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Post by moabiter on Aug 16, 2010 21:21:59 GMT -8
Published 00:00 03.04.03 Latest update 00:00 03.04.03 White man's burden Is the Iraq war the great neoconservative war? It's the war the neoconservatives wanted, Friedman says. It's the war the neoconservatives marketed. Those people had an idea to sell when September 11 came, and they sold it. Oh boy, did they sell it. So this is not a war that the masses demanded. This is a war of an elite. Friedman laughs: I could give you the names of 25 people (all of whom are at this moment within a five-block radius of this office) who, if you had exiled them to a desert island a year and a half ago, the Iraq war would not have happened. www.haaretz.com/news/features/white-man-s-burden-1.14110
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Post by moabiter on Aug 16, 2010 21:35:34 GMT -8
The spies who pushed for war Thursday 17 July 2003 08.45 BST Julian Borger reports on the shadow rightwing intelligence network set up in Washington to second-guess the CIA and deliver a justification for toppling Saddam Hussein by force As the CIA director, George Tenet, arrived at the Senate yesterday to give secret testimony on the Niger uranium affair, it was becoming increasingly clear in Washington that the scandal was only a small, well-documented symptom of a complete breakdown in US intelligence that helped steer America into war. It represents the Bush administration's second catastrophic intelligence failure. But the CIA and FBI's inability to prevent the September 11 attacks was largely due to internal institutional weaknesses. This time the implications are far more damaging for the White House, which stands accused of politicising and contaminating its own source of intelligence. According to former Bush officials, all defence and intelligence sources, senior administration figures created a shadow agency of Pentagon analysts staffed mainly by ideological amateurs to compete with the CIA and its military counterpart, the Defence Intelligence Agency. The agency, called the Office of Special Plans (OSP), was set up by the defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, to second-guess CIA information and operated under the patronage of hardline conservatives in the top rungs of the administration, the Pentagon and at the White House, including Vice-President Dick Cheney. www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/jul/17/iraq.usa
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Post by moabiter on Aug 16, 2010 21:39:01 GMT -8
"Sixteen Words" controversy in 2003 State of the Union In his January 2003 State of the Union speech, U.S. President George W. Bush said, "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa."[2] This single sentence, known now as the infamous "Sixteen Words",[3] would become a crucial justification of the administration's decision to conduct an invasion of Iraq less than three months later. The administration later conceded that evidence in support of the claim was inconclusive and stated, "These sixteen words should never have been included." The administration attributed the error to the CIA.[4] In mid-2003, the U.S. government declassified the 2002 National Intelligence Estimate, which contained a dissenting opinion published by the U.S. Department of State stating that the intelligence connecting Niger to Saddam Hussein was "highly suspect," primarily because State Department's intelligence agency analysts did not believe that Niger would be likely to engage in such a transaction due to a French consortium which maintained close control over the Nigerien uranium industry.[5] According to The Washington Post, when occupying troops found no evidence of a current nuclear program, the statement and how it came to be in the speech became a focus for critics in Washington and foreign capitals to press the case that the White House manipulated facts to take the United States to war. The Post reported, "Dozens of interviews with current and former intelligence officials and policymakers in the United States, Britain, France and Italy show that the Bush administration disregarded key information available at the time showing that the Iraq-Niger claim was highly questionable." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niger_uranium_forgeries#.22Sixteen_Words.22_controversy_in_2003_State_of_the_Union
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Post by moabiter on Aug 18, 2010 20:29:02 GMT -8
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Post by moabiter on Aug 18, 2010 21:19:06 GMT -8
AP Exclusive: Terrorist interrogation tapes found Tue Aug 17, 7:11 pm ET Apparently the tapes do not show harsh treatment — unlike videos the agency destroyed of the questioning of other suspected terrorists... When the CIA destroyed its cache of 92 videos of two other al-Qaida operatives, Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Nashiri, being waterboarded in 2005, officials believed they had wiped away all of the agency's interrogation footage. But in 2007, a staff member discovered a box tucked under a desk in the CIA's Counterterrorism Center and pulled out the Binalshibh tapes. news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100817/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_cia_videotapes
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Post by moabiter on Sept 9, 2010 8:22:27 GMT -8
Florida preacher vows to burn Korans Last updated on Thursday, Sep. 09, 2010 11:36AM EDT Despite denunciations from religious leaders, angry Muslim protests, the pleas of top U.S. generals and White House disapproval, a fiery, unrepentant Christian minister vows to burn stacks of Korans to mark the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Terry Jones, pastor of the Dove World Outreach Centre, a tiny, controversial church with only 50 followers in Florida, says he won’t bow to threats or entreaties but might listen to divine guidance. www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/americas/florida-preacher-vows-to-burn-korans-despite-death-threats-and-condemnation/article1699013/
