Showing posts with label 9/11 truth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 9/11 truth. Show all posts

July 03, 2008

Government seeks more time for Moussaoui briefs

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Federal prosecutors want two more months to file their brief in Sept. 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui's (zak-uh-REE'-uhs moo-SOW'-eez) appeal.

They say they've received new information in a separate investigation of the CIA's destruction of videotapes of detainee interrogations. They can't say what the information is, but it may be relevant to Moussaoui's case.

Moussaoui is serving a life sentence after pleading guilty to conspiring with al-Qaida in the terrorist attacks. He says his plea should be thrown out because he was not allowed to see classified evidence, hindering his ability to prepare for trial.

The extension request means oral arguments scheduled for Sept. 22 will likely be postponed. His attorney couldn't comment because he'd just received prosecutors' motion.


June 12, 2008

WAR CRIMES DOSSIER: Remove Nancy Pelosi, end the infowarfare

I want to put in some additional information right here on top.

Nancy Pelosi can also be removed by state legislatures. This activity has been going on "behind the scenes". An unusual move to be sure, and it's never been "tested" but is entirely within the Constitution. With the release of the DoD emails and McClellan's book, the legal activity is feverish to get out all the relevant indictments.

While other petitions calling for Pelosi's removal can be signed only by US citizens, I offer the following information .. Anyone can sign Scott Creighton's petition against Nancy Pelosi.

The moment is ours - let's now seize it!

- Please circulate widely -


Now that the Articles of Impeachment (H Res 1258) have been read out clearly by Dennis Kucinich, a good time for a reminder that we must REMOVE Nancy Pelosi, and keep calling the states' Attorneys General throughout the day .. This is what must be done as we wait for more whistleblowers to confess and for more cosigners to come forward to co-signers of the resolution.

We know that PELOSI will attempt to block impeachment proceedings and this would make the United States a FAILED NATION that cannot police itself.

Pelosi must NOT be allowed to serve as President as the Constitution stipulates.

http://www.petitiononline.com/ev...n/ petition.html

Above is the link to sign the petition for Pelosi's removal as Speaker of the House and can be signed by non-US citizens.


Those state Attorneys General who do NOT pursue WAR CRIMES prosecutions will ALSO be guilty of war crimes very soon. They MUST uphold Geneva or ELSE. And remember: what has happened must NEVER be allowed to happen ever again. That is the legacy of Nuremberg.

Many of them are reading the notes on prosecutions NOW and lawyers from the ACLU and the NLG have filled them in on details in the past few months.

The lawyers for We the People continue working hard on the prosecutions leading to WAR CRIMES convictions ..

My entire blog has all the relevant information available http://ladybroadoak.blogspot.com/2008/02/special-prosecutor-information-plz.html

and a free swicki on war crimes and Constitutional criminality is available, and the link includes the free .pdf on Bush's international war crimes, applicable to ALL the global war criminals in the GWOT.

Did Nancy Pelosi just think everyone sat on their backsides for the past eight years ???

She will find out there is NO statue of limitations on WAR CRIMES (as if she didn't know that - she has access to legal advisors.
She may be the most despicable female on the planet after Condi Rice, Harriet Meiers and/or Karen Hughes .. although someone mentioned Madeleine Albright recently. )

As you go about your business of the day,

REMEMBER

1 million Irakis are assumed to have died
4 million more are refugees - many undocumented
(children are being used as prostitutes !)
The war in Afghanistan continues
The kangaroo courts in Guantanamo Bay are illegal
In the vast archipelago of black sites the torture continues
Depleted uranium weapons are illegal
9/11 TRUTH has yet to be exposed
The US economy is in a nose dive and must be fixed
Palestinians have a right of return
The War on Drugs is a total failure
Earthchanges are upon us
US Elections are still rigged

The human suffering must be stopped
and it is NOT "business as usual"
after a war that has lasted longer than WWII !
just to name a few of "The Problems"
and We the People have the power, really.

Don't be so "pre-occupied" like Nancy you don't sign the petition;
it's not "business" as usual now that the DoD emails have been released
and Scott McClellan's book has come out.

. . .

Genocide is the Supreme international crime.

NO ONE IS BEYOND THE LAW


We the People should have our WAR CRIMES indictments finished by June 16th or so, that includes the information on how INFORMATION WARFARE was used against us..


(The videos of the Kucinich and the other presentations are available on youtube.)

Meanwhile, can you have your friends discuss this new solution as what has happened can never be allowed to happen to the American democracy again
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State Legislatures Moving To Remove Pelosi As Speaker

"How's the effort to remove Pelosi as speaker?", you're wondering . .

1. Identified the legal precedent to have her removed:

http://www.gpo.gov/congress/hous...text/ hrm14.html

"Speaker may be removed at the will of the House, and a Speaker pro tempore appointed, 2 Grey, 186; 5 Grey, 134."

2. Identified the mechanism by which the state legislatures can review the charges against the Speaker; and pass a resolution calling for the House to remove her.
House Rule 603 Permits the States to Pass resolutions calling for changes in leadership:
http://www.impeachbush.tv/impeac...each/ rules.html
Also, note this:

"A resolution for the removal of an officer is presented as a matter of privilege (I, 284-286; VI, 35), and a resolution declaring the office of Speaker vacant presents a question of constitutional privilege (VI, 35).


http://www.gpo.gov/congress/hous...text/ hrm14.html

2. Draft indictments against the Speaker have been written: Charges, allegations against the speaker warranting her removal as Speaker:

- A. Allegedly aiding and abetting enemies of the Constitution: Assenting to agreements which are not the Supreme Law, but acting is if those alleged agreement were Supreme, in defiance of her oath of office.

- B. Alleged breach of her oath of office: Having mental reservations about whether the Constitution is or is not the Supreme Law, as evidenced by the decision to allegedly thwart, block, and not permit review of evidence related to impeachment; and

- C. Allegedly bringing discredit upon the house -- failing to enforce the Constitution; blocking investigations into illegal misconduct.

Please forward the above links to your friends, State Attorney Generals, and Legislatures. This will form the basis for the removal for the Speaker; and for your State Legislatures to debate a proclamation calling for the House to remove Nancy Pelosi as Speaker.

http://www.naag.org/attorneys_general.php

links to the list of state attorney generals

June 06, 2008

WAR CRIMES DOSSIER: Guantanamo Bay update

GUANTÁNAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba -- Self-proclaimed Al Qaeda No. 3 Khalid Sheikh Mohammed told a military tribunal Thursday that he would welcome the martyrdom of execution for masterminding the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that killed almost 3,000 people.

"This is what I wish," Mohammed told a judge who warned that he might be executed if convicted. "I am looking to be martyred for a long time."

He said he was rejecting legal representation and would defend himself.

Mohammed, 43, identified in the 9/11 Commission report as the "principal architect" of the attacks, is accused of murder with four codefendants, who also appeared at an arraignment at the U.S. naval base. Mohammed said he and the others were tortured after their capture by U.S. forces and now face a proceeding that "is inquisition, it is not trial."

