WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG IN WASHINGTON AND WHY DO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ALLOW THIS? It doesn't matter if it's Bush or Obama. The wealthy "powers that be" run this dog and pony show and they want control over all of us. You have to ask yourself, for what damn reason should "we the people" allow this?

 
Nine Months Before Operation Northwoods, Government Leaders Suggested False Flag Terror in the Dominican Republic
WashingtonsBlog.com, Friday, February 19, 2010
Everyone knows about Operation Northwoods, where the American Joint Chiefs of Staff signed off on a plan to blow up AMERICAN airplanes (using an elaborate plan involving the switching of airplanes), and also to commit terrorist acts on American soil, and then to blame it on the Cubans in order to justify an invasion of Cuba. See the following ABC news report; the official documents; and watch this interview with the former Washington Investigative Producer for ABC's World News Tonight with Peter Jennings.

The plans for Operation Northwoods were signed on March 13, 1962.

Nine months earlier, another false flag attack was apparently discussed in order to justify an invasion of the Dominican Republic. ...

Timewatch: Operation Gladio - Behind False Flag Terrorism
Extraordinary BBC documentary by Alan Francovich from 1992. Documents the existence of a covert terrorist network maintained throughout Europe by NATO, intended to discredit the political left.

Part 1: False Flag Terrorism
 
See the rest of the series here

 
War Crimes Complaint Filed Against Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Tenet, Rice, And Gonzales
INTERNATIONAL ARREST WARRANTS REQUESTED
GlobalResearch.ca 012010

Professor Francis A. Boyle of the University of Illinois College of Law in Champaign, U.S.A. has filed a Complaint with the Prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (I.C.C.) in The Hague against U.S. citizens George W. Bush, Richard Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, George Tenet, Condoleezza Rice, and Alberto Gonzales (the “Accused”) for their criminal policy and practice of “extraordinary rendition” perpetrated upon about 100 human beings. This term is really their euphemism for the enforced disappearance of persons and their consequent torture. This
criminal policy and practice by the accused constitute Crimes against Humanity in violation of the Rome Statute establishing the I.C.C. ... (Read More)

INTERNATIONAL ARREST WARRANTS REQUESTED AfterDowningStreet.org
War Crimes Complaint Filed Against Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld...
Atlantic Free Press
Criminal Court Complaint against Bush, Rumsfeld and others... FromTheOld
Flashback: Bush Officials Facing War Crimes Charges DigitalJournal

NOTE: You can demonstrate your support for this complaint by contacting the ICC Prosecutor by letter, fax, or email as indicated below.

Francis A. Boyle - Professor of International Law
Law Building, 504 East Pennsylvania Avenue
Champaign, Illinois 61820
Phone: 217-333-7954 - Fax: 217-244-1478

New York News - Bush's War Crimes Cover-up TheVillageVoice

Bush's Crimes Against Humanity and the Planet MotherEarth.org

Citizen's Arrest of War Criminals Tony Blair and George W. Bush
y Prof. Anthony J. Hall
All over the world, citizens are mobilizing to take action to demand accountability from those who have been committing with impunity the highest order of international crime.
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'Sibel Edmonds: The Traitors Among Us' in March Issue of Hustler
Also, Mike Connell story still on stands in February's Maxim

You're welcome. My 2000+ word article on former FBI translator-turned-whistleblower Sibel Edmonds is now featured in the March 2010 edition of Hustler. Sorry, she's wearing all her clothes. Go buy it anyway.

The article brings the story of Edmonds, who was twice-gagged by the Bush Administration's outrageous use/abuse of the "States Secrets Privilege," fully up to date following her naming of names, finally, under oath, in remarkable testimony last summer. (Some of those names: Hastert, Burton, Blunt, Lantos, Schakowsky, Wolfowitz, Perle, Grossman, etc.) ... (Read More)

Read the Hustler article on Sibel Edmonds

Military.com Covers Edmonds Disclosures, Reports 'Denials' From Several Fingered Bush Officials
Feature article offers comment from Perle, Feith, spokesman for Grossman, as well as information and comment in support of the FBI translator/whistleblower's charges of nuclear treason
Bradblog.com, b
y Brad Friedman on 10/21/2009

Reporter Bryant Jordan's 1,500 word feature includes a background summary of Edmonds' story, which The BRAD BLOG has been detailing for years, and a summary of the allegations she offered under oath last August in her sworn deposition following seven years of "forced silence" under a court-ordered gag due to the so-called "State Secrets Privilege" twice-invoked by George W. Bush's Department of Justice. A good round-up of the startling information Edmonds says she gleaned while listening to and translating wiretaps in the counterintelligence division at the FBI after 9/11 is offered throughout his coverage.

