tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-92160298030372097082024-02-20T02:15:20.229-08:00FORWARD IN REVERSE: THE PROGRESSIVE LIBERTARIAN1. First we go back. Restore the Constitution and the Republic, reduce the size and scope of the corporate-fascist state.
2. Then we go forward. Expand the size and scope of our personal responsibilities.
3. Libertarian social structures (i.e. anarcho-syndicalist work forces) must be mobilized. A new integral consciousness must emerge to cope with our global pluralistic needs. Art as action, never for it's own sake. Tools not only to reform the world, but also the human spirit.Bon Oxfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01737069723970494870noreply@blogger.comBlogger196125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216029803037209708.post-11066596216939351662007-08-02T04:23:00.001-07:002007-08-02T04:23:53.304-07:00BRIAN DOHERTY: "RADICALS FOR CAPITALISM"<object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/hiFDYqFzGVA"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/hiFDYqFzGVA" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>Bon Oxfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01737069723970494870noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216029803037209708.post-30195213551307290222007-08-02T03:42:00.000-07:002007-08-02T03:43:07.582-07:00MOTHER NATURE IS ONE TOUGH BITCH<p class="blogSubject">Mother Nature is One Tough Bitch <br />Category: <a href="http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.viewCategory&FriendID=194780914&BlogCategoryID=17">News and Politics</a> </p> <p align="center"><img src="http://www.edogawa-u.ac.jp/%7Erobert/nature-mothernature.jpg" height="335" width="373" /></p> <p align="justify"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hello Freedomphiles! So, I was reading <em>The Middle East Times</em> (doesn't everyone read that periodical?), and I came across an <strong><a href="http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20070801-050407-3420r" target="_self">interesting bit</a> </strong>of information:</span></p> <blockquote dir="ltr" style="margin-right: 0px;"> <p align="justify"><span id="intelliTXT"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#ff0000;"><strong>Israeli scientists have discovered that oil spill cleanup agents are significantly more toxic to coral than to the oil that they are used to disperse.<br /><br />In a setback for efforts to protect endangered coral reefs from oil spills, Baruch Rinkevich, Shai Shafir, and colleagues at the Israeli Oceanographic and Limnological Research Institute discovered that oil dispersants - the best tool for treating oil spills in tropical areas - are endangering coral reefs and associated </strong></span><a class="iAs" style="border-bottom: 0.07em solid darkgreen; font-weight: normal; font-size: 100%; padding-bottom: 1px; color: darkgreen; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline;" href="http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20070801-050407-3420r" target="_blank" itxtdid="3615969"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#ff0000;"><strong>ecosystems</strong></span></a><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#ff0000;"><strong>.<br /><br />The researchers evaluated effects of both </strong></span><a class="iAs" style="border-bottom: 0.07em solid darkgreen; font-weight: normal; font-size: 100%; padding-bottom: 1px; color: darkgreen; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline;" href="http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20070801-050407-3420r" target="_blank" itxtdid="3591167"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#ff0000;"><strong>crude oil</strong></span></a><span style="color:#ff0000;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong> and six commercial oil dispersants under laboratory conditions on the growth and survival of two important species of reef corals. They determined that the dispersants caused significant harm - including rapid, widespread death, and delay in growth rates - to the coral colonies tested, even at doses recommended by the dispersants' manufacturers.</strong> </span></span></span></p></blockquote> <p align="justify"><span><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This doesn't surprise me. I recall when reading Bjorn Lomborg's book, <em>The Skeptical Environmentalist</em>, coming accross a similar account on pages 193 and 194:</span></span></p> <blockquote dir="ltr" style="margin-right: 0px;"> <p align="justify"><span><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color:#ff0000;">Perhaps more surprising, official NOAA investigations have shown that the original cleanup has probably done more harm than good... pressure washing the coast... killed most of the marine life. By way of experiment, some stretches of beach were left uncleaned, and it transpired that life there returned after just after 18 months, whereas it did not do so to the cleaned beaches for three to four years... As <i>Scientific American</i> wrote, </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: red; font-family: Tahoma;">"the public wants the animals saved - at $80,000 per otter and $10,000 per eagle - even if the stress of their salvation kills them."</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Tahoma;"> <span style="color:#ff0000;">The conclusion is that although the immediate biological loss in Alaska was </span></span><span style="color:#ff0000;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color:#ff0000;">[regrettably]</span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Tahoma;"> <span style="color:#ff0000;">high, it was roughly the equivalent of one day of plate glass death to birds </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color:#ff0000;">[from flying accidentally into the sides of modern skyscrapers]</span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Tahoma;"> <span style="color:#ff0000;">in the US or two days of domestic cat kill in Britain. Another thought provoking comparison is that the overall pollution</span> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color:#ff0000;">[caused by the Valdez spill]</span></span></strong></span><span style="color:#ff0000;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Tahoma;"><strong> <span style="color:#ff0000;">was less than 2 percent of the of pollution caused by powerboats in the US every year.</span></strong><span style="color:#ff0000;"> </span></span></span></span></span></p></blockquote> <p align="justify"><span><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mother Nature is a tough old bitch, and our relationship to her is often one full of hubris. As luminary philosophers Blue Oyster Cult told us: <em>History shows again and again how nature points out the folly of man.</em></span></span></span></span></p>Bon Oxfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01737069723970494870noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216029803037209708.post-68996874883835066122007-08-01T17:38:00.001-07:002007-08-01T17:38:37.252-07:00THE REAL ROOM 101 (Orwell, Big Brother)<h2>George Orwell - The Real Room 101 Part 1 (video; links)</h2> <span class="jump"><a href="http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2007/07/31/george-orwell-the-real-room-101-part-1-video-links/#comments">Jump to Comments</a></span> <p><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com//" target="_self">Dandelion Salad</a></span></p> <blockquote><p><span style="display: inline;">Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 — 21 January 1950), better known by the pen name George Orwell, was an English author and journalist. Noted as a novelist, critic, political and cultural commentator, Orwell is among the most widely admired English-language essayists of the 20th century. He is best known for two novels critical of totalitarianism in general, and Stalinism in particular: Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. Both were written and published towards the end of his life.</span></p> <p>SOURCE: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Orwell" target="_blank" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Orwell" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_O…</a></p></blockquote> <p><span style="text-align: center; display: block;"><object height="350" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/HcMDDYOxxe0"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/HcMDDYOxxe0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"></embed></object></span></p> <p align="center">Parts 2-4:</p> <p><span style="font-size:85%;"> </span></p> <p align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvYQmu1gT7Y">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvYQmu1gT7Y</a></span></p> <p align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MLzRhqQ-c8">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MLzRhqQ-c8</a></span></p> <p align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXGMEYtpyr0">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXGMEYtpyr0</a></span></p>Bon Oxfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01737069723970494870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216029803037209708.post-61579116550823414882007-08-01T17:31:00.000-07:002007-08-01T17:33:35.580-07:00THE FACADE OF U.S. ALTRUISM AND THOSE THAT BUY INTO IT<h2>Era of the Bourgeois Romantic: The façade of US Altruism, the biotech industry & those that buy into it By Jessica Long</h2> <span class="jump"><a href="http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2007/08/01/era-of-the-bourgeois-romantic-the-facade-of-us-altruism-the-biotech-industry-those-that-buy-into-it-by-jessica-long/#comments"></a></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com//" target="_self">Dandelion Salad</a></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18107.htm" target="_self">By Jessica Long</a><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">08/01/07 “</span><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/"><strong>ICH</strong></a></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">“<br /></span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Those in favor of globalization please raise your hands! Does this include you? If it does there is good reason to believe that you are indeed a bourgeois romantic. What is a bourgeois romantic and why should you care? In the era of globalization, bourgeois romantics serve as the propellants of international corruption while operating under an altruistic façade. The ingenuity of the bourgeois romantic paradigm is that the individual is often unaware that he/she falls into the category at all. As of late, bourgeois romanticism has evolved as a social trend. Hollywood stars, politicians, NGO workers and civilians of all sorts propagate the system fully unaware of its adversary effects. Its popularity stems from its appeasement of both liberal “hippie” movements and corporate/political interests. Liberals and Conservatives are both subject to its seduction. So what truly defines a bourgeois romantic? And what are the tell-tale signs that you might be one? Let us take a look at the definition a little more thoroughly. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> Bourgeois romantics are neo liberals who emphasize free market methods in lieu of a better global civil society. They envisage a global market composed of different ethnicities and cultures in which all will be able to trade and share resources in a mutually beneficial manner. They are the CEOs who give a portion of their profit to Southern aid programs. They are the corporate industrialists who argue modernity and technology will enhance Southern economies. They are even the so-called “humanitarians” that coerce third world markets into the global market arena promising to ameliorate mass poverty. They are everywhere. They exist in all forms, colors, professions, religions and political spheres. In short, a bourgeois romantic is a hypocritical capitalist: one whose intentions are socialist but whose priorities are capitalist. They are the “good intentioned” proponents of free trade. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> What they refuse to acknowledge is that <em>free </em>trade is anything but free. Although it allows the global North free market range, it leaves the global South in shackles. Free trade is a modern euphemism for unrestricted global capitalism. We call it <em>free trade </em>when national and corporate interests unite to increase their profit margin while simultaneously manipulating international trade pacts. We call it <em>free trade</em> when established institutions like the IMF or World Bank, whose sole purpose is to aid the poorest of nations, operate under the biases of wealthy nations. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> However, it is not just the WTO, IMF and World Bank that attempt to blur the line between corporate and humanitarian interests. The biotech industry is one of massive concern for the global community and definitely worth taking a look at. However, </span> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman; color: black;"> it is not surprising that very little dialogue regarding the issue exists within the U.S.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman; color: black;"> This is largely due to the fact that humanitarian efforts are being used to shield the ploy of corporate profits.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman; color: black;"> Corporations view the global South as an </span> <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">“</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman; color: black;">untapped</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">”</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman; color: black;"> market, whose dependency on foreign aid makes them convenient need-based consumers.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman; color: black;"> Many aid and development programs, under the guise of federal governance, are largely aligned with corporate initiatives.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman; color: black;"> Monsanto, the world</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">’</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman; color: black;">s leading chemical company, invests millions each year by creating GM foods resistant to their best-selling weed killer, Round-Up </span> <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">®</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman; color: black;">.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman; color: black;"> The super objective of Monsanto would be to make pesticides commonplace among agricultural production and consequently maximize their product sales. The problem now is that Monsanto has found a market in hunger and starvation.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman; color: black;"> In attempts to play off the humanitarian sympathies of other nations and individuals, Monsanto launched an aggressive publicity campaign (1998) in Europe featuring the slogan, </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">“</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman; color: black;">Let the Harvest Begin.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">” </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman; color: black;"> This campaign promoted the research and utilization of GM foods to feed the famished nations of Africa.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman; color: black;"> The response by the global South was one of outrage!</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 40pt;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Why? After all, from a bourgeois romantic’s perspective: food is food! Especially for the starving and impoverished peoples of Africa! Ah, but a closer look at the true effect that these multi-national corporate interests have on developing economies explains the severe resistance to GM crops. </span> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman; color: black;"> The Institute for Food and Development Policy (IFDP) addresses three destabilizing factors that posit GM foods as a threat to the global South.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman; color: black;"> These include 1) corporate welfare schemes, 2) the denial to the right of information, and 3) an inappropriate response to hunger. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 40pt;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman; color: black;"> Corporate welfare schemes are funds established to assist the poor, but in turn, serve the pockets of the corporate multinationals. The IFDP asserts that </span> <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">“</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman; color: black;">taxpayer dollars are being used to turn countries in the South into alternative markets for GE products, particularly through foreign assistance programs.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">”</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman; color: black;"> While USAID and the World Food Program continue to bask in the facade of altruism; they vehemently oppose the labeling of GM crops. In 2004, excessive US trade sanctions cost Thailand $8.7 billion US dollars- forcing them to begin the integration of unmarked GM crops. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 40pt;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman; color: black;"> The mass quantities of shipped food are not labeled </span> <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">“</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman; color: black;">organic</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">”</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman; color: black;"> or </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">“</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman; color: black;">genetically engineered</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">” </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman; color: black;">making it difficult for farmers and sustainable communities to survive. The patent rights of GM crops promote a dependent domestic economy. If a farmer attempts to plant GM seeds without consent, s/he is essentially violating the patent rights on Monsanto</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">’</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman; color: black;">s GM seeds.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman; color: black;"> In some cases, GM seeds have blown over into independent farms and put farmers at legal liability to compensate the corporate patent-holders. Not only is this a legal and economic stress, but it contaminates organic farming methods. Therefore, patent rights are viewed as an adversary to sustainable progress and economic stability in developing countries.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman; color: black;">This theory relies on two very false premises: that hunger is caused by insufficient food and that potential health benefits of GMOs outweigh that of their risk. However, research shows that the world pumps out more food per person than ever in history. It is definitely not an issue of food shortage. Thus, the problem is not the production of food, but the ability for the impoverished to <em>access</em> it. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 40pt;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman; color: black;"> Development programs continue to exploit the famished and impoverished countries of developing countries by coercing them to perform actions against their will: the acceptance of </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">“</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman; color: black;">aid</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">”</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman; color: black;"> that counteracts the sustainable development process.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman; color: black;"> Once GM food crosses the borders, developing countries will be unable to escape the financial power of corporate imperialism on their agricultural economy.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman; color: black;"> Africa, is one example, in which a collective group of developing nations stand united in its opposition to the biotech industry and its exploitation of struggling nations.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman; color: black;">Catherine Bernini, Executive Director of the WFP exemplified the capitalist ideal when she said, </span> <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">“</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman; color: black;">Food is power.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman; color: black;"> We use it to change behavior.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman; color: black;"> Some may call that bribery. We do not apologize.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">”</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman; color: black;"> Meanwhile, the rest of us sit at home- complacent with the idea that our tax dollars are doing what we cannot- assisting those that really truly need it.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 40pt;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman; color: black;"> The fact is there are two casualties in this </span> <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">“</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman; color: black;">foreign aid</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">”</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman; color: black;"> fa</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">ç</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman; color: black;">ade: one being the exploited economies of developing nations and the other being us, the citizenry. However, we are only casualties in our convictions- equally exploited to serve, in turn, as the advocates of such misleading </span> <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">“</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman; color: black;">foreign aid</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">”</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman; color: black;"> and </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">“</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman; color: black;">assistance</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">”</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman; color: black;"> programs. How do we escape such false convictions? The American people, complacent in their isolationist views of the world, rest assured that their government (one of the people, by the people and for the people</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">…</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman; color: black;">or so they say) is taking care of the </span> <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">“</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman; color: black;">bigger</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">”</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman; color: black;"> issues at hand. It is far past the time to re-educate ourselves. Not on just the issues pertaining to our own government and the big issues of war and conflict- but even in our international role as </span> <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">“</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman; color: black;">humanitarians.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">”</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman; color: black;"> </span> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> Foreign “aid” programs are no more than misleading titles that alleviate the capitalist guilt of our citizenry while surreptitiously building entire markets on the strife of the third world. Do you still wonder why the rest of the world holds so much contempt for America? Bourgeois Romanticism has permeated past Foreign Aid efforts and even covertly into our non-profit sectors and religious missions. So, before you rest morally appeased on your stance with globalization, ask yourself: Have you escaped the deception of the Bourgeois Romantic? Or are you, like so many others, merely one of them? </span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><em>Jessica Long graduated Western Washington University with a degree in Political Science. When she’s not travelling the world, she makes her home in Washington State.</em></span></p>Bon Oxfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01737069723970494870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216029803037209708.post-37219745222532609002007-08-01T16:26:00.000-07:002007-08-01T16:27:15.153-07:00LIVE EARTH: BROUGHT TO YOU BY THESE CORPORATE SPONSORS<div class="post" id="post-1627"> <h1 class="title">Live Earth: Brought to You By These Corporate Sponsors</h1> </div> <p class="small">By <a href="http://www.jwharrison.com/blog/author/admin/" title="Posts by Manila Ryce">Manila Ryce</a><br /> Published Wednesday, August 1st, 2007, 5:56 am<br /> Filed under: <a href="http://www.jwharrison.com/blog/category/us_politics/" title="View all posts in US Politics" rel="category tag">US Politics</a>, <a href="http://www.jwharrison.com/blog/category/videos/" title="View all posts in Videos" rel="category tag">Videos</a>, <a href="http://www.jwharrison.com/blog/category/world-issues/" title="View all posts in World Issues" rel="category tag">World Issues</a>, <a href="http://www.jwharrison.com/blog/category/entertainment/" title="View all posts in Entertainment" rel="category tag">Entertainment</a>, <a href="http://www.jwharrison.com/blog/category/environment/" title="View all posts in Environment" rel="category tag">Environment</a>, <a href="http://www.jwharrison.com/blog/category/political/" title="View all posts in Videos: Political" rel="category tag">Videos: Political</a></p> <div class="entrytext"> <div class="innerText"> <p><a href="http://www.jwharrison.com/blog/2007/08/01/live-earth-brought-to-you-by-these-corporate-sponsors/"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1428/974237784_fa921fcce7_m.jpg" /></a></p> <p>God bless The Daily Show for finally saying something about this.</p> <p>Ladies and gentlemen, as if you needed it, I present you with yet another reason why Al Gore would be a horrible choice for president in ‘08. Live Earth was an environmental disaster in itself, nevermind the irresponsible practices its corporate sponsors represented to anyone with true “global awareness”. By consuming mass amounts of fuel and electricity, entertainers were able to tell everyone about how their actions were contributing to the poor state of our planet. Yet rather than preach the traditional environmental values of conservation, the message behind Live Earth was to simply consume more products - products preferably supplied by the environmentally conscious sponsors of the festival.</p> <center> <div class="flvPlayer"> <object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,0,0" height="260" width="320"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.jwharrison.com/library/flvplayer.swf?file=http://www.mattashbeta.com/flv/08_1.flv&autoStart=false;"> <param name="quality" value="high"> <param name="wmode" value="transparent"> <embed src="http://www.jwharrison.com/library/flvplayer.swf?file=http://www.mattashbeta.com/flv/08_1.flv&autoStart=false;" quality="high" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" height="260" width="320"></embed><br /> </object></div> </center><br /><center><a target="_blank" href="http://www.jwharrison.com/uploads/08_1.wmv">download file</a></center> <p>While babyboomer spokespeople declared Live Earth to be the Woodstock of MY generation for it’s message of change and cooperation, their are obvious differences. First off, the Woodstock of the 60’s (not the disastrous one of the 90’s) was a free event which didn’t turn a profit. Live Earth charged attendees up to $350 a ticket. How many hippies do you know that can afford such a price? Second, the headliners of Live Aid were considered part of youth culture in the 80’s. However, modern pop groups like The Pussycat Dolls and Black Eyed Peas were also thrown in because that’s who you throw in when you don’t want anyone to know how disconnected you really are. In the eyes of my generation, the corporate marketing campaign seemed to be exclusively targeting 40-year-old men and 12-year-old girls with that selection of music. Third, and perhaps most important, Woodstock was organized by the counterculture, not the corporate establishment. Sorry Live Earth, but it’s not even the age of your founders or entertainers that makes you “the man”. It’s the fact that you’re part of the problem you’re telling us to fight. </p> </div> </div>Bon Oxfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01737069723970494870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216029803037209708.post-85799587831435709412007-08-01T15:16:00.000-07:002007-08-01T15:17:01.143-07:00STANLEY KUBRICK AND NASA<span style="font-size:85%;"><object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="never" allownetworking="internal" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/NpeIs5MFTYU" height="350" width="425"><br /> <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="never"><br /> <param name="allowNetworking" value="internal"><br /> <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/NpeIs5MFTYU"><br /></object><object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="never" allownetworking="internal" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/GDL1ugE7Tfw" height="350" width="425"><br /> <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="never"><br /> <param name="allowNetworking" value="internal"><br /> 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Assaulted and Arrested For Flying an Upside Down U.S. Flag</span></strong><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;">Police officer recently returned from Iraq smashed into Kuhn's home, choked husband and then claimed they assaulted him</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br />Alex Jones & Paul Joseph Watson<br /><a href="http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vd3d3LnByaXNvbnBsYW5ldC5jb20vaW5kZXguaHRtbA=="><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;color:#003399;">Prison Planet</span></a><br />Tuesday, July 31, 2007</span></p><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-size:85%;">A North Carolina couple who were terrorized by a police officer who had recently returned from Iraq are now fighting back, after sheriff's deputy Brian Scarborough broke into their house, assaulted them and then arrested the Kuhns for the crime of flying an upside down U.S. flag.</span></p><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-size:85%;">Mark and Deborah Kuhn of Asheville, North Carolina made headlines last week when they were arrested for flying an upside down U.S. flag, a commonly recognized sign of distress, in their backyard, after police claimed they were violating a statute for "desecration of the flag".</span></p><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-size:85%;">As is supported by the <a href="http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vd3d3LnVuaS1tdWVuc3Rlci5kZS9QZWFDb24vZ2xvYmFsLXRleHRlL2ctYS9VcHNpZGUlMjBkb3duJTIwZmxhZyUyMGlzJTIwZGlzdHJlc3MlMjBzaWduYWwlMjAtJTIwOS0yOC0wMSUyMC0lMjBOQ1RpbWVzX25ldC5odG0=" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;color:#003399;">United States Flag Code as well as a similar incident in 2001</span></a>, flying the flag upside down is not a mark of disrespect, and in fact is considered by many to be the highest form of patriotism.</span></p><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-size:85%;">However, since 9/11 there have been several cases where individuals have been harassed, intimidated and even arrested for inverting the flag, by those who confuse a love of government with a love of country. </span></p><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-size:85%;">Buncombe County Sheriff’s deputy Brian Scarborough had just returned from Iraq and according to the Deborah Kuhn, was sent by his staff Sergeant from the local National Guard to "deal with" the Kuhns after a local resident complained about the flag, a fact that was later admitted on TV news. A National Guard soldier in military fatigues had also previously visited the Kuhn's to harass them about the flag.</span></p><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-size:85%;">"This is a distress signal, we're not trying to desecrate the flag," Kuhn told Scarborough when he told the couple they were violating a statute. Police claimed the messages attached to the flag were the problem, but the notes merely pointed out that the upside down flag represented a distress signal and a warning that the country was in danger.</span></p><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-size:85%;">Even though Kuhn took the flag down, the officer immediately demanded that the couple show their ID's and when they refused told them to put their hands behind their back and was about to arrest them before the couple shut and locked the door.</span></p><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-size:85%;">Scarborough then proceeded to kick the door in, "And the next thing we know, the glass is flying, he unlocks the deadbolt and he comes into our house after us," Kuhn told The Alex Jones Show.</span></p><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-size:85%;">The officer then pursued Mark Kuhn through the house before intercepting him in the kitchen and putting him in a choke hold.</span></p><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-size:85%;">Deborah Kuhn called 911 to report that the officer had broken into the home and was assaulting her husband.</span></p><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-size:85%;">The officer then pulled out pepper spray to which Mark Kuhn responded, "Are you going to spray me in my house?" before Scarborough whipped out his billy club and the Kuhn's ran out of the house into the street, pleading for help from their neighbors.