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Austin Pastor Fights to Spread 9/11 Truth

Tue, 22 Aug 2006 07:06:59 GMT

Austin Pastor Fights to Spread 9/11 Truth

Submitted by Somebigguy on Sat, 08/19/2006 - 4:53am. Religious | Video

Seems that religious leaders are finally stepping up to the plate. We truly have hit the mainstream...

Video available here:
video.google.com

An article available here:
jonesreport.com

Loehr delivered a sermon regarding 9/11 as early as September 16, 2001, but from a rather different perspective. Loehr utilized his first sermon in a 'post-9/11' world to highlight the effects of "blowback"--consequences for the adverse effects of U.S. foreign policy from the eyes of many foreign nations, particularly in the Mid-East region.

Thanks to Stacy for sending this in.

New Article Regarding Ongoing 9/11 Family Lawsuits

Tue, 22 Aug 2006 06:39:09 GMT

New Article Regarding Ongoing 9/11 Family Lawsuits.

Sept. 11 plaintiffs wait for answers, resolution - boston.com

Now, nearly five years after the historic disaster, roughly 60 lawsuits are still grinding their way through court. And the families pushing ahead with litigation, including numerous New Englanders, are mired in a massive legal case that has become a complicated behemoth for the federal judge overseeing it.
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The case pits those who consider the day's events an unpreventable tragedy against others who believe government and aviation officials ignored clear warnings that such an assault was possible. That lapse, in their view, led to the deaths of beloved friends and relatives, and they now want accountability and answers.

For some litigants, their decision to sue was met by public disapproval from skeptics who questioned their motives and dismissed their quest for justice as futile. But in interviews with the Globe, many family members said they are committed to pursuing the case until government, airline, and security officials are held responsible for their roles in the attacks. And they are aware that litigation is a gamble that could produce neither answers nor money, they said.
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Still, many of the firm's clients say they sued not for financial gain, but because they believe litigation will fully reveal whether government and aviation officials could have anticipated and prevented the events of Sept. 11. Some also sued because life insurance and other "offsets" would have reduced their payments from the compensation fund, which awarded $2 million in death cases and $400,000 in injury cases, on average.

Thanks Revolution Corporation for the heads up!

By noemail@noemail.org (dz). [911Blogger.com - Paying Attention to 9/11 Related Alternative News]

FCC opens inquiries into television stations caught airing fake news

Tue, 22 Aug 2006 06:37:07 GMT

Media Minutes: August 18, 2006. The FCC opens inquiries into television stations caught airing fake news, and more evidence of continued journalistic deception is on the way. The Supreme Court agrees to hear an anti-trust case involving the nation's dominant phone companies. A federal judge strikes down the NSA's warrentless wiretapping program as unconstitutional, while several lawsuits alleging telecom complicity in the scheme are consolidated. [Media Minutes Podcast]

Homeland Security nabs Free Stater

Tue, 22 Aug 2006 06:34:52 GMT

Homeland Security nabs Free Stater. Mark Frauenfelder: Anonymous says:

A member of the Free State Project, Russell Kanning, was arrested recently for attempting to distribute a flyer to IRS agents in his home town asking them to quit their job. The flyers contain anti-war content, criticism the Bush administration for its erosion of civil rights, and a form resignation letter addressed to President Bush, which he is asking IRS agents to sign. Kanning remains in a maximum security and will not be allowed visitors. The Free State Project recently passed 7,250 members more than 1/3 of its 20,000 person goal.

Link

By noemail@noemail.org (Mark Frauenfelder). [Boing Boing]

Swingin' big band song about rejecting surveillance

Tue, 22 Aug 2006 06:33:21 GMT

Swingin' big band song about rejecting surveillance. Cory Doctorow: Rickie Lee Jones and former members of The Squirrel Nut Zippers, a great big-band revival act, have recorded a jumpin' number about rejecting surveillance and voting for a government that won't spy on us and take away our freedom. This is handily the catchiest political song I've ever heard, and certainly the most danceable.

MP3 Link, Link

(Thanks, Cindy!)

Update: Tom Maxwell, author of this song sez, "Ken Mosher and myself are former Squirrel Nut Zippers. The band no longer exists, and its name is owned by a candy company that might not look kindly on political content. We did the song as Maxwell/Mosher and not as the Zips."

By noemail@noemail.org (Cory Doctorow). [Boing Boing]

Houston paper sees the light, wants paper

Tue, 22 Aug 2006 06:21:39 GMT

Houston paper sees the light, wants paper.

Ballot backstop
Houston Chronicle editorial

In in an electronic age haunted by computer viruses and hackers, many people cling to paper security blankets, whether they come in the form of ATM receipts, itemized credit card charges or monthly bank statements.

Yet in the essential civic exercise of choosing our representatives, Texans who use electronic machines are forced to trust a fallible computer program with no way to check the accuracy of the results. Such a system amounts to faith-based voting.

Always happy to see people grasping what we have been saying for slmost four years.

With the knowledge that no computer is tamperproof and a growing list of malfunctions by direct recording electronic machines (DREs) during elections, 27 states have enacted laws requiring voting systems that produce paper ballots that voters can verify (VVPBs). After individuals make their selections and cast their vote electronically, a hard copy of the ballot is printed showing the selections. The voter views the results to make sure their vote is accurate, and then drops the ballot into a sealed box, providing a record independent of the electronic machine that can later be audited.

Texas, unfortunately, has no such requirement, and Harris County, which uses the Hart Intercivic machine and also conducts municipal elections, has no plans to purchase the company's optional printer system to create a paper trail. County Democratic Party officials are clamoring for such a system, as well as increased security and voting machine tests for accuracy.

"If folks can hack the Pentagon," Harris County Democratic Chairman Gerry Birnberg said, "they can certainly hack a machine in Harris County."

Again, I would like to point out that the greatest threat from these machines is the fact that the software is so poorly written, failure is inevitable.

