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May 21, 2008

We the People take a deeper look at the pResident's information warfare

by
Virginia Braddock Simson


With the revelations of the past few weeks stemming from Freedom of Information Act disclosures about information used against the American public (We the People), it is clear that We don't need to prove the pResident did anything, yet our investigations continue. It's the job of the court or Congress or war crimes prosecutors to provide the final legal answers to what should be done with the Bush administration and provide the nexus.

But We the People have a job: to establish what is most likely happening; outline that problem; and most importantly, maybe, to discuss solutions. Then we can discuss a coherent strategy. Whether the US Congress or the international community agree or disagree is irrelevant. Our contract is obviously with the US Constitution and our obligation to uphold Geneva, which is the Supreme Law of the Land.

To meet our goals, we must examine the emerging date showing there is a domestic threat to the US Constitution. This data is in the recently released DoD emails.

Some are getting lost in the details, but missing the larger nexus.

Some are confused about what needs to be proven. The data speaks for itself. We're not here to prove the email is or isn't part of information warfare, it is. The question is not whether the data and information that we have does or does not fit with the Department of Defense (DoD) information warfare guidance. It does.

The issue is whether we will broaden our horizon and act on the assumption that there is information warfare against American citizens, and look for other programs that threaten the US Constitution. The information is there. Our job is to find it. Our task is to examine the open source information for the clues to who else is involved, what is going on and how these patterns fit in with other lines of evidence related to other illegal activity.

Once that is established that we don't need perfect information on the details (that is someone else's job), but to consider the other types of programs the pResident and the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel (DoJ OLC) organized under this DoD information warfare umbrella. That umbrella has provided a "temporary" shelter for a coup which took place with the stolen election of 2000. We the People are now engaged in the process of taking that "shelter" away by showing precisely how it conflicts with international accords and the legacy of Nuremberg.

It is beyond dispute there is a reasonable basis to request information through the FOIA process about this larger, vague but emerging nexus. We must stop waiting for evidence to ask questions. We must ask questions. We must ask questions to understand what evidence might exist.

That same pattern - that of having key players crossing between two issues - is how, in part, We demonstrated the connection between the National Security Agency (NSA) and contractors; and how We the People discovered some details of the still not-fully disclosed illegal activity. We're recognizing some of the common, loose threads of the same nexus. The same information connections to new, emerging lines of evidence in other illegal activity. It is the same nexus, not a new or isolated problem.

Some may not be familiar with these violations of international law or human rights. Our job is to focus on these violations, and not be preoccupied debating whether the nexus is real. Our time is better spent focusing our energy on finding information that would confirm or deny the scope of the illegal nexus. Although the information supporting the nexus outweighs the information against it, we're not here to debate whether the symptoms are real. Our job is to lawfully confront the problem of this unacceptable - and illegal - nexus with solutions.

This is not asking anyone to avoid questions, or stop independent research. That important work must continue, in parallel.

Some believe this information is hidden. Some of it is, but some data is out there, still to be discovered, through the FOIA process. Other data can be pieced together using the open sources to guide others to important, new insights.

Our job is to lay the foundation for those asking for information to show there is specific evidence supporting these FOIA requests. This asks that you keep an open mind about how these findings fit in with the larger nexus, and how the smallest piece of information can make the difference. This is of critical importance to We the People, you and I. We need every one involved to notice the details in the emails. They are important and connect to other things that cannot remain hidden.

The information is available in public. This effort will hopefully guide others. The FOIA responses - and by this I mean in particular to questions about the digital data forensics, conference coordination and data exchange between the IT industry - will give us more details. This will strengthen the connection between the FBI contacts in re Wecht; and the NSA illegal domestic surveillance.

The larger issue isn't illegal Federal Intelligence Security Agency (FISA) violations. That is a symptom. The larger nexus is the common information warfare. It includes NSA FISA violations, POW abuse, Wecht jury tampering and the military analysts' domestic propaganda.

Indeed, it is time confusing for We the People to comb through these documents. But the Constitution demands we continue our work, finding the connections and pathways, examining the decayed foundation below our nation's house. Combined, each of our points of light forms a giant torch, illuminating new tunnels within this nexus.