"After torturing, they transferred us to inquisition-land in Guantánamo," Mohammed said. "We don't have a right to anything."

The five defendants are charged with conspiring to finance, train and direct the 19 hijackers who seized four airliners used in the attacks that killed 2,973 people. The charges carry the death penalty.

The men spoke to each other and laughed as they pointed to reporters seated in a glassed-in spectators' gallery. "It seemed to be a reunion" of the suspects, Navy Cmdr. Suzanne Lachelier, who represents Ramzi Binalshibh, 36, told reporters during a break.

Binalshibh, too, said he has "been seeking martyrdom for five years. I tried for 9/11 to get a visa, and I could not." He is accused of trying four times to get into the United States in 2000 by seeking travel visas, which were denied.

"If martyrdom happens to me today, I welcome it," he told the trial judge, Marine Col. Ralph Kohlmann.

Lachelier said it was her impression that Mohammed was orchestrating his codefendants to refuse counsel.

Mohammed wore a white turban and tunic and stroked his long salt-and-pepper beard as his lawyers introduced themselves to the court. His attendance at the tribunal marked his first public appearance since he was captured in Pakistan in 2003. He was held by the CIA until his 2006 transfer to Guantánamo.

During a March 10, 2007, Guantánamo hearing to declare him an enemy combatant, Mohammed said he was "responsible for the 9/11 operation from A to Z," according to a Defense Department transcript. He claimed that in 2002, he beheaded Daniel Pearl, a Wall Street Journal reporter kidnapped in Pakistan.

Mohammed cited religious and political reasons for refusing to be represented by a lawyer. The judge rejected defense attorney David Nevin's argument that Mohammed's waiver of legal representation was not voluntary because "he wants to die; he is suicidal."

Justice Department and military officials have said they expect legal challenges from defense lawyers on issues such as the admissibility of evidence obtained from CIA interrogations, which human rights advocates say included techniques amounting to torture. The CIA acknowledged Mohammed was one of three Al Qaeda operatives subjected to waterboarding, which simulates drowning. The CIA says it no longer uses the technique.

Individual trial judges may decide to admit statements from interrogations that involved waterboarding, Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann, the court's chief legal adviser, said Wednesday. He said officials seek to begin the trial in September. The defense is seeking to disqualify him as the legal adviser overseeing the military court in the case.

May 30, 2008

WAR CRIMINAL RICE LIES (of the Blackwater private army fame) IN ICELAND

REYKJAVIK, Iceland - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Friday rejected allegations that terror detainees at Guantanamo Bay are abused.

And she reiterated the Bush administration's desire to close the detention facility in Cuba as soon as possible. Her comments came a day after Iceland's parliament adopted a resolution condemning abuses at Guantanamo and calling for its immediate closure.

"I strongly object to the notion that there are human rights violations at Guantanamo as is suggested by the resolution," she said, advising Icelandic lawmakers to read a report on conditions there by the Organization for Security in Europe.

That report, Rice said, found no evidence of systematic violations at Guantanamo.

But, she said, it remains the administration's desire to shut the facility down once countries can be found to take the prisoners who are now there.

"Guantanamo is a place that the president himself has said that we would like to close. There is, of course, the problem of what to do with the people that are there," Rice said. "The United States has been trying to return people to their places of origin and in many cases we have been able to that.

"In some circumstances, unfortunately, we have done that only to meet these people again on the battlefield," she said, referring to a recent case where a released detainee committed a suicide bombing in Iraq. "They should not be released on unsuspecting populations."

Rice spoke at a news conference with Iceland's Foreign Minister Ingibjorg Gisladottir, who presented the secretary with the resolution. Rice said she would provide the minister with a copy of the OSCE report on Guantanamo.

The Bush administration has defended tough interrogation tactics that were approved for terrorism suspects in the wake of 9/11, saying they comply with both U.S. law and treaty obligations — though human rights groups and critics disagree.

Earlier in May, Rice defended the U.S. record.

She said that legal restrictions on the treatment of detainees had evolved significantly between 2002 and 2003, when administration officials had allowed harsh techniques, including one that some believe to be torture, and the passage in 2005 of the Detainee Treatment Act, which prohibits cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment.

Rice — who was President Bush's national security adviser at the time — refused to specify what specific techniques were approved, but said America was safer because of interrogations conducted on al-Qaida detainees captured in the first months and year after 9/11.

She maintained that Bush's top aides had been scrupulous in making sure the early interrogations conformed to existing rules.

This week, defense lawyers for Guantanamo detainees accused the U.S. government of rushing the 9/11 suspects to trial to influence the presidential elections, and asked a military judge to dismiss the cases.

Military lawyers for alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four co-defendants revealed that prosecutors are seeking a Sept. 15 trial date, just weeks before the Nov. 4 election.

The five men accused of mounting the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks that killed almost 3,000 people are to be arraigned June 5 at the U.S. Navy base in Guantanamo Bay in the most high-profile of the military commissions, as the war-crimes proceedings are called.

Why did Iceland let her in in the first instance?


May 24, 2008

ACTIVISM: Update on 9/11 general strike !! CHRIS RICE

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Updates on General Strike USA 9/11/08

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A general strike is going to take place in the United States of America on the 11th of September, 2008, seven years after the 911 attack. While it has still not been reported by the mainstream media, you might have read about it, because a lot has been written and commented in alternative media, as a google search of General Strike 9/11/08 easily shows.

I think the organization of the strike merits some attention. Lacking a central command, this action needs a heavy participation of the people.

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Let me point out some items:

* Banners have to be prepared or printed, but before that the people carrying them have to decide about the content of the banners they will be carrying. If you strike, you have a right to decide why.

* Striking is not easy, one has to choose whether to ask for the day off, or contactsome unions asking for support/advice, or meet with fellow co-workers to talk together with the boss.

* What will you do this day? Meet at somebody's home and discuss? Meet outside and talk to fellow citizens? Stop your city or town (by pacifist means such as sitting on the ground or linking arms), as it is supposed to occur during general strikes? Again, either previous discussion with colleagues or previous careful documentation of usual procedures is going to be needed.

* Paperwork: If a lot of people are to gather and disrupt traffic, it's good to inform the authorities beforehand.

A web tool being used for practical organization is meetup.com. You can just type in your ZIP code, join a group with which you share ideas/feelings and which meets near your location, and start organizing. Use these key words to search for meetup groups near you. There's bound to be some! >Updates:
I caught some organizing nuclei, in a Methodist church in Seattle, in Texas, and in New York City.
Groups:
& Strike to Impeach on Facebook.com
And even on an overpass:

www.votestrike.com

I created a website www.votestrike.com for you the voters because whichever party you belong to they have failed you. The website has ambitious goals of how to end the two party system & the third party myth. Modeled after the fall of the Berlin wall, the Polish overthrow of the communist government & the Phillipines removal of Marcos. All accomplished without firing a shot. But we do not rely on the failed tactics of the past instead we use the election system & the very votes & voters this system relies upon. And the site also offers campaign funding sources- who's bought off your candidate? As well as your solutions to education, lobbyist, healthcare, illegal immigration, the war on terror, the war in Iraq, crime, drugs, pedophiles, taxes. And a link page with 1000 links to more on these topics. I'm here to ask you to check it out, it's free. And you can submit content. Thanks for your time, my name is chris.


