Martial law soon?

MAYDAY ALERT!
—Terror Drills Could Go Live!

See my ignored article, http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_ladybroa_080414_martial_law_21_earthqu.htm


Dr. James H. Fetzer
Major William B. Fox
Captain Eric H. May
SFC Donald Buswel1

April 26, 2008

The name "false flag" comes from the old pirate's ruse of flying another country's flag during an attack, thereby shifting blame for the attack to a party that had nothing to do with it. Governments use false flag attacks to push their nations into dictatorship or war. As military experts, we fear that national terror drills, scheduled for May 1-8, could be used to camouflage a false flag attack in the United States.

Strategic Signals

Dr. James Fetzer

Yesterday an American-flagged ship fired on the Iranian Navy, and now Pentagon sources say that they have been ordered to prepare attack plans. Admiral "Fox" Fallon, the Centcom commander who opposed war with Iran, has been ousted in favor of Bush loyalist General David Petraeus, who has spent the last month accusing Iran for our increasing problems with the Iraqi resistance.
Saudi Arabia has been preparing for nuclear fallout from an attack on Iran since last month, when Dick Cheney paid a visit. Israel has just finished its largest-ever domestic war drills. Israel and the Bush administration are insisting that Syria and North Korea are nuclear collaborators. Syria is preparing for the contingency of an Israeli attack. Iran is preparing for the contingency of a US attack. US government insiders speculate that Bush has promised Israel an expanded Middle East war before he leaves office.
The Neo-Cons are pounding their war drums again, according to Dr. James H. Fetzer, the founder of Scholars for 9/11 Truth, and he believes that nothing would help them spread their imperial war in the Middle East as much as another 9/11.
He has just published "9/11 and the Neo-Con Agenda."
http://www.amfirstbooks.com/IntroPages/ToolBarTopics/Articles/Other_Topics/9-
11_Anomalies/Dr._James_H._Fetzer_2008-04-22_9-11_and_the_Neo-
Con_Agenda.html The article is a must-read introduction for anyone wanting to understand the origins and aims of the "global war on terror."

Domestic Discord

Capt. Eric H. May

Inside the US, Bush approval ratings are well below 30%, and approval ratings for the U.S. Congress and mainstream media are even lower. Over three quarters of the American people believe that the country is on the wrong track, and just as many want to end the quicksand war in the Middle East. The economy is crashing as fuel prices are skyrocketing. The Establishment is losing its grip on power. It would take another 9/11 to make the nation forget its domestic woes and resume its lost zeal for the Neo-Con "new American century" of foreign wars and a domestic police state.
In his much-discussed February article, "False Flag Prospects, 2008," http://www.thepriceofliberty.org/08/02/25/may.htm Captain Eric H. May documented the disturbing fact that military and police exercises were occurring at the same time as the 9/11 US attacks in 2001 and the 7/7 UK bombings in 2005. In that prescient article, he designated the Pacific Northwest as one of the top three target zones for the next US false flag attack, and the Pacific Northwest will be the target of terror drills May 1-8.
Should a major event occur during the drills, the Bush administration is prepared to implement National Security Presidential Directive (NSPD) 51, which establishes dictatorship "in the event of a man-made or natural catastrophe." It is an extraordinary measure, and the White House has stonewalled Homeland Security Committee members from the House of Representatives who wanted to read it. One of those members, Oregon's Peter DeFazio summed up the feeling of many Americans about NSPD 51 when he said "Maybe the people who think there's a conspiracy out there are right."
Fears that a false flag attack might result in martial law are nourished by last week's militaristic Operation Sudden Impact, reported by Infowars.net writer Steve Watson: "Three States Subjected to Martial Law Sweeps"
http://www.infowars.net/articles/april2008/180408impact.htm

National Level Exercise 2-08

Maj. William Fox

NLE 2-08 will involve the very highest levels of Homeland Security and the US Northern Command. Both "Homesec" and "Northcom" were established by the Bush administration in the wake of 9/11 to take control of the nation in the event of another terrorist attack. They will be joined by FEMA in the May 1-8 exercise, which is one of the two largest terror drills scheduled this year.
On Thursday, May 1, the exercise begins in Washington, when an explosion collapses the Alaska Way viaduct in downtown Seattle and damages surrounding buildings. Twenty minutes later, terrorists explode a highjacked tanker filled with highly toxic chemicals at the Seattle Ferry Terminal. Deadly gas soon permeates downtown Seattle.
Emergency responders come in waves. Police and firemen, first to arrive, are quickly overwhelmed. The state deploys its 22-member Civil Support Team, a National Guard unit, to assess the damage and coordinate support. Later, 100 soldiers from a chemical battalion based in Yakima arrive to rescue, decontaminate and treat survivors. Finally, 5,000 troops arrive to handle logistics and security.
On Monday, May 5, the scenario shifts to Oregon where VX, the most toxic nerve agent ever synthesized, erupts from the Umatilla Army Depot.
The next day, terrorists blow up a chemical tanker in Ferndale, Washington. The county sheriff requests national support, and a Marine Corps chemical warfare detachment temporarily based at Ft. Lewis, Washington for the exercise responds.
According to sources at Northcom, NLE 2-08 will involve "robust play," with "surprise injects" of unanticipated events in which participants are "stretched to the limit" and have "everything thrown at them except the kitchen sink." All of this makes it easier for the exercise to "go live" by having a real catastrophe occur.
As the Pacific Northwest scenario is playing out, Washington, DC will be simulating a catastrophic hurricane as part of the same exercise. It wouldn't be much of a stretch to suggest that this puts Dick Cheney back in the bunker he occupied during 9/11.
Citizens interested in understanding how local, state and national levels of the military can be manipulated into working against us should read "The Real Drill" by Major William B. Fox, about Portland area terror drills last year.
http://www.lonestaricon.com/absolutenm/anmviewer.asp?a=2006&z=186

Mission of Conscience

SFC Don Buswell

Many American citizens are deeply concerned about police militarization, and about government and media preconditioning of our nation for future terror attacks and martial law. We recommend that they monitor NLE 2-08 closely. Armed with cell phones, cameras and the Internet, they are the single greatest deterrent against false flag terror.
If we, the co-authors of this alert, are in error about anything, then we invite reasonable officials to investigate us and our assertions at the very highest levels. In the past we have too often met with hostility, evasion or deception by officials involved in terror drills. We have been stonewalled when we have requested access to an extended schedule of unclassified military and police terror drills.
We believe that there is a pattern of official retaliation against patriotic service members who ask questions about 9/11 and false flags.
In 2006, Sergeant First Class Donald Buswell, an Army military intelligence NCO, suggested that 9/11 might have been a false flag operation. Within a month the decorated 40-year-old Iraq war veteran suffered a freak pulmonary embolism, which nearly killed him. After he was released from the hospital, his command accused him of disloyalty for his remarks, and subjected him to an extensive military investigation. Ultimately, he was fully exonerated, and the now-retired Buswell has become widely known on the Internet as the "9/11 NCO." Stephen Webster, writing for The Lone Star Iconoclast, gained national attention with his story about Buswell, "Under Fire! U.S. Army Intelligence Analyst Targeted for Suggesting New Independent 9/11 Investigation."
http://www.lonestaricon.com/absolutenm/anmviewer.asp?a=426&z=40
The duty to keep the government honest isn't optional for those of us who have taken an oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. It has always been difficult, and even dangerous, to serve the American people. We call on all active-duty soldiers, police and first responders to obey their oaths by asking questions that need to be asked, and by thinking twice before blindly carrying out orders that may result in an a false flag attack against their country. We urge leaders of those soldiers, police and first responders to explain that diligence is not disloyalty, and that no one ceases to be a free American citizen by putting on a uniform.
Issuing an alert—as we are doing now—is not an instance of "crying wolf," as Bush administration apologists often assert. As military-trained experts, we are convinced that the US 9/11 and UK 7/7 attacks were set up under the camouflage of terror drills. The existence of a wolf is not in question. The wolf of false flag terror has killed our fellow citizens and frightened our country into needless wars. It's our mission of conscience to keep it from striking again.