Some data from one cavern reflects from one inconsequential rock, and bounces across the tunnels, illuminating a new pathway we missed. Our job is to notice where the stray light falls, and recognize the new jewels newly flickering in these untraveled caverns. We must shine our lights, adjust to the unfamiliar light, and notice what is new. The smallest flicker may lead to the important tunnel. Our job is to find it, then lead the way.

To put this another way, the fact that the government has hidden information that is otherwise available through open sources strongly supports the assertion that the aim is NOT to protect "private information" (which is disclosed elsewhere), but to hide information useful to show the DoD information warfare guidance largely matches the evidence related to FBI jury tampering, NSA domestic surveillance/FISA violations, and information directed at civilians.

We the People need to recognize that the issue isn't that there is or isn't evidence. The problem is that people are NOT seeing each new disclosure doesn't contradict the original assertion; the assertion was and continues to be that DoD guidance was used to organize this illegal information warfare, which the telecoms, NSA, DoD and White House used to violate FISA and our Constitution of the United States.

If you take a close look (even just a smidgen of a glance!) it appears the DoD emails substantially complement the lines of evidence showing there is illegal data mining, domestic surveillance and information warfare.

The pResident hopes to distract us from the larger nexus. As evidence emerges from the walls, people have begun arguing of whether the data/evidence related to the symptoms is or isn't real. That is a misdirection, and a waste of our energy. But of course, this was intended, under the plan for information warfare !

As we connect the tunnels, and examine new jewels within these taverns, prepare to stumble upon convoluted maps with false trails, invalid arguments, and convoluted rewards for delay. These are from trolls. These disinformation agents are surfacing within blog threads, weakening our nation's foundations, but not our resolve. Beware those bearing false maps, singing a promise that others will do the work. They are bought and paid for by DoD, the US State Department or outside Contractors, and other alphabet-soup agencies. It is our job to find the way, not be lulled into inaction. We must continue.

The DoJ Inspector General's (DOJ IG) report - long awaited by We the People - has been discredited, and it does not focus on key DoD guidance or other decisions made outside the FBI to block investigations. DOJ IG is focusing on the parsin of the interrogation-connection, but fails to explain why Nuremberg precedents were enforced. That claim of "unclear guidance" is irrelevant.

The DoJ IG report substantially contradicts the US government's contentions about the FBI contacts with Wecht jury members. FBI agents at Guantanamo did object; but one cannot say the same in re those jury contacts.

The Wecht case, jury tampering and the DoD emails are NOT the points to prove - they are symptoms of the larger data information warfare. We the People are called to establish just how much other activity under his information warfare umbrella of which We are unaware. We don't need data proving the pResident personally did anything. The fact that all data is well couched by the DoD information warfare guidance is the basis for the FOIA:

- what other emails related to this information warfare;

- How was the email related to these other information warfare destroyed, not preserved; and

- When did legal counsel discuss war crimes in re using illegal information against civilians ??

What can We the People conclude?
  • A. There is a reasonable basis to use the DoD emails to prosecute US contractors for illegal information;
  • B. There is a link between the President and jury tampering;
  • C. The pResident ignored the restriction against POW abuse and jury tampering;
  • D. The FBI inconsistently argued it was doing the right thing on the POW abuse; but contradicts itself by doing the wrong thing on the jury tampering.
I have provided the first installment of "InfraGard - First in a Series" to show you how infragard relates to the NSA violations and Wecht jury tampering; It's part of the same information warfare against US citizens. The pResident is still waging illegal information warfare against us US citizens (and Canada, too) with Wecht jury tampering, NSA violations, propaganda (and the attendent cointelpro efforts) as well as the harassment of bloggers who are outside the propaganda matrix.

We the People must rise above the weeds! This citizen of We the People and our attorneys post this in the hopes We will soon hear back from you whether this perspective is helpful; or let us know whether you would like some additional assistance, discussion, or dialog. We would be most interested to learn if you have had trouble with accessing or posting to your blogsites or any interference in commenting to share the truth!



April 08, 2008

Andrew Sullivan on coming war crimes charges!!

War Crime Charges for Bush Officials?