</span></p><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-size:85%;">"Nine police cars showed up, they whipped out the Tasers, they said 'get down we're gonna Taser you' added Kuhn.</span></p><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-size:85%;">The couple were handcuffed, arrested and bundled into a squad car, to the protests of numerous neighbors who demanded to know why the Kuhns were being incarcerated, but were told to leave by police.</span></p><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-size:85%;">Contradicting the police's account of the incident, that Buncombe County Sheriff’s deputy Brian Scarborough was injured when the Kuhn's slammed the door on his hand, Deborah Kuhn vehemently maintains that Scarborough smashed the glass of their door with his bare fist before breaking in, a description which is backed up by three other eyewitnesses, one of which appeared on TV later that day.</span></p><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-size:85%;">The Kuhn's are now also being charged with "assault on a government employee" - meaning that the new definition of assault is if a police officer cuts his hand by breaking into your house and putting you in a choke hold - you have assaulted him.</span></p><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-size:85%;">Scarborough claims that Deborah Kuhn slapped him while she was on the phone to the police, but the audio file of the call (listen <a href="http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vd3d3LmNpdGl6ZW4tdGltZXMuY29tL2FwcHMvcGJjcy5kbGwvbWlzYz9VUkw9L3RlbXBsYXRlcy9BcnRpY2xlTXVsdGlNZWRpYVBvcHVwLnBicyZhbXA7ZGF0bz0yMDA3MDcyNiZhbXA7bG9wZW5yPTcwNzI1MTE4JmFtcDtDYXRlZ29yeT1ORVdTMDEmYW1wO1BhcmFtcz1JZD04MDM3Nw==" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;color:#003399;">here</span></a>) clearly contradicts this.</span></p><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-size:85%;">They each face over a year in prison.</span></p><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-size:85%;">The Kuhn's<a href="http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vd3d3LmluZm93YXJzLmNvbS9wcmludC9wcy9jd19ydXNoaW5nX3VwZGF0ZS5odG0=" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;color:#003399;"> case is similar in many ways to that of Kelly Rushing</span></a>, a man from Lyon County Kentucky, who was arrested and charged for handing out videotapes of Ron Paul videos to police officers. Rushing was later found not guilty of the offence of "terroristic threats" but continues to be harassed by police.</span></p><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-size:85%;">It also mirrors the case of an <a href="http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vd3d3LndhZmYuY29tL2dsb2JhbC9zdG9yeS5hc3A/cz0xNzI0NTM1JmFtcDtDbGllbnRUeXBlPVByaW50YWJsZQ==" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;color:#003399;">Alabama man, who was arrested in 2004</span></a> for displaying a sign in his yard that read "Our Courts System is a Joke," under the pretext that it was illegal to criticize the authorities.</span></p><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-size:85%;">We are encouraging our listeners and readers to call the following number and remind the officials concerned that this is not Russia or Nazi Germany, and that officer Scarborough's conduct was shameful and an insult to everything America is supposed to stand for.</span></p><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-size:85%;">Scarborough's experience in Iraq of kicking down doors and taking innocent people to camps is not something that should be brought back to America, and the charges against the Kuhns should be dropped immediately along with a formal apology issued.</span></p><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>Sheriff Van Duncan's Office: 828-250-4503</strong></span></p><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vcHJpc29ucGxhbmV0LmNvbS9hdWRpby8zMTA3MDdrdWhuLm1wMw==" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;color:#003399;">Click here</span></a> to listen to the interview with Deborah Kuhn.</span></p>Bon Oxfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01737069723970494870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216029803037209708.post-10315726504802216302007-08-01T15:13:00.001-07:002007-08-01T15:13:45.374-07:00THE SUBVERSIVE LECTURE OF TIN-FOIL HAT LADY<span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /><object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="never" allownetworking="internal" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/MangrIrYPm4" height="350" width="425"><br /> <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="never"><br /> <param name="allowNetworking" value="internal"><br /> <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/MangrIrYPm4"><br /></object><br /><br /><object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="never" allownetworking="internal" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/W4bJb3GvBUk" height="350" width="425"><br /> <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="never"><br /> <param name="allowNetworking" value="internal"><br /> <param name="movie" 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simply naive. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">if we want to stop this from happening again, we need to cut to the core of this cartel (the federal reserve, the CFR, etc.) and not fall for the lie that we will somehow be saved once "democrats" and/or "progressives" are elected into office. in fact, as i have said, democrats and "progressives" are the ones who are largely responsible for replacing our constitution with nearly all the planks of the communist manifesto since 1913. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">i am willing to bet that they will wait until hillary gets into office to implement the final stages of the bush-clinton dynastic takeover. now that the ideas of free-market, free-trade, limited government conservativism have been thoroughly burned out of the minds of most americans by the left-wing orwelian double-speak of the mainstream media (you know, the "free market" = corporatism, "free trade" = NAFTA & the WTO, conservativism = religious fanatics, etc.) the next stage is to move in to all-out socialism and nationalize all of our resources (next stop: health care!) so the cartel can get its tendrils into every facet of our daily lives. this is how they got their state monopoly capitalism in soviet russia. it's always with the same collectivist slogans, "give up your property for the common good--which quickly becomes--give up your rights for the common good!" </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">i just hope by then all the "progressives" who wanted to give all our guns to the state won't just sit by with their peace vigils and hope that the perpetrators will realize the error of their ways and play nice--i hope they will be marching with us up to washington in droves and put their bodies on the line to defend our country--all of us united in the common cause of liberty! </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">i think there is already the climate of "live free or die" in the radical right, the tax honesty movement, the patriot and secessionist movement, the constitutionalists, the militias, the survivalists, etc. just take the example of ed and elaine brown. i hope to see more of this courage/foresight from the radical left as well. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">remember all those anti-government "conspiracy nuts" that were warning you about the coming police state when clinton was in office? well, turns out they were right. take heed and buckle down. </span><br /><br /><h2>Will Bush Cancel the 2008 Election? by Harvey Wasserman & Bob Fitrakis</h2> <span class="jump"><a href="http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2007/08/01/will-bush-cancel-the-2008-election-by-harvey-wasserman-bob-fitrakis/#comments"></a></span> <p><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com//" target="_self">Dandelion Salad</a></span></p> <p><a href="http://carolynbaker.net/site/content/view/56/" target="_self">by Harvey Wasserman & Bob Fitrakis</a></p> <p>Tuesday, 31 July 2007<br />Speaking Truth to Power<br />Reprinted from <span class="post-date"></span><u><a href="http://www.commondreams.org/" target="_new"><u><span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 128);"><em>CommonDreams.org</em></span></u></a></u></p> <p>The authors of this article blatantly use the “D” word–dictatorship.</p> <p class="post-credit"> It is time to think about the “unthinkable.”</p> <p class="post-body"> The Bush Administration has both the inclination and the power to cancel the 2008 election.</p> <p>The GOP strategy for another electoral theft in 2008 has taken clear shape, though we must assume there is much more we don’t know.</p> <p>But we must also assume that if it appears to Team Bush/Cheney/Rove that the GOP will lose the 2008 election anyway (as it lost in Ohio 2006) we cannot ignore the possibility that they would simply cancel the election. Those who think this crew will quietly walk away from power are simply not paying attention.</p> <p>The real question is not how or when they might do it. It’s how, realistically, we can stop them.</p> <p>In Florida 2000, Team Bush had a game plan involving a handful of tactics. With Jeb Bush in the governor’s mansion, the GOP used a combination of disenfranchisement, intimidation, faulty ballots, electronic voting fraud, a rigged vote count and an aborted recount, courtesy of the US Supreme Court.</p> <p>A compliant Democrat (Al Gore) allowed the coup to be completed.</p> <p>In Ohio 2004, the arsenal of dirty tricks exploded. Based in Columbus, we have documented more than a hundred different tactics used to steal the 20 electoral votes that gave Bush a second term. More are still surfacing. As a result of the King-Lincoln-Bronzeville federal lawsuit (in which we are plaintiff and attorney) we have now been informed that 56 of the 88 counties in Ohio violated federal law by destroying election records, thus preventing a definitive historical recount.</p> <p>As in 2000, a compliant Democrat (John Kerry) allowed the coup to proceed.</p> <p>For 2008 we expect the list of vote theft maneuvers to escalate yet again. We are already witnessing a coordinated nationwide drive to destroy voter registration organizations and to disenfranchise millions of minority, poor and young voters.</p> <p>This carefully choreographed campaign is complemented by the widespread use of electronic voting machines. As reported by the Government Accountability Office, Princeton University, the Brennan Center, the Carter-Baker Commission, US Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) and others, these machines can be easily used to flip an election. They were integral to stealing both the 2000 and 2004 elections. Efforts to make their source codes transparent, or to require a usable paper trail on a federal level, have thus far failed. A discriminatory Voter ID requirement may also serve as the gateway to a national identification card.</p> <p>Overall, the GOP will have at its command even more weapons of election theft in 2008 than it did in Ohio 2004, which jumped exponentially from Florida 2000. The Rovian GOP is nothing if not tightly organized to do this with ruthless efficiency. Expect everything that was used these past two presidential elections to surface again in 2008 in far more states, with far more efficiency, and many new dirty tricks added in.</p> <p>But in Ohio 2006, the GOP learned a hard lesson. Its candidate for governor was J. Kenneth Blackwell. The Secretary of State was the essential on-the-ground operative in the theft of Ohio 2004.</p> <p>When he announced for governor, many Ohioans joked that “Ken Blackwell will never lose an election where he counts the votes.”</p> <p>But lose he did….along with the GOP candidates for Secretary of State, Attorney-General and US Senate.</p> <p>By our calculations, despite massive grassroots scrutiny, the Republicans stole in excess of 6% of the Ohio vote in 2006. But they still lost.</p> <p>Why? Because they were so massively unpopular that even a 6% bump couldn’t save them. Outgoing Governor Bob Taft, who pled guilty to four misdemeanors while in office, left town with a 7% approval rating (that’s not a typo). Blackwell entered the last week of the campaign down 30% in some polls.</p> <p>So while the GOP still had control of the electoral machinery here in 2006, the public tide against them was simply too great to hold back, even through the advanced art and science of modern Rovian election theft.</p> <p>In traditional electoral terms, that may also be the case in 2008. Should things proceed as they are now, it’s hard to imagine any Republican candidate going into the election within striking distance. The potential variations are many, but the graffiti on the wall is clear.</p> <p>What’s also clear is that this administration has a deep, profound and uncompromised contempt for democracy, for the rule of law, and for the US Constitution. When George W. Bush went on the record (twice) as saying he has nothing against dictatorship, as long as he can be dictator, it was a clear and present policy statement.</p> <p>Who really believes this crew will walk quietly away from power? They have the motivation, the money and the method for doing away with the electoral process altogether. So why wouldn’t they?</p> <p>The groundwork for dismissal of both the legislative and judicial branch has been carefully laid. The litany is well-known, but worth a very partial listing:</p> <p>The continuation of the drug war, and the Patriot Act, Homeland Security Act and other dictatorial laws prompted by the 9/11/2001 terror attacks, have decimated the Bill of Rights, and shredded the traditional American right to due process of law, freedom from official surveillance, arbitrary violence, and far more.</p> <p>The current Attorney-General, Alberto Gonzales, has not backed away from his announcement to Congress that the Constitution does not guarantee habeas corpus. The administration continues to act on the assumption that it can arrest anyone at any time and hold them without notification or trial for as long as it wants.</p> <p>The establishment of the Homeland Security Agency has given it additional hardware to decimate the basic human rights of our citizenry. Under the guise of dealing with the “immigration problem,” large concentration camps are under construction around the US.</p> <p>The administration has endorsed and is exercising its “right” to employ torture, contrary to the Eighth Amendment and to a wide range of international treaties, which Gonzales has labeled “quaint.”</p> <p>With more than 200 “signing statements” the administration acts on its belief that the “unitary executive” trumps the power of the legislative branch in any instance it chooses. This belief has been further enforced with the administration’s use of a wide range of precedent-setting arguments to keep its functionaries from testifying before Congress.</p> <p>There is much more. In all instances, the 109th Congress—and the public—have rolled over without significant resistance.</p> <p>Most crucial now are Presidential Directive #51, Executive Orders #13303, #13315, #13350, #13364, #13422, #13438, and more, by which Bush has granted himself an immense arsenal of powers for which the term “dictatorial” is a modest understatement.</p> <p>The Founders established our government with checks and balances. But executive orders have accumulated important precedent. The Emancipation Proclamation by which Lincoln declared an end to slavery in the South, was issued under the “military necessity” of adding blacks to the Union Army, a step without which the North might not have won the Civil War. Franklin Roosevelt’s Executive Order #8802 established the Fair Employment Practices Commission. Harry Truman’s Executive Order #9981 desegregated the military.</p> <p>Most to the point, FDR’s Executive Order #9066 ordered the forcible internment of 100,000 people of Japanese descent into the now infamous concentration camps of World War II.</p> <p>There is also precedent for a president overriding the Supreme Court. In the 1830s Chief Justice John Marshall enshrined the right of the Cherokee Nation to sovereignty over its ancestral land in the Appalachian Mountains. But President Andrew Jackson scorned the decision. Some 14,000 native Americans were moved at gunpoint to Oklahoma. More than 3,000 died along the way.</p> <p>All this will be relevant should Team Bush envision a defeat in the 2008 election and decide to call it off. It’s well established that Richard Nixon—mentor to Karl Rove and Dick Cheney—commissioned the Huston Plan, which detailed how to cancel the 1972 election.</p> <p>Today we must ask: who would stop this administration from taking dictatorial power in the instance of a “national emergency” such as a terror attack at a nuclear power plant or something similar?</p> <p>Nothing in the behavior of this Congress indicates that it is capable of significant resistance. Impeachment seems beyond it. Nor does it seem Congress would actually remove Bush if it did put him on trial.</p> <p>Short of that, Bush clearly does not view anything Congress might do as a meaningful impediment. After all, how many divisions does the Congress command?</p> <p>The Supreme Court, as currently constituted, would almost certainly rubber stamp a Bush coup. If not, like Jackson, he could ignore it as easily as he would ignore Congress.</p> <p>What does that leave? There is much idle speculation now about what the armed forces would do. We also hear loose talk about “90 million gun owners.”</p> <p>From the public side, the only conceivable counter-force might be a national strike or an effective long-term campaign of general non-cooperation.</p> <p>But we can certainly assume the mainstream media will give lock-step support to whatever the regime says and does. It’s also a given that those likely to lead the resistance will immediately land in those new prisons being built by Halliburton et. al.</p> <p>So how do we cope with the harsh realities of such a Bush/Cheney/Rove dictatorial coup?</p> <p>We may have about a year to prepare. Every possible scenario needs to be discussed in excruciating detail.</p> <p>For only one thing is certain: denial will do nothing.</p> <p><em>HARVEY WASSERMAN’S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES is at <a href="http://www.solartopia.org/" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">www.solartopia.org</span></u></a>, along with SOLARTOPIA! OUR GREEN-POWERED EARTH, A.D. 2030. The FITRAKIS FILES are at <a href="http://www.freepress.org/" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">www.freepress.org</span></u></a> (where this article was originally published), along with HOW THE GOP STOLE AMERICA’S 2004 ELECTION & IS RIGGING 2008, which Bob and Harvey co-wrote.</em></p>Bon Oxfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01737069723970494870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216029803037209708.post-52521726757876124472007-08-01T05:51:00.001-07:002007-08-01T05:51:27.145-07:00THE PEARL HARBOR MYTH<h1 align="center"> <span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:6;">FDR, Pearl Harbor and the U.N.</span></h1> <p align="center"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;"><b>by <a href="mailto:donna.moreman@alacourt.gov">John V. Denson</a></b></span><span style="font-family:Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;"><b><br /> <span style="font-size:78%;color:#ffffff;">by John V. 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This "patriotic political myth" states that the attack by the Japanese was unprovoked and was a surprise to the Roosevelt administration, as well as, the key military personnel in Washington; but the commanders of Pearl Harbor were at fault for not being ready. Based on a good summary of the up-to-date research the author, who is an approving admirer of Roosevelt, concludes that Roosevelt deliberately provoked the attack and that he and his key military and administrative advisers clearly knew, well in advance, that the Japanese were going to attack both Pearl Harbor and the Philippines. Roosevelt wanted to get into the European War but he had been unsuccessful in provoking Germany; therefore, he considered the sacrifice of Pearl Harbor and the Philippines as the best way to get into the European War through the back door of Japan. The cover-up of this strategy started immediately after the attack and continues to this day. The author concludes that this information of the coming attack was intentionally withheld from the military commanders because it was known that the Japanese were depending upon the element of surprise and if warnings had been sent to the commanders of Pearl Harbor and the Philippines, their preparation for the attack would have caused the Japanese to cancel their plans. </span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">The losses and damages at Pearl Harbor are described by Victor as follows:</span></p> <blockquote> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">"In the Pearl Harbor attack, the United States lost twenty-four hundred troops along with a quarter of her fleet. Many military leaders and Knox, Hull, and Roosevelt had underestimated the harm Japan could do, even by a surprise attack. And U.S. losses were much increased by two unlikely events. A Japanese bomb penetrated the battleship <i>Arizona’s </i> armor at an odd angle, reaching her magazine and causing her to explode. And the torpedoed battleship <i>Oklahoma</i> capsized. The explosion of the <i>Arizona </i>and the capsizing of the <i>Oklahoma</i> resulted in the drowning of sixteen hundred sailors." </span></p> </blockquote> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">The tremendous losses in the Philippines have been virtually hidden from the American public but they were mostly the native soldiers and civilians. Victor states: </span></p> <blockquote> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">"The Philippines suffered widespread destruction and was captured. Twenty-four hundred troops and seventy civilians were lost in Hawaii. In the Philippines, one hundred forty thousand troops were lost and civilian deaths – still unreported – are estimated to have been as high as three million. Nonetheless, the defeat at Pearl Harbor became a wrenching tragedy, and the administration sacrificed the commanders there to restore public confidence, while the defeat in the Philippines became a noble defense. Despite devastation and loss of the Philippines, a public relations operation turned MacArthur into a hero and he was promoted. The public reaction is not strange, however, when seen in the light of government control of information – a usual wartime practice."</span></p> </blockquote> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">The author states that the most recent Pearl Harbor investigation by Congress in October, 2000 resulted in a resolution by Congress "calling on President William Clinton to restore the reputations of Short and Kimmel. It provoked the flurry of accusations that Congress was usurping the job of historians, revising history, and reviving a long-discredited conspiracy theory. Clinton took no action on the resolution."</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">The author, Victor, includes a chapter from the viewpoint of the Japanese. They were being pressured strongly by Germany to enter the war by attacking the Soviet Union, thereby creating a two-front war for the Communist nation. This strategy came within the actual interests of Japan since they, like Germany, saw Communism as a great evil and a threat to their respective nations. Furthermore, Japan had substantial claims to parts of Manchuria as a result of defeating Russia in the war of 1905. Both Germany and Japan wanted to avoid a war with America at almost any cost. Roosevelt was well aware of this pressure on Japan by Germany but he felt that it was necessary to protect the Soviet Union as being the best weapon against the Germans, and therefore, he wanted to prevent Japan from attacking Russia. Roosevelt began extensive provocations to cause Japan to abandon its attack on Russia and instead attack America which also served the purpose of giving Roosevelt the reason to enter the war. Roosevelt launched an eight-point provocation plan primarily through the cutting off of oil supplies to Japan so that by the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor Japan was virtually out of oil and on the verge of industrial and military collapse. The attack on Pearl Harbor and the Philippines also would provide Japan with the ability to attack the Dutch interests in the Pacific, thereby giving them a new supply of oil. </span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">Victor sees Roosevelt’s decisions as being based upon the assumption of the truth of the following statement: "Hitler’s plan to conquer and enslave most of the world was hardly a secret." The author cites no authority for this plan of Hitler to conquer the world and you will not find this in the two books that Hitler wrote nor in any of his speeches. His intentions were well known before and during the war. He stated from the beginning, before he took power, as well as thereafter, that he was against the harsh and unfair Versailles Treaty which virtually disarmed Germany and it included the inequities created for Germany in Poland and Czechoslovakia, which he intended to correct either through negotiation or, if necessary, by force. He stated and wrote that the only war he wanted was to fight Communism and to regain some of the living space that Germany had acquired in their treaty with Russia during World War I, which was abrogated by the Versailles Treaty. Nevertheless, the defeat of Hitler, not Germany, appears to be the premise upon which the author states that Roosevelt acted so that the end justified the means. Hitler, the man, must be defeated at all costs and these costs included the sacrifice of Pearl Harbor and the Philippines in order to get into the European War via Japan. </span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">I need to depart from a review of Victor’s book momentarily in order to take issue with his basic assumption that Roosevelt’s main interest was the defeat of Hitler. If his primary end was simply the death of Hitler, Roosevelt had an excellent opportunity of letting the key military officers in the regular German army carry out a plan of assassination. </span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">Allen Dulles was stationed in Switzerland with the OSS (which preceded the CIA) and was assigned the primary duty of seeing if there was a resistance movement in Germany which might overthrow Hitler. Dulles learned of a very substantial plot to kill Hitler early in the war in 1942 after Germany’s defeat at Stalingrad. While Stalin had murdered 35,000 to 50,000 of his senior military officers prior to the war in order to put in his loyal officers, Hitler had resisted this strategy and did not purge the regular German army of its senior officers. Early in the war a large number of these senior officers, including his Chief of Staff, General Ludwig Beck, built up a strong resistance movement with the purpose of assassinating Hitler and then surrendering to the American and British forces. They intended then to continue the war against Communism and the Soviet Union. A new government was to be created with Beck at the head and Dr. Carl Goerdeler, former mayor of Leipzig, to be the two top people. There was originally a large group who helped draw up the plan which included numerous civilians who would serve in the new democratic government, so it was not just to be a military coup. Dulles stated that even after the resistance movement had been discouraged by Roosevelt’s unconditional surrender policy, nevertheless, a small group of officers who remained committed to the assassination of Hitler made an unsuccessful attempt on Hitler’s life on July 20, 1944. Hitler rounded up all of the people who were even suspected of being a part of this plot and this amounted to over 200,000 Germans who were put in concentration camps and many were killed. The two principal high-ranking German officers who took part in the plot met their fate on the next day after the attempt, with one being shot by a firing squad and General Beck was allowed to commit suicide in the presence of the Nazi officers. </span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">When Roosevelt first learned of this significant resistance movement and the plan of the Germans to surrender immediately to America and the British, he unilaterally announced the unconditional surrender policy which caused much of the resistance movement to dissolve and their plans to be abandoned. Roosevelt’s unconditional surrender policy was not well received by either Churchill or Stalin. Dulles, as well as, many key military advisers, were unsuccessful in getting Roosevelt to abandon or substantially revise this policy. They pointed out to Roosevelt that it would discourage the assassination of Hitler. It would make the Germans fight harder, cause the war to last longer and be more costly than necessary. Roosevelt’s policy required unconditional surrender to the British, the Soviets and America simultaneously. No surrender would be accepted unless it was made to all three at the same time. Many of the German officers decided that they would rather fight against all three rather than surrender to the Soviet Union. (See <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Germanys-Underground-Resistance-Allen-Dulles/dp/0306809281/lewrockwell/">Germany’s Underground: The Anti-Nazi Resistance</a> </i>by Allen Dulles and <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Unconditional-Surrender-Impact-Casablanca-Policy/dp/0837170427/lewrockwell/">Unconditional Surrender</a> </i>by Anne Armstrong.) </span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">One of the best writers on World War II was Hanson Baldwin, who covered the war for <i>The New York Times</i>. After the war he wrote a book entitled <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Great-Mistakes-War-Hanson-Baldwin/dp/B0000CHRHB/lewrockwell/">Great Mistakes of the War</a>, </i>which was published in 1949. Baldwin says the greatest mistake made was the unconditional surrender policy of Roosevelt. He states that the policy "probably discouraged the opposition to Hitler" and adds that it "probably lengthened the war, cost us lives and helped to lead to the present abortive peace." Baldwin then points out that it also had a detrimental effect in the war against Japan. The Japanese had indicated they were willing to surrender if the unconditional surrender policy was changed so as to allow them to keep their Emperor but President Roosevelt ignored the offer in January of 1945. After Roosevelt’s death, President Truman stated he was going to continue the unconditional surrender policy and rejected the offer in July, 1945. The war continued and Truman ordered the atomic bombs to be dropped in August of 1945 and the surrender followed in September. The Japanese were allowed to keep their Emperor after the war, and so in the end, the unconditional surrender policy was dropped as to Japan, but only after they were bombed with two atomic bombs. (See <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Decision-Drop-Atomic-Bomb/dp/0275954757/lewrockwell/">The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb</a></i> by Dennis D. Wainstock and <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Decision-Use-Atomic-Bomb/dp/067976285X/lewrockwell/">The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb</a></i> by Gar Alperovitz.)</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">My argument is that Roosevelt’s unconditional surrender policy was designed to stop the resistance movement because Roosevelt did not want an early end to the war. He wanted a new chance to create a world organization, which he may have actually believed would end all war for the future. President Wilson had made this promise with the creation of the League of Nations. Roosevelt’s plan was to bring all nations under the cover of the United Nations with America and the Soviet Union as the remaining two super powers who would be virtually in control of this new world organization. Roosevelt had been part of the Woodrow Wilson administration and personally witnessed the worldwide adulation of President Wilson immediately after World War I when he came to Europe. Roosevelt saw the admiring mobs of people who lined the streets in France and Italy to cheer Wilson and the newspaper reports stated that thousands of people lined the railroad tracks at night just to watch Wilson’s train go by. Wilson was considered by millions of people as the greatest man in the world at that time because it was perceived that he brought peace to the world and had saved Europe. His vision for the League of Nations was considered by many as the hope of the future throughout the world to stop all war forever. (See <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Paris-1919-Months-Changed-World/dp/0375760520/lewrockwell/">Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World</a></i> by Margaret MacMillan.) Roosevelt made 800 speeches in his vice presidential campaign in 1920 praising the League of Nations. Roosevelt felt that America’s entry into World War II would give him a chance to succeed where his mentor and idol, Woodrow Wilson, had failed when the American Senate failed to approve the Versailles Treaty which contained the provision creating the League of Nations. </span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">In August of 1941, Roosevelt met with Churchill prior to Pearl Harbor and brought up the United Nations idea to which Churchill objected. Nevertheless, Churchill went along with it because he needed America in the war. Stalin also objected to the United Nations idea and both he and Churchill felt that the postwar settlement should have separate spheres of influence for each victor rather than a world organization to which the countries might lose their sovereignty and also lose control of their special goals. </span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">The best account of Roosevelt and the United Nations is thoroughly covered in the book entitled <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/FDR-Creation-U-N-Townsend-Hoopes/dp/0300085532/lewrockwell/">FDR and the Creation of the U.N.