County Clerk Beverly Kaufman, a Republican, says such concerns are unfounded. "There's this kind of cavalier attitude on these folks' part that all you've got to do is just bolt on a printer and there it is," said Kaufman, who estimates that it would cost up to $8 million to buy equipment and reprogram the system with the capability to print ballots in three languages. "We're just not at a point here where we're able to do it if we wanted to, which we don't."

No, the cavalier attitude comes from folks like you who insist on faith in a system that has been repeatedly shown to be unreliable and inaccurate. Also, you were warned about these problems LONG before you bought these systems. You chose to listen to the vendors rather than the voters, so if more money is required, look in the mirror for someone to blame.

Kaufman also contends that the current system has the capability to produce a paper copy of results after the election is concluded. However, whatever would be printed out would simply reflect what the system recorded and would not detect computer malfunctions, erased votes or fraudulent manipulation of programming.

In a report this year on electronic voting machines entitled "Malfunction and Malfeasance," researchers for the nonpartisan group Common Cause concluded that DRE machines "are vulnerable to malfunction and also to tampering in which a computer-savvy hacker with minimal access to the machine could introduce malicious code to the DRE software and change the results of an election."

The report cites an incident during this spring's Texas primary in which voting machines in Tarrant County, which uses the same system as Harris, recorded 100,000 votes that were never cast. Hart Intercivic officials took responsibility for the programming mistake that caused the overcount but discounted the incident because votes for all candidates were boosted equally.

The software FAILED. It failed in a spectacular fashion, which was good. Next time it can fail in a subtle fashion which will be harder to detect, but will thwart the will of the voters all the same.

Last year the Commission on Federal Election Reform led by former Secretary of State James Baker, a Republican, and former President Jimmy Carter, a Democrat, issued election reform recommendations that included a call for a federal law requiring all electronic voting systems to be equipped with paper printouts. Legislation died in the last session of Congress but has been reintroduced by Rep. Rush Holt, D-N.J. A similar bill, the Voter Integrity and Verification Act, has been introduced in the Senate by Republican John Ensign of Nevada.

Since Texas has yet to approve paper trails that voters can verify, it is not Kaufman's responsibility to make that decision. The Texas Legislature and Congress should pass legislation mandating the installation of paper audits on all electronic voting machines.

They are more expensive and might create more work for election officials, but VVPBs are necessary to boost voter confidence in system and give candidates recourse to recounts.

Again, if you had listened to us in the first place, you wouldn't have wasted money. [Black Box Voting]

Real Threat Or Fake Terror?

Tue, 22 Aug 2006 06:08:45 GMT

Real Threat Or Fake Terror?. 'Attorney Nabih Ayad drove two hours north from the Arab-American enclave of Dearborn, a suburb of Detroit, to tiny Caro, Mich., last Wednesday in hopes of springing three of his clients from the Tuscola County jail.

'The clients, three young Palestinian-Americans from Texas, had been arrested while driving their van from Wal-Mart to Wal-Mart buying cheap cellphones. The county prosecutor had filed state terrorism charges against the trio, believing they were jihadis plotting to blow up the Mackinac Bridge. Though Ayad knew that the terrorism case was already collapsing, and expected his clients would soon be in the clear, he still wanted to get them out of jail on bond in the interim.' (Salon Magazine article). [Disinformation]

The Loose Cannon Of 9/11

Tue, 22 Aug 2006 05:56:16 GMT

The Loose Cannon Of 9/11. 'It took two governors, four congressmen, three former White House officials and two special counsels two years to compile. They reviewed over two and half million pages of classified and declassified documents, consulted 1,200 sources in 10 countries, and spent over $15 million of the taxpayers' money in the process. And on July 22, 2004, the 9/11 Commission issued its final report on the terror attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Is it possible that two twentysomethings from "a small hippie town that time forgot" could undermine that entire effort with $8,000 and a laptop?

'Yes, if you ask ex-Army specialist Korey Rowe. The 23-year-old from Oneonta, New York returned home from two tours -- one to Afghanistan, the other to Iraq -- to help his best friends, Dylan Avery (director) and Jason Bermas (researcher), produce the sensational 80-minute, Web-based documentary "Loose Change," which seeks to establish the government's complicity in the terror attacks by addressing some very tough questions: Why wasn't Ground Zero treated like a crime scene? How did both towers "free-fall" to the ground "in 9.2 seconds" in just under two hours? And where are the black boxes from American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175?' (AlterNet article). [Disinformation]

9/11 Special

Tue, 22 Aug 2006 04:53:16 GMT

9/11 Special.

Was 9/11 more than just an attack? Could the Bush administration have had anything to gain from the attack? Two prominent European politicians express their serious doubts about the official version of the 9/11 story.

Former UK Government Minister Michael Meacher: "The war on terror is bogus"

Former German Secretary Of Defense Andreas Von Bulow: "The official story is so inadequate and far fetched that there must be a different one". (Information Clearing House video stream).

media-underground.net

[media underground]

MSNBC's Olbermann Exposes Nexus Of Politics And Terror

Thu, 17 Aug 2006 13:45:02 GMT

Olbermann Exposes Nexus Of Politics And Terror
Details ten clear examples where Bush admin. alerts preceded by damaging revelations

Paul Joseph Watson/Prison Planet.com | August 15 2006

During a prime time segment on his MSNBC show last night, anchor Keith Olbermann presented ten clear examples where the Bush administration had issued terror alerts days after politically damaging revelations and questioned the credibility of each of the alleged plots' authenticity in light of astounding evidence to the contrary.

Read entire article HERE or view the VIDEO below.

Flashback - ParaPolitical News 11/21/02 - Pentagon Plan to Provoke Terrorist Attacks

Mon, 14 Aug 2006 04:31:44 GMT

Please Read: Pentagon Plan to Provoke Terrorist Attacks

Dear Friends and Fellow Americans,

Why am I sending this to you now? I have decided to send this to you NOW because of an under-reported item in Sunday's Los Angeles Times newspaper by Willaim Arkin (October 27th). In that article Rumsfeld is alleged to be making efforts to provoke more terror attacks as part of a plan to flush terrorist groups out into the open in order to find and destroy them.