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Post by moabiter on Sept 9, 2010 13:59:52 GMT -8
Ex Senator: 9/11 Arabs Worked With Zionists Former U.S. senator James Abourezk to Hizbullah TV [Following are excerpts from an interview with former U.S. senator James Abourezk, which aired on Al-Manar TV on August 30, 2007.] Interviewer: Mr. Abourezk, welcome to Al-Manar TV. James Abourezk: Thank you very much. Interviewer: It’s good to have you. James Abourezk: Yes, I watch Al-Manar on one of the cable channels in America. Interviewer: Good, that’s excellent. Especially [considering] the fact that Al-Manar TV was banned in the U.S. Does that really show something which is like shooting the freedom of expression? James Abourezk: Well, freedom of expression is free for those whom the government likes. If they don’t like them, freedom of expression goes out the window, apparently… James Abourezk: … you heard in the press. Interviewer: Now look what’s happened in the case of Dr. Norman Finkelstein. It’s something which is, you know… James Abourezk: It’s disastrous, disastrous. They’ve… Interviewer: What happened to him? James Abourezk: He lost his tenure bid. So he therefore is going to have to go somewhere else, and find a job teaching. Interviewer: Why? James Abourezk: Well, because they shot down his tenure. Even though his department was all for it, and the department heads were all for it, the president of that university shot it down. Interviewer: It’s just because he was not an advocate of Israel? James Abourezk: No, because the lobby put pressure on him – specifically, Alan Dershowitz. He’s a real snake, I have to say that… sweetness-light.com/archive/ex-senator-911-arabs-cooperated-with-zionists
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Post by moabiter on Sept 9, 2010 22:36:07 GMT -8
Jack Rice: When People Make an Argument for Racial Profiling They're Either Lazy, Arrogant or Racist December 30, 2009 08:00 AM Former CIA officer Jack Rice hits back hard at the comments made by Pete King and his cohorts about racial profiling on the Ed Schultz Show. Schultz: Jack Rice this is a political hot potato for the White House. How far does the White House want to go with this kind of line of defense? What do you think? Rice: My response is they push back hard on what Peter King said, what Pete Hoekstra said—I mean there is no room for racial profiling in this country. Every study that I have seen—and I’m a former prosecutor too—every study I have seen has shown that it’s far more effective to follow what it is that people do rather than what they look like. And if we think about the broad picture now—let me see if we get this right. If we’re going to racially profile, we racially profile everybody across the Middle East. Now we find that this young 23 year old man from Nigeria—most of Nigeria is Christian by the way—so I guess what we’re going to have to do is include all of the people of Africa. But now let’s contemplate al Qaeda in the Philippines, so now we have to include people in Southeast Asia, so now we have about four billion people. Look, I think when people make an argument for racial profiling they’re either lazy, they’re either arrogant, or frankly they’re racist. This is a foolish idea and the worst part of it all is that what we’re going to do is alienate about 1.5 billion Muslims. We desperately need these people on our side. If we go down that path we’re in a very, very serious problem. videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/jack-rice-when-people-make-argument-racial
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Post by wtf on Sept 10, 2010 1:13:56 GMT -8
1,270 Architects/Engineers Reveal Hard Evidence of Explosive Demolition at World Trade Center on 9/11 Former US Senator Mike Gravel (D-AK) and Richard Gage, AIA, Founder of Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth Discuss Scientific Findings National Press Club, Washington DC, 2:00 pm, Thursday, September 9, 2010 WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On Thursday September 9, 2010, Gravel and Gage will host a central press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, presenting hard evidence that all three WTC skyscrapers on September 11, 2001, in NYC were destroyed by explosive controlled demolition. Senator Gravel notes, "Critically important evidence has come forward after the original government building reports were completed." This press conference will be webcast at AE911Truth.org and hosted concurrently in cities throughout the world.* Following the conference, there will be a mock debate during which public statements made by government investigators and other defenders of the official account will be presented and responded to in multimedia format. "They refuse to debate us in person," says Gage, "so we will let their public statements represent them." Gage will release a media-friendly summary of his organization's findings, which are based on forensic evidence as well as video and eyewitness testimony that were omitted from official reports. He will show evidence that the WTC Twin Towers were not destroyed by jet plane impacts or fires, but by pre-set explosives and incendiaries. The non-profit organization, Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth, will also call for a grand jury investigation of government report lead engineers Shyam Sunder and John Gross of the National Institute of Standards and Technology. "They were in a position to know the evidence we have been presenting," says Gage. Also speaking will be Florida State Professor Lance deHaven-Smith, who coined the academic term State Crimes Against Democracy (SCAD). Prof. deHaven-Smith has appeared on Good Morning America, the Today Show, NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw, CBS Nightly News with Dan Rather, and other national TV/radio shows. news.yahoo.com/s/usnw/20100907/pl_usnw/DC60870
