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5/10/2003
The Real Terrorists Gloat About Their "Analytical" Skills :.The parallels between Hitler's staged Reichstag fire and 9/11 are nothing short of extraordinary. Several writers, including me, have been saying this since 9/12/01. Now that the cabal has managed to bring off the incredible events of 9/11, the transformation of the U.S. into a police state and a war of conquest in Iraq, one has to wonder what they have in mind for their next trick. For now, though, it's time for them to bask in brilliance of their own diabolical genius. Ever wonder what a murderer who's gotten away with the crime sounds like? This article comes as close to saying "it" as any I've seen yet in the mainstream press. Elements of U.S. intelligence and the National Security Council were wholly or partially responsible for the events of 9/11. These events legitimized the openly fascistic perspectives of a small group of narrowly self interested pseudo intellectuals now known as neoconservatives. The neocons, representing armaments and energy sector interests, needed a catalyst to lift their mad rantings from Pentagon and think-tank dustbins into the forefront of official U.S. foreign policy. Depraved worldviews have a way of spawning self fulfilling prophecies. And on September 11, 2001, the most dangerous, fringe elements in and around U.S. foreign policy circles confirmed the validity of their own arguments. Excerpts from Neoconservatives Push for a New World Order, by Dick Polman: Kristol refuses to strut his stuff, because he knows how fast the high and mighty can be brought low in this town; after all, he was once Vice President Dan Quayle's chief of staff. Still, he can't resist contending that Sept. 11 made all the "neocons" look like prophets.
"We saw, earlier than most people, that the world was very dangerous, that America's drift during the `90s was very dangerous," he said Wednesday at the Weekly Standard, the Rupert Murdoch-financed magazine he edits that promotes the neocon credo. "We were alarmed; we tried to call attention to all that. So I don't want to say we feel vindicated, but we do feel our analysis was right."
The neocons care little about domestic policy; they think globally. They don't believe in peaceful coexistence with hostile, undemocratic states; rather, they want an "unapologetic, idealistic, assertive" America (in Kristol's words) that will foment pro-democratic revolutions around the world, if necessary at the point of a gun.
Historian Allan Lichtman said that regardless of whether one agrees with the neocons, "they are historically important, because, in the post-Cold War world, they are providing an intellectual justification for the continuation of the national security state."
Others talk darkly about a "neocon cabal" that includes a media empire (Murdoch also owns Fox News), policy shops (notably the American Enterprise Institute, home to many neocon scholars and Kristol's Project for a New American Century), and revenue sources (particularly the Bradley Foundation, which has helped finance the policy shops).
Neocon Richard Perle, a Pentagon adviser, was an institute scholar; so was John Bolton, who now has a key undersecretary post in the State Department. Today, the institute still has hawks who were hawks before the neocon label became hip; witness ex-Reagan Pentagon adviser Michael Ledeen, who, while puffing on a fat cigar the other day, said: "Americans believe that peace is normal, but that's not true. Life isn't like that. Peace is abnormal."
But is this a cabal? Networking is a way of life in Washington; Democrats do it, too. Max Boot, another prominent neocon (and a think-tank scholar who writes for Kristol's magazine), said: "The liberals have plenty of well-organized and well-funded groups. The problem is that they don't have any good ideas to sell, at least not on foreign policy. To judge from their recent antiwar invective, a large part of the party is still in cloud cuckoo land."
Marshall Wittmann, a close observer of the neocons and a friend of Kristol's, said: "The neocons are all about ideas. They understand how to promote those ideas. They get a lot of bang for the buck. It's the way they frame their arguments, and into whose hands they put those arguments. Also, while a fair number of conservatives shun the mainstream press, Bill participates in it."
The document was deemed too radical; it was watered down. But four years later, in a foreign-policy journal, Kristol and colleague Robert Kagan tried again, writing that America, in pursuit of "benevolent global hegemony," should be willing to confront hostile countries and "bring about a change of regime."
Gary Schmitt, a former Reagan administration intelligence expert who now runs Kristol's think tank, said: "Without 9-11, Bush might have been off wandering in the desert, in terms of foreign policy. He might have been looking for a minimal foreign-policy voice so that he could concentrate on domestic matters. So we (neocons) might not have been in a good position at all.
And if people overseas don't like the more imperious America, the neocon response is basically: So what? Boot said: "Being number one will always elicit a certain amount of resentment; lots of people outside New York hate the Yankees, just as lots of people outside Dallas have always hated the Cowboys. That doesn't mean the Yankees and Cowboys can't go on winning."