</a> </i>by Townsend Hoopes and Douglas Brinkley published by the Yale University Press in 1997. Both authors are admirers of Roosevelt and of his accomplishment in creating the United Nations. A brief summary of the main points and several excerpts will tell that story.</span></p> <blockquote> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">"On November 10, 1939, Pope Pius XII proclaimed the need to establish ‘a stable international organization’ after the war. In a private response of December 23, President Roosevelt voiced his belief that, while no spiritual or civic leader could now define a specific structure for the future, ‘the time for that will surely come’; meanwhile, the United States would ‘encourage a closer association between those in every part of the world – those in religion and those in government – who have a common purpose.’ " </span></p> </blockquote> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">The authors then point out that extensive planning began to take place by others in regard to the postwar settlement:</span></p> <blockquote> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">"Into this planning vacuum stepped the private Council on Foreign Relations with an offer to study postwar issues secretly and make its deliberations available to the State Department. The council was a Northeastern seaboard phenomenon, an elitist mix of prominent New York bankers and lawyers with European interests and prominent academics and intellectuals, many of whom had served as advisers to Woodrow Wilson at the Paris peace conference. The businessmen provided the money, while the scholars furnished most of the intellectual leadership. The council operated mainly through off-the-record conferences, study groups, and small dinners confined to members, who were addressed by foreign or American statesmen. It published <i>Foreign Affairs, </i> a scholarly quarterly that had become the leading American journal of its kind. In an age when fewer than one thousand Americans could claim a journeyman’s competence, or even a sustained interest, in foreign affairs, the Council on Foreign Relations was a rare island of influence and expertise in the body politic." </span></p> </blockquote> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">In less than one month after the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 and followed immediately by the declaration of war by Congress, Roosevelt began forming the United Nations into a specific entity:</span></p> <blockquote> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">"On January 1, 1942, the Soviet and Chinese ambassadors in Washington joined with Roosevelt and Churchill (who had arrived at the White House in late December) in signing the Declaration by United Nations. The following day, representatives of twenty-two other nations at war with the Axis powers added their signatures to the document, which created a wartime alliance of states who promised to wage war with all of their resources and not sign a separate peace. The president apparently thought up the name ‘United Nations’ and secured the Prime Minister’s approval by bursting into his bedroom at the White House while the doughty Britain was taking a bath." </span></p> </blockquote> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">Roosevelt felt that Wilson had been partly to blame for the failure of the Senate to authorize the signing of the Versailles Treaty, thereby causing America not to join the League of Nations. Roosevelt felt that he could be more flexible if he only had a war which would give him an opportunity to succeed where Wilson had failed. Hoopes and Brinkley give a quick historical review as follows:</span></p> <blockquote> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">"The Senate’s rejection of the League of Nations treaty on March 19, 1920, was a result of many factors, of which perhaps the most basic was the enduring fear and contempt for Europe’s continual intrigues and wars. As most Americans saw it, they had sent their young men to France in 1917 to fight and die for a worthy cause – to make the world safe for democracy." But they had recoiled in disgust and disbelief at the spectacle of greed displayed by the European victors and embodied in the vengeful Treaty of Versailles. More direct and immediate reasons for the Senate’s rejection of the League were the personal bitterness between President Wilson and Senator Henry Cabot Lodge (R-Massachusetts), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and the misplaced loyalty of the Democratic Senators to their party leader in the White House. The primary cause of failure, however, was the absolute rigidity rooted in moral and intellectual arrogance, of Woodrow Wilson." </span></p> </blockquote> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">The authors point out that Roosevelt was much more flexible and willing to compromise in order to create the United Nations. </span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">After America entered the war there was a great deal of activity in trying to help Roosevelt create the United Nations. Hoopes and Brinkley state the following:</span></p> <blockquote> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">"John Foster Dulles apparently felt that the Shotwell group was too secular, for he formed the Commission to Study the Bases of a Just and Durable Peace, under the auspices of the Federal Council of Churches. In one of many speeches, he declared, ‘the sovereignty system is no longer consonant with either peace or justice,’ and said that he was ‘rather appalled’ at the lack of any agreed peace aims ‘to educate and crystalize public opinion.’ Yet he too offered no specific remedies. In a long editorial in <i>Life </i>magazine entitled ‘The American Century,’ publisher Henry Luce noted the ‘golden opportunity’ for world leadership that the United States had passed up in 1919, and called on the American people to help Roosevelt succeed where Wilson had failed. It was now the time, Luce wrote, to accept ‘our duty and our opportunity as the most powerful and vital nation in the world.’ " </span></p> </blockquote> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">Hoopes and Brinkley go on to describe Roosevelt’s immediate public endorsement of the United Nations in his State of the Union address as follows:</span></p> <blockquote> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">"The President’s State of the Union address on January 6, 1942 – just one month after the attack on Pearl Harbor – was praised by George Orwell on BBC radio as a ‘complete and uncompromising break . . . with isolationism.’ Roosevelt said, ‘the mood of quiet grim resolution which here prevails bodes ill for those who conspired and collaborated to murder world peace. The mood is stronger than any mere desire for revenge. It expresses the will of the American people to make very certain that the world will never so suffer again. He referred to the signing of the Declaration by the United Nations just six days before, and defined the primary objective of that act to be ‘the consolidation of the United Nations’ total war effort against our common enemies.’ His focus was entirely on the war effort.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">But if the Administration had decided that the public disclosure of postwar plans were dangerously premature, such inhibitions did not apply to the press and private sector. Throughout 1942, there was a steady procession of proposals for shaping the new world and educating the American people.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">The Commission to Study the Organization of Peace, whose president, Columbia professor James T. Shotwell, was an occasional adviser to the State Department planning effort, accepted the need for an ‘Anglo – American directorate’ to run the world in the immediate postwar period . . . </span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">On March 5, 1942, the Commission to Study the Bases of a Just and Durable Peace, headed by John Foster Dulles, proposed a far more radical solution. It called specifically for a world government complete with a parliament, an international court, and appropriate agencies. The world government would have the power to regulate international trade, settle disputes between member nations, and control all military forces, except those needed to maintain domestic order..." </span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">"A more convincing, more sophisticated argument for realpolitik was Walter Lippmann’s 1943 best-seller, <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/U-S-Foreign-Policy-Shield-Republic/dp/B000IG4KO8/lewrockwell/">U.S. Foreign Policy: Shield of the Republic</a>, </i>a brilliant essay designed to counter the idealistic one-world internationalism of which Wendell Willkie was the leading purveyor. It sold nearly one half million copies. Lippmann, a crusading editor who had helped Woodrow Wilson prepare his peace program, had been disillusioned by the<i> </i>Versailles Treaty and the League of Nations, but retained the conviction that American leadership in world affairs was an absolute prerequisite of stability and peace. He thought Willkie’s thesis was founded on sand and that its corollary – that the United States must undertake to police the world – was a dangerous doctrine. Lippmann argued that all nations must balance their commitments with their resources and should avoid being overextended.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">Lippmann’s formula for peace was no new League of Nations but a basic alliance of the United States, Britain and Russia. No other nations were serious factors in the world power equation. China and France were not great powers. Only Britain and Russia were strong enough to threaten U.S. security, but given America’s close ties to Britain, there was no risk from that quarter. The only real danger was a falling out with Russia, but peace and stability required that this be avoided at all costs, for an Anglo-American alliance against Russia would set the stage ‘inexorably’ for a third world war." </span></p> </blockquote> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">Hoopes and Brinkley summarize the negotiations between Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin, pointing out that Roosevelt suggested the Big Four World Policeman would be America, Great Britain, Russia and China and then there would be seven representatives of regional organizations. However, Roosevelt privately stated to his key advisers that Soviet Russia and America would be the two remaining super powers and would be actually in charge of the organization. The authors then state:</span></p> <blockquote> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">"Also, he did not believe that Stalin would join an all – embracing international organization without the protection of an absolute veto power. . . </span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">While America’s postwar planners were thinking in terms of some synthesis of regional and global organization to replace the League of Nations, the British Prime Minister was thinking of authoritative regional arrangements without a global nexus, and his focus was on Europe. He was dismissive of China, and uneasy at the idea of sharing responsibility for the future of Western Europe with the Soviet Union. In a note to Eden of October 12, 1942, Churchill wrote, ‘I must admit that my thoughts rest primarily in Europe – the revival of the glory of Europe, the parent continent of the modern nations and of civilization.’ It would be a ‘measureless disaster if Russian barbarism overlaid the culture and independence’ of these ancient states. ‘We certainly do not want to be shut up with the Russians and the Chinese’ in Europe. Moreover ‘I cannot regard the Chungking Government as representing a great world power.’ " </span></p> </blockquote> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">The authors describe Roosevelt’s opinion regarding the necessity of having Stalin’s cooperation for creating and operating the United Nations as follows:</span></p> <blockquote> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">"Much depended on Stalin, for the Soviet Union would be the only first-rate military power on the continents of Europe and Asia after the war. If the dictator chose cooperation, the foundations of a peaceful society would be laid with confidence; if he chose another course, the Western allies would be ‘driven back on a balance of power system.’ " </span></p> </blockquote> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">The authors also cover the importance of the Yalta Conference in regard to the creation of the United Nations:</span></p> <blockquote> <p> <span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;"> "Calling the Yalta Conference a turning point – ‘I hope in our history and therefore in the history of the world’ – FDR said that whether it could bring forth lasting results ‘lies to a great extent in your hands.’ The Senate and the American people would soon face ‘a great decision that will determine the fate of the United States – and of the world – for generations to come.’ Everyone should understand there was no middle ground. ‘We shall have to take responsibility for world collaboration, or we should have to bear the responsibility for another world conflict.’ The Yalta agreements ‘ought’ to spell the end of unilateral actions, exclusive alliances, spheres of influence, and balances of power that ‘have been tried for centuries – and have always failed.’ It was time to substitute ‘a universal organization,’ and the President was confident that Congress and the American people would accept the Yalta agreements as laying the foundations of ‘a permanent structure of peace . . .’ "</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">The agreement on Poland was entirely dependant on Stalin’s word, for there was no practical way to confront Russian power in Eastern Europe. In part, this stance was dictated by the basic need for Russian military cooperation to finish the war against Germany and then join the war against Japan; in larger part it reflected FDR’s judgment that establishing the United Nations organization was the <u>overarching strategic goal, the absolute first priority</u>. He faced, as he viewed it, a delicate problem of balance. To prevent a U.S. reversion to isolationism after the war, U.S. participation in the new world organization was the sine qua non, <u>but</u> <u>the United Nations could not be brought into being without genuine Russian</u> <u>cooperation</u>, and that depended on Western accommodation to unpalatable manifestations of the Soviet Communist system in Eastern Europe." [Emphasis supplied] </span></p> </blockquote> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">The authors then point out that on April 6, 1945 the president authorized Archibald MacLeish to prepare the speech he intended to make at the opening session of the San Francisco conference. There had been some speculation that he might even resign his position as president in order to be leader of the United Nations. However, on April 12, he died and the authors state:</span></p> <blockquote> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">"To internationalists, the fallen leader promptly became a martyr and symbol of their cause. Intoned the<i> New Republic</i>, ‘Franklin Roosevelt at rest at Hyde Park is a more powerful force for America’s participation in the world organization than was President Roosevelt in the White House." </span></p> </blockquote> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">If Roosevelt’s primary aim in World War II was to create the United Nations and thereby bring world peace forever (in his own mind), and that he considered the cooperation of Stalin and the Soviet Union as the essential piece to that puzzle, this helps explain why Roosevelt was so compromising with Stalin throughout the war. It also helps explain why he let Harry Hopkins live in the White House and be his closest adviser. The author, George Victor, in his preface, addresses the fact that Hopkins was probably a Communist agent and then he states "there are speculations that Hopkins influenced U.S. policy toward the Soviet Union in 1941, but no evidence of it." He then defends Hopkins by saying that Hopkins never did anything without the express direction of Roosevelt, which may defend Hopkins, but it certainly does not defend Roosevelt. Roosevelt surely must have been aware of the intercepted cables which show that Hopkins was an agent of the Soviets. The cables called "The Venona Cables" were those communications between Soviet spies in America that were intercepted by American intelligence forces which were available to Roosevelt. These "Venona Cables" were released to the public in 1995 and in a sensational book entitled <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Exposing-Espionage-Americas-Traitors/dp/0895262258/lewrockwell/">The Venona Secrets: Exposing Soviet Espionage and America’s Traitors</a> </i>by Herbert Romerstein and Eric Breindel they show the fact that Harry Hopkins was a Soviet agent, being number 19. They point out that the cables revealed that the Soviets were ordering tons of uranium in March of 1943 and that Major George R. Jordan objected to sending the uranium since he and General Groves, head of the Manhattan project, were concerned about Soviet espionage. Major Jordan testified that he objected to sending the uranium but that "Harry Hopkins had told him on the phone to expedite the shipments." Major Jordan later wrote a book claiming that Hopkins had helped the Soviets against the interests of the United States. </span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">In conclusion of my argument, I take issue that the end justified the means, and therefore disagree with Victor on this point. Roosevelt’s personal ambitions for greatness, obtaining worldwide adulation, and his desire to create the United Nations could hardly be considered ends that justified the means he employed.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">Getting back to Victor’s book, he states in his last chapter entitled "History and the Unthinkable" that the disaster in Pearl Harbor "needs to be remembered, not for anything about Japanese treachery or U.S. blunders. Its main lessons are about sacrifice, deception and political considerations as common features of military planning." He points out that other presidents have caused similar sacrifices of the lives of soldiers and sailors, as well as civilians, with similar acts of deception for political considerations. He states:</span></p> <blockquote> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">"Polk, Lincoln and McKinley confronted dilemmas between what they considered important U.S. interests and popular opposition to war. Lincoln’s problem was extreme; for years, conflict over slavery had been tearing the nation apart. As Lincoln saw it, the secession and the likelihood of further splitting threatened the nation’s existence. ‘However, there was one way out,’ according to historian Richard Hofstadter, ‘the Confederates themselves might bring matters to a head by attacking Sumter . . . . It was precisely such an attack that Lincoln’s strategy brought about.’ Hofstadter added that ‘the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor did for [Roosevelt] what the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter had done for Lincoln.’"</span></p> </blockquote> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">Victor carefully analyses the situation with Abraham Lincoln as being comparable to Roosevelt in starting their respective wars:</span></p> <blockquote> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">"On becoming president in 1861, Abraham Lincoln’s highest priority was preserving the Union. To end the secession, he was willing to guarantee federal noninterference with slavery. He therefore pushed a constitutional amendment for noninterference through Congress, and three states quickly ratified it, but the secession continued. Lincoln was also willing – if necessary for preserving the Union – to fight a war. But he found his nation – and his own cabinet – against such a war. Even radical abolitionists opposed it. </span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">The Confederacy had taken over most federal installations in its states – installations surrendered on request by their administrators. Of those remaining in federal hands, Fort Sumter in South Carolina was exposed to attack and running out of supplies. Lincoln asked his cabinet’s advice on whether to supply the fort. With one exception, they opposed it because doing it risked war. Lincoln then sent the supplies, prompting an attack on the fort which became the incident he used to start the Civil War.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">If known at the time, Lincoln’s deliberate exposure of the fort might have caused serious political repercussions. Later historical accounts that imputed to him the intention of fostering an incident for war in order to preserve the Union have created little stir. His towering place in history is undamaged by them and he, too, is viewed as a president with a clear idea of his mission, effective in carrying it out."</span></p> </blockquote> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">The author, Victor, also goes into some detail in regard to President Polk starting the Mexican War:</span></p> <blockquote> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">"On becoming president in 1845, James Polk told his cabinet that California would be annexed. (His predecessors had offered to buy California, but Mexico had refused to sell.) To his consul in California, Polk suggested fomenting a revolution and promised U.S. support for residents who rose against Mexico. A tiny uprising under Capt. John Fremont had no effect on California’s status. Polk then sent an army to the Rio Grande. </span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">History books describe that area as U.S. territory, Texas territory, or land in dispute between the United States and Mexico. The area was, however, recognized by a U.S. treaty as within Mexico’s borders. As Polk expected, Mexico attacked the army, slaughtering a troop.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">On sending the army, Polk wrote, in advance, a request to Congress for a declaration of war based on the incident he expected. After it happened, he submitted his request, claiming that Mexican troops ‘had passed the boundary of the United States . . . invaded our territory and shed American blood upon American soil . . . . War exists notwithstanding all our efforts to avoid it.’ But Polk, not Mexico, had sought the war. Congress then declared war on Mexico and by an easy victory, Polk acquired the southwest for his nation."</span></p> </blockquote> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;"> Victor points out that President McKinley sent the battleship <i>Maine</i> into the harbor of Havana, which was Spanish territory, as a provocation to the Spanish and when the ship exploded from within it killed 260 U.S. sailors. The false propaganda was that the Spanish caused it, thus giving McKinley an excuse to go to war and to acquire from Spain America’s first empire. McKinley was strongly supported in his efforts to get into the war by none other than the "Megaphone of Mars," Teddy Roosevelt, who was serving as the Assistant Navy Secretary. Roosevelt declared "The <i>Maine </i>was sunk by an act of dirty treachery on the part of the Spaniards." The new battle cry for the war was now "Remember the <i>Maine</i>."</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">The author expresses no moral judgment against these presidents for starting their respective wars and states that:</span></p> <blockquote> <p> <span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;"> "Deception is as old as the history of war. According to the classic work <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Art-War-oldest-military-treatise/dp/9562911276/lewrockwell/">The Art of War</a></i> by Sun-tzu ‘All warfare is based on deception.’ It is, of course, practiced on enemies, but deception is also used on subordinates. A common example is a suicide attack. In order to have troops carry it out officers may hide the attack’s hopelessness from them. They may even mislead troops to believe that it will succeed." </span></p> </blockquote> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">Victor recites the views expressed by General George C. Marshall at the Pearl Harbor hearings before Congress in 1945–6, as follows:</span></p> <blockquote> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">"In my view, General Marshall was indeed an outstanding chief of staff, upright, honorable, and incorruptible – as much so as his position permitted. Testifying to various tribunals investigating the Pearl Harbor disaster, other military officers vigorously denied that they had withheld vital information from field commanders. The denials were false. Marshall was the exception; he testified to a congressional committee that withholding vital information from commanders was routine practice. World War II documents show not only withholding of information from field commanders, but also distortion of it to mislead them."</span></p> </blockquote> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">The author concludes this extremely disturbing book with the following two paragraphs:</span></p> <blockquote> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">"Despite the history of war, the idea that Roosevelt withheld warnings from Kimmel and Short for the purpose of getting the United States openly into the European war is still unthinkable to many people, but to fewer and fewer as the years pass. As has happened over time with other unthinkable acts, the repugnance aroused by the idea of using the Pacific Fleet as a lure will probably continue to fade. Polk’s exposure of an army, Lincoln’s exposure of a fort, and McKinely’s exposure of a battleship are more or less accepted. In the Philippines, Midway, Wake, Guam, Samoa, and in other outlying islands, U.S. forces were exposed to Japanese attack, and that is also more or less accepted.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">The Pearl Harbor disaster was different from losses of the Philippines and other Pacific islands because it shattered America’s confidence, arousing massive fear, a crisis of trust in the nation’s leaders, and an outcry for scapegoats. The nation seized on the administration’s explanation of betrayal by Japan and by Kimmel and Short, and the disaster unified the nation to fight World War II with the slogan ‘Remember Pearl Harbor!’ The explanation became a major national myth, which has substantially withstood the unearthing of secret alliances, war strategies, and warnings received in Washington."</span></p> </blockquote> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">In the preface the author states: "I am not the first admirer of Roosevelt to present him in Machiavellian terms." Victor goes on to quote an admiring biographer of Roosevelt, James MacGregor Burns, who stated: "It was not strange that [Roosevelt] should follow Machiavelli’s advice . . . for this had long been the first lesson for politicians." Victor’s final assessment is that:</span></p> <blockquote> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">"History has recorded many, many rulers’ manipulations of their people into war without their subordinates blowing the whistle. Presidents James Polk, Abraham Lincoln and Woodrow Wilson did it before Roosevelt; and others have done it after him . . . . </span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">Presidents who succeeded Roosevelt also ordered sacrifices, but toward smaller and sometime meaner ends. Here Roosevelt’s manipulations and the sacrifices he ordered are compared to those of Polk, Lincoln, McKinley and Wilson, all of whom were implementing <u>ends considered noble in the light of traditional values.</u>" [Emphasis supplied]</span></p> </blockquote> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">The author, George Victor, mentions the deceit of President Wilson in getting us into World War I but provides no details. However, you can find this in Charles Tansil’s excellent book entitled <i>America Goes to War</i>. Justice Brandeis, who was appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court by Wilson, rendered his opinion to President Wilson that the alleged sinking of the French cross-channel passenger ship, the <i>S.S. Sussex, </i> by a German submarine in the English Channel with the loss of lives of the U.S. citizens justified a declaration of war against Germany by the United States. The ship was painted all black and the usual insignia to show it was not a military ship were missing. The German commander of the submarine wrote that he took the ship to be a military ship rather than a passenger ship. Wilson relied on this legal opinion of Justice Brandeis, who was Wilson’s most influential adviser along with Col. House, and the president addressed both houses of Congress on April 2, 1917 using the sinking of <i>Sussex</i> and the loss of American lives as a reason to declare war on April 7, 1917. It was only after America was committed to the war that the truth came out, which apparently was not considered material by the news media, so the public never was fully informed. The <i>Sussex</i> was not sunk and no American lives were lost. The ship was torpedoed by the Germans but made it safely to the harbor at Boulogne where it was hidden for some period of time. </span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">Victor mentions that subsequent presidents to Roosevelt have also deceitfully taken America into wars but provides no names. He could have cited President Lyndon Johnson and his lies about the Gulf of Tonkin incident to get Congress to authorize him to retaliate to get America into the Viet Nam War. He could also have mentioned our current president and the lies about weapons of mass destruction to get us into the war with Iraq. In both cases Congress accepted the lies of the president and unconstitutionally delegated the war making power to the president rather than declaring war itself, as the Constitution requires. </span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">I agree that Victor has accurately described the deceitful conduct of the presidents he cites (see the chapters "Lincoln and the First Shot" and "Roosevelt and the First Shot" in my book <i><a href="http://www.mises.org/store/Century-of-War-A--P152C0.aspx?AFID=1">A Century of War</a></i>) but I strongly disagree with his conclusion that the American people have knowingly condoned the deceitful activity of the presidents Victor mentions because our history books do not contain this information, it is not taught in the schools and universities and it is not recited by the news media. You have to have independent researchers like Victor to find and disclose most of this information. </span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;"><a href="http://www.mises.org/store/Century-of-War-A--P152C0.aspx?AFID=1"><img src="http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig2/denson-century.jpg" align="right" border="0" height="270" width="183" /></a>I wonder if Victor’s book will be taught or read at West Point, Annapolis or the Air Force Academy. After finishing it, the famous lines from Tennyson’s poem <i>The Charge of the Light Brigade</i> came to mind:</span></p> <blockquote> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">"Theirs not to make reply,<br /> Theirs not to reason why,<br /> Theirs but to do and die.<br /> Into the valley of Death<br /> Rode the six hundred."</span></p> </blockquote> <p align="right"><i><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">July 27, 2007</span></i></p> <p align="left"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;"><i>John V. Denson [<a href="mailto:donna.moreman@alacourt.gov">send him mail</a>] is the author of </i><a href="http://www.mises.org/store/Century-of-War-A--P152C0.aspx?AFID=1">A Century of War</a><i>, </i><a href="http://www.mises.org/store/Costs-of-War-P80C0.aspx?AFID=1">The Costs of War</a><i> and </i><a href="http://www.mises.org/store/Reassessing-the-Presidency-The-Rise-of-the-Executive-State-and-the-Decline-of-Freedom-P109C0.aspx?AFID=1">Reassessing the Presidency</a><i>.</i></span></p> <span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:85%;">Copyright © 2007 LewRockwell.com</span>Bon Oxfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01737069723970494870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216029803037209708.post-61106094241627809152007-08-01T05:41:00.001-07:002007-08-01T05:41:37.503-07:00RON PAUL REVOLUTION AND THE END OF AN EMPIRE<h1 align="center"><span style="font-family:Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;"><b><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:6;"> Ron Paul and the Empire</span></b></span></h1> <p align="center"><span style="font-family:Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;"><b><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;"> by <a href="mailto:paleoliberty@aol.com"> Steven LaTulippe</a><br /> <span style="font-size:78%;color:#ffffff;">by Steven LaTulippe</span></span></b></span></p> <p align="center"> <!-- Copyright 2001-2002, Clickability, Inc. 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We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall, and we see further into the future."</span></i></p> </blockquote> <p align="right"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">~ Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">Can Ron Paul really win? Does he have a snowball’s chance of becoming the next president, or are we all kidding ourselves?</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">At the moment, Rep. Paul’s quixotic campaign seems to be picking up steam. His recent fundraising statistics reveal a blossoming, internet-based movement that is uniting libertarians and other concerned citizens from across the political spectrum. His performance in the media has been sharp, and his organization seems to be honing its message.