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Post by wtf on Sept 10, 2010 1:30:35 GMT -8
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Post by moabiter on Sept 13, 2010 10:38:57 GMT -8
Rule of law State Secrets vs. the Rule of Law September 13th, 2010 The inherent tension between the state secrets privilege and the rule of law reached the breaking point last week when an appeals court dismissed www.nytimes.com/2010/09/09/us/09secrets.htm?_r=1 the claims of several persons who said they were illegally transported and tortured through a CIA “extraordinary rendition” program. They would not be permitted to litigate their case, the court decided, because to do so would place “state secrets” at risk. www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2010/09/rule_of_law.html
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Post by clone on Sept 18, 2010 22:09:48 GMT -8
This was taken from a facebook page: www.facebook.com/prager1?v=wall#!/note.php?note_id=499845364837&comments 911 was the culmination of many years, almost a decade, of dismantling the Soviet Union and crashing the Soviet economy which required a great deal of money and a great deal of money laundering. This money, 240 billion dollars, created by the Federal Reserve as Brady Bonds, better known as bearer bonds, became due on September 12th, 2001. The events of 911 allowed the Federal Reserve, for the first time in history, to disregard US federal securities laws for just ten days, from September 12th until about September 22nd. During this time ALL securities trades were ANONYMOUS for the first and only time in US history, allowing the $240 billion in fraudulent bonds to clear. For more on this see: Payment System Disruptions and the Federal Reserve Following September 11, 2001, Jeffrey M. Lacker, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia, 23219, USA, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Working Paper 03-16, December 23, 2003. While these quotes may not seem related 911, they are. “Valued at $35 billion, Russia's gold reserves were estimated to be 100 million troy ounces - just under 3000 tonnes. Then in September 1991, a palpitating Grigory Yavlinski, the economic supremo, revealed to delegates at the Group-of-Seven industrial countries meeting in Bangkok, that a mere 240 tons were all that was left. Two months later, in November, even that had disappeared. "Not a gram of gold remains; the vaults are empty," said Victor Geraschenko, chief of Gosbank, the Russian Central Bank.” See Gangster’s Paradise, David Guyatt, 1997 "According to leaders of the failed coup in 1991, the real coup, the undermining of Soviet power, was an intricate plot devised by Gorbachev and Yeltsin with help from 'foreign agents' (the USA and the CIA) in the West." Resurrection: The Struggle for a New Russia, David Remnick, Vintage, 1997, as cited by THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE MOSCOW COUP OF AUGUST 1991. “In June, I also testified under oath, in closed session, before the Senate Foreign Relations committee. I stated unequivocally that I had, seen Bush in Paris.” Ari Ben-Menashe. Profits of War, Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network, Sheridan Square Press, 1992, p344. US aid to Israel, Palestine Monitor, October 31, 2007. “Since World War II Israel has been the largest overall recipient of US aid: from 1949-2006 Israel received more than $156 billion of direct US aid…. The US also lends money to Israel, but these loans are frequently waived before any repayments are made. The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs has estimated that from 1974-2003 Israel benefited from more than $45 billion in waived loans from the US.” “New York, NY October 17, 2000: Blackstone Real Estate Advisors, the global real estate investment and management arm of The Blackstone Group, L.P., announced today that it has purchased, from Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association, the participating mortgage secured by 7 World Trade Center, a commercial office complex controlled by real estate developer Larry Silverstein.” www.blackstone.com/news/press_releases%5C7_world_trade_oct_2000.pdf“According to Wolfgang Bueschel in BCDX 351, "Mr. Vafa Culuzadeh, adviser of former Azerbaijan President Ebulfez Elicibey, told the Italian press agency IPS in October 1992 from Baku, that the Israelian secret service specialist David Kimche and... Richard Secord, who was involved in the `Iran-Contra`-Affair, visited Azerbaijan, (and) presented a delegation of more Israelian secret service personnel. Mr. Culuzadeh took part on a return visit to Israel, (and) lead a delegation of Azerbaijan/Uzbek/Kazakh secret services." [Voice of Southern Azerbaijan, Nick Grace C., 4/13/1998] The Global Drug Meta-Group: Drugs, Managed Violence, and the Russian 9/11, Peter Dale Scott, October 29, 2005; Revelations of the Fugitive Kremlin Financier, recorded Vadim Andreev, Translation and comments by burtsev.ru, January 19, 2004, see also “Storm in Moscow”: A Plan of the Yeltsin “Family” to Destabilize Russia, John B. Dunlop , The Hoover Institution , October 8, 2004. If you're interested in how the information above ties into 911 simply read the impeccably referenced and cited summary at the link below. www.scribd.com/doc/15949050/Collateral-Damage-911