Jordan's piece is well reported and includes, for the first time to our knowledge, several forms of denials of Edmonds allegations by some of Bush's key State and Defense Department officials --- such as Richard Perle and Douglas Feith --- who, she says, were participants in espionage plots against the United States in order to share military and even nuclear secrets with Turkish and Israeli government operatives. ...

 
On the Claimed "War Exception" to the Constitution
Glenn Greenwald 020610
Although Blair emphasized that it requires "special permission" before an American citizen can be placed on the assassination list, consider from whom that "permission" is obtained.
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9/11, Deep Events, and the Curtailment of U.S. Freedoms
y Prof Peter Dale Scott
The war on terror and the war on drugs have this in common: both are ideological attempts to justify the needless killings of thousands – including both American troops and foreign civilians --  in another needless war.
 
 
The FBI Used Faked Terrorism Emergencies To Illegally Obtain Americans' Phone Records
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER, By Brian Kates - Tuesday, January 19th 2010, 10:44 AM
The FBI faked terrorism emergencies to illegally obtain more than 2,000 U.S. telephone records between 2002 and 2006, the Washington Post reported Tuesday.

FBI general counsel Valerie Caproni told the Washington Post that the FBI technically violated the Electronic Communications Privacy Act when agents invoked nonexistent emergencies to collect records. ...
 
 
The Lobbying-Media Complex
The Nation, by Sebastian Jones - 021110
(Excerpt)
In a single hour, two men with blatant, undisclosed conflicts of interest had appeared on MSNBC. The question is, was this an isolated oversight or business as usual? Evidence points to the latter.

These incidents represent only a fraction of the covert corporate influence peddling on cable news, a four-month investigation by The Nation has found. Since 2007 at least seventy-five registered lobbyists, public relations representatives and corporate officials--people paid by companies and trade groups to manage their public image and promote their financial and political interests--have appeared on MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, CNBC and Fox Business Network with no disclosure of the corporate interests that had paid them. Many have been regulars on more than one of the cable networks, turning in dozens--and in some cases-- hundreds of appearances. ...

Government Propagandists in Corporate Media
by Carl Herman
When independent journalists challenge US wars, government propagandists attack in the comments.
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Intelligence Improperly Collected on U.S. Citizens
NYTimes.com 121709
In February, a Department of Homeland Security intelligence official wrote a “threat assessment” for the police in Wisconsin about a demonstration involving local pro- and anti-abortion rights groups. ...
 
 
EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW: Tragic Story of Mike Connell, Bush/Rove/GOP IT Guru, Breaks in February Maxim
The Tragic Death And Subsequent Cover-Up of The Bush Computer Brainiac Who Swung The 2004 Election
Bradblog.com, by Brad Friedman on 1/18/2010

The story for which The BRAD BLOG was awarded a 2010 Project Censored award for "Excellence in Investigative Journalism" is "censored" no more. From the February 2010 issue of Maxim hitting mag racks this week...

The February 2010 issue hits newsstands this week, and should be available on the Internet soon, featuring a detailed investigative feature on the mysterious death of Mike Connell, the George W. Bush/Karl Rove/GOP "IT Guru" described as a "'High IQ Forrest Gump" for his proclivity to be at the scene of so many Bush/Rove/GOP crimes over the years.

The 3,500-word Maxim piece was penned by British investigative journalist and author Simon Worrall after a year or so of digging, following the startling tragic death of Connell in December of 2008. The long-reliable Republican IT entrepreneur was on his way home from D.C. to his company's Christmas party near Akron, Ohio, when his single engine Piper Saratoga plunged from the sky for reasons that remain unexplained to this day. ...

 
Ron Paul: After ‘CIA coup,’ Agency ‘Runs Military’
RawStory.com - Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

US House Rep. Ron Paul says the CIA has in effect carried out a "coup" against the US government, and the intelligence agency needs to be "taken out."

