Guest blogged by Winter Patriot
There’s a ton of important new material on the blog at the moment and I wouldn’t want to distract you from it. But on the other hand I do want to share some of what I’ve been reading this evening, for those who are interested…
James Bamford’s newest monsterpiece provides a quietly horrifying glimpse of a man who must certainly rank among the most brilliant and the most twisted of them all. The Man Who Sold The War: John Rendon, Bush’s general in the propaganda war is a long read but a good one. I can’t do it justice with just a quote or two, but here’s a sample to get you started:
On December 17th, 2001, in a small room within the sound of the crashing tide, a CIA officer attached metal electrodes to the ring and index fingers of a man sitting pensively in a padded chair. The officer then stretched a black rubber tube, pleated like an accordion, around the man’s chest and another across his abdomen. Finally, he slipped a thick cuff over the man’s brachial artery, on the inside of his upper arm.
Strapped to the polygraph machine was Adnan Ihsan Saeed al-Haideri, a forty-three-year-old Iraqi who had fled his homeland in Kurdistan and was now determined to bring down Saddam Hussein. For hours, as thin mechanical styluses traced black lines on rolling graph paper, al-Haideri laid out an explosive tale. Answering yes and no to a series of questions, he insisted repeatedly that he was a civil engineer who had helped Saddam’s men to secretly bury tons of biological, chemical and nuclear weapons. The illegal arms, according to al-Haideri, were buried in subterranean wells, hidden in private villas, even stashed beneath the Saddam Hussein Hospital, the largest medical facility in Baghdad.
It was damning stuff — just the kind of evidence the Bush administration was looking for. If the charges were true, they would offer the White House a compelling reason to invade Iraq and depose Saddam. That’s why the Pentagon had flown a CIA polygraph expert to Pattaya: to question al-Haideri and confirm, once and for all, that Saddam was secretly stockpiling weapons of mass destruction.
There was only one problem: It was all a lie.
Read more and see how the lie told by Adnan Ihsan Saeed al-Haideri was used to “justify” the “war”, even though it was known to be false, how John Rendon and his consulting company have earned millions of dollars fabricating and spreading this lie and many similar lies, creating so-called justification upon which wars have been waged, and many lives have been destroyed, and much money has been made, often by brilliant and twisted men…
… who somehow convince themselves that all the horrible things they have done — to Americans as well as foreigners — is ok. How do they do that? That’s a question that I’ve never been able to answer: How do these guys convince themselves that telling — or worse yet, fabricating — lies to start wars is anything other than pure evil??
Bamford points out the contradiction, mildly in my rash opinion, but he also gives us a look at the future:
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Rendon is already thinking ahead. Last year, he attended a conference on information operations in London, where he offered an assessment on the Pentagon’s efforts to manipulate the media. According to those present, Rendon applauded the practice of embedding journalists with American forces. “He said the embedded idea was great,” says an Air Force colonel who attended the talk. “It worked as they had found in the test. It was the war version of reality television, and for the most part they did not lose control of the story.” But Rendon also cautioned that individual news organizations were often able to “take control of the story,” shaping the news before the Pentagon asserted its spin on the day’s events.
“We lost control of the context,” Rendon warned. “That has to be fixed for the next war.”
Yikes! The next war … where’s that? Iran? Syria? Or maybe closer to home?
You never know, do you? The professional saber-rattler knows how to keep his options open.
Kurt Nimmo: Ch�vez: Bush is a Genocidal Madman
Of course, the corporate media did not report this because it is true, but rather because they never miss a chance to portray Ch�vez as spiteful and irrational…
He doesn’t hold back, does he? I’m enjoying Nimmo more and more lately, sometimes because he tells me things I didn’t already know, sometimes because he puts the pieces together in such telling ways, and often because I find myself reading thoughts I’ve held in my frozen little brain for a long time, but which I’ve never been brave enough to articulate:
No doubt he hopes the Bush administration will implode before it gets around to taking him out. It tried once but fumbled the ball. Next time it won’t screw up.