I am speaking of their "Proactive, Preemptive Operations Group, (P2OG)":

"Among other things, this body would launch secret operations aimed at 'stimulating reactions' among terrorists and states possessing weapons of mass destruction -- that is, for instance, prodding terrorist cells into action and exposing themselves to 'quick-response' attacks by U.S. forces.

Such tactics would hold 'states/sub-state actors accountable' and 'signal to harboring states that their sovereignty will be at risk,' the briefing paper declares."

More important than Arkin's article is Chris Floyd's article in CounterPunch that connects the dots, citing the Operation Northwoods documents (see below) and what's really going on here and abroad as the direct intended result of the 911 events which were allegedly allowed to happen.

Surely, you can see the parallels between the events of 911, Rumsfeld's plan to instigate terror attacks and the documented plans of Operation Northwoods.

What is Operation Northwoods ... ?

Since before September 11th 2001, I was aware of documents declassified and uncovered in 2000 that demonstrate efforts on the part of the 1962 Joint Chiefs of Staff to stage terrorist attacks against American civilians to start a war with Cuba. Researcher James Bamford (The Puzzle Palace) was made aware of documents found during a search of declassified JFK assassination docs. Bamford then published these documents in his 2001 book Body Of Secrets. It was on the New York Times bestseller list in early 2001.

These explosive documents show that the Joint Chiefs of Staff plotted to initiate a "remember the Maine" terrorism campaign against the American people by "Cuba" - staging attacks on Guantanimo Bay, blowing up US airliners filled with American citizens, bomb Washington DC, and much much more - so that "casualty lists in US Newspapers would cause a helpful wave of national indignation" and a pretext for invasion and war with Cuba. John F. Kennedy opposed this plan and was dead within a few months.

Shortly after I heard about this book in early 2001 it was covered by the Baltimore Sun newspaper and then by Peter Jennings on prime time ABCNews. (See links to those articles below) PDF copies of the original documents are available at the National Security Archive (see link below) as well as the archive link at my site
here:

Operation Northwoods Documents (archived at Elfis.Net)
<elfis.net/parapolitics/northwoodsdoc1.pdf>

In May 2001 local parapolitical investigator and radio host Alex Jones interviewed author James Bamford about these documents. Note that during this pre 911 interview Alex alludes to other plans mentioned in the docs that intimate sniper attacks in US cities.

Alex Jones interviews James Bamford 5/9/1 (File Size = 5mb)
<elfis.net/parapolitics/aj050901pmJamesBamford1.mp3>

Over a year and a half after the above interview wherein Jones and Bamford discuss the documented plans for fake terror attacks against American citizens (including sniper attacks) Alex would suddenly put two and two together and issue a press release on October 23rd in which he draws the connection between certain passages of the Northwoods docs that suggest the 2002 sniper attacks in Washington DC.

Alex Jones' Operation Expose the Govt Snipers Press Release
<http://www.infowars.com/northwoods.htm>

In less than 24 hours the alleged snipers were apprehended by authorities following their surreal Manchurian Candidate-esque "cue" televised to the sniper using the Cherokee folktale of the fox and the:

"You have indicated that you want us to do and say certain things. You've asked us to say,'We have caught the sniper like a duck in a noose.' We understand that hearing us say this is important to you."
--Montgomery Co. Police Chief Charles Moose, Oct. 23, at a televised news briefing addressed to the sniper.

Just weeks before Alex Jones' realization I had a conversation with one of my other local parapolitical writers/researchers who had already drawn the same conclusion, that the sniper attacks were the continued implimentation of the Northwoods plan.

Whether you think of this as absolute fact, complete fantasy, or disinfo from some unknown group, the fact remains that no-one is addressing the obvious parallels between the 911 "intelligence failure" ***

*** Or was it an Intelligence Success ... see W199EYE released by former FBI deputy director John O'Neill (before his murder on 911) and published by Greg Palast in his book The Best Democracy Money Can Buy. W199EYE is an alleged Executive Order signed by President Bush before September 11th 2001, pulling all FBI agents from investigation of the very terrorists who would allegedly carry out the 911 attacks. This order and the resulting lawsuits by 911 victims families have been deemed a "threat to National Security".
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AND NOW .... Big Brotha is getting everything he wants ...

From the Federation of American Scientists at <www.FAS.org>

SECRECY IN THE NEWS

The pending Homeland Security Act includes "the most severe weakening of the Freedom of Information Act [FOIA] in its 36-year history," Senator Patrick Leahy told the Washington Post. See "Disclosure Curbs in Homeland Bill Decried" by Dan Morgan, Washington Post, November 16:
<washingtonpost.com>

... and "Homeland bill's secrecy rules criticized" by Tamara Lytle, Orlando Sentinel, November 15:
<orlandosentinel.com>

A November 14 New York Times column by William Safire galvanized public concern about the privacy implications of DARPA's "Total Information Awareness" initiative that would probe databases of private transactions in search of terrorists. A November 16 Washington Post editorial put the matter in some perspective:

<washingtonpost.com>

By creating a new Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, the Pentagon has done approximately the opposite of what was recommended by a classified review of U.S. intelligence headed by Brent Scowcroft last year. See "New Intelligence Post Consolidates Rumsfeld's Clout" by Vernon Loeb in the Washington Post online, November 18:

<washingtonpost.com>

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OPERATION NORTHWOODS
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ABCNews Coverage:

Friendly Fire - Book: U.S. Military Drafted Plans to Terrorize U.S. Cities to Provoke War With Cuba By David Ruppe

N E W Y O R K, May 1 In the early 1960s, America's top military leaders reportedly drafted plans to kill innocent people and commit acts of terrorism in U.S. cities to create public support for a war against Cuba.

<abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=92662>

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Baltimore Sun Coverage:

New book on NSA sheds light on secrets - U.S. terror plan called Cuba invasion pretext By Scott Shane and Tom Bowman Sun Staff
Originally published April 24, 2001

WASHINGTON - U.S. military leaders proposed in 1962 a secret plan to commit terrorist acts against Americans and blame Cuba to create a pretext for invasion and the ouster of Communist leader Fidel Castro, according to a new book about the National Security Agency.