Speaking to an audience of like-minded libertarians at a Campaign for Liberty regional conference in Atlanta this past weekend, the Texas Republican said:

"There's been a coup, have you heard? It's the CIA coup. The CIA runs everything, they run the military. They're the ones who are over there lobbing missiles and bombs on countries. ... And of course the CIA is every bit as secretive as the Federal Reserve. ... And yet think of the harm they have done since they were established [after] World War II. They are a government unto themselves. They're in businesses, in drug businesses, they take out dictators ... We need to take out the CIA." ... (Read More)

Ron Paul Speaks Before A Rally In Atlanta, GA.

The Federal Reserve and the CIA would be great places for government overhaul.

 
Huge Blow To Fair Elections; Supreme Court Favors Corporations Over "We The People" In Campaign Finance Reform Ruling!
Democracy As We Knew It Will Be Seriously Challenged
 (See US News Page)
 
 
You Won't Believe In Conspiracy, Until You Know The Media
Americans Easily Dismiss Conspiracy Claims Because of Naive Media Trust

Get the real story on who runs the media that we trust to protect our democracy. Learn how just half a dozen men hold control of our media programming and why that's a bad thing for democracy. A mere six individuals (CEOs) decide which stories you get to see and which stories you don't get to see. Once you realize the truth about our misguided notion of integrity in broadcasting and the news, you will see how easy it is to deceive a populace. You could convince them of literally anything. Even into giving up their rights. View the NewsFocus page on The Media for all you need to know.
 
 
AUDIT THE FEDERAL RESERVE!
Most Americans Do Not Realize That We Do Not Own The Fed
The uber-rich bankers from the Central Banks rule over all politicians. Don't believe it?
Learn what you don't know about the corrupt Federal Reserve.

Alan Greenspan Admits There Is No Authority Above The Federal Reserve
 

75% of Americans Favor Auditing The Federal Reserve
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
So much for the ongoing secrecy of the nation’s independent central banking system. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 75% of Americans favor auditing the Federal Reserve and making the results available to the public. ...

US House OKs Fed Audit Provision; Eyes Now On Senate
Congressman Ron Paul (R) Wins Key Battle to Open Federal Reserve's Books
Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D) Introduces Legislation to Audit Federal

(See more farther below and also on the Economy page)

 
TIME TO AUDIT THE FEDERAL RESERVE!

Banks Own The US Government
There are smart ways to raise money and regulate the market, but Wall Street is working to kill any meaningful financial reform
The Guardian - by Dean Baker - 2009-06-30
Last month, when the US Congress failed to pass a bankruptcy reform measure that would have allowed home mortgages to be modified in bankruptcy, senator Dick Durbin succinctly commented: "The banks own the place." That seems pretty clear. After all, it was the banks' greed that fed the housing bubble with loony loans that were guaranteed to go bad. Of course the finance guys also made a fortune guaranteeing the loans that were guaranteed to go bad (ie AIG), and when everything went bust, the taxpayers got handed the bill. The cost of the bailout will certainly be in the hundreds of billions, if not more than $1tn when it is all over. ...

Spitzer: Federal Reserve is 'a Ponzi scheme, an inside job'
The Raw Story.com, by Daniel Tencer - July 25, 2009
The Federal Reserve — the quasi-autonomous body that controls the US’s money supply — is a “Ponzi scheme” that created “bubble after bubble” in the US economy and needs to be held accountable for its actions, says Eliot Spitzer, the former governor and attorney-general of New York. ...

Learn More About The Federal Reserve Here:
Return The Control Of Our Money To The US Government
The Federal Reserve Sets The Rules When It Comes To Our Monetary System
NewsFocus, By Tim Watts 031209
What Most Don’t Know About Our System of Currency
The Takeover of the United States of America
For over two hundred years, the United States of America has been the beacon of democracy and freedom for the world, or so we have been led to believe. While sadly unbeknownst to many, our democracy was infiltrated long, long ago. If that is a statement that you personally take issue with, you are encouraged to please take the time to read this paper and see if there isn’t something hidden that you just might not know about regarding our beloved country. Please consider the following. (Read more)

Whose Country is it anyway? A political-economic oligarchy has taken over the United States of America
Global Research, by Prof. John Kozy - July 4, 2009
A political-economic oligarchy has taken over the United States of America. This oligarchy has institutionalized a body of law that protects businesses at the expense of not only the common people but the nation itself. ....