However, I don’t think the Bush administration will implode anytime soon.
Problem is, the Bush administration may engage in a crime wave before it explodes.
Imagine Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold with nukes and you have a pretty good if not chilling idea what Bush and Cheney will do before history ushers them out the back door.
Yikes! Did he really say that? Wow! It’s no wonder I like Kurt Nimmo. He’s fearless.
And here he is again: Washington Post Explains How the Nazi-Created CIA Protects Us
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According to former CIA agent Ralph McGehee, �the CIA universally compiles local �Subversive Control Watch Lists’ of leftists for attention by the local government,� in other words the CIA has specialized in providing death lists to fascist governments. McGehee elaborates:
After the CIA’s overthrow of Arbenz’s government in Guatemala in 1954, the U.S. gave the new government lists of opponents to be eliminated. In Chile from 1971 through 1973, the CIA fomented a military coup through forgery and propaganda operations and compiled arrest lists of thousands, many of whom were later arrested and assassinated. In Bolivia in 1975, the CIA provided lists of progressive priests and nuns to the government which planned to harass, arrest and expel them. To curry the favor of Khomeini, in 1983 the CIA gave his government a list of KGB agents and collaborators operating in Iran. Khomeini then executed 200 suspects and closed down the communist Tudeh party. In Thailand, I provided the names of hundreds of leftists to Thai security services. The Phoenix program in Vietnam was a massive U.S.-backed program to compile arrest and assassination lists of the Viet Cong for action by CIA-created Provisional Reconnaissance Unit death squads. In fact, former Director of the CIA William Colby compared the Indonesian operation directly to the Vietnam Phoenix Program. Colby further admitted directing the CIA to concentrate on compiling lists of members of the PKI [Communist Party of Indonesia] and other left groups.
Thus in Indonesia, in 1965 and 1966, between 250,000 and 1,000,000 people were killed, many of them as a result of the diligent work of the CIA. �The CIA desperately wants to conceal evidence of its role in the massacre, which it admits was one of the century’s worst. The U.S. media seem equally determined to protect the American image from consequences of covert operations.� Dana Priest, as an official stenographer tasked with writing glowing reviews of how the CIA protects us from CIA-created terrorism, certainly does not put any of this into context. Of course, it should be noted that the Washington Post was, under the CIA’s Operation Mockingbird, probably the numero uno disinformation and propaganda asset for the agency (Philip Graham, publisher of the Washington Post, was a documented CIA agent).
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Priest expends a few thousand glowing words, making excuses for this massive terror organization, based on Nazi intelligence and initially staffed with Nazi war criminals, while never telling us the truth about the CIA: in addition to being the largest, most organized, and well funded terror organization in the world, it is a primary example of the Hegelian dialectic: it utilizes the Fichtean �thesis�antithesis�synthesis� model, first covertly creating terrorism, then reacting as our saviors to its custom-made terrorism, and finally proposing draconian measures to combat the terrorism it initially fabricated, thus dismantling our liberties and erecting a police state, as all faithful Nazis demand authoritarian government.
It’s funny how he mentions Philip Graham and Operation Mockingbird. Hmmm. And was somebody saying something about Bob Woodward recently? Hmmm.
I can’t leave you on such a note. So let’s go back to South America, shall we? Here’s John Pilger: The Rise of America’s New Enemy
It is raw witness like this, which I have heard over and over again in Venezuela, that smashes the one-way mirror between the west and a continent that is rising. By rising, I mean the phenomenon of millions of people stirring once again, “like lions after slumber / In unvanquishable number”, wrote the poet Shelley in The Mask of Anarchy. This is not romantic; an epic is unfolding in Latin America that demands our attention beyond the stereotypes and cliches that diminish whole societies to their degree of exploitation and expendability.