May 20, 2008

The Bush Occupation of America - Media Urged to Expose Crime Family

An excellent article...


Summary Of The Bush Crime Family History

For any civilized endeavor to maintain its civility, there must be enforceable laws and/or rules; without which, there is anarchy. So, before we find ourselves struggling to regain our lost freedoms, like those tragic heros in Burma/Myanmar, perhaps we should take a strategic review of how we arrived at this alarming state, honestly apprise our current status, and as we approach another major election, cast about for viable options for now as well as the foreseeable future.
Any objective observer with the barest awareness of contemporary history should be able to readily trace the rise of this powerful movement that has taken control of the reins of power in the United States. The most blatant initial historical record is when Grandpa Prescott Bush and some of his cronies tried to entice General Smedley Butler to muster enough World War I veterans to take over the Presidency of The United States in 1933. Then again, in 1942 (a year after World War II was declared), Prescott Bush and this same cabal -- in their drive toward fascism -- were finally forced by the "Trading With the Enemy Act" to terminate their extensive business dealings with Hitler.
After WWII, this American branch of the Nazis didn't lose the war, they just transformed the battleground. They expanded their "connections" with Hitler's intelligence networks from The War into the formation of our own CIA. It is also this same group that President Eisenhower opaquely identified as the "Military Industrial Complex," in his dark farewell speech to us. Later, it was Poppy George H.W. Bush who sat on a boat (named Barbara) off-shore and directed the Cuban Bay Of Pigs fiasco. As a direct consequence of that largely unsolicited action, John Kennedy banished him and his CIA brothers from his administration, albeit only temporarily, as George H.W. Bush, then an active CIA agent, was later photographed in Dealey Plaza that sunny November day in 1963.


(Some Iraqi "insurgents", just two of the million + slaughtered in Iraq, never mentioned in the
American "free press." )


...article contines..


From FDR to today, the Bush Crime Family and their fixated core of corporate fascists have been tightening their grip on the throats of the American political, legal, economic and media systems -- as the following excerpt from the Democratic Underground so well outlines:


"A Pocket History of the Bush Organized Crime Family Crime Line


Hitler's "Angel" -- Prescott Bush and his Wall Street cronies helped finance and arm the Third Reich.* Some continued trading with the enemy even after Germany declared war on America.
Bay of Pigs -- Bush the Oilman and his Cuban and Mafia friends raise hell in Miami, New Orleans and Houston.
Nice fellahs. LBJ called their organization "A regular Murder Inc in the Caribbean."

November 1963, Dallas* -- George DeMohrenschildt the "White Russian geologist" is friends with both Lee Harvey Oswald and George Herbert Walker Bush. Small world, as the coincidences get bigger. Almost 40 years later, FBI memos surface that detail how George Herbert Walker Bush fingered a young conservative the day of the assassination and "Mr. George Bush of the Central Intelligence Agency" cleared the anti-Castro Cubans in Miami days later.


Vietnam -- OK for poor kids to fight an illegal war started over the phony Gulf of Tonkin Incident, just as long as "W," the drunken coke-whore dim son, "destined" to become preznit some day, or the rest of his rich frat brothers don't have to go. Meanwhile Poppy's rich friends became very, very, very rich.


Watergate -- Nixon was willing to throw anyone and everyone to the wolves -- except George Herbert Walker Bush and "The Texans" because "They'll do anything for our side." Gee. Would "murder" qualify as "anything." Think so, especially seeing how Nixon got the ziggy and Bush ended up in the clear.


October Surprise -- Carter probably would've beat Reagan, but Bush and his buddies in INTEL and the military-industrial complex cut a deal with the Ayatollah to hold the hostages clear through the election. On inauguration day, they got to leave Tehran. A couple of weeks later, Israel starts sending US-supplied weapons. It proves so "profitable," that Ollie North cuts out the Israelis and decides to sell them US-direct.


Reagan survives assassination attempt --Just a couple of months after Reagan is sworn in, Reagan is ALMOST taken out and Bush stood ready to take charge. His son Neil was ready to have dinner that night with John Hinckley's brother, Scott. Odd how these "One Degree of Separation" coincidences always happen to Poppy.
INSLAW/Promis
-- The turd Ed Meese and cronies stole software that enabled the Justice Department to track criminal prosecutions, had their INTEL buddies add a trap door, and then sold it around the world, making it possible to track what every BFEE-connected dictator or friend from Saddam to d'Aubission is up to -- in Freedom's name.


Iraq-gate / Banca Nazionale del Lavoro arms -- Just how do you think Iraq managed to run its war against Iran for all those years? Saddam had to be getting juice from somebody, so they found a low-level banker in Miami to take the fall. US taxpayers floated Saddam $5 billion in loans. Meanwhile the Iran-Iraq war is prolonged by years and several hundreds of thousands of lives are lost.
BCCI International Money Laundering for Terrorists & Intelligence Community -- The terrorists' favorite bank, used by among others Abu Nidhal, Osama bin Laden, Ollie North, CIA, SIS and KGB. The Reagan and Bush administrations and friends on both sides of the aisle in Congress did all they could to keep it open. John Kerry got it shut down. \


Savings & Loan Scandal -- Legalized robbery in the form of "loans" made to the politically connected, Mafia and INTEL-huggers

Odd how even Neil Bush, who made millions while Silverado, the S&L he helped direct, lost billions in bad loans to Bush cronies, never spent a day in jail. Kid from Detroit steals a pair of shoes from the mall and it's OK to shoot him dead. Meanwhile, after the bailout "fixes" everything, Poppy's very, very, very rich friends become ultra-rich.


Iran-Contra -- Neo-con Michael Ledeen, Munacher Ghorbanifar and Adnan Khashoggi bend over backward to sell arms the Ayatollah and use the profits to arm the terrorist Contras. Most of the players should be in prison, but, thanks to Poppy's pardon, remain free to roam the streets, let alone corridors of power, and continue the terror.


Arbusto, HARKEN, Spectrum-7, Aloha -- Every company the crazy monkey's ever touched, he's run into the ground. Yet Poppy's family and friends, including James R Bath, the bin Mahfouz and bin Ladens, always help him out. No wonder the dim bulb went off thinking of ENRON, Kenny Boy and all the possibilities.