<baltimoresun.com/bal-te.md.nsa24apr24.story>
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<prisonplanet.com>
<infowars.com>

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Original Official NSA Declassified Documents:

The National Security Archive
April 30, 2001

In his new exposé of the National Security Agency entitled Body of Secrets, author James Bamford highlights a set of proposals on Cuba by the Joint Chiefs of Staff codenamed OPERATION NORTHWOODS. This document, titled "Justification for U.S. Military Intervention in Cuba" was provided by the JCS to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara on March 13, 1962, as the key component of Northwoods. Written in response to a request from the Chief of the Cuba Project, Col. Edward Lansdale, the Top Secret memorandum describes U.S. plans to covertly engineer various pretexts that would justify a U.S. invasion of Cuba. These proposals - part of a secret anti-Castro program known as Operation Mongoose - included staging the assassinations of Cubans living in the United States, developing a fake "Communist Cuban terror campaign in the Miami area, in other Florida cities and even in Washington," including "sink[ing] a boatload of Cuban refugees (real or simulated)," faking a Cuban airforce attack on a civilian jetliner, and concocting a "Remember the Maine" incident by blowing up a U.S. ship in Cuban waters and then blaming the incident on Cuban sabotage. Bamford himself writes that Operation Northwoods "may be the most corrupt plan ever created by the U.S. government."

Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Justification for US Military Intervention in Cuba [includes cover memoranda], March 13, 1962, TOP SECRET, 15 pp.

<gwu.edu/%7Ensarchiv/news/20010430/>
<gwu.edu/%7Ensarchiv/news/20010430/doc1.pdf>

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CounterPunch

November 1, 2002

Into the Dark - The Pentagon Plan to Provoke Terrorist Attacks
by CHRIS FLOYD

This age: layers of lime harden in the sick son's blood... There's nowhere to run from the tyrant-epoch... Who else will you kill? Who else glorify? What other lies will you invent?

Osip Mandelshtam,
"1 January 1924"

This column stands foursquare with the Honorable Donald H. Rumsfeld, U.S. Secretary of Defense, when he warns that there will be more terrorist attacks against the American people and civilization at large. We know, as does the Honorable Donald H. Rumsfeld, U.S. Secretary of Defense, that this statement is an incontrovertible fact, a matter of scientific certainty. And how can we and the Honorable Donald H. Rumsfeld, U.S. Secretary of Defense, be so sure that there will be more terrorist attacks against the American people and civilization at large?

Because these attacks will be instigated at the order of the Honorable Donald H. Rumsfeld, U.S. Secretary of Defense.

This astonishing admission was buried deep in a story which was itself submerged by mounds of gray newsprint and glossy underwear ads in last Sunday's Los Angeles Times. There--in an article by military analyst William Arkin, detailing the vast expansion of the secret armies being massed by the former Nixon bureaucrat now lording it over the Pentagon--came the revelation of Rumsfeld's plan to create "a super-Intelligence Support Activity" that will "bring together CIA and military covert action, information warfare, intelligence, and cover and deception."

According to a classified document prepared for Rumsfeld by his Defense Science Board, the new organization--the "Proactive, Preemptive Operations Group (P2OG)"--will carry out secret missions designed to "stimulate reactions" among terrorist groups, provoking them into committing violent acts which would then expose them to "counterattack" by U.S. forces.

In other words--and let's say this plainly, clearly and soberly, so that no one can mistake the intention of Rumsfeld's plan--the United States government is planning to use "cover and deception" and secret military operations to provoke murderous terrorist attacks on innocent people. Let's say it again: Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, George W. Bush and the other members of the unelected regime in Washington plan to deliberately foment the murder of innocent people--your family, your friends, your lovers, you--in order to further their geopolitical ambitions.

For P2OG is not designed solely to flush out terrorists and bring them to justice--a laudable goal in itself, although the Rumsfeld way of combating terrorism by causing it is pure moral lunacy. (Or should we use the Regime's own preferred terminology and just call it "evil"?) No, it seems the Pee-Twos have bigger fish to fry. Once they have sparked terrorists into action--by killing their family members? luring them with loot? fueling them with drugs? plying them with jihad propaganda? messing with their mamas? or with agents provocateurs, perhaps, who infiltrate groups then plan and direct the attacks themselves?--they can then take measures against the "states/sub-state actors accountable" for "harboring" the Rumsfeld-roused gangs. What kind of measures exactly? Well, the classified Pentagon program puts it this way: "Their sovereignty will be at risk."

The Pee-Twos will thus come in handy whenever the Regime hankers to add a little oil-laden real estate or a new military base to the Empire's burgeoning portfolio. Just find a nest of violent malcontents, stir 'em with a stick, and presto: instant "justification" for whatever level of intervention/conquest/rapine you might desire. And what if the territory you fancy doesn't actually harbor any convenient marauders to use for fun and profit? Well, surely a God-like "super-Intelligence Support Activity" is capable of creation ex nihilo, yes?

The Rumsfeld-Bush plan to employ murder and terrorism for political, financial and ideological gain does have historical roots (besides al Qaeda, the Stern Gang, the SA, the SS, the KGB, the IRA, the UDF, Eta, Hamas, Shining Path and countless other upholders of Bushian morality, decency and freedom). We refer of course to Operations Northwoods, oft mentioned in these pages: the plan that America's top military brass presented to President John Kennedy in 1963, calling for a phony terrorist campaign--complete with bombings, hijackings, plane crashes and dead Americans--to provide "justification" for an invasion of Cuba, the Mafia/Corporate fiefdom which had recently been lost to Castro.

Kennedy rejected the plan, and was killed a few months later. Now Rumsfeld has resurrected Northwoods, but on a far grander scale, with resources at his disposal undreamed of by those brass of yore, with no counterbalancing global rival to restrain him--and with an ignorant, corrupt president who has shown himself all too eager to embrace any means whatsoever that will augment the wealth and power of his own narrow, undemocratic, elitist clique.

