Rights Groups File Challenge To Targeted Killing By U.S.
[09/06/10]
"The American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) today filed a lawsuit challenging the government's asserted authority to carry out “targeted killings” of U.S. citizens located far from any armed conflict zone.
The authority contemplated by the Obama administration is far broader than what the Constitution and international law allow, the groups charge. Outside of armed conflict, both the Constitution and international law prohibit targeted killing except as a last resort to protect against concrete, specific, and imminent threats of death or serious physical injury. An extrajudicial killing policy under which names are added to CIA and military “kill lists” through a secret executive process and stay there for months at a time is plainly not limited to imminent threats.
“The United States cannot simply execute people, including its own citizens, anywhere in the world based on its own say-so,” said Vince Warren, Executive Director of CCR. “The law prohibits the government from killing without trial or conviction other than in the face of an imminent threat that leaves no time for deliberation or due process. That the government adds people to kill lists after a bureaucratic process and leaves them on the lists for months at a time flies in the face of the Constitution and international law.” [...]
Related: Targeting American Citizens: CIA Takes Global Murder Policy to Next Level
"Tony Blair: Cheney’s vision ‘not stupid,’ possible ‘over time’"
[09/06/10]
"Vice-President Dick Cheney's vision of completely redrawing the map of the Middle East following the 9/11 attacks is "not stupid," and is "possible over time," former British Prime Minister Tony Blair says.
In his new book, A Journey, the former Labour Party leader wrote that Cheney wanted a wholesale reorganization of the political map of the Middle East after 9/11. The vice president "would have worked through the whole lot, Iraq, Syria, Iran, dealing with all their surrogates in the course of it -- Hezbollah, Hamas, etc," Blair wrote. [...]"
Note: So part of the reason for 911 was to alter the Middle
East situation ... and they're admitting that. The rest involves
incredible amounts of money, drugs and weapons, and destroying the viability
of the US as a county.
Related: Tony Blair's autobiography becomes 'crime book' after Facebook campaign
Op-Ed: "Our Long National Nightmare Isn't Over, It's Just Beginning"
[09/06/10]
"In the 1930s, the only thing we had to fear was fear, itself. Today, the main thing we have to fear is us, ourselves.
Looking out over the horizon, I'm starting to wonder just how many shades of dark there are on the
pallette. Lately, I get the feeling that we're about to find out. I wish I could say that this society did our best to fight our demons, but that the odds were simply insurmountable. You know. Like we were just sitting there by ourselves on our remote little Pacific island, a thousand years before telephones and radar when bang the tsunami hit, no fault of our own. And we bravely struggled heroically, doing our mightiest to save as many lives as we could.
I mean, if you've got to crash and burn, better to go down with a little dignity and honor, eh?
But, no, not for me, apparently. I'm an American. I live in a country nay, an empire! that insists on destroying itself. I'm part of the generation of decline. My people are the fools who perfected the fine art of committing suicide by stupidity.
It's an astonishing act, and one of wide participation. The nightmare of the right in America edges increasingly close to dragging the country past the point of no return, over the cliff of violent implosion. At this point, there is already little that is missing save the jackboots and broken glass. [...]"
"The Collapse of American Liberalism"
[09/06/10]
Video clip [11:01]
Note: "Chris Hedges: "When you have bankrupt liberalism you descend into moral nihilism"
Clergy oppose planned Koran burning
[09/06/10]
"Religious leaders from more than a half-dozen faiths held an interfaith symposium in Houston to condemn a Florida church's plan to burn copies of the Koran. [...]"
Note: Why this wouldn't fall under 'hate crime'
legislation and be stopped is a mystery ... then again, perhaps not: A
deliberately allowed provocation: Indonesian Muslims Protest Plans to Burn Quran
"Thousands of Indonesian Muslims are rallying outside the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta to denounce a Florida church's plan to burn copies of the Quran on Sept.