To the man in the bus, and to Beatrice whose children are being immunized and taught history, art and music for the first time, and Celedonia, in her seventies, reading and writing for the first time, and Jose whose life was saved by a doctor in the middle of the night, the first doctor he had ever seen, Hugo Chavez is neither a “firebrand” nor an “autocrat” but a humanitarian and a democrat who commands almost two thirds of the popular vote, accredited by victories in no less than nine elections. Compare that with the fifth of the British electorate that re-installed Blair, an authentic autocrat.
Chavez and the rise of popular social movements, from Colombia down to Argentina, represent bloodless, radical change across the continent, inspired by the great independence struggles that began with Simon Bolivar, born in Venezuela, who brought the ideas of the French Revolution to societies cowed by Spanish absolutism. Bolivar, like Che Guevara in the 1960s and Chavez today, understood the new colonial master to the north. “The USA,” he said in 1819, “appears destined by fate to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.”
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The social movements are now a decisive force in every Latin American country – even in the state of fear that is the Colombia of Alvaro Uribe Velez, Bush’s most loyal vassal. Last month, indigenous movements marched through every one of Colombia’s 32 provinces demanding an end to “an evil as great as the gun”: neo-liberalism. All over Latin America, Hugo Chavez is the modern Bolivar. People admire his political imagination and his courage. Only he has had the guts to describe the United States as a source of terrorism and Bush as Senor Peligro (Mr Danger). He is very different from Fidel Castro, whom he respects. Venezuela is an extraordinarily open society with an unfettered opposition – that is rich and still powerful. On the left, there are those who oppose the state, in principle, believe its reforms have reached their limit, and want power to flow directly from the community. They say so vigorously, yet they support Chavez. A fluent young arnarchist, Marcel, showed me the clinic where the two Cuban doctors may have saved his girlfriend. (In a barter arrangement, Venezuela gives Cuba oil in exchange for doctors).
At the entrance to every barrio there is a state supermarket, where everything from staple food to washing up liquid costs 40 per cent less than in commercial stores. Despite specious accusations that the government has instituted censorship, most of the media remains violently anti-Chavez: a large part of it in the hands of Gustavo Cisneros, Latin America’s Murdoch, who backed the failed attempt to depose Chavez. What is striking is the proliferation of lively community radio stations, which played a critical part in Chavez’s rescue in the coup of April 2002 by calling on people to march on Caracas.
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The old-young man in the jeep, Beatrice and her healthy children and Celedonia with her “new esteem”, are indeed a threat – the threat of an alternative, decent world that some lament is no longer possible. Well, it is, and it deserves our support.
Thanks to John Pilger for reminding us that a decent world is possible. How to get from here to there? That’s the big question, isn’t it? Thanks to Kurt Nimmo and James Bamford as well, for outlining some of the obstacles that stand in the way. Big obstacles, too, are they not?
What can we do? It starts with education, in my view. Hopefully you now know more than you did when you started reading this [rather long] item. That’s one for the good guys.
Now let’s see if you can help to educate your friends and neighbors, especially those without access to the internet.
How? One page at a time, that’s how.
Recent titles at The Whispering Campaign include:
three excerpts from an essay by Charles Sullivan:
We Must Come To Grips With Our History
A Land Of Contradictions
The Antithesis Of Robin Hood
three excerpts from a blog by John Aravosis
Cheney Lies About The Lies He Told [part 1]
Cheney Lies About The Lies He Told [part 2]
Cheney Lies About The Lies He Told [part 3]
Document: Oil Chiefs Met With Cheney Task Force
based on a report by Dana Milbank and Justin Blum
Bush Administration Dishonors All Veterans
based on a column by Rev. Bill McGinnis
Torturing Detainees Will Not Help Us
based on an article by Larry Johnson
Our Most Basic Rights Are In Serious Trouble
based on a report by David Rose
They Will Need A Lot More Time To ‘Study’ This
based on an item from The Bulldog Manifesto
Amman Bombings: Nothing Here, Move On
based a report by Kurt Nimmo
Synthetic Terror On GOP Agenda AGAIN!