There is prestuplyeniye here, transgression, a stepping-over--deliberately, with open eyes, with forethought, planning, and conscious will--of lines that should never be crossed. Acting in deadly symbiosis with rage-maddened killers, God-crazed ranters and those supreme "sub-state actors," the mafias, Bush and his cohorts are plunging the world into an abyss, an endless night of black ops, retribution, blowback, deceit, of murder and terror--wholesale, retail, state-sponsored, privatized; of fear and degradation, servility, chaos, and the perversion of all that's best in us, of all that we've won from the bestiality of our primal nature, all that we've raised above the mindless ravening urges and impulses still boiling in the mud of our monkey brains.

It's not a fight for freedom; it's a retreat into darkness.

And the day will be a long time coming.

Chris Floyd is a columnist for the Moscow Times and a regular contributor to
CounterPunch. He can be reached at: cfloyd72@hotmail.com

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P2OG: LATIMES - The Secret War - William Arkin

<www.latimes.com>

The Secret War

Frustrated by intelligence failures, the Defense Department is dramatically
expanding its 'black world' of covert operations

By William M. Arkin

William M. Arkin is a military affairs analyst who writes regularly for
Opinion. E-mail: warkin@igc.org

October 27 2002

SOUTH POMFRET, Vt. -- In what may well be the largest expansion of covert action by the armed forces since the Vietnam era, the Bush administration has turned to what the Pentagon calls the "black world" to press the war on terrorism and weapons of mass destruction.

The Defense Department is building up an elite secret army with resources stretching across the full spectrum of covert capabilities. New organizations are being created. The missions of existing units are being revised. Spy planes and ships are being assigned new missions in anti-terror and monitoring the "axis of evil."

The increasingly dominant role of the military, Pentagon officials say, reflects frustration at the highest levels of government with the performance of the intelligence community, law enforcement agencies and much of the burgeoning homeland security apparatus. It also reflects the desire of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to gain greater overall control of the war on terror.

Insulated from outside pressures, armed with matchless weapons and technology, trained to operate below the shadow line, the Pentagon's black world of classified operations holds out the hope of swift, decisive action in a struggle against terrorism that often looks more like a family feud than a war.

Coupled with the enormous effort being made throughout the government to improve and link information networks and databases, covert anti-terror operations promise to put better information in the hands of streamlined military teams that can identify, monitor and neutralize terrorist threats.

"Prevention and preemption are ... the only defense against terrorism," Rumsfeld said in May. "Our task is to find and destroy the enemy before they strike us."

The new apparatus for covert operations and the growing government secrecy associated with the war on terrorism reflect the way the Bush administration's most senior officials see today's world:

First, they see fighting terrorism and its challenge to U.S. interests and values as the 21st century equivalent of the Cold War crusade against communism. Second, they believe the magnitude of the threat requires, and thus justifies, aggressive new "off-the-books" tactics.

In their understandable frustration over continued atrocities such as the recent Bali attack, however, U.S. officials might keep two points in mind.

Though covert action can bring quick results, because it is isolated from the normal review processes it can just as quickly bring mistakes and larger problems. Also, the Pentagon is every bit as capable as the civilian side of the government when it comes to creating organization charts and bureaucracy that stifle creative thinking and timely action.

The development of the Pentagon's covert counter-terror capability has its roots in the 1979 Iran hostage crisis. The Army created a highly compartmentalized organization that could collect clandestine intelligence independent of the rest of the U.S. intelligence community and follow through with covert military action.

Known as the Intelligence Support Activity, or ISA, when it was established in 1981, this unit fought in drug wars and counter-terror operations from the Middle East to South America. It built a reputation for daring, flexibility and a degree of lawlessness.

In May 1982, Deputy Secretary of Defense Frank Carlucci called the ISA"uncoordinated and uncontrolled." Though its freelance tendencies were curbed, the ISA continued to operate under different guises through the ill-starred U.S. involvement in Somalia in 1992 and was reportedly active in the hunt for Bosnian Serbs suspected of war crimes.

Today, the ISA operates under the code name Gray Fox. In addition to covert operations, it provides the war on terrorism with the kind of so-called "close-in" signals monitoring -- including the interception of cell phone conversations -- that helped bring down Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar.

Gray Fox's low-profile eavesdropping planes also fly without military markings. Working closely with Special Forces and the CIA, Gray Fox also places operatives inside hostile territory.

In and around Afghanistan, Gray Fox was part of a secret sphere that included the CIA's paramilitary Special Activities Division and the Pentagon's Joint Special Operations Command.

These commands and "white" Special Forces like the Green Berets, as well a Air Force combat controllers and commandos of eight different nations report to a mind-boggling array of new command cells and coordination units set up after Sept. 11.

An Army brigadier general commands the Joint Interagency Task Force at Bagram air base north of Kabul to coordinate CIA, Defense Department and coalition forces in Afghanistan. A new Campaign Support Group has been established at Ft. Bragg, N.C. The Special Operations Joint Interagency Collaboration Center has been created in Tampa, Fla.

In Europe, the Joint Interagency Coordination Group handles information-sharing and logistical support with NATO. Hawaii's Pacific Command stood up a Joint Interagency Counter-Terrorist Group this summer.

Meantime, old commands are being morphed into new ones for the covert war. The two Joint Interagency Task Forces in the United States previously devoted to fighting drugs now have the war on terrorism as their highest priority.

The epicenter of the Pentagon's covert operations remains the North Carolina-based Joint Special Operations Command, often referred to as Delta Force. The super-secret command is still not officially acknowledged to exist. Its two-star commander, Army Maj. Gen. Dell L. Dailey, who spent much of the Afghan war in Oman, has no public biography.

Among Dailey's assets is a fleet of aircraft specially equipped for secret operations -- conventional and covert military planes and helicopters, and even former Soviet helicopters. The bulk of those craft, including the reconfigured Russian choppers, fly from airfields in Uzbekistan and from two Pakistani air bases, Shahbaz and Shamsi.

The Air Force and the CIA collect additional intelligence from unmanned Predator and Global Hawk drones. They also have low-profile reconnaissance assets that look like transport planes and operate under such code names as ARL-Low, Keen Sage, Scathe View and Senior Scout.