Media coverage of the disclosure of the "torture memo" authored by Bush Justice Department official John C. Yoo has been mostly a deafening silence. But on this morning's Chris Matthews' show, someone finally fired a shot. As we mentioned in this morning's liveblog, credit goes to The Atlantic's Andrew Sullivan, for taking the opportunity to ensure that this matter got out into the televised discourse somehow. SULLIVAN: The latest revelations on the torture front show the memo from John Yoo...means that Don Rumsfeld, David Addington and John Yoo should not leave the United States any time soon. They will be, at some point, indicted for war crimes.

The moment came during a segment on Matthews' show where the panel is invited to "tell him something he doesn't know," though this might be more accurately termed, "something he doesn't know he should talk about."

Every day, it becomes more difficult to blame George Bush, Dick Cheney and comrades for their seven years (and counting) of crimes, corruption and destruction of our political values. Think about it this way: if you were a high government official and watched as -- all in a couple of weeks time -- it is revealed, right out in the open, that you suspended the Fourth Amendment, authorized torture, proclaimed yourself empowered to break the law, and sent the nation's top law enforcement officer to lie blatantly about how and why the 9/11 attacks happened so that you could acquire still more unchecked spying power and get rid of lawsuits that would expose what you did, and the political press in this country basically ignored all of that and blathered on about Obama's bowling score and how he eats chocolate, wouldn't you also conclude that you could do anything you want, without limits, and know there will be no consequences? What would be the incentive to stop doing all of that?

September 25, 2007




ENVIRONMENT Global warming

From American Progress report

Bush's Bake Sale

Dozens of world leaders are currently assembled at the United Nations to create a "road map" for reducing greenhouse gas emissions once the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012. Yesterday, President Bush skipped the meetings, but managed to show up in time for a dinner hosted by U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. Even though a new poll finds that 90 percent of people worldwide believe action i

s necessary on climate change, Bush continues to undermine global progress on emission reductions. On Thursday, he will host a meeting of the world's major emitters of greenhouse gases where he will push them to accept his misguided framework of "voluntary" reductions. Embracing the rhetoric of global warming isn't enough. Scientists estimate that the world needs to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 50-80 percent by 2050 to avoid the worst impacts of global warming. "Today, the time for doubt has passed," Ban told the General Assembly. "Inaction now will prove the costliest action of all in the long term.


BUSH'S ALTERNATE, 'ASPIRATIONAL' UNIVERSE: Thursday's White House-sponsored meeting will include the 15 major emitters of greenhouse gases, in addition to the United Nations and the European Union. Most of these countries are signatories to the Kyoto Protocol, with the exception of the United States and Australia, which remain the only major industrialized nations to stay out of the international agreement to cut greenhouse gas emissions. As Center for American Progress Senior Fellows Joseph Romm and Daniel J. Weiss note, Bush's meeting will end up starting "another process outside the United Nations and post-Kyoto talks -- a process consisting of multiple meetings that don't finish their work until the very end of his presidency." The Bush administration has made clear that it wants each country to adopt voluntary "aspirational" goals to reduce emissions. By convening this separate meeting, Bush is essentially undermining the mandatory caps on emissions that the United Nations is attempting to negotiate.

VOLUNTEERISM IS FOR BAKE SALES, NOT GLOBAL WARMING: Bush announced his idea for this major emitters meeting just five days before the G-8 summit in June. He said that he wanted the United States to be involved in post-Kyoto talks on greenhouse gas emissions, but that the focus should be on a "long-term global goal for reducing greenhouse gases." The Bush administration hailed the major emitters meeting as a "new" policy on climate change. Yet pushing for toothless, watered-down climate policies is nothing new for this administration. At the G-8 summit, German Chancellor Angela Merkel proposed that countries adopt a 50 percent reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, "but had to settle for compromise language after President Bush made it clear the United States would not agree to it." Earlier this month, Bush also convinced leaders at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation agree to a "long-term aspirational goal" to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, instead of binding targets. Yesterday, Rep. Jay Inslee (D-WA) told The Progress Report that Bush's focus on voluntary reductions is misguided and destructive. "We simply know that volunteerism is great for PTA bake sales, but they will not reorder the economic system of the world, and move to a clean energy technology," said Inslee.