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">While there are plenty of reasons for optimism, I think we need to be clear-eyed about the road ahead. If Rep. Paul somehow manages to remain a viable candidate and to seriously challenge his mainstream opponents, things will get <i>extremely</i> interesting. He faces a set of obstacles unlike any other candidate in my lifetime.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">When evaluating his chances, it’s important to accept one fact about contemporary America: This is not a democracy, and certainly not a constitutional republic. America is actually a carefully concealed oligarchy. A few thousand people, mostly in government, finance, and the military-industrial complex, run this country for their own purposes. By manipulating the two-party system, influencing the mainstream media, and controlling the flow of campaign finance money, this oligarchy works to secure the nomination of its preferred candidates (Democratic and Republican alike), thus giving voters a "choice" between Puppet A and Marionette B.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">Unlike the establishment’s candidates, Ron Paul is a freelancer running on three specific ideas:</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">1. The federal government must function within the strict guidelines of the Constitution.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">2. America should deconstruct its empire, withdraw our troops from around the world and reestablish a foreign policy based on noninterventionism.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">3. America should abolish the Federal Reserve Bank, eliminate fiat currency and return to hard money.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">This is not a political agenda. This is not a party platform. It is a revolution. The entire ruling oligarchy would be swept away if these ideas were ever implemented. Every sentence, every word, every jot and tittle of this agenda is unacceptable, repellent and hateful to America’s ruling elite.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">The reasons for this are fairly obvious.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">Through its control of the Federal Reserve, the banking elites make billions of dollars in unearned profits and exert enormous influence over the American economy. Countless industries and special interest groups (both foreign and domestic) have sprung up around our defense and national security budgets. The bureaucratic elites who dominate the federal government despise the Constitution’s limitations on their power and view the document as just an archaic "piece of paper."</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">Anyone who believes these folks will simply "walk away" if Ron Paul is elected president obviously doesn’t understand with whom they are dealing.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">When its authority over the Southern states was challenged in the 19<sup>th</sup> Century, the oligarchy suspended the Constitution and launched a bloody war that killed three quarters of a million people. They arrested newspaper editors, deported antiwar congressmen, and burned down several American cities.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">A century later, the oligarchy nuked two Japanese cities, killing thousands of civilians in the twinkle of an eye. </span></p> <p align="center"><img src="http://www.lewrockwell.com/latulippe/fm_victim.jpg" height="276" width="381" /><br /> <span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:85%;"><i>Victim of the Hiroshima atomic bomb</i></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">When its marginal interests were threatened in Southeast Asia, the oligarchy launched a devastating war that killed over a million people and left the region marinating in toxic defoliating chemicals. </span></p> <p align="center"><img src="http://www.lewrockwell.com/latulippe/Vietnam_napalm_19721.jpg" height="309" width="400" /><br /> <span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:85%;"><i>Vietnamese civilians fleeing an air raid</i></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">To further its interests in the Middle East, the oligarchy slapped horrific sanctions on Iraq that killed 250,000 children (and then trotted out Madeleine Albright – one of Clinton’s blood-stained trolls – to smugly declare that the deaths were "worth it").</span></p> <p align="center"><img src="http://www.lewrockwell.com/latulippe/Iraqi_children_under_sanctions.jpg" height="350" width="283" /><br /> <span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:85%;"><i>Malnourished Iraqi child</i></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">Keeping these facts in mind, we must ask ourselves a simple question: <i>If the oligarchy was willing to behave this way to protect its often marginal interests, what would it do to stop a devastating assault on its very existence?</i></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">The attack on Ron Paul’s candidacy will begin in earnest when it appears he has an even remote possibility of winning. It will follow a fairly predictable path:</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">The first step is already in play. The establishment will start by simply ignoring him, by using its power in the mainstream media and their influence over campaign donors. If possible, they will find ways of excluding him from the debates.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">This strategy is already failing. The internet and talk radio are outside the elite’s direct control and are being used effectively by Rep. Paul to "get the message out." (And mark my words, sooner or later the oligarchy will come for the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Governance_Forum">internet</a>. This medium has been a royal pain in their <i>derriere</i> from day one).</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">If this strategy fizzles, the establishment will move on to ridicule and fear mongering. Ron’s ideas will be grotesquely distorted in establishment media "hit pieces." They’ll say he wants to permit heroin use in public schools, or that he wants old people to die in the streets without their social security checks, or that he wants to allow greedy industrialists to dump toxic waste into our drinking water. </span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">The next arrow in the oligarchy’s quiver will be scandal – real or fabricated. Usually, this takes the form of pictures, billing records, etc. involving financial or sexual hi-jinks. For folks with the right motivation and abilities, it would be child’s play to implicate him in some sort of phony ethical, moral, or financial skullduggery (e.g., doctored pictures, sordid media accounts from "eyewitnesses," etc.).</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">If Ron somehow survives this assault, the oligarchy will move on to the criminal justice system. On some fine day, a stretch limo will pull up to the Capitol Building and one of the establishment’s <i>consiglieres</i> (Jim Baker...or maybe Vernon Jordan) will ooze into Ron’s office for a "chat." </span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">Maybe Rep. Paul forgot to fill out Form X109/23W on his 1997 income tax return? </span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">Or maybe he drained a mud puddle when he built his new house...and maybe that puddle could theoretically be classified as a "wetland?"</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">Or, even better, maybe a close relative is in hot water with OSHA/FDA/IRS/you-name-it (federal prosecutors love to go after relatives in order to gain "leverage").</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">Rep. Paul’s sentence could be lessened, of course...provided he agreed to drop his candidacy as part of a "plea bargain."</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">Ayn Rand once stated that the hallmark of authoritarian systems is the creation of innumerable, indecipherable laws. Such systems make everyone an un-indicted felon and allow for the exercise of arbitrary government power via selective prosecution.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">If this tactic somehow failed and it appeared that Rep. Paul was still a credible threat to win the presidency, then things could get dicey.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">The establishment may decide to let him take office and then use their considerable influence to ensure his presidency ended in failure – mostly through their control of Congress, the federal bureaucracy, and the mainstream media. </span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">The problem with this strategy (from the oligarchy’s perspective) is that it entails considerable risk. As president, Rep. Paul could use the substantial powers of the office to inflict untold damage to the imperial structure (especially if he chose to withdraw American troops stationed overseas). Worse, he could appoint anti-government “ideologues” to a variety of positions in the federal government.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">The damage could take decades to undo.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">If these options fail, the oligarchy could resort to various “extra-legal” strategies – anything from vote-rigging to trumped-up impeachment charges.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;">Either way, one thing is certain: The American establishment controls a world-wide empire, has the power to print the world’s reserve currency at will, and can enact virtually any law without constitutional constraint. Such power is rarely surrendered without a long, bitter struggle. </span> </p> <p align="right"><span style="font-family:Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;"><i><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;">July 31, 2007</span></i></span></p> <p align="left"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:100%;"><i>Steven LaTulippe [<a href="mailto:paleoliberty@aol.com">send him mail</a>] is a physician currently practicing in Ohio. He was an officer in the United States Air Force for 13 years.</i></span></p> <p align="left"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:85%;">Copyright © 2007 LewRockwell.com</span></p>Bon Oxfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01737069723970494870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216029803037209708.post-83952505438816791152007-08-01T05:07:00.001-07:002007-08-01T05:07:50.373-07:00ATTORNEY WINS CASE AGAINST IRS IN COURT!Shreveport attorney Tom Cryer won a unanimous NOT GUILTY verdict in federal district court defeating the IRS's claim that he "willfully" failed to file federal income tax returns.<br /><br />Tom refused to file tax returns because the IRS could not show him any law making him liable for 'filing' a tax return.<br /><br />Visit TruthAttack.org and fight this grand theft by deception under the protection of your FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS!<br /><br /><br /><object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="never" allownetworking="internal" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/EgbYkElqxw0" height="350" width="425"> <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="never"> <param name="allowNetworking" value="internal"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/EgbYkElqxw0"> <param name="wmode" value="transparent"> </object>Bon Oxfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01737069723970494870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216029803037209708.post-65774427139553882692007-08-01T04:32:00.000-07:002007-08-01T04:33:52.124-07:00OHIO'S 2004 ELECTION RECORDS MISSING<p align="center"><img src="http://www.alternet.org/images/site/logo.gif" alt="AlterNet" align="middle" border="0" height="59" width="173" /></p> <h2 style="margin: 20px 0px 0px;">In Violation of Federal Law, Ohio's 2004 Presidential Election Records Are Destroyed or Missing</h2> <h5 style="margin: 0px 0px 20px;"> By Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet<br />Posted on July 30, 2007, Printed on August 1, 2007<br />http://www.alternet.org/story/58328/</h5> <p> Two-thirds of Ohio counties have destroyed or lost their 2004 presidential ballots and related election records, according to letters from county election officials to the Ohio Secretary of State, Jennifer Brunner.</p><p>The lost records violate Ohio law, which states federal election records must be kept for 22 months after Election Day, and a U.S. District Court order issued last September that the 2004 ballots be preserved while the court hears a civil rights lawsuit alleging voter suppression of African-American voters in Columbus.</p><p>The destruction of the election records also frustrates efforts by the media and historians to determine the accuracy of Ohio's 2004 vote count, because in county after county the key evidence needed to understand vote count anomalies apparently no longer exists.</p><p>"The extent of the destruction of records is consistent with the covering up of the fraud that we believe occurred in the presidential election," said Cliff Arnebeck, a Columbus attorney representing the King Lincoln Bronzeville Neighborhood Association, which filed voter suppression suit. "We're in the process of addressing where to go from here with the Ohio Attorney General's office."</p><p>"On the one hand, people will now say you can't prove the fraud," he said, "but the rule of law says that when evidence is destroyed it creates a presumption that the people who destroyed evidence did so because it would have proved the contention of the other side."</p><p>Brunner's office confirmed the 2004 ballots were missing, but declined to comment.</p><p>"Because this case is still pending, Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner is unable to comment on this," said Jeff Ortega, a spokesperson. "Ultimately, whether the boards of elections are in violation of a federal court order is a matter for the court to decide."</p><p>The missing presidential election records were discovered this past spring by Brunner, a Democrat and former judge who was elected Secretary of State in 2006. Her predecessor, Republican J. Kenneth Blackwell, was sued in August 2006 by a Columbus community organization that alleged the former Secretary of State and other "unnamed" officials "selectively and discriminatorily designed and implemented procedures for the allocation of voting machines in a manner to create a shortage for certain urban precincts where large numbers of African-Americans resided," according to the complaint.</p><p>Under federal and Ohio law, all ballots and election records from federal races must be preserved for 22 months after Election Day, which fell on Sept. 2, 2006. While election integrity activists and reporters from a Columbus website, FreePress.org, had sought the ballots and other election records soon after the presidential election, Blackwell would not allow county boards to release the ballots, citing court challenges to the 2004 results and a 2005 suit from the League of Women Voters alleging the state was not following the newest federal election law, the Help America Vote Act. By spring 2006, after the League's lawyers stipulated they were not challenging the 2004 election results, some counties began to release their 2004 election records. Scrutiny of those records raised questions about the conduct of the election and some county vote totals.</p><p>On Aug. 23, 2006, lawyers for the King Lincoln Bronzeville Neighborhood Association notified the Secretary of State's office of their voter suppression suit. The following day Blackwell's office sent letters to all 88 of Ohio's county Boards of Election, notifying them of the suit. It is customary for public officials to preserve potential evidence when notified of pending litigation. Blackwell negotiated with opposing attorneys and agree to send a directive to election boards saying the ballots should be retained. Ian Urbina, a New York Times reporter working on the story, reported that Blackwell said he would be creating a process whereby county election officials could eventually review and dispose of the 2004 ballots. </p><p>On Sept. 11, 2006, U.S. District Judge Algenon Marbley ordered the election boards "to preserve all ballots from the 2004 Presidential election, on paper and in any other format, including electronic data, unless and until such time otherwise instructed by this Court."</p><p>Two months after Marbley's order, Blackwell lost the race for governor to Democrat Ted Strickland and Brunner was elected Secretary of State. During the following winter and spring, Brunner and the state's attorneys began negotiating a settlement for the voter suppression suit, according to lawyers involved in those talks. Part of that agreement, which has not yet been brought before the federal district court, was the creation of a statewide repository of the 2004 presidential ballots. When conducting an inventory and attempting to collect those records, Brunner's office learned that seven counties had no ballots to turn over and 56 counties only had partial records from the 2004 vote.</p><p>"This is not just a violation of a 22-month ballot retention law. It is a violation of a court order," Arnebeck said. "Blackwell told the New York Times that he would create a clearance procedure before destroying any ballots. The combination of Blackwell's directive and my letter should have been enough to give the counties notice."</p><p><b>What happened to the 2004 ballots</b></p><p>The presidential ballots and election records were lost, misplaced, damaged by water, taken to landfills -- all apparently by mistake, due to miscommunications, or because the local election administrators were not aware of the state ballot preservation law or the federal court order, according to letters to Brunner's office from the various county election boards.</p><p>"Our staff unintentionally discarded boxes containing Ballot Pages as requested in (Brunner's) Directive 2007-07 due to unclear and misinterpreted instructions," wrote Butler County Board of Election Director Betty McGary and Deputy Director Lynn Kinkaid in a May 9 memo. "Several boxes containing all the wire-bound ballot pages were discarded into a Rumpke dumpster. The dumpster would have been emptied into the local landfill."</p><p>"The Hamilton County (Cincinnati) Board of Elections was unable to transfer the unvoted precinct ballots and soiled precinct ballots," wrote John Williams, Hamilton County Director of Elections on May 16, 2007. "To the best if my knowledge, the above ballots were inadvertently shredded between January 19th and 26th of '06 in an effort to make room for the new Hart voting system."</p><p>"No one could remember the disposition of said ballots," wrote Mike Keeley, of Clermont County's Board of Elections on May 10, 2007, referring to the "unvoted" or unused ballots from the 2004 presidential election.</p><p>Since the 2004 election, a handful of media organizations, civil rights groups, attorneys, historians and authors have been investigating how the president won in Ohio by 118,775 votes. These inquiries have had two primary focuses: examining Republican-led voter suppression tactics and problems with the vote count, suggesting vote count fraud.</p><p>The partisan voter suppression tactics have been easier to document. Before the election, Blackwell, who was co-chair of the state's Bush-Cheney campaign, issued numerous administrative orders that fueled an extreme partisan climate. One of the most notable came as Ohio was seeing large voter registration drives in mid-2004. Blackwell issued an order, which he later rescinded under pressure, saying only voter registrations on 80-pound paper would be accepted and processed. At the time, Republican Gov. Robert Taft told reporters that directive could disenfranchise 100,000 voters. The state Republican Party also threatened to send thousands of poll challengers to local precincts, to ensure only properly registered voter exercised that right.</p><p>On Election Day in many Ohio cities, the turnout -- or voter accommodation rate -- in these traditional Democratic strongholds was markedly lower than in nearby suburbs, where Republicans have tended to be the majority. In Columbus, the King Lincoln Bronzeville Neighborhood Association sued saying African-American voters in Franklin County were disenfranchised because urban precincts received fewer voting machines per capita than the whiter, wealthier suburbs. They noted urban precincts had many more voting machines during the spring primary.</p><p>Ohio's Secretary of State and Attorney General are engaged in settlement talks in the neighborhood association suit, suggesting the voter suppression claims have merit. In contrast, the case for Republican vote count fraud in the rural areas has been much harder to prove, even as the certified vote count is problematic in some counties.</p><p>Compared to Ohio's Democratic urban core, turnout in the Republican districts was higher than the 2000 election. Moreover, in a handful of counties there were vote count anomalies that made post-election observers question whether Bush's vote was padded. The most notable example is more than 10,000 voters from several Bible belt counties who voted for Bush and voted in favor of gay marriage, if the results are true. In a dozen rural counties, virtually unknown Democrats at the bottom of the ballot received more votes that Kerry, an oddity in a presidential year.</p><p>Reporters associated with FreePress.org and Arnebeck's legal team hoped the court order preserving the 2004 ballots would enable them to investigate how these results occurred. Depending on the ballot type and vote-counting machine used, they have theories about how Bush's vote could have been inflated. But because many of these rural counties apparently have destroyed the very 2004 election records that would clarify what happened, it is now virtually impossible to determine what happened.</p><p>In Warren County, where county election officials said on Election Day that the FBI had declared a homeland security alert -- which they later retracted -- ballots were diverted to a warehouse before counting. The local media was not allowed to observe the vote count. According to a letter from the Warren County Board of Election to Brunner's office, the election board cannot find 22,000 unused ballots from the election. </p><p>"The missing records reveal where the fraud occurred," said Arnebeck. "You take as an example, Warren County. It is well documented that there was a phony homeland security alert and that was the excuse for excluding the public and the press from observing what was going on during Election Day. So the missing unused ballots would suggest that ballots were remade to fit the desired result."</p><p>"The same situation occurred in Clermont County," he said. "We have sworn affidavits from people who saw white stickers placed over the Kerry-Edward ovals in this optical scan county," he said, referring to one way of masking a would-be Kerry vote, because optical-scan machines read ink marks on paper ballots. "So the missing unused ballots would suggest they were used to remake ballots to reflect the desired vote for Bush."</p><p>Many rural Ohio counties did not have vote count problems, Arnebeck said. But enough did have significant problems that called for further investigation.</p><p>"The Attorney General says the rural counties all say human error was to blame (for the missing ballots)," he said. "There are some counties where ballots are missing and we don't believe anything was wrong with the vote count. But there are others where that human error covers up what we think was vote count fraud."</p><p>Another big category of votes that will never be explained are the nearly 129,000 ballots that were rejected by voting machines and not counted. Many of these 2004 ballots -- a mix of computer punch cards, paper ballots to be marked by ink and electronic votes -- are among the incomplete 2004 election records. One post-election analysis found 94,000 of these ballots come from Democratic-majority precincts, and estimated these that ballots could have cost Kerry an additional 26,000 votes. </p> <p><i>Steven Rosenfeld is a senior fellow at Alternet.org and co-author of What Happened in Ohio: A Documentary Record of Theft and Fraud in the 2004 Election, with Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman (The New Press, 2006). </i></p> <h5 style="margin: 30px 0px 20px;">© 2007 Independent Media Institute. All rights reserved.<br />View this story online at: http://www.alternet.org/story/58328/</h5>Bon Oxfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01737069723970494870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216029803037209708.post-33917042733377236282007-08-01T04:28:00.001-07:002007-08-01T04:30:22.063-07:00CONTROL THE OIL, CONTROL THE PEOPLE<span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; font-size: 16pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">The New World Order: The Bilderberg plan <nobr>-</nobr>- control oil, control people (Part 23)</span><br /><br /><!-- START --><div style="padding: 10px 0px 8px 20px; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; text-align: center; float: right;"> <img src="http://www.renewamerica.us/images/columnists/spingola.jpg" border="0" height="136" width="94" /><br />Deanna Spingola </div><!-- END --> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 9pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <a href="http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/spingola"><b>Deanna Spingola</b></a><br />July 29, 2007<br /><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> There are arguments from both sides of the oil issue: either we are quickly running out of oil or we have adequate oil to meet our requirements for generations. Both sides offer evidence, witnesses, experts and documentation to validate their assertions. Some peak-oil projects, funded by oil companies, are highly suspect. The very credible Lindsey Williams maintains that the North Slope in Alaska has as much crude oil as Saudi Arabia. Governor Frank H. Murkowski said in 2005 that there is enough oil on the North Slope to supply the entire United States for 200 years. <a href="http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/spingola/070729#fn1" name="ref1" style="font-size: 10px; position: relative; top: -4px; text-decoration: none;">[1]</a> Antony Sutton, author of <i>Energy, the Created Crisis,</i> is adamant that we have sufficient oil. Conversely, I have read reports which support the peak oil theory. I personally believe, after research, that "there is enough and to spare." Doom and gloom, Chicken Little oil scarcity claims have been propagated from the beginning. A scarcity, authentic or manufactured, of any crucial commodity accomplishes the following:<br /><br /> </span><ol><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><li>Increases profits to those who manipulate that commodity.<br /><br /> </li><li>Allows the controllers to determine availability to the "right" people.<br /><br /> </li><li>In the case of energy — severely impacts lifestyle, progress and prosperity.<br /><br /> </li><li>Extracts more money from an often overburdened consumer.<br /><br /></li></span></ol> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">Henry A. Kissinger, Rockefeller's well-compensated, multi-purpose minion and long-time member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) said: "Control the oil and you can control entire Continents. Control food and you control people." <a href="http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/spingola/070729#fn2" name="ref2" style="font-size: 10px; position: relative; top: -4px; text-decoration: none;">[2]</a> Michael Collon, Belgian author said: "If you want to rule the world, you need to control oil. All the oil. Anywhere." <a href="http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/spingola/070729#fn3" name="ref3" style="font-size: 10px; position: relative; top: -4px; text-decoration: none;">[3]</a><br /><br />The first very memorable "oil crisis" occurred in 1973. Nixon, obedient to his handlers, announced the demonetization of the dollar on August 15, 1971. This allowed time for the "real deciders" to plan their strategy. Eighty-four individuals, financial, corporate and political elitists, gathered at Saltsjöbaden, Sweden for the annual Bilderberg meeting. American attendee, Walter J. Levy, outlined the plan for a pending 400% increase in OPEC revenues, the exact percentage that Kissinger would demand of Saudi Arabian Shah. Their intentions were not prevention but rather a scheme on how to manage the projected abundance of oil dollars — what was later referred to by Herr Kissinger as "recycling the petrodollar flows." The Bilderberg policy was to initiate a global oil embargo. <a href="http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/spingola/070729#fn4" name="ref4" style="font-size: 10px; position: relative; top: -4px; text-decoration: none;">[4]</a><br /><br />An internal memo, dated January 8, 1973, from U.S. Bilderberg official Robert D. Murphy suggested a list of participants for the May 1973 meeting. He stated: "There will be room for only 20 Americans at Saltsjöbaden." <a href="http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/spingola/070729#fn5" name="ref5" style="font-size: 10px; position: relative; top: -4px; text-decoration: none;">[5]</a><br /><br />Those attending included Robert O. Anderson of Atlantic Richfield Oil Co., Lord Greenhill, chairman of British Petroleum, Sir Eric Roll of Siegmund G. Warburg (creator of Eurobonds), George Ball of Lehman Brothers Investment Bank, Henry Kissinger, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bundy" target="_blank">William P. Bundy</a>, Zbigniew Brzezinski (soon to be Carter's national security advisor), David Rockefeller, Emilio G. Collado, Executive Vice President, Exxon Corp.; <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gianni_Agnelli" target="_blank">Gianni Agnelli</a>, <a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/nazi_era_industrialist_makes_good.html" target="_blank">Otto Wolff von Amerongen</a> and Arthur H. Dean, CFR Director (1955-72) and a partner in Rockefeller-oriented Sullivan & Cromwell. Kissinger had requested Warburg to develop the Eurobonds ten years before. <a href="http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/spingola/070729#fn6" name="ref6" style="font-size: 10px; position: relative; top: -4px; text-decoration: none;">[6]</a> A very small scheming elite group, centered in New York and London, influence the economy of the entire world.<br /><br /> The reasons for the "oil shock" were:<br /><br /> </span><ol><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><li>Launch a colossal assault against world industrial growth.<br /><br /> </li><li>Tilt the balance of power back to the advantage of Anglo-American financial interests.<br /><br /> </li><li>Control the world's oil flows, their most powerful weapon.<br /><br /> </li><li>Increase the world demand for U.S. dollars. <a href="http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/spingola/070729#fn7" name="ref7" style="font-size: 10px; position: relative; top: -4px; text-decoration: none;">[7]</a><br /><br /></li></span></ol> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">Egypt and Syria invaded Israel on October 6, 1973 which came to be known as the Yom Kippur War. This war was "secretly orchestrated" by Herr Henry Kissinger, Nixon's national security adviser as well as Secretary of State. Kissinger effectively managed the Israeli response through his close association with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simcha_Dinitz" target="_blank">Simcha Dinitz</a>. Kissinger, "Nixon's intelligence czar," through privileged channels, misrepresented motives, suppressed communications, and intercepted intelligence reports ensured that the war would progress and end with his "shuttle diplomacy" as planned in May 1973 at Saltsjöbaden. The Arabs, scapegoats for the Elite, were the recipients of the world's rage and Kissinger was the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize for 1973. <a href="http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/spingola/070729#fn8" name="ref8" style="font-size: 10px; position: relative; top: -4px; text-decoration: none;">[8]</a><br /><br />A "fortuitous coincidence" was that, with oil's huge price increase, British Petroleum, Royal Dutch Shell and other Anglo-American oil companies were able to substantially recoup the millions they had spent in the exploration of the North Sea oilfields. Meanwhile, in Vienna, OPEC countries met and decided to raise their prices by 70% and initiated an oil embargo on all oil sales to the U.S. and the Netherlands (major oil port for Western Europe) because of the U.S. support for Israel in the Middle East War. On October 17, 1973, OPEC demanded withdrawal of Israel from Arab territories occupied since June 1967 and the restoration of the legal rights of the Palestinians. Nixon was in the midst of Watergate, orchestrated by de facto president Kissinger and assisted by Alexander Haig. <a href="http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/spingola/070729#fn9" name="ref9" style="font-size: 10px; position: relative; top: -4px; text-decoration: none;">[9]</a> There are detectable reasons for Kissinger, a Rockefeller asset, to "Watergate" Nixon, a man he detested and swore he would never work for — he didn't. <a href="http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/spingola/070729#fn10" name="ref10" style="font-size: 10px; position: relative; top: -4px; text-decoration: none;">[10]</a> In addition, the Watergate fiasco distracted the masses from the grave economic situation.