based on a report by Doug Thompson
A Time Comes When Silence Is Betrayal
based on a speech by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
and of course:
two items based on reports by Brad Friedman
Ohio ’05 Election Results Staggeringly Impossible
GOP Voting Obstruction Case Bound for Trial
Election-Tampering Pure And Simple
based on a report by Joshua Micah Marshall
NM Election Officials Try to Block Machine Inspections
based on a report from voteraction.org
It’s easy. It’s safe. And it’s fun. Spread some truth around your neighborhood this weekend. As Brad says, “Be The Media”. Or as I sometimes say: Knowledge Is Power! Pass It On!!
Had enough? For those who haven’t, a few late additions to the list:
Gandhi is posting again. I was afraid he was going to quit blogging for good. He’s been excellent lately, too. His most recent post links to two newish posts from Riverbend at Baghdad Burning ( House of Horrors… and Conventional Terror… ) each of which is well worth the price of admission [namely, enough brutal truth to turn any sane person’s stomach inside out] … and finally, a late but great find, A most encouraging poll from Handy Fuse at Simply Appalling.
Peace be with you all. I gotta go to bed.
Well done, WP.
An excellent way to start the day – and a lot of reading for me to catch up on, apparently.
Please keep up the good work!
Don’t hold back … tell ’em what you think
As to ‘A Decent World Is Possible’
The congress is trying to cut food stamps to starving poor americans.
This at the same point they voted in pay increases to themselves.
Lets cause an email storm and let them know we would rather cut welfare to the Oil Barons, which Cheney strong armed thru, than to folk who need and deserve to fare well via our compassionate welfare set forth in the preamble to the constitution.
Kira, or any other 6 of 7, know any good links to pages that could help us do this?
Lets roll 6 of 7.
Count me in. I’ll check back for the links. After reading this piece about the CIA, I’m thinking, maybe some good will come of Bushco’s war on them. Maybe we are going down as a superpower because we have wasted our resources. Saw Chavez’s speech during the time Bush was visiting them..he spoke of sharing their resorces with poorer countries in Latin America, the people cheered…Would that have happened here if our leaders suggested sharing with the less fortunate? I will always believe the success of the far right is tapping in to the old KKK mentality. They prayed before they tortured and killed and harrassed. What’s the difference in the old KKK and Pat Robertson or O’Reilly.
Here is a link to the food stamp story mentioned in my #4 post.
The Cold Civil War.
The regressives in the Republican Party have conducted a cold civil war for decades. Goldwater and Nixon escalated this cold civil war.
I consider George W Bush the 3rd president of the confederacy with Ronald Raygun the second.
GOP refers to Grand Old Plantation.
In the 1840’s and 1850’s the conservatives continued to hold slaves. Today the regressive Republicans want the minimum wage to lose further value in the face of inflation so companies can reap the ill gotten gains of wage slavery. The regressive Republicans have refused to extend unemployment insurance benefits beyond 6 months and this unfortunately burdens the person out of work and looking but it also falsely aids regressive republicans in the lie that now this person no longer appears unemployed and falsely lowers the unempployment rate.
The rebels unfortunately have taken over this union and wants to create another plantation system with outsourced jobs and low wages here for those who still have jobs while some sectors reap outrageously high profits at the expense of the poor and middle classes.
George W Bush: A CHIMP that will live in INFAMY.
How do we get a progressive agenda done today?
The answer appears in your wallet. I imagine each of you have studied the union movement. The union movement has brought us the 40 hour work week and the minimum wage. The union movement had focused on the individual employers to get these benefits.
Today corporations have taken over the Republican party and even write the legislation that hurts ordinary people.
We need to form our own ad hoc union and instead of going on a work strike we need to go on a purchasing strike. We need to target some of the major contributors of money to the Republican party as they pull the levers of power and they have the most to lose and they can get the pressure every day instead of the officeholders that only run every 2, 4 and 6 years.