11. The Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Fla., said it will burn the Islamic holy book on the ninth anniversary of the terror attacks. Local officials have denied a permit for the bonfire on the church's grounds. But the center, which made headlines last year by distributing T-shirts that said "Islam is of the Devil,'' insists it will go ahead with the plan.
About 3,000 members of a hard-line Islamic group marched Saturday to the U.S. Embassy in downtown Jakarta, waving banners and posters condemning the plan. The group organized similar rallies in five other cities across Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim nation. [...]"
Commentary: Former Republican Congressional Committee Treasurer Pleads Guilty to Theft
[09/06/10]
"A former treasurer of the National Republican Congressional Committee pleaded guilty today in Washington federal district court to stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from the political committee and business
clients. Christopher Ward, a Maryland resident, worked in the NRCC's accounting department before he became treasurer in 2003, according to court records. Ward, prosecutors said in court papers, also ran an accounting and consultant business that specialized in compliance with Federal Election Commission regulations.
Prosecutors said Ward stole more than $844,000 from March 2001 to December 2007 by issuing unauthorized checks and wire transfers from the NRCC and political committees that were clients of his business.
“Christopher J. Ward was trusted to oversee other people’s money, and he violated that trust by diverting nearly $850,000 into his own pocket and creating fraudulent documentation to conceal the theft,” U.S. Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein of Maryland said in a statement. “Mr. Ward then caused false reports to be filed with the Federal Election Commission concerning the expenditure of the political contributions.” [...]"
Note: ...Frankly, I wish he had stolen it all and put the right wing lunatics into financial bankruptcy, to complement their current state of
' moral bankruptcy'.
Major NH National Guard Deployment Announced
[09/06/10]
"Army officials said 750 soldiers from the New Hampshire Army National Guard will be heading to Kuwait as part of Operation New Dawn.
Maj. Gen. William N. Reddel III announced the deployment Thursday morning. It is the largest deployment of National Guard forces from New Hampshire since World War II.
Col. Peter L. Corey is the commander of the 197th Fires Brigade, which will be going to Kuwait primarily to help secure supply lines. Corey said their mission is that of a security force.
The unit has been preparing for the deployment for about 18 months. They will leave for Fort McCoy for further
training on Sept. 11. The 197th will be in theater from November until September 2011, officials said. [...]"
Note: The National Guard is a state militia, never
intended to be used as part of the national military, especially outside the
US.
Commentary: "Your Choice America, War or Economic Survival; You Can't Have Both"
[09/05/10]
"Make your choice America and choose wisely because your decision will determine the ultimate fate of this nation. The choices are quite clear. We can choose the Washington Establishment's agenda of perpetual war or we can totally reject unnecessary wars and rebuild the economic foundation of America. There is only one choice; we cannot have it both ways. [...]"
Mistresses, Wives Clash Over Chilean Miners
[09/05/10]
"If those 33 trapped Chilean miners make it to the surface safely, some of them may end up wishing they'd stayed underground. Officials at the camp where families have gathered say at least five miners' wives have encountered surprise mistresses. Ugly scenes have ensued as women clash over compensation packages, the Telegraph reports.
One miner has a first wife he never divorced, a live-in partner, a mother of a child he had several years ago, and a woman who says she is his current girlfriend. All are holding vigil at the camp. "It's a logistical nightmare trying to keep them apart—and of course they all want to send messages," said a Red Cross worker. Officials are considering asking the miners whom they would like to claim the compensation, although they are trying to avoid raising the men's stress levels by letting them know too much about the dramas happening above ground. [...]"
Related: Trapped Chilean Miners Denied Pay While Underground
"The 33 men trapped 2,258 feet below ground in a Chilean mine recently found out that they would be receiving no pay from the company responsible for their ordeal.
Union official Evelyn Olmos stated that San Esteban, the company that operates the mine, has said it has no money to pay their wages and absorb lawsuits, and is not even participating in the rescue (Daily Mail). [...]"