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Dr. James H. Fetzer and Major William B. Fox are former Marine Corps officers. Captain Eric H. May and Sergeant First Class Donald Buswell are former members of Army intelligence.

References:

Additional Commentary Regarding NLE 2-08:
"Is the primary WMD terror target Seattle, or Portland, Oregon once again?" by Maj. William B. Fox.
"The Timing of a Possible False Flag Attack During NLE 2-08" by Captain Eric H. May
FEMA Upcoming Exercises web page; for the 26 April 2008 FEMA web page archived by America First Books that describes the 1-8 May 2008 National Level Exercise 2-08, please click here.
Dynamic Duo Show, Genesis Communications Network, 24 April 2008. Dr. James H. Fetzer, founder of Scholars for 9/11 Truth, interviews Captain Eric May in the first hour, and both Capt May and Maj William Fox in the second hour. They discuss how the Bush administration and Israel are manuevering America towards war with Iran, and the background behind their alert regarding the 1-8 May NLE 2-08 exercise that "war games" a WMD attack against Seattle. This includes an analysis of ways that this exercise could get highjacked like the 9-11 exercises.
1st Segment, 52:51, 6.2 MB Download Here.
2nd Segment, 52:51, 6.2 MB Download Here.

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Three States \Subjected To "Martial Law Sweeps"

Local, state police and sheriff's office join feds for "terror" sweeps that result in hundreds of citations for traffic violations

Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Friday, April 18, 2008

Federal law enforcement agencies co-opted sheriffs offices as well state and local police forces in three states last weekend for a vast round up operation that one sheriff's deputy has described as "martial law training".

Law-enforcement agencies in Tennessee, Mississippi and Arkansas took part in what was described by local media as "an anti-crime and anti-terrorism initiative" involving officers from more than 50 federal, state and local agencies.

Given the military style name "Operation Sudden Impact", the initiative saw officers from six counties rounding up fugitives, conducting traffic checkpoints, climbing on boats on the Mississippi River and doing other "crime-abatement" programs all under the label of "anti-terrorism".

WREG Memphis news channel 3 reported that the Sheriff's Department arrested 332 people, 142 of whom were fugitives, or "terrorists" as they now seem to be known.

Hundreds of dollars were seized and drugs recovered, and 1,292 traffic violations were handed out to speeding terrorists and illegally parked terrorists.

Click here to watch a WREG Memphis news report

The authorities even raided businesses and store owners, confiscating computers and paperwork in an effort to "track down possible terrorists before something big happens".

The Sheriff's Department is determining if and when they plan another round-up.

The operation, which involved police, deputies, the FBI, drug agents, gang units and even the coast guard, is just one example of how law enforcement at the state and local levels is being co-opted and centralized by the Department of Homeland Security via massive federal grants.

It also highlights how the distinction between crime and terrorism is becoming irrelevant

An Infowars reader called in to the Alex Jones show yesterday to alert us to the story and explain that he had gleaned the information from a his friend, a sheriff's deputy in Memphis, who had described the operation as "training for martial law in America".

Forget innocent until proven guilty, you are now a terrorist suspect until you are told otherwise.

It is now the norm to consider everybody equally likely to be guilty of something than innocent. This is proactive policing, not preventative or reactive policing, and is widely indicative of a society that is NOT free.

This form of proactive policing is a phenomena indicative of a once free state rapidly declining into a authoritarian police state.

If there was a real terror threat in these states, it would surely make sense to for law enforcement agencies to target known trouble areas, and follow up on already existing leads. Instead we are seeing local police and the coast guard being recruited to randomly target anyone in any area as possible terrorists.

Surely if there was a real terror threat, this activity would harm the effort to combat it.

Of course, such activity is clearly not related to a real and tangible terror threat, it is related to the ongoing effort to vastly increase the size and scope of the federal government and increase the power it has over American citizens.

The information and intelligence from the operation will be collated and routed through federally funded state-run fusion centers, which are working in conjunction with the military arm of the DHS, NORTHCOM.

Such information will soon include the DNA and other biometric information from every person arrested, which DHS head Michael Chertoff has declared is no longer your personal information.

We recently reported on the fact that after 9/11 the Justice Department advised the Bush administration that it was able to effectively suspend the Fourth Amendment where domestic counter terrorism operations are concerned.

In light of this, and given that the government has begun to class any crime as terrorism and set local and state police to work on "anti-terror" operations, it is clear that the protections provided by the Bill of Rights and the Constitution are under direct threat.

We have seen how new provisions will effectively nullify the U.S. constitution, and a recent spate of executive orders, in particular PDD 51, outline preparations for the implementation of open martial law in the event of a declared national emergency.

Centralized and federally coordinated law enforcement programs complement nationwide FEMA programs to train Pastors and other religious representatives to become secret police enforcers who teach their congregations to "obey the government" in preparation for the implementation of martial law, property and firearm seizures, mass vaccination programs and forced relocation. The effects of this particular program have already been witnessed.

These were the last earthquake warnings I posted (and ministers are who are being trained to handle the earthquakes AND martial law.)

Fault lines may threaten Victoria, Abbotsford
Globe and Mail - Canada
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Earthquake risk on North Olympic Peninsula detailed by scientists
Peninsula Daily - Port Angeles,WA,USA
The main danger is to Abbotsford, British Columbia, a city of about 175000, said Craig Weaver, the Pacific Northwest earthquake coordinator for the USGS. ...
See all stories on this topic

AMERICAS NEWS AT 0500 GMT
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ABBOTSFORD, British Columbia _ The floor of a church filled with a mostly teenage audience of about 1000 people collapses during a concert, ...
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Emergency Preparedness and Response:
What CDC Is Doing

Preparing people for emerging health threats is one of CDC's overarching goals. CDC contributes to national, state, and local efforts to prepare for and prevent public health disasters before they occur. When a disaster has occurred, CDC is prepared to respond and support national, state, and local partners in responding in order to improve public health outcomes. After response to a disaster has ended, CDC assists national, state, and local partners in the recovery and restoration of public health functions.

Overview

A New Era of Preparedness NEW! Mar 27, 2008
A video presentation of what CDC is doing to ensure you and your family are safer and healthier in these ever-changing times. Preparing people for emerging health threats is one of CDC's overarching goals.

CDC Organizations and Programs

Organizations and programs across CDC are working to improve emergency preparedness and response. These include the following:

• Coordinating Office for Terrorism Preparedness & Emergency Response (COTPER)
  NEW WEBSITE! Apr 10, 2008
  Helps the nation prepare for and respond to urgent public health threats by providing strategic direction, coordination, and support for all of CDC’s terrorism preparedness and emergency response activities.

Chertoff To Demonstrate “Checkpoint Evolution” at Airport

Associated Press
April 28, 2008

LINTHICUM, Md. (AP) ― U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff is scheduled to visit BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport Monday to announce changes at airport security checkpoints.

Chertoff will demonstrate what is called “Checkpoint Evolution.”

The Transportation Security Administration Web site features videos to explain the features and goals of the equipment.

According to the Web site, the checkpoints will feature soothing music to calm passengers, easy-to-read signs and Plexiglas conveyor belts allowing passengers to see their luggage move through the inspection process.