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Post by clone on Sept 19, 2010 11:20:04 GMT -8
Osama bin Laden Responsible for the 9/11 Attacks? Where is the Evidence? Global Research, November 2, 2009 * Here is a surprising but little-known fact, because it has scarcely been reported in the mainstream media: The FBI's "Most Wanted Terrorist" webpage on "Usama bin Laden" does not list the 9/11 attacks as one of the crimes for which he is wanted. * As the endnotes for The 9/11 Commission Report reveal, whenever the Commission referred to evidence of bin Laden's responsibility for the 9/11 attacks, the Commission was always referring to CIA-provided information, which had (presumably) been elicited during interrogations of al-Qaeda operatives. * Because he would have known, on the one hand, that a building fire, even if fed by jet-fuel (which is essentially kerosene), could not, even under the most ideal conditions, have risen above 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit (1,000 degrees Celsius). And he would have known, on the other hand, that iron and steel do not begin to melt until they are heated to a temperature far higher than that: to almost 2,800 degrees Fahrenheit (1,540 degrees Celsius). * A fourth expert opinion has been issued implicitly, it would seem, by the Department of Justice and its FBI. If they considered this "confession video" authentic, would they not consider it "hard evidence" of bin Laden's responsibility for 9/11? They say, however, that they have no such evidence, so they must not consider this video authentic. * The video, moreover, evidently did help: Bush's lead over Kerry in national polls increased right after it appeared,43 and both Bush and Kerry said that this tape was significantly responsible for Bush's victory. * I showed in a previous essay that, according to the best evidence presently available, Osama bin Laden has been dead for many years.53 In the present essay, I have shown that there is not even any good evidence for the claim that bin Laden was responsible for the 9/11 attacks. * David Ray Griffin is the author of 36 books, nine of which are about 9/11. His most recent book is The Mysterious Collapse of World Trade Center 7: Why the Final Official Report about 9/11 Is Unscientific and False (Olive Branch, 2009). In 2008, he put out two books: The New Pearl Harbor: 9/11, the Cover-Up, and the Exposé (which was named a "Pick of the Week" by Publishers Weekly) and Osama bin Laden: Dead Or Alive? (which has generated considerable media coverage in England). * David Ray Griffin is professor emeritus at Claremont School of Theology and Claremont Graduate University. www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=15892
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Post by clone on Sept 19, 2010 11:31:26 GMT -8
Caught! Mossad Paid By U.S. To Spy On “Dissidents,” Tea Party, Environmentalists September 17, 2010 Did you know that attending a meeting to organize a bake sale for new band uniforms can put you on a terrorist watch list? You don't have to join a peace group or protest oil drilling to be considered dangerous. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania hired ITRR, the Instititute of Terrorism Research and Response, a Jerusalem based company owned by the Mossad and tied directly to the Israeli Ministry of Defense to track "dissidents" and "activists." .... Governor Rendell expressed shock at the gross violation of constitutional rights involved in hiring this company, one that is said to be working for state and local governments across the United States. Rendell said he was "stunned" when he learned about the spying relationship, one he characterized as "ludicrous." From Governor Rendell's apology to the people of Pennsylvania at a capitol news conference this week: .... The Pennsylvania spying story was never reported nationally. It couldn't be, there is a "blackout" on any news critical of Israel, real forced censorship, part of the official policy of the Obama administration, as it was of the Bush administration, cheerfully adhered to by media owned and operated by Israel itself. The Fox News report of 2001, showing America's counter-terrorism organizations hot on the trail of Israel, was the last report of its kind on any major network. Not one word spoken of by Cameron or Hume has been repeated in nine long years. Not one lead has been followed up, not one more question asked, the entire thing, forgotten, forgiven, overlooked or perhaps something darker and more threatening. * Gordon Duff is senior editor of Veterans Today. sabbah.biz/mt/archives/2010/09/17/mossad-paid-by-usa-to-spy-on-us/
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Post by clone on Sept 19, 2010 12:21:30 GMT -8
WTC Construction Manager - Twin Towers can take multiple plane impacts www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAVd2txjNEcFrank A. DeMartini - Manager, WTC Construction & Project Management is on record stating the WTC towers were designed to have fully loaded 707s crash into them. He goes on to say that he believes the towers could sustain multiple impacts of jetliners. The structure is like the mosquito netting on your screen door, an intense grid, and the jet plane is just a pencil puncturing that screen netting... it really does nothing to the screen door. This man was killed inside the WTC on 9/11. *** Frank DeMartini died on September 11th a hero. After accompanying his wife down 88 flights of stairs from his office in the North Tower, he went back up with fellow WTC worker Pablo Ortiz and rescued over 70 people. DeMartini and Ortiz - both 49 years of age - perished in the collapse of the North Tower. www.grandtheftcountry.com/facts/911/towers/demartini.html
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