The Privately Owned Federal Reserve Runs Our Country
Unemployment On The Rise
The International Forecaster, by Bob Chapman, July 16, 2009
We hope people are starting to realize that the privately owned Federal Reserve runs our country, not our branches of government. The new proposal to give the Fed new powers is the worst possible thing that could be happening to our country. It is a total centralization of banking and financial power. ...

Read more on the Federal Reserve on the Economy page

 
NATIONALIZE THE FEDERAL RESERVE
Banks Only Care Is Profit. Return The Power To Print Money To 'We The People'
By Nathan Diebenow, Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Let Private Predator Banks Die: Lawyer
DALLAS, Texas — Still pissed off at the Wall Street bailout? President Barack Obama’s stimulus package? Private bank nationalization? The new homeowner mortgage bailout? Also afraid that the federal government won’t have enough money to fund Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security in the future? Well, Ellen Hodgson Brown has a solution for you. Nationalize the Federal Reserve. ...

"Outlaw the Shadow Banking System!"
Guess Who Said It?
Global Research, by Matthias Chang, March 10, 2009
When I read the remarks of President Obama and Prime Minister Gordon Brown after their meeting at the Oval Office on March 3, 2009 and the speech of the latter to the Joint Session of Congress on March 4, 2009, I realized that a growing antagonism has emerged between certain factions of the ruling elites in the City of London and in Washington DC. ...

The Federal Reserve is Bankrupt
How Did It Happen and What are the Ugly Consequences
Global Research - by Matthias Chang - 2009-03-10

The Federal Reserve is bankrupt for all intents and purposes. The same goes for the Bank of England! This article will focus largely on the Fed, because the Fed is the "financial land-mine"

How long can someone who has stepped on a landmine, remain standing – hours, days? Eventually, when he is exhausted and his legs give way, the mine will just explode! The shadow banking system has not only stepped on the land-mine, it is carrying such a heavy load (trillions of toxic wastes) that sooner or later it will tilt, give way and trigger off the land-mine! ... 

Learn More About The Federal Reserve Here

Google Video: An Explanation Of The Federal Reserve
 

 
Top Three Powerful Documentaries That Everyone Needs To See
The Methods Used To Control Us Are Laid Out Very Well For All To See

The Trap  |  The Century Of The Self  |  The Corporation

Once you know how you are being manipulated and controlled, you are much better off in understanding the events happening around you and the forces that work around us.

More Documentaries
 

 

Martin Luther King: There Comes A Time When Silence Is Betrayal

A truth known holds for all time.

 
Rothschilds & Rockefellers: Trillionaires Of The World
Infowars | Jan. 17, 2010

“Money is Power”, or shall we say, “The Monopoly to Create Credit Money and charge interest is Absolute Power”. (Alex James)

Amsel (Amschel) Bauer Mayer Rothschild, 1838: “Let me issue and control a Nation’s money and I care not who makes its laws”.

Letter written from London by the Rothschilds to their New York agents introducing their banking method into America: “The few who can understand the system will be either so interested in its profits, or so dependent on its favours, that there will be no opposition from that class, while, on the other hand, that great body of people, mentally incapable of comprehending the tremendous advantage that Capital derives from the system, will bear its burden without complaint and, perhaps, without even suspecting that the system is inimical to their interests.” ...
 

 

Helen Thomas Presses Brennan and Napolitano on Why Al Qaeda Wants to Do the United States Harm
CrooksandLiars.com, bHelen Thomas presses John Brennan and Janet Napolitano during the White House press conference on the Christmas Underwear bomber on why Al Qaeda wants to attack us -- and of course never gets an answer to her question before they move on to the next reporter.

I'm sure if Brennan had answered her honestly he would have been immediately attacked by Republicans for giving aid and comfort to the terrorists and for not loving America since that would mean admitting how awful our foreign policy is. .....

Al Qaeda Is Of Our Own Creation
The Real Truth About Creating An Evil Entity And Its Feared Boogeyman
NewsFocus, by Tim Watts - 010910

What we've been brainwashed to know about al Qaeda and the war on terror is not quite as much reality as it is a complete fabrication of the facts, or at the very least, a spin on the real truth of the matter.