We need to go on strike against Walmart, Wendy’s, Outback Steak House, Dominos Pizza, Red Lobster, Olive Garden, Eckerd, CVS and Walgreens, GE and Exxon/Mobil.
We need to call these companies and thell them we have gone on strike against them until they get the RNC to hold a press conference announcing that they will accede to our demands of a TEN dollar an hour minimum wage, an unemployment insurance benefit that will last 1 year instead of 6 months, a real prescription drug benefit under Medicare of 80 percent coverage and no privatization of social security and increasing the social security payroll tax,removing the 88,000 dollar a year FICA taxable income limit, and vote by mail throughout the US with paper ballots and an independent civil service that registers people to vote and counts votes. We need this and more. You make the demands, you go on strike. You have the money and the Republican contributors either do as we want or they go broke under our purchasing strike.
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Someone in the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy devised an idea, a vast right-wing idea of how they could use the natural political advantage which arose after LBJ signed into law the Voting Rights Act and the Civil Rights act in the 1960s.
They began to tell people during the 1980s that there was a Revolution. Of course, they didn’t tell people the revolution had occurred about 15 years earlier.
The idea they wanted to promote was that there was a new Conservative movement which espoused such popular ideas that they would win majorities in Congress and win the Presidency forever. They told the Southern Evangelicals they would protect Israel to ensure a great ‘landing strip’ for Jesus’ return. They told the Jews they’d protect Israel and the Neo-cons added that they’d take over the Middle-East to ensure no countries would attack Israel. They told the Rich they’d get endless tax cuts. There are also some backroom deals whereby the billions being lost and stolen were divvied up. They created the illusion of an ideological bandwagon all those groups could climb on.
Many groups in the Republican party are actually at odds. Why ally the Jews in America with the Southern Christians? How do the Libertarians and North-Eastern old-fashioned moderate Repubs who favor a strong military, a strong economy and low taxes fit a Republican party which supports spending on a scale never before seen?
I think part of it relates to where political campaign monies come from. The Neocons left the Dem party in the 1970s because they couldn’t get the big support for Israel they wanted. Sometime in the 1980s the Dems began distancing themselves from Jewish money (mostly coming from New York) and went West to search out high tech money and environmentalist money. Clinton actually had as much money for his campaigns as the Republicans!
But, if the Republicans can fight for Jewish campaign monies then the Dems would be losing the money war again. He who has the money gets elected and then makes the rules.
How’s it all fit together? Bush said, "America would be easier as a dictatorship" It seems to be about pure power — Machiavellian really.
Control elections, control the money, control the press…take over the middle-eastern oil…POWER.
Who devised this? Who benefits?
These are tougher questions to answer. I’d guess it was a group effort to create this idea for world domination, begun at the time in the 1980s when it began to become obvious the USSR would collapse and we’d be the only remaining super power. Blame it on the Neocons, but not them alone. Their idea was too narrow. Nope, Gingrich spoke of a Revolution, not a Salvation.
Who benefits is pretty simple, all the Republican interest groups, including George "War Preznit" W. Bush.
It’s rather amazing though, that they simply ignore all the deaths, broken laws, immorality and such. They’re on such a power trip high that they don’t think they have to be nice to the small people because they’re never coming down. It reminds one of Hitler and his Nazis and the wealthy German industrialists who went down this same road. It didn’t end well for those folks. Who, in their right mind, would ever imagine it should be done here or that it might somehow turn out better for those conspirators this time ’round.
Well, is America an easier place now?
I think we need to make it very very difficult for those people who find so much benefit from destroying America.
They’ve fought trial lawyers for some time. I say we take ’em to court on any and every pretext and put them through legal Hell. They hate spending their money on lawyers anyway.
WP #10
Me either.
I wrote professor Jones and suggested a strategy that could bypass some of the showstopper worldview problems people have concerning the 9/11 issue.
He had addressed these issues in his soon to be published paper (link here).
Basically we can’t force the issue down the public’s throat, so we need remedial tactics (link here).