Note: There are now 33 men who, by virtue of revenge alone,
must survive, to deal with those who have treated them with such distain.
Third drill effort to reach Chile miners
Israel Invited to Join Anti-Nuclear Pact
[09/05/10]
"The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog has invited Israel to consider joining a global anti-nuclear arms pact and to place all its atomic facilities under his agency's inspections, an IAEA report said on Friday. [...]"
Mexico Drug Kingpin Admits U.S. Funding
[09/04/10]
"A captured Mexican drug kingpin admitted to “investments” in Colombia and said he had received trailers full of dollars from the United States, in a first interrogation video released here.
US-born Edgar Valdez, alias “the Barbie” for his fair complexion, was captured this week, in a major coup for the Mexican government as it struggles to contain raging drug violence.
Valdez, 37, was a key lieutenant of Arturo Beltran-Leyva, who headed the
Beltran-Leyva cartel and was Mexico’s third most wanted man until his December 2009 death in a military operation.
Mexican justice officials on Wednesday interrogated “the Barbie” and were set to decide whether he would be sent to the United States, where he has been indicted in several drug trafficking cases.
US and Mexican officials both offered some two million dollars for information leading to his
arrest. The broad-faced drug trafficker wiped sweat off his face as he replied to questions from a female voice in images released by the attorney general’s office late Tuesday.
He said his networks extended to Colombia and he received payments from the United States in dollars hidden in vehicle trailers. [...]"
Note: The original story on Raw Story has apparently been
pulled.
Mossad Impersonating U.S. Intelligence Operatives and Trying to Recruit Arab Americans
[09/04/10]
"The CIA took an internal poll not long ago about friendly foreign intelligence agencies. The question, mostly directed to employees of the clandestine service branch, was: Which are the best allies among friendly spy services, in terms of liaison with the CIA, and which are the worst? [...]"
Note: another Mossad false flag op in planning or progress ...
Enemy in Mind: Jewish group gets gunned-up to face-off ‘Muslim Threat’
[09/04/10]
[3:21] A Jewish group in the U.S. shares the view that Israelis are in danger wherever they are – and believes they should prepare themselves for the worst. Its members are involved in intensive training in military skills and survival methods. But as Lauren Lyster discovered, critics claim their enemy is mostly in the mind…
" [...]"
Related: Jewish Militia in America: ADL says "It's OK, They're One of Us."
The "ADL" is just one man.
UK:
EU trade chief
forced to apologize for saying you can't have a 'rational conversation about Middle East with Jews'
[09/04/10]
"The EU's trade chief has been forced to apologise for blaming Jews and the 'Jewish lobby' in Washington for blocking Middle East peace as the embarrassed EU head office quickly distanced itself from his comments. [...]"
Note: Booga Booga. If something is true, it's true.
Gilad Atzmon: Bloody Memoir [09/04/10]
"Tony Blair, a man who launched a criminal war with no end, declared once again today that “Radical Islam is the world's greatest threat”
. He made the remark in a BBC interview marking the publication of his memoirs.
Mr Blair said radical Islamists believed that whatever was done in the name of their cause was justified - including the use of chemical, biological or nuclear weapons. [...]"
Note: But the G-8 is the worlds greatest threat, quite
transparently and obviously ...
Related: Shoes, eggs hurled at ex-Brit PM Blair in Dublin
"Protesters hurled shoes and eggs Saturday at Tony Blair who held the first public signing of his memoir amid high security in Ireland’s capital. Hundreds more people lined up to have their books autographed — evidence that the divisions left by Blair’s decade as British leader have yet to heal.
Blair’s new book, “A Journey,” is a best-seller, but it has angered opponents of his policies, especially the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
About 200 demonstrators chanted that Blair had “blood on his hands” as the former prime minister arrived at a Dublin bookstore.
Shoes, eggs and other projectiles were thrown toward Blair as he emerged from
a car, but did not hit him. A flip-flop could be seen lying on the roof of a
BMW in Blair’s motorcade. [...]"