Gulf War I -- Poppy Bush gives April Glaspie the signal to greenlight Saddam's "border dispute" and push into Kuwait. No wonder Saddam felt betrayed when Cheney ordered the extermination of tens of thousands of fleeing Iraqi conscripts heading north on the "Highway of Death." Meanwhile, Poppy's ultra-rich friends become ultra-ultra-ultra rich.


Selection 2000 Shreds US Constitution -- After fixing things up so that 70,000 likely Democratic votes and voters are turned away or disenfranchised, the 2000 Florida Presidential "election" results in a "tie." Associate Justice Antonin Scalia gets the idea that maybe the GOP-packed Supreme Court should grant petitioner George W Bush's request for taking the Oval Office, anyway. Someone on DU wrote: "You don't steal elections to do good things." Prophetic words, those.



ENRON Energy Policy -- Sneering Dick Cheney meets with Kenny Boy Lay to discuss ways of helping ENRON rip-off California and the rest of America. There were others there, like Chevron and EXXON, because they need oil, too. Besides, the ultra-, ultra-, ultra-rich can never have enough.


9-11 -- After ignoring the warnings of outgoing President Bill Clinton, former National Security Advisor Sandy Berger, anti-Terror Chief Richard Clarke, and Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet, George W Bush ignores a report titled "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in the U.S." A month later, 3,000 innocent people are murdered. Two ways of looking at this one:

1.) Criminal Negligence, at best;

2.) Treason, most likely.


Gulf War II -- George W Bush, Sneer, and most of "the bureaucracy" make a case for going to war in Iraq, stating there are clear-cut connections between 9-11* and Saddam Hussein, who planned to use his arsenal of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons on America. (So far, the only bioweapon used on America was Anthrax that came from a US Army lab grown from a batch of the University of Iowa Strain.) Anwyay, it's not really odd to see how attacking Iraq was the Administration's number 1 priority, according to former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill and anti-Terror Chief Richard Clarke, from January 2001. The reason? There's money to be made there and power to be gained at home."(end of excerpt); * links added
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So much for a historical perspective; where do we currently stand? Well, our political, legal, governmental, military and medical systems as well as our unions have all been thoroughly compromised. Financially, since we are deeply in debt (mostly to Japan and China) "they" are selling off our corporate and country assets, our tax system and the Federal Reserve Banking system are beyond any controls, the demoralized and frightened middle class is being rapidly dissolved, our worldwide reputation is sullied more than at any time in our history and the value of the dollar continues to fall. Our infrastructure and environment are deteriorating while corporate and political corruption are rampant, bigotry and racism abound, our traditional news sources have become cheering profit centers for the administration and our voting processes are, at best, unreliable. Not the healthy picture of progress and hope that used to be the norm, prior to the sixties -- before someone started killing off the Kennedy brothers and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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This may sound like a broken record, but the next election is truly going to be critical to the survival of our democratic way of life -- and thus the world. Perhaps we should begin to think of these individuals that support this administration as bloated, self-absorbed and out-of-control addicts, in need of intervention. Now, in an intervention, the first thing that has to happen is that the addict must be subjected to the facts of reality until their wall of denial is first exposed and then accepted. The initial indication that that has occurred is when the addict admits that there is a problem and then becomes actively motivated to do something about it. It appears that the 2006 midterm elections demonstrated that a growing majority of Americans think things are broken and want a change. Now, is the time to educate and motivate our fellow citizens to seek out and regain their lost sense of morality.

Article in its entirety is at: http://www.sonic.net/~taryfast/destruction.html

The article is by Tarry Faster, and most appreciated. Thanks for taking the time to express your views complete with links to historical sources.

posted by Stealth Lesbian

BAE scandal and 9/11 truth coming to a crunch !!!!!

Will The BAe Scandal Be Gordon Browns Downfall?

[Editor's note: The petition for the removal of Nancy Pelosi, corruption par excellance, is at
http://www.petitiononline.com/everyman/petition.html
Let's end her reign of terror IMMEDIATELY. It is time for Dennis Kucinich to take over as House Speaker !! - Virginia]


Monday 19th May 2008

Just when Gordon Brown thought that things could not get any worse it looks as though the alleged British Aerospace (BAe) bribes scandal is set to grab the headlines again. In direct conflict to the UK stance on the situation, both Mike Turner, Chief Executive of BAe, and Nigel Rudd, a non-executive director, where detained for a short while after landing in the US last week. It seems that US authorities are set to serve more subpoenas on British Aerospace and a number of employees in connection with their ongoing investigation into the $84 billion Al Yamamah arms deal.

While the deal was signed in 1985, under a Conservative government, it appears that the current UK authorities are in possession of highly sensitive information which allegedly confirms unauthorised payments were made. A recent attempt to bring the deal before the courts was blocked by the UK government after pressure from the Saudi Arabian government who threatened sanctions against the UK.

It seems as though the US authorities are looking to get to the bottom of the situation and may well bring charges against US employees of the company, as well as senior management from the head office.


Growing U.S.-British Brawl: BAE Chairman Detained at Houston Airport
From Executive Intelligence Review

May 18 (EIRNS)—On Monday, May 12, Mike Turner, the CEO of BAE Systems, the British aerospace giant implicated in the "Al Yamamah" bribery and covert funding scandal, was detained by U.S. authorities as he arrived at Houston's George Bush International Airport. Turner and a second top BAE executive had their laptop computers, cell phones, and papers confiscated and copied by U.S. officials, before being released. They are targets of an ongoing U.S. Justice Department criminal probe into the reported $2 billion in bribes, given by BAE to former Saudi Ambassador to the United States, Prince Bandar bin-Sultan, as his kickback for the massive "Al Yamamah" oil-for-arms deal, that began in 1985 and continues to this day.

As Executive Intelligence Review exclusively reported last year, the "Al Yamamah" deal, an off-budget barter arrangement, created a $100 billion British MI6/Saudi intelligence offshore slush fund for covert operations, in addition to billions of dollars in bribes and kickbacks to Saudi officials and others involved in brokering the deal. Those slush funds have been used to finance wars in Africa and Asia for the past 23 years. U.S. intelligence sources report to EIR that there is evidence that those Anglo-Saudi BAE covert funds are being used, today, to finance the ongoing destabilization in the Horn of Africa—particularly targeting Sudan, the growing Wahabi insurgency in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and last week's failed civil war provocation in Lebanon, which began with Saad Hariri's return to Beirut from a two-month stay in Saudi Arabia.