Not to be left out, the Navy's Gray Star spy vessel, reminiscent of the old Pueblo, captured by North Korea in 1968, now sweeps up sophisticated -- and obscure -- "measurements and signatures intelligence" to monitor the ballistic missile capabilities of Iraq, Iran and North Korea.

Even with all this, the Pentagon wants to expand covert capabilities.

Rumsfeld's influential Defense Science Board 2002 Summer Study on Special Operations and Joint Forces in Support of Countering Terrorism says in its classified "outbrief" -- a briefing drafted to guide other Pentagon agencies -- that the global war on terrorism "requires new strategies, postures and organization."

The board recommends creation of a super-Intelligence Support Activity, an organization it dubs the Proactive, Preemptive Operations Group, (P2OG), to bring together CIA and military covert action, information warfare, intelligence, and cover and deception.

Among other things, this body would launch secret operations aimed at "stimulating reactions" among terrorists and states possessing weapons of mass destruction -- that is, for instance, prodding terrorist cells into action and exposing themselves to "quick-response" attacks by U.S. forces.

Such tactics would hold "states/sub-state actors accountable" and "signal to harboring states that their sovereignty will be at risk," the briefing paper declares.

Never to be outdone in proposing hardware solutions, the Air Force is designing its own Global Response Task Force to fight the war on terrorism. The all-seeing, all-bombing Air Force envisions unmanned A-X aircraft capable of long-range, nighttime gunship operations and an M-X covert transport, as well as hypersonic and space-based conventional weapons capable of delivering a "worldwide attack within an hour."

Who says the arms race is over? Rumsfeld's science board warns against overemphasis on equipment even as it recommends more. Washington is well on its way to an arms race with itself.

And for those who worry that all these secret operations and aggressive new doctrines will turn the United States into the world's policeman, there is a ray of hope.

Rumsfeld is now the field marshal of the war on terrorism, but the Pentagon is also creating new layers of bureaucracy that may save it from itself. Not to mention the rest of us.

Copyright 2002 Los Angeles Times

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DOD EXAMINES "PREEMPTIVE" INTELLIGENCE OPERATIONS

One way to invigorate U.S. intelligence would be to "Develop an entirely new capability to proactively, preemptively evoke responses from adversary/terrorist groups," according to the Defense Science Board, a Pentagon advisory group.

Such an approach would "improve [intelligence] information collection by stimulating reactions" from the target.

One hundred "highly specialized people with unique technical and intelligence skills such as information operations, PSYOP, network attack, covert activities, SIGINT, HUMINT, SOF, influence warfare/deception operations" could constitute a new, elite "Proactive Preemptive Operations Group (P2OG)," reporting to the National Security Council with an annual budget of $100 million.

The proposal is the latest sign of a new assertiveness by the Defense Department in intelligence matters, and an indication that the cutting edge of intelligence reform is not to be found in Congress but behind closed doors in the Pentagon.

The Defense Science Board recommended creation of the preemptive operations group in its "DSB Summer Study on Special Operations and Joint Forces in Support of Countering Terrorism."

The findings and recommendations of the DSB Summer Study were set forth in an August 16, 2002, PowerPoint briefing. The first thirty pages of the unclassified 78 page PointPoint presentation are posted here:

<fas.org>

The DSB briefing was first reported by Dan Dupont in Inside the Pentagon on September 26. It was also discussed by William M. Arkin in the Los Angeles Times on October 27.

<fas.org>

-=-=-=-=-

The Secret War
Frustrated by intelligence failures, the Defense Department is dramatically expanding its 'black world' of covert operations
By William M. Arkin
William M. Arkin is a military affairs analyst who writes regularly for
Opinion. E-mail: warkin@igc.org

October 27 2002

<http://memes.org>

Out The Rabbit Hole - 911 Precognition Podcast

Sat, 12 Aug 2006 03:22:21 GMT

Archived / Podcast of Out The Rabbit Hole radioshow with Host Robert Larson talking with Guest SMiles Lewis about ParaPsychedelic Consciousness and 911 Precognition, including a variety of bizarre and intense pre-9/11 altered state of consciousness reports from several sources that seemed to have a predictive nature about that event.

We also discuss Alex Jones' launching of Operation Expose the Government Terrorists Part-2. Besides reading the parapolitical data points that lead to his July 25th, 2001 prediction of and "call to arms"over the impending September 11th False Flag attacks, Alex has rarely discussed his apparently precognitive dream of 911 that was a large part of the impetus behind his July 25th Alert.

Computer Guru / Contactee Joseph Firmage is 911 Truther

Fri, 11 Aug 2006 04:19:55 GMT

Former Computer Company CEO Turned Contactee Joins Ranks of 911 Researchers
Joseph Firmage writes essay for Journal of 9/11 Studies

"One of the challenges in comprehending the circumstances of 9/11 is the sheer volume of material spanning two decades that must be studied for one to become comfortable reaching any conclusions.

Intelligent people new to this controversy feel a sense of drowning when they begin to study what happened on 9/11. Having explored this subject deeply, I thought it might be useful to create a summary accessible to larger numbers of people. That is the purpose of what follows."

Download and Read the entire PDF Essay at Journal of 911 Studies & World Trade Center Truth.

SMiles Lewis on Out-The-Rabbit-Hole on 911 Precognition

Fri, 11 Aug 2006 02:06:06 GMT

911 PRECOG - Exploring the OverMind

Is there an aspect of consciousness that transcends linear time and occasionally manifests for us as something we call pre-cognitive or prophetic dreams and visions? Are some events, as philosopher of consciousness Terence McKenna suggested, of such historical import and laden with such novelty that they send psychic shockwaves back into time that astute observers can pick up as early warnings in the dreamworld? Writer, informationalist and gonzo alt. media proprietor SMiles Lewis will be back to wrestle with these questions. Lewis, of Elfis.net and Anomalyradio.com, has chronicled a peculiar variety of bizarre and intense pre-9/11 altered state of consciousness reports from several sources that seemed to have a predictive nature about that event. If there is validity to this, new reports presaging a coming event should give one pause.... This will all be discussed within the larger context of the mysteries of mind and the psychedelic experience.