Major human trafficker is huge GOP donor who fought illegal immigration
[09/04/10]
"A business owner indicted for the human trafficking of 400 laborers from Thailand is a frequent donor to the Republican Party and recently waged war against other companies involved with hiring illegal immigrants.
The Associated Press reports that according to the allegations, "the recruiters lured the workers with false promises of lucrative jobs, then confiscated their passports, failed to honor their employment contracts and threatened to deport them."
The FBI considers this the largest human-trafficking case in US history, and those indicted face maximum sentences of five to 70 years in prison, the Justice Department confirmed to AP.
The man at the helm is Mordechai Orian, 45, President and CEO of the Los Angeles-based Global Horizons Manpower Inc., a labor contracting group. Five of his affiliates and contractors were also charged in the scheme. [...]"
Note: Mordechai Orian? Sounds like another Israeli has
become a parasite on the world.
Commentary:
Middle East Loses Trillions As U.S. Strikes Record Arms Deals
[09/04/10]
"The Internet has provided the world with, if nothing else, instantaneous access to news and in-depth information previously available only to governments and think tanks. It has also allowed for the exchange of data and analyses between groups and individuals around the globe, in part by making one tongue, English, the language of the World Wide Web. It remains to be seen whether the keystroke is mightier than the sword.
An illustrative case in point is an August 29 report from China's Xinhua News Agency on a news article by Egypt's Middle East News Agency regarding a study conducted by the Strategic Foresight Group in India. The latter, a report published in a book entitled The Cost of Conflict in the Middle East, calculates that conflict in the area over the last 20 years has cost the nations and people of the region 12 trillion U.S. dollars. [...]
Other sources estimate the overall rate of unemployment in the Middle East at 20-25 percent, with joblessness in nations like Lebanon and Yemen at 30 percent or more. This despite the fact that the region has achieved one of the more impressive successes in improving educational opportunities, measured by the amount of years students spend in school, in the world.
The Middle East requires comprehensive regional development, but instead is receiving billions of dollars worth of arms. The area's nations could be spending that sum on rural and urban infrastructure, dams and reservoirs, desalination and irrigation, forestation and fisheries, industry and agriculture, medicine and public health, housing and information technology, equitable integration of cities and villages, and repairing the ravages of past wars rather than on U.S. warplanes, attack helicopters and interceptor missiles. [...]
"
Alex Jones: ABC Nightline Hit Piece Smears Alex Jones As King of “Paranoia Porn”
[09/04/10]
[14:51]
"An ABC Nightline hit piece
[6:09] on Alex Jones which aired last night attempts to smear the radio talk show host as a dangerous purveyor of “paranoia porn” who is inciting followers to violence, an unfortunate angle to take in light of the fact that just a day earlier, James Jay Lee was inspired not by Alex Jones, but by top-down establishment propaganda about environmentalism, when he decided to take hostages at gunpoint during the Discovery Channel building siege.
The headline of the piece, “Angry in America: Inside Alex Jones’ World,” instantly implies that Jones lives within his own paranoid fantasy bubble and that “Alex Jones’ world” bears no relation to the real world. [...]"
Note: Part 2 [14:57]| Part
3 [14:56]| Part 4
[5:59]| "Jones knew that inviting the MSM to do a nationally televised feature on him would result in a hit
piece."
Iran outraged by bogus military interview
[09/04/10]
"Iran is reacting angrily to a supposed interview with an Islamic Revolution Guards commander, which authorities insist is fake.
The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps see the supposedly fraudulent interview as part of a larger "Iranophobia" project by regional media. Iranian officials point out the fact that the interview surfaced immediately after the fueling of Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant commenced. [...]"
Scientist,
70, Sets Off Airport Fiasco [09/03/10]
"Officials decided to shut down much of Miami International Airport after a database showed a scientist with a suspicious item in his luggage had once been charged with illegally transporting bubonic plague, a senior law enforcement official said Friday.