<br /><br />Uninformed Nixon attempted to get U.S. Treasury officials to force OPEC to lower oil prices but was bluntly instructed, via a memo, that the bankers had mandated the dollar "recycling" program to accommodate the higher oil prices. Jack F. Bennett, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Monetary Affairs (until July 1974), had counseled Nixon towards his 1971 dollar demonetization decision. Bennett, at Kissinger's direction and according to an established agreement with the Saudis to finance the U.S. government deficits, had arranged for David C. Mulford to go to Saudi Arabia to act as an "investment adviser" to SAMA. His job was to "guide the Saudi petrodollars investments to the correct banks, naturally in London and New York. The Bilderberg scheme was operating just as planned." <a href="http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/spingola/070729#fn11" name="ref11" style="font-size: 10px; position: relative; top: -4px; text-decoration: none;">[11]</a><br /><br />Led by Exxon, some oil companies had created a short supply of domestic crude oil, supported by Nixon on advice from his aids. By January 1974, oil prices had increased by 400%. In December 1974, nine powerful bankers, including David Rockefeller, approached New York mayor Abraham Beame. They made him an offer he could not refuse — unless he assigned management of the city's vast pension funds to them — the Municipal Assistance Corporation — then their complicit media cronies would financially destroy the city. This decreased the amount of money available for roadways, bridges, hospitals, schools and the laying-off of tens of thousands of city workers in order for New York City, the biggest city in the country, to service their bank debt. Similar circumstances occurred in other parts of the world: bank collapses, grave trade deficits, unemployment, inflation, and industrial and transportation depression in the more industrial nations. In third-world countries, the consequences were even more severe. <a href="http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/spingola/070729#fn12" name="ref12" style="font-size: 10px; position: relative; top: -4px; text-decoration: none;">[12]</a><br /><br />While devastating to the populace, the oil companies flourished: Exxon, Mobil, Texaco, Chevron, and Gulf. OPEC's petrodollars were deposited into the right banks in New York and London: Chase Manhattan, Citibank, Manufacturers Hanover, Bank of America, Barclays, Lloyds and Midland Bank. <a href="http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/spingola/070729#fn13" name="ref13" style="font-size: 10px; position: relative; top: -4px; text-decoration: none;">[13]</a> These events set the stage for the debt crisis of the 1980s.<br /><br />The globalist decision of August 1971 to remove the dollar from a fixed, gold-backed exchange rate system generated a shift to double-digit inflation, urban decay, mounting unemployment and excessive interest rates. The Kissinger-orchestrated Middle East oil crisis of 1973-74 was designed to de-industrialize and eventually transform the United States from the world's largest creditor nation to the world's biggest debtor nation.<br /><br />A review of history further helps to reveal ruthless business patterns that have shaped current circumstances — including yet another war resulting in death and bloodshed for the benefit of the greedy, insatiable elite.<br /><br />Beginning with the Civil War, the opportunistic, monopolistic John D. Rockefeller sold inflated-priced Harkness whiskey to the Federal troops. Recognizing the huge profitability in war with the right commodity, he built his first oil refinery in 1863 along the Cuyahoga River (Ohio) to accommodate the growing needs of the raging Civil War which he and others, like J. P. Morgan, had purchased their way out of for $300.<br /><br />The Rothschild controlled National City Bank of Cleveland gave Rockefeller his first loan. In 1865 Rockefeller, for $72,500, bought out his partners (Henry Flagler, Samuel Andrews, Stephen V. Harkness) and price-chopped or otherwise destroyed his competitors by purchasing supporting industries such as pipelines, railroad tank cars, terminal facilities and barrel manufacturing factories. He soon incorporated the growing imperialistic Standard Oil Company in 1870 to fully exploit the growing Russian kerosene market as well as the curative "snake-oil" market in the U.S.<br /><br />In what Ohio historian Christopher Eiben called "a brilliant stroke of corporate back scratching," "Rockefeller sold shares to bankers who lent him millions and railroaders who gave him great freight deals, including rebates on rivals' shipments." <a href="http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/spingola/070729#fn14" name="ref14" style="font-size: 10px; position: relative; top: -4px; text-decoration: none;">[14]</a> "Working through the Wall Street firms of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., and J. P. Morgan Co., the Rothschilds financed John D. Rockefeller so that he could create the Standard Oil Empire. They also financed the activities of Edward Harriman (railroads) and Andrew Carnegie (steel)." <a href="http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/spingola/070729#fn15" name="ref15" style="font-size: 10px; position: relative; top: -4px; text-decoration: none;">[15]</a><br /><br />By 1873 Standard Oil, by hook or crook, had acquired about 80 percent of the refining capacity in Cleveland which was about one third of the U.S. total. Interestingly enough, the stock market crashed on September 18, 1873 and created a six year recession allowing Standard Oil to seize refineries in Pennsylvania's oil region, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and New York. Rockefeller controlled approximately 90% of the oil refined as well as most of the oil marketing facilities in the U.S. by 1878. <a href="http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/spingola/070729#fn16" name="ref16" style="font-size: 10px; position: relative; top: -4px; text-decoration: none;">[16]</a> Ruthless Rockefeller, who detested competition, founded the first global monopoly and was supplying 90% of the world's oil, 70% overseas. Great Britain also experienced economic depression in 1873 replete with pandemic unemployment and bankruptcies. Two years later, the Rothschilds provided a sizeable loan (£4,080,000) to enable the British government to acquire a controlling share of the Suez Canal. <a href="http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/spingola/070729#fn17" name="ref17" style="font-size: 10px; position: relative; top: -4px; text-decoration: none;">[17]</a><br /><br />Rockefeller had built the world's biggest business in Cleveland, Ohio. Standard Oil sold over "300 refining byproducts" from Vaseline to chewing gum. In 1882, he created the Standard Oil Trust, suggested by Samuel Dodd, Standard Oil's attorney, to eviscerate and devour all of the independent oil producers and refiners both nationally (250 competitors in the U.S.) and internationally. A trust is when stockholders in a group of companies transfer their shares to a single set of trustees who control all of the companies which constitutes a monopoly. "In exchange, the stockholders received certificates entitling them to a specified share of the consolidated earnings of the jointly managed companies." <a href="http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/spingola/070729#fn18" name="ref18" style="font-size: 10px; position: relative; top: -4px; text-decoration: none;">[18]</a> Rockefeller's "trust" became an example to other "businessmen" who embraced the "trust" concept — always at the expense of the working man. Rockefeller took his growing Goliath to Manhattan in 1883 where he "influenced urban sprawl." <a href="http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/spingola/070729#fn19" name="ref19" style="font-size: 10px; position: relative; top: -4px; text-decoration: none;">[19]</a><br /><br />Russia's oil industry accelerated in the latter part of the 19th century due to an oil boom at the Caspian Sea town of Baku, which had opened in 1873 and at Galicia (now in Poland). The Rothschild banking family had major interests in the oil-wells of Baku, Russia. Beginning in 1875, Ludvig and Robert Nobel built an oil empire known as the Brothers Nobel, or Branobel, based on oil deposits in Baku on the Caspian Sea. <a href="http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/spingola/070729#fn20" name="ref20" style="font-size: 10px; position: relative; top: -4px; text-decoration: none;">[20]</a> By 1883, Standard Oil's imports were not as essential to the Russian market for reasons that follow. <a href="http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/spingola/070729#fn21" name="ref21" style="font-size: 10px; position: relative; top: -4px; text-decoration: none;">[21]</a><br /><br />Britain's Marcus Samuel, future founder of Shell Oil, developed tankers capable of carrying oil in cost-cutting bulk transport through the Suez Canal. The maiden voyage of the "Murex," the first tanker, was in 1892. Remember, Great Britain had a controlling interest in the Suez Canal, thanks to the Rothschilds. Marcus and his brother also established bulk oil storage at ports in the Far East. In addition, they contracted with a Russian group, controlled by the Rothschilds, "for the long-term supply of kerosene" which put them in high-risk direct competition, abhorrent to Rockefeller, with Standard Oil. The Samuel brothers named their company The Tank Syndicate but renamed it in 1897 to the Shell Transport and Trading Company. <a href="http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/spingola/070729#fn22" name="ref22" style="font-size: 10px; position: relative; top: -4px; text-decoration: none;">[22]</a><br /><br />Rockefeller and his accomplices felt that they were above the law until the passage of the Sherman Antitrust Act on July 2, 1890, enacted by Congress based on their Constitutional power to regulate interstate commerce. It was signed into law by President Benjamin Harrison. In 1892, the Ohio Supreme Court ordered the disbanding of the Standard Oil Trust, an illegal monopoly. "Standard Oil was subsequently reorganized in 1899 as a holding company under the name of Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. That state had conveniently adopted a law that permitted a parent company to own the stock of other companies." <a href="http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/spingola/070729#fn23" name="ref23" style="font-size: 10px; position: relative; top: -4px; text-decoration: none;">[23]</a><br /><br />In 1896 Standard Oil contributed $250,000 to Republican William McKinley's presidential campaign against Democrat William Jennings Bryan, a supporter of antitrust legislation. <a href="http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/spingola/070729#fn24" name="ref24" style="font-size: 10px; position: relative; top: -4px; text-decoration: none;">[24]</a> McKinley was opposed to the imperialistic, expansionist Spanish-American War. Yet, to retain office in the next election, he asked Congress to declare war against Spain in 1898. He signed the Gold Standard Act in 1900.<br /><br /> In September 1901, William McKinley, allegedly a Rockefeller tool, was shot by <a href="http://www.buffalohistoryworks.com/panamex/assassination/executon.htm" target="_blank">Leon Czolgosz</a> (son of Polish immigrants), labeled as an "anarchist" although he didn't belong to any rebel groups. Czolgosz was immediately "tried and executed by the Establishment." The assassination was manipulated by the Establishment to subtly discredit rebellion and anyone who might justifiably dissent. The Elite, in any age, would actually prefer to prohibit dissent. It is similar to our current administration saying: "Let us never tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories concerning the attacks of September the 11th..." <a href="http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/spingola/070729#fn25" name="ref25" style="font-size: 10px; position: relative; top: -4px; text-decoration: none;">[25]</a> and by implication — let us never tolerate conspiracy theorists.<br /><br />Following the assassination, various anti-sedition and anti-conspiracy laws were passed by the Establishment. Who benefited by McKinley's death — Teddy Roosevelt who was supported by the contending Morgan (as opposed to Rockefeller) wing of the Republican Party. Roosevelt immediately started using the anti-trust weapon to try to destroy Rockefeller's Standard Oil and Harriman's Northern Securities, both bitter enemies of the Morgan world empire. <a href="http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/spingola/070729#fn26" name="ref26" style="font-size: 10px; position: relative; top: -4px; text-decoration: none;">[26]</a><br /><br />Woodrow Wilson, son of a Presbyterian minister, had the financial and political support of the Rockefellers, Jacob Schiff, Bernard Baruch, and others in his successful 1910 bid for governor of New Jersey. They also had the love letters he wrote to Mary Peck, his mistress while he was president of Princeton (1902-1910), for which they paid $65,000. <a href="http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/spingola/070729#fn27" name="ref27" style="font-size: 10px; position: relative; top: -4px; text-decoration: none;">[27]</a> Therefore he later made the perfect, morally compromised presidential candidate. The following unconstitutional acts were engineered during the administration of the obedient Rockefeller minion, Woodrow Wilson:<br /><br /> 1913: The Sixteenth Amendment — authorized income taxes (<a href="http://www.thelawthatneverwas.com/new/home.asp" target="_blank">never ratified</a>)<br /><br /> </span><ul><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">The Seventeenth Amendment — direct popular election of Senators<br />Underwood Tariff — lowered duties<br />Federal Reserve Act — created the un-federal Federal Reserve System<br /><br /></span></ul> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">Through the years, Standard Oil received bad press as a result of their cutthroat business practices and the muckraking reports of people like Ida Tarbell and writer/activist Upton Sinclair. Rockefeller hired Ivy Lee in 1914 as their public relations manager to clean up their image and appear philanthropic. <a href="http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/spingola/070729#fn28" name="ref28" style="font-size: 10px; position: relative; top: -4px; text-decoration: none;">[28]</a> A public relations professional, with media complicity, also discredits or disgraces any national or foreign opponent.<br /><br />For decades, voters merely decide to cast a vote — the actual decisions regarding candidates and the orchestrated consequences of those calculated choices are made in covert CFR committee meetings, Bilderberg assemblies, pentagon offices and corporate boardrooms. Voters ultimately suffer the extreme penalties and the elite benefactors, the "deciders" remain unscathed.<br /><br /> <a name="notes"></a> <b><u>NOTES</u>:</b><br /><br /> </span><div style="text-indent: -23px; margin-left: 44px; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><a href="http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/spingola/070729#ref1" name="fn1">[1]</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbakN7SLdbk" target="_blank">Lindsey Williams — The Energy Non-Crisis</a> — Part 1 of 8<br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><br /> </span><div style="text-indent: -23px; margin-left: 44px; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><a href="http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/spingola/070729#ref2" name="fn2">[2]</a> <a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=ENG20060827&articleId=3082" target="_blank">Monsanto Buys 'Terminator' Seeds Company</a> by F. William Engdahl, Global Research, August 27, 2006<br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><br /> </span><div style="text-indent: -23px; margin-left: 44px; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><a href="http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/spingola/070729#ref3" name="fn3">[3]</a> A Century of War, Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order by William Engdahl, pg. 267<br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><br /> </span><div style="text-indent: -23px; margin-left: 44px; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><a href="http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/spingola/070729#ref4" name="fn4">[4]</a> Ibid, pg. 130-141<br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><br /> </span><div style="text-indent: -23px; margin-left: 44px; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><a href="http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/spingola/070729#ref5" name="fn5">[5]</a> Ibid<br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><br /> </span><div style="text-indent: -23px; margin-left: 44px; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><a href="http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/spingola/070729#ref6" name="fn6">[6]</a> Ibid<br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><br /> </span><div style="text-indent: -23px; margin-left: 44px; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><a href="http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/spingola/070729#ref7" name="fn7">[7]</a> Ibid<br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><br /> </span><div style="text-indent: -23px; margin-left: 44px; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><a href="http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/spingola/070729#ref8" name="fn8">[8]</a> Ibid<br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><br /> </span><div style="text-indent: -23px; margin-left: 44px; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><a href="http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/spingola/070729#ref9" name="fn9">[9]</a> Ibid<br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><br /> </span><div style="text-indent: -30px; margin-left: 44px; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><a href="http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/spingola/070729#ref10" name="fn10">[10]</a> Kissinger by Gary Allen, <a href="http://www.sweetliberty.org/issues/homeland/kissinger/" target="_blank">http://www.sweetliberty.org/issues/homeland/kissinger/</a> Accessed July 27, 2007<br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><br /> </span><div style="text-indent: -30px; margin-left: 44px; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><a href="http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/spingola/070729#ref11" name="fn11">[11]</a> A Century of War, Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order by William Engdahl, pg. 130-141 See also <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Hand-American-Hegemony-International/dp/080142884X" target="_blank">The Hidden Hand of American Hegemony</a>: Petrodollar Recycling and International Markets<br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><br /> </span><div style="text-indent: -30px; margin-left: 44px; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><a href="http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/spingola/070729#ref12" name="fn12">[12]</a> A Century of War, Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order by William Engdahl, pg. 130-141<br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><br /> </span><div style="text-indent: -30px; margin-left: 44px; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><a href="http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/spingola/070729#ref13" name="fn13">[13]</a> Ibid<br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><br /> </span><div style="text-indent: -30px; margin-left: 44px; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><a href="http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/spingola/070729#ref14" name="fn14">[14]</a> The Energy Bulletin, Rockefeller and Co. turned oil into local gold by Grant Segall, Published on 11 Jun 2005 by Cleveland Plain Dealer, <a href="http://www.energybulletin.net/7374.html" target="_blank">http://www.energybulletin.net/7374.html</a> Accessed July 20, 2007<br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><br /> </span><div style="text-indent: -30px; margin-left: 44px; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><a href="http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/spingola/070729#ref15" name="fn15">[15]</a> <a href="http://www.fdrs.org/rothschild_fortune.html" target="_blank">Rothschild Fortune Built Rockefellers, Morgans, Etc</a><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><br /> </span><div style="text-indent: -30px; margin-left: 44px; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><a href="http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/spingola/070729#ref16" name="fn16">[16]</a> The Dismantling of The Standard Oil Trust, <a href="http://www.linfo.org/standardoil.html" target="_blank">http://www.linfo.org/standardoil.html</a>, Accessed July 24, 2007<br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><br /> </span><div style="text-indent: -30px; margin-left: 44px; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><a href="http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/spingola/070729#ref17" name="fn17">[17]</a> N M Rothschild & Sons Limited, <a href="http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/N-M-Rothschild-amp;-Sons-Limited-Company-History.html" target="_blank">http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/N-M-Rothschild-amp;-Sons-Limited-Company-History.html</a> Accessed July 23, 2007<br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><br /> </span><div style="text-indent: -30px; margin-left: 44px; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><a href="http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/spingola/070729#ref18" name="fn18">[18]</a> The Dismantling of The Standard Oil Trust, <a href="http://www.linfo.org/standardoil.html" target="_blank">http://www.linfo.org/standardoil.html</a>, Accessed July 24, 2007<br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><br /> </span><div style="text-indent: -30px; margin-left: 44px; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><a href="http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/spingola/070729#ref19" name="fn19">[19]</a> Rockefeller and Co. turned oil into local gold, June 12, 2005, By Grant Segall, <a href="http://www.cleveland.com/energy/index.ssf?/energy/more/1.html" target="_blank">http://www.cleveland.com/energy/index.ssf?/energy/more/1.html</a> Accessed July 23, 2007<br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><br /> </span><div style="text-indent: -30px; margin-left: 44px; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><a href="http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/spingola/070729#ref20" name="fn20">[20]</a> Alfred Nobel — St. Petersburg, 1842-1863 by Birgitta Lemmel, <a href="http://nobelprize.org/alfred_nobel/biographical/articles/russia/" target="_blank">http://nobelprize.org/alfred_nobel/biographical/articles/russia/</a> Accessed July 23, 2007<br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><br /> </span><div style="text-indent: -30px; margin-left: 44px; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><a href="http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/spingola/070729#ref21" name="fn21">[21]</a> At The Dawn Of The Kerosene Era by Alexander Matveichuk PhD (History), Member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, 2006, <a href="http://www.oilru.com/or/26/464/" target="_blank">http://www.oilru.com/or/26/464/</a> Accessed July 20, 2007<br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><br /> </span><div style="text-indent: -30px; margin-left: 44px; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><a href="http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/spingola/070729#ref22" name="fn22">[22]</a> Shell, The beginnings, <a href="http://www.shell.com/home/content/aboutshell-en/who_we_are/our_history/the_beginnings/the_beginnings_history_of_shell_22112006.html" target="_blank">http://www.shell.com/home/content/aboutshell-en/who_we_are/our_history/<wbr>the_beginnings/the_beginnings_history_of_shell_22112006.html</a> Accessed July 26, 2007<br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><br /> </span><div style="text-indent: -30px; margin-left: 44px; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><a href="http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/spingola/070729#ref23" name="fn23">[23]</a> The Dismantling of The Standard Oil Trust, <a href="http://www.linfo.org/standardoil.html" target="_blank">http://www.linfo.org/standardoil.html</a>, Accessed July 24, 2007<br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><br /> </span><div style="text-indent: -30px; margin-left: 44px; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><a href="http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/spingola/070729#ref24" name="fn24">[24]</a> American Experience, The Rockefeller Timeline, <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rockefellers/timeline/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rockefellers/timeline/index.html</a> Accessed July 24, 2007<br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><br /> </span><div style="text-indent: -30px; margin-left: 44px; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><a href="http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/spingola/070729#ref25" name="fn25">[25]</a> President Bush Speaks to United Nations, Remarks by the President, To United Nations General Assembly, U.N. Headquarters, New York, New York, November 10, 2001, <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/11/20011110-3.html" target="_blank">http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/11/20011110-3.html</a> Accessed July 25, 2007<br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><br /> </span><div style="text-indent: -30px; margin-left: 44px; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><a href="http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/spingola/070729#ref26" name="fn26">[26]</a> Investigate the Vice President First by Murray N. Rothbard, <a href="http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard67.html" target="_blank">http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard67.html</a> Accessed July 25, 2007<br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><br /> </span><div style="text-indent: -30px; margin-left: 44px; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><a href="http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/spingola/070729#ref27" name="fn27">[27]</a> The Greatest Story Never Told, Winston Churchill and the Crash of 1929 by Pat Riott, pg. 20<br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><br /> </span><div style="text-indent: -30px; margin-left: 44px; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><a href="http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/spingola/070729#ref28" name="fn28">[28]</a> John D. Rockefeller: A Photographic History by Kristin Aguilera and Keith E. Rolfe, Photographs courtesy of the Rockefeller Archive Center, <a href="http://www.financialhistory.org/MAGAZINE/photo-history.htm" target="_blank">http://www.financialhistory.org/MAGAZINE/photo-history.htm</a> Accessed July 24, 2007<br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><br /> </span> <hr align="left" width="25%" style="font-size:78%;"> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">Deanna Spingola has been a quilt designer and is the author of two books. She has traveled extensively teaching and lecturing on her unique methods. She has always been an avid reader of non-fiction works designed to educate rather than entertain. She is active in family history research and lectures on that topic. Currently she is the director of the local Family History Center. She has a great interest in politics and the direction of current government policies, particularly as they relate to the Constitution.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 8pt;font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;" >© Copyright 2007 by Deanna Spingola</span><br /><span style="font-size: 8pt;font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;" ><a href="http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/spingola/070729">http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/spingola/070729</a></span>Bon Oxfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01737069723970494870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216029803037209708.post-2985490455974423932007-08-01T04:16:00.000-07:002007-08-01T12:42:16.239-07:00HOW THE LEFT WAS WON: LIBERALS UNDERMINE SOCIETY<p class="MsoSubtitle" style="margin: 0in 3.2pt 0.0001pt -5.45pt; text-align: center;" align="center"><span style=""> </span></p> <span style=""> </span><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shapetype id="_x0000_t75" coordsize="21600,21600" spt="75" preferrelative="t" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" filled="f" stroked="f"> <v:stroke joinstyle="miter"> <v:formulas> <v:f eqn="if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0"> <v:f eqn="sum @0 1 0"> <v:f eqn="sum 0 0 @1"> <v:f eqn="prod @2 1 2"> <v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelWidth"> <v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelHeight"> <v:f eqn="sum @0 0 1"> <v:f eqn="prod @6 1 2"> <v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelWidth"> <v:f eqn="sum @8 21600 0"> <v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelHeight"> <v:f eqn="sum @10 21600 0"> </v:formulas> <v:path extrusionok="f" gradientshapeok="t" connecttype="rect"> <o:lock ext="edit" aspectratio="t"> </v:shapetype><v:shape id="_x0000_i1025" type="#_x0000_t75" style="'width:105.75pt;"> <v:imagedata src="Overview_files/image002.jpg" title="HTLWW NEW Cover - For Website Sides"> </v:shape><![endif]--><!--[if !vml]--><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://www.howtheleftwaswon.com/Overview_files/image001.jpg" shapes="_x0000_i1025" border="0" height="206" width="141" /></div><p class="MsoSubtitle" style="margin: 0in 21.4pt 0.0001pt 8.6pt; text-align: center;" align="center"><span style=";font-family:Georgia;font-size:26;" >How The Left Was Won <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoSubtitle" style="margin: 0in 21.4pt 0.0001pt 8.6pt; text-align: center;" align="center"><span style=";font-family:Georgia;font-size:14;" >An In-Depth Analysis of the Tools and Methodologies Used by Liberals to Undermine Society and Disrupt the Social Order</span></p><p class="MsoSubtitle" style="margin: 0in 21.4pt 0.0001pt 8.6pt; text-align: center;" align="center"><br /><span style=";font-family:Georgia;font-size:14;" > <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoSubtitle" style="margin: 0in 21.4pt 0.0001pt 8.6pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: normal;font-family:Georgia;font-size:12;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoSubtitle" style="margin: 0in 21.4pt 0.0001pt 8.6pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: normal;font-family:Georgia;font-size:12;" >Combining a series of unique insights with an entirely new set of analytical techniques, <i style="">How the Left Was Won</i> systematically dismantles each and every element of modern-day liberalism ranging from the justifications behind all of its flawed social and political policies to the most basic assumptions regarding the ideology itself. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoSubtitle" style="margin: 0in 21.4pt 0.0001pt 8.6pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: normal;font-family:Georgia;font-size:12;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoSubtitle" style="margin: 0in 21.4pt 0.0001pt 8.6pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: normal;font-family:Georgia;font-size:12;" >In order to achieve this goal, the author first introduces a new framework which segments and isolates all liberal behaviors and beliefs into the most objective and discrete elements possible. He then goes on to provide numerous examples of how liberals relentlessly employ this simple set of tools and methodologies over and over again and then discusses the resulting effects they have on our society. Some of these strategies include:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoSubtitle" style="margin: 0in 21.4pt 0.0001pt 8.6pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: normal;font-family:Georgia;font-size:12;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoSubtitle" style="margin: 0in 21.4pt 0.0001pt 0.6in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-weight: normal;font-family:Georgia;font-size:12;" ><span style="">●<span style=""> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style=";font-family:Georgia;font-size:12;" >Promote and Exploit Divisiveness: </span><span style="font-weight: normal;font-family:Georgia;font-size:12;" >Learn why liberals should thank God every day for differences between people and how without them, liberalism would be dead in the water.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoSubtitle" style="margin: 0in 21.4pt 0.0001pt 8.6pt; text-indent: -0.2in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;font-family:Georgia;font-size:12;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoSubtitle" style="margin: 0in 21.4pt 0.0001pt 0.6in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-weight: normal;font-family:Georgia;font-size:12;" ><span style="">●<span style=""> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style=";font-family:Georgia;font-size:12;" >Bad Competition:</span><span style="font-weight: normal;font-family:Georgia;font-size:12;" > Learn why practically all liberal policies create success only through the impairment of others and exactly where this dynamic must necessarily lead.<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoSubtitle" style="margin: 0in 21.4pt 0.0001pt 8.6pt; text-indent: -0.2in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;font-family:Georgia;font-size:12;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoSubtitle" style="margin: 0in 21.4pt 0.0001pt 0.6in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-weight: normal;font-family:Georgia;font-size:12;" ><span style="">●<span style=""> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style=";font-family:Georgia;font-size:12;" >Relevancy and Proportion:</span><span style="font-weight: normal;font-family:Georgia;font-size:12;" > See why the vast majority of what liberals say has absolutely no meaning whatsoever and learn a simple way to prove it every time.