Kristol shrugged, "We're going to get criticized for being an imperial power anyway, so you might as well make sure that the good guys win.The above arguments might almost sound legitimate in a post 9/11 world, except when one considers the fact that the people making those statements also perpetrated 9/11. From Bombs in the Building: World Trade Center 'Conspiracy Theory' is a Conspiracy Fact by Randy Lavello: The planes did not bring those towers down; bombs did. So why use planes? It seems they were a diversionary tactic- a grand spectacle. Who would want to divert our attention from the real cause of the collapse of those towers? It must be those who benefited most from these attacks. Let�s recount some facts of that dreadful day.
Any time an aircraft deviates from it�s course, the air traffic controller requests a military intercept according to military response code 7610-4J. This was the first time interceptors were not sent up in the history of this policy. The intercept pilots are trained to make a visual check of the cockpit� could this be the reason these interceptors were intercepted? Planes were sent to the New York area, after unprecedented delay, from Falmouth, Massachusetts rather than nearby Ft. Dix or Laguardia. Of course, they didn�t arrive in time - there was no visual scan of the cockpits.
Captain Kent Hill, retired from the Air Force, explained that the U.S. had flown unmanned aircraft, similar in size to a Boeing 737, on preprogrammed flight paths from Edwards Air Force Base, California to Australia on several occasions. He believes the airliners used in the attacks had their on board computers knocked out and were subsequently choreographed by an Airborne Warning and Control System. Along side Captain Hill, an Air Force officer with more than 100 sorties in Vietnam stated, �Those birds either had a crack fighter pilot in the left seat, or they were being maneuvered by remote control.� We know that the technology exists to fly hijacked commercial airliners by remote control - it�s called �Globalhawk.� We also know that the military has had an unmanned drone aircraft known as the �Predator,� since 1994. A saboteur would merely have to reprogram the controls to switch from manual to remote; those airliners practically fly themselves already with the autopilot. This would require electronic security codes� acquisition of electronic codes would also explain the lapse of interceptor response due to sabotage. Furthermore, it�s a fact that Air Force One codes were known and punched in by a rogue source on 9/11, proving the presence of an inside, subversive element.
As usual, it�s not a good conspiracy, if it doesn�t involve a Bush! Introducing Marvin Bush - brother of George Jr. Marvin is a substantial shareholder and was on the Board of Directors until 2000 of a security company aptly named Securacom. This is not an ordinary security force with canvas badges and walkie-talkies; it�s an electronic security company, which was �coincidentally� involved with Dulles Airport until 1998. Handling electronic security at Dulles seems like an excellent way to gain access to Air Traffic Control communication codes with NORAD, which is in charge of intercept missions. According to CEO Barry McDaniel, the company �handled some of the security at the World Trade Center up to the day the buildings fell down.� How convenient, huh? Bombs were in those towers� Bush�s presidency was saved by these attacks - just something to think about.
Five of the twenty �suicide hijackers� are alive and well according to the BBC and they want their names cleared. So who was flying those planes? We may never know exactly what happened with those jets; what we do know is that the official version crumbles under scrutiny. These planes were merely a diversion, as proven by the presence of bombs� that�s right, PROVEN!
Before beginning this article, I met Auxiliary Lieutenant Fireman and former Auxiliary Police Officer, Paul Isaac Jr. at the World Trade Center Memorial. Paul, along with many other firemen, is very upset about the obvious cover-up and he is on a crusade for answers and justice. He was stationed at Engine 10, across the street from the World Trade Center in 1998 and 99; Engine 10 was entirely wiped out in the destruction of the towers. He explained to me that, �many other firemen know there were bombs in the buildings, but they�re afraid for their jobs to admit it because the �higher-ups� forbid discussion of this fact.� Paul further elaborated that former CIA director Robert Woolsey, as the Fire Department�s Anti-terrorism Consultant, is sending a gag order down the ranks. �There were definitely bombs in those buildings,� he told me. He explained to me that, if the building had �pancaked� as it�s been called, the falling floors would have met great resistance from the steel support columns, which would have sent debris flying outward into the surrounding blocks. I asked him about the trusses, and quoted the history channel�s �don�t trust a truss� explanation for the collapses. He responded in disbelief, and told me, �You could never build a truss building that high. A slight wind would knock it over! Those buildings were supported by reinforced steel. Building don�t just implode like that; this was a demolition.�
posted by Kevin at 7:51 PM
Bush and Blair Start War, Get Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize :.War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength: A Norwegian parliamentarian nominated President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair for the Nobel Peace Prize on Thursday, praising them for winning the war in Iraq.
posted by Kevin at 5:09 PM
5/9/2003
Halliburton Paid Bribes to Nigerian Tax Official :.A subsidiary of Halliburton Co. paid a Nigerian tax official $2.4 million in bribes to get favorable tax treatment, the company disclosed in a federal filing.