No dangerous material was found on 70-year-old Thomas Butler after he was detained Thursday night, the official told The Associated Press on Friday.
Butler who was acquitted on charges of transporting the potentially deadly germ in 2003, cooperated fully after he arrived on a flight from the Middle East, said the official, who requested anonymity because he wasn't authorized to release the information.
Most of the airport was shut down Thursday night after officials found a suspicious metal canister in Butler's luggage. A Homeland Security spokesman said at first it looked like a pipe bomb, but no explosives were found.
The senior law enforcement official said a Transportation Security Administration inspector noticed an odd container as Butler was going through Customs after arriving on a flight from the Middle East, where he had been teaching at a Saudi Arabian university.
The inspector ran Butler's name through a database and discovered that he had been tried on the plague charges in 2003. Officials decided to evacuate the airport and detain Butler.
Tests showed that the container and his other belongings did not contain any hazardous biological material or explosives. He was released Friday morning. No one answered the door at an address in Lubbock, Texas, listed as his on a U.S. Department of Commerce website. [...]
Jonathan Turley, a George Washington University law professor who represented Butler during his appeals, said Friday that the Miami incident "appears to be a fantastic overreaction," probably resulting from a computer flagging Butler's court record.
"That's ironic because we defeated all the national security counts in the case," Turley said. "The only plague claim he was convicted of was a highly technical paper violation; he literally checked the wrong box on the form."
He added: "I find it strange to evacuate an airport because a guy was convicted of contractual violations with a university." [...]
" Police Release Scientist in Miami Airport Scare
Ex-MI6 man sentenced over leaks
[09/03/10]
"A former MI6 worker is given a 12-month jail sentence for trying to sell top secret material for £2m.
Houghton, who worked as a £23,000-a-year software engineer, had tried to sell copies of electronic files containing details of information-gathering software and staff lists to the agents in The Netherlands.
The Dutch authorities then tipped off MI5. Judge Mr Justice Bean heard Houghton's account was that he was "directed by voices to do what he is said to have done in the charges".
Mr Justice Bean said he did not know if his claims were true but described him as a "strange young man".
He added: "If the material had found its way into the hands of a hostile power it would have done enormous damage and put lives at risk."
Agents from The Netherlands are understood to have bugged and filmed Houghton as he displayed the files and offered to provide them with lists of MI5 agents he had worked with.
The price was negotiated down to £900,000 and immediately after Houghton handed over the files on 1 March he was arrested while carrying a suitcase containing the cash.
When police searched his flat they discovered paperwork marked "top
secret" [...]"
Top Russian spy dead after
'swimming accident' [09/03/10]
"The body of Major General Yuri Ivanov, 52, who was the deputy head of Russian military intelligence
(GRU), washed up on the Turkish coast earlier this month, after he disappeared close to a
sensitive Russian naval facility in neighboring Syria. Russian media did not report Ivanov’s death until last Saturday when he was quietly buried in Moscow. [...]"
Related: Russian spy visited base installation shortly before
death
"According to Israeli media, Ivanov was last seen visiting the building site for a
new Russian military base in the Syrian coastal city
Tartus. After his visit, he left for a meeting with Syrian intelligence agents, but went missing. [...]"
Ivanov’s body found in Turkey on August 16
"Russian authorities have refused comment on why Ivanov’s death was only announced on Saturday, even though his body was found in Turkey on August 16. [...]"
Commentary: "Government Economic Leaders Surprised that Real World Isn't Responding to their Magic Pixie Dust"
[09/03/10]
"But the advent of the printing press led people to take a closer look at the actual content of [fundamentalist version of] religion and it has been revealed not as a complex and sophisticated system but as a mish-mash of half-baked myths and legends often in contradiction with itself and used to enrich the church ....