The origin of al Qaeda is well understood by true historians of the Afghan War with Russia, but for the many who never paid attention to the 1980s Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, they have been subjected to a contemporary fabrication of the real facts in order to foment an enemy for the alleged "War on Terror."  ... (Read More)

 
Study: Threat of Muslim-American terrorism in U.S. exaggerated
CNN News - 010510
The terrorist threat posed by radicalized Muslim- Americans has been exaggerated, according to a study released Wednesday by researchers at Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. ...
 
 

Do Private US Groups (NGOs) And The UN Want To Take Our Guns?

The 2nd amendment was put in place with very good reason.

NRA News’ investigative reporter Ginny Simone takes a look at the global gun control goals of the United Nations. By pushing for a binding international treaty aimed at superseding the U.S. Constitution, the United Nations is committed to rendering Americans’ Second Amendment rights to own a firearm meaningless. Simone interviews past and current U.N. officials and politicians and examines the debates at the United Nations Small Arms Summit to expose the international anti-gun agenda.

Obama and Clinton cede to UN small arms treaty Examiner
U.S. agrees to timetable for UN Gun Ban
SodaHead
U.N. coming for your guns WND (1999 Article)
Small Arms at the UN IANSA
Petition To Maintain Gun Rights NAGR

NewsFocus: Our forefathers knew better. They specifically allowed citizen guns under the 2nd Amendment so that patriotic militias had the ability to oppose tyrannical and oppressive government. This has been a U.S. right for over 200 years and needs to be maintained. We have local police forces in place for taking care of those who usurp our laws and commit crimes, but what recourse do "We the People" have for politicians who usurp our Constitutional rights?  Call and write your Congressmen and tell them where "We the People" stand in protecting our Constitution, which guarantees our liberty and freedom.

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. -2nd Amendment

Dogboy and Mr. Dan: Saving Our Right To Bear Arms
 

 
NOTICE: There may come a day when these pages might be pulled down due to the Patriot Act and a new perverse defining of the term sedition. If you want to preserve these, or any other news articles of interest, make yourself a news folder and save the web pages there using the save function of your browser. The internet is the last true media we have where we can find the truth. Granted, there are false and misleading postings as well, so you need to be intelligent on your own and perform due diligence in seeking out the truth. Movies can be saved as well. Google Video provides a save video feature for most videos. YouTube videos can also be saved using KeepVid.
 

There is no greater form of patriotism than questioning your government.

-NewsFocus          

 
2012: Are You Ready For The Next Great Fear?
Our New Y2K Is Coming And There's Nothing We Can Do To Stop The Incessant Fear Mongering
NewsFocus - by Tim Watts - 010610

Well, it appears that the latest fad in apocalyptic fear is upon us with the coming of the year 2012 and the end of the Mayan calendar. Just like Y2K, and the 5/5/2000 planetary alignment, the powers that be are going to try to get us all to wet our pants again and scream in fear like little children.

Our government, through the use of NASA, is already whipping up fear of a solar flare breaking through our weakening magnetic field, announcing a little over a year ago that our protective solar shield also has a recently discovered hole in it, four times the size of the earth.

Wow. That's huge.

If true, what then is saving us from all of that solar radiation? Why haven't we seen the northern lights everywhere then? This is pretty odd indeed.

Ask yourself this... if the government and NASA were truly worried about 2012, why would they be involved in pointless wars of aggression and imperialism when A) it could be all for naught, and B) we could be using all of that money to enhance and strengthen infrastructure needs to help us prepare for a natural disaster?

Many share the belief that the Mayan calendar does not mark the end of all mankind, it is merely the end of a solar age, merely a measurement of time, a cycle if you will. Just like finding a calendar with December 31st as the last day. It doesn't mean that will be the end of time and life as we know it. It's just the end of that calendar period.

In light of the government's potentially meaningless expensive wars, coupled with the outrageous expenditures of bail-out money to the bankers, Wall Street and the numerous corporations, how seriously worried is our government about 2012?

We can only hope and pray that this is indeed another false doomsday scare that will once again pass without consequence.

One thing is certain for sure though, many will exploit this alleged coming event and make tons of money as they once again try to scare the pants off the rest of us.
 