WP! Golly, I tuned into your glorious blog too late to comment (wee hours of the a.m. for me.) I had just finished reading ‘The Man Who Sold The War’ as you were posting it as the title story for your blog!!! Great post. And thanks for the other links as well.
There’s just not enough time in each day to keep up with the flood of information that shines a bright light into the darkened, rotting caries of the bu$h regime.
Dredd – here’s an earlier post of mine that has a couple of LINKS (re: Deficit Reduction Bill.)
Brad posted this link many moons ago that makes it easy to email media or congress Townhall.com.
There are other good sites – just don’t have the links handy and no time to look just now.
Tally-ho!
WP
Thank you Sir. An outstanding reading list. You have made it easier to continue work on my potential convert list. Many thanks.
The Man Who Sold The War … found and read that this morning. Damn them all. Glad to see it posted here at Brad Blog. I sent a copy of this article to Keith Olberman @ MSNBC. Hoping he does a segment on our "controlled" media.
Thanks WP. You do good!!! gw always said he doesn’t read (great! – while other prezz read many papers and periodicals, he doesn’t find it necessary to read!) Someone is reading something which puts them in the reactive mode now.
Was THIS the intelligence Bush was referring to when he said "The Democrats saw the same intelligence we saw."???? When did it become clear that the C.I.A.’s Iraqi "confessor" in Thailand was making it all up?
If it can be shown that Bush knew, at any time before March, 2003, that this C.I.A. operation had been conducted, and further knew it was staged and that not a word the Iraqi said was true, I do think that qualified for impeachment under "high crimes and misdemeanors." It’s certainly fraud, at the least criminal negligence if not murder, and possibly treason. Lawyers, please weigh in here.
MarkH #11,
Here’s a comforting thought, since you did bring up the Third Reich, which also ties together the topic and the off-topic, I think. The Third Reich was supposed to last a thousand years; it lasted twelve: 1933-1945. The Republican dream of permanent power in America bore its first fruit in the Gingrich Revolution of 1994. Add twelve years = 2006. When the Democrats regain the legislative majority, the fantasy of American Empire, and with it all these hundreds of Bushie transgressions, will be investigated by Congress and prosecuted in the courts, and America’s shame will be laid bare, and the long process of healing will begin.
RLM #17
Accountability is really what you are focusing on. And accountability to whom?
The Office of the President is modeled after the King of England, with modifications.
The only ones that can punish a president in office is the congress. That will not happen with this congress.
Prosecutors can’t touch the president.
The people cannot touch this president by voting him out.
All the people can do is send a message in ’06 which is going to happen big time.
The only question is whether the ’06 election will be fair or not.
This BLOG is progressive in the sense that we are watching election and voting issues closely.
The time to act on voting issues is NOW. Velvet revolution, black box voting, and others are the only hope and we must support them fully.
Forget the courts, forget indictments against the president, and forget impeachment. It will NOT happen concerning the president.
Fix the vote and vote out the neoCons and the healing will begin to happen.
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Hi, WP
Great job of culling! I too read and reference Nimmo, every day. Nightmares abound…
Thanks WP for posting these articles. I only linked to the site you referenced in #1 and yes, it sickened me. I am having such mood swings….hopefull one minute, full of despair the next.
I have often read that the CIA was started with the help of the Nazis. They were so good at their job that after WWII, the US brought a few of them over and had them help set up a program for us. I also know they are so behind much of what has happened in other countries….coups etc. I kind of have to agree with Molly #5, maybe some good will come out of the attack on them from bushco.
Regarding Chavez, I read on one of the blogs to buy your gas from Citgo. This is oil from Venezuala. This being a way to boycott the oil giants. I don’t know if this is true, who knows what is anymore, but the poster stated Chavez used his oil money to help his people. Bushco wants their oil, am I surprised…not. Chavez is of course portrayed as the evil dictator, same old story. Amazing, now we have our own evil dictator…..makes me wonder what the rest of the world thinks about that one!