In a filing made Thursday with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the company said its KBR subsidiary ``made improper payments of approximately $2.4 million to an entity owned by a Nigerian national who held himself out as a tax consultant when in fact he was an employee of a local tax authority.''
The filing stated that the payments were found during a routine audit, and that several employees were fired as a result.
posted by Kevin at 3:37 AM
Neocons Dance a Strauss Waltz :.In his article, Hersh wrote that Strauss believed the world to be a place where "isolated liberal democracies live in constant danger from hostile elements abroad", and where policy advisers may have to deceive their own publics and even their rulers in order to protect their countries.
Shadia Drury, author of 1999's Leo Strauss and the American Right, says that Hersh is right on the second count but dead wrong on the first. "Strauss was neither a liberal nor a democrat," she said in a telephone interview from her office at the University of Calgary in Canada. "Perpetual deception of the citizens by those in power is critical [in Strauss's view] because they need to be led, and they need strong rulers to tell them what's good for them.
"The Weimar Republic [in Germany] was his model of liberal democracy for which he had huge contempt," added Drury. Liberalism in Weimar, in Strauss's view, led ultimately to the Nazi Holocaust against the Jews.
Like Plato, Strauss taught that within societies, "some are fit to lead, and others to be led", according to Drury. But, unlike Plato, who believed that leaders had to be people with such high moral standards that they could resist the temptations of power, Strauss thought that "those who are fit to rule are those who realize there is no morality and that there is only one natural right, the right of the superior to rule over the inferior".
posted by Kevin at 2:17 AM
.Mil Reading JL Naudin List, Checking Out BingoFuelJL Naudin, a French energy researcher, maintains a Yahoo discussion group called the JLN Labs Group-List. Naudin describes the group as, "Dedicated to the search of Free-Energy solutions and new generations of space-propulsion systems." Take a look at the following hit to Cryptogon from Wednesday: Wed May 7 03 at 09:37:27 AM N cryptogon.com/2003_04_20_blogarchive.html Go : groups.yahoo.com/group/jlnlabs/message/28120 198.26.118.37 WCS2-MOFFETT.NIPR.MIL Mozilla/4.0(MSIE6.0;WindowsNT5.0;H010818) 1024x768 65 K colorsNipr.mil provides gateways to the public Internet from inside the U.S. military's information networks. These gateways are operated by Scientific Applications International Corporation. (Spell SAIC backwards and you get CIAs or CIA Software.) Here's what the above log entry indicates: Someone on a U.S. military network, was visiting Naudin's Yahoo site through a gateway to the public Internet called WCS2-MOFFETT.NIPR.MIL. This particular machine identifies itself as part of the DoD Network Information Center NETBLK-DLA-C. This is the post the user was reading on Naudin's Yahoo site: Message 28120 of 28331
From: "Kevin"
Date: Tue Apr 22, 2003 4:28 am
Subject: Photovoltaic BingoFuel Hybrid Car
I described a possible design for a BingoFuel/Solar hybrid on my site:
http://www.cryptogon.com/2003_04_20_blogarchive.html#92930012
Any comments?The reader then clicked the link in this post which refers to the BingoFuel car story on Cryptogon. I find it interesting that someone on a classified U.S. military network is checking out information that most establishment scientists and researchers consider nonsense. Never mind the fact that Naudin is researching technology that could shatter the petroleum based prison in which the world is trapped at the moment.
posted by Kevin at 12:54 AM
5/8/2003
Bush Chooses Kissinger Minion to Rule Iraq :.What's better, Bush trying to get Kissinger to head the investigation into 9/11, or Bush appointing a Kissinger flunky to rule Iraq? They're rubbing our noses in it now, folks. Believe it, or not: The Bush administration has chosen L. Paul Bremer, a former head of the State Department's counterterrorism office, to become civilian administrator in Iraq and oversee the country's transition to democratic rule.
Bremer's selection, disclosed Wednesday by a senior U.S. official, will put him in charge of a transition team that includes retired Army Lt. Gen. Jay Garner and Zalmay Khalilzad, the special White House envoy in the Persian Gulf region.