 
He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future. -George Orwell
 

The Fear Decade
Since 9/11, We've Embraced Our Inner Coward
InformationClearinghouse.info, By Ted Rall 010110
Home of the free and the brave. Live free or die. Shoot first; ask questions later. Kill 'em all, let God sort 'em out. These were the mottos of a brash, impetuous, audacious-to-a-fault nation. That nation is dead.
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Perfectly Safe Airlines

Feds: Terror Foiled On Flight To Detroit
 
Detroit Free Press - Joe Swickard, Naomi R. Patton - ‎122609
 
A terror suspect who claimed to have al-Qaida connections could face charges as soon as today for attempting to blow up a Delta-Northwest flight as it was landing at Detroit Metro Airport on Friday, law enforcement ...
Nigerian held in act of terror on airliner Baltimore Sun

CIA rejects charge it failed to share bomb suspect intelligence
AFP - 123009
The CIA on Wednesday rejected accusations that it failed to share vital information with other US intelligence agencies that might have helped prevent last week's attempted plane bomb attack.

The intelligence agency rejected charges that it possessed, but failed to disseminate, information about Nigerian suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab that might have led to his being placed on a no-fly list. ...

Airline bomber was barred from Britain

Amid Media Blackout
Congressional hearing reveals US intelligence agencies shielded Flight 253 bomber
by Alex Lantier - 010310
The revelation that US intelligence agencies made a deliberate decision to allow Abdulmutallab to board the commercial flight, without any special airport screening, has been buried in the media. As of this writing, nearly a week after the hearing, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and Los Angeles Times have published no articles on the subject. Nor have the broadcast or cable media reported on it.
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Flight 253: Intelligence Agencies Nixed State Department Move to Revoke Bomber’s Visa
DissidentVoice.org, by Tom Burghardt - February 8th, 2010

Rightist demagogues, as they are wont to do, prattle-on how they, and they alone, can “keep America safe”–by shredding the Constitution.

Waging a decades-long psychological war against the American people, corporatist thugs embedded within the National Security State assure us that secrecy, deceit and imperial adventures that steal other peoples’ resources are the one true path to national prosperity and universal happiness.

But what happens when those charged with protecting us from attack, actually aid and abet those who would kill us, and then handsomely profit from our slaughter in the process?

During a January 27 hearing of the House Committee on Homeland Security, Under Secretary of State for Management, Patrick F. Kennedy, testified that the visa of accused bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, wasn’t revoked at the specific request of secret state agencies. ... (Read More)

Northwest Airlines Christmas Day Flight: "Al Qaeda Made Me Do It!”
The rise of patsies and heroes
Global Research, by Rev. Richard Skaff - 010410
Is Nigerian oil the hidden story behind this alleged terror plot? ...

Flight 253: Anatomy of a Cover-Up
DissidentVoice.com, by Tom Burghardt - January 11th, 2010
New revelations about the failed Christmas Day attack on Northwest Airlines Flight 253 continue to emerge as does evidence of a systematic cover-up. With the White House in crisis mode since the attempted bombing, President Obama met for two hours January 5 with top security and intelligence officials. Obama said that secret state agencies “had sufficient information to uncover the terror plot … but that intelligence officials had ‘failed to connect those dots’,” The New York Times reports. ...

Witness Tells All About Bomb Incident; Claims Real Story Is Being Withheld

Taylor Lawyer Suspects A Cover-Up
Detroit Free Press - Naomi R. Patton - 010110
A Taylor lawyer says he thinks authorities are seeking to discredit his account that an older, well-dressed Indian man helped terror defendant Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab board Flight 253 from Amsterdam, Netherlands, to Detroit without ...
Taylor Couple Talks With FBI WXYZ

Northwest Bomber: A Possible Manchurian Candidate?
Jasper Schuringa a passenger of Northwest flight 253, who helped apprehend the Nigerian Islamist Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, gives an eyewitness account that is chillingly reminiscent of a brainwashed 'Manchurian Candidate'. No struggle, no anger, just fear and a blank look. Not exactly an enraged terrorist.

Schuringa said he noticed a man on the left side of the aisle, sitting still while on fire.

"A normal person would stand up, and he wasn't standing up," he said.

Schuringa said the man just stared at him, but did not let go of whatever he was holding onto. Through it all, the man appeared dazed.