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoSubtitle" style="margin: 0in 21.4pt 0.0001pt 8.6pt; text-indent: -0.2in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;font-family:Georgia;font-size:12;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoSubtitle" style="margin: 0in 21.4pt 0.0001pt 0.6in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-weight: normal;font-family:Georgia;font-size:12;" ><span style="">●<span style=""> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style=";font-family:Georgia;font-size:12;" >Implicit Assumptions:</span><span style="font-weight: normal;font-family:Georgia;font-size:12;" > Explore the assumptions liberals use to shape public policy and see why the arguments supporting them are ultimately nothing more than a house of cards.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoSubtitle" style="margin: 0in 21.4pt 0.0001pt 8.6pt; text-indent: -0.2in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;font-family:Georgia;font-size:12;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoSubtitle" style="margin: 0in 21.4pt 0.0001pt 0.6in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-weight: normal;font-family:Georgia;font-size:12;" ><span style="">●<span style=""> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style=";font-family:Georgia;font-size:12;" >Groupdividual:</span><span style="font-weight: normal;font-family:Georgia;font-size:12;" > Find out how liberalism has distorted the differences between groups and individuals and why this continued distortion is the basis for all flawed social policies within the </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-weight: normal;font-family:Georgia;font-size:12;" >United States</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-weight: normal;font-family:Georgia;font-size:12;" >.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoSubtitle" style="margin: 0in 21.4pt 0.0001pt 8.6pt; text-indent: -0.2in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;font-family:Georgia;font-size:12;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoSubtitle" style="margin: 0in 21.4pt 0.0001pt 0.6in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-weight: normal;font-family:Georgia;font-size:12;" ><span style="">●<span style=""> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style=";font-family:Georgia;font-size:12;" >The Perpetual Motion Machine:</span><span style="font-weight: normal;font-family:Georgia;font-size:12;" > Learn how the vast majority of liberal programs are based on the scientific impossibility of getting something for nothing.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoSubtitle" style="margin: 0in 21.4pt 0.0001pt 8.6pt; text-indent: -0.2in;"><span style=";font-family:Georgia;font-size:12;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoSubtitle" style="margin: 0in 21.4pt 0.0001pt 0.6in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-weight: normal;font-family:Georgia;font-size:12;" ><span style="">●<span style=""> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style=";font-family:Georgia;font-size:12;" >A Swarm of Ants: </span><span style="font-weight: normal;font-family:Georgia;font-size:12;" >Find out the real reason liberalism continues to permeate more and more elements of our society and why there just may be no way of stopping it.</span></p><br /><p class="MsoSubtitle" style="margin: 0in 21.4pt 0.0001pt 0.6in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoSubtitle" style="margin: 0in 21.4pt 0.0001pt 0.6in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;font-family:Georgia;font-size:12;" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoSubtitle" style="margin: 0in 21.4pt 0.0001pt 8.6pt; text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size:26;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>Bon Oxfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01737069723970494870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216029803037209708.post-3309418103793260412007-08-01T04:04:00.001-07:002007-08-01T04:04:48.754-07:00EXECUTIVE ORDER CRIMINALIZES HUMANITARIAN WORK<h3>Executive Order criminalizes humanitarian work</h3> <span class="submitted">Submitted by Adam Thomas on Sat, 2007-07-28 17:31.</span><br /><span class="taxonomy"> Sponsor: <a href="http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/click?id=yEh*IoOH6fg&offerid=115748.10000016&type=3&subid=0">X-Treme Geek: USB Missile Launcher</a><img src="http://ad.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/show?id=yEh*IoOH6fg&bids=115748.10000016&type=3&subid=0" border="0" height="1" width="1" /> </span> <div class="content"><p><br /></p><p>President Bush's recent <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/07/20070717-3.html">Executive Order</a> "Blocking Property of Certain Persons Who Threaten Stabilization Efforts in Iraq," effectively criminalizes humanitarian work in the war torn country, the ACLU <a href="http://www.aclu.org/natsec/warpowers/31113prs20070727.html?s_src=RSS">warned </a>today.</p> <p>Not only does the order authorizes the Treasury Department to freeze and confiscate the assets of anyone determined "to have committed, or to pose a significant risk of committing" acts of violence with the "purpose or effect" of hindering the Iraqi government or reconstruction effort, it also authorizes the freezing of assets of anyone who provides "material support" to such a person or group, whether or not the person's support was knowing or intentional.</p> <p>The civil rights group claimed that the vague wording of the Executive Order's terms created ambiguity about what kinds of donations and services could be considered to constitute material support, and its sweeping provisions posed risks for residents of the United States and for humanitarian work in Iraq.</p> <p>"This Executive Order reaches far beyond criminal activity to activity that may be entirely innocent," said Jameel Jaffer, Director of the ACLU National Security Project. "A person may find herself inadvertently in violation of this order and there is no provision for judicial review. It is a strangely undemocratic way to go about bringing democracy to the rest of the world."</p> <p>In May of 2006, the ACLU filed an <a href="http://www.aclu.org/safefree/general/25628lgl20060522.html">amicus brief</a> on behalf of humanitarian organizations that are concerned with the government's sweeping interpretation of a law barring "material support" to blacklisted groups under Section 805 of the Patriot Act and Section 6603 of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004.</p> <p>"This order could have a serious chilling effect on charitable contributions intended to ease the suffering in Iraq," said Michael German, ACLU national security counsel. "There is no requirement that you even have to know that your assistance is going to a banned person or group before your assets could be blocked. The order makes no exception for humanitarian aid, even if it is necessary to save the lives of people living in the war zone; it is going to tie the hands of legitimate charities that are on the ground trying to do good work in Iraq."</p> <p>Organizations that signed onto the brief include Oxfam, Operation USA and the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee.</p> </div>Bon Oxfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01737069723970494870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216029803037209708.post-66500922365129783062007-08-01T04:01:00.001-07:002007-08-01T04:02:21.172-07:00MOST VOTE MACHINES LOSE TEST TO HACKERS!<a href="http://www.sfgate.com/chronicle/"><img src="http://www.sfgate.com/templates/brands/chronicle/images/chronicle_logo.gif" alt="San Francisco Chronicle" border="0" height="21" hspace="0" vspace="0" width="150" /></a><br /> <div id="divider"> <!-- dont write <hr /> here --> </div> <div class="headlines"><h1>Most vote machines lose test to hackers</h1> </div> <p class="byline"><a href="mailto:jwildermuth@sfchronicle.com">John Wildermuth, Chronicle Staff Writer</a></p> <p class="date">Saturday, July 28, 2007</p><span id="bodytext" class="georgia md"><p>State-sanctioned teams of computer hackers were able to break through the security of virtually every model of California's voting machines and change results or take control of some of the systems' electronic functions, according to a University of California study released Friday. </p><p>The researchers "were able to bypass physical and software security in every machine they tested,'' said Secretary of State Debra Bowen, who authorized the "top to bottom review" of every voting system certified by the state. </p><p>Neither Bowen nor the investigators were willing to say exactly how vulnerable California elections are to computer hackers, especially because the team of computer experts from the UC system had top-of-the-line security information plus more time and better access to the voting machines than would-be vote thieves likely would have. </p><p>"All information available to the secretary of state was made available to the testers,'' including operating manuals, software and source codes usually kept secret by the voting machine companies, said Matt Bishop, UC Davis computer science professor who led the "red team" hacking effort, said in his summary of the results. </p><p>The review included voting equipment from every company approved for use in the state, including Sequoia, whose systems are used in Alameda, Napa and Santa Clara counties; Hart InterCivic, used in San Mateo and Sonoma Counties; and Diebold, used in Marin County. </p><p>Election Systems and Software, which supplied equipment to San Francisco, Contra Costa, Solano and Los Angeles counties in last November's election, missed the deadline for submitting the equipment, Bowen said. While their equipment will be reviewed, Bowen warned that she has "the legal authority to impose any condition'' on its use. </p><p>Bowen said in a telephone news conference Friday that the report is only one piece of information she will use to decide which voting systems are secure enough to use in next February's presidential primary election. </p><p>If she is going to decertify any of the machines, she must do it by Friday, six months before the Feb. 5 vote. </p><p>A day-long hearing in Sacramento on Monday will give the UC investigators a chance to present their finding and allow the various voting machine companies to present a response. The hearing also will be open for comments from the public. </p><p>The study was designed to discover vulnerabilities in the technology of voting systems used in the state. It did not deal with any physical security measures that counties might take and "made no assumptions about constraints on the attackers,'' Bishop said. </p><p>"The testers did not evaluate the likelihood of any attack being feasible,'' he added. </p><p>Some county elections officials in the state were among the most critical of the study, saying they worry that they could be forced to junk millions of dollars in voting machines if Bowen decertifies them for the February election. </p><p>Letting the hackers have the source codes, operating manuals and unlimited access to the voting machines "is like giving a burglar the keys to your house,'' said Steve Weir, clerk-recorder of Contra Costa County and head of the state Association of Clerks and Election Officials. </p><p>The study also determined that many voting systems have flaws that make it difficult for blind voters and those with other disabilities to cast ballots. </p><p>During her election campaign last year, Bowen made it clear she had little confidence in the security of electronic voting machines and vowed to review their use in the state. </p><p>"Voting systems are tools of our democracy,'' she said Friday. "We want to ensure that the voting systems used in the state are secure, accurate, reliable and accessible to all. This (study result) is not a big deal to me. It's a big deal for everyone in the country.'' </p><p>Vendors and other advocates of electronic voting machines have suggested that because of Bowen's well-publicized concerns, she has her thumb on the scale when it comes to reviewing the systems. But the secretary of state said she purposely avoided the scientists doing the study. </p><p>Bowen admitted that she's "enough of a geek" that she would have enjoyed working closely with the study, but "I've stayed out of the way ... It's not my review,'' she said. "I didn't want (the researchers) to be influenced by my questions.'' </p><p>Weir said the UC study "is only a hologram of what could be done technically without considering the real-world mitigation,'' the locks, access cards and other physical security measures typically used. </p><p>The study found "absolutely no evidence of any malicious source code anywhere,'' he added. "They found nothing that could cast doubt on the results of elections.'' </p><p>Bishop, however, said he was surprised by the weakness of the security measures, both physical and electronic, protecting the voting systems. His team of hackers found ways to get into the systems not only through the high-tech equipment in election headquarters but also through the machines in the polling places. </p><p>If the testers had had more time, they would have found more flaws, he added. </p><p>"The vendors appeared to have designed systems that were not high assurance (of security)," said Bishop, a recognized expert on computer security. "The security seems like it was added on.'' </p></span> <!--/articlecontent --> <p id="pageno">This article appeared on page <strong>A - 1</strong> of the San Francisco Chronicle</p>Bon Oxfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01737069723970494870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216029803037209708.post-83965861581371302702007-08-01T03:54:00.000-07:002007-08-01T03:55:02.184-07:00ABC NEWS: AMERICANS LIKE BIG BROTHER!<table border="0" width="400"> <tbody><tr> <td><br /></td> </tr> </tbody></table> <table border="0" height="91" width="676"> <tbody><tr> <td height="87" width="628"> <p><span class="headlinenew"> <!--start--> <strong>ABC: Americans Want To Be Surveilled</strong></span><span class="headllinenew"><br /> </span><span class="subhead">Poll indicates majority want to give up liberty for security</span></p> <table border="0" width="400"> <tbody><tr> <td><br /></td> </tr> </tbody></table> <span class="headlinenew"> <script type="text/javascript"> document.write('<s'+'cript uage="jav' + 'ascript" src="http://www.netscape.com/widgets/med_vote_if/' + window.location + '">'); document.write('</'+'scr'+'ipt>'); </script><script language="javascript" src="http://www.netscape.com/widgets/med_vote_if/http://infowars.net/articles/july2007/300707Cameras.htm"></script><div id="newncontent" class="ns-vwidget"><script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="http://www.netscape.com/lib/js/lw.js"></script><script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="http://www.netscape.com/lib/js/handlers.js"></script><a href="javascript:(function(){var u='http://infowars.net/articles/july2007/300707Cameras.htm'; var t=escape(document.title); var c = '';if (window.getSelection){c = window.getSelection();}else if (document.getSelection){c = document.getSelection();}else if (document.selection){c = document.selection.createRange().text;} window.location='http://www.netscape.com/submit/?U='+u+'&T='+t+'&C='+c;})()"><img alt="Submit to Netscape" src="http://media-images.nscpcdn.com/media/vwidget-submit.gif" border="0" /></a></div> <!--end--> </span><span class="headlinenew"> </span><span class="headlinenew"> </span><span class="headlinenew"> </span></td> <td valign="top"> <script language=""> reddit_url='http://www.infowars.net/articles/july2007/300707Cameras.htm' </script> <script language=""> reddit_title='ABC: Americans Want To Be Surveilled' </script> <script language="javascript" src="http://reddit.com/button.js?t=2"></script><iframe src="http://reddit.com/button?t=2&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.infowars.net%2Farticles%2Fjuly2007%2F300707Cameras.htm&title=ABC%3A%20Americans%20Want%20To%20Be%20Surveilled" frameborder="0" height="80" scrolling="no" width="52"></iframe> </td> <td valign="top"> <div align="left"><span class="headllinenew"><span class="headlinenew"> </span></span><span class="headlinenew"> <script language="" type="text/javascript"> digg_title = 'ABC: Americans Want To Be Surveilled'; digg_bodytext = 'An ABC poll has revealed that two thirds of Americans are willing to accept heightened government intrusion on privacy and support the increased use of surveillance cameras to solve crime.'; digg_topic = 'politics'; </script> <script language="" src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"> </script><iframe src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.php?u=http%3A//infowars.net/articles/july2007/300707Cameras.htm&t=ABC%3A%20Americans%20Want%20To%20Be%20Surveilled&b=An%20ABC%20poll%20has%20revealed%20that%20two%20thirds%20of%20Americans%20are%20willing%20to%20accept%20heightened%20government%20intrusion%20on%20privacy%20and%20support%20the%20increased%20use%20of%20surveillance%20cameras%20to%20solve%20crime.&c=politics" frameborder="0" height="80" scrolling="no" width="52"></iframe> </span></div></td> </tr> </tbody></table> <!--start--> <p><span class="mediumtext1"><a href="http://infowars.net/index.html"><em> Steve Watson</em><br /> Infowars.net</a><br /> Mon</span><span class="mediumtext1">day, July 30, 2007</span></p>An <strong><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=3422372&page=1">ABC poll</a></strong> has revealed that two thirds of Americans are willing to accept heightened government intrusion on privacy and support the increased use of surveillance cameras to solve crime. <p align="left">ABC states that 71 percent of Americans favor the increased use of surveillance cameras, while 25 percent oppose it. </p> <blockquote> <div align="left"> <p>Critics, such as the American Civil Liberties Union, have opposed such systems, arguing that they invade privacy, and could be used to track innocent people. Nonetheless, majority support for surveillance cameras crosses political, ideological and population groups, albeit with differences in degree, the reports suggests.</p> </div> </blockquote> <div align="left">The report makes reference to London's surveillance network, known as the "Ring of Steel," which is said to have aided in the capture of suspects, including those accused of a pair of attempted car bombings in June. </div> <div> <p>What it does not report however is that in addition to London being the most surveilled city in the world with 4 million cameras, it also has an extremely high crime rate. A <strong><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/07/11/ncctv111.xml">recent report</a></strong> highlighted that despite one 650-yard section of a major London road being surveilled by over 100 cameras, it is also one of the most crime ridden roads in the country. </p> <p>At the time, police disclosed there had been 430 offences committed over six months on Holloway Road, including 29 serious assaults, 15 robberies and 32 burglaries, including two murders, the report states.</p> <p> <!--end--> <script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-0849512753345323"; google_ad_width = 234; google_ad_height = 16; google_ad_format = "234x60_as"; google_ad_type = "text_image"; //2007-05-17: Infowars.net Article Pages google_ad_channel = "2541726477"; google_color_border = "FFFFFF"; google_color_bg = "FFFFFF"; google_color_link = "000066"; //--> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><iframe name="google_ads_frame" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/ads?client=ca-pub-0849512753345323&dt=1185965414344&lmt=1185817263&format=234x60_as&output=html&correlator=1185965411821&channel=2541726477&url=http%3A%2F%2Finfowars.net%2Farticles%2Fjuly2007%2F300707Cameras.htm&color_bg=FFFFFF&color_link=000066&color_border=FFFFFF&ad_type=text_image&ref=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.conspiracytheoristclothing.com%2Finterestingtimes12.html&cc=40&flash=9&u_h=768&u_w=1024&u_ah=738&u_aw=1024&u_cd=32&u_tz=-420&u_his=1&u_java=true&u_nplug=28&u_nmime=108" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" vspace="0" hspace="0" allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" height="16" scrolling="no" width="234"></iframe> <!--start--> </p> <p> <!--end--> <script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-0849512753345323"; google_ad_width = 336; google_ad_height = 280; google_ad_format = "336x280_as"; google_ad_type = "text_image"; //2007-05-09: Infowars.net Article Pages google_ad_channel = "2541726477"; google_color_border = "FFFFFF"; google_color_bg = "FFFFFF"; google_color_link = "000000"; google_color_text = "000000"; google_color_url = "000000"; //--> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><iframe name="google_ads_frame" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/ads?client=ca-pub-0849512753345323&dt=1185965414404&lmt=1185817263&prev_fmts=234x60_as&format=336x280_as&output=html&correlator=1185965411821&channel=2541726477&pv_ch=2541726477%2B&url=http%3A%2F%2Finfowars.net%2Farticles%2Fjuly2007%2F300707Cameras.htm&color_bg=FFFFFF&color_text=000000&color_link=000000&color_url=000000&color_border=FFFFFF&ad_type=text_image&ref=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.conspiracytheoristclothing.com%2Finterestingtimes12.html&cc=40&flash=9&u_h=768&u_w=1024&u_ah=738&u_aw=1024&u_cd=32&u_tz=-420&u_his=1&u_java=true&u_nplug=28&u_nmime=108" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" vspace="0" hspace="0" allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" height="280" scrolling="no" width="336"></iframe> <!--start--> </p> <p>Statistics show that CCTV does not reduce crime. A <strong><a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/february2005/250205reducecrime.htm">2005 Home Office study</a></strong> concluded that "most CCTV systems do not cut crime or make people feel safer. Of 14 closed circuit television camera schemes examined by criminologists, only one - for car parks - was shown to reduce offences."</p> <p>The study, Assessing the impact of CCTV, was published two years ago and described how the nation's CCTV networks had been built on an unfounded belief that CCTV was effective.</p> <p>In addition a recent report by an advisory body for the industry, CameraWatch, which has the backing of the police and the Information Commissioner’s Office, claimed that <strong><a href="http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article1862457.ece">90% of CCTV is used illegally</a></strong> and could potentially be inadmissible in court. </p> </div> <div> <p align="left">Should the major cities of America go the way of London in terms of accepting the Big Brother state, the following is what Americans have to look forward to: </p><p align="left">Being watched 24/7 from <strong><a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/june2007/040607cameras.htm">large underground bunkers</a></strong>. </p><p align="left"><a href="http://www.infowars.net/articles/january2007/310107xraycams.htm"><strong>X-ray firing cameras</strong></a> hidden in lamp posts that can see through your clothes. </p><p align="left">Cameras that <strong><a href="http://infowars.net/articles/november2006/261106Word.htm">monitor conversations</a></strong> in the street using high-powered microphones attached to CCTV cameras. </p><p align="left">Cameras that <strong><a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/october2006/041006shoutingtelescreens.htm">shout orders</a></strong> at you in the street for stepping out of line. </p><p align="left"> The shouting cameras have been on the table for a long time and were spotted in London, along with large black megaphone appendages, up to <strong><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/05/03/camera_shout_pole/">one year ago</a></strong>: </p><p align="left"><img src="http://www.infowars.net/pictures/april2007/040407cams.jpg" border="1" height="302" width="585" /> </p><p align="left">In an even more frightening and conniving move it has today been revealed that the bureaucrats behind the cameras will use <strong> <a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/april2007/040407Children.htm">recordings of children's voices</a></strong> to discourage any adult they target from dissenting and shouting back at the cameras. </p><p>The use of children's voices to control adult behaviour is all out psychological warfare when you consider that it constitutes a total reversal of social norms. The government knows this full well and justifies it by suggesting that some people in the UK are now so devoid of morality that there is no way of setting that right other than by ritualistic public isolation and humiliation.</p> </div> <div> <div> </div> </div> <div> </div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div align="center"><span class="mediumtext1">------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /> The true story behind government sponsored terror, 7/7, Gladio and 9/11, <strong><a href="http://infowars-shop.stores.yahoo.net/tesped.html">get Terror Storm!</a></strong><br /> Let us help you reach a huge audience of potential customers. Help support the website and take advantage of low advertising rates. <a href="http://www.infowars.net/advertise.html"><strong>Click here</strong></a> for more info.<br /> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <p> What does it say about the state of a society in general that the government has given up on a portion of people and has decided that the best course of action is to extradite them and label them as fair game for methods of control that wouldn't look out of place in a horrific dystopian science fiction film?</p> <p>The current divisions within society are frightening. We have reached the point where the general public is willing to accept massive invasions of their own privacy in order to deal with people they consider to be a bit of a nuisance from time to time. </p> <p>It would not be surprising at all to see some people reveling in the control, egging on the shouting cameras and engaging in a proverbial "two minutes hate" against those they no longer dare stand up to themselves because they, quite rightly, fear for their own safety if they were to do so.</p> <p>The most dangerous form of tyranny is one that has the consent of the people.</p> <p>At the other end of the social divide the "louts" and "yobs" that are the primary target of such control mechanisms feel so divorced from society that their only means of articulation is to resort to acts of violence and vandalism.</p> <p>How is it possible that further alienating these people, and almost rubbing their faces in the fact, is going to solve the problem?</p> <p>Because modern day government is so obsessed with short term appearance over long term reality we are witnessing the literal unraveling of society as each problem is provided a solution that in turn engenders an even worse set of problems.</p> <p>In short, such surveillance state methods are greasing the skids for the police state. As the general public cry out for more and more state intervention in society, and the dropouts become more and more alienated and reactionary, there is only one place we are all going to end up.</p> <p>In a culture where people are not instilled with internal limiters on their behaviors, increasing external limiters is demanded and thus must be provided. Welcome totalitarianism.</p> <p><em>Behind Winston's back the voice from the telescreen was still babbling away about pig-iron and the overfulfilment of the Ninth Three-Year Plan. The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it, moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard. There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live -- did live, from habit that became instinct -- in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized. </em></p> <p><em>"Smith!" screamed the shrewish voice from the telescreen. "6079 Smith W.! Yes, you! Bend lower, please! You can do better than that. You're not trying. Lower, please! That's better, comrade. Now stand at ease, the whole squad, and watch me."</em></p> - George Orwell, 1984.Bon Oxfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01737069723970494870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216029803037209708.post-86888103524915711122007-08-01T03:47:00.000-07:002007-08-01T03:48:24.952-07:00OUR KILLING SCHOOLS: A POLITICAL PHILOSOPHER'S TAKE ON VIOLENCE IN OUR SCHOOLS<span class="lechead">T H E J O H N M . O L I N O N L I N E L E C T U R E L I B R A R Y</span><br /> <span id="lblScope" class="redheadings">Displaying Lecture </span> <p> <table border="0" width="530"><tbody><tr><td align="left" width="20%"><br /></td><td align="60%"><center><span id="lblViewingLectures_1">Viewing lectures </span><span id="lblLowCount_1">1 – </span><span id="lblHighCount_1">1 of </span><span id="lblTotalCount_1">1</span></center></td><td align="right" width="20%"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table> <table align="center" bgcolor="#eeeeee" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="530"> <tbody><tr><td align="center">Sort By: <a id="LinkButtonDate" href="javascript:__doPostBack('LinkButtonDate','')">Date</a> | <a id="LinkButtonTitle" href="javascript:__doPostBack('LinkButtonTitle','')">Title</a> | <a id="LinkButtonSpeaker" href="javascript:__doPostBack('LinkButtonSpeaker','')">Speaker</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <span id="lblLectures"><table border="1" cellpadding="8" cellspacing="0" width="530"><tbody><tr><td align="center" valign="middle"><img src="http://www.isi.org/images/authors/thompson.jpg" border="0" /></td><td align="left" valign="middle"><span class="lectitle">Our Killing Schools: A Political Philosopher's Perspective</span><br /><a class="lecpresent" href="javascript:;" onclick="MM_openBrWindow('../bios/bio.aspx?id=25297192-12d3-4a5e-87b2-6a697d8173e4&source=Lectures&select=true&detail=1','description','scrollbars=yes,width=400,height=250')">C. 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Federal activism may have helped to sustain the buoyancy in children�s math scores at the fourth-grade level, seen throughout the prior decade.� </p> <p>The researchers pushed beyond earlier studies by tracking progress in both state and federal test scores in 12 diverse states, going back to 1992 in many cases. This approach captured the generally positive effects of maturing state-led accountability programs in both reading and math, gauged by state officials and the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). </p> <p>Using this longer time span as the baseline, annual changes in student performance generally slowed after 2002, as gauged by state and federal testing agencies, and the earlier narrowing of achievement gaps ground to a halt (NAEP results), according to the study.</p> <p>The university team focused on 12 states, including Arkansas, California, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Nebraska, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Texas, and Washington. They selected these states because they are demographically diverse, geographically dispersed, and were able to provide comparable test score data over time.</p> <p>Following passage of the �No Child� law, federal reading scores among elementary school students declined in the 12 states tracked by the researchers � after climbing steadily during the 1990s.</p> <p>The share of fourth-graders proficient in reading, based on federal NAEP results, climbed by one-half a percentage point each year, on average, between the mid-1990s and 2002. But over the four years after the legislation was passed, the share of students deemed proficient declined by about one percent.</p> <p>The annual rise in the percentage of fourth-graders proficient in mathematics improved slightly in the same 12 states, moving up from 1.6 percent per year before �No Child� was signed to a yearly growth rate of 2.5 percent following enactment of the law. This is the one out of six federal gauges where a post-NCLB gain was observed by the research team, tracking NAEP results.</p> <p>The researchers simultaneously tracked achievement trends gauged by state and federal testing agencies over the 14-year period. �The correlation between the two barometers was close to zero,� Fuller said. �We worry about the capacity of states to report unbiased test score results over time. But even state results generally confirm the more reliable NAEP pattern showing that progress in raising achievement has largely faded since 2002.� </p> <p>The authors urged Congress to improve the capacity of states to reliably track the performance of their students over time. �The fundamental principles of transparency and simplicity might guide state and congressional leaders,� Fuller said. �The hurdles defining basic and proficient student performance between federal and state assessments should become more consistent.� </p> <p>Fuller added that �state and NAEP officials could do more to inform the public on how student demographics are changing, and achievement trends should be interpreted in this context.�</p> <div align="center">###</div> <p>The article is based on studies of accountability policies that Fuller directs with grant support from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the Noyce Foundation.</p> <p>Editor�s Note: The full text of Fuller�s study, �Gauging Growth: How to Judge No Child Left Behind"� is posted on the AERA Web site: <a href="http://www.aera.net/">www.aera.net</a> <a href="http://www.aera.net/uploadedFiles/Publications/Journals/Educational_Researcher/3605/07EDR07_268-278.pdf">http://www.aera.net/uploadedFiles/Publications/Journals/Educational_Researcher/3605/07EDR07_268-278.pdf</a></p> <p>To interview Professor Fuller, call (510) 643-5362 or (415) 595-4320. </p> <p>To reach AERA Communications, call (202) 238-3200; Helaine Patterson (<a href="mailto:hpatterson@aera.net">hpatterson@aera.net</a>) or Lucy Cunningham (<a href="mailto:lcunningham@aera.net">lcunningham@aera.net</a>).</p> <p>The American Educational Research Association (AERA) is the national interdisciplinary research association for approximately 25,000 scholars who undertake research in education. Founded in 1916, AERA aims to advance knowledge about education, to encourage scholarly inquiry related to education, and to promote the use of research to improve education and serve the public good.