FALSE FLAG ALERT: Indianapolis, June 4 - 19

INDY ALERT!-Terror Drills June 4-19 -

author: Dr.J.Fetzer, Maj.W.Fox, Cpt.E.May, .D.Buswell
Jun 01, 2008 12:43

Captain Eric H. May, the Internet intelligence writer, joins other distinguished veterans in issuing the INDY ALERT, advising the public to keep an eye on just-announced Bush administration terror drills in Indianapolis with 2200 Marines.

INDY ALERT!-- Terror Drills June 4-19 -

By Dr. James H. Fetzer
Major William B. Fox
Captain Eric H. May
SFC Donald Buswell

False Flag?

A false flag attack is one that your own government carries out against you, but blames on someone else. It creates a sense of emergency, the kind of thing summarized by the government emergency code "911." When you have a 911-type emergency, you want take-charge, kick-ass action, not a lot of pussy-footing philosophizing. You will accept a homeland state or a global war, if you believe that's what it will take to make you safe again.

False flags are possible only if you trust your government. Misguided trust is the key enabling factor. The matter can be stated succinctly:

If you think your government CAN'T attack you, then it CAN.
If you think your government CAN attack you, then it CAN'T.

A month ago we published the Mayday Alert to encourage widespread skepticism about May 1-8 terror drills in Seattle and Washington, DC. As we noted in our "Mayday Alert Update," http://www.lonestaricon.com/absolutenm/anmviewer.asp?a=2788&z=163 countless Americans joined us in our skepticism. It's just common sense to be wary when someone brings a gun into your house -- or thousands of armed Marines into your city.

Introducing Indianapolis

"We don't want anyone thinking that there's an invasion happening when we declared martial law or something like that."

-- Debbie Fletcher, Indianapolis Emergency Management Agency -- The Indianapolis Star, May 29, "Marines bringing combat training to Indy"

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008305290003

Three months ago, Mayor Carty Finkbeiner of Toledo, Ohio, demonstrated that you don't have to roll out a welcome mat for shock forces. Finkbeiner turned away a company of 200 Marines intending to conduct terror drills in his city this winter:

Toledo Blade, Feb. 9, "Mayor to Marines: Leave Downtown"

http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080209/NEWS16/802090394

The Indianapolis mayor, though, is not the kind of man to turn away the Marine Corps. While he has only been mayor for eight months, Gregory A. Ballard was a Marine officer for 23 years, retiring in 2001 at the rank of lieutenant colonel. His election in November rates as one of Indiana's most shocking upsets ever. That makes him a bright star on the otherwise bleak horizon of the Republican Party, and a crucial go-to guy for the Bush League at crunch time.

Meeting Marines

"Residents can expect to see helicopters flying overhead, military vehicles on the roads and Marines patrolling on foot."

-- Colonel Mark J. Desens, Commander, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit -- The Indianapolis Star, May 29, "Marines bringing combat training to Indy"

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008305290003

The 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, based at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, has plenty of combat veterans from Iraq, where some of its elements have been deployed. No one but a retired Marine like Lt. Col. Ballard would welcome 2,200 hard-core combat veterans to practice assaulting, subduing and controlling his city.

The first elements of the 26th MEU will arrive by helicopter, and will establish their headquarters at Raytheon, the military-industrial mega-corporation. Thereafter, they will carry out urban warfare, bringing the Battle of Baghdad and the Fight of Falluja to Indianapolis, Indiana. The last time the federal government used similar force was during Reconstruction, when the Army implemented martial law in the former Confederacy.

Terrible Truth

"At half past nine this morning we were actually running an exercise ... in London based on simultaneous bombs going off precisely at the railway stations where it happened this morning, so I still have the hairs on the back of my neck standing up right now."

-- Peter Power, BBC, 7/7/05

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKvkhe3rqtc

The Power quote above is probably the clearest single proof of the connection between terror drills and actual terrorism. It demonstrates that the UK's 7/7 London attacks were a false flag affair. After all, the easiest way to bring the manpower and matériel necessary to carry out an attack is to say that you are there to practice against the attack, then take the practice "live."

We have no crystal ball that allows us to predict that there WILL be a false flag attack during the June 4-19 terror drills in Indianapolis, as there was during the London terror drills three years ago. On the other hand, we have plenty of reason to alert the American people that there MIGHT be a false flag attack.

The citizens of Indianapolis should keep an eye out, and a cell phone in hand, for the next couple of weeks. The ability to distribute reports of suspicious government activity via the Internet has been history's great surprise for criminals who think that they can make history. The Internet is the printing press of the new American Revolution, just as the awakened people are the new Revolutionary Army. Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. As long as we are awake and alert, then we need not fear King George.

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Dr. James H. Fetzer and Major William B. Fox are former Marine Corps officers. Captain Eric H. May and Sergeant First Class Donald Buswell are former members of Army intelligence.

http://seattle.indymedia.org/en/2008/06/266965.shtml

Webster Tarpley

and the current round up of scary news!!

Military Drills - False Flag Provocation, Attack On Iran?

By Webster G. Tarpley

Global Research, September 14, 2007

Rense.com

Meanwhile Bush is exploiting the grief of 911 relatives. What a media extravaganza.

'Solid Curtain' And 'Citadel Shield 2007' Military Drills Raise Spectre Of Imminent False Flag Provocation And Attack On Iran

By WASHINGTON, DC -- US military bases in the continental United States (CONUS) will go on special lockdown between September 17 and September 21 under the auspices of Solid Curtain-Citadel Shield '07, a reliable source reported today. Under these exercises, US installations will institute enhanced anti-terror force protection measures, with increased security at all gates. The increased security was so elaborate that base personnel were being warned to expect significant delays at all base entrances.

According to William Arkin's 2005 directory of military code names, Solid Curtain is a US Navy Fleet Forces Command anti-terrorism/ force protection exercise. In Solid Curtain '03, Arkin reports, the drill scenario involved 15 simultaneous attacks across the country including the Corpus Christi naval air station, the Ingleside naval station, local shipyards, and other targets of attack in the coastal bend of south Texas. In earlier versions of Solid Curtain, the Newport Rhode Island naval station was featured in the scenario.

Smaller local news outlets near US bases have begun to report on these drills. One such account can be found in the Ridgecrest, California Daily Independent, site of the Sierra Sands Naval Air Weapons Station.

(see http://ridgecrestca .com/articles/ 2007/09/13/ news/news02. txt )

Other reports concerned the Naval Support Activity Panama City, Florida,

( http://www.wmbb. com/gulfcoastwes t/mbb/news. apx-content- articles- MBB-2007- 09-13-0004. html )

and the Goose Creek Naval Weapons station near Charleston, South Carolina

(see http://www.charlest on.net/news/ 2007/sep/ 12/briefly15607/).

No further details concerning Citadel Shield could be ascertained.

These drills cause acute concern because they occur before the backdrop of widely reported preparations by the Cheney clique to manufacture a new 9/11 and/or a new Gulf of Tonkin incident to be used as a pretext for a US sneak attack on Iran, with an included option for martial law inside the United States.

On Friday, September 14, the US Air Force has instituted a stand-down for the alleged purpose of reviewing procedures after a B-52 transported six nuclear-armed cruise missiles from Minot AFB North Dakota to Barksdale AFB Louisiana. Intelligence community sources have pointed to the fact that Barksdale is the jumping off point for US air assets moving to the Persian Gulf, suggesting that US nuclear weapons are being readied for a strike on Iran. Another option might well be that one or more of the cruise missiles was destined for use in a false flag attack on an American city, a scenario alluded to by Cheney on April 15 in an interview on CBS New Face the Nation.