Bremer left the State Department, where he was an assistant to former secretaries William P. Rogers and Henry Kissinger, to join Kissinger Associates, a consulting firm studded with both Democrats and Republicans that held top U.S. government posts.
posted by Kevin at 5:23 AM
5/7/2003
Cryptogon Readers in and Around Austin, TX :.Please show up to support Gene Chapman this Saturday at 10am! I get a bunch of hits from Austin. You guys should be down there with Gene. He is willing to die to expose IRS extortion and fraud: We'll have a Saturday rally at 10:00 AM just like we did last week. We had twenty-three people last week and I'm lookin' forward to a bigger crowd this week and hopefully it will build. There's a guy here, such irony, the manager of the hotel where I'm staying. His father actually travelled with Mahatma Gandhi. And he says that if this were India there would be two or three thousand people out there fasting with me right now. So there you go. The difference between the culture in India and the culture in America. But I'm happy with twenty-three, I'm happy with one. I didn't do this to get a crowd, I did it to make a one man stand and if people want to stand with me they're welcome to and if they don't then that's fine too. So there's my position on it.
posted by Kevin at 3:42 PM
Halliburton in Iraq: Operation of Facilities and Distribution of Products :.Hmmm: Halliburton's role in post-war Iraq includes operating Iraqi oil fields, new documents have revealed.
Previously, the US Army Corps of Engineers had described the contract given to Halliburton - run by US Vice President Dick Cheney between 1995 and 2000 - as putting out fires at oil wells during the conflict.
The emergency contract for firefighting and capping Iraqi oil wells was awarded to Halliburton without a bidding process in March.
Responding to questions from a US Congressman, the US Army Corps of Engineers has revealed that the contract included "operation of facilities and distribution of products".
posted by Kevin at 3:23 PM
White House Battling to Keep 9/11 Report Secret :.Hmmm: Even as White House political aides plot a 2004 campaign plan designed to capitalize on the emotions and issues raised by the September 11 terror attacks, administration officials are waging a behind-the-scenes battle to restrict public disclosure of key events relating to the attacks.
At the center of the dispute is a more-than-800-page secret report prepared by a joint congressional inquiry detailing the intelligence and law-enforcement failures that preceded the attacks�including provocative, if unheeded warnings, given President Bush and his top advisers during the summer of 2001.
The report was completed last December; only a bare-bones list of �findings� with virtually no details was made public. But nearly six months later, a �working group� of Bush administration intelligence officials assigned to review the document has taken a hard line against further public disclosure. By refusing to declassify many of its most significant conclusions, the administration has essentially thwarted congressional plans to release the report by the end of this month, congressional and administration sources tell NEWSWEEK. In some cases, these sources say, the administration has even sought to �reclassify� some material that was already discussed in public testimony�a move one Senate staffer described as �ludicrous.�
posted by Kevin at 3:10 PM
5/6/2003
Bechtel Tied to Bin Ladens :.Hmmm: The Bush administration launched a war on terror because of the alleged acts of Osama bin Laden. Ironically, one of the companies the administration has picked to rebuild Iraq after the latest phase of that war has ties to bin Laden's family, according to a published report.
Bechtel Corp., a private construction firm based in San Francisco, recently was awarded a State Department contract, potentially worth more than $600 million, to help rebuild Iraq's infrastructure after the recent U.S.-led war there.
posted by Kevin at 9:56 PM
Firm in Florida Election Fiasco Earns Millions from Files on Foreigners :.Some of you may remember my previous coverage of De La Rue, the international banking services provider and manufacturer of electronic vote counting systems. Well, the weirdness continues, this time with another curious company called ChoicePoint. Please write if you have any clue as to what this is all about: A data-gathering company that was embroiled in the Florida 2000 election fiasco is being paid millions of dollars by the Bush administration to collect detailed personal information on the populations of foreign countries, enraging several governments who say the records may have been illegally obtained.
US government purchasing documents show that the company, ChoicePoint, received at least $11m (�6.86m) from the department of justice last year to supply data - mainly on Latin Americans - that included names and addresses, occupations, dates of birth, passport numbers and "physical description". Even tax records and blood groups are reportedly included.Research Credit: DG
posted by Kevin at 4:37 AM
Homeschooling: 11-Year-Old Wows State Science Fair :.He blew us away," said Lois Lugg, the state fair's director. "We've never had a kid that young competing in the high-school level.... He is going to be one of our great future scientists."