The U.S. intelligence sources report that these covert destabilization actions have caused a growing Washington-London rift, despite the Bush-Cheney White House's continuing slavish collusion with the Anglo-Dutch oligarchy's global chaos operations. They report that patriotic American intelligence and military circles are furious at the British destabilization schemes, and are moving against BAE as a direct counter to London's war drive. The British press, itself, expressed concern that the detention of Turner and the other BAE executive reflected a deeper trans-Atlantic conflict. The Sunday Telegraph, a flagship publication of British right-wing imperial circles, reported on May 18, "The detention of the BAE executives... has raised serious concerns at high levels of the [British] Government about 'heavy-handed' treatment. The detention follows the case of the 'NatWest Three' British businessmen each sentenced to 37 months in prison in America this year, and threatens to harm U.S.-U.K. relations in the run-up to the Group of Eight summit of leading industrial nations in Japan in July." The Sunday Telegraph continued, "Senior British officials are also concerned about the timing of last week's incident. The Government has spent more than a year negotiating a defense trade treaty with the U.S. that would remove red tape and give Britain preferential treatment in securing defense contracts with the U.S. military. The deal, which still has to be approved by the Senate and is shortly to be the subject of a hearing, is not popular with some in President George W. Bush's administration."

The U.S. Justice Department investigation covers violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and possibly included violations of U.S. laws against money laundering. If the probe is extended to money laundering, it could touch on Prince Bandar and Saudi intelligence's links to the 9/11 hijackers. Prince Bandar and his wife provided an estimated $50-75,000 in "charitable" gifts to two Saudi intelligence officers, who shared those funds with two of the 9/11 hijackers. A 28-page section of the 9/11 Commission report that dealt with this incident was redacted from the published final report. A DOJ money-laundering probe of the BAE-Bandar kickbacks could extend to questions of how Bandar spent the money, and that could, according to one senior U.S. intelligence official interviewed by EIR, get directly at the 9/11 question. And that, the source concluded, would be a terrible problem for the Saudis. [js]

May 16, 2008

Explosive Whistle-Blower Revelation On The Remote Controlled Planes Which "Did" 911

The meme for this year is

EYES WIDE OPEN

and

SECRETS REVEALED

Below is a MAJOR MAJOR whistleblowing article!!


BULLETIN ITEM: Explosive Whistle-Blower Revelation On The Remote Controlled Planes Which "Did" 911

MWM: The mods were made in CIA facilities in Arizona.

A FORMER US NAVY DOUGLAS AIRCRAFT A-3 SKYWARRIOR was used against the PENTAGON on 9/11...this A-3 SKYWARRIOR,owned by RAYTHEON and used by Raytheon for AIRBORNE WEAPONS TESTING of AIR DELIVERED WEAPONS as manufactured by Raytheon,tested at bases such as CHINA LAKE NAVAL WEAPONS TEST CENTER...this A-3 was MODIFIED for REMOTE CONTROL (the Global Hawk Control System) at the FT COLLINS/LOVELAND AIRPORT at Ft Collins Colorado,the MOD CREW headed by a KNOWN CIA OPERATIVE,whose NAME I personally KNOW--he is a WORLD CLASS rebuilder of WW II classic aircraft--he lives in Ft Collins and I know his brother personally-- by having done work in his 2 million dollar home in Castle Pines CO...this individual has a USAF/CIA PILOT background going back to the CIA's "SECRET" AIR WAR over Laos and Cambodia starting in the early 60's and running throughout the Viet Nam War war till it's end in 1975....this CIA COVERT OPERATIVE HAS BEEN and VERY LIKELY STILL IS involved with people such as former USAF Maj Gen RICHARD SECORD,former US ARMY Maj Gen JACK SINGLAUB,former US MARINES Lt Col OLIVER NORTH,..these are people (there are several 100 of them) spoken about by L FLETCHER PROUTY--known as THE SECRET TEAM....this CIA operative is a long time ASSET of the CIA through the CIA front,EVERGREEN INTERNATIONAL AIRLINES,with the WORLD'S LARGEST aircraft modification center at PINAL AIRPARK..near Marana Arizona..this is a LONG TIME KNOWN COVERT OPS BASE for CIA/NSA/US MILITARY SPECOPS for more than 45 years...PINAL AIR PARK was operated by the CIA front,INTERMOUNTAIN AIR for many years until their cover was blown during IRAN/CONTRA. ..soon thereafter,PINAL was "offered" to only ONE "buyer"--EVERGREEN INTERNATIONAL AIRLINES...EVERGREEN AIR also SUPPLIED and MODIFIED 2 BOEING 737's for REMOTE CONTROL (again,the Global Hawk System) to be used against the WORLD TRADE CENTER towers..these two 737's were modified at PINAL and also at the Evergreen owned PACIFIC AIR MAINTENANCE( PAMCO) facility outside of PORTLAND OREGON...I have much MORE on this....for instance,WHY the Pentagon was attacked..it was NOT part of the ORIGINAL attack plan as envisioned.. .

Tim White,Viet Nam Vet(USAF)
Concerned Citizen,Researcher, Investigator, Whistleblower
from the NWO Capitol of the West-DENVER
now a refugee from BUSHitler's 4th REICH
Vancouver,British Columbia

May 14, 2008

Torture Policies Undermine 9/11 Case


(Consortium News)

By Jason Leopold

May 15, 2008

The Pentagon’s decision to drop war-crimes charges against Mohammed al-Qahtani, the alleged “20th hijacker” in the 9/11 attacks, again underscores the consequences of the Bush administration’s descent into torture and other abusive treatment of “war on terror” detainees.



If al-Qahtani’s case had gone forward, the U.S. government would have been forced to reveal its own violations of the Geneva Convention, anti-torture statutes and the laws of war, according to lawyers representing al-Qahtani.

“All of the [incriminating] statements Mohammad al-Qahtani made or is alleged to have made were the result of torture or made under the threat of torture and that is in my view why the government decided to dismiss his case at this point,” said Vince Warren, executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) in New York.

CCR has been representing Mohammed al-Qahtani since 2005 and has led the legal battle for the human rights of detainees incarcerated at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for the last six years.

The harsh treatment of al-Qahtani was catalogued in an 84-page log of his interrogation that was leaked in 2006. The so-called “torture log” shows that beginning in November 2002 and continuing well into January 2003, al-Qahtani was subjected to sleep deprivation, interrogated in 20-hour stretches, poked with IV’s, and left to urinate on himself.

On Dec. 11, 2002, interrogators began to apply what they called the “pride and ego down approach,” subjecting him to religious and sexual humiliation, making him bark like a dog, and calling him “a pig” as he was made to pick up piles of trash with his hands cuffed.

According to one entry for Dec. 13, 2002, the interrogators sought to “escalate the detainee’s emotions.”

“A mask was made from an MRE [meals ready to eat] box with a smiley face on it and placed on the detainee’s head for a few moments. A latex glove was inflated and labeled the ‘sissy slap’ glove. This glove was touched to the detainee’s face periodically after explaining the terminology to him.

“The mask was placed back on the detainee’s head. While wearing the mask, the team began dance instruction with the detainee. The detainee became agitated and began shouting. The mask was removed and detainee was allowed to sit. Detainee shouted and addressed lead [interrogator] as ‘the oldest Christian here’ and wanted to know why lead allowed the detainee to be treated this way.”