"He was staring into nothing," Schuringa said

Flight 253 hero recounts Christmas bombing attempt CNN - ‎Dec 30, 2009‎
 

Flight 253 Passenger Jasper Schuringa Speaks to CNN

NewsFocus: With little or no media coverage regarding rumors that the attempted bomber had no passport and was helped to board the plane by a well dressed man, a Bing search was conducted with the key words, northwest bomber passport. The search brought up all of the articles below within just a few pages, yet Google News gave only eight pages to the entire search and did not yield one single story on the no passport rumor. Not even one story on the lack of a passport from Google News.
Ask yourself how Google News would miss this story, or why it would suppress it.

Bomber Had No Passport, Helped To Board Plane By Sharp-Dressed Man
A passenger who boarded
Northwest Airlines Flight 253 in Amsterdam with attempted plane bomber Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab says the would-be terrorist had no passport and was aided ...
Detroit, MI - Claim: Would Be Bomber Had No Passport
 VosIzNeias.com
Bomber Had No Passport, Helped To Board Plane By Sharp-Dressed Man

Did Northwest Attempted Bomber Mutallab Get On Plane Without Passport
This could turn into a shocking security lapse if true. A Michigan man Kurt Haskell, who flew on
Northwest Airlines Flight 253 from Amsterdam ...

Ron Paul suggests 'agenda' to expand terror war, attack American liberty
Raw Story - Stephen C. Webster - ‎123009‎
The underwear bomber was escorted to the ticket counter by a well dressed man who helped him secure a seat on the plane without a passport. ...

A Convenience Theory
Detroit Airliner Terror Incident

InformationClearinghouse.info, By Grant Lawrence - 123009
I am not one that sees conspiracies everywhere, but I do like a good Convenience Theory. Like the one that is coming together out of the botched terror attempt by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to blow up an airliner in Detroit just as it was arriving.
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Northwest Bomb Plot 'Oddities'  JustGetThere.us
Bomber Had No Passport, Helped To Board Plane By Sharp-Dressed Man

Change Flight 253's number? They already did!
Until Oct. 24, the flight was known as Northwest Flight 67

Detroit Free Press (blog) - Ellen Creager - ‎Dec 30, 2009‎
One question to come out of the terrorist incident on Christmas Day is whether Delta should change the flight number of the Amsterdam to Detroit route. The thing is, they already did. Flight 253 is the new number. ...

Not every passenger represents an equal risk
Canada.com - Lorne Gunter - ‎Dec 31, 2009
Following the 9/11 attacks in 2001, we were all made to give up our manicure scissors and nail clippers, knitting needles and sewing kits before boarding a flight. Since Richard Reid, the "Shoe ...
Full-Body scanners raise both hands for privacy concerns Examiner.com

Tracing Bomb Suspect's Journey to Detroit
CBS News - Dec 28, 2009
This is a partial timeline of events showing Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's whereabouts since 2005. Abdulmutallab was charged with trying to detonate an explosive device on board Northwest Airlines flight 253 on Christmas Day. The events were compiled by CBS News correspondent Sheila MacVicar and CBSNews.com. ....

NewsFocus: Read the comments below the CBS story regarding the alleged bomber trying to board without a passport and having someone vouch for him at the check-in.

Cheney: Obama pretends nation is not at war (See NewsFocus Op/Ed)

Republicans hammer Obama after airline attack AFP

Why No GOP Outrage Over Failed Plane Bomber’s Detention in Michigan
“Christmas
Bomber” Boarded Without Passport. The "Christmas Bomber" apparently Boarded flight 253 without a passport. A Michigan man who was aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253 ...
Detroit incident similar to 2001 'shoe bomber' attempt

 

 

Saving America: The Necessary Steps To Reclaim Our Democracy
"We the people" Need To Insist Upon Restoring The Vision Of Our Forefathers
NewsFocus - 122609

  • Election Reform - Get rid of Political Action Committees (PACs) and corporate donations.
  • Media Reform Break up media monopolies and encourage diversity of news and opinion.
  • Take over the Federal Reserve Return power to print money to U.S. Government.
  • Balance the Courts We should not lean left or right, but strike a fair balance in our courts.
  • Tax Reform Make the rich pay their share accordingly, as we do, with no more loopholes.
  • PATRIOT Act Reform Re-establish the Constitution & Bill of Rights for "We the People."

If we don't act soon, it may be too late to reclaim the country we once knew. Those that have all the power are counting on you to be complacent, unmotivated and ignorant.
 

 

   
 

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