Solid Curtain and Citadel Shield will be taking place within the same general time frame as Vigilant Shield '08, scheduled to be held October 15-20, 2007, with a scenario that calls for the detonation of three radiological dispersal devices within the purview of USNORTHCOM (continental US) and the US Pacific Command. Vigilant Shield is supposed to be centered in Oregon, Arizona, and Guam. The drill is slated to include multiple homeland defense, critical infrastructure protection, and aerospace events. Linked to Vigilant Shield is another drill called National Level Exercise 1-08. In addition to the US, Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom are scheduled to take part. Concurrent with these drills is TOPOFF 4 (Top Officials 4), the main yearly terrorism preparedness exercise sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security. The boss of this agency, Michael Chertoff, announced earlier in the summer that he had a "gut feeling" that a terror attack on the US was about to occur. This is another drill that lends itself to going live.

Also relevant to these events is Noble Resolve '07, a drill organized by the Joint Task Force Command (JTFCOM), Northern Command (NORTHCOM), J9 Joint Innovation and Experimentation Directorate, FEMA's command bunker, the Department of Homeland Security, and Virginia police. According to false flag drill expert D.L. Abrahamson, Noble Resolve '07 represents a four-day marathon of "simulated" terror attacks across the US and Europe, including a simulated detonation of a "loose" ten-kiloton nuclear weapon Virginia harbor, smuggled in by a "foreign nation." Drills like these, if flipped live, would give Cheney the pretext to put the entire world on a catastrophic slide towards general war.

Recent terror events, such as London July 7, 2005, have occurred when drills and exercises went live or were flipped live by military and intelligence factions supporting the War of Civilizations, which such actions are meant to stoke. Most significantly, the original 9/11 coup d'etat by these same aggressive US military and intelligence factions was preceded and accompanied by installation security clampdowns of the type now imminent at the military bases in the Washington DC area and elsewhere.

These exercises can be summed up as follows:

BASE ISOLATION AND COUP PREPARATION Forts Hamilton, Meade (NSA), Belvoir, Ritchie, Myer, and McNair Starting August 15, 2001, Army limits public access to bases near Washington DC, supposedly as part of nationwide security clampdown because of terrorist threat Fort Meyer, VA, Fort McNair, DC, 3rd US Infantry

http://www.cooperat iveresearch. org/context. jsp?item= a090501fullacces scontrol# a090501fullacces scontrol

September 5, 2001: US Army bases near Washington DC implement "full access control." Fort McNair is HQ, Army Military District of Washington DCFort Meyer, Virginia"Force protection exercise" scheduled for week after 9/11 Fort Belvoir, Virginia On September 11, 2001: second Tuesday of "garrison control exercise," allegedly to "test the security at the base in case of a terrorist attack."

Persons of good will in the United States must demand that elected representatives and presidential candidates act to expose, denounce, and shut down these reckless and highly dangerous drills. Countries outside of the US must demand explanations from the US Embassy as to whether the US is indeed preparing a nuclear aggression against Iran, under the cover of a false flag war provocation. Countries not wishing to be drawn into the abyss of such a catastrophe must take steps now to assert their national independence.

See also:

his is all part of the Continuity of Government (COG) - (pdf file) plan authorized by President Bush.

In an astonishing report issued by the GAO Davi D'Agostino, GAO director of defense capabilities and management and the author of the report, considered the military's decision to abandon Cheyenne Mountain so unfounded that the agency urgently called for congressional hearings.
In the report Adm. Timothy Keating, commander of North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command announced that his plans were to move certain NORAD and NORTHCOM functions from Cheyenne Mountain to create an integrated command center at Patterson Air Force base in Colorado Springs.


At the same time, USSTRATCOM, which controls the nuclear weapons assets of the United States, announced plans to relocate its missile warning systems from Cheyenne Mountain to Schriever Air Force Base in Colorado.

Add to this the fact that the Air Force Space Command decided to move from Cheyenne Mountain to Vandenberg Air Force Base in Vandenberg, Calif.

Let us bear in mind that there are other "secret" COG facilities in the US as well. We cannot mention them here since they are classified and the mere mention of them could get us in a heap of trouble with Bush.


Bush Administration Ramps Up Secrecy By William Fisher t r u t h o u t Report Monday 10 September 2007

Some 18 percent of the Department of Defense's FY 2007 acquisition budget is classified.

Bush order called 'stunning' power grab

Bush grants presidency extraordinary powers Directive for emergencies

The "National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive," with the dual designation of NSPD-51, as a National Security Presidential Directive, and HSPD-20, as a Homeland Security Presidential Directive, establishes under the office of president a new National Continuity Coordinator and COG imperatives.

The United States Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) has just announced plans for an anti-terrorism exercise called Vigilant Shield 08.

Homeland Security Enlists Clergy to Quell Public Unrest if Martial Law Declared "

Local Troops Deploy To Nation's Capital

And most importantly:

Feds Commandeer NORAD For Continuity Of Govt!

Future conflicts:

U.S. discovers 'Pearl Harbor II' plot
"China's cyberwar plan to cripple Pentagon, battle fleet."

Chertoff: We're Preparing for Nuclear Attack
Chertoff enjoys Dual citizenship: The USA and Israel!

U.S. Preparing for Iran Military Strike

The 'proxy war': UK troops are sent to Iranian border

A stockpile of plutonium and other nuclear weapons materials stored at Los Alamos National Laboratory hasn't been fully accounted for in 13 years or more

CIA Director Hayden Warns of New Attacks

U.S. Officials Begin Crafting Iran Bombing Plan

US poised to strike Iran

Terrorists set to go nuclear

Is USAF Stand Down To Find A Missing Nuke?

Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, among the US Senate's fiercest hawks, has once again asked for the expansion of US invasion into Iran.

Federal Reserve Bank has injected a total of $200 BILLION to prop-up U.S.financial markets since August 9.


$1.78 Billion Bet that Stock Markets will crash by third week in September

Six nukes "accidentally" loaded on the B-52 bypassing redundant security measures We caught the administration before they could misappropriate these weapons of mass destruction.

Notice: Continuation of the National Emergency with Respect to Certain Terrorist Attacks

The Kennebunkport Statement Controversy

YOU figure it out!!

THIS BELOW IS IN REFERENCE TO Ann Wright and C. McKinney et al issue dire warning of false flag and/or attack on Iran INCLUDED IN MY PREVIOUS COMPILATION

From: Kathleen Roberts (weerkhr@pacbell.net)
Subject: We Must Use Discernment Amidst the Psyops
Date: 4 Sep 2007

From: http://www.rense.com/general78/netfraud.htm

Kennebunkport 'Warning' - Another Net Fraud?

By Cliff Mickelson
9-3-7

OK, folks.... I'm going to issue a "Kennebunkport" warning of my own...

It's time to start keeping your wits about you and sharpen up those "discernment" skills!

Because in the last few weeks, there has been a spate of bogus and forged articles or documents circulating on the Internet. Most of them are political in nature and are being deliberately pitched with an antiwar, anti-Administration flavor.

These operations are apparently seeking to take advantage of the natural inclination of the disaffected to believe the worst about impending world events and of people in positions of power. They will attempt to amplify the reality past the point of distortion in order to hide what is coming down the road in plain sight.
These kinds of "I'm on your side" fakes and forgeries are the most insidious kind of psy-op disinformation because they usually contain enough truth to be very plausible at first blush. They are the literary equivalents of "agents provocateurs"

Although their premise will be accurate, the devil is in the details that this kind of disinfo incorporates and then twists to suit its particular agenda. The intent of such poison is to gain enough initial authority to muck up the true issue, confuse the people, spawn a discrediting hysteria and cast a shadow of uncertainty over the credibility of alternate media sources. (Who are usually the primary targets of this kind of activity)
Such Psy-ops can be compared to a form of sabotage and are often sent up as trial balloons. Their success is judged by the length of their "credibility" life span. They are often very effective and can do a huge amount of damage to a target in a very short amount of time.

With enough training and experience a person can begin to detect these frauds as they come out of the gate. One of the most common ones is the old gambit: "I have a friend who" etc.