HIDING BEHIND AMERICA'S SKIRTS: Bush's refusal to join the international community in battling climate change is more than just a nuisance. The United States is "responsible for roughly one-quarter of the world's carbon dioxide" and other greenhouse gases. While many nations have already agreed to adopt significant greenhouse gas reductions, U.S. action on the issue would make it more likely that countries such as China, India, and Brazil would do so as well. "The leadership role of the United States is absolutely essential," said former senator Timothy E. Wirth, who is now president of the United Nations Foundation. "Unless the United States decides that it wants to be a major and committed leadership player in this and make very specific commitments, much of the rest of the world is effectively going to hide behind the skirts of the United States and not do anything."
PUSHING FORWARD ON MANDATORY CAPS: Yesterday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) wrote to Bush and urged him to support "mandatory national and international limits," as well as Congress's energy bill that is currently being held up by Sen. Pete Domenici (R-NM) and other conservatives. The American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy estimates that the strongest provisions of the House and Senate legislation -- including increasing fuel economy to 35 mpg and establishing a 15 percent renewable electricity standard -- could cut greenhouse gas emissions by nearly 20 percent by 2030, compared to business as usual. This bill would be an essential contribution to meeting long-term global warming pollution reduction goals. Sens. Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) and John Warner (R-VA) are putting together a bill with a market-based approach that could reduce emissions by 70 percent by 2050. The bill, likely to be introduced in October, has "already garnered tentative support from members who have previously been opposed to measures mandating carbon limits." Center for American Progress Senior Fellow Todd Stern and Brookings Institution scholar William Antholis have also put together a plan for an E-8 summit that would "consist of four developed and four developing countries (or entities) focused on global ecological and resource problems." "While an E-8 would be small enough to facilitate productive dialogue," they write, "it would have such a formidable footprint that its actions would be consequential in their own right and could set the terms of the policy debate more broadly."

September 18, 2007

UNABLE TO AFFORD THE $2,000 A PLATE DINNER at the Chiles Center last week in Portland, Oregon, I missed my golden opportunity to thank President Bush for his comments about the state of forest health in Oregon and around the nation. The following day, after flying over the Deschutes National Forest, President Bush declared it a "holocaust." And I agree 100 percent with our nation's ecologically minded leader.

Why wouldn't President Bush want to alert the citizenry of the nation to the utter devastation on our public lands? The Deschutes National Forest is crisscrossed with mile after mile of logging roads and pitted with clear-cuts that have left little more than 3 to 5 percent of the original majestic Ponderosa pine woods. The National Forest system of some 191 million acres contains over 400,000 miles of roads that channel drying winds into once intact forests. Compound that with the blistering sun baking denuded lands and literally millions of cut branches, needles and logging waste, and you have a fire hazard beyond imagination.

I was hoping to walk with President Bush into a clearcut by my own home. Living by the Siuslaw National Forest, in Oregon, I was anxious to see the reaction of the president as he walked a moonscape that was once a living and breathing system. The ground crunches in pain as you walk the brittle landscape. Hardy weeds replace the once native flora and stumps create an eerie backdrop to the mounds of limbs and unmarketable splintered logs that litter the ground.

Nothing in nature mimics a clear-cut–even forest fires leave standing trees and shade. Clear-cutting is an aberration in nature, where all the intricacies of forest ecosystems are liquidated. The timber industry's recipe for "healing" a clear-cut is a prescription for disaster. Replanting trees in sequenced rows that compete for sunlight leads to thousands of dead branches, little growth on the forest floor and actually becomes a catalyst for high temperature fire disasters. What the doctor should order in this situation is kicking timber multinationals off public lands.

In reality, President Bush was here in my state to "play doctor" and "aid" the ailing forests by intentionally razing natural systems and replace them with fire prone monocultures. He lamented the fires that have burned in Oregon, using the powerful imagery of fire to mislead his employees–the citizens of America. His "stewardship forestry" is music to timber multinationals. For Bush's song includes the lyrics: big timber, you are exempt from environmental law; have a grand time liquidating giant, fireproof trees.

His choir sings in lockstep. Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton, our protector of public lands, states, "Dense, overgrown forests and range lands have grown like cancer." The unmentioned malignancy here is her and her bosses' intentional lies and cronyism towards the nation's avid clear-cutters. They could afford a seat next to the president in Portland; that $2000 a plate was simply "chump change" for those who seek favors for votes.