</p>Bon Oxfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01737069723970494870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216029803037209708.post-91429197023167779972007-07-28T17:46:00.000-07:002007-07-28T17:48:01.128-07:00THE THREAT OF MARTIAL LAW IS REAL<span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><b><span style="font-size:180%;">The Threat Of Martial Law Is Real<br /></span></b><br /><b>By Dave Lindorff<br /><br />07/27/07 "</b></span><a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18080.htm"><strong>ICH</strong></a><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><b>" -- -- T</b>he looming collapse of the US military in Iraq, of which a number of generals and former generals, including former Chief of Staff Colin Powell, have warned, is happening none too soon, as it my be the best hope for preventing military rule here at home.<br /><br />From the looks of things, the Bush/Cheney regime has been working assiduously to pave the way for a declaration of military rule, such that at this point it really lacks only the pretext to trigger a suspension of Constitutional government. They have done this with the active support of Democrats in Congress, though most of the heavy lifting was done by the last, Republican-led Congress.<br /><br />The first step, or course, was the first Authorization for Use of Military Force, passed in September 2001, which the president has subsequently used to claim-improperly, but so what? -that the whole world, including the US, is a battlefield in a so-called "War" on Terror, and that he has extra-Constitutional unitary executive powers to ignore laws passed by Congress. As constitutional scholar and former Reagan-era associate deputy attorney general Bruce Fein observes, that one claim, that the US is itself a battlefield, is enough to allow this or some future president to declare martial law, "since you can always declare martial law on a battlefield. All he'd need would be a pretext, like another terrorist attack inside the U.S."<br /><br />The 2001 AUMF was followed by the PATRIOT Act, passed in October 2001, which undermined much of the Bill of Rights. Around the same time, the president began a campaign of massive spying on Americans by the National Security Agency, conducted without any warrants or other judicial review. It was and remains a program that is clearly aimed at American dissidents and at the administration's political opponents, since the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court would never have raised no objections to spying on potential terrorists. (And it, and other government spying programs, have resulted in the government's having a list now of some 325,000 "suspected terrorists"!)<br /><br />The other thing we saw early on was the establishment of an underground government-within-a-government, though the activation, following 9-11, of the so-called "Continuity of Government" protocol, which saw heads of federal agencies moved secretly to an underground bunker where, working under the direction of Vice President Dick Cheney, the "government" functioned out of sight of Congress and the public for critical months.<br /><br />It was also during the first year following 9-11 that the Bush/Cheney regime began its programs of arrest and detention without charge-mostly of resident aliens, but also of American citizens-and of kidnapping and torture in a chain of gulag prisons overseas and at the Navy base at Guantanamo Bay.<br /><br />The following year, Attorney General John Ashcroft began his program to develop a mass network of tens of millions of citizen spies-Operation TIPS. That program, which had considerable support from key Democrats (notably Sen. Joe Lieberman), was curtailed by Congress when key conservatives got wind of the scale of the thing, but the concept survives without a name, and is reportedly being expanded today.<br /><br />Meanwhile, last October Bush and Cheney, with the help of a compliant Congress, put in place some key elements needed for a military putsch. There was the overturning of the venerable Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, which barred the use of active duty military inside the United States for police-type functions, and the revision of the Insurrection Act, so as to empower the president to take control of National Guard units in the 50 states even over the objections of the governors of those states.<br /><br />Put this together with the wholly secret construction now under way--courtesy of a $385-million grant by the US Army Corps of Engineers to Halliburton subsidiary KBR Inc--of detention camps reportedly capable of confining as many as 400,000 people, and a recent report that the Pentagon has a document, dated June 1, 2007, classified Top Secret, which declares there to be a developing "insurgency" within the U.S, and which lays out a whole martial law counterinsurgency campaign against legal dissent, and you have all the ingredients for a military takeover of the United States.<br /><br />As we go about our daily lives--our shopping, our escapist movie watching, and even our protesting and political organizing-we need to be aware that there is a real risk that it could all blow up, and that we could find ourselves facing armed, uniformed troops at our doors.<br /><br />Bruce Fein isn't an alarmist. He says he doesn't see martial law coming tomorrow. But he is also realistic. "Really, by declaring the US to be a battlefield, Bush already made it possible for himself to declare martial law, because you can always declare martial law on a battlefield," he says. "All he would need would be a pretext, like another terrorist attack on the U.S."<br /><br />Indeed, the revised Insurrection Act (10. USC 331-335) approved by Congress and signed into law by Bush last October, specifically says that the president can federalize the National Guard to "suppress public disorder" in the event of "national disorder, epidemic, other serious public health emergency, terrorist attack or incident." That determination, the act states, is solely the president's to make. Congress is not involved.<br /><br />Fein says, "This is all sitting around like a loaded gun waiting to go off. I think the risk of martial law is trivial right now, but the minute there is a terrorist attack, then it is real. And it stays with us after Bush and Cheney are gone, because terrorism stays with us forever." (It may be significant that Hillary Clinton, the leading Democratic candidate for president, has called for the revocation of the 2002 Authorization for Use of Military Force against Iraq, but not of the earlier 2001 AUMF which Bush claims makes him commander in chief of a borderless, endless war on terror.)<br /><br />Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has added an amendment to the upcoming Defense bill, restoring the Insurrection Act to its former version-a move that has the endorsement of all 50 governors--but Fein argues that would not solve the problem, since Bush still claims that the U.S. is a battlefield. Besides, a Leahy aide concedes that Bush could sign the next Defense Appropriations bill and then use a signing statement to invalidate the Insurrection Act rider.<br /><br />Fein argues that the only real defense against the looming disaster of a martial law declaration would be for Congress to vote for a resolution determining that there is no "War" on terror. "But they are such cowards they will never do that," he says.<br /><br />That leaves us with the military.<br /><br />If ordered to turn their guns and bayonets on their fellow Americans, would our "heroes" in uniform follow their consciences, and their oaths to "uphold and defend" the Constitution of the United States? Or would they follow the orders of their Commander in Chief?<br /><br />It has to be a plus that National Guard and Reserve units are on their third and sometimes fourth deployments to Iraq, and are fuming at the abuse. It has to be a plus that active duty troops are refusing to re-enlist in droves-especially mid-level officers.<br /><br />If we are headed for martial law, better that it be with a broken military. Maybe if it's broken badly enough, the administration will be afraid to test the idea.<br /><br />Dave Lindorff is the author of Killing Time: an Investigation into the Death Row Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal. His n book of CounterPunch columns titled "This Can't be Happening!" is published by Common Courage Press. Lindorff's newest book is "The Case for Impeachment",<br />co-authored by Barbara Olshansky.</span>Bon Oxfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01737069723970494870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216029803037209708.post-64008908415986283112007-07-28T07:22:00.000-07:002007-08-02T03:58:48.090-07:00A DEFENSE OF RON PAUL'S VOTING RECORD: IN HIS OWN WORDS<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">A DEFENSE OF RON PAUL'S VOTING RECORD:<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">IN HIS OWN WORDS</span><br />By Bryan John Dini<br /></span></div><br />The trouble with most criticism of Paul's voting record (especially on the popular leftist/liberal blogs like Daily Kos) is that it is very difficult to determine where Paul stands on the issues if one looks strictly in terms of the binary yes/no vote, without studying the underlying reasons for each particular vote, which may be completely contrary to first impressions. Now, I want to preface this by saying that I won't even get into the ridiculous "guilt by association" claims that have been made about his "close ties" with the John Birch Society, for example (as if that were a bad thing, considering that everything they warned us about in regards to the EU usurping the political and economic rights and constitutions of the member nations is now coming true, among many other noteworthy examples), as well as that allegedly racist newsletter of dubious authorship, and prefer to stick instead with his voting record and the clear expositions of his reasoning for each vote in writing, as this is what matters most to us in the legislative sphere in the final analysis, regardless of his personal idiosyncrasies and attitudes.<br /><br />As soon as one engages in a serious study of Paul's voting record, one begins to appreciate immediately the unrivaled transparency and depth of insight with which he probes these issues in their most fundamental and radical details--a philosophical consistency that clearly crosses party lines and challenges conventional wisdom on every front: whether it be the origins of the Social Security number and the Federal Reserve, the debate over the constitutionality of the Civil Rights Act, whether pro-life conservatism is compatible with libertarian principles, whether identity politics and affirmative action aren't perpetuating racism in another form, the examination of the supposed failure of free market capitalism at the turn of the twentieth century, the crucial difference between a Democracy and a Republic, or the enduring contemporary dilemmas of national sovereignty, "free trade" and corporate globalization through international entities like the WTO, the IMF and the U.N.--nothing goes without scrutiny in Paul's all-encompassing vision.<br /><br />In most cases it is a constitutional issue for Paul: does this piece of legislation a) appropriate federal funds or b) usurp states rights and local jurisdiction--in breach of the designated, enumerated powers granted to the federal government by the Constitution? Paul does not believe, with good reason, that the "general welfare" clause means Congress can spend whatever it wants on whatever social programs it wants without the informed consent of the people, nor does it mean that the Supreme Court court should re-write the Constitution with its legal "interpretations" and thus force a national mandate on any particular social issue it deems worthy of its imperial platonic guardian attention--as these were powers granted specifically to the states and the people under the Tenth amendment.<br /><br />For example, at first glance it looks like Paul is against, say, stem cell research because he voted "no" on a stem cell research bill. In reality what he voted against was *federal funding* of stem-cell research, i.e. the usurpation of your tax dollars and states' rights without your say on an issue which remains controversial to many. This does not, in any way, rule out state and private funding for this kind of research. The same thing applies to his voting "yes" on a controversial "gay adoptions" bill. If you read the bill carefully you will find that what it legislates against is the appropriation of federal money to adoptions by people "not related by blood or marriage". In point of fact, Paul is against federal funding of adoptions--period. The issue, again, is the federal funding, the jurisdiction of social issues like these at the local and state level, not whether or not gay adoptions are "natural" or fit some traditional family mold (you would be hard pressed to find this kind of language in Paul's writings; the worst I have found are references to the importance of "two-parent" families).<br /><br />Here are some typical examples that are brought up in the aforementioned blogs:<br /><br />-<span style="font-weight: bold;">abortion</span>: Paul challenges us to reconsider our fundamentals on this one, and argues that a pro-life libertarian is not a contradiction in terms. In fact he argues that the pro-life position is consistent with the libertarian non-aggression principle and reaffirms the essential connection between life and liberty, in that you cannot defend the one without the other. Remember, libertarians do not believe violent and/or aggressive force is authorized except in the case of imminent personal and/or national defense. For this reason, Paul made an exception to abortion *if* it will protect the life of the mother, which he admits is a very rare case indeed. This also extends to his opposition to the death penalty (which is again, "pro-life") and his belief that Roe v. Wade should be overturned not only because he believes all social issues like this should be left to the individual states that are closer to the needs of the various communities, but also because it allows for the slippery slope possibility of including human life in the "natural" sphere along with animals and vegetation, making way for eugenics-type programs, patents on sections of the human genome, and more genetically modified organisms. This is why he also backed legislation that would deem "life to begin at conception." Of course, the states would still have final jurisdiction over how this "life" is to be treated and prosecuted in court, but Paul believes it is an essential step forward in defining the issue, as the federal government has a constitutional duty to protect life and liberty above all else. This duty immediately trumps dubious privacy and property issues, which he spells out below. If you think the debate is over as to *where* life begins, you are mistaken. Ask any bio-ethicist.<br /><br />-<span style="font-weight: bold;">prayer in schools</span>: Paul did not vote for *mandatory* prayer in schools--only that schools should not prohibit the free exercise of religion on public property, which is consistent with constitutional principles.<br /><br />-<span style="font-weight: bold;">vouchers</span>: Paul's support of vouchers indicates his belief that parents (and, for that matter, students) should have more choice in their education than just compulsory district schooling; that is to say, they should have more say over where their tax money is invested, as the bureaucrats in the Department of Education don't have perfect knowledge of which of the various branches and methods and learning should be subsidized. This should be left strictly to those who know best--in other words, those in the community doing the teaching. I personally think it is a shame, for example, that philosophy and critical thinking has been given so little priority in public schools, which rely on a kind of mindless regurgitation of facts and reliance on authority. There should be more private *secular* schools. Our public schools are starting to exhibit a dangerous behaviorist and materialist ideology that is sanctioned on the federal level in the same department as a kind of social engineering experiment (read up on "outcome based education"), the natural symptom of which is our vegged out, spiritually bankrupt and over-medicated juvenile population.<br /><br />-<span style="font-weight: bold;">marriage rights</span>: Paul voted *against* the Federal Marriage Amendment Act, but he supported the Federal Protection of Marriage Act. This troubles some people. But it is not inconsistent. Paul opposed the Federal Marriage Amendment Act because, again, it would "nationalize" a social issue that should be left up to the individual states. He supported the Federal Protection of Marriage Act for the same reason: it would make sure that a singular ruling in the federal courts would not impose upon the jurisdiction of the state courts, and it would prevent one state from being forced to recognize the definiton of marriage established in another state. As a gay man myself, I highly resent being coerced into a traditionally heterosexual and religious institution. I see "marriage" as a dirty word loaded with historical baggage. When it comes down to it, I would much rather have a "civil union." Let them have their "marriage" and get on with it! As a libertarian, I don't see why we should ask the government for a "license" to perform a perfectly ordinary and civilian ceremony (Paul agrees with me on this). You should have the same rights *period,* married or not married, gay or straight. In short, Paul's treatment of the issue, like all the others, shows nuance, caution and discretion, and would lead to a nation that is not so bitterly divided against itself. Just imagine: all those in favor of gay "marriage" would simply move to, say, California, and those who are not would move to, well, Texas. This is how the free market of ideas works itself out on the local/state levels.<br /><br />-<span style="font-weight: bold;">"protecting" the pledge of allegiance/burning the flag</span>: Remember, Paul voted to *restrict* the jurisdiction of federal courts on the matter. Simply put, the federal government has no authority to alter the pledge of allegiance, which is another example of the "one size fits all" approach; if you would like this to happen, take it up with your local and state representatives. Remember, Paul did not support legislation to make flag burning illegal nation-wide for the same reason. The freedom of expression that the flag represents is more important than the flag or symbol itself. Again and again, it comes down to the issue of local jurisdiction and states rights.<br /><br />-<span style="font-weight: bold;">net neutrality</span>: This bill may be just as deceptive as the so-called "patriot act," as the bill would allow the federal government to regulate the internet, and if the history of the FCC is any indication, this is bound to lead to a situation where the federal government will begin to control speech and other content on the internet as well (a la the "fairness doctrine"). Paul voted, likewise, against banning online gambling, and against imposing universal filters on the internet that would take the responsibility away from parents to monitor their children's exposure to "indecent" online material.<br /><br />-<span style="font-weight: bold;">affirmative action</span>: Paul has said time and time again that there is no such thing as "group" rights, and that such "group" mentalities actually perpetuate racism. There are only the rights of the individual, and every individual should be treated the same. This is reflected in his vote to stop reverse discrimination in our schools by admitting students based on the color of their skin rather than their merits as an individual.<br /><br />etc. etc.<br /><br />Issue after issue, I am convinced that if people simply put aside their party allegiances and opened up their minds to a crash-course in the American Constitution and the kind of classical liberalism enshrined in Paul's message, they would find answers to nearly *all* of the problems we face in the world today. It is all there in his voluminous speeches, articles and books, a brilliant testimony to his unfaltering statesmanship and his incisive, scholarly reason, which in the good Doctor's hands has the precision of a surgeon's scalpel. Again, this will require you to suspend all your pre-conceived notions of how you think the world (or, more specifically, the government) works, or should work. But I am certain you will be glad for the opportunity to re-educate yourself and understand why nearly all the big government solutions proposed to treat our problems over the years (especially since 1913--whether it be the New Deal and the Great Society, or the War on Drugs and Poverty, or the War on Terror) have failed miserably and have incrementally brought us closer to the draconian police state/corporatist military-industrial takeover we suffer under today.<br /><br />There is another way.<br /><br />A vote for Ron Paul will mean a vote for a seasoned philosopher-statesman who represents potential for *real* change, *real* solutions to our problems, rather than superficial tinkering, bureaucratic band-aids and porkish hand-outs. Paul targets the *real* centers of power in our society. I urge *everyone* to compare his votes with the articles written below and only then decide where to cast *their* vote in turn.<br /><br />I am confident of the results. This is not so much about liberals vs. conservatives, Democrats vs. Rebublicans, socialists vs. capitalists--this is about a return to the rule of law and the Constitution, a return to self-governance, self-motivated initiative, private charity and personal responsibility. In the end, we *can* have equality and fraternity--we can be as progressive or as conservative as we like, as a truly free market allows for competition even between public and private organizations, as long as they are voluntarily entered into, expanding the range of possibilities rather than narrowing them--but we can never have these virtues at the expense of the one thing that can bring about our desired results, and upon which everything else is irrevocably premised--We the People demand it back, once and for all--our Liberty, our Constitution, our Republic.<br /><br />This is about nothing less than the perennial struggle between the Free Human Spirit and the Divine Right of Kings.<br /><br />Remember, the Framers never intended "government for the people, by the people" to mean that civic life is merely a matter of voting the right representatives into power under the pretense that they would take care of all our economic, social and political problems *for* us. Nor did they ever intend a system whereby a majority of people could vote away the rights and property of the individual for the supposed gain of some "group" or other which claims a higher mandate on his or her life through state coercion and looting deductions. They disdained all such pure democracies and collectivist ideologies, for the simple reason that they end up destroying all the individuals in the society and therefore all the "groups" which those individuals comprised, as the best way to work against the interests of the group is to work against the interests of the individual. The government was instituted via the liberal social contract in order to protect our inalienable rights against the colluding intrigues of the minority *and* the fraternal tyranny of the majority, to further make sure our voluntary contracts are not violated by fraud or treachery, etc., so that *we* could address the problems of the world *ourselves*--whether it be through private charities and co-operative clinics, humanitarian organizations, consumer advocacy groups, environmental and labor unions, etc. etc. Remember, federal spending means federal regulation. True charitable work is achieved only through voluntary mutual aid, with no strings attached. We all know what happens when you trade liberty for security...you get neither.<br /><br />Our government, in other words, was designed in such a way that even if a president with dictatorial powers came into office he would not be able to do much harm, because the resources allocated to such centralized authority would be very limited in size and scope. How far we have strayed from this ideal, when we must rely on near *perfect* regulators and bureaucrats to run practically every aspect of our daily lives, whether it be the Federal Reserve chairman running our economy or the Department of Education running our schools or the IRS redistributing our wealth or the FDA imposing a virtual monopoly on the distribution of drugs and health supplements that may very well save our lives.<br /><br />It is time we reverse this trend and change course--radically--before it is too late.<br />It is time we have faith, once again, in the the Free Human Spirit and return the would-be emperors to the dust bins of history, as we must do, it seems, with renewed zeal and vigor according to each successive generation.<br />It is time to recognize we have survived periods of uncertainty before--whether it be famine, civil unrest or even climate change--but in times of universal slavery, our survival rate diminishes exponentially.<br />It is time to get people who represent *our* interests into power--because "those without power cannot defend liberty."<br />It is time--at last--to Vote Ron Paul.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">With that in mind: here, finally, is Ron Paul on the Issues: </span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">SAME SEX MARRIAGE:</span><br /><br />http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul207.html<br />http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul160.html<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE, FLAG BURNING:</span><br /><br />http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul205.html<br />http://www.ronpaullibrary.org/document.php?id=636<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">PRAYER IN SCHOOLS:</span><br /><br />http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul85.html<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">STEM CELL RESEARCH, CLONING:</span><br /><br />http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul252.html<br />http://www.ronpaullibrary.org/document.php?id=765<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">IMMIGRATION, BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP:</span><br /><br />http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul269.html<br />http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul346.html<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">ABORTION, PRO-LIFE LIBERTARIANISM:</span><br /><br />http://www.ronpaullibrary.org/document.php?id=912<br />http://www.ronpaullibrary.org/document.php?id=634<br />http://www.ronpaullibrary.org/document.php?id=635<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">NAFTA, WTO, "FREE TRADE AGREEMENTS" VS. FREE TRADE:</span><br /><br />http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul254.html<br />http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul250.html<br />http://www.ronpaullibrary.org/document.php?id=866<br />http://www.ronpaullibrary.org/document.php?id=140<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">PATRIOT ACT:</span><br /><br />http://www.ronpaullibrary.org/document.php?id=407<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">NATIONAL I.D. </span><br /><br />http://www.ronpaullibrary.org/document.php?id=396<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">ON OIL, GAS PRICES, MIDDLE EASTERN POLICY:</span><br /><br />http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul273.html<br />http://www.ronpaullibrary.org/document.php?id=536<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">ON THE UNITED NATIONS:</span><br /><br />http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul82.html<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">ON THE NORTH AMERICAN UNION:</span><br /><br />http://www.ronpaullibrary.org/document.php?id=475<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">ON GUN CONTROL:</span><br /><br />http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul374.html<br />http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul330.html<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">ON CIVIL RIGHTS ACT AND FORCED INTEGRATION, RACISM:</span><br /><br />http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul188.html<br />http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul381.html<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">ON NON-INTERVENTIONIST FOREIGN POLICY</span><br /><br />http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/fff-video.html<br />http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul356.html<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">ON LABOR UNIONS:</span><br /><br />http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst98/tst072798.htm<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">ON FREE SPEECH, FCC, AND CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS REFORM:</span><br /><br />http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul165.html<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">LOWERING THE COST OF HEALTH CARE, HMOs:</span><br /><br />http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul339.html<br />http://www.ronpaullibrary.org/document.php?id=644<br />http://www.ronpaullibrary.org/document.php?id=847<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">ON INCOME TAX, "PROGRESSIVE TAXATION" AND TAX CUTS: </span><br /><br />http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul316.html<br />http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul347.html<br />http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul348.html<br />http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul74.html<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">ON FEDERAL RESERVE, INFLATION AND SOUND MONEY:</span><br /><br />http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul53.html<br />http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul380.html<br />http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul333.html<br />http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul370.html<br />http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul358.html<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">ON THE WELFARE STATE VS PRIVATE CHARITY:</span><br /><br />http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul80.html<br />http://www.ronpaullibrary.org/document.php?id=707<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">NET NEUTRALITY, REGULATING THE INTERNET:</span><br /><br />http://www.ronpaullibrary.org/document.php?id=834<br />http://www.ronpaullibrary.org/document.php?id=705<br />http://www.mises.org/story/2139<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">SOCIAL SECURITY, SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER:</span><br /><br />http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul215.html<br />http://www.ronpaullibrary.org/document.php?id=861<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">THE WAR ON DRUGS</span><br /><br />http://www.ronpaullibrary.org/document.php?id=844<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">FEDERAL DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, VOUCHERS, NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND:</span><br /><br />http://www.ronpaullibrary.org/document.php?id=202<br />http://www.ronpaullibrary.org/document.php?id=241<br />http://www.ronpaullibrary.org/document.php?id=781<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">KYOTO TREATY, ENVIRONMENTALISTS, EPA:</span><br /><br />http://www.ronpaullibrary.org/document.php?id=24<br />http://www.ronpaullibrary.org/document.php?id=151<br />http://www.ronpaullibrary.org/document.php?id=154<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">FDA, HEALTH FREEDOM:</span><br /><br />http://www.ronpaullibrary.org/document.php?id=523<br />http://www.ronpaullibrary.org/document.php?id=886<br />http://www.ronpaullibrary.org/document.php?id=586<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">FEDERAL POLICE (FBI, ATF, ETC.):</span><br /><br />http://www.ronpaullibrary.org/document.php?id=190<br />http://www.ronpaullibrary.org/document.php?id=159<br />http://www.ronpaullibrary.org/document.php?id=112<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">ARE WE A DEMOCRACY--OR A REPUBLIC? </span><br /><br />http://www.ronpaullibrary.org/document.php?id=661<br />http://www.ronpaullibrary.org/document.php?id=887<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">CAPITALISM VS. SOCIALISM, INDIVIDUALISM VS. COLLECTIVISM:</span><br /><br />http://www.ronpaullibrary.org/document.php?id=688<br />http://www.ronpaullibrary.org/document.php?id=266<br />http://www.ronpaullibrary.org/document.php?id=176<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">DOES BIG GOVERNMENT WORK? LAW OF OPPOSITES</span><br /><br />http://www.ronpaullibrary.org/document.php?id=533<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">IS AMERICA A POLICE STATE?</span><br /><br />http://www.ronpaullibrary.org/document.php?id=690<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">WHY ARE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE SO ANGRY?</span><br /><br />http://www.ronpaullibrary.org/document.php?id=534Bon Oxfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01737069723970494870noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216029803037209708.post-30055795520862335962007-07-27T14:15:00.001-07:002007-07-27T14:15:50.956-07:00GLOBAL BACKLASH AGAINST GLOBALIZATION<div align="center"> <div> <p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" align="center"><span style=""><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:6;"><b><span style="font-family:Georgia;">GLOBAL BACKLASH AGAINST GLOBALIZATION?