The log contains numerous entries describing al-Qahtani’s reaction to the interrogations, as he cried, shook, moaned, yelled, prayed, cried out for Allah, trembled uncontrollably and asserted his innocence.

Psychological Trauma

According to a report by CCR attorneys, “on one occasion described in the interrogation log, Mr. al-Qahtani was rushed to a military base hospital when his heart rate fell dangerously low during a period of extreme sleep deprivation, physical stress and psychological trauma.

“The military flew in a radiologist from the U.S. Naval Station in Puerto Rico to evaluate the computed tomography (‘CT’ or ‘CAT’) scan. After being permitted to sleep a full night, medical personnel cleared Mr. al-Qahtani for further interrogation the next day. During his transportation from the hospital, Mr. al-Qahtani was interrogated in the ambulance.”

Legal experts, who have followed the al-Qahtani case since his capture in December 2001, say a core problem for the Pentagon was that the evidence against al-Qahtani was derived substantially from admissions that he made while under harsh interrogation.

There was also circumstantial evidence related to al-Qahtani’s attempt to enter the United States before the 9/11 attacks. An immigration official turned him back and U.S. government officials claim that action forced the 9/11 hijackers to proceed with only 19 participants.

Last February, the Pentagon announced its intention to pursue the death penalty against al-Qahtani and five other men for their alleged involvement in the 9/11 attacks.

But on May 9, the Pentagon dismissed the case against al-Qahtani without explanation – and without prejudice, meaning that the charges could be reinstated at a later date. Though the charges were dropped, he will remain detained indefinitely at Guantanamo.

Al-Qahtani is believed to be one of the first detainees subjected to harsh questioning after the Justice Department issued a legal opinion in August 2002 permitting U.S. government interrogators to sidestep the Geneva Convention and use cruel and humiliating techniques, from forced nudity to stress positions to waterboarding, to extract information.

The Geneva Convention bars abusive or demeaning treatment of captives. However, John Yoo, then a senior lawyer in the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, concluded that the Geneva Convention did not apply to alleged members of al-Qaeda.

As reported previously, specific interrogation methods used against al-Qahtani were approved by former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in a December 2002 action memorandum.

Months of Torture

Gitanjali S. Gutierrez, an attorney with CCR and the lead attorney defending al-Qahtani, said in a sworn declaration that his client, imprisoned at Guantanamo, was subjected to months of torture based on verbal and written authorizations from Rumsfeld.

“Mr. al-Qahtani was subjected to a regime of aggressive interrogation techniques, known as the ‘First Special Interrogation Plan,’" Gutierrez said. “Those techniques were implemented under the supervision and guidance of Secretary Rumsfeld and the commander of Guantánamo, Major General Geoffrey Miller.

"These methods included, but were not limited to, 48 days of severe sleep deprivation and 20-hour interrogations, forced nudity, sexual humiliation, religious humiliation, physical force, prolonged stress positions and prolonged sensory over-stimulation, and threats with military dogs.”

Gutierrez’s claims about the type of interrogation al-Qahtani endured have since been borne out by the release of hundreds of pages of internal Pentagon documents, which described interrogation methods at Guantanamo, as well as by the findings of two independent reports on prisoner abuse.

Rumsfeld’s action memo was criticized by Alberto Mora, the former general counsel of the Navy.

“The interrogation techniques approved by the Secretary [of Defense] should not have been authorized because some (but not all) of them, whether applied singly or in combination, could produce effects reaching the level of torture, a degree of mistreatment not otherwise proscribed by the memo because it did not articulate any bright-line standard for prohibited detainee treatment, a necessary element in any such document,” Mora wrote in a 14-page letter to the Navy’s inspector general.

Additionally, a Dec. 20, 2005, Army Inspector General Report relating to the capture and interrogation of al-Qahtani included a sworn statement by Lt. Gen. Randall M. Schmidt, who said Secretary Rumsfeld was “personally involved” in the interrogation of al-Qahtani and spoke “weekly” with Maj. Gen. Miller about the status of the interrogations between late 2002 and early 2003.

Last February, the Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) confirmed that it had launched a formal investigation to determine, among other issues, whether department attorneys provided the White House with poor legal advice when it said interrogators could use harsh interrogation methods against detainees.

CCR’s Warren said a trial of al-Qahtani would have forced the government to disclose how it obtained information from the defendant about alleged terrorist plans and the inner workings of al-Qaeda.

“We were pursuing the case that the government got evidence through torture,” Warren said. “The government would have to talk about how the information was obtained. That would never be able to survive in court because the torture log is clear that Mr. al-Qahtani provided information because he was being tortured.”

Warren said he wants the Pentagon to release al-Qahtani and have him sent to Saudi Arabia “where they have a system in place to maintain custody of any former Guantanamo detainee who presents a danger, as well as a strong rehabilitation program supervising those that are released.”

“It’s unlikely he would face torture or abuse on the magnitude Mr. al-Qahtani faced at Gitmo,” Warren said.

Jason Leopold has launched a new Web site, The Public Record, at www.pubrecord.org


U.S. Drops Charges Against ‘20th Hijacker’



U.S. Drops Charges Against ‘20th Hijacker’

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Day to Day, May 13, 2008 ? The Pentagon announced today that charges have been dropped against a detainee at Guantanamo Bay who allegedly intended to participate in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Five other accused 9/11 plotters are now on their way to trial at Guantanamo.

The Pentagon says Mohammed al-Qahtani, who is from Saudi Arabia, was supposed to be the 20th hijacker on 9/11.

The official in charge of overseeing Guantanamo’s war court did not say why she rejected the charges against Qahtani. But the government reserved the right to charge him again in the future.

Back in February, military prosecutors recommended charges of murder and conspiracy against six men, including Qahtani. Now the Pentagon has referred charges against the other five for trial. Those trials are supposed to start at Guantanamo within four months.

The defendants include Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, known as KSM. He admitted to planning the attacks.

But defense lawyers will argue that KSM’s confession cannot be used as evidence; they say he was tortured into confessing.

The CIA says that its coercive tactics stop just short of torture. U.S. officials have said Qahtani was subjected to harsh treatment, which was authorized by former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld.

From NPR reports and The Associated Press.

U.S. drops charges against ‘20th hijacker’

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The Associated Press Tuesday, May 13, 2008 SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico: The Pentagon has dropped charges against a Saudi at Guant?namo who was alleged to have been “the 20th hijacker” in the Sept. 11 attacks, his U. S. military defense lawyer said. Mohammed al-Qahtani was one of six men charged by the military in February with murder [...]

Executive Intelligence Review: The Crude Game British Geopolitics and the Dollar

Executive Intelligence Review

This article appears in the May 17, 2008 issue of Executive Intelligence Review.
Below is a Nice Try Effort.

Problem: with the use of Nuclear Power, the indigenous still stand to be exploited and turned into glow worms. The rivers remain polluted, the air continues to be filled with filth and the plants mutate ..