Talk of 911 and possible precognition of "terrorist" events is incredibly timely given the recent claim of a foiled Bojinka-2 style mass terror event and Parapolitical Researcher Alex Jones' launching of Operation Expose the Government Terrorists Part-2. Besides reading the parapolitical data points that lead to his July 25th, 2001 prediction of and "call to arms"over the impending September 11th False Flag attacks, Alex has rarely discussed his apparently precognitive dream of 911 that was a large part of the impetus behind his July 25th Alert.

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Alex Jones Operation Expose The Govt Terrorists Part-2

Fri, 11 Aug 2006 01:49:55 GMT

Alex Jones Operation Expose The Govt Terrorists Part-2

On July 25th, 2001, radioshow host Alex Jones begged his listeners to call the White House and demand that they stop their planned False Flag Terror attack. Alex is again calling on listeners to stop the next attacks as the Threat Level raises to RED.

Radio host Alex Jones, who predicted a staged attack on the World Trade Center involving the use of Osama bin Laden as a fall guy in July 2001, has now gone on record with a second prediction that a staged government terror attack will occur before the end of October unless a gargantuan effort to prevent it is launched.

New Elfis Call-In Talk Show 'Blue Rose Report' on BlogTalkRadio

Thu, 03 Aug 2006 02:46:24 GMT

SMiles' first BlogTalkRadio show is going to be next Wednesday evening at 8pm CST.

Host Channel: Blue Rose Report
Dial In Number (347) 996-3510

Go here to listen:
<www.blogtalkradio.com>

Tune in to Elfis-SMiles' New Call-In Talk Show "Blue Rose Report" on BlogTalkRadio.

After 8pm CST you'll see a LISTEN NOW Icon next to the show on the Host Channel page. Requires Windows Media Player to listen.

Once the show has started you can call in by dialing ... (347) 996-3510.

Please tune in to the show and give us a call on air.

More details about our Guest and show details Coming Soon.

SMiles

911 Austin Meetups

Fri, 28 Jul 2006 20:46:44 GMT

So it appears that the Austin 911 Truth Meetup group has been
resurrected and has become quite active due to the efforts of a few
local activists.

<http://9-11.meetup.com/259/>
<http://www.BelowGroundSurface.org>

There's even a Kirk Watson listed as a member. Surely this isn't Austin's former Mayor Kirk Watson ...

Organizer: CMS

Meet other local citizens who are interested in discussing the events of the 9/11 attacks, and the subsequent investigation, commission, and report. Gather for support and possible action on this critical topic.

Other recent 911 events in Austin, Texas ...

Monday, July 17, 2006 - 9/11 Truth Movie Night in Austin

The Austin Citizens for 9/11 Truth group is sponsoring a free event on Wednesday, August 2nd.

This event features a lecture by Davidson Loehr, author of the acclaimed book "America, Fascism + God", and a showing of the 2006 documentary "What's the Truth?" at the First Unitarian Universalist Church at 7pm, discussion to follow. 4700 Grover. 452-6168.

The focus of this evening is both to explore the events of 9/11 and to put the resulting drastic changes in American life since that day in context.

We would like to extend an invitation to everyone (and their guests) to attend this event.

<http://www.911blogger.com>

911 Austin Yahoo Group

Sun, 02 Jul 2006 02:51:21 GMT

This is a group to facilitate Central Texas 911 Activism. Take some time to educate yourself and others about the 911-LIE

<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/911Austin/>

911 Links (old short list)

Sun, 02 Jul 2006 02:27:44 GMT

911 Skeptic Sites:
911 Blogger.com

911 Truth Action Network

911 Activism Info

911 Archive-LibertyThink

911 Archive-TheMemoryHole

911 Archive-PrisonPlanet

911 Busters Media Archive

911 CitizensWatch.com

911 LegitGov.org

911 Research.wtc7.net

911 Review.com

911 Truth Radio dot com

911 DeclarePeace.org.uk

Cooperative Research

Lets Roll 911 dot org

ParaPolitical Information

Pentagon Research

Problem Reaction Solution Paradigm

Proposition911.org

ReOpen911.org

SupportTheTruth.com

Total 911 Info

WTC7.net

911 Case Study: Flight 77

Sat, 01 Jul 2006 15:30:38 GMT

"911 Case Study: Flight 77" by Mike J. Wilson

911 Case Study: Flight 77 **NEW**
A short movie illustrating the final moments of American Airlines flight 77. Key points include lamp pole evidence, security cam view analysis, generator damage and actual photos. Witness
new video and photos never seen before until just recently.

I've just viewed what I consider a very good computer simulation analysis of the Pentagon Strike. The footage was posted to Alex Jones' PrisonPlanet website at the url below.

I'd seen computer graphic stills previously from the person who created this animation but this is the first time I've seen this Case Study. It originates from the website of Mike J. Wilson who is apparently a computer graphics modeler for court cases and advertising firms, I gather.

While the Case Study animation supports the "plane hit the pentagon" story the website is seemingly pro-parapolitical analysis of supposed "terrorist" attacks and includes several sections linking to Alex Jones' July 25th 2001 warnings, Lone Gunmen pilot episode and even features background info on Hegelian Dialectic - Problem / Reaction / Solution paradigms.

This computer analysis also seemingly explains the "white plume of smoke" trailing the object before it hits the Pentagon from the released security camera footage.

Worth a look! And you can watch and/or download the file at the urls below:

911 Case Study: Pentagon Flight 77 - You Tube | July 1 2006

A short animation with video and photos illustrating the final moments of Flight 77 on September 11, 2001. This SUPPORTS the notion that a Boeing 757 hit the Pentagon.

<http://prisonplanet.com>

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<http://mikejwilson.com/rb/>

An interesting idea by a philosopher named Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel is summed up in the following phrase... 'Thesis, Antithesis, and Synthesis' or (as I like to translate it):
'Action + Reaction = Change'.

This can be a natural or unnatural occurrence with a positive or negative outcome. An example of this then, might be...