</span></b></span></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" align="center"><b><span style="font-family:Georgia;font-size:6;"> </span></b></p> <p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" align="center"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" align="left"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" align="left"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" align="left"><span style="font-family:Georgia;">Patrick Wood<br /> July 27, 2007<br /> NewsWithViews.com</span><span style="font-family:Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"> </span></p> <p align="left"><span style="font-family:Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;">For decades, global elitists have claimed special knowledge that they alone could solve the world’s problems if only we (the ignorant masses) would leave them alone to get on with it. It would create jobs and economic prosperity, they said. They promised peace and security. Truly, what’s not to like about their New World Order? </span> </p><p align="left"><span style="font-family:Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;">Imagine how shocked they were when Financial Times published the results of an <a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2a735dd0-3873-11dc-bca9-0000779fd2ac.html">FT/Harris poll</a> (July 22, 2007) which showed almost universal disdain for the very policies that were supposed to save us. According to the FT article, </span> </p></div> </div> <blockquote> <div align="center"> <div> <div align="left"><span style="font-family:Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><i>The depth of anti-globalization feeling in the FT/Harris poll, which surveyed more than 1,000 people online in each of the six countries, will dismay policy-makers and corporate executives. Their view that opening economies to freer trade is beneficial to poor and rich countries alike is not shared by the citizens of rich countries, regardless of how liberal their economic traditions.</i> </span></div> </div> </div> </blockquote> <div align="center"> <div> <p align="left"><span style="font-family:Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;">Yet, their clever defense is already built into the FT title: “Globalization backlash in rich nations”. </span> </p><p align="left"><span style="font-family:Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;">That’s right, it’s only the selfish rich nations who are resisting globalization. And, we should slap more taxes on ourselves to teach ourselves a lesson. </span> </p><p align="left"><span style="font-family:Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;">But wait, does this mean that poor nations are embracing globalization? </span> </p><p align="left"><span style="font-family:Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;">Apparently, anti-globalization riots and protests in 3rd world countries aren’t taken into account. Nor does it seem to matter that communist and other brutal dictatorships don’t even allow dissent; remember that there are plenty of dictatorships involved with the global elite, including countries like communist China. </span> </p><p align="left"><span style="font-family:Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;">In the FT/Harris poll, the question was posed: “Do you think globalization is having a positive or negative effect in your country?” </span> </p><p align="left"><span style="font-family:Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;">Less than 20 percent of citizen respondents in the UK, France, Spain and the U.S. viewed it as having a positive effect. Germany and Italy were a bit higher. </span> </p><p align="left"><span style="font-family:Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;">Still, well over 50 percent of all respondents voted “No” to globalization. </span> </p><p align="left"><span style="font-family:Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;">Another shock to the pro-globalization elite is the overwhelming passage (362-63 on July 24, 2007) of the <a href="http://www.house.gov/list/speech/ca52_hunter/Nafta_hgwy_amendment.shtml">Duncan Hunter Amendment</a> (H.R. 3074) to the Transportation Appropriations Act, “prohibiting the use of federal funds for participation in working groups under the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP), including the creation of the NAFTA Super Highway.” </span> </p><p align="left"><span style="font-family:Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;">“The proposed NAFTA Super Highway presents significant challenges to our nation’s security, the safety of vehicle motorists, and will likely drive down wages for American workers,” said Congressman Hunter. “Much like NAFTA, the super highway is designed to serve the interests of our trading partners and will lead to neither security nor prosperity.” </span> </p><p align="left"><span style="font-family:Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;">Congressman Duncan Hunter, also a presidential candidate, told his fellow congressional colleagues, </span> </p></div> </div> <blockquote> <div align="center"> <div> <div align="left"> <p><span style="font-family:Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><i>“This 12 lane highway, which is already under construction in Texas, will fast-track thousands of cargo containers across the U.S. without adequate security. These containers will move from Mexico, a country with a record of corruption and involvement in the drug trade, across a border that is already porous and insufficiently protected.</i></span></p> <p align="center"><a href="http://www.newswithviews.com/DonateNWV.htm"><img src="http://www.newswithviews.com/images/Article-Support-NWV.gif" border="0" height="120" width="230" /></a></p> </div> </div> </div> <div align="left"><i><span style="font-family:Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;">“Unfortunately, very little is known about the NAFTA Super Highway. This amendment will provide Congress the opportunity to exercise oversight of the highway, which remains a subject of question and uncertainty, and ensure that our safety and security will not be comprised in order to promote the business interests of our neighbors.”</span></i><span style="font-family:Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"> </span></div> </blockquote> <div align="center"> <div> <p align="left"><span style="font-family:Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;">Obviously, criticism of globalization in the U.S. is certainly not limited to citizens only.</span> </p><p align="center"><a href="mailto:newsforyou-list-subscribe@newswithviews.com"><img src="http://www.newswithviews.com/images/Free-Alerts.gif" border="0" height="60" width="150" /></a> </p><p align="left"><span style="font-family:Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;">What end-run will the global elite devise to counter these negative sentiments? Will they simply stiffen their necks even more and barge ahead in defiance of citizens and Congress alike? </span> </p><p align="left"><span style="font-family:Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;">If history is a guide, they will most likely dismiss all such criticisms as coming from ignorant people who don’t know any better in the first place. </span> </p><p align="left"><span style="font-family:Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><b><span style="color:#cc0033;">Related video:</span></b></span> </p><p align="left"><span style="font-family:Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><b>1,</b> <a href="http://www.cnn.com/video/partners/clickability/index.html?url=/video/business/2007/07/24/romans.globalization.backlash.cnn">‘Globalization’ a dirty word</a>?<br /> <b>2,</b> <a href="http://video.ft.com/ukdailyvideo/?clipid=1359_FT0339">Call for more tax on rich</a> </span> </p><p align="left"><span style="font-family:Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;">Note: For further information on globalization, see <a href="http://www.augustreview.com/">The August Review</a></span><span style="font-family:Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><br /> </span><br /> </p></div> </div> <div align="center"> </div> <div align="center"> </div> <div align="center"> </div> <div align="center"> </div> <div align="center"> </div> <div align="center"> <div> <p align="left"><span style="font-family:Georgia;font-size:100%;">© 2007 Patrick Wood - All Rights Reserved</span><br /> <br /> </p><div align="center"> <div> <p align="center"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><b><a href="mailto:newsforyou-list-subscribe@newswithviews.com"><span style="color:#cc0000;">Sign Up For Free E-Mail Alerts</span></a></b></span> </p></div> </div> <div align="center"> <div> <div align="center"><span style="font-family:Georgia;">E-Mails are used strictly for NWVs alerts, not for sale</span></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div align="center"> <div> <div align="left"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><br /> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div align="center"> <div> </div> </div> <hr width="60%"> <p><span style="font-family:Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><i>Patrick M. Wood is editor of <a href="http://www.augustreview.com/">The August Review</a>, which builds on his original research with the late Dr. Antony C. Sutton, who was formerly a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution for War, Peace and Revolution at Stanford University. Their 1977-1982 newsletter, Trilateral Observer, was the original authoritative critique on the New International Economic Order spearheaded by members of the Trilateral Commission. </i></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><i>Their highly regarded two-volume book, Trilaterals Over Washington, became a standard reference on global elitism. Wood's ongoing work is to build a knowledge center that provides a comprehensive and scholarly source of information on globalism in all its related forms: political, economic and religious.</i></span></p> <p><i><span style="font-family:Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;">E-Mail: <a href="mailto:pwood@augustreview.com">pwood@augustreview.com</a></span></i></p> <i><span style="font-family:Georgia;">Web Site: <a href="http://www.augustreview.com/">www.AugustReview.com</a></span></i>Bon Oxfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01737069723970494870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216029803037209708.post-3420592295398277942007-07-26T17:02:00.000-07:002007-07-26T17:07:09.800-07:00DON'T GIVE IN TO THE "WE" PROPAGANDA!<span style="font-style: italic;"><object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/YZ2as-l_LSk"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/YZ2as-l_LSk" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object><br /><br />when the speaker, Arundhati, however well-intentioned, can say something like "free markets undermine democracy" and that "soviet style communism failed not because it was intrinsically evil" i have to shake my fist at her intellectual dishonesty and/or her blatant disregard of the facts and only conclude that she is a) benevolent and ignorant or b) malevolent and brilliant. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">please tell me how "free markets undermine democracy?" how does being able to own your own land and run your own business and keep your own earnings undermine civil liberties? someone explain to me how the WTO and IMF are examples of "free trade"? should i list all the rules and regulations for imports, exports, etc.? </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">what we have here is an example of a state-managed market, where people have to ask permission from the state to do just about everything--whether it be to own their own land, keep their own earnings, start their own businesses--yes, even to trade. and, of course, the state isn't usually so keen on respecting the "small guy" because it doesn't reap in enough income and lobbying power for it to squander on its murderous imperial pursuits--so, of course, only the giant corporations survive. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">the solution is to *free* the market and the people, free the entrepreneurial human spirit and creativity and charity on the private level, not strengthen the coercive powers of the state (remember, the soviets only wanted to make their economy more "fair") . </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">the problem isn't "nationalism" or "free markets." the problem is the ideology of collectivism--the idea that the group is more important than the individual, that the group has rights and claims the individual does not, so that it is quite alright to vote away the rights and property of the minority, it is noble, in fact, to sacrifice the few, through wars or "progressive" taxation or whatever, as long as it makes life better for the majority. it is *democracy* in the purest sense that undermines a free market, where *individual* rights are not constitutionally guaranteed. nationalism, simply put, is an ugly form of collectivism, as is racism. the ideology that "we" is more important than "me" is just as dangerous as the ideology that it is *all* about me, me, me. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">if you can't clearly diagnose the problem, you will not be able to offer a solution. please read my article on "corporatism vs. capitalism" (http://thereconstitutionrevolution.blogspot.com/2007/07/globalization-is-good.html) and try to understand what is really going on here, folks. this kind of propaganda is put out in order to lure you into agitating for more government controls and consolidation and bureaucracies, more transferring of national sovereignty to global organizations like the WTO and the U.N., so that the CFR/trilateral commission folks can put their people in at the top and continue running the show. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">if you want to weaken those corporations and weaken the state, you need to free the market and restore the inalienable rights guaranteed by our constitution and our republic so that we the people can do our part in improving the miserable lot of humanity ourselves. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">STOP WASTING YOUR "CHARITY" ON ENDLESS WARS! </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">don't let this kindly sounding socialism distract you from the rottenness at its core. true socialism exists only in the free market, where labor and wealth is organized and distributed voluntarily without state coercion. don't replace the tyranny of the minority with the tyranny of the majority. fascism is likely to result either way. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">in the end, it is the *state* that will exterminate the human species, not the "free market."</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">what a ridiculous farce! </span><br /><br />-b-Bon Oxfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01737069723970494870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216029803037209708.post-2292147530090515692007-07-26T06:19:00.000-07:002007-07-26T06:20:54.292-07:00USING TERRORISTS TO ESTABLISH WORLD GOVERNMENT<div align="center"> <div><span style=""><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:6;"><b><span style="font-family:Georgia;"> USING TERRORISTS TO ESTABLISH WORLD GOVERNMENT<span style="font-size:130%;"><br /> <span style="color:#cc0000;">PART 1 of 2</span></span></span></b></span></span></div> </div> <div align="center"> <div> <p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" align="center"><b><span style="font-family:Georgia;font-size:6;"> </span></b></p> <p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" align="center"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" align="left"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" align="left"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" align="left"><span style="font-family:Georgia;">Patrick Briley<br /> July 26, 2007<br /> NewsWithViews.com</span> </p> <p align="left"><span style="font-family:Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;">Before the 9/11 attacks, the Saudi royals, including King Abdullah, were angrily demanding that Bush facilitate establishment of a Palestinian state in Israel, and the Saudis were paying the families of Hamas suicide bombers in Israel up to $25,000. </span> </p><p align="left"><span style="font-family:Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;">Saudi royal government impatience with US action to work to establish a Palestinian state led to Saudi terrorists being involved in the 9/11 attacks. Those publicly named in news reports, 9/11 Commission and 9/11 Congressional reports as having aided the 9/11 Saudi hijackers in the US include: </span> </p></div> </div> <blockquote> <div align="center"> <div> <div align="left"> <p><span style="font-family:Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;">Wahhabbist terror extremists in Saudi backed and controlled North American Islamic Trust (NAIT) mosques throughout the US </span></p> </div> </div> </div> <div align="left"> <p><span style="font-family:Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;">Saudi bankers such as the one connected to convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff, Saleh Abdullah Kamel.</span></p> </div> <div align="left"><span style="font-family:Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;">9/11 Saudi hijacker bagmen associates of Saudi royal government officials such as Al Bayoumi, Al Bana and Moshen AlAttas (half brother of Bin Laden). </span></div> </blockquote> <div align="center"> <div> <p align="left"><span style="font-family:Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;">This August 1, 2003 article from the New Republic quotes senior US officials as saying Saudi Royal government officials were involved in the 9/11 attacks - <a href="http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=express&s=ackermanjudis080103">Missing 28 Pages: 9--11 Congressional Report Says Saudi Government Involved</a>. The article can also be <a href="http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=20060">found here</a>: </span> </p></div> </div> <blockquote> <div align="center"> <div> <div align="left"><span style="font-family:Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;">“Since the joint congressional committee investigating September 11 issued a censored version of its report on July 24, there's been considerable speculation about the 28 pages blanked out from the section entitled ‘Certain Sensitive National Security Matters.’ The section cites ‘specific sources of foreign support for some of the September 11 hijackers,’ which most commentators have interpreted to mean Saudi contributions to Al Qaeda-linked charities. But an official who has read the report tells The New Republic that the support described in the report goes well beyond that: <b>It involves connections between the hijacking plot and the very top levels of the Saudi royal family. …We're talking about a coordinated network that reaches right from the hijackers to multiple places in the Saudi government.’"</b> </span></div> </div> </div> </blockquote> <div align="center"> <div> <p align="left"><span style="font-family:Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;">The details in the “28 missing pages” were intentionally deleted from the public version of the joint 9/11 attack report of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees. The pages were classified at the insistence of GW Bush and as the result of James Lewis, the author of part of the report under former Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and former CIA director, Porter Goss. </span> </p><p align="left"><span style="font-family:Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;">Saudi Bin Laden family members were protected with the help of Bush, and Bush family associate Dale Watson when they were flown out of the US on flights possibly chartered by Bin Laden a few days after 9/11 when all other US flights were grounded (according to newly released, un redacted FBI documents obtained by Judicial Watch under a FOIA request). Watson was the FBI Counter Terrorism Center chief who blocked search of 9/11 hijacker wannabe Moussaoui’s computer before 9/11. One of the Saudis flown out early was a 19 year old with the last name Al Hazmi, the same name of a slightly older 9/11 hijacker who may have been a close relative. </span> </p><p align="left"><span style="font-family:Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;">In the aftermath of 9/11, Bush announced his "road map to peace" hatched with Hamas terror backing Saudi Arabian Wahhabbist Muslims and Saudi King Abdullah and to be carried out by the quartet of EU, the US, the UN and Russia putting troops on the ground for 42 months in Jerusalem. Bush announced his intent then to divide Israel into two parts, establishing a Palestinian state inside Israel at the request of the Saudi royals and Wahhabbists. Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has just been named by GW Bush to be the envoy for the “roadmap” quartet to the Organization of the Islamic Conference that has 35 members. Tony Blair, GW Bush and Bill Clinton are Third Way, New Age Communitarianists who really are Communists who believe in establishing a world government and unifying religions under the New Age religious belief system. See <a href="http://www.newswithviews.com/Briley/Patrick2.htm">Subordinating America Under a Socialistic World Government</a>. </span> </p><p align="left"><span style="font-family:Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;">Before the US went into Iraq in March 2003, Bush gave a speech to the American Enterprise Institute saying his intent was to establish a permanent economic and governmental base in Iraq to guarantee a global prosperity and a permanent peace settlement for Israel and the Middle East. Bush has now set up a world government economic block on the plains of Shinar in Iraq with the construction and establishment of the Middle East Free Trade Association (MEFTA) headquarters built in Iraq at a cost of $592 million US taxpayer’s dollars. The MEFTA headquarters is a sprawling complex of 21 interconnected, blast proof buildings (reminiscent of the Pentagon) on 104 acres and posing as the US embassy and “foreign mission.” Even AlQaeda leader Dr. Ayman Zawahiri recently called for the re-establishment of Greater Assyria that includes northern Iraq. Bush is perhaps unwittingly complying with Zawahiri’s request.</span> </p><p align="center"><a href="http://www.venacura.com/main/?b=3667" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.newswithviews.com/images/Bannors/venacura315x55.gif" border="0" height="55" width="315" /></a><br /> <span style="font-size:85%;">Advertisement</span> </p><p align="left"><span style="font-family:Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;">The Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), that Bush and socialist Democrats follow, is fully behind MEFTA in Iraq being permanently set up as a regional seat of world government and economic empire. The MEFTA base is in the mold of CAFTA, NAFTA and GATT and is one of several regional global governance economic centers such as the European Union (EU) and the North American Union (NAU) that are leading to the destruction of the sovereignty of nations (including the US) and the creation of world government. While Bush, the CFR and the Trilateralists are imposing these regional global governance centers under the guise of making them democracies; they have not and will not guarantee Constitutional Republics and national sovereignty within the regions. </span> </p><p align="left"><span style="font-family:Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;">One world government regional trading block, the EU, is increasingly controlled by Muslims. Yet Bush has signed a new pact with the EU (without a treaty or Congressional vote or debate) that integrates US executive branch regulations with those of the EU to establish a single global US-EU market. See <a href="http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=193961">Bush OKs 'integration' with European Union [Without Treaty Ratification or Passage of a Law</a>] and <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6607757.stm">US and EU agree 'single market' [NWO Market</a>]. </span> </p><p align="left"><span style="font-family:Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;">One provision of the US-EU pact signed by Bush is the <i><b>Open Skies</b></i> deal, designed to reduce fares and boost traffic on transatlantic flights has already been set into motion by Cheroff and the DHS. It will allow potential Islamic terrorists to fly into the US from EU nations. It compliments and is consistent with Bush’s and Chertoff’s policies of allowing aliens-some of whom are known terrorists-into the US by airline flights, ships and land routes via Mexico and Canada as part of the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) and NAU “Trusted Traveler Program”. The US will have US regulations and airplane passengers from the EU, Mexico and Canada dominated by Muslim extremists over time (as is already happening in the EU). </span> </p><p align="left"><span style="font-family:Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;">Bush and the EU are slowly but inextricably introducing "sharia" law and "sharia compliant” trade and banking practices into these trade pacts. The US Dow Jones Islamic Trust (front for Muslim Brotherhood in the US) is already sharia compliant. GW Bush's associates for running US ports deals, Dubai and the UAE, use sharia compliant banking and management practices. </span> </p><p align="left"><span style="font-family:Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;">Northern Iraq is the home of ancient Assyria that now rides on the back of an ECONOMIC center in the Middle East and the world that sits on seven hills on seven mosques in Istanbul, Turkey. Turkey is in the process of now setting up an extremist sharia compliant, Islamic Republic similar to that of Iran. FBI translator and 9/11 whistleblower Sibel Edmonds has publicly stated that many prominent US officials connected to the American Turkish Council were involved in drug trafficking and had foreknowledge of the 9/11 attacks. House Speaker Dennis Hastert has been accused in news accounts of accepting bribes from Turkey Islamic leaders. Several NSC and CIA associates of the Bushes (see “AEI” described below) identified as being involved in the American Turkish Council, including Brent Scowcroft, were the business backers of Mujeeb Cheema, the Pakistani Director of the Saudi controlled NAIT mosques that have been associated directly with the 9/11 hijackers. </span> </p><p align="left"><span style="font-family:Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;">Two Oklahoma politicians having knowledge of NAIT’s activities and those of a FBI currently protected Muslim criminal business terrorist super cell in Oklahoma (see more below) have taken large contributions from and are close to Turkish members of the American Turkish Council. These politicians are Oklahoma’s governor Brad Henry, and David Boren, the Islamophile chancellor of the University of Oklahoma (OU). Boren is a former Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee and a world government socialist. advocate. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan appears to have a son or close relative currently enrolled at OU. </span> </p><p align="left"><span style="font-family:Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;">Months after 9/11 Bush and Colin Powell were still openly backing and protecting Hamas terrorists in Israel and in the US, calling them “freedom fighters”, and a group Powell said the US helped create as a negotiator for a peace plan with Israel. A public letter from Newt Gingrich finally pressured Bush to put Hamas on the US terror list. The staff director of the House Intelligence Committee and the former Chairman of the same committee, Janice Roberts and Dave McCurdy, respectively, told me personally that Hamas had a closely FBI monitored, but protected and large presence in Oklahoma and OKC prior to and after the OKC bombing well into 2001.. </span> </p><p align="left"><span style="font-family:Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;">Today Bush and Condi Rice are openly backing and protecting AlFatah terrorists in Israel and in the US with millions of dollars of weapons, ammunition and US intelligence. Condi Rice is still publicly calling Hamas “resistance fighters’ rather than the terrorists they really are even though Hamas attacked AlFatah in Gaza and captured over $400 million is US weapons and munitions and intelligence given to AlFatah. Bush recently prevailed in having Israel release AlFatah terrorists including Barghouti to now fight the same Hamas terrorists in the West Bank that Bush and Powell had previously backed. </span> </p><p align="left"><span style="font-family:Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;">US residents Melvin Lattimore, a.k.a. Mujahid Menepta, and Mujeeb Cheema, are the very embodiments of the Bush and Clinton duplicitous and murderous policies of supporting and protecting AlFatah and Hamas terrorists in the US and Israel. </span> </p><p align="left"><span style="font-family:Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;">Menepta is the North American recruiter for AlFatah who was a roommate of 911 hijackers and Saudi royal bagmen in Norman, OK including Al Hazmi, Hussein Moshen AlAttas, and hijacker wannabe Zacahrias Moussaoui. Menepta is also an AlFuqra terror member closely associated with a Muslim Brotherhood super cell criminal enterprise and network in Oklahoma that currently helps and acts as couriers and conduits for Hamas and AlQaeda terrorists in the US and overseas (see more on Bush protection of AlFuqra terrorists in the US and Pakistan in Part II of this article). </span> </p><p align="left"><span style="font-family:Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;">Menepta was named in court proceedings by the BATF at a federal trial in OKC in November 2001 as a participant in the 1993 WTC bombing and the 1995 OKC bombing. Menepta was protected at his trial by Chertoff’s replacement at the DOJ criminal division, John C. Richter, and Menpta is walking the streets of America in St. Louis for AlFuqra, and AlFatah.. One of Menepta’s roommates and Saudi bagman for the 9/11 hijackers, Moshen AlAttas, a half brother of Bin Laden, drove Moussaoui to the Minnesota flight school from the Norman OK flight school in August 1995. But AlAttas, like Menepta, was protected by the Bush DOJ and is according to some accounts, attending school in Alabama rather than being or deported or imprisoned. See <a href="http://www.newswithviews.com/Briley/Patrick20.htm">AlAttas: Was OU’s Saudi 9/11 Provocateur Protected By DOJ</a>? </span> </p><p align="left"><span style="font-family:Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;">The FBI taped the imam of the OU mosque, Ndiaye, talking to AlAttas about the planned “jihad” of Moussaoui and AlAttas in the summer of 1995. Despite Ndiaye and AlAttas setting up an Islamic Scientific Institute in Oklahoma before 9/11 (that was on the FBI terror watch list), Ndiaye was allowed to return to Senegal and AlAttas was protected and allowed to stay in the US. </span> </p><p align="left"><span style="font-family:Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;">Mujeeb Cheema, a Pakistani living in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is Director of the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT), a Saudi financially backed institution that controls Wahhabbist terror mosques in the US strongly suspected of involvement in 9/11 attacks, the OKC bombing, the 2005 OU bombing and the recent Trolley Mall shootings in Salt Lake City. Cheema is also associated with the Dow Jones Islamic Trust. </span> </p><p align="left"><span style="font-family:Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;">Cheema’s NAIT, along with the Council on Arab Islamic Relations (CAIR), is named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Hamas terror funding case involving the Holy Land Foundation going to trial in Dallas on July 16, 2007. NAIT is on the US terror list but nothing has been done to prosecute NAIT under Bush. Despite the indictment against CAIR, Bush, FBI head Robert Mueller and Homeland Security (DHS) chief Michael Chertoff require their agents to be trained by CAIR and CAIR is being given access to sensitive FBI and DHS security procedures.</span> </p><p align="center"><a href="http://www.newswithviews.com/DonateNWV.htm"><img src="http://www.newswithviews.com/images/Article-Support-NWV.gif" border="0" height="120" width="230" /></a> </p><p align="left"><span style="font-family:Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;">American Equity Investors (AEI) set up Mujeeb Cheema as a principal in Hawkins Energy in Tulsa in the early 1990s. AEI is controlled and run by personal assistants to HW Bush (David C. Martin), Terry Lenzner, former NSC Director Robert McFarland and former top CIA officials. Several NSC and CIA associates of the Bushes involved with AEI are identified as being involved in the 9/11 linked American Turkish Council, including Brent Scowcroft. Cheema is also associated directly with the US backed Muslim Brotherhood business investors in the US, the Dow Jones Islamic Trust.</span> </p><p align="center"><a href="mailto:newsforyou-list-subscribe@newswithviews.com"><img src="http://www.newswithviews.com/images/Free-Alerts.gif" border="0" height="60" width="150" /></a> </p><p align="left"><span style="font-family:Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;">Business records show that Cheema’s NAIT, backed by the Saudi Wahhabbists, is directly tied to an FBI and DOJ protected Muslim Brotherhood super cell criminal enterprise and network in Oklahoma that was involved in the OKC bombing with Menepta and AlFuqra terrorists. This super cell is still allowed to commit crimes (drug running, money laundering, property and insurance scams, etc) and operate to support Hamas, AlFatah, AlFuqra, and AlQaeda terror groups in the US and overseas. For more on Cheema, Menepta, NAIT, the Muslim Brotherhood and the super cell criminal enterprise and network in Oklahoma see chapters in the book The Oklahoma City Bombing Case Revelations (<a href="http://www.okc903.com/Revelations.pdf">PDF version</a> or <a href="http://www.okc903.com/Revelations.htm">HTML Version</a>) and articles at the book website, <a href="http://www.okc903.com/">OKC903.com</a>. For part two click below. </span> </p><p align="left"><span style="font-family:Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><b>Click here for part -----> <a href="http://www.newswithviews.com/Briley/Patrick45.htm">2</a>,</b></span><span style="font-family:Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><br /> <br /> </span> </p> </div> </div> <span style="font-family:Georgia;font-size:100%;">© 2007 Patrick Briley - All Rights Reserved</span>Bon Oxfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01737069723970494870noreply@blogger.com0