Another favorite form of disinformation used by spooks (or their unwitting targets who are fed the envenomed apple) is the downright fraudulent alteration of formerly legitimate documents for poison-pen purposes. This may or may not be what has happened with the Kennebunkport "warning."

I urge you to judge for yourself by reading the disclaimer from the web site of one of the alleged "signers" of the now questionable statement...And remember, it is caveat lector when surfing the web.

If something doesn't seem quite right; if you sense a disconnect or a hole in the overall rationality of an article's logic...or if you have a little voice nagging you in the back of your head when you read something, you probably should listen to that voice! Take a second and skeptical look!

I will leave you with one last rather worrisome thought. Why is it that there appears to be such a sudden deluge of this kind of activity taking place on the Internet? Consider this...On the battlefield, a barrage usually covers some kind of movement somewhere or an impending assault.

It is important to remember that good psy-ops always contain a large percentage of truth...So, something big MAY well be in the works...and ... as Sleeping Beauty can attest, not all big, red, juicy apples are what the doctor ordered! Some of the most irresistible info "apples" out there in Internet land have a secret agenda and it is not always about improving your health!

So...(Once again) Keep your wits about you folks...There seems to be a rather odd disturbance in the Force as of late.

-Cliff Mickelson

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From: http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/26355

Each of us were approached during the rally at the Kennebunkport event on August 25, 2007, to sign a statement calling for the immediate impeachment of Vice President Dick Cheney. Since then, the statement has been altered and posted on the internet, making it appear as if we have evidence that this administration will carry out a "false-flag terror operation."

None of us have such evidence, and therefore, none of us signed a statement stating that we do.

We wish the authors of the document well in continuing much needed investigations of all aspects of 9/11.

Signed:

Jamilla El-Shafei
Cindy Sheehan
Dahlia Wasfi
Ann Wright

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Comment from Webster Tarpley
9-4-7

These unfortunate and confused comments ignore the decisive evidence on the other side. Most eloquent is the actual signed document, which is posted in facsimile here at Rense and all over the internet. Here we see the signatures of the four signers who now claim they never signed. The entire argument might well end here. But then, we have have the authoritative testimony of Laurie Dobson, on whose property in Kennebunkport Camp Alex was located. This can see seen at http://www.911blogger.com/node/10997 , and also on the Daily Kos. I recommend that he consider this evidence in the framework of my "Kennebunport Reality Check," which should also be posted here shortly.

Much more important is the substantive question. Does the analysis in the Kennebunkport Warning correspond to reality? If it does, why would anyone from the peace movement refuse to sign this document? What is their substantive objection? There is a daily barrage of articles outlining the US war plan for Iran, reporting on how Cheney is pressing for air strikes against the Quds force of the Iranian Pasdaran. The Daily Kos has a report from an officer on an aircraft carrier in the Gulf which confirms that attacks are imminent. We know from Philip Giraldi in The American Conservative two years ago that the Cheney doctrine calls for a new 9/11, followed by air strikes against Iran. We know from Zbigniew Brzezinski's testimony on Feb 1. before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that there is an active scenario for a terrorist act in the United States to be blamed on Iran. More recently, we have Chertoff's gut feeling that a terror attack is imminent. What is there is the analysis offered by the Kennebunkport Warning that its critics find so offensive? Do they not see the danger of the wider war with Iran? Do they not believe Cheney would use false flag terrorist to get what he wants? If they cannot grasp these problems, they are simply not qualified to be taken seriously leaders of the antiwar movement under the grim conditions we face today.

How did Mickelson become an expert in this matter? Was he there? What is his special expertise? What is his special vested interest in this affair? If he does not like our anti-war mobilization, what kind of anti-war mobilization does he recommend? How does he propose to avoid a wider war and martial law? What has he been doing on this issue? Mickleson would be better off doing something to stop Cheney, rather than carping about Kennebunkport.

9/11 "false flag" op: Mohawk Nation News

HIS ‘WHOLYNESS’ RED-X ENUNCIATES:

911 WAS A “FALSE FLAG” OPERATION!

MNN. Mar. 8, 2008. After being kidnapped, suffering unimaginable abuse in Guantanmo Bay, Egypt, Syria and in torture chambers in Israel, his “Wholyness” the Red-X has emerged from captivity without a bruise. His captors wanted him to reveal the secret of how Indigenous peoples continue to resist the so-called “new world order” and the “war on terror. They could never penetrate his infinite “Indigenality”. He mounted the silver bird and returned to his mountain cave where the sun never sleeps and the stars always shine to contemplate the state of the world. Once again his infinite “sageocity” illuminated the portals of MNN.

His Eternal Magnificence, the Great Red-X, reminded us that “As the keepers of the first light of the east”, the Mohawks have the duty to protect Turtle Island. Our iron workers helped build the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. We are compelled to seek the truth about the demolition of the Twin Towers and Building #7 on September 11, 2001. This is what we know”.

The “Warriors of the 4th Dimension” were able to deconstruct the circumstances around 911. It was a “false flag” operation designed by the international banking cartel and its military and political affiliates to perpetuate their “war that will never end in our lifetime”.

The “War Chief of the 4th Dimension” revealed to the Great Red-X that, “Our Warrior Council omni witnessed the corporate boardrooms and bedrooms of those who control terrestrial affairs. They invisibly viewed and overheard the discussions on creating a one world government based on fascism, martial law and prostitution. As David Rockefeller once said, “All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the new world order.” Could it be that the capture of Eliot Spitzer in “fragrant delicto” marks the dawn of the new world order? Also, Mayer Rothschild, private banker, said, “Give me control of a nation’s money supply and I care not who makes its laws”.

Their hurry to establish this diabolical system for the “stranglification” of the masses reveals their irrational fear of the return of the Kaianereh’ko:wa, the Great Law. It ordered Turtle Island before the great confusion caused when some Europeans got lost and washed up on our shores. The return of the Kaianerehkowa will herald a time of equality, where everyone has a voice, genuine democracy and peace. It will wipe out war, poverty and tyranny. True democratic principles such as the 2/3 vote, women’s equality and people’s referenda will underlie decision making. This is causing the oligarchs to shake in their Gucci boots and sweat blood into their Armani arm pits.

The misleading motto spun by the oligarchs is “fighting worldwide terrorism” which really means the unleashing of all-out martial law on the “North American Union”. Saber rattling against Iran suggests an invasion and a dirty bomb could be unleashed to create a second “911” in the U.S.

Six weeks before the Twin Towers came down, the omni Warriors saw many people affiliated with the current U.S. administration and Federal Reserve Bank discussing how to benefit from what are called “put option stocks”. This is when Wall Street traders bet on whether a company will prosper or fail within a six week period. If it doesn’t fail, Trader A pays Trader B the amount of the bet. If it falls,

Trader B pays Trader A one hundred times the amount of the bet.

As sensed by the Warriors, the traders bet “put option stocks” on the following 38 companies:

1)Merrill Lynch; 2)AMR; 3)American Express; 4)American International Group; 5)AFA SA; 6)Bank of America; 7)Bank of New York; (8)Bank 1 Corp.; 9)Bear Stearns; 10)Boeing; 11)Carnival; 12)Chubb; 13)Cigna; 14)Citigroup; 15)Can Financial; 16)Continental Airlines; 17)l3 Communications Holding; 18)Leahman Brothers Holdings; 19)Lockheed Martin; 20)Lone Star Technologies; 21)LTV Corp.; 22)Delta Airlines; 23)General Motors; 24)Hercules; 25)Marsh & McLennan Coso; 26)Metlife; 27)Morgan Stanley Dean Witter; 28)Northwest Airlines; 29)Progressivecorp; 30)Raytheon Corp [makes drone missiles]; 31)Royal Caribbean Cruises; 32)Royal Sun Alliance; 33)Southwest Airlines; 34)United Airlines; 35)U.S. Airways; 36)Vornado Realty Trust; 37)W.R. Grace and Co.; and 38)X.L. Capital.