Action: Ideas or movements set into motion. Action gives rise to opposition, causing a...

Reaction: Conflicting ideas or movements. As a result there arises...

Change: Overcoming the conflict by reconciling at a higher level.

The charge that this simple formula has been used over the centuries for nefarious purposes prompted me to investigate whether there really is evidence of such a 'conspiratorial hypothesis' in today's world. Some of the material that I have uncovered is compelling. A portion of this website is hereby dedicated to share them with you. What you will find here is a collection of some unusual (and just plain scary) facts, views and opinions regarding our past present and future, that would seem to fit the Hegelian Dialect in a way that is not pleasant to think about. As you study this information, ask yourself the very wise question... 'Cui Bono?' or 'who benefits?'.

<http://mikejwilson.com/911/>

Download the video here
<http://mikejwilson.com>

Webster Griffin Tarpley on Out The Rabbit Hole w/Robert Larson & SMiles Lewis

Fri, 23 Jun 2006 01:53:20 GMT

Webster Griffin Tarpley Interviewed by Robert Larson

Webster Griffin Tarpley Interviewed by Robert Larson
9/11 Sythetic Terror - Made In USA by Webster Griffin Tarpley - Listen To Archived Show

The "9/11 Truth Movement" (those who do not accept the "official" version of what occurred on September 11th, 2001) has been growing by leaps and bounds and is concretizing into a full blown conference this weekend in Los Angeles. "The American Scholars Symposium: 9/11 + The Neo-Con Agenda" is being presented by alt. media icon and parapolitical researcher Alex Jones. Hear an interview with one of the conference presenters, Webster Tarpley who has written several books on geo-political matters and international fascism, including an unauthorized biography of George H. W. Bush. His latest work 9/11 Synthetic Terror: Made In USA asks many distrubing questions and comes to even more disturbing conclusions. Gonzo alt. media proprietor and informationalist SMiles Lewis also joined in the discussion.

Out the Rabbit Hole with Robert Larson
Reality Slamming Gab & Jamming
6-7 pm CST (Special Public Affairs Time)

What would a plane hitting the Pentagon look like?

Wed, 31 May 2006 00:43:17 GMT

Interesting 911 Pentagon pics from "Janama" via the BreakForNews.com forums:

Here is an airline scaled to the 757 with the pentagon scaled to correct size and height. (I used Google Earth and Google-sketchup 3D)

This is what you would expect to see.

and taken from the same spot as the security camera

Last edited by Janama on Wed May 17, 2006 9:21 pm

And from the PrisonPlanet website ...

How Flight 77 Hitting The Pentagon Would Really Look?

Prison Planet.com | May 17 2006

Is this what Flight 77 hitting the Pentagon would really look like from nearby security cameras instead of the nondescript blur footage we have been subject to?

This is obviously a crude collection of doctored frames but if the government had released something similar yesterday would you have believed it? Many would.

Wary therefore we are of the potential for the government to eventually release clear footage of the impact from the 84 other cameras that were dotted around the Pentagon and would have easily documented the event to debunk 9/11 skeptics.

The government claims all 84 cameras either didn't capture the impact or that tape in the cameras was mysteriously empty and yet returned as normal to film the cleanup operations.

Judicial Watch has said it will continue to pursue footage from the other 84 cameras. If the government is telling the truth in saying that the tapes show nothing of interest then what are they trying to hide by not releasing them?

Image originally appeared at www.serendipity.li

PrisonPlanet.com

Military Industrial Computer Gaming Complex

Mon, 29 May 2006 22:09:46 GMT

Thursday, May 25, 2006

It's all in the game

"North America's getting soft, patron, and the rest of the world is getting tough. Very, very tough. We're entering savage new times, and we're going to have to be pure and direct and strong, if we're going to survive them." - Videodrome

Perhaps you've seen this:

Venezuela lawmakers blast video game

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- A U.S. company's video game simulating an invasion of Venezuela is supposed to hit the shelves next year, but it's already raising the ire of lawmakers loyal to President Hugo Chavez.
...

"Pandemic has no ties to the US government," says Greg Richardson, the firm's vice president of commercial operations. That's the sound of hairs splitting. Pandemic Studios is a Pentagon subcontractor through the aegis of the "Institute for Creative Technologies," launched by the US Army in 1998 with $45 million as a go-between with the entertainment and gaming industries.

<RigorousIntuition.blogspot.com>

NEW WEBSITES:
<RigInt.blogspot.com>
<MySpace.com/RigorousIntuition>

ELFIS: 911 Activism

Blue Rose Report #3 - Open Lines for Callers

Austin Pastor Fights to Spread 9/11 Truth

Austin Pastor Fights to Spread 9/11 Truth

New Article Regarding Ongoing 9/11 Family Lawsuits

FCC opens inquiries into television stations caught airing fake news

Homeland Security nabs Free Stater

Swingin' big band song about rejecting surveillance

Houston paper sees the light, wants paper

Real Threat Or Fake Terror?

The Loose Cannon Of 9/11

9/11 Special

MSNBC's Olbermann Exposes Nexus Of Politics And Terror

Flashback - ParaPolitical News 11/21/02 - Pentagon Plan to Provoke Terrorist Attacks

Out The Rabbit Hole - 911 Precognition Podcast

Computer Guru / Contactee Joseph Firmage is 911 Truther

SMiles Lewis on Out-The-Rabbit-Hole on 911 Precognition

You took the Red Pill and Went Down the Rabbit Hole...

Listen Online:

Alex Jones Operation Expose The Govt Terrorists Part-2

New Elfis Call-In Talk Show 'Blue Rose Report' on BlogTalkRadio

911 Austin Meetups

911 Austin Yahoo Group

911 Links (old short list)

911 Case Study: Flight 77

Webster Griffin Tarpley on Out The Rabbit Hole w/Robert Larson & SMiles Lewis

Webster Griffin Tarpley Interviewed by Robert Larson

What would a plane hitting the Pentagon look like?

Military Industrial Computer Gaming Complex

Thursday, May 25, 2006

It's all in the game

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