The same is true of economics. the advent of the blog has led people to take a closer look at the actual content of economics and it has been revealed not as a complex and sophisticated system but as a mish-mash of half-baked theories and math often in contradiction with itself and used to enrich the bankers and conceal their fraud against the public. [...]"
Who is rigging our elections? Clues from
Massachusetts [09/03/10]
"Denied access to the only direct evidence, Simon pursues the indirect evidence with an ingenuity and a thoroughness that makes a solid case for election fraud. His starting point is the fact that among the 3% of ballots that were hand-counted, Coakley won a solid victory. He then proceeds to eliminate, one by one, all the innocent explanations for the disparity between the 3% (hand counted, publicly verifiable) and the 97% (machine-tallied using trade-secret software by two large corporations, ES&S and Diebold, both with partisan Republican ties).
Could it have been a statistical fluke? The chances of this were one in a million. NO! [...]"
Feds Sue Sheriff Arpaio Over Immigration Documents
[09/03/10]
"The U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday sued the Maricopa County, Ariz., Sheriff's Office, claiming it and Sheriff Joe Arpaio failed to hand over documents as part of the agency's probe into immigration enforcement operations. [...]"
Senator Kept List Of Favors He Did For Bribes
[09/03/10]
"In the politician’s version of America’s Dumbest Criminals, a prominent Maryland state lawmaker actually kept a detailed list of the illegal favors he did for executives of a grocery chain that paid him nearly a quarter of a million dollars in bribes.
As chair of the state’s powerful senate taxation committee, Democrat Ulysses Currie sold his influence to the supermarket chain (Shoppers Food Warehouse) that he helped land government business and other favors that financially
benefited the company. Federal prosecutors say the grocery chain put Currie on its payroll for about six years, making monthly payments of up to $7,600 to the corrupt legislator. [...]"
British Attorney General moves toward re-opening investigation into mysterious death of Iraq weapons inspector
[09/03/10]
"The United Kingdom’s top law enforcement official has taken possession of secret files surrounding the death of a prominent WMD researcher who was found dead in the months after the invasion of Iraq.
David Kelly, once employed by the British Defense Ministry, was a former UN weapons inspector who had been previously deployed to Iraq. He was found dead in July 2003 about a mile from his home, having ingested more than two dozen pain-killers and with a cut in his left wrist.
A “Blue Ribbon” inquiry ruled the death a suicide, but skeptics — including several prominent doctors and coroners — challenged the inquiry’s conclusion. They said Kelly could not have taken his own life through such a small cut.
Others noted that Kelly had been in touch with BBC journalist Andrew Gilligan that month about Britain’s dossier on Iraq’s alleged weapons of mass destruction. He’d also emailed then-New York Times reporter Judith Miller the day before he was found dead. Miller was instrumental to selling the war in the United States, as one of the Times’ top reporters on WMDs. Some elements of Miller’s reporting later turned out to be patently false.
According to Thursday’s Daily Mail, UK Attorney General Dominic Grieve has assumed possession of “secret files which could trigger an inquest into the death of Dr David Kelly.”
“For the first time,” the Mail reports, “Mr Grieve is actively seeking the evidence required to hold a new inquiry into the weapons inspector’s death.” [...]"
West Bank partially sealed off after Israeli settler killings
[09/03/10]
"Palestinian residents instructed not to travel through the area during the funerals of the four settlers 'to prevent clashes' [...]"
Note: Some retribution against the INSANE settlers ...
Bin Laden aide sentenced to life
[09/03/10]
"An alleged former assistant to 'al-Qaida' leader Osama bin Laden was given a life term for assaulting a corrections officer, a New York attorney announced. [...]"
Note: Well, that settles that! Slick way to make it all go
away.
Arizona governor stumbles during debate, flees reporters afterwards
[09/03/10]
"No one has turned up any decapitated corpses buried in Arizona as of yet, but some of the Republican governor's toughest critics are joking that she lost her head during a debate televised on Wednesday night. Gov. Janet Brewer stumbled during her opening statement of a televised debate with political opponents and refused to answer [...] [...]"