The traders who bet they would fall reaped huge windfalls and the companies got insurance after 911.

The U.S. Securities Exchange Commission had the control list. They refused to release it. It was accidentally released to the Canadian Security Exchange Commission shortly after 911. Ian Mulgrew, writer for the Vancouver Sun, put the list in an article on February 23, 2002. It was almost immediately taken off the internet.

Fortunately, the Red-X telepathically stimulated the intuition of earthly Warrior, Splitting-the-Sky. He diligently hand wrote the list from the internet and put it on his fridge right away. Another article came into his realm. Bill Bergman was working for the Chicago “Federal Reserve” and was fired after investigating the suspicious “put option stocks”. Splitting-the-Sky, being the brilliant researching Mohawk that he is, thought, “Why was he fired for looking into these “prophets of death” stocks?

He was driven to google “who owns the Federal Reserve?” To his amazement, a list appeared that included two prominent banker families, Lord Rothschild of the Bank of England and David Rockefeller of Chase Manhattan. He saw that many of the 38 corporations that went down were on the Federal Reserve list. Trillions of dollars were made at the expense of over 3000 lives lost in the Twin Towers, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and people killed in Iraq and Afganistan and still counting.

The Red-X mused, “What is the real story? 19 Saudis flying planes into those buildings and diesel fuel melting the steel just doesn’t cut it!”

The Towers were an asbestos bombshell. Like many built in the 1970s, they were constructed with vast quantities of cancer causing asbestos. Law suits were imminent. Removing it would cost possibly as much as the value of the buildings. It would be cheaper to set demolition explosives and blow the place apart, either accidentally or as a terrorist act. The insurance and put option stocks could then be collected by the traders and the companies.

In January 2001 Larry Silverstein made a $2.3 billion bid for the World Trade Center. On July 24 the New York Port Authority accepted the offer. Silverstein took out an insurance policy that covered “terrorist attacks”!! When the Towers came down, Silverstein was awarded almost $5 billion from 9 different insurance companies, with the help of Elliott Spitzer. It was heard that vigilant Larry also took out insurance on the Sears Building in Chicago. So Watch out!

StrataJet was in the Towers weeks before 911, which could have been enough time to wire up the building. Closing a number of the floors for weeks at a time was called “upgrading”. George Bush’s brother, Marvin, headed StrataJet Security, held the two year security contract on the Towers which conveniently ended on September 11, 2001. After that there was nothing to secure.

The Warriors of the 4th Dimension decided to put the spot light on the NYC rats. The Mayor, Rudy Guiliani, had a bunker on the 23rd floor of the World Trade Center #7 Building. Red-X was not surprised to learn that this building went down with all kinds of CIA, Department of Defense and SEC records of 30 to 40 money laundering cases.

The video, “Loose Change” claims remote controlled cruise missiles were fired into those buildings just before the nose of the planes hit the buildings. This caused people to look up into the sky while the real destruction was being done at the bottom of the building. Left were pools of molten steel that smoldered for months.

The warriors of the 4th dimension have been wondering if it was possible that a hydrogen bomb was used to destroy those buildings. Witnesses saw squibs of smoke projecting outwards from each floor that was blown up. Millions of degrees of heat were generated that exploded upwards which vaporized everything in its upward journey. No bodies, no computers, no desks, no cement.

Everything was pulverized into a hot white fine powder.

The War Council of the 4th Dimension heard how easy it would be to set up explosives on every 4th floor. When detonated by thermite by remote control, the steel would be severed into 34 ft. pieces. This would make it easier to pick up and haul away. Guiliani did not allow an independent investigation of the area. Apparently the metal was hauled to China and Asia and melted down and made into war ships.

The Mohawks can never rest until the full story is told. What do you think? There has to be a reason why the Great Red-X was captured and tortured for so long! Is it sheer malevolence or was there something else to it?


Kahentinetha Horn

False Flag Terror Fear On 14th Is Apparant Hoax

A military stand down scheduled for this friday has kicked started a buzz across the blogosphere that some kind of false flag attack may be planned in the immediate aftermath of the sixth anniversary of 9/11. Wild connections and suggestions have started to be made that have little or no basis in reality, a disconcerting trend that can be damaging to the Truth Movement.There is so much to CONSIDER and so many dots floating around it is very difficult to NOT make assumptions. But do read this and see what YOU think.V

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Alex Jones has done an absolutely incredible job of detailing US "false flag" operations & US gov't sponsored terrorist attacks - on our forces & civilians (including - knowingly - children), This is long (1:52), but definitely worth watching. There is an awful lot of info presented here - with documentation, sources, etc. Just an amazing video & a clear indictment of the US gov't.
Linda

http://www.infowars.com/terrorstorm/google_high_quality.htm

The terrorists aren’t who you think they are.

Throughout history, criminal elements inside governments have carried out terror attacks against their own populations as a pretext to enslave them. TerrorStorm reveals how, in the last hundred years, Western leaders have repeatedly murdered their own citizens while posing as their saviors.

In TerrorStorm you will discover that September 11th, the attacks of 7/7 in London, and many other terrorist events were self-inflicted wounds. You will witness British Special Forces troops caught in the act of staging terror attacks in Iraq and see official US government documents laying out plans to hijack passenger planes by remote control. You will learn how the Reichstag fire, the Gulf of Tonkin, and the US-backed Iranian coup of 1953 are all interconnected false-flag terror events.

This powerful documentary explores the mindset of the average brainwashed Westerner. It delves deeply in to the systems of control which have been scientifically-crafted to imprison their minds and keep their eyes closed to the realities of the world around them.

Special Features

- Over an hour of the most powerful moments from the historic 9/11 & The Neo-Con Agenda Symposium in Los Angeles, California featuring speeches and commentary by world-renowned experts who expose 9/11 as an inside job including:

BYU Physics Professor Steven E. Jones
Actor and Activist Charlie Sheen
StarWars Program progenitor Lt. Col. Bob Bowman
Filmmaker Alex Jones
9/11 Scholars for Truth Founder James Fetzer
Terrorism Expert and Historian Webster G. Tarpley

The awkward TRUTH: Please read!

This is to my mind, as close to the truth as I have tried to show on this blog for THREE YEARS.

This is really the definining moment for the United States (UNTIED now!) and Canada as well.