Okay, seems like I am being too simplistic to you, but if you step back and look at the globe as a living entity and try to figure out what needs to be done to HEAL this place, I am afraid that looking at the answer from the Lyndon LaRouche point of view hardly works.

With the neocons still firmly in control, a few people holding down a bridge in Brooklyn because they are pissed off at police brutality have MORE to offer the world than a gang of LaRouche activists ! The bridge takers have the balls to say "NO!" and to say "stop the madness!"

The LaRouche people will be sitting by the side of the road saying "attend our seminar" while the activists are lining up in droves these days to try to encourage SOLUTIONS that aren't toxic, trying to move things into a Good, Orderly Direction.

There is NOTHING remotely sane about nuclear energy - not long term.

I find it interesting that writing these types of essays will net you a right amount of money in the MSM and internet circus, but Plain Old Common Sense is really too much to expect.

You cannot feed the planet MORE TOXINS. Three Mile Island was not a "nonevent" and neither was Chernobyl. The last was in fact a form of horrible devastation whose effects (along with the uses of du) will take decades to cure.

A kind heart would be more interested in helping the du and nuclear accident victims than in promoting a global scenario more interested proliferating MORE excuses for insanity while the rich have dominion over the resources and means to exchange the credit of the world.

So 9/11 was an inside job. no surprises there! But as long as no one wants to look at the problem of power and energy in a reasonable way, the "cults" of Lyndon LaRouche and Ron Paul will continue to florish, and that way lies further INSANITY.

The planet itself stands at a crossroads: do we go with positive steps forward or just continue the same old, same old and expect a different result? The cost of the neocon wars is so STAGGERING that soon there will be a re-evaluation on a mass consciousness level. The LaRouche approach will be shown to be just another major blunder eventually. Nuclear power is just another form of psychopathology no matter who is expousing it.

The Crude Game
British Geopolitics and the Dollar

by John Hoefle

Last week, we discussed how the control of the global oil market by the British Empire is a key weapon in its assault on the nation-state system, and in particular the United States, and this week we will continue on that subject.

To recap briefly, the oil market is controlled not by OPEC, but by the British Empire through its dominance over the giant oil companies which make up the international oil cartel. These companies, which control the transportation, processing, and distribution of petroleum products, control the physical side of the oil business, while the price is set through the financial markets. This arrangement allows the price to move independently of supply and demand, and has been of great benefit to the financiers who control the Anglo-Dutch Liberal system.

Prior to the establishment of this market system, crude oil prices were set primarily by long-term contracts between oil producers and the oil companies, an arrangement which provided stable oil prices over long periods. Such stability is essential to the development of an industrial economy; and thus, destroying that stability was a crucial part of the oligarchy's assault on the nation-state.
Assault on the Nation-State

The precondition for this assault was the destruction of the Bretton Woods system of fixed currency rates established by President Franklin Roosevelt in 1944, at a conference at the Mount Washington Hotel, in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. The fixed-currency-rate system, a necessary part of FDR's plan to rebuild the world after World War II, and to free the planet from colonialism, was destroyed by President Richard Nixon in August 1971, when he took the dollar off the gold-reserve standard. Shortly thereafter, Britain—the intellectual author of the Nixon move—allowed its pound sterling to float, too. Without the fixed rates, currency rates were allowed to "float," which opened the door for the oligarchy, with its vast financial resources, to target and manipulate currencies.

The second phase of the assault consisted of the oil hoaxes of 1973-74 and 1979, through which the spot market in oil was built. The spot market was a mechanism through which oil could be bought and sold at whatever price the market would bear. It began with the boycott that Arab oil producers placed on nations dealing with Israel during the Yom Kippur War of October 1973; the primary targets were the U.S.A. and the Netherlands, and it was in Rotterdam that the spot market was born. Nominally, the spot market was formed as a way to provide oil to boycotted nations, but the boycott itself was an Anglo-Dutch operation designed to create the conditions under which the spot market could be sold to a credulous world.

The oil hoax of 1973-74, combined with the sharp rise in oil prices it effected, dealt a serious shock to the U.S. economy; that shock was then used to push the idea that the United States was "over-consuming" energy and that we must cut back. The government implemented a host of conservation measures, including price controls, odd-day even-day gasoline purchase restrictions, and the 55-mph national speed limit, all part of a British-authored social engineering plan, targetting the industrial capacity of the U.S. economy, and brainwashing the population.

This process escalated with the oil hoax of 1979, triggered by (guess who!)the British-orchestrated plot in which the Shah of Iran was overthrown and replaced with the fundamentalist Ayatollah Khomeini. President Jimmy Carter appeared in his sweater to urge Americans to conserve, and installed a wood-burning stove in the White House. More importantly, he pushed deregulation, furthering the control over oil by the oil cartel.

Throughout both oil crises, we were repeatedly told that the nation must wean itself from its dependence upon foreign oil—but it was sophistry. The real solution to the "energy crisis" was nuclear power, but that was effectively suppressed by another hoax, the 1979 Three Mile Island non-event.

With the only real solution blocked, the nation became more dependent upon the oil cartel than ever. At the same time, thanks to the combined effects of "conservation" measures, high prices, and orchestrated shortages, the U.S. industrial base was shrinking, and being replaced by the post-industrial Information Age nonsense.
World Domination

The story so far is a disaster, one of the British Empire, with the knowing complicity of Anglophilic American oligarchic wannabes and other fools, selling out the nation and the world to rapacious oligarchs and their raw materials cartel. But, it gets worse.

The move to jack up oil prices and suppress the standard of living through "conservation" was only Phase One of a much more pernicious operation. The spot market raised lots of money, and that money quickly began to pile up in the banks of Europe, particularly, in the City of London. Some of this money belonged to the oil producers, or, rather, to the royal families in places like Saudi Arabia, but an increasing portion of it belonged to the speculators who played the spot market. Over time, the spot market expanded into the financial exchanges, which provided the trading facilities for even greater speculation and manipulation.

As this pile of "petrodollars" grew, the British used it to fund operations to transform the United States from within, including the takeover of the U.S. banking system and the cartelization—under the euphemism of mergers and acquisitions—of corporate America. Wall Street was transformed into a giant casino, where betting on financial instruments replaced investing, and the connection to reality was severed. At the same time, the petrodollars helped fund cultural warfare operations against the American people, to keep them blind to the damage being done, or even conning them into believing it was progress.

The effect of this assault is now becoming obvious. The financial bubble has popped, and the great financial engine that was supposed to replace industry as the economic engine of the future has been shown to be as substantial as the emperor's new clothes. We are now left with a bankrupt banking system sitting atop a rusted hulk of an economy, dependent upon the "world company" cartels for many of the necessities of life.
The BAE Factor

There is an even darker side to the British Empire's oil operations, as indicated by the scandal around BAE Systems, the British weapons firm. Under the secret Al-Yamamah oil-for-weapons agreement between the British and Saudi governments, BAE provided weapons to the Saudis which were paid for by oil, and included billions of dollars of bribes and illegal payoffs. Investigations into the BAE scheme indicate that hidden slush funds were used not only to pay kickbacks on arms deals, but that funds were also conduited into "black ops"—secret intelligence operations—to run coups and terrorist cells, of the sort typified by the inside job that was 9/11.