Note: A dried-up 'husk' of a woman. See below.
AZ: Lobbyists Tie Brewer Administration To Private Prisons
[09/02/10]
"Gov. Jan Brewer took center stage last Tuesday night after she officially clenched the Republican nomination. Standing just behind her was a man most Arizonans would not recognize.
He’s Chuck Coughlin, Brewer’s campaign chairman, policy adviser and a lobbyist for the largest private prison company in the country. And he’s one of two people in the Brewer administration with ties to Corrections Corporation of America.
The other administration member is communications director Paul Senseman, a former CCA lobbyist. His wife still lobbies for the company.
According to campaign finance records, CCA executives and employees contributed more than $1,000 to the governor’s re-election campaign. The company’s political action committee and its lobbyists contributed another $60,000 to Brewer’s top legislative priority, Proposition 100, a sales tax to help avoid budget cuts to education.
Caroline Isaacs from the American Friends Service Committee, which advocates for social justice issues, said the money is evidence of influence the company has on the governor.
Isaacs said private prison companies have been buying influence in Arizona politics for years. The number of private prisons and jails operating across the state shows the result of that influence, he said. Currently, there are at least 12 for-profit prison, jail and detention facilities in Arizona. [...]"
Corbett Report: New 9/11 Videos, Predators on the Border, Gates and Monsanto
[09/02/10]
[14:19] 45th episode of the 'New World Next Week'
CIA Training Intelligence Agents For ‘State Sponsor Of Terrorism’ Sudan
[09/02/10]
"While Erik Prince and his Blackwater Worldwide company is being fined for ignoring sanctions against Sudan and trying to “secure lucrative defense business in Southern Sudan,” the central government in Khartoum is having its security forces — one the most brutal in the Arab world — trained by the CIA.
According to Stein, U.S. officials maintain the operations are limited to counterterrorism. But one wonders how the NISS separates out such training from its general operations of domestic oppression. [...]"
Commentary: "The Greatest Covert Operation Ever: The Politics of Terror as the Business of Terror"
[09/01/10]
"The politics of terror are the greatest covert operation ever. In explaining why, I’ll begin by defining some terms, because, when discussing the covert op called “the politics of terror,” words and their management are all important.
How are politics and terror actually defined: how are these meanings manipulated; for what purposes, and by whom?
Terrorism is defined as "violence against civilians intended to obtain a political purpose." This is an ambiguous phrase, which begs the questions: what are politics and violence?
Politics is defined as “the process by which groups of people make collective decisions.” And violence is the use of force to compel a person or group to do or think something against their will. That includes the violence of words – of threatening to hurt - and of social structures, as well as the violence of deeds.
So, by definition, terrorism is political violence – hurting people, or threatening to hurt them, in order to make them govern themselves against their will.
In America , terrorism is always condemned by the government, and, accordingly, America is never a perpetrator of terrorism, but always the victims of it. The US war on terror is the ultimate expression of this principle: it is a military response to terrorism; violence in self-defense, not (ostensibly) violence for a political purpose.
That’s the official story – the assumption. But I’m going to show that America does engage in terrorism – violence against civilians for political purposes. This “state” terrorism, however, is covert, in so far as it is equated with national security, and thanks to that built-in ambiguity, it has both stated and unstated purpose. [...]"
NY: Final Vote Set on Silverstein’s Towers at Ground Zero
[09/01/10]
"The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is expected to convene Thursday to formally ratify a plan that would allow the developer Larry A. Silverstein to build two office towers at ground zero with up to $1.6 billion in public financing and subsidies, according to Port Authority and real estate executives. [...]"
Note: In my opinion, Silverstein belongs in a large blender for what he did.
He will never see any towers completed. Silverstein has sought nothing else
but to profit from the deliberate CIA/Mossad attack on the twin towers, and
from the death of thousands, and is a suppressive sequential putz.