Crisis in the U.S.: “Plan B”? By Richard C. Cook

Global Research, November 11, 2007

Strange events are taking place in the U.S. By August 2007, a lot of very smart people were reading the tea leaves, convinced that the upper echelons of the U.S. government had their own hidden reasons for forecasting an event even more heinous than the attacks of September 11, 2001. President George W. Bush, Vice President Richard Cheney, and Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff had been hinting that another 9/11 could be coming. Figures from the U.S. military had also projected a 9/11-type event. On April 23, 2006, for instance, the Washington Post published a statement by an unnamed Pentagon source that, “Another attack could create both a justification and an opportunity that is lacking today to retaliate against some known targets.” 9/11 was a turning point in history, and not just because it provided a pretext for the Bush administration to use off-the-shelf plans to invade Afghanistan and Iraq. The 9/11 Commission criticized the government for failing to do enough to act on danger signs that attacks may have been afoot. But a movement has formed which argues that the reality was worse—that 9/11 was an inside job staged to further the geopolitical ambitions of an elite seeking to use U.S. military power to advance its own imperialistic agenda. What is indisputable is that from the 2000 presidential election through the 9/11 attacks and their aftermath, what New York Times columnist Paul Krugman termed a “revolutionary power” took control of the U.S. government. Krugman’s statement, contained in the introduction to his 2005 book The Great Unraveling, has not been taken seriously enough. George W. Bush had lost the popular vote to Al Gore but was named to office by a Supreme Court that rubber-stamped what Greg Palast and others have proven was an extended process of electoral fraud in Florida. The subsequent actions and policies of the Bush/Cheney administration have been in accord with its dubious beginnings. From the emergence of the Neocons as an ideological power base dominant over U.S. foreign policy, to destruction wreaked on the Bill of Rights by illegal surveillance of citizens, to the senseless creation of the bureaucratically monstrous Department of Homeland Security and passage of the Patriot Acts, to the initiation of “wars of choice” leading to the devastation of two nations and the killing or displacement of perhaps a million Middle Eastern non-combatants, to violation of international treaties and conventions against wars of aggression and torture of prisoners, to presiding over an economy ruined by the continued export of manufacturing jobs and the creation and deflation of the housing bubble, to the wrecking of the federal budget by over a trillion dollars of wartime expenditure, to the abandonment of the city of New Orleans during and after Hurricane Katrina, to tax cuts for the most wealthy while the income of the middle class has drastically eroded, and to threats to start another war, this time against Iran, based on deceptions similar to those which preceded the Iraq invasion, the Bush/Cheney administration has brought the U.S. to the brink of catastrophe. What is now being asked is whether there was a plan that was to take place in September-October 2007 whereby the rest of the job would have been done. Speculation was that a nuclear device was to have been detonated in a U.S. city, perhaps one of the six attached to cruise missiles that were “inadvertently” carried by the Air Force B-52 bomber that flew from South Dakota to Louisiana just before Labor Day. Check this link from the Arkansas Democrat Gazette for the official explanation of the incident: http://www2.arkansasonline.com/news/2007/oct/19/air-force-punishes-70-accidental-nuclear-weapons-f/. According to the Air Force’s report, the missiles were being mothballed due to “a treaty,” but ground personnel at Minot Air Force Base “grabbed the wrong ones” and loaded missiles with nuclear warheads by mistake. Some have argued that these nukes were secretly bound for Iran to prepare for a nuclear attack on that country. But would such a Keystone Cops routine have been necessary to prepare for military action as a contingency to implement a possible decision coming from the highest political levels? Suppose, on the other hand, that one of the nukes was targeted for a false-flag domestic attack, perhaps a city like Portland, Oregon, where military exercises simulating a major terrorist incident had been scheduled and where residents actually were warning each other to leave town. Was the attack to trigger an economic collapse, leading as a side-effect to a payoff of billions of dollars for the placers of the “bin Laden bets” that were reportedly made in the financial markets anticipating a fifty percent decline in stock prices? Of course such an attack would be blamed on foreign terrorists. The trail of the explosion would be found to lead to Iran, resulting in war against that nation. Would the Constitution then have been suspended and martial law declared? Would citizens have been rounded up and herded into prison camps? Such a scenario seems unfathomable, horrendous, even incredible. But it still may have been in character for a regime whose actions have led the world to view the U.S. as the greatest existing threat to peace. Rumors about such possible events have been churning on the internet for months. But the rumors have not been confined to “conspiracy theorists.” Regarding President Bush’s commitment to the sanctity of constitutional processes, Congressman John Olver expressed the prevailing view in government circles when he told twenty of his constituents at a private meeting in Massachusetts on July 5, 2007, that he could not support a movement to impeach Bush. According to an attendee, the reason the Congressman gave was that, “The President would declare a national emergency, institute martial law, and suspend the 2008 elections.” Therefore we might ask if it is true, as some sources have alleged, that the reason these events have not taken place was that there was a revolt by the U.S. military, which refused to carry out the false-flag attack that may have been intended? What then has happened differently which indicates that events may have altered or postponed such a sinister denouement to the nightmare of the last seven years? What has happened appears to be that the U.S. establishment has decided to move to “Plan B.” This may be defined as a decision that the sway of the Bush/Cheney regime must end and that some semblance of normality should be restored, at least in appearance, by making Hillary Clinton the next President. Of course part and parcel of any Hillary Clinton presidency would be the presence and participation of her husband, former President Bill Clinton. We may rightly speak of “the Clintons” as a unit in this context. The signs that Hillary Clinton is the President-designee have been appearing in droves. These include her rise in the polls, especially in Iowa, the emergence of an anti-Bush surge in the mega-media, especially on MSNBC, and the appointment of Democrats with ties to the Clintons at the Defense and Treasury Departments. Other signs include the emergence of a campaign by certain well-connected websites to keep tabs on pro-Neocon news commentators and offensives being launched against some particularly obnoxious right-wing media figures such as Bill O’Reilly and Rush Limbaugh. The way Hillary Clinton is being portrayed in the mega-media is of decisive importance, because media-owning conglomerates such as GE, Viacom, and Disney serve the interests of the establishment, not the public. Nothing makes it to the airwaves without the approval of the financial interests which control these giants. Also decisive was the appearance of Hillary and Bill on the cover of the October 6 edition of The Economist, long the keystone publication of the Anglo-American international financial empire. The Washington Post, another establishment house organ, has noted that Hillary herself is couching her election in terms of “when, not if.” The theme she is projecting is that of an anointed insider calling for “national unity.” For this she is being duly attacked by her competitors, most notably John Edwards. The best example of how the mega-media is telegraphing establishment intent was Chris Mathews’ lead story on Hardball on Monday night, November 5, which displayed MSNBC’s “Power Rankings” for presidential candidates. The segment began with an adulatory profile of Hillary’s campaign. Mathews then set a record for premature declaration of victory by predicting her as “the most likely winner of the Democratic nomination and presidential election” a full year before the election is even to take place. Mathews repeated his judgment several times in what was obviously rehearsed language, even as the members of his three-person panel of commentators were trying in vain to raise objections, including the view that Hillary might not even win the Iowa caucuses or the New Hampshire primary. Mathews repeatedly overrode his own experts with his insistence that Hillary was the MSMBC pick. Oh yes, we will have the formality of a presidential election. Doubtless some fur will fly, because Hillary will always be the Clinton the right-wing most loves to hate. So we won’t see a coronation. It is certain, however, that the current regime will exact a price for accepting at least temporary defeat. So far the price seems to be agreement by Hillary Clinton that the conquest of Iraq is a fait accompli, that the building of the Baghdad supersize embassy will continue, that permanent military bases in Iraq will be maintained a lá Korea, and that the option of an attack on Iran will remain “on the table.” She has not raised her voice against any of this. The vehicle by which Clinton signed on to a possible attack on Iran was her vote in favor of the Senate resolution naming the Iranian Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist sponsor. Perhaps there is also an understanding between the Clintons and the Bush/Cheney camp that the latter will not be prosecuted for crimes committed in office. No matter who becomes president in 2008, that person will be left with a nation in disarray. This includes a foreign policy that has been sacrificed to militaristic interests, the rise of a militant Russia now allied with China through the Shanghai Cooperative Organization, and a Latin America in open revolt against U.S. domination. Even maintaining a post-Bush foreign policy will be a challenge, given Condoleezza Rice’s legacy of a State Department whose morale is