The rise of the military-industrial complex inside the United States since World War II—which President Dwight Eisenhower presciently warned us about in 1961—is another result of this shift away from traditional American values toward the imperial perspective. Empires are militaristic in nature, because they depend upon suppression and looting for their survival, and this mindset has taken hold in Washington, particularly under the neocon fascism of Dick Cheney and George W. Bush, who seem to see terrorist threats anywhere there are large pools of oil. Their British controllers must laugh at how easy it is to manipulate such fools.
Shut It Down

For humanity to survive, the use of oil as a control measure must be stopped. There are several steps that could be taken, all of which involve governments standing up on their hind legs, and taking on the British Empire and the oligarchic slime-mold behind it.

The first step is to shut down the parasitical system by putting the international financial system through bankruptcy, thereby breaking the power of the Anglo-Dutch Liberal system to manipulate and corrupt the world. As an included feature of this, the spot market would be closed, and the world could go back to long-term contracts for oil under a new Bretton Woods arrangement of fixed currency rates, to protect both producers and consumers from fluctuations, and to facilitate global development projects. This would get the financial system under control, a necessary prerequisite for solving the economic problems.

The next step would be a crash program for the development and implementation of nuclear technologies, with the goal of switching the economy to the consumption of hydrogen as a fuel, leaving petroleum to be used mainly for chemical feedstocks. The combination of nuclear fusion and hydrogen power would effectively end the ability of the oligarchy to use energy as a control mechanism, and would open the door to a new era of technological breakthroughs to increase the productive power of human labor and raise the standard of living throughout the globe.

All that is holding us back is our own fear, fear of letting go of a bubble which no longer exists, and fear of letting go of failed beliefs, and embracing a new future. As FDR said, we have nothing to fear but fear itself. Once we get past that, the future is bright.

May 08, 2008

Some Al Qaeda CIA free rides are about UP .. or ..

Al Qaeda Leader In Iraq Arrested

The leader of al Qaeda's wing in Iraq has been arrested, according to a TV report quoting the Iraqi Defence Ministry.

Arrest followed joint US-Iraqi operation
Arrest followed joint US-Iraqi operation

Abu Hamza al Muhajir, was arrested in Iraq, the Arabic television station al Arabiya reported.

It said he had been detained in a joint Iraqi-US operation in Mosul in the north of the country.

Al Qaeda in Iraq was headed by the Jordanian militant Abu Musab al Zarqawi until he was killed in a US air strike in June, 2006.

His successor, Muhajir, an Egyptian also known as Abu Ayyab al-Masri, was Zarqawi's close associate, and has a US bounty of $5m on his head.

In October 2006, the al Qaeda-led Mujahideen Shura Council said it had set up the Islamic State of Iraq, an umbrella group of Sunni militant affiliates and tribal leaders led by Abu Omar al Baghdadi.

In April, 2007, it named a 10-man "cabinet", including Muhajir as its war minister.

Iraq's Interior Ministry said last May that Masri had been killed, but soon afterwards al Qaeda released an audio tape purportedly from him.

In an hour-long audio tape issued last month, Muhajir called for renewed attacks on American troops.

He urged militants from the Sunni Islamist group to "celebrate" the recent announcement that the number of US troops killed in Iraq had passed 4,000.

"We must celebrate this event in our special way, and make the defeated Bush join us in this celebration," he said.

He called on al Qaeda fighters to provide "a head of an American as a present to the trickster Bush" in a month-long campaign that he called the "Attack of Righteousness".

Al Qaeda in Iraq shares a name and ideology if not organisational ties with Osama bin Laden's network, which was blamed for the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington.



BACKGROUND BELOW!!

Senior Al Qaeda Member Arrested

Saturday, November 16, 2002

WASHINGTON — A "senior Al Qaeda member" has been arrested and is being held in an undisclosed country, U.S. officials told Fox News on Friday.

The officials did not reveal any details of the circumstances surrounding the arrest, including when it occurred or where the suspect was being held. But sources did confirm that a senior Al Qaeda leader is "in U.S. hands."

Sources said the suspect was neither Usama bin Laden nor his number two man, Ayman Al-Zawahiri, but is one of the "top handful of Al Qaeda leaders."

"Someone who knows Al Qaeda would know his name," one official said. "This is a big deal."

Sources told Fox News authorities were trying to get the Al Qaeda leader out of the country where he was arrested.

The description was deliberately vague because this is an "ongoing operation," sources told Fox News.

Officials called the arrest of this "big fish" a significant intelligence victory, comparable to the capture of Al Qaeda chief of operations Abu Zubaydah, who has reportedly provided a wealth of information about the terror network since being taken into custody.

Zubaydah, who was captured in March, remains held in an undisclosed location, as are several lesser-known Al Qaeda figures.

The loss of some of bin Laden's top lieutenants has contributed to the decentralization of the terror threat, officials have said. Mohammed Atef, bin Laden's top military commander, was killed by a U.S. military and CIA airstrike last year.

Other leaders, like Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, another operational planner whom officials believe masterminded the Sept. 11 attacks, continue to plot terrorist strikes, U.S. counterterrorism officials said.

Of these surviving card-carrying Al Qaeda operatives, many have gone to Pakistan. Some are in the cities, including the operatives who worked with American Jose Padilla in Lahore and Karachi before his capture in Chicago.

Others are believed to be in the remote tribal belt of Pakistan near the border with Afghanistan.

News of the latest arrest came just three days after the Al-Jazeera television network broadcast an audiotape believed to have been made by bin Laden, in which he warned U.S. allies to back away from plans to attack Iraq.

The last certain evidence bin Laden or any other top Al Qaeda leader was alive came in a videotape of him having dinner with some of his deputies, which is believed to have been filmed on Nov. 9, 2001.

News of the arrest also came just hours after the FBI issued warnings of Al Qaeda plans for a "spectacular" attack intended to disrupt the American economy and cause mass casualties. The bulletin did not say where, when or how such an attack might occur.

"Some suggest Al Qaeda may favor spectacular attacks that meet several criteria: high symbolic value, mass casualties, severe damage to the U.S. economy and maximum psychological trauma," says the alert, posted on the FBI's Web site early Friday.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Al-Qaeda in Iraq's Leader Is Arrested in Mosul, AP Reports May 8 ...
Al-Qaeda in Iraq's Leader Is Arrested in Mosul, AP Reports May 8 (Bloomberg) --
The leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, has been arrested, the ...
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Al-Qaeda Leaders Killed in Iraq, US Military Says (Update2) Dec. 5 ... ... Abu Maysara, an aide of al-Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Ayyub al-Masri, was among
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