Chalabi…remember when he was publicly chastised and temporarily disowned by bushco because they suddenly found out he was a double agent working for Iran. That lasted about 2 minutes, now he is running Iraq.
#7 and #11 good posts. Regarding boycotting, I quit shopping in 2000. My own way of protesting. I never was a shopper but when bush was selected that did it for me. Decided then and there I would not support the Corporate elite. I have been in Walmart one time in my life and bought nothing. I am working on the rest of the list.
Rich #18 has an interesting theory…hope he’s right and the healing can begin in ’06.
I am glad I read WP’s post but it ruined my day..thanks…not that anything matters anymore. Oh how I sometimes wish I could go back to being in my 20’s when I was ignorant and actually had fun. With Knowledge comes responsibility.
I ask myself, everyday, why me. Why am I so driven, but my friends and family aren’t. What is it that makes me so different. Why are those that frequent these sites so passionate. We are different than the rest. Why. All I can really say with strong conviction is I just guess I will never Know. M4
Ah, Merifour. I struggle with all those feelings you just described every day. Why are we so driven? I guess we hunger for knowledge and the truth. I, too, long for those days of blissful ignorance. But now that we have knowledge, what can we do to regain our balance?
How do we make peace with the design of the universe – the constant pull between the positive and negative forces? I’m working on that within myself.
Something I just learned from Wikipedia (and assume is true – unless someone has conflicting information) is that the term "al qaeda" was not coined until 2001 – and then, by the US government. I’m searching for a copy of the 1998 document "Delenda Plan."
Anybody know if a copy of that exists on the Internet? Thanks.
Here’s an interesting article:
Star Spangled Terrorism: Klan and Al Qaeda Bear a Striking Resemblance
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#20: You are so right!! The election is the key – both 06 and 08. Regardless what voting system we have in place, if a group wishes to comprise an election, they will find a way. Maybe a system of checks on those who access to the tabulators???
WP #1 Went back and starting linking to some of the sites…..wow, my kind of stuff….need to spend some time reading. The writer has an the ability to put alot of info into a short post. I admire that, I tend to ramble on and on. We need to understand U.S. history, all the sordid details, because that is what brought us to where we are today. Perhaps regarding my final paragraph (#22) and Kira’s response (#23), have something to do with this on some level. I have done much ‘homework’ as many here have. We understand how much trouble we are in as a Nation, as we have peered behind the curtain and seen the play being rehearsed and props created. So does our passion come from within, fueled by an energy, not yet understood by science. I have often heard the quote. "Many are called, but few are chosen". Are we the ones that answered the call and thus were given an assignment. (Sounds almost like bush saying god chose him.) But are we the truthtellers as well as truthseekers. Are we the counter to the negative, or the balance. I am detaching again and becoming an observer instead of a participator. Going within to my spiritual self and asking questions. Getting OT so will end. M4
Just spent a couple hours visiting the sites referenced in this blog. I will be spending much more time there, I have never been to that site and it is teeming with information. Thank you WP. thank you! (BTW, my post above referenced only the excerpts…I did not go far enough to see that Dr. Frey had written a powerful essay) M4
So now it is almost the same hour of the second half of the first day and I see I missed a whole thread on Dr. Frey. I was off somewhere in Wunderland and am feeling a bit late in arriving. I shall not post on that one as am feeling quite stupid now, will post here, out of the way, to myself, a reminder to look around before going on about old news. M4 aka: Alice N. Wunderland
Yank #20
Beware of any site or movement which poses as a bona fide lawsuit that does not publish the case number and a link to the court’s webpage.
And beware when most of the effort they show is to ask for donations.
I followed a link on the site to a blogspt that said "At the present time the lawsuit is on ice" because there were not enough donations.
Need I say more?
I can assure you that the first response to that complaint will be a motion to dismiss under Rule 12 (b)(6), "failure to state a claim upon which relief may be granted" (link here).
Follow the advice in my post #19 so you will not be taken advantage of.
Great post, WP.