in shreds due to a vicious Neocon takeover of the foreign service that will persist for a generation or more. Meanwhile, the U.S. economy is a wreck, with out-of-control debt, the housing collapse in full flower, continued erosion of manufacturing jobs, a sinking dollar, a crumbling physical infrastructure, soaring oil and food prices, out-of-control illegal immigration, and hordes of well-heeled foreigners buying U.S. assets with rapidly depreciating dollars. The economy is in much worse shape today than when Bill Clinton took over from George H. W. Bush in 1992. It will be a miracle if the next president is able to keep the U.S. from sinking into a depression. The only qualification to this assessment lies with the large companies heavily invested in the growing Chinese economy—GM, GE, IBM, etc. But a majority of the stock of these and other corporations is owned by financial institutions, while the trickle-down effect of dividends will provide only a fraction of the purchasing power needed to keep the U.S. economy afloat. While the views of the American public still seem to register to a slight degree, the Democrats have failed to respond to their restoration by the electorate to power in Congress by ending the Iraq War. But by their votes in 2006 and by consistently giving George W. Bush such low ratings in the polls, Americans have delivered a message. So have the many internet sites covering the real news of the war and the economy. As well have the two maverick presidential candidates, Ron Paul the Republican and Dennis Kucinich the Democrat, who have been saying things not heard in the supine world of American politics for a long time. Things like getting rid of the inept handling of credit by the Federal Reserve and stopping the war in Iraq by exiting right now, without any more lies or excuses. But it is by no means certain that there is much immediate hope of salvaging the nation from the current debacle. The interests of millions of Americans have been severely damaged by the financial and political malfeasance that has gone on for so long. Abroad, the deaths or ruin of large numbers of people in the Middle East must be accounted for. That region is now less stable than ever, as the situation in Pakistan shows. A negotiated two-state settlement between Israel and the Palestinians seems a distant dream. Finally, sane multilateral systems for sharing of the world’s resources among nations or dealing with global warming are nowhere in sight. And a nuclear holocaust involving the U.S. vs. Russia and possibly China is a growing danger. Further, the U.S. economy can’t simply be “fixed.” It is too far gone for that. The elite began their takedown of the economy during the 1970s and show no signs of being able to reverse course. It started with the removal of the gold-peg to the dollar in 1971 and continued with the explosion of U.S. currency on the international scene due to the petrodollar, soaring trade and fiscal deficits, action to permanently mortgage us to military-backed dependence on imported Middle Eastern oil, a permanent tilt in favor of Israel vs. the Islamic world, and, finally, the galloping 1970s inflation. These events led to the Fed-induced crash of 1979-83 which left us with today’s travesty of a “service” economy. Now in 2007 the Fed is trying to engineer a “soft landing” of an economy trapped in unsustainable debt and collapsing bubbles, at least until the 2008 election. But everyone knows a crash is coming, particularly as China and other nations dump the plummeting dollar as their reserve currency. So what are the Clintons and their government-in-waiting planning? You would think they had something in mind. But maybe not. During the 1990s, Bill Clinton acted in full accord with the globalists’ agenda by continuing with the Reagan/Bush I privatization of the economy, with downsizing of government, and with promotion of the dot.com bubble that ended with the 2000 market crash. Unfortunately, it will not be as simple to engineer a repeat performance of even the ephemeral prosperity of the 1990s when what is lacking today is a real economic driver. The grievous condition of the U.S. is reflected in an epidemic of mental and emotional illness and a rising violent crime rate. It is reflected in a USA Today poll, where 72 percent of Americans say the nation is moving in the wrong direction (74 percent in a Washington Post/ABC News poll). And who knows what disasters global warming has in store? To face all this will require a decisive reorientation of U.S. governance. There is little in the history of the Clintons, their opportunistic style, and their passivity to the financier elite that justifies this much optimism. The financial controllers today exert more power over the U.S. economy and the nation’s politics than at any time in history. They are not giving up this power. In fact, Hillary is their “safest” choice among the Democrats in maintaining control. Perhaps we may want to indulge in a sigh of relief at how much worse things could have been—or may still be—if Bush/Cheney unleash even more disasters. But stay tuned. The next four years are likely to be decisive—particularly because the plan to elevate Hillary Clinton may be a trap by which she is left holding the bag for an economic collapse that would make it much easier than at present for the Neocon storm troopers to rush back in. What is absolutely certain is that the people of the world do not want war, regardless of their religion, race, or nationality. The people of the world want economic fairness. The people of the world want to live by honest labor, not bank credit. And the people of the world want an environment that is clean and safe for future generations. The only people who do not appear to want these things have been those who are currently in charge of the U.S. government. The question now is what are the American people willing to do to assure that what is truly in the best interests of the nation will prevail? Will they continue to be manipulated by the fear which has been the basis of the Bush/Cheney mode of governance? Will they continue to act as obedient puppets as it becomes harder and harder to earn a living and raise a family in an economy throttled by debt and a declining standard of living? Will they simply vote for whom they are told to support by the media and the pollsters? Or will some decide that enough is enough and resolve to take America back in 2008? But even if they do, can they succeed? While Hillary Clinton is likely the designated Democratic nominee, Rudy Giuliani leads the polls for the Republicans. Giuliani, with his own group of Neocon advisers and his militant outbursts promising more war, is the ideological godson of Bush/Cheney. Whoever is pulling the strings behind the scenes, it is likely obvious to them that to allow a character like Giuliani to step in while so many raw nerves are exposed among the American populace could lead to a premature explosion. Especially since Giuliani spent most of his adult life as a prosecutor putting people in jail. It’s hardly a time in the nation’s life when what is needed as head of state is an expert at slamming people into detention. So what if Giuliani actually threatens to defeat Hillary while the establishment has decided to support her, perhaps just to buy time? The establishment is taking precautions. It seems to be doing so by starting to promote a plan that could see Ron Paul running as a third-party candidate. You can see this unfolding, for instance, in his favorable treatment on CNN’s “Situation Room.” And could Dr. Paul really have begun suddenly to raise enormous amounts of campaign cash without someone in the establishment giving a green light? Ron Paul as a candidate would obviously generate enormous excitement. But he could end up playing the same role as Ross Perot in the 1992 election, where Perot allowed disgruntled voters to let off steam while drawing enough votes to allow Bill Clinton to defeat George H.W. Bush. One way or the other, the fix is on. Finally, we should note that the “revolutionary power” Paul Krugman refers to is not just the Bush/Cheney/Neocon regime. They are only the most visible recent manifestation. The true “revolutionary power” is much less visible but may reasonably be identified with the higher echelons of the “financier elite” and “establishment” referred to throughout this article. The underlying agenda of this group seems to be to destroy the U.S. as the world’s greatest industrial democracy, turn it into a province of a globalist system under their control, and use its land and population as muscle for world monetary and military dominance. Can anything be done? Of course. The underlying problem is that the power and wealth acquired by the U.S. after World War II has eroded—has perhaps been squandered—as the rest of the world has grown up. Certainly, if the right people were in charge the U.S. could accept the inevitable, rebuild its failed domestic economy on democratic principles, and assume its rightful place as one of several major world powers, with the responsibility this would entail. Instead, we have been trying to hold onto what has slipped away by a continued resort to financial aggression combined with force of arms, rather than altruistic action based on enlightened ideals. It’s a failed mission. What has happened to America in the last decade is turning into the greatest tragedy of modern history. And what can ordinary people do while all this is unfolding? The best advice seems to be not to try to hoard paper assets, which the elite are able easily to manipulate or devalue. It’s to get out of debt, hone our manual skills, invest in a small business, grow our own food, stay positive, help others, work hard, eschew the consumption lifestyle, pray and meditate, be sober, and learn to think for ourselves. We might try to work within the political system if we can and want to, but should not count on easy successes, because, as the man said, “It’s a hard rain’s gonna fall.” Richard C. Cook is a retired federal analyst, whose career included service with the U.S. Civil Service Commission, the Food and Drug Administration, the Carter White House, and NASA, followed by twenty-one years with the U.S. Treasury Department. His articles on economics, politics, and space policy have appeared on numerous websites. He is the author of Challenger Revealed: An Insider’s Account of How the Reagan Administration Caused the Greatest Tragedy of the Space Age, called by one reviewer, “the most important spaceflight book of the last twenty years.” His website is at www.richardccook.com.

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