The spectacle of Bush's ride over lands struck by forest fires is illuminated when one examines only the facts. And facts do not cease to exist simply because they are ignored. Burning trees make good television moments but smoke out hard data. In 2002, similar fires burned in the Umpqua National Forest. Close to 90,000 acres burned with the press using terms like "devastated trees and darkened stumps." Yet, more than 80% of the forest was lightly burned, actually Mother Nature's tool to reduce undergrowth. And where did the most intense fire burn? In dense tree plantations that replaced once native trees. When the smoke clears it is easy to see that President Bush's forest plan is a hoax disguised to open native forests to the timber industry and damn the real data.

The cold hard facts are sobering:
  • Over 50% of the Tongass National Forest in Alaska has been clear-cut since 1950.
  • Of the original 243,000 km of long leaf pine in the southeastern US, less than 16,000 km remain.
  • By the early 20th century, one-third of the U.S. forests disappeared and by the 1990's the native forests standing in the lower 48 hovered around 4% of their original acreage.
  • The national forests of the Pacific Northwest have been slashed into jigsaw puzzle status. The Native Forest Council has aerial photos available that look like war has been waged on our public lands.
I am sending a letter and e-mails to President Bush, asking if he would meet me in the once widespread cottonwood or water-oak blackgum forests of Texas to discuss proper stewardship of forests. Nearly 60% of these forests have been leveled in his own home state. I would bring him a copy of "Endangered Forests, Endangered Freedoms," a 2003 report from Greenpeace that gives shocking facts on the state of national forests in the United States. I would ask if he would give the press a statement with acres of clear-cuts in the background.

Common citizens like me cannot afford luxurious and extravagant settings where access has too high a price to pay. President Bush's newest undeclared war is on our own turf: our forests. Sadly, once-proud forest defenders are now toying with the notion of "salvage logging," as if forest fires are the enemy.

Does President Bush think he can hide the truth in a growing sea of clear-cuts or homogeneously sterile tree farms? We should end commercial logging on public lands, use fire as the natural asset it is to forests, thin forests near populated areas using federal funds and let big timber multinationals provide our wood needs from their fiber farms.

Come walk our national forests with common folks like me, Mr. President, and see the real holocaust in the nation's woods. I will even buy you dinner.

John F. Borowski is a marine and environmental science teacher who lives in Philomath, Oregon and works with the Native Forest Council. His articles have appeared in PR Watch, the New York Times, UTNE Reader, Forest Voice, Alternatives Magazine, Z Magazine, Liberal Slant and Commondreams.
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September 07, 2007

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President Bush's trademark struggles with the finer points of public speaking were on full display Friday, when he thanked his "Austrian" hosts for inviting him to this year's "OPEC" summit.

The "Language Mangler-in-Chief" was in Australia attending the APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) summit. Along with misidentifying his host country and the name of the summit, Bush struggled to leave the lectern, trying to exit the stage the wrong way.

"Thank you for being such a fine host of the OPEC summit," Bush said to Australian prime minister John Howard. He quickly corrected himself, "APEC summit," and joked Howard "invited me to the OPEC summit next year. (Such an invitation would be impossible because neither the US or Australia are members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.)

Later in the speech, Bush can clearly be heard on tape thanking Howard for visiting "Austrian troops" in Iraq last year, but White House scrubbers fixed that gaffe for him, changing the official government transcript to "Australian," the Associated Press reported.

As Reuters notes, "There are, in fact, no Austrian troops there. But Australia has about 1,500 Australian military personnel in and around" Iraq.

Bush's struggles from the lectern didn't end when he stopped talking either. Press reports indicate he tried to leave the stage through the wrong door, and the Australian prime minister had to point him toward the proper exit, according to the Herald Sun newspaper

The scene was reminiscent of a 2005 Bush appearance in Beijing, when Bush was thwarted by a locked door after stepping off stage and had to be redirected,

The following video is from MSNBC's Morning Joe, broadcast on September 7.

August 16, 2007


SPEED LINKING SPECIAL!!!

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A North American United Nations?
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