Andrew, 11, of Issaquah, won the Silver Medal and became the youngest participant to be awarded a grand prize in the fair's 46 years.
posted by Kevin at 4:36 AM
Child Vaccinated by Force in Colorado :.Due Process was not followed; the family had no time to obtain competent legal help or expert witnesses. A panel of 10 faced the family, including the judge, 4 attorneys, social workers, hospital administrators, and the doctor. The "judge" ignored the pleas for second opinions and subsequent blood tests on the birth mother. A unilateral arbitrary decision was made to inoculate the child immediately, in violation of existing state law and the civil liberties of the parents. In addition to the harmful shot administered to the 1 day old infant, the child was put into "protective supervision" of the MCDHS (MESA COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES) to protect the "child's best interests".
Are hospitals places that administer "health" care, or a place where you can lose your rights (and even your children), and be subjected to extreme health risks by the administration of vaccinations proven to be dangerous? From what I have learned this past week, hospitals can be an extreme health risk and the courts will not protect you. They violate existing law and strip you of your God-given rights protected by the Constitution and law.
posted by Kevin at 4:34 AM
5/5/2003
The Greatest Swindle of Them All: It's in Your Wallet :.TR sent some quotes by Thomas Jefferson about paper currency. I found a collection of these types of quotes for your reading pleasure. The fact that most Americans are totally incapable of comprehending passages like this is proof that oblivion is upon us: "I sincerely believe... that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity under the name of funding is but swindling futurity on a large scale." --Thomas Jefferson to John Taylor, 1816. ME 15:23 Current U.S. National Debt:
 Hmmm...
posted by Kevin at 4:16 AM
The Matrix Re-Boots in Iraq :.Sent by TR: Now that the US has taken over Iraq, it is important to create the same level of distraction that exists in this country. People need to be very concerned about things that don't matter, like sports and movies. If US businesses can push the same crap on the Iraqis that they do on us in the Homeland, the Iraqis will be walking around with 64 ouncers before they can say, "Super-size my happy meal." From the article: Iraqis turned their attention to sports and entertainment Sunday, leisure activities that had all but disappeared during the war and its immediate aftermath.
posted by Kevin at 4:15 AM
Super-Size Your Spawn: Even U.S. Toddlers Are Obese :.More TV and video games for the young porkers: Even toddlers in the United States are obese, and they are not only overweight, but are showing early signs of diabetes and other diseases associated with being fat, researchers say.
posted by Kevin at 4:13 AM
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 Fatal
Harvest: The Tragedy of Industrial Agriculture by Andrew Kimbrell
Readers will come to see
that industrial food production is indeed a "fatal harvest"
- fatal to consumers, as pesticide residues and new disease vectors
such as E. coli and "mad cow disease" find their way
into our food supply; fatal to our landscapes, as chemical runoff
from factory farms poison our rivers and groundwater; fatal to
genetic diversity, as farmers rely increasingly on high-yield
monocultures and genetically engineered crops; and fatal to our
farm communities, which are wiped out by huge corporate
farms.
 Friendly
Fascism: The New Face of Power in America by Bertram Myron Gross
This is a relatively
short but extremely cogent and well-argued treatise on the rise
of a form of fascistic thought and social politics in late 20th
century America. Author Bertram Gross' thesis is quite straightforward;
the power elite that comprises the corporate, governmental and
military superstructure of the country is increasingly inclined
to employ every element in their formidable arsenal of 'friendly
persuasion' to win the hearts and minds of ordinary Americans
through what Gross refers to as friendly fascism.
 The
Good Life
by Scott and Helen Nearing Helen
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 Silent
Theft: The Private Plunder of Our Common Wealth by David Bollierd
In Silent Theft, David Bollier
argues that a great untold story of our time is the staggering
privatization and abuse of our common wealth. Corporations are
engaged in a relentless plunder of dozens of resources that we
collectively own—publicly funded medical breakthroughs,
software innovation, the airwaves, the public domain of creative
works, and even the DNA of plants, animals and humans. Too often,
however, our government turns a blind eye—or sometimes helps
give away our assets. Amazingly,
the silent theft of our shared wealth has gone largely unnoticed
because we have lost our ability to see the commons.
 The
Self-Sufficient Life and How to Live It: The Complete Back-To-Basics
Guide by John Seymour The
Self Sufficient Life and How to Live It is the only book that
teaches all the skills needed to live independently in harmony
with the land harnessing natural forms of energy, raising crops
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 When
Corporations Rule the World by David C. Korten
When Corporations
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and detached them from accountability to the human interest. It
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 The
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This expansion
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