Related: Larry Silverstein, WTC 7, and the 9/11 Demolition
"9/11/2001 radio broadcast: "We were just sitting here watching all the smoke pouring up from
number 7 ... we really couldn't see much damage on it ... I turned in time to see what looked like a skyscraper implosion, it looked like it had been done by a demolition crew ... that's number 1,
number 2, and now number 7 that have come down from this explosion and folks just simply can't believe it. ... I just never for the life of me imagined that these huge buildings would just fall, and that's what happened, they just crumbled." [...]"
UK: The Private Jets of African Dictators and Other Heads of State
[09/01/10]
"This year Brighton's international photography festival has been curated by British photographer Martin Parr, and, rather than plump for well-known headline names, he has decided to showcase the work of obscure or niche
practitioners. Among the most left-field on the shortlist is Nick Gleis, who photographs the pimped up private jets that belong African dictators and other heads of state. [...]"
Full-Body Scanners Installed at Lindbergh Field
[09/01/10]
"Workers at Lindbergh Field have begun installing the full-body scanners inside Terminal One.
The scanners, which are being placed in 11 airports across the country by the end of the year, are funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
Transportation officials demonstrated the technology in San Diego on Tuesday…. [...]"
Cuts, Not Parades, for Returning Troops
[09/01/10]
"Rather than brass bands and parades, troops returning from Iraq could be greeted with pay caps and cuts in benefits—or worse. As the federal budget deficit rises, pressure is being put on Washington to cut military spending, and troops could even lose their jobs if Congress decides it no longer needs as many soldiers on the payroll, Politics Daily reports. Insurance premiums could be raised, military exchanges and commissaries could be shut down, and other services could be eliminated.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who wants military services to slash $100 billion in overhead over the next five years, previously said he would attempt to protect jobs and benefits like college tuition, child care, and housing—but has more recently indicated that nothing is off the table when it comes to potential cuts. The Pentagon is currently fighting the pay increase of .5% Congress wants to give the military, a bump that would cost about $500 million a year. [...]"
Note: It should say "US Dumps Returning
Psychologically-Damaged Troops on Street" ... "Military men are dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns for foreign policy." Henry
Kissinger
Facebook CEO: Keep private life out of lawsuit
[09/01/10]
"Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg says a lawsuit by a man who claims to own a huge chunk of the popular social networking website is seeking to uncover needless details about his private life. Zuckerberg is fighting a civil lawsuit filed by Paul Ceglia, an upstate New York resident who claims an 84 percent [...]"
Note: The 26-year-old Zuckerberg is a sequential incarnation
....
Florida
DHS man killed in native Haiti [09/01/10]
"An employee of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security was shot dead while on a visit to his native Haiti, relatives say. [...]"
Video: A plastic bag ban in Calif.?
[09/01/10]
"Environmental costs and concerns have state lawmakers in Calif. considering a vote on a plastic bag ban. NBC’s Brian Williams reports. (Nightly News) [...]"
Note: After they got everyone used to it .... now they
want to take it away .... and replace it with ... nothing....
Military Subcontractors Bribing U.S. Personnel With
Prostitutes [09/01/10]
"Taxpayer cash is flowing to subcontractors in Iraq and Afghanistan, who engage in shady, illegal practices with few repercussions. [...]"
Note: Yeah, it's a big 'fuck fest' for sure.
"Your Handy Guide to Congress’ Most Moneyed
Members" [09/01/10]
Note: The scum rises to the top. A bunch of disgusting
sequential control freaks ...
Commentary: "How to foster Islamophobia in
America" [09/01/10]
"A YouTube video of Maidhc Ó Cathail’s article on the “radical Muslims” behind the South Park controversy shows just how easy it is to foster Islamophobia in America…
Like the contrived Danish cartoon controversy, the much-hyped Times Square car bomb incident provided an ideal opportunity for those who seek to make Islam look bad in the eyes of the world. [...]"
Video clip included.
